Новости за 19.05.2016

It’s believed the Melnyk camp went on an exploratory tour of Ottawa recently, looking at potential sites for a 200,000-square foot facility – including, but not limited to, parcels of land in Kanata.

Spending nearly $1 million in city funds to help build Canada’s biggest playground is something that should probably be part of a political discussion, according to some councillors. But 16 trees at Mooney’s Bay park have already been chopped down and kids from across the country are being recruited to consult on the playground design. “It’s always […]

Sen. Pamela Wallin will not face criminal charges in relation to her Senate expenses, the RCMP announced on Thursday. In a release, the police force said it had completed its investigation, consulted with the Crown, and decided not to lay charges. Wallin, a former journalist, was one of the senators, along with Sen. Mike Duffy […]

Earlier this month, people all over the world marked Yom Hashoah, the solemn day of Holocaust remembrance. In Canada, which became home to more than 30,000 Holocaust survivors, Canadians of all political parties came together in Ottawa for a national commemoration.  As in the past, moving speeches were made, pointing out that preventing and responding […]

Our Civics class is not impressed Re: Trudeau at the middle of a mêlée in the House of Commons, May 19. As a civics teacher in Orléans, I frequently plan trips for my students to see democracy in action. Ironically, I was initially planning one of these trips on May 18. Our MP, Andrew Leslie, offered to […]

There are some politicians who move through Canadian culture like dark matter, their gravity distorting our vision of everything around them. It took a while for Stephen Harper to acquire that property. We had to get to know him first. It manifested as what National Post columnist Kelly McParland calls “Harper Derangement Syndrome”: the inability […]

ACCRA, GHANA — On a continent where tyrants rule, civil strife is a fact of life and elections are free only in name, the West African country of Ghana has emerged as an oasis of peace, tranquility and the acknowledged standard-bearer of democratic governance. Sitting governments lose elections by the nose and leave office. The […]

The Canadian military is shipping three Griffon helicopters to Iraq to support the Canadian special forces mission there, the Canadian Forces announced Thursday. It has supplied the news media with these photos and posted the information on its website. The Griffons, operated by 427 Special Operations Aviation Squadron from CFB Petawawa, are painted blue for […]

There’s a great temptation to view body weight as purely a consequence of personal choice, a simplistic perspective to which I subscribed for a long time. I used to weigh 30 or 40 lbs. more than I do today, but then I took up running and married someone who cooked healthy food. If I could gradually […]

New shows and events in and around Ottawa this week: Sincerely Yours: Chris Cran, exhibit by contemporary, playful Albertan artist combining art history with popular culture, vernissage May 19 from 5 to 8 p.m., exhibit to Sept. 5, National Gallery of Canada, 280 Sussex Dr. gallery.ca The Cold War: Causes, History, Impact, in partnership with the […]

This week sees two huge pop stars hitting the Canadian Tire Centre, and at least four lesser-known bands (two of them Québécois singer-songwriters) that should be on your summer playlist.  Among the lesser-known bands is Calgary’s Lab Coast, whose lo-fi pop sound has somehow fallen under my musical radar for about a decade, much to my chagrin. […]

Wondering what to do this weekend, we have ideas.

By now, you’ve almost certainly seen the video evidence of what transpired on Parliament Hill on Wednesday: it began with a proposal from Government House Leader Dominic LeBlanc to seize virtually complete, if temporary, control of the Chamber by stripping members of their traditional rights and privileges, and ended in a near-rumble on the House […]

Gone from home for weeks at a time. Sleeping in strange beds and choking down meals on the fly. Relentlessly marketing yourself. Why would anyone choose to perform on the fringe festival circuit?  The reasons, of course, are as varied as the shows themselves. “It’s the total independence. You have no restrictions at the fringe,” […]

By Peter Moon Defence Watch Guest Writer The Canadian Army is issuing several items of new clothing for Canadian Rangers across the Far North of Ontario. “The clothing they are getting is in their traditional red colour,” said Lieutenant-Colonel Matthew Richardson, commanding officer of the 3rd Canadian Ranger Patrol Group, which commands the 650 Rangers […]

A 19-year-old man was taken to the hospital from the Rideau Centre on Wednesday night after he was stabbed in the abdomen. Paramedics said that they were called to the roof garden of the shopping centre at 10:15 p.m. The victim was alert and oriented when they arrived but the injuries were being treated as […]

Paddlers, cross-country skiers and people who just like to work out at a Mooney’s Bay fitness park were among those protesting a hastily announced plan to raze it to build Canada’s largest playground. Doing pull-ups and swinging on the parallel bars at the Sue Holloway Fitness Park on Wednesday evening, demonstrators said again and again […]

Olympian Sue Holloway says she’s not worried about the fate of the park that bears her name but the future of a “spectacular” green space. Holloway lives a stone’s throw from the Rideau Canoe Club, which is just across the water from the planned site of the mega-playground where she trains cross-country skiers. She paddles past […]

To borrow a line from an old SCTV skit, the Farm Film Report, “They blowed up real good.” Almost. With a three-goal edge, courtesy of a 3-0 win in the opener of the two-game, total-goal Amway Canadian Championship series with North American Soccer League rivals FC Edmonton, Ottawa Fury FC made it all too close. In […]

LLOYDMINSTER, Sask. — The Carleton Place Canadians are in a must-win situation in their final round-robin game at the RBC Cup after losing 4-1 to the West Kelowna Warriors on Wednesday. After seeing similar results against West Kelowna as in their first two losses, Canadians coach Jason Clarke is not sure what else can be […]

The Archdiocese of Ottawa continues to pay for the many sins of Rev. Dale Crampton. Court documents reveal that the diocese has paid $741,783.44 in compensation to 10 of Crampton’s victims, who were sexually abused by the Catholic priest between 1963 and 1982. More lawsuits are before the courts. The victims in those cases are seeking […]

As the traditional pre-recess legislative blitz approaches, Government House Leader Dominic LeBlanc appears to be prepping the parliamentary paperwork to escalate his ongoing campaign to control the Commons space-time continuum.

The list of remaining players from the 2013 CFL expansion draft has decreased to six.

One-third of North American bird species are “in crisis” and another half face serious trouble says the first analysis of all the birds in Canada, the United States and Mexico. The birds run a gamut of dangers from deforestation to oil spills at sea to climate change. But habitat loss is the broadest threat, according […]

For many guys who will wear Ottawa Champions uniforms this season, it’s about redemption, a second chance — hoping somebody will notice, maybe leading to an opportunity to wear a major-league uniform. For many, it never happens. Occasionally, it does. And that’s why players like Champions shortstop Daniel Bick keep pushing along. First, to the […]