Новости за 17.12.2016

There’s a snowfall warning in effect for the region, according to an Environment Canada bulletin issued Saturday morning.

Steven Michael Frenette, 33, surrendered to police Friday afternoon and is facing a charge of first-degree murder.

Just over 25 per cent of veterans who were given priority hiring status in the federal public service because they were released by the military for medical reasons couldn’t find jobs, according to newly released statistics. Five hundred and eighty-five individuals who were released from the Canadian Forces for medical reasons between 2005 and early […]

A Christmas Carol An NAC English Theatre production In the NAC Theatre Reviewed Friday Bringing Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol to the stage is a risky business. The story is as well known as that of Adam and Eve – indeed, there’s something of The Fall and subsequent Redemption in Ebenezer Scrooge’s journey from innocent […]

The Ottawa police are investigating the city's 23rd homicide of 2016.

The prime suspect wanted on a Canada-wide arrest warrant in connection with a fatal Centretown shooting turned himself in to police Friday, and now faces a first-degree murder charge. Steven Michael Frenette, 33, was considered armed and dangerous when police named him as the subject of a manhunt after a man was gunned down Dec. 10 in Centretown.

A Manotick woman was rushed to hospital with life-threatening injuries after she was struck by a vehicle while walking along a main street Friday evening.

Ottawa residents eager to lace up their skates and hit the Rideau Canal will have to wait a little longer. The National Capital Commission issued a safety advisory Friday warning people to stay off the Rideau Canal Skateway until the ice thickens. Despite Friday temperatures dropping to as low as -26 C and -34 with […]

Bryan Murray had to fly. But what a parting gift. On his way out the door to join his family for Christmas in Colorado, Murray, the longtime general manager and now senior hockey advisor for the Ottawa Senators, was declared the first inductee in the hockey club’s Ring of Honour. On Jan. 24 when the […]

River Ward Coun. Riley Brockington is asking the managers of a McDonald’s off Meadowlands Drive to “consider hiring uniformed security guards” after a 20-year-old man was stabbed to death outside the restaurant on Sunday. The homicide, the 22nd of the year, is not the first incident at the McDonald’s to have drawn concern from the Carleton Heights/Hogs Back […]

Ottawa Senators left-winger Mike Hoffman has received a two-game suspension from the National Hockey League.

It was all hands on feet Friday afternoon at Charles H. Hulse Public School as an Ottawa mother and father handed out brand new boots to 50 students in memory of their son, Zaher “Zack” Noureddine, who was killed in Toronto last year.  Hassan Noureddine and his wife Magda Khatib were at the Alta Vista […]

A controversial code of conduct that public school board trustees adopted to discipline each other for bad behaviour is about to get its first major test. Trustee Christine Boothby has filed a formal complaint against Donna Blackburn, her outspoken colleague who had predicted that the code passed last spring would be used to silence her. […]

Documents filed by the Ottawa Public Library draw a picture of how space will be used in a new central library that will share space with Library and Archives Canada.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was in Montreal Friday morning where he paid a visit to his ol’ pal Terry DiMonte, the morning man on CHOM 97.7FM, the city’s classic rock radio station. The visit is an annual tradition that began years before Trudeau jumped into politics and one he has kept since becoming the country’s […]

A police raid on an Orléans home Thursday resulted in the seizure of enough of the designer drug furanylfetanyl to supply between 21,000 and 38,000 doses, according to the RCMP. The RCMP said it found 19 grams of the opioid during a search of a home at 731 Clearcrest Cres. Furanylfentanyl is an extremely potent drug […]