Новости за 06.10.2016

When Ottawa’s new Civic hospital is complete, it will be encircled by more parking spots than almost any new hospital in the province. And the majority of those 3,400 proposed spots could be surface parking, stretching over 15-20 acres, along with access roads. An average Costco parking lot, by comparison, contains about 600 spots. The […]

When artist Tara Tosh Kennedy’s husband, Duane, spotted a tired Tudor on the market in McKellar Park, he saw its beautiful bones – a vast beamed ceiling, elegant arched doors and even a story-book turret. She’d grown up steps away and remembers thinking that “the manor” would be a magical place to play hide-and-seek. But […]

Gatineau and Ottawa police teamed up to seize a large quantity of drugs after investigating a report received from a member of the public. The investigation, which took several months, ended Tuesday when police executed three search warrants — two in Ottawa and one in Gatineau. The addresses targeted in the investigation were 218 Kent St. […]

Kathryn Allen will spend the coming months telling museum visitors that snakes aren’t really that dangerous, while the snakes themselves stare coldly through glass and wall posters describe their venom. We all have a greater chance of being squished by a vending machine than of dying from a snake bite, she told a preview audience at the Canadian […]

With Friday's noon deadline approaching for Canadians to have their say on electoral reform, a new Mainstreet/Postmedia study shows nearly two in three Ottawa residents support changing the way we vote.

Thomas Chabot is still with the Senators. Whether he’s here to start the season Wednesday against the Toronto Maple Leafs at home has yet to be finalized but with one exhibition game left Friday against the Buffalo Sabres at the Canadian Tire Centre, his chances are good. While the Senators are no longer pursuing unrestricted […]

The Bier Markt transformed itself into a boisterous Bavarian beer hall, with authentic German food and drink and live music, as it played host Wednesday to the second annual Capital Oktoberfest benefit for the University of Ottawa Heart Institute. Steve Gallant, first vice president, branch manager and investment advisor with CIBC Wood Gundy, and his […]

A new Marshalls/HomeSense superstore is on its way to Ottawa. The new combination store — which will augment Ottawa’s two Marshalls locations at Trainyards and on Merivale Road, and three HomeSense outlets on Merivale and Innes roads and at Bayshore Shopping Centre — will open Oct. 20 at the South Keys shopping centre. Winners, the […]

Can we send other bills to the city? Re: Stormwater fee won’t cover costs: mayor, Oct. 5. The politicians forced Goulbourn township to join the municipality of Ottawa. Now these undisciplined spendthrifts are imposing a charge for water and sewer infrastructure that are not used by those who have their own wells and septic systems. Does this mean […]

Nobody has higher expectations for Bobby Ryan than he has for himself. As the Senators prepare to wrap up camp with their final exhibition game against the Buffalo Sabres on Friday night at the Canadian Tire Centre, the Ottawa winger is bound and determined to be a consistent performer this season — one that could […]

A battle is on for the soul of Elgin Street, between the people who run the businesses that line it and the customers who patronize them. Elgin is due for a major reconstruction and the city’s trying to work out how best to divide it among all the people who want to use it — […]

Reprehensible as an Ottawa police officer’s alleged comments about the suspicious death of Inuit artist Annie Pootoogook are, more troubling is the reaction of Chief Charles Bordeleau. Initially, the chief appeared reluctant to call the comments racist, before conceding they had “racial undertones.” Even worse, in a CBC interview, Bordeleau appeared to have made up his mind […]

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Environment Minister Catherine McKenna demonstrated admirable backbone this week by telling provinces they’ll introduce a minimum $10 per tonne price on carbon in 2018, which will rise to $50 per tonne by 2022, if provinces and territories don’t do so themselves. This announcement led to wailing by some politicians, but […]

In the early days of the automobile, there were few rules of the road, let alone laws. People tried to figure it out as they went; many died doing so. Eventually, it was decided drivers weren’t doing so well at regulating themselves for things such as speeding and impaired driving. Neither were car manufacturers, who […]

His mother's cousin has reported that he's OK, but Jean-Marc Edmé has been struck by the devastation to Haiti caused by Hurricane Matthew.

A joint Outaouais task force led by the Sûreté du Québec said Thursday it had cracked a multi-million-dollar drug operation spanning the West Quebec region, with tentacles into Ottawa. The one-year investigation, dubbed Project Nouage or “knotty,” unravelled a network of more than 20 suspects intertwined to create a marijuana production, drug trafficking, and money laundering […]

Canadian commandos have boosted their presence significantly in Iraq and have recently come under fire from Islamic State gunmen, says the deputy commander of Canadian special forces. No Canadian troops were injured. But Brig.-Gen. Peter Dawe declined to provide details about numbers of Canadian special forces in Iraq, how many times they were attacked or […]

Today, 430 Tactical Helicopter Squadron from Valcartier, Quebec took over the Operation IMPACT Tactical Aviation Detachment in Northern Iraq.  430 Tactical Helicopter Squadron relieved 427 Special Operations Aviation Squadron, whose home base is Petawawa, Ontario.  427 Special Operations Aviation Squadron had been providing tactical aviation support in Iraq since May. The Tactical Aviation Detachment of […]

Throughout the Canada Revenue Agency website, the government tells you exactly how you can pay less income tax. In the section about RRSPs, for example, it says contributions “can be used to reduce your tax.” We need people of moderate to significant means to pay toward everything from garbage collection to health care. But we […]

Ottawa police have laid charges against a second person in a Sept. 8 stabbing that occurred on Murray Street in the ByWard Market. According to police, an attempted robbery at gunpoint turned violent after the victim stabbed one of the men accused of robbing him, shortly before 11 p.m. that night. The man was found stabbed […]

Art exhibits and events for the week of Oct. 6, 2016.

Here's the music to catch this week, from beautiful piano music to headbanging rockers.

Wondering what to do Thanksgiving long weekend? We have some ideas — from free turkey dinners to party spots.

Hope you haven’t thrown out your shorts and flip-flops, Ottawa. It may have looked all foggy and autumny Thursday morning, but the weather office says it’s looking for to be a relative scorcher later in the day with a high of 23 C and humidity level that’ll make it feel like 28. Don’t worry too much […]

As teasered in depth on Wednesday, the denizens of the House of Commons are set to spend the entire day going over the rules that govern the Chamber and its committees — and, by a serendipitous twist of timing, so, it seems, will the Senate. MPs to get rare opportunity to speak out on House […]