Новости за 11.10.2016

At a press briefing last week, the deputy commander of our special forces said Canadians had recently come under fire in Iraq from ISIL, and, of course, had shot back. “These occurrences have been sporadic in nature,” said Brig.-Gen. Peter Dawe, and no Canadian was injured. “In all cases, self-defence is what is being exercised.” We’re going to have […]

Researchers at The Ottawa Hospital and the University of Ottawa have discovered that running triggers production of a molecule that can repair some kinds of brain damage. The potential implications, for everything from multiple sclerosis to strokes, are huge. And Dr. David Picketts, a senior scientist at The Ottawa Hospital and professor at the University of […]

Given Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s enormous popularity on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram, you might be surprised to learn his wife — who’s in the spotlight almost as much as he is — was a social media holdout.  Until now, anyway. Sophie Grégoire Trudeau finally caved in and opened a Facebook and Instagram account on Tuesday, deliberately choosing […]

This time around there will be no controversy and no questions. To nobody’s surprise, goaltender Craig Anderson will make the start in the club’s home opener against the Toronto Maple Leafs Wednesday night at home which should put newly-hired coach Guy Boucher one step ahead of where predecessor Dave Cameron stood with Eugene Melnyk after […]

Canada’s top special forces soldier was fined $2,000 after being found guilty for accidently discharging his rifle as he prepared for a visit to the frontlines in northern Iraq. Maj. Gen. Mike Rouleau received the fine during a court martial held in Gatineau, Que., on Tuesday. Rouleau, a special forces combat veteran and head of […]

Sasha, come home! An Ottawa-area family is desperately hoping that their gentle golden retriever, the constant companion of a boy with Asperger syndrome, will be found as searchers scour the countryside of Essex County. Mom Jackie Brown said that all three of her children were heartbroken when three-year-old Sasha bolted Saturday evening in the Harrow, Ont., […]

Tiny houses could soon pop up in a neighbourhood near you now that Ottawa's planning committee has approved new rules for coach houses.

Jonathan Pitre has decided to pursue a second stem cell transplant, but it could be months before the procedure goes forward because of a number of medical and financial uncertainties. “We are left with many unanswered questions, but one thing is for sure: we haven’t come this far to throw in the towel,” Pitre’s mother, […]

The University of Ottawa’s Albert Stolow has won an American prize for physics that has been previously awarded to three other Canadians who, like Stolow, worked for years at the National Research Council. Stolow is being awarded the Earle K. Plyler Prize for Molecular Spectroscopy and Dynamics from the American Physical Society. It previously went to Gerhard […]

A four-legged member of the Canada Border Services Agency has helped make one of the largest drug seizures ever at the Thousand Islands bridge crossing. Detector dog Shaggy sniffed out nearly 100 kilograms of cocaine in a trailer on Oct. 5. The four “undeclared” items were found by the Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever after […]

The woman killed in a six-vehicle Highway 17 crash early Friday was on her way home to spend Thanksgiving with her family. Sarah Zohr, 39, died at the scene of a collision involving five cars and a truck at about 4:30 a.m. where the highway meets Calabogie Road in Arnprior. A man and a woman both in their thirties […]

In the locker room I frequent, in Montreal’s Downtown YMCA, university students and professionals of all ages, up to and beyond Donald Trump’s, get changed for workouts. What you overhear most is idle chat about work, restaurants, classes, the Montreal Canadiens, last night’s TV, sometimes politics. Occasionally, friends tell each other how their spouses or […]

Volunteers in Almonte are helping Syrian refugee and chef Khodor Jarous become self-sufficient and establish himself as a caterer.

People fall into four basic personality types, some Spanish professors say, and the bad news is the biggest group of us are defined by being envious. Envious people are 30 per cent of humanity, says a classification system from a group at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. The other three, at 20 per cent each, are classed […]

Curtis Lazar is headed for the minors.  For the first time in his career, the Senators’ winger will suit up for the club’s AHL affiliate in Binghamton after he was sent down Monday morning.  With a 5 p.m. deadline to finalize the roster, Lazar, who missed all of camp because of a bout with mononucleosis, […]

The Citizen's wine writer clears up some vagueness about the word "sommelier," which he says shouldn't simply be synonymous with "expert."

According to Samuel Johnson, patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. If the views of Canada’s young people (as revealed in a recent Angus Reid/CBC poll on the Canadian national soul) are anything to go by, they have largely embraced Johnson’s anti-patriotism line. As Angus Reid notes, “Massive generational differences affect Canadians’ sense of […]

The first International Day of the Girl Child was celebrated on October 11, 2012. Declared by the United Nations in  2011, the whole world can use October 11 to celebrate, honour, acknowledge, and advance girls everywhere.  This girl-led campaign is a day about celebrating girls, and advocating for gender equality. It is about prompting people to think and […]

Last month I heard from a reader named Mike about an article I wrote on the long-term shortage of skilled tradespeople in Canada. This reality is at least half a century old, and I hear about it from homeowners and contractors all the time. As a professional builder, Mike offered insights you don’t hear very […]

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A new restaurant on Manotick's main street that aims to serve creative, farm-to-table fare has fine potential but is still finding its way.

The debate over selecting a site for the Civic campus of The Ottawa Hospital is more or less a microcosm of city politics, encapsulating the cars-versus-transit fight; the tension between elderly-versus-young and old-versus-new; and, of course, green space-versus-development.  At some point, you just want to plead, “Can’t we all get along!?” Except we can’t. At least, apparently not […]

With the House of Commons shuttered for the week, there’s not much – in fact, at press time, nothing at all – on the official Hill agenda. Just outside the borders of the parliamentary precinct, however, Environment Minister and capital-area MP Catherine McKenna is set to spend the evening talking politics – and, specifically, the […]

Solutions do exist for improving Elgin; we must be creative Re: The new battle for Elgin Street, Oct.7 David Reevely is correct that the reconstruction of Elgin Street must confront the impossibility of meeting the desires of all users because the available width provides insufficient space to do so. However, he overlooks an important suggestion […]

My colleague Jim Bagnall and I recently wrote a feature on the move by the Department of National Defence to the former Nortel campus in west end Ottawa. More than 8,000 military and civilian staff will make the move. You can read the story here: The rise of Pentagon North: How Ottawa's new DND headquarters […]