Новости за 28.06.2022

Tamara Lich is expected to make an unceremonious return to Ottawa Wednesday where she will appear before a judge on new charges of breaching the conditions of her release. Medicine Hat police confirmed on Tuesday they had executed a Canada-wide warrant for her arrest and Lich is expected to be formally charged with one count […]

A woman suffered only minor injuries after she fell and rolled down an embankment behind Parliament Hill on Tuesday. Ottawa Fire Services specialists used a Stokes rescue basket to move the woman. She was carried in the basket up the slippery slope, then handed over to paramedics for care. Ottawa Paramedics Service said the woman […]

Ottawa (Reported Tuesday, last update Friday) 1 : New death 819: Total deaths 10: Ottawa residents in hospital due to an active infection 1: In ICU because of active infection 19: Confirmed COVID-19 patients in Ottawa hospitals as of Sunday (includes non-Ottawa residents), three in hospital because COVID-19 (none in ICU) and 16 for other […]

One person attending the Escapade Music Festival over the weekend died and others were taken to hospital, according to Marc-Antoine Deschamps, superintendent of public information with the Ottawa Paramedic Service. In total, paramedics transported 16 festival-goers to hospital, including four in critical condition who were suffering from life-threatening overdoses. Others were taken to hospital for […]

A coroner’s inquest making recommendations on preventing intimate partner violence (IPV) deaths has delivered 86 recommendations, including asking the province to formally declare IPV an epidemic. The five jurors, three men and two women, also recommended that the federal government establish a royal commission to review the criminal justice system to make it more victim-centric […]

The Ottawa Police Service is vowing not to tolerate homophobic, misogynistic, or racist messages — including in speeches, gestures or signs — in public places during this week’s Canada Day events, and said they could lead to criminal charges. During a Canada Day planning update at a meeting of the Ottawa Police Services Board Monday […]

Take a moment to reflect on the forcible removal of Indigenous children from their families — the torture, death, experimentation and other horrors that took place at residential schools and ask yourself, what is there to celebrate?

It’s another gorgeous summer day Tuesday with mixed skies expected to turn to pure sunshine by afternoon and a seasonal high of 25 C. Wind becomes southwest at 20 km/h late Tuesday afternoon with a humidex of 27 and a UV index of 8 or very high, according to Environment and Climate Change Canada. Tuesday […]

The fire department’s rope rescue team was called in Tuesday morning to take an injured construction worker safely to the ground from the sixth floor of a building under construction on Cummings Avenue. The worker was struck by metal on the construction site between Burleigh Private and Snow Street, Ottawa Fire Services said. The man’s […]

Two people were found dead after police were called to a stabbing on Anoka Street in the city’s south end Monday night and a third person died after an “interaction” with officers who arrived on the scene, Ottawa police said. Police said that officers responded to reports of a stabbing with multiple victims at 10:30 […]

MEDICINE HAT, Alta. — A lawyer for “Freedom Convoy” organizer Tamara Lich says the Alberta woman has been arrested. Eric Granger confirmed in an email Monday evening that they were awaiting further details. Ottawa police said Tuesday morning that Lich had been arrested on a Canada-wide warrant for allegedly breaching her bail conditions. Police say […]

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City staff are figuring out what to do with thousands of tonnes of tree debris and hundreds of streetside stumps uprooted during May’s powerful “derecho” storm. They’re also looking at how to prioritize tree replanting this fall, and are taking applications from residents who want a tree planted on their city-owned street frontage. In a […]

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A citizen-led commission into the “freedom convoy” that became an occupation of downtown Ottawa is to chronicle the experiences of those who lived though through it. Ongoing federal and local reviews of the protest are “barely scratching the surface” of the occupation, said freedom-of-information researcher Ken Rubin, who argues that Ottawa needs an independent inquiry […]

Guest is one of the more mysterious players in the LRT program, with most of his advising happening behind the scenes.

One out of every three residents of city long-term care homes who contracted COVID-19 during the difficult first few months of the pandemic died, according to an overview provided to Mayor Jim Watson and members of council Monday. Donna Gray, the city’s general manager of community and social services, called the pandemic “the most difficult […]

U.S. health authorities are facing a critical decision: whether to offer new COVID-19 booster shots this fall that are modified to better match recent changes of the shape-shifting coronavirus. Moderna and Pfizer have tested updated shots against the super-contagious omicron variant, and advisers to the Food and Drug Administration will debate Tuesday if it’s time […]

Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson and Acting Police Chief Steve Bell said people should not be scared to come downtown to celebrate Canada Day this year even if “freedom” protesters are part of the party. Watson encouraged people to join the in-person bash on July 1 after two pandemic years of virtual celebrations. Canadians “are not […]