Новости за 21.10.2016

The young crew of a Fisheries and Oceans rescue boat who braved the North Pacific in weather that tested their small craft to rescue a survivor of a capsized fishing boat, then continued searching tirelessly through the night for the other fishermen. A Health Canada team that used a robot dubbed Rosie to allow people in […]

Batallion 8, 67’s 5 A bad third period sent the Ottawa 67’s to their third loss in a row as they fell 8-5 in North Bay against the Battalion on Thursday night. At 3-7-1, the 67’s are last in the East Division. North Bay outscored Ottawa 5-1 in the third period to erase a one-goal […]

In 2015, Sandra Rolfe was soaring high. Her record-setting flights had won her hot air ballooning’s Oscar — the Montgolfier Diploma from the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale, the governing body for all aviation records. Her 7 1/2-hour flight in February 2015 set a world record for the longest time aloft in a balloon of its class. She held two other […]

A void in noise enforcement has councillors kicking around the idea of 24/7 coverage by bylaw officers. However, the statistics compiled after about five months of reduced daily enforcement shows bylaw services are getting by just fine after Ottawa Police Services stopped responding to noise complaints in the early morning hours. Bylaw chief Roger Chapman said he’s not sure […]

There are always statistical oddities in the opening days of the National Hockey League season. For one, a pair of defencemen — San Jose’s Brent Burns and the Senators’ Erik Karlsson — were sitting atop the NHL points race heading into Thursday’s games. And then there’s the case of the Senators left winger Mike Hoffman, […]

Culinary students at Algonquin College got to rub shoulders and kitchen utensils with some of the best in the biz – Marc Doiron (Town), Marc Lepine (Atelier), Mike Moffatt (Beckta, Gezellig and Play) and businesswoman Sheila Whyte (Thyme and Again Creative Catering) – at the sold-out Celebrity Chefs Night held Wednesday at the college’s Restaurant […]

You want to talk about tough? After having surgery for a torn meniscus in his knee, Ottawa Redblacks quarterback Trevor Harris played in a college football game nine days later. Tough? How about Harris’ dad Tom, who used to travel to a nearby prison Thursday nights to box against the inmates — some of them […]

Eighteen months after a donated liver from a stranger saved the life of Ottawa Senators owner Eugene Melnyk, his case has helped to prompt Canadian transplant officials to accept that public pleas for living organ donors are ethical, legal and even beneficial, under the right circumstances. Melnyk was one of two high profile cases in 2015 […]

Osgoode Coun. George Darouze physically hauled his 8,500-name petition to Toronto on Wednesday, asking the legislature to order Hydro One to charge Hydro Ottawa prices to its 45,000 Ottawa customers. Hydro One customers on Ottawa’s rural fringes pay a lot more to get their power delivered than Hydro Ottawa customers do, it’s not fair that […]

Clarke MacArthur’s sweater was hanging at his locker stall Thursday afternoon, a sign that he had been back on the ice at the Canadian Tire Centre. Whatever steps he took, they were only baby steps in what figures to be another drawn out concussion rehabilitation. Just the same, it’s an indication that he is recovering. […]

One broken leg is bad luck. A third broken leg in a two-year span had doctors using the ‘C’ word behind Chris Kelly’s back. “Luckily they didn’t tell me this, but the fear was I might have bone cancer because a non-contact femur fracture is unheard of,” says Kelly, who has been a terrific early […]

When Suzie MacDonald bought her quaint little house in old Hull in 2007, there was a small vertical crack in the foundation, on the side where the land sloped gently down to the street corner. But the storey-and-a-half was about 50 years old and the crack, more of an age line, was repaired. Houses settle and groan, do […]

SallyAnn does what others won’t Re: Salvation Army taken to task after street killing, Oct. 20. Let me get this straight. Coun. Mathieu Fleury wants the Salvation Army to do what the Ottawa Police Service is trained, financed and equipped to do. The Salvation Army is performing a service that many members of society (parents, health […]

An Ottawa man who asked his girlfriend to marry him one winter's night during a skate on a south Ottawa pond wants the small body of water to be officially named "Proposal Pond."

Just weeks from now, Alstom Citadis Spirit trains will begin rolling along a stretch of track between Blair station and the Belfast Yard plant where they are being assembled. They won’t pick up passengers just yet but instead will use the coming months to test and troubleshoot the fully automated LRT system in advance of its opening in […]

One good night of football, 60 good minutes, and first place in the CFL East can belong to the Redblacks.

Ottawa police are expecting to blow their overtime budget by $2.4 million by year’s end and are blaming the “significant pressure” on what officers counter are understaffed units and a record year for shootings and homicides. Yet despite the forecast on overtime, the force still expects to have a balanced budget by the end of year and […]

Ottawa Redblacks season-ticket holders got a head start on the 2017 Grey Cup on Thursday. Yep, it may be more than a year away, but Ottawa Grey Cup tickets went on sale — priced from $85-$425, with between 5,000-6,000 seats priced at $150. There are also $500 field-level seats, which include food, beverages and other […]