Новости за 26.01.2017

Is there a doctor on the bus? A CHEO neonatologist and an OC Transpo supervisor worked together to help paramedics save a 73-year-old man who collapsed on a bus pulling into Hurdman station Thursday morning. Paramedics were called to tend to the passenger shortly before 11 a.m. Fellow passenger Nadya Ben Fadel, a doctor, had […]

The story, well-known, is that Bruce Firestone, Randy Sexton and Cyril Leeder were quaffing beers one night after a game of pick-up hockey, when Firestone pitched his dream of bringing an NHL franchise to Ottawa. Leeder, an accountant by training, soon put together the business case that helped win over the NHL. Within three years, the […]

Police say drinking may have contributed to the death of man whose pickup truck fell into a river in Val-des-Monts last Thursday. The 54-year-old man was driving on Route du Carrefour in the Perkins area when his pickup went off the road and fell into a shallow river several metres below, beside a bridge. The truck ended up lying on […]

The House of Commons Standing Committee on National Defence has been hit and miss on providing any real information of value for the public on military matters. That’s because of the highly partisan nature of the questions (government MPs tend to protect witnesses by asking non-threatening questions while opposition MPs have little time – and […]

Think you’re invisible as you text on your lap at that red light? Think again.  Ottawa police are now deploying citywide an unmarked van that gives them a birds-eye view on traffic patrol in a bid to catch dangerous users of mobile devices. It was the brainchild of Const. Michel Vandal who spotted the cargo van […]

With just a few days to go before the House re-opens for business, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has unveiled the master list of parliamentary secretaries who will be charged with providing support to their respective ministers when the House re-opens for business next week. Ever wonder what a parliamentary secretary actually does? Languish in ignorance […]

Russell county OPP is asking for the public’s help in locating a man wanted in connection to an armed bank robbery. Police say a man armed with a weapon and with his face concealed entered the Caisse Populaire Trillium in Hammond, about 50 kilometres east of Ottawa, on Wednesday afternoon. He approached a teller, demanding money. The […]

Deputy premier Deb Matthews is sending the province’s colleges back to the drawing board after rejecting their proposed executive pay hikes as “unacceptable.” Some colleges presidents could have seen raises of more than 50 per cent, as much as $170,000 in some cases, after the province’s Broader Public Sector Executive Compensation Act lifted a seven-year […]

The 21-year-old Carleton University student performs Feb. 1 at Le Petit Chicago as part of Megaphono.

Ottawa police are asking for the public’s help to identify a man believed to have been involved in a convenience store robbery on Jan. 9 on Rideau Street. According to police a man was seen entering a convenience store near the Rideau Centre, at around 11:15 pm. The man produced a knife and demanded cash from the employee […]

A 53-year-old Perth man faces several charges related to sexual assaults dating back two decades.  In July, the Leeds detachment of the OPP crime unit launched an investigation after they received a report of a historical sexual assault.  A suspect was arrested and charged at that time. Since then more victims have come forward, resulting in […]

A 30-year-old Ottawa man crashed his car then fled into a field while being pursued by police Wednesday morning in Gatineau. Outaouais Sûreté du Québec officers tried to make a traffic stop on Hwy. 50 West near the Montée Paiement exit just before 11:30 a.m. The driver didn’t stop and took the exit. Police pursued […]

Piecing together a new Cumberland Transitway won’t be as easy as the city thought. A report published this week ahead of Wednesday’s transportation committee meeting says the city needs to find cheaper way to build a road and Transitway between the Blackburn Hamlet Bypass and Brian Coburn Boulevard. The city estimated that section of road would […]

Chris Neil could be the odd man out as the Ottawa Senators take on the Calgary Flames Thursday. While Senators coach Guy Boucher wasn’t ready to confirm line-up changes following the morning skate – a flu bug continues to exist in the dressing room – early indications were that Neil would be on the sidelines. […]

A Gatineau woman who was handcuffed by police and then taken to hospital has died, one day after the series of events that began with a noise complaint. The woman, a resident of an apartment on Charles Albanel Street, was 34 and died Wednesday evening. Quebec’s Bureau des enquêtes indépendantes, which examines instance of death […]

Craig Anderson is closing in a return to the Senators. And, when he does come back, he’ll go right back into his role as the No. 1 goalie. Speaking to the media before the Senators faced the Calgary Flames, coach Guy Boucher confirmed the plan is to have Anderson spend the weekend working with goalie […]

Rideau Canal can be so much better Re: The Rideau Canal Skateway is overrated.  There, I said it, Jan. 23. I was born and raised in Old Ottawa South and agree with Tyler Dawson that the Rideau Canal is overrated summer or winter, but it doesn’t have to be so. Given that winter canal-skating season is so […]

So what’s with all of the punching, all of a sudden? The inauguration of Donald Trump as U.S. president saw a strange spike in low-level fisticuffs. Vice Magazine co-founder turned conservative gadfly Gavin McInnes got into a fistfight with a protester outside the Deploraball, an inauguration-eve party for the alt-right celebrating Trump’s victory, while the […]

Commuters seemed to be behaving themselves Thursday morning as light snow, expected to total two centimetres cm by day’s end fell on the capital. The city’s traffic centre was reminding commuters that Hwy. 416 northbound is reduced to one lane between Dilworth and Bankfield roads until 5 p.m. Thursday due to construction.  Periods of snow […]

Commuters in Gatineau and elsewhere in the Outaouais faced another challenging day Thursday as dozens of routes were cancelled or delayed in a continuing labour conflict. As the morning rush hour began, at least 70 trips had been cancelled as unionized drivers and mechanics for the Société de transport de l’Outaouais continued to report even […]

With just a few days to go before the House of Commons re-opens for business, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is set to embark on what will likely be the last leg of his cross-country tour – or, at least, the last before he’ll be obliged to make at least a cameo appearance in the Commons […]

Last Saturday, I participated in the Ottawa version of the Women’s March in Washington. Like participants in marches all over the world, I was heartened by the huge turnout. Somehow, in spite of the scary circumstances that brought us together, we were comforted by the size of the crowd. We were feeling the truth of […]

Kyle Auger's shootout goal in the 14th round is the difference for the 67's against the Frontenacs.

The Canadian government is standing by its commitment to increase the number of Afghan children and girls in school as the World Bank investigates whether aid funds earmarked for the country’s largest national education program were misappropriated. “We have to wait for the results of the investigation to better understand the scope of the problem,” said International Development Minister […]

Ottawa police arrested an agitated youth Wednesday who was walking down a street in Barrhaven, brandishing a bow and arrow, and later, a hatchet.  A video was recorded by a local motorist shows the youth, with a black T-shirt and grey pants, walking along a sidewalk on Kennevale Drive, east of Cedarview Road, at about 3:45 p.m. […]