Новости за 14.06.2016

The top procurement official in the Department of National Defence says there is no need – at this point – to figure out the number of Canadian Surface Combatants that are required. The Royal Canadian Navy had insisted that 15 is the minimum number needed. That figure is now up in the air. “We’re talking […]

Heading to a cottage? Get your food packed and prepped for you.

The National Capital Commission has denied an access to information request from the Citizen seeking the release of the numerical scores an evaluation committee gave two competing bids for the development of LeBreton Flats.

Taxpayers could be kept out of the loop on part of an audit recommending changes to the cash handling at a downtown municipal service centre. Auditor general Ken Hughes is scheduled to table a report Monday on his review of cash handling and “cash discrepancies” at the city hall client service centre. But much of the […]

The Ottawa Police Service is seeking help to identify a suspect believed to have been involved in a convenience store robbery over the weekend. According to police, a man entered a convenience store located in the 2000 block of Meadowbrook Road on Sunday at around 12:50 a.m. The man proceeded to go behind the counter where he produced a […]

A woman who donned a wig and heavy makeup to try to pass herself as her elderly mother during a driving exam has been charged with impersonation by Smiths Falls police. Police were called to the Ministry of Transportation office last Thursday after a provincial driving evaluator became suspicious of the woman’s getup. They found a 39-year-old woman […]

This summer you will once again find peculiar creations at the Experimental Farm’s unused field on Prince of Wales Drive.

After spending most of Monday engaged in a lively debate over the government’s marijuana policy, MPs are set to devote today’s sitting to the perennial challenge of inter-provincial trade barriers, courtesy of a Conservative opposition motion that would, if adopted, urge the Liberals to take advantage of the ongoing legal dispute in New Brunswick to […]

Australia’s Vance Joy, British singer-songwriter James Bay, Boston Celtic rockers Dropkick Murphys and the enigmatic Guided By Voices are among the biggest names headed to this year’s edition of CityFolk, returning to Lansdowne Park Sept. 15-18. Although none of them emit anything close to the star power of rock legend Van Morrison, who attracted thousands […]

Get sharp and stay healthy: the primary objectives of the first preseason game of 2016 for the Ottawa Redblacks. Assessment: mixed results on the first, not good on the latter as the Redblacks downed the Winnipeg Blue Bombers 18-14 before an announced crowd of 17,947 at TD Place stadium.

The defence lawyer for an OC Transpo driver on trial in the killing of his wife attacked the credibility of a Crown witness on Monday, branding him a liar for testifying that the accused told his daughter not to tell police about the time he hit his wife. “I’m going to suggest that you lied,” James […]

The public school board was able to reduce proposed cuts to classroom workers Monday night when it passed its most difficult budget in years. The $864.8-million budget approved by the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board still dips into classroom educators while also chopping everything from school office staff to building maintenance.  Trustees also eliminated the board’s general-interest […]

Quebec provincial police have opened a homicide investigation after the body of a man was pulled from the Gatineau River near Cantley on Sunday. Major crime investigators with Sûreté du Quebec were called in to investigate after a group of young people made the grisly discovery Sunday around 3 p.m. and called police. Police have […]

This time, Daniel Alfredsson is coming home to stay. Not only is the former Senators captain going to return in his current role as a senior adviser to hockey operations after agreeing to a one-year contract extension Monday, the 43-year-old also confirmed he’s looking for a home and will move back to Ottawa this summer.

The final buzzer has sounded on the NHL’s regular season and now the off-season officially begins. While Senators GM Pierre Dorion got a big job off his plate by hiring coach Guy Boucher and associate coach Marc Crawford last month, the next three weeks will be pivotal for the Senators — and all 30 NHL GMs for that matter — with expansion, the NHL draft, qualifying offers and free agency on the horizon.

Those in industry thinking there would be a major announcement on the Canadian Surface Combatant Monday came away somewhat disappointed. In late February, Public Services and Procurement Canada announced they were looking at buying an off-the-shelf design for the country’s main future warship. Lisa Campbell, assistant deputy minister for acquisitions at Public Services and Procurement […]

It was just two weeks ago that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau raised the Pride flag on Parliament Hill for the first time. Gathering with colleagues from all sides of the House of Commons, I thought we were at the joyful end of a long human rights journey. To raise a symbol of the long struggle […]

The U.S. Embassy is offering a book of condolences for members of the public and diplomatic community to express their sympathy for the victims and families of Sunday's shooting rampage in Orlando.

An “armed and dangerous” suspect is wanted by police after a violent encounter in a Sandy Hill apartment left two women with injuries and one of them sexually assaulted. On the evening of May 24, police believe three people — two individuals have been charged and a third suspect has yet to be located — arrived […]

In a government town like Ottawa, where information has traditionally been jealously guarded, what Alex Benay is proposing is so heretical it could trigger a bout of cognitive dissonance.

Two men face a string of charges after a tow truck driver was beaten over the head with a tire iron and stabbed with the jagged end of a broken snow brush last month, police say. The driver was filling up his truck at a gas bar near Cyrville and Ogilvie roads on May 24 when he […]

Henderson is already in elite company, joining Mike Weir (2003 Masters) and Sandra Post (1968 LPGA championship) as the only Canadians to have won a golf Major.

SMITHS FALLS — Just about everybody was saying the same thing around the Smiths Falls Golf and Country Club on Monday, less than 24 hours after hometown favourite Brooke Henderson won the KPMG Women’s Championship in Washington. “We knew it was coming,” said Julie Barber before teeing off. The 18-year-old became the second youngest player […]

The first-ever Dessertfest may have left a bitter taste in some people’s mouths when they were turned away, even with tickets in hand, from the sold-out event over the weekend. But organizers say they couldn’t have planned for the tremendous turnout for treats and that anyone who bought a ticket but couldn’t get in the […]

After the horrendous bombings of the London Underground that killed more than 50 people in 2005, the city’s mayor, Ken Livingstone, said of the attackers: “This isn’t an ideology, it isn’t even a perverted faith – it is just an indiscriminate attempt at mass murder …” He was right to put the emphasis on the crime […]