Новости за 17.02.2016

Unlike Ottawa city councillors, the press corps who cover them aren't don't have a gift registry to disclose the gifts, benefits, hospitality and tickets we receive. If we did, I'd disclose this.

Consider it a lost bird that’s come home to roost. When Ducks Unlimited hosts its annual “Signature” fundraising dinner in Ottawa on Feb. 25, a film will be shown from so far back in the organization’s history that its very existence had been forgotten. It’s rediscovery involved a chance encounter and a bit of detective […]

An updated version of the Middle Eastern restaurant Fairouz which flourished in the 1990s and early 2000s in Ottawa, is to open in the old restaurant's Somerset Street West location.

A former Sunday school teacher and husband of a children’s pastor has been charged by Ottawa police with human trafficking. Matthew Valentini, 34, is charged with trafficking of a person under the age of 18, drug possession and driving with a suspended license. He was arrested last Friday for “offences relating to the sexual exploitation […]

Carnivores will want to check out the sandwiches from two Ottawa shops that proudly put "Meat" in their names.

School buses were cancelled across the region Wednesday as the city continued to dig out of Tuesday’s record-breaking snowfall. Schools remained open, however. Police reported morning rush-hour was “as good as can be expected.” But driving remained extremely slow in most regions, as streets, while plowed, were mostly narrower than usual. Several minor collisions were reported but […]

A recent, one-night-only dinner at North & Navy in Centretown yielded delicious, intensely local food.

He calls himself Bryce Stevens, which we both know is a lie, though the initials, BS, amuse him. But we are satisfied he spent his working life as a con man, a scam artist, your grandmother’s worst nightmare, before he stopped about three years ago and went straight. Now he’s written Pitching Dreams: The Secrets of a […]

The federal government wants to hire thousands of millenials to rejuvenate the public service. This attempt to attract the best and brightest is laudable, but it’s not going to happen as long as the government continues to regard bilingualism as a primary criterion for hiring and advancement. It’s simply a matter of arithmetic. The number […]

The greatest thing about summer camp is its ability to unburden campers of their baggage and allow them to see the potential in themselves and the possibilities life can offer.

Senators owner Eugene Melnyk gave a special shoutout Tuesday night to “Stuntman” Stu Schwartz, as the radio host begins his public battle with leukemia. Melnyk, who not so long ago was facing his own health scare, appeared in a video tribute to Schwartz, which was played at the Sens game against the Buffalo Sabres at the Canadian […]

Ottawa police have arrested an 18-year-old wanted after a woman was pepper-sprayed while riding an OC Transpo bus last month. Devin Huff was arrested Tuesday and will appear in count Wednesday morning, the Ottawa Police Service said in a release. Huff is charged with assault with a weapon, six counts of administrating a “noxious thing with intent,” […]

Those who weathered the storm were at least able to head home with a smile. While the weather outside was frightful for the announced crowd of 15,893 Tuesday night at the Canadian Tire Centre, the Senators at least made it worth their while for those who made the trek as Bobby Ryan scored the winner […]

Canada’s shipbuilding industry says it is concerned over recent reports in the Citizen that the Canadian government may lease foreign built tugboats rather than build replacement tugs for the Royal Canadian Navy at home.  In mid-January the Citizen carried an article noting that the federal government had confirmed that some of the smaller ships that […]

Mother Nature couldn’t stop the Senators and Buffalo Sabres Tuesday night. While many thought the Senators game against the Sabres may be postponed with a record amount of snowfall in the Ottawa area and driving treacherous, the game went ahead as scheduled at the Canadian Tire Centre with those who braved the conditions on hand. […]

Against the backdrop of annual Heritage Day celebrations at city hall, Mayor Jim Watson rejected a community group's call for a moratorium on further demolitions of heritage buildings in Ottawa's oldest neighbourhood.

Retired public servant Richard Tudor Price has won a victory in his battle with his former employer, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. But he says the fight is not yet over.

Instead of going to work Tuesday, a self-proclaimed “avid outdoorsman” called in sick to his Hydro One job — consequences be damned — to hike the downtown area in snowshoes.  With a serious winter storm pounding the capital, David Kroft, 28, decided he would accomplish a goal he’s had since he moved to Ottawa in September.  “After I saw […]

It has been 11 years between Scotties Canadian curling championships for Jenn and Steph Hanna, but it's also two nationals in a matter of months for teammates Karen Sagle and Brit O'Neill.

Council’s environment committee agrees the city government must help prevent a climate-change catastrophe. How does it go about doing it over the next 34 years? That’s a head-scratcher. Capital Coun. David Chernusehnko’s proposal to set a higher target to reduce greenhouse gas emissions drew little heat Tuesday, with only one councillor rejecting a recommendation to lower emissions 80 per […]

Potential Conservative Party leadership candidate Kevin O’Leary’s advocacy for pipelines and the Canadian energy sector could be helping the performance of the mutual funds that bear his name.  Since O’Leary was floated as a leadership contender, the investor and reality TV show panelist has been outspoken in his support of Alberta’s oil and gas sector and the proposal to build […]

The family of a slain Mississippi Mills councillor and retired high school teacher who died trying to protect his daughter from her former spouse says they are mourning the loss of Bernard Alexander Cameron. Cameron, 65, was shot dead inside his Almonte home on Strathburn Street last Thursday by Travis Porteous, 33. Porteous had been in […]

Popular radio host and Ottawa Senators PA announcer “Stuntman” Stu Schwartz is looking to a 12-year-old boy for inspiration as he begins a battle against leukemia. The exact nature of the illness isn’t known yet as Schwartz awaits the results of a bone-marrow biopsy conducted Tuesday morning at the Ottawa General hospital. “That will determine […]

An American voting-machine salesman has been barred from contacting anyone at Ottawa City Hall for a month, the city’s integrity commissioner announced Tuesday, imposing his first discipline ever under Ottawa’s lobbying rules. Bill Murphy is the director of sales for Boston-based Clear Ballot, which sells equipment for running elections. Integrity commissioner Robert Marleau has forbidden […]

“Break a leg,” they say in showbiz, though Jim Bryson took it a step too far. “I was up on a ladder hanging a sound panel,” Bryson says during an interview in the music “shed” he built behind his home in Stittsville. “The ladder slid out and I landed on my face and my knee. […]