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• Ratified police contract will see $100k constable in 2019

  04-06-2017 23:39
  
  A tentative police contract set to be ratifiedon Friday would see nearly the entire Ottawapolice force on the Sunshine List by 2019,the Citizen has learned.A proposed four-yearcontract, which would retroactively cover theperiod from Jan. 1, 2016 and would be setto expire on Dec. 31, 2019, would seeofficers receive wage increases, unlimited
  
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• Triathlete Joanna Brown places third in World Cup race in Italy

  04-06-2017 23:35 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Joanna Brown of Carp continued the best start to any season in her triathlon career with her second World Cup medal, earning a bronze on Sunday.
  The 24-year-old Brown, who in April claimed silver in a World Cup race at New Plymouth, New Zealand, finished the women’s sprint race at Cagliari, Italy, in a time of 1:02:29.
  “It feels amazing to be back on the podium,” Brown said. “I came here with a mission of getting on the podium, and I think being able to back up my perform
  
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• No new vote after fraud alleged in Ottawa West-Nepean PC race

  04-06-2017 23:19
  
  PC Leader has stepped in to halt appeal process, Ottawa West-Nepean Progressive Conservative Association president said.
  
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• Mayor Jim Watson says police taking every measure, but no way to make city completely safe from terrorism

  04-06-2017 22:47
  
  Following London attack, Watson says city has to be prepared for risks on Canada Day.
  
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• Ottawa tennis player Gabriela Dabrowski reaches mixed doubles quarterfinals in France

  04-06-2017 22:26 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Ottawa’s Gabriela Dabrowski went 1-for-2 in French Open doubles tennis matches on Sunday.
  Dabrowski and Rohan Bopanna of India, the No. 7 seeds, earned a spot in the quarterfinals of mixed doubles by defeating France’s Chloe Paquet and Benoît Paire 6-3, 6-2 in a second-round match.
  Dabrowski and Bopanna are scheduled to play that quarterfinal match in Paris against the No. 2 seeds, Sania Mirza of India and Ivan Dodig of Croatia, on Monday.
  Mirza and Dodig defeated Elina Svitoli
  
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• Rate of OC Transpo bus cancellations largely unchanged as winter gave way to spring

  04-06-2017 22:18
  
  Improved weather didn't seem to diminish the number of route interruptions reported via Twitter.
  
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• Para Transpo customers and staff hold productive meeting

  04-06-2017 22:04
  
  The possibility of implementing an online-booking system will be investigated over the summer.
  
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• Sunnyside Branch of library temporarily closing this month

  04-06-2017 21:07
  
  The branch will be closed for 10 days to switch over to Radio-Frequency Identification technology.
  
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• The Capital Builders: Raise a glass of clean tap water to Thomas Keefer

  04-06-2017 19:45 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  As Alex Kalopsis graduates from his Western University engineering studies this spring, he’ll be embarking upon a grand family tradition dating back generations to Upper Canada’s first family of civil engineers.
  Young Kalopsis is the first cousin, six times removed, of famed engineer Thomas Coltrin Keefer. Kalopsis’s mother, Gail Copeland, is the resident family historian of the Keefer clan, a family whose colourful tale begins with a loyalist exile from America and i
  
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• Ottawa firefighters going door-to-door to check smoke detectors

  04-06-2017 19:21
  
  They will be visiting homes throughout the week, as a courtesy to residents.
  
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• Family pets perish in west Ottawa apartment fire

  04-06-2017 19:03 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  One man was sent to hospital with smoke inhalation, four people were displaced and multiple family pets perished after fire broke out in the living room of multi-unit apartment complex early Sunday.
  Firefighters were called to a four-storey apartment building at 28 Rockway Crescent just after 8:30 a.m. Sunday, with 911 callers reporting flames and smoke billowing from blown-out windows on the third floor.
  The building was already being evacuated as fire crews arrived, and the fire was quickly ex
  
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• Apartment fire kills pets and sends one man to hospital

  04-06-2017 18:56
  
  The fire started around 8:30 a.m. Sunday.
  
