Новости за 31.03.2017

Ottawa’s biggest public service earners in 2016 are who you would expect: bosses of hospitals, post-secondary institutions and city hall. The province on Friday released its annual Sunshine List of public servants who made $100,000 or more in the previous year. For Ottawa residents, the names will ring a bell. First, the top dogs at local hospitals […]

The Yeoncheon Miracle were originally scheduled to be in Ottawa June 27-29, but due to visa and travel issues a Dominican Republic team will now take on those dates.

Ottawa Fury FC is hoping a new look and a new league will be a breath of fresh air.

Ottawa new poets laureate may have contrasting styles, but both have a similar ambition to expand the city’s appreciation for the art. Andrée Lacelle and Jamaal Jackson Rogers say they were shocked to learn they were chosen as the city’s first poets laureate since before amalgamation, but they’re embracing the opportunity to share their love of poetry with residents. They […]

Ontario's annual "sunshine list" reminds us that if we want good people in our government, we need to pay them decently. And it reminds them that in exchange for that money, they owe us their best.

It’s the kind of call that demands a trained professional, schooled in high-altitude work, ready to take risks. Tommy the cat was up a tree near his home at Island Park Drive and Premier Avenue on Friday afternoon. He’d been chased by a neighbourhood dog and had refused to come down for 30 minutes.  Naturally, the […]

A Canada-wide warrant has been issued for Christopher Raymond, 41, wanted for breach of parole. Raymond had been serving a 25-month sentence for weapons offences, obstruction of justice, flight from police, illegal weapons and drug charges. He is described as being of indigenous heritage, five-feet-nine-inches, weighing about 175 pounds, with a fair/light complexion, brown eyes and short […]

The saying “When one door closes, another opens” certainly applies to Ottawa’s restaurant scene as of late. In the last several months, the city has lost a few popular locales, but many others are about to spring up. Here’s what you might have missed. The restaurant: The Captain’s Boil Location: 354 Elgin St. (The former location of […]

Cannabis for Canada Day in 2018? One reader thinks the celebration will just go to pot. Meanwhile, readers have differing views on those police wristbands, and many of you are happy with a series on children’s fitness and athletics by the Citizen’s Wayne Scanlan. Send your letters to: letters@ottawacitizen.com — Pot should not become legal on Canada […]

These are giddy times for the smart economy. On Thursday, Finance Minister Bill Morneau, flanked by Premier Kathleen Wynne, showed up for the launch of the Vector Institute in Toronto, a cool new Artificial Intelligence research facility. The same day, Ford Motor Co,. with the prime minister among its audience adornments, announced 400 jobs in the National […]

How does Justin Trudeau get away with it? I try not to play the bitter former partisan, I really do, but the recent Liberal budget and subsequent adventures in Parliamentary reform have produced some bile. Before we begin, let’s take a jaunt down memory lane. Justin Trudeau’s win was sparked by three differences with Stephen Harper’s […]

After first debuting in 2003, and again in 2012, the Juno train returns in 2017. Aboard? Some of the nominees, industry types and contest winners will ride the two trains leaving from Toronto and Montreal en route to Ottawa. “ Apparently the first ride was a full on party on wheels. But it was toned down […]

It should be business as usual on Société de transport de l’Outaouais routes Friday as unionzed drivers and mechanics put an end to pressure tactics to try to reach a contract deal. An agreement to go to arbitration was reached Thursday night, following a day of high-level meetings between union and transport company leadership, as […]

It was the shortest scandal in Canadian political history: Kellie Leitch sent her supporters an email with a photo of her shooting a Nazi-era handgun, which it wasn’t – not that it would matter if it were. The real story is not whether Leitch shot what turned out not to be a Walther P-38; the […]

After hockey practice, the Juno Cup team of rockers blew off steam on Thursday night by doing what they do best: playing music for fans. But instead of each artist hogging the spotlight at the Juno Cup Jam, egos were set aside and they brought a team approach to the stage of the Bourbon Room. […]

This time they mean it! Remember the snow message from Thursday? Well, they didn’t pan out, but the weather office stubbornly insists it’s back on for today, beginning Friday morning and leaving up to 10 cm by the time it’s finished. Winds should be gusty and the high is expected to hit 1 C. Friday […]

The Citizen spoke to Carleton University president and vice-chancellor Roseann O'Reilly Runte about her tenure at the school and her next role as CEO of the Canadian Foundation for Innovation.

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. Ottawa was the first municipality to participate in a police exchange program with the RCMP in Nunavut. […]

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 one person’s story every day until Canada Day. Chris: “We’ve been together for 15 years […]

The U.S. military has been trying, without much luck, to deal with ongoing problems affecting oxygen for Super Hornet pilots. A number of U.S. news outlets have been reporting on the issue. The latest is Flight Global which pointed out that the U.S. Navy is still struggling to find the root cause of the hypoxia […]

Wild 5, Senators 1 ST. PAUL, Minn. — It’s gut-check time for the Ottawa Senators. Hit by injuries — including the loss of captain Erik Karlsson — the Senators took a 5-1 pounding from the Minnesota Wild on Thursday night in a terrible loss at the Xcel Energy Center. The defeat raises concerns about the […]

Steelheads 6, 67’s 4 (Mississauga leads best-of-seven series 3-1) The Ottawa 67’s go into Friday night’s game in Mississauga in survival mode, needing a win to stay alive in their OHL playoff series with the Steelheads. They also go in without their captain Travis Barron, victim of what looked like a cheapshot. With the Steelheads up […]

Forget about the multi-million dollar weapons that militaries around the world buy and use on today’s battlefields. William Roper of the Pentagon’s Strategic Capabilities Office says future wars will be fought with swarms of robotic systems that don’t cost much and are easily expendable. And they will be supported by “manned” systems, at times working […]

When the puck drops on the 14th annual JUNO Cup Friday, the team of grizzled rockers captained by Blue Rodeo's Jim Cuddy will be looking to a rising star on the Canadian music scene, who also happens to have some serious stick skills in his back pocket. Adrian Sutherland, front man for breakthrough indigenous rockers Midnight Shine, spent three days driving to the Capital from the remote northern community of Attawapiskat, which most Canadians associate with a suicide crisis that became emblematic... Читать дальше...

Team captain Jim Cuddy doesn't want to give any false hope to his motley crew of rockers. “I think we are going to field our strongest team ever. This is as close as we'll ever come. We won't win, but this is as close as we'll ever come,” said the Blue Rodeo front man, who launched the JUNO Cup 14 years ago.