Новости за 27.04.2016

Ottawa Fire Services is crediting the canine senses of a retired sled dog named Moss for alerting apartment dwellers to a major fire on Spadina Avenue at 3:45 a.m. Wednesday. According to Danielle Cardinal, a fire services spokeswoman, the dog sensed the fire had broken out started and began thrashing about in a bid to wake […]

A fire that broke out before dawn did extensive damage to a central Gatineau house Wednesday, but there are no reported injuries. The fire was “raging” by the time firefighters arrived at 280 Pointe-Gatineau St., a two-storey home. It took 44 firefighters from 16 trucks to fight the blaze. They brought it under control a […]

If you go down to the woods this summer, the City of Ottawa wants you in full hazmat gear. With goggles. Gloves, too. And don’t touch any wild flowers. And stay in parks with groomed paths. Ottawa is worried about wild parsnip, a weed that’s all over the region. The city is spending about $200,000 this year to mow and spray it […]

Ottawa police are seeking public assistance in finding Salwa Osman, 15, last seen early Tuesday in the Fisher Avenue, Meadlowlands Drive area. Salwa is described as black, about five feet six inches tall, 110 pounds, with dental braces and long straight hair, usually in a ponytail. She was last seen wear long black boots and […]

Nurses are first responders, too Re: Nurses fight for PTSD recognition, April 25. No one fits the description of first responders more than nurses working in an Emergency department. Many patients arrive on their own or are dropped off and the triage nurse is the first professional with hands on. It has been decades now, but I still […]

The former HMCS Algonquin is set to be towed on May 10 from Canadian Forces Base Esquimalt, BC. Of course the date could change a bit, depending on various circumstances. The ship will be towed to the east coast where it will be broken up. As Defence Watch noted earlier this month the former HMCS […]

The Ottawa police sexual assault and child abuse unit has identified a man they allege was touching himself in front of a child last week on an OC Transpo bus. The investigation is now ongoing, police said Tuesday night. They had released a photo earlier in the day of a man they allege was “acting inappropriately” aboard an OC […]

A motorist says she was horrified to see an OC Transpo bus appear to overshoot a railway crossing barrier this week on Fallowfield Drive, near where a bus collided with a Via Rail train three years ago, killing the driver and five passengers. Kayla Woelfle, 25, was on Fallowfield heading toward Woodroffe Avenue at 2:30 p.m. […]

Don’t go out and buy a Belleville Senators jersey just yet. There’s still a lot of work to do before this becomes reality. While the city of Belleville and owners of the club’s AHL affiliate had little to say Tuesday after Postmedia reported the Senators are considering moving their AHL affiliate north of the border, talks continued […]

Commencing in mid-2013, I represented Prime Minister Stephen Harper in connection with the RCMP’s investigation of Sen. Mike Duffy. So long as Mr. Duffy was facing criminal charges, my client, and anyone acting on his behalf, was prevented by the sub judice rule from making statements that could prejudice court proceedings, including statements speaking to […]

The planning committee has approved another car-free development in the ByWard Market.

A 14-year-old boy was stabbed in the lower back near a Kanata high school Tuesday afternoon. Police received the call just after 1 p.m. after a student at A.Y. Jackson Secondary School came into the school with the stab wound. Police said the student’s injuries were minor. Following an altercation, the teen was stabbed at a nearby Mac’s convenience […]

An online petition is calling for the maximum sentence for a man who allegedly almost choked to death a seven-week-old Rottweiler-mix, if he’s convicted.  Dylan Sardinha, 23, is charged with two counts of causing unnecessary suffering to an animal for allegedly strangling his dog, Sadie. He is scheduled to appear in court on June 16. The petition, posted by the […]

There’s plenty of moose on the loose, with three crashes in the last week spurring Killaloe OPP to warn motorists to watch out for the big animals. Police said that collisions with the largest members of the deer family — a big bull could weigh almost 700 kg — can be particularly dangerous especially for those behind […]

The city has now settled 17 lawsuits related to the deadly 2013 crash between an OC Transpo bus and a Via Rail train in Barrhaven, according to city hall’s top lawyer. Rick O’Connor says the total payout from resolutions so far is about $2.9 million. The city won’t break down the settlements for each case, citing confidentiality. There […]

A cyclist in her 20s was struck by a car and flipped over its hood during a rush-hour collision Tuesday at the intersection of Carling Ave. and Island Park Dr. Paramedics were called at 6:21 p.m. and found the woman alert and conscious but complaining of leg and back pain before she was taken to […]

The provincial Special Investigations Unit has been called in to investigate after a man was found dead in a Bancroft home Monday after police executed a search warrant on the property. According to the Ontario Provincial Police, a warrant was executed at the home in an attempt to catch a man wanted in connection with an […]

A former RCMP counter-terrorism officer who tortured and starved his 11-year-old son in a darkened Kanata basement says he did it because he thought the boy was possessed. The father took the stand in his own defence for a second day on Tuesday, testifying he was afraid his son would stab him in the heart as he […]

Loriann Richardson says she was lost and alone in 2012. With no one and nowhere to turn to after fleeing with her son from an abusive relationship, she headed to a family shelter in Ottawa for refuge. “I honestly didn’t know what I was going to do,” Richardson said. “I didn’t know where to go or who to talk […]

A new poll suggests that while most Ottawa residents don’t like the way Mike Duffy has conducted himself in the Senate, they don’t believe he’s a crook. A Mainstreet Research poll, conducted for Postmedia in the two days immediately following last week’s verdict, found that 60 per cent of Ottawa residents approved of Justice Charles […]

CFL mini-camp isn't just about familiarizing athletes with the playbooks. For some of them, the three-day sessions are about showing enough skill to warrant invitations to main training camp at the end of May.

Some Ottawa neighbourhoods are about to become livelier this summer with the unveiling of about a dozen new micro parks and patios.

Ontario’s Health Ministry and its doctors are so far from an agreement on what physicians should be paid that they can’t even agree on what they need to negotiate about or who should do the negotiating. As it stands, the Ontario Medical Association and the government negotiate, but only to a point. If they can’t agree, […]