Новости за 01.07.2016

Full disclosure here, for all you hockey fans trying to get a grip on all the cash that flew around during the Canada Day free agency fireworks Friday. The world of big money markets confuses me. I can’t quite get a handle on how and why global stock markets plummeted and then almost immediately rebounded in the wake of the Brexit vote.

It's time to go back to work for Ottawa Fury FC. A three-week break between the spring and fall seasons of the North American Soccer League comes to an end with Saturday night's away match against the New York Cosmos, which means Fury FC has an opportunity to make everyone forget about its struggles in the early portion of the 2016 campaign, to some degree the byproduct of the collective grind of seven matches in 25 days.

Pierre Dorion will spend Canada Day huddled in his office at the Canadian Tire Centre scouring the free-agent market to see what’s available and where the asking prices go. But the Senators GM cautioned he may only make one or two small moves, or he may not do anything at all. “I like my team,” […]

The ugly Mikail Wikstrand memories of a year ago are slowly fading away for the Ottawa Senators. This time around, a highly-touted Swedish defence prospect is more than willing to stay around the organization for as long as it takes to play for the Senators. “I don’t know if I go crazy (looking at the […]

There was another player taken from Arizona in last weekend’s NHL entry draft, but he didn’t get the same kind of fanfare as Auston Matthews. While Matthews went No. 1 overall to the Toronto Maple Leafs, forward Todd Burgess, who grew up in Phoenix, can always boast he was taken in the same draft as […]

The lofty expectations which heralded O’Connor’s arrival as a prized free agent signing out of Boston College have dropped several notches.

If Cody Purcell needed some obvious symbolism about his ability to overcome any obstacle in his life, he got it earlier this year. The 24-year-old Ottawa hip-hop artist was touring in the Yukon when he got a chance to go mountain climbing. Summiting that mountain, he says, drove home the message that: “Hey, this life is limitless in achieving […]

Chris Mazur, 23, is a new electrical apprentice with O’Connor Electric. He landed the job three months ago after a long, four-year struggle to find a company that would take him on.  “It’s, like, impossible to get into an electrical company,” he said. “It’s, like, literally impossible.” Mazur was applying for positions as an electrical apprentice while […]

Nefaur Rahman, 33, and his pregnant wife, Zakia Muyen, 32, came to Canada from Bangladesh three months ago. Their plan?  To give their children, a five-year-old son and an unborn daughter, a better life.  The couple were high-achieving university graduates back in Bangladesh. Zakia was a practising gynecologist, and Nefaur a well-paid computer engineer. They left their home, job […]

Some might see David Cook as the quintessential millennial dreamer. He would probably disagree. At 21, and three years out of high school, Cook wants to find purpose beyond the walls of a university. He recently left his job stocking grocery store selves — a job he says was terrible. Yet he refuses to entertain the notion of going back to […]

Hayley Chazan, 25, and Richard Clark, 24, are considered DINKs, a dual-income couple with no kids — aside from their 11-year-old adopted dog, Hope. They’re part of a demographic cohort that’s slowly overtaking the number of households where couples have children, according to Statistics Canada. The year 2006 was the first recorded time Canadian couples without children overtook the number of couples […]

It “makes House of Cards look like Teletubbies,” is how British Tory MP Nigel Evans, an erstwhile backer of Boris Johnson’s aborted leadership bid, described the spectacle still unfolding in Westminster in the aftermath of the Brexit vote. Johnson, expected to announce his candidacy on Thursday morning, did precisely the opposite, reportedly after he realized, with […]

Backyard gardens to die for are great if you have a backyard. If you’re a condo or apartment dweller, or even an urban homeowner with more deck than back forty, it’s a different story. Your outdoor space is limited. It could face north. And you may not be inclined to log countless hours maintaining your […]

God help me, but I’m for the establishment. I know it’s a helluva thing to admit. Better these days to confess to a weakness for cannibalism. But after watching the lunatic destructiveness of Brexit and that Duck-Dynasty-episode-of-a-presidential-election they’re holding to the south, there’s no denying it any longer. I am firmly pro-establishment. And I won’t […]

Callers reported fire and smoke were visible from a home near Jeanne D’Arc Boulevard just before 11 p.m. Thursday night, Ottawa Fire Services reported.  A working fire was declared for 471 Wincanton Dr. Firefighters had the blaze under control by 11 p.m.  It was not reported if residents were at home at the time of the fire, […]

Last Sunday, the artist Alicia Keys made a radical choice at the BET Awards: she didn’t wear makeup. About a month earlier, Keys wrote that she was ditching cosmetics long-term because she had been using them to cover up her personality along with her skin’s imperfections. It might seem insignificant for a gorgeous celebrity whose […]

When rescuers pulled Charles Epting Vansant out of the ocean at dinnertime on July 1, 1916, his left thigh had been stripped of its flesh. They managed to get the 25-year-old Philadelphian back to the Engleside Hotel in the New Jersey resort town of Beach Haven, where he and his family were staying, but they […]

An inspirational undertaking Re: West end youths put community first, June 27. What a joy it was to read this article in the Citizen. Congratulations all round to the West End Youth Motivators (WEYM) and the Youth Services Bureau for sponsoring this recent community basketball tournament involving at least 100 youths. May all involved in this effort […]

REDBLACKS 28, ALOUETTES 13 MONTREAL — It’s been a rough couple of days for sports fans in Montreal. On Wednesday, beloved hockey hero P.K. Subban was traded from the Canadiens to Nashville for Shea Weber. A day later, the football Alouettes played as though they were bummed about it, unable to stop the runaway Redblacks […]

Chick Corea Trio with Christian McBride and Brian Blade TD Ottawa Jazz Festival Confederation Park Reviewed Thursday night At the very least, the thousands of people in Confederation Park Thursday night now get to say that they’ve performed with jazz piano great Chick Corea. Of course, on the TD Ottawa Jazz Festival’s main stage, it […]

The last accomplice on trial for the 2010 execution-style killing of Barrhaven teenager Michael Swan was found guilty Thursday as the so-called mastermind behind the botched marijuana and money robbery. Sam Tsega, 24, had been on trial for second-degree murder, but Ontario Superior Court Justice Catherine Aitken spared him a murder conviction and instead found him […]

Three weeks after a giant sinkhole opened up in downtown Ottawa, engineers have deemed Rideau Street safe for vehicular traffic. In a memo to the Mayor and councillors, city manager Steve Kanellakos said the bustling street will reopen to OC Transpo, Gatineau’s STO and taxis on Saturday, July 2. The street will remain closed to […]

The estranged husband of a woman on trial for allegedly slashing and bludgeoning her lover’s wife to death described how his wife repeatedly came at him with a knife raised over her shoulder “much like the movie Psycho.” Jason Ronald testified that his wife Gurpreet Ronald came at him with a knife three times between […]

For the third time in less than a week, shopkeepers are sweeping up after a vehicle crashed through a storefront. Police said no one was hurt, and no charges will be laid after a Mazda minivan jumped a curb and smashed into the front window of Fresh Grocer, in a strip mall at the corner […]

Several businesses in Ottawa have already moved their shipping and handling duties away from Canada Post in preparation for a potential labour dispute that could start as soon as Monday. Smiths Falls-based medical marijuana producer Tweed Marijuana Inc. said it began transitioning tens of thousands of packages away from Canada Post and into alternate couriers […]