Новости за 26.03.2016

One man has been taken to hospital with serious injuries after a single-vehicle collision near on the Trans-Canada Highway near Kinburn, west of Ottawa.  Paramedics said a man in a vehicle going at high speeds on Highway 417 went off the roadway at Kinburn Side Road at about 12:15 p.m and struck a rock barrier.  […]

Correctional Services Minister Yasir Naqvi has ordered an end to the “appalling practice” of housing inmates in the segregation unit showers at the Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre. “This practice is … completely unacceptable, and I have ordered its immediate and permanent end,” the minister said in a release Saturday. “This practice should never have occurred and […]

Ontario’s jails don’t stash inmates in damp smelly showers and they’re going to stop doing it immediately, says Community Safety and Correctional Services Minister Yasir Naqvi. The Ottawa Centre MPP made a humiliating climbdown on Saturday, after having called both Ontario’s top public-service union leader and his ministry’s New Democrat critic liars over claims that the […]

Victims of the attacks on Brussels’ airport and subway included commuters heading to work and travellers setting off on long-anticipated vacations. In a city that’s home to international institutions including the European Union and NATO, they came from Belgium and around the world. Among the confirmed dead:

As the recent federal budget drove home, the Liberals are still busy distancing themselves from the legacy of the Harper Tories. Sometimes this makes sense, as in restoring the long form census; other times the decision is simply unjustified on its merits — think putting the OAS retirement eligibility age back to 65. Ironically, one […]

Will Somers: Keeping Your Head The Gladstone Reviewed Friday To survive as a court jester, at least under Henry VIII, was to walk a balance beam. You were expected to point out, humorously, royal follies, but cut too close to the bone and your neck was the one being sliced. You were a kind of […]

Judy Cosenzo turned 16 on July 25, 1964, a Saturday, and her family celebrated with a party that evening at their home at 31 Lett St., in LeBreton Flats. Her oldest brother, John, his wife, Margaret, and their children, who lived just across the street and down a few doors at 22 Lett, took part, […]

Baker Brothers was the largest junk dealer in the LeBreton Flats, with locations where Duke, Pooley, Sherwood, Booth and Oregon streets converged. Sachs Brothers, across from the CPR freight sheds on Broad Street, was the next largest. Augmenting Sachs’s trade in scrap metal was its rag sorting and baling operation. Levinson Salvage’s junkyard was on […]

“It was a good place to be raised. It was pretty rough country, but you didn’t dare do anything wrong, because everybody knew you. It was quite a district, I’ll tell you.” When Ray Lauzon talks about growing up on LeBreton Flats, two things repeatedly come up: the gangs of kids he hung out with […]

In April 1962, the National Capital Commission announced it was expropriating a large swath of land known as LeBreton Flats. Located 1.5 km west of Parliament Hill, the Flats was a working-class mixture of residences — mostly apartments and row houses — and businesses and industry, with large rail yards servicing the pulp and paper […]

Raymonde Barbeau credits Clifford Bowey Public School with “taming” her daughter, a dark-haired dynamo who can be quite a handful. Marie-Helene is 14 and has severe developmental delays and autism. She doesn’t speak, and her behaviour used to make it difficult to take her anywhere, says her mom. “It was like she had ants in […]

13 Strings Easter concert At Dominion Chalmers Reviewed Friday night Thirteen Strings joined up with a brace of guest vocalists Good Friday for an evening of baroque sacred music. While Bach’s Passions and Easter cantatas are the usual early music go-tos at this time of year, Kevin Mallon marked the holiday with two works each […]

Michael Wernick, Canada’s top bureaucrat, says the public service has to pick up the pace of its modernization plan so it can deliver the Trudeau government’s ambitious agenda. Two months into his job as clerk of the Privy Council, Wernick said the public service has to move faster on implementing the reforms of its Blueprint […]

Ram Kanda is proving that the adage “you can never go home again” is dead wrong, especially in the online world. The Ottawa native, who left for a Silicon Valley startup in 2011, is back at his old company in the capital, and he’s packing a wealth of experience earned through one of the world’s most […]

The idea of installing closed circuit television has been raised in the wake of recent violence in the Jasmine Crescent area of Ottawa. In some countries, notably the U.K., so-called street CCTV is commonplace, but due to vandalism and lack of maintenance, many of those cameras don’t work. (Street cameras can be expensive to install […]

Nearly half of all young Canadian health researchers say they are seriously considering leaving the country because of lack of financial support, according to an informal survey that comes as the federal government is signalling more support for basic science and for young scientists. The survey was conducted by Holly Witteman, a research scientist and […]

The kids mingling at Elgin Street Public School are as diverse as the neighbourhood from which they are drawn: newcomers just learning English share the playground with the children of prosperous civil servants. That rich cultural, social and economic mix will be destroyed if the downtown school is turned into a centre for French-immersion students, […]

Drive extra-carefully if you’re headed to Montreal or into the U.S. Saturday as Ontario Provincial Police detachments will be implementing a “highly visible” traffic patrol they’re calling “Safety Without Borders.” The program will be in place along Highway 401 from the Quebec border to Gananoque, and along highways 416 and 417 from the Quebec border to Hawkesbury. If […]

A Gloucester neighbourhood reeling from three killings on a single street will rally April 10 to send the message that they’ll fight violence as their city councillor advocates tackling fear of reporting crime, “pop-up” policing and studying CCTV cameras. The rally emerged from a closed-door meeting Beacon Hill-Cyrville Coun. Tim Tierney held Thursday night with […]

There have been hundreds of stories told in this column that I’ve had the privilege of writing over the last seven and a half years, but there were hundreds more that didn’t see the light of day. As I wade into retirement — Easter Monday is officially Day One — it is amazing how much interest the […]

One night, it’s looking up at Washington’s Nicklas Backstrom. The next night it’s going against John Tavares of the New York Islanders. And come Saturday, Ottawa Senators centre Jean-Gabriel Pageau will likely end up going face-to-face with Anaheim’s Ryan Getzlaf for much of the night. While playing the match-up game and being a sound defensive […]

Easter is a time of rebirth and there are few places in the region that better embodies the notion than the Canada Agriculture and Food Museum. Chicks, kids (the goat kind), rabbits, lambs and other tiny beasts are all over the grounds. The show continues all Easter Weekend. Kids (the human kind) aged six and under can […]

When Ann Scholberg appears in a stage play, which she does with some regularity in Ottawa, her son and his family make a point of attending. But as far as the seventysomething actor knows, her teenage grandsons won’t be in the audience on March 29 when she sets foot on Ottawa Little Theatre’s stage for […]