Новости за 22.05.2016

A man was cut deeply in the forearm with a chainsaw after an incident in Russell Sunday afternoon but bystanders were able to help staunch the bleeding while first responders were on their way. The 46-year-old man was hemorrhaging badly but quick-thinking witnesses did speedy first aid, applying multiple dressings, direct pressure and ultimately a tourniquet. “These interventions […]

What is cystic fibrosis? For 24 years, I have lived with CF and it still confuses me.

To shed light on how Ottawa and Eastern Ontario became home to one of Canada’s leading pediatric hospitals, Denise Alcock compiled and edited a collection of personal stories from the early years at CHEO, entitled Birthing a Children’s Hospital.

Annual Plant Sale at the Rothwell United Church, perennials, herbs, annuals, houseplants and more, May 21, 8 to 11 a.m., 42 Sumac Rd., Gloucester. www.rothwellunited.com All the Dirt container gardening, tips on creating dazzling containers, best plants and soil information, with Catherine Disley Engler, May 17 from 7 to 9 p.m., Bldg. 72 CEF Arboretum, east exit off Prince […]

Canada’s female politicians have been speaking out a great deal lately, in ways that aren’t overtly partisan, about their experiences as women and the gendered policy gaps they see. This is heartening, but it is — and should be — a careful calculation. On a personal level, no woman wants to be consigned to the […]

The city’s archbishop vows that “we will do better” in tackling sexual abuse in the church. Archbishop Terrence Prendergast makes the comment in a column in the Ottawa Sun, in the wake of a Postmedia series about historic abuse by local Catholic clergy published last week. Prendergast calls the articles “shocking” despite containing “not many surprises,” […]

There’s a wince-y kind of look that Miles Wolff seems to have developed after his decades as the de facto boss of “indie” baseball in North America. Take, for example, when he described how things are going in the run-up to the groundbreaking visit by Cuba’s national baseball team to the six cities in the Can-Am League […]

By now, Daphne Hendsbee is used to receiving curious inquiries about the stainless steel bracelet she wears. After all, she’s worn it every single day for the past 15 years. What most people soon find out, however, is that it’s not merely a fashion accessory, but a tag containing information that could potentially save her life one day.

The former location of the Ottawa Neighbourhood Services had its doors open Saturday for the public to trawl through the heaps of clothing, books and furniture left behind by the now-homeless charity. “I saw on the newspaper that they were having a huge sale so I came to look,” says Jesse Fairbairn, who was there […]

Somewhere up there in the heavens, the late Pierre Dorion Sr. has just wrapped up a golf game, he’s at his desk working on his lists for next month’s NHL entry draft in Buffalo and he’s having a hard time wiping the smile off his face. That’s because 44-year-old Pierre Dorion Jr. is indeed a chip off the old block.

There was a lot of fiddling around at Marion Dewar Plaza Saturday as a few dozen players from city and valley whipped out their bows to jam in honour of National Fiddling Day. The jam, featuring old-time tunes featuring Irish, French and other heritages, brought smiles to the faces of passersby and set off several […]

Visitors to Ottawa, having perhaps heard of a recent commotion in the Commons, might have been a little uneasy viewing a smallish band of scarlet-dressed troops on patrol on Parliament Hill and the Canal Locks area Saturday. But these weren’t peacekeepers. The 100th Regiment Historical Society, a band of 19th-century British military re-enactors were back on patrol […]

Traffic in the Mooney’s Bay area was unusually snarled for most of the day Saturday when a glitch with the canal locks prompted the National Capital Commission to shut the Hog’s Back Bridge to permit repair work. The shutdown began before the lunch hour and traffic problems in the Hog’s Back Road, Colonel By Drive areas […]