Новости за 25.08.2016

New build: One-bedroom penthouse with dine-in kitchen and stunning river views. If this fits your bill — or should we say beak? — then Dave Craig has the nest of your dreams, 16 metres above the shores of the Rideau River near Osgoode. Ospreys only please. With the help of a backhoe, Craig set up the artificial nesting platform Wednesday afternoon to replace […]

Ottawa police are investigating a bank robbery that occurred in a Riverside South plaza shortly after 2 p.m. on Wednesday. According to police, a man entered the bank in a plaza near the intersection of Earl Armstrong Road and River Road. The suspect, disguised with a bandanna or mask, approached a teller and demanded money.  He was given an undisclosed […]

After winning gold in Rio de Janeiro with the entire country’s support, Erica Wiebe is giving back to Canadians. In front of an audience full of pint-sized fans, Wiebe announced Thursday that the very same gear that helped her prepare for the 2016 Olympic Games will be featured in the Canada Museum of Science and Technology once […]

Now that the Olympics have concluded it is time to consider what can be done to include Canada’s national sport: lacrosse. Our team, the Iroquois Nationals, has tried for the past 30 years to restore lacrosse to the Olympics. Despite the rapid growth in the game – which now includes dozens of nations – the International […]

Mayor Jim Watson said his meeting Thursday with police brass and the union was no “love-in,” but all sides aired their grievances and committed to work together. The meeting between Watson, Ottawa Police Association president Matt Skof, Ottawa police Chief Charles Bordeleau and police services board chair Eli El-Chantiry was an attempt to put a lid […]

Holiday travellers need to know about an obscure Transportation Safety Board report released earlier this year into the causes of a medical evacuation helicopter crash four years ago that left four people dead. Amazingly, the investigation of the crash concluded that Canada’s aviation safety regulator was asleep at the switch. Transport Canada was aware of the […]

Personnel from Royal Canadian Air Force squadrons participated in ARCTIC CHINOOK, a search and rescue exercise that took place in the vicinity of Nome, Alaska. The exercise wrapped up today. It started on August 22. The exercise was led by the U.S. Coast Guard and Alaska Command and other Arctic nations, including Russia, sent observers. […]

Pricey pedestrian bridge a bad use of funds Re: Federal funds for city include $10.5M for crossing over canal, Aug. 24 How can Mayor Jim Watson even consider spending $21 million on a pedestrian/cycling bridge across the canal? I really don’t care if the federal government has promised $10.5 million to help out. The City of […]

If you’re in the Glebe on Thursday night and you hear the sound of roaring aircraft overhead, don’t worry — the city is not under attack. A CF-18 Hornet will be conducting a flyby over TD Place at the beginning of the Ottawa Redblacks game at 7:30 p.m., as part of the team’s Canadian Armed Forces […]

… it’s hard to see how you could go wrong with a 3D painting of Canada’s iconic maple leaf. Or, for that matter, a one-of-a-kind guitar handcrafted by Saskatoon high school students, or a framed photo of Sudbury’s giant nickel — and, when it comes down to it, wouldn’t every Canadian welcome the opportunity to […]

Ottawa police guns and gangs investigators are investigating reports of gunshots Wednesday evening near a west end elementary school. Shots were heard at about 6 p.m. on McWatters Road, close to the Pinecrest elementary school in the Baseline-Greenbank area.  Officers answering the call found a shell casing in the 1200 block of McWatters Road. There were […]

With just three weeks to go until the House of Commons re-opens for business, Liberal MPs descend on Saguenay for a closed-door pre-sitting caucus retreat set to kick off later this morning with a speech by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Later this evening, Trudeau will venture into the city of Chicoutimi, where he’ll take part […]

Opening a brand new school can be daunting, but Lynne Charette has not let the complexity of the task hinder her enthusiasm. Charette has been busy with architectural logistics, staffing changes, and purchase orders since being appointed in January as principal of the latest school constructed by the Ottawa Catholic School Board. She is eagerly […]

More than one hundred protesters rallied Wednesday night outside Ottawa police headquarters on Elgin Street.  “No justice, no peace. No racist police!” they shouted as police looked on. The protesters are demanding that two Ottawa police officers, Const. Dave Weir and Const. Daniel Montsion be held accountable in the death last month of Abdirahman Abdi. The […]

Fury 0, Miami FC 0  The good news for the Ottawa Fury is that the second ugly three-game losing streak of the fall season is over. Of course, settling for a rather uneventful 0-0 draw against Miami isn’t going to do much in the desperate race for a playoff spot in the fall standings. Fury […]

That lopsided home loss against the Alouettes remains fresh in the memories of Redblacks players and coaches.

Police were asking for help Wednesday to identify two suspects involved in an armed home invasion in the west end Monday. At around 4:30 p.m., a woman in her early 60s was alone when she heard a knock at the door of her home on Upper Dwyer Hill Road near Ritchie Side Road. She found two […]

Half of the 18 “extreme and egregious” cases of mistreatment of intellectually disabled adults cited by Ontario Ombudsman Paul Dubé are from Ottawa and Eastern Ontario. Some of the highest profile cases, such as Amanda Telford and her son Philippe, Cindy Gibson, the dying mother of a disabled son, and Jamie Hawley, who died of neglect while […]

Performance pay for executives managing the rollout of the federal government’s Phoenix pay system is on hold until officials finish an internal review into how things went off the rails. Marie Lemay, deputy minister for Public Services and Procurement Canada, said no one in the department has received performance pay or bonuses for 2015-16. She said making performance payments is simply […]

As the California and Quebec governments lose out on millions of dollars of revenue due to cap-and-trade auction busts, opposition parties are calling on the Ontario government to stay out of the turbulent joint carbon market. The Ontario PCs want cap-and-trade scrapped outright, while the NDP say linking to a market flooded with emissions allowances would mean […]

The way Ontario cares for developmentally delayed adults and their families is “deeply flawed”, says Ontario’s ombudsman, whose four-year investigation revealed “shocking systemic problems” in the province’s treatment of the disabled. Ombudsman Paul Dubé released his 140-page report, Nowhere To Turn, on Wednesday at Queen’s Park. The report makes 60 recommendations, all of which have been […]

An Ottawa police officer failed to testify at the trial of a man who kidnapped his daughter, causing the man to be released back into the community pending a new trial date.  The constable, an officer with city police for nearly 13 years, pleaded guilty to discreditable conduct under the Police Services Act last week for […]

Mike Strotmann, 56, drove 4,000 kilometres — with a tractor in tow — to move a bunch of dirt around, in lovely straight lines, on a golf course on Ottawa’s eastern edge this week. A competitor at the Canadian Plowing Championships, underway at Anderson Links, he knows how weird it all sounds, especially to those who learned about farm […]

The Canadian government will receive $3.1 million for the damage to HMCS Winnipeg after a U.S. fishing vessel plowed into the frigate. The incident happened in April 2013 in Esquimalt Harbour. The American Dynasty, owned by American Seafoods Co., was heading towards the graving dock for repairs when it accelerated and crashed into HMCS Winnipeg […]

Donald Greenham stood out in the line of handcuffed men down in the cellblocks of the Ottawa courthouse, waiting to see a justice of the peace. At 73, the retired Ottawa teacher and basketball coach was the oldest accused criminal in the cells, and his charges were by far the worst, and laid after at […]