Новости за 19.11.2016

Police Chief Charles Bordeleau says an arrest has been made in connection with a series of racist and anti-Semitic incidents that have taken place in Ottawa over the past week. Bordeleau later told reporters that a young offender had been arrested in the early morning hours of Saturday at the Soloway Jewish Community Centre on Nadolny Sachs Private near Broadview Avenue. […]

Ontario’s Liberals fear getting swept away by the same whirlwind that carried Donald Trump to the White House, with the worst gusts coming from high electricity prices. They know they’re unpopular. They have believed that their well-intended efforts to look beyond short-term political advantage will start paying off in time to win re-election in 2018. […]

The Senators have made a move to clear up the crowded crease. And, this time, Andrew Hammond won’t be left with the choice of going to the club’s AHL affiliate. After turning down a conditioning stint to the club’s AHL affiliate in Binghamton last Saturday, the club’s backup goalie was placed on waivers at noon […]

Curtis Lazar’s signature smile was a mile wide Saturday morning. The Senators winger, who was sent down at the end of training camp, was recalled from Binghamtom and was slated to suit up against the Panthers at the Canadian Tire Centre on Saturday night. Lazar had three goals in 13 games with the club’s AHL […]

Marianas Trench With Shawn Hook and Repartee TD Place Reviewed Friday You’d never know Marianas Trench singer Josh Ramsay has been fighting a throat infection that forced the band to pull the plug on several recent shows. With their Last Crusade tour back on the road this week, the Vancouver  pop-rockers touched down at TD Place […]

An investigation continues after the lifeless body of a woman was pulled from the Ottawa River Saturday morning. Ottawa fire crews received a call of a body in the water near Brittania Beach at 9:11 a.m. Crews quickly spotted the victim and had her ashore by 9:23 a.m. Fire service responders and Ottawa paramedics began […]

A 22-year-old man suffered extensive injuries in a two-car crash at Earl Armstrong and River roads near the Vimy Memorial Bridge late Friday. The crash occurred at about 10:30 p.m. when the victim’s car was apparently broadsided by another vehicle. The man suffered chest and abdominal injuries as well as a possible broken left leg. […]

A repatriation ceremony for Major Scott Foote, member of 1st Canadian Division Kingston, at 8 Wing Trenton, will be held on Sunday. Major Foote died recently in Amman, Jordan from circumstances not directly related to military operations, the Canadian Forces said in a news release. The ceremony will be held Sunday at 2 p.m. at […]

Police were already investigating two separate stabbing incidents as the weekend began.

The Ottawa police guns and gangs unit is investigating after several gunshots were fired near Woodroffe Avenue and Prince of Wales Drive early Saturday morning. Police have found evidence of at least five gunshots fired at about 1 a.m. in the 100 block of Willow Creek Circle, near the Rideau River. After speaking to witnesses, police determined […]

Treasury Board President Scott Brison said the “screw-up” of the Phoenix pay system taught him two lessons. Invest in the IT skills of public servants and don’t pull the plug on an old system until the new one is up and working, Brison told delegates Friday at the annual meeting of the Professional Institute of […]

The Department of National Defence has taken back control of one of its websites. A hacking attack on the Canadian Forces recruiting website Thursday had prompted the federal government to do an examination of its various systems across the board. Individuals going to the Canadian military site, forces.ca, to get recruiting information were instead redirected […]

Eastman Fractus V NAC Theatre Reviewed Friday evening Whenever choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui comes to Ottawa — a not infrequent occurrence, happily — it feels like a celebration. Of dance, certainly; there’s a reason the 40-year-old Belgian is one of today’s most sought-after choreographers. But also of imagination and invention, of connection, and of humanity itself, in all its […]

Craig Anderson will be back in the Senators’ net on Saturday night against the Florida Panthers at the Canadian Tire Centre. But Friday, the club’s top goaltender and his wife Nicholle shed a little more light on what the latter is going through when they revealed in a joint statement that she has been diagnosed […]

Curtis Lazar has scored only two goals and one assist in his first 12 AHL games, but Binghamton coach Kurt Kleinendorst says he has turned a corner in recent weeks.

Absent from the football field two days before the Ottawa Redblacks go toe to toe with the Edmonton Eskimos in the CFL East championship game, kicker Chris Milo said he’ll do “whatever is best for the team.” That means there’s a chance he won’t be in the lineup Sunday in the battle to determine who […]

No matter who suits up for the Senators on Saturday night, they need to clean up their act. The lineup may be a bit of a patchwork job, but the Senators can’t afford to have another lousy effort like they did against the Nashville Predators on Thursday or the result could be a lot worse […]

The judge ruled Adam Picard's rights were violated after his first-degree murder trial was delayed by nearly four years.

It’s been a year since Antonio “Anthony” Comunale was convicted of using teenaged girls as sex slaves in a Nepean basement, and because he never took the stand, the court never heard his side of the story. The public finally got a glimpse of his version on Friday, when at his sentencing hearing his lawyer […]

Wait times for youth mental health services have dropped dramatically in Ottawa thanks to a new system that makes it easier for young patients to enter treatment programs at CHEO and The Royal. Last year, young people referred by their doctors had to wait, typically, more than six months to receive their first appointment at […]

It’s amazing what some people can accomplish while the rest of us are binge-watching all our favourite TV shows. Individuals, groups and businesses that have given so much of themselves to make our community a better, more caring place were saluted Thursday at the Ottawa chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professional’s 22nd annual Philanthropy […]

When Vancouver playwright and actor Tetsuro Shigematsu was preparing last year to debut Empire of the Son, his one-man show about his fraught relationship with his emotionally distant father Akira, he struck a deal with his stage manager. If the stage manager were to get news in the middle of a performance that Akira, who […]

Erik Karlsson and Melinda Currey, Ottawa’s favourite Instagram couple, have gotten engaged.  Currey uploaded a post on Instagram Friday of the pair smooching, with Currey wearing a conspicuous ring on her left hand. The caption reads: “The love of my life for the rest of my life. Here’s to us babe. #foreverkindofthing #Imstillshaking”.  A second Instagram post from Currey shows an […]

The Orléans Star, a 30-year-old community newspaper, has been purchased by its former managing editor for an undisclosed sum. Fred Sherwin, a former editor and managing editor at the publication, announced the purchase from Transcontinental Media in the paper Friday.  “Community newspapers, and especially locally-owned and operated community newspapers, have traditionally served as the heart of the community,” […]

The Algonquins of Ontario isn’t the only group with a right to address indigenous concerns about the Zibi development on Chaudière and Albert Islands, according to an Ottawa judge. Justice Charles Hackland ruled a group led by architect Douglas Cardinal doesn’t have to cover the legal costs of the City of Ottawa and Windmill Development Group […]