Новости за 06.01.2018

Art lovers will have to take a two-week break from the National Gallery of Canada starting Monday as the institution gets set for a major maintenance project. The closure until Jan. 22 is to allow workers to prepare for replacement of the windows and roof in the main entrance and Colonnade sections of the building.  […]

After seeming to take forever, the Rideau Canal Skateway is moving full-speed ahead to a complete opening of the world’s largest skating rink. The National Capital Commission has announced that two more kilometres of ice, from the Pretoria Bridge to Rideau Street (National Arts Centre) will be open for to skaters and visitors as of […]

The NAC Orchestra’s Edmonton-born associate concertmaster Jessica Linnebach is the featured soloist at two concerts to be conducted by New York’s Karina Canellakis. Linnebach, a former child prodigy, spoke to Lynn Saxberg about everything from music and family to finding her perfect instrument and the Zukerman influence.  Q: You’re in the spotlight with the NAC […]

Ottawa workers who feel they are being abused by employers reducing benefits or taking other cost-cutting measures in reaction to Ontario’s new minimum age laws now have an outlet. The Ottawa and District Labour Council has set up a hotline to identify corporate “bullies” that claim the benefits reductions are the only way they can […]

And you thought it couldn’t get any worse. The capital region’s Deep Freeze is expected to hit the lowest of the lows Saturday, with a “high” of only about -20 C. Add in the winds of 30 kilometres an hour gusting to 50 km/h and you have a walking around “feels like” -40 situation on […]

EDITOR’s NOTE: This piece originally appeared in the Montreal Gazette in April 2016.  After more than 30 years in the business and with a staggering number of productions behind him (including such multi-hour epics as The Dragons’ Trilogy, The Seven Streams of the River Ota and Wagner’s Ring cycle), Robert Lepage is unquestionably a giant of the […]

The Best Stories of 2017 Editor’s Note: As we prepare to usher in 2018, it’s important that we here in the newsroom take a moment to consider the year that was. The news cycle has a forward momentum and it’s easy — too easy — to stay focused on the here and now. It’s essential to […]

The Best Stories of 2017 Editor’s Note: As we usher in 2018, it’s important that we here in the newsroom take a moment to consider the year that was. The news cycle has a forward momentum and it’s easy — too easy — to stay focused on the here and now. It’s essential to us as […]

Jeanne Farrell MacDonald was born Aug. 27, 1930, and grew up in Sandy Hill.

There were no doctors in Donna May Kimmaliardjuk’s family. No nurses, not even a physiotherapist. Still, from the time she was very young, Kimmaliardjuk was determined to become a physician. Now 28, she is doing a residency in heart surgery. Kimmaliardjuk — “Dr. K” to patients at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute — is […]

People usually act in their self-interest, and are fully entitled to do so. As a result, it should surprise no one that the business sector – in particular small business – is moving to protect its interests as a result of Ontario’s minimum-wage hike. The results haven’t been pretty. Yet the premier responsible for the […]

Ottawa firefighters battled flames and freezing temperatures at a townhouse fire on Woodvale Green in Craig Henry on Friday night. There were no injuries reported in the three-alarm fire that broke out at around 6:30 p.m. in the middle of a five-unit row of houses at 39 Woodvale Green. High winds hampered firefighters’ efforts to […]

A Napanee wildlife rescue centre suffered "a devastating blow" Friday when fire destroyed a barn that held much of the straw and hay the centre needs for feeding and bedding for its animals.

Ottawa police are investigating after a shot was fired into a house in the 300 block of King George Street in Overbrook on Friday night. The incident occurred at about 7 p.m. Police searched the area near King Edward and Lola Street but found neither suspects nor anyone injured in the shooting. It is the […]

The Canadian Army public affairs branch forwarded a number of photos taken throughout 2017 which they considered among the best images taken by military photographers. I’ve added a few more from the Combat Camera website. Here they are, showing Canadian Army personnel on a variety of exercises or training missions. Bombadier Arsenault stacks sandbags as […]

Ottawa firefighters battled flames and freezing temperatures at a townhouse fire on Woodvale Green in Craig Henry on Friday night. There were no injuries reported in the three-alarm fire that broke out at around 6:30 p.m. in the middle of a five-unit row of houses at 39 Woodvale Green. High winds hampered firefighters’ efforts to […]

A Napanee wildlife rescue centre suffered "a devastating blow" Friday when fire destroyed a barn that held much of the straw and hay the centre needs for feeding and bedding for its animals.

The construction of new sewage infrastructure in Confederation Park will cause temporary closures of adjacent traffic lanes and a portion of the park, starting in March. Work to construct the Rideau Canal Interceptor Diversion Chamber is scheduled to continue until January 2019. It’s part of a larger city project, called the Combined Sewage Storage Tunnel, […]

Employers are taking steps to control labour costs after the minimum wage rose to $14 an hour on Jan. 1. But they are also learning that sticking to the bottom line can have negative effects on business. The owners of at least a dozen Tim Hortons outlets have told workers they are rescinding perks and […]

When things go horribly wrong with big trucks on Ontario’s 400-highways, people die, things burn, traffic locks in angry grids and a mountain of wreckage is left behind. And people like Andrew Vink go to work. “A lot of times, when the weather turns bad, and people stop and get off the road, that’s often the […]

Snowmobile operators in Leeds county south of Ottawa will soon face increased scrutiny from police to ensure they are following the rules, the Leeds OPP detachment says. Snowmobiles are subject to many of the same rules as other vehicles, the OPP said in a release. In particular, police will be checking throughout the winter to […]

About 200 new affordable and supportive housing units will be built in Ottawa over the coming years, thanks to the latest cash injection from upper-tier governments. Of the three projects that received the green light last month as part of the Action Ottawa program, the largest is slated for Centretown, where an eight-storey, 148-unit mixed-income […]

Scientists from the University of Ottawa, The Ottawa Hospital and other top-tier institutions across Canada keep publishing their results in fake science journals, tainting the work despite years of warnings. One veteran science publisher warns all the work that produced these studies “is just thrown away.” Until recently, the scope of the problem of “predatory” […]