Новости за 18.02.2016

Two curling legends, each with strong connections to the Ottawa-Gatineau area, are going into the Canadian Curling Hall of Fame. Earle Morris and Pierre Charette will enter the Hall of Fame at a banquet in Ottawa, March 9 at the Westin, during Tim Hortons Brier week. They’ll be joined by journalist Bob Weeks and wheelchair […]

Snow plows are rumbling down city streets but councillors will be considering a new beach policy next week. Two city beaches would be supervised almost all of August if council agrees with a staff recommendation published in a report Thursday. The idea is to stagger a 65-day beach season for the four beaches. Parks staff […]

Keeping a fire lit through a stormy winter is no easy feat. Susan Martin is the driving force behind Home Fires Burning, a ceremony that began last April. Since then, she has maintained a small fire on the east end of Victoria Island to memorialize missing and murdered aboriginal Canadians. She temporarily lives in a wigwam on the island, […]

The city’s taxi union wants a judge to put the brakes on Uber drivers in Ottawa, prompting the multinational ride-ordering company to accuse cabbies of protectionism. The union is seeking a injunction against drivers using the Uber application to pick up fee-paying passengers. Amrik Singh, president of the taxi union, said he believes the public would prefer cabbies […]

Foreign Affairs Minister Stephane Dion is set to become the second minister to take part in the newly retooled Senate Question Period, and Ottawa Citizen parliamenary reporter Kady O’Malley will be in the upper house throughout his appearance. The liveblog gets underway at 3:30 p.m., so stay tuned:

Services haven’t been held at the historic church in Spencerville for about 40 years, but two faithful followers still congregate inside its red brick walls. Built in 1893, the former Protestant parish has been home to Janie and David McDonald for the past five years. Both devout Christians, they admit their unique house — complete with stained-glass, Gothic windows and a sky-scraping steeple […]

A teenager was seriously injured Thursday morning after being pinned under an OC Transpo bus that plowed into a passenger shelter at the corner of Jean D’Arc Boulevard and Youville Drive. Reports indicate the victim was a 14-year-old youth, who was with his sister, 16, and mother at the stop. According to paramedics the boy was caught […]

Excerpted from a speech this week by Official Opposition Leader Rona Ambrose, interim head of the Conservative Party, during the House of Commons debate on Canada’s new mission against ISIL (also known as ISIS): ISIS has revolutionized the use of torture, mutilation and murder as a means of oppression, an instrument of terror and a medium […]

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau got a load off his shoulders this week while Prabjote (PJ) Lakhanpal picked up the extra prime ministerial weight.    The 19-year-old will get to spend an entire week in Trudeau’s shoes, after the Make-A-Wish Foundation granted PJ his wish to be the Prime Minister of Canada.    The Toronto teen was diagnosed with […]

Excerpted from opening remarks this week by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau during the House of Commons debate on Canada’s new mission against ISIL: Mr. Speaker, I would like to begin this debate with a statement of gratitude to the brave women and men of the Canadian Armed Forces, and the many public servants who have offered and […]

New shows and events in and around Ottawa this week: Moments in Time: figurative sculptures by Maria Saracino, vernissage Feb. 18 from 6 to 10 p.m., Orange Art gallery, 290 City Centre Ave. www.orangeartgallery.ca Fall: Symbols of Impermanence, photographs of the descent of cultures by Caroline Tallmadge, vernissage Feb. 18 from 6 to 8 p.m., Feb. […]

Thursday, Feb. 18 It’s National Drink Wine Day in the United States and, in friendship and solidarity, would it not behoove us to embrace it, too, with deep respect? (Albeit, not to excess, of course.) Click here for some wine drinking suggestions — and donate your empty bottles to the Empties for Paws weekend on Feb. 20-21, […]

EcoFarm Day 2016, Feb. 20, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Ramada Inn, Cornwall, presented by the Canadian Organic Growers Ottawa-St Lawrence-Outaouais Chapter. cog.ca/ottawa/eco-farm-day Community garden development fund application deadline is 10 a.m. on Feb. 22. Info: 613.699-6850 ext. 12. or communitygardening@justfood.ca Success With Seeds: Germinating, Growing & Gathering a panel presentation & discussion, Feb. 23, 7:30 […]

Is a condo right for you? Organizing pros and cons into ABCs is a manageable way of sorting through them. This week we look at A to E.

Three Royal Canadian Navy vessels, along with Spanish replenishment ship SPS Patiño, have departed Halifax to conduct a task group exercise along the eastern seaboard, the Royal Canadian Navy announced Thursday. Her Majesty’s Canadian Ship (HMCS) Athabaskan and Halifax, along with SPS Patiño, set sail Wednesday and will join HMCS Charlottetown, which departed earlier in […]

The new Mack trucks destined for the Canadian Forces were put through cold temperature testing at the end of January. The tests at the “cold chamber” at the National Research Council’s facility in Ottawa were successful, Department of National Defence officials told Defence Watch. In July, then Defence Minister Jason Kenney announced that Mack Defense, […]

OTTAWA — Buried in the Liberal government’s announcement last month that it was lifting a large number of sanctions against Iran was that it was also adding another six Iranians and two Iranian companies to the sanctions list. The additions, which were mostly overlooked, were made in response to Iran testing a ballistic missile in […]

The provincial Crown’s office is reviewing the conduct of prosecutors after a careless driving ticket issued to a former Gloucester police chief was dismissed at a provincial offences hearing, the Citizen has learned. Officers across the Ottawa police force allege the dismissal was a colluded effort by members of policing families to have the ticketing […]

The Ottawa Hospital’s first big appeal to the community to raise hundreds of millions of dollars for a new hospital began on Wednesday with an apology from chief executive Jack Kitts. “I want to start with an apology for allowing the issue of where we build our great new hospital to overshadow the far more important […]

An Ottawa man has been arrested in last fall’s shooting death of 25-year-old Christine MacNeil at a Gatineau hotel. Gatineau police announced the 53-year-old man’s arrest Wednesday. While not releasing the man’s name, police said he was to be interviewed by investigators Wednesday night.  MacNeil was shot and killed in a room at The Four Points by Sheraton Hotel on Laurier Street […]

On Tuesday night, with the city in the midst of a record-breaking snowstorm, Orléans resident Gerry Marsh was planning on heading out for dinner with his girlfriend to celebrate his birthday. He never made it to dinner. As he was leaving his house, he noticed that a city bus was stuck in the snow nearby. Instead of simply […]

If the Senators don’t treat them and their teammates with the proper respect Thursday, the Carolina Hurricanes could deal another devastating blow to Ottawa’s playoff chances.

Barrhaven Coun. Jan Harder says snow plowing in her suburb after every storm is abhorrent and she claims urban taxpayers get better service from the city. “Sixteen years after amalgamation, there’s still a discrepancy about how we provide winter services in this city,” Jan Harder said Wednesday afternoon in her office at city hall while leaning […]

Ottawa refugee experts predicted that finding housing for the Syrians now flooding into the city would be a major problem. They are arriving in a bunch, families are large, and there’s already a shortage of affordable housing. But local landlords have stepped up to help, and it hasn’t turned out to be that difficult so […]

Snowstorm? What snowstorm? You mean that record-breaking dusting we shook off on Tuesday? Please. While record-keepers are putting asterisks on one- and two-day totals and pre- and post-1938 Ottawa International Airport readings versus those gathered at the Central Experimental Farm, let me tell you a little about snow in Ottawa. Perhaps you recall the storm of […]