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• A-10 Warthogs get reprieve – won’t be retired anytime soon

  28-05-2017 23:58 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  U.S. President Donald Trump’s first budget released last week will mean the A-10 Warthog will keep flying, at least in the foreseeable future.
  The U.S. Air Force has been wanting to retire the aircraft, allowing the F-35 to take over its close air support role.
  While the A-10 will be kept operational, some of the planes could be retired over the coming years.
  Senate Armed Services Chairman John McCain has been fighting for quite a while to stop the USAF from retiring the A-10s. He said the
  
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• Anglican churches running naloxone training for hundreds

  28-05-2017 23:53
  
  Churches over the last few months have trained more than 1,000 people.
  
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• Public Service charity donations fall 14.6 per cent in 2016

  28-05-2017 23:48 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Charitable giving by public servants in the National Capital Region fell 14.6 per cent in 2016, the first year of the government’s problem-plagued Phoenix payroll system.
  That meant nearly $2.8 million less for charities, primarily the United Way/Centraide Ottawa and HealthPartners, an umbrella organization that represents major health charities such as the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke, and the Alzheimer’s Society.
  Workers in the National Capital Re
  
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• Rockwell Collins to announce new contract with Canadian Army at CANSEC

  28-05-2017 23:46 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Rockwell Collins plans to announce at CANSEC 2017 its latest contract win with the Canadian Army for the adaptation of an Android-based tablet for military communications. The company says it will exhibit a number of products this coming week at the defence trade show in Ottawa including:
  Coalescence augmented mixed reality system: merges the trainee’s real-world view with a synthetic environment for a whole new way to effectively train in a seamless, enhanced mixed reality
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• Huge volunteer response leads flood cleanup to finish early

  28-05-2017 23:08
  
  A weekend flood cleanup in West Carleton finished ahead of schedule because of the number of volunteers that came out.
  
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• Ottawa Race Weekend 2017 wraps up with registration down, fundraising up - CBC.ca

  28-05-2017 23:06
  
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  Ottawa Race Weekend 2017 wraps up with registration down, fundraising up
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  This year's Ottawa Race Weekend ended on a hot and sunny note Sunday, with fewer runners than normal raising more money for charity than in previous years. "It was really difficult because of the heat. But the atmosphere was great, a lot of people ...
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  Top Canadian results from the 2017 Ottawa MarathonCanadian Running Magazine (blog)
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• Ottawa Race Weekend 2017 wraps up with registration down ... - CBC.ca

  28-05-2017 23:06
  
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  Ottawa Race Weekend 2017 wraps up with registration down ...
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  The 2017 Ottawa Race Weekend ended on a hot and sunny note Sunday, with fewer runners than normal raising more money for charity in years' past.
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  Top Canadian results from the 2017 Ottawa Marathon - Canadian ...Canadian Running Magazine (blog)
  Making race weekend more 'special' key to sustain numbers, director John Halvorsen saysOttawa Citizen
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• Ottawa Race Weekend 2017 sees fewer runners raise more for ... - CBC.ca

  28-05-2017 23:06
  
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  Ottawa Race Weekend 2017 sees fewer runners raise more for ...
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  The 2017 Ottawa Race Weekend ended on a hot and sunny note Sunday, with fewer runners than normal raising more money for charity in years' past.
  Race Weekend by the numbers | CTV Ottawa NewsCTV News
  Making race weekend more 'special' key to sustain numbers, director John Halvorsen saysOttawa Citizen
  Top Canadian results from the 2017 Ottawa Marathon - Canadian ...Canadian Running Magazine (blog)
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• How Ottawa festivals are working together to make summer 2017 a big year

  28-05-2017 22:59
  
  If record-breaking attendance at the Tulip Festival is any indication, this festival season will be a blockbuster.
  
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• Can Conservative leader Andrew Scheer attract the young voters who propelled Trudeau?

  28-05-2017 22:54
  
  The party picked the youngest candidate in the race on Saturday, but he may not appeal to his peers.
  
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• Ottawa firefighters training in LRT tunnels

  28-05-2017 22:28
  
  Crews getting used to space so they can deal with emergencies when line opens.
  
