Новости за 13.09.2017

City council on Wednesday reaffirmed its position that government-endorsed gambling should only happen at the south-Ottawa horse track, which is now Hard Rock Casino Ottawa. A public consultation and council vote were requirements under a provincial regulation since the slot operation at the Rideau Carleton Raceway is being transferred to Hard Rock. Hard Rock can […]

If they were so inclined, a group of very active grandmothers in the area could be excused for putting their feet up this week. As promised, the Grassroot Grannies of Ottawa recently completed their 260-km bike ride in support of African grandmothers via The Stephen Lewis Foundation, raising $60,000 to help support families who have […]

The German-born pianist, who is based in St. John's, will play concerts next week in Montreal and Ontario in support of his new album Coldwater Stories.

A pop-up injection site at Raphael Brunet Park says it plans to continue operating — at least until Ottawa Public Health can get its own temporary site up and running in the weeks ahead. Marilou Gagnon, an organizer with Overdose Protection Ottawa (OPO) and associate professor at the University of Ottawa, applauded OPH’s announcement on […]

Sûreté du Québec officers have arrested a male employee of the Gatineau Detention Centre after a search at the jail turned up a variety of drugs. The SQ arrived with a search warrant and found 180 grams of hashish, 25 grams of marijuana, 190 pills that appear to be methamphetamine and 100 pills that appear […]

It is surely a most unpleasant turn of events for all those New Democrats who looked to the rise of British Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and hoped that Tom Mulcair’s replacement might be cut from the same rough sort of retrograde cloth. But, as things are turning out, the odds-on favourite to win the contest […]

Police are hunting for two men armed with handguns who allegedly forced their way into a Kanata home and robbed a lone woman Monday. The pair, wearing spotless construction gear and sunglasses, rang the doorbell of the home on Westover Crescent, which is near the intersection of Huntmar and Campeau drives, around 10:50 a.m.  The […]

Ottawa Public Health says it plans to quickly open a supervised-injection site, presumably putting an end to the “pop-up” injection site that’s operating illegally in town. Good. One of the perplexing things about the response of governments at all levels to the burgeoning opioid crisis is that Ontario has long been able to see it […]

Clément Bélanger joined the mayoral race in Gatineau Wednesday, with no municipal experience or platform specifics but “a vision” of unity that he promises to turn into votes. He has a little over six weeks to accomplish this. The election is Nov. 5. Bélanger, a career federal public servant, was optimistic Wednesday as he met […]

There was a reason Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland showed up at Pearson International Airport Monday to empathize with Canadians fleeing Hurricane Irma’s destruction. Just as there was also a reason that, while very sorry for their plight, she deliberately didn’t apologize for the government’s alleged laxness in helping these people get home. Freeland’s first […]

Ottawa police are hoping the public can help them find a 14-year-old Ottawa girl who has been missing for almost two weeks. Abigail “Abby” Dormer has been missing since Sept. 1, although she was last seen downtown on Friday, Sept. 8. Police described her as a Caucasian female, 5-4 and 229 pounds, with black hair […]

Gala — Lynn Saxberg A few tickets remain for k.d. lang’s performance on Saturday at the National Arts Centre gala. The Canadian superstar is celebrating the 25th anniversary of her landmark album, Ingenue. The evening begins with a welcome from Alexander Shelley and the NAC Orchestra, and ends with a post-concert reception. Tickets start at […]

Matt Mays When: Saturday, Sept. 16, 10:15 p.m. Where: Ravenlaw Stage, CityFolk, Lansdowne Park Tickets: Full festival passes, day tickets are available. Prices range from $56.50 to $281.37, plus fees, available at tdplace.ca Matt Mays knows what it’s like to fall in love with someone’s work. That’s exactly what happened the minute the Canadian rocker […]

Marvest is back this year to fill businesses in the Glebe with free live music. An offshoot of the CityFolk festival, the “musical harvest” lets you hopscotch down Bank Street, bopping from gig to gig to check out the city’s hottest acts, sometimes in places that have a stage and a sound system, like Irene’s […]

Ottawa police are warning of a scam in which fraudsters extract goods and cash from unwitting merchants using stolen credit cards. The organized fraud section has identified what it calls an ongoing fraud trend in which small businesses get phone orders for gifts or food that’s purportedly a gift for a family member and always […]

Government is really big on fairness these days. Just can’t get enough of it. Both the federal and Ontario governments love the word. Even American President Donald Trump likes to go on about fairness, although his concerns are restricted primarily to himself and his fellow millionaires. Premier Kathleen Wynne is the queen of fairness. Pretty […]

Ottawa firefighters freed a man who uses a wheelchair after his SUV got wedged in a downtown underpass Wednesday morning. City police called them in at 9:14 a.m. after the single-vehicle crash with a barrier on Kent Street under the Queensway.  Firefighters used “cribbing” to stabilize the SUV before they could begin extrication efforts. The […]

Water and sewer rates are projected to rise 5.5 per cent in 2018, with annual increases in that ballpark expected until at least 2027. Rates are projected to go up between 4.4 per cent and 5.2 per cent annually over the next 10 years under a proposed financial strategy to pay for the upkeep of […]

No one was hurt in a fire at a Kanata North home Wednesday morning. A heat recovery ventilator was reportedly in flames in the basement, although a fire investigator was on the way to determine the cause. A 911 call drew fire crews to 4 Shaughnessy Cres. near Knudson Drive and Kanata Avenue at 8:18 […]

Getting Rid of Electric Heat Q: Is there such a thing as more efficient electric baseboard heaters? My wife and I have eight rental units and we were thinking about installing natural gas furnaces but they’re costly. Are there more efficient electric heaters?   A: You’re right to look at getting away from electric heaters. […]

Prices at the pump are definitely trickling down – and it’s not because of the post-hurricane clean ups south of the border. Petroleum industry analyst Dan McTeague of gasbuddy.com had warned motorists not to fill up Tuesday because a five cent a litre price drop was on the way Wednesday with the seasonal shift to […]

Actually, this will never get old. Wednesday and Thursday’s forecasts are for sunshine with highs of 27 C that will feel more like 32. Thursday is even warmer at 28 C. A few clouds are set to creep in by Wednesday afternoon but it’s clear skies again by Friday to kick off a downright glorious […]

To mark Canada’s sesquicentennial, the Citizen’s Bruce Deachman met and photographed 150 people in the Ottawa area, encouraging them to tell their stories that, combined, painted an intimate portrait of the region and the people who live, work and play here. The series, published daily leading up to Canada Day, was called Capital Voices. It […]

Ottawa professor Chris Fennell competed on Jeopardy! Tuesday night. Fennell is a psychology professor at the University of Ottawa, who researches how babies perceive language and bilingualism in the infancy period.  While he started the trivia game show strong, answering the first question correctly, he fell back to third place for the majority of the game […]

I had my story in the National Post on the estimated Super Hornet package cost that was released by the U.S. State Dept. Tuesday. It can be read here: http://nationalpost.com/news/canada/buying-super-hornet-fighter-jets-would-cost-canada-more-than-6-billion-u-s-government-confirms Here are more specific details about what Canada gets for $5.23 billion U.S.: “The State Department has made a determination approving a possible Foreign Military […]