Новости за 22.01.2016

This past Christmas, I made several insect hotels in my woodworking shop for some of the special people on my gift list. They were received graciously, but raised the question: What is it? What does an insect hotel do? What kind of insects will it attract? Are they all good for my garden? Just when I thought I’d […]

Last spring, I was one of dozens of tourists milling around Istanbul’s Sultanahmet Square, which links two of the city’s many awe-inspiring sights, Hagia Sophia and the Blue Mosque. Chadors, turbans, cowboy boots, Birkenstocks, spandex and ball caps, all mixed peacefully. Then, last week, a Syrian citizen detonated a bomb he was carrying, killing 10 […]

I don’t know where the Trudeau honeymoon was taken, but wherever it was I want to go. The new year has brought with it crap tidings from around the world but here in Canada the new government’s popularity keeps going up, up, up. Justin Trudeau has done away with Isaac Newton. His government could easily […]

Ottawa’s public school board has reached a tentative local agreement with the union representing its “educational support professionals,” which includes office staff in schools and at the board headquarters, librarians, guidance workers and IT technicians. The tentative deal was announced Friday by Jennifer Adams, director of the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board. Details are confidential until the agreement is ratified, which is expected […]

The falling loonie has two sides, but the downside outweighs the up for Ottawa’s various festivals. Though the Canadian dollar staggered back to 70 cents U.S. Thursday, it’s still in its longest slide since it became a floating currency in 1970, a slide so deep and long that larger music festivals that would hedge against […]

The Arctic Apple is about to upset the apple industry.

Matchstick Persephone Theatre (Saskatoon) At the Great Canadian Theatre Company Reviewed Thursday You may realize earlier or later than your seatmate what is really going on here, but exactly when the penny drops doesn’t matter. What does matter is the intake of breath, the muttered imprecation when you suddenly understand that Matchstick, an odd and […]

The continuing cold temperatures during the past week have had little effect on bird activity. With more daylight now a few species have been heard singing including Northern Cardinals, House Finches and even Black-capped Chickadees whistling their fee-bee song. Though spring is still a distant thought it won’t be too long before the first migrants […]

By Justice (retired) Gilles Létourneau Defence Watch Guest Writer  In an interview conducted by journalist Noémi Mercier for the French-language Actualité magazine following an international conference this past November on penal military justice systems held at the University of Ottawa, the United Kingdom Judge Advocate General, His Honor Justice Jeffrey Blackett, deplored the lack of […]

DEVILS 6, SENATORS 3 NEWARK, N.J. – Somewhere between San Jose and Newark, the steam ran out of the Senators road engine.   After a couple of dramatic wins in California, the Senators sucked the drama out of this one early on to fall to two wins, three losses on their five-game road trip. For […]

Janet Timpson was shocked to receive a letter from OC Transpo this week warning her to pay off an outstanding debt of $2.85 or risk being kicked off of ParaTranspo.

Ottawa police turned out in force – an inspector, a sergeant and two constables – to reassure Blackburn Hamlet residence that their neighbourhood was safe regardless of a recent shooting incident in the area. “Blackburn Hamlet is a safe area,” Const. Brad Burleau, a community policing officer with a decade’s experience in patrolling the locale, told some […]

There was no medal for Alexis Dion on Thursday night.  After ranking second following the short program on Wednesday, the Minto Skating Club representative placed eighth in the free skate Thursday night (75.35 points) and ended up eighth overall (126.52) in the junior women’s division of the Canadian figure skating championships in Halifax. Sarah Tamura […]

An unsuspecting father who was shot in the leg while he slept in his family home on Innes Road last week was likely an innocent bystander struck by a bullet intended for his neighbour. Police Wednesday raided two homes on Russell Road and seized a loaded .22 caliber handgun, believed to be the weapon used in […]

Bador Baksh walks into the lobby of the Radisson Hotel in downtown Ottawa and gently shoos away a dozen kids, including his own son, who crowd around two computers set up in the lobby for guests. It’s a lost cause, though, with more kids soon taking their place in the hotel that’s been transformed into […]

Bhavna Bajaj waited three years for the moment, and when it finally arrived Thursday afternoon at Ottawa International Airport, the sheer joy of having her little boy in her arms brought the perfect ending to a long heartbreak.  Bajaj says there were tears, laughter, hugs and kisses after she was taken from the general arrivals area to […]

NEWARK, NEW JERSEY — Before the finale of a five-game road trip for the Ottawa Senators, injuries and “game-time” decisions became the theme. In the end, defenceman Marc Methot was out, as was No. 1 centre Kyle Turris, ending his ironman streak. Turris had played 307 consecutive games for the Senators since coming to Ottawa […]

Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson, once the province’s minister of health promotion back in 2005, says he had no hesitation in partnering with an energy drink company to bring a “blockbuster” event to the city for Canada’s 150th birthday celebrations. On Thursday, Watson announced that Red Bull Crashed Ice would be coming to Ottawa in March […]

If there’s an important midget tournament in the province – whether it’s Toronto, London, Hamilton or Peterbrough – chances are Kilrea will be there, hoping to re-stock the Ottawa 67’s franchise he ran for the better part of four decades as coach and general manager.

“How many players stickhandle when they’re backing up?”

A jurisdictional dispute will be heard now by the chief justice of the B.C. Supreme Court, with another day of arguments set for Feb. 23.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau urged actor Leonardo DiCaprio to tone down his criticisms of Canada’s oil and gas sector when the two met at a major economic summit in Switzerland this week. An ardent environmentalist, DiCaprio was widely derided by Albertans last December after he described the province’s famous Chinook winds as “terrifying” evidence of climate change. […]

Rockland schools were locked down Thursday in response to two separate reports of teenage boys armed with firearms in or near a school.   Ontario Provincial Police were called to the Rockland District High School on St. Joseph Street in the morning after being notified of an incident in the school involving threats to cause bodily harm with […]

The Ottawa Hospital appears to have broken provincial procurement rules and cost taxpayers at least $1 million more by sole-sourcing major equipment for the University of Ottawa Heart Institute expansion. The equipment, including three generators, was sole sourced from GAL Power, one of the companies the hospital alleges was a co-conspirator in a massive fraud and […]