Новости за 07.07.2017

The Redblacks are trying to get the message out: Even with the popularity of the Grey Cup champs, don’t assume there are no tickets left.

Ottawa police announced Friday that they had charged 21 people, including three youths, in a project related to street-level drug trafficking.

The U.S. quintet wasn't afraid to get a little political at its Ottawa Jazz Festival concert.

“There’s only so much homework you can do on it, so you roll the dice sometimes," general manager Marcel Desjardins says.

“I was the shortest kid in the class, had red curly hair, I had big thick-rimmed glasses, I had short shorts and long socks. I was the quintessential nerdy kid. I was bullied quite a bit. Sport helped me change who I was.”

Contractors were at it again Friday replacing the damaged lawn at Ottawa City Hall, this time after the jazz festival pulled up stakes. They rolled out the fresh sod and a sprinkler fed water to the newly installed turf as taxpayers absorbed the cost. Using access to information, the Citizen asked for grass replacement invoices […]

Edmonton’s 18-year-old Gabrielle Rains set a Canadian Track and Field Championship record in the under-20 discus competition Friday, breaking her own mark with a throw of 51.60 metres.

The director of an Outaouais women’s clinic has hailed the Quebec government’s announcement that the Mifegymiso abortion pill would be covered by the province’s health plan by this fall. “There’s been a (court) judgement in the past saying that all abortions in Quebec have to be free — we were really hoping that it would be free […]

The Canadian country act High Valley plays Bluesfest on Sunday.

Seventeen years after a teenaged Algonquin girl was beaten to death in her bedroom, the Sûreté du Québec have arrested a man and charged him with first-degree murder. Rosianna Poucachiche, 17, was killed in her family’s home on the Lac-Rapide reserve on Oct. 10, 2000. The reserve is on the west side of the Cabonga […]

Word came suddenly in May to families living beside Bilberry Creek: Get out now, in case your house follows the backyard and slides into the creek. Three families are still evacuated from the Orléans neighbourhood, and crews are working long hours to rebuild the washed-out land around the creek, hoping the families can move back […]

A suspected firebug left his cellphone on the same OC Transpo bus he was trying to singe early Thursday in one of the worst getaways ever on the transit system. According to information confirmed by Transpo, four male passengers boarded a Route 6 bus at the Rideau Centre near the end of the day’s bus […]

After a long decline, what’s dubbed the Grand Old Dame of the Rideau was moribund, shuttered and dark. Now the historic Opinicon is humming with summer life again – kids lining up for ice cream, families sitting down to lunch in the whitewashed dining room overlooking the lake and grown-ups hoisting a pint in the pub. […]

If you want something done in this country, ask a grandmother. Stephen Lewis, educator and former politician, did this more than a decade ago and it resulted in a significant contribution to African grandmothers left with orphans from the AIDS crisis that continues to rage in Africa. Lewis, of course, was the United Nations special […]

Re: Canada Day an exercise in chaos, July 5. I and an elderly visitor from Toronto were stuck on a bus near the Good Companions on Albert Street for almost half an hour before it moved forward at a snail’s pace behind a convoy of buses backed up from Elgin Street because of a ceremony […]

What is the sound of granite? Of jackpine? Of the sky on a bleak midwinter’s day? Those are the questions Ottawa-area musician Terry Tufts and his Algonquin Ensemble have tried to answer in their suite Sonic Palette — Tom Thomson’s Voice Through Music 100 Years Later. The ensemble — Tufts, his wife Kathryn Briggs on […]

Is Capital Pride wrong to ask that police not wear their uniforms if they join the big parade in August? Is the chief of police wrong to assert he plans to do just that? Yes, and yes. How did two groups that have previously walked together in a show of unity arrive at this petty […]

Editor’s note: Citizen reporter Jacquie Miller and photographer Ashley Fraser joined the students and staff of Rideau High School in the days leading up to the graduation dinner and dance of the school’s final graduating class. The school board has decided the site will be closed. Determined to give the school and its students a […]

I was chair of a group of Ottawans who organized and ran the Great Canadian Birthday Party in 1976 (at the request of prime minister Pierre Trudeau), then Canada Day from 1977 to 1979 for the National Capital Region. This included events for a full week prior to July as well as the show on […]

A trucker was able to get out of his transport truck after it rolled on the Highway 417 westbound off ramp to Hunt Club Road Friday morning. The driver suffered minor injuries in the crash at 10:12 a.m., paramedics said. The fire department warned motorists to avoid the area and find alternate routes with heavy […]

When it comes to the job market, Ottawa and Gatineau have been moving in opposite directions. While the capital region’s overall jobless rate climbed to 5.9 per cent in June from 5.7 per cent in May despite the addition of 2,000 net new jobs, all the bad stuff was happening on the Ottawa side of […]

In the four years I accompanied my wife Suzanne as she endured the diagnoses and treatment for breast cancer, the most shocking moment came just five days before she died. Suzanne had collapsed at home after having prepared her breakfast but finding herself unable to eat. By the time the ambulance got her to emergency, […]

Here comes the rain again. Friday’s forecast features clouds, a 70-per-cent chance of showers and the risk of a thunderstorm. The high is only 24 C but it’s so humid it will feel like 31, Environment Canada predicts. Friday evening is expected to be cloudy with a 60-per-cent chance of showers, the risk of thunderstorms and […]

What a silly thing, to be upset about selling a car. It’s just metal and rubber, plastic and carpet, hoses, belts and fluids; a soulless machine, like a lawnmower, a toaster or a hairdryer. And yet, Silver Rain was different. That car’s been with me since 2008. It was the vehicle I drove to Vancouver […]

I will never forget the day 29 years ago when I became a Canadian citizen. I can still recall the questions I was asked. Who was the first prime minister of Canada? What is the Queen’s first name? Who represents her in Canada? What are Canada’s major political parties and their respective leaders? Name all […]