Новости за 26.11.2016

TORONTO — One of the heroes of the Ottawa Redblacks' victory in the Canadian Football League's East Division final will not be available for the Grey Cup game.

The Royal Canadian Geographical Society recently stunned many Canadians by choosing the gray jay over the common loon as the organization’s candidate to become Canada’s national bird.  The announcement was made on Nov. 16, 2016, at the College of Fellows’ Annual Dinner in the Canadian War Museum.  Then, the loon poop hit the fan. First, let’s […]

Ottawa Senators draft pick Logan Brown, who has already missed six straight games for the Windsor Spitfires, learned on Friday that he will be out of the Windsor lineup for at least another two weeks with a problem right wrist.

A man in his 30s was taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries on Friday evening after a stabbing on Lilas Private.

Michael Backs sits in his wheelchair and looks around his new home, his dog Reggie snuggled close against his chest. ZZ Top plays quietly from the portable radio on his small dining table. The apartment is tidy. The furniture clean, tasteful even. “I’ve never been in the Lord Elgin before,” Backs says, “but it feels like the […]

The Windsor Spitfires entered a game at TD Place Friday night having allowed a league-low 62 goals against, and that number rose minimally in a 4-2 win over the Ottawa 67's.

The unprecedented visibility of a senior bureaucrat holding regular briefings on the failings of the Phoenix pay system has cast a spotlight on a unique tension: Who should be publicly taking the heat for the federal payroll debacle, the public service or the politicians?

A metallic object discovered underwater off the coast of British Columbia and suspected of being a missing U.S. atomic bomb has now been identified as an industrial hunk of steel. The Royal Canadian Navy used an underwater robot to check out the object, sitting on the ocean floor in about eight metres of water south […]

Ottawa police have laid dozens of charges following a number of break-ins at storage lockers in west Ottawa. Police said the break-ins were reported between Sept. 8 and Nov. 18 at two complexes along Bongard Avenue and Cleopatra Drive in Nepean. On Nov. 18, security guards at one of the complexes discovered two suspects and called police, who […]

Ontario’s Special Investigations Unit is investigating an incident in which a female suspect and a police officer were both injured following an arrest Nov. 14. According to the OPP, an officer responded to a call at about 12:30 a.m. at a residence on River Road in Kemptville, about 60 kilometres south of Ottawa. The officer […]

A 51-year-old Ottawa man is facing charges that he sexually assaulted a 15-year-old girl in the city’s rural west end last year.

The Stampeders refuse to allow that their opponents in Sunday's Grey Cup game are underdogs.

Some players need the hate from without to fuel the fire within. Retired hockey star Martin St. Louis was like that. Undrafted and unloved at 5-foot-8 (5-7 was closer to reality), St. Louis carried a chip on his shoulder — nearly as big as the man himself — throughout his remarkable career. Not even a […]

They are not saying much publicly, but behind the scenes sources say officials with The Ottawa Hospital are reeling from Thursday’s selection of Tunney’s Pasture as a potential location for a new Civic Hospital. Words like gobsmacked, shocked, astounded and angered are being used to describe the reaction of senior hospital managers and board members […]

When a teammate collapsed on the ice of McNabb Arena during a recent Saturday afternoon hockey game, goalie Dave Wardle quickly recognized the signs of cardiac arrest.  The player, a defenceman, was on the ice with his arms splayed to his side. He was not moving.  Wardle, 57, had been in a similar position just […]

They've never played football games on their birthdays before, but the CFL's biggest show is on the agenda this year.

TORONTO — Henry Burris and Rick Campbell were laughing, talking about funny guy Eddie Murphy and his movies, stuff like Beverly Hills Cop and Coming to America. The humour from the 41-year-old quarterback and 45-year-old head coach was lost on most of the Ottawa Redblacks who were around that day, the pop-culture references swallowed up […]

Ryan Dzingel stood in the hallway at the Canadian Tire Centre on Friday, the stitches on his left ear visible, and indicated he was lucky it wasn’t worse. After getting hit in the ear by a Erik Karlsson shot that deflected off Matt Beleskey’s skate, Dzingel required more than 30 stitches from club doctor Don […]

A retired local school board superintendent who showed his own champion Scottish terriers, Ottawan James Reynolds got the nod to pick the best in show winner at the recent 15th annual National Dog Show in Philadelphia.

There are 3,641 names already on the CFL championship trophy, but room for just 96 more in its current form.

An Ottawa native who has cooked in restaurant kitchens for much of his young life takes over at one of the city's most prestigious restaurants.

Why is the city scrambling to find a way to train staffers in the art of dealing with the media, having just recently axed the employee in charge of that? Good question. No good answer. The city wants us to believe it’s saving money by downsizing the size of the bureaucracy. It’s not. In its […]

As the holidays inch closer, so too does the focus on community, as not all people have someone to talk with, let alone the ability to leave their homes to socialize. Ottawa’s Good Companions Seniors’ Centre launched a three-year pilot project last April aimed at easing social isolation. Seniors’ Centre Without Walls is the first program of its […]

The Senators arrived at the 20-game mark with the exact same number of points they had at this point last season. But, this time, the 25 points they’ve earned sure feels different because the Senators are showing signs that they’re headed in the right direction. As the Senators prepare to face the Carolina Hurricanes at […]

The WeeMedical dispensary on Rideau Street has joined a string of pot shops that have re-opened after being closed by police raids.