Новости за 19.10.2016

Hoping to get more young people to the polls in future elections, the Ontario government wants to let teenagers register to vote up to two years before they’re eligible to do it. Yasir Naqvi, the attorney general and Ottawa-Centre MPP, announced a big package of small electoral reforms at a Toronto high school Wednesday morning. […]

Sean McCann credits his acoustic guitar, Old Brown, for providing a lifeline during a dark time. After he quit drinking — on Nov. 9, 2011, to be precise — long-buried demons rushed to torment the Newfoundland-born singer-songwriter, a former member of the superstar folk-rock trio, Great Big Sea. The deadliest of the bunch was the memory of being […]

The big red O is a go: Illuminated Os — which will mark the stops on Ottawa’s LRT system and help the city establish a new brand for public transportation in Canada’s capital — were given the green light by the transit commission Tuesday.

You can’t regulate, reduce or reward what you can’t even measure. FlareNet, led by one Carleton University professor, is finding new ways of quantifying flare-generated pollution in the oil and gas sector. It’s one of four research networks across Canada getting $22 million in federal funding, which was announced Wednesday. The research, led by Dr. […]

The Ottawa Senators look like a team worth watching. The question, after Tuesday’s announced crowd of 11,061 at the Canadian Tire Centre to see the lowly Arizona Coyotes — how many are going to come out and watch? While it’s tricky to gauge the actual number of bums in seats, that may have been the […]

Well, that’s one way to lay down a line in the sand in advance of what was always going to be a high-stakes cross-aisle negotiation over electoral reform.  If it hadn’t already become pretty clear that the Liberals have no appetite to unilaterally change how Canadians elect their MPs, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau just upgraded […]

Public Services and Procurement Canada will likely miss its promised Oct. 31 deadline to clear the backlog of pay problems caused by the federal government’s bungled Phoenix payroll system, says the department’s top bureaucrat. Marie Lemay, the deputy minister, confirmed Wednesday the department will have problems meeting the target because the remaining cases are older and more […]

A Federal Court judge has ordered the Canadian Human Rights Commission to restart its investigation into a discrimination complaint from a public servant diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome.

Voters in Ottawa-Vanier will get to pick a new provincial representative Nov. 17, Elections Ontario announced Wednesday. The seat at Queen’s Park has been vacant since June 30, when Liberal MPP and former attorney general Madeleine Meilleur retired after 13 years. Last weekend, the Liberals nominated University of Ottawa law professor and civil-rights advocate Nathalie Des […]

Ottawa fire services personnel assisted a stranded boater on the Ottawa River Wednesday morning after civilian rescue attempts were hindered by choppy waters and the boat’s location. The fire service was called at about 10:40 a.m. when a boater indicated his craft would not start and was drifting. The original location was said to be near […]

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HONG KONG – You would think that Albert Ho Chun-yan had seen it all before. The 64-year-old veteran of the fight for democracy in this deeply dysfunctional, nominally autonomous possession of the People’s Republic of China has been battling Beijing one way or another ever since Britain abandoned its former colony to the cruel mercies of […]

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Jonathan Pitre is being discharged from the hospital Wednesday to continue his recovery while he awaits a second stem cell transplant. Pitre, 16, will move into an apartment in downtown Minneapolis with his mother, Tina Boileau, who has stayed around-the-clock in her son’s hospital room since late August.  The discharge plan came together quickly as […]

They’re not actually Italian villas, but Urbandale Construction has turned to that country in marketing its new, low-rise condo project in the master-planned community of Riverside South. Allora, launching to the public Oct. 22, comprises 64 corner suites spread over four buildings on a well-treed ravine lot. Three of the four buildings are being released now under […]

The competition for top talent to drive innovation and productivity continues to be top of mind for Ottawa businesses. For three straight years, the Ottawa Chamber of Commerce Business Growth Survey has highlighted accessing qualified talent as the overall top issue facing Ottawa businesses.

Patrick LaMontagne, a nationally syndicated cartoonist, shows in high-speed video how he drew his Donald Trump cartoon, about the Republican presidential nominee complaining the election is rigged.

Country music’s hottest couple have booked a date at the Canadian Tire Centre in June. Grammy award-winning superstars Tim McGraw and Faith Hill announced Tuesday that their Soul2Soul tour will stop in Ottawa on June 22. The 65-city tour celebrates the 10th anniversary of the record-breaking Soul2Soul II tour, the highest-grossing country music tour of all […]

A single-vehicle rollover in Metcalfe late Tuesday has left a motorist in hospital. Few details about the crash, which occurred at about 10:30 p.m. on Victoria Street near Boundary Roard, are available. Police have said the man, whose identity was not released, lost control of his Hyundai Sante Fe. The crash is still under investigation, however […]

An 18-year-old Outaouais man has been slapped with a $1,177 fine and 13 demerit points on his license after being nailed doing 125 km/h in a 70 km/h zone on Highway 148 in the Pontiac Wednesday morning. MRC des Collines police also charged the young man with illegally passing another vehicle over a double line. […]

This time last year, Justin Trudeau was one day away from waking up as Canada’s presumptive prime minister in waiting. Today, he’ll mark the anniversary of his party’s victory at the polls by hitting the morning media circuit. According to the itinerary provided by his office, Trudeau will kick off his breakneck virtual whistlestop tour […]

This has been the kind of year Will Dove hopes he will never see again. Last spring what he thought was an ear infection turned out to be throat cancer caused by an HPV infection. Six months after a treatment regime he describes as “torture,” the 51-year-old Calgarian is still struggling to return to the […]

The Canadian Cancer Society is urging parents to get their children vaccinated against HPV, saying cancers caused by the human papillomavirus are rising sharply in Canada and threaten both men and women. The society released a special report Wednesday that, for the first time, looks at cancers related to HPV, the most common sexually transmitted disease. […]

Senators 7, Coyotes 4 This night was about redemption for the Senators and they delivered but there was barely anybody here to see it. As the Senators gathered at the Canadian Tire Centre early Tuesday afternoon, coach Guy Boucher told the players to move on from an ugly 5-1 loss to the Detroit Red Wings […]

By some accounts, it was a “must-win” game. Had to have it. No, we’re not talking about the Toronto Blue Jays and Game 4 of their ALCS baseball playoff. This was Game 4 of the Ottawa Senators 82-game schedule, a lonely Tuesday night match-up against nobody’s rival, the Arizona Coyotes. Let’s use that factor to […]