Новости за 14.09.2017

Long-term care is in a crisis across Ontario, says NDP Leader Andrea Horwath, who is pressing the provincial government to get to the bottom of the issues with an extended public inquiry. Horwath has met with dozens of families and residents of long-term care across the province — including 22 who joined her at the […]

The powerful and promising Montreal-born and -raised tenor saxophonist Alex Francoeur is getting a few practice runs in before he and his quintet record their debut album before the end of the month — live at the Upstairs Jazz Bar and Grill, no less. Before then, the recent McGill University graduate, 24, is road-testing his […]

The Canadian Forces National Investigation Service charged a soldier on Sept. 14 with sexual assault under the Criminal Code. The charge relates to an alleged incident during training at Canadian Forces Base Borden in August 2011. Master Corporal Dylan Lafeber, who is now serving at Canadian Forces Base Esquimalt, BC faces one count of Sexual Assault […]

Ontario has approved funding for a supervised injection site at the Sandy Hill Community Health Centre, the Citizen has learned. The approval of nearly $1 million in ongoing operating funding comes just days after Isra Levy — Ottawa’s chief medical officer — announced that the city couldn’t wait for the Sandy Hill site and would […]

Readers weigh in on the site of the Afghanistan war monument, door-to-door scammers, and on what happened on July 1. You can write to us too, at letters@ottawacitizen.com. — No need for standalone Afghanistan monument Re: Museum likes NCC deferral of memorial vote, Sept. 14. Being a veteran of the Second World War myself, it […]

Mayor Jim Watson is heading to Los Angeles next week to put a spotlight on Ottawa as a great filmmaking city, with a stop at Amazon’s headquarters in Seattle, Wash. to learn about the retail giant’s operations. The city announced on Thursday that the mayor will fly to California on Monday, a day after the […]

Ontario Progressive Conservative leader Patrick Brown won’t apologize for saying Premier Kathleen Wynne is standing trial for something, leading her lawyer to warn that the Tory leader is risking serious damages in a libel lawsuit. It took some hard work for Brown to find the firm ground on which a party leader who has two […]

Your butt dials aren’t just a pain in the rear end for police – every unintended call could take “precious seconds” from someone who really needs help, the OPP says in a new public education campaign. The OPP launched #KnowWhenToCall Thursday to urge the public not to call 911 unless it’s an emergency, not to […]

Clarke MacArthur failed his physical and won’t be part of camp, Senators GM says. No decision has been made on MacArthur’s future. More to come.

A new facility to support the Tactical Armoured Patrol Vehicle fleet was opened today at 5 Canadian Division Support Base (5 CDSB) Gagetown. The cost of the new building project was $26 million. The facility will house 61 TAPVs and provide 12 maintenance bays for vehicles and equipment, as well as classrooms for the combat […]

Ottawa detectives are looking for assistance in solving an jewelry store break-and-enter in August that reads like a TV or movie script. Detectives say thieves broke through an exterior wall of a jewelry story “in the 800 block of Greenbank Road,” overnight on Aug. 15-16. The robbers made off with a “a significant number of … […]

Members from 1 Royal Canadian Horse Artillery Z Battery of the Canadian Armed Forces fire the M777 Howitzer guns that have been deployed in support of NATO’s enhanced Forward Presence Battlegroup Latvia as part of Operation REASSURANCE at Camp Ādaži, Latvia, on September 10, 2017. Photos by Sergeant Bernie Kuhn, Task Force Latvia

A Leeds County Ontario Provincial Police officer has pleaded guilty to a charge of assaulting an elderly man during a routine traffic stop.  Const. George Duke, 54, pleaded guilty Wednesday to simple assault stemming from the incident on Sept. 2, 2015. According to a joint submission from both the prosecution and defence, the incident took […]

There’s a revolution going on in Canadian industry and small business, and it’s taking the world by storm.

Paramedics revived a woman in her 60s who suffered a cardiac arrest and serious injuries Thursday morning after she was  struck by a taxi on the sidewalk Elgin Street Thursday morning. According to witnesses, a Blue Line taxi went onto the sidewalk between Cooper and Somerset streets shortly after 9 a.m. Paramedics believe the driver, […]

A charity hockey game, which pitted the RCN Mariners and Ottawa’s Esprit de Corps Commandos hockey team recently took place in Halifax and raised $5,000 (initially $4,400 but increased at the last minute) for the Military Family Resource Centre. The Mariners beat the Commandos 6-3. You can read about the event here: http://espritdecorps.ca/commando-challenege-halifax-clash-of-the-titans-ii/

Q I buy household estates with a friend and we found this sign titled ‘A Busy Day In Dollville’ lodged between a couple desks in a back room. After some searching online, my friend was shocked to find it might be worth more than $1,000. I’ve had many people offer me $200 for it. The […]

A 28-year-old Ottawa man was seriously injured early Thursday in a shooting incident outside a popular Kanata bar. Police said the victim was caught in a series of gunshots that were fired outside the Crazy Horse bar in the Kanata Centrum mall, at around 2:15 a.m. The man suffered leg injuries and was taken to […]

Given the excellent weather so far this week and the positive forecasts, some may have been shocked to see fog early Thursday. Do not be alarmed! The fog had mostly burned off by the rush hour and we have returned to a previously scheduled week of excellent weather. Thursday’s high is expected to be about […]

Ottawa police are seeking assistance locating an 86-year-old man who went missing Wednesday night at about 8:30 p.m. John Hunton was last seen in the 2300 block of Carling Avenue, near the Lincoln Fields Transitway station. He is described as Caucasian, five-feet-eight-inches tall weighing about 170 pounds with receding grey hair. He was wearing beige […]

Members of the Ottawa police services board accepted the temporary promotion of a senior officer without realizing he was under criminal investigation, the Citizen has learned. The revelation, which comes from email exchanges in early August between board members and obtained by the Citizen, turns on what some board members said they were led to […]

I recently toured the Seaspan’s Vancouver Shipyards where work is underway on the Canadian Coast Guard vessels. The yard has almost completed its work on the Canadian Coast Guard’s Offshore Fisheries Science Vessels. The first ship, Sir John Franklin, will be launched at the beginning of December. A second, as yet unnamed offshore fisheries science […]

A pared-down version of Ottawa’s CityFolk festival opened under blissfully clear skies on Wednesday with a lineup of young talent that was topped off by the U.S. hiphop artist Post Malone making his first appearance in the nation’s capital.

The Salvation Army's first public consultation about its proposed homeless shelter for Vanier generated noisy opposition inside and outside the Ottawa Conference and Event Centre on Wednesday.

Fredrik Claesson is very disappointed that a prized possession — the souvenir puck from his first NHL goal and the nice package of memorabilia the Senators put together around it — has gone missing. On the bright side, the 24-year old Swedish defenceman will at least have plenty of opportunities to score more goals in […]