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• Goat yoga coming to Canada Agriculture Museum in Ottawa this week

  04-06-2017 18:55
  
  Yogis will stretch alongside some curious farm animals.
  
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• Arson unit investigates fifth suspicious house fire in Vanier

  04-06-2017 18:42 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Police believe an overnight house fire in Vanier may be the work of a serial firebug on the loose.
  The arson unit confirmed it is investigating after the blaze broke out around 2:50 a.m. Sunday at 309 Montfort St. It is the fifth suspected arson fire within a five-block radius in the neighbourhood in the past two months.
  Fire and police investigators remained on the scene Sunday, but released few details about the stubborn fire, which took several hours to bring under control after residents cal
  
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• Multiple pets dead, four people displaced after west-end fire 1310news.com/2017/06/04/sev… https://t.co/i9jc1KxEsw

  04-06-2017 18:41 via twitter.com
  
  Multiple pets dead, four people displaced after west-end fire 1310news.com/2017/06/04/sev… https://t.co/i9jc1KxEsw
  
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• If your car was in the parking garage on Clarence, you can now collect it and contact @ottawacity to get a refund #ottnews

  04-06-2017 18:21 via twitter.com
  If your car was in the parking garage on Clarence, you can now collect it and contact @ottawacity to get a refund #ottnews
  
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• Longtime staff members, friends drove Andrew Scheer’s dream team

  04-06-2017 18:05
  
  A core group of five staff encouraged the mild-mannered former Speaker to run – and win.
  
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• Hear Ariana Grande’s ‘One Love Manchester’ Concert LIVE on @kissottawa at 2pm kissottawa.com/2017/06/02/ari… https://t.co/m5U7X1boc8

  04-06-2017 17:50 via twitter.com
  
  Hear Ariana Grande’s ‘One Love Manchester’ Concert LIVE on @kissottawa at 2pm kissottawa.com/2017/06/02/ari… https://t.co/m5U7X1boc8
  
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• Family pets perish in apartment complex fire

  04-06-2017 17:28
  
  One man was sent to hospital with smoke inhalation, four people were displaced and multiple family pets perished after fire broke out in the living room of multi-unit apartment complex early Sunday.Firefighters were called to a four-storey apartment building at 28 Rockway Crescent just after 8:30 a.m. Sunday.
  
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• STORY: Canadian killed in London terror attacks 1310news.com/2017/06/04/can…

  04-06-2017 17:22 via twitter.com
  STORY: Canadian killed in London terror attacks 1310news.com/2017/06/04/can…
  
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• UPDATE: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau confirms one Canadian among the dead in London Bridge attack

  04-06-2017 17:18 via twitter.com
  UPDATE:Prime Minister Justin Trudeau confirms one Canadian among the dead in London Bridge attack
  
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• Pratt: Running the numbers, Canada sure is better off than in the 1960s

  04-06-2017 16:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Canada today is one of the most progressive nations in the world. Our 150th birthday is an opportunity to review the huge progress we have made as a society. This progress can be measured by looking back on Canada around half a century ago.
  I immigrated to Canada in 1962, from Britain via the United States, to take up a teaching position. I immediately found Canadians very much to my liking. My teacher colleagues were unfailingly professional, friendly and supportive. Compared to Britain, there
  
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• Ottawa's Gabriela Dabrowski facing busy day of tennis Sunday at French Open

  04-06-2017 15:51 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Ottawa’s Gabriela Dabrowski and Yifan Xu of China advanced to the third round of women’s doubles in the French Open on Saturday with a 6-1, 6-2 victory against Madison Brengle of the United States and Anna Smith of Britain.
  Dabrowski and Xu are scheduled to be back on the court at Paris on Sunday for a match against Raluca Olaru of Romania and Olga Savchuk of Ukraine.
  That wouldn’t be Dabrowski’s only visit to the clay courts for the day, though. She is also expected to p
  
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• Toddler was reportedly chasing after a ball when he was struck by car in a #Gatineau parking lot 1310news.com/2017/06/04/tod…

