Новости за 30.11.2018

Some described hearing a mysterious sound like “sheet metal in the wind” just before their noses began to bleed. At the time, the Canadian diplomats posted in Cuba didn’t know what to make of it, says the Ottawa doctor now treating many of them for acquired brain injuries. Today, some of the injured diplomats are […]

“Expect amazing!” is the theme of the upcoming 14th season of Canada’s Capital Cappies. Cappies, an international writing and awards program, instructs high school theatre and journalism students on critical thinking, review-writing and leadership. Student critics compete to be published in the Citizen by attending productions at other schools and submitting reviews for consideration. Twenty-five […]

The Hockey Sweater: The Musical Dec. 5-23, Babs Asper Theatre, National Arts Centre Tickets and times: nac-cna.ca French-Canadian author Roch Carrier used to get a call from his mother every Sunday around noon.  “She phoned me once a week at noon plus five minutes,” the 81-year-old recalled during a recent phone interview from his home […]

Portions of county roads 12 and 9 remain closed Friday as provincial police investigate an early morning rollover that sent three teens to hospital with serious, non-life-threatening injuries. Police say the crash occurred just before 1 a.m. when a southbound passenger vehicle rolled into the ditch on County Road 12 in North Stormont Township, about 70 […]

An 18-year-old man suffered non-life-threatening injuries Thursday night when he was reportedly shot by someone in a passing sport utility vehicle in the Hunt Club area. The victim, who was cooperating with police, was released from hospital Friday morning. A 911 call summoned police to the intersection of Blohm Drive and Bradley Cole Private at […]

They may be political neighbours, but the Tory elected in the riding next to rebel MPP Amanda Simard says he agrees with the Ford government’s decision to change services to Franco-Ontarians. In particular, Stormont-Dundas-South Glengarry MPP Jim McDonell said he agreed with the decision not to build a francophone university because there are universities in […]

It’s Dreaming Time Again for Corey Hart. That’s the new record from the singer who dominated the Canadian pop charts in the 1980s and is back with his first major arena tour across Canada since 1986. It stops at Canadian Tire Centre June 12 with special guests still to be announced. In his heyday, Hart […]

Ottawa police have repeated their call for help in the hunt for a “person of interest” in a number of thefts from cars at the Conroy Pit dog park earlier this year. Police originally issued the lookout in May. They are seeking Patrick Doris, who police are calling a person of interest in a number […]

Environment Canada has issued a smog warning for the east side of the Ottawa River from Gatineau stretching down to Montreal. “High concentrations of particles will affect Southern Quebec beginning Friday evening and should persist into Saturday morning,” the agency cautions. The poor air quality will warned that small children and people with respiratory ailments […]

Ottawa’s Stephanie Albert laid out in painful, sometime angry, detail Thursday the life-altering injuries she suffered due to the recklessness of a drunk driver on a sunny afternoon in Carleton Place. Albert, 30, told a sentencing hearing in Perth that she was doing what she loved most — riding her motorcycle — when an impaired driver crossed […]

On suicide watch at the Ottawa jail, Cleve Geddes spent more than 20 hours a day alone in his chilly segregation cell, wearing only a coarse canvas gown nicknamed a “baby doll” and sleeping with a thick rip-proof security blanket on a slightly thicker security mattress. The only books allowed were a Bible or a […]

It’s the big question at the heart of the $700-million lawsuit launched Nov. 23 by Ottawa Senators owner Eugene Melnyk. Why would Trinity Development founder John Ruddy — the target of that suit and one of the city’s most experienced real-estate entrepreneurs — deliberately undercut his part of the massive project to remake LeBreton Flats […]

The rest of Magee House looks like it’s going to fall down any moment, but the city’s engineering intel suggests there’s no emergency, leaving the future of Hintonburg’s crippled heritage building in limbo. According to Kitchissippi Coun. Jeff Leiper, the latest expert opinion from John G. Cooke and Associates says the crumpled stone building at 1119 […]

Beside a wall of his Gatineau warehouse, J.R. Chardon keeps more than 9,000 wine glasses. Neatly boxed and stacked, the glasses are the property of the Ottawa Wine and Food Festival. But Chardon has had them for more than a year, since the end of the 2017 festival at the EY Centre, where crowds of […]

A pair of OPP officers teamed up to rescue Teddy after the therapy dog fell through the ice of the Tay River in Lanark County Thursday morning. One of the officers also took a no-doubt frigid swim, but in the end, he and Teddy were unhurt. At 11:04 a.m., the dog’s owner called 911 to […]

The city should closely watch what’s happening with the implosion of the RendezVous LeBreton proposal for LeBreton Flats to decide whether it should continue planning a super library in the area, a city councillor says. A joint facility for the Ottawa Public Library and Library and Archives Canada will be built on LeBreton Flats at […]