Новости за 15.02.2016

News reports say the federal government is getting to crunch time on whether to lend or give – which is not clear yet – $1 billion to Bombardier, Inc., which is having trouble selling its new C-series aircraft. This would be the latest in a long line of federal cheques made out to the company. If $1 billion is […]

The Blue Rodeo we thought we knew so well had a few surprises in store during their annual Valentine’s Day concert at Canadian Tire Centre. Instead of filling the setlist with jukebox-perfect versions of their hits, the veteran Toronto-based band fronted by Greg Keelor and Jim Cuddy dug deep into the back catalogue to pull […]

Come and help us celebrate Heritage Day and prove your knowledge of Ottawa’s rich and diverse history by taking part in the following quiz! Prepared by the City of Ottawa’s Cultural & Heritage Services Branch, this quiz will encourage you to think back to remember significant happenings in this great city. You are invited to […]

Complaints about the secrecy of the National Capital Commission's LeBreton Flats redevelopment process are misguided, says Louise Panneton, the project's fairness monitor. In fact, compared to other major developments involving the public sector, the LeBreton process has been unusually open, Panneton tells the Citizen's DON BUTLER.

An inside look at the two-week public relations battle to win the hearts and minds of Ottawa residents by the two teams competing to develop LeBreton Flats.

Aside from the contortionist reasoning and the cognitive dissonance, it’s all so simple. The Liberal government supports a certain arms trade treaty. The government’s top advisers and party veterans have criticized a certain arms deal. This makes sense: the arms deal has Canada selling combat vehicles to Saudi Arabia, which could violate the principles of […]

Who’s Ottawa’s deadbeat embassy? Not us, says Armenia. After the Citizen wrote last week about a mystery embassy that owes the city of Ottawa more than $175,000 in unpaid taxes, a Toronto newspaper picked up the story. Since neither Ottawa nor Global Affairs Canada will say which embassy owes the money, the Toronto paper threw in […]

Alternately, Happy Islander/Heritage/Louis Riel Day, depending on where you live and/or work, and Happy Just Another Monday to readers in British Columbia, New Brunswick and Quebec. Today may not be a federal statutory holiday, but the House of Commons will nonetheless remain shuttered for one more day in order to allow MPs (and possibly some […]

Eat, drink and be bitter was the mantra at Origin Trade’s anti-Valentine’s Day party Sunday evening.

The funeral for Bernard Cameron, the popular local politician shot to death last week, will be held Friday. Cameron, 65, a retired school teacher and councillor for Mississippi Mills, was shot and killed at his home on Strathburn Street on Thursday morning. His daughter, 28-year-old Sarah Cameron, who with her two children was staying with her parents, […]

COMING UP Empties For Paws is holding its inaugural “Empties for Paws Weekend” on Feb. 20-21. A “Flood the Rescues” bottle drive is being held, with people asked to donate their empty beer, wine and liquor bottles/cans at various locations listed on the Empties For Paws website. Close to 50 animal rescues are listed from […]

An Ottawa man wasn't going to let a cancelled Winterman Marathon and the bitter cold prevent him from running 42 kilometres on Sunday.

Once again, Ottawa 67’s head coach and general manager Jeff Brown got the best of his son Logan. A big, lanky centre for the Windsor Spitfires, Logan Brown was held pointless Sunday and the 67’s got two power-play goals to rally for a 2-1 win before a crod 3,340 at TD Place. “It’s way bigger […]

Mike McEwen got the girl years ago, but now he’s returning to Ottawa with a Canadian men’s curling championship in his sights. How McEwen accomplished the former can be explained in one sentence: Dawn Askin’s family billeted the young Manitoba skip when he was in the capital region for junior bonspiels in the late ’90s, […]

Hundreds laced up in the bitter cold on Valentine's Day Sunday to skate for cancer research, but at least one participant wasn't at all bothered by the frigid conditions.

From the big melt to the big chill, the cold returned for the final weekend of Winterlude madness.

Jonathan Chow was recently presented with a Mayor's City Builder Award, recognizing his contributions as a very active volunteer, fundraiser, innovator and role model for youth in Ottawa.

Sunday morning, close to minus 30 outside — the blue heavens, the earth, our private hells possibly, today frozen over. It is warm and bright inside St. Joseph’s on Laurier Avenue East, on the first Sunday of Lent, on Valentine’s Day, churches being the crossroad of quiet shelter and shattered heart. Is this not why the walls are stone? At the start of […]

Knowing the talent pool of the public service will need to be renewed to push forward its agenda, the Liberal government is trying to figure out how to attract more young people to a sector where the average age of a new hire is pushing 40. The rising age of new recruits was flagged for Prime Minister […]