Новости за 27.05.2016

Almonte’s tiny Hummingbird Chocolate Maker has proved its rank among the world’s chocolate elite, taking home six awards from an international chocolate competition based in Britain. “We are beyond elated to think that our team is ranked among the world’s best,” said Erica Gilmour, who started the chocolate company with her husband, Drew, in 2012. This week’s awards […]

Standing in front of the West Wing of the White House Komal Minhas beams so brightly, it’s like looking directly at the sun. Nevermind that the 26-year-old from Ottawa-via-Grande Prairie, Alta., has recently undergone cancer surgery. And nevermind that the ensuing recovery set back her dreams and left her furiously bedridden in Ottawa for weeks, far from her New […]

With the Tamarack Ottawa Race Weekend at hand, we have a breakdown of events, road closures and numbers surrounding the races. With temperatures expected to be above 30 C on both race days, organizers have floated the possibility that some events may be cancelled because of the risk to runners. In an email to participants Friday, […]

I am no cook. But I am married to an excellent cook with amazing natural talent and passion for cooking. With a little coaching from her, I present you with my top five garden herbs, which grow and thrive in a garden or container. Basil. Experienced gardeners and cooks will know that this is a no-brainer. Of […]

The Great Glebe Garage Sale is the place to be on Saturday. Tyler Dawson interviewed Peter Quevillon, a longtime attendee of the Great Glebe Garage Sale in 2015. Here are some of Quevillon’s tips for first-time (or experienced) Great Glebe Garage Sale shoppers. 1. Start the shopping early. What’s a good start time? “As early as possible […]

Whether wearing a pair of glass slippers, dancing shoes or the most fabulous red boots you’ve ever seen, the performers in Broadway Across Canada’s 2016-17 season are about to storm the stage of the National Arts Centre. And, looking at this year’s season lineup and calibre of the touring productions coming to Ottawa, audiences […]

A 45-year-old man has been charged with operating an unsafe motor vehicle after a wheel on his car flew off and struck an oncoming vehicle on Highway 417 near Parkdale Avenue. According to police, the westbound car lost a wheel at about 9:15 a.m. and it flew over the middle barrier into the eastbound lanes.  […]

A Toronto man repeatedly called 911 on Thursday to complain that his vehicle had been stopped and impounded for speeding about 100 kilometres from Ottawa. According to the OPP’s Rideau Lakes detachment, a 20-year-old man from Toronto was spotted on Highway 15 near the town of Crosby, in Leeds and Grenville, travelling more than 56 […]

A policeman fires his gun. Someone is killed. Independent investigators are called in, against the backdrop of a shattered family and an officer having to exonerate himself. There is public condemnation of the police, and questions about whether or not there was an attempt to de-escalate – to use the jargon for calming things down a bit – before […]

In what may be a first for modern Canadian federal political logistics, both the Liberal and Conservative parties are set to kick off their biennial conventions, with card-carrying supporters of Team Trudeau and Team Formerly Harper Now To Be Determined expected to converge on Winnipeg and Vancouver, respectively, Thursday.  For those of us who won’t be […]

Playground plan needs public input Re: Council refuses to enter Mooney’s Bay playground debate, May 25. Kudos to Coun. Riley Brockington for trying to have the Sinking Ships Productions deal for Mooney’s Bay revisited. It is unacceptable that this deal was reached without any public consultation. It is particularly concerning that no consultation occurred with important users of Mooney’s Bay. I […]

CORNWALL, Ont. — About 95 students escaped uninjured from a blaze that gutted parts of the Ontario Hockey Academy in this eastern Ontario city Thursday evening. The Cornwall Fire Department began receiving calls at about 6:41 p.m., and firefighters were on the scene within three minutes. At one point, flames were shooting out of the roof of the […]

After playing a combined 1,293 regular season and playoff games, Chris Phillips is walking away with plenty of memories. In his retirement address Thursday, he offered up a few choice ones. In keeping with his number 4, here’s a Top 4 list:   1-May 21, 2003: Phillips scored only six playoff goals, none bigger than […]

The ‘Big Rig’ has pulled off hockey’s highway. The motor is still running, but the Rig, banged up from nearly 20 years of service, is meant for life’s side roads now. For family trips and business ventures. For community involvement on behalf of the Ottawa Senators. Chris Phillips, aka the Big Rig, a name that […]

The city’s doing a poor job keeping Lansdowne Park the car-lite people place it’s supposed to be, says the man who oversaw its design. “There were a lot of us who worked very, very hard to convert Lansdowne from a parking lot into something,” says George Dark, the Toronto-based urban designer who spent years working on […]

Is Ottawa honeymooning with Uber? Three in 10 Ottawa residents have used the international ride-sharing service and they’re four times happier with it than with traditional taxi services, according to a new poll. People in the capital – where Uber has been operating illegally since 2014 – are even more rhapsodic than those in Toronto, where […]

The accused killers — secret lovers who worked the same shifts as OC Transpo drivers — sat quietly, a few feet apart in the prisoner’s box Thursday as their first-degree murder trial heard testimony from a clairvoyant they hired. Susanne Shields, a civil servant and part-time clairvoyant who says she can speak to the dead, […]

The Ontario Provincial Police are asking for the public’s assistance to identify anyone who may have been involved in a robbery at Bennett’s Bait and Tackle Shop on Highway 15 early Wednesday morning. Police said the robbers broke into the store, just outside of Smiths Falls, at around 2 a.m. and stole several firearms stored […]

Canada’s National Fire Lab had an unorthodox way of dealing with some waste chemicals: It flushed overflow into the sewage system, and then into the surrounding environment. An engineering report commissioned by the National Research Council identified the problem in 2013, and it sheds light today on how the lab in Mississippi Mills contaminated its own groundwater. The lab between Almonte and […]

Phillips also didn’t forget about the behind the scenes players – those who arrange the charter flights and meals, who wash and lug the equipment from dressing room to dressing room, who patch up the wounds, who take care of the many and sundry details of the big-league lifestyle.

As the NHL gets younger and younger, 38-year-old defencemen are a rare breed. Even if Phillips had been able to put his back issues behind him, there were also few guarantees that the Senators – or any other NHL team – would be willing to offer him another contract.

If you are competing in the half or full marathon this weekend and find you are running out of steam a few kilometres before the finish line, there will be a special group on hand to support you through the struggle. The Tamarack Ottawa Race Weekend’s Extra Mile Crew is a team of 35 volunteers who will be […]

Ottawa police have charged a 74-year-old massage therapist with sexual assaulting one of his clients.  A woman reported to police on May 10 that she had been sexually assaulted during an appointment at a spa in the downtown area. On Wednesday, police charged Robert Forcillo, 74, with sexual assault. He was released from police custody on […]

At 92 years old, Gib McElroy is an unimposing figure sitting in his wheelchair. But 70 years ago, his small frame made him an ideal tail gunner. McElroy occupied the most dangerous position on a Lancaster bomber, sitting in a cramped turret at the back of the plane fighting off enemy fire with a machine […]

On May 26, Stephen Quick, Director General of the Canadian War Museum introduced the Sopwith Pup, a 1967 restoration of a vintage fighter plane on loan from the Canada Aviation and Space Museum. The ‘Pup’ is the centrepiece of a new exhibition at the Canadian War Museum called “Deadly Skies 1914 – 1918”, which will be formally […]