Новости за 02.12.2016

Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly put the final stamp of approval on the Sir John Carling site for a new Civic hospital Friday saying, in a statement that she would request federal officials “make all the necessary preparations to make this land available as the future location” of a new hospital. Her statement followed consensus by […]

If not for Lawrence Hill’s volunteer work with Crossroads International, The Book of Negroes might never have materialized. The same goes for his most recent novel, The Illegal. “It’s been life-changing for me,” the award-winning writer said of his Crossroads experience during an intimate evening he hosted Thursday in support of the Canadian grassroots development […]

TORONTO — The Ontario ombudsman has opened an investigation into how the province tracks and reviews the placement of inmates in solitary confinement in its jails. Ombudsman Paul Dube says he launched the investigation in light of the “serious issues raised in an increasing number of complaints” about the use of segregation in the province’s […]

Her Majesty’s Canadian Ship Edmonton assisted the U.S. Coast Guard in “disrupting” three separate illicit drug shipments in international waters off the Pacific Coast of Central America, the Royal Canadian Navy says. The operations took place between November 15-18. The combined weight of the disrupted drug shipments, confirmed to be cocaine, was an estimated 2,120 […]

A ground-breaking ceremony was held Friday to mark the beginning of construction work of a new facility for Tactical Armoured Patrol Vehicles (TAPV) and Armoured Engineer Vehicles (AEV) at 3rd Canadian Division Support Base Edmonton. 3rd Canadian Division Support Base Edmonton requires this new facility to shelter 43 TAPV and 14 of the 18 AEV […]

Toronto has gotten the vast majority of new jobs in Ontario since the last recession, and in parts of the province the decline that started eight years ago has never ended, says a new report from the Fraser Institute that explains a whole lot about what’s going on in our provincial politics. Liberalville is doing […]

A section of Highway 401 has been reduced to one lane near Lancaster after a tractor trailer overturned on the eastbound on-ramp early Friday morning in South Glengarry Township. The OPP confirmed detours are in place for vehicles to access the highway eastbound along South Service Road. The driver received minor injuries and was taken […]

The Senators opted for rest over repetition Friday and cancelled their noon skate at the Canadian Tire Centre. That doesn’t mean GM Pierre Dorion took the day off, though. With winger Bobby Ryan on the shelf indefinitely with a finger injury and winger Clarke MacArthur out since training camp with post-concussion syndrome, the Senators GM […]

OTTAWA — The minister in charge of finding Canada a better electoral system apologized Friday to the MPs tasked with exploring her options after she misrepresented their work and accused them of shirking their duties on the floor of the House of Commons. One day after a raucous question period in which she took the […]

All faculties and services at the University of Ottawa could be subject to millions in proposed cuts as the administration begins the painstaking exercise of balancing its budget for the next academic year. According to internal documents obtained by the Citizen, the university has asked all faculties and services to describe how they would achieve a four-to-eight-per-cent […]

As if the Phoenix pay system hasn’t been enough of a nightmare for the thousands of federal civil servants who have been overpaid, underpaid or not paid at all since its rollout last February, things got worse as alleged telephone fraudsters have entered the fray, posing as collection agency representatives looking to claw back overpayments. […]

The public’s view of the National Capital Commission’s importance won’t be soured because of a political decision to refuse the agency’s recommendation on a new hospital site, the chairman says. Russell Mills said the NCC has a broad mandate and it’s the first time the agency has been asked to undertake a hospital site review. “We own more […]

The biggest blast in Ottawa’s history was over in seconds on Sunday July 14, 2014, with 420 kilograms of explosives reducing the 11-storey Sir John Carling Building to 40,000 tonnes of rubble. Hundreds of people gathered 300 metres away from the federal office tower at 930 Carling Ave. that overlooked Dow’s Lake to catch a glimpse of […]

The Ottawa police are asking for the public’s help in identifying a man accused of several lewd acts in west-end neighbourhoods. Investigators say there have been close to ten indecent acts reported in October and November. The scenarios involve a man who approaches a woman in an area bordered by Richmond Road, Caldwell Avenue, Churchill Avenue […]

Auditors general have a habit of confirming our worst suspicions about government. They routinely uncover the ways in which politicians and bureaucrats, at all levels, are wasteful, incompetent, unaccountable and credulous.  This past week, three auditors – examining three different levels of government – all reported within days of each other, again revealing a potpourri of problems. On Tuesday, Auditor […]

Monsef should do better than grand-stand Re: Minister trashes efforts of committee, Dec. 2. On Thursday, Democratic Institutions Minister Maryam Monsef publicly bad-mouthed the work of a multi-party committee her government had set up to study voting reform in Canada. She accused the committee of not doing its job. It seems to me that if she were doing […]

An Ottawa teenager facing 20 offences related to a recent spate of hate-filled graffiti attacks across the city is facing new charges after police reopened their probe into a car that had a swastika carved into it more than a year ago. The 17-year-old boy, who cannot be named because he is a minor, was charged […]

The Department of National Defence is now figuring how to dig itself out of the problems it created when it pulled down from its website a study on fighter jets. The study dismissed the option of buying “interim” fighter jets because of “significant additional costs.” “The costs involved with bridging options make them unsuitable for filling […]

About a month ago, a group of people with terminal illnesses sent letters to every member of Parliament, asking for legislation that would give dying patients the right to access unapproved drugs and treatments. “I’m going to die anyway,” said right-to-try campaign co-founder Jeff Perreault, who has ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease. While […]

It was a soft September day, and I made good time from Ottawa. But Wanda had arrived first, though driving from Montreal. She was waiting, just like the old days. I was always the late one. “Fancy meeting you here,” I laughed as we hugged, looked at each other and hugged again. We hadn’t seen […]

Ottawa police are asking for the public’s help to identify a suspect who allegedly committed ATM fraud at a downtown bank in October. On Oct. 12, at around 8:20 p.m., police said a man was captured on video allegedly committing fraud at a bank on Kent Street, between Sparks and Queen streets. Investigators became aware of […]

The capital region’s jobless rate remained steady at 6.2 per cent in November compared to October but there were big swings within the twin cities and job sectors. Gatineau saw its unemployment plunge to 6.7 per cent in November from 7.3 per cent in October while in Ottawa, the jobless rate edged up slightly to […]

It might seem ironic that a man who has spent the past decade fighting to get patients with rare conditions access to drugs opposes right-to-try legislation.  In 2006, Andrew McFadyen attracted nationwide attention for his campaign to access treatment for his two-year-old son, Isaac, who has the metabolic disorder Maroteaux-Lamy syndrome, known as MPS VI. Only […]

Q: How can people with serious or life-threatening conditions access drugs or therapies that have not yet been approved? A: Health Canada has mechanisms for patients, including clinical trials or the Special Access Programme (SAP). The SAP grants access to new drugs to patients with serious or life-threatening diseases or conditions. The SAP may authorize a […]

Q: What is right-to-try? A: It’s a movement that is pressing governments to allow terminally ill patients the right to circumvent existing federal rules so they can get access to drugs and treatments that might extend their lives or make them more comfortable. It would not apply to Health Canada’s existing protocol governing clinical trials […]