Новости за 11.06.2016

From the shock and outrage emanating from some corners, you’d think it was the first time the Senate had dared tweak so much as a comma in a bill duly brought to its consideration by the elected members of the House of Commons down the hall. And while it’s entirely fair to see the upper chamber’s rewrite of the […]

A 300-foot-long zip line stretching down Richmond Road generated lots of screams and laughter at the Westboro Fuse festival Saturday. Despite rain and cool temperatures, visitors lined up at the attraction to suit up in helmets and harnesses before ascending the 25-foot-high scaffolding. Once at the top, an attendant attached their harness slings to the cable, performed […]

Treasury Board president Scott Brison has ordered an independent review of Shared Services Canada, the troubled computer services agency. The Treasury Board assessment, according to procurement documents released Friday, is being billed as a way to help Shared Services do a better job delivering government-wide computer services. However, it has the potential to be much […]

The province’s Special Investigation Unit is probing a collision between an Ontario Provincial Police cruiser and civilian vehicle Friday night in Edwardsburgh Township near Kemptville, about an hour south of Ottawa.  The OPP’s Grenville detachment responded to a report of a crash on County Road 2 and Mary Street at around 9 p.m., said the OPP in […]

The Bay in the Rideau Centre reopened Saturday while crews at street level continued round-the-clock work to repair a massive sinkhole that opened on Rideau Street earlier this week.   Rideau-Vanier Coun. Mathieu Fleury tweeted Saturday morning a bird’s-eye view photo of workers on top of the now-filled sinkhole, where several thousand cubic metres of concrete […]

National rules not needed on assisted death Re: Liberals refuse to budge on Senate’s proposal to expand assisted-dying rights to the non-terminally ill, June 9. It’s argued that we need a federal law on assisted dying to avoid a “patchwork” of rules. While common standards are desirable, they are not actually necessary. If the provinces west of Ottawa require […]

For most of this season, Brooke Henderson has saved her best golf for the weekend. If form holds, the 18-year-old from Smiths Falls is going to have her best shot yet at winning her first major on the LPGA Tour.

Editor’s note: Ottawans marvelled this week as Rideau Street crumbled before our eyes, giving way to a yawning, van-eating maw in the heart of downtown.  Despite the #Rideausinkhole selfies circulating, this was not the international photo op local business owners had been anticipating. For some on the street, it is just the latest setback during a prolonged period […]

During the 1960s and 1970s, there was a massive investment in public transit downtown. The Rideau Area Project, which included a covered transit mall that stretched a majority of the corridor was a joint undertaking by the various levels of government and a consortium of private developers. It saw $166 million sunk into the area in 1983 […]

230,000 – New square feet added to the shopping centre. 900,000 – Square footage of the new Rideau Centre. 4 – New shopping levels add over the old Ogilvie Building 3 – New underground parking levels added to the shopping centre 16 – fast food restaurants, 35,000 square feet and 850 seats at the new Rideau Centre Food […]

For store owner Corey Hackett, the whole mulling of fine points of retail development in the Rideau Centre area have become almost moot. Down in the 300-odd-metre-long Combat Zone that is Rideau between Sussex Drive and Dalhousie Street, life has become positively Darwinian as the retailers deal with the massive construction projects that, eventually, are supposed […]

Jasna Jennings admits that when an official from Nordstrom told her shoppers, and lots of them, were coming from Montreal to check out new department store at the Rideau Centre, her eyes bugged out of her head. “I mean, you know that doesn’t happen,” the executive director of the ByWard Market Business Improvement Association says. […]

Brick by brick, the inaugural Lego Imagine Nation Tour began to take shape at the EY Centre on Friday.

When it comes to setting trends on the red carpet, Beyoncé is in a league of her own. But that doesn’t mean women in Ottawa can’t be fashion-forward, too. On Tuesday, while accepting the prestigious fashion icon award at a glitzy gala in New York City, Queen Bey stole the show, dressed in a sparkling […]

Two women who say they were victimized by Rev. Barry McGrory at Holy Cross Parish in the 1970s want the Ottawa Police Service to re-open a criminal investigation of the Catholic priest. The women have both contacted lawyer Robert Talach, who will formally ask the police to launch a new investigation. In Canada, there is […]

The federal government’s $10-billion reliance on temporary workers and independent contractors is turning stable work in Canada’s public service into a “gig economy” that will discourage the best of the millennial generation the Liberals want to attract, a new report on contracting says. The report by the Professional Institute of the Public Service, called Programmed to […]

Saturday's home contest against Rayo OKC concludes the NASL spring season and a stretch of seven matches in 25 days for Fury FC.

Ottawa is a land of ritual. Year-in, year-out, mandarins, politicians, aides and journalists move in a highly choreographed way to deliver our public life. And so, when a government comes into power that deplores those rituals, their practitioners do not take kindly to it. To say the government led by Stephen Harper deplored Ottawa’s entrenched habits doesn’t […]

Terry Dooner recalls being a 10-year-old boy in Ottawa in 1960, attending Rough Riders games at Lansdowne Park, where his idol, Bobby Simpson, carried the Red and Black to a Grey Cup championship. “I certainly remember his sleeper play against the Argos, that allowed the Riders to go to the Grey Cup and win it […]

The great Ottawa sinkhole spawned a good-natured collection of jokes, from Godzilla gags to swipes about disappearing taxpayers’ money. It was a social media star, a Twitter trendsetter. But now we need a serious conversation. What caused the crater that abruptly opened on Rideau Street near Sussex Drive? Had there been fatalities, no one would be laughing.  […]

As engineers on Friday ventured into the LRT tunnel far below Rideau Street to assess the damage caused by the massive sinkhole that opened up earlier this week, crews above them continued working around the clock to repair the damage at street level.

The party planners for Ottawa’s hectic cocktail circuit clearly didn’t anticipate having to compete for attention with Parliament Hill this week. They booked caterers and stocked their bars thinking the House would be winding down for the summer. Instead, Parliament is in overdrive, with senators and MPs in a standoff over the bill on assisted […]

A Kanata subdivision development is abuzz with bees once again. Marianne Gee and her husband Matt Gee, of Gees Bees Honey Company, delivered around 80,000 bees to the Kanata Minto Arcadia development Friday morning to replace the two hives stolen from the subdivision at Christmas time last year. The hives, worth about a total $450, were taken from an open field within Minto's Arcadia development at Huntmar and Campeau Drive.

Ottawa police have laid 123 charges against 31 people after a month-long drug trafficking investigation targeting dealers in neighbourhoods in and around the downtown core.  The investigation, dubbed Project Shedder, was launched in May by the Ottawa police street crime unit to identity and arrest people involved in low-level drug trafficking in response to complaints from the […]