Новости за 25.05.2017

PITTSBURGH – Warning: If you want to win the Stanley Cup, turn off your phone. According to Ottawa Senators winger Bobby Ryan, blocking any and all outside distractions is a pivotal part of having success in the NHL playoffs. “I don’t read anything,” said Ryan, whose outstanding post-season run has helped turn some of his […]

PITTSBURGH — Ottawa Senators prospect Logan Brown is getting a second chance to shine in a season marred by injuries. Just like the big-league Senators, Brown is also enjoying an extended spring. His Windsor Spitfires are hosting the Memorial Cup and went 3-0 in the round robin portion of the tournament, guaranteeing them a spot […]

According to the Alzheimer Society of Ontario, up to 60 per cent of people with dementia-related memory problems will go missing at some point.

The organization that oversees Ottawa River dams says it did not add to the flooding problem in Ottawa and Gatineau by letting too much water through its dams farther upstream. Facebook reports have been circulating with pictures of low water on the river near Mattawa, about 300 kilometres upstream, and claiming this contributed to flooding in Ottawa and Gatineau. […]

Police said Thursday they had found the body of Nelliya Karbisheva, the 82-year-old Stittsville woman who went missing Sunday. Karbisheva, who police said has a form of dementia, was found in a wooded area near the end of Stittsville Main Street, not far from her last confirmed sighting. Police also said the woman’s poodle was found “safe […]

NATO is looking at boosting the number of troops the alliance has committed to Afghanistan. It will decide on how many more soldiers are needed later this year. There are around 13,000 military personnel, mainly involved in training Afghan forces. But Prime Minister Justin Trudeau wasn’t exactly jumping at the bit to get involved in […]

A raid Wednesday at a home on George Street in Prescott yielded items that had been stolen in break-ins and thefts from vehicles in Prescott and Augusta Township along with methamphetamine and marijuana, the OPP says. Grenville County OPP teamed up with the region’s emergency response team and organized crime unit to execute the search […]

Exercise MAPLE FLAG will take place at 4 Wing Cold Lake between May 29 and June 23. The Royal Canadian Air Force points out that the exercise is its largest and most complex international training event of the year, involving over 1600 Canadian Forces members and over 500 allied military personnel.

My commitment is to making the Sens a great hockey team  Re: Melnyk must be to blame for so many unsold playoff tickets, May 23 It was hugely disappointing to see that Don Brennan, a veteran member of our Ottawa sports media establishment, has chosen to single me out as the root cause for empty seats during […]

The city says it urgently needs volunteers in areas flooded by the Ottawa River, this time to take away sandbags. It has called for volunteers age 16 and over in Fitzroy Harbour, Constance Bay and Dunrobin, on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Anyone able and willing to help move sandbags from residential properties to the side of the […]

Families put great deliberation into finding a place to call home. It’s the journey of touring model homes, exploring pre-owned houses and finding that neighbourhood speaks to them. For homeowners looking for a quiet community that’s surrounded by nature but also close to amenities, Tartan Homes’ Findlay Creek Village just might fit the bill. The development, known as one […]

City police are asking for help finding a missing Ottawa man who was last seen in Centretown May 14. Michael Brownlee, 26, has a developmental disability. He was last seen on McLeod Street. Brownlee is described as white, five-feet-six-inches tall and 155 pounds with brown eyes and brown hair. Police ask that anyone who knows […]

First the good news. The region’s economy is expected to put on a good show this year in keeping with the spirit of the Canada 150 celebrations. The value of all goods and services produced in the capital this year should climb 2.3 per cent excluding inflation, putting Ottawa-Gatineau in the top tier of the […]

Police are asking the public to help them is the search for a knife-wielding man who held up a Pembroke gas bar Tuesday morning. Wearing a bandana over his face, the man walked into the Esso on Pembroke Street West at about 2 a.m., police said he brandished the weapon at the clerk and demanded cash before […]

If it’s predictability that the city wants in its planning, it should get going on finalizing a development blueprint for the future Trillium Line station at Gladstone Avenue. Ottawa Community Housing announced Wednesday that it’s acquiring the federal land north of Gladstone Avenue, along the eastern edge of the Trillium Line corridor, for a mixed-use development. The property […]

Let’s hope it rains goals on the Penguins net in Pittsburgh tonight but back home in Ottawa it’ll be be a good night to watch the Senators’ big game indoors, perhaps in a noisy establishment with food and drink. For Thursday, Environment Canada is forecasting clouds with a 30-per-cent chance of morning showers, periods of rain […]

Police say that a man suffered injuries that aren’t life-threatening when he was slashed in a fight with another man on Rideau Street early Thursday morning. Officers were called to the McDonald’s at 99 Rideau St. at 12:50 a.m. although police couldn’t immediately say whether the incident happened inside or on the street outside the restaurant.  […]

Action on creating a much-needed cultural institution is long overdue – the time has come for Canada to have its own national portrait gallery. Since the 19th century, the National Archives of Canada has accumulated, and continues to accumulate, the world’s second-largest collection of portraits. These are portraits of Canadians from all walks of life […]

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. Charles Hurdman is the patriarch of the family for whom the Transitway station and nearby park are […]

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 the great-grandson of William Curfoot-Mollington, who […]

As coalition and Iraqi troops continue to keep pressure up on Islamic State forces, Canada has withdrawn one of its two Aurora surveillance aircraft from the war zone. The CP-140 Auroras have been involved in the mission since late 2014. Two Auroras have been providing information on ground movements and verifying targets hit by coalition […]

PITTSBURGH — It’s impossible to pinpoint exactly when it first started floating around in their minds. Not when they first met the new coach, with the foreign system he fed them that was advertised as being for the greater good but would come at the expense of personal gains. That was initially tough for them to […]

Inside the soon-to-open Canadian History Hall are potent national symbols like an astrolabe said to have belonged to explorer Samuel de Champlain, the last spike of the Canadian Pacific Railroad and a T-shirt worn by Terry Fox.

Transit ridership dropped over the first three months of 2017, leaving management wondering why its projections were off.

PITTSBURGH — Country music or a country place for the summer. That’s what’s on the table for the Ottawa Senators as they prepare for a do-or-die Game 7 against the Pittsburgh Penguins Thursday night at the PPG Paints Arena. The winner meets the Nashville Predators in Game 1 of the Stanley Cup final Monday night […]