Новости за 03.03.2016

Homebuyers were apparently not deterred by snow and other inclement weather last month as Ottawa’s resale home market showed new signs of life after a slowdown in January. The Ottawa Real Estate Board (OREB) said there were a total of 911 residential homes sold during the month of February, a 7.2-per-cent increase over the 850 […]

François Marchand On his first visit to Canada in 1995, Alexis Puentes spent 85 days touring the country, going from Victoria to Halifax with a five-piece band that included his father Valentin and brother Adonis. The trip marked the 50th anniversary of diplomatic relationships between Cuba and Canada. Halfway through the trip, Puentes was on […]

For the second year in a row, a Waterloo man is headed to Ottawa this fall after running a 750-kilometre trek to raise awareness of the hardships of various forms of depression. But this year, starting Sept. 11, Clay Williams, 55, plans to sacrifice speed for human contact.  In 2015, he covered the route from Port Severn, […]

The disagreement between Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall and the federal Liberals over a national carbon tax as the centrepiece of Canada’s climate change policy raises a more profound question about why conservative or right wing politicians often deny climate change or have such a hard time embracing it. There is ample evidence of this in […]

Thursday, March 3 The Tim Hortons Brier is in town — that’s the national men’s curling championship for the uninitiated — and it is kicking off with some free pre-qualifying games, with teams vying for one spot on the regular schedule. At 7 p.m., see Nova Scotia vs Yukon, and NorthWest Territories v underdogs Nunavut, […]

New shows and events in and around Ottawa this week: Curious Characters: Ben Van D., Lucie B., graphic illustrations, opening event March 3 from 7 to 10 p.m., Café Nostalgica, 601 Cumberland St.  Urban Decay: Anik Chaine, exploration of the urban landscape, vernissage March 3 from 5 to 7 p.m., exhibit to March 27, La Fab, Centre des […]

Indie rockers Wintersleep are back, four years after their last release and three since their last tour, but they promise fans who may have thought they’d broken up that their new songs hearken back to their early days of their atmospheric alt rock, already hitting charts with their first single, Amerika. The album is released tomorrow so […]

Set aside LeBreton Flats. Forget light rail. Don’t even think about a new downtown library. The single most important investment this community will make in the next decade is to build a new central hospital. The other projects that are getting most of the city’s recent attention are fine, and there’s no reason we can’t […]

The ABCs can be a useful rubric for condo buyers who want to be sure of their purchase before taking the plunge. Last time I looked at A to E. Today I’ll tackle F through I. Financing I recently covered the topic of condo mortgages. The most important thing to know is that condo fees […]

The five finalists for this year’s $25,000 Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing have been announced. The five are: Greg Donaghy for Grit: The Life and Politics of Paul Martin Sr. (UBC Press). Norman Hillmer for O.D. Skelton: A Portrait of Canadian Ambition (University of Toronto Press). John Ibbitson for Stephen Harper (Signal/McClelland & Stewart). Andrew Nikiforuk for Slick Water: […]

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg says the alliance will begin training Iraqi military personnel in Jordan starting later this month. But Canadian Forces personnel won’t be among those trainers, a Canadian military spokesman confirmed to Defence Watch. “Iraqi officers will receive training in key priority fields, including countering Improvised Explosive Devices, military medicine and civil-military […]

A Montreal man charged with threatening to kill his girlfriend in Gatineau had his passport revoked because of fears he planned to leave the country to wage jihad, according to his defence lawyer. Ismael Habib, 28, will appear in Gatineau court for a bail hearing Thursday on charges of uttering death threats and criminal harassment […]

Clarke MacArthur was one of the last players off the ice as the optional skate came to an end Wednesday at the Canadian Tire Centre. All he can do now is continue to skate and wait. The Senators winger, who hasn’t suited up since he suffered a concussion on Oct. 14 against the Columbus […]

Kit Pullen woke up Wednesday morning to piles of furniture stacked outside his garage door. The Ottawa man says he doesn’t know how it got there, who it belongs to or what he’ll do with it. “Do you want a driveway full of furniture?” he chuckled during a telephone interview. “Cause I got a lot […]

When Ottawa police officers surrounded Gaston Nicholas in his van after a chase down Highway 417 on Sunday, they closed the books on a suspected arsonist and opened the latest chapter in the 78-year-old’s long and troubled journey through the criminal justice system. Charged Wednesday with deliberately setting two weekend house fires, Nicholas carries with him […]

Edward Greenspon, a well-known Canadian journalist, is the new president of the Public Policy Forum, an Ottawa-based think tank. Greenspon takes over from Larry Murray, the former board chairman who was acting president following the abrupt departure of long-time president and CEO David Mitchell last summer. The appointment is effective immediately. Greenspon has a long […]

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau put his first and much-anticipated stamp on Canada’s public service with a shakeup Wednesday of the top ranks that brought in a wave of new and first-time deputy ministers. The government that has promised to restore the respect of Canada’s public service and bring in new, young blood promoted and moved […]

Soon, there will be no wondering, no what-ifs — some of the best baseball players outside of Major League Baseball will get a shot. Hand in hand with diplomatic relations with the United States, Cuba will host an exhibition game in Havana on March 22 — that country’s national team vs. the Tampa Bay Rays. […]

The Ottawa police anti-gang squad is probing three February shootings as the byproduct of a feud between former lovers and associates of two area crime families, the Citizen has learned. The shootings – bullets flying into the front-door of a Tremblay Road home, windows of a Little Italy gym pierced by gunfire, and a midnight shooting […]

Inmates were put into solitary confinement at the Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre 555 times between April and September last year — a number critics are calling “shocking.” The newly released data about the Innes Road jail’s use of the practice emerges in the wake of Community Safety and Corrections Minister Yasir Naqvi’s commitment last March to review […]

Two people have been arrested and charged with drug and gun offences  in Lanark Highlands after an investigation by the OPP. The OPP organized crime enforcement bureau, drug enforcement unit and the OPP’s emergency response team executed two search warrants and seized more than eight pounds of marijuana, a small amount of hash and cannabis oil, a loaded rifle and digital […]

Police are appealing to the public for help in identifying a car that may have been involved in an unsolved January homicide. Marwan Arab, 20, was shot to death inside the Shifa Restaurant on Cobden Rd., while his cousin Ayyub Arab, 22, was shot and wounded. Police released a photo of what they’re calling a […]

Ottawa police are seeking help from the public to identify a suspect in a sexual assault on Sunday morning near Carling and Alpine avenues in Ottawa’s west end. Police said an unidentified male approached a woman in her early 20s in the area – near Elmhurst Park – and tried to take off her pants. When the woman resisted, the […]

An Ottawa public servant who was fired for slapping his boss across the face has been reinstated and awarded $25,000 in damages for the pain and suffering he endured by having his human rights abridged. The federal labour relations board said the government discriminated against Naim Rahmani, a Transport Canada engineer, by ignoring evidence that […]

Gail Joynt doesn’t go looking for fights, but after a nasty pothole on a flooded section of Colonel By Drive ruined two of her tires last week, suffice to say that Ottawa City Hall is about to get acquainted. Joynt says the city owes her at least $754.67 for the tires and maybe more as her Mercedes-Benz […]