  04-06-2017 15:37 via twitter.com
  Toddler was reportedly chasing after a ball when he was struck by car in a #Gatineau parking lot 1310news.com/2017/06/04/tod…
  
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• 12 people arrested in London bridge attack, police say 1310news.com/2017/06/04/12-…

  04-06-2017 14:47 via twitter.com
  12 people arrested in London bridge attack, police say 1310news.com/2017/06/04/12-…
  
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• London police have arrested 12 people in connection with last night's attacks that killed 7, wounded 48 twitter.com/metpoliceuk/st…

  04-06-2017 14:17 via twitter.com
  London police have arrested 12 people in connection with last night's attacks that killed 7, wounded 48 twitter.com/metpoliceuk/st…
  
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• Canadian 'impacted' by London terror attacks 1310news.com/2017/06/04/can…

  04-06-2017 14:15 via twitter.com
  Canadian 'impacted' by London terror attacks 1310news.com/2017/06/04/can…
  
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• BREAKING: The High Commission of Canada in the UK confirms that a Canadian has been ``impacted'' by attacks in London.

  04-06-2017 13:57 via twitter.com
  BREAKING: The High Commission of Canada in the UK confirms that a Canadian has been ``impacted'' by attacks in London.
  
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• Capital Voices: 'This was part of a system that was going to lead to our extinction'

  04-06-2017 13:50 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 exceptional and the everyday. We’ll share one person’s story every day until Canada Day.
  “I started picking up tires about 17 years ago. They’re tire retreads that, when it gets hot or the tires are overinflated or are thin, when they hit a sharp rock,
  
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• Capital Facts: The church as old as Canada itself

  04-06-2017 13:49 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.
  St. Albans Church encapsulates the year 1867 in bricks and mortar. The Gothic Revival-style church at the intersection of Daly and King Edward avenues is as old as Canada and has a storied history. The initial design, incorporating the slope of the hill, was by Thomas Fulle
  
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• 'Angela' standing by at Ottawa bar to help patrons out of bad dates - CBC.ca

  04-06-2017 12:02
  
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  'Angela' standing by at Ottawa bar to help patrons out of bad dates
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  Are you on a date that isn't working out? Do you feel like you're not in a safe situation? Does it all feel a bit weird? People who can answer yes to any of those questions while on a date at one Ottawa bar now have a safe way out: They can approach ...
  
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• Ottawa Champions rough up Sussex County Miners

  04-06-2017 04:21 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  The Ottawa Champions combined a 16-hit attack and some nifty pitching to pound out a 10-1 victory against the Sussex County Miners in a Can-Am League baseball game at RCGT Park on Saturday night.
  Danny Grauer hit a solo home run for the Champions, who improved to 6-9 overall with the second victory against the Miners in as many nights. Adron Chambers and Steve Brown both collected three hits, while Chambers and Sebastien Boucher both drove in a pair of runs.
  Starting pitcher Daniel Cordero (1-1)
  
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• Deans: More gambling the wrong move for Ottawa - Ottawa Sun

  04-06-2017 02:29
  
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  Deans: More gambling the wrong move for Ottawa
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  In 2013, Ottawa City Council was asked by the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Commission to consider becoming a host city for a new casino. When the debate turned to concern for the future of horse racing and the loss of rural jobs, council ultimately ...
  
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• Pedestrians hit on London Bridge; police say terror attack

  04-06-2017 02:26 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  By Danica Kirka And Jill Lawless
  LONDON — Terrorism struck at the heart of London, police said Sunday, after a vehicle veered off the road and mowed down pedestrians on London Bridge and gunshots rang out amid reports of knife attacks at nearby Borough Market.
  The violence turned a summery Saturday night in an area full of bars and restaurants into a scene of panic and chaos, with officers running through crowded streets screaming for people to flee and lifeboats drafte
  
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• Trump argues for travel ban as attacks hit London

  04-06-2017 02:20 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  U.S. President Donald Trump argued in favour of his controversial travel ban as London authorities responded to reports of a string of attacks Saturday night.
  One tweet read: “We need to be smart, vigilant and tough. We need the courts to give us back our rights. We need the Travel Ban as an extra level of safety!”
  London authorities were investigating reports that a vehicle had hit pedestrians on London Bridge. Two other incidents also were reported, stabbin
  
