Новости за 06.07.2016

The lemonade-stand girls thought they were raising money for camp. Actually, though nobody told them about it, they were helping get Conservative politicians elected. You know the story by now: Eliza and Adela Andrews, aged seven and five, set up a lemonade stand by Colonel By Drive on the weekend. A National Capital Commission officer, reportedly following […]

James Narbonne never considered himself a lucky man. That is, until the Rockland resident found out last Thursday he had won just over $2 million in the lottery. “It was unbelievable. I just couldn’t believe it,” said Narbonne, who referred to the win as a “game-changer” for him and his wife, Maria. Narbonne has religiously […]

An accused erratic motorcyclist who police say pointed an imitation handgun at other motorists when he wasn’t giving them the middle finger for driving too slow has been ordered to stay out of Ottawa. As part of his conditions for release on bail, James Cole can only enter the city limits for court or medical […]

Jazz — Peter Hum  Classic, big-band hits come Friday, July 8, to Centrepointe Theatre when the Glenn Miller Orchestra, a repertory group, plays the greatest hits of its namesake bandleader and composer. Expect to hear In The Mood, Moonlight Serenade, Tuxedo Junction and more. Tickets and info: centrepointetheatre.com or 613-580-2700. Theatre — Patrick Langston  How exactly did […]

Riling residents over a rollback in residential snow plowing isn’t worth $500,000 in savings, councillors decided Wednesday. The transportation committee voted to stay with the current standards for plowing residential streets, rather than accepting a staff recommendation to increase the threshold of snowfall before the city deploys plows. The standard is seven centimetres. Staff want to increase it to 10 […]

Ontario country singer Meghan Patrick has a theory as to why country artists pack ’em in at festivals, whether it’s an event dedicated to country music or one, like Ottawa’s Bluesfest, that features a more diverse selection of music.  “The most obvious thing is it’s just a big party,” she said in a recent phone interview […]

The Sûreté du Québec continues to investigate after the body of a man, 55, was found Wednesday morning in a ditch near the village of Plaisance, between Thurso and Montebello. The body was discovered by a passerby at about 9 a.m. near the Plaisance Bridge. Police said there were no marks of violence on the […]

Electronic dance music It was Skrillex who first demonstrated the drawing power of EDM at Bluesfest when he headlined the main stage four years ago. While there’s no DJ headlining this year, ravers will want to check out the dubstep stylings of Torontonians Zed’s Dead, the offbeat R&B of Cashmere Cat, who also works with […]

Ottawa firefighters are lauding a 12-year-old girl who executed her family’s “escape plan” when a kitchen fire broke out in the family’s east end home on Tuesday. The fire spread from a small kitchen appliance to the counter and cupboards above in the home on Fountainhead Drive. Annaka Boucher, who was babysitting her 10-year-old and six-year-old siblings at the time, […]

The Ontario Provincial Police busted a grow-op on River Road in North Grenville on Monday morning. The police entered the residence at 11:20 a.m. and seized nineteen mature marijuana plants, 104 marijuana clones and 63.7 grams of marijuana bud. Police charged Richard Murdock, 50, of North Grenville with drug and firearm charges, including possession with intent to traffic, […]

Firefighters battled a two-alarm blaze in a vacant Mechanicsville home on Carruthers Avenue early Wednesday morning. Ottawa fire said the 911 calls started coming in from the area of Carruthers and Burnside avenues at around 2:15 a.m. There were no injuries reported, but victim services was called for two adults and three children who were staying in an […]

What: Sheila G’s Brownie Brittle Why: The story begins in a familiar way: when Sheila G. Mains lost her job as an executive at a Florida advertising agency, she embarked on “Plan B.” She started selling small-batch brownies made according to a family recipe. By the mid-1990s, she made it big, with her brownies featured at […]

Electoral reform enthusiasts, start your engines: Democratic Institutions Minister Maryam Monsef is about to become the first on-the-record witness to testify before the all-party committee tasked with exploring alternatives to the current voting system. According to the notice, Monsef is booked for a full 90 minute session, which should provide ample opportunity for committee members […]

