Новости за 31.07.2018

The ByWard Market is the subject of another city study, this time focusing on the public spaces. The city announced the 18-month project Tuesday after launching a similar exercise for Sparks Street last fall. There’s a new appetite to improve those high-traffic tourist areas of the city. The city said finding a consultant for the […]

Five weeks might not be enough time to examine all the Ontario government’s spending, compare it to other places’, and recommend how it might save money, potential bidders on the province’s “line-by-line audit” of operations have warned. Tough, the government says, we’re in a hurry. No extensions, no boost to the $500,000 budget, and don’t […]

Ottawa was a foundational place in the lives of Joseph and Anita Robertson, the philanthropic couple who died alongside their adult daughter, Laura, on Monday when the small plane they were flying in crashed into a field in Maine. Joe and Anita, both 58 years old, were originally from the national capital, according to a […]

In the disturbing video, the severely drugged woman is seen lying on the couch, her eyes half-closed, as she raises her arms and covers her face and says, “Stop, don’t do this,” just before her head slumps back. Serial rapist Philip Wilson is then seen taking his underwear off, and the defenceless woman is heard […]

Feminist scholar Kate McInturff, a senior researcher with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, is remembered by many in Ottawa as a trailblazer in gender analysis. She passed away July 27. Here is her last column, posted by the CCPA on its website:  One of the most important revelations of my life came to me […]

Party influence is strong in Ottawa’s municipal election, even if incumbents and council hopefuls don’t represent provincial or national political groups. City councillors aren’t agents of political parties when they’re around the council horseshoe, one of the refreshing hallmarks of municipal politics in Ontario. Everyone’s an independent. No one is beholden to a party. Still, […]

Only weeks in office, Doug Ford has withdrawn from cap-and-trade, cancelled the sex education curriculum, replaced the board of Ontario Hydro and blown up Toronto city council. He has moved quickly, resolutely and spitefully. Some measures he promised in the campaign and one he plainly did not, which makes it all the more cynical. No […]

There’s something fairly impressive about the way Shopify’s top executives have kept their eye on opportunities that exist years away — allowing them to pay much less attention to the short-term gyrations that drive investors nuts. Tuesday morning, even as the company’s share price was sliding five per cent in pre-market trading, Shopify’s top guns […]

Natalia Rybczynski has stood on top of the world and the bottom of it, in the high Canadian Arctic and Antarctica. Today she picks up the pieces from those paleobiology visits — fascinating fossils of prehistoric camels, bears, sloths — that also represent pieces of her own recent past, when she was able to venture […]

The U.S. government’s Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) has released his latest report on the situation in that country. Here are the key points from the watchdog agency: — SIGAR shares donor concerns that the Afghan government may be going back to “business as usual” and simply “checking the box” when it comes to […]

Patients enduring ongoing concussion symptoms have tools and guidelines they couldn’t have thought possible just a few years ago. The Ontario Neurotrauma Foundation’s third edition of guidelines for concussion and mild traumatic brain injury includes a patient version that is chock full of practical advice for adults who receive concussions. It’s especially helpful for family […]

Natalia Rybczynski has stood on top of the world and the bottom of it, in the high Canadian Arctic and Antarctica. Today she picks up the pieces from those paleobiology visits — fascinating fossils of prehistoric camels, bears, sloths — that also represent pieces of her own recent past, when she was able to venture […]

How many municipal politicians does a city need? A week ago in Toronto, the number was 47. Now, Premier Doug Ford says 25 are enough and he’s going to pass legislation to make that a reality. People running for city council are understandably outraged. Some have spent months campaigning for seats that will no longer […]

Ottawa fire fighters battled flames in Overbrook Tuesday morning, with smoke forcing the evacuation of floors of people. At 9:30 a.m., Ottawa Fire Services reported that crews were on scene at the 190 block of Presland Road near Renouf Avenue and Whitton Crescent. Small fires had been extinguished, according to the a tweet, and firefighters were […]

A Sunday night OPP traffic stop in Pembroke led to the recovery of a stolen vehicle, and a slew of charges against two women travelling in it. The Upper Ottawa Valley Detachment of the OPP said Monday that the passenger vehicle, reported stolen from the Hamilton area, was stopped on Lea Street in Pembroke. Police had […]

Shopify’s losses widened in the second quarter as the e-commerce specialist continued to invest heavily in its global rollout. However, the Ottawa firm also posted better-than-expected revenues. Shopify reported Tuesday that its net loss in the second quarter reached $24 million, or 23 cents per share, compared to a net loss during the same period […]

Veterans Ombudsman Guy Parent says the federal government has now acted on most of the recommendations his office has made over the last decade but still has to deal with reimbursing former military personnel for some expenses as well as changing how death benefits can be applied. Parent released his 2018 report card on the […]

Environment Canada is calling for a warm but pleasant Tuesday, with a mix of sun and cloud and high of 29 C. The day is forecast to start mainly cloudy, but the sun is slated to take over by 9 a.m and it should remain mainly sunny until about 6 p.m. Then, clouds are forecast […]

A member of the RCMP who had been assigned to the Parliamentary Protective Service was the victim of an alleged assault on Parliament Hill Monday night. The suspect had been arrested and taken into RCMP custody, and an investigation is currently underway, Joseph Law, chief of staff to the director of the PPS, said Tuesday morning. […]

A lawsuit has partially solved a mystery surrounding the collapse of a monument along the Rideau Canal. It’s also deepening a labour group’s curiosity about unsanctioned alterations that may have been made to the stone before it broke last year. The Ottawa and District Labour Council installed the Rideau Canal Celtic Cross in 2004 to […]

Feminist scholar Kate McInturff, a senior researcher with the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, is remembered by many in Ottawa as a trailblazer in gender analysis. She passed away July 27. Here is her last column, posted by the CCPA on its website:  One of the most important revelations of my life came to me […]

Where does one get help downtown? A few days ago I was downtown, crossing Rideau Street, when I came across a woman sitting outside the entrance to The Bay. She was clearly in distress, calling loudly out for help and sobbing. I stopped and asked if she needed some food or drink. She told me […]

Armchair Mayor: It's municipal election season, so we asked writers for one idea on how to improve Ottawa, without breaking the bank. Read on ...

A few months ago, I was party to very disturbing events involving a “rescue” dog from a California high-kill shelter. Cali was a pit-bull cross and had been saved from her pending fate. She was young, untrained and exceptionally strong and nimble, and it quickly became apparent she should not have made the long, expensive […]

Party influence is strong in Ottawa’s municipal election, even if incumbents and council hopefuls don’t represent provincial or national political groups. City councillors aren’t agents of political parties when they’re around the council horseshoe, one of the refreshing hallmarks of municipal politics in Ontario. Everyone’s an independent. No one is beholden to a party. Still, […]