Новости за 02.06.2016

Buzz is building around the revamped edition of Westfest that kicks off music-festival season in the nation’s capital this weekend with a lineup of all-Ottawa talent. In fact, if you didn’t know producer Elaina Martin, you might be surprised at how well things have fallen into place. Nine months ago, the situation looked bleak. In an […]

Nearly six months after Prime Minister Justin Trudeau vowed to make the 2015 federal election the last to take place under the first-past-the-post formula, his government has finally managed to take its first step down the road to electoral reform. And it’s all (or, at least, partly) thanks to a well-timed push from the New […]

Environment Canada has issued a severe thunderstorm watch for Ottawa and the surrounding area, warning residents of possible lightning and hail. Storms are expected to develop Thursday afternoon in the Gatineau, Petawawa, Pembroke, Cobden, and Ottawa areas, ahead of an approaching cold front. Some of these thunderstorms may become severe this afternoon with damaging winds […]

Q: What is a ranked, or preferential, ballot? A: It’s a system in which you rank the candidates in order of preference. If nobody wins a simple majority outright, the person with the least number of votes drops off and their second-place votes are distributed to other candidates. This cycle continues until someone accumulates more than 50 per […]

PITTSBURGH – Dave Cameron may not be out of the NHL next season. While there are no guarantees, and it isn’t known where he stands, the former Ottawa Senators coach was given permission to speak with the Detroit Red Wings about an assistant’s job with Jeff Blashill and may have met with them not long after returning […]

The Ottawa 67s have dealt veteran goalie Liam Herbst to the Guelph Storm in exchange for a fourth-round draft pick. “We have a really good goalie in (2014 Ontario Hockey League Priority Selection Oliver) Lafreniere that needs to get up here and play, and he’s been kind of pushed back because we’ve had two good […]

A civilized society is often judged by how it treats its most vulnerable citizens, and by that measure the Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre has failed spectacularly. Numerous reports have detailed poor treatment of the inmates — from inhumane living conditions and abuse of solitary confinement, to inadequate health care and bad food. This the place where […]

The City of Ottawa will pay a $7,500 annual fee to be part of Carbon 613, which is expected to help the municipality achieve its greenhouse gas emission targets. Capital Coun. David Chernushenko, council’s environment chair, announced the city’s membership Thursday, joining what he called the “coalition of the willing” to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Carbon 613 […]

Yousef Hussein’s name did not appear anywhere in the Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre Task Force Action Plan released Wednesday, but if the report’s recommendations are implemented, the lives of other mentally ill members of our community who run afoul of the law may be spared. Mr. Hussein took his own life while on suicide watch and […]

I’ve said many times that I won the lottery the day I was born and that I have continued to be incredibly lucky throughout my life. Some people might assume, then, that I view volunteering as a means of repaying my debt, sharing my good fortune, compensating for my luck by helping those who are […]

Ottawa police guns and gangs unit is investigating a shooting that occurred around 1:40 a.m. on St. Joseph Boulevard in Orléans. A 28-year-old man was shot several times and taken to hospital in critical condition. Paramedics arriving at the scene near the intersection of St. Joseph and St. Pierre Street administered advanced care treatment and transported the victim […]

Or, at least, on the composition of the special committee to be tasked with studying the issue over the summer? We’ll soon find out. As reported in this corner on Wednesday, MPs are set to spend the day discussing a New Democrat-backed proposal to divvy up the seats on that still hypothetical special committee according […]

A neighbourhood store like no other Re: Seventy years of memories as Boushey’s on Elgin Street prepares to close, May 30. It wasn’t really a store. It was a part of the neighbourhood.  When we moved to Ottawa’s Centretown in 1969, we were immediately told about Boushey’s. Like Alice’s Restaurant in the song, it was […]

Conservative leader Rona Ambrose accused the Liberals of misleading Canadians after the Ottawa Citizen revealed details about Canadian special forces being involved in a new offensive against the Islamic State in Iraq. Ambrose said the details in the article published Wednesday directly contradict Trudeau’s claims that Canada is only conducting training in Iraq. “How can […]

PITTSBURGH — Playing with a heavy heart, Justin Braun delivered a heavy shot that, at least, gave his team hope Wednesday night in Game 2. Unfortunately, it wasn’t enough in the end. The San Jose Sharks’ defenceman, who lost his father-in-law/former NHL player Tom Lysiak to leukemia Monday, only wished his goal in the third […]

The team from second-division NASL upset the favourites from first-division MLS in the opening leg of their Amway Canadian Championship semifinal series.

These were some of the reactions to the release of Wednesday’s jail report. “For years this government has treated corrections staff with virtually no respect and has ignored their concerns. . . . We hope the minister is being forthright when he says this report ‘will not just go on a bookshelf somewhere.’ . . .We […]

She was the last to see her mother alive, and the first to find her dead. The girl had stayed home from school that day — Jan. 29, 2014 — to look after her mom as she recovered from surgery. The girl didn’t want to run errands with her father but he convinced her, and they […]

At the core of the 2015 Ottawa Redblacks, in their amazing run all the way to the Grey Cup game, was a talented group of defensive backs who were tagged DBlock by their coach, Ike Charlton. Guys like Jovon Johnson, Jerrell Gavins, Abdul Kanneh, Jermaine Robinson and Brandyn Thompson — with help from subs like […]

Funny how things change so quickly in the CFL. A year ago, the Ottawa Redblacks went into the season with Chevon Walker as their starting running back. By late August, Walker was gone, with Jeremiah Johnson getting the bulk of the carries. A foot injury to Johnson in early October opened the door for William […]

A former inmate at the Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre says government plans to improve the overcrowded and primitive facility are long overdue. Jeannette Tossounian, 40, spent several weeks at the detention centre at the end of her two-year jail sentence for arson.  “I couldn’t believe how horrible it was,” she said Wednesday. “It was more like […]

The new report on failings at the Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre on Innes Road is about a lot more than the jail. It’s not just that the jail has been run poorly, though that’s certainly one of the place’s problems. What prompted Correctional Services Minister Yasir Naqvi to commission the report in March was grievous overcrowding, inmates […]

Kady O’Malley did her very best to provide updates and commentary on these proceedings. To read an archive of the liveblog, scroll down.  Okay, senators: Time to show your Commons counterparts – and Canadians at large –  the meaning of the phrase “sober second thought,” at least within a parliamentary context. After a tumultuous trek through […]

Ottawa’s public school board wants a judge to order YouTube and Google to hand over contact and other personal information about Internet users who repeatedly posted a video of an upset autistic student online. The video was first posted to YouTube under the title “Kid with autism goes nuts” in February of this year. The video […]

Canada’s 149th birthday is only a month away and the celebrations are expected to rock the capital. A multitude of family friendly acts, featuring fan favourites Metric and an eclectic lineup of performers, will take the stage on Parliament Hill July 1. “We’re going to rock everybody’s face,” said Emily Haines, Metric’s lead singer who was videoconferenced into […]