Новости за 24.04.2022

Ontario (Reported Sunday) 6: New deaths (including three added to tally due to data clean up) 12,734: Total deaths 1,362: People in hospital and testing positive 212: In ICU 92: On ventilators (subset of previous number) 4,098: New confirmed cases (case numbers are considered underestimates with testing limited to certain groups) 1,242,158: Total cases Ottawa […]

A 23-year-old driver walked away from a serious crash in Augusta Township in Leeds-Grenville, Ontario Provincial Police said Sunday. The driver, who was charged with suspended driving, “miraculously” had non-life-threatening injuries following the crash on County Road 26, police said. A photo posted on Twitter by the OPP shows the wreckage of a Chevrolet Silverado. […]

A kayaker in distress floating down the Ottawa River was rescued Sunday morning by firefighters with help from the Ottawa Rowing Club. Paramedics were on the scene and transported the kayaker to hospital in serious but stable condition. Fire services said the man was floating downstream while holding on to his kayak. The Ottawa Rowing […]

Seven people were evacuated from a two-storey residence due to a fire in the Plateau area of Gatineau early Sunday morning. The Gatineau fire service did not report any injuries. The fire, which occurred on Rue du Prado, was called in at 2:39 a.m. Firefighters were able to limit damage to the home and had […]

With a predicted high of 13 C for Sunday, we finally seem to be breaking out of the spring cold snap we’ve endured the past few weeks. In addition, tomorrow’s high of 21 C might even tempt the tulips to rev up and gardeners to start poking around to see what’s coming up. For today, […]

BROCKVILLE — A drug war among organized crime in Brockville is fuelling the growing opioid crisis in the city and region, the local health board was told this week. “There really is a turf war in Brockville with multiple gangs involved,” said Jennifer Adams, the health unit’s acting manager of healthy living and its expert on […]

Community Solidarity Ottawa, a coalition of local labour unions, community organizations and residents, says the Rolling Thunder Ottawa motorcycle ride that is expected to roar into town on Friday and Saturday is not the bike rally in support of veterans that it claims to be, but rather little more than an extension of the “Freedom […]

Close to 200 people gathered in the shadow of the Canadian Tribute to Human Rights Monument on Elgin Street — the one bearing the inscription that reads “All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights” — on Saturday afternoon, in what organizers called a Justice for Palestine protest and march. The […]