Новости за 22.09.2016

A five-metre tall cauldron will be installed in front of Ottawa City Hall as part of celebrations to mark Canada's 150th birthday, the city announced Thursday.

Ontario Liberal leader Kathleen Wynne campaigned in Ottawa Thursday, bringing $1.5 million with her for new daycare spaces at a Vanier elementary school. Technically, there’s no election on. Not even the byelection in Ottawa-Vanier, following the resignation of Liberal MPP Madeleine Meilleur — that’s coming at some point but hasn’t been called. And yet Wynne’s second […]

A prominent Ottawa lawyer found guilty earlier this year of professional misconduct for his role in 17 questionable real estate transactions between 2003 and 2005 has been suspended for three months by a tribunal of the Law Society of Upper Canada.

Ottawa’s hunting, fishing and camping crowd proved you don’t need to release a new iPhone to generate opening day excitement. Thousands of people, some of them camping overnight, turned out for Thursday’s grand opening of the Cabela’s World Foremost Outfitter superstore at the Tanger Mall in Kanata Thursday. The 70,000-square-foot megastore features hunting, fishing and camping […]

The U.S. military hopes to have the F-35 fighters, grounded because of problems with insulation around a cooling system, back in the air by the end of the year. A total of 15 F-35A fighter jets have been grounded because of issues with a coolant line system, the U.S. military announced last week. The problem […]

Carleton Place author Natasha Peterson has found the road to success is not straight, so it’s only fitting the main character in her first children’s book took a roundabout path too. Peterson self-published Gayle the Goose Goes Global in August, only to have it win a Canada Book Award — which recognizes and promotes Canadian […]

Thursday, Sept. 22 The Carp Fair, the “best little fair in Canada” is not so little and is highlight in many calendars, and also is one of the last of the local fairs for the season. It opens tonight with Toonie ride tickets for the midway, 6 to 10 p.m. This year catch a brand […]

New shows and events in and around Ottawa this week: Two-Four: Enriched Bread Artists’ 24th annual open studio tour, exhibition of 22 artists’ private studios over two floors in one building, opening night Sept. 22 from 6 to 9 p.m.;  Fridays Sept. 23 and 30 from 6 to 9 p.m.; weekends Sept. 24 and 25, Oct. 1 […]

CHIXDIGGIT, Sept. 22  This favourite Calgary pop-punk band started their music career in the early 1990s inadvertently, as high school kids making shirts for a fictional band ith a super-cool name. Soon, they had written some songs about girls and stuff, and had developed a following and some musical chops. There’s been no studio album since 2007 for […]

Large or small, booming or gentle, there’s something about the sound, the sight and the power of waterfalls that captures our imagination. Here are five waterfalls that you can drive to, hike to, bike to, picnic beside and marvel at. Luskville Falls — Gatineau Park, Luskville, Qué. Combine a 4.5 km arduous, uphill, rocky and completely […]

A cigarette left smouldering on a back patio is being cited as a likely cause of a fire that caused more than $100,000 worth of damges to a home in Gatineau early Thursday. Firefightighters arriving at the residence at 424 Pierre-Lafontaine St. just before 2 a.m. found heavy smoke escaping through the roof. The fire that […]

Canadian youth are about the middle of the pack when it comes to aerobic fitness levels compared with kids in 49 other countries, according to a study co-led by CHEO researchers.  Leading: Tanzania, Iceland, Estonia, Norway and Japan. Kids in Canada placed 19th — just behind Slovakia, Germany and Senegal, but ahead of Turkey, the UK and […]

After winning every single seat on the East Coast in the last election, could the Liberals really be preparing to break with tradition by filling the Supreme Court seat about to be vacated by Thomas Cromwell with someone who hails from outside Atlantic Canada? Honestly, probably not – I mean, why? What possible upside – […]

Auditor General Michael Ferguson appeared before the Senate’s defence committee on Tuesday. His presentation, based on an audit of the Army reserves, as well as his answers to questions from senators painted a less than encouraging picture about the situation the Army’s reserve units find themselves in. Here is some of what Ferguson had to […]

Catherine Cameron, widow of Bernard Cameron who defending his daughter from a gunman in February, spoke publicly about domestic violence.

A 10-year-old Gatineau girl is in stable condition in hospital after she was struck by a schoolbus Wednesday morning in the city’s Limbour neighbourhood. Police said the girl was crossing Cannes Street shortly before 8 a.m. when she was hit by the bus, which was turning left on Stéphane Street. She suffered an injury to her […]

Injuries have forced shuffles among the starters on the offensive front, a much different situation than the stability of last season.

OC Transpo is experiencing a small increase in ridership this year, signalling to management the transit service is back on stable ground. “I wouldn’t focus on up or down,” general manager John Manconi said Wednesday after a transit commission meeting. “I would focus on the downward trend (being) over. It appears to be over and […]

After a bitter lockout that lasted more than five months, workers at the Rideau Carleton Raceway Slots agreed last May to submit their contract dispute with Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp. to binding arbitration. Last week, they learned they'd lost their gamble.

Public Services and Procurement Canada has over the past two weeks straightened out the pay problems of another 10,000 public servants caught in the Phoenix pay system backlog, says the department’s top bureaucrat. Marie Lemay, Public Services’ deputy minister, said the department is chipping away at and sticking to its Oct. 31 deadline to eliminate […]

An entrepreneur from Rwanda who dreams of operating that country’s first craft brewery is getting a big boost from one of Ottawa’s best-known beer brands. Beau’s All Natural Brewing Co. has partnered with Josephine “Fina” Uwineza to spearhead a Kickstarter campaign aimed at helping the Rwanda Craft Brewery Project off the ground. The project aims […]

A year ago, on Sept. 22, 2015, a storm of anger and violence rained down on communities in and around Barry’s Bay, Wilno, Combermere, Round Lake and others. The brief and lethal fury left three women — Anastasia Kuzyk, Nathalie Warmerdam and Carol Culleton — dead. Basil Borutski, a former partner of two of the […]

Ottawa police have arrested two more individuals wanted in connection with the discovery of an alleged drug ring based in Ottawa. The three-month investigation led to 10 search warrants executed over a number of days, the seizure of an array of guns, cars, cash and drugs, and the arrest of five people on Sept. 15. Ottawa police said […]

The University of Ottawa said it’s “deeply sorry” and has launched an investigation Wednesday after an external hard drive with the personal information of about 900 current and former students went missing earlier this month. The drive was used to back up personal information at the Student Academic Success Services (SASS) office about students who […]

A Pembroke woman has been charged with attempting to hire a hit man. Police arrested the 34-year-old suspect on Tuesday charging her with one count of counselling to commit murder and uttering threats. The incident involving the charges took place in Petawawa, a statement from the Upper Ottawa Valley Ontario Provincial Police detachment said Wednesday. […]