Новости за 13.04.2016

Approximately 500 Canadian Army Reserve Force soldiers from 31 Canadian Brigade Group (31 CBG) will practice their combat skills from April 15 to 17 at the 4th Canadian Division Training Centre in Meaford, Ontario, the Canadian Forces says. This is part of Exercise ARROWHEAD CALM 2016. More from the Canadian Forces: “Reservists from across the […]

In the final part of this A to Z series on buying your new condo, we tackle letters S to Z. Security What is the security like in your building? Does it hinder or help? Consider things like: Do you have a concierge? How does visitor parking work, if applicable? Does the building use fobs or […]

When the Chamber re-opens for business this afternoon, House of Commons Speaker Geoff Regan will lead his colleagues through what will undoubtedly be an enthusiastic welcome for retired House clerk Audrey O’Brien, now Clerk Emeritus, who is set to return to the Table for the first time since hanging up her robes last year. O’Brien […]

Ottawa Fire Services is reporting a fire Tuesday night at 1968 Summerfields Crescent, the end unit of a six-unit row house near Innes Road and Orléans Blvd. They declared a working fire at 3:18 a.m. and had the blaze under control by 3:30. There were no injuries, but firefighters stayed on the scene to check […]

Why we need the NRC Re: Do we need the NRC? Editorial, April 9. Sparking debate over the role of the National Research Council by asking if we need it ignores not only the agency’s mandate but the overall direction of the recent federal budget. The NRC has always been tasked with promoting innovation for the […]

The brother of an alleged serial rapist who died by suicide inside solitary confinement on Tuesday morning at the beleaguered Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre says the system killed his brother. Yousef Mohammed Hussein, 27, was charged in May 2014 after a months-long police operation to track a man who had been sexually assaulting women across the city […]

With criticism mounting amid allegations of overcrowding, abuse and the suicide of an inmate, the minister in charge of Ottawa's notorious Innes Road jail has assembled a task force intent on transforming Ontario's correctional system. MPP Yasir Naqvi said the task force, led by deputy minister Matthew Torigian and consisting of 13 members from across the correctional community, held its first meeting Tuesday, the same day the body of inmate Yousef Hussein was discovered in a solitary confinement... Читать дальше...

West-end MPP Jack MacLaren has decorated his website with testimonials from people he appears to have made up. Every politician likes to be known for helping residents and voters one on one. It’s the unglamorous but sometimes most important part of the job. The Carleton-Mississippi Mills Progressive Conservative makes more of his record on that than […]

Last week when he announced that the government would launch a review of defence priorities, Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan made it clear that everything was on the table. Nothing was off limits, suggested Sajjan, who pointed out that “important choices will have to be made.” Well today it turns out that some things are indeed […]

Trying to pinpoint exactly where it went all wrong for Dave Cameron is not an easy exercise. From the outset this season, the Senators were never quite right. In his defence — and ultimately, as new GM Pierre Dorion made it abundantly clear Tuesday, the firing was all about poor defence — he wasn’t always […]

Pierre Dorion will be watching a lot of playoff hockey this spring, closely. While the Senators would like to have a new head coach in place by the time the NHL entry draft is held in late-June in Buffalo, the newly-appointed GM isn’t going to hurry up his search for a bench boss, either. “There’s […]

Retired receiver Arland Bruce has appealed a court decision favouring the Canadian Football League in a concussion-related lawsuit. Lawyer Robyn Wishart said Tuesday notice was filed with the British Columbia Court of Appeal before the April 10 deadline to overturn a March 11 ruling by Chief Justice Christopher Hinkson of the Supreme Court of British […]

As Attawapiskat struggles to respond to a suicide crisis that has made headlines across the country and around the world, MPs spent Tuesday evening discussing how the federal government should respond. Attawapiskat has a reported population of approximately 2,000 people, as many as a third of whom are under the age of 19. Since last […]

Dave Cameron is gone as head coach of the Ottawa Senators, but he’s leaving with Chris Neil’s respect. “You don’t like to see good people lose their jobs,” Neil said after Cameron and assistant coaches Andre Tourigny and Rick Wamsley were let go by new general manager Pierre Dorion on Tuesday. “It’s tough to see. […]