Новости за 21.12.2015

Animals have a knack for making news. Their stories can be cute or disturbing, but always interesting. Here are this year’s Canadian animal newsmakers: Baboon brawl — A brutal battle began late last year among the baboons at the Toronto Zoo that led to severe injuries and the temporary closure of the exhibit. The violence […]

If, amid the last-minute Christmas shopping, you were following news of the meeting between Canada’s finance ministers Monday, you might have noticed an oddly uniform quality to that gathering: the uniforms themselves. Ties and jackets. Yes, it’s 2015 – but that doesn’t mean women are in charge of the senior economic portfolios around the joint. Of the […]

It’s time to “Meet the Beetles” at the Canadian Museum of Nature. The free exhibition, in the Stone Wall Gallery in the museum basement, is a complement to the larger Bugs exhibition upstairs. Click here to read more about Bugs. The macro photographs in Meet the Beetles show incredible detail of often ornate scarabs and […]

This last offering before Christmas is a steaming cup of data, fresh from Statistics Canada’s latest report on the “Incomes of Canadians.” This is, as everyone knows, the age of inequality. We just had a federal election in which differences between income classes were front and centre. President Barack Obama has called inequality the “defining […]

A rising star in the fashion world, Davis Guay of Cartel Footwear is behind a classic but edgy brand

While there is no immediate word on the status of Bobby Ryan, who re-aggravated a hand injury in Sunday’s 5-2 loss to Tampa Bay, it’s likely Dzingel will make his NHL debut against the Florida Panthers Tuesday.

Six foreign soldiers were killed in a suicide attack near the U.S.-run Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan on Monday, the Associated Press writes. Some of the dead were American, a U.S. official said. Here is the rest of the Associated Press article: Another three NATO troops were wounded in the attack, according to U.S. Army Brig. […]

Closure of the transitway between two eastern OC Transpo stations caused no problems this morning, thanks to extended alternate service from Lees station and lower holiday traffic volumes. The dedicated busway between Hurdman and Lees stations was closed Sunday as part of the conversion to light rail. The move comes almost six months after the eastern leg of the Transitway was shut […]

The universities of Winnipeg and Lakehead recently announced plans to integrate compulsory indigenous-focused courses across their programs. Critics have objected to these proposals, claiming that introducing mandatory courses will hinder freedom of thought and freedom of choice. These objections stem from two faulty assumptions. First is the assumption that, within any given university, students are […]

Plus dealing with rotting joists in a crawl space

Ottawa firefighters were kept busy overnight on Sunday through Monday with three blazes — including one in a Nepean bar and grill — in the span of four hours.  Ottawa Fire Services first responded at 11:50 p.m. on Sunday to a second-alarm fire on 1000 Belfast Rd. Fire services said the source of the blaze […]

What is behind the radicalization of the men and women in Europe who join the Islamic State or support its cause? How is that they can be recruited? HAMZA HENDAWI of the Associated Press in the article below finds suggestions that racism, poverty, unemployment and rejection by Western society could be some of the factors […]

A woman was treated for minor injuries Sunday evening following an accident that saw her car smash through the window of a Hunt Club area insurance firm. According to police, the woman’s vehicle collided with a parked car in the Lorry Greenberg Mall parking lot, near Lorry Greenberg Drive and Conroy Road. She then bounced […]

The body of a missing Augusta Township fisherman has been found. The 48-year-old man was reported missing Saturday afternoon after a boat with three men fishing on the St. Lawrence River in Edwardsburgh Township, near Prescott, overturned. Two of the men reached the safety of nearby Adams Island, but a third had disappeared. On Sunday afternoon, at […]

Lightning 5, Senators 2  TAMPA BAY, Fla. — The Ottawa Senators gave new meaning to playing short-handed Sunday. While Tampa Bay Lightning goaltender Ben Bishop extended his mastery over the Senators in a 5-2 victory, Ottawa also spent the game watching its own players leave one after the other. Bobby Ryan, Cody Ceci and Mark […]

Two drivers were taken to hospital late Sunday afternoon after two-car head-on collision in Cantley. Police with the MRC des Collines de l’Outaouais responded to a 5:15 p.m. call of an accident involving two vehicles on the Montée de la Source — Highway 307. A southbound Honda Civic and a northbound Hyundai Accent collided. The Cantley fire department […]

From broken knees to banged up shoulders to nearly losing an eye, Mike Blunden’s body has taken a beating during an 11-year pro career spent mostly in the minors. When he looks back at it all, scoring for the Tampa Bay Lightning on his 29th birthday during a 5-4 win over Toronto last Tuesday will likely be a career highlight.

I'm growing ever persuaded that LeBreton Flats should be taken away from the National Capital Commission. Period and forever. Think for a sec. We had a mixed neighbourhood there at one time, maybe down on its heels, maybe too loaded with industrial grit, but the place was at least alive.

Ottawa researcher Ken Rubin has filed a complaint with the Competition Bureau over the LeBreton Flats redevelopment, raising concerns about collusion between the two competing teams and the secrecy of the process.

Coping with cancer — or the death of a loved one from cancer — can be doubly difficult during the holidays, says the cancer society. It offers a number of programs and has people on call to help patients and their loved ones when they need it.

Canada’s major cities, for most of their lives, have been arks, with people from all over the world, borne on waves of immigration, coming aboard and attempting to live together in close proximity. As often as not, it has been a distant conflict that has propelled those waves. Initially at ports, and nowadays at airports, […]

An Air Canada Rouge flight from Toronto to Phoenix, Ariz., with an Orléans family aboard declared an emergency in mid-flight and made an unscheduled landing in New Mexico on Saturday night. The Airbus A319 landed safely after losing cabin pressure, and the 131 passengers spent the night in several Albuquerque hotels before continuing to their Phoenix destination late Sunday. The cause […]

List of Ottawa-area blood clinics for the week of Dec. 21, 2015.