Новости за 08.05.2018

A dramatic emergency exercise held Monday night to test the Ottawa airport’s emergency response plan has been deemed “a success.” The airport authority said Tuesday the exercise scenario involved a vehicle attack and perpetrator running through the terminal with a weapon causing multiple casualties, and culminated with the assailant threatening to detonate an explosive device. […]

Regardless of how Ottawa voters cast their ballots on June 7, there is guaranteed to be at least one new area MPP at Queen’s Park. That politician will represent a new riding, Nepean, hived off as part of a redrawing of Ontario’s electoral boundaries that adds 17 new seats to the legislature. Most of the […]

On the opening day for Thyme & Again’s second location, owner Sheila Whyte looked at one of the building’s exterior walls and disclosed what was missing — hops.  Whyte’s not sure what her long-established catering and take-home food company will do with the quick-growing plants that will soon scale the wall, but she does know […]

New releases from Frank Carlberg and Noah Preminger on one hand, and Anat Cohen and Fred Hersch on the other, document some magical jazz duets.

Pembroke dentist Christy Natsis began serving her five-year prison term Monday, more than seven years after she killed a father of three while driving drunk. Natsis was convicted of impaired driving causing death and dangerous driving causing death in the March 31, 2011, head-on collision that killed 50-year-0ld Bryan Casey on Highway 17 near Arnprior.  […]

The city’s ban on open air fires is back after Ottawa firefighters battled several grass fires across the area on Tuesday. At least four grassfires have been reported just one day after the city’s ban was lifted lifted. The new ban includes open fires with permits and campfires. Ottawa Fire Services is asking the public […]

More residents in the Heron Gate community are being forced to move because the landlord is demolishing their aging rental homes. Timbercreek Communities has notified 105 residents that they must move by Sept. 30 because the company will demolish 150 units in the area of Heron Road, Baycrest Drive and Sandalwood Drive. The wooden units […]

Quick and efficient response to domestic abuse cases will be a priority for Gatineau police in 2108, Chief Mario Harel said Tuesday in presenting the department’s 2017 statistics to council. The Outaouais centre reported a one per cent increase in overall calls in 2017, which included a 12 per cent hike in calls for crimes against […]

These photos provided to Defence Watch by the Canadian Army show members of the Terra Nova Patrol, 5th Canadian Ranger Patrol Group conducting live-fire range training with the new C-19 rifle in Clarenville, Newfoundland and Labrador on May 6th. The C-19s will be distributed to the Canadian Rangers over the next year and a half. […]

WASHINGTON – John McCain is dying. He is slipping away, slowly, with clarity and courage. In his long, feverish life nothing has become him, as Shakespeare said, like the leaving it. This is not yet a deathwatch. Those who have seen him recently at his ranch in Sedona, Arizona are measured in their words. In […]

The Ontario Provincial Police is telling residents in the Rideau Lakes Township area not to be alarmed if they see an increased police presence over the next few days. “THIS IS ONLY AN EXERCISE,” police tweeted in capital letters. A spokesperson confirmed officers will be conducting a “multi-jurisdictional operational exercise” between May 8-10 in the […]

Break out the sunblock, we’ve got a few more gorgeous, summer-like days before the rain returns, ushering in a more seasonal spell. Tuesday’s forecast is for pure sunshine, a high of 22 C and a UV index of 7 or high. Even the low is in the double-digits at 11 C. Wednesday is even more summery […]

Well, that was depressing. The Ontario election’s first leadership debate was more like an episode of the Jerry Springer show than a serious political discussion. Doug Ford, Kathleen Wynne and Andrea Horwath spent much of the evening talking over each other, exaggerating their opponents’ defects and making dubious assertions, and yet, in just over a […]

Ottawa police are seeking the public’s assistance to identify a man wanted in connection with a convenience store robbery in April. According to police, the robbery occurred at a convenience store on April 7 at around 3:30 a.m. near the intersection of Innes Road and Glen Park Drive in Blackburn Hamlet. A man entered the store, claimed […]

If you’re thinking of painting some of the bricks and masonry in your life, there’s more to a good job than just sloshing on some colour. You probably won’t need to paint masonry often, but when you do you need to get it right. Brick is one of the most porous masonry surfaces you’ll paint […]

After a day of worry, an apparently ill raccoon left the roof of a Nepean home overnight, leaving in its wake a number of questions about the handling of distressed animals. Eric Stephen woke up Monday morning to find a sick-looking raccoon lying on the roof of his Nepean house. Stephen said a neighbour brought […]

An inmate at Collins Bay Institution, found unresponsive in his cell last Thursday, died later in an outside hospital as a result of an apparent fentanyl drug overdose, the Kingston Whig-Standard has learned. Kyle Lawlor, media relations and outreach adviser, communications and executive services for Correctional Service Canada, would not say officially Monday that the […]

A man in his 20s was rushed to the local trauma centre after suffering “multiple fractures” when his vehicle flipped early Tuesday morning. Fire crews were called by police to the rollover at Fourth Line Rd and Pollock Rd at 5:34 a.m. Responders found the man conscious and alert and started extrication efforts, the fire department […]

Break out the sunblock, we’ve got a few more gorgeous, summer-like days before the rain returns, ushering in a more seasonal spell. Tuesday’s forecast is for pure sunshine, a high of 22 C and a UV index of 7 or high. Even the low is in the double-digits at 11 C. Wednesday is even more summery […]

This is a story about a Russian scientist and vocal critic of the Putin government who collected evidence of environmental disaster in Siberia and is now seeking asylum in Canada.  It’s a convoluted tale that sounds like something out of a Cold War novel. The veracity of some of the events in question are impossible […]

Recently, Conservative member of Parliament Maxime Bernier released a chapter from his now-defunct book, in which he blamed “fake conservatives” for his loss to Andrew Scheer, and reiterated his opposition to Canada’s dairy cartel. Criticism was visceral, and after a caucus meeting, Bernier announced that, “for the sake of maintaining harmony within our party,” he […]

In March, Ottawa Senators’ captain Erik Karlsson and his wife, Melinda, experienced the stillbirth of their son, Axel. Melinda described her experience recently on Instagram: “Grief is the price we pay for caring, for loving. I experienced a love so strong that it made the incredibly impossible task of saying hello and goodbye in the […]

The number of helicopters the RCAF will eventually send to Mali continues to be uncertain. In mid-March Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan announced that Canada would send to the United Nations mission in Mali two Chinook helicopters and four armed Griffon helicopters to escort them. A few minutes later at the same news conference Chief of […]

Leaders of the three main political parties in Ontario held their first debate Monday night. Who won? Who lost? Who surprised? The Citizen asked some local political observers to answer these questions for us. They are: Mischa Kaplan, economic development advocate and chair of the West Ottawa Board of Trade; Brigitte Pellerin, a writer/commentator, mother, competitive martial artist, runner […]

If Andrea Horwath’s goal in Monday night’s provincial leaders’ debate was to show that she can rise above the squabbling between Liberal leader Kathleen Wynne and Progressive Conservative leader Doug Ford, they handed that win right to her. “This is the problem with Ontario right here, folks,” Horwath said to the small audience in a […]