Новости за 10.09.2018

Another delay in the launch of the $2.1-billion LRT system will surely draw questions from taxpayers and commuters. The city says the largest infrastructure project in the city’s history won’t be ready by the end of November, as promised. So when will the LRT system finally open to customers? The city doesn’t know yet. It […]

Monday, Sept. 10: It's all about the US Open today. You can share your thoughts on this topic or any other at: letters@ottawacitizen.com

The Ontario Provincial Police seized seven motorcycles and five other vehicles over the weekend for stunt driving on Highway 417. According to police, some of the vehicles were witnessed hitting speeds of up to 200 km/h. When caught and accused of stunt driving, drivers face an immediate seven day driver’s license suspension and their vehicle […]

New location, new approach and new look: This year’s Minto dream home offers a fresh take on the annual CHEO lottery grand prize. After several years in south Ottawa, the 2018 home has moved to Stittsville — just a stone’s throw from Canadian Tire Centre — representing a chance to shake things up a bit […]

The Confederation Line LRT likely won’t be ready for customers by the end of 2018, councillors learned Monday. Transportation general manager John Manconi told the finance and economic development committee that he received a call from RTG on the way home from work on Friday around 6 p.m. suggesting a new schedule of completion. RTG […]

A Renfrew woman has been identified as the victim of a motorcycle crash on Highway 511 near Calabogie Sunday afternoon. Joanne Ciphery, 54, died at the scene after the southbound Honda she was aboard left the road north of White Lake Road in the Township of Lanark Highlands, Lanark OPP said Monday. Officers were called […]

This week begins with rain and a decidedly autumnal 7 C but we’ll be basking in September sunshine with summery highs again soon. Monday’s forecast is for increasing cloudiness, easterly winds at 20 km/h near noon and a high of just 15 C. A typical high for this time of year is 20 C. That […]

Facebook’s celebrated motto to “move fast and break things” has recently taken on a whole new meaning. Mark Zuckerberg moved too quickly, and broke democracy. Zuckerberg’s “dorm-room defence,” which he repeated throughout his two days before the United States Senate in April, was that he should not be held accountable for decisions made in 2003 […]

Recently, the media reported the death of a Nigerian man in the custody of the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA). While the precise circumstances that lead to his death remain unclear, media reports suggest that the federal government was deporting him after he lost his long legal fight to remain in Canada, and that he strongly feared he would […]

Almost three decades after the end of the First World War, Filip Konowal, an Ottawa and Hull resident who was awarded the Victoria Cross for his valour during the Battle of Hill 70, joked that he had very nearly been shot for cowardice. “I was so fed up standing in the trench with water up […]

Two Ottawa lawyers have filed a proposed $80-million class-action lawsuit, alleging that Google’s search engine allows Internet users to discover names that are supposed to be shielded by court-ordered publication bans. The proposed lawsuit follows an investigation by this newspaper last year. That review found that plugging the publication-banned name of a young offender or crime […]

Canada’s NAFTA negotiators are not looking promising. But perhaps U.S. and Canadian trade delegates could learn a few lessons from the Brooks-Martin household where we recently hammered out the latest version of the MAFTA, or Maple Avenue Family Treatment Agreement. Although there were a number of contentious issues, I, my wife Cheryl, and our daughter […]

Take a step behind the scenes as we highlight some memorable moments from the Ottawa Citizen’s storied past. Today, Noel Taylor remembers the day the newspaper confronted modernity. — Back in 1973, after nearly 20 years in the newspaper business, my working life changed dramatically. Traumatically, even. That year, over the course of a weekend, the Citizen […]

Ahead of a court date related to her own allegation of harassment against the fiancee of a former Ottawa Senator, Melinda Karlsson told the crowd at an anti-bullying event it’s not always easy to see through the darkness when you are “targeted, ostracized, harassed or alone.” On Sunday evening, Melinda and husband Erik Karlsson, captain […]

A woman is dead following a motorcycle crash near Calabogie on Sunday afternoon. The Lanark County detachment of the OPP says the crash happened around 2:09 p.m. Sunday on Highway 511 north of the intersection of White Lake Road. The woman, a passenger on the motorcycle, was declared dead on the scene. The driver of […]

There is no mountain in Mountain, Ont., nor scarcely a mound or embankment. But there is, in this village, a monument to the Battle of Hill 70. It’s the only such commemoration in Canada and, for a century, until one was erected in France last year, it was the only one in the world. On Sunday, […]

A single-vehicle crash left one person dead early Sunday afternoon in Lanark Highlands township. The incident took place around 2 p.m. on Highway 511, near its intersection with White Lake Road, about 10 kilometres southwest of Calabogie. The highway near Calabogie was subsequently closed to traffic. The Lanark County detachment of the OPP and the […]