Новости за 27.01.2017

OTTAWA — Tennis star Milos Raonic has withdrawn from Canada’s Davis Cup World Group tie against Britain after a nagging adductor injury flared up during his recent Australian Open run. Raonic, ranked No. 3 in the world, was defeated 6-4, 7-6 (7), 6-4 in the quarter-finals by Rafael Nadal, who has since moved on to […]

Soon to be 36, the all-time leader in Canadian men's soccer team appearances hasn't played since injuring a knee during the 2016 fall season.

A west Quebec man convicted of sexually abusing two of his daughters when they were young and fathering three children with one of them was sentenced to 15 years in prison Friday in a Gatineau courthouse.   Jacques Lesage, 79, of Val-des-Monts, Que., was found guilty last Friday by a jury who convicted him of three […]

Two Royal Canadian Air Force pilots were injured after they ejected from an aircraft before it crashed near Moose Jaw on Friday morning. The incident happened around 10:30 a.m. local time. The two pilots ejected from their CT-156 Harvard II aircraft southwest of the city, the RCAF said. Both RCAF pilots – one an instructor, […]

For the record, let’s review a week in the lives of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and President Donald Trump.  Monday Trump: The new president formalizes the U.S. withdrawal from the Trans Pacific Partnership deal, which would have included 12 nations. Meets with Congressional leaders and, according to the New York Times, tells a bizarre tale about how German golfer Bernhard Langer […]

The Community and Police Action Committee (COMPAC)  is looking for a few good volunteers to help support Ottawa’s multicultural community. COMPAC is a city-wide community-police advisory and coordinating body that works in partnership with the Ottawa Police Service, indigenous, racialized and religious communities. It is seeking new members to represent the following communities: Inuit, Somali, Arab, […]

Infused with the heady spirit of the March on Washington/Ottawa/Vancouver/Toronto and so on last weekend, millions of women are now wondering how to keep the momentum going. Since we’re in Canada, eyes naturally turn to government. But what should it do, exactly? During the parliamentary break, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau replaced a strongly performing Status […]

A year ago this week, the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal released the landmark Caring Society decision, which found that the federal government had discriminated against First Nations children by providing insufficient funding for First Nations child and family services. It also found that the federal funding structure for these services incentivized removing children from their […]

Cyril Leeder boosted us all Re: Ex-Leafs exec new Sens boss, Jan. 26. While Eugene Melnyk has the absolute right to populate his executive ranks as he sees fit, the departure of Cyril Leeder as president of the Senators resonates in every quarter of our city as unfortunate. Mr. Leeder is an honest, forthright, hard-working […]

Ottawa is getting $35 million more a year for transit from the provincial government because Toronto’s city council is dysfunctional. Politics is weird. Let’s follow the bouncing chequebook all the way from Toronto City Hall to a chilly platform at Hurdman station Friday morning, where a gaggle of freezing politicians, variously promised the money would […]

The Manotick Shiverfest celebration will continue this weekend despite a fire early Friday morning at the community arena, organizers say. “Shiverfest is still going ahead following the fire inside the arena. We will update this page, Facebook & Twitter when alternative venues are determined for some of the events,” notes a post on one of the event’s […]

Algonquin College will forfeit about $100,000 in fees it collects from its faculty union, and was ordered to provide all managers with new and enhanced labour relations training to settle a grievance over allegations of tampering with union elections. Training must include “a component dealing with union interference” following allegations a senior manager attempted to encourage a management-friendly slate of candidates to run against “the old guard” in the 2013 union elections.

Music industry reps from Iceland, the U.S. and England will rub shoulders with Ottawa-area artists at this year’s edition of the Megaphono conference and showcase festival, taking place Feb. 1-3 in various locations in the Ottawa-Gatineau region. The goal is to help those working in the burgeoning Ottawa music industry make contacts to help catapult […]

Gatineau police used a Taser to subdue a 22-year-old man accused of assaulting an officer after two groups were spoiling for a fight outside a Promenade du Portage bar early Friday morning. Police were called to deal with two groups of people taunting one another outside Le Petit Chicago bar at 2 a.m. They asked […]

Traffic was light for the Friday morning commute with few snarls reported ahead of forecasted afternoon snow and a chillier weekend. OC Transpo reported no cancelled trips but the city’s traffic centre warned that Hwy. 416 was reduced to one northbound lane between Dilworth and Bankfield roads until 5 p.m. Friday due to construction. A pedestrian […]

After a week of headaches for commuters, negotiations are expected to resume Monday the Société du transport de l’Outaouais and its 600 unionized drivers and mechanics. The two sides have pencilled in 13 additional dates to try to hammer out a new collective agreement and put an end to a work-to-rule campaign that has transit in the […]

A convicted rapist who fled a Kingston halfway house earlier this week was recaptured Thursday at a downtown mall in Cornwall. David Maracle, 51, was arrested by Cornwall police without incident after some alert shoppers identified the fugitive at the Cornwall Square Shopping Centre. He went missing from the Henry Trail Community Correctional Facility in […]

As the post-holiday House hiatus draws to a close, Treasury Board President Scott Brison will lead a delegation of senior cabinet ministers to Wolfville for a one-day “Atlantic Growth Strategy meeting,” which he’ll host in cooperation with Nova Scotia Premier Stephen McNeil. On the invite list are the other three Atlantic premiers – Wade MacLauchlan […]

It’s the “CIBC Shinny Hockey Day,” just one of many special activities for Winterlude 2017 and partner activities for Canada 150.

Flames 3, Senators 2, (OT) After the big change off the ice Wednesday, the Ottawa Senators followed up with a tough overtime loss Thursday. With new president and CEO Tom Anselmi watching from above, the Senators went into the all-star break with a 3-2 overtime defeat to the Calgary Flames Thursday. Johnny Gaudreau scored the […]

TORONTO — Premier Kathleen Wynne is set to deny the Toronto mayor’s request for the ability to impose tolls on two major commuter highways, The Canadian Press has learned. An official with knowledge of the decision but who wasn’t authorized to speak about it on the record said that it’s about “affordability.” Instead, Wynne will […]

Was there any doubt Cyril Leeder would take the high road out of Palladium Drive? It was Michelle Obama who gave us the phrase, when the U.S. election got ugly: “when they go low, we go high.” Leeder went high. Many in the community feel the Senators went low, firing Leeder mid-way through the hockey […]

Without getting into the gory details, Mike Hoffman and Mark Borowiecki were knocked out of the lineup by different illnesses. Hoffman returned Thursday night after missing just one game with a “24-hour bug”, while Borowiecki was left watching his fifth in a row as he recovered from a stomach virus.  Borowiecki did practice with the […]

The prized RCMP agent who infiltrated an ISIL network in Ottawa was also paid by CSIS to spy on one of the same terror targets years earlier.  The new details in the RCMP case against accused terrorism financier and recruiter Awso Peshdary, 27, were revealed in court on Thursday when his defence team — Solomon […]

Before facing the Flames, Lazar had played 5:38, 6:10, 4:35 and 6:50 in his previous four games. Only once in his previous 14 games did he top the 10-minute mark. He had only one assist in 26 games.