Новости за 22.03.2017

The Sûreté du Québec has issued an Amber Alert after a four-year-old boy was reported abducted in St-Jérôme, north of Montreal. Joel Mukonkole is two feet nine inches tall and was last seen wearing white striped tuque, a white-and-blue winter coat, grey pants and white boots. Rachel Esema-Okako, 31, the child’s mother, is described as […]

It will cost at least $11 million to clean up the site of the former Sir John Carling building to make room for a new Civic hospital, Public Services and Procurement Canada estimates. And that price tag could get much higher. PSPC, the federal department in charge of transferring the land on the eastern site […]

Ottawa police arrested seven people and seized a loaded handgun in raids that have closed two locally operated medical marijuana dispensaries. Four family members were caught up when police executed search warrants Tuesday on Magna Terra’s shops on Carling Avenue and in Stittsville and at a private home. Franco Vigile, Peter J. Vigile and Magna […]

Citizen arts writers suggest outings for the next week.

British parliament is on lockdown amid reports of gun fire outside the seat of the United Kingdom’s government and a police officer has reportedly been stabbed. The BBC is live from Parliament:

The best way to avoid bad jail food is to, well, not end up in prison, says a correspondent. Meanwhile, hospital overcrowding could be alleviated with a novel solution and the Don Meredith scandal continues in Canada’s Senate.  Don’t like prison food? Don’t go to jail Re: Hungry inmates barter for food, March 22 I […]

We all have that box of mismatched items that we throw into a closet and forget about until we have to pack up and move again. It usually comes in the form of a tangled pile of cords and cables, a box of outgrown clothing that never gets donated or a collection of knick knacks.  […]

It took Gatineau police officers less than two hours at a single intersection to nab more than two dozen rush-hour commuters using their phones behind the wheel. They set up at Des Allumetières Boulevard and Demontigny Street from 4 p.m. to 5:45 p.m. Monday, pulling over 27 offenders who were using a device while driving. It […]

Driver fatigue or distraction was the likely cause of a head-on collision near Grenville that claimed the lives of two young Gatineau women last fall, a Quebec coroner has ruled. The crash occurred at about 7 a.m. Sept. 17, when a car driven by Elsa-Andrée Loiseau, 26, travelling west on Highway 50, veered into oncoming […]

Hang onto your toque. Ottawa awoke to gusty and frigid Wednesday morning with a windchill of -27 triggering a frostbite advisory from Ottawa Public Health. At 7 a.m., the mercury sat at -15 C but northwest winds whipped at 30 km/h gusting to 60. They’re not expected to become light until Wednesday evening. “Watch out for […]

Justice Robin Camp has tendered his resignation in the face of the Canadian Judical Council’s recommendation that he be removed from the bench for judicial misconduct. Rape myths and victim blaming have no place in the criminal justice system processing of sexual assault. The difficulty now is that in solving the problem by quenching the […]

Lumineers with Kaleo and Susto Canadian Tire Centre Reviewed Tuesday   The Lumineers brought their Cleopatra tour back to Ottawa on Tuesday, their second spin through town on the same album. When the Denver-based folk-rockers stopped at Bluesfest last summer, Cleopatra was only a few months old, and not everyone was familiar with the material. […]

“It’s been really great working here; I get to see so many amazing movies that I might not hear about otherwise. “I also work at Chez (Lucien), and I knew (ByTowne Cinema manager) Phil from working there. He’s a regular there. I was asking him if I could work at the ByTowne if there was […]

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. Jeanne Sauvé, Canada’s first female governor general, was also the only governor general ever to close the grounds […]

This said, Grace in the Kitchen has so much to offer to home chefs, foodies and culinary professionals that resorting to many words to describe its vast product selection is worth the effort.

One man is dead following a two-vehicle crash near Williamsburg on Tuesday. The collision, between a passenger vehicle and a tractor trailer, occurred just before 2 p.m. at the intersection of County Road 7 and Boucks Hill Road, between Williamsburg and Elma, about an hour south of Ottawa. According to the Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry […]

Sudbury tops Mississauga in the OHL's regular-season finale, sorting out Eastern Conference playoff matchups

Ottawa takes a six-point lead over Boston for second place with 10 games remaining.

The Senators shouldn’t be fooling themselves. They ended their four-game losing streak Tuesday because goaltender Craig Anderson was a driving the bus that was full of far too many passengers. The nailbiting victory, remember, was against a Boston Bruins squad that had arrived home early Tuesday morning after losing in Toronto Monday. Far too many […]

Devoted fan of Canadian-championship rink was diagnosed with ALS.

If the No. 21-overall pick in the 2015 NHL draft is signed this week, he could make his pro debut Friday in Ottawa with the AHL's Binghamton Senators.

Ottawa police raided two more marijuana dispensaries Tuesday, this time targeting a locally owned chain that was the first to open shop in town. Police executed search warrants at the Magna Terra Health Services dispensaries on Carling Avenue and on Iber Road in Stittsville. They carted away bags of dried weed, edible cannabis products and […]

There’s a battle brewing in Barrhaven over the Salvation Army’s plan to build a new church and community centre near Ottawa’s international airport. The city’s planning department and the Ottawa International Airport Authority both oppose the idea, but several councillors — including planning committee chair Jan Harder — say they will ignore staff’s advice and support the Salvation Army’s proposal when it comes before […]

Here’s another likely casualty of the botched rollout of the Phoenix Pay system to tens of thousands of federal government employees: The Department of National Defence earlier this month cancelled plans to solicit bids for a key section of its own project to modernize the military pay system. The multi-phase project, dubbed Guardian, has been […]

Whistleblowers need real protection laws, not paper shields, says a former Foreign Affairs property manager and lawyer who made headlines for exposing billions in excessive luxury expenses in Canadian diplomatic missions around the world. In 1998, Joanna Gualtieri filed a lawsuit alleging she was emotionally abused and ostracized by the Department of Foreign Affairs for […]