Новости за 28.05.2017

The off-season for the Ottawa Senators will officially kick off Monday morning at the Canadian Tire Centre. And, like every off-season, there is no shortage of work to be done with the NHL expansion draft set for June 21st and the entry draft on June 24-25 in Chicago. While the Senators’ players spent Saturday addressing […]

Vancouver runner leads Canadian women in marathon and meets the qualifying standard for the world championships. Nicholas Berrouard of Shawinigan tops Canadian men.

Runners from Kenya and Ethiopia ruled the men's and women's divisions of Sunday's feature race on Tamarack Ottawa Race Weekend.

Kanata MPP Jack MacLaren’s been kicked out of the provincial Progressive Conservative caucus and won’t be allowed to run for the party in the next election, leader Patrick Brown says. The “final straw” was an old video of MacLaren answering a question at a public event, implying that a Tory government would do something — it’s […]

Geoff Green is preparing to spend 150 days at sea, travelling with a crew of 64 in a former Canadian coast guard ship, going coast to coast to coast. He’s the founder of Students on Ice, an 18-year-old organization that leads student expeditions to the Arctic and Antarctic, and a veteran of more than 126 […]

One of the most important men in Ottawa’s history has no proper biography. Very few of his personal papers are available. Some of his buildings and accomplishments have been bulldozed and lost to time. Even his burial plot lacks a properly dignified marker.  Yet you probably know Thomas McKay’s major accomplishments.  The entrance locks to the Rideau Canal. Rideau Hall, where the Governor […]

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 uncommon and the everyday. We’ll share one person’s story every day until Canada Day. “I was just playing Pokemon Go. I […]

Despite a seemingly interminable leadership race featuring far too many candidates who were contenders only in their own minds, the Conservative party got it right Saturday night, by the narrowest of margins. In choosing Ottawa-native Andrew Scheer, the Conservatives picked a leader with the capacity to broaden their party’s popular appeal. Second-place finisher Maxime Bernier […]

Lester Pearson was instrumental in creating the first UN peacekeeping force but he never worshipped at its altar. In fact, while peacekeeping eventually became something of a state religion for many Canadians, he would have remained wisely agnostic, or rather, open-minded on when, whether and how to employ the mechanism he helped shape in 1956. […]

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. Dow’s Lake, home of houseboats, canoes, paddleboats and a picturesque stopping point along the Rideau waterway, is […]

The Ottawa Champions couldn’t hang onto a late 3-0 lead, surrendering five eighth-inning runs in a 5-3 loss in Sussex County on Saturday night. Both of Sussex County’s Can-Am wins this season have come against Ottawa. The baseball teams play again Sunday at 2:05 p.m. at Skylands Park.

The Ottawa police have asked for the public’s assistance in locating Ruth L. Stefano. She was last known to be in the area of Island Park Drive and Scott Street, and is described as white, about five feet tall and 100 pounds, with hazel eyes and grey hair in a ponytail. Anyone with information was […]

Ottawa 67's forward Sasha Chmelevski and Senators defence prospect Thomas Chabot were among the Canadian Hockey League award winners announced on Saturday.

Andrew Scheer has been selected the next leader of the federal Conservative party, receiving 50.95 per cent of the votes in the final ballot against Maxime Bernier. After a lengthy winnowing of the field of 13 candidates, the 12th-ballot results Saturday eliminated Ontario MP Erin O’Toole with 21.26 per cent of the points, leaving Bernier […]

Martin Jarry dreamed of running a marathon someday. But after being diagnosed last year with an incurable muscle disease, the 47-year-old Montrealer had to settle for Saturday’s 10-kilometre race instead. “The 10K,” he told the Citizen before the start of the Tamarack Ottawa Race Weekend event, “will be my 42 kilometres, because it’s really demanding on […]

Chris Neil and Chris Kelly wanted so very badly to get back to the Stanley Cup final one last time, no matter their roles.

Leul Gebresilase and Netsanet Gudeta of Ethiopia won the men's and women's titles in the Ottawa 10K road race on Saturday evening.

A half-dozen men in the field have completed a marathon faster than the 2:06:54 by Ethiopia's Yemane Tsegay in Ottawa in 2014.

Erik Karlsson left reporters laughing as he exited the Senators' dressing room for the last time this season.

Mark Borowiecki, who suffered his ankle problems in Game 2 against Boston, says he was his own worst enemy in racing to return too soon, giving himself “ultimatums” and “deadlines” that weren’t realistic.

What, me worry? Bobby Ryan isn’t the least bit concerned. With the Vegas Golden Knights set to join the NHL and go to the expansion draft table on June 21, the Senators’ winger isn’t convinced GM George McPhee is willing to roll the dice on the $37.5 million left on his five-year contract. Is Ryan, […]

Ottawa Fury FC is developing a flair for the dramatic, taking its fans on yet another rollercoaster ride Saturday afternoon at TD Place. A team that struggled scoring goals earlier in the season has found its finishing touch – in a big way. On Saturday, Fury FC went back and forth with the Richmond Kickers […]