Новости за 03.05.2018

Though amateur genealogist Edie Walker spends much of her spare time in cemeteries, she’s not immune to the heebie-jeebies. “I don’t like the new graves — those ones actually do creep me out,” she said. “The older, the better for me.” Walker, 48, is a volunteer photographer for the website Find A Grave, where users […]

At first glance Ottawa’s resale housing market seems remarkably calm. But appearances are deceiving. The Ottawa Real Estate Board reported Thursday that the average price for residential properties sold in April through the multiple listing service climbed a modest 4.2 per cent year over year to $455,200. The resale market for condominiums was even sleepier: […]

A man in his 50s was revived after suffering a cardiac arrest in a grocery store Thursday. The Ottawa Paramedic Service said the a man collapsed at around 10:50 a.m. as he walked out of the Canadian Superstore on Innes Road after feeling dizzy. An off-duty nurse near the cash registers ran to his aid […]

A Toronto man is facing charges after Ontario Provincial Police investigated “numerous” complaints from female real estate agents who reported getting “inappropriate and unwanted” texts and calls over the past three months. Detectives from Peterborough County crime unit made an arrest in Toronto on Wednesday and police say it appears victims were targeted in other […]

One person is dead following a collision between a number of heavy trucks on Highway 401 between the towns of Maitland and Prescott early Thursday afternoon. Provincial police said Highway 401 is closed in both directions after the collision involving two tractor trailers and a a tanker truck carrying petroleum. The petroleum leaked onto the […]

Police are hunting for a suspect they believe is lifting purses and wallets from unsuspecting victims at universities, stores and coffee shops then using their pilfered credit cards. The man is suspected in more than 20 incidents across the city since February, police allege. “The suspect appears to be an opportunist where he steals purses, wallets […]

Do you have a djembe collecting dust or an acoustic guitar looking for a player. The Ottawa Public Library is looking for new or gently used instruments to add to its musical instrument lending library. The library has launched a drive from May 4-31 at the main branch, 120 Metcalfe St., or the Nepean Centrepointe branch, […]

Hard Rock Casino Ottawa has buy-in from council’s rural planning committee to add more gambling tables and build a bigger entertainment facility. The committee on Thursday voted 5-0 in favour of the rezoning that would allow Hard Rock to go ahead with a $318-million expansion at the Rideau Carleton Raceway. Hard Rock is asking the […]

Lieutenant-General Al Meinzinger will assume command of the Royal Canadian Air Force on Friday. Lieutenant-General Mike Hood will pass command to Meinzinger at a ceremony to be held at the Canada Aviation and Space Museum in Ottawa. To mark the change of command, two CH-146 Griffon helicopters, two CF-18 Hornets and one CC-130J Hercules aircraft […]

Show #17: The Hunchback of Notre Dame Where: St. Joseph High School Director: Kate Turnbull Leonora Shiell, Lead Critic Glebe Collegiate Institute Some stories are good. Some stories are great. And some stories lodge themselves in the cultural consciousness. St. Joseph High School proved why The Hunchback of Notre Dame is one of the latter […]

An open-air fire ban remains in effect despite the rainy weather. Ottawa Fire Services issued a reminder Thursday morning that while the ban was still in place, conditions are improving rapidly and officials hope to lift it shortly. Sign up to get an alert when it’s lifted here: http://ow.ly/Y4mM30jOEhs The bans are imposed to prevent fast-spreading […]

The Sûreté du Québec’s highway patrol had a busy overnight shift, including pulling a driver who wasn’t just going more than double the posted 70 km/h limit, he was impaired. Police made the collar just before 1 a.m. Thursday in the first kilometre stretch of northbound Highway 5 in Gatineau. The driver, a 28-year-old Gatineau […]

The National Gallery of Canada has been collecting photographs for half a century, relying on the discerning eye and expert knowledge of curator Ann Thomas for most of that time. As she nears the end of a 39-year career in collecting, curating and writing about photographic images, Thomas this week unveiled her swan song: A […]

It’s probably no surprise, but Canada 150 brought the greatest number of tourists to Ottawa on record — more than 11 million of them. That’s an increase of 8.8 per cent over the previous year. The visitors left more than $2.3 billion behind them when they went home, an increase of about 10 per cent. […]

Highway 132 was closed Thursday morning as police investigated a two-vehicle crash that left one person dead and at least one other injured. The crash happened at about 8 a.m. in Admaston Bromley Township, southwest of Renfrew. The roadway was closed between Whalen Road and Ferguslea Road in Admaston Bromley Township and a detour was being […]

Q: I recently acquired this clock that apparently came from England nearly 100 years ago. I know that during the 1700s and early 1800s England traded extensively with the Orient. One result was that things Chinese were popular in England, and even English manufacturers copied Chinese imports. This tall case clock is 240 cm high […]

The first Canadian journalist to face both criminal and civil charges for his reporting has won a press freedom award. Justin Brake, an APTN reporter, followed Indigenous protesters into Muskrat Falls, a controversial hydroelectric project being constructed in Labrador that has made some worried about its potential effects on the Innu and Inuit peoples who […]

As of last December, there were 262 journalists in prison for their journalistic work, according to the Committee for the Protection of Journalists. Looking at the previous week on the CPJ website as I write, I see the following news alerts: • Four journalists jailed in Sudan: two for “false news” and two for defamation; […]

Highway 401 was down to one lane in two spots in Eastern Ontario Thursday after separate collisions. Detours were in place overnight but one lane reopened Thursday morning eastbound at the Maitland Road exit  between Brockville and Prescott and westbound between Brookdale Avenue and Moulinette Road near Cornwall. In the Cornwall-area crash, a tractor trailer […]

1973 Hired by The Ottawa General Hospital (now the General campus of The Ottawa Hospital) to run its high-risk pregnancy unit and co-direct the fertility clinic. He established a sperm bank at the clinic, and also set up the first sexual health clinics in Ottawa’s public high schools. 1984 Barwin leaves the hospital. He had […]

Could tougher regulations around the use and handling of donor sperm have prevented the fallout devastating former clients of Dr. Norman Barwin’s Broadview Fertility Clinic? It is difficult to say, but at the very least tighter rules might have limited the damage. And they are badly needed in Canada, experts in the field argue. In […]

Carleton University’s new president, Benoit-Antoine Bacon, has a PhD in psychology and has spent his career studying the mysteries of cognitive neuroscience. He’s also a good sport. Bacon, who will leave his job as vice-principal and provost at Queen’s University to take the top job at Carleton, agreed to take a quiz designed to reveal […]

As much as 30 mm of rain is forecast to end the week but the light at the end of the dismal tunnel is a sunny Saturday. Thursday’s outlook is for cloudy skies, early morning showers then a 30 per cent chance of more wet stuff in the late morning and afternoon and a high […]

Kat Palmer always knew she was a Barwin baby. It was a matter of pride in her family that Dr. Norman Barwin, Ottawa’s renowned fertility doctor and baby whisperer, had helped her parents conceive after years of trying. As members of Ottawa’s tight-knit Jewish community, they sometimes ran into the doctor at events while she […]

Lisa Yull and her ex-husband had tried to get pregnant for five years before meeting someone who helped them get in to see Dr. Norman Barwin. “We were pretty excited, because he is the baby god. If anyone could get you pregnant, he was the one who did it.” After several tries in which Yull […]