Новости за 08.12.2016

In the days since the “values-driven” online survey at MyDemocracy.ca went live, Democratic Institutions Minister Maryam Monsef has spent a lot of time on her feet in the House of Commons, defending her government’s latest attempt to query the collective consciousness of the Canadian electorate to determine just how they want to elect MPs in […]

GATINEAU, Que. — Viola Desmond, often described as Canada’s Rosa Parks for her 1946 decision to sit in a whites-only section of a Nova Scotia movie theatre, will be the first woman to be celebrated on the face of a Canadian banknote. Finance Minister Bill Morneau says Desmond will grace the front of the $10 […]

In the wake of Wednesday’s stabbing attack on Jasmine Crescent, the councillor for the area is pressing for closed circuit video cameras to help monitor the neighbourhood. The street, located near Gloucester High School in the east end, has seen a number of violent attacks and alleged criminal activity in recent years, leaving many who live on […]

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If in doubt, add another tax. Crumbling roads and leaky sewers? Better slap on an infrastructure levy. The idea has been bouncing around city hall this week. To nobody’s surprise, the National Capital Heavy Construction Association (whose members benefit from the jobs created by infrastructure dollars) says it’s a good idea. Coun. Diane Deans says it […]

Ontario’s government signed an electricity deal with an American company to build a wind farm at the eastern end of Lake Ontario, froze the project, and then wanted to treat its own decision like an uncontrollable act of God to get out of the contract it signed, an international panel found in a ruling saying […]

This is what a green gold rush looks like. On Thursday, CannaRoyalty Corp. of Ottawa began trading on the alternative Canadian Securities Exchange with a market value of $130 million-plus.  This is impressive considering that CannaRoyalty is not one of the 36 firms that have been granted a licence by Health Canada to produce or […]

DND workers have been stressed a long time Re: DND delays move to new HQ, Dec. 8. At first, I thought I was reading a spoof on DND employees, but perhaps not, as the article quotes a vice-admiral who is also vice-chief of the defence staff. I can only think of the thousands of unemployed and underemployed qualified […]

By mid-week, Maryam Monsef was into her fifth day of flailing explanations in Question Period after having first insulted, then apologized to, a special committee of MPs who had delivered an exhaustive study of electoral reform. At a glance, the performance of the democratic institutions minister verged on the nonsensical, though one could easily imagine, in the […]

The Caring and Sharing Exchange has lined up holiday food donations or store vouchers for 15,551 people in Ottawa, but still faces a waiting list of more than 4,100 others who need help. It’s asking donors to cover that gap. The exchange provides food hampers to some families, and store vouchers to others, including those […]

You might not believe that up in a small contemporary office space overlooking the ByWard Market, ground-breaking technology is being introduced to the real estate world. Shaun Denis, the founder of Umber Realty Inc., wanted virtual reality (VR) technology to be incorporated into his vision of a modernized real-estate industry since the beginning. The start-up company began acquiring […]

Odyssey Theatre artistic director Laurie Steven has been awarded the prestigious Chalmers Arts Fellowship.  Awarded by the Ontario Arts Council, the fellowship provides significant funding for senior professional artists to take time from their usual creative pursuits to investigate, explore and experiment with style, technique, method, content or an issue in their arts practice.  A news release […]

A 10-year investigation by the Outaouais SPCA into the well-being of animals kept at a home in the northern Outaouais, has resulted in  lifetime ban on animal ownership for a Quebec man. The recent ruling by Quebec Judge Christine Auger, is the first such ban in Quebec, according the to SPCA de l’Outaouais. Alain Marchand, a […]

The Department of National Defence is bringing in defence analysts for a special meeting designed to sell the Canadian public on the Liberal’s search and rescue aircraft announcement. Canada will purchase 16 Airbus C-295 planes, it was announced today. The meeting between analysts and top government and military procurement officials takes place at 1 p.m. […]

According to representatives of the Château Laurier’s owners, there is “growing acceptance” in the community for its planned expansion. If they’re right that’s bad news, because we could be on the brink of a huge and irreversible mistake. But we need to get beyond the “I hate it” response and understand why the proposed design […]

Ottawa police are seeking public assistance in tracking two suspects who broke into a bowling alley on the 2000 block of Walkley Road on Nov. 27. The thieves took an undisclosed amount of cash, but weren’t able to crack an ATM onsite. The suspects are described as Caucasian, the first five feet 10 inches to […]

Yuletide merriment is all well and fine, but this Christmas stuff can wear pretty thin pretty fast. Solution? Refresh yourself with something completely unseasonal. It may not turn you into a fan of the Little Drummer Boy, but it’ll make the kid a bit more bearable. House of TARG 1077 Bank St. Perogies and pinball: […]

If I could model my professional conduct and community involvement after anyone, it would be Wes Nicol. The Ottawa-born lawyer, entrepreneur, philanthropist, homebuilder, community builder, father, grandfather, friend and warm, generous, kind-hearted man passed away last week. I had the privilege of getting to know Wes over the past 10 years and I’ll never forget […]

RCMP and members of the Canada Revenue Agency conducted a raid on the Glebe Smoke Shop on Bank Street near Fifth Street Thursday morning. About half a dozen officers were in the shop, according to an employee who answered the phone. The employee said the agents had not told him why they were in the […]

Ottawans may be enjoying clear, dry roads on Thursday morning’s commute but watch out – areas to the west of us are under a snow squall watch and more white stuff is headed this way. About two cm is predicted for Ottawa Thursday evening. Environment Canada issued the alert for Petawawa, Pembroke and Cobden as a cold […]

The Salvation Army is asking for volunteers to step forward to help collect donations at its iconic red kettles this Christmas. Set up in shopping malls and high trafficked areas the red kettles and bell-toting volunteers who run them are a well-known sign of the Christmas season and have made an imprint in popular culture […]

One of the key events in the origins of today’s wireless, networked world occurred on a windswept hill in St. John’s, N.L., 115 years ago this month. In December 1901, the 27-year-old Irish-Italian inventor-entrepreneur Guglielmo Marconi was at the height of his glory, having astounded the world with a series of accomplishments that […]

SAN JOSE – The California Highway Patrol might be following the Ottawa Senators for the next little while. After all, goaltender Mike Condon and the rest of the Senators committed highway robbery in stealing a 4-2 win over the San Jose Sharks late Wednesday night. Dominated in the final two periods – outshot 18-6 in […]

On the eve of his second pre-holiday First Ministers Meeting, Justin Trudeau is set to host an “official dinner” for visiting US Vice-President Joe Biden, who is scheduled to arrive in Ottawa later this afternoon in advance of what the draft itineraries provided to media suggest will be an event-packed day in the capital on […]

Restaurant owner Dimitri Aramouni watched the drama around a new Civic hospital site more closely than many people last week: It has a direct bearing on his business. Aramouni, who owns Mexicali Rosa’s in the Dow’s Lake Pavilion, was thrilled when he learned the former Sir John Carling building site, just down the road, was […]