Новости за 08.07.2016

Broome County officials have confirmed their Binghamton Senators are heading north in 2017 and sources agree Belleville is the destination. Fans and Broome County Executive Debbie Preston are coming to terms with losing their AHL hockey team to Belleville, but unlike the OHL’s Belleville Bulls sour 2015 departure, the AHL top brass are soothing the […]

The House of Commons may be shuttered for the summer, but even in the absence of the daily back-and-forth between MPs, Canadians can still lodge their collective views over a dizzying array of current affairs and perennial concerns, courtesy of the ever-vigilant servers of the parliamentary e-petition system. Visit the e-petition portal on the parliamentary […]

This week, Jason Kenney announced his bid to lead the Progressive Conservative Party of Alberta. The party had once been dominant, ruling the province for 43 consecutive years. That run came to an end last year, when Rachel Notley led the Alberta NDP to their first majority government. Kenney’s pitch is not that he will restore […]

Ottawa police have released picture and video footage of a suspect believed to be involved in a sexual assault in Lowertown earlier this week. The suspect, as seen in the video, is described as a 25 to 40-year-old white male with a medium build and short hair. He was wearing a green T-shirt with large white lettering, […]

A company accused in a kickback scheme involving The Ottawa Hospital acknowledges it hosted the manager of capital projects “in the ordinary course of business” and hired his daughter, but denies any involvement in an alleged scheme to defraud the hospital. Federal Electric (1976) Limited, owned by Larry St. Pierre and Pro Management Construction Inc., […]

A non-competition agreement with the EY Centre prevents the city from pursuing trade shows for Lansdowne Park, whose city-run buildings had just over half of the rental times booked in 2015. It’s one of the barriers to maximizing rental space in the Horticulture Building and the Aberdeen Pavilion. The deal to keep trade shows away […]

For the second time in less than two years, Mitel Networks has abandoned an attempt to acquire another firm. On Friday the Kanata firm ended its $2-billion U.S. merger agreement with California-based Polycom after a New York private equity group, Siris Capital, made a similar-size offer. In October 2014, Mitel nixed a $540-million U.S. proposal […]

First responders in the capital region, led by Ottawa police Chief Charles Bordeleau, have extended their sympathies to their colleagues in Dallas following Thursday night’s sniper attack. Here is a sampling of the Twitter messages: @OttawaPolice hearts and minds are with @DallasPD and their families on this tragic day. — Charles Bordeleau (@ChiefBordeleau) July 8, […]

Ottawa police are investigating after a paramedic was assaulted on a call to a single-car crash on the Alexandra Bridge late Thursday. In a release, Ottawa Paramedic Service says their members were called to the crash shortly before 11 p.m. where they found a car had struck a rock face near the Ottawa end of […]

Oh, Canada. We can be such a simple country. A pat on the head from an international paper of repute, a rub of the belly by a visiting leader, and we purr like a smug kitten. Barack Obama — a president who can find Canada on a map, if not in his foreign policy priorities […]

The National Research Council has formally acknowledged to residents of the town that its National Fire Laboratory is the source of contamination in the residents’ wells. “It’s kind of like a truth and reconciliation process,” Mayor Shaun McLaughlin said Friday. The NRC acknowledges its role, “now let’s move forward to fix it.” McLaughlin said the confirmation came […]

The National Capital Region’s jobless rate was 6.9 per cent in June, unchanged from May and bang on average for last four months. Ottawa-Gatineau added 2,200 jobs in June, for a new record employment of 718,700 jobs. Breaking down the capital region stats, the jobless rate in the city of Ottawa in June slipped to 6.7 […]

Though summer is upon us we are now in the overlap season of birding with breeders, fall migrants and changes in bird activity and behavior. Since last week, there has been a definite increase in shorebirds with a small variety showing up at various sites across Eastern Ontario. On July 1 there were reports of […]

The Ottawa jazz festival's programming manager looks back at this year's event.

SAN MARTIN, Calif. — The opening tee shot for Brooke Henderson at the 71st U.S. Women’s Open set the tone for a disappointing first round for the 18-year-old from Smiths Falls. The shot started left and wound up in the rough, which would become a familiar shot pattern on her way to a four-over par […]

SAN MARTIN, Calif. — As is usually the case at a major, it’s often the par-saving putts that are key moments to a good round. Such was the case for Hamilton’s Alena Sharp who had a two-under-par 70 in the first round of the U.S. Women’s Open on Thursday at CordeValle. A par-saving putt on […]

Billy Idol, Joe Jackson RBC Ottawa Bluesfest Reviewed Thursday Thursday’s opening night at RBC Bluesfest flashed back to the 1980s with slick main-stage performances by pop-punk survivor Billy Idol and the still-elegant Joe Jackson. For Billy Idol, the headlining slot gave him a chance to prove that a snarl and a hook still go a […]

The 16th-century Netherlandish composer Orlande de Lassus – aka Orlando di Lasso, Roland de Lassus and several other globalized aliases – led a life worthy of a Rabelais novel. Legend has it that he was kidnapped several times as a child because of his beautiful voice. He served as a musician at some of the bloodiest, most intrigue-laden courts of the […]

Gurpreet Ronald remained unshaken on Thursday as a lawyer insisted that she acted alone when she allegedly killed her lover’s wife in a jealous rage. The attack came from her lover’s defence lawyer, James Harbic, who did his best to distance his client – Bhupinderpal Gill – from the 2014 killing of his wife, Jagtar Gill. “You […]

A bit more than two years ago, Nic Grigsby absolutely spoiled the first-ever game for the Ottawa Redblacks. Then a rookie running back for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers, he scored three touchdowns and rushed for 122 yards as the home side downed the expansion Ottawa team 36-28. Funny how things work. Grigsby fell out of […]

In his annual guide to Bluesfest, Postmedia’s Aedan Helmer offers daily previews of the biggest acts as well as his suggestion for the band to see. NOEL GALLAGHER’S HIGH FLYING BIRDS – City Stage, 9:30 p.m. The brains behind Oasis – as musical director, principle songwriter, and long-suffering sideman to his frontman brother Liam – […]

An elderly woman is in hospital with serious injuries after being hit by a car Thursday morning. The 91 year old was reportedly crossing the street at the intersection of Belcourt and St. Joseph boulevards when the car struck her. The Ottawa Paramedic Service received a call at 9:51 a.m. and treated the victim at […]

Editorial page editors regularly get calls from people taking issue with the paper’s editorial stance, so I wasn’t taken aback when Leonard Lee telephoned in late 1991. In a polite but firm fashion, he informed me that we didn’t understand the financial exigencies for a medium-sized business such as Lee Valley Tools. I countered by […]

Sports consumers bristle at players switching teams as though they were changing dress socks. Hardest to take for earnest fans are the moves to the mortal enemy — Kevin Durant leaves OKC for Golden State; Brett Favre of the Green Bay Packers wears the purple of the Minnesota Vikings; Roger Clemens goes from the Boston […]