Новости за 16.04.2016

A Gatineau resident suffered several injuries when a stranger broke into his house in a quiet residential neighbourhood and attacked him overnight, said police.  A man of undetermined age dressed all in black and about six feet tall broke the window to a door and let himself into the house at 64 Des Pommiers St. just after midnight, […]

U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter said he will talk with his commanders in the coming days to identify additional ways the U.S. can intensify the fight against Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria, including more airstrikes, cyberattacks and American troops on the ground, the Associated Press writes. Here is the rest of the Associated […]

Russia’s Ministry of Defence recently released a series of photos showing its Pacific submarine fleet. Here are a few photos for those interested in subs:

By Shonal Ganguly, The Associated Press AGRA, India — The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge invoked nostalgia Saturday as they sat and smiled for photos on the same marble bench in front of the Taj Mahal where Prince William’s late mother, Princess Diana, had posed alone for a memorable 1992 photo. Winding down their weeklong […]

Army troops and other rescuers rushed Saturday to try to reach scores of trapped residents after a pair of strong earthquakes in southwestern Japan killed at least 41 people, injured about 1,500 and left hundreds of thousands without electricity or water.

The man accused of firing the fatal shot that killed Algonquin College student Christina Voelzing in an Easter Sunday shootout in Bells Corners has been charged with second-degree murder. Behnam Yaali, 23, appeared by video link in an Ottawa courtroom Saturday morning. He was in lockup at the Elgin Street police headquarters after being arrested […]

Broadview Avenue Public School has welcomed students through its doors for 100 years — a century of learning and connections. Former staff and students are invited to celebrate Broadview’s centennial on Thursday, April 28 from 12:30 p.m. until 2.

Finance Minister Bill Morneau never said it, but many of his budget’s recent measures in favour of high-tech should not have been necessary. He and his fellow Liberals are planning to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to support clusters of innovation – communities of high-tech firms capable of spinning off one success story after […]

At his office in Kanata Friday, Jack MacLaren was hiding out. In Toronto, Premier Kathleen Wynne said he ought to be kicked out of the Progressive Conservative caucus, and just a few kilometres away the president of the Carp Fair was fuming. Ron Bidgood was by turns angry and heartsick over a sexist standup routine […]

When Harry Showler and his wife, Helen, sold their Wellington Street house in 1985 to embrace retirement in the Perth area, they took with them that last vestiges of a once proud and honourable avocation in Ottawa: that of backyard chicken farmer. Yet, as Bruce Deachman discovers, the largely outlawed hobby didn’t disappear with the […]

An outcry of sorts greeted former prime minister Jean Chrétien’s recent suggestion that the inhabitants of the remote, poverty-stricken community of Attawapiskat might have to move in order to improve their lives. Many urban Canadians wondered why First Nations people would insist on remaining in such dreadful conditions. But many First Nations people found Chrétien’s remarks outrageous and insulting. Is […]

It’s about winning, not hurt feelings Re: Cameron retaliates at ‘hurtful’ Melnyk, April 15. In professional sports, as in other enterprises, there are always those who are not clear on the basic concepts. The owner who signs your paycheque has the only opinion that counts. Departing Senators’ coach Dave Cameron held a news conference at which he grudgingly acknowledged […]

On the day she should have been celebrating her birthday, Amal Najdi was instead left reeling after being told by police her son had been shot dead.

A 51-year-old Quyon resident was arrested for driving while impaired after a crash on Highway 148 in Pontiac on Friday evening.

A former boyfriend of the victim in the Bells Corners Easter Sunday shootout that killed Christina Voelzing was arrested without incident on Friday in the Greater Toronto Area.

In a Nepean stripmall on Friday night, Mauro Bertoli presented a program of Haydn, Beethoven, Clementi and Liszt that he will be performing in Italy later this month.

The largest federal union is seeking a nine-per-cent raise for public servants over three years as part of the first wage proposal tabled since the current marathon round of bargaining began two years ago. The Public Service Alliance of Canada’s five bargaining teams tabled the same three-per-cent-a-year wage hike during its latest bargaining session with […]

Anyone who meets Chanel, a nine-year-old boxer-mix, would be excused for thinking there’s nothing wrong with her. She looks like any other dog — happy, healthy and full of energy.  However, just two weeks ago Chanel was diagnosed with a tumour on her abdomen. Since then, Patricia Venditti, Chanel’s owner, said the tumour has grown rapidly. […]

Motorists can expect traffic delays along Hog’s Back Road next week, says Parks Canada. From this Monday to Thursday between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m., the Hog’s Back bridge will be reduced to one lane to accommodate investigative work on the quality and condition of the bridge’s concrete structures. The sidewalk on the south side of […]

A fresh batch of graduate students from the University of Ottawa participated this week in the 10th year of a program that takes science lessons to classrooms with limited resources. Kaitlin Town, 30, a grad student in education, Molly Hyde, 24, a master’s student in neuroscience, Jonathan Weber, 27, a PhD student in education, and Victor Malkov, 24, […]

Police and paramedics were dealing with three collisions – two involving cyclists and the other a pedestrian, each struck by cars – on opposite ends of the city Friday afternoon.

Two Ottawa police officers have pleaded guilty to discreditable conduct under the Police Services Act for unlawfully searching an arrested man’s cellphone for video he shot of them, deleting the video, then turning the camera onto the detained man before subsequently deleting that video, too. Constables Salomon Gutierrez and Benjamin Ham each pleaded guilty Friday to […]

ATTAWAPISKAT — Robert Sutherland was heading to bed last Saturday night when there was an urgent knock on his door. “We need you at the hospital for security,” the 27-year-old Attawapiskat man was told. Sutherland hopped in his truck and raced the few gravel blocks from his clapboard home to the reserve’s small hospital, not sure what […]

Mark Taylor is breathing a sigh of relief after a special prosecutor hired by the City of Ottawa has decided not to commence legal proceedings against the Bay ward councillor because it’s “not in the public interest.” An independent committee appointed by Ottawa city council to deal with complaints about campaign finances stemming from the 2014 municipal election voted […]