Новости за 12.12.2018

An early morning high-rise fire that displaced more than 200 residents at least temporarily, may have inadvertently saved a life, first responders said Wednesday afternoon. Thanks to the door-to-door search of every floor that fire crews conduct as protocol, firefighters found a woman in her 50s in one of the units who had fallen into a […]

The federal ethics commissioner has ruled that National Capital Commission CEO Mark Kristmanson contravened conflict-of-interest regulations on 12 occasions by accepting invitations to events put on by organizations that did business with the NCC. Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner Mario Dion released a report Wednesday that concluded Kristmanson’s behaviour contravened the Conflict of Interest […]

The National Gallery of Canada on Wednesday put on permanent display its new acquisition of a “masterpiece” by the 19th-century French painter James Tissot. The Partie Carée, known in English as The Foursome, has only been exhibited publicly twice before, including at its world premiere in Paris in 1870. The gallery bought the painting for […]

Yes, those were indeed National Capital Commission workers alert readers may have spotted on the Rideau Canal Skateway over the past few days. And, yes, they are watering the world’s longest skating rink. But NO! You can’t skate (or walk) on it, despite the winter-like weather we have experienced. The federal agency advises the layer […]

The events of the past few days should serve as a bracing warning to our government to overhaul its operating manual with China.

The past is often both poignant and painful. And that’s how such history is best conveyed. The prime minister missed a chance to tell this story properly.

One of the holiday season’s greatest joys is that home-cooked feast that friends and relatives that they are truly loved with the gift of delicious food. That said, another joy of the season is to leave the cooking to the pros by getting out of the house and regaling at a restaurant. Ottawa has no […]

A researcher in Queen’s University’s chemistry department who admitted two months ago to dosing a fellow chemist with a compound principally used to induce cancers in lab animals was given the equivalent of a seven-year prison sentence on Tuesday. Twenty-six-year-old Zijie Wang pleaded guilty in Kingston’s Ontario Court of Justice in late October to administering […]

A Kingston man reported missing in November by his family concerned for his well-being, has been charged by the Toronto Police Service in connection with five bank robberies that they say occurred over two years near Scarborough and Pickering. Toronto police said in a news release that between Jan. 19, 2016, and Dec. 5, 2018, […]

Ottawa is ranked 55th out of 64 Canadian communities when it comes to the frequency of automobile collisions, according to insurance company Allstate Canada. The insurer crunched 10 years of collision data in municipalities for which it has at least 1,000 clients and found Ottawa had seen a 22 per cent increase in car collision […]

Gatineau council is asking residents whether they feel it’s time the city went back to a 3 a.m. closing time for drinking spots in the Vieux Hull area. The former city of Hull moved closing times back to 2 a.m. in 1997 to “harmonize” the regulations with their Ottawa neighbours. The move was mainly to […]

A number of residents fled to the bitter cold of their balconies to escape choking smoke from an early morning fire at a Donald Street highrise Wednesday that caused heavy smoke and fire damage to four floors of units and displaced more than 200 people. Anne Gagnon was in her third-floor apartment when she heard […]

Q: Household ventilator in a ductless home Will a heat recovery ventilator (HRV) work in a house built without ventilation ducts? My townhouse has hot water baseboard radiators, there are no ducts, and the air is very stale. I’m concerned that the incoming air from an HRV will be too cold.   A: The concerns […]

Ontario Provincial Police are warning residents of the nation’s capital after reports of a telephone scam that has takes “thousands of dollars” from its victims. Police said at least two people have reported the scam, which occurs when a person phones claiming to be an employee with their bank. The fraudster then states they need […]

A new restaurant on Somerset Street West works lobster into a range of Vietnamese and Asian dishes.

ATM customer left battered after daylight attack on Montreal Road

Lawyers for Vice Admiral Mark Norman and the federal government will be in court Wednesday to continue the proceedings in preparation for a trial for the senior naval officer. These latest proceedings are scheduled to go until Dec. 18. Norman was charged in March 2018 with one count of breach of trust. The RCMP originally […]

An upgraded design for the Rosemount library has added a glass reading room that promises to be a symbolic beacon of light for the neighbourhood around Wellington West. The Ottawa Public Library Board agreed Tuesday to add $400,000 to the existing $2-million budget so that the sunny, transparent room and other improvements could be added […]

It was mid-March 2014 when Awso Peshdary turned to his friends and declared victory in what he called “a successful counter-intelligence against Canadian authorities.” What Peshdary didn’t suspect was that one of those friends, Abdullah Milton, had gone to authorities the day before and was himself made an agent, deployed by the RCMP with tapes […]

A drunk driver who nearly killed a young motorcyclist last year in Carleton Place says he understands his victim’s pain and trauma since he suffered similar, disabling injuries in a motorcycle accident three years ago. From his wheelchair, Roy Radke, 37, told a Perth courtroom Tuesday that he has experienced “deep remorse and consuming regret” […]

Mayor Jim Watson has chosen a cabinet of clear allies, while strong-arming those who could present the biggest challenge to his four-year agenda and political future. The result may be a sharper wedge between inner-urban councillors and the rest of council. The city’s committees, subcommittees and council appointments all took shape Tuesday at a meeting […]

The lives of vulnerable migrant workers in Canada will be explored by this year’s winners of the R. James Travers Foreign Corresponding Fellowship, an award that supports foreign reporting by Canadian journalists. Susan Harada, associate director of Carleton University’s School of Journalism and Communication, awarded the $25,000 fellowship to B.C-based photographer Melissa Renwick and Toronto […]

Cleve Geddes was drooling, disoriented and being taunted by other inmates the day before his suicide in the Ottawa jail where he had been “thrown in with the wolves,” a fellow inmate told a coroner’s inquest Tuesday. Testifying by phone from Joyceville Institution, Jai Robert Middleton said he is still traumatized by what he saw […]

No charges will be laid against the driver of an OC Transpo bus that struck a woman, sending her to hospital with injuries to her foot. “There was no evidence found to the fact of the driver being in the wrong,” said Ottawa police spokeswoman Const. Amy Gagnon on Tuesday. “So right now, until there […]

A change in the way the federal government funds scientific research is jeopardizing the future of two high-profile Ottawa-based organizations aimed at bringing cutting-edge medical research to Canadian patients. Ottawa’s Dr. John Bell, who is scientific director of BioCanRx, says the nation-wide immunotherapy network is being “cut off at the knees” by funding changes announced […]