Новости за 21.11.2016

Late November again, and it brings the annual human failing of forgetting how to drive in snow and ice, while blaming everyone else on the road (“Did you see all those idiots?”) and maybe the snowplows, too. Happens every year. If only we had a name for it. German has all kinds of great words for oddball […]

The raven returns. Some time between Sunday night and Monday morning, an imposing sculpture of a raven landed back at artist Christopher Griffin’s downtown studio, where it had been stolen a week ago. “In perfect shape, although someone thoughtfully added an eye with a Sharpie marker,” Griffin reported Monday. It was likely no impulse grab […]

The Canadian Army has restricted the use of its high-tech artillery shells after the U.S. military discovered cracks in the same warheads in its inventory. The 155mm Excalibur shells are guided to their targets by Global Positioning System satellites and cost more than $150,000 each. But the U.S. is warning that the cracks could cause […]

The following is an edited excerpt from a Pembina Institute report, released Monday, entitled Out with the coal, in with the new.  As the world ratifies the Paris Agreement and works to reconcile existing climate plans with the long-term need to decouple greenhouse gas emissions from economic growth, the pace of coal plant closures has begun […]

Raonic merits more recognition Re: Murray, Djokovic set up Sunday shootout at ATP finals, Nov. 19. Milos Raonic made tennis history on Saturday when he lost by just a couple of points to the world’s Number One player, yet the only mention in Monday’s paper is the result. This young man represents our country so proudly […]

An off-duty paramedic’s quick action is being credited for helping to save a man’s life after he suddenly collapsed at a gym on Innes Road. According to emergency responders, a call was made around 9 a.m. on Monday after a 57-year-old man suddenly collapsed to the floor while working out. An off-duty paramedic approached him […]

Ben Moss Jewellers, a Canadian jewellery firm operating since 1910, is preparing to close its doors in the coming weeks. Ben Moss, which has 54 stores across the country including one at Carlingwood Mall in Ottawa, announced plans for a massive corporate restructuring in May, aimed at helping the troubled business better cope with sliding […]

The federal government, again, is attempting to buy Canadians’ adoration with our own money. That there is so little outrage over this says something dismaying about our collective sense of complacency and entitlement. With barely a year of power under their belts, the federal Liberals have made more than 3,000 spending announcements, according to the painstaking reporting of National Post […]

The Ottawa Senators have lost Matt Puempel to the New York Rangers. The Senators placed Puempel on waivers Sunday, hoping he would clear and be eligible to play for the Binghamton Senators of the American Hockey League. The Rangers, however, are optimistic that they can tap into the potential that made him a Senators first-round […]

Approximately 1,500 soldiers from units of 2 Canadian Mechanized Brigade Group (2 CMBG), headquartered in Petawawa, Ontario, have completed Exercise STORMING BEAR, the Canadian Forces says. Led by the 4th Canadian Division, Exercise STORMING BEAR was the first major exercise on 2 CMBG’s “Road to High Readiness” army training cycle and took place from October […]

A former RCMP counter-terrorism officer who tortured and starved his 11-year-old son in a darkened Kanata basement was found guilty on Monday morning.  The 44-year-old man and his wife were both on trial for confining the boy and failing to provide him with the necessities of life. The boy’s father was also on trial for aggravated sexual assault with a […]

Does Canada need to rethink its sexual assault laws? In the aftermath of several high-profile sexual assault trials, including that of CBC radio host Jian Ghomeshi, two legal experts will hold a forum on Parliament Hill to discuss whether Canada’s sexual assault laws need to be reshaped in an effort to balance rights for both victims and […]

The federal and Ontario governments are kicking in more than $44 million so Centennial College can open a new campus dedicated to aerospace programs in Toronto, the Canadian Press writes. Here is the rest of the Canadian Press article: The Centennial College Downsview Park Aerospace Campus will be home to three aerospace and aviation-related programs, […]

Political philosophers define a “crisis” as that condition in which the symbol systems – political, social, cultural, ideological – by which we create order in a chaotic world no longer work effectively, thus rendering our lives incoherent. When you are unable to make sense of your life, when it gets harder and harder to function purposefully, […]

Change is rarely easy in longstanding institutions, especially those created by the Fathers of Confederation. It is human nature to slow down and moderate change. The creation of an upper chamber, modelled on the House of Lords at Westminster,‎ was about ensuring that the less populace regions could balance the power of high-populace Ontario. No agreement […]

It only makes sense that the overseer of the most treed and gardened cemetery in Ottawa, if not the country, has a bit of a green thumb.

The Danish navy cancelled sending one its frigates to Halifax after the federal government indicated it couldn’t support the visit since the vessel was of the type that could be considered in the competition for a new Canadian warship. The Royal Canadian Navy and federal officials were worried about the appearance of a conflict of […]

Table saws are the ideal tool for accurately cutting wood and sheet materials. If you take your work seriously around the house, cottage or home workshop, a table saw will pay for itself many times over. That said, table saws also demand more respect than almost any other DIY power tool. I’m reminded of this […]

Ottawa police responded to calls of an altercation on Brittany Drive, near St. Laurent Boulevard, shortly after 5:30 a.m. When they arrived the found a 20-year-old man with stab wounds at the scene. The man was conscious and his injuries were not life threatening. The man was transported to an Ottawa hospital for treatment. An […]

Most of us know the basics of a workout: doing stretches, lifting weights, or hitting the treadmill. But top-level athletes have a gauntlet of exercise routines that are much different from anything you’ve likely gone through. A professional team’s conditioning coach ensures the players aren’t just strong, but also able to move in a precise way and […]

The snowstorm Monday morning has caused school buses cancellations in some rural areas. Schools remain open, but buses are cancelled in the following: Renfrew County District School Board: All buses cancelled.  All buses are CANCELLED. Snowfall along with poor visibility, snow packed and snow covered roads this Monday morning means no bussing. — RCDSB (@RCDSB) […]

Along with other hardy souls, I have been working on Canadian electoral reform for almost 15 years. We have learned a lot about how to fail – lessons we can put to use today. We got beaten in four referendums on electoral reform across Canada. Most of these were a choice between what we have […]

It's a rare issue in which all Canadians seem to agree: Canada-U.S. relations will suffer and the world will be a less stable place under president-elect Donald J. Trump.

Dear American Friends, On Nov. 8, you decided to make Donald Trump your next president. Many of my fellow Canadians are disappointed with the choice. But whatever we may think of President-elect Trump, we must respect that decision. A number of Canadians are put off by the proposed mass deportation of undocumented workers, by the […]

This being the age of absurdities coming true, it seems only prudent to make an argument that reasonable people would have found ludicrous just a short while ago, and may find ludicrous still: by conscious design and natural inclination, the president-elect of the United States will try to become a dictator.  To arrive here, a […]