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• Dorion's work is only just beginning

  28-05-2017 22:18 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  The off-season for the Ottawa Senators will officially kick off Monday morning at the Canadian Tire Centre.
  And, like every off-season, there is no shortage of work to be done with the NHL expansion draft set for June 21st and the entry draft on June 24-25 in Chicago.
  While the Senators’ players spent Saturday addressing the media on locker cleanup day at the rink, GM Pierre Dorion and coach Guy Boucher will have their say in an 11 a.m. wrap-up press conference.
  Yes, Dorion and Boucher wil
  
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• Dorion's work is only just beginning - Ottawa Citizen

  28-05-2017 22:00
  
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  Dorion's work is only just beginning
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  The Ottawa Senators' Chris Neil speaks to reporters as the Sens clean out their lockers at the Canadian Tire Centre in Ottawa on Saturday, May 27, 2017. Patrick Doyle / OTT. Share Adjust Comment Print. The off-season for the Ottawa Senators will ...and more »
  
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• New Ottawa-Gatineau agreement a big step forward for transit planning in the region - MetroNews Canada

  28-05-2017 21:24
  
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  New Ottawa-Gatineau agreement a big step forward for transit planning in the region
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  Ottawa and Gatineau have signed a new transit agreement that takes effect once the O-Train Confederation Line opens in 2018. Published on Sun May 28 2017 12:12:00. For the first time, the mayors of Ottawa and Gatineau have signed a formal agreement ...
  
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• New Ottawa-Gatineau agreement a big step forward for transit planning in the region

  28-05-2017 21:12
  
  The new pact serves to formalize co-operation between provinces and municipalities.
  
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• A little pain and a lot of relief for Canadian runner Dayna Pidhoresky

  28-05-2017 20:37 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  “That’s the biggest blister I’ve seen in my life,” Dayna Pidhoresky said. “But I’ll be OK.”
  The bobo on the toe on her right foot might have been the only thing bothering Pidhoresky on Sunday.
  A time of two hours 36 minutes eight seconds allowed the 30-year-old Vancouver resident originally from Windsor, Ont., to finish seventh among all women and first among Canadian women in the Scotiabank Ottawa Marathon, earning her $7,000 overall.
  As well,
  
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• Making race weekend more 'special' key to sustain numbers, director John Halvorsen says

  28-05-2017 20:23 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  First the good news: Total runners/participants in Tamarack Ottawa Race Weekend numbered 43,148, according to an official figure released Sunday.
  Now the not so good news: That was down about 3,000 from last year and more than 5,000 less than the peak of 48,500 in 2015, the 40th anniversary of the first Ottawa Marathon. There were about 46,000 last year.
  “Is it demographics, age, options for other events, other activities like triathlon, cycling, obstacle races? Is is that our hotel pricin
  
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• National Arts Centre's $110.5-million upgrade among Ottawa ... - Toronto Star

  28-05-2017 20:16
  
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  National Arts Centre's $110.5-million upgrade among Ottawa ...
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  Expectations are that more than 400000 will be on the Hill for Canada Day alone and the city will draw as many as 10 million throughout the year. They will have ...and more »
  
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• National Arts Centre's $110.5-million upgrade among Ottawa projects that won't be ready for Canada 150 - Toronto Star

  28-05-2017 20:16
  
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  National Arts Centre's $110.5-million upgrade among Ottawa projects that won't be ready for Canada 150
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  Expectations are that more than 400,000 will be on the Hill for Canada Day alone and the city will draw as many as 10 million throughout the year. They will have to take the good with the bad when it comes to construction. The Parliament Buildings ...and more »
  
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• Eliud Kiptanui and Guteni Amana win Ottawa Marathon titles

  28-05-2017 20:05 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Eliud Kiptanui and Guteni Amana were the big winners in the Scotiabank Ottawa Marathon on Sunday, but there was little doubt that Hiwot Gebrekidan learned a bigger lesson.
  Kiptanui, a 27-year-old from Kenya, ran with the lead group the entire way before building an insurmountable lead over the final stretch of the 42.195-kilometre course through Ottawa and Gatineau. He crossed the finish line in two hours 10 minutes 14 seconds, well off the record of 2:06:54 established by 2014 champion Yemane T
  
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• Ottawa cancer researcher gets major grant

  28-05-2017 19:41
  
  Dr. David Stojdl can move work into the clinical trial phase now.
  
