Новости за 15.12.2015

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has pledged that Canada will fully accept its “failings” in the century-long saga in which thousands of aboriginal children were sent to residential schools where many endured physical and sexual abuse.

The wife of a Gatineau man who went missing more than a week ago made a public appeal Tuesday for anyone who might have seen her husband to come forward. Yves Cyr, 41, was reported missing when he didn’t return home from work. He was last seen in an industrial park near the Gatineau airport. Police said there are concerns for […]

Along the brass rails of the world’s bars, the drunk’s creed is that setting rules around boozing is a surefire sign of the lush. If that’s the case, then Ontario puts the world’s winos to shame. Except it’s not wine, is it? Premier Kathleen Wynne, proudly announcing that the province is tottering towards modernity, said […]

Andrew Hammond was anxious to get back into NHL action and he will on Wednesday night. But the assignment won’t be easy. The Hamburglar will be facing the Washington Capitals, currently one of the best teams in the Eastern Conference and featuring one of the most feared goalscorers, Alexander Ovechkin. Hammond has been recovering from […]

It’s gone viral faster than you can say “sing,” but a choral work by Ottawa-based composer and musician Laura Hawley was anything but quick in the making. A video of 285 schoolchildren singing Alhamdoulillah — the piece is being wrongly referred to as Tala’ al-Badru ‘Alayna, which is actually the traditional Muslim song upon which […]

Police have arrested one youth and are seeking two others in connection with a swarming robbery Dec. 7 in the Cedarwood/Baycrest area of Herongate. Police said the incident occurred at about 7:30 when a woman was accosted by three young men. One of the suspects grabbed a bag being carried by the victim, before the group fled. […]

Guelph police have arrested a 21-year-old man in connection with the death early Sunday of Grace Glofcheskie, the Arnprior native who was struck by a stolen SUV that had fled from an OPP RIDE checkpoint. The man was arrested Tuesday morning at a Guelph motel, a day after Guelph police made a public plea for […]

Ottawa Public Health has suspended 900 elementary students with the Ottawa Catholic School Board for missing immunization records. The notices were issued Tuesday to children in 40 different schools, the health unit said. The suspensions take effect Wednesday and remain in force until the students’ immunization records are updated or a valid exemption is filed. The suspensions […]

A day after announcing that seven players, including goal-scoring leader Tom Heinemann, were moving on, the Ottawa Fury FC have granted the transfer requests of three more key pieces of the 2015 team defender Ryan Richter, midfielder Sinisa Ubiparipovic and team captain Richie Ryan. Ryan is joining the Jacksonville Armada. Richter is joining Heinemann in Tampa Bay […]

An independent committee appointed by Ottawa city council to deal with complaints about campaign finances stemming from the 2014 municipal election has voted to commence prosecution against Bay ward Coun. Mark Taylor.

The Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s final report into the history of Canada’s residential school system will be released today in Ottawa. The commission released its summary report in June, with 94 recommendations for reform. Then-prime minister Stephen Harper gave the report a cool, non-committal reception. But newly elected prime minister Justin Trudeau is much more supportive […]

As he returns to the witness box for a seventh day, Senator Mike Duffy is expected to share his version of what went down during the months of tense, behind-the-scenes negotiations with senior staffers to then-Prime Minister Stephen Harper and the Conservative Senate leadership. To assist his client in explaining how those discussions ultimately led […]

Post-election enthusiasm, mild weather cited as both new home and resale sales record big jumps.

Colt Canada unveiled its new lineup of rifles recently at the SecureTech trade show in Ottawa at the end of November. Colt Canada’s Warren Downing told Defence Watch that the MRR, or Modular Railed Rifle, shaves about ¾ of a pound off the weight of current rifles. (Colt Canada has its C8IUR weight listed on […]

On Nov. 26 Defence Watch carried an appeal by the Canadian Forces National Investigation Service which was hoping to receive information on the whereabouts of a missing sailor from 12 Wing Shearwater, NS. Forty-eight year-old Leading Seaman Benoit Bilodeau was last seen at approximately 4:00 p.m. Saturday, November 21 walking near a bus stop in front of 12 Wing Shearwater. On Monday the […]

Tyler Toffoli of the Los Angeles Kings is gradually weaning himself off Ottawa. Toffoli, the former Ottawa 67's star winger, used to train here in the offseason, and famously celebrated his 2014 day with the Stanley Cup in Carleton Place, with local skating coach Pat Malloy, among other guests.

SENATORS 5, KINGS 3 That was a little more like it. After Senators head coach Dave Cameron had called Saturday’s loss to the Canadiens in Montreal Saturday a “slap in the face” and demanded his players show more “pride” in their play, his team responded with a victory over the Los Angeles Kings. The Senators […]

Algonquin College’s campus in Saudi Arabia lost $1.486 million in the last school year, more than officials had anticipated. A financial update presented to the college’s Board of Governors on Monday revised upward an earlier projected deficit of $983,000 for the 2014-15 school year. The college in Jazan, Algonquin’s first international campus, has been controversial […]

Once Mike Duffy became a senator, the personal trainer who’d failed to help him get fit became the perfect person to devise a national exercise program for seniors, Duffy testified in defending himself at his own criminal trial Monday. At the very end of the day, Duffy’s lawyer began asking him about the $90,000 payment […]

When you are a homeless woman, it’s not easy to find money to buy monthly sanitary products. Women often arrive at shelters with nothing but the clothes on their backs — and spending $5 to $10 a month on tampons and pads is often a hardship. Feeling that feminine hygiene products should never be out of […]

The jury in the Vanier axe-killing trial is deliberating the fate of 24-year-old rapper Adrian Daou, accused of killing Jennifer Stewart for hip-hop fame.

Ottawa will be receiving at least four of the latest group of 214 Syrian refugees expected to arrived Tuesday in Toronto.

An Arnprior native killed in Guelph on the weekend was remembered Monday as a tireless, loving friend who always placed others first. Grace Glofcheskie, 24, died when she was struck by a stolen Ford Escape at about 2:30 a.m. Sunday after walking a friend home, Guelph police said Monday. The driver had just fled from a Wellington […]

Loblaw's College Square outlet has a Christmas surprise in store for shoppers. Beginning Tuesday at 9 a.m., between aisles 8 and 10, surrounded by crackers, soft drinks, baking goods and spices, you'll find BEER.

Ottawans over the past few days may have noticed solitary white Christmas ornaments appearing on trees branches throughout the city. There are approximately 1,000 of them, and each has written on it the message that “Christmas isn’t shiny and bright when you’re hungry,” along with the Ottawa Food Bank’s logo and website. They’re part of a […]