Новости за 01.05.2016

For people in the community who are living with Alzheimer’s disease or another form of dementia, the Walk for Alzheimer’s fundraising event on May 7 represents a tangible way to help. But for Nepean residents Kalman and Julie Fejes, there is an even more important reason to get involved.

She was the lioness of the legislature. Her roar was one of the few female voices to rise above the baritone din of Ontario’s parliament. She led some of the Conservatives’ fiercest hunts and never shied from the kill. But then Lisa MacLeod grew quiet, even tamed. It was after her party suffered a bruising […]

Marie-Julie Cosenzo, who lives in Ottawa and has been a paramedic with the Coopérative des Paramédics de l'Outaouais for almost nine years, hasn't been at work since last Oct. 3 after responding to a traumatic call. It was for a 17-year-old boy who died by suicide.

Camp Misquah is just one of many groups receiving a much-needed boost from the Scotiabank Charity Challenge for this year’s Tamarack Ottawa Race Weekend on May 28-29.

PARIS – France is always a bad-news story and a good-news story. Mostly you hear the bad stuff. But if you dig a little, it’s not hard to believe in the miracle of France. The bad? Well, France’s cultural mindset doesn’t help. Remember: The French invented the word “morose.” They love to gloom and doom. […]

A seven-year-old boy died Sunday after an accident involving a vehicle outside of a home in Cantley, regional police said.

Many of us will someday tell our children about this apparent tipping point in our collective nationhood: when “reconciliation” between indigenous and non-indigenous communities came crashing on to the public radar and the news media and government suddenly grew a conscience. We all want to believe that reconciliation is a process that’s begun to unfold. […]

There was plenty of gown-gawking to be had, both on and off the fashion runway, at the Loft Gala, held Saturday at the Hilton Lac Leamy. A sold-out crowd of 500 donned its glamorous best for a 1940s and ‘50s-themed night packed with swing band music from the Stan Clark Orchestra with song, dancing and […]

Canada must choose between two slogans, we’re told. Canada must choose between the present or the future, we’re told. It’s either “We do not negotiate with terrorists” or “No man left behind.” It’s a life today or many lives tomorrow.  The choice, under this formulation, is simple but deadly. Governments can save a person who […]

When I finished the final draft of a book I wrote about LeBreton Flats, I made a copy of the text on a 5½-inch floppy memory disc and buried it in the soil of the Flats under a Manitoba maple. The tree was roughly where the latest section of the row of condos is now, […]

Ottawa singer-songwriter Amanda Rheaume describes Holding Patterns, her third full-length album, as the most honest and personal of her career, thanks in large part to the input of another Ottawa singer-songwriter, Jim Bryson, who produced the record. “I can take myself way too seriously and worry way too much about everything,” Rheaume said in an […]

The Louis St Laurent building in Gatineau was closed after a fire there more than a week ago. That closure affects the 1,800 Department of National Defence employees who work in the building. A memo is circulating among managers at the National Defence headquarters on what obligations management has to employees who work in the […]

A 65-year-old woman was treated for smoke inhalation after a two-alarm fire and reports of an explosion sent Ottawa firefighters scrambling Saturday evening. The fire, at a two-storey semi-detached home on Rosemere Avenue off Lees Avenue, was reported at about 8:15 p.m. The main fire had been extinguished soon after the fire crews arrived. Ottawa […]

Now that the draft lottery has ended, Senators GM Pierre Dorion can resume his regularly scheduled programming with his search for a head coach.

The odds were stacked against the Senators with only a 2.5% chance to get the first pick Saturday night in the NHL draft lottery held at the CBC’s studio, but Ottawa didn’t budge from its No. 12 position.

Jean-François Emard and Pascal Carrier are facing weapons charges after Ontario Provincial Police officers responded to a report that two men were in an altercation at a Casselman bar on Friday.

Ottawa firefighters declared a second-alarm fire at 195 Rosemere Ave. off Lees Avenue on Saturday night. At about 8:15, Ottawa Fire Services received numerous calls about flames visible at the back of a two-storey semi-detached brick home, and mounted a quick offensive attack after arriving at the scene. Firefighters knocked down the main fire almost […]

Justin Beaver pulled an Axl Rose Saturday, showing up a couple of hours late to take centre stage. The stage in this case was the W.A. Taylor Conservation Area on the Rideau River outside Osgoode.

Jean-François Emard and Pascal Carrier are facing weapons charges after Ontario Provincial Police officers responded to a report that two men were in an altercation at a Casselman bar on Friday.

In its home opener, Fury FC won for the first time five games into the spring season on Saturday afternoon, 2-0 over the North American Soccer League’s expansion Miami FC. The Miami side, with former Ottawa player Mason Trafford on the roster, has yet to win in five games.

Three people were displaced after a fire at 6 Laniel St. in Gatineau on Saturday afternoon. Firefighters received a call about the fire at 2:56, and arrived to find that the home had been evacuated.  A shed at the rear of the house was in flames, and the blaze had spread to the roof of […]