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• City closes half of its "urban campsites" after low sales

  23-05-2017 23:57
  
  The experimental program was meant to supplement crowded motels and hotels.
  
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• Redblacks receive rings on Friday, then it's on to new challenges

  23-05-2017 23:56 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  As the Ottawa Redblacks head into three days of rookie camp in advance of full training camp which begins Sunday, coach Rick Campbell doesn’t want to dwell on the Grey Cup championship his team won six months ago.
  It’s all about the now and the future, not the glories of the recent past.
  So when the players are presented with their Grey Cup rings Friday night at the Canadian Museum of History in Gatineau, it’ll be full steam ahead.
  “That’ll be a special day, it&rsqu
  
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• Ottawa Police keeping vigilant after Manchester attack

  23-05-2017 23:56
  
  Public asked to remain alert, but not alarmed.
  
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• City pulls stakes on six 'urban camping' sites for Canada Day

  23-05-2017 23:46 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  The City of Ottawa is pulling up its stakes on six “urban camping” sites because of lacklustre registration numbers for Canada Day.
  The idea was novel: let people camp at municipal properties because it might be hard to find hotel rooms for the big Canada 150 celebration.
  But the idea was flawed: many of the sites being offered up were far from the big bash in Ottawa’s core.
  It might have been a tough sell for campers, who are asked to shell out roughly 
  
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• City of Ottawa gets $45.1 million for wastewater upgrades

  23-05-2017 23:20
  
  The federal and provincial governments will help cover the costs for 18 projects.
  
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• Mayor asking for provincial abortion access legislation

  23-05-2017 23:11
  
  Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson has sent a letter to the Attorney General asking for provincial legislation to safeguard access to abortion services.
  
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• 'It has been a long few days': Jonathan Pitre on medical roller-coaster

  23-05-2017 22:54
  
  Jonathan Pitre has been on a medical roller-coaster in the week since blood tests revealed that his stem cell transplant has taken root in his bone marrow.While his white blood cell count has soared — it’s now well within the normal range — he has also suffered a series of complications that have severely tested his physical endurance.
  
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• Mayor seeks law banning protests outside Ottawa's abortion clinic

  23-05-2017 22:51
  
  Women visiting Ottawa’s Morgentaler abortion clinic need a provincial law to protect them from being harassed by protesters, Mayor Jim Watson says.Staff at the clinic at the north end of Bank Street complain that patients are pestered by anti-abortion activists holding placards and sometimes yelling slogans, and that the city’s done too little to d
  
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• Could the new Conservative leader write off a generation?

  23-05-2017 22:43
  
  The party will pick their challenger for Justin Trudeau this weekend, but will they be able to peel off his support among youth voters.
  
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• Increase in Lyme diseased ticks elevates Ottawa risk level

  23-05-2017 22:17
  
  This year the amount of ticks that came back with Lyme disease reached 28 per cent.
  
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• Outage covers wide area. Scott St closed from Hinchey to Holland. Delays for transit. #ottnews #Otttraffic https://t.co/VNMAn40PqL

  23-05-2017 22:05 via twitter.com
  
  Outage covers wide area. Scott St closed from Hinchey to Holland. Delays for transit. #ottnews #Otttraffic https://t.co/VNMAn40PqL
  
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• Indigenous people consulted on Mooney’s Bay playground

  23-05-2017 21:55
  
  Mayor Jim Watson said the production company consulted with First Nations on design of playground
  
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• City Hall to vote on demolishing heritage building

  23-05-2017 21:20
  
  Council will vote Wednesday on whether to approve an application to demolish 270 Buchan Road, in the Rockliffe Park Heritage Conservation District.
  
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• Countdown to Confederation Line: Contractor to turn over $2.1B LRT line in one year

  23-05-2017 20:58
  
  In exactly one year — May 24, 2018 — the city’s light-rail contractor, Rideau Transit Group, is expected to hand over the keys to Ottawa’s brand new, $2.1-billion Confederation LRT Line.Nearly five years in the making, it will be the busiest LRT line in North America on its first day of service, say boastful politicians and senior city officials.
  
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• Ottawa fire responded to more incidents in 2016

  23-05-2017 20:37
  
  A report coming to city council Wednesday shows a 5 per cent increase from 2015.
  
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• Ottawa officially a risky spot for Lyme infection

  23-05-2017 20:01
  
  Ottawa has officially become a region at risk for Lyme disease, following a rising number of infected ticks here.Tests of ticks captured in Ottawa last year show that more than 20 per cent carry the bacteria that cause Lyme disease.In 2010, there were seven cases of Lyme infection in Ottawa. Last year, the total hit 75, according to Ottawa Public H
  
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• Water shortage prompts West Carleton Secondary School to close Tuesday

  23-05-2017 19:18
  
  West Carleton Secondary School in Dunrobin was closed Tuesday due to a lack of water in the school.School buses were returning students home. For further information on school reopening, check the OCDSB website.
  
