Новости за 19.07.2016

In leaving the organization, Zibanejad was gracious, expressing his thanks to the Senators for helping develop him into an NHL player. If he holds any bitterness about being dealt away, he’s hiding those feelings publicly.

While this year’s Bluesfest was a hit for many, a disconnect between the festival’s accessibility policy and the experience for those with mobility issues has left some concert goers discouraged. Ottawa DJ Amy “Volume” Gibson and her husband Ryan Gibson were attending the Noel Gallagher concert on July 8 when they tried to access the closest […]

Determining the salary puzzle never really ends, but by trading away Mika Zibanejad Monday, Dorion did clear up another potential difficult negotiation a year from now.

One of Ottawa’s most rumoured diplomatic appointments was finally confirmed Tuesday: Former Clerk of the Privy Council Janice Charette will be high commissioner to Great Britain and Northern Ireland, a plum posting many would argue she richly deserves.  Charette’s appointment was part of a major overhaul of the top foreign postings. Most of the new jobs will […]

There was a time when the core of the Ottawa Senators was carved out of high draft picks. Alexei Yashin, Radek Bonk, Chris Phillips, Marian Hossa, Martin Havlat and Jason Spezza were all plucked from the first round of the NHL entry draft and stayed with the Senators for years while the team grew into […]

Following the botched coup attempt in Turkey, there have been alarming cries from within the country for the reinstatement of the death penalty. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who’s further seeking to consolidate his power – already his grip is tight – says if the people are baying for blood, who’s he to deny them? Well, the […]

“It’s useful to have someone with the kind of experience that she has and the political acumen that she has.”

Terrorists don’t hate freedom. This may be news to you, but let me go further: Terrorists don’t hate any one particular people, gender, race, religion, ethnicity or way of life. Terrorists are remarkably democratic in their hatred – they recognize all people as potential targets, big or small, old or young, rich or poor. Terrorism […]

Traditionally the benediction at the opening session of a party’s national convention is a prayer. Nothing more. An appeal to divine goodness and grace. Alas, not this year, not at this Republican National Convention unravelling in Cleveland. Rather than a prayer, Pastor Mark Burns, Donald Trump’s spiritual adviser, offered a rant. “Our enemy is not […]

Defensive backs Jerrell Gavins and Forrest Hightower, who both missed last Wednesday’s come from behind 30-23 victory over the Toronto Argos due to injuries, are expected to return for Friday’s game in Regina against the winless Saskatchewan Roughriders.

A downed drone found near Parliament Hill has piqued the curiosity of at least one local couple. Melissa Presz and her boyfriend Luke Brimacombe found the crashed drone in a shrub at Nepean Point, near the statue of Samuel de Champlain, which overlooks the Alexandra Bridge, and is just steps from Parliament Hill, which is […]

Protesters in opposition to the Zibi condo development arrived at the doorstep of Catherine McKenna on Monday afternoon to get a response to the open letter they posted on the outside wall of her constituency office three weeks ago.

New assessments for residential properties in Ottawa are well below the average increase for the province, but city hall still needs to warn about 15,000 property owners they’re being hit with a major hike.  The Municipal Property Assessment Corporation mailed residential assessment notices Monday. Assessments happen every four years and the notices will state the property values as […]

In the hockey season, players are slaves to their schedule. On an almost daily basis, they are told where to be and when, based on practices, off-ice training and games. The precious summer months are a different animal. As much as hockey players devote much of their day to off-season training, there is also time […]

How’s this for a cocktail: Chivas cut with performance-enhancing drugs. Or, for the ladies, vermouth. The drinks are swirled about the mouth, then spat out.  That’s how Russian athletes took their illegal, specially devised steroids. These drug concoctions were “optimized to avoid detection.”  An independent report released Monday, commissioned by the World Anti-Doping Agency and led by a Canadian, […]

Two years ago, Marie-Josée Lord was confronting the march of time. The talented Haitian born soprano from Montreal was taking stock of the fact that she was in her early 40s and she was thinking about all the changes that were taking place in her life.  “I was thinking about many things, but more about […]

One of the values of experience is to help with shaky nerves early in games. At the risk of bringing back awful memories, the Senators were atrocious at the beginning of games last season, allowing the first goal in 51 of 82 games. (They went on to post a 14-30-7 record in those contests).