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• Private Member's Bill from MPP Nathalie Des Roisiers brings back Ottawa's bilingualism debate -… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  31-05-2017 23:56 via twitter.com
  Private Member's Bill from MPP Nathalie Des Roisiers brings back Ottawa's bilingualism debate -… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Reevely: New bilingualism bill for Ottawa won't make capital any more bilingual

  31-05-2017 23:20 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Ottawa will have to have a bylaw on offering city services in English and French if a new bill proposed by Ottawa-Vanier MPP Nathalie Des Rosiers passes.
  The city already has one, so that’s pretty much that.
  The demand to make Ottawa officially bilingual is stronger among the city’s francophones than most Anglos realize: it comes up in every election in Ottawa-Vanier and Orléans, usually in all-candidates’ debates where questioners tend to be baffled that something so ob
  
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• Promising treatment for preemies' lungs gets funding boost

  31-05-2017 23:15 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Dr. Bernard Thébaud has spent a career treating the tiniest preemies at CHEO for lung disease.
  Treatment and care of babies with bronchopulmonary dysplasia — underdeveloped lungs that become damaged from ventilation and long-term oxygen use — has shaped his career as a neonatologist. It has also driven world-leading stem cell research by Thébaud and colleagues that could prove to be a game-changer for babies with what is the most common complication of preterm birth.
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• Ottawa man charged with accessing child porn

  31-05-2017 23:11 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  An Ottawa man faces a child pornography charge after a seven-month investigation that led investigators to his home computer.
  In late November 2016, the National Child Exploitation Coordination Centre forwarded the Ottawa police’s Internet Child Exploitation Unit reports it had received from the National Centre for Missing and Exploited Children’s tip line.
  These reports, submitted by Microsoft, indicated that an IP address in the Ottawa area was noted to have uploaded images of chil
  
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• No evidence Bordeleau showed preferential treatment, police board finds

  31-05-2017 23:10 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  There’s no evidence Ottawa police Chief Charles Bordeleau showed preferential treatment when it came to suspending officers, the Ottawa Police Services Board has concluded.
  The board had requested a briefing from Bordeleau in the wake of allegations about “inconsistencies” in the evidence of senior police officers in the case of an acting staff sergeant who was facing criminal charges recommended by the province’s Special Investigations Unit. The charges followed an explo
  
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• Jonathan Pitre makes remarkable advances in his recovery

  31-05-2017 22:55 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Jonathan Pitre will celebrate his 17th birthday this week with a most astonishing gift: hope. 
  The Russell teenager has staged a remarkable physical recovery during the past week in his fourth-floor room at the University of Minnesota Masonic Children’s Hospital. Although his breathing remains laboured, his kidney, liver and gastrointestinal problems have all improved.
  What’s more, the wounds inflicted by his blistering skin disease, epidermolysis bullosa, have started to show s
  
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• Framework for Ottawa police diversity plan released

  31-05-2017 22:54
  
  A draft framework of the report was presented to the Police Services Board earlier this week. Full report is due this fall.
  
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• The legend of Pedro: Panda mascot answers the call from the Ottawa sports hall

  31-05-2017 22:41 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  He has been kidnapped, held for ransom and was the symbol of a fierce tug of war between rival football factions.
  Pedro the Panda, blood-stained and laden with signatures and mini-pennants, has witnessed some sights in his 62 years on earth. Now he is coming out of hiding to signal another chapter. The panda bear, the original prize for Panda Game glory between the University of Ottawa and Carleton University, is among the featured guests Friday evening at the Ottawa Sports Hall of Fame dinner a
  
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• Separated rail crossings in Barrhaven area would cost $430M

  31-05-2017 22:37 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  It would cost $430 million to separate roads and railways at five locations in south Ottawa, according to a report published Wednesday.
  The deadly crash between an OC Transpo double-decker bus and a Via Rail train on Sept. 18, 2013 in Barrhaven prompted a study by the City of Ottawa and Via on grade separated crossings on Woodroffe Avenue, the Transitway, Fallowfield Road, Merivale Road and Jockvale Road.
  The result of the study is a proposed Barrhaven Safety Rail Program, which will be presente
  
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• Gender-neutral O Canada could be scuttled by senate changes

  31-05-2017 22:37
  
  Former MP Mauril Bélanger's bill could die if sent back to the House with changes.
  
