Новости за 28.01.2016

Ottawa police are searching for a man who allegedly pepper sprayed a woman on an OC Transpo bus over the lunch hour on Wednesday. Police allege that after a verbal altercation between a man and a woman – both passengers on a Route 96 OC Transpo bus – the man sprayed the woman in the face with […]

Gatineau police have announced a $3,000 reward for information about the whereabouts of Yves Cyr, 41, who has been missing since Dec. 7. According to police, Cyr went to work and then simply disappeared on that day. He was last seen in an industrial park near the Gatineau airport. Police said there are concerns for the man’s health […]

The Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario is doing a little surgery on itself. Project Stitch, a $13.6-million makeover of CHEO’s 40-year-old surgical ward, will improve the design and efficiency of the program in an era when 80 per cent of surgical patients go home the same day. When complete, the hospital will be able to do 1,500 more operations […]

A leading senator is voicing concerns over what role the Senate will be given on the Liberals’ planned committee of parliamentarians responsible for reviewing the legality and effectiveness of Canada’s national security activities. The government wants legislation enacted by June for creation of an “all-party committee of parliamentarians,” to be chaired by Liberal MP David […]

The Department of National Defence’s Plans and Priorities report highlighted major issues with the Canadian Forces Reserves. The latest figures indicate a shortfall of 5,293 reservists. The total reserve strength is now 21,707. Why has this happened? Here is what the report states: “The Reserve Force is a unique and valued component of the CAF. […]

A day after going public, promoters of two visions for LeBreton Flats came face to face with the public in two very warm rooms (many people, bright lights) inside the Canadian War Museum. They answered a flood of questions: Where’s the War Museum on this model? When does Phase 3 start? Which is Eugene Melnyk’s design? (Hint to […]

With another capacity crowd turning out Wednesday evening to view video presentations of the possible redevelopment of LeBreton Flats, NCC officials were “thrilled” at the “enormous” interest of Ottawans in the national capital’s future. “There’s enormous interest in (the future of LeBreton Flats), and that’s encouraging,” National Capital Commission chairman Russell Mills said on the second of three […]

The $600,000 Arctic Inspiration Prize has been won by a project that supports performing artists in the North. Qaggiq is led by the Qaggiavuut Society, a Nunavut-based arts organization that is in partnership with organizations across the North and southern Canada, including the National Arts Centre and the Canada Council. The award means Qaggiavuut can […]

A spokesman for the Devcore Canderel DLS Group, one of two teams vying to develop LeBreton Flats, says he is "perplexed" by Eugene Melnyk's flat refusal to even consider allowing his Ottawa Senators to play in somebody else's downtown arena.

The ambitious redevelopment proposals for LeBreton Flats unveiled Tuesday both include space for a new central library, but whether that ever becomes a reality could come down to timing.

In the hours before a drunken Navid Niran was stabbed to death outside a Dalhousie Street nightclub on Jan. 22, 2012, his friend kept a close watch on him for fear Niran would lose his temper without thinking twice. This key detail was revealed on Wednesday in the testimony of friend Ammar Haidari during an intense cross-examination […]

Apple Inc., one of the world’s most-recognized technology companies, will open an office in Kanata, the Citizen has learned. According to several sources in the Ottawa real estate community, the Cupertino, California, tech giant has leased a 22,000-square-foot space on the third floor of 411 Legget Drive after shopping for space in the capital area since […]

The two proposals to redevelop LeBreton Flats have similarities — a hockey rink and restaurants, for example — and differences — a planetarium versus, um, more hockey rinks. Differentiating the two can be difficult: Would you rather stroll along Canadensis Walk or Canada Drive? And what to make of something named Retail Follies? Is it […]

The NDP took a swipe at the Liberals Wednesday for making Michael Wernick their top bureaucratic adviser, because he served as deputy minister of Aboriginal Affairs when the previous government was resisting a human rights case aimed at ending discrimination against First Nation children on reserves. NDP MP Charlie Angus, critic for Indigenous and Northern Affairs, told the […]

Lace ’em up. Your skates that is. As of 8 a.m. Thursday, a 3.8-kilometre section of the Rideau Canal Skateway – from Somerset Street to Bank Street – will reopen to skaters. It was initially opened for use on Jan. 23, but closed on Tuesday of this week. The National Capital Commission deemed this section of the […]

Ottawa’s planning committee on Tuesday overruled its built-heritage subcommittee, siding with a developer who plans to tear down and move a barn built in the 19th century. The red dairy barn at 590 Hazeldean Rd. was part of the Bradley-Craig farmstead, sold to Richcraft in 2006. In 2010, both the barn and the Gothic revival farmhouse were granted heritage […]

1. National Energy Board hearings on Kinder Morgan twinning its Trans Mountain pipeline are almost over; the government is extending the deadline for a decision by four months, pushing it to next December, to allow for an examination of the greenhouse gas emissions created during the extraction and processing of oil destined for the new line. […]

Ottawa city council approves relocation of Bradley-Craig barn, Lowertown demolition.

Here's a quick overview of the IlluminNATION LeBreton project proposed by the RendezVous LeBreton Group.

Home builders need to further scale back construction to cool overheated markets in Ottawa and other centres, says Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. A quarterly market assessment released by the federal government’s housing watchdog Wednesday said rising vacancy rates and high inventories of new and unsold units are causing problems in Calgary, Saskatoon, Regina and […]

Carleton University's board of governors adopted a revised code of conduct for its 32 members Tuesday with one lone dissenting vote. Prof. Root Gorelick, the board's only unionized faculty representative, retained his seat on the board despite speculation the board would remove him over his refusal to sign a confidentiality agreement that would forbid him from discussing board business on his personal blog.