Новости за 30.12.2016

Ottawa’s streets will be more animated than usual, with walking monsters, pop-up performances, shows and numerous special events, to mark Canada’s 150th birthday in 2017. The festivities begin with the ceremonial lighting of the Ottawa 2017 Cauldron at 6:15 p.m. on Dec. 31 at City Hall and will move on to Parliament Hill. A “Fire […]

Once again, Ottawa Fire Services is urging pet owners to keep their dogs leashed around the water after a black Labrador retriever was rescued from the icy Rideau River at Brewer Park Friday. A fire services spokesperson confirmed bystanders attempted to rescue the dog. Once fire crews arrived they asked the civilians to retreat from the unsafe shores […]

A pair of New Year’s Eve fireworks shows and a concert on Parliament Hill bring in Canada’s 150th anniversary year, which will be both a big party time for the capital and a much smaller commemoration than the centennial 50 years ago. More than anything else, the sesquicentennial is a tourism event, both nationally and […]

Small-time con artist Nick Wild, who happens to be a fox. Flash and Priscilla, the slowest-moving sloths at a very slow-moving licence bureau. And a tattooed demigod named Maui. It’s been a big year for animated films and for Trent Correy. The Ottawa animator worked on Zootopia and Moana, two Disney films nominated for Golden […]

Benjamin Franklin wrote: “Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbours, and let every new year find you a better man.” We can’t think of better New Year’s advice for … Donald Trump. But since we’re Canadian, it’s best we focus on our own priorities for Confederation’s sesquicentennial year. Plus, we’re residents […]

When it comes to a new management structure for two markets, the city is putting its eggs in one basket. That’s what auditor general Ken Hughes and his staff suggested in a review of the ByWard and Parkdale markets. Council received the audit before the Christmas break. The city hasn’t given enough consideration to other management options […]

Around Ottawa City Hall, 2016 will be remembered as the year Rideau Street sank and Uber scored a slam dunk, the year LRT trains began to roll and a new stormwater fee took its toll, the year the bureaucracy got lean and the mayor dreamed of 2017. Here are 16 memorable moments from 2016. 1. This train is […]

Police are approaching security on New Year’s Eve the same way they would typically plan for the largest annual event in Ottawa. “It will be a similar planning posture to Canada Day,” Ottawa police Insp. Murray Knowles said Friday. Knowles said police will have the same control and decision centres up and running. Ottawa police […]

This winter, the Citizen’s Tom Spears looks at what makes our coldest season tick. It’s a series we call The Science of Winter, and today we searched around for a topic until somebody looked out the window and noticed all that snow. Canada’s favourite weatherman was laughing Friday. Gleeful is not too strong a word. “We live in […]

A website accused of publishing fake science has posted an editorial saying that it, and others like it, are “predators” that treat legitimate scientists as suckers. It’s an editorial that was written and submitted by the Citizen, as part of our own little experiment. Scientists should “park any ethics at the door” before publishing in the Journal of […]

Following a year where corrections facilities in Ontario came under the microscope, the Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre looms large as a symbol of the problems in the province’s jails.  Mattresses tossed on the floor of damp segregation shower cells because the jail was too crowded to keep inmates in regular cells. A pair of suicides by inmates […]

Experimental Farm workers can breathe a sigh of relief that the “farm waste,” as it was so delicately put by Ottawa Fire Services, didn’t hit the fan Friday morning, after firefighters were called to investigate smoke inside a barn at Woodroffe Avenue and Slack Road. What they found was a smouldering pile of manure. The […]

If you were planning to mark the new year with an icy plunge into the Ottawa River, you will have to get your chill on elsewhere. Organizers of The Sears Great Canadian Chill — a New Year’s Day polar bear dip at Britannia Beach to help raise money to fight childhood cancer — released a statement […]

The Ottawa Senators have announced a scholarship in partnership with the Ottawa Senators Foundation, Bell Let’s Talk and Carleton University that honours Daniel Alfredsson’s commitment to mental health awareness in Ottawa. The Daniel Alfredsson Scholarship in Mental Health will consist of a joint donation of $55,500 from the Ottawa Senators and Bell Let’s Talk, which […]

Starting in the New Year, diners in the province will have another tool to help make healthier choices in restaurants and other food locations. On Jan. 1, food service providers with 20 or more locations in Ontario — such as restaurants, coffee shop chains, convenience stores, grocery stores and movie theatres — will be obligated to include the […]

In 2017, Canada will mark the 150th anniversary of the Canadian Confederation. It certainly merits the big celebration that will take place.  July 1, 1867 is perhaps the most critical date in the evolution of Canada towards its eventual independence. A recent Association for Canadian Studies-Leger Marketing survey reveals that some three in four Canadians believe […]

Ottawa has launched a smartphone app to boost people’s enjoyment of Canada’s 150th anniversary. The app will carry updates about Ottawa 2017 events. It also offers multimedia features. For instance, on New Year’s Eve there’s a kickoff event in which 400 young people will bring a torch to light the Ottawa 2017 Cauldron, and app users […]

A Gatineau man is in custody after emergency crews responding to a house fire at 16 Chemin Eardley in Aylmer Thursday night discovered what they believe is a marijuana grow-op. Thirty firefighters and 10 trucks responded to the blaze at about 10:30 p.m. It took approximately 45 minutes to bring the fire, in a two-storey, […]

Let’s solve library and museum problem together Re: Patronage at libraries, museums rises, Dec. 28. I am having a disconnect as I read of the parallel debates documented in the Citizen. The Ottawa Public Library and Library and Archives Canada are seeking a new location that will become a premiere destination for residents, visitors, historians […]

Canada’s special forces aren’t being used enough because federal government officials don’t understand such units or have the structure to make the best use of them, according to a recently released report. The eight-page report written by Queen’s University defence researcher Christian Leuprecht and H. Christian Breede, a professor at the Royal Military College of […]

The year 2016 is going out the same way it arrived in Ottawa: On a bed of freshly laid snow. Five to 10 cm are forecast for Saturday, largely in the afternoon, with the temperature climbing from a low of -16 C at dawn to a more sufferable high of -5 C. Friday, meanwhile, will serve […]

If you’re of a certain generation that grew up in Ottawa, you remember this day: Aug. 10, 1966, when a huge bridge spanning the canal and the river collapsed. Nine men died. On the 50th anniversary, Bruce Deachman dug deep into the history of the Heron Road Bridge collapse, interviewing the workers who were on […]

Did you have any idea that Canada played a major role in fighting the Ebola virus outbreak in West Africa? Citizen reporter Elizabeth Payne travelled to Guinea to document how a Canadian-made vaccine was making a huge difference. But she also examine the challenges it took for the vaccine to be developed and approved here, […]

It was Daniel Alfredsson’s big night, but Anthony Mantha spoiled the party. On the night Alfredsson’s number 11 sweater was retired forever, Mantha scored in overtime to give the Detroit Red Wings a 3-2 win over the Ottawa Senators. After a turnover inside the Senators zone during the three-on-three session, Niklas Kronwall found Mantha all […]

To borrow from the man himself, it really was a “beautiful day.” And a beautiful night for Daniel Alfredsson, an occasion that was understated like Alfie, sneaky funny and hit all the right notes. Alfredsson watched his No. 11 Senators jersey get raised to the rafters of the Canadian Tire Centre, capably assisted by former […]