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• Dining Out: Jambo Restaurant premieres Kenya's favourite dishes in Britannia

  31-05-2017 22:32 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Jambo Restaurant69 Kempster Ave., 613-726-9393, jamborestaurant.com
  Open: Monday to Thursday 11 a.m. to 9 p.m., Friday to Sunday 11 a.m. to 10 p.m.
  Prices: mains $8.99 to $18.49
  Access: one small step to entrance
  For more than two decades, regulars flocked to the modest standalone restaurant at 69 Kempster Ave. in Ottawa’s west end for Hsiao Foo Huang’s laksa. The spicy soup of chicken, shrimp and noodles was a cornerstone on the menu of the Singapore Restaurant, which Huang and
  
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• Sajjan says Boeing is not a trusted partner as Super Hornet dispute escalates

  31-05-2017 22:31 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan suggested the U.S. aerospace firm that wants to sell billions of dollars worth of fighter jets to Canada can no longer be considered a trusted partner.
  Although he stopped short of cancelling the Liberal government’s plan to purchase 18 Super Hornet fighters from Boeing, Sajjan said the U.S. firm has damaged its relationship with Canada.
  Boeing has complained to the U.S. government that Canadian aerospace firm Bombardier is receiving subsidies, which in turn,
  
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• Crane installation to snarl traffic along QE Driveway on Thursday

  31-05-2017 21:42 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  The National Capital Commission is warning local residents that the southbound lane of the Queen Elizabeth Driveway, between Third and Fourth avenues, will be closed from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Thursday due to construction.
  The NCC said flag persons will control traffic in both directions on the open lane of the Queen Elizabeth Driveway and anyone using the roadway should expect delays.
  The road is being closed to allow for the installation of a crane that is needed for construction work along the
  
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• Lawyer of Karla Homolka's school girl victims: "She's psychotic" - 1310news.com/2017/05/31/law… #ottnews https://t.co/ZiCvfdiVrV

  31-05-2017 21:21 via twitter.com
  
  Lawyer of Karla Homolka's school girl victims: "She's psychotic" - 1310news.com/2017/05/31/law… #ottnews https://t.co/ZiCvfdiVrV
  
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• Doors Open Ottawa happening this weekend

  31-05-2017 21:17
  
  There are 165 buildings participating this year, some are open to the public for the first time.
  
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• Police seek to locate allegedly stolen pick-up truck after string of robberies

  31-05-2017 21:03 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Ottawa police are seeking the public’s help to locate an allegedly stolen pick-up truck that they believe may have been used in a series of robberies.
  According to police, a pick-up truck was stolen from a parking lot along Boyd Avenue, near Carling Avenue. The truck, which does not have licence plates, is described as an orange 1992 GMC Sierra. It went missing at some point between Sunday and Monday.
  Police said a number of break-ins occurred in the same area from where the truck was stol
  
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• Lyme disease slow to spread in Outaouais, health officials say

  31-05-2017 21:02 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  The infected ticks that carry Lyme disease are present but still fairly rare in the Outaouais, says the region’s health authority. But it still urges people to take precautions against being bitten.
  “Although the risk of contracting Lyme disease in the Outaouais region remains low, the Public Health Directorate reminds the population of the region that simple prevention measures can make a difference,” says an announcement from the Centre intégré de santé
  
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• Glavin: Anti-Semitism creeps up ranks of the Labour Party

  31-05-2017 20:56 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  It started last July.
  In an unguarded, hot-microphone remark following an interview on Sky News, the former Conservative cabinet minister Ken Clarke was overheard to chortle about the “fiasco” of the Conservative leadership race – an event triggered by the resignation of Prime Minister David Cameron, which was itself triggered by the surprise win of the “Leave” side in last June’s British referendum on membership in the European Union.
  “A bloody difficul
  
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• You're not imagining it: This is Ottawa's wettest spring ever

