Новости за 13.08.2016

It’s just over a month — 39 days for those keeping score at home — until the Senators report for training camp at the Canadian Tire Centre but Pierre Dorion sounds like a man who can’t wait to get going. The Senators GM, heading into his first season in this role after taking the reins […]

Two dogs have been put down after what one witness described as a “scary, traumatic” attack on a man and a woman Saturday morning in the city’s east end.  The animals were loose in the Orléans area bordered by 10th Line Road, Tompkins Avenue, Des Epinettes Avenue and Duford Road when the attack happened at around 11:15 a.m, police […]

Divers searched Big Rideau Lake for the body of a young Toronto-area man who died while on vacation, Ontario Provincial Police said Saturday. The 24-year-old man from Richmond Hill was on a watercraft near Sand Island mid-morning on Friday when something occurred, causing people nearby to try to rescue him.  OPP said there is no chance the man survived, but […]

Canada's national statistics agency has mapped the country's bars and taverns, revealing that it's easiest to find a drink in the major cities of Quebec and Atlantic Canada.

Ottawa Police Service are looking for help locating  a missing 12-year-old boy last seen in the Hunt Club area. Henry Johnson was last seen at 1 a.m. on Saturday morning. Police described him as a black male, about 5’6″ tall, 135 pounds with short black hair and brown eyes. He was last seen around Conroy and Johnston […]

Environment Canada issued a special weather statement early Saturday morning, forecasting thunderstorms and a lot of rain to ease the dryness of our lawns and gardens.  Rainfall between 20 to 40 millimetres was expected, with up to 75 millimetres falling in areas where thunderstorms are particularly persistent. The meteorological service did not say where across the city these […]

A couple of things jump out heading into Fury FC’s Saturday match with Jacksonville Armada FC: One, Ottawa will be looking to bounce back from a 1-0 loss to Indy Eleven a week ago. Two, the opponents this week will have a coach who is making his NASL debut.

Aaron Driver does not speak in my name, the name of my community and my faith, Islam. His views are strange, illogical, unethical, dangerous and contradict all what I know about my faith and my community. As a Canadian Muslim and a spiritual leader of the Canadian Muslim community, I pledge here and now to […]

Jacob Blackburn loves competitive swimming and Harry Potter. Half-day treks to the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario from his family’s home near Carleton Place? Not so much. But 15-year-old Jacob — who was born deaf in one ear then began losing hearing in the other — needed to undergo the frequent tests to puzzle out why […]

Do you want pictures of your weird mole or gory surgical procedure on your doctor’s phone next to their baby pictures and selfies? That’s what’s happening — at least according to a survey by Calgary plastic surgeons of colleagues across the country. Nearly all used cellphones to take clinical images. Almost three-quarters then mixed them with other […]

Shoebox The first U.S. Food and Drug Administration-listed iPad Audiometer, which costs about $2,500, allows healthcare workers in the field conduct hearing tests or have patients do their own. It’s being used in clinics, schools and on work sites in over 30 countries from Mexico to Myanmar. Studies by CHEO in Iqaluit and at the […]

The federal government has struck a tentative deal with employees at Canada’s tax agency that will boost their wages 5.75 per cent and abolish controversial severance payments that other public servants had already lost. Negotiators for the Canada Revenue Agency and the Union of Taxation Employees (UTE) reached the deal early Friday morning after this week’s last-ditch […]

Gatineau police report they had to use a Taser after being called to tackle a disturbed, knife-wielding man in Hull Friday morning.

Members of Ottawa’s beleaguered taxi industry have launched a $215-million class action lawsuit against the City of Ottawa, accusing it of failing to properly enforce its own taxi bylaw after ride-hailing company Uber arrived here nearly two years ago.

A fight for justice has paid off after an alleged abuser was arrested as he returned to Canada, says a University of Ottawa student who went public to protest police dismissing her sexual assault complaint as a “misunderstanding.” The student, whose name is protected by a publication ban, made an emotional post on social media Thursday. “After getting […]

The civilian watchdog investigation that vindicated Ottawa Police Chief Charles Bordeleau this week has revealed that the department has no policy to guide its officers about what they can and can’t do when their family members find themselves before the courts. The Ontario Civilian Police Commission has informed the police and City of Ottawa officials […]

A new warning sign was erected Friday near the beach where a 10-year-old Toronto-area boy drowned last weekend. Coun. Eli El-Chantiry, who represents the area, said the bilingual sign indicates that there are no lifeguards and there is a sudden dropoff and a strong current in the water. It also urges visitors to use caution […]

Catch the sunset while you still can — the city is planning to install large steel gates to prevent people from getting onto the Prince of Wales Bridge.

Fred Roots has been called Canada's greatest living explorer, who, at age 94, has just returned from another Arctic expedition, this time with Students on Ice, an organization he helped found 16 years ago.