Новости за 03.11.2016

There’s a decent chance that someday you or a loved one will live in a nursing home. Perhaps you’ll get good care. Ideally, your family will visit so you won’t be lonely.   But the opposite is entirely possible. Nursing home horror stories shock Canadians. In a recent case in Ottawa, a woman in one home was found with maggots in […]

What would happen if more of us voted? Re: Voting with their smarts, Oct. 29. In all the discussions about Canada’s electoral system, one issue is always ignored: voter participation. We know that participation has been low for a number of years. We hear some say, “My vote doesn’t count, so I do not vote.” What if […]

It was after 9 p.m. Wednesday when people at a Carling Avenue nursing home realized that an 86-year-old resident with advanced dementia was missing. She showed up around 10 a.m. Thursday — stopped and helped by an anonymous stranger who realized the elderly woman was in trouble, and who called around nearby homes for the elderly until she […]

A correctional officer at the Ottawa jail was sent to hospital Wednesday after being sucker-punched in the face by an inmate, according to the union representing correctional officers. Correctional officer and OPSEU local president Denis Collin said the correctional officer needed stitches to close a cut following the 3 p.m. attack at the Ottawa-Carleton Detention […]

The decision of three African countries to withdraw from the International Criminal Court could precipitate a mass pullout that would cripple the tribunal and embolden potential war criminals who would have no fear of punishment. And the fault lies precisely with the court, which is now facing a crisis of confidence in Africa. Last week, […]

Craig Anderson has been given a second leave of absence and it’s not known when he’ll return. The Senators’ top goaltender wasn’t on the ice Thursday morning at the Canadian Tire Centre and there’s no timetable for him to come back because he’s with his wife Nicholle, who is undergoing further testing after being diagnosed […]

Ottawa Fury FC announced Thursday the re-signing of three key Canadians — two of them from Ottawa. Ottawa’s Eddie Edward and Jamar Dixon, along with goalkeeper Andrew MacRae, will be back for the 2017 season — when Fury FC leaves the NASL to join the USL. Edward joined Fury FC at the end of spring […]

The Canadian Forces has sent a surveillance aircraft to the Arctic to investigate a pinging sound that appears to be coming from the ocean floor but the military is no closer to solving the mystery of what could be making the noise. The government of Nunavut provided the Canadian Forces with information about the sounds, […]

Most of us have pushed a floating ball underwater and watched it pop up in the air when we let go. But if you push it extra deep to get extra height in the air, it barely breaks the surface. In the academic world, they’ve been trying to solve this puzzle for decades. Now a group […]

Auditor General Michael Ferguson turned the spotlight on the pay problems of Canada’s public servants and the risks of the growing liabilities of their pension plans with the present low interest rates in his latest audit observations on the federal government’s books. Ferguson, who audits the government’s financial statements, gave the 2016 Public Accounts a clean […]

A 49-year-old Val-des-Monts man was to appear in Gatineau court Thursday on charges of sexual assault on two young girls. Gatineau police say the man allegedly committed a number of attacks over a “long period” on the girls, who were eight to 12 years old and 12 to 17 years old at the time of […]

Mitel Networks is battling a couple of significant headwinds in its journey to convert how it sells telecommunications products. One involves politics, the other, a profound shift in technology. The Kanata firm reported third-quarter revenues of $279.8 million (all figures U.S.), down from $290.7 million during the same period a year earlier. Part of the […]

Ottawa writer Alan Cumyn was honoured Wednesday for his contribution to Canadian literature for young people at the Writers’ Trust Awards in Toronto. The author of five novels for young readers — including Hot Pterodactyl Boyfriend — Cumyn won the Vicky Metcalf Award for Literature for Young People. In awarding the prize, the jury said Cumyn’s […]

“He always said there are two types of motorcycle riders: ones that have been in a crash and ones that are going to be in a crash,” Rick Ellas’s daughter Madison says. Ellas, 59, died at 11:30 Sunday night, succumbing to extensive brain trauma suffered when his motorcycle and a car collided six hours earlier, less than […]

New shows and openings in and around Ottawa this week: Casser les coquillages: Nicolas Ranellucci, vernissage Nov. 3 from 6 to 8 p.m., exhibit from Nov. 3 to Dec. 18, Art-Image, 855 boul. de la Gappe, Gatineau.  Souvenirs: City of Ottawa Art Collection, an exhibit of some of the art added to the collection in 2016, […]

Some favourites from Steve Earle to Canadian Brass and Pony Girl offer musical treats this week, while there are some new bands we recommend putting on your must-see list, too.  Saturday/ Pony Girls & Trails Bring chips, arty-synth band Pony Girl requests for their last show of the year, and one where all-ages are welcome and the gear […]

Emergency responders were called to the scene of a collision between a cyclist and a vehicle during a sloppy morning commute on Thursday. According to police the collision happened around 7:50 a.m. near the intersection of Industrial Avenue and Alta Vista Avenue. The cyclist, a 37-year-old man, received serious head injuries as a result of […]

Changes to the Ontario Building Code that come into effect Jan. 1, 2017 are raising the energy efficiency bar for new homes across the province. The changes are the final energy efficiency updates for homes in the latest version of the code, which came into force in 2014. The code is revised about every five […]

Ontario’s efforts to wean doctors away from using opioids for pain control risks is hurting the patients who need the powerful drugs most, says a retired Ottawa anesthesiologist who specialized in pain management. Dr. Ellen Thompson says a rising number of misconduct investigations by the College of Physician and Surgeons of Ontario into doctors who may be over-prescribing opioid medications […]

Ottawa police have issued an alert in their search for Sheila McManus, 86, who was reported missing from Westwood Retirement Residence, 2374 Carling Ave., at about 5:30 p.m. Wednesday. There are serious concerns about her well-being as she has “advanced dementia.” McManus was described as Caucasian, about five feet seven inches in height, possibly wearing a […]

David was in his late 50s when he first set foot inside Ottawa’s detention centre, day one of what would be nearly a year inside the province’s jails. He quickly learned that toothpaste makes a good glue, working in the jail kitchen has its perks like french fries and pizza and that you never tell […]

Recommendations released Thursday from a new John Howard Society report on ways to help inmates reintegrate include: Access to long-term, transitional housing that includes access to treatment and support programs Access to education and employment programming while incarcerated that focus on employable skills, more focus on improving job placement services, and the elimination of blanket […]

After about a dozen years in the Byward Market, Ottawa’s School of the Photographic Arts is moving.  The school will be setting up shop on the edge of Little Italy in a low rise building that is being renovated near the corner of Preston and Pamilla streets.  While there is some nostalgia about leaving the […]

Exactly one year less a day after he and his cabinet-in-waiting arrived at Rideau Hall to be sworn in as ministers (and prime minister) of the crown, Justin Trudeau will celebrate the upcoming anniversary by holding a mid-morning town hall with local high school students, after which he’ll take questions from the assembled press. Meanwhile, […]

As an actor, Julian Doucet has done everything from performing in Shakespeare plays to a role in a Budweiser commercial. But to the Ottawa native’s biggest audience, he is literally invisible. Doucet’s voice calls the stops on city buses, the O-Train Trillium Line and, starting in 2018, the brand-new Confederation Line from Tunney’s Pasture to Blair […]