Новости за 06.08.2016

After the recent heat wave, scores of swimmers decided Saturday morning was a good time for a refreshing four-kilometre swim across the Ottawa River. The air temperature was in the low 20s when the first participants dipped their toes in the river before 8 a.m. at Lac Deschênes Sailing Club, headed towards Aylmer’s Parc des Cèdres. Ottawa […]

An Orléans home was damaged, and its occupants displaced, after a fire broke out early Saturday.

Roads were closed after a four-vehicle crash left five hurt, including one who required resuscitation, in Greely on Friday afternoon.

Salvage Stephen Maher (Dundurn) Phillip Scarnum is a likeable 40-year-old hero, although not exactly a role model for your kids. He’s a rugged, free-wheeling sailor in Chester, N.S., who drinks too much, dabbles in illicit drugs, beds more ladies than James Bond and enjoys tormenting the bad guys or, should we say, the guys badder […]

The Ottawa police have asked for the public's assistance as they search for 72-year-old Yves Gregoire, who was last seen riding his bicycle in the Stittsville area on Friday at about 2 p.m.

It’s happened again. A couple of weeks ago, another death, another person killed in our streets. Another driver has become a killer. I’m sickened that I’m writing about this again. Brian Thompson didn’t need to die at Somerset and Rochester. And I’m sickened that since Brian Thompson’s death — since I wrote the first draft […]

I recently completed my annual tour of Canada and have much to report. Here is what Canadians are talking about with regard to gardening. The decline of the honey bee. This topic has propagated so much discussion about pollinators and related topics that the ad campaign for Honey Nut Cheerios blew everyone out of the […]

ALMONTE — It’s got an all-star cast, an award-winning Hollywood director and the kind of flawless summer weather that deserves its own billing, but the real star of a movie being filmed in Almonte is so wooden, you’d think it was a tree. That’s because it is a tree — a big, stately Norway maple, […]

Notes and numbers setting up the Redblacks' second matchup of the season with the Eskimos squad that beat them in the 2015 Grey Cup.

Bad idea: Driving 104 km/h faster than the speed limit. Worse idea: Doing it while the police are sitting there with radar. A 21-year-old man was recorded driving 174 km/h on Pink Road, in the northern part of Aylmer, between Klock Road and Vanier Road, where the speed limit is 70. “That’s one of the […]

Ottawa Little Theatre has announced the appointment of Cate Proctor as managing director, effective September 12. She replaces OLT’s outgoing executive director Lynn McGuigan, who assumed that position in 2009. The change in title from executive to managing director — and the related shift in responsibilities to more operational and fewer artistic functions — reflects restructuring at OLT as the 103-year-old organization faces […]

Nearly two months after his van was sucked into the abyss of Ottawa’s sinkhole, locksmith Michel Kiwan has a new set of wheels along with a bright blue chair with a picture of the infamous hole. The new van was mostly paid for by insurance; the chair was a gift from an artist who thought […]

A Stittsville tween who has been fighting for the rights of transgender Canadians has been chosen to be this year’s grand marshal in Ottawa’s upcoming Capital Pride parade. Charlie Lowthian-Rickert, 10, learned about the nomination two weeks ago when Tammy Dopson, chair and spokesperson for Ottawa Capital Pride, called her home to deliver the news. […]

The Ottawa Police Service has laid dozens of charges against an Ottawa man in relation to a series of bank robberies across the city in the spring as well as the theft of at least 10 vehicles. According to police, five bank robberies occurred in April and May, and all were believed to be the work of […]

Two months after a massive sinkhole swallowed three lanes of Rideau Street and threw the downtown core into a state of chaos, what was happening behind the scenes has partly emerged thanks to hundreds of pages of emails obtained by Postmedia.

Tweed is taking its grass party to new heights with a summer bash on the lawn of its marijuana factory in Smiths Falls. On Saturday, Aug. 13, the licensed marijuana producer is inviting 5,000 guests to its Front Yard Shindig right on the sprawling yard of Tweed’s headquarters. The “family friendly” concert is free and will […]

The capital region bucked a negative national trend by adding 3,500 jobs in July. The result was a drop in the region’s jobless rate to a seasonally adjusted 6.6 per cent compared to 6.9 per cent in June, Statistics Canada reported Friday. The improvement showed up most clearly on the Ottawa side of the river, […]

In a judgment that strengthens the federal government's whistle-blowing regime, the Federal Court has rejected an RCMP argument that the Public Sector Integrity Commissioner had no jurisdiction to investigate wrongdoing involving the Ottawa Air Section of the force's Air Services Branch.

Fighting like dogs and cats, the Ottawa Humane Society and the Ontario Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (OSPCA) will soon have to sit before a judge and explain themselves. The Ottawa Humane Society (OHS) announced Friday it has joined forces with six other local humane societies to launch a corporate lawsuit against […]

Mira LaBréche went on a manhunt Sunday after staff at an Ottawa hospital said her husband with Alzheimer’s disease had gone missing from his second-floor room — for the fifth time in a week.  LaBréche’s husband, André, 76, was admitted to The Ottawa Hospital’s Civic campus last Wednesday to get treatment for thrombosis. On Sunday, however, LaBréche said André […]