Новости за 25.10.2017

Ontario is on the verge of banning protests outside abortion clinics, with the legislature having given final approval to a new “bubble zone” law Wednesday. The vote was nearly unanimous, with only Carleton-Mississippi Mills MPP Jack MacLaren opposing the government bill. It now just needs ceremonial assent from the lieutenant-governor to take effect. All three […]

When I moved to Ottawa from suburban Scarborough some years ago, my date took me to a well-known, mid-priced restaurant. The food was good, the service friendly. Yet it’s not the menu I recall; it’s the attire of the female serving staff – black and very skimpy. Their wardrobe, apparently, was the real reason the […]

Ottawa police have obtained a warrant for the arrest of a 48-year-old Ottawa man who is accused of ordering baked goods and other items, asking they be stuffed with cash, then paying for the orders with stolen credit cards. According to police, the man may have defrauded as many as 12 businesses in the area […]

One letter writer worries that there ought to be new standards for half-masting the flag, while another says Coun. Jody Mitic should prioritize kids over dogs. Oh – and the sugary drink tax is just one more way to take our money, says a third. Write to us at letters@ottawacitizen.com. Re-think when we lower the […]

Matías Muñoz moved to Ottawa almost 10 years ago planning to work for the federal government. Instead, he was lured away from his cubicle by the city’s live music scene, and is now one of its biggest champions, with a thriving website, Ottawa Showbox, and a new concert series launching on Saturday to showcase homegrown talent. […]

The Canadian military is reviewing its plan to provide the Kurds with weapons as fighting continues between Kurdish and Iraqi forces. Canadian special forces have provided training to Kurdish troops and a plan has been developed to supplying them with weapons. The Department of National Defence has stated that work on the weapons shipment is […]

Gatineau’s Vision centre-ville group has put out a shopping list of 14 priorities that it wants the city’s election candidates to support in order to revitalize the city’s downtown. The massive Zibi project and the realignment of streets near it are just the start, the group says. Among the group’s calls for change: • “Promote […]

Ontario Provincial Police have arrested a 39-year-old Perth man in connection with an Oct. 2 armed robbery at at an LCBO store in Lanark. The robbery occurred at the LCBO on Clarence Street in the Village of Lanark at around 12:20 p.m. Witnesses said the suspect was carrying a firearm. He fled on foot. No one […]

Rock Music — Lynn Saxberg Psychedelia and other sonic experiments abound on The Wooden Sky’s latest album, Swimming in Strange Waters, which is partly inspired by frontman Gavin Gardiner’s interest in sci-fi literature. Always a favourite with Ottawa-based audiences, the Toronto-based band makes their semi-annual trek to the NAC Presents series, arriving Friday, Oct. 27, […]

Ottawa celebrity chef Matthew Carmichael has admitted to sexually harassing women and has stepped back from the operations of his acclaimed downtown restaurants, which include Riviera, Datsun and two El Camino locations. In a statement Wednesday morning, Carmichael, 46, said he sexually harassed an unspecified number of women with inappropriate comments and made an apology. […]

“Innovation” is on the tip of everyone’s tongue, but it’s not a word one associates with Parliament. It’s hard to change Parliament. This is partly by design. Parliament is meant to weather political change, and deliver stability and continuity, which it has done for Canada.   But when times call for change, it can be […]

The two-month-old restaurant on Klondike Road is serving dynamite food with commendable hospitality.

OC Transpo won’t follow a new Quebec law that forces people receiving a public service to uncover their faces, with Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson dismissing the law as “a thinly-veiled appeal to populist sentiment.” Transpo’s bus services stretch into Gatineau and buses with the Société de transport de l’Outaouais serve parts of downtown Ottawa. Watson wrote […]

Airbus officials made a pitch yesterday at a Quebec aerospace forum for a Canadian purchase of the Eurofighter Typhoon. Airbus Canada President Simon Jacques, like his counterparts at Lockheed Martin Canada, called for an open and fair competition for the fighter replacement. “We have a very good plane,” he said, referring to the Typhoon. “If […]

Q  A dear friend’s father received this jade carved lion as a gift from Chinese business associates sometime in the ‘80s. The carving is quite intricate, and there are four “donuts” hanging freely from the lid and each end of the figure. It measures about 16.5 cm (6.5 inches) from nose to tail, and 19 […]

Rush hour in the city’s west end featured an unusual snarl Tuesday – a too-tall rig loaded with new vehicles that smashed through traffic lights along Hunt Club and Greenbank roads until a van on the top was sheared off by a railway bridge. Veteran traffic Const. Paramjit Singh has never had another case like the […]

After Tuesday’s deluge, Ottawa’s on the cusp of the record for the most rain in a single year since 1873. And it sure looks like this week will push us over the edge with the risk of rain forecast for Wednesday and then every day Saturday through Tuesday. Weather historian Rolf Campbell noted Tuesday that […]

It wasn’t until Ross Tuddenham’s watch stopped working that he began to accept something might be wrong with him. Earlier, the 77 year old had been convinced it was a mistake when a doctor told him he had Parkinson’s disease. He had injured his hand and just thought it was taking awhile to heal. But […]

How does a country honour the death of one of its own: a middle-aged troubadour taken by cancer or a young soldier killed in combat? What is the appropriate way for governments to mourn worthy lives? The leaders of Canada and the United States, in responding to the deaths of Gordon Downie, an acclaimed singer […]

Ottawa police said Tuesday night that they have located Dustin Lance, a 15-year-old whose family was worried about his safety. Lance was found safe and sound after being reported missing for two weeks, police said. tspears@postmedia.com twitter.com/TomSpears1

Doctors are monitoring Jonathan Pitre for signs of a perforated bowel — a complication that could send him back into surgery in Minneapolis. Tests this week have revealed the presence of air in his bowel wall, a development that could explain the high fever that hospitalized him last week. He also spent several days in […]

Carleton University has a won a $500,000 court judgment which allows it to reclaim pension benefits paid to a dead political science professor whose body went undiscovered in the Outaouais woods for more than five years.  George Roseme was 77 years old and suffering from early-stage Alzheimer’s disease when he went missing from his farm […]

A woman charged in connection with the desecration of a three-year-old boy’s grave last year was charged on Monday with obstruction of justice. Ontario Provincial Police officers were continuing the investigation “after court testimony in Brockville,” police said Tuesday. On Monday, officers with the Leeds County OPP crime unit were called in “after an accused […]

Twenty years ago, there was limited knowledge of brain trauma and concussion treatment. At what point do we know too much? Dr. Kristian Goulet, medical director at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario concussion clinic, says that one of his greatest fears is fear itself, when it comes to concussions and public perception. “It’s almost […]

A dust-up between Orléans dog owners and baseball players is playing out at Ottawa City Hall, as a councillor cries foul over a bid to put a new diamond in a treasured off-leash park. The Orléans Little League Baseball Association is proposing to build a new tyke-sized baseball diamond in greenspace at Heritage Park, with […]