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• Mother Nature poised to give Ottawa another wintry punch

  09-03-2019 23:53 via ottawacitizen.com
  And you thought Ottawa was finished with hellish winter weather.
  Environment Canada on Saturday afternoon issued a special weather statement for Ottawa and Gatineau forecasting heavy snowfall on Sunday.
  The weather service says an approaching Colorado low will arrive in eastern Ontario early Sunday and will hover over the region for most of the day.
  Snowfall amounts could be in the range of 10-15 centimetres.
  Of course, this being a cruel winter, you can also expect more than just snow.
  As tempe
  
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• Mother Nature poised to give Ottawa another wintry punch - Ottawa Citizen

  09-03-2019 23:37
  Mother Nature poised to give Ottawa another wintry punch  Ottawa CitizenEnvironment Canada's special weather statement forecasts snowfall of as much as 10-15 centimetres on Sunday.
  
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• On-street parking rates under scrutiny by city

  09-03-2019 22:24 via ottawacitizen.com
  The City of Ottawa could reduce free on-street parking or raise rates if a study determines motorists should be paying more to park their vehicles in areas where there are pay machines.
  Ottawa parking rules are under scrutiny because it has been 10 years since the city adopted the current municipal parking management strategy.
  A patchwork of on-street parking rules, especially across central commercial areas, is under the microscope as the city attempts to update the parking strategy and change
  
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• On-street parking rates under scrutiny by city - Ottawa Citizen

  09-03-2019 22:11
  On-street parking rates under scrutiny by city  Ottawa CitizenThe City of Ottawa could reduce free on-street parking or raise rates if a study determines motorists should be paying more to park their vehicles in areas where ...
  
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• Map enthusiast shares bits of Ottawa's past - CBC.ca

  09-03-2019 20:48
  Map enthusiast shares bits of Ottawa's past  CBC.caAn Ottawa resident collects and restores historic maps and images of Ottawa to help others reconnect with the city's past.
  
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• On-street parking rates under scrutiny for refresh of 10-year-old strategy

  09-03-2019 20:47 via ottawacitizen.com
  The city could roll back free on-street parking or raise the rates if a study determines motorists should be paying more to park their vehicles in areas where there are pay machines.
  Ottawa parking rules are under scrutiny because it’s been 10 years since the city wrote the municipal parking management strategy.
  A patchwork of on-street parking rules, especially across the central commercial areas, is under the microscope as the city attempts to update the parking strategy and change the w
  
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• Police investigate Dynes Road stabbing - CTV News

  09-03-2019 20:10
  Police investigate Dynes Road stabbing  CTV NewsA man in his 20s was taken to hospital with non-life threatening injuries following an overnight stabbing.
  
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• Boswell: If we can set our sights on the moon, surely we can fix potholes?

  09-03-2019 20:06 via ottawacitizen.com
  On the day last week when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced that Canada will join a U.S.-led mission to the moon, my Honda Civic and I nearly disappeared into a crater right here on Earth.
  While the PM was doing his best John F. Kennedy impression, pledging $150 million to the Canadian Space Agency over five years and vowing to put a Canuck astronaut in lunar orbit within a decade, I took seven small steps for man to the front of my car to see if the right wheel was still attached.
  Then I
  
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• Man stabbed in altercation in Baseline/Fisher area

  09-03-2019 17:08 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa police are investigating after a man was stabbed early Saturday in a neighbourhood southeast of Baseline Road and Fisher Avenue.
  Police responded to the 900 block of Dynes Road around 1:20 a.m. after the man in his 20s was wounded.
  He was transported to hospital with the non-life-threatening injury.
  There have been no arrests.
  Anyone with information can call west district detectives at 613-236-1222, ext. 2666.
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• Kingston: Syrian refugee, mother of 4, in critical condition after struck by SUV

  09-03-2019 16:46 via ottawacitizen.com
  A Syrian refugee and mother of four small children remains in critical condition after she was struck by large SUV while walking on a Kingston sidewalk earlier this week.
  “She is in the same condition as when she came in,” Anwer Khan told Postmedia of his friend, Abeer Abo Hajar.
  Khan said Hajar’s family came to Kingston as Syrian refugees via Jordan late last year.
  Emergency services were called to the crash on Kingston’s Bath Road at about 3:50 p.m. Tuesday.
  Police said
  
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• Helping Ottawa's most vulnerable find work: Causeway Work Centre director calls it a career

  09-03-2019 15:04 via ottawacitizen.com
  Don Palmer knows the value of a job. For the past quarter century, he’s been helping some of Ottawa’s most vulnerable find work and the meaning it brings to their lives.
  It’s what he’ll remember when he steps down later this month as director of Causeway Work Centre.
  “We had one client and her dream job was to work for Canada Post — but she wasn’t ready,” Palmer recalled as he sat in his sun-drenched loft office of Causeway’s home, a converte
  
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• Man stabbed in Ottawa's west end - CBC.ca

  09-03-2019 14:46
  Man stabbed in Ottawa's west end  CBC.caOttawa police are investigating after a man was stabbed during an alteration in Ottawa's south end Saturday morning.
  