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• The weekend sandbag cleanup is ahead of schedule. Volunteer cleanup will end early today and no further volunteers… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  28-05-2017 18:52 via twitter.com
  The weekend sandbag cleanup is ahead of schedule. Volunteer cleanup will end early today and no further volunteers… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Photos: Tamarack Ottawa Race Weekend (Sunday, May 28, 2017) - Ottawa Citizen

  28-05-2017 18:30
  
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  Photos: Tamarack Ottawa Race Weekend (Sunday, May 28, 2017)
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  Donald Schmitt's task wasn't easy: Take another architect's signature building, loved and loathed in equal measure, and give it a softer, modern face that welcomes people in a way its furrowed brutalist brow never has before. Local News ...and more »
  
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• ICYMI: Road closures for Tamarack Ottawa Race Weekend. bit.ly/2qoZpOt https://t.co/rPgoHF9MZW

  28-05-2017 18:08 via twitter.com
  
  ICYMI: Road closures for Tamarack Ottawa Race Weekend.bit.ly/2qoZpOt https://t.co/rPgoHF9MZW
  
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• NDP leadership hopeful Jagmeet Singh talks job insecurity, inequality

  28-05-2017 18:00
  
  Singh says he will push for a $15-minimum wage, ban unpaid internships and stop companies from stringing along contract workers.
  
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• Canadians worried Ottawa rushing into pot legalization: poll - Toronto Star

  28-05-2017 17:35
  
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  Canadians worried Ottawa rushing into pot legalization: poll
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  Even attendees at Canada's biggest cannabis trade show, Lift, on this weekend at Metro Convention Centre, had mixed feelings about legalization, with some worried government control and corporatization would crush the little guy. Devon Lio, front right ...and more »
  
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• Ottawa-area MPP Jack MacLaren expelled from PC caucus - CBC.ca

  28-05-2017 17:19
  
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  Ottawa-area MPP Jack MacLaren expelled from PC caucus
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  Ontario PC leader Patrick Brown has booted Carleton-Mississippi Mills MPP Jack MacLaren from caucus over alleged comments he made about French-language rights in Ontario and misleading voters in an undated video that has surfaced online.
  Jack MacLaren expelled from provincial Tory caucusOttawa Sunall 8 news articles »
  
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• 150 days for Canada 150: Ship plans to take students coast to coast to coast [Video]

  28-05-2017 17:04
  
  Geoff Green is preparing to spend 150 days at sea, travelling with a crew of 64 in a former Canadian coast guard ship, going coast to coast to coast.He’s the founder of Students on Ice, an 18-year-old organization that leads student expeditions to the Arctic and Antarctic, and a veteran of more than 126 expeditions.
  
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• Murray Pam: After a spectacular run, Senators look to off-season

  28-05-2017 16:58
  
  A closer look at the Sens' injuries; the restricted and unrestricted Free Agents; the mid-June expansion draft; and finally, a hearty congratulations to StickbyNik.com's Nicholle Anderson, who announced this weekend that she is cancer-free.
  
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• Controversial Tory MPP Jack MacLaren booted from caucus bit.ly/2qsfuyI #onpoli https://t.co/2SPECWUMSf

  28-05-2017 16:52 via twitter.com
  
  Controversial Tory MPP Jack MacLaren booted from caucusbit.ly/2qsfuyI #onpoli https://t.co/2SPECWUMSf
  
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• Eliud Kiptanui and Guteni Amana win Ottawa Marathon titles - Ottawa Citizen

  28-05-2017 16:47
  
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  Eliud Kiptanui and Guteni Amana win Ottawa Marathon titles
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  Eliud Kiptanui and Guteni Amana were the big winners in the Scotiabank Ottawa Marathon on Sunday, but there was little doubt that Hiwot Gebrekidan learned a bigger lesson. Kiptanui, a 27-year-old from Kenya, ran with the lead group the entire way ...and more »
  
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• Eliud Kiptanui and Guteni Amana claim Ottawa Marathon titles ... - Ottawa Citizen

