Новости за 25.01.2018

Near the end of the 2011 federal election campaign, news broke that then-NDP leader Jack Layton had been found naked by police in a massage parlour some years earlier, when he was a city councillor. The parlour in question, police believed, was also a bawdy house. Layton, shaken by the news report, said he had […]

After the shock resignation of leader Patrick Brown in the wee hours of Thursday, Ontario Progressive Conservatives legislators will meet Friday to pick a “parliamentary leader,” a job that has no definition in the party constitution. It’s a sign of how bad a mess Brown leaves behind. He quit amid allegations aired by CTV News […]

The Gatineau Olympiques have been cleared to return to their home building for a game Friday after the building was closed by an ammonia spill earlier this week. The spill occurred Tuesday, leading to a postponement of an Olympiques game and several other scheduled activities. The Olympiques are playing the Drummondville Voltigeurs Friday, and the […]

Indigenous Services Minister Jane Philpott laid out a six-point plan to reform Canada’s child and welfare services for First Nations, Inuit and Métis families at an “emergency meeting” on the issue held in Ottawa Thursday.  Philpott promised that money for the reforms would be in the next federal budget, but did not say how much […]

The resignation of Patrick Brown as Ontario PC leader seems like a devastating blow to the party with just over four months until the provincial election, but if the party plays it right, it could help them win that election. Job one is to get a credible new leader in place as quickly as possible, […]

HMCS Kingston and HMCS Summerside will leave Halifax on Friday for Africa.  The ships are deploying on a strategic engagement to the western coast of Africa to foster relations  in the area with partner navies, and to participate in Obangame Express 2018, according to the Royal Canadian Navy. Led by U.S. Naval Forces Africa, the […]

The options are getting plentiful in south Ottawa. With seven other builders joining trailblazers Tamarack Homes and Tartan Homes in the Findlay Creek area near Bank Street and Leitrim Road, there’s “a lot of choice, a lot of selection for homeowners,” notes George Georgaras, president of HN Homes. HN and frequent building partner Urbandale Construction […]

The National Capital Commission and RendezVous LeBreton Group are closer to actually building something on LeBreton Flats. The NCC board approved the terms of a preliminary agreement on Thursday. The business terms will pave the way for the final negotiations of the master development agreement. “It’s also a milestone date for the modern NCC,” board […]

Police are asking the public to help them nab a culprit with “a larger-than-average nose” in an unsolved business burglary in Little Italy last year. It happened on Nov. 21 at 8:35 p.m. when the suspect broke into a store on Preston Street just north of the Queensway.  He’s described as white, 35 to 50 […]

A Petawawa woman is facing charges after she allegedly struck an Ontario Provincial Police officer who was investigating an incident involving a tractor trailer along Highway 17 on Laurentian Valley. According to police, the officer attended a call Wednesday afternoon involving a tractor trailer that had lost a set of double wheels, which narrowly missed […]

It’s going to take a while to do but the RCAF plans to extend the life of its Griffon helicopters out to the 2030s. “The project will replace obsolete cockpit instruments and avionics with components that are supportable to the mid-2030s,” the RACF noted.  Adaptation and integration of existing avionics and electronic flight instruments in […]

A 72-year-old man is dead after a single-vehicle crash on Highway 401 near Kingston on Wednesday. The man’s eastbound vehicle left the road on the south side, east of the Joyceville Road exit, at about 4:30, an OPP news release stated. The driver, identified as Victor Brennan of Lansdowne, east of Kingston, was pronounced dead at the […]

Quebec police have deployed a mobile task force in the Gatineau region in response to increased criminal activity in the Ottawa area.

PEMBROKE — The Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission heard 28 more presenters Wednesday as it evaluates a 10-year licence extension for Canadian Nuclear Laboratories, operators of the large nuclear facility at Chalk River. Speakers in favour of the renewal spoke of the economic benefits of CNL operations, its safety record and its importance to the area […]

Ontario Progressive Conservative leader Patrick Brown resigned early Thursday morning after denying allegations of sexual impropriety dating back years. He’d called a sudden press conference at Queen’s Park Wednesday night, just ahead of a report on CTV’s national news, which reported allegations from two unnamed women. One said he’d asked her for oral sex when […]

Back in the recording studio after more than 20 years, singer-songwriter Anne Lewis has defied the odds to record a fine new album, Expressions. In addition to living with Stargardt disease, a hereditary retinal disorder that left her legally blind, the retired public servant has survived two bouts with cancer. It took years to regain […]

This week’s cold snap means that the Rideau Canal will be back open to skaters — all 7.8 km of it — starting at noon Thursday. While the wake-up temperature was -17 C that felt more like -28, Thursday’s forecast is for perfect skating weather with mainly sunny skies, a high of -9 C and […]

Ontario Progressive Conservative leader Patrick Brown denied allegations of sexual impropriety dating back years, as his top advisers resigned around him Wednesday night. He called the press conference just ahead of a report on CTV’s national news, which reported allegations from two unnamed women. One said he’d asked her for oral sex when she was […]

Ottawa's guns and gangs unit was on the scene of a shooting Wednesday evening that sent a man to hospital with a gunshot wound to the leg.

The first time Tim Bouma tried the authorial voice of Tom Thomson on for size, his efforts fell well within his chosen medium’s then-140-character limit. On Nov. 28, 2011, Bouma, a federal public servant in Ottawa, posted his first tweet on his fledgling Twitter account, TTLastSpring: “Getting quite a lot done, but unsure what I […]

A 71-year-old man is dead after a single-vehicle crash on Highway 401 near Kingston on Wednesday. The man’s eastbound vehicle left the road on the south side, east of the Joyceville Road exit, at about 4:30, an OPP news release stated. The driver was pronounced dead at the scene by paramedics. The 401 remained closed […]

The free ride enjoyed by red-light-running Quebec drivers in the City of Ottawa could soon end.

The abuse of an elderly Ottawa man in a city-run long-term care home last year will be featured on a widely syndicated American television talk show Thursday. Daniel Nassrallah, an Ottawa lawyer whose elderly grandfather was repeatedly struck in the face by a support worker at Garry J. Armstrong long-term care home, said video of […]

Canadian-born political commentator David Frum was a staunch conservative and Republican when he wrote speeches for U.S. President George W. Bush. But he’s no fan of the White House’s current occupant.  Frum is discussing his new book, Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic, at Southminster United Church, presented by the Ottawa International Writers Festival Thursday […]

The Rideau Transit Group needs more time to figure out when it can deliver the city's $2.1-billion LRT system.