Новости за 08.05.2017

Hundreds of people on both sides of the Ottawa River have abandoned their homes over the weekend as record floodwaters continued to rise. Read the bullet points for key rolling updates throughout the day. Our main story is below. The floods at a glance: Good news: Water levels have reached a peak, and should start falling […]

The city of Gatineau has issued a warning about how to properly use pumps that may come into contact with water after a man was injured by an electric shock while in flood water on Sunday. The man was taken to hospital, but no information was available about his condition. The man ran into flooded […]

Emergency crews were scrambling to help a 13-year-old cyclist and a man in his mid-30s, both hit by cars in separate incidents Monday. The male cyclist was struck around 10 a.m. near the intersection of Smyth Road and Roger Guindon Avenue, near the Ottawa Hospital’s general campus. The boy received injuries to one of his legs […]

The flooding along the Gatineau and Ottawa Rivers has destroyed homes, uprooted families, and transformed communities into battlegrounds where the enemy is nature. Canadians are pitching in yet again to help people caught up in this mess. I’ve been just one of the thousands of volunteers over the last number of days who are trying […]

The Senate defence committee has recommended the Liberal government dump the proposed purchase of Super Hornet fighter jets. The acquisition of the 18 interim jets would be a costly stopgap measure, the committee noted in its report released Monday. The committee instead urged the federal government to immediately begin a competition to replace the RCAF’s […]

Today, our letter-writers are concerned about the city’s plans for major thoroughfares such as Elgin Street and Montreal Road. If you have opinions, please share with us at letter@ottawacitizen.com You can read our guidelines here. — Plan for Elgin Street just plain wrong Re: Two-year Elgin Street construction endorsed by city transportation committee, May 3. […]

The almost 1,000 federal workers at the former Nortel campus on Carling Avenue can now drink the water. A drinking-water ban for the Department of National Defence campus had been in place since April 27 after tests found higher than acceptable levels of lead and other chemicals. Bottled water was passed out to the DND […]

Carleton Place and District Memorial Hospital resumed service Monday afternoon after Ontario Provincial Police spent the morning investigating an “incident.” Initially, patients were advised not to go to the hospital Monday morning while the OPP investigated. “Just before 7 a.m., police were alerted to a suspicious incident at the hospital. Emergency services were on site all […]

The eighth annual Music and Beyond Festival runs this year from July 4-17.

Rising flood waters have led to a torrent of road closures and school and work cancellations in the region on a cold and miserable Monday. After a dusting of snow overnight – 0.2 cm according to Environment Canada – Monday is forecast to be cloudy, with a 60-per-cent chance of flurries or showers and northwest winds […]

Canadians should support all hockey teams, opines one of our writers. Meanwhile, a tongue-in-cheek suggestion: jail prisoners in the CTC. And, two responses to columnist Randall Denley, who said the province’s child-care plan leaves behind the middle class.  Write to us: letters@ottawacitizen.com.  —- Cheer for all Canadian hockey teams It has been more than two […]

With public servants told to stay away from the Gatineau offices today, and a cavalcade of armoured personnel vehicles and tarp-covered trucks rolling through Gatineau, expect the government to be a bit preoccupied with flood announcements today. Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale will likely update reporters through the week on the army’s four deployments across […]

'We had all these tulips and I thought they belonged to all Canadians, so I thought we should create a tulip festival.'

That the minister lied isn’t in dispute. What’s less clear is why he would tell a lie so easily disproven and so damaging to his reputation when disproven it was. One possibility: Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan sits somewhere on the continuum of a pathological liar, compelled to tell tales of military feats more illustrious than […]

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. “I’m 32 and I live in Toronto […]

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. In July 1958, U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower visited Ottawa, and it wasn’t all for business. He took […]

Ottawa units from 33 Brigade are preparing to support the flood relief efforts in Ottawa and Quebec if they are called up, soldiers tell Defence Watch. 33 Canadian Brigade Group is military formation that is made up of 15 Army Reserve units located throughout the province of Ontario. The 33 CBG Headquarters is in Ottawa. Several […]

Federal office buildings in Gatineau are closed on Monday and Treasury Board has advised federal public servants who work in them or who use interprovincial bridges to get to work not to travel to their offices. Treasury Board said in a news release Sunday that with flooding having forced evacuations and road closings in Gatineau that the priority […]

NEW YORK — As much as Guy Boucher believes that “rest is a weapon,” he has witnessed the even greater value of true grit at this time of the hockey season. It has almost always separated the men from the boys in the NHL playoffs. True grit is what the Senators so clearly lacked in their […]

There was a nervous hope the tide was turning in Constance Bay on Sunday afternoon, as the rain stopped and an army of sandbaggers busily blocked the advance of historically-high flood water from the Ottawa River. At about 1 p.m., about a dozen volunteers were hand-bombing orange sandbags around the Lighthouse Grocery and Restaurant on Bayview Drive, a […]

Eleven months before her death, 12-year-old Amy Owen posted a picture on Facebook of a downcast girl on a swing with the words: “I am just a kid and my life is a nightmare.” Bounced around from her home on a remote northern reserve to foster care in Eastern Ontario, thousands of kilometres away, the girl […]

NEW YORK — Doesn’t sounds like Chris Neil is going anywhere anytime soon. After all the credit the Ottawa tough-guy was given for just being in the lineup and the role he played in Saturday’s 5-4 OT win over the New York Rangers, coach Guy Boucher certainly didn’t rule out using him Tuesday night in an […]

The Senators have already won three overtime games at Canadian Tire Centre, only one shy of the home ice overtime record, shared by the 1993 Canadiens and 1968 St. Louis Blues. Their five overtime wins overall also establishes a new franchise record, originally set in 2003.

A Superior Court judge has asked Ottawa police to justify a policy that requires three weeks’ notice to transfer a prisoner from an out-of-town jail to Ottawa for a bail review, even if the jail is only as far away as Brockville. During a bail review last month, Ontario Superior Court Justice Kevin Phillips said […]

Pontiac’s community centre has become a one-stop-shop for sandbags, food and support as the area becomes a key focus for soldiers helping evacuate the parts of the Outaouais region hammered by flooding. As she laid out trays of buns and vegetables, Joan Belsher estimated volunteers have given 20 large pots of homemade soup. “It’s enough […]