Новости за 17.05.2017

Leaning on the batting cage as he prepared for his 13th opening day as a professional baseball player, Sebastien Boucher got to discussing championship rings with his manager Hal Lanier. Or rather how many rings each had. About to begin his 41st year in professional baseball as a player, coach or manager and his 19th […]

OTTAWA, Ontario — The Penguins appear poised to get a significant piece of their blue line back tonight, as defenseman Trevor Daley seems likely to rejoin the lineup for Game 3 of the Eastern Conference final. Penguins coach Mike Sullivan said Daley will be a game-time decision, but all indications are that he will play. […]

Citizen arts writers suggest outings this week.

Two people were taken to hospital with serious injuries after a crash between a transport truck and a parked truck used for highway safety during construction on Hwy. 417 near the Quebec border Wednesday afternoon. The highway is expected to be closed until at least 5 p.m. as investigators examine the scene and leaking fuel from […]

The Ottawa Police Service said an incident in which a man fell from a balcony in downtown Ottawa on Monday night is now being investigated as a homicide. Police said calls were received around 10:50 p.m. reporting a man was suffering from severe injuries after falling from a high-rise building around 400 MacLaren Street. Upon arriving at […]

Clearly, Boucher learned a thing or two from his first NHL coaching gig with Tampa, when he was sometimes criticized for pushing his players too hard.

A sculpture of bronze rods configured into a giant arc and intended to act as a “living calendar” has been chosen as the winning design for the Memorial to the Victims of Communism. Arc of Memory was chosen for the monument by Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly following public consultations in March 2017 and on the recommendations of […]

TEL AVIV, Israel – As if the Israelis and the Palestinians didn’t have enough headaches already, U.S. President Donald Trump is set to arrive in Jerusalem next Monday, and he’s already throwing his weight around and creeping people out. He’s not exactly arriving at the most auspicious time, either. The week began with Nakba (“Catastrophe”) […]

A 32-year-old woman was taken to hospital for treatment of serious burns following a kitchen fire in a residence on Brookline Avenue in the city’s Ridgemont area. First responders answered a call for a fire at about 10:30 a.m. and the woman with second-degree burns to her arms and first-degree burns to her abdomen, reportedly suffered in a […]

The Ottawa Senators will likely add experience to their lineup for Game 3 Wednesday night with winger Viktor Stalberg expected to return. After missing the first two games of the East final with an undisclosed injury, coach Guy Boucher and Stalberg told reporters Wednesday morning he will be a game time decision against the Pittsburgh […]

A man aboard a Harley-Davidson motorcycle and a woman walking her dog were critically injured near Napanee Tuesday when the bike lost control and struck her. Napanee OPP officers were called just before 7:30 p.m. to the crash on South Shore Road in Greater Napanee. They determined that the eastbound motorcyclist, driven by a 47-year-old Kingston […]

The province’s Special Investigations Unit, has found no reasonable grounds to lay criminal charges against any Ottawa police officer in connection with an April 2016 Vanier Parkway crash that resulted in ther deaths of two men.   The incident began at about 1 a.m. April 16, when a 37-year-old man driving a Pontiac G6 attempted to […]

A pocket of 150 homes in Gatineau’s flood zone faces a new danger now that the water has receded: Municipal rules intended to keep their neighbourhood looking historic. Before the flood, it took Lucie Fortin eight months to get city approval for a small solarium on the house that once belonged to her grandparents. The house was built in 1885, one […]

The President of the United States is very powerful. The so-called leader of the free world has a lot of influence and a great deal of leeway in deciding what to say and do. Donald Trump is exercising this freedom to the max. Trump elected to share a piece of intelligence with Russian officials the […]

Back on Monday

With the last of the snow officially melted, we can embrace the warmth, the sun and the rain that spring brings us. Green grass graces our lawns again and trees are covered in buds and little leaves. The tulips are beginning to bloom.  For those who don’t want to get their hands in the dirt, there’s […]

Show #23: The Girl in the Mirror Where: St. Francis Xavier High School Director: Tamara Capyk Grace Hu, Lead Critic Colonel By Secondary School The past and the future are both inevitable; only the present can be savoured or wasted. St. Francis Xavier High School’s introspective production of The Girl in the Mirror was a […]

Firefighters extricated a 69-year-old man after his truck went off Malakoff Road at Paden Road and rolled into bush early Wednesday morning. A tree then fell on the vehicle. Firefighters, who got the call at 6:42 a.m., had to extricate the man from the vehicle but he luckily suffered only minor injuries. He was taken […]

Summer is (suddenly) here. Wednesday’s forecast is for a high of 29 C with a Humidex of 34 and UV index of 8 or very high. Environment Canada predicts clouds will roll in overnight, with a balmy low of 19 C, bringing mainly overcast skies and a 60-per-cent chance of late afternoon showers or thunderstorms […]

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. Bell-Northern Research engineers at Ottawa’s Carling Campus in the late 1970s were the first to develop a […]

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 exceptional and the everyday. We’ll share one person’s story every day until Canada Day. “The best advice I got came very […]

HMCS Chicoutimi went out to sea but had to return to CFB Esquimalt in British Columbia because of battery issues. The diesel-electric sub had been out for six days. “HMCS Chicoutimi was conducting operations at sea when routine monitoring indicated battery functioning below performance specifications,” confirmed LCdr John Nethercott, a spokesman for the Royal Canadian […]

Things are going from bad to worse on Avenue P, say some beleaguered residents. The townhouses along this quiet street in Eastway Gardens back onto railway tracks used by Via passenger trains and a giant earthen berm built by the city’s light-rail contractor, Rideau Transit Group. On the other side of the berm, which is taller than […]

PITTSBURGH — Pierre Dorion is being recognized for the club’s success this season. The Ottawa Senators’ general manager was named as one of three finalists for the NHL’s GM-of-the-year award along with Edmonton Oilers GM Peter Chiarelli, an Ottawa native, and David Poile of the Nashville Predators. Voting for the award was done by the league […]

As everyone else on the flight was taking their seat, Lea Gibson was left wondering why she wasn’t getting hers. “And finally, at the last minute, they said, ‘The rest of you aren’t going to be on this flight,'” Gibson said. “They didn’t let me on the the flight and they gave me some measly little token for […]