Новости за 18.12.2017

Few people who have spent time inside a long-term care home would be surprised at the numbers the Citizen revealed this week. Sixty-six cases of reported resident abuse in 2016 at local long-term care homes. Five hundred and sixteen notices of non-compliance with provincial orders in these same facilities. We already know long-term care is […]

Ottawa Archbishop Terrence Prendergast will kick off the 2nd annual multi-faith blood drive Thursday with a donation of his own. Ottawa’s Give Together, Live Together drive first came about a year ago, when Jewish, Muslim and Christian communities came together in a united show of support for the Canadian Blood Services’ Boxing Day blood drive, after […]

Global defence expenditure is set to increase again in 2018 to reach its highest level since the end of the Cold War, according to the annual Jane’s Defence Budgets Report released Monday. Defence spending will grow for the fifth consecutive year, reaching $1.67 trillion in 2018 and overtaking the previous post-Cold War record of $1.63 trillion seen in […]

The following is adapted from a recent speech by Ottawa author Bob Plamondon to the Albany Club. It’s based on Plamondon’s latest book, The Shawinigan Fox: How Jean Chrétien Defied the Elites and Reshaped Canada. Sir John A. Macdonald, Robert Borden, R.B. Bennett, John Diefenbaker, Brian Mulroney and Stephen Harper were leaders of majority Conservative […]

Ottawa Senators captain Erik Karlsson and his wife, Melinda, are having a boy. Melinda informed the world via Instagram, with a video of her hubby shooting a hockey puck that exploded with blue powder. That was followed by whooping, hugs and kisses for the happy couple, who announced last month they were expecting a baby. […]

The U.S. and Iraq have declared that the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant is defeated. But coalition forces are still in Iraq and elsewhere. There is, however, moves to determine how long that will go on for. Australian forces are to remain in the region until mid-2018, the Australian government says. There are […]

If you’re still wondering why singer Remigio Pereira veered from the script during a high-profile performance by his former group, The Tenors, his response is contained in the first new song of his post-Tenors solo career. “I did it for love, I did it for peace,” croons Pereira in a rich, velvety voice brimming with […]

Six people were taken to hospital Sunday evening after a head-on crash on Highway 138 in the Moose Creek area. A northbound driver crossed over the centre line about 8 p.m. and collided with a southbound vehicle, OPP said. A second southbound driver was unable to stop in time and ran into the first two. […]

Henry Larson Elementary School is closed Monday because a problem with the boiler has cut heat to the building. The before-and after-school daycare in the building on Sunview Drive in Gloucester is also closed. Parents are asked not to bring their children to school. Updates will be posted on the website of the Ottawa-Carleton District […]

After a weekend in the deep freeze, Ottawa will warm up and get more snow over the next few days. But be prepared for the dreaded freezing rain to make an appearance on Tuesday in time to snarl the morning commute. A dusting of snow Monday morning could continue throughout the day, with a high […]

In the third instalment of 'Politics for the rest of us,' we meet an Ontario woman who doesn't fit the short-hand image often associated with the 'Left.'

Every one of Ottawa’s 27 long-term care homes, which house some of the city’s most vulnerable residents, has been the site of either violence, sexual abuse or death resulting from improper care, an investigation by this newspaper reveals. Since 2012, there have been at least 163 cases of reported resident abuse — either physical, sexual […]

The prehistoric bear that Ottawa’s Natalia Rybczynski dug up in the Arctic looks quite a lot like black bears today, and it carries a mystery. Its teeth had cavities. Some 3.5 million years ago the bear they call Protarctos abstrusus lived in a warm, wet habitat on Ellesmere Island in today’s Nunavut.  The bear was […]

Some enterprising type should market the T-shirts: I Survived the NHL 100 Classic. As Montreal hockey writer Michael Farber says, the outdoor game is sometimes a place where hype meets hypothermia. Such was the case Saturday night as fans suffered frozen extremities in the name of outdoor sporting spectacle, and paid as much as $400 […]

A woman in her late 60s has died after she was struck by a minibus that left the scene in Gatineau on Saturday. Police said the woman was struck as the minibus — the type used as accessible transportation for persons with disabilities — turned left from rue Jacques-Carter onto boulevard Gréber, near the Lady […]

A woman in her late 60s has died after she was struck by a minibus that left the scene in Gatineau on Saturday. Police said the woman was struck as the minibus — the type used as accessible transportation for persons with disabilities — turned left from rue Jacques-Carter onto boulevard Gréber, near the Lady […]

Best friends, soulmates, fiancées and boyfriends: that’s how friends and family are remembering some of the four Ontario utility workers who were killed in a helicopter crash near Tweed on Thursday. The men, identified by Hydro One as 39-year-old James Barager, 27-year-old Kyle Shorrock, and Jeff Howes and Darcy Jansen, both 26, were working on […]

Ontario Provincial Police have recovered the body of an elderly Tay Valley Township man who went missing while ice-fishing on the weekend. The man’s family had called police Saturday night when the man had not returned home on time on his ATV. Police said the family had noticed a large hole in the ice on […]