Новости за 12.04.2018

Despite advice from heritage experts and an engineering firm that a house once inhabited by Lester Pearson isn’t worth saving, the city’s committee on heritage buildings wants city council to refuse to allow it to be demolished. The former duplex on Cobourg Street in Sandy Hill is now officially the High Commission of Uganda, though […]

Ottawa police teamed up with the ministries of transportation and environment to lay 54 charges in a commercial vehicle inspection blitz in the city’s west side Wednesday. The inspections focused on the safety of commercial vehicles and their drivers. Following 36 inspections, police said 10 vehicles were deemed of out of service and 54 charges […]

An Ottawa man who parked his car at the Carlingwood Mall to get high on the contents of aerosol spray cans — his girlfriend didn’t like him “huffing” at home — did not put the public at risk, a judge has ruled.  Justice Heather Perkins-McVey said she accepted the man’s evidence that he was following […]

Our last warm days were in February. Just think of that. And with spring gone AWOL, our weather is not going to warm up anytime soon. Environment Canada’s David Phillips has taken a look at what’s wrong with our spring weather. He has hope of a hot summer, but says we have to put up […]

In a top hat adorned with feathers and a coat emblazoned with prairie chicken tracks, Meryl McMaster stands at the edge of a cliff, looking back over her shoulder with a steely gaze that seems intended to warn the rest of humanity. The dramatic, large-scale image, part landscape and part self-portrait, is entitled Edge of […]

The former commanding officer of a Canadian Forces cyber operations centre in Ottawa has been charged with fraud and other related offences. Lt.-Col. Brian Mosher was charged Thursday, the Canadian Forces National Investigation Service said. The charges relate to the alleged unauthorized use of a federal government credit card that was to be used for […]

Mayor Jim Watson worries about a “glut” of payday loan shops in Ottawa, and wants to crack down on the number of outlets in the city. Coun. Mathieu Fleury suggests these supposedly short-term loans put vulnerable people in “even more challenging financial situations.” There’s reason to be concerned. Research by the think-tank Cardus has found […]

Ottawa police are investigating a near-fatal jail beating that left an accused murderer, who allegedly beat a man into a coma, in a coma himself, this newspaper has learned. East criminal investigations detectives are probing the violent jailhouse attack after Marco Michaud, 36, was severely beaten Wednesday afternoon by three other inmates at the Ottawa-Carleton […]

Algonquin’s annual tab for implementing the province’s new equal-pay law is by far the highest of any college in Ontario. The province’s colleges are all scrambling to pay for Bill 148, the Fair Workplaces, Better Jobs Act, which requires employers to pay people who do substantially the same job the same wage. Colleges employ an […]

The Military Police Complaints Commission of Canada announced Thursday that it is conducting a Public Interest Investigation into a complaint that alleges torture and abuse of former Canadian Forces members during a training scenario in the 1980s. In December 2016, the MPCC received a complaint from the lawyer for Jeffrey Beamish, a former CAF member, the commission […]

Show #11: The Caucasian Chalk Circle Where: Glebe Collegiate Institute Director: Brent Rouleau Nick Gray-Grant, Critic Lester B. Pearson Catholic High School The hallmark of Brechtian drama is a shameless postulation of the playwright’s Marxist morals. Glebe Collegiate Institute’s slow burn spectacle, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, was a stirring, parabolic potpourri, examining— through a vehemently […]

From school kids to the mayor, Ottawans donned hockey jerseys Thursday to honour the victims and support the survivors of the Humboldt bus crash nearly a week ago. Even members of the Canadian Forces were authorized to wear jerseys over their uniforms. Self-described hockey mom Joanne De Franco summed it up as she tweeted a […]

There’s a new option for families looking to move up to a larger home without the larger price tag. Jackson Ridge is an enclave of 28 single-family homes in Carleton Place that’s within walking distance of the Mississippi River and downtown. Launched in February by Longwood Building Corp., the mix of two-storeys and bungalows sits […]

In a tuxedo and bowtie, his hair slicked back, Germany’s Max Raabe is no slouch when he’s on stage. For him, the music has to be perfect, too. That’s why the well-coiffed crooner never travels without his Palast Orchester, an ensemble of a dozen classically trained musicians, most of whom play multiple instruments. Their specialty […]

Every kind of nasty weather – snow, ice pellets and freezing rain – will team up in a “messy mix” this weekend and maybe even into Monday, Environment Canada warns in a special weather statement for Ottawa . What the weather agency described Thursday as a complex weather system will hit much of the province […]

Two human rights complaints filed by Ottawa police officers against the Ottawa police force alleging racial discrimination were quietly settled in the last year. The police department is currently involved in at least five other Human Rights Tribunal cases. The exact number of human rights complaints against the force isn’t known because the public tribunal […]

Algonquin’s annual tab for implementing the province’s new equal-pay law is by far the highest of any college in Ontario. The province’s colleges are all scrambling to pay for Bill 148, the Fair Workplaces, Better Jobs Act, which requires employers to pay people who do substantially the same job the same wage. Colleges employ an […]

The Pentagon is not accepting deliveries of F-35s from Lockheed Martin in the wake of a dispute over who will pay the cost of fixing the jets because of a production problem. Reuters news service first reported the stoppage several hours ago. Details are now coming out about the dispute. My Defense News colleague Valerie […]

Customers of OC Transpo Routes 6, 7 and 12 are right to think their buses don’t show up on time more often than other routes. Statistics published Wednesday by the transit agency show the three routes have a higher-than-average cancellation rate than the rest of the bus system. The figures are in a response to […]

An inquest into the suicide death of an accused serial rapist at the Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre heard testimony from corrections officers Wednesday about Yousef Hussein’s last day. Hussein, 27, was not considered at risk of harming himself when he entered the jail in May 2014 after his arrest on charges of choking and sexually assaulting […]

All that’s left of LeBreton’s biggest tree is a stump. But what a stump. The cutting of the 110-foot-tall cottonwood on Rochester Street, estimated at 115 years old, began Tuesday. And by Wednesday morning all that was left was the enormous base, and a single massive branch rising from it where there used to be […]

Merivale High School is closed to all community uses on Wednesday evening because of a “maintenance issue,” the public school board says. The Ottawa-Carleton District School Board, which sent out a news release late Wednesday afternoon, didn’t say what the problem is at the high school. The school board expects the school to be open […]

Ottawa police arrested three people during a drug bust in Centretown on Tuesday. According to police, the street crime unit executed a warrant Florence Street between Bank and Kent streets, in response to several complaints about the possibility of drug trafficking at a residence. Police seized cash, drug-packing materials and a variety of suspected drugs, […]

Payday lenders could be treated like strip clubs in Ottawa by the end of the year — restricted to a few parts of the city and gradually squeezed out of downtown. “They bring nothing to the streetscape of our communities,” Mayor Jim Watson said in a city council meeting on Wednesday, where councillors voted unanimously […]