Новости за 22.11.2017

Ottawa police are asking for the public’s help to find a 13-year-old girl who has been missing since Monday. Kiersta Goldsmith was last seen near Lacroix Avenue in Orléans’ Queenswood Heights neighbourhood. Goldsmith is white, 5-7. and weighs about 150 lbs with a medium build. She has blond, shoulder-length hair, green eyes and has piercings […]

A ‘high risk’ traffic stop snarled the westbound Queensway near Nicholas Street Wednesday morning and spooked several players with the visiting Toronto Argonauts who watched the incident unfold. Ottawa police stopped the vehicle at around 11:30 a.m. and tweeted a warning about westbound traffic disruption because of a “police operation” on Highway 417. The Argos, […]

Health Canada has toughened warnings on green tea extracts, and a Cornwall teenager’s horrific experience a year-and-a-half ago was a significant part of the process. Madeline Papineau, then 17, took the extract and soon after developed significant liver and kidney problems. Her experience, along with other people’s, prompted a federal safety review, and Health Canada […]

A verbal argument between Adrian Johnson and his alleged killer escalated into a fight early Saturday morning that would end with Johnson knifed and begging for help outside the Shepherds of Good Hope. Homicide detectives have charged Damien Dubien, 33, with second-degree murder in the fatal stabbing. Dubien, wearing a green hoodie and resting his […]

The award-winning vocalist performs Saturday night at her alma mater, Carleton University.

The Canadian government highlighted at the recent Vancouver UN meeting its plan to have RCAF helicopters sent on United Nations missions. Canadian government statements talked about an Aviation Task Force of armed helicopters while government staff provided details that the rotary contribution could include four armed helicopters and two “utility helicopters.” Armed helicopters? That specific […]

Council voted 16-7 on Wednesday to approve the Salvation Army’s application to build a shelter at 333 Montreal Rd. as part of a larger social services complex on Vanier’s main drag. The decision can be appealed to the Ontario Municipal Board. It’s likely one or more community groups will file a challenge at the tribunal. […]

As Ottawa prepares to welcome the nation’s football fans for the Grey Cup Festival, the city is urging the public to plan ahead before heading to the events. Grey Cup Festival events are taking place downtown and at Lansdowne Nov. 23-26 and traffic delays are expected. The city is urging people to arrive at their […]

An Ottawa priest has been named in a Quebec lawsuit that seeks almost $2 million in damages for sex assaults that allegedly occurred at a private Catholic boarding school. Rev. Jacques Desgrandchamps, 85, a member of the Archdiocese of Ottawa, lives in residence at St. Anthony of Padua Church. He served as an assistant pastor […]

A gala concert on campus this Saturday night will feature Carleton music program students and alumni.

The dozen or so members of Rainbow New Beginnings didn’t know each other before they joined hands in early 2016 with a shared mission: To help a persecuted LGBT person find safety, security and a new life in Canada. The Ottawa-based sponsorship group welcomed a gay newcomer in his 20s from the Middle East in […]

Citizen arts writers suggesting outings over the next week.

A “police operation” on Highway 417 near Nicholas Street snarled traffic Wednesday morning with police warning of westbound traffic disruptions. Police warned of the operation, which involved pulling over a vehicle to make an arrest, at 11:27 a.m., but didn’t give further details. Police Operation on HWY 417 near Nicholas Rd. A vehicle has been […]

As much as we look up recipes online, great cookbooks never go out of style.

After two years of drifting without a policy rudder, the Ontario Progressive Conservatives might finally set a new course this weekend. The party’s policy convention will be a real test for leader Patrick Brown, who has steered clear of ideas for so long that reasonable people might think he didn’t have any. He can’t let […]

There has been a lot of talk lately, including in a recent series by the Citizen, about Ottawa as a technology town and whether we have what it takes to become a tech powerhouse. “When it comes to the tech sector, it’s tough being Ottawa,” one of the Citizen stories noted. The proof? There are […]

The month-old Chinese restaurant on Dalhousie Street amps up the heat on its food, and isn't afraid to put offal on plates.

A temperature teeter-totter is in the forecast with the mercury swinging from as low as -12 C to as high as 9 C over the next few days. Ottawa awoke to 0 C Wednesday morning but the mercury will drop to -2 C by the afternoon, with a 30 per cent chance of flurries, and […]

An arrest was made early Wednesday morning in the fatal stabbing of Adrian Johnson outside the Shepherds of Good Hope Saturday, this newspaper has learned. Police are expected to soon confirm that Damien Dubien has been arrested and will be charged with second-degree murder. Johnson, a 45-year-old veteran of the streets of Lowertown, was pronounced dead […]

When flooding hit Constance Bay early last May, Karalee Shaw Plourde was too busy helping out with flood relief efforts at the village’s community centre to notice that she would soon be a flood victim herself. Plourde’s modest frame house was, after all, not on the water side of Baillie Drive. There were no sandbags […]

Basil Borutski will wait at least one more day to learn his fate as his triple-murder trial adjourned Tuesday before the jury could begin deliberations. Following Tuesday’s closing arguments, Justice Robert Maranger told the jury of six women and six men he wants their “minds to be fresh” when they return Wednesday. It is expected […]

Auditor general Michael Ferguson has taken his first close look at the federal government’s problem-plagued pay system known as Phoenix. Here are some numbers from the report: 290,000: Federal employees the government has to pay regularly. $22 billion: Annual payroll for the federal government. 80,000: Different pay rules that guide those payments. 200: Custom additions […]

Out of crisis, opportunity. Things are so awful at the Phoenix pay project it just might prove the catalyst for a different way of doing large projects in government. On Tuesday, in his latest report, auditor general Michael Ferguson laid out the case for profound change, particularly with respect to information technology projects, with barely […]

Mike Cerha describes the CFL championship contest as "a Redblacks game on steroids" in terms of stadium operations.

A year after a site was selected for a new multi-billion dollar Civic hospital, officials are turning to the public for input on what the health institution should look like. Public engagement sessions, which will take place across the region over the next three weeks, are a first step in the long process of building […]