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• Vanier's rise would be return to area's past

  09-03-2019 14:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  Once, it was an industrial powerhouse that helped fuel the economic fortunes of the nation’s capital.
  It had many names over the years: Junction Gore, Cummings Island and Janeville, Clarkstown and Clandeboye in the mid-1800s.
  Those latter three make up what would we know today as Vanier.
  By the 1840s, pioneer Charles Cummings had acquired an island in the Rideau River, south of Montreal Road, and constructed a wooden bridge. The bridge opened the area to families of modest means who worked
  
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• 'It's Vanier's time': Ottawa neighbourhood set for $50M renewal project

  09-03-2019 14:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  Business is good these days for Robert Richard LeBlanc.
  The owner of Bobby’s Table, a small family restaurant located on Montreal Road, always seems to be busy.
  On a recent Tuesday, his place is packed before 9 am. The only seats left are next to the cash register on raised bar stools.
  The diner was born in 2009 from the ashes of the famed Nate’s Deli on Rideau Street, and has since become somewhat of a fixture in Vanier. It attracts customers from across the city and plays host to a
  
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• A life in social enterprise: Causeway Work Centre director calls it a career

  09-03-2019 13:53 via ottawacitizen.com
  Don Palmer knows the value of a job. For the past quarter century, he’s been helping some of Ottawa’s most vulnerable find work and the meaning it brings to their lives.
  It’s what he’ll remember when he steps down later this month as director of Causeway Work Centre.
  “We had one client and her dream job was to work for Canada Post — but she wasn’t ready,” Palmer recalled as he sat in his sun-drenched loft office of Causeway’s home, a converte
  
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• Weather for springing forward: Sun today, then snow, ice pellets, rain, flurries

  09-03-2019 13:47 via ottawacitizen.com
  It’s not quite time to put away the puffy jackets as the clocks advance one hour closer to spring tonight.
  It’s going to get a bit messy out there overnight and Sunday, but if you wait a few days, it gets better, as they say.
  Environment Canada is predicting a sunny Saturday, with winds up to 15 km/h and a high of 0 C, mild enough to chip away at some of that ice. The wind chill will be a nippy -19  in the morning.
  Tonight should see increasing cloudiness with periods of snow be
  
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• Helping Ottawa's most vulnerable find work: Causeway Work Centre director calls it a career - Ottawa Citizen

  09-03-2019 13:02
  Helping Ottawa's most vulnerable find work: Causeway Work Centre director calls it a career  Ottawa CitizenDon Palmer knows the value of a job. For the past quarter century, he's been helping some of Ottawa's most vulnerable find work and the meaning it brings to ...
  
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• A life in social enterprise: Causeway Work Centre director calls it a career - Ottawa Citizen

  09-03-2019 13:02
  A life in social enterprise: Causeway Work Centre director calls it a career  Ottawa CitizenDon Palmer knows the value of a job. For the past quarter century, he's been helping some of Ottawa's most vulnerable find work and the meaning it brings to ...
  
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• You Said It: Watson gets what he wants — again - Ottawa Sun

  09-03-2019 12:30
  You Said It: Watson gets what he wants — again  Ottawa SunWATSON GETS WHAT HE WANTS — AGAINRe: Full Steam Ahead; City council hops aboard $4.6B deal for LRT Phase 2, March 7This city council has no more ...
  
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• Today's letters: Wilson-Raybould affair – It's OUR trust that has been eroded

  09-03-2019 12:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  It’s our trust that has been eroded
  Re: ‘Erosion of trust,’ March 8.
  The prime minister stated that there was an “erosion of trust” at the core of the SNC-Lavalin affair. An erosion of trust does not abstractly occur. The prime minister created that atmosphere by getting his clerk of the Privy Council, senior staff and colleagues to try to persuade the attorney general to change her decision over a period of several months as a result of SNC lobbying.
  He wanted a so
  
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• Editorial: What do LRT and LeBreton have in common? Expect delays

  09-03-2019 12:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  This week’s theme in local events: delays in big projects – and the scramble to overcome them.
  On Wednesday, Ottawa councillors learned officially that the opening of the Confederation Line, a.k.a Phase One of the LRT, is delayed again. The private consortium building the East-West spine has been blowing through deadlines since mid-2018, and now won’t hand over light rail to the city until perhaps the end of June.
  That didn’t stop city councillors from plunging ahead with
  
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• Don't forget to set your clocks forward, Ottawa - CBC.ca

  09-03-2019 10:00
  Don't forget to set your clocks forward, Ottawa  CBC.caRemember to set your clocks ahead an hour before you fall asleep, folks.
  