  28-05-2017 16:47
  
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  Eliud Kiptanui and Guteni Amana claim Ottawa Marathon titles ...
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  Eliud Kiptanui and Guteni Amana were the big winners in the Scotiabank Ottawa Marathon on Sunday, but there was little doubt that Hiwot Gebrekidan learned ...and more »
  
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• Reevely: Jack MacLaren expelled from provincial Tory caucus

  28-05-2017 16:27 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Kanata MPP Jack MacLaren’s been kicked out of the provincial Progressive Conservative caucus and won’t be allowed to run for the party in the next election, leader Patrick Brown says.
  The “final straw” was an old video of MacLaren answering a question at a public event, implying that a Tory government would do something — it’s not clear what — about preferential treatment for Ontarians who speak French.
  “We have lots of things that we’re
  
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• 150 days for Canada 150: Ship plans to take students coast to coast to coast

  28-05-2017 16:24 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Geoff Green is preparing to spend 150 days at sea, travelling with a crew of 64 in a former Canadian coast guard ship, going coast to coast to coast.
  He’s the founder of Students on Ice, an 18-year-old organization that leads student expeditions to the Arctic and Antarctic, and a veteran of more than 126 expeditions.
  Despite his lengthy resumé, this is the biggest and most important trip he’s ever planned, he says.
  “It’s certainly the biggest (expedition) that
  
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• The Capital Builders: Thomas McKay, master builder

  28-05-2017 16:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  One of the most important men in Ottawa’s history has no proper biography. Very few of his personal papers are available. Some of his buildings and accomplishments have been bulldozed and lost to time. Even his burial plot lacks a properly dignified marker. 
  Yet you probably know Thomas McKay’s major accomplishments. 
  The entrance locks to the Rideau Canal. Rideau Hall, where the Governor General lives. Earnscliffe, where the British
  
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• Capital Voices: 'It's a bubbly game'

  28-05-2017 15:19 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  In anticipation of Canada’s sesquicentennial celebrations, the Citizen’s Bruce Deachman has been out in search of Ottawans — 150 of them — to learn their stories of life and death, hope and love, the uncommon and the everyday. We’ll share one person’s story every day until Canada Day.
  “I was just playing Pokemon Go. I play it every day when I walk to work. Usually it takes me half an hour, but today I’m taking a detour and it will take me an hour.&
  
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• Jack MacLaren expelled from provincial Tory caucus

  28-05-2017 15:08
  
  Kanata MPP Jack MacLaren’s been kicked out of the provincial Progressive Conservative caucus and won’t be allowed to run for the party in the next election, leader Patrick Brown says.
  
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• Reevely: Jack MacLaren expelled from provincial Tory caucus - Ottawa Citizen

  28-05-2017 14:58
  
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  Reevely: Jack MacLaren expelled from provincial Tory caucus
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  MPP JacK MacLaren leaves his Queen's Park office after avoiding the media about his website in Toronto, Ont. on Wednesday April 13, 2016. Craig Robertson / Craig Robertson/Toronto Sun. Share Adjust Comment Print. Kanata MPP Jack MacLaren's been ...and more »
  
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• New Conservative leader Andrew Scheer no stranger to making political history bit.ly/2s3BVLS #cdnpoli

  28-05-2017 14:32 via twitter.com
  New Conservative leader Andrew Scheer no stranger to making political historybit.ly/2s3BVLS #cdnpoli
  
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• 'This also gives me purpose': Stroke survivor raises money for Ottawa rehab facility - CBC.ca

  28-05-2017 14:00
  
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  'This also gives me purpose': Stroke survivor raises money for Ottawa rehab facility
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  Five years after suffering a brain hemorrhage and stroke while at sea, retired naval commander Tim Kerr wants to give back to the rehab facility in Ottawa where he spent his recovery. Kerr, who now works at Veterans Affairs in Charlottetown, will walk ...
  
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• Denley: Is Andrew Scheer, the Tories' answer to 'sunny ways'? - Ottawa Citizen

  28-05-2017 14:00
  
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  Denley: Is Andrew Scheer, the Tories' answer to 'sunny ways'?
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  Despite a seemingly interminable leadership race featuring far too many candidates who were contenders only in their own minds, the Conservative party got it right Saturday night, by the narrowest of margins. In choosing Ottawa-native Andrew Scheer ...
  Scheer must make the party about policy and not himselfOttawa Sunall 174 news articles »
  
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• Denley: Is Andrew Scheer, the Tories' answer to 'sunny ways'?

