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• Abusers such as serial rapists have patterns, expert says

  07-06-2017 23:44 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  The revelation that a man is alleged to have drugged, raped and videotaped at least 15 women connected to the ByWard Market bar scene is unsettling to victim assault experts but not surprising given “abusers have patterns”.
  The accused serial rapist — Phillip Wilson, 33 — is being tried on 45 criminal charges, including sexual assault, aggravated assault and administering a noxious drug. The rapes are alleged to have happened in 2014 and 2015 during which a man preye
  
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• Committee approves lower speed limit, despite report saying it won’t make a difference

  07-06-2017 23:41
  
  Transportation committee will recommend council implement a lower speed limit on a stretch of River Road.
  
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• City moves forward on Barrhaven rail crossings plan #ottnews 1310news.com/2017/06/07/bar…

  07-06-2017 23:39 via twitter.com
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• Jonathan Pitre takes giant leap towards home

  07-06-2017 23:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Jonathan Pitre’s recovery took a giant leap forward Wednesday as doctors approved his discharge from hospital — ending a difficult and miraculous two-month stay at the University of Minnesota Masonic Children’s Hospital.
  Pitre, 17, continues to see new and hopeful signs that his stem cell transplant has started to power the repair of damage wrought by his blistering skin disease, epidermolysis bullosa (EB). 
  “We are excited! His skin is scabbing everywhere — so
  
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• Police seek two suspects in ByWard Market swarming 1310news.com/2017/06/07/pol…

  07-06-2017 23:22 via twitter.com
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• New collection of Canadian and indigenous art is National Gallery's largest ever

  07-06-2017 23:15 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  In what is being hailed as a new “way forward” for the National Gallery of Canada, a new permanent collection will display nearly 800 works in the largest group of Canadian and indigenous art ever presented at the gallery.
  The new Canadian and Indigenous Galleries represents the first major gallery transformation at the National Gallery since the building’s inauguration in 1988 — a project that took years of planning and nine months of construction ahead of its June 15 gr
  
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• Barrhaven: Committee OKs pricey plan to separate roads, rail

  07-06-2017 23:06 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  The proposed Barrhaven Rail Safety Program, a pricey but vital plan to separate roads and rail lines in Barrhaven, received the blessing of council’s transportation committee on Wednesday.
  It could cost $430 million to build overpasses or underpasses where roads currently cross train tracks in five locations, but councillors know the work is essential if the city wants to prevent another tragedy like the September, 2013 collision between an OC Transpo double-decker bus and Via Rail tr
  
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• Ottawa Newspaper Guild votes in favour of strike mandate

  07-06-2017 23:05
  
  Members of the Ottawa Newspaper Guild, which represents 68 employees at the Ottawa Citizen and Ottawa Sun, have voted in favour of giving their executive committee a strike mandate in contract negotiations with management.
  
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• Three distinct corridor contenders considered for Kanata LRT

  07-06-2017 22:51
  
  Three vastly different corridors for the future LRT link through Kanata will receive further review after staff found 13 ways to run an electrified rail service between Moodie Drive and the Canadian Tire Centre.The city has already identified what it believes is the strongest route.
  
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• Meilleur pulls out of languages job, cites 'controversy' around nomination

  07-06-2017 22:45 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  OTTAWA — The Liberals’ contentious choice for official languages commissioner has withdrawn her candidacy, saying her nomination has become a “controversy.”
  In a letter addressed to the heritage minister, Madeleine Meilleur said she didn’t think she would be able to do the job properly given the uproar since her name was put forth by the government.
  “As you know, my nomination has become the subject of controversy,” she told Melanie Joly in the letter da
  
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• Phoenix online dashboard out of date while government makes changes

  07-06-2017 22:42
  
  Website meant to track open cases hasn't been updated since March.
  
