Новости за 21.03.2017

Volleyball coach Jay Mooney believes he is fighting the good fight against sport specialization, which is limiting opportunity and athletic function in our youth. He wants his players to be athletes first, volleyball players second. The second in a four-part series by the Citizen’s Wayne Scanlan.  Parents often watch in wonder as Jay Mooney conducts […]

The winger injured March 9 in Arizona returns to the ice back home in Ottawa.

Edward Nguyen was six when he first showed an affinity for tennis. His parents would sign him up for sport camps that involved half-day swimming and half-day tennis. Nguyen never did take to swimming. Tennis was a natural outlet. Growing up in Westboro, Nguyen’s older brothers, Eric and Sean played the game, and Nguyen’s progress […]

A man awaiting a new trial for allegedly killing Brian Fudge more than a decade ago following a New Year’s Eve argument over who should be served first at a bar has been released on bail. Ontario’s highest court released Charlie Manasseri from jail Tuesday, finding that Manasseri’s continued detention is unnecessary for the protection […]

Whither activities for young athletes? wonders one letter writer. And, a great article on a vegan inspires one reader to share her story. On the other hand, nasty things were said about the Tory leadership candidates, contends one writer, while another recalls a lovely inter-religious partnership that formed in Ottawa.  Sensible approaches on sports skills […]

Canada is a “bright and shining light of optimism” in a world that is challenging the concept of global citizenship in many ways, the executive director of one of the world’s leading global health research institutes said Tuesday. John Clemons, executive director of the Bangladesh-based International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, is in Ottawa to […]

BOSTON – The Senators are sticking with Craig Anderson.  Coach Guy Boucher has opted not to make any changes which means Anderson will suit up for his 499th career game Tuesday night against the Boston Bruins.  Trying to halt a four-game losing skid, this will be Anderson’s third straight start since returning from an undisclosed […]

Gatineau police want to hear from motorists who were on Lac-des-Fées Parkway last Thursday evening around the time when a 71-year-old woman was struck and dragged in what investigators believe was a hit-and-run by a truck with a front shovel or plow. The woman, who’d been walking alongside her adult carrier tricycle near Gatineau Park, later […]

Over almost two decades I have both defended and prosecuted people charged with sex assault. I have also acted as counsel to complainants in sex assault trials. In that time, I have seen innumerable trial judges faced with the critical task of sorting out the irrelevant, the immaterial and the inadmissible in order to arrive […]

WASHINGTON – On the day Catherine McKenna blew into a storm-tossed Washington, scientists reported that two-thirds of the Great Barrier Reef off Australia is dead or dying. On the same day, the National Park Service reported that the piercing cold in the usually balmy capital – which made our minister of the environment and climate change, […]

Insulating a Cathedral Ceiling Q: How can I insulate a cathedral ceiling? I’d like to do it without spray foam, but I don’t want condensation problems. A: I’ve done this work with batt insulation before and success involves creating a continuous ventilation space from eaves to peak. The photo here shows a cutaway of a […]

Ottawa’s ridiculously overcrowded hospitals are back in the news again, as they will be until the provincial government finally does something substantial to fix the problem. Health-care experts agree a hospital should average between 85 to 90 per cent occupancy, so it can handle surges of demand. Our local hospitals are full at the best […]

The Gatineau regional bus service and the union representing its drivers and mechanics met Monday afternoon, the eve of Tuesday’s one-day walkout. The Société de transport de l’Outaouais said that the parties met at the end of the day Monday and talks haven’t broken off. The two sides are “exploring solutions” but won’t be talking at […]

On Thursday, the Supreme Court will hear a case posing the question of how far your privacy rights travel along with the text messages you send from your phone. Do the police need a legal basis to search your phone, so long as the only texts they read are the ones that you’ve received from […]

Spring is in the air but winter won’t wave the white flag willingly. Thankfully the mercury won’t start to plunge until after the approximately 600 STO drivers and mechanics wrap up their second one-day strike. The last walkout jammed Quebec-side highways, gridlocked bridges and filled Ottawa parking lots. Tuesday, March 21 – Drivers and maintenance employees' Union is […]

Firefighters were kept busy over night with a pair of stubborn fires. The first call was at about 10 p.m. when a 911 caller reported smoke coming from a neighbour’s house at 10 Crystal Beach Dr., near Dick Bell park in Nepean. Occupants of the house suffered minor injuries leaving the building and were transported […]

Canadians to whom all this talk in America and Europe about Russian-inspired fake news seems a rather paranoid fantasy that has nothing to do with us are about to get a rude awakening. We are preparing to send Canadian troops to Latvia as part of a NATO tripwire mission to warn off the Kremlin from […]

Names and notes for Tuesday's matchup at TD Garden in Boston.

On the night of his federal election victory in October 2015, Justin Trudeau proudly declared that “Canada is back” on the international stage. A signature activity of his government was to “renew Canada’s commitment to United Nations peace operations,” as the new prime minister stated in the mandate letter to his defence minister a few […]

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, obsession and fear. We’ll share one person’s story every day until Canada Day. “This is a castle. The Giant Volcano Castle. It’s […]

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. The little NCC conservation area at Mud Lake may be one of the most ecologically diverse spots […]

From humble beginnings in 1958, when a detail-oriented accountant with a passion for construction built a triplex in his spare time with the help of his young wife’s salary and savings, Lemay Homes has grown on a foundation of family, integrity and commitment to quality.

The Ottawa Citizen’s Andrew Cohen was nominated for a National Newspaper Award on Monday, for a column he penned in the days following the death last November of his cousin, Canadian music icon Leonard Cohen. “He wore darkness and depression like a well-cut suit,” the younger Cohen wrote. “If death ever draped itself on his […]

Ottawa’s Abdullah Almalki has declared victory in his long fight to win justice from the Canadian government for the torture he suffered in a Syrian prison. Almalki received an official apology Friday — and an unspecified financial settlement — from the federal government for the role its officials played in his overseas arrest and mistreatment.  […]

Ottawa Senators centre Kyle Turris makes a handsome living playing hockey. It came quite by surprise. Turris wasn’t born into a hockey-mad family that pushed him into the game. Hockey was something Turris played when it wasn’t lacrosse season. Turris 27, from New Westminster, grew up in an athletic household. His father, Bruce, is a […]