Новости за 29.08.2017

The city can keep enforcing a new hookah ban while waiting for a legal challenge of the bylaw, a court has ruled. Lebanese Palace and its owner Brian Mahmoud asked the court for an emergency injunction, claiming big financial losses because of the bylaw banning water pipes in establishments. The court decided Tuesday that the […]

Ontario will spend an extra $222 million over three years to fight opioid addictions and overdoses, Health Minister Eric Hoskins announced Tuesday, with the single biggest chunk of the money going to long-term help for addicts. That tells us something about where the fight against the latest drug scourge is going. If we can curb […]

The old-school musician has upcoming shows in Orléans, Carp, Gatineau and Renfrew.

Two fancy stands opened in the ByWard Market on Tuesday with hopes they will help dress-up the tourist area. BeaverTails put up $100,000 to build the enclosed stands and chose the first vendors — Maple Country Sugar Bush and Maker House Company — to occupy the year-round mini stores. “We wanted to see vending as part […]

Betiana “Betty” Mubili was on her way to becoming a commissioned officer with the Canadian Forces when she was killed Sunday in a skydiving mishap, says her heartbroken father. Viktor Mubili said he’s been fielding phone calls and messages of condolences “left, right and centre” since police confirmed his 29-year-old daughter Betty was killed after […]

Dutch air force officers are updating their Canadian counterparts about their progress on the acquisition of F-35 fighter jets as the aircraft’s manufacturer tries to convince the Liberal government of the plane’s suitability as an interim replacement for aging CF-18s. Lt.-Gen. Dennis Luyt, the head of the Royal Netherlands Air Force, said his organization has […]

Solution for city lawn woes Re: There just has to be a better plan than paving city hall lawn to save on upkeep, Aug. 26 If you do the math as quoted in David Reevely’s article about paving the lawn at city hall, at $450,000 to $500,000 to pave versus $21,500 each year to re-sod, […]

At science meetings, women need to grab the mic – and not let go. As the director of the Ottawa Institute of Systems Biology at uOttawa and as past-president of the Canadian Society for Molecular Biosciences, I get a lot of emails asking me to attend or help advertise science conferences. Most of these emails […]

A Lowertown park shouldn’t be the site of a pop-up supervised injection tent, Mayor Jim Watson said Tuesday, but it’s not clear if the city is willing to pull up its stakes if the organizers don’t move the health service to the only licensed facility. “My hope is they’ll be reasonable, work in a collaborative […]

Seven people are facing charges in connection with raids on three illegal pot dispensaries and a Carlingwood-area home where police also seized heroin, cocaine and opioids they say were bound for the street. A spokesman for city police said Tuesday the people arrested in the four raids won’t immediately be identified because of separate ongoing […]

Police are looking for two black-clad robbers who allegedly held up an Alta Vista pharmacy in a brazen daytime heist. According to Staff Sgt. Michael Haarbosch, the two young men entered the pharmacy, in the 1700 block of Kilborn Ave., just after the store opened at 9:30 a.m. on Thursday, Aug. 17. Both suspects moved […]

Capital Pride said it will review the demands set out by Black Lives Matter protesters after a group of them temporarily halted the pride parade in Ottawa on Sunday. The march was paused for around 15 minutes by the activists, who held signs reading “No Pride in Cops! No Cops in Pride!” and “#AllBlackLivesMatter” as they […]

Less than a year after her stunning loss to Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton has written a campaign memoir. It’s called What Happened, and she promises to “let loose” about the election of 2016 with uncharacteristic candour. Oh, my. She plans 15 events (more may be added) in cities across North America, including Montreal, Toronto and […]

A Prescott teen is dead after he was struck by a car on Highway 416 in Edwardsburgh Township, about 80 kilometres south of Ottawa, on Monday night. Grenville County OPP said that the 18-year-old was near mile marker 13 when he was struck by a southbound vehicle around 11:15 p.m. The southbound highway was closed […]

Police are continuing to investigate the crash that took the life of a 22-year-old Ottawa woman on White Lake Road early Monday morning. Shannon MacPherson was found dead at the scene of what police said was a fatal single vehicle collision. Her vehicle had landed in a ditch near the Village of White Lake, about an […]

Dear Prime Minister Trudeau, Please consider inaugurating a nuclear armament program. Please begin this process now. I never imagined writing something like this. American by birth, but now also a Canadian citizen, I’ve always regarded the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki as a stain on my birth nation’s honour. But the time has come to […]

A man in his 20s was wounded in an overnight shooting in Sandy Hill. Police were called to Templeton Street and Blackburn Avenue at 1:54 a.m. Tuesday after reports of gunfire. On the scene was one man with injuries that weren’t considered life-threatening, police said. They were continuing to investigate.  Paramedics said the man was taken […]

Enjoy the sun and highs in the mid-20s before some unseasonably chilly weather, and possibly a few showers, lands in the capital later this week. The good news is that we’re forecast to be back to normal temperatures just in time for the Labour Day weekend. Environment Canada predicts Tuesday will feature a mix of […]

Ken Rubin wants to know what’s going on beneath the surface. But the Ottawa access-to-information expert is hitting one roadblock after the next as he tries to get access to records showing problems that have arisen during the construction of the city’s largest ever infrastructure project, the Confederation Line LRT. His battle underscores the level […]

Dozens of inspection reports documenting deficiencies, such as bad welds and crummy workmanship, illustrate the quality control in effect during the construction of Ottawa’s LRT line. The Citizen reviewed 64 “non-conformance” reports produced during audits of construction along the LRT line. The city sent the documents to researcher Ken Rubin after he made an access-to-information […]

Folk trio Artichoke Hearts, funksters Chocolate Hot Pockets and the psychedelic garage rockers Heavy Medicine Band are among the more than 50 Ottawa-area bands that will invade Glebe businesses as part of Marvest, the free, two-day “musical harvest” that accompanies next month’s CityFolk festival. CityFolk runs Sept. 13-17 at Lansdowne Park, with headliners including Father […]

A 29-year-old Canadian Forces medic plunged to her death Sunday when her parachute malfunctioned during a solo jump. Upper Ottawa Valley OPP confirmed that Betiana Namambwe Mubili, known to friends and family as Bety, suffered fatal injuries after an unspecified problem with her parachute. She landed in a field off Black Bay Road near the […]

A woman was killed early Monday when her car ran off White Lake Road near Arnprior and crashed into a grove of trees. White Lake Road was closed and traffic was detoured after Renfrew OPP responded to the crash near the village in the McNab/Braeside township at 6:25 a.m. An air ambulance was dispatched but […]

An Ottawa teen who admitted to vandalizing religious centres across the city with hate speech last November has apologized to those he hurt and says he is willing to participate in a collaborative justice program. The about-face in the youth’s attitude comes after nine months in custody and just two days before Ontario Court Justice […]

A Toronto man has been charged with careless driving in a June crash in Perth that killed a 49-year-old cyclist. Perth resident Christopher Smith, 49, suffered fatal injuries when he was struck by an eastbound GMC cube van as he cycled east on Highway 7 east of Perth on June 28. OPP in Perth said […]