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• First lady: Growing ease in official role, but not politics - Ottawa Citizen

  09-03-2019 06:34
  First lady: Growing ease in official role, but not politics  Ottawa CitizenWASHINGTON — Melania Trump came armed with surefire applause lines when she stepped up to address a largely female audience that had gathered to ...
  
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• Canadiens complete trip in Anaheim - Ottawa Citizen

  09-03-2019 04:45
  Canadiens complete trip in Anaheim  Ottawa CitizenDaniel Sprong's innocuous 25-foot wrister beat Carey Price far side, 6:40 into the game. The goal came off a Joel Armia turnover in the neutral zone. Then Adam ...
  
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• Ottawa announces funding for Killer Whale research | Watch News Videos Online - Globalnews.ca

  09-03-2019 04:25
  Ottawa announces funding for Killer Whale research | Watch News Videos Online  Globalnews.caThe federal government is putting $1 million into research to try to find out why the southern resident killer whale population isn't getting enough of its primary ...
  
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• Ottawa 67's blank Frontenacs, inch closer to 100-point mark - Ottawa Sun

  09-03-2019 04:11
  Ottawa 67's blank Frontenacs, inch closer to 100-point mark  Ottawa SunCédrick Andrée turned back 19 shots on Friday night for his fourth shutout of the season.
  
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• Owner of Kingston retirement homes gets six months in jail, fined $165,045

  09-03-2019 03:58 via ottawacitizen.com
  KINGSTON — The operator of two now-unoccupied retirement residences in Kingston has been found guilty of 45 fire code offences, fined $165,045 and sentenced to six months in jail.
  Justice of the peace Deanne Chapelle found Muhammad Asif Qazi, owner of Q & Sons Management out of Mississauga, guilty on Friday afternoon, and there is now a warrant out for his arrest.
  Municipal prosecutor Sarah Gareau said on Friday that neither Qazi nor a representative appeared in defence at any of the p
  
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• Railways object to Ottawa's order for use of handbrakes on stopped trains - Calgary Herald

  09-03-2019 03:35
  Railways object to Ottawa's order for use of handbrakes on stopped trains  Calgary HeraldCanada's two largest railways are appealing Transport Minister Marc Garneau's order requiring railways to immediately use handbrakes on all trains stopped on ...
  
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• Ottawa man freed after weeks trapped in snowed-in house - The Weather Network

  09-03-2019 02:10
  Ottawa man freed after weeks trapped in snowed-in house  The Weather NetworkElderly Ottawa man dug out by police after spending winter snowed in  CityNewsElderly Ottawa man dug out after being snowed in to home  Global NewsOttawa police dig out elderly man trapped at home by snow  CBC NewsElderly Ottawa man found snowed in, now getting necessary support after police call  OttawaMatters.comView full coverage on Google News
  
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• Game Day: Ottawa Senators at Boston Bruins - Ottawa Sun

  09-03-2019 02:09
  Game Day: Ottawa Senators at Boston Bruins  Ottawa SunOttawa (23-39-6) at Boston (41-17-9)Saturday, 7 p.m., TD Garden, City TV, TSN 1200 AM, Unique 94.5 FMTHE BIG MATCHUPMark Borowiecki vs.
  
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• GARRIOCH: Ottawa Senators offer olive branch to fans after difficult season - Ottawa Sun

  09-03-2019 01:31
  GARRIOCH: Ottawa Senators offer olive branch to fans after difficult season  Ottawa SunBOSTON — Not only are the Ottawa Senators trying to rebuild on the ice, they've got a big challenge ahead of them off the ice as well.As the club launched its ...
  
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• Handgun, cocaine seized during arrest of Ottawa man - Ottawa Citizen

  09-03-2019 01:17
  Handgun, cocaine seized during arrest of Ottawa man  Ottawa CitizenAn Ottawa man arrested Friday in a vehicle in the south end of the city had a loaded handgun and about 150 grams of cocaine on his person, Ottawa Police ...
  
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• Handgun, cocaine seized during arrest of Ottawa man

  09-03-2019 01:17 via ottawacitizen.com
  An Ottawa man arrested Friday in a vehicle in the south end of the city had a loaded handgun and about 150 grams of cocaine on his person, Ottawa Police Service said.
  The arrest was the culmination of a month-long drug trafficking investigation conducted by the Guns & Gangs Unit, police added in a news release.
  Eric Zgraggen, 27, has been charged with several firearms related offences and with possession of cocaine for the purpose of trafficking.
  He is to appear in court Saturday morning.
  
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• Faculty union files grievance over Algonquin College data breach

  09-03-2019 01:02 via ottawacitizen.com
  Following a recent phishing attack, the union that represents Algonquin College faculty has filed a grievance against the school, requesting information about the scope of the data breach and plans to ensure personal information is protected going forward.
  OPSEU Local 415 president Pat Kennedy said Friday that the union was frustrated by the college’s reticence in sharing information about the outcome of the phishing attack.
  “Everybody has in the back of their head identity theft and
  
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