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• Update: Police seek missing elderly woman, seen near Queensway Carleton Hospital

  23-05-2017 19:08
  
  The Ottawa Police Service is seeking public assistance in locating a missing 82-year-old woman by the name of Nelliya Karbisheva.
  
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• Going out best bets, May 25 to 31 - Ottawa Citizen

  23-05-2017 18:48
  
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  Going out best bets, May 25 to 31
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  Ottawa doesn't see enough of the poised and powerful vocalist Fawn Fritzen, given that she calls Whitehorse home. However she and her frequent accompanist, the ace Toronto-based pianist David Restivo, will perform Saturday, May 27, at GigSpace (953 ...
  
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• Boucher shuffling the deck to give the Sens a new look for Game 6 - Ottawa Citizen

  23-05-2017 18:39
  
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  Boucher shuffling the deck to give the Sens a new look for Game 6
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  The Ottawa Senators will have a different look to try to stave off elimination but coach Guy Boucher is still wrestling with a couple of different rosters. As the Senators prepare to face the Pittsburgh Penguins in Game 6 of the Eastern Conference ...
  Game 5 loss just a small setback for Ottawa SenatorsSilver Seven
  It's now or never for the SenatorsOttawa Sun
  Penguins destroy Sens to put Ottawa on th
  
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• Gastro-related visitor ban lifted at Almonte hospital

  23-05-2017 17:49
  
  A ban on visitors to the Almonte General Hospital has been lifted, hospital officials confirm.The ban was issued on May 15 after reports of a gastroenteritis outbreak in the surgical unit on the second floor.The cause of the outbreak was confirmed to be norovirus by the Leeds, Grenville and Lanark District Health Unit.The health unit did not say ho
  
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• Three more charged in high-rise homicide, police issue Canada-wide warrants

  23-05-2017 17:14
  
  Police are looking for three more people — two of them 16 years old — in the death of a young man who fell 16 stories from an apartment on Monday.
  
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• Ottawa Police warn of fires in Vanier

  23-05-2017 17:08
  
  Residents encouraged to keep garbage cans indoors as police hope for tips.
  
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• Ottawa police ask for public's help to identify fraud suspects

  23-05-2017 17:08
  
  Ottawa police are asking for the public’s help to identify two men who are believed to be involved in payment card fraud near the Rideau Centre.Police that the pair made four purchases worth about $6,000 at the centre between 3:30 p.m. and 4 p.m. using payment cards that were obtained fraudulently.Detectives hope other shoppers at the mall may be a
  
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• Ottawa police ask for public's help to identify fraud suspects - Ottawa Citizen

  23-05-2017 17:00
  
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  Ottawa police ask for public's help to identify fraud suspects
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  Police are seeking these two suspects in connection with payment card fraud at the Rideau Centre April 1. Police handouts. Share Adjust Comment Print. Ottawa police are asking for the public's help to identify two men who are believed to be involved in ...and more »
  
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• Ottawa man charged in four robberies, including two-hour three-store binge in 2015

  23-05-2017 16:48
  
  A 26-year-old Ottawa man in custody in another matter has been charged in connection with four robberies from 2016 and 2015, including a binge of three stores within two hours in 2015.Kodi Warren is accused in the Jan. 31, 2016 robbery at a Baseline Road convenience store where a man wearing a disguise demanded and was handed an undisclosed amount
  
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• Ottawa man charged in four robberies, including two-hour three-store binge in 2015 - Ottawa Citizen

  23-05-2017 16:46
  
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  Ottawa man charged in four robberies, including two-hour three-store binge in 2015
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  A 26-year-old Ottawa man in custody in another matter has been charged in connection with four robberies from 2016 and 2015, including a binge of three stores within two hours in 2015. Kodi Warren is accused in the Jan. 31, 2016 robbery at a Baseline ...and more »
  
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• ByWard Market retailer isn't feeling the Inspiration

  23-05-2017 16:33
  
  Retailers on York Street in the ByWard Market were told this would be their biggest year yet thanks to the Inspiration Village installation, but at least one shop owner is feeling uninspired. “I’m nervous,” said Mandy Gosewich, owner of Stunning! fashion accessories.
  
