Новости за 05.12.2017

The Canada 150 rink offers a chance to skate in the shadow of the Peace Tower with passes available online for opening day Thursday. The rink is open from Dec. 7 to Feb. 28 and more than 40,000 Canadians are expected to take in what’s billed as a “once-in-a-lifetime” opportunity. Passes are available starting 48 […]

Owners of small bed and breakfasts on Tuesday pleaded with Mayor Jim Watson and councillors to be exempted from collecting a four-per-cent tax on guest accommodations. Debbie Bernhardt of Windsong Manor Bed and Breakfast said the rural-west business hasn’t raised its rates in its three years of operation. “We did not because we know how […]

The counting’s finally done. The 33rd annual OC Transpo/Loblaw Christmas Food Drive brought in a record-breaking total of 139,322 food and non-perishable items, as well as $38,176 in cash and food vouchers to restock the shelves at the Food Bank’s Michael Street warehouse in time for the holidays. On Saturday, Transpo buses were parked outside participating […]

Two researchers say they were shaken by what they heard when they talked to health-workers across Ontario about violence on the job. “We had no idea of the magnitude of the problem or how serious it was. We actually ended up being quite disturbed,” said Margaret Keith, a University of Windsor researcher and co-author of […]

There was a time, a quarter-century ago or so, that you could see Canada through foreign eyes. Foreign journalists stationed here offered us a different, illuminating perspective. The Times of London, the Guardian and other British newspapers once had correspondents or stringers in Canada. So did American newspapers: the Washington Post, the Boston Globe and […]

Two Rockland residents face charges of drug trafficking and weapons possession following a Nov. 23 raid. A group of provincial police from several squads conducted the raid following several complaints from neighbours. Investigators seized cocaine and methamphetamine (speed) pills as well as more than two pounds of marijuana. Police also seized an unspecified amount of cash […]

A community initiative to bring purses filled with sanitary products to women in shelters across the city has returned this season. Women often arrive at shelters with nothing but the clothes on their backs and spending $5 to $10 a month on tampons and pads is frequently a hardship. The Purse Project, launched by staff […]

The Ottawa Jazz Festival has been forced to cancel its now-traditional Charlie Brown Christmas concert that was scheduled for Dec. 12. The concert’s star musician, Halifax drummer Jerry Granelli, has been hospitalized with pneumonia and has had to cancel his touring, the festival’s executive producer Catherine O’Grady posted on Facebook. All ticket holders will be […]

Police from Ottawa and Gatineau will be focusing on impaired driving and unsafe lane changes during the month of December. The two forces announced the crackdown on Tuesday as part of their regular Selective Traffic Enforcement Program (STEP). According to police between 2011 and 2015, there were 1,890 reportable collisions involving impaired driving resulting in […]

Jason Collett has one hard-and-fast rule when it comes to the New Constellations tour. Performers must watch each other perform. “The artists are not allowed to just hang out backstage,” says the singer-songwriter, in an interview with Postmedia from his home in Toronto. “Typically, whenever we do benefits together, that’s how it goes. Everybody is […]

Have you seen a 50-foot industrial lift in your travels? Gatineau police are looking for thieves who made off with two pieces of heavy equipment over the Nov. 10-13 weekend from a construction site on Amsterdam Boulevard near Plateau Boulevard in the Aylmer sector. Stolen were a Fraco industrial lift, 50 feet long, as well […]

A 26-year-old Ottawa man faces a host of charges in connection with a string of robberies at banks and a pharmacy during November.   The man has been charged with 13 counts of robbery, eight counts of wearing a disguise and six counts of breach of undertaking. He had also been wanted on a Canada-wide arrest […]

Q. This beautiful oil on canvas is part of our Mom’s estate. She bought it in the 1980s. The artist is Ivan Aivazovsky, 1817-1900, titled “The Sea”, and was apparently painted around 1860.  It has some documentation including a certificate of authenticity – part of which was done by the Artistic Commission of Tretjakov Gallery in Moscow, 1971. It was initially […]

DEEP RIVER – Canadian Nuclear Laboratories (CNL) and the Town of Deep River have signed an interim agreement that will see CNL’s Chalk River Laboratories fire operations provide management of the town’s fire services. Deep River, with a population of 4,000, is the smallest community in Ontario with full-time firefighters, at a cost of $1.5 […]

Tuesday’s forecast is warm and wet, but watch for slippery roads that seemed to be slowing morning traffic. Environment Canada predicts that periods of rain that began in early morning won’t end until evening with southwest winds at 30 km/h gusting to 50 to blow it around. The expected high is 9 C dipping to […]

As Prime Minister Trudeau visits China to discuss the possibility of a future bilateral free trade agreement (FTA), many Canadians are unsettled about closer ties with China. And for good reason. China’s compliance with existing trade agreements has been problematic. China’s widely documented practices of subsidizing exports and dumping exported goods at prices that do […]

Politicians and unions in Quebec are turning up the heat on the Liberal government, questioning why Davie shipyards in the province isn’t getting any more work from the federal government. Davie converted a commercial container ship into a supply vessel for the Royal Canadian Navy. It was on time and on budget. The ship, the […]

The Ottawa-Carleton District School Board has elected its chair and vice-chair for the new year. Both are veteran trustees. Shirley Seward has represented the board’s River Zone since 2010, and this will be her fourth term as chair. Lynn Scott, the vice-chair, has been a trustee for the OCDSB and before that for the Carleton […]

A survey of tenants in rooming houses in west-central Ottawa draws a grim picture. Some tenants reported paying almost three-quarters of their income for their room. More than half used food banks and soup kitchens. Almost three-quarters of those surveyed had at least one mental health condition. But the survey also concludes that rooming houses […]

On the picturesque grounds of the Canadian Museum of History Monday, there was sight never before seen: a series of seven teepees, illuminated with colour and shining brightly against the backdrop of Parliament. The teepee lighting marked the launch of an event that will close out a year of Canada 150 celebrations:  Nimidiwin, A celebration of […]

It all started with pencil drawings of Chicago Blackhawks netminder Tony Esposito sketched obsessively on notebooks and page margins. Tony Harris was then a Grade 3 student at Lakefield District Public School near Peterborough, and like many boys of his era, he found in Esposito an artist’s muse: He made countless attempts at perfecting the […]

Universities and hospital are still full of researchers who don’t understand that “predatory” journals — con artists who will publish research on flying pigs for a buck — are doing serious harm, says an Ottawa expert. That’s why the thousands of shady journals keep getting willing customers who will pay to have their research papers […]

It’s not the first time former Hells Angel Michael Clairoux beat a drug rap down at the Elgin Street courthouse. But this was different, this was a big joint-police force investigation targeting an Ontario Hells Angels drug trafficking ring that yielded more than 20 arrests — including two federal prison employees. Last week, the case […]

Fire broke out on the roof of a building at the Queensway Carleton Hospital Monday afternoon but firefighters were able to keep it from spreading. There are no injuries, and the cause is under investigation. A fire alarm went off about 4:45 p.m., Ottawa fire said. They haven’t said where on the hospital grounds the […]

One person was seriously wounded in a stabbing outside of a pizza restaurant on Baseline Road Monday afternoon, and a second person received less serious injuries. The attack occurred around 3:10 p.m. near the Milano Pizzeria on Baseline, east of Greenbank Road. Ottawa police say one 27-year-old man was seriously wounded, while another man, 35, was […]