Новости за 22.07.2018

All classes and activities at Algonquin College’s Ottawa campus in the west end will resume Monday, but heating and cooling systems won’t be running at full capacity, the college announced Sunday afternoon after a large-scale power outage Friday shuttered much of the campus for the weekend. Some areas of the Ottawa campus continued to operate […]

The female loon on a Wisconsin lake was still swimming, looking for all the world like one of those Second World War photos of an aircraft shot full of holes that somehow made it home. The upper half of the animal’s beak was bent sharply upward at a bizarre angle, raising all kind of questions: […]

The temporary bike route on Holland Avenue seemed like a bad idea when the city was thinking it up. As it’s turned out in real life, it’s worse. This is a short stretch of north-south road that passes under Highway 417, and it matters because there’s a good chance somebody will die there. For two […]

Architect John Donkin’s Old Ottawa South home is full of surprises: a traditional brick-clad beauty on the outside and an ultra modern marvel on the inside. But there is nothing jarring about the design that merges two different eras into one. With almost 30 years in the business, Donkin has built a solid reputation for […]

In February 2017, a door-to-door company called Ontario Safety Standards sold Carol Baas a water softener she didn’t need, at $59 a month for 10 years, an agreement that looked both bad and iron-clad. Only 41 days later, before she received her first bill, a lien was slapped on her east-end property for any future […]

The Ottawa area should receive some rain Sunday morning to help our gardens, but the chances drop for the rest of the day. There is a better chance we’ll see the wet stuff mid-week. The forecast is for mainly cloudy skies, with a 40 per cent chance of rain this afternoon and evening. A predicted […]

Algonquin College announced Saturday evening that crews had restored power to “a large portion” of the Ottawa campus that had been hit by a wide-scale outage around 3 p.m. Friday. The college said the outage was caused by “a fault in the conductors running from Woodroffe Avenue and College Avenue to the central plant.” On its […]

Ottawa firefighters extinguished an electrical panel fire in Barrhaven after several 911 callers reported black smoke early Saturday evening. Crews responded to 53 Newborough Cres. around 7 p.m. Though initial reports were that someone may be in the home, crews found that it was empty. There were no reported injuries. Police, paramedics, power and gas […]

Ottawa firefighters were able to quickly put out a mobile-home fire late Saturday afternoon. Firefighters were called around 4:42 p.m. when flames were seen coming from the rear of a trailer at 37 Vanier Rd. Crews were able to extinguish the flames. The trailer was unoccupied at the time. Firefighters estimate that total damage at […]

Ottawa firefighters responded to a possible water rescue situation late Saturday afternoon when Ottawa police notified them that a person was trying to swim back to shore at Britannia Beach after an inflatable swan floatie drifted 500 metres from the shoreline. Crews arrived on location to find the person safely back to shore without any […]

Every morning at 5 a.m., Bacon is ready to hit the pavement. “He’s a bit of a sprinter, not long distance, but short distance,” his mother and trainer, Dianna, said just before his big race Saturday. “He’s been training for several weeks now, absolutely no doping whatsoever.” He’s been on a strict training diet. “He’s been following […]

Everyone from beginners to sculptors kept chipping away at it on Saturday during Day 2 of the Canadian Stone Carving Festival on Sparks Street. The work was scheduled to continue on Sunday beginning at 8 a.m., leading up to the grand finale at 2 p.m. Carving is to conclude at 1 p.m., allowing for an […]