Новости за 27.06.2016

A patio pilfering probe has resulted in one arrest but Hawkesbury OPP officers still have some seized items, including folding chairs and umbrellas, to return to their rightful owners. Police have been investigating thefts from porches, balconies and backyards, mostly in the Hawkesbury and L’Orignal area, over the past few weeks. After an investigation, they […]

The transit commission Monday approved expanded eligibility for Para Transpo, with general manager John Manconi assuring commissioners the city can afford it. The big unknown, however, is how many more people will ask for eligibility when Transpo starts considering applications from customers with mental health and developmental disabilities in 2017. Transpo figures between 800 and […]

Henry Burris will sit out Thursday's game against the Alouettes after injuring his passing hand in the Redblacks' season opener against the Eskimos.

Brexit may say globalization is dead. Euro 2016 says it is alive and thriving.  Take, to begin with, that I actually know what Euro 2016 is and that all the games are broadcast live on my local sports radio station, as well as on at least four cable sports channels on what we used to […]

Her Majesty’s Canadian Ship Charlottetown departed from Halifax today as the designated forward deployed ship of the Royal Canadian Navy, replacing HMCS Fredericton in that role, the RCN said. HMCS Fredericton has been on Operation REASSURANCE since January 2016. HMCS Charlottetown’s last international deployment was in 2012, when the ship served on Operation METRIC, Canada’s […]

Even the police were happy with this year’s edition of Amnesia Rockfest, in Montebello. But rock fans sure do like to drive fast. Rockfest organizers estimate there were some 200,000 fans at the weekend event. The MRC des Collines police did the math at the end of the weekend concert-and-party, and it looks like this: • […]

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List of Ottawa-area blood clinics for the week of July 4, 2016.

It’s a sign that a chef is outstanding when he or she takes ordinary, inexpensive ingredients and stirs up something exceptional. This pasta dish is from Trevor Bird, a chef who started at Ottawa’s National Arts Centre, went on to work at Jean-Georges Vongerichten’s Market and Daniel Boulud’s Lumière, both in Vancouver, was runner-up on Top Chef […]

The Canadian government will spend $38 million on improvements and new training facilities at the 5th Canadian Division Support Base (5 CDSB) Gagetown, NB. Of that amount, $36 million will go to new training facilities for identifying and disposing of improvised explosive devices and other explosive ordnance. The Canadian Forces School of Military Engineering at 5 CDSB Gagetown […]

The City of Ottawa could make millions more and solve its budget problems if it simply taxed residents’ salaries, gas and regular day-to-day purchases. That’s the theory of two Munk School of Global Affairs researchers, who released a paper Monday called More Tax Sources for Canada’s Largest Cities: Why, What and How? Enid Slack, the […]

At the University of British Columbia’s Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions (CSDI), we spend a lot of time working with “recovering” politicians. Many of them worry that our political system has become too adversarial, partisan and divisive. They fear this undermines trust in the integrity of democratic institutions, and weakens the capacity of […]

Ottawa Fire Services are reporting a fire in a motor home in front of 7 Whisperwood Street in Munster, shortly before 5 a.m. Monday. The motor home had a trailer on it containing some go-carts. A nearby van had also caught fire. Estimated damages are $40,000. The house was not damaged and there were no […]

The British have voted to send their own currency into seizures and to isolate themselves from their own continent, all because someone told a better story than someone else. The story of Britain inspires feeling in Britons; the story of Europe does not.  Never mind that the story fed to Leavers was racist, stupid and […]

Nuclear weapons shouldn’t be seen as ‘normal’ Re: A New Nuclear Arms Deal, June 22. It’s a little amazing how we humans accept outrageous things as just “normal.” According to your article, there are some 15,000 nuclear weapons out there, some of which are likely aimed at me and just a few of which could eliminate […]

The Canadian government is moving ahead with rebuilding the Afghan war memorial to fallen Canadian soldiers and locating it in the west end of Ottawa The memorial, known as the Kandahar Airfield Cenotaph, will be located on the former Nortel Campus, the new site for the National Defence headquarters. As I wrote last week, the […]

Numbers and notes from the 2016 season opener for the Redblacks against the Eskimos.

Teammates helped teammates overcome mistakes and it added up to a spirit-boosting victory for the Redblacks against the Eskimos.

Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings Confederation Park, TD Ottawa Jazz Festival Sunday Ottawa festival fans got their funk on in a big way Sunday, with a full-throttle soul revue courtesy of Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, who closed out the festival’s first weekend with some hot soul to match the weather. Anyone who recalls the […]

MONTEBELLO — Any sane person would have sought out shade and a cool drink on one of the hottest weekends of the year. Well, that wasn’t the choice for Alex Martel and the tens of thousands of rock fans who attended the 11th annual edition of Rockfest, the event Martel founded in his hometown of Montebello when he […]

Iceland has a new first lady, and she's from the Ottawa Valley. Eliza Reid, 40, was ushered in as first lady of Iceland on Sunday after her husband, Gudni Johannesson, 48, was elected as the sixth president of the small Nordic country.

Bruno Langlois finally captured an elusive elite men’s title at the Global Relay Canadian road cycling championships yesterday after a thrilling finish in Ottawa. The Matane, Que., cyclist was in a battle with Ben Perry, Will Routley and Ottawa’s Matteo Dal-Cin heading into the final corner of the 180 km before the latter rider slid […]

Rideau Street is expected to reopen to visiting dignitaries for this week's North American Leaders' Summit following repairs to damage caused by a sinkhole earlier this month.

Canadians are about to see big changes in the way they receive services from the federal government online. More than 1,500 disparate, and often completely different looking websites, with strange and long Internet addresses, are in the process of being combined under the easy to remember Canada.ca umbrella.

Not many couples can say they've been happily married for 40 years. But for Pierre Gougeon and his wife, Marlyne Beauvais-Geogeon, it's easy.