Новости за 27.08.2020

Two weeks ago, trustees at the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board voted to defund the police officers known as student resource officers at Ridgemont and Gloucester high schools. On Wednesday night, while contemplating whether to move about $95,000 from a pot of money that pays the officers, known as SROs, to another pot that would fund […]

A “risk assessment” distributed to Ottawa-Carleton District School Board trustees on Wednesday offers a peek into the extra expenses school boards face as students head back to class in the COVID era. The assessment, part of a 32-page memo with responses to questions from trustees, offers estimates on the anticipated costs. Some costs would normally […]

On a visit to Algonquin College that was open to the media on Thursday, Ontario Premier Doug Ford was asked about the criticisms of his back-to-school plan by Ontario teachers’ unions. The largest education unions have decried the plan as unsafe and underfunded, and denounced the sidelining of unions by the province in consulting on […]

Patrol officers seized a total of three loaded handguns in the early hours of Thursday. The first two guns were seized after police responded to a report of a vehicle whose occupants were seen with a gun on the Queensway. The third gun was found after police received a call to break up a party […]

Upper Ottawa Valley OPP are looking for four teenagers travelling on bikes after an elderly woman was hit in the head with a rock in Pembroke in an incident police said was part of “ongoing harassment”. A group of young people had been vandalizing the woman’s home and yelling racial comments, the OPP said in […]

A 27-year-old man is facing charges in connection with a pair of business break-ins on William Street in the ByWard Market. A business near George Street was broken into, items broken and staff threatened by a man who left on a bike after the incident at 3:48 a.m. on Aug. 21, police said. On Aug. […]

Firefighters battled a fire at Vanier’s neighbourhood sugar shack early Thursday morning that was described as a defensive operation after the structure partially collapsed. They were summoned by a 5:53 a.m. 911 call reporting smoke and flames visible in the forest behind the Centre Richelieu-Vanier and the caller was able to confirm from a safe […]

Do you know where your jacket is? It’s a likely wet and relatively chilly Thursday to give us a taste of the autumnal weather to come. Expect cloudy skies with a 70 per cent chance of showers and a high of 18 C. There’s a 40 per cent chance of showers overnight with a low […]

The National Arts Centre is commissioning outdoor performances this fall from 11 dance and theatre companies from Vancouver to St. John’s that will be filmed and then shared online with Canadians and international theatre fans. Dubbed Grand Acts of Theatre, the project was conceived of during the early of COVID-19 as an artistic response to […]

In another blow to the years-long prosecution of reputed ISIS recruiter Awso Peshdary, Canada’s spy agency has admitted it failed to disclose evidence favourable to the accused and that some of its intelligence used to support warrants may have been gathered illegally. The Canadian Security Intelligence Service made the striking admissions in federal court proceedings […]

Ottawa’s largest school board will be getting about $7 million out of the $381 million in federal funding for Ontario’s schools. Mike Carson, chief financial officer and superintendent of facilities told trustees his first estimate was around $11 million. But a memo from the province offered some rough numbers late Wednesday afternoon, adding up to […]

City police are appealing to the public to help them find 12-year-old Alejandro Moral who was last seen in Sandy Hill at 9:30 p.m. Tuesday. “His family is concerned for his safety,” police said in a release Wednesday. Moral is five feet, one inch tall with a slim build, chin-length brown hair and dark eyes. […]

In a burst of back-to-school news, the Ontario government revealed its spending plan for a $381-million investment in eduction by the federal government, and released its “playbook” for managing COVID-19 cases and outbreaks in schools across the province. The new money for Ontario is part of a $2-billion back-to-school federal funding package announced by Prime […]

Everyone in the common areas of Ottawa’s multi-unit residential buildings, like apartment and condo complexes, must now wear masks. Council has also empowered staff to make mandatory mask orders for outdoor areas, if necessary. Council unanimously voted Wednesday to expand the mandatory mask requirements to reduce the transmission of COVID-19 as the city continues to […]

For some patients, COVID-19 is also a heart disease, and that has specialists at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute on alert as the pandemic continues. From the beginning, it was clear that the novel coronavirus, COVID-19, “is a disease that affects multiple organ systems,” said Dr. Marc Ruel, head of cardiac surgery at the […]

A 23-year-old man gunned down inside his own home in what police believe was a targeted ambush was the victim of “senseless gun violence,” his family says. The news of Jonathan Wite’s death “still doesn’t feel real to any of us,” his cousin wrote in a GoFundMe campaign to raise money for his funeral. Wite […]

Public health officials are seeing “a different picture” of how COVID-19 is spreading in the community in recent weeks, with the source of infection increasingly traced to “close contacts” rather than institutional outbreaks, Ottawa’s medical officer of health Dr. Vera Etches said in an update to city council Wednesday. Ottawa Public Health tracked the sources […]

An Ottawa high school teacher charged last month faces new charges involving two female students that date back to July 2013. Majed Turk, 42, was scheduled to appear in court Wednesday on one count each of sexual assault, sexual interference and invitation to sexual touching and four counts of luring a child. Police said Wednesday […]

The Ottawa Catholic School Board has pushed back the first day of school for some students, staggering the start of the school year over a two-week period, beginning Sept. 8. The board announced the changes Tuesday morning, the day after education minister Stephen Lecce said the province would allow staggered starts to the school year. […]