  28-05-2017 14:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Despite a seemingly interminable leadership race featuring far too many candidates who were contenders only in their own minds, the Conservative party got it right Saturday night, by the narrowest of margins.
  In choosing Ottawa-native Andrew Scheer, the Conservatives picked a leader with the capacity to broaden their party’s popular appeal. Second-place finisher Maxime Bernier deserves credit for running a campaign of ideas, but his libertarian world view was unlikely to be supported by th
  
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• The marathon is underway - here are the road closures for Tamarack Ottawa Race Weekend. bit.ly/2qoZpOt… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  28-05-2017 13:51 via twitter.com
  The marathon is underway - here are the road closures for Tamarack Ottawa Race Weekend.bit.ly/2qoZpOt… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• CBC Ottawa's news quiz for the week of May 21 - CBC.ca

  28-05-2017 13:30
  
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  CBC Ottawa's news quiz for the week of May 21
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  Who dashed the Ottawa Senators' Stanley Cup dreams with his overtime goal in Game 7 of the Eastern Conference final? Which downtown business is suing the city over how it responded to last year's Rideau Street sinkhole? And which eastern Ontario city ...
  
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• Anderson: How would Pearson react to today's peacekeeping plans?

  28-05-2017 13:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Lester Pearson was instrumental in creating the first UN peacekeeping force but he never worshipped at its altar.
  In fact, while peacekeeping eventually became something of a state religion for many Canadians, he would have remained wisely agnostic, or rather, open-minded on when, whether and how to employ the mechanism he helped shape in 1956.
  So how would our Nobel laureate likely react to Ottawa’s current desire to dispatch Canadians to Africa as part of a larger goal to resurrect our d
  
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• Fidget spinner fad may point to deeper problem in the classroom - CBC.ca

  28-05-2017 12:01
  
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  Fidget spinner fad may point to deeper problem in the classroom
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  Fidget spinners are the hottest new gadget among school children, and while they're billed as useful tools to help kids focus, a University of Ottawa professor believes schools need to better accommodate students who get fidgety and need to move.and more »
  
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• Capital Facts: Dow's Lake was man-made

  28-05-2017 12:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  In celebration of Canada’s 150th birthday, the Citizen is rolling out one fact each day for 150 days until July 1, highlighting the odd, the fascinating and the important bits of Ottawa history you might not know about.
  Dow’s Lake, home of houseboats, canoes, paddleboats and a picturesque stopping point along the Rideau waterway, is a man-made lake. Named after settler Abram Dow, it was initially known as “Dow’s Great Swamp” but was intentionally flooded during the
  
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• After cancer setback, curler Craig Savill running Ottawa Race Weekend half-marathon - CBC.ca

  28-05-2017 11:01
  
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  After cancer setback, curler Craig Savill running Ottawa Race Weekend half-marathon
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  It was only two weeks after Craig Savill signed up for last year's Ottawa Race Weekend half-marathon that he was diagnosed with Stage 3 Hodgkin's Lymphoma. The decorated Ottawa curler faced some dark thoughts — preparing his wife Karen Cumberland ...
  
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• Ottawa Senators goaltender Craig Anderson reveals his wife Nicholle is now cancer free - National Post

  28-05-2017 06:19
  
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  Ottawa Senators goaltender Craig Anderson reveals his wife Nicholle is now cancer free
  National Post
  OTTAWA — The biggest victory of the season for Craig Anderson and his family came off the ice. Only hours before the Ottawa Senators saw their season come to a finish Thursday night with a 3-2 double-overtime loss to the Pittsburgh Penguins in the ...
  Updated: Anderson says Nicholle's cancer is 'clear' after extensive testingOttawa Citizen
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• Champions let three-run lead slip away, lose in Sussex County

  28-05-2017 04:25 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  The Ottawa Champions couldn’t hang onto a late 3-0 lead, surrendering five eighth-inning runs in a 5-3 loss in Sussex County on Saturday night.
  Both of Sussex County’s Can-Am wins this season have come against Ottawa.
  The baseball teams play again Sunday at 2:05 p.m. at Skylands Park.
  
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