Новости за 05.05.2016

Quiz show host Alex Trebek put Mayor Jim Watson on the hot seat after receiving the key to the city Thursday. “Receiving this award was quite an honour, but I’m a little concerned on your behalf because I get the feeling that you don’t know what you want to do with your life,” Trebek said during […]

Every coach loves a good student of the game, but St. Louis Blues defenceman Colton Parayko gives new meaning to the term. Sure, lots of NCAA student-athletes make the NHL, but not many vigorously pursue both academic and hockey life while in the NHL. By now you’ve noticed Parayko in the Stanley Cup playoffs. He’s […]

Justin Trudeau has filled one of the most important posts in his new government; that of national security advisor. Daniel Jean will leave his post as deputy minister of Foreign Affairs, to fill the job recently vacated by Richard Fadden. Jean’s appointment will be effective on May 16. Jean’s post will be taken by Ian Shugart, […]

The former All Saints Anglican Church in Sandy Hill has been purchased by a group of investors and is in the process of being transformed into a multi-use community centre.

Some of the hottest young talent in Canada will light up the third Glowfair Festival. The Bank Street BIA announced Thursday that Toronto trio Keys N Krates, who won the 2016 JUNO for Dance Recording of the Year, will headline Glowfair’s Morguard Mainstage on Friday, June 17th. Dragonette, who earned a JUNO in 2012, will take the mainstage […]

Canada has a great opportunity to create a science-advice system that’s best in class, improving decision-making processes in Ottawa far into the future. Public servants working for Minister of Science Kirsty Duncan are now analyzing the results of consultations, and the search for a chief science officer or adviser is expected to launch shortly. Since […]

When my oldest child, Sharvahn, was five, she used her allowance to buy me a Hallmark Mother’s Day card. As I waited outside the store, she chose a card festooned with purple flowers. When I opened it, my heart melted. “To a young woman on her graduation,” it read. The best card ever. This Mother’s […]

Ottawa’s real estate market warmed up nicely in April as the annual spring demand for housing began to ramp up, according to the Ottawa Real Estate Board. The board’s monthly analysis of Ottawa’s resale housing market reported a total of 1,714 resale homes were sold during the month, a 9.4-per-cent jump over the 1,567 sold in April, […]

You’ve seen the ads on television featuring sad, teary images of starving, malnourished or deformed children, used by various charities to solicit funds for everything from feeding starving kids to fighting poverty or disease in poor countries. As emotive music plays in the background, some celebrity or other appears and asks, “Do you know what poverty […]

After deserting us without even a backward glance, the long-form census is back in our hearts. And Canada is returning the love. We showed so much passion for our census that we crashed the Statistics Canada website in our rush to tell all. The website went down for 45 minutes Monday, but it’s back in working order now. […]

Mitel Networks on Thursday reported a solid if unspectacular March quarter as it continues its remarkable transformation from communications hardware firm to a provider of software services. The telecom company recorded first quarter revenues of $276.8 million, at the low end of the $270-million to $295-million range Mitel had led analysts to expect. Earnings were […]

An Ontario man was arrested by the Sûreté du Québec early Thursday after police stopped a car travelling more than 40 kilometres per hour over the 70 kph limit on Highway 5 near the Fournier Boulevard overpass. Police said the 25-year-old driver registered a blood-alcohol level that was more than twice the legal limit. The man was […]

A great deal and a great show are good ways to start the weekend, and it’s only $5 to see L.A. post-punk band Corners play House of Targ on Thursday. The morose pop band is obviously, and literally, influenced by the seminal Joy Division, but Corners songs vary, made intriguing by lighter and heavier touches […]

New and ongoing shows and events for all ages in fine arts around the city.

Wondering what to do this weekend? We have some ideas (or maybe 25).

OC Transpo’s high-risk gamble of plugging $432,000 of revenue into its budget to cover the cost of extra bus service to the Canadian Tire Centre won’t pay off.  The transit agency doesn’t think it can get the cash from the Kanata arena, which is owned by the Ottawa Senators. Transpo staff weren’t available Wednesday afternoon to talk about […]

Federal government officials say the Louis St. Laurent building is still not safe enough for investigators to examine and determine what caused the blaze that shut down the facility in Gatineau on April 21. The building which had offices for 1,800 Department of National Defence employees has remained closed since the fire broke out on […]

Green Party Leader Elizabeth May says the federal government should move deputy ministers into new jobs because they are gripped by “inertia” and resistance to change after 10 years of Conservative rule. “I’m not accusing the civil service of wishing they had Stephen Harper back. They are non-partisan. But after 10 years, it takes a […]

A man who sexually assaulted a string of women in Ottawa by trying to pull down their pants or slapping them on the buttocks is headed to Nova Scotia, prompting police there to issue a warning. Gavin Sean Griffiths, 29 — nicknamed the ‘Pants Puller’ — has been deemed a high-risk offender needing intensive supervision after […]

NACO Egyptian concerto review At Southam Hall Reviewed Wednesday night. Concert repeats Thursday. Camille Saint-Saëns was a bit of a stuffed shirt. A staunch traditionalist, he railed against more modernist and progressive composers like Debussy, Ravel and Stravinsky. They returned the favour by openly mocking him.   But there was another side to Saint-Saëns: world […]

A petition circulated by members of the federal union representing policy analysts and economists is calling for the removal of its president amid allegations that she exceeded her authority and tampered with elections. The Canadian Association of Professional Employees (CAPE) turned over some of the allegations against president Emmanuelle Tremblay to an independent investigator whose […]

Ontario Progressive Conservative Party leader Patrick Brown is expected to tour Ottawa’s jail Friday. Brown will be accompanied on the tour of the Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre by the head of the Ontario Public Service Employees Union, Warren “Smokey” Thomas. “He just wants to tour it,” said Thomas, whose union represents correctional officers. “Everything that’s ever been a […]

Federal officials claim the “vast majority” of 300,000 employees now paid by the government’s new automated pay system got their cheques this week with no problems. Brigitte Fortin, assistant deputy minister at Public Services and Procurement, said Wednesday’s payday was a major milestone in the final rollout of the new $300-million pay project. It was […]

Mayor Jim Watson says he has asked the city manager to see how the City of Ottawa can help Fort McMurray as residents flee the Alberta city because of a sprawling wildfire. “If it make sense for us to send crews out there then I’m happy to authorize that,” Watson told reporters Wednesday. “If it doesn’t because […]

A 46-year-old woman’s injuries were not believed to be life-threatening Wednesday evening after she was struck by a bus at the Baseline Transitway station over the rush hour, police said. Roads were reopened and the cause of the collision was under investigation by west-end patrol officers. The pedestrian was struck at about 5:14 p.m. at the […]