Новости за 27.10.2017

LeBreton Flats needs to be a showpiece neighbourhood once it's rebuilt, the city says, as long as it costs the city government as little as possible.

Both Renfrew-area residents and the region’s junior hockey communities were in mourning Friday after a crash that killed a teenage player and injured three others. Brandon Thomas Hanniman of Admaston Bromley Township was pronounced dead at the scene on Calabogie Road about two kilometres south of Burnstown, a village south of Renfrew. The four young […]

Amanda Chartrand’s hero is a woman she’s never met, and she wants to thank her for likely saving her life.

Xiaohui Zha was in Baltimore watching one of her students make a presentation when she suddenly lost hearing in one ear and then felt a strange surge from one side of her head to the other.

The 25-year-old Montreal pianist is an up-and-comer on the Canadian jazz scene.

The stripped-down, four-actor musical runs Oct. 31 to Nov. 19 at the GCTC.

Allegations of “inappropriate” kissing and other “inappropriate” actions have torpedoed the election campaign of a candidate in Gatineau’s municipal election, as several unnamed women have complained about new candidate Patrick Doyon. Two Outaouais TV stations — TVA and Radio-Canada — say Doyon told them Friday he is withdrawing from the contest for the seat in […]

Employers shouldn’t be allowed to demand their employees take genetic tests, dentists shouldn’t be allowed to evict homeless-seeming people from their waiting rooms, landlord shouldn’t be able to refuse to rent to refugee claimants, and people who’ve had criminal charges dropped shouldn’t have that held against them, says Ottawa-Vanier Liberal MPP Nathalie Des Rosiers, who’s […]

Firefighters worked hard Friday to protect neighbouring homes from a fire that broke out in a backyard shed in the Glebe. The high-heat conditions did damage to the house on Oakland Avenue near Monk Street where fire crews were called at about noon. Firefighters issued the all-clear after using thermal imaging cameras to search for […]

When Finance Minister Bill Morneau failed to disclose his French villa or put his assets in a blind trust, and when he continued owning shares in his family firm through a numbered company, what did he think was going to happen? Indiscretions commonly come to light in politics. So why did Morneau – arguably the second-most […]

Have you been feeling lonely lately and longing for company? Is your life missing the warmth that can only be found in a friend who’ll give you the shirt off his back so you can bundle up in the coziest socks, mittens, tuques and sweaters during the long cold winter? And do you have at […]

It was an unseasonably warm day in early November when an Ottawa police officer noticed the car. The silver Honda Civic was parked on a Vanier street, blocking traffic.         When the constable approached, the man inside was, as he’d later be described, “combative,” and would reply to the officer only in German. […]

An 85-year-old man suffered a minor cut to his hand after the Jeep he was driving collided with a hydro pole on Iris Street late Friday morning. According to emergency responders on the scene, the man lost consciousness while driving. The vehicle jumped the curb and sidewalk before crashing into the pole. No one else […]

Ontario has announced it is looking for places to set up marijuana stores run by the LCBO across the province. The LCBO will work closely with municipal governments and local communities to decide the location of the stores, according to a release from the Finance Department. The province plans to set up 40 stores when […]

Sexism in the restaurant industry shouldn’t surprise us Re: Workplace sexism a problem bigger than one chastened chief, Oct. 27. I am constantly amazed that people are surprised about the behaviour of male owners and managers in the service industry. Much of pub and restaurant culture is sexist and abusive towards women. One of my […]

Fire crews doused a blaze in a Vanier apartment building Friday morning. They were called to 650 Rue de l’église off Montreal Road at about 11:30 a.m., confirmed on arrival that there was a working fire billowing black smoke and had the flames under control at 11:53 a.m. Crews were still on scene clearing smoke and […]

Vancouver-based rocker Barney Bentall, a guy who was all over the airwaves in the late ’80s and early ’90s with his Legendary Hearts band, is now 61 and back with his fourth solo album in a decade. In part, The Drifter and the Preacher finds him reflecting on some of his greatest influences, including his […]

Finance Minister Bill Morneau must feel quite lonely in his infamy. Most of us, after all, cannot relate to having tens of million of dollars’ worth of shares; or, if we do have them, cannot relate to having the power to regulate the very company those shares are in. To whom can he turn for […]

Firefighters freed and extricated a seriously injured woman whose car flipped into a ditch in the city’s south end Friday. Firefighters were called to the scene on Greenbank Road near Prince of Wales Drive by police shortly after 10 a.m. The victim was still hanging from her seatbelt in the vehicle, which was upside-down in […]

One person was declared dead at the scene and three others were in critical condition after a single-vehicle crash on Calabogie Road near Burnstown Road, Renfrew County Paramedics report. Four 18-year-old men were in the vehicle when it left the roadway and struck a rock cut about two kilometres west of Burnstown, OPP reported from […]

What’s this? Ontario should crank up the cost of cigarettes, raise the smoking age to 21 and rate movies 18A if someone dares smoke on-screen, according to a new report. “It has taken far too long to stop a problem that we know how to solve,” says the report, commissioned by the Ministry of Health […]

One person was declared dead at the scene and three others were in critical condition after a single-vehicle crash on Calabogie Road near Burnstown Road, Renfrew County Paramedics report. Four 18-year-old men were in the vehicle when it left the roadway and struck a rock cut about two kilometres west of Burnstown, OPP reported from […]

Dane Simon was only 23 on the autumn day when he first spied the long-abandoned farmhouse near Vankleek Hill, nearly hidden by a tangle of scrub so dense he could only walk down its long laneway. It felt forlorn. But there was a wraparound veranda held up by gingerbread brackets, rare pressed-tin siding and his […]

A key piece in Ontario’s plan to reduce hospital overcrowding will fall into place Friday at Ottawa’s Perley and Rideau Veterans’ Health Centre with the launch of a 20-bed unit aimed at getting frail elderly patients out of hospital beds and into a more appropriate setting. The first of its kind in Canada, the unit […]

One person was declared dead at the scene and three others were in critical condition after a single-vehicle crash on Calabogie Road near Burnstown Road, Renfrew County Paramedics report. The OPP advised at about 12:30 a.m. Friday that the intersection was closed in Burnstown, a village south of Renfrew and about 85 km west of […]