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• Ottawa gas prices now among the lowest in Eastern Canada - Ottawa Citizen

  08-01-2015 22:38
  
  Ottawa Citizen
  Ottawa gas prices now among the lowest in Eastern Canada
  Ottawa Citizen
  Gasoline prices in Ottawa skidded to a five-year low Thursday, meaning city motorists now enjoy some of the cheapest gas east of the Manitoba border. And there's more good news: prices were expected to slide even lower Friday. In Ottawa on Thursday, ...
  Ottawa Gas prices now in the 70'sCTV News
  Ottawa gas drops below 80 cents/litre as oil price plummetsCBC.ca
  
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• Ottawa shooting hero Kevin Vickers named ambassador to Ireland - Toronto Star

  08-01-2015 19:07
  
  Toronto Star
  Ottawa shooting hero Kevin Vickers named ambassador to Ireland
  Toronto Star
  Ottawa shooting hero Kevin Vickers named ambassador to Ireland. Canada's ambassador to Ireland will be Kevin Vickers, the House of Commons sergeant-at-arms who led efforts to stop the Parliament Hill gunman in October. Share on Facebook ...
  Kevin Vickers appointed Canada's new ambassador to IrelandOttawa Citizen
  Kevin Vickers, hailed as hero in Ottawa shooting, becoming ambassadorMacleans.ca
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• Frostbite warning ends for Ottawa as temperatures rise - CBC.ca

  08-01-2015 18:57
  
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  Frostbite warning ends for Ottawa as temperatures rise
  CBC.ca
  Ottawa's deep freeze started to let up on Thursday afternoon, but not before burst pipes caused the closure of the Ottawa Courthouse. The temperature in the morning reached a low of -29 C and a windchill that made it feel like -40 C at 4 a.m., but by ...
  Flooding closes Ottawa courthouse for dayOttawa Sun
  The extreme cold is bursting pipes across the CapitalCTV News
  Frozen pipes close Ottawa courthouse, hospitalMetroNe
  
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• Update: Courthouse closed for the day, hospital entrance shut due to broken ... - Ottawa Citizen

  08-01-2015 18:29
  
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  Update: Courthouse closed for the day, hospital entrance shut due to broken ...
  Ottawa Citizen
  Meanwhile, frozen pipes near the main entrance at the Ottawa Hospital's General Campus caused the facility to shut off some water and close the entryway. According to hospital spokespeople, hospital operations, including the emergency room, were ...
  
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• Flooding closes Ottawa courthouse for day - Ottawa Sun

  08-01-2015 18:23
  
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  Flooding closes Ottawa courthouse for day
  Ottawa Sun
  Ottawa Fire spokesman Marc Messier said firefighters had to isolate the leak and confirmed there was no fire. "Alarms went off as a result of the burst," he said. He couldn't immediately say what had caused the leak, but court staff said the heating ...
  
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• Courthouse closes for day as cold snap causes water pipe to burst - Ottawa Citizen

  08-01-2015 18:09
  
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  Courthouse closes for day as cold snap causes water pipe to burst
  Ottawa Citizen
  Meanwhile, frozen pipes near the main entrance at the Ottawa Hospital's General Campus caused the facility to shut off some water and close the entryway. According to hospital spokespeople, hospital operations, including the emergency room, were ...
  
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• Sutcliffe: Perspective needed on Ottawa's gun 'problem' - Ottawa Citizen

  08-01-2015 18:04
  
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  Sutcliffe: Perspective needed on Ottawa's gun 'problem'
  Ottawa Citizen
  Police look for shell casings as they investigate a shooting on Bloomsbury Cres. in west Ottawa this evening, Monday, December 29, 2014. One person suffered minor injuries. The Guns and Gangs unit of Ottawa police are investigating this, the 48th such ...
  Ottawa's police chief pens open letter about gang violenceMetroNews Canada
  Ottawa Police Chief Charles Bordeleau Open Letter On Gang Cri
  
