Новости за 12.06.2017

An LRT subcontractor claims the company overseeing construction owes more than $1.5 million for work done on the City of Ottawa’s largest-ever infrastructure project. HC Matcon (HCM) filed a statement of claim in court last week alleging it has been short-changed by the Rideau Transit Group (RTG) and the consortium’s partner companies. The City of […]

TORONTO — Ontario is offering public servants a four-year contract extension with 7.5-per-cent raises, which, if ratified, would avoid possibly contentious bargaining before the next provincial election. The Ontario Public Service Employees Union workers would get 1.5 per cent on July 1, then one per cent on Jan. 1, 2019 and another one per cent […]

Dion Phaneuf has a decision to make and the clock is ticking. Will he or won’t he? Trying to keep veteran blueliner Marc Methot from being exposed to the Vegas Golden Knights in the expansion draft with the protected lists due Saturday at 5 p.m. EST, league sources confirmed a weekend report the Ottawa Senators […]

Eric Fisher is a biochemist who was headed for a career researching heart disease when he abruptly changed course. Now, instead of doing his own research, he has created a crowdfunding platform to help other scientists raise money to continue their work at a time when money for science is scarce. Labfundr, as the platform […]

OTTAWA — Beverley McLachlin is stepping down as Supreme Court chief justice in mid-December. McLachlin is the first woman to hold the top job on the high court, and she is also Canada’s longest-serving chief justice. She was sworn in as a justice of the Supreme Court in 1989, and was appointed chief justice 11 […]

The Montreal guitarist, supported by Ottawa's Alex Bilodeau and Michel Delage, plays the Upstairs Jazz Bar and Grill this Tuesday night.

The Ottawa Police Services Board approved a four-year collective agreement with the rank-and-file union Monday in a special in-camera meeting. The contract had already been ratified by the police union on June 2 when 98 per cent of civilian employee voters and 96 per cent of police officer voters accepted the proposed contract. It’s the […]

Fares are the next frontier for Ottawa’s largest cab company owners who now have a smartphone application that mirrors almost all the things customers like about the Uber app. Capital Taxi unveiled its app for the 350-cab fleet during an event Monday at Lansdowne Park, with co-owner Marc Andre Way preaching the importance of innovation in […]

Ottawa’s English public school board is getting $18.3 million from the provincial government to help surviving schools on the west side of the city absorb others the board is being forced to close, Education Minister Mitzie Hunter announced Monday. She pledged the money in the sweltering library of Agincourt Road Public School near Baseline and […]

The Department of National Defence has appealed a not-guilty verdict for a Petawawa-based special operations soldier who was accused of sexual assaulting a fellow soldier during a deployment in Jamaica two years ago. Cpl. Simon Cadieux was found not guilty of sexual assault and drunkenness by a military judge following a court martial in May. […]

If I were a professor and had assigned my graduate students the preparation of a new defence policy and had received the government’s response from one of my students, I would have given this student a C or C+ at best. I was pleased to see its focus on the men and women in the […]

Well, now that the NHL season is officially over, it’s time to start working on your fundamentals again. Like drawing. Twitter user @wtyky came up with a fun game for Sens’ fans: Draw the team’s logo from memory. It’s A LOT harder than you think. Here’s the original post: Let's play a game. Try to […]

The spat over Southminster United Church continues, with a letter writer saying don’t let NIMBYism wreck it. Meanwhile, another writer loves the Capital Voices series and another has opinions on minimum wage hikes for franchise owners.  Got thoughts? Hit us up at letters@ottawacitizen.com.  *** Don’t let NIMBYism destroy Southminster Southminster United Church is facing hard […]

The Ottawa Humane Society is warning cat owners to keep an eye on their pets as the weather heats up and windows are being opened in an effort to cool down apartments. Open windows in high-rise buildings are a hazard to felines whose curiosity may cause them to slip and fall. The humane society said […]

The director of the Special Investigations Unit won’t talk to me.  That sounds petulant, but hang on a minute. In April, a year-long review of civilian oversight of Ontario policing concluded, and it made 129 recommendations for improvements. Among these were many directed at upping transparency among the agencies involved. The SIU, which investigates serious […]

For the second year in a row, a Canadian prime minister attended the annual parliamentary press gallery dinner, and for the second year in a row, Justin Trudeau was charming and funny. Clearly, the man is accessible, in contrast to the previous prime minister, who avoided such events with fierce determination. But as with many […]

Investigators are looking for witnesses to what they report are two incidents of mischief at a downtown church. A 52-year-old Ottawa woman was charged Friday with breach of judicial release and disturbing religious worship. Police say the woman went into the Kent Street church April 30 and began to scream and damage a religious statue. […]

Only in Canada do we let an anonymous government spokesman announce a bright future for the long-vacant former American embassy as the new centre for Indigenous Peoples.  Perhaps that’s because a Crown-Indigneous partnership and reconciliation has not arrived, but the centre could be a portrait of a new relationship to come. While we’re thinking about […]

About 20 kids were aboard a school bus that collided with a vehicle in Luskville Monday morning. MRC des Collines Police say no one was hurt in the crash before 8 a.m. at the intersection of Chemin Crégheur and Chemin de la Montagne. Collision Camion / Autobus secteur Luskville. Aucun blessé. environ 20 enfants à […]

Looking for some hot stuff? You got it with a downright steamy Monday in Ottawa and a heat warning from Ottawa Public Health still in effect.  Environment Canada is predicting a high of 32C and a humidex of 38.  There’s a 60 per cent chance of evening showers, and the risk of a thunderstorm before clearing […]

Police are investigating the death of a 51-year-old man at his home on Mullins Road in Horton Township, Renfrew County. The man was found at about 1:40 p.m. on Saturday. The Renfrew Detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police and the Coroner’s Office are investigating to determine the cause of death. His name was not released, […]

Police are asking the public to help them find an Ottawa woman missing since late April. Mary Papatsie, 39, is Inuit. She is 5’2″ to 5’3″ tall, 140 to 160 pounds with long, straight brown hair and a scar above her left eye from a piercing. She has no tattoos. Anyone with information about Papatsie […]

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. “OK, the job description … so I […]

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. Four young Ottawa men spent half of the 1990s dropping from store ceilings right into store safes, […]

A number of aerospace firms exhibiting at the recently held CANSEC 2017 defence trade show in Ottawa highlighted the helicopters they hoped they could offer the Canadian government as a replacement for the RCAF’s Griffons. The companies had heard Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan suggest that a replacement would be needed for the Griffon. Romain Trapp, […]