Новости за 29.12.2015

In the final days of March, our government was debating whether Canada should extend its military mission against the Islamic State. In a speech made in the House of Commons, Justin Trudeau laid out the Liberal party’s position on the issue. It contained three central tenets: training, humanitarian aid, and resettlement help for refugees. Regarding […]

With Ottawa snow-covered and many people waiting for plows on their street, Tuesday brought further confusion in the form of a report that plows were sitting idle to save money. Coun. Rick Chiarelli told the Citizen that the city was waiting for snow on side streets to reach a depth of at least nine centimetres, up from seven last […]

Maybe to make up for being so late, Ottawa’s first real winter storm has decided to linger, with Environment Canada warning of snow and ice pellets Tuesday and wind gusts of 30 to 50 km/h. Another 10 to 20 centimetres of snow was expected to fall throughout the day, adding to the overnight accumulation. Roads […]

Something strange and wondrous happened in Canada recently. A politician – actually, a former politician – gave a good speech. Actually, a terrific speech. It was about the future of his party, but it was not overly partisan. It was about the need for civilized debate, not “personal destruction.” It was about the honour of […]

The 30-year-old chef, now helming one of the world's great restaurants in Copenhagen, will visit his hometown this weekend.

The CItizen's wine writer Rod Phillips offers some wine-related resolutions for the new year.

It wasn’t exactly Saul on the road to Damascus, but it was close enough. “In Grade 10, I remember walking to school and it was a beautiful sunny day, and from somewhere deep inside I said, ‘I want to be an actor!’ It just blurted out,” says Katie Ryerson, a gifted, 25-year-old stage actor who […]

The Game Ottawa Senators at the Boston Bruins, Tuesday, 7 p.m., RDS2, TSN5 The Series It would seem that the Bruins might be an even more determined group on Tuesday night and have an edge because they’re coming home to play the Senators again after losing 3-1 in Ottawa on Sunday. However, it will also be […]

Ottawa takes first place in Environment Canada’s Top Ten weather stories of 2015 — a contest we never really want to win, like Customer of the Year at the payday loan joint. That frigid February was part of a winter so long, cold and just plain mean that it made No. 1 on the list, compiled each year by […]

You knew it had to come, didn’t you? Winter’s wallop was to arrive in Ottawa overnight, with between 20 and 35 centimetres of snow forecast and an advisory from police and Environment Canada to avoid unnecessary travel. For Denis Berubé, owner of Worry-Free Snowblowing in Orléans, the storm means a 4 a.m. wake-up to get his fleet […]

A man killed in a Christmas Day collision on Greenbank Road was to have been married on the evening before Valentine’s Day. Gunveet Singh was driving with his fiancée for a Christmas dinner on Friday when he was killed in a head-on collision along a stretch of Greenbank Road. The unidentified 27-year-old man driving the […]

Northern Magic, the 42-foot steel, twin-masted sailboat that most famously carried Ottawa’s Steumer family on a four-year, 65,000-kilometre circumnavigation of the globe, now lies grounded on Uruguay’s rocky coastline, only six metres or so from the shore, its U.S. flag in tatters, its owner nowhere in sight. The boat was spotted almost a week ago by […]

The Ottawa fire department was called to a Vars property Monday afternoon after receiving several 911 calls reporting a garage fire that was beginning to spread to an adjoining house. Firefighters said two occupants were injured, with one taken to hospital. Crews were called to 2071 Devine Rd. just before 2 p.m. and could see smoke billowing from the structure, […]

Whether it was the sophomore Ottawa Redblacks’ stunning appearance in the CFL’s Grey Cup final; the NASL’s Ottawa Fury challenging for a major soccer championship; the Ottawa Senators’ breathtaking sprint to the NHL playoffs; the Rachel Homan rink’s domination of women’s curling or Brooke Henderson winning her first LPGA Tour event, the Ottawa region has […]

As he watches his former colleagues go all out to resettle thousands of Syrian refugees by the end of this year, the public servant who helped run Canada’s last major refugee resettlement program says he’s concerned that politics is getting in the way of policy. Gerry Van Kessel says he’s frustrated by the game he feels […]