Новости за 23.02.2016

A search warrant has been executed and a man is in custody, but no charges have been laid as an investigation continued into Monday night’s fatal stabbing of a 19-year-old man in an east Ottawa park. Police were called to Lawson Park, in the Overbrook neighbourhood near Queen Mary Street Public School, at around 9:30 p.m. […]

No, Robert Borden is not making a political comeback from the afterlife. However, Robert Borden will return to Ottawa for a Canadian curling championship and even add to the family’s Brier history. It’s actually not confusing at all. The man who served as Canada’s eighth prime minister between 1911 and 1920 — and after being […]

Laila Biali’s been on the move, both physically and artistically.  The Vancouver-raised pianist and vocalist, whose music is grounded in her jazz studies, saw her career blossom after she moved to New York where she performed with Sting, Chris Botti, Suzanne Vega and Paula Cole. But after almost eight years in the U.S., the 35-year-old […]

The NCC's presentation to Ottawa planning committee

The U.S. Air Force wants to do more upgrades on the B-52 to keep the aircraft flying well into the 2040s. The B-52A first flew in 1954, and the B model entered service in 1955, according to the USAF. A total of 744 B-52s were built with the last, a B-52H, delivered in October 1962, […]

As an update to an earlier Defence Watch post, the Royal Canadian Navy now says that Protecteur will be towed out of Esquimalt Harbour on Wednesday. It had originally been scheduled to leave on Monday. In January Defence Watch reported that R.J. MacIsaac Construction of Antigonish, NS. had won a $39 million contract to dispose of Algonquin […]

Time is ticking on the new hospital Re: Experimental farm needs protecting, McKenna says; Don’t play politics with hospital site, Tory MPP warns, Feb. 20. With all due respect to Ottawa Liberal MP and Environment Minister Catherine McKenna, does she really question the need to build a new Ottawa Hospital’s Civic campus? That’s the indication in David […]

Ottawa police are investigating the city’s third homicide of the year after man believed to be in his late teens was stabbed in an Overbrook park Monday night. Police believe an altercation led to the fatal stabbing in Lawson Park. The victim has not yet been identified and no suspects are in custody. The homicide […]

When it comes to booking a world-class festival, the early bird gets the best acts. For RBC Royal Bank Bluesfest, being on top of the game year round is the best way to program a lineup that includes Rock ‘N Roll Hall of Famers Red Hot Chili Peppers, country superstar Brad Paisley, synth-pop pioneers Duran […]

Anxious Bluesfest fans awaiting Tuesday’s lineup announcement got some early tips on who’ll be playing, courtesy of the festival’s youth arm. With hours to go till the release of the full artist roster, @bluesfestTAG — or The Advisory Group — has revealed a handful of youth-oriented artists, including American indie stars The Decemberists, quarterback-turned-country hunk […]

Well, at least there was no water dripping onto the ice from the roof. Two days after postponing a game against the Niagara IceDogs because melting snow on the roof of the TD Place arena dripped into an area near one of the goal creases, the 67's lost the Ontario Hockey League makeup game 4-1 Monday night.

The public school board should conduct a study of central Ottawa to figure out what to do about overcrowded schools, says the parent council at Elgin Street Public School.

Judy Foote, Minister of Public Services and Procurement, announced Monday that Steve Brunton, has been selected as the “expert advisor” to assist the government on the National Shipbuilding Procurement Strategy. Brunton is a retired Rear Admiral from the Royal Navy with extensive experience in overseeing shipbuilding programs and naval acquisitions, the Canadian government noted. He […]

Finance Minister Bill Morneau is expected to drop or at least postpone his party’s plans for increasing taxes on employee stock option benefits – a move that would prompt a huge sigh of relief in the high-tech community. Industry sources say the more Morneau and his staff examined the issue, the more they became convinced […]

The Liberal government is reversing $1.3 billion in savings the Conservatives booked to replace the sick leave regime of Canada’s public servants with a new short-term disability plan. The move, part of Finance Minister Bill Morneau’s fiscal and economic update on Monday, means the Tories’ sick leave savings will be included in the deficit which hit […]

An Ottawa family lawyer with a troubling past who is believed to have fled the country after being accused of sexually assaulting a four-year-old girl has had his licence to practise law revoked. John David Coon abruptly stopped practising law and left Canada in December 2013, just weeks before Ottawa police secured a warrant for […]

The economy is crawling. Commodity prices have tumbled. The dollar is flaccid. In short, times are tough. But this is not the 2008-09 financial crisis, and the Liberal government’s plan to run a deficit for 2016-17 that could easily approach $25 billion is simply indefensible. Yet there was Finance Minister Bill Morneau Monday, sporting the now-familiar Liberal uniform of […]

Sen. Mike Duffy set up a slush fund to pay his personal expenses with public money, defrauded the government of tens of thousands of dollars, took a bribe to cover it up, and lied freely on the stand to try to escape conviction, prosecutors alleged as they summed up their case against the broadcaster-turned-politician on […]

The city is changing the way it allocates the use of arenas, sports fields and ball diamonds and that means some groups that have “legacy” time may lose it. When the city adopted its existing policies in 2002 significant consideration for a group’s historical use of a facility from one year to the next was given. […]

When federal Finance Minister Bill Morneau presents his budget next month, the stakes will be literally cosmic. How so? This may take awhile but here goes: If you’re like me, you probably rolled over and went back to sleep last Sept. 14 at 5:51 ET after gravitational waves from those two black holes coalescing 1.3 billion […]

Health Canada kept working with a “predatory” publisher in Croatia — a website publishing shoddy science — even after a Canadian government expert warned the department against the practice, the Citizen has learned.  Documents obtained under an access-to-information request show Health Canada dismissed the issue as a “perception issue.” And the department continued to defend its ties with the […]

Andrew Acelvari stood quietly as he was sentenced to 30 days at the Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre for secretly taking cellphone pictures of unsuspecting female co-workers who trusted him as a longtime colleague at a close-knit Ottawa company.

Several shots were fired at an empty fitness centre overnight Sunday, Ottawa police said. Staff arriving at about 5:30 a.m. found bullet holes in the window of the Greco Fitness outlet on Beech Street, near Preston Street, and called police. Bullet holes were also discovered later in the ceiling of the outlet’s lobby. On Monday […]