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• Live Nation opens Ottawa office, hires veteran local concert promoter Ken Craig

  07-06-2017 22:25 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Live Nation Canada is opening an office in Ottawa, the latest step in the international concert promotion company’s ongoing global expansion.
  The company announced last week that it has appointed veteran Ottawa concert promoter Ken Craig as vice president of the region. His responsibilities include developing new concert and festival sites in Eastern Canada, and acting as a liaison between the corporate concert industry and federal government agencies that support live music.
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• Committee takes another step in bid to separate railway from road in Barrhaven

  07-06-2017 22:07
  
  Environmental assessments are required before $430-million overpass project can proceed.
  
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• After viral tweet, Ottawa maker of tiny origami cranes shows us how it's done [Video]

  07-06-2017 22:04
  
  David Kawai likes to make origami cranes.Small ones. Really small ones.Some three days and 32,000 retweets after his wife tweeted out a photo of his latest (and smallest) creation, Kawai, an Ottawa resident and photo freelancer for Postmedia, invited us to his home Tuesday to show us the method (and the madness) behind the art of tiny crane making.
  
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• Reevely: Madeleine Meilleur should have been a senator, not languages commissioner

  07-06-2017 21:37 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Madeleine Meilleur should have been a senator, instead of watching her nomination to be Canada’s official-languages commissioner smash on the rocks.
  The former Ottawa-Vanier MPP and doyenne of Eastern Ontario francophones is an unexpected casualty of Justin Trudeau’s aversion to partisanship in a legislative body that has historically needed it to function.
  A place in the Senate is what Meilleur wanted, after a year of semi-retirement from politics. But she’s too much a Liberal
  
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• VIDEO: After viral tweet, Ottawa maker of tiny origami cranes shows us how it's done

  07-06-2017 21:36 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  David Kawai likes to make origami cranes.
  Small ones. Really small ones.
  Some three days and 32,000 retweets after his wife tweeted out a photo of his latest (and smallest) creation, Kawai, an Ottawa resident and photo freelancer for the Citizen, invited us to his home Tuesday to show us the method (and the madness) behind the art of tiny crane making.my husband keeps challenging himself to make the smallest origami crane he can and it's getting kind of ridiculous @davidkawai pic.twitter.com/Igi
  
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• Advocacy group rallies for landlord licences in Ottawa

  07-06-2017 21:23
  
  ACORN says it will force landlords to make basic repairs and provide vermin control.
  
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• National Gallery gives expanded presence to Indigenous art

  07-06-2017 20:48
  
  Gallery to publicly open two new spaces on June 15.
  
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• Glavin: America abandoned the world under Obama – not Trump

  07-06-2017 20:37 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  As an exercise in eloquently sugar-coating the facts of the shattered world order and Canada’s precarious place within the ruins, Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland’s speech in the House of Commons Tuesday was a masterwork of tact and sobriety.
  Running in excess of 4,000 words, here’s the short version: We’ve had a good run. Everything we’ve taken for granted for the past 70 years is gone. Don’t panic.
  Not panicking is of course always wise counsel. Mu
  
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• Restaurateur who hosted 'fit guys' Trudeau and Obama dishes on the whole affair

  07-06-2017 20:34
  
  Liverpool House owner David McMillan says the bromantic dinner of oysters, asparagus, and lobster spaghetti was quite a hit with the two heads of state.
  
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• The federal heritage minister says Madeleine Meilleur has withdrawn her candidacy for the position of official languages commissioner.

  07-06-2017 20:24 via twitter.com
  The federal heritage minister says Madeleine Meilleur has withdrawn her candidacy for the position of official languages commissioner.
  
