Новости за 28.12.2021

An 18-year-old man and a 16-year-old youth, both from Ottawa, face charges after a stolen vehicle crashed and rolled over near Havelock. Officers were called to the collision on Cole Road at about 9 a.m. on Dec. 23, the Peterborough County detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police said in a release. Witnesses reported that the […]

Ontario logged 8,825 new cases of COVID-19 in the last day, Health Minister Christine Elliott tweeted Tuesday morning. While the provincial COVID-19 data portal isn’t being updated between Dec. 25 and 28, Elliott has continued tweeting some high-level COVID numbers daily. The seven-day average for daily cases reported in Ontario is now 8,318. COVID-19 hospitalizations […]

A 10-year-old girl died after an accident on the toboggan hill at Mooney’s Bay on Monday. Ottawa paramedics were called to the scene at 2:50 p.m., and said the girl was transferred to hospital in critical condition. The young accident victim succumbed to her injuries shortly after being transported to the Children’s Hospital of Eastern […]

As 2021 winds down, it’s tempting to skip the typical year-end reflection. This is a year most of us will be in a hurry to forget, and when we do remember it, it will meld into 2020, so similar were the two. It’s reasonable to believe COVID-19 will loosen its grip on us in 2022, […]

Nearly 600 of Overbrook-McArthur’s residents 12 and older who were unvaccinated for COVID-19 towards the end of October have subsequently received at least one shot, the largest increase in any single neighbourhood in Ottawa. According to the latest figures from Ottawa Public Health and the Ottawa Neighbourhood Study, which includes vaccination totals up to Dec. […]

Quebec mystery writer Louise Penney takes the top two spots while Canada’s former attorney general penned the only non-fiction entry in the Ottawa Public’s Library’s list of most popular books for adult readers of 2021. OPL is sharing its top books for adults, teens and kids based on hold requests from readers between Jan. 1 […]

Now that our ambassador to China, Dominic Barton, has announced that he will be moving on, the prime minister will need to find a suitable replacement. This is a compelling vacancy. China is a political and economic power. After Deng Xiaoping embraced economic reforms in 1979, the country’s rise has been nothing short of remarkable. […]

A freezing drizzle advisory has been lifted with cloudy skies, a 40 per cent chance of morning flurries and a high of -1 C on tap for Tuesday. The expected wind chill is -11 in the morning and -5 in the afternoon, according to Environment and Climate Change Canada, with wind becoming west at 20 […]

We still have a landline at home. It sounds so quaint and old-fashioned, like still having a coal chute or an outhouse. But, as good Canadians, we’re doing our part to support the robo-call industry, the desperate charities, the bug-eyed security teams at VISA watching for suspicious overnight purchases, the RCMP executing all those arrest […]

There were no new deaths reported over the three days and 10 people are in Ottawa hospitals with COVID-19, one of whom is in intensive care.

The Smiths Falls woman who was killed over the weekend had long been in a toxic relationship and had recently tried to get out, her best friend said Monday. Chantale Lebrun, 36, was a strong, uplifting and happy mother of four, recalled Caitlyn Beute, her inseparable best friend. Lebrun was killed over the weekend, Beute […]