Новости за 05.10.2016

A 73-year-old man has died of his injuries following a domestic altercation and house fire Tuesday morning in South Frontenac near Kingston. The Ontario Provincial Police say a home on Vanluven Road belonged to the victim’s 49-year-old former spouse. The victim had gone to the home that morning and an altercation occurred. The woman fled and […]

Back when Roxanne Potvin had a major-label deal and worked with high-profile producers, she used to fret about success. Now, with an independently released album that she wrote, produced and played almost all the instruments on, those days are long gone. How well it does is almost an afterthought for the singer-songwriter-guitarist who grew up […]

City officials will soon launch a new internal committee to review fatal crashes on Ottawa roads.

Private searchers who are under review for possibly breaking rules when they found HMS Terror say they thought they were doing the right thing, and that Parks Canada never explained the rules in the first place. And the private group now claims there may be “an agenda … focused on discrediting” its searchers and their work. The Arctic […]

Leadership needed on police behaviour Re: Inuit leader asks police chief to call texts ‘racist,’ Oct. 1. It’s frankly depressing to live in a city where a police officer thinks it is fine to publicly declare racist views about First Nations persons and have the chief of police and mayor refuse to acknowledge it as such. Hardly a […]

Yes, it’s happened: A video of an Ottawa McDonald’s brawl featuring a baby raccoon has now received the Taiwanese animation treatment. The video’s actually from 2014, but it went viral this week after being posted on various social media sites. Tomo News, an online news and entertainment outlet that releases humorous animations by Taiwan-based Next Media Animation, […]

The problem Ottawa and eastern Ontario hospitals have with meeting, or even getting close to, the province’s wait time targets for MRIs is an illustration of how threadbare, unimaginative and out of date Ontario is when it comes to the business of delivering health care. The province says that 90 per cent of people requiring […]

The Naval Association of Canada will host their annual conference on October 20 at the Westin Hotel in Ottawa. The theme is: “Recapitalising the Fleets of the Government of Canada – What Next for Canada’s Shipbuilding Strategy?”  The keynote speaker will be Rear Admiral (Ret’d) Patrick Finn, the Assistant Deputy Minister (ADM) (Materiel) with DND. Confirmed speakers for […]

With 2016 playoff hopes slim as can be, it's also time to start making decisions with 2017 in mind.

Calendar of Ottawa-area blood clinics for the week of October 10, 2016.

An investigation continues into an early morning fire at a high-rise on Wurtemberg Street near Rideau Street that sent nine people, including three children and a police officer to hospital for treatment of smoke inhalation. Ottawa Fire Services says it received “multiple” calls for smoke and fire on the sixth floor of a high-rise at 215 […]

Ottawa police are seeking public assistance in identifying a man who used a hammer to break into and steal the contents of a display case at the Carlingwood Mall last month. The incident occurred at about 8:30 p.m. on Sept. 2 when a man entered the store, chatted briefly with staff and left.  He returned shortly after […]

After spending the last two days debating whether or not the House should endorse the government’s plan to ratify the Paris accord on climate change, MPs will finally get the chance to vote on the question later this afternoon. First, though, they’ll have to deal with the amendment and sub-amendment put forward by the Conservatives […]

Senators 3, Maple Leafs 2 (OT) SASKATOON — The Senators and Toronto Maple Leafs brought the Battle of Ontario Tuesday night. The next time they meet up next Wednesday in Ottawa it will be for real in the home opener at the Canadian Tire Centre. Between now and then, the Senators will have work to […]

A number of questions have been raised by Defence Watch readers about the case involving a gay Department of National Defence firefighter in Halifax. At one point the federal government employee who worked at Canadian Forces Base Halifax was physically threatened. Another time his firefighting oxygen mask was tampered with. A recent workers’ compensation board […]

Yahoo scanned hundreds of millions of emails at the behest of U.S. intelligence or law enforcement, Reuters news agency has reported. The Associated Press has put together an article on situation, including Yahoo’s reaction. Here is that article: The internet company conducted the surveillance last year after receiving a classified demand from the National Security […]

Families of missing and murdered indigenous women gathered on the steps of Parliament on Tuesday to seek justice for their relatives and for renowned Inuit artist Annie Pootoogook. The annual vigil, now in its 10th year, drew hundreds of Canadians to Parliament Hill, including dozens from Ottawa’s Inuit community and Pootoogook’s extended family. They spoke of problems […]

Outside of court, one of the victims said Rev. Jacques Faucher's apology was "completely insincere."

SASKATOON — The Senators had one last look at Matt Puempel on Tuesday. The Senators will have to put the 23-year-old Puempel through waivers if they want to send him to their AHL affiliate in Binghamton, so they’re taking a long, hard look at him during this training camp. The Senators will play seven pre-season […]

A corrections ministry directive ordered Ottawa’s jail to stop using shower cells four months before the corrections minister publicly ordered the practice to permanently end, documents obtained by the Citizen reveal. The Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre had a directive to stop using shower cells in the segregation wing of the jail in November but continued using […]

For the Ottawa Redblacks right now, it’s as much figuring out what’s right as it is trying to put a finger on what’s wrong. In fact, plenty went right offensively on Saturday in a 40-33 loss to the B.C. Lions in Vancouver. Just not right enough, according to Redblacks quarterback Trevor Harris, who was asked […]

Provincial police have closed a section of Christie Lake Road west of Perth after one person was killed in a crash. Police say the victim was pronounced dead at the scene. The collision occurred about 1 p.m. Tuesday. Traffic is being detoured onto Cameron Sideroad west of the accident and Glen Tay Road to the east, but police […]

When Senators general manager Pierre Dorion was looking for a new head coach, there were several aspects of his team’s game he wanted to clean up. Foremost among them: 1. Better defensive play. 2. A power play that could be a threat. 3. A penalty killing unit that wasn’t sieve-like. Dorion hired Guy Boucher to […]

SASKATOON — The auditions are nearly over for the Senators and cuts are expected to be made to the training camp roster with the hours ticking away towards the start of the regular season. As the Senators prepare for their final exhibition game against the Buffalo Sabres on Friday night at the Canadian Tire Centre, […]