Новости за 05.08.2016

The Heron Road Bridge collapse claimed nine lives.  Leonard Baird, 55. Baird came to Ottawa in 1965 from Toronto and was resident engineer of the project. He left behind a wife. • Clarence Beattie, 31. From Cornwall, Beattie had been a foreman on the project since the start of construction. He was the father of five children […]

In terms of fatalities, the Heron Road Bridge collapse is Canada’s sixth-worst bridge disaster, and the fourth-worst bridge-construction accident. Here are the others. The Quebec Bridge, Aug. 29, 1907 and Sept. 11, 1916 The Quebec Bridge, in Quebec City, collapsed twice during its 30-year construction. In 1907, 75 workers were killed and 11 injured when […]

George Davis peered over the edge of the bridge and turned to his co-worker, Mike Graham.  “I wonder if a person would survive if he fell off this thing,” he said. Graham said he doubted it. It was almost a 20-metre drop, like jumping off a five-storey building. It was just after three in the afternoon of Aug. […]

These photos below courtesy of Combat Camera show special forces operators from Romanian Navy Ship Regina Maria practicing naval boarding exercises onboard HMCS Charlottetown in the Black Sea during Operation REASSURANCE.   As well, these photos below show Charlottetown’s Enhanced Naval Boarding Party (the RCN’s own version of special forces) conducting training with the Polish […]

Location: 68 Ridgefield Cres.   Features: Three-bedroom sunny bungalow, eat-in kitchen on a large and well-landscaped mature lot in popular Lynwood Village. Double-car garage and finished recreation room with a large workshop.   Asking Price: $379,900   Selling Price:  $374,900   Days on Market: 7   Word from the Sales Rep/Broker: “Nestled on such a […]

This summer, Postmedia’s Tom Spears brings you the often offbeat science behind the season that calls us to go outdoors. It’s a series we call the Science of Summer. Today’s story takes another look at a long-running Wisconsin loon study that just keeps on giving. The bird that floats serenely on our one-dollar coin takes a swim on […]

OTTAWA — It seems some federal workers don’t want to be caught sitting down on the job. A pilot project in one government department has found that public servants really like their sit-stand desks — so much so, some reported anxiety about being moved to a new position or assignment that would make them give […]

Soon after his election victory in 2015, Justin Trudeau declared, “We’re back.” It was a message to both reassure and vindicate those who “worried that Canada (had) lost its compassionate and constructive voice in the world.” But back to what? Among other things, enthusiasm for the United Nations and its peacekeeping operations. To some internationalist policy wonks and […]

What a week for justice in Canada and for the families of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls. After 16 years of listening to Indigenous families and survivors, then having to do research for 11 years to prove to others that what they were saying was true, the Native Women ‘s Association of Canada […]

Ottawa Fire Services extricated a Canada Post driver from a delivery van following a head-on collision near Woodroffe Avenue and Grenfell Crescent Friday morning. According to Ottawa Fire Services, the collision occurred shortly after 10 a.m. The heavily damaged Canada Post vehicle carrying mail was found on its side, with the driver trapped. “The possibility of […]

An employee association that’s jockeying to become the Mounties’ first-ever union has filed an unfair-labour-practices complaint against RCMP management, accusing it of interfering and favouring the group’s main rival. The Mounted Police Professional Association of Canada has filed the complaint with the Public Service Labour Relations and Employment Board, alleging RCMP brass didn’t take “adequate […]

Fatemeh Kamkar, the Iranian woman who battled both cancer and bureaucratic red tape while earning her PhD in cellular and molecular medicine at the University of Ottawa, has died. The doctorate she earned last summer, said friend and former colleague Sarah Hewitt, was “the biggest testimony of her infinite resilience and determination. “To earn your […]

A car plowed through the front window of the M&M Food Market in a strip mall at the northeast corner of Greenbank Road and Strandherd Drive in Barrhaven on Thursday. Store employee Katie Foran, 17, was cashing out a customer just over a metre from the window when she saw an elderly woman in a […]

A mother and her two daughters were detained at a Smiths Falls grocery, accused of shoplifting. police said Thursday. The store’s loss prevention officer had detained the trio at the store on Tuesday and Smiths Falls police were called. The three were issued notices to appear in court at a later date.

An internal technical review has dismissed allegations in an anonymous letter, purportedly from a group of specialists at the Ottawa-based Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission, that CNSC commissioners weren't given key information before licensing Ontario's Darlington and Bruce nuclear generating stations in 2015.

Abdirahman Abdi was brutalized by police on his own doorstep and politicians such as Mayor Jim Watson are cowards for not dealing with it, a coalition of mainly black community groups charged at City Hall on Thursday. Abdi was pronounced dead two Mondays ago. The 37-year-old, whose family describes him as mentally ill, ended up in a fight a […]

In a town where everybody knows everybody — in a place that has survived the economic wallop that came with the closings of major employers like a Hershey chocolate factory, Rideau Regional Centre, Target, Staples, Shorewood Packaging and Stanley Tools and more than 2,000 jobs that left with them — an 18-year-old hometown girl has […]

The federal government is planning to usher in Canada's sesquicentennial in 2017 with not just one, but two, splashy fireworks displays in downtown Ottawa this New Year's Eve — including one that will create a stunning waterfall effect along the full length of the Alexandra Bridge.

A British lieutenant-colonel who was temporarily posted to Kingston, Ont., is charged with sexually assaulting a female officer in the Canadian military, the Canadian Press writes. Here is the rest of the Canadian Press article: Kingston police say the alleged victim went to a “licensed establishment” in downtown Kingston early on April 10 with a […]

Basil Borutski will go on trial for murder next fall. The Round Lake-area man charged with first-degree murder in the deaths of three Renfrew County women has learned he will face a judge and jury when his four-month trial begins Sept. 18, 2017. The trial, which is anticipated to hear from 125 Crown witnesses, is expected […]

The long-awaited end to Main Street's reconstruction is close enough that David Chernushenko is starting to think about planning a grand reopeningparty.

An Ottawa singer has released an energetic music video of a varied cast of local characters, including clips of a dancing police officer on Rideau Street that went viral last month.  Konah Raynes said he wanted to create the feel-good video — which draws together Ottawa paramedics, firefighters, the police officer, Mayor Jim Watson, and several friends, all grooving to […]

It's not time to panic yet, but the Redblacks have to play better as they continue a stretch of four consecutive home games.

It’s a hot summer, and every single day the “humidex” says it feels hotter than the temperature. But does something ever make a summer day feel cooler? What happened to the wind-chill calculation that makes every winter day feel colder than the actual temperature, Postmedia wondered Thursday as the temperature rose. There’s still wind in summer, isn’t there? We asked David Phillips, […]

Saturday's start against the Eskimos will be the first for Khalil Paden since the Redblacks receiver played against the Alouettes on Aug. 7, 2015.