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• Ottawa shooting hero Kevin Vickers to be named ambassador to Ireland - Toronto Star

  08-01-2015 17:06
  
  Toronto Star
  Ottawa shooting hero Kevin Vickers to be named ambassador to Ireland
  Toronto Star
  Ottawa shooting hero Kevin Vickers to be named ambassador to Ireland. Canada's ambassador to Ireland will be Kevin Vickers, the House of Commons sergeant-at-arms who led efforts to stop the Parliament Hill gunman in October. Share on Facebook ...
  Kevin Vickers to be appointed Canada's new ambassador to Ireland: media reportsOttawa Citizen
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• Staff support proposed alterations to Billings House - Ottawa Citizen

  08-01-2015 16:52
  
  Ottawa Citizen
  Staff support proposed alterations to Billings House
  Ottawa Citizen
  With its wood frame, symmetrical façade and a side-gabled roof with a central gable over the entrance, it is considered a rare example of the Ontario cottage style in Ottawa, which was popular from the 1830s to the 1870s. The house, which received its ...
  
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• Watch footage of Elvis Presley's 1957 concert in Ottawa - CBC.ca

  08-01-2015 16:42
  
  Watch footage of Elvis Presley's 1957 concert in Ottawa
  CBC.ca
  To mark what would have been Elvis Presley's 80th birthday, CBC Ottawa dug through the archives to find some footage of his visit to the nation's capital, and how Ottawans remembered the show decades later in 2007. Presley visited Ottawa and performed ...
  
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• City Hall Blog: Extreme cold and the city's homeless population - Ottawa Citizen

  08-01-2015 16:17
  
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  City Hall Blog: Extreme cold and the city's homeless population
  Ottawa Citizen
  Here in Ottawa, there are no warming centres per se. Instead, public health officials tell me that the city has developed a plan to respond to the needs associated with extreme cold weather conditions for people who are homeless and or at risk of ...
  
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• Environment Canada lifts extreme cold warning - Ottawa Citizen

  08-01-2015 15:21
  
  Ottawa Citizen
  Environment Canada lifts extreme cold warning
  Ottawa Citizen
  Nevertheless, because of the windchill factor, the Ottawa Public Health frostbite warning remains in effect. Ottawa residents awoke to the coldest morning in about two years Thursday, then fought their way through traffic and crowded buses to get to work.
  Frostbite warning continues for OttawaCBC.ca
  
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• Ottawa's French community mourns newspaper attack (with video) - Ottawa Citizen

  08-01-2015 14:41
  
  Ottawa Citizen
  Ottawa's French community mourns newspaper attack (with video)
  Ottawa Citizen
  Wednesday's terror attack on a Paris weekly newspaper is France's 9/11, says an Ottawa woman who moved from that country 15 years ago. Florence Saint-Claire, 54, was one of about a dozen people who braved the bitter cold on Wednesday to attend a ...
  Ottawa shows solidarity with ParisOttawa Sun
  Ottawa satirical magazine 'Frank' to publish 'Charlie Hebdo' cartoonsGlobalnew
  
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• Top 4 music picks for Ottawa this weekend - CBC.ca

  08-01-2015 13:56
  
  CBC.ca
  Top 4 music picks for Ottawa this weekend
  CBC.ca
  Despite being based in Toronto, the band has Ottawa roots in its frontman, Andrew Payne, who local show-goers might recognize from his Ottawa-based art-punk band Zebrassieres. Like that project, Century Palm has a similar upbeat, Devo-esque energy, ...
  
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• Ace of Blades snow removal company generates some complaints - CBC.ca

  08-01-2015 12:03
  
  CBC.ca
  Ace of Blades snow removal company generates some complaints
  CBC.ca
  "This is happening all over central Ottawa and affected about 30 streets[,] maybe 60 customers max out of the 1000 we service," he wrote in a text message to CBC. The City of Ottawa and Enbridge told CBC they were not aware of any road closures over ...
  
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