Новости за 05.12.2016

The score was close, but revenge is sweet.   Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi is going to have to pay up after the Stampeders failed to capture the Grey Cup. Nenshi owes Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson a poem of Watson’s choosing, while wearing the Redblacks’ jersey. And Ottawa’s food bank will see a sizeable donation. Grumble. Grumble. But […]

After bringing back an important group of players from last year and adding a few new players in the past few weeks, Fury FC announced the addition of the 25-year-old centre back Shane McEleney on Monday. The 6-foot-2 Irishman has spent his entire professional career playing in the League of Ireland Premier Division. From 2009-2015 […]

The Penguins star was sidelined 11 months during the 2010-11 and 2011-12 seasons and missed the start of the current season following a training camp head injury, giving him a solid understanding of what MacArthur is going through during his recovery.

A little backbone can go a long ways in politics. Chris Alexander, a contender for the federal Conservative party leadership, apparently lacks anything resembling a spine. Speaking at an anti-carbon tax rally organized by Ezra Levant’s right-wing Rebel Media, Alexander couldn’t summon the nerve to put a stop to men and women in the crowd chanting […]

OMICS International, one of the world’s biggest publishers of fake and substandard science studies for cash, is trying to expand into Ottawa. OMICS has offered to buy least one journal published by Canadian Science Publishing, a private firm spun off from the National Research Council. The company is still widely known by its original name, NRC Research […]

Welcome to the jungle, Ottawa. Guns N’ Roses will be rocking TD Place Stadium Aug. 21, 2017 – a Monday night, sadly – as one of half-a-dozen Canadian dates in their Not In This Lifetime Tour. Tickets go on sale this Friday. The Canadian leg also features a Saturday night Montreal show. The act last […]

The province’s Special Investigations Unit is investigating the death of a 38-year-old Ottawa-area man who fell from a building and died in North Bay on Sunday. According to police, a call was received from emergency responders at around 1:30 p.m. asking for police assistance at an apartment building located at 365 Lakeshore Dr. in North Bay, about 350 […]

Get your flu shot. A few minutes’ wait, perhaps some mild soreness, and you’ll be on your way – with a better chance of making it through the winter unscathed.  As the flu season begins, researchers from across Canada are in Ottawa this week to present the latest immunization research at the annual Canadian Immunization Conference. Topics range from ways to increase […]

A marionette-based show at the GCTC until Dec. 18 was a more like a series of mini-shows, which were often funny, sometimes poignant and frequently biting.

Two people from Ottawa are dead after their SUV collided head-on with a tractor trailer on Highway 7 near Kaladar Sunday afternoon. Brian Ward, 70, and his passenger, 67-year-old Mary Ward, were pronounced dead at the scene of the crash about two km west of Highway 41 just after 5 p.m. Police said a preliminary […]

The government’s strategy to replace Canada’s CF-18s is reflective of a government that either has no comprehension of how to conduct the business of defence procurement, or understands the business all too well but has put political expediency ahead of the best interests of the military. There are three fundamental problems with the decision to sole-source […]

If you thought this year was crazy, try staying sane, geopolitically speaking, in 2017. This year we’ve seen France hit with repeated terrorist attacks; Britons pulling the Brexit surprise; Europe’s ever-widening banking crisis; rising hostility to Muslim migrants; the re-emergence of anti-Semitism; and, perhaps most unsettling, the shock of the American election. And the year […]

Lieutenant-General Stephen Bowes, Commander of Canadian Joint Operations Command, met Monday with the Kuwaiti Army’s Chief of Staff Lieutenant General Mohammad Al-Khoder, Kuwait’s government says. The meeting was to discuss ways of improving military cooperation between Canada and Kuwait, the Kuwaiti Defense Ministry’s Moral Guidance and Public Relations Department noted in a news release. A […]

U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter is making a pitch for American and allied forces to stay in Iraq, even after the expected defeat of the Islamic State group. Carter said the U.S. and its coalition partners must not stop after completing the current campaign to expel ISIS from Mosul. He said the militants are on a […]

The UpBeat is a section in the Citizen where readers can submit their own feel-good stories. This was submitted by Liz Revell, a former Canada director and treasurer of the Quota Club of Ottawa. The Noonan family has attended the Quota Club of Ottawa’s Signing Santa party for three years now. What makes the event extra special — […]

It’s messy out there, Ottawa. Commuters are dealing with blowing snow, vanished lane lines on slippery roads and transit delays. By 8:30 a.m. Ottawa police already had reports of approximately 30 collisions.  The snow isn’t expected to end until noon Monday with OC Transpo warning that riders should expect delays on all bus routes due to […]

A former federal public servant who stole nearly $1 million in computer parts from the Department of National Defence and sold some of them on the classified website Kijiji has pleaded guilty to fraud and breach of trust.

Minister of Democratic Institutions Maryam Monsef argues that there is no consensus among Canadians on electoral reform. When it comes to finding a consensus on an alternative to the existing First Past the Post system, she may be right. But there is an absolute consensus among Canadians that no new electoral system should be adopted […]

With just 15 sitting days left until the Commons shuts down for the holidays, the government has set the stage to kick off the traditional pre-Christmas legislative blitz as early as this afternoon. On Friday, the Liberals served notice of their intention to impose a deadline on the final round of debate over Finance Minister […]

The UpBeat is a section in the Citizen where readers can submit their own feel-good stories. This was submitted by Kanina Holmes, an associate professor at Carleton’s School of Journalism and Communication.  Canada’s North, in all its wildness, warmth, beauty and pain, has a way of inserting itself into the dreams of those who’ve lived […]

Skate Canada’s Mike Slipchuk says the event will feature 250 of Canada’s top skaters, including well-known men, women, pair and ice dance competitors. But there will also be some emerging talents, said Skate Canada’s high performance director. “In these championships you really see who is up-and-coming at the novice and junior level, and then you […]

Two people were killed Sunday night in a two-car head-on collision near the Carp airport, Ottawa police Staff Sgt. Jamie Harper said. Ottawa fire and emergency services responded to a call just before 9:30 from police for a motor vehicle collision at 2847 March Rd, and bystanders were performing CPR on one person when they arrived. A […]

A visit to the mall before Christmas can be a stressful time for any family, but for those who have children with autism the experience can be especially overwhelming. Some parents got a reprieve this weekend thanks to Sensory Santa, a program organized by QuickStart Early Intervention for Autism, a volunteer organization whose mission is to […]

The mother of a mentally ill man who was on life support Sunday night after attempting suicide by hanging himself in his segregation cell at the Ottawa jail wants to know why her son was behind bars and not in a psychiatric hospital. Justin St-Amour was in the health care unit of the Ottawa-Carleton Detention […]

A person driving along County Road 4 in Millhaven early Sunday died after crashing into a pole, Ontario Provincial Police said in a news release.