Новости за 08.11.2016

An ailing Amy Schumer posted a video on Instagram today apologizing for having to cancel three shows in Canada this week.  In the video, the American comic is walking along a sidewalk on her way to meet up with a friend and cast their votes. “I lost my voice and I’m pretty sick,” she said, “which is why I […]

Jonathan Pitre’s supporters will “walk him home” from Minnesota in an act of solidarity and symbolism at a fundraising event Nov. 19. The event, which will be held in Russell, about 40 km southeast of Ottawa, was inspired by a Facebook post by Pitre’s mother, Tina Boileau, in response to a flood of questions from […]

The OPP repeat offender squad is looking for public assistance in tracking down John Scharfe, 52, who is being sought on a Canada-wide warrant for breach of parole. Scharfe is described as Caucasian, five feet five inches (165 cm tall) weighing 130 pounds. He has a tattoo of a Grim Reaper on his right arm […]

A plan to build an 18-storey residential complex near a major intersection east of downtown has residents debating what Vanier should “be.” Another Westboro? A Hintonburg? The Glebe? DCR Phoenix has a long-term development plan to build six new buildings at 112 Montreal Rd. and 314 Gardner St., near the corner of Montreal Road and the Vanier Parkway. It would replace a motel complex […]

The party for Canada’s 150th birthday is likely to be the biggest Ottawa will ever host, a unique opportunity for others to see the capital at its best. It also creates a problem. Demand for accommodation will be well beyond what Ottawa’s hotel industry can handle; spots are already filling up. In fact, according to reporting by the […]

Cookbook author and pastry chef Daphna Rabinovitch traces her love of baking squarely back to her childhood home in Ottawa.

A three-month-old vegan eatery in Kanata South offers fare that comforting and indulgent, yet also meat-free.

Photo radar devices that automatically send tickets to the owners of speeding cars will return to Ontario’s streets, Premier Kathleen Wynne announced in Ottawa Tuesday, as part of a package of changes meant to keep pedestrians and cyclists safer. Ontario once had photo radar vans enforcing speed limits on provincial highways. They were massively unpopular, […]

Gatineau police say they have reason to fear for the safety of a man who has been missing from the city’s Touraine neighbourhood since Nov. 2. Daniel Raymond, 51, was last seen leaving his home about 10:30 a.m. that day in his car, a grey 2012 Hyundai Sonata. The car was found in the Lac Beauchamp […]

Gatineau police continue to probe a collision Saturday in which a man suffered critical injuries after his van rolled over in a ditch. Police are not releasing many details about the crash, apart to say two eastbound vehicles collided on Boulevard des Allumettières near Chemin Vanier around 8 p.m. Saturday evening. The force of the collision pushed one of […]

Farming in the drought and depression of 1941 Alberta had little appeal, so when a recruiter offered Julien Olson a job as a radar technician after Grade 12, he signed up in a heartbeat. The kid from a farm near Carstairs was one of 5,000 young Canadians recruited in secrecy at the request of Britain, where the […]

The idea of subbing in thin ribbons of zucchini for lasagna noodles has taken off, particularly for gluten avoiders.

What’s really at stake in the first federal Conservative leadership debate? If, in a state of mild or even massive disgust, you followed the seemingly endless U.S. presidential election cycle, the Conservative Party leadership campaign might provide you with a refreshing reminder of what rational political debate actually looks like. I say this because, as the leadership race […]

U.S. shows immigrants more respect than Canada does Re: Canada’s no refuge from a Trump victory, Nov. 7. John McCool is right: Canada’s immigration system is broken. By contrast, when I applied for an American “Green Card” in 1972 and again in 1979, it took the Americans only six months to process my application and […]

Three people were arrested and a small quantity of cocaine and cannabis seized in a raid in Perth Oct. 21. Following a raid by members of several provincial police units, officers seized about a half-ounce (14-15 grams) of cocaine, a “small amoiunt of cannabis marijuana and evidence of drug trafficking.” Arrested and charged with trafficking in […]

As the holiday season draws closer, the region’s top volunteer ride service prepares to launch its 32nd season. Operation Nez Rouge (Red Nose) is a road safety campaign aimed at preventing impaired driving. This free driving service is operated by volunteers for all drivers during the holiday season who have been drinking or who do not […]

A 19-year-old man suffered serious head injuries Tuesday morning when he was struck by a car near the intersection of Gladstone Avenue and Rochester Street. Paramedics and firefighters were able to stabilize the man and transport him to hospital around 11:30 a.m. He arrived at hospital in serious but stable condition. A police investigation into the accident […]

As voters go to the polls in the most raucous U.S. election in recent history, a group of 19 journalism students from Carleton University are on the ground in New York state. They’ve booked out an entire hotel in Ogdensburg to serve as their base of operations, and are fanning out to towns in the area to report […]

So, remember a few weeks back when the House reopened for business and the government had to table hundreds of pages of documents in response to written questions that had been submitted by MPs before the summer recess? In praise of written questions to government, and how to make this parliamentary tool even better And […]

Ottawa has some new competition in the sinkhole department. A massive section of downtown street collapsed in Fukuoka, located on the western tip of Japan. The sinkhole near Hakata Station in Fukuoka, #Japan may have been caused by subway construction. Some 140 buildings are without electricity pic.twitter.com/Sfbh0lxhSy — Kjeld Duits (@KjeldDuits) November 8, 2016 新規の地下鉄工事が原因の模様 #tvasahi […]

A 42-year-old man is in critical condition after a truck crashed into a house on Jean Talon Street in Vanier early Tuesday. Paramedics said the victim suffered leg and chest injuries. A second man in the truck, 40, sustained facial injuries and was in stable condition when taken to hospital, paramedics said. The crash occurred at […]

For the entire last week of the 1995 Quebec referendum, I couldn’t sleep. Literally. The polls were close. Some showed the separatist side ahead. I bet a lot of Quebec anglophone federalists were also insomniac that week. (I do realize “Quebec anglophone federalists” is all but perfectly redundant.)  It seems that in the last week, […]

With all eyes on the exercise in democracy currently unfolding south of the border, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau can likely expect to get at least one question on the potential outcome of the most dramatic American presidential election in recent – or perhaps recorded – history when he hits the stage at Simon Fraser University’s […]

On Saturday I had an article in the Citizen about the further move of DND employees and Canadian Forces staff who were displaced by the fire at the Louis St. Laurent building in Gatineau earlier this year. More than 500 employees from Louis St. Laurent who are now working at different locations throughout the Ottawa […]

The winner of Ottawa's top culinary contest is the owner of an esteemed Indian restaurant on St. Laurent Boulevard.