Новости за 28.05.2016

A man who assaulted a string of women in Ottawa by trying to pull down their pants and/or slapping them on the buttocks has been arrested in his new home by Halifax cops after a series of attacks on property. Halifax Regional Police have charged Gavin Sean Griffiths, 30, with mischief and breach of release conditions following an […]

With the temperature at a toasty 31 C, coupled with the infamous Ottawa humidity, it was time to hit the water Saturday and dozens of people rushed down to Mooney’s Bay for the MEC Paddlefest. Participants got a chance to demo a bunch of non-motorized watercraft, or put their own canoes or flotation devices into […]

Ottawa police are seeking public assistance in locating Marwan Khan, 21, who was last seen Wednesday when he said he was going to look for a job. Khan is described as of East Indian heritage, five-feet-five-inches tall, with light brown hair, hazel eyes, and with some facial hair. He was last seen wearing a green or […]

The Chris Phillips’ retirement announcement provided a chance to reflect on the history of the Senators franchise. The ‘end of an era’ is an overused phrase. But with Phillips gone, following Daniel Alfredsson’s retirement 17 months ago, the Senators no longer have a player on their roster who played a game in the 1990s. Veteran […]

The year 2016 marks the 150th anniversary of the Ottawa-based parliamentary press gallery. To mark the occasion, the gallery has gathered its colourful history into a book, Sharp Wits & Busy Pens. Following is an edited excerpt from the first chapter: Imagine being a reporter walking up to the Hill for the first time in 1866. What would you […]

Workers at the Rideau Carleton Raceway Slots operation are expected to return to work next week after agreeing with Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp. to binding arbitration to end the almost six-month lockout. The Public Service Alliance of Canada announced the deal late Friday. Some 124 workers have been locked out since before Christmas after negotiations […]

Organizers for the Ottawa Race Weekend have announced two changes in starting times for races in the face of unexpectedly hot and humid weather. Saturday’s 10-kilometre run has been pushed back 30 minutes to 7 p.m., from the original 6:30 p.m. starting time. And Sunday’s Scotiabank Half-Marathon moves 45 minutes earlier to 8:15 a.m. Saturday morning […]

Politicians should speak for everyone Re: Female politicians blasted for views on women’s issues, May 24. Male politicians do not talk about their experiences as men. Female politicians should not talk about their experiences as women. They represent all their constituents, not just feminists. Claude Filion, Orléans Respect the salute Re: Justin Trudeau makes investment pitch to […]

The Citizen has won a coveted National Newspaper Award for its coverage of a shooting rampage that claimed the lives of three women in September and left a grief-stricken Ottawa Valley community in shock. The Citizen newsroom was honoured with the award at a gala in Edmonton on Friday night, besting entries in the NNA’s […]

The House of Commons wasn’t sitting this week, but with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau taking a day off in Japan to celebrate his wedding anniversary, and with Canada’s ambassador to Ireland grabbing a demonstrator — captured on video — there was no shortage of political huffing and puffing. Beyond the huff-puffery, there were some solid political […]

Opera Lyra was due to present a run of Haydn’s L’Isola disabitata (The Deserted Island) as part of its 2015-16 season. When the opera company closed shop last fall, Thirteen Strings announced it would honour the commitment in part and give one performance of the opera in a semi-staged version. Friday night’s concert at Dominion Chalmers United Church featured the chamber orchestra supplemented by players from the NAC Orchestra, along with a quartet of vocal soloists.

After the Ft. Lauderdale Strikers walked away with a 2-1 victory Fury coach Paul Daglish labelled it as “a robbery” in front of an announced crowd of 5,034 at TD Place.

Perched atop the multi-tiered centre of a vast stage that stretched the length of the arena, Carrie Underwood came out strutting at the Canadian Tire Centre and never let up.

It wasn’t just any nod. This was a nod — up and down for Yes — from OC Transpo driver Bhupinderpal Gill, and he was agreeing with his mistress when she told a psychic that the secret lovers would do anything to be together. Gill, a man of few words, didn’t say anything, but he […]

A motorcyclist is in hospital with serious injuries after a collision with a backhoe at the intersection of McArthur and Marguerite avenues on Friday afternoon.

On a sunny Tuesday morning, Talia Johnson walked down a long corridor to the House of Commons foyer, its polished marble floors buzzing with activity. It was the third time in her life she had come to Parliament Hill to urge MPs to extend human rights protections to transgender people like her. But this time was different. Johnson and about […]

A $10-million lawsuit filed in court this week alleges the city was negligent in a head-on sledding crash at a Barrhaven park more than eight years ago, leaving a boy with a serious brain injury.

In a disused basement classroom at Westmeath Public School, dozens of names are scrawled on a ventilation duct. They’ve been there for a decade, since 2006, when alumni returned to celebrate the school’s centennial. The former students wandered through the two-storey building, recounting to one another stories they remembered, of old friends and adversaries, sweethearts, teachers; tales of triumph and loss.  In the […]

Murray is serving as the Ottawa area’s Community Champion for Relay For Life, a series of fundraising events designed to raise $1 million in cancer research and in support for those already living with the disease. Murray is following in the footsteps of Max Keeping, the longtime CTV Ottawa and CJOH newscaster, who lost his own cancer battle in October.

If you live anywhere along the courses for Tamarack Ottawa Race Weekend, organizers would like you to take a sprinkler from the garden shed and direct the water at passing runners. That idea was one of a handful offered Friday by those same organizers trying to account for unseasonably warm temperatures that could even lead […]

A court has ruled against architect Douglas Cardinal and two other opponents to the proposed Zibi development at the Chaudière Falls, but protesters say they are not finished yet. The Divisional Court has refused to allow an appeal by Cardinal of two decisions by the Ontario Municipal Board, removing one of the last remaining barriers […]

Fifteen men and eight women hope to produce times in the Scotiabank Ottawa Marathon on Sunday to qualify for their national teams in the Rio Summer Olympics.

Not only has the Ontario government ordered almost no research into wind farms on the Great Lakes since it banned them so it could do more research, it’s done none whatsoever on the worry that prompted the ban: the risk of poisoning Ontario’s drinking water with gunk stirred up from the lake bottoms. The province has […]

There was nothing preventing the city from having a public meeting about the space where Canada’s largest playground will be built at Mooney’s Bay park, the mayor said Friday. Jim Watson said there has been “misinformation” about the nature of the project’s confidentiality agreement. The hush-hush nature of the playground is related to the design because […]