Новости за 24.07.2018

Ontario’s bill for refugee claimants is up to $200 million, the province’s social-services minister, Lisa MacLeod, said Tuesday, in a testy Parliament Hill committee hearing that spent much of its time in an argument over whether it’s OK to describe some crossings of the Canadian border as “illegal.” The Ontario government is continuing to crunch […]

The flamboyant, enthralling musician plays two concerts this week during Chamberfest.

Ottawa police say no charges will be laid against a 24-year-old man in relation to an incident involving a Ceremonial Guard on Parliament Hill on Monday — but he does face charges relating to an attack on another man in the south end on Sunday. Police had originally stated that Jesse Mooney was arrested and […]

A longstanding piece of Canadiana was forever lost on Monday evening when the Cole Shoal lighthouse, just west of Brockville in the Thousand Islands, burned to the ground after presumably being struck by lightning. It was the last remaining of nine Canadian lighthouses built in the Thousand Islands in 1856. “It was no longer a […]

Culture The Ottawa Asian Night Market returns to Somerset Street West this weekend, bringing with it contemporary entertainment and night market snacks galore. Some of the fanciful foodstuffs likely to be offered are Osaka okonomiyaki (savoury pancakes), Hong Kong bubble waffles, squid on a stick, cheesy takoyaki (octopus balls) and cotton candy ice cream burritos. […]

The youthful trio plays Saturday, July 28 at Dominion-Chalmers United Church.

A 24-year-old Ottawa man has been accused of taking an unprovoked swing at a man he knew on Bridle Path Drive the day before he was charged in an incident involving the Ceremonial Guard, city police said Tuesday. Police had already been looking for Jesse Mooney, 24, when he was arrested and later charged with assault […]

Police report they’ve made a collar after a string of nighttime burglaries in Gloucester, Pleasant Park and Mooney’s Bay, often while the residents slept. Patrol officers responded to attempted and completed break and enters in the east end at about 1 a.m. Saturday, police said in a release Tuesday. A suspect was arrested after a […]

LAKE TEMAGAMI, Ontario – For days, the fires of Temagami flared. On the evening we arrived, under a slanting, molten sun, the place was otherworldly. It had not rained hard for weeks. The forest was a tinderbox. There was a smell of smoke in the air and a curtain of haze but no flames, which […]

Congratulations to Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson on his re-election to another four-year term. Nominations don’t close until Friday, but no significant challenger is going to come forward, so Watson is as good as in. What will the re-elected mayor offer in his third term? We don’t know yet, but it really doesn’t matter, because we […]

Sir Robert Peel served twice as prime minister of the United Kingdom and in 1829 he established the first Metropolitan Police Force for London at Scotland Yard. However, we remember him today as the father of modern policing through “Peel’s Principles of Policing.” The Seventh Principle remains the one most frequently quoted: “Police, at all […]

An 81-year-old dementia patient who disappeared Monday night after unexpectedly finding his car keys and driving off has been found safe and sound, Gatineau police say. Police say Clayton Laflamme left from his Notre Dame Street home at about 6:30 p.m. in a dark blue 2005 Toyota Matrix, with Quebec license plates 937 YTH. Police did […]

Gatineau police are seeking public assistance in locating an 81-year-old dementia patient who disappeared Monday night after unexpectedly finding his car keys and driving off. Police say Clayton Laflamme left from his Notre Dame Street home at about 6:30 p.m. in a dark blue 2005 Toyota Matrix, with Quebec license plates 937 YTH. He is described […]

Make that two reasons not to take a dip. Public health officials have issued no-swim advisories at all city beaches because E. coli levels are likely to exceed provincially established standards due to heavy rain. Water tests take at least 18 hours to process in the lab so no-swim advisories are issued based on water sample […]

MRC des Collines-de-l’Outaouais police continue to investigate a major collision near Luskville on Monday. According to police the crash, which occurred near 3:55 p.m. on Highway 148, saw a vehicle collide head-on with a tractor-trailer. A third vehicle also became involved in the wreckage. Extrication equipment was needed to remove some of the passengers involved […]

During Monday night’s deluge, Ottawa weather-watchers spotted what looked like a funnel cloud, which can become a tornado. Thankfully it was likely just what’s known as a “rain shaft” – a common phenomenon but one that we rarely get to see from just the right perspective. Gerald Cheng, acting warning preparedness meteorologist at Environment and Climate […]

For diehard fans of The Tragically Hip, no price is too steep for memorabilia — but 689 cats might come close. Priced at $700,000, dedicated fans can now purchase the location for the band’s “Poets” music video, which memorably features the late Gord Downie weaving between dozens of cats crawling over an Elm Street home’s […]

Kingston police have charged a 27-year-old local man with attempting to murder his brother with a pickaxe. Police said a couple was awakened Sunday at about 3 a.m. up by their son’s screaming. Going to him, they discovered that he had been stabbed with a pickaxe by his brother. The suspect then fled on foot. […]

An RCMP officer spotted a suspicious vehicle and pursued it across town over the weekend, netting a stolen vehicle and a robbery suspect who was finally collared after a police dog sniffed him out in the woods. It was at 1 a.m. Saturday at Montreal Road and the Vanier Parkway that the Mountie noticed the […]

After a muggy Monday with record-setting rainfall, more showers or thunderstorms loom Tuesday and the forecast high will feel like 36. A total of 43 mm of rain fell at the Ottawa airport Monday as the mercury nudged 32 C, Environment Canada reports. The previous record for rain was 35.2 mm set in 1994. Beating the […]

On the wall of a cozy room in the basement of a unique new transition home for women fleeing the cruel grip of human traffickers is a handmade sign that reads “Behind every successful woman is herself.” It’s the kind of message the young women who pass through this place of refuge will need to […]

This fall, citizens of Ottawa elect a new city council. To help local candidates as they campaign, the Citizen asked people for ONE idea that would make the city a better place. Read on.

Ahmed Afrah begged for his life as the teenage lovers beat him and then chased him to death over a lousy drug debt. It was the night of May 15, 2017, and Afrah owed money to a 16-year-old dealer operating out of public-housing units in a MacLaren Street high rise. Inside the apartment, Afrah was […]

Chief Charles Bordeleau has called for an OPP investigation into a series of publicly posted audio recordings between a civilian and a man alleged to be the head of the Ottawa police union. The recordings discuss a range of issues, including conversations about highly sensitive information, such as aspects of an undercover police operation involving […]

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