Новости за 31.10.2018

A Roman Catholic priest charged under Ontario’s new “bubble zone” law protecting abortion clinics is vowing to challenge the accusation as a violation of his constitutional right to freedom of expression. Father Anthony Van Hee, 83, a fixture on Parliament Hill for his anti-abortion protests, moved his silent demonstration across the street from the Morgentaler […]

In a rare move, a Crown prosecutor has consented to the release of an accused killer on bail because the proposed conditions she has to follow do away with any “just cause” for detention, an Ottawa court heard Wednesday. Tamara Bahlawan, 25, was granted bail Wednesday after the Crown agreed to those proposed conditions and […]

The Afghan mission continues to be a money pit for the U.S. government and a cash cow for private military contractors. On Wednesday, the U.S. government’s Afghan mission watchdog produced a report on the Pentagon program to advise the Afghan Ministry of Defence (MOD) and the Afghan Ministry of the Interior (MOI). The U.S. government’s […]

A 36-year-old man has been charged in relation to a sex assault at Algonquin College two weeks ago. Police had earlier released photos of a man they said was a suspect in the incident, which they said involved a woman in her 20s who had been asleep in a college lounge in the early hours of […]

A third person has been arrested after a raid at a North Dundas Township address last week yielded ammunition, crossbows and a handgun-style air pistol, the OPP said Wednesday. The force’s community street crime unit, emergency response team and officers from the Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry detachment teamed up to execute a search warrant at […]

Officials behind the Zibi development are moving ahead with a seven-storey tall shipping container structure, which will be used as a sales center for the development and contain an observation deck on its roof. According to Cédric Tessier, Gatineau city councillor for the Hull-Wright District where Zibi is being built, the construction required special permission […]

A young woman has died of the injuries she suffered more than two months ago in an Iroquois-area ATV crash that the OPP says it’s still investigating. Jasmine Saunders, 18, was pronounced dead Sunday of injuries she suffered in the Aug. 17 crash, Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry OPP said in a media release. Saunders was one […]

HMCS Toronto has run into some problems. The frigate was conducting operations at sea off the coast of the United Kingdom when the ship experienced an electrical issue causing a loss of power, Canadian Forces spokesman Maj. Mark Gough said Tuesday. “The ship’s technicians worked continuously on this matter to bring the electrical systems back […]

You might think it would be bad enough to show up again this year near the top of Demographia’s listings of cities with the least affordable housing markets in the world, and a rental vacancy rate of less than one per cent, and to have been reduced to ground zero of Canada’s fentanyl crisis, with […]

Ottawa police’s break and enter unit is asking the public to help them identify two suspects in a case in which it’s alleged that credit and debit cards stolen in a car break-in in Carleton Heights were used at Ottawa stores. Suspects broke into a vehicle in the area of Senio Avenue near Prince of […]

The nation’s capital bucked a national housing trend as the Ottawa-Gatineau region saw an uptick in new home prices where other metropolitan areas saw a slowdown, according to the latest Statistics Canada data. The agency said in a release Wednesday the countrywide trend of slowing growth in new home prices in many census metropolitan areas […]

Councillor-elect Carol Anne Meehan needs to grow a thicker skin. And she knows it. There’s still a little over a month before Meehan will be sworn in as the new councillor for Gloucester-South Nepean, and already the veteran broadcaster is in the midst of her first social media firestorm. This week, Meehan was accused of […]

The victims of two Monday morning shootings — one before daybreak, the other after — attended the same Sunday evening wedding in Ottawa, this newspaper has learned. Homicide victim Guled Ahmed, 23, shot dead in a back alleyway on Carruthers Avenue, and a second man, who showed up at hospital with gunshot wounds after bullets […]

A 15-year-old Brockville youth has been charged in the death of Damian Sobieraj, 33, in the city’s Hardy Park six weeks ago. The youth, who can’t be named under the Youth Criminal Justice Act, faces charges of manslaughter, criminal negligence causing death, obstructing police and assault. Brockville police arrested the youth Tuesday morning and they […]

A motorcyclist killed in a two-vehicle crash north of Maxville, about 75 kilometres east of Ottawa, Tuesday afternoon. First responders were called to the collision at the intersection of county roads 20 and 24 at about 5:13 p.m. Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry OPP said. Their preliminary probe suggests that the motorcycle was northbound on County Road […]

There’ll be no more delivery or pickup Wednesday Ottawa, Arnprior and Renfrew are the latest sites of the postal workers’ rotating series of 24-hour walkouts. Workers walked off the job in the capital at 6 a.m., along with Charlottetown and Summerside, PEI. The Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) began the rotating strikes Oct. 22 […]

How’s this for Halloween? The day opens with the risk of icy showers and throws in some atmospheric fog patches by afternoon for trick-or-treaters. The winds should be blustery, at about 20 km/h and, oh, and there’s a 30 per cent chance of showers tonight, along with lingering fog patches. Scary stuff indeed. The is […]

Vespers Royal Winnipeg Ballet When and where: 8 p.m. Nov. 1-3, Southam Hall, National Arts Centre Tickets: $29-$111, plus surcharges, available at NAC box office, by phone at 1-888-991-2787 and online at nac-cna.ca and ticketmaster.ca Canada’s legendary prima ballerina, Evelyn Hart, returns to the stage with the Royal Winnipeg Ballet in a role created just for […]

It was 1945 in Ottawa and a young Soviet embassy employee had just walked out with secret papers revealing his country’s espionage secrets. Now a man was knocking on his apartment door on Somerset Street West. Igor Gouzenko waited breathlessly inside with his wife, Svetlana, and their baby son. They didn’t answer the door, and […]

Wednesday, Oct. 31: We can band together after the synagogue attack, says one letter writer. You can write to us too, at: letters@ottawacitizen.com

Gatineau police on Tuesday night were investigating a shooting that happened during an incident of road rage. Police received a call at 5:51 p.m. about a hit and run involving a pedestrian near 13 De La Sarre St., just east of where La Vérendrye Boulevard meets Highway 50. According to police, they found a 30-year-old […]

Ottawa school board trustees shelved a motion Tuesday that would have changed the way gifted students are treated after staff told them it might violate provincial rules. The controversial motion from trustee Christine Boothby was aimed at giving parents more control in the decision to place their gifted children into specialized classes. However, board officials […]

HMCS Toronto, which is taking part in NATO operations, has run into some more problems. The frigate was conducting operations at sea off the coast of the United Kingdom when the ship experienced an electrical issue causing a loss of power, Canadian Forces spokesman Maj. Mark Gough said Tuesday. “The ship’s technicians worked continuously on […]

Michael Sims and his wife preside over a boisterous household of four children under age 10 who love to hike, ride bikes and swing on the zip line in their yard in Ottawa’s Alta Vista neighbourhood. It might not be obvious at first glance, but all four children have multiple “exceptionalities” that include learning disabilities, […]

A local architect is challenging people to think about how the ByWard Market can be more pedestrian friendly through a concept he put together on his own time, simply because he loves the place. Toon Dreessen, president of Architects DCA, unveiled his vision Tuesday at the central ByWard Market building, emphasizing the need to reduce […]