Новости за 03.06.2020

The transportation committee is recommending council let e-scooters on municipal paths and many roads, in addition to allowing share programs to operate in the city for a fee. The committee signed off on the plan during a meeting Wednesday. It would be a one-year trial with the potential for extensions. The province has allowed cities […]

The Canadian Army Run scheduled for September isn’t being cancelled – it’s going virtual, organizers said Wednesday. Details will be released in the coming weeks, Lieut.-Gen. Wayne Eyre, the commander of the Canadian Army, said in a video message shared on Twitter. Organizers said that while thousands of runners won’t converge on the capital, the […]

Riverside South residents have been warned to watch for coyotes after reports of coyotes chasing humans.

The Canadian military has wrapped up its efforts to recover the wreckage of a Cyclone helicopter that crashed off the coast of Greece as well as the remains of its crew, the Canadian Forces announced Wednesday. The Cyclone helicopter crashed April 29 during a training mission. It was returning to the Canadian frigate, HMCS Fredericton, […]

The city wants to allow food trucks in municipal parks and the retail spaces on sidewalks in front of stores as a way to help Ottawa’s economy recover from the COVID-19 closures. City staff presented the proposal to council’s transportation committee on Wednesday, with right-of-way manager Court Curry calling the plan a “groundbreaker” for Ottawa. […]

The Ottawa police fraud unit is asking the public to help them identify two suspects – one in a surgical mask – in a fraud investigation. The identity fraud probe was launched after two men used a credit card which had been applied for online in the victim’s name to purchase items from stores on […]

Staff members gathered in the garden outside Madonna Care Community in Orléans Wednesday to remember two workers from the home who have died of COVID-19. The 160-bed home has been among the worst hit in the city with 44 deaths, representing more than one quarter of its residents. It is the only home in the […]

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Good news for having to go while getting out in the summer sunshine: the city has opened washrooms at five parks and beaches popular with Ottawans. The facilities at Andrew Haydon Park, Britannia Park, Westboro Beach, Mooney’s Bay Beach and Petrie Island Beaches opened as of Wednesday. They’ll undergo “extensive weekly cleaning” but Ottawa Public […]

Cloudy skies and the risk of rain linger into the weekend with temperatures reaching the high 20s by the end of the week. Wednesday is mainly cloudy with a 70 per cent chance of showers and the risk of an afternoon or early evening thunderstorm, Environment Canada predicts. The high is 21 C with a […]

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Ottawa Public Library staff are bracing for a “logistical nightmare” when the library begins to accept returns Monday after nearly three months of shutdown. The library has more than half a million items out on loan, everything from books and DVDs to musical instruments and even telescopes, said Donna Clark, manager of branch operations. “Normally they’d […]

People flock to backyard chickens, gardens amidst the COVID-19 pandemic.

The provincial government should pay for more staff, from custodians to educational assistants, to make sure schools are safe and students have the help they need when they return to class this fall, says a union representing support staff. “Return to in-class learning will be labour intensive,” says a brief from CUPE’s Ontario School Board […]

About one-third of long-term care beds in the Ottawa region are in facilities built to 1972 design standards that permit four beds in a room the size of a small studio apartment. This newspaper obtained a spreadsheet of the “structural classifications” of long-term care homes in the province from Ontario’s Ministry of Health and Long-Term […]

A group of several hundred health-care professionals, including physiotherapists, pharmacy technicians and sonographers, rallied outside The Ottawa Hospital Tuesday to protest what they see as the unequal application of the province’s pandemic pay initiative. “We go into ICU, we deal with COVID-19 patients who are on ventilators,” said Christine Methot, an X-ray technologist at the […]

Ottawa Public Health reported seven new cases of COVID-19 Tuesday and four new deaths.