Новости за 21.12.2016

Remember when you look down at your not-so-beloved Brussels sprouts this Christmas that not every family is lucky enough to enjoy such a holiday feast. This year’s demand for festive food hampers is up by 23 per cent, leaving the Christmas Exchange Program with a waiting list of 3,000. More than half of the people […]

The Ottawa Redblacks have inked Canadian defensive linemen Ettore Lattanzio and Nigel Romick to two-year contract extensions. Lattanzio, an Ottawa native and Gee-Gees product, had 24 tackles and five sacks while dressing for all but one game last year. Romick, a third-round selection in the 2014 CFL draft, played only two games in 2016 after […]

It's good to see that Ottawa chef and restaurateur Warren Sutherland has moved beyond ribs, pork butt and pizza.

After spending much of the fall sitting fending off allegations of overly cosy relations with party supporters, Team Trudeau got an early Christmas present on Wednesday when the federal ethics watchdog formally absolved Health Minister Jane Philpott of any impropriety over her  much-publicized use of a limousine service owned by a local Liberal supporter and […]

A Quebec man has been sentenced to three months in jail and three years of probation after pleading guilty earlier this month to serious animal cruelty charges. Alain Marchand, of Danforth Lake in the Pontiac region, was sentenced in court in Campbell’s Bay Tuesday. He was also ordered to do 165 hours of community service. The […]

Federal economists have walked out of negotiations with the federal government over its refusal to give them raises to cover inflation and to enshrine the right to provide evidence-based policy advice in their contracts. The Canadian Association of Professional Employees, which represents the 12,000 economists working in government, declared an impasse Tuesday after more than […]

Ottawa police are looking for witnesses to a hit-and-run on Ogilvie Road earlier this month that left an 87-year-old woman seriously injured. Police said a black SUV struck a pedestrian as it was backing out of a residence in the 2300 block of Ogilvie Road around 1 p.m. on Dec. 8. The driver drove away […]

A 29-year-old Ottawa has been charged with attempted murder and a number of other offences in connection with a stabbing in an Albert Street building early Tuesday morning. The victim, a man in his 20s, managed to flee to an OC Transpo bus near the intersection of Albert and Booth streets with a severe stab […]

The last of thousands of F-4 Phantom jets that have been a workhorse for the U.S. military over five decades are being put to pasture to serve as ground targets for strikes by newer aircraft, the Associated Press reports. The U.S. Air Force will hold a “final flight” retirement ceremony today at Holloman Air Force […]

Aspiring to greater things. That was the front page of the Ottawa Citizen on April 21, 2012 just before the 2012 Planning Summit. It was hoped the outcome of the summit would start a renaissance in urban planning where we would stop planning for the lowest common denominator, bring certainty to the planning process and […]

When a giant panda takes time out of its incredibly busy day to play with a snowman, it’s your civic duty to watch. Da Mao, the Toronto Zoo’s burgeoning celebrity panda, was caught on camera playing in the snow on Monday. The zookeepers, of course, posted the cuteness to YouTube: This isn’t the first time […]

Get your pinky fingers ready, there will be plenty of wishbones to break this weekend. A free Christmas Eve dinner will be offered Saturday afternoon at several locations throughout the city. Operation Big Turkey will be serving a traditional turkey dinner as well as a vegetarian and lactose-intolerant friendly lasagna at the Overbrook Community Centre, Carling Recreation […]

Quebec police arrested a 33-year-old Thurso man who drove at high speed past police investigating an earlier crash last Saturday. Sûreté du Québec says it received a call of a car travelling erratically along eastbound Highway 50 near Georges Street in Masson-Angers at 7 p.m. Saturday. The vehicle later passed officers who were at the site […]

Canadian Blood Services is urging Ottawa residents to visit donation clinics over the holidays to help with blood shortages caused when potential donors are held up by bad weather. “Donors in many areas contend with poor weather,” the organization says in a press release. “It’s even more important for other current and new donors to […]

What kind of society fails to meet the basic health care needs of sick and dying seniors? Well, Ontario, to name one. Ontario’s health minister was in town Monday to join his provincial counterparts in rejecting the federal government’s offer of a 3.5 per cent a year health funding increase, plus an extra $8 billion […]

“Falsehood flies, and the truth comes limping after it,” the great Anglo-Irish satirist, novelist and pamphleteer Jonathan Swift wrote in 1710, “so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale has had its effect.” True then, and truer now, most noticeably in the disorienting fog […]

An order of 43 Quebec nuns displaced when they agreed last month to sell their convent on the shores of the Ottawa River to the National Capital Commission, have a new home in Gatineau. The Congrégation des Servantes de Jésus-Marie are negotiating to move to the Archdiocese of Gatineau building on Boulevard Mont-Bleu in Hull. […]

OK, the good news is, the days start to get longer from now on. The bad news is, well, none actually. So far. The weather looks like that ideal combination of White Christmas without all of the winter craziness. Wednesday’s afternoon high is expected to be 0 C. Wednesday evening should see some snow beginning […]

This winter, The Citizen’s Tom Spears looks under snow and behind icicles to find out what makes our coldest season tick. It’s a series we call The Science of Winter, and today’s episode, on the first day of winter, looks at one side of cold weather that doesn’t seem to make any sense. Yes, dear optimists, the days […]

After an event-packed Tuesday in Vancouver, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s cross-country pre-holiday tour takes him to Alberta, where he’s set to kick off the day with a breakfast speech before the Calgary Chamber of Commerce – which will, according to the advisory, include a “moderated Q&A” – followed by a meeting with Calgary Mayor Naheed […]

The port of Churchill, Manitoba is considered by some to be a strategic asset for Canada. It is a deepwater port, the only one linking the country’s railroad network and its Arctic waters. Yet OmniTrax, the U.S. firm that owns the port, closed it in the summer. (The Chretien Liberal government sold the port to […]

Senators 4, Blackhawks 3 CHICAGO — It’s no longer Chicago hopeless for the Senators. The Senators skated into the United Center on Tuesday night to wrap up this two-game road trip and, for the first time in 15 years, picked up a victory in the Windy City with a 4-3 decision over the Chicago Blackhawks. […]

Controversial changes to programs for gifted children at the public school board are on hold while staff come up with more options. After a lively debate Tuesday, trustees  concluded more study is needed. Proposed changes to specialized classes for  the gifted were fiercely opposed by parents. Trustee Christine Boothby initially asked the board to end […]

An investigation into a photo-sharing website by the Sûreté du Québec and the Ottawa police Internet child exploitation unit has led to the arrest of a 36-year-old Ottawa man on numerous child pornography charges. Ottawa police said David Sharpe was arrested after a warrant was executed on Tuesday at a home on Prince of Wales Drive […]

The Renfrew County paramedic service warns 911 may not work in that region due to a Bell Canada failure and to use alternative numbers in the event the three digit emergency number doesn’t work. Around 3 p.m. the municipality tweeted an alert to the public.  Due to a @Bell failure 911 may not work. Alternate […]