Новости за 19.07.2017

What would you do to get a great deal on gas? If your answer includes any of the following: 1. Blacking-out your licence plate; 2. Wearing a hoodie on a scorching hot summer day; 3. Wearing a face-covering bandanna; 4. Driving your two-door, Chevrolet Cobalt to a Petro Canada at 890 Montée de la Source, […]

Siemens is closing its windmill-blade factory in Tillsonburg, kicking one of the struts out of the provincial Liberals’ plan to remake Ontario into a manufacturing centre for green-energy equipment. So long, Green Energy Act. That was painful. Not least for the 350 or so workers at the plant near London, most of whom are out […]

The Sûreté du Québec has resumed a full-scale search in the Maniwaki area this week for two young Indigenous women who went missing without a trace from their Kitigan Zibi homes in 2008. When Maisy Odjick, then 16, and Shannon Alexander, 17, disappeared on Sept. 6, 2008, the teens left behind their wallets, purses, clothes and […]

The most polite thing one can say about Cheryl Gallant’s bizarre “Gallant News Network” video is that it’s no more bizarre than most of the things Cheryl Gallant says or does. The six-term Conservative MP for Renfrew-Nipissing-Pembroke has a well-earned reputation as a wild card, and so a 10-minute, hostage-quality Facebook video hounding the “elite-stream” […]

The state of policing, the state of long-term care –our readers share their opinions on these today. You can weigh in too, on these or other topics, by writing to us at @letters@postmedia.com —- Police promotion makes no sense Re: Senior Ottawa police officer to be promoted while under OPP probe, July 15. Who in […]

On July 24, 2016, Ottawa Police responded to a disturbance at the Bridgehead Café in Hintonburg, where complaints had been made about a man apparently groping at least one female customer. Witnesses say the man was pepper-sprayed, and police say he became “assaultive.” Aside from the fact that pepper spray is said to evoke psychological […]

Here’s how our cartoonists see Canada and the world.

OK, it’s finally summer, but that doesn’t excuse Ottawa city hall’s lame response to the shocking video of a city long-term care worker punching a helpless 89-year-old resident. One would have hoped that that incident alone would have galvanized councillors to say or do something, but the silence has been nearly complete. If not the […]

Camp Loon, the annual Junior Canadian Ranger advanced training camp, has begun, with a opening ceremony featuring a demonstration of Indigenous dancing by a Canadian Ranger. Here are more details from Sergeant Peter Moon, the public affairs ranger for the 3rd Canadian Ranger Patrol Group at Canadian Forces Base Borden: As the ceremonial fire that […]

The winningest head coach (129-49-12) in the history of Carleton University’s men’s hockey program is leaving to become an assistant coach with the American Hockey League’s Manitoba Moose. Carleton announced on Wednesday that Marty Johnston, who began coaching with the Ravens as an assistant in the 2007-08 season before receiving a promotion to head coach […]

Gatineau police have arrested three men in connection with a serious assault a week ago which has left two victims in hospital. The incident occurred at about 7:30 p.m. last Wednesday when two groups of men met near the intersection of Avenue des Entreprises and Boulevard des Affaires, a business park near Labrosse Boulevard in […]

It’s a pretty good sign that a regime is terrified of the people it purports to govern when state censors are obliged to outlaw references to Winnie the Pooh. Because a lot of people have noticed an unflattering resemblance between the pudgy little bear of bedtime stories and supreme leader Xi Jinping, the Cyberspace Administration […]

A weakening defence export order backlog points to a contraction in the market by 2018, according to the annual Global Defence Trade Report released Wednesday by IHS Markit. The report examines trends in the global defence market across 65 countries and is based upon 40,000 programs from the Jane’s Aerospace, Defence & Security’s Markets Forecast database. More […]

In addition to exotic drinks and fruit-forward desserts, the Rideau Street eatery also serves Asian snacks.

The singer-songwriter performs Sunday, July 23, at 10 p.m. at De La Salle High School.

Here are 10 Ottawa Chamberfest concerts that should be on a music-lover's radar.

Citizen arts writers suggest outings for the next week.

Preserving Wooden Tool Handles Q: What finish do you recommend for wooden handles of shovels and rakes exposed to the weather? A: The hands-down best choice is good, old-fashioned boiled linseed oil applied over bare wood. Many wooden handles these days are made by people who don’t seem to know that varnish is hard on […]

Ottawa paramedics say a 39-year-old woman suffered severe trauma when her motorcycle crashed into a ditch near Greely just before midnight on Tuesday. Emergency responders arrived at the scene near the intersection of Stagecoach Road and Empire Grove Street to find the victim in the ditch. The woman suffered severe trauma as a result of […]

Travellers headed to the United States should plan for extra waiting time starting Wednesday as “enhanced” security measures kick in from the U.S. Homeland Security agency. Both Air Canada and WestJet have issued advisories warning passengers to be at the airport at least two hours prior to scheduled direct U.S. flights to allow for the […]

Not to be a killjoy, but for all those still basking in the afterglow of Tuesday’s sunny, warm day, get over it. The clouds, the showers, the T-storms, they’re back. Wednesday looks like a familiar scenario, increasing cloudiness through the day with a 40-per-cent chance of showers this afternoon and a risk of a thunderstorm […]

Michel Drapeau, a retired colonel turned lawyer who specializes in military law, has recently written the following about the Canadian Forces summary trial system: The summary trial system as it exists in the Canadian Forces is frozen in time. It has remained unchanged since its original formulation in England, 328 years ago.  Summary trials, as […]

Cortney Rattray-Johnson “sold death and misery” as she led the fast-money life of a hard-drug dealer who preyed on Ottawa’s most vulnerable.  That’s what she was told by a judge Tuesday, as a sad ending to Rattray-Johnson’s career as a fentanyl dealer played out at the Elgin Street courthouse.  Ontario Court Justice Ann Alder afforded […]

Ericka Therrien bought a house on Deschamps Ave. with the hopes of starting a family in Vanier, but plans by the Salvation Army to bring a new shelter into their community may change all that. “We bought our house two years ago, and we thought that things in the neighbourhood would get better and that […]

For all the Ottawa Redblacks fans disgusted and worried by their team’s start to this CFL season — just a tie to show for four games, with a combined losing margin of seven points — fullback Patrick Lavoie points to the 2011 B.C. Lions. It’s not like Lavoie is satisfied with the results the Redblacks […]