Новости за 24.02.2021

Some of the hurdles and obstacles along the road to wellness have hopefully been removed with the creation of AccessMHA, a single portal through which residents in Eastern Ontario can access mental health, substance-use and addictions care when they need it. Announced Wednesday, the online site brings together numerous organizations and partners to streamline the […]

What you need to know, at a glance Ottawa reports 41 new cases in Ottawa and no new deaths ‘We are not heading towards Yellow, we are heading towards Red, and that is not OK,’ medical officer of health Dr. Vera Etches tells city council OPH will be discussing with the province next week whether […]

Two-year-old Gerda was near death when she was found freezing on a porch on a frigid morning in Ottawa. Her body temperature and blood sugar were so low they couldn’t be measured, the Ottawa Humane Society said in a fund-raising appeal for her care. She was emaciated and dehydrated with a wounded tail and a […]

A crash closed all lanes of the westbound Highway 417 at Innes Road during the Wednesday morning commute. Ottawa paramedics had a heads-up for commuters just after 7:20 a.m. The westbound lanes remained closed at Innes Road for most of the morning after the collision involving several vehicles and a tractor trailer, the OPP said. […]

By adopting legislative commitments to uphold and put in place a binding framework for implementation, this country would not only do the right thing at home, it would set a vital example to the world.

There will be differences over 'Buy America.' Biden didn’t hesitate to cancel the Keystone XL pipeline. Still, relations are returning to normal, and Canada is less alone as a voice of moderation in an authoritarian world.

Parents at the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board will have to decide by mid-March whether they want their children to study online next year. But the emphasis will be on in-person learning when elementary and secondary students return to schooling next fall and many pandemic precautions will still be in place, trustees were told Tuesday. It’s […]

The controversial surface combatant project has faced delays and significant increases in cost as the price tag has climbed from an original $14-billion.

As people continue to cope with COVID isolation, many interior designers have noted heightened interest in clients wanting to make their homes more ‘zen’. “We definitely have,” says Sascha Lafleur, co-founder and principal designer at West of Main Design on Kaladar Ave. in Ottawa. “We feel extremely lucky to be in an industry that is […]

Xi Jinping's policies are forcing an exodus that could be a blessing for this country – should we decide to accept it.

A third Ottawa police guns-and-gangs case rooted in a bad 2019 search warrant is now in jeopardy. Chris Uniat, 27, had already pleaded guilty in the drugs-and-ammo case back in March and was awaiting sentencing for his street crimes. But Uniat moved to strike his guilty plea after reading this newspaper’s account of the bad […]

Hospitalizations are trending up in Ontario — and in Ottawa — in recent days, with 718 patients now in hospital across the province, an increase of 72 patients in the past 24-hour period.

Ottawa Public Health is looking for passengers who were in a rideshare vehicle from Toronto last week after one of the passengers tested positive for COVID-19. The patient was in the virus’s contagion period when they took the private rideshare with six other people, including the driver, on Feb. 16, OPH said. The white van […]

The Ottawa police break-and-enter unit is asking the public to help identify a man investigators link to “several” break-ins. They happened between Jan. 22 and Feb. 8 at residential buildings in Centretown, the Ottawa Police Service said in a release Tuesday. The man is described as white, 35 to 40 years old and five feet, […]

Provincial police are investigating after a 49-year-old woman was seriously injured when she was struck by a snowmobile Monday afternoon on a recreational trail inside Carleton Place city limits. Police said the crash occurred at about 3:45 p.m. on the Ottawa Valley Recreational Trail between Franklin and Albert streets in Carleton Place. The section of […]

It apparently was a wild Saturday night in La Pêche. Police called to an assault came across a car full of curfew breakers and followed its tracks to an illicit cottage party. There they learned that the man reporting he had been assaulted had earlier arrived at the party “without being invited and took off […]

If councillors approve the proposal, these neighbourhoods will see intensification on a scale never before witnessed in Ottawa.

The City of Ottawa has lined up the missing piece in a major infill development near the future Corso Italia Station after negotiating steep discounts on 6.3 acres of federal land. A report published ahead of a finance and economic development committee meeting next Tuesday says city staff have nearly finished a deal to complete […]

The chair of the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board is asking the provincial government to give priority to vaccinating education workers against COVID-19. Lynn Scott wrote a letter to the ministers of education and health asking them to make a “formal public commitment” that education workers will be part of Phase 2 of the province’s vaccination […]