Новости за 05.06.2018

Rolf Klausener, the organizer of Ottawa’s annual Arboretum Festival and leader of the indie folk band The Acorn, is defending himself against an anonymous poster campaign that labels him a “bad date.” Posters with Klausener’s photo were plastered around the downtown area over the weekend, identifying him as Rolf Carlos (his middle name), Creative Director […]

The future of the City of Ottawa’s latest transit aspiration for the southern suburbs comes down to the provincial election Thursday. The Liberals, Progressive Conservatives and NDP have indicated support for the city’s Stage 2 rail extensions, which will require about $1.2 billion from the province. In what was one of the final acts of […]

One man was arrested on a charge of assault with a weapon as Ottawa police officers teamed up with Ottawa bylaw officers June 1-2 for a safety initiative targeting disorderly behaviour in the ByWard Market, Rideau Street and along Montreal Road. “There was a strong police presence in these areas, which included ongoing foot patrols, […]

Four teenagers were injured in a single-vehicle crash on Champlain Parkway near Kingsmere Lake in Gatineau Park Monday evening. Responders said they were called shortly before 6 p.m. and found the vehicle had left the road and crashed into the trees. The victims, two 17-year-old females and two 18-year-old males were taken to the Hull […]

Rolf Klausener, the organizer of Ottawa’s annual Arboretum Festival and leader of the indie folk band The Acorn, is defending himself against an anonymous poster campaign that labels him a “bad date.” Posters with Klausener’s photo were plastered around the downtown area over the weekend, identifying him as Rolf Carlos (his middle name), Creative Director of […]

When Ed Pollitt’s wife died there were many aspects of his life that changed drastically. At 81 years old, he didn’t imagine he would have to learn new skills like cooking for himself. “Being an old-school man, we never cooked. I was terrified of cooking. I saw it as a magic ritual only women understood,” […]

A 54-year-old passenger on a bus loaded with Chinese tourists that crashed on Highway 401 has died of his injuries, the OPP said Tuesday morning. Four other passengers remain in hospital with life-threatening injuries, police said. Minister Counselor Heng Xiaojun went to the hospital tonight to see the Chinese tourists injured in the bus crash […]

Ontario Provincial Police have arrested a 29-year-old North Dundas man following a raid last week that netted a number of firearms and illicit drugs. A number of different OPP units were involved in the raid on a property on County Road 7, including the community street crime unit, the emergency response team, the tactical rescue […]

WASHINGTON – A half-century after his death, Robert Francis Kennedy is remembered as a rebel, a reformer and an idealist who became an emblem of the 1960s. When he died of an assassin’s bullet on June 6, 1968 in Los Angeles, it ended a surging presidential campaign that had become a crusade for African-Americans, Hispanics, […]

Downtown traffic was slow Tuesday as after a broken watermain flooded the intersection of O’Connor and Nepean streets. Southbound O’Connor Street between Gloucester and Lisgar streets and Nepean Street between Bank and Metcalfe streets are closed to both vehicles and pedestrians for their own safety, police said. Carol Hall, the city’s manager of water distribution, […]

Provincial police say a bus carrying Chinese tourists crashed in eastern Ontario on Monday sending at least 24 people to hospital. The emergency room chief at an Ottawa hospital explains their response in receiving some of the patients.

Gatineau police will maintain an increased presence for the foreseeable future in the area of Clément and Sabourin streets after a young schoolboy was allegedly approached by a suspicious man Monday morning. Police say the incident occurred at about 8:15 a.m. when the boy, who attends La Traversée school, was waiting for a bus. A […]

Downtown traffic was slow Tuesday as after a broken watermain flooded the intersection of O’Connor and Nepean streets. Southbound O’Connor Street between Gloucester and Lisgar streets and Nepean Street between Bank and Metcalfe streets are closed to both vehicles and pedestrians for their own safety, police said. Carol Hall, the city’s manager of water distribution, […]

A 54-year-old passenger on a bus loaded with Chinese tourists that crashed on Highway 401 has died of his injuries, the OPP said Tuesday morning. Four other passengers remain in hospital with life-threatening injuries, police said. Minister Counselor Heng Xiaojun went to the hospital tonight to see the Chinese tourists injured in the bus crash […]

Taxpayers will have to spend $1.1 billion extra on new navy supply ships that are going to be built starting this summer, the Liberal government now acknowledges. Previously the cost of building the two ships at Seaspan shipyards in Vancouver, BC had been pegged at $2.3 billion. But the government ordered a review of that […]

A Leeds County OPP officer who stole drugs and money from suspects, including $10,000 he stashed in the rafters of his Maitland home, will be sentenced Sept. 27. George Duke, who pleaded guilty to six theft, drug and firearms charges last January, was contrite and apologetic when he appeared at his sentencing hearing on Monday. […]

Striking City of Cornwall employees represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees rejected city contract offers in a Monday vote. CUPE said the staffers, whose four locals include inside and outside workers, Cornwall pulbic library staff, and Cornwall / SDG paramedics, rejected the offers by an average of 92.5 per cent. Each local’s offer […]

The wet stuff just won’t stop. Tuesday’s weather forecast starts with just a 30 per cent chance of morning showers then a few showers begin near noon and linger until late evening. Then there’s a 40 per cent chance of more showers overnight. The high is 15 C — a typical high would be 22 […]

If none of Ontario’s parties wins a majority of seats Thursday, the first thing their leaders will have to do is try to work out governing deals with people they’ve spent the last month calling lunatics, wastrels and radicals. No matter how messy a legislature we elect, it’s their problem to try to sort out. […]

Twenty-something pot lovers may be standing in line next to middle-aged civil servants when Ottawa’s legal recreational cannabis stores open for business. At least that’s the picture conjured up by a new report from Deloitte, an accounting and business services firm, which surveyed people across Canada to find out who planned to use marijuana, how often, where […]

The tanker Chem Norma was finally pulled free Sunday afternoon from the edge of the St. Lawrence Seaway and was being inspected to make sure it could safely make its way to Sarnia with a cargo of refined petroleum. The 145-metre vessel ran aground early Tuesday after having trouble with its rudder. The St. Lawrence Seaway […]

OPP spoke to the press Monday evening, after a passenger bus crashed into a ditch, leaving dozens wounded — some of them critically. OPP spokesman Const. Suzanne Runciman said four people suffered life-threatening injuries. No casualties have been confirmed.

A notorious stretch of Highway 401 was the scene of another major crash Monday when a passenger bus carrying Chinese tourists slammed into a rocky embankment, sending dozens to hospital — at least four with critical injuries. The Ontario Provincial Police said the westbound bus left the highway and smashed into a rock cut, just […]

The section of Highway 401 between Prescott and Brockville – scene of Monday’s bus crash – has long been a source of concern. Prescott resident Sheila Johnston noted that accidents along this stretch of highway have become all too familiar. “It’s a very bad stretch,” Johnston said. “They have a lot of accidents. There’s a […]

Progressive Conservative leader Doug Ford used money improperly siphoned from his late brother’s estate to prop up the failing family business, his sister-in-law Renata Ford alleges in a lawsuit filed a week before the imminent Ontario election. Millions of dollars rightfully belonging to her and her children with Rob Ford are gone, she alleges. Doug […]