Новости за 19.04.2016

Mayor Jim Watson responded last week to about 70 emails from police officers in an impromptu campaign by officers to convince civic leaders that comments by a veteran officer who challenged the police chief were not just the biased opinions of a disgruntled officer but reflected the feelings of many on the force. In what officers have […]

Ontario’s John Howard Society is urging the province to put the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care in charge of inmates’ health, taking away the responsibility now held by jail superintendents. In a report released Tuesday, the society says the province “is facing a growing health crisis in Ontario’s correctional institutions,” a crisis made worse because […]

Some day historians will write the story of the Liberal Restoration of 2015. They will explain how a party, having suffered the worst defeat in its history in 2011, returned from political exile to form a majority government. That was Oct. 19, 2015. For a larger sense of context, though, historians will flag two other […]

The former deputy minister of Agriculture Canada and other former members of the department’s leadership team have written to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau urging him to keep the new Civic hospital off the Central Experimental Farm. “We would all like to see a new state-of-the-art health care facility built in Ottawa, but we do not […]

The number of resale homes sold in Ottawa dipped slightly in March, according to the Ottawa Real Estate Board. The board, which released its monthly state of the market Tuesday, said 1,166 resale homes were sold in March, a 2.8-per-cent decrease from the 1,200 sold during the same month last year. The number of homes […]

The OPP is investigating and the families of 285 children’s aid clients in Lanark, Leeds and Grenville are to be contacted Tuesday after an electronic file with the names of the clients was posted on the Internet by unknown third party. Identifying those who are involved with children’s aid is illegal under the Child and Family Services […]

Michael Kaeshammer, the rollicking German-Canadian jazz pianist and singer, tells Peter Hum that his creative juices are flowing wildly these days, whether he’s playing solo, working with his band, or creating in the kitchen. Q: Why did you take a step back last year from working with a band and from singing to make a solo […]

This modest, affordable eatery in a Kanata strip mall should appeal to locavores who appreciate fresh, flavourful meat.

Power was restored to about 10,000 Hydro One clients west of Ottawa after a three-hour blackout Tuesday. The utility said the clients affected were from Sharbot Lake, west of Carleton Place, all the way across the city to Rockland. Cause of the blackout remains under investigation.

Nearly two weeks after Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould made her now notorious appearance at a $500-per-head Liberal Party fundraiser hosted out of the offices of a prominent Toronto law firm, MPs will spend the day debating whether she should apologize for her extra-curricular activities and return any and all money collected at the closed-door reception, […]

Métis ruling about time Certainly long overdue, as anyone who knows the history of Louis Riel and the unfulfilled promise of thousands of acres to the Métis when Manitoba became a province. The West knows the injustices very well. And the Métis have been part of land claim settlements North of 60, so this Supreme Court […]

Just as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau gets ready to head to New York to sign the Paris Agreement, a new report shows that Canada’s green tech industry is falling behind when it should be ramping up to meet tough new climate targets and replace lost resource sector jobs. The fifth annual Canadian Clean Technology Industry […]

By Mikaël Perron, CD Defence Watch Guest Writer As a three-ocean nation and a member of the G7, Canada shall be at the forefront of the world’s ocean safety. The flagships of a nation like ours should be using our own specific home design and should be of the highest standard. So, the main classes […]

I have an article in Esprit de Corps magazine outlining firms preparing for the upcoming CANSEC trade show next month. This year’s CANSEC defence trade show from a naval perspective will be dominated by a couple of procurements, the main one being the Canadian Surface Combatant project. CANSEC 2016 will be held at the […]

Ottawa police were asking the public to help them find a 64-year-old man missing since Sunday afternoon because there are concerns about his health after he left a hospital. Thomas Cherrett was spotted at 5:35 p.m. Monday in the area of Montreal Road and rue de l’Eglise. He is described as a six-foot white male weighing […]

Renfrew OPP officers were searching Monday night for an 88-year-old man who left his Arnprior-area home in the afternoon and didn’t return. Henry Aumont of McNab Braeside Township is described as a frail-looking, five-feet-eight inches tall and weighing 160 pounds. He has grey hair and is clean shaven. He was wearing a navy jacket, brown […]

Canada’s 7,500 federal prison guards “hope for the best but expect the worse” when their pay is turned over to a new automated system this week, says union officials. Doug White, president of the Union for Canadian Corrections Officers’ Atlantic Region, said federal employees who work in 24-7 operational jobs in the 67 departments moving […]

Get ready for a return appearance in the House of Commons hot seat, minister. Jody Wilson-Raybould was undoubtedly hoping that, nearly two weeks after she took top billing at a $500-per-head party fundraiser hosted out of the Toronto offices of a prominent Canadian law firm, the controversy over her presence at the exclusive event was […]

Ottawa’s medical officer of health says a supervised injection service is the consummate example of health care that puts the needs of patients first. Dr. Isra Levy told the Ottawa Board of Health on Monday that the harm reduction service fits squarely into the provincial government’s recently unveiled plan to build a patient-centred health care system […]

Jury selection was underway Monday at the first-degree murder trial of Marc Leduc, accused of killing two women linked to Ottawa’s drugs-for-sex street trade. Leduc, 59, has pleaded not guilty. His trial for the killings of Pamela Kosmack, 39, and Leanne Lawson, 23, is not expected to hear any evidence until Wednesday. Potential jurors, one […]

A key east-west cycling and pedestrian connection at the University of Ottawa will be closed for the summer to undergo a major facelift as part of light rail construction.

Twelve graduating architecture students at Carleton University have come up with an ambitious proposal for a new park around a restored Pinecrest Creek, a partly buried waterway that empties into the Ottawa River near Mud Lake in the city's west end.

The wheels started to turn for Renfrew paramedic chief Michael Nolan in February 2012 after one of his crews helped rescue a snowmobiler whose machine had crashed through the ice on Calabogie Lake. Paramedic Brad Smith later won a Governor General’s Award for bravery for his role in the dramatic rescue, using a canoe and […]

Alive to Strive Kidney Fitness Project is an Ottawa non-profit organization that offers fitness grants to patients of The Ottawa Hospital who are on dialysis or with kidney function below 30 per cent. Funding for the Alive to Strive Kidney Fitness Project is made possible through the Alive to Strive Race, which is taking place on Sunday, April 24 at the Terry Fox Athletic Facility.