Новости за 17.08.2016

Road closures are expected for Sunday as parade floats and revellers flood parts of Ottawa for Capital Pride. While the parade starts at 1:15 p.m., the following roads will be closed from 7 a.m. until 2:30 p.m. Both directions of Bank Street between Catherine Street and Gladstone Avenue. Both directions of Gladstone Avenue between O’Connor […]

To steel himself for the year-long journey that begins today, Jonathan Pitre has been going over the hard calculus that underpins his decision to pursue a high-risk, high-reward treatment in Minnesota.   Pitre, 16, suffers from a rare form of Epidermolysis bullosa, a blistering skin disease that gets worse with each passing month. He left […]

The city and its largest union have hammered out a proposed collective agreement, avoiding arbitration. The last contract for about 6,300 inside and outside workers represented by CUPE Local 503 expired Dec. 31. City solicitor Rick O’Connor announced the tentative deal Wednesday after 24 days of bargaining over seven months. The two sides were preparing for […]

Mayor Jim Watson’s trade mission to India last April cost taxpayers nearly $16,000 in travel expenses for him and an aide, an amount the mayor justifies because of the “positive impact” to Ottawa businesses. The mayor’s expenses, recently released under routine public disclosure, were $11,388 for the 10-day trip. He also brought an aide, Mathieu Gravel, who […]

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An officer the Ottawa police asked to quit because of poor performance is now eager to get back to work after winning his appeal and $15,000 in legal costs at Ontario’s top court. The court decision made in favour of Const. Emmanuel Diafwila is the latest in a long and complicated legal saga between Diafwila and the […]

HipHop — Lynn Saxberg After a string of mixtapes, the gender-bending California rapper Mykki Blanco releases a proper debut album next month, to be followed by a major tour. Ottawa fans, however, are likely to be getting a preview of the fab new tracks when the former Michael Quattlebaum Jr. plays Arboretum Festival on Saturday. […]

FORT HOOD, Tex. — Deep in the heart of Texas, recent news of Gord Downie’s diagnosis of terminal brain cancer has gone relatively unnoticed. But, while I am apparently one of few Americans distraught by the news, I want to reverse the tired question of why The Tragically Hip never conquered the States and instead […]

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Ontario doctors’ resounding defeat of a proposed contract was a justifiable rejection of a bad deal, but it leaves a lot of uncertainty for themselves, the government and patients. It didn’t have to be this way. Health Minister Eric Hoskins has shown a surprising lack of understanding of physicians, for a guy who is a […]

A group of men are targeting people near South Keys in a series of swarmings and police are asking for the public’s assistance to identify the attackers. The swarmings have occurred in the early evenings on public walkways, police said.  The first reported attack took place on Aug. 10 at around 9:30 p.m., when a woman was walking along […]

A suspect has turned himself in after police appealed to the public to help locate a man accused in a Hintonburg stabbing. A manhunt was underway for Hamze Abdi Ahmed, 28, following an early morning stabbing on Forward Avenue on Tuesday. Ahmed turned himself into the Elgin Street police station Tuesday night and was arrested.  According […]

Motorists are being asked to avoid Castlefrank Road between Winchester and McKitrick drives after a gas leak was reported Wednesday morning. According to Ottawa police, the leak occurred in the 0-100 block of Castlefrank shortly before 8:17 a.m. and a number of people were evacuated. No specific address was given. That portion of Castlefrank has […]

Police are investigating a hit-and-run that occurred early Sunday morning at Fairgreen Avenue and Trim Road, near the Navan Fair. Two pedestrians, a male and female, both 32, were walking on Fairgreen Avenue at 1:18 a.m. when they were struck by a dark Dodge RAM or Ford F-Series type truck with a loud exhaust and […]

Toronto-based photographer and filmmaker Adam Zivo is coming to Ottawa for Capital Pride. His mission: to document more positive images of queer love and combat the homophobia still faced by the LGBTQ+ community. Earlier in the summer, Zivo launched a non-profit photography project called #LOVEISLOVEISLOVE in response to the Orlando gay nightclub shooting that left 49 people dead and […]

Earlier this spring, MPs gave Ottawa Vanier MP Mauril Belanger a standing ovation as he fulfilled a lifetime dream by serving as honourary House Speaker after being forced to withdraw from the election for the permanent job due to illness. Just before the House broke for the summer, the Commons voted to back his bid […]

Mauril Bélanger, the longtime Liberal MP for Ottawa-Vanier, has died after being diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis — Lou Gehrig's Disease.

Ottawa, Ontario 16 August 2016 The Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, today issued the following statement after learning of the death of Member of Parliament Mauril Bélanger: “I was incredibly saddened to learn today of the death of my friend and colleague Mauril Bélanger. On behalf of all Canadians, Sophie and I offer our deepest condolences […]

The giant Public Service Alliance of Canada is cranking up the pressure on Public Services Minister Judy Foote to fix the troubled Phoenix pay system by staging a public protest by workers in her home province. Employee frustration over the malfunctioning pay system has escalated in recent weeks as new cases of public servants being […]

Ottawa’s chief of police has declined to probe allegations of misconduct against the senior officer who heads the unit tasked with investigating police wrongdoing, Postmedia has learned. The decision, made in early August, comes to light as rank-and-file officers are circulating a petition to express a vote of non-confidence in the leadership of Chief Charles Bordeleau, and as […]

Ten members of the 4th Canadian Ranger Patrol Group are presently cross-training with their Australian counterparts in Darwin, Australia, the Canadian Forces says. This training is the latest in the ongoing Exercise SOUTHERN CROSS. It ends on August 26. The participating Canadian Rangers are training with personnel from the North-West Mobile Force, one of three […]

Grilled lettuce? Doesn’t sound like a good idea, but America’s Test Kitchen has found the way to do it — adding tantalizing smoky, charred notes to a Caesar salad. “Using just the firm, compact romaine hearts without the delicate outer leaves was a step in the right direction,” says the Test Kitchen’s latest book, Master of […]

The greatest Senators player of all time has long had his place in the hearts of fans. Now he has his proper place in the ‘House that Alfie built.’ On Dec. 29, with the Detroit Red Wings in town, Daniel Alfredsson will see his No. 11 banner raised to the rafters of the Canadian Tire […]

There is no momentum to use the historic Prince of Wales Bridge for any mode of transportation. With the threat of closing the bridge to unsanctioned recreational use, it could be years until a pedestrian, cyclist, bus or train traverses the crossing. Vivi Chi, the city’s manager of transportation planning, said in an email Tuesday there is […]

Canada.ca isn’t as Canadian as it sounds. The federal government initiative to move all of its departmental and agency websites to the Canada.ca domain includes farming out the web hosting duties for the site to Amazon Web Services in the United States.  A recent draft plan produced by the government for cloud computing requires that only data […]