Новости за 24.07.2017

In Sweden, the concept of fika – breaking up the day with a casual conversation over coffee – is a basic ritual. It also helps explain the Ottawa Senators signing of 35-year-old veteran defenceman Johnny Oduya to a one-year, $1 million contract on Monday. Oduya, who won the Stanley Cup with the Chicago Blackhawks in […]

The Truth and Reconciliation Commission said in 2015 that there should be monuments across Canada commemorating and honouring residential school victims and survivors, but there’s no indication that a national marker of any sort is even close to being started in Ottawa. The TRC’s calls to action 81 and 82 – two of 94 recommendations […]

Lockheed Martin says its F-35 fighter aircraft fleet recently exceeded 100,000 flight hours while the F-35 Integrated Test Force teams are completing the remaining requirements in the program’s System Development and Demonstration phase. “This 100K milestone marks a significant level of maturity for the program and the F-35 weapons system,” Lockheed Martin Executive Vice President […]

A man’s alleged drunken joyride through Picton, Ont. came to an abrupt halt when he crashed an all-terrain vehicle into a police car on the tourist town’s Main Street late Saturday night. According to the Prince Edward County detachment of the OPP, two officers suffered minor injuries when their police cruiser was struck by the […]

The Ontario provincial police have identified the victim in a car crash on Highway 401 near Mallorytown on Friday. Police said the driver of the vehicle was 85-year-old Edna Winch of Richmond Hill. According to police, the vehicle Winch was driving unexpectedly left the roadway, crossed the centre median and ended up heading into oncoming […]

The Minister of Finance recently announced proposed revisions to Canadian taxes affecting small business corporations and their shareholders. Current tax planning for almost all small business corporations would allow the net, after-tax income of the corporation to be distributed to shareholders as dividends. Because we give recipients of the dividend a “dividend tax credit,” it […]

Ottawa native Vanessa Morgan has been cast in the hit series Riverdale, a soapy teen drama loosely based on the Archie comic books. Morgan, 25, will play the character of Toni Topaz.  “So excited!” Morgan tweeted. She grew up in Ottawa, and graduated from Colonel By Secondary School in 2010. The character Toni is a […]

Today marks one year since the death of Abdirahman Abdi, a 37-year-old Somali-Canadian with mental health issues. He lived in the Hintonburg community. He was studying at the Adult High School and was a dedicated employee at a local car wash. He helped his neighbours carry their groceries, and he made the children in his […]

Police have found a body in a wooded area south of Lincoln Fields shopping centre that they are treating as a crime scene. The body was found Monday morning as police searched the area in west Ottawa in connection with an investigation that began after a man showed up at a local hospital with a […]

Expect heavy rain all day Monday and into the evening, says Environment Canada. It has issued a rainfall warning for Ottawa North, Kanata, Orléans, Ottawa South, Richmond and Metcalfe. Flooding in low-lying areas is possible. Add to that some stiff winds at 30 km an hour, gusting to 50 km. By Tuesday morning, between 40 […]

It’s ridiculously easy to get weed from a storefront in Ottawa today. With the number of pot shops in the city on the upswing, despite multiple dispensary employees facing drug-trafficking charges following police raids, the Citizen visited the city’s 17 known cannabis stores to find out how they’re screening customers.  The dispensaries are, of course, […]

Ruth McCrea has mistaken rats for squirrels scurrying up a Manitoba maple tree outside her home. That’s how big the rodents can get in Centretown. McCrea, who lives with her husband and their two young children on Cooper Street, said the rat problem in her community peaked in the spring and summer this year before […]

An Ottawa man has become the latest victim to sue the Archdiocese of Ottawa for sexual abuse that he allegedly suffered at the hands of the city’s most notorious Catholic priest, Rev. Dale Crampton. Robert Sullivan has filed a $2-million damages claim for abuse that he says began when he was just 10 years old. […]

Pamela Bechervaise was only 35 when she was diagnosed with cancer. Having found a lump in her breast, the mother of two turned to Google first to learn more about her symptoms. At first she was reassured: the odds were that it wasn’t anything serious because she was so young. Even her family doctor didn’t […]

Defence Watch recently noted that Saab’s Gripen E, the next generation of that fighter jet, made its first flight on June 15. That is a major development for the plane. Deliveries are set for 2019. Sweden and Brazil have purchased the Gripen E. Sixty E models will be acquired by Sweden’s Air Force, while Brazil […]

TORONTO — Among the words in a rainbow of tattoos on Cody Hoffman’s arms: “If you dream it, you can do it.” Whenever it seems like that dream’s over, whenever Hoffman’s professional football career suffers a setback, the words are a reminder of what is possible. Yes, he can. On Monday night at BMO Field, […]

When Phillippe Aumont toes the rubber Tuesday night for the Can-Am League all-stars to throw the first inning against the American Association Stars, the emotions will be running high for the lanky Ottawa Champions right-hander, though nothing like his one and only previous all-star game as a professional. Nine years and 12 days later, that […]