Новости за 01.09.2016

Members of a Canadian government team are on their way to Mali to do a reconnaissance mission for a potential UN mission in that country. The reconnaissance will unfold throughout September and includes members of the Canadian military, Global Affairs Canada and the RCMP. The Department of National Defence issued a statement that sending a […]

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Police say investigators have limited information from the victim because his memory is foggy from a serious head injury.

The Windy City stages its annual jazz festival over the Labour Day weekend. Can't make it? Then enjoy these CDs by Chicago jazz heroes.

The woman shown texting at the wheel in a widely viewed video taken by a motorcyclist has been charged with three traffic offences, including careless driving which is more serious than what Ottawa police originally planned. Police still haven’t named the woman, who was recorded by a motorcyclist who knocked on her SUV’s window. She drove […]

Ottawa police are rolling out a new technology that allows officers to scan up to 5,000 licence plates per hour in an effort to crack down on road safety infractions and stolen vehicles. The Automatic Licence Place Recognition device is already in use by several Canadian police agencies, including Ontario Provincial Police, though its use […]

Protesters gathered at Ottawa City Hall at noon following the death Thursday morning of a cyclist at a busy downtown intersection. The intersection of Lyon Street and Laurier Avenue was closed for several hours after a truck struck a 24-year-old woman on a bicycle. According to paramedics, the woman was pronounced dead at the scene just […]

Playing the national anthem at sports events is like saying “Bless you” after someone sneezes: It’s a custom that’s been around so long we rarely think about why we do it. But as quarterback Colin Kaepernick ignites debates over patriotism, protest and prejudice by refusing to stand for the Star-Spangled Banner, it’s worth re-examining the […]

A Canadian Forces reconnaissance team is currently in Latvia to conduct initial assessments of the requirements necessary to establish and sustain a multinational NATO battle group there, according to Canadian military. The visit includes a series of briefings and activities with Latvian and other Allied officials. The Canadian military is preparing to deploy troops and […]

There are no Olympic Games without moments of inspiration, drama and controversy, and Rio 2016 offered its fair share. The immortal Usain Bolt and heir-apparent Andre De Grasse gave us epic performances. Precocious Penny Oleksiak and Ottawa’s own Erica Wiebe lifted our spirits with their incredible triumphs. But the modern Olympics have become so crassly […]

Four workers were taken to hospital with severe smoke inhalation after a fire in a paper machine at the Resolute Forest Products plant in Gatineau Wednesday night. Firefighters were called to the Main Street facility at about 9 p.m. and found the large machine was in flames. Firefighters were able to contain the blaze to the […]

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau continues his China tour with a visit to the Great Wall of China and a closed-door meeting with senior officials at the National People’s Congress before traveling to Shanghai for a speech to the Canada China Business Council. Back in Canada, the all-party special committee tasked with exploring alternatives to the […]

The annual musical harvest – known affectionately as Marvest – will once again transform Bank Street into an overflowing smorgasbord of musical offerings in an event that has quickly become a cornerstone of the CityFolk festival.

Last week, the Liberal government announced it would free up 600 Canadian military personnel for possible deployment on United Nations peace support operations. It did not provide details on what UN missions those military personnel would take part in. But the focus of many analysts has largely been on the Canadian Army and the assumption […]

A female witness on the train from Ottawa reported overhearing the man talk about bombs and anthrax.

A year ago, doctors gave Ettore Lattanzio’s dad Rosario a death sentence, telling him he had three months to live. While Rosario has been beaten down, nearly killed a few times, by stomach cancer, he vowed to his wife Stella, to his son Ettore and to his two daughters Sonia and Tessia that he wouldn’t […]

The case of a Canadian man languishing inside a jail in the Philippines is raising more questions than answers two months after he was first detained by local police.

Paramedics say the man's motorcycle veered off the road and ended up in a field west of Stittsville.

A man in his 20s was to appear in Gatineau court Wednesday after he was arrested after a dispute in an Aylmer residence left a man with serious injuries. Police were called to a home on Rosenes Street at about 7 p.m. for reports of a loud dispute. They found the victim semi-conscious on the […]

After four trouble-free seasons of providing free music to the masses, Ottawa’s Pianos in the Park program has had two instruments go missing and another bashed in by a vandal. The stolen instruments were taken from a gazebo in Claudette Cain Park on River Road in Riverside South. “There are 6,000-plus pianos on Kijiji in Ontario and […]

Alberta-born country singer Brett Kissel is having a banner year. In the first few months of 2016, the 26-year-old became a parent, landed a dream gig opening for superstar Garth Brooks and routed his tour schedule into new territory — the province of Quebec. While he’s been thrilling fans in places like Ayer’s Cliff and […]

As he did when he was a tank squadron commander, retired Canadian Forces colonel Greg Hug sets for himself objectives: short, medium and long-term.  But the horizons of his ordered ambitions have changed utterly in the six months since a body surfing accident in Barbados left him paralysed from the neck down. Hug is focused […]

For all the joy that he and wife, Danielle, experienced with the birth of their first child, a daughter named Riley, he also lost his mother, Melody, to liver cancer.

If officials at the department of Canadian Heritage are feeling chuffed about the success of Winterlude, they have good reason. A $40,000 study done for the department by Quorus Consulting Group found that the 2016 version of the annual winter festival, which ran from Jan. 29 to Feb. 15, was a huge hit with nearly […]

Twenty-four Sussex Drive is basically a fire trap that posed an "unacceptable" safety risk to former prime minister Stephen Harper and his family throughout his final term in office, says a 2011 report done for the National Capital Commission.