Новости за 25.12.2016

At the Carleton Tavern, on Christmas Day, it’s about being together. A free meal at the watering hole at the corner of Parkdale Avenue and Armstrong Street isn’t about charity, it’s about community. “It’s everybody, from every walk of life,” said organizer Cheryl Parrott. Now in its 16th year, the Christmas Day dinner at the […]

The medical vacuum device — sorry, the “negative pressure wound therapy unit” — looks pretty much like a bunch of hard plastic and a couple of bendable tubes. It’s about the size of a hardcover book and hangs around the neck in a pouch. But it has magical powers, amputee Paul Pelletier told me earlier this month. It […]

The first experience Monica Elaine Campbell had with palliative care was helping a woman who had lost her ability to speak because of throat cancer. Campbell, profoundly deaf since birth, is an excellent lip reader and staff at an Ottawa hospital asked if she could interpret the dying woman’s words. The woman had been communicating with […]

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 looks at the unique sound of stepping on cold, packed snow. In years of living in Manitoba, David Shoesmith got used to the different […]

It was the year of blaming the calendar year; the year when seemingly everyone on the Internet said about seemingly everything in the news, “2016, you’re the worst.” Yet our collective conscience must be forever grateful to it, 2016, the very thing we claim to hate. After all, it gave us the gift of plausible deniability – […]

The man stands up from his seat on the wooden benches at the back of the courtroom in Perth and stares up at the judge. “Any use of drugs or alcohol? Any high risk situations?” the judge asks him. The answer to both is no. Coupled with a clean drug test, the result is $5 […]

Dedicating the cornerstone of the current Supreme Court of Canada building in Ottawa in 1939, Queen Elizabeth, the wife of King George VI, stated that the location was a “worthy home for our Supreme Court.” She would prove right. But as Ottawans contemplate the now-familiar image of our nine Supreme Court justices in their ermine-lined […]

Reasons to applaud Arctic oil exploration ban  Re: New oil exploration banned in Arctic, Dec. 22. The recent decision by Canada and the United States to ban new oil and gas exploration in the Arctic should be applauded by northern residents and all Canadians. The toxic legacy of drilling waste from exploration in the 1960s through […]

You might want to get outside on Christmas Day and enjoy the clear skies while they last, because nasty weather is coming for Monday. Environment Canada has issued a freezing rain warning for the Ottawa area, with the first of it expected to start on Boxing Day. “Significant ice build-up due to freezing rain is […]

As the Ottawa Senators take a brief holiday timeout before resuming play on Tuesday night in New York against the Rangers, we look at a few random numbers at this stage in the 2016-17 season:

It's the first time since 1978 that two of the most important holidays for Jews and Christians have started on Christmas Eve.

Hundreds gathered at the Bibleway Ministries church in Nepean Saturday for the double funeral of two teen sisters killed instantly when their car collided with a dump truck on Mitch Owens Road more than two weeks ago. Long-stem red roses lay at the feet of both Muzaliwa sisters on top of their twin open caskets […]