Новости за 17.10.2017

Hiding billions of dollars the Ontario government is borrowing to lower electricity bills for a few years will cost hydro users an extra $4 billion, the province’s auditor general reported Tuesday morning. Maybe worse, Bonnie Lysyk said in a special report on the Liberals’ “Fair Hydro Plan,” the tricks the government is using throw doubt […]

One person is dead after a collision on Saturday in the Whitewater Region, about an hour west of Ottawa, the Ontario Provincial Police said Tuesday.  Police said two vehicles collided head-on while travelling along Beachburg Road just east of Pappin Road in the Township of Whitewater Region around 11 a.m. According to police, the driver of the pickup truck […]

Erik Karlsson made his regular season debut Tuesday night at the Canadian Tire Centre. Given the choice, the Ottawa Senators’ captain wouldn’t have waited this long. The 27-year-old Karlsson, who is recovering from surgery he had in June to repair tendons in his left foot, was bound and determined to play opening night against the […]

Q: Where can I install a heat recovery ventilator in my 832 square-foot home? I don’t have a basement, just a crawlspace. A: As much as I love heat recovery ventilators (HRVs) because of the fresh air and condensation-free windows they provide during cold weather, given that your house is so small, I wouldn’t install […]

Police are investigating a break and enter that occurred in Lyndhurst that involved stolen firearms. On Oct. 14, the OPP’s Leeds and the Thousand Islands Detachment were informed of a break and enter that had occurred at a home in Lyndhurst sometime Friday or Saturday. Police says thieves entered a residence and took firearms, ammunition, […]

First and foremost, Canadians and others should be very happy for Joshua Boyle, Caitlan Coleman and their children now that their five-year ordeal is over. The conditions under which the family was held hostage by the Taliban/Haqqani group were truly horrendous and no one should underestimate or dismiss that. I, for one, feel most for […]

The city is trapped in a green bin of confusion, not knowing how to get more people to scrape the guck from their plates into a bucket instead of a trash can. After being shamed by Waste Watch Ottawa into addressing a ho-hum diversion rate, council’s environment committee on Tuesday held a question-and-answer session with […]

Ontario’s Special Investigations Unit won’t charge an Ontario Provincial Police officer in connection with a 2016 crash near Smiths Falls that killed an 18-year-old man. However, the watchdog agency, in a report released Tuesday, did criticize the officer for claiming he wasn’t chasing the suspect, even though evidence showed the officer was following the suspect’s […]

Ottawa Senators captain Erik Karlsson will make his season debut Tuesday night against the Vancouver Canucks, but coach Guy Boucher says the team can’t lose the focus from the way they played without him. “We’re not going to change anything,” Boucher said. “He just brings his attributes and he has been outstanding last year at […]

Time for men to stand up alongside all women Re: Letter: Religion, culture, inform treatment of women, Oct. 16 If, as a recent letter writer suggests, the silence of women is harming our cause, let me be loud and clear: Women have been pushing back against patriarchal power structures for a very long time. It […]

Recently some Defence Watch readers have been raising what they see are concerns about the child care benefits that military members receive. Here is an example of what one reader in the Canadian Forces wrote: “I see the gov’t found a way to recoup some of the money they are losing, from the tax free status […]

If there is a classic case study of nuclear confrontation, it is the Cuban Missile Crisis. In October 1962, the world came closer to Armageddon than at any time in history. For 13 days, the United States, led by John F. Kennedy, challenged the Soviet Union over its secret deployment of nuclear missiles in Cuba. […]

A body was pulled from the Ottawa River near the back of the prime minister’s official residence on Tuesday morning. A police spokesperson confirmed a fisherman spotted the body floating in the water behind 24 Sussex Dr. and called 911. Police and ambulance were notified and a full water rescue response from Ottawa fire services […]

The Toronto pianist, 31, brings her quartet to Brookstreet in Kanata on Oct. 21 to launch her band's debut album, In The Past.

Traffic was a mess and more than than 2,000 users were without power Tuesday morning as the result of a blackout near Woodroffe Avenue and Baseline Road. The outage occurred at about 8:15 a.m. Stoplights were out of order at major intersections along Woodroffe, police tweeted. Drivers were reminded to treat all intersections as four-way […]

Gatineau police are releasing a clue found at the scene of a July hit-and-run in hopes of finding the motorist who left a cyclist, a man in his 40s, lying on the ground with serious leg injuries. Investigators arrested a woman hours after the July 11 crash on Maloney Boulevard East and charged her with […]

Incumbent Maxime Pedneaud-Jobin has a big lead over all challengers in the race to be mayor of Gatineau, according to a new poll. Pedneaud-Jobin, who has served one term as mayor, has the support of 53 per cent of decided voters, according to the poll commissioned by Le Droit newspaper and radio station 104.7 Outaouais. […]

North Korea can shoot back Re: What does North Korea really want, Oct. 14 Mid-article, Shannon Gormley answered the question her headline “What does North Korea really want?” posed. It wants nuclear weapons because “they certainly protect it from attack.” There it is simple and straight. Perhaps Donald Trump can push the red button at […]

Backbench members of Parliament, that is, MPs who are not members of cabinet, are often accused of keeping their heads down and toeing the party line. This is based mainly on the public perception of increased centralization in the prime minister’s office, and it leaves the impression that the prime minister is not a team […]

Tuesday morning brought the first official frost experience for some in the region but the forecast for the rest of the week is for downright summery weather with sunshine and 21 C by Saturday. Environment Canada predicts a mix of sun and cloud with a brisk wind, high of 15 C and low of 6 […]

“Sittin’ downtown in a railway station,” sing Brewer and Shipley, “one toke over the line.” Well, you can’t smoke in a railway station these days (not in Canada, anyway). Or an office, a parkade or a barbershop. In Quebec, you can’t even smoke outside a pub, unless you’re nine metres from the door. Where, once […]

Ottawa Senators vs. Vancouver Canucks 7:30 p.m., Canadian Tire Centre TV: TSN5, Radio: TSN 1200-AM, 94,5, Unique FM Five Keys To The Game: 1: The return of the captain: Erik Karlsson took his time to fully recover from left foot surgery. Can he immediately jump into his routine of playing 25-30 minutes per night? 2: […]

Whatever else happens from here on in, the first two weeks of Thomas Chabot’s season have been far from boring. Chabot, the 20-year-old star prospect on the blueline, was shipped back to Belleville of the AHL on Sunday.  The numbers look good, though. He already has a pair of assists and has been on the […]

Just several days after Canadian military leaders dismissed Iraq’s threats against the Kurds as “mostly rhetoric”, Iraqi troops launched an all-out assault on the city of Kirkuk. Iraqi forces said they have seized the oil fields and the city on Monday. The Kurds have voted to separate from Iraq and were in control of the […]

In the weeks leading up to what Crown prosecutors allege was a planned triple murder, several friends told Carol Culleton that Basil Borutski was stalking her. Lorraine Wallace told the court Monday that several incidents involving Borutski — whom Culleton referred to first as “the handyman” and later as Basil — had put her co-worker […]