Новости за 07.12.2017

For some the number 13 is unlucky, but Canada’s Capital Cappies team sees it as something to be proud of as they embark on their 13th season of high school plays and musicals next week. The local Cappies chapter is excited to continue bringing students the chance to see top-drawer high school performances and write […]

A man was taken to hospital in Gatineau Thursday afternoon following a collision between a heavy truck and an all-terrain vehicle on Highway 148 in the Luskville area. MRC des Collines police said the crash occurred at about noon and required response from several agencies, including the provincial ministry of transport to untangle the vehicles […]

The number of Ontarians taken to hospitals with opioid overdoses surged over the summer, which has pushed Health Minister Eric Hoskins to declare the situation a public-health emergency. That will let the provincial government approve temporary supervised drug-injection sites without waiting for the federal government to sign off, he said in a Toronto announcement Thursday. […]

Police have charged a 24-year-old Ottawa man with aggravated sexual assault, following an investigation that began in October. Police have not released any specifics about the incident in order to protect the identity of the victim. Charged with aggravated sexual assault is William Vatcher. He is to appear in an Ottawa court on Jan. 11. […]

Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan will attend a traditional sod-turning ceremony for the new Fixed-Wing Search and Rescue Aircraft Training Centre. That will be held 19 Wing Comox, BC on Friday.

A 52-year-old man died Wednesday of a gunshot wound while he was “interacting” with OPP officers on a farm southwest of Renfrew, says the province’s Special Investigations Unit.   The SIU is probing the circumstances behind the death, which occurred around 3 p.m. near the corners of Scotch Bush Road and Sutherland Road between the […]

Police raided the Cannabis Culture marijuana dispensary on Bank Street Thursday morning for the third time since it opened nearly a year ago. But this time they arrived with a bailiff who was enforcing an eviction notice from the landlord. The lock was changed on the front door and a notice posted there saying the […]

When this year’s Nobel prize-winners gather in Stockholm and Oslo on Dec. 10, not one of the 11 laureates will be a woman. The 2017 Peace Prize is being awarded to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons. A Hiroshima survivor, Setsuko Thurlow (who is now a Canadian), will accept the prize on behalf of […]

Letter writers weigh in on inappropriate comments on the Hill – and if they’re being taken too seriously. Meanwhile, those LRT costs. One writer says it was totally foreseeable that fares would need to go up. You, too, can write to us: letters@ottawacitizen.com  LRT problems totally foreseeable Re: All aboard the inflation express, Dec. 5 […]

Pharaoh, the dognapped 40-kilogram mastiff puppy, is safe and sound thanks to a dog-loving Good Samaritan in Kingston. On Tuesday, three teenaged Kingston girls, including a pair of 13-year-olds, were arrested after allegedly stealing a 40-kilogram bull mastiff type dog, then leaving abandoning it chained to a fence. Hours later, the dog had not been found, […]

Here’s how our cartoonists see Canada and the world.

Winter weather puts a quick stop to heel flips and half pipe slips at Ottawa’s local skateparks. While most kids are packing away their skateboards or scooters two Ottawa pre-teens are just warming up. Only a flight a stairs separates them and a skatepark, designed for scooters, complete with two quarter pipes, ramps and vibrant […]

Three Ottawa-area fine-dining restaurants — Atelier on Rochester on Rochester Street, Carben on Wellington Street West and Le Baccara in the Casino du Lac Leamy in Gatineau — are on OpenTable’s 2017 list of Canada’s 100 best restaurants that was released Wednesday. In terms of representing Ottawa’s restaurant scene, the recognition is a notable step up from last year, when […]

You have to wonder: In some alternate universe, is Shrek blue? Blond-haired? Even more rotund? Wearing a kilt? At the Canadian Museum of History, four of about 400 items in a new special exhibition show these different iterations of the beloved animated character. They’re part of DreamWorks Animation: The Exhibition, which opens its four-month run at […]

Elise Letourneau arrived at Ottawa City Hall just before 9 a.m. on Wednesday ready to play her piano tribute for the 14 women murdered at École Polytechnique de Montréal on Dec. 6, 1989. She was silenced by a blood clinic. “I was prepared to play. The piano was open and available,” Letourneau said of the […]

Police are looking for a suspect armed with a knife who made off with cash after an attempted purse-snatching outside a Herongate apartment building Wednesday night. It happened at about 10:50 p.m. on Fairlea Crescent. The woman was walking towards an apartment building and had just reached it when a man approached her from behind. […]

The official first day of winter is Dec. 21 but Thursday is looking like a contender with slick and slow roads for the morning commute and blowing snow in the city’s west end. Ottawa police was warning of black ice in spots. BLACK ICE on the roads this morning. Please drive slowly and leave extra, […]

The Canadian Special Operations Regiment will have a new compound at Petawawa in the coming years. In total, ten buildings will be constructed in a secure compound at 4 CDSB, Petawawa.  The facilities will include working space, training facilities, vehicle maintenance areas, warehouses and medical facilities. The new facilities will consolidate CSOR activities in one […]

Ontario’s civilian police watchdog has been called in to investigate after a 52-year-old man suffered a fatal gunshot wound Wednesday in the village of Douglas, west of Renfrew. The Special Investigations Unit said in a news release late Wednesday that Ontario Provincial Police were called to a residence at Scotch Bush and Sutherland roads by […]

Vigils were held across Canada on Wednesday in honour of the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women.

Basil Borutski’s crimes were “so deplorable, so devoid of mercy” that Justice Robert Maranger showed no mercy of his own in sentencing Borutski to consecutive life sentences with no chance of parole for 70 years. Borutski, 60, will spend the rest of his days in jail for the first-degree murders of Anastasia Kuzyk and Nathalie […]

Lanark-area MPP Randy Hillier engaged in workplace harassment with his “unwelcome” criticism of staff at Tay Valley Township, an independent investigator has concluded. A confidential report from lawyer John Curtis, who spent three months on the case, was given to township council on Monday. It centred on allegations that three individuals, including Hillier and an […]

An elderly couple shot to death in Kingston’s west end have been identified as a 76-year-old Vietnam War veteran and his 78-year-old wife. On Tuesday morning, Kingston Police received a 911 call from a distraught man who said he had a handgun. Shortly after receiving the call, patrol officers and emergency response team members entered the […]

Ontarians have paid $1.5 billion extra on our electricity bills to compensate large producers and consumers for power we’ve made them waste, some of which they never actually wasted, Ontario’s auditor general Bonnie Lysyk reported Wednesday. We did this under a 15-year-old program that was supposed to be temporary. A program with flaws pointed out […]

A man was stabbed on Montreal Road Wednesday afternoon.