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• Dining Out: Snacks topped mains at Amberwood Lounge & Eatery in Stittsville

  07-06-2017 20:24 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Amberwood Lounge & Eatery54 Springbrook Dr., Stittsville, 613-831-2442, aleottawa.ca
  Open: Weekdays 11 a.m. to 10 p.m., Saturday and Sunday 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.
  Prices: mains $18 to $34
  Access: no steps to front door or washrooms
  From what I’ve seen, Jason Potvin, the chef at the Amberwood Lounge & Eatery in Stittsville, knows how to write an alluring menu to tempt all kinds of eaters.
  For trendier palates, the signifiers of cosmopolitan culinary savvy pop out, from tuna poke (Ha
  
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• Going out best bets, June 7 to 14

  07-06-2017 20:20 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Beer (Megan Gillis)
  Billed as more than 300 beers from 30 breweries over three days, Gatineau’s Festibière is expected to attract more than 30,000 people to the Canadian Museum of History from June 8 to 10. Also on offer are live music from such as acts as The Lost Fingers, shown above, and Coleman Hell and a dozen food trucks and vendors offering local flavours. New for Canada 150 is the Canadian Beer Championship, in which breweries from 10 provinces will compete for a People
  
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• Canadian Forces personnel to get break on income tax

  07-06-2017 20:12 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  The Liberal government’s defence policy released Wednesday has good news for the rank and file in the Canadian Forces. There is an income tax break on salaries earned while overseas. “In order to ensure that Canadian Armed Forces members are treated equally on deployment, all troops deployed on any named international operations will be exempted from paying federal income tax on their salary to the level of Lieutenant-Colonel,” the new defence policy noted. “This is in ad
  
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• Kingston busker busted for 'loud music and bad behaviour'

  07-06-2017 19:46
  
  It’s a description many musicians would be proud to add to their résumé, but probably not in a police file.Police in Kingston say they were forced to bring in a 39-year-old local man over the weekend for “loud music and bad behaviour.”
  
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• Sajjan refuses to say where $13.9 billion in new defence spending will come from

  07-06-2017 19:17 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  The Liberal government announced Wednesday that it will increase defence spending by $13.9 billion over the next decade.
  Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan said the money is guaranteed to come.
  But Sajjan refused several times to say where the billions of dollars in new money is coming from. Would other government programs be cut? Would the deficit go up?
  Sajjan just repeatedly claimed that the money would be there.
  
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• The @MeehanCarolAnne show starts right now. Listen in: player.1310news.com https://t.co/n9QMprRHmD

  07-06-2017 19:00 via twitter.com
  
  The @MeehanCarolAnne show starts right now. Listen in: player.1310news.com https://t.co/n9QMprRHmD
  
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• Coming up: @ArchitectsDCA joins @_marksutcliffe on #Ottawa road maintenance: bit.ly/1uwtdOs #ottnews… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  07-06-2017 18:28 via twitter.com
  Coming up: @ArchitectsDCA joins @_marksutcliffe on #Ottawa road maintenance: bit.ly/1uwtdOs #ottnews… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• NEXT on the #POWERLunch: @hk_canada Jeff Polowin & @MacLeodLisa join @_MarkSutcliffe live in studio:… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  07-06-2017 17:58 via twitter.com
  NEXT on the #POWERLunch: @hk_canada Jeff Polowin & @MacLeodLisa join @_MarkSutcliffe live in studio:… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Annual Festibière kicks off in Gatineau Thursday

  07-06-2017 17:52 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  The region’s largest annual showcase of craft breweries is preparing to roll out the barrels this weekend.
  The three-day event, which begins on Thursday and runs through Saturday at the Canadian Museum of History, annually attracts more than 40,000 thirsty guests and dozens of breweries from across the country.
  More than 40 breweries will be in attendance, bringing as many as 400 beers with them. 
  Festibière Gatineau will also have bouncy castles and children’s entertaine
  
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• Still ahead: @Rowans_Dad joins @_MarkSutcliffe to talk about #Rowan's Legacy Project bit.ly/1uwtdOs… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  07-06-2017 17:44 via twitter.com
  Still ahead: @Rowans_Dad joins @_MarkSutcliffe to talk about #Rowan's Legacy Projectbit.ly/1uwtdOs… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Denley: OC Transpo is slow and unpleasant, hence ridership woes

