Новости за 04.07.2016

Ever had a hankering to make sure elected officials, senior civil servants and government appointees comply with the existing ethics and conflict of interest rules? What about keeping an eye on the federal lobbying sector? If so, you might want to start getting your resume ready, because it looks like Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is […]

Sorry, Electoral Reform Twitterverse: Despite initial support from both Green Party Leader Elizabeth May and New Democrat MP Nathan Cullen, the all-party special committee tasked with investigating new voting options has elected not to set aside a spot in the rotation for questions from the virtual audience. But you’re still welcome to take part in […]

There was no chill this weekend at a kid-run lemonade stand on a stretch of Colonel By Drive owned by the National Capital Commission. The lemonade stand run by sisters Eliza and Adela Andrews, ages 7 and 5, was shut down by the NCC at around 11 a.m. on Sunday by an NCC officer because […]

Justin Trudeau’s friendly jog with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto over the bridge between Ottawa and Gatineau signalled a new relationship between the two countries. Peña Nieto had cancelled a trip to Canada last April after former Prime Minister Stephen Harper refused to lift the visa requirement. Last week’s North American Leaders’ Summit, which followed the […]

Pianist Kenny Barron, the winner of the Montreal International Jazz Festival's Miles Davis Award, gave the first of three concerts Sunday night.

Donald Trump’s speech on what he calls “economic independence” was enormously useful to illustrate the contradictions inherent in both left-wing and right-wing reflexive anti-globalization, and how they ultimately come out to the same thing. As one might expect, those contradictions are right there in Trump’s own policy, if you can even call it that. He […]

Allowing even for human error, bureaucratic inefficiencies and the confusion that naturally ensues when three gunmen saunter into an airport and hit their detonators, people may fairly expect their governments to refrain from doing two stupid things during a terrorist attack: making it harder to find and come to the aid of victims; and, making […]

As our American neighbours celebrate their country’s 240th birthday, the Canadian federal political workweek will get off to a relatively slow start, as least as far as official events – except in St. Peters Bay, that is, where the four Atlantic premiers are set to meet with select federal cabinet ministers later this morning. On […]

Robert Mustard’s goals for the second round of the Lord Alexander of Tunis have only a little to do with his standing relative to the other competitors in the first of the three annual major championships on the Quebec men’s amateur golf schedule. “The goal for (Monday) is to stay calm and stay patient and just […]

Sunday's cut was at eight over par, higher than in any previous edition of the tournament in the past decade.

Twelve players will take Canada's last shot at a 2016 Olympic men's basketball berth in a six-team qualifier in Manila.

It’s not easy to dance — and even get dipped — while wearing a full police uniform with a bulletproof vest, but one Ottawa officer made it work this Canada Day weekend. A video of officer Tracey Turpin showing off some hip hop and salsa moves with local videographer Yves Soglo on Rideau Street has gone […]

Brian Wilson: A Celebration of 50 Years of Pet Sounds TD Ottawa international Jazz Festival Main stage Confederation Park Reviewed Sunday night  It was hard not to feel nostalgic Sunday night at the TD Ottawa International Jazz Festival. After all, the weather was a perfect backdrop for the music of the Endless Summer and a […]

An Ottawa man was cheering on Iceland Sunday afternoon during the UEFA Euro 2016 quarter-final match against France, hoping the team's fairytale run wouldn't come to an end.

Reducing the Sir John A. Macdonald Parkway to two lanes west of Island Park Drive could divert up to 550 vehicles per hour onto other roads, according to a preliminary analysis.

When he woke up in tears the morning after he had cried himself to sleep, Rohit Saxena knew what he had to do. Leaving his wife, Lesley, asleep in bed, Rohit went downstairs, opened his laptop and began to write. “They say your kids are your hearts outside your body,” he wrote. “I’ll always be […]

Tony Randazzo studied and taught about sinkholes at the University of Florida for 35 years, and now does private-sector engineering work, looking for them. Rideau Street, he says, didn't technically have a sinkhole.