Новости за 03.10.2017

A jury of seven women and five men will decide the legal fate of Basil Borutski as his triple murder trial is expected to formally begin Wednesday. The panel of 12 jurors and two alternates was finalized in court Tuesday, with Borutski standing trial, accused in the killings of Anastasia Kuzyk, 36, Nathalie Warmerdam, 48, […]

The Canadian opera star launches her new memoir Something Is Always Burning at Southminster United Church on Friday night.

Ottawa police have issued a public appeal for help in locating a family — believed to be from the British Isles — that has allegedly skipped out on bills at 20 hotels and bed and breakfasts during the past two months.  The Ottawa Police Service’s organized fraud unit said the couple, travelling with two teenager […]

Prosecutors say drug trafficking charges against two clerks arrested during raids on Magna Terra marijuana dispensaries in Ottawa are going ahead, contrary to a previous report in the Citizen. Charges against two of the seven people arrested during raids on two Magna Terra shops last March were withdrawn, according to records given to the Citizen […]

That Ottawa is a generous community gets reaffirmed every time there is a person in need. John Woodhouse, whose need for a new wheelchair was recently made public in the Citizen, has received numerous offers of support. Yet, finding the right fit for an individual with special needs is proving to be a great challenge. […]

Ontario’s Corrections Minister Marie-France Lalonde will rewrite the law governing the province’s jails, she promises, after realizing there are few central rules for how we treat inmates who are at our mercy. She’s driven by a final report from Howard Sapers, formerly the official in charge of handling inmate complaints in federal prisons. The province […]

We are going to need more personal support workers, two letter writers say, while another bids “RIP” to Tom Petty and concerns are raised about cycling. We want your opinions. Send letters to letters@ottawacitizen.com. Celebrate good personal support workers Re: Why is it taking you so long to die? Sept. 29 Our mother, who had […]

Recently, the House of Commons Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights has focused its attention on Bill C-46, which will tighten impaired driving laws, particularly cannabis impaired driving. While there is no disagreement that laws targeting impaired driving should be strongly enforced, and the government has taken a positive step forward in contemplating impaired […]

A motorist is facing a $490 fine and six demerit points if convicted after being charged with passing a school bus that had stopped to let off children near Perth, Lanark County OPP said Tuesday. The Sept. 28 incident is alleged to have been captured on video by a concerned dad who set up a […]

Despite the mounting toll of overdose-related deaths in Ontario, Ottawa’s mayor and certain city councillors are trying to close a “pop-up” overdose prevention site in Raphael Brunet Park. The site, staffed by concerned volunteers with Overdose Prevention Ottawa and funded via community donations, provides life-saving harm reduction services for people who use drugs. There have […]

On Tuesday, the Ottawa Senators unveiled a helmet sticker in honour of Bryan Murray. For Bryan. pic.twitter.com/ytJ82PKfLU — Ottawa Senators (@Senators) October 3, 2017 It reads: Family man, friend, coach and mentor. The former Ottawa Senators GM and coach passed away in August after being diagnosed with Stage 4 colon cancer in 2014. ALSO: Senators executive […]

A new documentary about Canadian Forces combat engineers in Afghanistan will be shown later this month. On Thursday, October 26, Clearing the Way: Combat Engineers in Kandahar will have its world premiere as the opening film of the Forest City Film Festival in London, Ont.  The film is based on the book,  “Clearing the Way” […]

Leeds County OPP officers have been tackling a string of livestock-on-the-loose calls this fall. Their conclusion? “Good fences make good neighbours,” the detachment said in a release Tuesday. On Monday, officers were called to a home on Kitley Line 8 in Elizabethtown-Kitley Township where wandering bulls were trying to meet with the complainants’ heifers. While […]

Julie Payette did something extraordinary after taking the oath as Governor General of Canada this week: She stood (rather than sat) in the well of the Senate, and she spoke (rather than read) her remarks. Without text or teleprompter, she just talked. It was a performance. Her words were picked, cut and arranged like an […]

The only O-Train junction in Ottawa is the “poster child” for transit-orientated development, council members heard Tuesday. The “extraordinary situation” at 900 Albert St. that planning services director Lee Ann Snedden described during a finance and economic development committee meeting was convincing enough for members to unanimously approve an $8.3-million development perk and a waiver […]

Firefighters were still on the scene Tuesday morning after working all night on a fire that broke out in a Kinburn-area coverall structure that housed 1,600 round bails of hay. They were called to 3741 Dominion Springs Drive near Kinburn Side Road by a 911 call at 2:23 p.m. Monday. Witnesses reported flames throughout the 20-foot […]

A new effort to spice up Bells Corners is being led by Mayor Jim Watson, Coun. Rick Chiarelli and Col. Sanders. The finance and economic development committee on Tuesday approved two applications for community improvement plan grants, one which will grease the wheels for the return of KFC to the west-Ottawa community. Bells Corners could […]

Basement Cold Air Return Ducts Q: Do I need to install cold air return ducts in each basement room I’m finishing? There are no bedrooms or bathrooms in my plan, just a workshop, a rec room and a utility room. A: The most common cause of finished basement rooms that are too cold in winter […]

City police are asking for help to find a 91-year-old man who went missing Monday night. Gabriele Giamberardino was last seen on Riverside Drive near the RA Centre at 10:45 p.m. He’s a white man, 5’6″ tall with a slim build and white hair. He owns a red 2016 Mazda6 with Ontario license plate BAAC 519. […]

Soak up that sun, wet weather is on the way. Tuesday is looking terrific with mainly sunny skies and a balmy high of 22 C and low of 12 C. But for Wednesday, Environment Canada is predicting showers beginning in the afternoon along with the risk of a thunderstorm and a high of 25 C that […]

A Kanata family and Ottawa police are asking for help finding a missing teenage girl who hasn’t been seen since Sept. 25. When 15-year-old Olivia Elliott left home that Monday, she was wearing a black sun dress, black casual shoes and she may also have been carrying a black shoulder bag or purse. Olivia is […]

The Department of National Defence has confirmed that a third Joint Support Ship will not be built. There is not enough money, according to DND. The third JSS was always an option but only if there was enough funding. The DND insists that two JSS are enough. “The fleet size of 15 Canadian Surface Combatants, […]

The banning of a business deal that saw Ottawa police officers sent to a private training facility run by one of their own is at the heart of a “malicious campaign” that led to criminal charges against an innocent officer, claims a multimillion-dollar lawsuit that’s been filed against the force. The ending of the deal […]

The National Capital Commission will unveil four designs for a redeveloped Nepean Point at an open house Thursday afternoon. The four proposals are: Nogoshkodadwin Park  by Team Asselin (WAA Montreal, Tectoo Architects, Milan Ingegneria)  Bluff Point by Team Geuze (West 8, Barry Padolsky Associates Inc. Architects, Fotenn) Big River Landscape by Team Rosenberg  (Janet Rosenberg & Studio Inc., Patkau […]

Panicked customers at Billings Bridge Mall fled or hid in stores after a shot was fired during a fight involving three men in the mall Monday afternoon. A witness told the Citizen she was with her husband and sister in the Rogers store when they heard the fight break out at about 5:30 p.m. “All […]