Новости за 06.10.2017

By multiple measures, the Kingdom of Lesotho is one of the highest countries in the world. For one, the mountainous African nation never drops below 1,400 metres, meaning its lowermost point is at a higher elevation than that of any other country. For another, it has long depended heavily on the production of cannabis; a […]

It’s an extra-long long weekend for many local kids and it may feel interminable for parents with rain in the forecast. The Ottawa Carleton District School Board has what they now call a PA – professional activity – day Friday. Friday’s forecast is for clouds and a 60 per cent chance of morning showers then […]

New season, same old tricks from Mark Stone.

It's not how you start, it's how you finish, but the Ottawa Senators won't be happy with the way their season opener ended Thursday night.

With a perfectly healthy Erik Karlsson, the Ottawa Senators have a chance to make the playoffs. Without Karlsson, it’s safe for his teammates to book a golf vacation for late April. Or so the standard script for the Senators goes. Check out one NHL preview, look at 100 of them. They all basically read the […]

One person is dead after a fire in a Gatineau apartment Thursday night. The fire broke out at about 6:30 p.m. in a second-floor apartment of a five-storey apartment building at 260 rue Mutchmore, near boulevard du Mont-Bleu and Autoroute 50. It took Gatineau firefighters about 45 minutes to get the fire under control. Firefighters […]

The Ottawa Senators opened their 25th season on Thursday night, but there wasn't quite a full house on hand for the occasion.

A smelly act of civil disobedience will cost a frustrated opponent of the pop-up supervised injection site in Raphael Brunet Park $260. Guy Annabele was ticketed after he dumped 400 pounds of horse manure in the park Thursday afternoon in what he said was an act of civil disobedience against the “hypocrisy” and “lack of […]

A grizzled veteran celebrating his 33rd birthday, Nate Thompson brought a healthy amount of anxiousness to his Senators debut on Thursday.

The day after Basil Borutski was captured and charged in the violent deaths of three women, he told a police detective he was arrested “for killing, not murder.” Borutski, who is self-represented in his trial on three counts of first-degree murder, has said nothing when called upon in court. But the jury heard from the […]

Already with a franchise-record streak of 34 consecutive starts and counting, there's no disputing that Callum Irving has had the best view of anyone as to everything that has gone right, and wrong, this season for the Ottawa Fury FC.

TORONTO — Toronto city council has voted against naming a stadium after former mayor Rob Ford. Council voted 24-11 against renaming the stadium at Centennial Park after Ford, who died in March 2016 at the age of 46 after being diagnosed with a rare and aggressive form of cancer. Current Mayor John Tory had recommended […]

TORONTO  Ontario is seeking to strengthen consumer protection rules around home warranties, ticket sales, real estate practices, and travel services in an omnibus bill introduced Thursday. Changes to ticket selling laws include making so-called scalper bots illegal. The bots purchase a large number of tickets online for a concert, show, or other event, then resell […]

Ottawa Fury FC president John Pugh sets the bar high, and he is not happy with the way the 2017 United Soccer League season has gone.

A critical report about the federal government’s problem-plagued pay system says officials underestimated the project’s complexity and seemed to ignore warning signs before giving it the go-ahead. The report released Thursday said the most senior officials in the public service didn’t fully comprehend the complexity of switching dozens of aging pay systems over to the […]

When the Capitals offered Alex Chiasson a professional tryout, he took note that they had lost veteran forwards Marcus Johansson and Justin Williams to free agency, and jumped at it.

As Redblacks defensive line coach Leroy Blugh lay in his hospital bed, a giant of a man beaten down by a mysterious illness, his mind wandered.

The federal government’s Phoenix payroll system left thousands of civil servants underpaid, overpaid or not paid at all after it went live in February 2016. Some of the numbers released Thursday: 8.9 million: Approximate number of annual pay transactions the federal government handles each year. 300,000: Number of public servants that the federal government has […]

It’s become quite common for defence analysts and military officers to dismiss North Korean leader Kim Jong Un as crazy. After all, U.S. President Donald Trump has called Kim a “madman.” The madman label also feeds into the scenario being pushed by some in the Canadian Forces and Canada’s defence analyst industry that North Korea […]

The Crown is seeking to secure a dangerous offender designation against an Ottawa woman found guilty of kidnapping and torturing an intellectually disabled man who was lured into danger on Facebook.  Laura Brahaney, 27, was found guilty Thursday of 10 criminal charges related to the kidnapping, robbery and assault of two men, one in Ottawa and […]

At one level it’s easy to see why Shopify adopted a low profile following allegations from Citron Research that its share price is overvalued and its marketing practices “illegal”. Ottawa’s e-commerce technology star just last week closed the books on its third quarter and is therefore constrained in what it can say publicly until the […]

Jeff Brown spent all day Wednesday in airports, making the trek to Ottawa. The first flight out of St. Louis was delayed, the family missed a connection in Chicago and instead of having dinner at The Keg Wednesday night, with Ottawa Senators centre Logan Brown before his NHL debut against the Washington Capitals Thursday, they […]

Women’s rights groups gathered at the Human Rights Monument on Elgin Street on Thursday afternoon in solidarity with the families of three Wilno-area women who were killed in 2015, along with others who suffer from gender-based violence on a daily basis. The rally happened outside the courthouse as the trial Basil Borutski was getting underway […]

Seven doctors are leaving an Elgin Street family medicine clinic en masse early next year. They reassured patients late last month via email that they’ll continue to care for them after next March at a yet-to-announced new location.  But earlier this week, the owners of the Heart of Ottawa Medical Centre then sent their own […]

The National Capital Commission unveiled 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 Architects, Blackwell Structural Engineers, ERA […]