Новости за 10.11.2016

Now that Canadians have had time to deal with the trauma of Donald Trump’s election, the thing to ponder is what impact his improbable victory will have on the Conservative party leadership race, and consequently the country. Detestable as he is, Trump won a free and fair election, but there is also no denying that he ran […]

Trying to beat the odds at a charity blackjack table is one thing but facing cancer due to a bad roll of the genetic dice is quite another, as was made clear at The Grand Casino: Betting Against Cancer for the Ottawa Regional Cancer Foundation. The inaugural event, presented by Ottawa-based accounting firm Welch LLP, […]

Ottawa Fury FC has signed Spanish-born forward Jose Enrique Seoane — nicknamed Sito — and Jamaican international defender Andrae Campbell. Seoane, 27, spent the last two years playing in the Iceland Premier League, with IBV in 2015 and Fylkir Reykjavík FC in 2016, scoring 16 goals in 44 appearances. The 5-foot-10 forward is a familiar face for […]

The following is an edited excerpt from an editorial in the Saskatoon Star Phoenix: The story of citizens making an effort to participate in Remembrance Day events plays out every year in cities, towns and villages. It’s the same in most parts of Canada. Observance is made easier by the fact Nov. 11 is a holiday […]

The Ottawa 67’s added some experience Thursday, acquiring Pembroke’s Tye Felhaber along with a pair of fourth-round draft picks from the Saginaw Spirit in exchange for a pair of second-round and third-round picks and a fifth-round pick. Felhaber, an 18-year-old centre, was selected 10th overall in the 2014 draft by Saginaw, where he spent the past two seasons, […]

The Senators have an 8-5-0 record heading into Friday’s game against the Los Angeles Kings, despite struggling in so many areas that are usually deemed necessary for success.

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Dozens of hospital employees from across Eastern Ontario rallied in front of an Ottawa social service agency Thursday, which the Canadian Union of Public Employees says has fired several union activists. Montfort Renaissance, a ByWard Market-based social service agency that offers mental health and addiction services as well as housing to vulnerable people, fired three union […]

The fifth-year University of Ottawa QB is a nominee for the national Hec Crighton Trophy.

The Public Service Alliance of Canada is pulling out of its latest marathon session of collective bargaining with the federal government and calling for a mediator to help the two sides reach a settlement. The union’s various bargaining groups met today and decided that the differences are such that a mediator is needed to make any further […]

A pair of Ottawa inmates complained of being stripped naked and spending 24 hours without any clothes in the jail’s segregation cells, new access to information documents show. The inmates’ allegations were contained in the answers to surveys that were taken by the provincially-appointed task force that made recommendations on how to reduce overcrowding at the Ottawa-Carleton […]

Fire officials continue to search for the cause of a dramatic Thursday morning fire that gutted the top floors of a students’ residence in Pembroke, about 150 kilometres northwest of Ottawa. Firefighters responded to the call before 6 a.m. and found the Lake Street complex engulfed in flames. The building, near the Ottawa River community’s Pembroke […]

The poppies that bloomed in Flanders Fields didn’t distinguish between friend and foe. In the decades after the Second World War, a quarter-million German nationals emigrated to Canada, among them thousands and thousands of defeated soldiers from Hitler’s war machine and civilian survivors of Allied bombing raids. They don’t march on Nov. 11. The terrible memories of husbands, wives and […]

Tickets to two huge shows next year — the Red Hot Chilli Peppers (June 23) and Dixie Chicks (April 14) — go on sale this Friday. It’s easy to remember, because most of the city will be off as it is Remembrance Day (civil servants get the day to pay homage), and the tickets are available at […]

Architecture talks. Buildings have voices. Those around Confederation Square talk constantly. This area encompassing the Parliament Buildings, the Château Laurier, the National War Memorial, the Chambers Block, the old Post Office, the Langevin Building, the old Union Station and the canal, is akin to St. Mark’s Square, or St. Peter’s Square, or Trafalgar Square, or […]

Provincial police are looking for a Tweed man who went for a walk Wednesday morning and hasn’t been seen since. Peter Stevenson, 60, left his home on Bosley Road about 7 a.m. No one knows which way he walked. He has no known medical problems. He is five feet, nine inches, weighs 125 to 130 pounds and […]

Royal Canadian Air Force members from 14 Wing Greenwood will be conducting a search-and-rescue exercise in Atlantic Canada starting on Nov. 14. The exercise will run from November 14 to 18. It will involve personnel and aircraft from 413 Transport and Rescue Squadron at 14 Wing Greenwood, including a CC-130 Hercules and the CH-149 Cormorant […]

The Ottawa Police Service is asking for the public’s assistance to identify four men involved in at least two recent smash-and-grab jewelry store robberies in the south end of the city. According to police, the first robbery occurred at about 6 p.m. on Oct. 27 when four suspects entered a jewellery store in the Hazeldean Mall., smashing a […]

More than 1,000 Canadian Army personnel will participate in Exercise COMMON GROUND II at the Combat Training Centre in Gagetown. The exercise will run from November 12 to 26. “Exercise COMMON GROUND II successfully fulfills individual course assessment requirements for nine different career courses,” according to the Army news release. “Combining these final course activities […]

Was it really so much of a surprise that after two terms of a Democrat in the White House, the next president is a Republican, that with a significant appetite for change and widespread contempt for the establishment, a political outsider triumphed over an icon of Washington’s elite?   No. The shock, of course, is […]

Visionary, detail-oriented and articulate are the three words I would use to describe Toronto-based Sam Mizrahi, owner of Mizrahi Developments. On a recent trip to Toronto, I not only sat down with Mizrahi but also received a tour of his gorgeous 133 Hazleton development in Yorkville. This beautiful and luxurious building welcomes you with glass […]

Gatineau firefighters concentrated on assisting residents of a seniors’ centre early Thursday after a sprinkler system was able to douse a small blaze. Fire alarms sounded at about 4:30 a.m. at the residence on 250 St. Raymond Blvd. A number of residents were temporarily moved for security reasons and may be displaced for a few days, […]

Hours after his first official – and possibly first ever – exchange with President-Elect Donald Trump, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau heads to Cape Breton, where he’ll join Veterans Affairs Minister Kent Hehr for the opening of a veterans affairs outpost in Sydney and a visit to the local legion.  Later today, Hehr will return to […]

Nearly two people a day die in Ontario from opioid overdoses, according to a new report from the Ontario Drug Policy Research Network. Overall, the rate of opioid users and overdoses is high across Ontario, said Tara Gomes, principal investigator with the Ontario Drug Policy Research Network and one of the authors of the report. […]

Senators 2, Sabres 1 (SO) BUFFALO – Give the game puck to Mike Condon. The Ottawa Senators back-up goaltender stole a 2-1 victory from the Buffalo Sabres thanks to a superb overtime and shootout. In the process, the Senators came home with a split in their two-game road trip that began in Nashville. The Senators are […]