Новости за 26.05.2017

A CHEO scientist has received a $2.2 million research grant to manufacture a cancer-fighting virus that could give doctors a new weapon to deploy against the aggressive form of brain cancer that now afflicts Gord Downie, lead singer of the Tragically Hip.

A 16-year-old girl wanted in the high-rise homicide of Ahmad Afrah has been arrested, the Citizen has learned. The girl, who cannot be named because of her age, was arrested Friday morning within city limits after a Canada-wide warrant for her arrest was issued one week ago. She has been charged with manslaughter and aggravated […]

Three Gatineau friends are on a mission to save the environment, one bamboo toothbrush at a time.  And it looks as though they’ll be making a little money along the way. “It’s been a few years since Simon-Pier (Ouellet) and I wanted to start our own business,” said Jean-Philippe Bergeron, one of the founders of OLA Bamboo. […]

What a finish. The Ottawa Senators showed their fighting spirit til the very end of their 2016-17 season, taking the reigning Stanley Cup champions to double overtime in Game 7 of a thrilling Eastern Conference final. Admittedly it wasn’t the outcome that we — or the city, or the Senators — would have wanted, but it […]

Kathleen Brennan was the type of person people gravitated toward.  “She would light up a room with her big personality and laugh,” said her neighbour, Lynne Hamilton. Brennan, a 23-year-old University of Ottawa graduate student from Kanata, died earlier this month following a planned five-week trip through eastern Europe.  On May 2, during the first week of her […]

PITTSBURGH – It’s Steel City vs. the Music City in the Stanley Cup final. Heartbroken Ottawa hockey fans are singing a hurtin’ tune Friday after the Senators were eliminated in the Eastern Conference final with a 3-2 double-overtime loss to the Pittsburgh Penguins just before the clock struck midnight Thursday to book a spot in […]

Egg donors and surrogates should get “reasonable compensation,” according to a national group that represents fertility specialists and scientists. “Allowing reasonable compensation helps prevent abuses, ensures fairness and transparency, and improves access to care for those seeking third-party reproduction,” says a position paper from the Canadian Fertility & Andrology Society. Under the 2004 Assisted Human Reproduction Act, the purchase […]

Wanted: women willing to give their time and their bodies to help other women become mothers — for purely altruistic reasons. Ottawa’s Liz Ellwood and Lisa Casselman have opened up a new fertility consultancy to help infertile couples find egg donors and surrogates. Fertility Match is one of fewer than 10 such agencies across Canada. And […]

A spectacular season for the Senators  Much talk has been made in the media about the lack of sellout Senators’ games and the “boring” play of our home team. Well, I can tell you from personal experience that this year’s playoff run was anything but boring! I enjoy watching hockey and go to the occasional […]

The Ottawa drummer's quintet will tackle the music of hard bop pianist and master of jazz composition icon this weekend at the Options Jazz Lounge of the Brookstreet Hotel,

The Ojibway man looks out from inside in the prisoner’s box at the Elgin Street courthouse. It’s hard for him to see without his glasses so he squints toward the gallery. He doesn’t need them to read the document he’s holding. It’s 12 pages and a horrific story of sexual abuse. He’s reading it for […]

The pictures are what get to me. The very first time I saw the photo of Alan Kurdi face down on a Turkish beach at the water’s edge, I thought I was going to throw up. Alan was the same age as my son, and in death he was lying in a position familiar to […]

A new deal between the Ottawa and Gatineau transit agencies will clear Outaouais buses from Rideau and Wellington Street in front of Parliament once Ottawa’s light-rail system opens next year, the two services announced Friday. Some routes will move onto Albert and Slater streets, taking over room vacated by OC Transpo when transit services moves […]

“Not a leader.” “He didn’t come back for you.” “He’s in way over his head.” If any of these ancient political taglines still register, it’s because the Conservative party spent significant sums searing them into your brain. For those with impregnable (or apolitical) memories, every time the then-opposition Liberals would pick a new leader to […]

Life comes at you fast: One day you’re just another reality TV star squandering Daddy’s millions and fending off a lawsuit alleging child rape along with rumours that you keep a book of Hitler’s speeches beside your bed; the next day, you’re leader of the free world. Before you know it, there you are, marauding around Europe […]

OCSB schools an easy choice

As a free agent, Pageau is poised for a big payday. He’s the Swiss Army knife of centres: he has all the tools for any situation.

Transport Canada has dispatched investigators to the Arnprior airport after an apparent mechanical malfunction on a plane led to a rough landing for three people aboard. According to reports, the plane was attempting to land at the airport when the landing gear apparently malfunctioned, causing the plane to tip and hit the ground nose-first, as the […]

Ottawa police are asking for public assistance to locate a 54-year-old man who has been missing since May 15. According to police, Robert Russ, of Ottawa, was last seen on Murray Street in downtown Ottawa. He is described as white, five-feet-six-inches (168 cm) tall, weighing 100 lbs (45 kg), with salt-and-pepper hair. His appearance is described as […]

Talk about piling insult onto injury.  Try googling the Ottawa Senators Friday morning after Thursday night’s nail-biting, double-overtime loss to the Pittsburgh Penguins, now the Eastern Conference champions. An online prankster has changed the team’s listed owner to Penguins captain Sidney Crosby on a throw to the team’s Wikipedia page. Click through and the actual page […]

A 15-year-old boy led officers on a chase in Gatineau Thursday night, police said. The stolen F-250 truck was spotted on St-Louis Street at about 9:40 p.m. Patrol officers tried to pull it over but the vehicle, which struck a parked car, didn’t stop. After being pursued by police, the driver finally stopped on Goyette […]

Show #26: Leading Ladies Where: Almonte and District High School  Director: Jenny Sheffield Marisha Boyd, Critic All Saints High School Three million dollars – enough money to travel the world in luxury, buy plenty of sports cars and finally pay off that dreadful mortgage! But, how far would you go to obtain this money, and […]

The weather is matching many Ottawans’ post-Stanley Cup playoff gloom for Friday morning’s commute. For Friday, Environment Canada is predicting periods of drizzle ending in the morning then clouds with a 60 per cent chance of showers and high of 15 C. There’s a 40 per cent chance of evening showers and a low of 9 C. […]

Victims services are helping two residents displaced by a kitchen fire early Friday morning. Ottawa Fire Services got the call from the residents of 38 Argue Dr. at 3:21 a.m. Five minutes later, smoke was visible from the front of the home and fire crews declared a working fire. The flames were under control by […]

Since the rise of ISIL and the growing number of attacks in Western cities such as Paris, Brussels, Sydney, Orlando and others, there’s been a sharp rise in anti-Islamic sentiment, suggesting that perhaps it’s time to declare societal war with Islam; that there is now a clear-cut “clash of civilizations” between the two. In the […]