Новости за 14.08.2016

If we want the next generation to grow up protecting their environment, the first step is to show them that it's worth saving. Let's let them chase frogs, float sticks down the local creek, climb trees, get dirty, go to one of the many beaches or to Gatineau Park.

When Sarah Harrison received a bill for nearly $6,000 from Hulse, Playfair & McGarry after her 94-year-old grandmother's death in April, she was taken aback. "I thought, 'Wait a second – I already paid for all this.'"

For whoever wishes to author an apoplectic and profane response to the latest newspaper column to offend their own unimpeachably good taste, some exciting news: All subsequent hostilities between you and me can remain private. Finally. You can call me a shill for Marxist, terrorist, neoconservative or radical-centrist forces, I can call you a fool whose […]

How competent is the RCMP? Re: Terror takedown, Aug. 12. Does anyone else find it odd that Aaron Driver was a known terrorist sympathizer and that the RCMP had no surveillance on him? He was banned from using telephones and computers and there he was at his sister’s home presumably using both and still no police […]

The Ontario Provincial Police are a investigating suspicious death in rural Renfrew.  Very little is being released to the public about this incident, but police were alerted to it at about 11:30 p.m. Saturday night.  A body was found on Cobus Road, or Concession Road 3, located between Castleford and Pinnacle roads a few kilometres outside of […]

Police are investigating two incidents of gunshots, one resulting in death, in different parts of the city Sunday morning.  A 33-year-old man has died after suffering multiple gunshot wounds in the core of the ByWard Market early Sunday.  Police said the shooting occurred inside the Sentral nightclub at 295 Dalhousie St. at about 3:21 a.m. Ottawa […]

Grandmother. General manager. Gun goddess — on Twitter, anyway. Meet Tracey Wilson, the Orléans chairwoman of the board of the recently formed Canadian Coalition for Firearm Rights. Her message is simple: Gun-owners are your neighbours, law-abiding hunters and sport-shooters. They’re not, as she puts it, pot-bellied guys drinking beer and blasting shotguns from four-wheelers, so […]

• Firearms owners are licensed, like drivers, but only restricted and prohibited weapons have to be registered like cars and linked to their owners by a centralized database — the analogy of the RCMP; • Would-be gun owners take the Canadian Firearms Safety Course — which usually takes a day and covers topics including safe […]

Gun facts by the numbers 2,026,011 – firearms licences in Canada, 2015 795,854 – registered restricted firearms in Canada 182,493 – registered prohibited firearms, which can be “grandfathered” 19,698 – licences per 100,000 population in Yukon, the highest in Canada, 2014 4,362 – licences per 100,000 population in Ontario, the lowest in Canada 2,347 – […]

The rains came — and how. The previous record for rainfall on Aug. 13 in Ottawa was obliterated on Saturday — and that was well before the final numbers were even in.

On a night best suited for ducks — and on a rainy Saturday, even the ducks stubbornly stayed away — Ottawa Fury FC let one literally slip away in a 2-1 loss to Jacksonville Armada FC.

Wet weather made for a quiet and soggy day at the Arnprior Fair on Saturday, after two days of strong crowds.

A rainfall warning for Ottawa North, Kanata and Orléans was issued by Environment Canada just after 6 p.m. Saturday night.