  31-05-2017 20:45 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  More than a foot of rain in the past two months has washed away all kinds of weather records in Ottawa.
  Wettest May. Wettest April and May combined. Wettest spring. (The weather office defines spring as March 1 through May 31.) Rainiest first five months of the year.
  And most of these are records not by a millimetre, but by huge margins.
  May (measured through Tuesday) had a record of 175.6 millimetres of rain at the Ottawa International Airport, more than double the average of 86. Records there
  
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• No evidence chief showed preferential treatment, police board finds

  31-05-2017 20:45
  
  There’s no evidence Ottawa police Chief Charles Bordeleau showed preferential treatment when it came to suspending officers, the Ottawa Police Services Board has concluded.The board had requested a briefing from Bordeleau in the wake of allegations about “inconsistencies” in the evidence of senior police officers
  
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• It's author Wednesday on the @MeehanCarolAnne show and up next we speak with @CatinaNoble1 https://t.co/hfM7OzmXwX

  31-05-2017 20:30 via twitter.com
  
  It's author Wednesday on the @MeehanCarolAnne show and up next we speak with @CatinaNoble1 https://t.co/hfM7OzmXwX
  
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• Reevely: Ontario Liberals have already spent their surplus and then some: budget watchdog

  31-05-2017 20:25 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  The Ontario government has balanced its budget, if you squint and cock your head in exactly the right way, but it’s already promised to spend its way back into a deficit after the next election, the province’s budget watchdog says.
  Pharmacare for kids, a cut to sales taxes on electricity and more money for hospitals and daycares will eat up all the extra money the government’s expecting to take in from taxes and fees thanks to a stronger provincial economy, financial accountabi
  
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• Coming up next on the @MeehanCarolAnne show, we discuss the partnership between @newstrikeltd and the @thehipdotcom https://t.co/nbub4GZ3Cm

  31-05-2017 20:15 via twitter.com
  
  Coming up next on the @MeehanCarolAnne show, we discuss the partnership between @newstrikeltd and the @thehipdotcom https://t.co/nbub4GZ3Cm
  
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• Mark Norman’s replacement makes his public debut

  31-05-2017 20:10 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  In early March, Chief of the Defence Staff Gen. Jon Vance announced on Twitter that Lt.-Gen. Alain Parent would assume the job as acting vice chief of the defence staff. His first day on the job was May 30.
  Parent made his public debut Wednesday at the CANSEC defence trade show in Ottawa. He spoke for about 20 minutes, delivering what some in the audience charitably noted was a “lacklustre” speech.
  Parent highlighted some key themes the Liberal government is interested in promoting,
  
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• Don't panic over small ridership drop in early 2017, OC Transpo head says

  31-05-2017 20:02 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  People shouldn’t panic about a small decrease in OC Transpo ridership in the first quarter of 2017, Ottawa’s transit head says.
  “We always need to remind everybody to put all that into perspective,” general manager John Manconi said Wednesday after a transit commission meeting. “We’re around 100 million rides a year, so when people talk about a drop, you look at that number. It’s a very, very small percentage.”
  All transit agencies in North America
  
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• Still ahead on the @MeehanCarolAnne show we talk @TELUSRideForDad with @cphillips4 and Dr. Don Chow https://t.co/cgb8lePsQl

  31-05-2017 20:00 via twitter.com
  
  Still ahead on the @MeehanCarolAnne show we talk @TELUSRideForDad with @cphillips4 and Dr. Don Chow https://t.co/cgb8lePsQl
  
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• Next on the @MeehanCarolAnne show @LesleyFleming54 shares her reaction to new funding for lyme disease research and… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  31-05-2017 19:30 via twitter.com
  Next on the @MeehanCarolAnne show @LesleyFleming54 shares her reaction to new funding for lyme disease research and… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• This is Ottawa's wettest spring ever

  31-05-2017 19:26
  
  More than a foot of rain in the past two months has washed away all kinds of weather records in Ottawa.Wettest May. Wettest April and May combined. Wettest spring. (The weather office defines spring as March 1 through May 31.) Rainiest first five months of the year.And most of these are records not by a millimetre, but by huge margins.
  
