Новости за 07.12.2016

Firefighters were ready for action Tuesday afternoon when a mother rushed her two-year-old daughter to the nearest fire station after the girl got one of her fingers jammed in a plastic laundry basket. In a combination public service and good news message, Ottawa Fire Services said the worried mother, “Cynthia,” took her toddler “Anika” to […]

Paramedics responded to calls for assistance at around 12:45 pm Wednesday after a neighbour reported a stabbing on Jasmine Crescent. Paramedics found a man in his 30s suffering from multiple stab wounds to his chest and back. The man was taken to hospital in serious but stable condition. Ottawa police have taken over the scene, […]

Cirque du Soleil is coming to the Zibi site in Gatineau next August, and if the shows are a hit and construction allows it could be the start of a six-year series of Cirque shows. The Cirque’s new show is called VOLTA, and CEO president Daniel Lamarre promises it will be full of youth and dynamism. […]

There’s been a national electoral reform awareness-raising community dialogue tour, “meaningful consultations with Canadians” by way of townhall meetings by the dozen, “safe, inclusive and respectful” powerpoint presentations, workshops, informal surveys, write-in polls and carefully crafted national public opinion surveys. There have been 57 separate meetings of the Special Committee on Electoral Reform since June. There […]

Only two members of the Grey Cup champions were among the 27 all-stars named Wednesday, but there were a league-best nine Stampeders.

Paramedic problems are tied to ERs Re: Alarm sounded on paramedics, Dec. 6.  Why criticize dispatch services and paramedic response time while ignoring what actually happens when paramedics arrive with their patients at ER? When hospitals don’t have sufficient staff to quickly receive the patients paramedics deliver to their care, paramedic teams must remain with […]

Q. I inherited a tall-case nine-chime clock from my grandfather. The works were picked up in either Germany or England around 1900 by a relative, who was a jeweller in Kitchener. The works are a J.J. Elliott, of London, England. The cabinet was custom made by Krug Furniture also in Kitchener. There is no serial number […]

The federal government’s mydemocracy.ca survey, intended to spur conversation about electoral reform, quickly became a target of critics who said it oversimplified a complex issue. Leaving aside a verdict on mydemocracy.ca’s success or failure, the controversy it generated does confirm that citizen engagement is far from easy. Technology, unfortunately, doesn’t change that fact. In the […]

Chalk up another win for Ottawa-based tech darling Shopify – it’s now got the nod as the best place to work in Canada. Glassdoor, which bills itself as the world’s most transparent jobs and recruiting marketplace, announced the winners of its ninth annual Employees’ Choice Awards Wednesday. The survey is based on employees’ anonymous feedback […]

More good news for Ottawa startup Shopify: it’s the best place to work in Canada.  That’s according to Glassdoor, a website that gives an inside look at Canadian companies, including salaries and benefits, all posted anonymously by employees and job seekers.  And it’s not just the glamorous offices and employee lunches that make Shopify great. One review […]

Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan, Public Services and Procurement Minister Judy Foote and the Commander of the Royal Canadian Air Force Lieutenant-General Michael Hood will be in Trenton Thursday morning to announce the winner of the fixed wing search and rescue competition. Here is the article I had on Tuesday at the National Post/Ottawa Citizen: The Liberal […]

Now that we have a reasonable site for the new Civic campus of The Ottawa Hospital, critics have turned their attention to the dreadful, 1970s’ thinking that underlies the hospital’s plan to provide parking. Yes, parking. For cars. Can you imagine such a thing in the 21st century? In an opinion piece in the Citizen earlier […]

Ottawa police are asking for the public’s help to locate a man who is wanted on several warrants in connection with break-and-enter thefts in the area. Police said a series of overnight commercial break-ins occurred at several locations across the city between October and December. Charges have been laid, and four arrest warrants were issued in as […]

It’s been a breakthrough year for Saskatchewan-born singer-songwriter Andy Shauf. His quietly ambitious album, The Party, became his first international release, not only earning rave reviews, but also a spot on the shortlist for this year’s Polaris Prize. What’s more, it sent him on his first headlining tour, selling out shows on both sides of […]

Provincial police are investigating after several people were injured when a tractor-trailer lost a wheel on Highway 401 in South Dundas Township Tuesday afternoon, striking four vehicles. Investigators said the vehicles that were hit were on both the east and west sides of the divided highway, about 75 kilometres south of Ottawa. The tractor-trailer continued without […]

Her Majesty’s Canadian Ship Kingston will return to Halifax on Friday after a two-month deployment on Operation CARIBBE. That is Canada’s contribution to Operation MARTILLO, a US-led multinational effort to prevent illicit trafficking in the Caribbean Sea, eastern Pacific Ocean and the coastal waters of Central America, the RCN points out.

Commuters in the capital finally seem to have come to grips with the notion that winter has officially arrived, as drivers were on their best behaviour in the Wednesday morning commute after a few centimetres of snow overnight turned into slush on the roads. Police said there were a couple of fender-benders in the early […]

For the first time in nearly a week, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is expected to be in the Chamber when the curtain rises on the House of Commons this afternoon, which sets the parliamentary stage for a raucous session.  Opposition members have, after all, been waiting with increasing impatience for the opportunity to hold Trudeau […]

Police are investigating Ottawa’s 20th homicide of the year after a man was shot dead on Bayswater Avenue Tuesday evening. Ottawa police had earlier confirmed the shooting in the Hintonburg area just before 11 p.m. Residents reported hearing loud gunshots. “Very loud here on Bayswater near Laurel. 4-6 bangs. 5 min ago or so,” Twitter user @jaybaltz […]

A Toronto artist whose “National Gallery of Canada” Instagram account was shut down, at the request of the real National Gallery of Canada, has now found the account reactivated. Toronto visual artist Jay Isaac created an Instagram feed called @nationalgalleryofcanada, where he posted images of works by emerging and known Canadian artists. After the actual National Gallery of Canada brought this […]

Etienne Boulay didn’t let his small stature stop him. “Being a physical player defined me,” said the former CFL safety, most recently with the Toronto Argonauts. A Grey Cup champion with the Montreal Alouettes in 2009 and ’10, the 5-foot-9, 187-pound Boulay estimates he suffered more than 100 head blows during his CFL career. One […]

SAN JOSE — If you’re Phil Varone, the way to San Jose makes for a long day. And night. At least it did Monday and Tuesday. After Curtis Lazar was diagnosed with a concussion following the Senators’ 8-5 loss to Pittsburgh Monday, Varone received a late night call to replace him. Varone has scored five goals […]

At some point, the organization might run out of Band-Aids, trying to stop all the bleeding.

SAN JOSE — Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and Dion Phaneuf will gladly accept the ugly goals as easily as the pretty ones. Phaneuf was credited with a third-period, power-play goal against Pittsburgh Monday — the Senators’ third of the game — when Pittsburgh goaltender Matt Murray appeared to kick the puck […]

The 14 (14!) candidates in the Conservative leadership race faced one of their most daunting tasks yet on Tuesday night: speaking French. The debate held in Moncton, N.B., was the first one so far to be explicitly bilingual, with candidates asked questions in both English and French. Some of the candidates, such as Maxime Bernier and Steven […]