Новости за 21.08.2018

Alternative CKCU announcer Michael “tic” Houston has been sprucing up the Odditorium, the vintage barn on his property east of Ottawa, in preparation for his annual Barnstorm bash on Saturday. The 19th annual edition of the event features alt-country hero Slo’ Tom and The Handsome Devils in the headlining slot, along with The Reverb Syndicate, […]

Most of them are in their 70s now, having earned the right to sit back and watch the world go by. So, why is it that the Grassroot Grannies continue to take up their cause with a high-spirited trek on two wheels? The answer is simple. Grandmothers from Ottawa-Gatineau, in concert with others in Canada, […]

Provincial police are on the lookout for a federal prisoner who has breached his parole. Ronald Countryman, 57, is described as Caucasian, five-feet-eight-inches (173cm) tall, weighing 198 pounds (90 kg) with a shaved head and hazel eyes. Countryman, who was serving a 10-year, two-month sentence for impaired driving, driving while disqualified, theft under $5,000, possession […]

A 21-year-old Ottawa man has been sentenced to two years in prison after he pleaded guilty to assaulting his parents in their Orléans home in March 2017, striking his mother in the head and stabbing his father in the chest with a kitchen knife. David Lavictoire, who was 19 at the time of the attack, […]

A goat that has escaped from its owner in Ottawa has been picked up by bylaw officers — again. The as-yet-nameless goat (he’s a male, so Billy seems the obvious, if cliché, choice) was picked up near Kinburn on Monday night. The bylaw office tweeted on Tuesday that they believed the goat had chewed through […]

Nancy Kondo left the Democratic Republic of Congo when she was six years old, and spent much of her childhood growing up in Ottawa. Now the 27-year-old is managing director of Congo Fashion Week — the third-largest fashion event in all of Africa. We caught up with her from Kinshasa, the capital city of Congo, […]

Do you have what it takes to get — and keep — a job as a “warehouse associate” with Amazon? Clearing the initial bar to gain bottom-rung employment with the e-commerce giant isn’t that high. You have to be a high school graduate 18 or older. But it takes more than that. You must be […]

Two teenagers were arrested after allegedly shooting at an OC Transpo bus with a BB gun on Sunday evening. The incident occurred near the intersection of Robertson Road and Moodie Drive around 6:30 p.m. on Aug. 19, said Sgt. Chuck Benoit with the Ottawa Police Service. “A bus shelter was hit, and then there was […]

Police are seeking public assistance after a 40-year-old man was found face-down in the street with with serious injuries in the Morgans Grant area of Kanata Tuesday morning. Police say they received the call at Second Line Road and Forestbrook Street, near the South March Highlands Conservation Forest, at about 10:30 a.m. They found the […]

Paramedics in Kingston responded to an early morning crash involving an automobile carrying seven teenagers which apparently slammed into a hydro pole. The crash occurred on Princess Street between John Counter Boulevard and Portsmouth Avenue at around 3 a.m. Five of the teens were taken to area hospital, one was suffering from life threatening injuries. […]

On Oct. 5, 2004, a month before President George W. Bush was re-elected, Philip Roth published The Plot Against America. On the brown cover was a terrifying image: a one-cent U.S. postage stamp of majestic Yosemite postmarked with a swastika. The novel was a sensation. Frank Rich, the literary critic, suggested then that the cover […]

Ottawa patrol officers, assisted by police dogs, tracked down two suspects shortly after they alleged broke into a Hydro One storage facility in Nepean on the weekend. Police say Hydro One notified them Saturday night to say that surveillance video had spotted the two suspects at a facility on Woodfield Drive in the Tanglewood neighbourhood. […]

When it comes to foreign-owned megacorps, this is a very friendly town. Build a big warehouse that will employ 600 people at a wage 40 cents an hour over the minimum, and you get the prime minister, a flock of MPs, various provincial cabinet ministers, and sundry city councillors to come out and cheer you […]

A driver of a car drove into the side of a building in Kanata early Tuesday morning. Around 7:15 a.m., calls came in to police and fire that the car had hit a building at 474 Hazeldean Road in Kanata. According to Ottawa Fire Services, the building was a Fairstone Financial branch. Beyond “minor injuries,” […]

Eastern Ontario mayors have a new optimism that the provincial government takes the safety problems on Highway 401 seriously following a meeting with the new transportation minister on the weekend, according to Prescott Mayor Brett Todd. Todd said that he and other mayors were encouraged by the attitude of Transportation Minister John Yakabuski when they […]

Originally published on October 11, 2013 In 1958, Boyne Johnston was the most famous bank robber in town, maybe in the country, our own scaled-down Dillinger. People were taken by his daring – the dapper chief teller, only 25, who slipped out the bank’s back door with $260,000 cash stuffed in a bag, the quick […]

The Canadian military is dealing with more streptococcal infections at its facilities in Saint-Jean, Quebec. In early April, Defence Watch reported that more than 1,800 military personnel had been given antibiotics after an outbreak of streptococcal infections at the military facility in Quebec. Six recruits from the Saint-Jean Garrison were hospitalized earlier this year, the […]

Albert Speer, Adolf Hitler’s minister of armaments, was asked on his release from prison in 1966 what lessons he drew from the Second World War and the related deaths of an estimated 50 million people. He replied that the catastrophe was primarily the result of Germans losing their independent press during the 1930s. Abraham Lincoln, […]

Keys, wallet, phone? Check. Oh, and don’t forget your umbrella. That’s going to come in pretty handy today. Clouds will be rolling in this morning and they will be accompanied by rain this afternoon – expect about 5 mm of the wet stuff. Today’s high should reach 24 C but will feel very hot and […]

On Oct. 22, 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. Today, Meredith Brown takes the plunge. Canada is a nation not just of lakes and oceans but of rivers. Ottawa is built […]

Dangerous corner need crossing guards Come September, many little children walking to school all over Ottawa will find crossing guards to see them safely across the street. When the crossing guard signals, motorists know they must stop, and they do. Come September, however, there will be no crossing guard at the corner of Delmar Street […]

Inspectors have found a range of problems with concrete work at the city’s LRT sites, according to newly released inspection reports that offer a behind-the-scenes look at Ottawa’s biggest infrastructure project. The problems relate to concrete pours at worksites such as unacceptable temperatures and missed durability tests, and have forced contractors to sometimes redo work […]

Getting the concrete right at the beginning of a major project such as Ottawa’s light rail transit system will pay off in the maintenance of the infrastructure over the long-term, an expert says. Moncef Nehdi, a Western University engineering professor with expertise in concrete technology, said the proper production and placement of concrete during construction […]

Just kidding, this video shines the light on just five of the many folks who put in work behind the scenes to make a week of Capital Pride events possible. The organization putting together Capital Pride is, like most Pride organizations, a pretty lean affair, and the organization prefers to use the money it has […]

After more than 10 days, Murphy the missing boa constrictor and veritable local celebrity, has apparently been safely located — in his own basement. oh man, somebody renovating or what? I was so happy napping in the basement – won't say where. #ottawasnake #westboa pic.twitter.com/fLcRyxg6BR — Karen L Genge (@IguanaKaren) August 20, 2018 A twitter […]