Despite giving few details, officials were careful to distinguish the planned shooting from a "terrorist" attack, their characterization of the attack that paralysed Ottawa in October when a troubled man went on a shooting rampage in parliament.
By October 24, the Flames will have had to decide whether to keep Monahan beyond the first nine games and allow his 3-year, $925,000 per annum entry-level contract to kick in, or send him back to Ottawa to spend a year or two improving in the minors with the OHL's Ottawa 67s.
This month at the Girl Power in Play conference in Ottawa professionals are looking at how sport can have a positive impact on girls' development.
"Canada's decision is not only provocative to Russia but it's dangerous," the retired Canadian diplomat James Bissett told the Ottawa Citizen last week.
He has said it was a "substantial piece of work" which involved fact-finding travel to Berlin, California, Washington DC, Brussels and Ottawa.
If Monahan is sent back to Ottawa, so be it.
One gunman fatally shot a soldier at the war memorial in Ottawa, the capital, before entering the nearby Parliament, where he was killed in an exchange of fire with the sergeant-at-arms.
In Ottawa, Mr Chrétien takes encouragement from the recent creation of a Scottish parliament and a Welsh assembly within the United Kingdom (though it is hard to see how that helps, given that Britain's devolution of power remains well behind Canada's).
The Ottawa Citizen's headline, "One ruling, two solitudes", neatly summed up the different spins put on it by Mr Bouchard and the federal prime minister, Jean Chrétien.In this section It's Quebec, again The north-east: politics, water and poverty ReprintsThe nub of the ruling was that Quebec has no right to unilateral secession, under Canada's constitution or international law.
He was there again this week, struggling to turn back a Conservative tide which has engulfed a swathe of small cities and rural areas across the centre of the province, from the outskirts of Ottawa in the east to Niagara Falls in the south and the university town of London in the west.At the last election, the opposition's divisions denied them seats in Ontario.
Theresa Spence, a Cree chief from a troubled reserve in northern Ontario, has taken up residence in a tepee near the parliament buildings in Ottawa, and has refused solid food since December 11th.In this section Time we stopped meeting like this Wrong numbers From tap to socket Sparks in the dark ReprintsThe spark for the protests was the government's omnibus budget bill, approved last month.
