Новости за 15.11.2016

Tennis, anyone? It will be officially announced Wednesday that Canada will put its Davis Cup hopes on the line when it plays Great Britain Feb. 3-5 at Ottawa’s TD Place. The opening-round match against Great Britain, which is led by Andy Murray, is a tough draw for Canada, which has Milos Raonic. Canadian captain Martin Laurendeau, eight-time […]

On Dec. 21, 1967, a young Liberal “star” justice minister named Pierre Trudeau famously told the media that “there’s no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation.” He was defending changes he wanted to make to the Criminal Code through an omnibus bill which, among other things, would remove the absolute ban […]

An outdoor game without the Senators Re: We can still score that outdoor NHL game, Nov. 14. If the Ottawa Senators do not want to play at TD Place next year, maybe we should consider other outdoor hockey alternatives without them. You could make this a junior hockey celebration and host a three-game tournament with the QMJHL, […]

WASHINGTON – A week after his surprising election, the contours of the presidency of Donald J. Trump emerge like a photograph taking shape in a tray of developing fluid. The early hue is ironic. On election night, Trump did not say the system was “rigged,” accepting with generosity the outcome of a process that made […]

The appliance can be used as a pressure cooker, slow cooker, rice cooker, porridge maker, yogurt maker and steamer.

Prices dropping at Quebec's liquor stores might make crossing the border for wine more appealing.

This delicious and surprisingly easy pork dish is based on a recipe published in 1989.

Anti-semitism has no place in our city. Or anywhere else, for that matter. Yet a local woman reports that overnight, somebody spray-painted a red swastika and anti-semitic slur on the front door of her home in the Glebe. This is the sort of thing sometimes done by the pathetic losers who lurk on the fringes of Canadian […]

Council will get a better idea next month what a ranked ballot municipal election could look like in 2018. Tyler Cox, the city’s manager of legislative services in the clerk’s office, says staff are preparing an information report for the finance and economic development committee on the amendments to the Municipal Elections Act. As Cox […]

Ottawa police have closed a busy section of downtown Ottawa just east of King Edward Avenue, after reports of a suspicious package. The road closures stretch from Rideau Street to Besserer Street between Nelson and Friel streets. Police would say only the package was in the 200 block of Nelson Street. Rideau Street itself is open but police are […]

An Ottawa woman says she awoke Tuesday to discover a swastika and ethnic slur spray-painted on her front door. Red spray-paint covered the door’s window, part of a swastika and anti-Semitic insult. Anna Maranta uses the apartment as the Glebe Minyan, a place where Jews can gather to pray. She calls herself rabbi, although Rabbi Liz Bolton […]

In a Kanata strip mall where eateries have come and gone, a humble Indian restaurant is well entrenched.

As previewed last night, after a relatively collegial start to the fall sitting, the House of Commons may be about to become a procedural battlefield due to the government’s growing impatience with what they see as a deliberate attempt to stall the progress of two major financial initiatives: the proposed changes to the Canada Pension […]

Ottawa police are seeking the public’s help identifying a suspect in an Orléans convenience store robbery on Oct. 30. According to police, the man entered a convenience store near the intersection of Youville Drive and Jeanne d’Arc Boulevard in Orléans around 9:30 pm. The man pulled out a knife and demanded cash, lottery tickets and cigarettes. The suspect […]

Ottawa police reopened a section of Hunt Club Road between Cedarview Road and Moodie Drive at about 9:30 a.m. after a “serious” rush-hour collision. According to paramedics, a car left the road around 8 a.m. Two men, aged 52 and 32, were taken to hospital with minor injuries. Ottawa firefighters were called but were not required to extricate […]

Canada’s housing market is changing. The towering cranes that dot the centres of many cities mark a vertical departure from the low-rise sprawling landscape to which we have become accustomed since World War II. We are gradually closing ranks with European and Asian nations where most people reside in apartment buildings. Several reasons have joined […]

Not only was their sinkhole bigger but they managed to fix it faster too. Last week a massive sinkhole opened up in the downtown core of the Japanese city of Fukuoka, dwarfing our own Rideau street sinkhole. According to local Japanese media, construction crews worked around the clock to fill the gaping hole that swallowed pipes, […]

Even before it moved from Old Ottawa South to 442 Hazeldean Rd. in Kanata, Grace in the Kitchen was the kitchen store that had more than just chef-quality knives and kitchenware. But today, Grace in the Kitchen has so much more to offer that categorizing this store under a single name seems impossible. “The ‘new’ […]

The NHL has planted a huge seed of doubt for an outdoor game in Ottawa in 2017. Commissioner Gary Bettman, speaking to reporters after the 2016 PrimeTime Sports and Entertainment Conference in Toronto, indicated because officials on Parliament Hill recently turned down the idea of hosting a game there between the Senators and Montreal Canadiens, […]

"The Colours of Europe" was the theme for the OSO’s season opening, celebrating 40 years of Canadian diplomatic ties with the EU.

After a bye through the first round of the playoffs, it's time to resume preparations for Sunday's showdown for a ticket to the Grey Cup game.

PHILADELPHIA — The answer to the Senators power-play problems is simple: Dion Phaneuf. Not on the point, but at the edge of the crease.  He’s 6-foot-3 and 227 pounds. He already makes an impact battling for space in front one net. Why not put him in front of the other? Guy Boucher once again threw […]

The Liberal government has earmarked $348.6 million over the next three years to pay for ongoing air and maritime patrols to counter Russian military actions and other aggression in eastern Europe as well as to finance the deployment of a Canadian battle group in the Baltic States (with the same goal as the air and […]

The rich diversity of theatre now available to Ottawa audiences was spotlighted Monday night when the Capital Critics Circle held its 17th annual awards. The evening, at Live! on Elgin, honoured English-language professional and community theatre in the National Capital Region during the 2015-16 season. In the professional camp, Belles Soeurs: The Musical, a luminous reinterpretation of Michel Tremblay’s iconic […]

A gender review at the Ottawa police force has found that female officers' careers suffer when they have children, that they are less likely to be promoted, and that they experience sexism in the workplace.