Новости за 03.07.2016

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will be among the hundreds of thousands of people who are expected to crowd the streets of downtown Toronto today for the annual Pride Parade.

Firefighters have a house fire in Manotick under control that started in the early afternoon on Sunday.  Numerous callers alerted emergency services at about 1:51 p.m. to flames visible from a house at 6411 Deer Valley Cres. On arrival, firefighters found the house and a garage were fully involved in the blaze, and deemed it a working […]

Australians awoke Sunday to a government plagued in uncertainty after a stunningly close national election failed to deliver a clear victor, raising the prospect of a hung parliament.

My heart breaks as I look at the a photo in the Citizen of Regina Public School students experiencing nature at the Mud Lake wetland. They will lose this resource if their school is closed as part of the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board’s initiative “to ensure that we continue to offer the best learning environments for […]

Brittany Flamank, 29, is a public servant with a master’s degree under her belt. She’s living the dream — at least, it’s a dream for some in this economy — a full-time job, with benefits. While it might seem like the unicorn of the millennial job market, if you look really hard, move across the […]

When Joe Jackson takes to the stage at RBC Bluesfest on Thursday, it will be his first visit to Ottawa in a very long time.  In fact, the 61-year-old author of the New Wave classic Is She Really Going Out With Him, is doing the most extensive tour of Canada he’s done in many years with […]

ACCRA, Ghana – As I leave Ghana after the most extended visit since I left decades ago, what’s most revealing about the country – and indeed Africa as a whole – is the disdain of the power elite for the concept of the public good. Whether it is politicians and their penchant for graft or the […]

At least 83 people have been killed and 176 wounded in two separate bomb attacks in the Iraqi capital Sunday morning, Iraqi officials said.

The Ottawa Paramedic Service confirmed late Saturday night that it was at the scene of a stabbing in Orléans.

After huddling with Senators management and his parents to weigh the pros and cons, White has decided that he will be best served by playing at least another year in the NCAA.

Michael Franti bounced through the crowd at the TD Ottawa Jazz Festival on Saturday, bringing unexpected joy and happiness to the legions of fans dancing in front of the stage.

The Ottawa Fury FC opened its second season of 2016 in exactly the same place it started the spring season — and unfortunately for it, the result didn't change, either.

Gabriel Gagne and Markus Nurmi are off to a good start to the summer, as both scored twice in Team Red’s 5-2 win over Team White at Saturday’s intrasquad scrimmage at the club’s development camp at the Kanata Recreation Complex.

At just 18 years of age, it would seem unlikely that any LPGA golfer could be labelled dominant at any one event, but Brooke Henderson is certainly making a case for it at the Cambia Portland Classic.

Lindros, who was inducted into the Hall of Fame on Monday after scoring 372 goals and 493 assists in his all too brief 760-game NHL career, is passionate about concussion awareness and prevention among youth.

Cooler temperatures on Saturday didn’t stop sand sculptors from putting their patience and eye for detail to the test in Gatineau. The annual Merveilles de Sable festival attracted amateurs and professionals to compete against each other in a sand-sculpting competition at Parc du Lac-Beauchamp. “It’s Alice falling down the rabbit hole,” explained Jean-François Gauthier, pointing […]

A potential tragedy ended positively Saturday afternoon when a sailor managed to make it to shore after his sailboat capsized in the Ottawa River. Ottawa Fire Services said the catamaran-type boat overturned in the area of the Connaught Rifle Range and floated down river before hitting shore near Andrew Haydon Park in the west end. Fire services […]