Новости за 13.07.2018

Annoyed Ottawa residents — especially those in the Rideau-Vanier ward — are most peeved when it comes to others’ music. The 2017 log of complaints for city hall’s 311 service shows that of the 10,376 noise complaints filed over the year, the most frequent beef was related to music. More than 5,000 times, the call […]

After Thursday’s throne speech promised sweeping changes meant to restore public trust in the province, we posted a survey. We wanted to know whether readers agree with the decisions made by the Progressive Conservative government since they took power — Ford has already ushered in change at Hydro One and rolled back the sex-ed curriculum. More changes, […]

The deal that sent Hydro One chief executive Mayo Schmidt out the door changes almost nothing about the semi-private company other than the names on the stationery. Schmidt, Premier Doug Ford’s scapegoat for everything that’s wrong in Ontario’s electricity system, retired this week rather than spend the summer as the premier’s punching bag. The terms […]

By their nature, throne speeches are broad documents, not detailed recipe books. So it’s no surprise that the Ontario Progressive Conservative throne speech, delivered Thursday, isn’t a study in legislative minutiae. It is, however, a clear glimpse at the worldview of Premier Doug Ford’s team: “Your new government believes that no dollar is better spent […]

When an Ottawa family decided to fly to Warsaw for what might be their last chance to see The Rolling Stones in concert, they never imagined they’d be plucked from the crowd for a VIP rock ’n’ roll experience. It was all thanks to a chance encounter with “Dave,” one of the band’s managers, a […]

The new Ontario government has cancelled its curriculum-writing sessions that would have updated the Ontario Ministry of Education’s “Native Studies” curriculum documents, which were first introduced in 1999. The original documents were developed in partnership with members of the First Nations, Mé​tis and Inuit communities, including leaders, elders and language experts from across the province. […]

The U.S. president’s chief spokesperson gets kicked out of a Virginia restaurant because she is seen as aiding and abetting a serial dissembler. America finds itself divided into two polarized camps that talk past each other. Civility all but disappears. The American media’s treatment of this recent story involving Sarah Huckabee Sanders was the latest […]

Twenty years ago, gay marriage was illegal and Snapchat did not exist. Despite radical changes in societal views on sexuality, Ontario’s minister of education announced Wednesday that students will now be taught sex-ed using the 1998 curriculum instead of the curriculum updated by the Liberal government in 2015. This means that Ontario’s children and youth […]

A man and woman in their 20s are facing a total of 11 charges related to human trafficking. Ottawa police said on Friday the arrests relate to allegations about events last summer and fall. Edmund Assante, 26, and Kiana Norman, 22, face a variety of charges including human trafficking, assault, making death threats, and profiting […]

Each month in 2018, the restaurant and event space will invite chefs from out of town to help cook a stops-out dinner.

It’s one thing for the provincial government to announce a U-turn on sex education and “discovery” math, but quite another to figure out how to make this happen in the classroom. So don’t expect changes in curriculum when school starts in September. Calls to school boards and one teachers’ union have produced the same response, […]

The OPP arrested a man and a woman in their 60s after a daylight break-and-enter in Picton earlier this week and now say they suspect the pair of Polish origin is behind a number burglaries throughout Quinte and surrounding areas. Prince Edward County OPP were called to a break-in on Prospect Avenue Monday. “Further investigation … […]

Canadian comic Russell Peters is bringing his Deported world tour to Ottawa Nov. 18. Peters, who says he’s “thrilled to announce his return to his home and native land,” will be at Canadian Tire Centre to wind up an 11-city cruise across Canada that starts in Vancouver Nov. 1. Peters, the “sometimes controversial” Emmy, Gemini […]

A couple of out-of-towners didn’t make the cut this week when they tried to sneak a stolen chainsaw past alert employees at a Kingston hardware store. At about 2:15 p.m. Wednesday, hawk-eyed personnel spotted a man and woman on surveillance cameras making off with the saw and an accessory part from a Bath Road store. […]

A Kingston couple had an unwelcome houseguest who first turned up sitting at their kitchen table then grabbed a chair to sit on their front porch. The residences heard a noise in their kitchen at about 4:45 p.m. Wednesday and went to investigate, police said. They discovered the unknown – and uninvited – man, who “appeared […]

Three members of a Kingston family have been charged by police after an investigation revealed that a woman underwent 11 months of beatings and confinement. Police said in a release Thursday that in 2017 a woman moved to Canada from the United States to marry a local man. After the wedding she moved into a […]

It’s not Bluesnest but one of the baby killdeer whose threw a wrinkle into Bluesfest planning is “thriving” at the local wild bird centre. He’s a big eater though. “Help keep him in crickets so he continues to learn hunting and foraging,” the Ottawa Valley Wild Bird Care Centre tweeted Thursday with a video of […]

A pair of nesting Merlin falcons defending their four fledgelings has so terrorized people around a Cornwall intersection that the city has cordoned off the area and posted warning signs. They’ve been dive-bombing people at the busy intersection of McConnell and Ninth streets, a few kilometres from downtown, for weeks and attacking staff of the […]

The birds chirped on cue and dog owners strolled down a tree-lined path in late June as Derek Nzeribe explained the peaceful allure of new luxury condos coming to a quiet corner of Westboro. “This is a location you can’t reproduce,” says Nzeribe, who is regional director for the Milborne Group. “You’re in the middle […]

Provincial police are on the hunt for a federal inmate who has breached his parole and may be in the Ottawa area. A Canada-wise warrant has been issued for Stuart Gatt, 52, described as Caucasian, 188 cm (six feet two inches) tall, weighing 77 kg, with brown hair, blues eyes and a grey goatee. Gatt […]

A few more details are emerging about the Canadian military’s new mission in Iraq. Canada’s ongoing Iraq mission has a maximum cap of around 850 personnel, according to Department of National Defence officials. There are only around 500 to 600 assigned to the mission currently. So the commitment announced this week by Prime Minister Justin […]

A search is to continue Friday for a man in his 30s who disappeared while boating in Lac du Poisson Blanc in Outaoauis cottage country. Police said the victim was boating Thursday with two friends in the area of Notre-Dame-de-Laus, about 130 kilometres north of Ottawa. The boat capsized and the victim disappeared in the […]

County Road 17 has reopened following a multi-vehicle crash in the town of Rockland Thursday that left one person with serious injuries. Four vehicles were involved in the crash at about 2 p.m. near Carmen Bergeron Street in the rural municipality. None of the other drivers was reported seriously hurt. The OPP’s traffic collision unit […]

The weekend starts with a risk of showers that might bring some welcome moisture to the parched capital. Then, it looks like a sweaty couple of days. Friday’s forecast is for a mix of sun and cloud with southerly winds at 20 km/h near noon, a high of 30 and humidex of 33, Environment Canada […]

Rural councillor Judy Farrell, 66, is a grandmother and school bus driver, with fresh coffee and muffins ready when the city folk drop by her spotless new home outside Perth. And, according to Tay Valley Township, a big bully you may need to call the cops on. Farrell is still battling restrictions slapped on her […]