Новости за 23.03.2018

There’s good news for lakes and rivers despite the wave of zebra mussels across Eastern Ontario: Native mussels that are an important part of our fresh waters are fighting back. In some cases, they smother their attackers to death while surviving themselves. But their ability to do this depends on having the right conditions — […]

Provincial police arrested one man and seized a large cache of drugs in a raid Thursday on a property in Embrun, about 45 kilometres east of Ottawa. Seized in the raid were more than 55,000 methamphetamine pills, one kilogram of cocaine, more than five kilos of hashish, in addition to marijuana, cash, weapons, contraband cigarettes […]

A man in his 40s suffered critical chest injuries early Friday afternoon when he was struck and trapped beneath a car in Vanier, paramedics said. Firefighters arriving at the crash shortly after noon and found the victim trapped beneath one of the car’s wheels. They were able to lift the vehicle off the victim by […]

A journalist’s job is often to ask tough questions of public figures and to give them an opportunity to respond. But when does that questioning turn into stalking or criminal harassment? The arrest of CBC reporter Antoine Trépanier last week raises troubling questions about how far a reporter should go in getting the answers. Trépanier […]

The Ontario government published the annual Sunshine List on Friday, revealing the public servants who made $100,000 or more in 2017. Ottawa residents will recognize familiar names among the local earners. As always, the health bigwigs are among the top. Ottawa Hospital president Jack Kitts pulled in $630,485 in salary, plus $69,108.37 in taxable benefits. […]

Spotlight is a weekly look at some of the people who are part of the Ottawa area’s arts community. This week, Bruce Deachman talks with storyteller Mary Wiggin. She’ll be performing at the NAC on May 24 as part of the Ottawa StoryTellers’ Speaking Out series. Info: www.ottawastorytellers.ca. “I loved to read when I was a youngster. I […]

That companies are abusing private data is unsettling. More unsettling still is that enough private data has been made public to abuse. After Cambridge Analytica was found to be exploiting the data of Facebook users, it is not quite enough to blame the company that grabbed personal information from individuals. Nor is it quite correct […]

It has been uncomfortable, to put it mildly, watching the leader of a major national political party appear to spend more time explaining his views about another country’s domestic policy than espousing domestic policy related to his own. The Jagmeet Singh saga also raised thorny issues. Is it racist, or inappropriate, to question the NDP […]

Show #8: Oliver Twist Where: Elmwood School Director: Angela Boychuk ———————————————————————————————————— Zelia Fang, Lead Critic Earl of March Secondary School Twisting through a maze haunted by misery and violence is a hard task for a 10-year-old, but when the 10-year-old’s name is Oliver Twist, he can do it and maintain an endearing childlike naivety. Elmwood […]

A Meals-on-Wheels volunteer has taken to social media to get her flashy delivery unit back. Denise Inglis uses an Easter-egg purple trailer to deliver meals to seniors and adults with disabilities but it vanished from the shed at the Good Companions Centre on Albert Street where she starts her route.  “My husband custom built it […]

GANANOQUE — Gananoque is on the short list to receive the Canada 150 skating rink once it is dismantled on Parliament Hill later this month, according to the town’s recreation director Terry Gilmer. The federal government doesn’t want to store the rink once it is taken down so it has been shopping it around to local […]

City police traffic officers ended up schooling drivers in a three-day back-to-school blitz this week with a whopping 226 charges for everything from speeding and distraction to driving while suspended. Some low points of the post-March Break Project Interlude include an 18-year-old whose dad’s car landed in impound when he was caught going 98 km/h in […]

Friday morning’s -10 windchill felt frosty and we’ll get a genuine low of -10 C overnight. But don’t despair, Environment Canada is predicting the mercury will soar to 9 C by next week. Friday’s complete forecast is for clouds, a 30 per cent chance of flurries in the morning and early afternoon, northwest winds at […]

As governments around the world grapple with how to tax online companies, the Canadian government is refusing to release more than 250 pages of communication it exchanged with a company at the heart of the debate in this country: Netflix. The popular streaming service, valued at more than $100 billion, has been operating in Canada […]

A Radio-Canada reporter arrested for allegedly criminally harassing the executive director of the Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Outaouais will not be charged, Gatineau police say. Reporter Antoine Trépanier was summoned to Gatineau police headquarters and arrested on March 13 after he emailed executive director Yvonne Dubé about interviewing her for a story he […]

After 12 years of planning and work, the University of Ottawa Heart Institute’s state-of-the art critical care facility is ready for patients, adding the latest technology, more operating room capacity, more patient space and more sunlight to what is Canada’s largest comprehensive cardiac prevention and rehabilitation program. “This is the most significant expansion in 40 […]

A fire at a five-storey commercial building on Sparks Street fire also forced the closure of Metcalfe Street between Queen and Wellington streets on Thursday afternoon. Ottawa Fire Services reported that the fire in the roof of 93 Sparks St. had gone to a second alarm, but no injuries were reported and the fire was […]

2018 tulip festival announces highlights and additions to look forward to.

The announcement that the eastbound on-ramp to the Queensway from Carling Avenue, just west of Westgate Shopping Centre, will close permanently drew online outrage and anxiety on Thursday. “Anyone who has ever exited westbound at Kirkwood Avenue already knows how poorly designed it is. Diverting more people onto that specific section — highway underpass to […]