Новости за 16.07.2018

Three weeks after her daughter died of meningitis, an Ottawa mother is warning people to check their health records to ensure they have been vaccinated. Roxsanna Mueller’s daughter Lily, 23, died on June 27 at Queensway Carleton Hospital less than 24 hours after first being sent home from the hospital’s emergency department with a prescription […]

Postmedia’s popular Science of Summer series is back, in its usual on-again, off-again way. Today Tom Spears looks at an oddity: Birders have found at least two dozen snowy owls summering in Southern and Eastern Ontario. It’s unprecedented and no one knows why they are here. Snowy owls should be a long way north today, […]

Fortissimo 2018 will be performed by the Ceremonial Guard on Parliament Hill, from July 19 to July 21. This year’s event will include performances from the Ceremonial Guard, the massed pipes and drums of the Canadian Armed Forces, the US Army Old Guard Fife and Drum Corps, the Dominion Carilloneur’s Dr. Andrea McCrady (the Peace […]

The federal government is sending $11 million directly to Toronto to help house refugee claimants, Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen announced Monday, three days after his Ontario counterpart Lisa MacLeod started a game of chicken to get him to do exactly that. The provincial capital, where many refugee claimants go, is temporarily housing some refugee claimants in […]

Police are looking for a male suspect after a 20-year-old woman was seriously assaulted near a gas station in Nepean over the weekend. Ottawa police said the incident took place either late Saturday evening or early Sunday morning when the woman was attacked and left unconscious on the ground in a gas station parking lot on […]

Canadian pop singer Keshia Chante pushed out a heart-felt tribute to former Ottawa Senators goalkeeper Ray Emery on Monday. Chante, who grew up in Ottawa and dated Emery from June 2010 through to 2017, called off a wedding to the National Hockey League player after allegations of domestic abuse. On Monday, she took to Instagram […]

Canadian pop singer Keshia Chante pushed out a heart-felt tribute to former Ottawa Senators goalkeeper Ray Emery on Monday. Chante, who grew up in Ottawa and dated Emery from June 2010 through to 2017, called off a wedding to the NHL player after allegations of domestic abuse. On Monday, she took to Instagram and shared […]

With the conclusion of the RCMP investigation into the Humboldt Broncos bus crash, and the commencement of court action against truck driver Jaskirat Sidhu, many unanswered questions remain. Chief among them is if rural roads are any safer today than before the crash. The RCMP aimed to find out: “Why was the truck in the […]

Ottawa police officers have laid charges against an Ottawa man after an early-morning break and enter on Sunday. According to police, a break-in was reported at a store near the St. Laurent Shopping Centre at 4 a.m. When police arrived, the suspect had fled the scene. Police employed K9 as well as frontline officers in […]

The new reality in which we are living reminds me of the following tale. There once was a frail elderly man who lived with his son, daughter-in-law and four-year-old grandson. One day, the son became impatient with his elderly father, because in his old age he caused a mess at every meal. So every night […]

Ontario Provincial Police officers were involved in a high speed chased along Highway’s 401 and 416 early Sunday morning. According to police, officers were dispatched to an ONRoute service centre on HIghway 401 near Mallorytown around 7:30 am on Sunday after reports of a gas theft. An investigation into the theft found that the vehicle in […]

While the Ottawa Paramedic Services hasn’t received many heat-related calls, they did come across a weary bird Monday morning. Two paramedics discovered the bird on the ground at their Kanata base, tweeting photos of their new feathered friend taking water from their gloved hands. “They gave the bird some water and then they contacted Safe […]

BORN APRIL 6, 1932 Eugène Bellemare used to sit at his drawing table long after midnight to pen caricatures from the House of Commons, where he sat as Carleton-Gloucester’s MP. “After the news at 11:30, I just sit and I draw,” he said in a 1997 interview. “I go to bed extremely late, at 1:30 […]

An Ottawa mother who confronted a young man berating and harassing a woman on an OC Transpo bus after Bluesfest says she wishes more people would stand up to such behaviour. “A silent bystander when someone is being harmed shows people that that behaviour is appropriate,” Melissa Gervais said in a text exchange with this […]

Expect more scorching weather Monday with a heat warning remaining in effect as the humidex climbs into the high 30s. Some relief should arrive Tuesday, though when Environment Canada promises a “cold front” will blanket the region. The term is used rather loosely, though. The forecast high is 28 C during the day, which is […]

Multi-platinum country music star Tim Hicks has added Ottawa to his Get Loud Tour. The country singer will be stopping in the nation’s capital on Nov. 8 to play a show at TD Place in Lansdowne Park. The announcement was made by Hicks on Monday morning while breaking news about a number of Canadian stops […]

Step behind the scenes as we tell you about memorable news stories and how Citizen journalists covered them in an era before the Internet, digital cameras or social media. Photographer Lynn Ball worked for the newspaper from the early 1970s until 2003, travelling the world for award-winning pictures. One of his assignments was the wedding […]

Originally published December 11, 2005 When he was in the minors, ‘Razor’ Emery was the bad boy of the Ottawa Senators organization, getting into too many on-ice fights. Now the team’s No. 2 goalie, he still has the attitude, but he’s also out to prove he has much more than that. Ray Emery cuts […]

U.S. President Donald Trump meets Russian President Vladimir Putin today in Helsinki, Finland, a venue famed for hosting Cold War summits in 1975 (Leonid Brezhnev-Gerald Ford), 1990 (Mikhail Gorbachev-George H. W. Bush), and 1997 (Boris Yeltsin-Bill Clinton). It is their third meeting and follows Trump’s recent meeting with leaders of 28 NATO member states in […]

In the end, exhaustion. And, one likes to believe, some shame on the part of the professionals who fed for so long off Nortel’s estate. Ernst & Young, the consultants in charge of Nortel’s nine-year long bankruptcy proceedings, began distributing cheques to approved creditors a year ago this month. Since then, according to a recent […]

Women are more likely than men to be hospitalized and die from heart failure, according to new research led by investigators at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute. The study, published Monday in the Canadian Medical Association Journal, is the latest to identify a gender gap when it comes to heart disease. Previous research highlighted […]

RBC Ottawa Bluesfest Sunday Rise Against, Three Days Grace, Dear Rouge Bluesfest pulled out all the stops for its grand finale Sunday, while Chicago punk rockers Rise Against pulled no punches in an explosive, politically-charged performance. “It’s good to be back,” said frontman Tim McIlraith, who seemed to remember the band’s last Bluesfest show in […]

This year’s RBC Ottawa Bluesfest will be remembered not only for landmark shows by Foo Fighters, Beck, Dave Matthews and Bryan Adams, but also for the heat, the dust and the debut of a smoking area where medical marijuana users were allowed to consume their prescription. After a pair of nesting killdeer delayed the setup […]

Gatineau firefighters were investigating after a fire tore through a residential building around 4 a.m. Sunday. The fire service reported only one injury for a tenant who had smashed through a window to escape. People were treated for smoke inhalation, but nobody was seriously hurt. Firefighters estimated the damage for the blaze at 156 rue […]