Новости за 05.11.2017

A policy analyst left the government in 2016 at age 66 without ever benefiting from "alternation," a program to reduce the size of the bureaucracy.

"The traffic was pretty crazy. At home, if I’m late for work I just drive a little faster, but here you can’t … there’s traffic. I’m not used to that at all."

Vaccines have been about 42 per cent effective during the past two flu seasons. While that not seem optimal, getting a flu shot is always better than not getting it.

The victim was taken to hospital, where he was treated for serious, but non-life-threatening injuries, police said.

Heartwood House, a charity that houses 20 small non-profits, also runs the OC Transpo Lost and Found and has hosted the sale of unclaimed items twice a year since 2002.

The Montreal pianist's second CD features the terrific saxophonist Kenji Omae, recently returned to Canada after many years in South Korea.

Police say they have a suspect in custody and charges are being laid after a man was stabbed in the ByWard Market in the wee hours of Sunday morning. A 911 call was made at about 12:40 a.m.  Paramedics said that the victim was taken to the hospital with serious and potentially life-threatening injuries but […]

A 37-year-old man is dead after his pick-up truck landed in a ditch on County Road 18 south of Kemptville early Sunday morning. Grenville County OPP reported that officers were called to the single-vehicle collision east of Dennison Road at about 1:37 a.m. The truck left the roadway and ended up in the ditch. The […]

The U.S. recently released details of the killings of ISIL members in Iraq and Syria over the last two months. Among those killed were those involved in research and development and acquisition of unmanned aerial vehicles or drones. They were “removed” from the battlefield through a series of airstrikes, according to the U.S. The names […]

Cellphones, ball caps, well-thumbed paperbacks, sunglasses, umbrellas. So, so many umbrellas. But also oddities — half-a-dozen jumbo cans of sardines and a 2003 graduation cap. If you’ve always suspected there’s a parallel dimension, where everything you’ve ever lost is hiding, there is. “It’s here,” joked volunteer Suzanne Picard, one of dozens who helped out Saturday at charity […]

New opioid guidelines for doctors may reduce prescriptions but with an unintended consequence — the risk of more deaths, an expert in treating chronic pain argued at an Ottawa forum Saturday. Dr. Greg Murphy, who founded the Kingston Orthopaedic and Pain Institute, said that the 2017 guidelines for Canadian doctors who treat chronic pain unrelated […]

The federal government is looking for a company to dispose of the former HMCS Athabaskan. The winning bidder will be required to prepare the ship for transfer, transfer the ship to an approved site, break it apart and demilitarize the controlled goods on board. Bids are due Jan. 4, 2018. A bidders’ conference will be […]