Lighten up on the lemonade Re: Sisters back in business after NCC apology in ‘lemonadegate,’ July 5. We Ottawans need to lighten up a bit when tempted by our knee-jerk compulsion to trash the National Capital Commission. Because of our viral reaction (including the lead stories for both local TV evening newscasts) we have  created “lemonadegate” […]

From the wilds of Kabul security to the uncertainty of the Greek financial crisis, and from the overwhelming challenge of processing and accepting 25,000 Syrian refugees to the crisis in Burundi, the Canadian Foreign Service Officers’ annual awards event highlighted the biggest challenges of the past year, each of them met by Canada’s diplomats abroad. And this year, for the first time, all of the award recipients were women.

In a surprise alibi that silenced Court Room 34, Gurpreet Ronald’s defence team said Tuesday that their client was out having tea with a doctor when her lover’s wife was killed. In a brief yet strong opening address for Ronald’s long-awaited defence, Jessica Abou-Eid revealed the alibi and told the jury her client didn’t kill Jagtar Gill, but that […]

As much as Rick Campbell respects CFL administrators — he praises their hard work — he’s surprised that he was hit with an undisclosed fine for being knocked over by a charging Duron Carter in last Thursday’s 28-13 win in Montreal. While the CFL announced on Monday night that the Alouettes receiver was suspended for […]

SAN MARTIN, Calif. — Brittany Henderson loves playing golf. But she said she has no regrets about putting her playing career on hold — even though she was fully exempt on the developmental Symetra Tour this year — to caddie for sister Brooke, the No. 2-ranked player of the world. Brooke and Brittany teamed up […]

SAN MARTIN, Calif. — Brooke Henderson ripped a 3-wood off the elevated tee of the 17th hole at the CordeValle Resort, a downhill par-4, during preparations Tuesday for the U.S. Women’s Open which gets underway Thursday. Afterwards, fellow Canadian Alena Sharp feigned surprise. “Brooke hit a 3-wood?” Unabashed aggressiveness has quickly become a key component […]

Henry Burris won’t stir the pot. He’s had a ringside seat to a couple of spectacular performances by backup quarterback Trevor Harris, who’s led the Ottawa Redblacks to two wins — 45-37 over Edmonton and 28-13 vs. Montreal — in rather spectacular fashion. But Burris, the 41-year-old defending CFL most outstanding player, isn’t saying he […]

The National Capital Commission’s take down of a kid-run lemonade stand Sunday brought back eerily familiar memories for former teen entrepreneur Eric Leclair. Eric, now 43, created a small business growing and selling tomato plants in the late-80s. In his third year of business, Eric brought his brother Serge Leclair, now 41, on-board. The pair, 14 and […]

For a long time, the National Capital Commission was the Crown’s official sour-puss. Strange how, today, it wants to be the capital’s party animal. So yes, there will be awkward moments in the transition, like the lemonade-stand fiasco, or going way off-key with the Andrews Sisters. The NCC apologized to the whole Andrews family after closing the stand on […]

Lansdowne Park’s water play area is getting more jet power. Parks and recreation head Dan Chenier said Tuesday the city will increase the power of the jets at the water plaza, which features streams of water lightly jumping out of the ground next to a beacon. Chenier said the city also wants to add “toys” to the water plaza […]

The NCC has agreed to waive its $1,520 permit fee officially required for two young girls to sell lemonade on NCC-owned land along Colonel By Drive. Setting up a lemonade stand in Ottawa is not simple, as we learned through Kurtis Andrews and his two young daughters, Eliza and Adela. The sisters’ stand was shutdown […]

Minister of Health Jane Philpott has called an emergency meeting to deal with what is becoming an open revolt among scientists against reforms at the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. In a statement released Tuesday, Philpott said she has “noted with growing concern the views that have been expressed within the health research community” about […]