Новости за 24.12.2016

More than 54,000 people in the southern German city of Augsburg must leave their homes Christmas morning while authorities defuse a giant 1.8-ton aerial bomb from the Second World War, the Associated Press reports. More from the Associated Press article: The city’s medieval cathedral and City Hall are in the area to be sealed off. […]

Russian President Vladimir Putin says his country needs new nuclear weapons to deal with the U.S. missile defence system. During interviews and speeches on Thursday and Friday, the Russian leader said his nation should be swift in “adjusting plans to neutralize potential threats to our country.”  Strengthening Russia’s nuclear capability is the chief objective for […]

More than 30 Gatineau firefighters worked for almost three hours to put out a stubborn fire Saturday morning in the city's northwest Plateau neighbourhood.

If you were wishing and hoping for $60 million surprises under the Christmas tree, you're out of luck for this week.

The Capital Builders Dr. Edward Van Cortlandt was one of many remarkable people who shaped Ottawa into the capital it is today. During 2017, the 150th anniversary of Confederation, the Citizen will profile several more of this city’s “capital-builders.” Look for the series in the new year. • As symbols of Canada’s foundations go, it’s hard to […]

Jonathan Pitre will have a quiet Christmas in Minneapolis as he awaits word from the Ontario government as to whether or not it will finance his next stem cell transplant.

Christmas just isn’t Christmas without vinarterta. My mom and I agree on this. She held the baking sheet for me as I shimmied five thin, fragile layers of cake onto the stack, one by one, both of us holding our breath. This was the first year I ever made the cake myself, after grumbling about […]

Show #3: The Addams Family Where: Woodroffe High School  Director: Ruth Merkel Evelyn Ashworth Critic, All Saints High School What happens when you mix a cult classic with an energetic cast? The Addams Family, a musical uproariously performed by Woodroffe High School. Mixing dark humour and lively songs with ease, Woodroffe’s cast and crew proved […]

Canadians appear to be sharply divided along generational lines on the merits of using the former U.S. embassy building at 100 Wellington St. to house a new national portrait gallery.

A woman's body was discovered in an indoor pool on Riverside Drive on Friday night, Ottawa police confirmed.

A young Kanata man is in Toronto police custody after a man in a tuxedo and bow tie was caught on camera after throwing paint all over a downtown Toronto real estate office. Police in Toronto had issued surveillance photos of the suspect after the Dec. 9 attack, in which a man went into an office tower in […]

When hockey icon Bill Dineen passed away last week at 84, his family poured into Glens Falls, N.Y., to remember him. “It was a very emotional time, but a joyous time,” said Bill’s sister, Margaret, who lives in Ottawa with her husband, Tom Keogh. “We are a very close family.” The hockey family was there, […]

The toxins running into Dow’s Lake from the demolished Sir John Carling Building were no big deal, the federal government said before Environment Canada’s enforcement branch stepped in to order them cleaned up. The former headquarters of Agriculture Canada was collapsed with explosives in summer 2014, on a property above the lake now expected to be […]

At this time last year I was making a list and checking it twice, but it wasn’t to find out who’d been naughty or nice. Forget Santa, it was our baby daughter who was coming to town. There is nothing like a due date to sharpen the mind. The crib and buggy were assembled. We had […]

Marjory LeBreton says she already lived through the “first Trudeau economic horror story,” and believes that she is currently living another one. “I’ve seen this movie before, as I tell my colleagues, and it wasn’t a very pleasant experience.” The former Conservative senator, who served in Senate under Brian Mulroney in 1993 and as a […]