Новости за 07.10.2016

On Friday, a dozen people lined up outside St. Vincent de Paul thrift store on Wellington Street prior to its 9 a.m. opening, each hoping to snag one or more items from the store’s window displays. The items were arranged in a rainbow of colour — a yellow window, a red one, pink, purple, orange, […]

A student in a clown mask caused a stir at an Ottawa high school Friday afternoon. According to the Conseil des écoles catholiques du Centre-Est school board, the student showed up in the parking lot at Garneau High School in Orléans near the end of the school’s lunch hour at about 12:45 p.m. wearing a […]

John Crosby was best known for painting the art in Canada’s bible of all bird books, but if you’re older than 25 you have also carried his paintings in your wallet. Crosby painted the birds on the back of Canadian currency in the 1980s and 1990s — two robins on the $2 bills, a kingfisher on the fives, […]

Canadian Jeremy Eaton has been sentenced to life in jail in the Philippines for selling ecstasy, in a swift prosecution that comes as that country’s government continues to wage an aggressive and deadly campaign against illegal drugs. Eaton, 34, was arrested on June 20 by the Philippines National Police during a drug-bust in Makati, south of […]

What are you going to give thanks for this weekend? Many readers need only look out their back window at their bountiful vegetable harvest. The long, hot and dry summer was just what the doctor ordered for heat-seeking veggies like tomatoes, peppers, squash, and beans. Maybe not so much for cool crops like broccoli and […]

Long-term injuries have been frustrating, but now there's relief at rejoining the roster for Sunday's home match against New York Cosmos.

Commuters won’t be able to load their Presto cards online or by phone this holiday weekend. Metrolinx, the company behind the Presto payment card system for Ottawa and Toronto transit systems, has shut down its website for an upgrade. The site is expected to be back online by early Tuesday morning. Transit users can still […]

Fall is apple harvest across Canada, from the Okanogan to the Annapolis Valley and beyond. In the United Counties of Leeds and Grenville, set in the rocky, hardscrabble soil of the Canadian Shield north of Kingston, there is a special place called Wild Apple Hill. For the past three harvests, I’ve gathered apples from an abandoned orchard there and […]

A 29-year-old man killed by Sûreté du Québec in Montebello Thursday was charging at officers brandishing a knife when he was shot, according to a preliminary investigation from the province’s independent police watchdog. Officers with the Bureau des enquêtes indépendantes (BEI) arrived at the scene at 215 Rue Saint-François-Xavier at around 9:30 p.m. Thursday to […]

As of 11 a.m., Matthew was centred about 35 miles northeast of Daytona Beach and about 95 miles southeast of Jacksonville. Its wind speed was holding steady, and it was moving northwest at 12 mph. About 500,000 people were told to evacuate the Jacksonville area, and another half-million were under evacuation orders in Georgia. As […]

The hard-rocking Chicago metal band Disturbed are back on the charts with a hot new album that includes an unexpected cover of the brooding ’60s hit, The Sound of Silence. Guitarist Dan Donegan spoke to Lynn Saxberg about taking a break from the rock ’n roll rat race and then jumping back into it with an […]

The rare bird drought continues in Eastern Ontario and the Outaouais. Last year at this time, we were spoiled with a long list of summer and fall rarities, including the Little Egret, Yellow-crowned Night Heron, White-faced Ibis, Western Kingbird, and Long-tailed Jaeger. Every year is different, and weather plays an important role. With no major […]

Just in time for the weekend, Jonathan Pitre has some medical news for which to give thanks. Pitre’s blood tests Friday revealed that his critical white blood cell count increased for the first time in 12 days, climbing to 0.3 parts per unit of blood from 0.1. The normal range is 4.0 to 11.0.  The […]

A seasoned Perth area author has made the shortlist of this year’s Governor General Literary Awards. Tim Wynne-Jones has written several children’s books and novels over the past two decades, some of which have earned him five GG Book nominations for his work and two wins, one in 1993 for Some of the Kinder Planets and […]

Should the speaker be tasked with protecting the idealism of visiting school children by policing boorish partisan outbursts during question period? Would stripping members of their prepared notes and party-provided talking points foster more rigorous debate? And could an all-party sandwich tray in the Commons antechamber lead to more collegial interparty relations?  Those were just […]

Ontario Provincial Police repeat offender parole enforcement squad is seeking public assistance in locating a federal offender wanted on a federal warrant for being unlawfully at large. Jordan Land, 30, is described as being Aboriginal, six-feet-one-inch tall, 189 pounds with black hair. He was serving a two-year sentence for causing a riot, possession of a Schedule […]

David Johnston, Governor General of Canada, recently presented decorations to the sailors who helped save HMCS Protecteur, which caught fire in February 2014 during exercises off Hawaii. Here are the citations: DECORATIONS FOR BRAVERY  Petty Officer 2nd Class André Aubry, M.B., C.D. Esquimalt, British Columbia Medal of Bravery  On February 27, 2014, Petty Officer 2nd Class André Aubry […]

Ottawa police are seeking public assistance in locating a suspect in a residential break-in Aug. 24. Detectives say the man broke into an apartment in the 900 block of Bronson Avenue between 2 a.m. and 6:30 a.m. and stole a credit card that was used later in the day in a retail transaction. The suspect […]

Capturing Hill 70: Canada’s Forgotten Battle of the First World War Edited by Douglas E. Delaney and Serge Marc Durflinger (UBC Press) When Canadians think about the Great War, there is usually one event that rises first to the surface — Vimy. It is hard to dispute the importance of that battle in April 1917, when Canadian […]

A humble one-and-a-half-storey “cottage” in Hintonburg has been transformed into a stunning modern interpretation of its roots that’s now up for five design awards. But before those awards are handed out by the Greater Ottawa Home Builders’ Association on Oct. 22, the home will be one of the jewels in the association’s tour of renovation […]

The capital region’s jobless rate dropped to 6.4 per cent in September compared to 6.5 per cent in August, Statistics Canada reported Friday. The improvement came despite a net decline of 2,100 jobs. That’s because the region’s labour force, which includes people looking for work, shrank an even faster 2,800.   It’s been the pattern […]

Defeating Trump accomplishes nothing. Actually, that’s not fair. Keeping him out of the White House probably delays the risk of a tweet-triggered nuclear holocaust. Sad to think that a tiny-member meme could bring about armageddon, but such are the times in which we live. The fact remains that aside from dodging our outright extinction, beating […]

As Parliament Hill prepares to shut down for Thanksgiving, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau heads to Toronto for what his office is billing as “an important announcement” at the Thomson Reuters Customer Service Centre, which he’ll deliver alongside Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne and Toronto Mayor John Tory. A glance at today’s edition of the Globe and […]

Joshua Bell At Southam Hall Reviewed Thursday. Concert repeats Friday evening   An appearance by violinist Joshua Bell can whip up rock star levels of energy and excitement. Add to that the anticipation surrounding the formal opening of a redesigned Southam Hall, and Thursday night’s NACO season launch was almost heady with buzz. Visually, Southam Hall’s […]

A lack of offence and couple of weak goals in the third period proved to be the 67's undoing against the Frontenacs.