Новости за 21.03.2016

The problem with Sparks Street is that it has one mode and it needs two, says the guy who spent two years trying to revive it. Les Gagne was the executive director at the Sparks Street merchants’ association, the “business improvement area,” until late 2014, when the board abruptly told him he wasn’t any more. He […]

Coventry Connections, the largest cab company in Ottawa, believes a smartphone application called eCab will give customers all the things they currently like about Uber, including an automatic transaction at the destination. Coventry, which will link the eCab app to its Blueline and Capital taxi fleets, has been working on the integration for nearly a year, said Coventry president Hanif Patni. […]

Sometimes, it pays to challenge the findings of the auditor general. Ten months after the release of Michael‎ Ferguson’s sweeping — and scathing — review of senatorial expenses, a former Supreme Court justice has slashed the total owing for the fourteen senators who challenged his findings by nearly 45 percent. In his report, Justice Ian […]

Deep in the bowels of a building in the ByWard Market, a special kind of cake is being made that has a 400-year-old history and is likely unique in Canada.

Ottawa police are asking for the public’s help to piece together information that may help to identify a man believed to have been involved in a sexual assault on Sunday morning. According to police, around 2:30 a.m. a woman in her 20s entered a vehicle which she believed could transport her to another location. Police […]

Would you taunt a tyrannical monarch who had a heavy streak of paranoia, chronically painful legs and a fondness for beheadings? Will Somers, Henry VIII’s court jester, did just that and he not only outlived his grouchy boss but continued fooling around in the royal court under Henry’s sometimes equally touchy successors. Somers’ secret to […]

Dozens of people are at city hall Monday calling on the city to ban the sale of dogs and cats in pet stores. Council’s community and protective services committee is considering a tweak to the city’s pet store bylaw, but the change wouldn’t ban the sale of pets. At the root of the controversy are three city pet […]

Here’s a simple question for those who think it’s terrific news this country is going to campaign for one of the 10 non-permanent seats on the Security Council: How many of the current non-permanent members can you name? Without checking I couldn’t name any. (They are Angola, Egypt, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, Senegal, Spain, Ukraine, […]

Ottawa police officers have been emailing Mayor Jim Watson in droves in advance of Monday evening’s police board meeting to combat the idea that the frustrations of a veteran officer made public last week are the disgruntled grumblings of one “rogue officer,” the Citizen has learned. Watson last week told CTV Ottawa that an email […]

Gatineau police have charged a 36-year-old Gatineau woman after she was caught driving erratically at speeds of more than 130 kilometers per hour in a 70 km/h zone. According to police, reports of an erratic driver on Highway 5 northbound were made around 2:30 a.m. on Monday morning. Police were able to quickly locate the vehicle […]

One of the surprising things about being a parent is that you inherit the concerns your children have. At least that’s the way it is for me. And, in my case, a whole new realm of second-hand concerns extends to matters of home ownership. My son Robert and I are just completing a little house […]

Taxes were never good. Now they’re incomprehensible. Dear city hall, what’s going on? First, a sweeping conclusion: some homeowners get what they pay for, some pay for what they don’t get, and lots of us pay for what we don’t want and will never use. The debate about charging rural residents for stormwater management is yet another attempt to rearrange this […]

You, a reasonable person and resident of a peaceful country, do not live in fear of armed conflict. You assume your neighbourhood will not soon be ravaged by terrorists, civil war or a large-scale foreign invasion. But to the extent you worry about having to flee, you must assume you could claim asylum. The first […]

The NAC Orchestra announced its 2016-17 season Friday and it looks like they failed to get the memo about what year it is for gender balance. Of 20 or so concerts featuring headliner instrumental soloists, just two of those artists will be women–pianist Angela Hewitt and Dutch violinist Simone Lammsma. (I’m not counting singers, because until someone […]

And if it is — which it may be, given the pointed silence on its future emanating from Foreign Affairs Minister Stephane Dion  — should the House use its (non-binding but still symbolically significant) clout to call upon the government to “renew the current mandate” which will expire on March 31? That, it seems, is […]

The tabling of a federal budget in Parliament is always an important event. After months of preparation, Finance Minister Bill Morneau will give a speech in the House of Commons on Tuesday laying out the policy directions and the fiscal plan of the Government of Canada. Budgets can be complex documents rendered even more so […]

In an era of dominance, which continued in Vancouver on Sunday night with a sixth straight CIS Final 8 national men’s basketball title, the Carleton Ravens once again won because of the total sum of their parts.

List of Ottawa-area blood clinics for the week of March 21, 2016.

To understand Capital City Championship Combat, or C*4 wrestling, it helps to know how Stu Grayson, formerly “The Emporer” Stu Grayson, got his name and how he came to be fighting alongside Thomas Dubois, whom he claims to detest, in this past Saturday night’s tag-team championship match.

Christina Alfonzo and her family are searching for a bystander who helped save her life last Wednesday.

Supporting Manoir Ronald McDonald House Charities Ottawa could result in your backyard being transformed into an oasis this summer with the addition of a new gazebo.

Ottawa firefighters quickly extinguished a blaze that started in a hydro panel at the back of a Sandy Hill home Sunday. Firefighters were called to the home at 366 Daly Ave. shortly after 4 p.m. The caller reported using a fire extinguisher but thought the blaze may have spread to the siding of the home. […]

An elderly couple lost in the Marlborough Forest in North Gower Sunday afternoon was found safe. Police and firefighters were called to the forest near Roger Stevens Drive and Malakoff Road shortly after 2 p.m. Firefighters were sent into the forest on ATVs to find the missing couple’s last known cellphone location from a 911 call. The couple was […]

The Hamburglar had some of his old magic back Saturday night. Maybe, as a result, he’ll get a little more action down the stretch. Forgotten amidst all the excitement over the club’s three short-handed goals in a 5-0 victory over the Montreal Canadiens at the Canadian Tire Centre was the fact goaltender Andrew Hammond […]