Новости за 28.10.2016

Six years ago a car crash changed Mellonie Lybbert’s life. The collision wreaked havoc on her entire body, destroying many nerves and leaving her in debilitating pain. She couldn’t lift her arm, she couldn’t sleep lying down, she could barely move. “What can you do from there?” Lybbert said. Rehabilitation was ineffective. Physiotherapy did little […]

A senior couple is lucky to be alive after a single-car collision launched their car into a lake near Madoc before they were rescued by two passing motorists. The Ontario Provincial Police confirmed the accident happened on Wednesday at 3:05 p.m. while travelling on Highway 62 near Watson Lane, about 200 kilometres southwest of Ottawa. […]

As yet, it’s not absolutely, officially, draw-up-the-proclamation-already certain that the debate over the future of the first-past-the-post voting formula will be settled by “putting the question to the electors of Canada,” as the Referendum Act rather grandly describes it. But as the special committee on electoral reform retreats behind closed doors to draft its final […]

What do the different voting systems look like? The following explanation is adapted from What We Talk About When We Talk About Electoral Reform, by Samara Canada with Stewart Prest. FIRST PAST THE POST OVERVIEW: First Past the Post (FPTP) is Canada’s current electoral system. Voters in each riding vote for one candidate in that riding. Whoever […]

One Saturday evening, as the sun is melting into the Ottawa River, a dozen people gather just off the beach in Britannia Park. The Ron Kolbus-Lakeside Centre, however, is locked, so those gathered stand outside, staring at their phones and shifting on their feet in the autumn chill. They’ve come here for a meeting on […]

Ottawa police have charged a third person who is believed to have been involved in a shooting on George Street on Oct. 2. According to a release Friday, Kendra Michaelis, 25, of Ottawa, has been charged with three counts of possession for the purpose of trafficking of a Schedule I Substance, possession of a Schedule II Substance […]

Toronto rockers July Talk have finally followed up their Juno-winning 2012 debut with Touch, a tour de force produced by Ian Davenport and featuring a guest appearance by throat singer Tanya Tagaq. On the eve of the their sold-out Canadian tour, Lynn Saxberg spoke to the band’s leading duo, Leah Fay and Peter Dreimanis. The […]

The cyclist hit by a car on the first day the new O’Connor Street bike lanes officially opened is thanking all the Good Samaritans who came to his aid – including one who offered their own jacket after he was hurt. The cyclist wishes to remain anonymous but his wife issued a statement through city […]

Finance Minister Charles Sousa trooped out to a Toronto grocery store Friday to stand in front of shelves of wine. Again. Sixty-seven groceries across Canada’s biggest province are now selling wine, Sousa intoned in his radio-announcer voice, standing in a corner of Coppa’s Fresh Market in North York. Four of those stores are in Ottawa — Loblaws at College […]

At the start of my career, I didn’t dare use exclamation marks in emails. I worked at a business magazine and wanted to convince people I could pull off a blazer (I couldn’t) and knew about the economy (I didn’t). Emails from my boss and senior editors were brusque  – “sure,” “fine,” “needs work”– and […]

Gatineau police have arrested four suspects in Laval and Montreal in connection with a July home invasion in Gatineau. All four men are street gang members or “move in their entourage,” police say. Two of them appeared Friday at the Gatineau courthouse on charges of breaking-and-entering, robbery, forcible confinement, kidnapping, death threats and assault. There could be […]

I am writing to respond to Kelly Egan’s column “Let Politicians Lose Faith” (Oct. 23). Over the last several months, I have met with staff at the Salvation Army to address growing concerns about safety issues on George Street. In light of the recent homicide, I spoke out publicly about my diminished faith in the […]

Industry representatives were stunned by a new decree from Public Services and Procurement Canada that would have prevented any communication to the public about the Canadian Surface Combatant program. No advertising. No press releases issued announcing that a firm was even interested in bidding on the program. No discussions about what a company could offer […]

Ottawa police are investigating a robbery at an ATM machine in which the suspect fled in a woman’s car after he robbed her of an undisclosed amount of cash. According to police, a 60-year-old woman was withdrawing cash from a bank ATM in the 2500 block of St. Joseph Boulevard in Orléans around 9:45 p.m. on Oct. […]

Major Peter L. Weis relinquished command of 3 Intelligence Company (3 Int Coy) to Lieutenant Commander Jamie Foote in a ceremony in Halifax on Thursday. Brigadier-General Carl Turenne, Commander, 5th Canadian Division, presided over the ceremony, according to the Canadian Forces.  “As Commanding Officer of 3 Int Coy, LCdr Foote will be responsible for ensuring […]

The owner of a construction company in the Gatineau Hills is planning a cross-country skating trail through the forest near Wolf Lake. Dave Mayer already has permission from the municipality of La Pêche for the three-kilometre trail, which he says will be like the Rideau Canal Skateway, but without a canal. Mayer owns a construction […]

Societal ideas have always been imposed Re: Undercutting free speech, Oct. 25. Robert Sibley says that an authoritarian ideology is being used to “impose a particular idea of society” on us. What he seems to ignore is the fact that all the groups without political power in society today have always had a certain idea […]

Elections Canada and the chief electoral officer have developed an exaggerated sense of their position. A creature and servant of Parliament, the job of the agency is to organize and, if asked, make recommendations about the administration of elections. It is not for Chief Electoral Officer Marc Mayrand to tell the government and parliamentarians how […]

A generously proportioned, modern-themed infill seized the public fancy this year, winning the People’s Choice Award at last weekend’s housing design awards gala. The general public, rather than a panel of expert judges, votes for the Ottawa Citizen-sponsored award, a cherished part of the annual design event organized by the Greater Ottawa Home Builders’ Association. […]

Our first snowy taste of winter couldn’t stop a crowd of nearly 600 from arriving to the EY Centre on Thursday to honour celebrated businesswoman Barbara Farber at the National Jewish Fund of Ottawa’s annual Negev Dinner. Farber, president of commercial real estate company Leikin Group, was recognized for her excellence in community leadership and […]

The Royal Canadian Legion’s annual poppy campaign begins Friday, and the main event of the day is the start of the Poppy Drop on Parliament Hill. In this event, images of 117,000 poppies will be projects onto the Peace Tower and Centre Block each evening between Oct. 28 and Nov. 11, from 6 p.m. to 9 […]

Leave it to the ancestral home of the waffle to iron some last-minute uncertainty into the Canada-EU trade deal. After years of blood, toil, tears and sweat, the whole enterprise came under threat this week from a sub-region of Belgium — Wallonia — that most Canadians couldn’t find with the help of the Belgian anti-terror […]

Speed kills, according to a new University of British Columbia study on how much pollution we inhale when we walk or cycle quickly. Or more precisely, speed makes us breathe in more toxic stuff. Alex Bigazzi studies transportation at UBC, and has previously studied how much air pollution cyclists inhale on streets with heavy traffic […]

Recently, two hefty books that speak of the garden world in profoundly different voices landed at my front door. The first book was from the online Gardenista people (the garden version of the indoor style sourcebook known as remodelista.com) and it has seduced me. In their beguiling reality, outdoor good taste is everything. Gardenista: […]

Eclectic, thriving, and family-friendly, with a mix of commercial and residential areas and modern and Victorian-era housing, vibrant Centretown has much to offer the potential homebuyer.