Новости за 19.09.2018

Sales of adult monthly transit passes were below expectations in the first half of 2018 as OC Transpo girds for a projected $4.1-million revenue shortfall for the year, and that’s not even accounting for the LRT delay. The transit commission on Wednesday learned that Transpo budgeted to sell 281,847 adult monthly passes between January and […]

A suspended Ottawa police officer has been charged with a lengthy list of offences against women he met on dating sites, including sexual assault, pointing his police-issued service pistol, uttering threats and harassment. Const. Eric Post, 47, was arrested by sexual assault detectives Wednesday morning, with tactical officers standing by at the ready, after a […]

The New York-based writer pays a visit to her hometown Thursday to launch her new book.

After a hiatus of several years, Ottawa's festival of improvised music returns this weekend.

OC Transpo will “tweak” some of the bus routes recently changed in preparation for LRT, but customers who voiced concerns about the alterations shouldn’t expect a full reversal. John Manconi, the city’s general manager of transportation, used the word tweak several times during a transit commission meeting on Wednesday as a way to manage the […]

“Promise made, promise kept," is a frequent mantra for Ontario’s new premier, but when it comes to imprisonment in Ottawa, the numbers just don’t add up.

Four children were taken to hospital in Hawkesbury with injuries after their school bus was involved in a four-vehicle collision involving a tractor-trailer on Highway 34 Wednesday morning. The bus driver was also airlifted to hospital in Ottawa. None of the injuries are life-threatening, Hawkesbury OPP reported. About 20 other children on the bus were […]

Summer daycare programs for students at Ottawa’s English public schools should have air conditioning, trustees have recommended. They heard Tuesday from several parents who said their children were sweltering last summer at the extended-day program at Robert Hopkins Public School. It’s a health and safety issue, said trustee Sandra Schwartz, who proposed the motion. With […]

Police in west Quebec helped save a 68-year-old man in cardiac arrest Saturday, a month after reviving a lifeless toddler. At about 6 p.m. on Sept. 15, officers responded to a call on l’If Road in La Pêche where a 68-year-old man was in cardio-respiratory arrest. Taking over from a neighbour, a nurse who had started […]

Open since February 2016, the restaurant in Gatineau's Aylmer sector serves new tapas each week.

A transport truck went through a sound barrier wall near Brockville’s North Augusta Road exit on Highway 401 early Wednesday morning. No one was injured in the collision, but the damage appeared extensive. Three tractor-trailers were involved in the incident, which happened around 4 a.m. and ended with a section of the concrete barrier off […]

Police in west Quebec are appealing to help them nab the person or persons who fired an air gun to injure or kill cats in Cantley last month. Three cats were shot in the incidents on Aug. 11 and 12 in the vicinity of Taché Street and de Maricourt Road, MRC des Collines-de-l’Outaouais police said in […]

Canadian musician Bryan Adams told a House of Commons committee on Tuesday that copyright laws need to change to give more control to artists. Adams noted artists currently cant recover ownership of their work until after they die.

Ottawa residents — and especially Senators fans — are frustrated by a lack of information about the development of LeBreton Flats and are starting to worry that a new arena for the National Hockey League will be delayed, a new poll says. There is broad support for the NHL to become involved in the project […]

The memorial to fallen Canadian troops that was once at Kandahar airfield in Afghanistan is expected to be officially unveiled sometime in November at the Department of National Defence campus in west-end Ottawa. The cenotaph which memorializes the losses endured in the Afghan war was rebuilt at the campus. On the cenotaph are 190 plaques […]

Michael LeBlanc stabbed Mohammad Ali Hassan 23 times, slashed his neck and left him dying in the snow in an Overbrook park, Crown prosecutors charged Tuesday at the opening of LeBlanc’s murder trial. Family members of Hassan quietly dabbed away tears in court as the jury heard the first evidence against his alleged killer. LeBlanc […]

The girlfriend of a man fatally stabbed in the middle of a Vanier street in April 2017 is now wanted for first-degree murder in an unrelated homicide: the Saturday night hotel beating death of an Ottawa man. Homicide detectives announced Tuesday that Crystal Bastien, a 32-year-old escort, is wanted for the killing of Mohamad Mana, 30. […]

It took nearly five years, but the Canada Revenue Agency has been ordered to give 3.5 hours of paid leave to an employee in Prince Edward Island for time he missed from work because of a fierce snowstorm that lashed the province, closed schools, scrubbed flights and even forced the government office where he worked […]

The clock is ticking on the RendezVous LeBreton project as the National Capital Commission needs to make some important decisions on the landmark development, NCC chief executive officer Mark Kristmanson said Tuesday. The development, which is backstopped by Ottawa Senators owner Eugene Melnyk and the Trinity group, includes a new arena, mixed residential buildings and […]

What you do when you’re too young to vote and you want to protest the Progressive Conservatives’ rollback of the sex ed curriculum? If you’re in high school, you might wear purple and walk out of class on Friday afternoon. You might play music, wave placards, make speeches and listen to other people speaking. That’s […]

Firefighters kept flames confined to the basement of one half of an Old Ottawa East duplex after flames broke out Tuesday morning. One person was assessed for smoke inhalation by paramedics, but did not need to go to the hospital. Multiple 911 calls reporting black smoke and flames drew fire crews to 148 Concord St. […]

City police were asking Tuesday afternoon for the public to help them find a missing 76-year-old woman. The woman was then found safe and sound, police said Tuesday night.