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• RCAF team examines C295 flight-deck layout

  31-05-2017 19:22 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  A Royal Canadian Air Force delegation recently conducted a preliminary “anthropometric” examination of the cockpit of the Airbus C295W aircraft, which has been selected for Canada’s Fixed-Wing Search and Rescue program. The examination at Airbus’s Seville, Spain C295W final assembly line allowed the RCAF to gain more a detailed familiarity with the aircraft’s design and layout from a human factors perspective, Airbus officials noted. The company
  
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• Photo radar legislation passes in Ontario

  31-05-2017 19:21
  
  Ottawa plans to implement a pilot project to put cameras in school zones.
  
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• Should Homolka be volunteering at her kids' school? Next on the @MeehanCarolAnne show, Tim Danson, lawyer for the F… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  31-05-2017 19:15 via twitter.com
  Should Homolka be volunteering at her kids' school? Next on the @MeehanCarolAnne show, Tim Danson, lawyer for the F… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Police locate missing teen, 15

  31-05-2017 19:04
  
  Ottawa police are hoping the public can help find a missing teenager who was last seen in Orléans.The Indigenous Ottawa police say they have located a missing teenager who was last seen in Orléans.
  The 15-year-old indigenous youth was found safe and sound, police said Wednesday.
  
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• The @MeehanCarolAnne show starts right now, Listen in: player.1310news.com https://t.co/MA16BOJDs6

  31-05-2017 19:00 via twitter.com
  
  The @MeehanCarolAnne show starts right now, Listen in: player.1310news.com https://t.co/MA16BOJDs6
  
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• Are Theresa May’s Tories about to blow the U.K. election? @cfhorgan joins @_MarkSutcliffe coming up:… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  31-05-2017 18:28 via twitter.com
  Are Theresa May’s Tories about to blow the U.K. election?@cfhorgan joins @_MarkSutcliffe coming up:… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Ottawa set a new weather record in May [Video]

  31-05-2017 18:16
  
  If it felt like you never got out of your wellies this month, there’s good reason – this May has been the wettest in a century.Rolf Campbell, who tweets as @YOW_Weather, crunched the official numbers and even with days to go, May of 2017 had the most rain since May of 1916.
  
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• More than 6,000 pot plants seized in Tay Valley bust

  31-05-2017 17:19 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Six people were arrested and a seventh is still being sought after Lanark County OPP raided a rural property and netted more than 6,000 marijuana plants, hundreds of pounds of pot and several weapons.
  The “extensive” indoor pot-growing operation at a Tay Valley Township residence was dismantled Friday by officers with the detachment and the force’s organized crime enforcement bureau.
  Police seized 6,139 plants, 182 pounds of marijuana, more than a pound each of hash and cannabi
  
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• Man found shot in car outside Hilton Lac-Leamy

  31-05-2017 17:10 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Hilton Lac-Leamy security guards discovered a man who’d been shot in a car in a hotel parking lot late Tuesday night, reports Loto-Québec, the province’s crown corporation managing lottery schemes and state casinos.
  They were alerted by 911 calls and a witness who was with the wounded 27-year-old man from Gatineau, who was quickly transported to the Hull Hospital. The man was in critical condition, police said.
  The gaming agency said the victim and witness had arrived by car j
  
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• Fireworks shot from moving truck lead police to alleged drunk driver

  31-05-2017 17:09
  
  OPP officers in Rideau Lakes say they nabbed a driver for allegedly driving drunk because his passenger was setting off fireworks from the moving pick-up truck.
  
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• Ontario's balanced budget called a 'shell game' by critics as watchdog predicts deficits

  31-05-2017 17:00
  
  Ontario’s financial accountability officer Stephen LeClair warns again that the province will see more deficits in the future despite promises of a balanced budget.
  
