Новости за 03.01.2017

A section of Aylmer Road was closed Tuesday afternoon as Gatineau police investigated an abandoned package that could contain explosives. Two commercial buildings at 358 and 362 Aylmer Rd. were evacuated as a precaution, and the road was closed for a single block between Fraser and Cochrane roads. Gatineau officers say they may have to call in […]

Elgin Street is losing another of its signature hot spots, with Fresco Bistro Italiano announcing it will be abruptly closing its doors after 25 years. The restaurant, at 354 Elgin St., along with the adjoining Guest Room cocktail lounge, announced the closure on social media Tuesday morning. “The curtains are closing on this little bistro […]

A unique systems patch designed so the City of Ottawa could absorb the “leap second” failed on New Year’s Eve, knocking out radios for OC Transpo and public works. The radio outage for nearly 3,000 users started just after 7 p.m. and lasted about an hour, according to the city. Pierre Poirier, the city’s head of security and emergency […]

Connecting with nature is easy in our region because there are parks, outfitters, trails and skateways beckoning.

WASHINGTON – Tricia McCauley was an actor, a herbalist and a spiritualist in this city. A gentle soul, they said. She taught at Yoga District in Bloomingdale, a hip neighborhood in the city’s northwest. It was through yoga that my wife, who volunteers at the studio, met her and came to appreciate her energy, empathy […]

This winter, Postmedia’s Tom Spears looks at what makes our coldest season tick. It’s a series we call The Science of Winter, and today we grab a magnifying glass to find out why those tiny black dots on top of the snow are moving. Yup, even snow has bugs. Winter, the insect-free season, is nothing of the […]

The U.S. Army is introducing a new “pelvic protector” that is designed to shield a soldier’s groin area from the debris caused by an improvised explosive device. Currently the army has a groin protection flap on some of its body armour but that only protects from a blast from the front. The new protector is […]

Winterizing Water Pipes Q: Will shutting off the main water valve in my house stop pipes from bursting if the power goes out? I go to Florida during winter and I want to protect myself from an extended power failure. A: If power were to go out for more than a few days during cold […]

The tongue-in-cheek editorial we wrote for a science journal has been removed after the publisher realized it had posted an editorial sharply criticizing its own work, and that of other “predatory” journals. Consortium Publishing of Saskatoon, which is affiliated with the giant OMICS International of Hyderabad, took down our editorial early Tuesday after posting it last week. The […]

Science lacking on provincial calorie plan Re: Calorie count rollout for diners, Dec. 31 This effort is as hollow as as a sugar calorie when it comes to informing consumer choice. The latest efforts are driven by expired and expiring nutritional scientific dogma. Total calories are only marginally important in this discussion. The more important measure […]

You name the precipitation, and Ottawa will be getting it in the next 24 hours. With Environment Canada’s freezing rain warning in effect, early morning commuters faced ice pellets and light snow on Tuesday morning. Ottawa is expected to get a snowfall accumulation of between two to four cm. The havoc is expected to kick […]

Presumably Barack Obama will return his Nobel Peace Prize now that he’s created the conditions for another Middle East war. The American president’s betrayal of Israel in allowing passage of a UN Security Council resolution declaring Israeli settlements to be illegal reveals Obama’s bitterness at being denied world-historical status as the president who achieved a […]

Millennials are worried that their generation will not have it as easy as their parents’ generation, and with reason. Developed economies are struggling with weak growth and high youth unemployment rates. Millennials are aware that productivity growth, a key indicator of future standards of living, has been trending down. They are also aware that old […]

Widening the highway is wrongheaded Re: Here’s why we need to widen Highway 417, Dec. 24. I guess it’s too late to put Bob Chiarelli on the “naughty” list for his response to David Reevely’s column questioning the plan to widen the 417. Chiarelli, a politician, states “I suspect people driving on Highway 417 will be […]

The Canadian Forces says the new Canadian Ranger rifle will be delivered to Canadian Ranger units starting by mid-2017. Final deliveries are expected in late 2018/early 2019, Department of National Defence spokeswoman Ashley Lemire said.  (125 prototype weapons were acquired and utilized during field trials in 2015. They did not remain in circulation.) But some […]

News is a verb, but also an episode. Here are five plot-lines developing for 2017 in the serial we call city life: 1) The Public Good on Parade. Like a crash victim finally unwrapping bandages in a bad soap opera, the city will reveal a fresh face. Some $110 million later, the National Arts Centre will […]

A murder suspect who had evaded police for more than seven months was arrested in Thunder Bay for gun and drug charges, the Citizen has learned. Ottawa police named Jonathan “Jonny” Ranger as their prime suspect in the Blossom Park double shooting that killed his one-time friend and injured the mother of his child. Police […]

The prized RCMP agent who infiltrated an ISIL network in Ottawa says he got into the spy business by accident. It was January 2011, and Abdullah Milton was in Ottawa for the first time. “I was a tourist,” the Muslim convert revealed in a March 2014 interview with RCMP investigators. His version of events has gone untold […]

The Good Samaritan rushed to help two snowmobilers who fell through thin ice in west Quebec, when his own snowmobile also went under water.

When a storm hits the city, road crews deploy on Ottawa’s streets and sidewalks to get them in decent shape as fast as possible. But if there’s a particularly bad section of road or sidewalk that needs attention, it can help if you flag it for the city. Here are the two forms you can fill […]

The cold weather has the Ontario SPCA asking for donations of winter wear for the horses and ponies it has up for adoption. The agency says equine blankets and rain sheets are “urgently needed” in the following sizes: 60-inch medium to heavy weight turnout, 74-inch full neck heavy weight turnout, 78-inch full neck heavy weight […]

Ottawa Senators goalie Craig Anderson and his ailing wife, Nicholle, plan to launch a charitable cancer foundation this year as she continues to battle a rare form of head and neck cancer. Nicholle Anderson conveyed the news in a New Year’s Day post on her blog, StickbyNik, which describes her diagnosis with nasopharyngeal cancer and […]