Новости за 19.03.2017

A bit of a break at this point in the long NHL season pays off in a burst of energy for those returning to action, coach Guy Boucher maintains.

Ottawa’s main municipal library at Laurier Avenue and Metcalfe Street reopened Sunday after repair work. The library’s water pipes were undergoing some planned maintenance in the morning. The Ottawa Public Library thought the work would be done by the time the building was scheduled to open at 1 p.m., but it needed more time. At […]

MONTREAL _ Back to Craig Anderson. After returning from an undisclosed injury that forced him to miss two games earlier this week, the Senators top goaltender will be back between the pipes Sunday night at the Bell Centre against the Montreal Canadiens. Coming off a 4-3 shootout loss to the Habs Saturday night at the […]

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — A Canadian school teacher whose teaching philosophy underscores hope and acts of kindness in an isolated corner of Quebec won a $1 million prize Sunday in what has become one of the most-coveted and high-profile awards for teaching excellence. Maggie MacDonnell was awarded the annual Global Teacher Prize during a […]

John Buchan scattered clues to his dynamic life throughout his books. Known as Lord Tweedsmuir, Canada’s 15th governor general wrote everything down, chronicling his time in Canada including King George VI’s royal tour in 1939 and his own famous boat ride down the Mackenzie River. He’s best known for his most celebrated novel, The Thirty-Nine Steps, later adapted into a […]

A U.S. military satellite, partially funded by Canada, was launched Saturday from Cape Canaveral. Representatives from the Canadian military and Department of National Defence were on hand at Cape Canaveral, Florida to watch the launch of the ninth Wideband Global Satellite Communication constellation satellite, according to a news release from the DND. The satellite will aid […]

The manager of an Ottawa opioid treatment clinic says she’s been trying for months to get a meeting with administrators at the city’s jail to prevent situations where drug-addicted inmates miss or are denied their daily dose of methadone. Deana Talavera said she hasn’t received a response to her November invitation to build a relationship […]

Elias Al-Jouni had less than an hour to get to Ottawa’s jail to start serving his weekend sentence when he slipped into a gas station bathroom with a pair of Kinder eggs. He wasn’t interested in the sugar hit or children’s toys inside the popular chocolate eggs. He wanted the cylindrical yellow capsules hidden within the […]

MONTREAL _ The Senators have a decision to make on Boston College prospect Colin White but they aren’t going to rush him to the NHL. The 20-year-old centre, who was a standout for Team USA at the world junior championships in January, was officially eliminated from the NCAA playoffs Saturday night when his Boston College […]

In celebration of Canada’s 150th birthday, the Citizen is rolling out one fact each day for 150 days until July 1, highlighting the odd, the fascinating and the important bits of Ottawa history you might not know about. That the expansion Ottawa Senators would lose their franchise opener on Oct. 8, 1992 to the storied […]

In anticipation of Canada’s sesquicentennial celebrations, the Citizen’s Bruce Deachman has been out in search of Ottawans — 150 of them — to learn their stories of life and death, hope and love, the extraordinary and the everyday. We’ll share their stories every day until Canada Day. “Anyone who starts using has something that led them […]

Numbers and notes setting up the second half of a home-and-away series for Atlantic Division rivals.

Montreal extends lead over Ottawa in NHL's Atlantic Division to two points, but there's a rematch set for Sunday night.

Every team in the NHL post-season is a good team, so it's no use trying to pick an opponent, Senators centre Derick Brassard says.

Twists and turns at the morning skate lead up to the return to action of the team's No. 1 netminder.

A worker was "severely injured" in the LRT tunnel on Saturday, according to Ottawa firefighters.

After talking to doctors in the past few days, NHL leader in hits was cleared to return.

The pop-up ball hockey rink was popular, as was the museum truck, but the clear favourite has been the Stanley Cup trophy.

Conservative leadership front-runner Kevin O’Leary says he wants the party to audit every vote cast in the upcoming leadership election. The party cancelled about 1,400 memberships on Friday after they were disputed as fraudulent registrations. “I want the party to audit every name so there are no questions,” O’Leary said on Saturday. He was in […]

Too many players thinking too much about points instead of finishing off a victory, the frustrated coach says.

After three years starting as an offensive lineman with the Ottawa Redblacks, J’Micheal Deane didn’t want to hear he was going to be a backup and that his paycheque would reflect that. So, instead, he went home, signing with the Toronto Argonauts as a free agent. “It was weird,” said the 30-year-old Deane, who started […]