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• Student dedicates career to dispelling myths about schizophrenia

  23-05-2017 16:11
  
  When Leonard Reynen was diagnosed with schizophrenia, at age 18, he thought his life was over.The Algonquin College public relations student had seen what the mental illness had meant for the lives of his two uncles. One died by suicide, another is in care at the Royal Ottawa.“I thought I was going to have to reside in a mental health facility or e
  
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• Lower Ottawa Valley's holy hockey grail uncovered

  23-05-2017 16:05
  
  For the past decade, James Milks’s desultory search for his holy grail was in vain.The object of the one-time Chelsea — now Aylmer — resident and amateur hockey historian’s quest was the Maclaren Cup, the trophy that for more than 50 years was presented annually to the winners of the Lower Ottawa Hockey Association, a senior league that predated pr
  
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• All clear: Dramatic Gatineau cloud just a cloud, not a tornado

  23-05-2017 15:48
  
  The funnel-shaped cloud over Gatineau Monday looked cool, but that was no tornado. Luckily.Environment Canada took a hard look at video viewed more than 40,000 times on Facebook and says the low cloud, spotted around 7 p.m., lacked a lot of the characteristics of a tornado.Such as:
  
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• Police search for missing elderly woman last seen Sunday - CBC.ca

  23-05-2017 15:13
  
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  Police search for missing elderly woman last seen Sunday
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  Ottawa police are searching for a missing elderly woman who was last seen Sunday walking a small white poodle. Nelliya Karbisheva missing elderly woman dogs poodle Ottawa Stittsville. Nelliya Karbisheva, 82, was last seen on Sunday night. (Ottawa ...and more »
  
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• No injuries as police ATV struck by Via train during search for missing woman

  23-05-2017 14:50
  
  No one was aboard an Ottawa police all-terrain vehicle when it was struck by a Via rail train near the intersection of Colonnade Road and Prince of Wales Drive Monday night.Officers had the ATV out as part of the search for Nelliya Karbisheva, a missing elderly woman, when the vehicle got “hung up” on the tracks, police said.
  
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• Missing 15-year-old teen girl found safe and sound

  23-05-2017 14:34
  
  Ottawa police say a 15-year-old girl who had been missing since May 6 has been found safe and sound.
  
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• Early morning fire at east end Samuel-Genest college under investigation

  23-05-2017 14:22
  
  Fire fighters doused an early-morning blaze at Collège catholique Samuel-Genest on Carsons Road in the east end Tuesday after receiving a number of 911 calls that a newly-built portable behind the school was on fire.The school reports that the 4 a.m. fire was in a structure constructed by building students as part of a class project.
  
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• Clouds, risk of showers all week as 2017 vies for wettest May in a century [Video]

  23-05-2017 14:09
  
  It’s hard to believe but this isn’t a record-setting wet May. Not yet, anyway.Weather historian Rolf Campbell tweeted that as of Monday morning, Ottawa has had 128 cm of rain this month when the record is 175 mm set in 1901.We have a 50-per-cent chance of breaking the record, Campbell estimates.
  
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• Ottawa weather forecast calls for more warmth, some rain - CBC.ca

  23-05-2017 13:16
  
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  Ottawa weather forecast calls for more warmth, some rain
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  The temperature is rising through the short work and school week in the capital, but rain could damper some of that warmth. Tuesday's forecast calls for a mix of sun and cloud with a 30 per cent chance of showers in the morning and a southwest wind at ...
  
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• Ottawa now at-risk area for Lyme disease - CBC.ca

  23-05-2017 11:00
  
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  Ottawa now at-risk area for Lyme disease
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  The tick season has started and this year the City of Ottawa has been designated an at-risk area for Lyme disease for the first time, according to Ottawa Public Health. Craig Calder with Ottawa Public Health said the city tests submitted ticks for Lyme ...
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• Desperate parents of drug-addicted teens turning to Ottawa group for help - CBC.ca

  23-05-2017 11:00
  
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  Desperate parents of drug-addicted teens turning to Ottawa group for help
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  A grassroots parents' group in Ottawa recently set up to tackle teen opioid drug abuse is now drawing national attention. The organization We the Parents, which formed earlier this spring, already has a strong online presence and is now fielding calls ...
  
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• Ottawa police ATV, train collide - Ottawa Citizen

  23-05-2017 05:48
  
  Ottawa police ATV, train collide
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  An Ottawa police ATV and train collided south of the intersection of Colonnade Road and Prince of Wales Drive on Monday. Ottawa paramedics said there were no injuries. Police would release no further information. Sgt. Robert Phung said police were in ...
  
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• Mooney's Bay Park totems spark fresh backlash over cultural insensitivity

  23-05-2017 05:20
  
  The official unveiling of the new Mooney’s Bay Park is set for Canada Day 2017, but it is already the source of another controversy, this time over what one critic says is cultural insensitivity.
  
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• Man, 74, burned in east Ottawa house fire - CBC.ca

  23-05-2017 03:29
  
  Man, 74, burned in east Ottawa house fire
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  A 74-year-old man was taken to hospital in serious but stable condition after he suffered burns to his face during a fire on Parisien Street in east Ottawa, paramedics said Monday. Firefighters received a 911 call at 7:45 p.m. reporting a house was on ...
  
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