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• Leonardo and IMP get ready for proposed Cormorant helicopter modernization

  31-05-2017 16:58 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Leonardo Helicopters and IMP Aerospace & Defence say that they are re-establishing their “Team Cormorant” to pursue the proposed modernization of the Cormorant search and rescue helicopters.
  Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan recently suggested that an upgrade program for the Cormorants would be a key program for the RCAF in the future.
  Team Cormorant comprises Leonardo Helicopters, the original equipment manufacturer of the EH101/AW101/Cormorant helicopters; IMP, the prime contracto
  
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• Fireworks from moving truck lead police to alleged drunk driver

  31-05-2017 16:58 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  OPP officers in Rideau Lakes say they nabbed a driver for allegedly driving drunk because his passenger was setting off fireworks from the moving pick-up truck.
  It happened around 8:45 a.m. on May 27 when officers on patrol on Highway 15 in Portland spotted a “succession” of fireworks coming from a northbound truck. 
  They pulled the vehicle over and arrested the driver for driving with over the legal limit of alcohol in his blood and driving while under suspension.
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• Coming up Dr. Sheema Khan discusses how the Muslim community can combat extremism: bit.ly/1uwtdOs… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  31-05-2017 16:44 via twitter.com
  Coming upDr. Sheema Khan discusses how the Muslim community can combat extremism:bit.ly/1uwtdOs… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Coming up on the #POWERLunch @ noon: @stephegan613 & @PaulDewar join @_marksutcliffe LIVE in studio:… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  31-05-2017 16:34 via twitter.com
  Coming up on the #POWERLunch @ noon: @stephegan613 & @PaulDewar join @_marksutcliffe LIVE in studio:… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Still ahead: @powerstim joins @_MarkSutcliffe LIVE: bit.ly/1uwtdOs #cdnpoli @abacusdataca https://t.co/LBDAKSmH7n

  31-05-2017 16:27 via twitter.com
  
  Still ahead:@powerstim joins @_MarkSutcliffe LIVE: bit.ly/1uwtdOs #cdnpoli @abacusdataca https://t.co/LBDAKSmH7n
  
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• Still ahead: @CPhillipsFour & Dr. Don Chow on #Ottawa @TELUSRideForDad: bit.ly/1uwtdOs… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  31-05-2017 16:12 via twitter.com
  Still ahead: @CPhillipsFour & Dr. Don Chow on #Ottawa @TELUSRideForDad: bit.ly/1uwtdOs… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Coming up at 10: Should #KarlaHomolka be allowed to volunteer at her children's school? #QuestionOfTheDay… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  31-05-2017 15:51 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 10: Should #KarlaHomolka be allowed to volunteer at her children's school? #QuestionOfTheDay… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• NEXT @environmentca Senior Climatologist David Phillips on record May #rainfall for #Ottawa:… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  31-05-2017 15:45 via twitter.com
  NEXT @environmentca Senior Climatologist David Phillips on record May #rainfall for #Ottawa:… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Coming up: @mclomedia joins @_MarkSutcliffe live for weekly political segment: bit.ly/1uwtdOs… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  31-05-2017 15:28 via twitter.com
  Coming up: @mclomedia joins @_MarkSutcliffe live for weekly political segment:bit.ly/1uwtdOs… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Sajjan says Boeing is not a trusted partner as Super Hornet dispute escalate

  31-05-2017 15:26 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan suggested the U.S. aerospace firm that wants to sell billions of dollars worth of fighter jets to Canada can no longer be considered a trusted partner.
  Although he stopped short of cancelling the Liberal government’s plan to purchase 18 Super Hornet fighters from Boeing, Sajjan said the U.S. firm has damaged its relationship with Canada.
  Boeing has complained to the U.S. government that Canadian aerospace firm Bombardier is receiving subsidies, which in turn,
  
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• Going out best bets, June 1 to 7

  31-05-2017 14:39 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Art Peter Hum
  In the month remaining until Canada Day, Cube Gallery (1285 Wellington St. W.) is fittingly presenting an exhibition it calls Dominion, featuring 30 paintings of buildings and landmarks from Ottawa’s Dominion era. The artists whose works are on display include John Jarrett, Pina Manoni-Rennick, Karl Schutt, Olaf Krassnitzky, Strachan Johnston and Jay Anderson, whose painting of the Brown Tenements on York Street is shown above. The vernissage is Sunday from 2 to 5 p
  
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