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• Trump argues for travel ban as attacks hit London - Ottawa Citizen

  04-06-2017 02:14
  
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  Trump argues for travel ban as attacks hit London
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  U.S. President Donald Trump argued in favour of his controversial travel ban as London authorities responded to reports of a string of attacks Saturday night. One tweet read: “We need to be smart, vigilant and tough. We need the courts to give us back ...
  Morneau to meet with American counterpart in Ottawa next week680 Newsall 2,592 news articles »
  
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• Ottawa's Gabriela Dabrowski facing busy of tennis Sunday at French Open

  04-06-2017 02:11 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Ottawa’s Gabriela Dabrowski and Yifan Xu of China advanced to the third round of women’s doubles in the French Open on Saturday with a 6-1, 6-2 victory against Madison Brengle of the United States and Anna Smith of Britain.
  Dabrowski and Xu are scheduled to be back on the court at Paris on Sunday for a match against Raluca Olaru of Romania and Olga Savchuk of Ukraine.
  That wouldn’t be Dabrowski’s only visit to the clay courts for the day, though. She is also expected to p
  
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• Rope rescue takes place after woman falls 12 metres into ravine

  04-06-2017 02:05 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Firefighters performed a difficult rope rescue after a woman fell into a ravine near a waterfall in the Fallingbrook area of Orléans on Saturday afternoon.
  The woman fell approximately 12 metres (40 feet) into the ravine.
  Fire officials dispatched the rope rescue team, and assisted paramedics in removing the woman from danger.
  She was transported to hospital. Paramedics did not have an immediate update on her condition.
  
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• Ride for Dad in Ottawa raises $260,000 for prostate cancer research

  04-06-2017 01:37 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  The Ottawa edition of TELUS Ride for Dad raised another $260,000 for prostate cancer research in 2017.
  A national manager with the Prostate Cancer Fight Foundation said 1,213 riders participated in this year’s event, which started out from the Canadian Aviation and Space Museum.ShareRide for Dad in Ottawa raises $260,000 for prostate cancer researchTumblr Pinterest Google Plus Reddit LinkedInEmailGALLERY:Photo Gallery: Ride for Dad One and a half year old Lydia-Rose Davies-Lyons was dresse
  
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• Ride for Dad in Ottawa raises $260000 for prostate cancer research - Ottawa Citizen

  04-06-2017 01:35
  
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  Ride for Dad in Ottawa raises $260000 for prostate cancer research
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  The Telus Ride For Dad in Ottawa on Saturday began at the Canada Aviation and Space Museum. Ashley Fraser/Postmedia Ashley Fraser / Postmedia. Share Adjust Comment Print. The Ottawa edition of TELUS Ride for Dad raised another $260,000 for ...and more »
  
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• Ottawa Fury FC back to USL duty after torrid stretch of games

  04-06-2017 00:48 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  There hasn’t been a lot of time in between games for Ottawa Fury FC to savour the efforts they’ve put in during the past few weeks.
  With five games in 14 days, it has been a bit of a blur. Still, on the heels of a tough 4-0 loss to MLS side Toronto FC in the second leg of the Canadian Championship semifinals on Wednesday, Fury FC faces yet another quick turnaround with a return to United Soccer League action Sunday at Bethlehem, Pa.
  With back-to-back league wins over Richmond (5
  
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• Play tough and play smart: The mantra of Redblacks defensive backs

  04-06-2017 00:23 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Right from the get-go in 2014, Ottawa Redblacks defensive backs have called themselves D-Block.
  With defensive backs coach Ike Charlton as ringleader, guys like Jerrell Gavins and Abdul Kanneh carried on the D-Block mentality: Play tough and play smart.
  Many of the faces have changed, but the mentality has stayed the same.
  “When I got here, I didn’t really know much about D-Block, but now I’m part of it. It’s an atmosphere,” said A.J. Jefferson, the 29-year-old corn
  
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