Новости за 16.02.2016

This could be “the nastiest storm of the winter,” says David Phillips, who ought to know as Environment Canada’s senior climatologist. Still, he actually has some good things to say about it. It’s snow, not freezing rain. Not too windy. Not too cold. And lasting one day only. For real misery, he says, look down the […]

Talk about your unintended consequences. To stretch the growing season of its tomatoes, Suntech Greenhouses Ltd. has installed red, blue and bright light emitting diode (LED) lights to warm up the cold grey light of winter at its four-acre indoor farm, located just north of the intersection of River Road and Roger Stevens Drive. Bob Mitchell, the owner of the […]

A man wanted for the savage beating of an Uber driver in downtown Ottawa last June has turned himself in. Farouk Timbilla showed up at the Ottawa police station Monday night. The 27-year-old man is allegedly one of three people who beat up a driver in the area of Elgin and Gloucester streets. Investigators had exhausted all leads to find him, and put […]

Five people, including a child, have been displaced by a fire Monday night at a house in the Plateau neighbourhood of Hull. The blaze was called in at about 9:30 p.m. at the home De la Civilisation Street.   It was declared under control about one hour later, but Red Cross was called to help the four […]

Oh no, O Canada Re: NBA better suited to Drake than Sting; Feb. 15. With regard to singing our national anthem, artist Nelly Furtado is not alone. Singer-songwriter Bobby Bazini didn’t do any better and musician Burton Cummings made up his own lyrics.  Next year, 2017, is a big year for Canada. Our anthem will be sung […]

After spending the last week doing the rounds in their respective ridings, MPs are set to resume their regular parliamentary duties this morning, hours before a major storm is expected to bury the Hill and surrounding areas in up to 40 centimetres of snow, which may or may not up-end the usual siting day schedule.  […]

5:20 a.m.:Snow is falling in Ottawa, will become heavy at times throughout the day.  5:40 a.m.: All eastern Ontario school buses have been cancelled.  With as much as 40 centimetres of snow expected beginning this morning, the City of Ottawa is readying its fleet for a full-scale deployment. “This is a significant event,” said Luc […]

Longtime popular Ottawa radio host “Stuntman” Stu Schwartz announced Monday night that he has been diagnosed with leukemia. Schwartz, who co-hosts the Majic 100 morning show with Angie Poirier, made the announcement in a brief video posted to his Facebook page about eight hours after he checked into The Ottawa Hospital’s Civic Campus. In a […]

Here is the latest from the Department of National Defence on the war in Iraq. On February 14, two CF-18 Hornets bombed an ISIL fighting position in the vicinity of Fallujah using precision guided munitions. Four days earlier, two CF-18s attacked an ISIL weapons cache in the vicinity of Al Habbaniyah. The same day two […]

While police continued to investigate the Valentine’s Day death of Nicole Guimond, her friends were in mourning Monday at the loss of the popular young woman. “I still can’t wrap my head around this,” Becky Robinson, a longtime friend in Kingston, told CBC News on Monday. “She was so dear to me and so many others, every morning […]

The emerald ash borer claimed another forest when crews moved in to cut down much of the beetle-infested ash tree woodlot in Kanata’s Stonegate Park. “A very nice park has just been turned into wasteland,” area resident Bernard Caron said Monday. “It’s shocking to see a full forest destroyed in one day.” The Stonegate Park woodlot, […]

Canada's six national museums are underfunded by as much as $78.7 million a year, according to briefing notes prepared by the Department of Canadian Heritage for its minister, Mélanie Joly.

Reports of the death of libraries have been greatly exaggerated. Take Montreal’s Grande Bibliothèque. A decade ago, Quebec did an unprecedented thing, combining the main branch of a municipal public library and the province’s national library in one building. The hybrid has been called both a “temple of literacy” and a “home away from home” […]

The Sabres loss is the Senators gain. Kane was riding a hot stick, scoring in Sunday afternoon’s 4-1 win over Colorado, giving him three goals in his past two games. He has four goals in his past four games, five goals in his past six games and six goals in eight games dating back to the Jan. 26 game against Ottawa.

For Ottawa Fury FC, what happens off the field may be every bit as important as what happens on it as the team looks for more North American Soccer League success. Nearly three months after a heartbreaking 3-2 loss to the New York Cosmos in the NASL championship final, Fury FC has retooled and, beginning […]

A lack of staff that frustrates rehabilitation programming, “needless” design flaws that affect safety and a shower room that is used as an overflow cell were among the problems plaguing Ottawa’s notorious provincial jail, said the NDP’s corrections critic following a Monday tour of the Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre. Jennifer French, MPP for Oshawa and NDP critic for Community Safety […]

The 17-year-old 67's forward Drake Rymshaw faced a stern test with three games in four days in his return to the lineup after a lengthy stint on the sidelines because of a fractured femur.

The next “golden age” of Canada’s public service will be led by millennials, says Treasury Board President Scott Brison and that means the federal workplace must change to attract highly valued workers under age 35. “We are really well-served by an excellent public service but we have a lot of work to do in engaging millennials more […]

Early penalty trouble and a "hot stick" for the Battalion proved costly for the 67's on Monday.

During one of the 2015 election debates, Justin Trudeau accused Prime Minister Harper of lacking an Arctic policy, calling it “Big Sled, No Dogs.”   The idea was that the Conservative government’s Arctic record was empty rhetoric on investment in northern communities and on security in the face of Russian expansion in nearby waters. Mr. Trudeau tweeted […]

In Kanata on Monday, nearly 70 children, some of them newcomers to Canada, were brought together to take part in a sport that can be understood no matter where you call home or what language you speak.  They were playing in the Our New Canucks soccer festival at the OZ Dome, organized by Kevin Nelson, the director of […]

With as much as 40 centimetres of snow expected beginning Tuesday morning, the City of Ottawa is readying its fleet for a full-scale deployment. “This is a significant event,” said Luc Gagné, the city’s manager of roads and services. “It appears there will be more snow and it will be more intense than the storm on Dec. 29. […]