Новости за 07.06.2017

Three vastly different corridors for the future LRT link through Kanata will receive further review after staff found 13 ways to run an electrified rail service between Moodie Drive and the Canadian Tire Centre. The city has already identified what it believes is the strongest route, which would follow the existing rapid bus transit corridor […]

Veteran Ottawa concert promoter Ken Craig joins the national company.

Members of the Ottawa Newspaper Guild, which represents 68 employees at the Ottawa Citizen and Ottawa Sun, have voted in favour of giving their executive committee a strike mandate in contract negotiations with management. “This vote shows overwhelming support for our bargaining committee,” said guild president Debbie Cole. Postmedia senior vice-president of content Gerry Nott […]

OTTAWA — The Liberals’ controversial choice for official languages commissioner, Madeleine Meilleur, has withdrawn her candidacy for the position, federal Heritage Minister Melanie Joly said Wednesday. Joly’s announcement came after steadfast Opposition criticism of Meilleur’s possible appointment because of her ties to the federal Liberals. “I had the opportunity to discuss with Mrs. Meilleur earlier […]

Madeleine Meilleur should have been a senator, instead of watching her nomination to be Canada’s official-languages commissioner smash on the rocks. The former Ottawa-Vanier MPP and doyenne of Eastern Ontario francophones is an unexpected casualty of Justin Trudeau’s aversion to partisanship in a legislative body that has historically needed it to function. A place in […]

David Kawai likes to make origami cranes. Small ones. Really small ones. Some three days and 32,000 retweets after his wife tweeted out a photo of his latest (and smallest) creation, Kawai, an Ottawa resident and photo freelancer for the Citizen, invited us to his home Tuesday to show us the method (and the madness) […]

As an exercise in eloquently sugar-coating the facts of the shattered world order and Canada’s precarious place within the ruins, Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland’s speech in the House of Commons Tuesday was a masterwork of tact and sobriety. Running in excess of 4,000 words, here’s the short version: We’ve had a good run. Everything […]

Too much food was made with a heavy hand at the restaurant inside the Amberwood Golf and Country Club.

Citizen writers suggest outings for the next week.

The Liberal government’s defence policy released Wednesday has good news for the rank and file in the Canadian Forces. There is an income tax break on salaries earned while overseas. “In order to ensure that Canadian Armed Forces members are treated equally on deployment, all troops deployed on any named international operations will be exempted […]

It’s a description many musicians would be proud to add to their résumé, but probably not in a police file. Police in Kingston say they were forced to bring in a 39-year-old local man over the weekend for “loud music and bad behaviour.” The would-be busker set up his guitar and amp in the passenger […]

The Liberal government announced Wednesday that it will increase defence spending by $13.9 billion over the next decade. Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan said the money is guaranteed to come. But Sajjan refused several times to say where the billions of dollars in new money is coming from. Would other government programs be cut? Would the […]

Police are hunting for two women who mugged a third on George Street last month as they report an increase in personal robberies even before the beginning of what’s typically a summer spike. The victim was near the Dalhousie Street intersection in the middle of the afternoon of May 20 when she was approached by […]

The region’s largest annual showcase of craft breweries is preparing to roll out the barrels this weekend. The three-day event, which begins on Thursday and runs through Saturday at the Canadian Museum of History, annually attracts more than 40,000 thirsty guests and dozens of breweries from across the country. More than 40 breweries will be […]

OC Transpo ridership was down again in the first three months of this year. City staff are unsure why, although they suggest the shortfall could be due to external factors such as population, employment numbers, gasoline prices and weather. Curiously, Transpo has not yet told the public what the actual reduction is, saying the numbers […]

The proposed Barrhaven Rail Safety Program, a pricey but vital plan to separate roads and rail lines in Barrhaven, received the blessing of council’s transportation committee on Wednesday. It could cost $430 million to build overpasses or underpasses where roads currently cross train tracks in five locations, but councillors know the work is essential if the […]

A community station is hosting a telethon Saturday to raise money for flood victims in Clarence-Rockland. The telethon will run from noon to 8 p.m. Saturday on station TVC22. The small community about 40 kilometres east of Ottawa declared a state of emergency at the height of this spring’s flooding. The broadcast will take place […]

There are many reasons for investing in a home renovation. Some folks want to redesign a kitchen or bathroom to their tastes; others may want to gut a home and start fresh. And, sometimes, you find yourself needing to create more space to accommodate a loved one. Our story leads us to a home in […]

A 26-year-old Blainville man appeared in court in Gatineau Tuesday facing charges including impaired driving causing death in the head-on crash that killed Amina-Sara Belahbib, 24, on Highway 50 in November. After prosecutors reviewed the case, a warrant was issued for the arrest of François Castonguay Danis last week and he was arrested by Sûreté du Québec […]

Dozens of yogis had a rare chance to practice with some furry, four-legged friends as the Canada Agriculture and Food Museum held their first ever goat yoga class. The event sold out in minutes and continues Wednesday, June 7, 2017.

Calypso and construction. Must be summer in Ottawa. It’s finally starting to feel like it with Wednesday’s Environment Canada forecast of fog giving way to sunshine and a high of 25 C with a humidex reading of 27. Break out the sunscreen for a UV index of 8 or very high and swap out the brollies […]

Minister of International Trade François-Philippe Champagne and his officials have been busy. In recent weeks, we saw exploratory free trade talks with China, the launch of consultations on Canada’s relations with Brazil and its Mercosur partners, internal work to modernize an already solid free-trade agreement with Chile and strategizing on how to revive the best […]

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. “What did a one-dollar allowance buy in […]

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. Did you know tobacco used to be grown on the Central Experimental Farm? From the early 1900s, […]

The Paravans’ epic medical journey began at Charleston Lake during a late summer camping trip in 2012 when the family’s youngest member, five-year-old Matthew, had his first seizure.  At the time, Matthew played hockey, baseball and soccer. He was in French immersion at Woodroffe Avenue Public School, and had never suffered anything more serious than […]