Новости за 24.10.2016

The following is excerpted from a speech Sunday by University of Ottawa President Jacques Frémont. The university’s Science Students’ Association recently came under heavy criticism for a pub crawl in which students were reportedly encouraged to engage in sexual acts.   In fighting ignorance and obscurantism, universities … have to serve as a model. A model for […]

More than 30 student groups have signed an open letter asking for changes to Carleton University’s draft sexual violence prevention policy, including a section that amounts to a “gag order” for those who have filed a complaint, or wish to defend themselves against one. The letter, drafted by undergraduate human rights students Caitlin Salvino, Jodi […]

In what will likely serve as an unofficial teaser for Tuesday’s televised town hall Q&A with Supreme Court Justice-in-Waiting Malcolm Rowe, Justice Minister Jody Wilson Raybould is set to field questions on the process that led to his nomination at a specially convened session of the House justice committee this afternoon. Joining the minister at […]

Ottawa police were called to help control a raucous crowd of protesters that gathered on Parliament Hill in downtown Ottawa Monday to oppose the construction of a new oil pipeline. As many as 100 students were ultimately arrested as a result of the protest. Organizers of the event are calling the protest “the largest act of […]

Ottawa police disproportionately pull over Middle Eastern and black drivers, according to years of data just released by a team of researchers. Police Monday revealed the results of a two-year project undertaken as part of a human rights settlement after an 18-year-old black man alleged he was racially profiled by the force and stopped by […]

Vanier has suffered because the provincial government cut funding for the Ottawa police force’s guns and gangs unit, Ottawa-Vanier Progressive Conservative candidate André Marin charged Monday morning, at a campaign event that failed in every important way. “What I’ve heard from proud communities, from families, from businesses, is that people are worried. They’re afraid,” Marin […]

Four things stand out after the City of Ottawa’s environment committee unanimously approved a new water, wastewater and stormwater fee structure last Tuesday. 1. The very low water user will get shafted. “Kim, from Westboro,” as she is named in the staff documents, who uses just five cubic metres of water a month (compared to an average […]

Political correctness began as a joke. In the 1970s and 1980s, Bobby London, with his Merton of the Movement strip, and Borin Van Loon, with his “Ideologically-Sound Secret Agent” Bart Dickon, used the phrase satirically in their underground comic strips to mock the pretensions of progressives seeking to remake the world to suit their self-image. […]

Ottawa violinist Kerson Leong will take to the stage at Dominion-Chalmers Church Friday with a precious piece of history in his hands: A gleaming, warm-toned instrument crafted in Italy nearly 300 years ago. Leong is only 19, but he’s been performing internationally since winning the junior division of the Menuhin Competition in 2010, when he was […]

A company trying to cash in on the Ottawa’s parking crunch is hoping city hall’s recent embrace of the sharing economy will pave the way for a new consumer-friendly bylaw. There’s nothing new about Internet sites and apps connecting motorists to homeowners renting driveways for parking. But in Ottawa, the major roadblock has been a city bylaw […]

Alright, fair warning: Do not scroll down if spiders creep you out. An Australia man posted a video to Facebook over the weekend of a gigantic huntsman spider dragging a mouse up a refrigerator, presumably for dinner. In the Facebook post, Jason Womal said the spider was at his neighbour’s place. “So I am just about to […]

By Jim Burke, Special to the Montreal Gazette Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella When: Oct. 25 to 30 Where: NAC Southam Hall Tickets: Start at $41. Available at the boxoffice, or at nac-cna.ca It’s got all the traditional ingredients — fairy godmother, wicked stepsisters, doting prince and a pumpkin turning into a carriage — but here, Cinderella […]

The federal government’s Advisory Council on Economic Growth wants us to move from 300,000 to 450,000 immigrants a year. There are three things everyone should agree on about immigration. One, given current understanding about the origin of our species, anyone not living in Africa (and some who are) is an immigrant. It’s just a question […]

SPARTAN WARRIOR 2016, a Canadian-led military training event, started today and will run until November 16, the Canadian Forces says. It will take place off the east coast of Nova Scotia and along the eastern seaboard of North America, going as far south as the Bahamas. Participants include Her Majesty’s Canadian Ships (HMCS) Fredericton, St John’s, Athabaskan, […]

One of the questions that Defence Watch occasionally receives from readers has to do with what will happen to the Lee Enfield rifles being used by the Canadian Rangers. The rifles, as readers know, are being replaced with a modern firearm. I put a number of questions to the Department of National Defence and received […]

People love backup cameras on vehicles. It’s safer and easier to reverse while watching a screen display of what’s behind your car or truck, but less than a quarter of all vehicles have backup cameras right now. Making it easy to instantly add and remove a backup camera from any vehicle is what Canadian inventor […]

It will cost the U.S. just over $8 billion to conduct a life extension of its B61 nuclear weapon arsenal. The life-extension program for the B61-12 atomic bomb will cost just over $8.25 billion U.S., reports my Defense News colleague Aaron Mehta. Those figures are coming from the National Nuclear Security Administration, an organization within […]

Dear Friends, For more than two centuries we have enjoyed a strong relationship. Without fail, each year public opinion surveys put us at the top of the list of countries that you view most favourably. The feeling is mutual as we tend to put you on top when asked to identify our closest allies. Our […]

Ever since the Special Parliamentary Committee on Electoral Reform was created in June, we have had a designation in the House of Commons emails and online presence as ERRE: “Electoral Reform-Réforme Electorale.” It generally ends up sounding like ERRRRR, although some have tried in vain to twist it into “eerie.” We are hardly the first […]

The Elisabeth Bruyère Hospital’s complex palliative care facility has come under scrutiny in the Ottawa Citizen recently. The subtext seems to be that the Bruyère is a publicly funded institution, so it should permit medical assistance in dying (MAID) and related consultations on its premises despite the Catholic conscience that underpins its programming and despite […]

With one day to go before Supreme Court Justice-in-Waiting Malcolm Rowe is set to play a starring role in a televised “town hall” appearance at the University of Ottawa, MPs will have the opportunity to quiz Justice Minister Jody Raybould-Wilson on the selection process that led to his nomination According to the notice, the minister […]

The UpBeat is a section in the Citizen where readers can submit their own feel-good stories. This was submitted by Linxi Mytkolli, president of Actions for Healthcare, a non-profit student organization focused on health issues. Fifteen years ago, I saw snow and heard English for the first time. As a six-year-old girl moving halfway across the world […]

In the final presidential debate, Republican nominee Donald Trump made a big, and wise, play for evangelical votes. He reiterated that he is staunchly pro-life and that he would only appoint conservative Supreme Court justices who support the Second Amendment.  “They will interpret the Constitution the way the founders wanted it interpreted,” Trump added, echoing a conservative […]

Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall has a plan to address climate change, and it isn’t the same as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s. While Trudeau wants the provinces to implement carbon pricing, Wall thinks that would be economically disastrous and wants the federal government to spend more money on technological innovation. The whole debate feels a bit […]

The UpBeat is a section in the Citizen where readers can submit their own feel-good stories. This was submitted by Theresa Redmond, director of Friends of Jagruti. Every year, tourists visit India to explore its rich cultural heritage and study yoga at the world-famous Ramamani Iyengar Memorial Yoga Institute in Pune. Often not seen in that […]