  07-06-2017 17:36 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  OC Transpo ridership was down again in the first three months of this year. City staff are unsure why, although they suggest the shortfall could be due to external factors such as population, employment numbers, gasoline prices and weather.
  Curiously, Transpo has not yet told the public what the actual reduction is, saying the numbers are still being analyzed. We do know that revenue for the quarter was $3.9 million less than anticipated. Were that kind of shortfall to persist throughout the yea
  
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• LIVE NOW: @JimWatsonOttawa joins @_MarkSutcliffe to talk #ottcity spending on #roads: bit.ly/1uwtdOs… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  07-06-2017 17:32 via twitter.com
  LIVE NOW: @JimWatsonOttawa joins @_MarkSutcliffe to talk #ottcity spending on #roads: bit.ly/1uwtdOs… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Police say muggings, swarmings on the rise across the city

  07-06-2017 17:28 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Police are hunting for two women who mugged a third on George Street last month as they report an increase in personal robberies even before the beginning of what’s typically a summer spike.
  The victim was near the Dalhousie Street intersection in the middle of the afternoon of May 20 when she was approached by two women who began harassing and following her. One grabbed her purse, which spilled its contents onto the ground. The suspects grabbed the victim’s phone and fled.
  There hav
  
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• Transportation committee OKs pricey proposed rail safety program for Barrhaven

  07-06-2017 17:16 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  The proposed Barrhaven Rail Safety Program, a pricey but vital plan to separate roads and rail lines in Barrhaven, received the blessing of council’s transportation committee on Wednesday.
  It could cost $430 million to build overpasses or underpasses where roads currently cross train tracks in five locations, but councillors know the work is essential if the city wants to prevent another tragedy like the September, 2013 collision between an OC Transpo double-decker bus and Via Rail tr
  
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• LIVE NOW: @powerstim joins @_MarkSutcliffe LIVE: bit.ly/1uwtdOs #cdnpoli @abacusdataca https://t.co/GPOdFxl2qv

  07-06-2017 16:37 via twitter.com
  
  LIVE NOW: @powerstim joins @_MarkSutcliffe LIVE: bit.ly/1uwtdOs#cdnpoli @abacusdataca https://t.co/GPOdFxl2qv
  
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• #British voters have two awful options: @Andrew_Z_Cohen joins @_MarkSutcliffe to discuss coming up… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  07-06-2017 16:14 via twitter.com
  #British voters have two awful options: @Andrew_Z_Cohen joins @_MarkSutcliffe to discuss coming up… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• NEXT: @DaniellaMicaela on #JamesComeyTestimony - set for tomorrow morning: bit.ly/1uwtdOs… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  07-06-2017 15:47 via twitter.com
  NEXT: @DaniellaMicaela on #JamesComeyTestimony - set for tomorrow morning: bit.ly/1uwtdOs… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Community station hosts telethon for flood victims in Clarence-Rockland

  07-06-2017 15:41 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  A community station is hosting a telethon Saturday to raise money for flood victims in Clarence-Rockland.
  The telethon will run from noon to 8 p.m. Saturday on station TVC22.
  The small community about 40 kilometres east of Ottawa declared a state of emergency at the height of this spring’s flooding.
  The broadcast will take place from the Optimist Performance Hall in Rockland and will feature entertainment and local celebrity hosts, with all proceeds going to flood victims from the loc
  
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• Coming up @ 10AM: Should the city spend tens of millions of dollars more on road maintenance? #QuestionOfTheDay… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  07-06-2017 15:35 via twitter.com
  Coming up @ 10AM: Should the city spend tens of millions of dollars more on road maintenance?#QuestionOfTheDay… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Renovation Transformation: Accommodating extended family in a hurry

