Новости за 07.01.2017

Just before Christmas, President-elect Donald Trump suggested that his administration may sideline the F-35 in favor of buying more Super Hornets. “Based on the tremendous cost and cost overruns of the Lockheed Martin F-35, I have asked Boeing to price-out a comparable F-18 Super Hornet!” Trump tweeted at the time. But U.S. Air Force Secretary […]

Perhaps it’s a good thing the Ottawa Senators received some rest in early January. For the rest of the month, they need to put their heads down and battle though the physical and mental challenge of playing one playoff contender after another.

If you had tickets for Friday night’s $60 million Lotto Max you should check them now. Spoiler alert: You didn’t win the $60 million, unless you purchased a ticket in Quebec somewhere. But a ticket purchased in Ottawa was among 14 confirmed Ontario winners of the Maxmillion secondary draws, worth $1 million each. Other Ontario […]

Police are investigating a stabbing in the Spruce Street and Rochester Street area late Friday night.

A couple of Senators prospects were pretty impressive in the world juniors final. But don't ask Mark Borowiecki what he thought of the game.

Ottawa Senators coach Guy Boucher is crossing his fingers that his club will come out flying Saturday against the Washington Capitals after a five-day break from game action.

By all accounts, Tevis Gonyou-McLean has been punished enough. And so Ontario Court Justice Matthew Webber agreed to release the suspected terrorist from jail after he pleaded guilty to two counts of mischief (smashing his GPS bracelet, twice) and two counts of breaching his release conditions (missing curfew, twice).  After all, Gonyou-McLean, a youthful pizza […]

In the latest issue of Esprit de Corps magazine I outline some recent defence contracts and industry developments. Here is the article:  Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan recently announced the delivery of the last mobile workspaces from DEW Engineering and Development for use by the Canadian Armed Forces as medical and dental clinics, workshops, field kitchens […]

Right now, it is only a serious concern. But if the Senators fail to draw bigger crowds to Canadian Tire Centre this month, they have a real problem. The menu couldn’t be any more enticing. They play eight games here in January, including:  Alex Ovechkin and the streak-stomping Washington Capitals on Saturday.  Connor McDavid and […]

Kate Henderson, 24, has never had to use her EpiPen, but it was ever-present during her childhood. She, like her brother and father, has a peanut allergy. Like other Canadian families, her parents were advised to keep her away from peanuts when she was young. Health experts have now reversed course on that advice, saying […]

As a kid, Jeff Richards was a big NFL fan — he’d sit on the couch with his dad Jeff Richards Sr. and watch the Dallas Cowboys play. As much as he loved football, he didn’t play a lot. He’d try out for teams, then get cut — told he was too small. So it […]

An Ottawa-based foreign currency exchange broker under investigation by the U.S. Treasury has gone offline while it seeks to clear its name.

We’ve all been tempted but a Kanata woman found out the expensive way that just because a private parking lot is empty on a Saturday night, doesn’t mean it’s free. Brenda Cardinal is steaming mad that it cost her nearly $300 to get her car back after it was towed from a Park Safe lot […]

A plane carrying 126 Ottawa-bound passengers was sitting on the tarmac of the Fort Lauderdale airport awaiting clearance to depart the scene of a shooting that killed five and wounded eight on Friday. A WestJet spokeswoman confirmed at 4:30 p.m. that the Boeing 737-700 was waiting to depart Terminal 1. The shooting happened at Terminal 2, […]

A new multimillion-dollar radio system plagued by bugs is scheduled to be implemented across the City of Ottawa this year, spurring staff to fix the errors before the police and fire departments hit the airwaves. “We have work to do,” according to Pierre Poirier, head of security and emergency management. “When we deal with first responder agencies, […]

The City of Ottawa is destined to get its first supervised injection site, possibly even this year. The Sandy Hill Community Health Centre has made the most progress in assembling its application to host an injection site in Ottawa, with its board of directors scheduled to decide Jan. 18 if the centre should formally submit […]

A few dozen electricians gathered outside the office of Ontario Infrastructure Minister Bob Chiarelli Friday afternoon to protest the provincial government’s budget implementation bill. Bill 70 includes changes to the Ontario College of Trades and Apprenticeship Act that “threaten” the work of skilled electricians, spokesman for the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 586 John […]

Fire officials say a fire that destroyed a family’s Alfred-area farmhouse could not have been handled any differently — even if a 911 call had not bounced over the river to the Quebec side.  The homeowners and neighbours have raised questions about response to the fire. Although no one was hurt, the blaze claimed the […]

Smiths Falls police are asking the public to help locate a 15-year-old girl missing from her foster home since Christmas Eve.  Kassie Summers-Bedford is described as white, five-foot-ten, 190 pounds, with red/orange hair, brown boots, a black Calvin Klein jacket and glasses.  Police said Summers-Bedford is known to frequent the St. Laurent Shopping Centre in Ottawa.  Anyone […]

Mayor Jim Watson has been nothing if not politically savvy when it comes to the issue of supervised-injection sites, moving deftly at practically every turn to avoid uncomfortable entanglements. And yet, we should expect more from him. As mayor, he has said he’d prefer the money that would be spent on such a site be used for drug treatment […]