Новости за 27.02.2016

The organization that represents shops and restaurants on Rideau Street wants to massively expand its territory in hopes of cementing its image as the city's arts and theatre district.

While most jumpers wore swim trunks at Saturday’s Ottawa Polar Plunge, Mélanie Serviss and family had a different plan. With denim ribbons pinned to their shoulders, Mélanie Serviss, Julie Larivière and Nicole Gagnon jumped into the ice cold water wearing jeans and tutus. “I kind of stopped breathing for a split second,” Mélanie Serviss laughed. […]

An unidentified man was taken to hospital with serious injuries after he was found in an Aylmer apartment by police Saturday morning.  Gatineau police said the man, whose age was not given but is a resident of Aylmer, was found at about 10:15 a.m. in the apartment with injuries to his body. Police did not say what alerted them to […]

We just cannot seem to get a moment to catch our breath, or rest those shovelling and de-icing muscles.  In a few weeks of alerts and warnings, Environment Canada issued another special weather statement Saturday morning calling for more snow and freezing rain all weekend — possibly even ice pellets, warning that driving conditions throughout the region will […]

BOOM Kidoons and WYRD production (Toronto) In the NAC Theatre Reviewed Friday Theatre reviews often tiptoe around the storyline to avoid spoiling the show for those who’ve yet to see it. This isn’t one of those reviews. That’s because BOOM – written, directed and flawlessly performed by Rick Miller – is about an era many […]

U.S. Navy Adm. Cecil Haney, head of the U.S. Strategic Command, says this about the proposed modernization of the country’s nuclear weapons: “We’re at the brick wall stage.” Time to begin modernizing the country’s nuclear weapons is running short, he and other Pentagon leaders say, according to the Associated Press writes. Here is the rest […]

U.S. Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James has revealed the first rendering of the country’s proposed Long Range Strike Bomber. It is designated the B-21. There are no existing prototypes of the aircraft so the unveiling was of the artist rendering, which the USAF says is based on the initial design concept. The designation B-21 […]

In the fading hours of yesterday's arena, a pair of solitary skaters flow up and down the ice, passing and shooting the puck.

Russia has grounded its warplanes in Syria to help secure a cease-fire brokered by Moscow and Washington that entered into force Saturday, a Russian general has announced. Here is the rest of the Associated Press article: Lt.-Gen. Sergei Rudskoi of the General Staff of Russia’s military said that while Russia will continue air strikes against […]

In response to a series of Citizen articles, Health Canada has defended its scientific standards in the issue of a small online journal it established through a publisher widely condemned as “predatory.” The Citizen obtained internal emails from the department under an access-to-information request. These show that Health Canada was warned by a government expert that the […]

Federal Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould was right to be cautious over this week’s report from the parliamentary committee studying physician-assisted suicide. The group has done her no favours. Instead, its report offers the broadest possible interpretation of when assisted dying should be legally permitted, while offering scant guidance on how to confront some of the tougher dilemmas its conclusions imply. Granted, the committee faced a […]

Cornwall chiropractor Paul Poirier is really happy with his hairpiece as he says it makes him look 10 years younger. What he doesn’t like is that Hair Club’s Ottawa salon didn’t tell him upfront how much he could be spending afterward to keep his “new looks.” Poirier, who has undergone multiple surgeries for brain cancer and wanted […]

Even with an 8-2 win over the Sudbury Wolves Friday night at the TD Place arena, the Ottawa 67’s still have some work to do.

Two days after his friends, the Larmond twins, had been arrested in an RCMP raid of a suspected ISIL network in Ottawa, authorities say Suliman Mohamed was looking to lie low. But he couldn’t help talking, the Mounties contend, and he allegedly told an undercover police agent that their original plan had him and twins Ashton […]

The Senators went into Vancouver having allowed only six goals in their previous four games, having come close to the goal of a dozen or fewer scoring chances in each of them. They left Vancouver scratching their heads about why the scoring chances suddenly skyrocketed to their old levels.

Several players with Ottawa-area connections will try and impress scouts enough to get invited to the CFL combine March 11-13 in Toronto. St. FX linebacker Daniel Tshiamala, who played at St. Peter, has gotten an invite to the national combine. Not on the list for the national combine are former Ottawa Sooner Dillon Guy (a […]

Syrian refugees Mbder and Lama Al Abdullah settle into a big leather couch in the front room of their temporary Glebe home to chat. "I feel like I am with family," says Mbder with a shy smile

By the end of 2016, a young Ottawa man named Awso Peshdary will go to trial on terror charges. Aedan Helmer and Gary Dimmock outline the police case against the figure they say was a recruiter for a ‘terror cluster’ in the nation’s capital. EDITOR’S NOTE: Radicalization in Canada appears to be on the rise. CSIS director Michel […]

It’s difficult to imagine a stranger set of circumstances and evidence facing an Ontario Superior Court Justice. Judge Timothy Ray, starting Monday, will hear final arguments from Crown and defence attorneys in a bewildering fraud trial involving Roland Eid – a former spy with the Canadian Security Intelligence. The criminal proceeding, a judge-only affair, began […]

If Barb Farrell has her way, seniors in Canada will cut their use of questionable prescription drugs in half over the next four years.

The president of the Ottawa Girls Hockey Association is backing away from a charge that teams in his association must pay “a girl tax” because of unfair ice allocations. Nalin Bhargava said frustration got the better of him this week on the allocation issue, a battle he feels he has been fighting for years. “The story never wanted to […]

As Phaneuf talked Friday about his formative years with the Flames and the invaluable lessons he learned from former coach Brent Sutter and Jarome Iginla, he laughed about how Calgary has been so central to his former and current career.

Call this response well done. Ottawa firefighters answering a 911 call on Friday morning could see smoke outside a residence on Costello Avenue, near Baseline and Greenbank roads, and entered the building to find a burning pot on the stove. Fortunately the fire had not extended to the cupboards or walls and was quickly extinguished. A fire services […]

Native drummers and singers joined other protesters outside the Royal Ottawa Mental Health Centre on Friday to demand that an indigenous woman not be held in seclusion. As many as 50 people huddled outside the centre on a frigid morning to sign cards and letters of encouragement for Marlene Carter, who suffers from severe mental health problems […]

Firefighters are reminding Ottawa residents to keep their pets on leashes after they rescued a dog from the Rideau River Friday afternoon. Firefighters were called to the river near Queen Mary Street and North River Road around 3:10 p.m. When they arrived, the dog was in the water but firefighters were able to rescue it from an […]