  07-06-2017 15:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  There are many reasons for investing in a home renovation. Some folks want to redesign a kitchen or bathroom to their tastes; others may want to gut a home and start fresh. And, sometimes, you find yourself needing to create more space to accommodate a loved one.
  Our story leads us to a home in Blackburn Hamlet where a couple needed to expand their home. The wife of the homeowner’s father had passed away and the father had to be moved to Ottawa to be cared for as soon as possible. Their or
  
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• Man charged with impaired driving causing death in crash that killed Gatineau woman

  07-06-2017 14:38 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  A 26-year-old Blainville man appeared in court in Gatineau Tuesday facing charges including impaired driving causing death in the head-on crash that killed Amina-Sara Belahbib, 24, on Highway 50 in November.
  After prosecutors reviewed the case, a warrant was issued for the arrest of François Castonguay Danis last week and he was arrested by Sûreté du Québec officers Monday.
  He’s also charged with impaired driving causing bodily harm.
  Belahbib, of Gatine
  
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• Watch: Goat yoga at the Farm

  07-06-2017 14:37 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Dozens of yogis had a rare chance to practice with some furry, four-legged friends as the Canada Agriculture and Food Museum held their first ever goat yoga class.
  The event sold out in minutes and continues Wednesday, June 7, 2017. 
  Rebecca Lahoud gets a little encouragement from a goat during a goat yoga session at the Canada Agriculture and Food Museum Tuesday June 6, 2017.
  Amy Hum, right, takes a selfie with a baby goat near the end of a goat yoga session at the Canada Agriculture and F
  
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• Finally feeling like summer with downright hot weather on the way [Video]

  07-06-2017 14:17
  
  Calypso and construction. Must be summer in Ottawa.It’s finally starting to feel like it with Wednesday’s Environment Canada forecast of fog giving way to sunshine and a high of 25 C with a humidex reading of 27.
  
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• Finally feeling like summer with downright hot weather on the way

  07-06-2017 14:15 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Calypso and construction. Must be summer in Ottawa.
  It’s finally starting to feel like it with Wednesday’s Environment Canada forecast of fog giving way to sunshine and a high of 25 C with a humidex reading of 27.
  Break out the sunscreen for a UV index of 8 or very high and swap out the brollies for bathing suits – Calypso Waterpark in Limoges opens for the season Wednesday. 
  It seems impossible after this cold, wet spring but we may soon want to cool off with Ottawa
  
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• 'Our lives changed on that day': One family's long, hard medical journey [Video]

  07-06-2017 13:07
  
  The Paravans’ epic medical journey began at Charleston Lake during a late summer camping trip in 2012 when the family’s youngest member, five-year-old Matthew, had his first seizure.
  
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• CHEO strikes partnership deal with two Toronto children's hospitals [Video]

  07-06-2017 13:01
  
  CHEO has launched a formal partnership with two Toronto children’s hospitals in an attempt to improve pediatric care in the province while cutting costs.
  
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• Nathoo and Rourke: Canada's trade future with the U.K.

  07-06-2017 13:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Minister of International Trade François-Philippe Champagne and his officials have been busy.
  In recent weeks, we saw exploratory free trade talks with China, the launch of consultations on Canada’s relations with Brazil and its Mercosur partners, internal work to modernize an already solid free-trade agreement with Chile and strategizing on how to revive the best parts of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations.
  That’s a full plate even without mentioning the United
  
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• Capital Voices: 'It was hard for us to lie to our mother'

  07-06-2017 12:30 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.
  “What did a one-dollar allowance buy in the 1960s? My sister Bev and I — ages 11 and 10 — were occasionally given a dollar each from our mother as a rew
  
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• Capital Facts: The Experimental Farm's unexpected specialty

  07-06-2017 12:30 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.
  Did you know tobacco used to be grown on the Central Experimental Farm? From the early 1900s, tobacco specialists grew American varieties of burley and cigar tobacco and compared their yields and quality using different fertilizers. Tobacco research ended in the late &lsquo
  
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