Новости за 08.02.2016

Council is appointing Steve Kanellakos the City of Ottawa’s next city manager. Kanellakos was a deputy city manager in Ottawa before he left to take the city manager’s job at the City of Vaughan last year. He was a well-liked operations manager while at Ottawa City Hall and many councillors in recent weeks lamented his loss to […]

Ottawa police have closed a section of Walkley Road as crews battle a basement fire. The road was closed near Heron Road after emergency crews were called at 2:06 p.m. The fire was under control 15 minutes after firefighters arrived on scene. No information was immediately available on what caused the fire or how much damage it […]

Ontario Provincial Police have arrested and charged a 31-year-old Brockville man with indecent exposure after a series of reported incidents in Eastern Ontario. Police say the first report was made on Feb. 16, 2015, after a driver asked an adult woman pedestrian in Napanee for directions. When the woman approached the vehicle, the male performed what police […]

As Ottawa’s largest school board heads into one of its toughest budget debates in years, staff have made some suggestions on what can be done to make up a $14.4 million shortfall. Cutting as many as 95 staff positions, which would be done through attrition, is a key option outlined in a report that trustees […]

Current and former Department of National Defence members are being invited to attend a ceremony commemorating the 25th Anniversary of the end of the first Persian Gulf War, according to a news release put out Monday by the DND. This will commemorate the Liberation of Kuwait and the coalition’s declaration of the cease-fire of that […]

The Sûreté du Québec arrested an Alberta man after witnesses reported seeing an intoxicated individual leaving Casino du Lac Leamy in Gatineau on Sunday morning. Police said they received a report of an intoxicated individual leaving the casino around 1:30 a.m. on Sunday morning. Shortly afterwards, police observed a vehicle matching the description of the intoxicated man’s […]

The public consultation on the LeBreton Flats project ends Monday. One way or another, this city is about to change. This is more than just another big development project. The reintegration of the lowlands by the river into the life of this city will reorient its perspectives and redefine the way human life fits into […]

Fisherman's Project teaches the hard-to-employ the painting skills needed to improve homes of owners who can't do the work themselves.

Shortly before Sunday night’s Super Bowl ended, a man was stabbed in his lower body on Montreal Road, near Marier Avenue.  Ottawa paramedics say they received a call for a “penetrating trauma” at about 10:11 p.m. When they arrived on scene they treated a 30-year-old male for a “lower extremity” wound.  The man was taken to hospital […]

There was a time in Canada when a politician, heckled or attacked by a parliamentary opponent, would use the occasion for a crisp –­ and often entertaining – riposte. Sir John Thompson, not yet prime minister, replied to insults in the Commons in 1892 by dryly thanking his opponent for “giving us another of those famous war, famine and pestilence speeches […]

Toronto buzz bands July Talk and Alvvays, Vancouver synth rockers Mother Mother and the indigenous DJ trio A Tribe Called Red will play free concerts in Ottawa this summer as part of the Tim Hortons Ottawa Dragon Boat Festival.  The 23rd annual edition of the festival runs from June 23-26 at Mooney’s Bay Park. Although […]

By Michel Drapeau Defence Watch Guest Writer In April 2015, Parliament enacted the Canadian Victims Bill of Rights. The Bill provides for the following rights which may be exercised by the victim, the victim’s spouse,  the victim’s common law spouse, a relative or dependent of the victim; the individual who is responsible for the care or support […]