Новости за 26.09.2017

Ismael Habib’s girlfriend in Gatineau thought he was too involved with ISIS, while his Kalashnikov rifle-toting wife in Syria told him he was not involved enough, and he should move his rear end to the war zone. The two women did not get along, with Habib ambivalent in the middle, speaking of a “loving relationship” […]

The famed German modern dance company performs Thursday through Saturday, and the National Arts Centre Orchestra will accompany them when they dance The Rite of Spring.

Ontario’s corrections ministry has reneged on a deal to stop stuffing mentally ill jail inmates in solitary confinement because it doesn’t know what else to do with them, the province’s chief human-rights commissioner says. This is perhaps the worst of the scandals in our provincial jails and it’s still going on, four years after a […]

I can’t believe there is resistance to providing safe injection sites. I think people have forgotten – or perhaps never considered – that addicts are people. Someone’s daughter, son, brother, sister, cousin, mother, father. Someone who once had hopes and dreams for themselves. Hopes and dreams that got lost in the morass of dependency on […]

An injured hawk that flew away from its determined rescuer would have stood a better chance of survival if bystanders had tried to capture it, says Anouk Hoedeman of Safe Wings Ottawa. As it was, the injured bird — likely a juvenile Cooper’s hawk — flew away to an unknown fate, Hoedeman said. “The moral […]

The chair of council’s planning committee says the Salvation Army’s development application for a health services centre and shelter in Vanier will be the subject of a three-day meeting in November. “We know that there’s been a lot of attention to this and a lot of people are concerned about it and there’s a lot […]

Gatineau’s Natacha Dupuis, the co-captain of Team Canada, has won three gold medals at the Invictus Games in Toronto.  A retired master corporal, Dupuis earned gold medals in the 100, 200 and 400-metre races at the international athletic competition for ill and injured soldiers. She ran all three sprint finals on Monday, capturing victories in […]

Be afraid. Be very afraid. Ignore the diversions in the United States: athletes kneeling or standing during the national anthem; Republicans flailing and failing again on health care; a kick-boxing creationist possibly becoming senator from Alabama. Calamity looms elsewhere. We are hurtling toward war with North Korea. It may be as early as next month. […]

Let us not confuse an escalating war of words between North Korea and the United States with an actual escalation towards war.  The threats by both sides are meant as a substitute  for, rather than a prelude to, war. However, the risk – which has existed since the Korean War – is that such threats […]

Gatineau police handed a driver a $127 fine and a bit of a tongue-lashing Tuesday after finding a seven-month-old baby lying unsecured on the rear floorboards of a car pulled over in a distracted driving stop. Police said the car was pulled over in Aylmer at about 7:45 a.m.  “The officers were very surprised to […]

An off-duty Ottawa police officer arrested a Ottawa man allegedly in possession of a loaded handgun at an altercation outside of a Kanata residence last week. Police said they received calls last Thursday at about 1:52 pm saying that three men were involved in an argument outside of a business on Campeau Drive. The off-duty police […]

A witness to Monday’s deadly crash in Arnprior was “devastated” by what he saw and says police shouldn’t have been pursuing a stolen truck down Daniel Street. “The chase should never have happened,” said Eric Bayley, who saw the crash and took a photo of the truck just as it exploded. “If the guy robbed […]

A 70-year-old pilot sustained serious injuries after his plane crashed near the Cornwall airport Monday evening.  At approximately 6 p.m. members of the Stormont Dundas and Glengarry OPP responded to a report of a plane crash near Airport Road. This incident prompted a massive search involving various law enforcement agencies on both sides of the […]

The Canadian Security Intelligence Service says its recruiters will be in St. John’s on Sept. 28 to “look for top talent” for various roles in the spy agency. This one-day event in Newfoundland/Labrador is for people to explore jobs in IT, HR, cyber security and as intelligence officers, CSIS says. Recruiters will also be accepting […]

A firm note telling a couple of hundred people people not to scamper across Alta Vista Drive to get between an office and a temporary parking lot will be enough to keep them safe, Ottawa’s city planners say. The planners are asking city council’s planning committee to approve a three-year arrangement with the Canadian Medical […]

The Kurds are setting the stage for separating from Iraq. Reuters reports that initial results of Monday’s referendum vote indicated 72 percent of eligible voters had taken part and an overwhelming majority, possibly over 90 percent, had said “yes”. The news agency was highlighting a report by Rudaw TV, which is based in Erbil in […]

Weeks after winding down his beloved Silver Rose shop, floral designer Gerry Arial has reclaimed the store’s space for his home

Canada Day is long past, but that’s no reason to stop celebrating our country’s sesquicentennial. There’s an abundance of Ottawa-area things to do and places to see in the remaining months of 2017, all of which will remind you that being Canadian is pretty cool. Magnificence of Chaudière Falls Running until early November, a lighting […]

Not one to play it safe, Nathan Kyle took on a big project - designing and building his own home.

For Ottawa’s housing industry, the design awards gala, hosted by the Greater Ottawa Home Builders’ Association, is the biggest night of the year

Who thought there’d still be whining about the heat in Ottawa as October is only days away? Well, it looks like, after two more trip around the rotisserie Tuesday and Wednesday, the capital can expect “normal” fall temperatures for the rest of the week. Tuesday’s forecast looks like another record-setter, it’s expected to hit 32 […]

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Time to get your red and black on with one of these fan-tastic finds

As Lake Ontario’s island playground, Prince Edward County has cemented itself as a great spot to eat, sip, explore and stay

From the Viennese Winter Ball to the Governor General’s Performing Arts Awards Gala, Style photographer Ashley Fraser was on hand capturing images at this year's biggest events