Новости за 29.01.2016

Ottawa’s United Way is touting one bid’s proposals for social housing and a centre for disabled athletes in a message urging the charity’s supporters to have their say on the competing proposals for LeBreton Flats. Rack up another backer for the bid from the Ottawa Senators, who’ve worked quickly to get influential Ottawa allies to support […]

A hotel at LeBreton Flats! Take a sip. Some sort of interpretive walk? Another sip. An amphitheatre. Finish your drink. An aquarium. Pour another. Chug it. Tell you what, leave me the bottle. When we look at the two competing proposals the National Capital Commission has for LeBreton Flats, from groups led by the Ottawa Senators’ Eugene Melnyk (called RendezVous […]

The Esprit de Corps Commandos hockey team defeated the General Officers & Flag Officers (GOFO’s) by a score of 5:2 to take a commanding lead in the 2016 Commando Challenge, two game series. Thursday’s battle on ice in Ottawa was the most competitive game yet between these two squads, with Chief of the Defence Staff […]

Canada is drifting farther away from its climate targets as the oilsands’ share of national greenhouse emissions is projected to double by 2030 – accounting for more than half the increase in total Canadian GHGs – says new information prepared for Environment Minister Catherine McKenna. Greenhouse gas emissions from the oilsands, Canada’s fastest-growing source of […]

Canada’s top military brass jumped from national defence to hockey offence as it tried to score its way through a fundraising hockey game Thursday afternoon that raised $4,330 for the Military Family Resource Centre (MFRC) – National Capital Region. The Commando Challenge IV saw general officers and flag officers (known as the ad hoc GOFO […]

I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I — I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. — Robert Frost People come to crossroads in their lives and so to do churches.  For Dominion-Chalmers United Church […]

The bird activity continues to fluctuate around the Ottawa area with a recent increase in Bohemian Waxwings and American Robins reported from numerous areas. The Bohemian Waxwing is our winter waxwing and can sometimes be very common as they search for berries, wild grapes and other fruits. Occasionally large flocks of between 500 and 1,000 and more […]

The Liberal government and federal unions are locking horns over a piece of Conservative-era labour legislation even before they get to the negotiation table for their first round of collective bargaining. The 18 unions signed a solidarity pact more than a year ago, when the current round of bargaining began, over the contentious issue of sick […]

What did you do? We snowshoed to Eagle’s Nest lookout near Calabogie, the most dramatic vista in Eastern Ontario.  Though we foolishly chose a day with a -29°C wind chill, our trail blazed through a forest that tamed the wind, making the trek delightful and bringing us into comfortable communion with nature. What is Eagle’s […]

PEMBROKE, Ont. A man who burst into a home, stabbed a Pembroke resident to death in front of his two grandchildren, then slashed the victim’s wife so badly she was blinded, was sentenced on Thursday to life in prison with no chance of parole for 18 years. Justice Timothy Ray said Bryan Goddard’s attacks on Dan and Sharlene Pietersma on June 28, […]

The arrest of a Gatineau burglar has led police to recover three stolen guns and ammunition. Gatineau police said they caught the suspect following a break-and-enter in the Versant district of Gatineau at about 3 a.m. on Monday. Gatineau police Agent Andrée East said the department had been alerted to a second home break-in around […]

Ottawa police say published security camera photos have led to the identification of a suspect in the lunch-hour pepper-spray attack on a woman on an OC Transpo bus Wednesday. The incident came following an argument between a man and a woman riding the Route 96 bus. The man sprayed the woman in the face with a type of […]

The Canadian Army continues to see limited serviceability rates due to its aging fleets, according to the newly released Department of National Defence Plans and Priorities report. “The CA assesses its major vehicle and equipment fleet serviceability at 60 percent,” the report pointed out. That issue covers its major vehicle and equipment holdings. “Until replacements fleets […]

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau may be unable to move into 24 Sussex Drive during his current four-year term in office, an email released to the Citizen under access to information suggests.

In Afghanistan, the Taliban have loaded donkeys up with explosives and sent them towards Afghan National Army outposts. In Iraq, dead animals have been rigged with improvised explosive devices and left on the side of the road. The IED is then detonated when a military convoy drives past. Now this article from the Associated Press: […]

Jurors sat statue-still at the first-degree murder trial of Ahmed Hafizi on Thursday, their eyes fixed on chilling video footage showing the killing of Navid Niran outside a ByWard Market nightclub early on Jan. 22, 2012. Prosecutor Michael Boyce guided the jury through hours of video — including footage showing Niran, 24, collapsing on the sidewalk outside Studio Nightclub […]

The Trudeau government may be drawing opposition flak over relations with Israel, but one rookie Liberal MP has been busy forging ties with the Jewish state. After spending a single week in the House of Commons, Montreal MP Anthony Housefather accepted a free, five-day trip to Israel to attend the International Council of Jewish Parliamentarians. Housefather, newly elected as […]

If you’re lucky, you might catch him with a guitar in his hand and a goofy song in his head.

Former Conservative MP, cabinet minister and assisted death advocate Steven Fletcher unloaded on the Canadian Medical Association on Thursday over its opposition to patients’ giving advance consent to an assisted death while still mentally competent. In appearance before a special joint parliamentary committee a day earlier, Dr. Jeff Blackmer, vice-president of medical professionalism at the […]

The U.S. Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) published an audit of the Afghan National Engineer Brigade (NEB) that found despite U.S. training efforts and the expense of millions of dollars, the brigade is incapable of operating independently.  The audit found the following, according to the inspector general: — The U.S military was unable to […]

Groggy and eager for the weekend, Ottawa motorists crash their vehicles on Friday more than any other day. City police and traffic gurus don’t have hard evidence on why collisions spike on Fridays, but they speculate it’s because drivers are beat and anxious for time off. Recently released crash data from 2014 confirmed the five-year trend. In each year since 2010, […]

The serious side beyond Andre Roy's happy-go-lucky personality emerges when he talks about occasional short-term memory loss and after seeing Brian McGrattan, another ex-Senators tough guy, smack his face on the ice following a one-punch knockout last week.