Новости за 16.01.2016

Passersby gawked Saturday afternoon as work crews spent the day hanging a huge, spruced-up Hudson’s Bay sign on the company’s Rideau Street store. Rideau Street — already restricted to buses, taxis and emergency vehicles due to LRT work — was shut for the day to allow the work to proceed.  The sign is in the company’s new […]

Just two days after Céline Dion’s husband René Angélil died of cancer, the singer has now lost her brother Daniel to cancer. Dion, 47, lost her husband to cancer on Thursday after he revealed in 2014 that it had returned following two previous bouts. Daniel, 59, is one of Dion’s 13 brothers and sisters. “They’re close, she’s close […]

Iranian state television announced Saturday that the government had freed four dual-nationality prisoners, and a person close to Iran’s judiciary confirmed to The Associated Press that Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian was one of them.

OTTAWA — The co-chair of the Liberal election campaign in Ontario has been appointed as the new Canadian ambassador to the United States. David MacNaughton’s appointment was announced today by Foreign Affairs Minister Stehane Dion. He takes over from Gary Doer, whose term has expired. MacNaughton was most recently chairman and CEO of StrategyCorp, a […]

A defence attorney launched an attack on the credibility of a teenaged girl who alleges that she was sexually assaulted by four people at OC Transpo Blair Station in 2013. In an intense cross-examination Friday, defence lawyer Natasha Calvinho pointed out that while the girl –who was 15 at the time of the alleged assault – said she rarely drank and smoked […]

My, my. Utter some discouraging words about Ottawa and you’re “a whiner”, “a hater”, and “a basher.” Actually, since I wrote a column Tuesday calling Ottawa the worst capital in the G7 – lamenting its lack of ambition and absence of imagination, reflected in shoddy planning, administrative lassitude and somnolent politicians – the harpies have […]

A resident of a two-storey Gatineau building was taken to hospital with minor injuries suffered when they tried to douse a fire in their apartment late Friday night, fire officials said.  The fire began at about 10 p.m. at 328 Hétu Rd., a residential street near Saint-René Blvd. W. Fire officials said flames were visible from the windows when they […]

Firefighters were unable to rescue a beloved cat though did save a four-person family and their pet lizard from an early morning house fire near Woodroffe Avenue and Fallowfield Road early Saturday morning.  An adult woman alerted emergency crews to a fire in her house at 64 Locheland Cres. after heavy smoke woke her at about 3:34 […]

A man was shot in the leg while he was asleep in his house in the centre of Blackburn Hamlet early Friday morning. Police say someone outside fired “several” shots at a building at 2676 Innes Rd. near Bearbrook Road about 12:10 a.m. A family living inside the shot-up unit were awakened by the sound of […]

The Liberal government says it will “move quickly, with care and diligence” to craft new federal laws allowing doctor-assisted suicide, following a Supreme Court of Canada decision Friday that grants lawmakers a four-month reprieve but also supports suffering Canadians who might ask to end their life in the meantime. The federal government had sought a six-month extension of a landmark 2015 court […]

Two years ago on Jan. 7, the world lost a very talented, funny, engaging and happy young man. Chris was in his second year studying at the University of Waterloo’s School of Architecture in Cambridge. He was looking forward to coming home for Christmas and finding out where his first co-op placement would be, hoping it would be in New York City.

IceDogs 4, 67’s 1 The Ottawa 67’s fell back to the .500 mark with a 4-1 loss to the Niagara IceDogs at the TD Place arena on Friday night. The 67’s (20-20-1-1), suffering their first regulation-time Ontario Hockey League loss in their past four games, fell behind 2-0 in the first period before Jeremiah Addison […]

Project launches, new designs and model home openings are lined up amid forecasts for a decent year in the housing industry.

Retail shops in the Glebe, including those at Lansdowne Park, may soon have the city's blessing to open on statutory holidays.

The Ottawa Police Service is asking for the public’s help to identify two suspects that are believed to have been involved in a robbery on Halloween night. According to police, at 10:05 p.m. a 17-year-old was walking along Longfields Drive near Woodroffe Avenue when he was accosted by a man who demanded the teen’s cellphone. When the teen […]

A 30-year-old man is dead after his car left Highway 138 and crashed into a hydro pole in Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry County. Ontario Provincial Police said the North Stormont Township man was driving northbound on 138 south of McNeil Road when his Jeep left the highway and hit the pole at about 7:42 a.m. […]

Andrew Hammond is back with the Ottawa Senators after attending to a family matter, but he's not going to start Saturday afternoon against the Kings after participating in his first practice of the week Friday. It will be Craig Anderson in goal.

It’s easy to miss Sen, the smallest and most singular of Lansdowne Park’s dozen or so restaurants. “I walk by it and don’t even know it’s there,” Roger Greenberg, executive chair of the Ottawa Sports and Entertainment Group, admitted when he met with the Citizen last fall. It’s worth getting to know Sen, especially because the […]

Lansdowne Report Card: PUBLIC SPACES Grade: B+ What’s working: The Skating Court: With the lights of the Aberdeen Pavilion and the rest of Lansdowne as a backdrop, this is perhaps the most picturesque skating rink in Ottawa, at least among those measuring less than 7 km in length. The Great Lawn: Whether you’re into solitary […]

I lost My Talk NAC Orchestra Reviewed Thursday. Performance repeats Friday. Mi’kmaq poet Rita Joe lost her talk as a child at residential school in Nova Scotia. Composer John Estacio and the NAC Orchestra have returned it to her, giving voice to her words and her spirit. I Lost My Talk is the second of four […]

A wanted parolee has been arrested and charged with several Ottawa break-and-enters. Ottawa police said they caught Victor Buglar following a break-in on Duford Drive in Orléans at about 12:30 p.m. Thursday. A neighbour saw a man kick in a door of a home and called police, who arrived to find one suspect sitting in […]