Новости за 30.01.2016

More than five dozen women were able to return to a Centretown emergency shelter Saturday morning, hours after a fire temporarily displaced them.

Dundurn Press has released an updated edition of the book, The Canadian Honours System. It is a full-colour illustrated book that outlines the history of Canada’s various national orders, decorations, and medals. Lots of glossy color photos that detail the history of the medals. The author, Christopher McCreery, holds a doctorate in Canadian political history […]

Afghanistan now has four Embraer/Sierra Nevada Corporation A-29 Super Tucano light attack aircraft. The planes arrived Jan. 15 and will be operated by the Afghan Air Force (AAF). In total the Afghans will receive 20 A-29s from the U.S. All will be delivered by 2018. The main role of the aircraft will be close air […]

A 13-year-old boy male faces two serious charges after a dispute at a hockey game in Smiths Falls on Tuesday, police said. The youth was charged with assault with a weapon and uttering threats after an altercation between two youths at a Smiths Falls Junior A Bears hockey game.   Smiths Falls Police Services said the youth was […]

The province says it is recruiting another 40 new correctional officers for Ottawa’s chronically understaffed jail. The Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services said it is in the process of recruiting 180 new correctional officers to staff jails across the province. The latest hires are on top of a class of 144 recruits the province announced it […]

Why Shared Services is an easy target for the Auditor General

At least 62 women who were staying at a women’s shelter needed another place to get warm after a fire damaged the downtown building early Saturday morning.  Ottawa Fire Services said heavy, black smoke was visible on the top floor when their crews arrived just after 2:36 a.m. at the four-storey building at 172 O’Connor St. Firefighters believe the fire […]

There’s a key to be found at the midpoint of Yann Martel’s new novel, The High Mountains of Portugal: “A parable is an allegory in the form of a simple story. It is a suitcase that we open and unpack to see its contents.” The book is a parable, built of three intertwined tales that culminate […]

Foreign Affairs Stephane Dion says the Canadian contribution to the war against the Islamic State will focus not only on Iraq but on Lebanon and Jordan as well. “The two other countries we need to help to make sure they are stable, because they are so key for the region and are affected by the […]

Noel Hoefenmayer’s Ontario Hockey League resumé shows just 34 games played but already he’s becoming something of a Peterborough Petes killer.

The next member of the Ottawa 67’s 100-goal club can’t name any of the previous 30 on the star-studded list. Not yet, anyway.

The Winterlude kickoff party was held Friday night at Confederation Park and, for one night, at least, the weather co-operated.

It's on to the weekend for Brad Fritsch and Brooke Henderson in their respective pro golf events.

Taxpayers in Ottawa have to pay more than $2 million in damages for a 2008 crash in which an OC Transpo bus T-boned an SUV, killing three people.

Retired senior Dan Smith says he really didn’t have a bad time in jail, if you don’t count a pretty lousy sleep. And the 65-year-old got a bonus. He was released from the Gatineau detention centre after serving just one day of this three-day sentence for the dubious offence of refusing to pay a fine […]

Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan says whatever Canada decides to do in Iraq and Syria will have a “ripple effect” across the entire region, and while the government wants to make sure Canada’s contribution is meaningful, it also doesn’t want to make the situation worse. The Afghan veteran and former Vancouver police detective made the comments […]

As alarm about the Zika virus spreads through the Americas, Canadian public health officials are attempting to calm nerves at home. Chief public health officer Dr. Gregory Taylor said Friday the risk to Canadians is very low, although he acknowledged many questions that remain to be answered about the mosquito-borne virus that is being associated […]

There are tricks to making a canal freeze the right way — nothing that will work if the weather turns too warm, but Winterlude organizers hope to get through this weekend. There was far too much warmth all through December and January, one year after the Rideau Canal Skateway set a record for the length of […]

Mike Webster, Rod Woodward and Dennis Duncan sat beside each other in the Montreal Alouettes' locker room in 1969. Now they or their families are all part of a class-action lawsuit claiming damages for concussion-related brain illnesses.

You've got $5.1 million to spend and 46 roster spots to fill. Here's how you could do it.

In the hours before a drunken Navid Niran was knifed to death outside a ByWard Market nightclub on Jan. 22, 2012, he was leading a gang of bullies inside who repeatedly picked on the man on trial for the killing him, a court heard Friday.

If accepted by the National Capital Commission, RendezVous LeBreton's $3.5-billion plan for LeBreton Flats will reward its investors with solid market returns, says John Ruddy, a key member of the group as president and CEO of Trinity Developments. But the proposal only works if Rendezvous LeBreton can tap into existing government incentive programs and if the minimum densities in the group's planned office and residential components are approved, Ruddy says.