Новости за 12.11.2018

Claridge Homes has kickstarted its high-rise development application for land beside the Lyon LRT station with an eye on the rental market, while possibility using some of the complex for a hotel. It’s the latest proposal for land around the two O-Train lines, although Claridge has had its plan in the works for several years. […]

A group of festivals and events in the capital region wants the federal government to improve their business environment through a plan submitted by two associations representing festivals. The budget that Canadian Heritage has for supporting festivals has stayed flat for 10 years while demands for support are rising, and there is international competition, the […]

Big changes are coming to the Ottawa international airport, with a $25-million renovation inside the terminal that will see a new and expanded food court and retail space, and the relocation of passenger screening to the third floor of the building. It’s all part of a major, five-year airport transformation that includes a new hotel […]

Police have arrested a Thurso woman in a Buckingham-area home invasion and say more arrests are expected in their ongoing investigation of the Oct. 29 incident. Suspects targeted the home at 356 Buckingham Avenue and confronted the two men and a woman who were in the home just after 8 p.m., Gatineau police said in […]

Seven years after she was sexually assaulted by a stranger during the night, an Ottawa-area woman will find out whether her assailant is criminally responsible for his act. The accused, Ryan Hartman, 38, has admitted that he sexually assaulted the woman while sleeping on the same air mattress after a 2011 Brockville house party. But […]

The following is offered in rebuttal to the Nov. 6 opinion column, How Immaculata’s soccer pitch partnership can strengthen our community: Our family has lived a block from the Immaculata High School field for more than 45 years. Currently, three generations of us are here under one roof. For our community, the sports field has been a […]

Patrol officers arrested six people Sunday night in a string of cellphone robberies in the west end. Police report that the suspects made appointments with people to purchase their phones, but then took them by force. A dozen cellphones were recovered. Staff-Sgt. Stephanie Burns said Monday that detectives with the robbery unit are investigating and […]

I never knew my maternal grandfather. He emigrated to Canada in the early part of the 20th century from western Ukraine (or eastern Poland, the details on that are fuzzy) and settled in Montreal where he worked at the CPR’s Angus workshops, along with a great many other immigrants, I imagine. He married and had […]

Some Canadian military search and rescue helicopter crews on the east coast have been temporarily relocated after asbestos dust was found in one of the buildings used by the squadron. Crews from the 103 Search and Rescue Squadron have moved from 9 Wing Gander to St. John’s N.L. after asbestos was discovered in a hangar […]

MRC des Collines-de-l’Outaouais police are asking the public to call 911 if they spot a driver of a cube van who fled on foot after a crash that left two people hurt Monday morning. A man and a woman who were in the second vehicle were rushed to hospital in Hull. The woman, who suffered […]

A total of 651 Hydro Ottawa customers in South Keys were without power Monday morning after a car collided with a pole at Bank Street and Hunt Club Road. Power was restored before 10 a.m., the utility said. A small outage of 11 customers was also reported in College Ward. This morning's outage is the […]

Slick and snowy roads snarled Monday morning traffic and more snow is in the forecast with 2 cm expected overnight and another 2 cm to 4 cm Tuesday. The OPP reported “multiple” collisions on the Queensway through Ottawa and urged motorists to drive carefully and expect delays. Even with many having the day off, Monday’s […]

Only about 40 per cent of the patients who were sent letters warning that they may have been exposed to improperly-cleaned medical equipment at a Stittsville clinic have been tested for infections, according to figures from Ottawa Public Health. In July, Ottawa Public Health issued a public call for 4,600 patients of the Main Street […]

Seven years after she was sexually assaulted by a stranger during the night, an Ottawa-area woman will find out whether her assailant is criminally responsible for his act. The accused, Ryan Hartman, 38, has admitted that he sexually assaulted the woman while sleeping on the same air mattress after a 2011 Brockville house party. But […]

Sexsomnia is rarely used as a legal defence, but it is not unknown in Canada. A review of the Canadian legal database, CanLII, shows that defence lawyers have raised the issue in at least a dozen criminal cases since 2005. It has led to retrials or to findings of not criminally responsible (NCR) a handful of […]

Jack Layton believed in the power of young people to change the world. On the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War, his inspiring words were sung by dozens of young people during a wonderful concert at the National Arts Centre’s Southam Hall. The free concert took place after the Remembrance Day […]

Bricklayer George Jameson came to Canada in 1906 with his brother, William, in search of a more prosperous life than the one he had known in Yorkshire, England. But when Britain declared war on Germany on Aug. 4, 1914, Jameson — like many of his displaced countrymen — dropped everything to answer the call to […]

A cold bright sun shone on the green and purple wreaths that mark 100 years since the end of the Great War, and many other conflicts since then. There are cannons, and CF-18s, and many uniforms, and at least one new feature on the date that officials are calling Armistice 100: A special wreath to […]