Новости за 21.02.2016

Excerpted from a speech by Dr. Jack Kitts, CEO of the Ottawa Hospital, to the Ottawa Chamber of Commerce Feb. 17 on a replacement for the Civic Campus: Let me take you on a visit, in hopefully a few years … to our new Ottawa Hospital. – We scan our health cards at the front door. All of […]

Esprit de Corps magazine, in its latest issue, has these details on developments in the defence and aerospace industry: L-3 Marine Systems UK recently announced it had been awarded a design development agreement from BAE Systems for the initial design and development activities to support ship integration of its Integrated Platform Management System (IPMS) for […]

Hire best and brightest, period Re: Should government hire the best people or best bilingual people?, Feb. 18. Canada is primarily an English-speaking country; it is only artificially and arbitrarily officially bilingual. Outside Quebec, less than five per cent of the population is francophone. Columnist Randall Denley is absolutely correct: public servants should be selected from the […]

Chatting one time at a literary conference with Margaret MacMillan, the exceedingly eminent Canadian historian, we fell into definitions of history. My favourite that emerged from that conversation was, “History is just one damn thing after another.” “History is the story of events, told with praise or blame” was also likeable, and “History is a vast […]

Having claimed that a Supreme Court justice may have been rubbed out, that the Pope is Mexico’s patsy, and that the president of the United States wasn’t actually born in the United States, Donald Trump has made political conspiracy theories seem like a unique speciality of the American right.  If only. Crank theories are far-flung, […]

Brooke Henderson made a big move in the final round to finish in a tie for ninth at the LPGA Tour’s ISPS Handa Women’s Australian Open on Sunday. The Smiths Falls teen shot a five-under 67 to finish at seven under for the four-round tournament, moving up 21 spots on the leaderboard from her post-third-round […]

The argument between the FBI and Apple Inc. has quickly become muddled, partly because some aspects of it are in the technical weeds, and partly because Apple has been disingenuous in its statement of what the issues are. Quick background: A U.S. court last week ordered Apple to help the RBI unlock the phone of one of […]

Sweden’s government is trying to cut a deal with India for that country to buy Saab’s next generation Gripen fighter jet. Meetings took place last week in India, the end result being that Sweden and India signed an agreement to conduct enhanced “dialogue” on key defence issues such as aviation and combat training. Last month […]

A great piece of art moves you, sometimes literally. I’m standing in AXENÉO7, in Gatineau, looking at Gauge, a three-channel video made by the artists Sarah McNair-Landry, Raven Chacon, Danny Osborne, Erik Boomer, Eric McNair-Landry, Alexa Hatanaka and Patrick Thompson. Each of three walls is filled with a video projection, and each is a different […]

An overnight shooting at a house party in Gatineau has sent one man to hospital with a gunshot wound to his abdomen. Gatineau police said the shooting happened around 2:55 a.m. at 34 Cartier St. Lt. Jean-Francois Beauchamp said police arrived at the house to find a 26-year-old male had been shot in the stomach. […]

Canadian Forces members who have died by suicide will be the focus of remembrance ceremonies to be held in four provinces. The candlelight ceremonies will be held at Royal Canadian Legion branches in Thunder Bay, Waterloo, Que., Oromocto, N.B., Debert, N.S., and in Ottawa. Here are the details for Ottawa: Soldiers of Suicide Candlelight Ceremony […]

The Ottawa police hold-up squad wants your help in identifying these suspects in unsolved robberies at banks, gas stations and convenience stores around the city. “Most of our cases are identity cases,” said Staff Sgt. Mike Haarbosch, who heads the robbery unit. “Usually we start with some kind of an unknown suspect and the thrust […]

Erik Karlsson was his own worst enemy Saturday night. That’s OK, his teammates came to his rescue.

Heather Lindsay notched another double-double with 17 points and 10 boards as Carleton dusted Waterloo 84-32 at the Ravens’ Nest on Saturday night.

A sizeable portion of Ottawa's Inuit community — and others — ignored Saturday's rain to take part in the Inuit Day celebrations, an outdoor party that featured throat-singing, traditional face-painting, games and a feast of ancestral victuals.

In the late 1990s and early 2000s, I had a number of articles on Canadian military intelligence spying on aboriginal as well as peace groups. Now today Jorge Barrera of APTN National News has two very interesting articles about the latest Canadian military surveillance of aboriginal groups. First this: The Canadian military’s counter-intelligence unit considered […]

Mark Borowiecki is ready for action. The Senators defenceman, who was knocked out when he got tangled up and was knocked out in a collision with Blue Jackets forward Brandon Saad last Saturday in Columbus, will be in the lineup Saturday night.