Новости за 28.01.2017

Police are on the hunt for determined thieves who made off with a strange assortment of goods, including ripping a dishwasher off its waterpipe coupling, causing extensive damage. OPP investigators said the break-in at a residence on Bath Road near Napanee was reported Thursday. The list of goods taken in the break-in included several televisions and electronics, […]

Ottawa music lovers and operators of a popular record store are sad, but not surprised, that Canada’s 102 Canadian HMV stores are slated to close. The entertainment specialist, which has six locations in Ottawa-Gatineau, is just the latest victim of online delivery of music and movies. An Ontario court put the chain into receivership on Friday, […]

Ottawa Fire is urging residents to exercise "extreme caution" around waterways after an unoccupied car went through the ice Friday night.

Residents at an Ottawa Community Housing building got a rude awakening early Saturday when fire broke out in the garbage room of the high-rise at 1065 Ramsey Cres., in the west end.

Ramin Izadpanah loves to talk about the "golden hours," the golden light after sunrise and before sunset when he shoots his best nature photos.

You couldn’t make a film like Paddle to the Sea today — a simple story told patiently. But any Canadian kid who went to school between 1967 and the early 1980s should remember the tale. The book by Holling C. Holling tells of a boy in Northern Ontario who carves a man in a canoe and launches it […]

Since an axe was suspended over eight Ottawa public schools this fall, parents and students have mobilized to save them from closure. They’ve fired off emails, composed poems and songs, held hands at pep rallies, packed public meetings, picked apart statistics, enlisted support from community groups, and made passionate pleas to trustees at the Ottawa-Carleton […]

Brandon Volpi's toxicology results were revealed during testimony by respected forensic pathologist Dr. Christopher Milroy at the second-degree murder trial of Devontay Hackett on Friday at the Ottawa courthouse.

If you’re waiting for the Senators to make a blockbuster move to get Matt Duchene before the NHL trade deadline, don’t hold your breath. The asking price, at this juncture, is closer to fantasy than reality. Yes, it could all change as the Colorado Avalanche continue to fall further out of the playoff race with […]

U.S. Secretary of Defense James Mattis has ordered a review of the F-35 program to find savings. In addition, the review will examine into whether the advanced Super Hornet can fill the role as an alternative to the F-35C, the aircraft carrier variant of the Lockheed Martin plane. The memo from Mattis noted that the […]

OC Transpo will pull 43 double-decker buses from the road this weekend to effect repairs to their wiring systems.

Only they know how much pressure they felt. Today, we get the sense both men are able to relax a bit more now, smiles come more easily, though neither will relax to the point of easing up on the gas pedal. It’s too early for that — but not too early to recognize the contributions […]

Former CFL receiver Arland Bruce is seeking to overturn a B.C. decision holding that he must pursue his claim for damages in arbitration, not in court.

The Rideau Curling Club foursome has gone 10-0 in group and championship-round and will play in Sunday's title game at Victoria.

To listen to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as he trekked across Western Canada this week, one might think nothing of huge significance had happened south of the border. But the world couldn’t look away as Donald Trump made headline after headline in his first days as U.S. president. There was pulling out of the Trans-Pacific […]

I recently had a wide-ranging interview with Roger Greenberg for a Canada 150 story (which will be published on this website in the near future) and we spent a bit of time talking about Lansdowne Park and the Ottawa Redblacks. Greenberg, the co-owner and chair of the Ottawa Sports and Entertainment Group, said the company has “a […]

There will be no change to the prison sentence handed down to an Ottawa man found guilty of conspiring to facilitate terrorism. In a decision released Friday, Ontario’s highest court has found there is no reason to interfere with the 12-year sentence handed to Misbahuddin Ahmed. The Ontario court of appeal found the Ahmed’s sentencing […]

A 14-year-old Amherstview boy is facing criminal charges after allegedly holding his friend’s skateboard for ransom over some tossed cocaine. Police in Kingston reported that the teen started texting another boy Thursday afternoon, upset that his friend had thrown out some cocaine that he had left behind at the friend’s home. The youth told his friend […]

So, after weeks – months, even – of pointlessly prolonging his party’s and his own political agony, Justin Trudeau has finally let it be known, through artfully dropped hints from the usual nameless officials, that his government is finally going to stop pretending that there’s nothing unseemly about using cabinet ministers as bait for exclusive […]

The unquestioned No. 1 starter following the retirement of Henry Burris is under contract only through the 2017 CFL season.

A planning panel has refused a developer’s request to temporarily use an undeveloped condo site in Little Italy to store a dealership’s luxury vehicles. But Mastercraft Starwood has the option of appealing the decision to the Ontario Municipal Board, hoping the provincial tribunal will allow the SoHo Champagne property to be “storage” space before building the second-phase […]