Новости за 09.05.2018

Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson said he had an interesting encounter with an “idiot” on the street on Tuesday evening. As Ottawa prepares to welcome busloads of protesters in a controversial annual pro-life demonstration, the mayor posted on Twitter that he encountered a man on Bank Street tearing down posters advertising the pro-choice counter-protest. saw a […]

City police warned commuters to plan for road closures and traffic delays around Parliament Hill Thursday, which is when the annual anti-abortion National March for Life is scheduled to take to downtown streets. Police didn’t name the event but said a demonstration is expected to start at about noon and continue until about 5 p.m. The […]

Hard Rock Casino Ottawa will build a hotel, concert theatre and expand gambling now that city council has backed a $318-million redevelopment of the Rideau Carleton Raceway. Wednesday’s 18-5 vote in favour of the necessary land-use rules will let Hard Rock and the raceway begin the multi-year project, which is scheduled to be complete by […]

A jury in the U.S. has awarded the surviving family of a soldier, his wife and young child killed in a 2015 crash in South Carolina with a $17 million U.S. payment in an accident lawsuit. Jeremiah Cross, 34, Crystal Cross, 32, and seven-month old Grayson Cross were all killed in a crash that involved five […]

While Joel Kimmel may not be attending the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle on May 19, the Ottawa-born illustrator’s connection to the soon-to-be royal couple will be forever etched in history. The artist was commissioned by the Royal Canadian Mint to sketch the couple’s image for the commemorative coin that was launched Wednesday, […]

The three-month-old Merivale Road restaurant does not take reservations and line-ups are common.

Investigators have identified the victim of a fatal fire in Smiths Falls on Monday as David Buffam, 53. Ontario Fire Marshal investigator Jason Williams stated the cause of death as “careless smoking” resulting in “smoke inhalation and burns,” and believes the incident was accidental. Williams believed Buffam to have fallen asleep on a mattress in […]

Ottawa police are reminding residents to make sure their locks are secure from thieves this spring. As warm weather arrives, the police break and enter unit said it expects an increase to the number of break and enters in garages and sheds across Ottawa. Residents are advised to keep garage doors closed when they are […]

Have a heart. Kingston police are appealing for the return of a robbery victim’s necklace containing the ashes of her dead daughter. The heart-shaped locket with tiny footprints was stolen in a break-in at a midtown home. “The recovery of the necklace is a priority,” police said Wednesday. “If located the necklace could be returned anonymously […]

Police say they’re looking for a female suspect and a male person of interest in a case of fraud, theft and mischief after car windows were smashed at Conroy Pit then the contents quickly used to make purchases. The incidents happened April 18 and May 1 at the popular dog-walking spot in the Hunt Club area, […]

After more than four decades in the business of entertaining children, Fred Penner admits with a laugh that his beard’s grown longer and whiter. “That’s what happens. Time goes by,” says Penner, 71. And yet, the Winnipeg-based multiple Juno Award winner is busier than ever, and playing a wider range of venues and events given […]

The Progressive Conservatives would cut public health care in Ontario in favour of a two-tier system that would give better care to people who could pay for it themselves, the provincial Liberals charged Wednesday, citing extensive tweets from the Tory candidate in Kanata-Carleton. “Protecting our publicly funded health care system is about protecting the people […]

As President Donald Trump made good on his threat to pull the United States out of the 2013 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action on Iran’s nuclear weapons program on Tuesday, life in Iran trundled on in its usual, dreary way. The price of bread, eggs and meat did not stop rising. As the sun rose, […]

A Kingston police officer is nursing a sore forehead after being punched by an allegedly drunk cyclist Monday evening. Police were called at about 7 p.m. for a report of a man who’d fallen off his bike. When they arrived, they found the man riding his bicycle erratically on a downtown sidewalk. Officers determined the […]

While Joel Kimmel may not be attending the wedding of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle on May 19, the Ottawa-born illustrator’s connection to the soon-to-be royal couple will be forever etched in history. The artist was commissioned by the Royal Canadian Mint to sketch the couple’s image for the commemorative coin that was launched on […]

The U.S. Coast Guard has released a request for proposals for advance procurement and design of a heavy polar icebreaker. The coast guard wants three such ships. A contract is to be awarded in 2019. The Congressional Research Service reports that the Coast Guard wants to begin construction of the first new heavy polar icebreaker […]

The OPP is warning motorists to avoid a stretch of westbound Highway 401 west of Brockville Wednesday morning as first responders tackle a dramatic tractor trailer fire. Several Twitters user shared images of the burning transport on the highway between the Thousand Islands Parkway and County Road 5 Mallorytown minutes after police reported the road […]

A section of Highway 138 was closed for several hours Tuesday to allow police to investigate a two-vehicle crash that left two drivers seriously injured. Ontario Provincial Police said a northbound passenger vehicle crossed into the southbound lane near South Stormont just after 10 a.m. and collided head-on with a tractor-trailer. Both drivers were taken to […]

A woman lost her home but everyone was able to safely escape an early-morning fire at a Centretown West building. Fire crews were alerted at 3:24 a.m. Wednesday by several 911 calls reporting flames on the roof of 240 Bell St. N. They were on the scene minutes later and immediately called a second alarm […]

In a sure sign that summer is on the way, Parliament Hill Yoga is back – even if it has moved to Ottawa City Hall for the day. And there’s plenty of sunshine to salute along with a high of 25 C and a low of 14 C.  “All you need to bring is a […]

Careless smoking is to blame for a fire Monday at a Victoria Avenue home in Smiths Falls that claimed the life of a man in his 50s. The town’s fire department issued a statement Tuesday afternoon noting its investigators, along with the Smiths Falls Police Service and the Office of the Fire Marshal, have concluded […]

May 9: Today we feature a tribute letter to MP Gord Brown, and some energetic views about those express grocery store lines. You can write to us too, at: letters@ottawacitizen.com

Canada’s rapidly growing cannabis industry now dominates the global trade in legal marijuana, says a report from a Washington, D. C., data analytics firm. The companies that are frantically building growing facilities to supply Canadians with marijuana are also in a unique position to sell their products and expertise around the world, says the report […]

Russell Township mayor and area Liberal candidate Pierre Leroux removed a campaign video hours after it was posted Tuesday following a backlash over its depiction of his former Vanier home as a crime-ridden neighbourhood. “It has come to my attention, that some persons have misconstrued a portion of my video, as an attack on the […]

John Mcrae stabbed his sleeping son and slit his throat in an act of anger and revenge hours after being thrown to the ground in a drunken confrontation over the rent, a Crown attorney has told an Ottawa murder trial. In his opening address to the eight-woman, four-man jury, Crown attorney John Ramsay said Mcrae, […]