Новости за 02.08.2016

Five events in the next month will give Ottawa foodies special opportunities to eat well.

Just who exactly does the staff of Toronto’s Mount Sinai Hospital think they are? Recently, multiple clinicians at the hospital refused to grant a patient the partial abortion she asked for. The patient, known in her court proceedings only as “C.V.” became pregnant with twins through in-vitro fertilization at the age of 45. Her obstetrician, concerned […]

A man who allegedly tried to film up a woman’s skirt at Buskerfest in Ottawa on Monday has been charged with voyeurism and mischief. Ottawa police said the man was caught by a witness with a “keen eye” who alleged the man used a hidden camera to film women in the crowd at the family-oriented festival. Police said the […]

If the headlines that greeted Donald Trump’s and Hillary Clinton’s nomination acceptance speeches at the Republican and Democratic national conventions are anything to go by, you’d be forgiven for indulging in conspiracy theory. The American media – newspapers, magazines and television networks – seemed to speak with one voice in denouncing Trump’s speech as paranoid, and – […]

A recent report by the Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario, entitled “The Differentiation of the Ontario University System: Where are we now and where should we go?” makes a number of statements based on assumptions that should be revised. Research done through networks and collaboration among universities is of great importance and must be supported as a […]

Two men were arrested and a low-rise apartment building was evacuated while police investigated an early morning shooting Tuesday at 1993 Jasmine Cres. in the city’s east-end.  Police and paramedics received a call from a woman reporting gunshots fired at 7:41 a.m. A single bullet was fired through the floor of apartment unit 410 and into […]

The U.S. Air Force has released requests for proposals to the defence industry for a new intercontinental ballistic missile and a nuclear capable cruise missile. The Ground Based Strategic Deterrent (GBSD), will replaces the 1960s-era Minutemen III ICBM, and the Long Range Standoff (LRSO) weapon, will supersede the AGM-86B Air Launched Cruise Missile, writes my […]

An FBI electronics technician with a top security clearance pleaded guilty to funneling photographs of FBI documents and other sensitive information to China, the Associated Press writes. Here is the rest of the Associated Press article: Prosecutors in federal court in Manhattan charged Kun Shan Chun — a naturalized U.S. citizen who goes by “Joey […]

Ottawa police are asking for the public’s help to identify a male suspect in a recent bank robbery in the city’s south-end.  Police said a lone male suspect entered a bank on the 1700 block of Kilborn Avenue on Friday at around 11 a.m. The suspect produced a note making a demand for cash and threatened […]

Friends of the Farm Victoria Tea, come dressed in your period best (there will be costume prizes) and enjoy live music and appropriate games at the formal tea fundraiser, served on the lawns of the Arboretum, Aug. 7, 2 to 4 p.m., Bldg 72, Arboretum. Cost: $10. Art on the Farm, original works exhibited under the trees of the […]

PARIS – Two weeks on from horrors no human should ever see, hell still smoulders in witnesses’ eyes. As “survivors” of Nice’s July 14 murder-truck madness, wounded souls line up for psychological help. Some eyes dart away in grief, others stare into eternity. Three years ago, I sat on the pebbly beach three metres below […]

Five defence firms have responded to the Liberal government’s call for information about fighter jets that could replace the CF-18s. The five (not surprisingly) include: Boeing (Super Hornet), Lockheed Martin (F-35), Dassault (Rafale), Eurofighter (Typhoon), and the Saab Group (Gripen). So what happens now? That question was asked of Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan during a […]

The Danish String Quartet was back in Ottawa Monday night, playing before a packed hall.

West Ottawa residents are scratching their heads over the saga of a convenience store break-in that led to a police pursuit, a foot chase, a single shot from an officer's gun, the theft of a police car, an arrest — and the suspect's release without charges.

Ninety-one-year-old Edgar Hughes spent his youth fighting the Axis in the Second World War. Now the veteran is in a battle against small-time theft in Cornwall.

U.S. Strategic Command held its POLAR ROAR exercise which involved three non-stop sorties of three B-52 and two B-2 bomber aircraft to the Arctic, Northern Pacific and Baltic Sea, according to NORAD. The exercise is to test the force’s “long-range global-strike capability” while training and integrating with key allies, such as Canada, noted the news […]

Ottawa-based Avivagen has developed an alternative to the antibiotics farmers add to livestock to boost animal growth. And that's not chicken feed.

A federal proposal for the use of cloud computing makes it clear that the most sensitive data the government keeps about Canadians won’t be allowed to leave the country.

Snow isn’t exactly top-of-mind for most us at this time of year, but Wilson “Snowflake” Bentley was always ready to enthuse about the stuff.   The New England farmer, who died in 1931, was a pioneer of snowflake photography and perfected a technique for shooting flakes on black velvet.  And you can bet your mukluks […]

Ukrainian Ambassador Andrii Shevchenko says Ukraine’s newly minted free-trade agreement with Canada gives his country a lot of credibility as a would-be trader with other nations.

The government’s bid to unify all of its departments under a Canada.ca web address is increasing workloads and pushing at least one federal department over budget, raising questions about the implementation of the project. The move, spearheaded by the Conservatives in 2013, was touted as a key part of the federal government’s technological transformation — […]