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• Our staff picks for great music at JazzFest

  16-06-2017 23:36 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Among opinionated music critics, unanimity is rare. But the Citizen’s Peter Hum, Aedan Helmer and Lynn Saxberg agreed on one must-see show at the TD Ottawa Jazz Festival: Hudson.
  An all-star band with lots of crossover appeal, the quartet consists of guitarist John Scofield, keyboardist John Medeski, bassist Larry Grenadier and drummer Jack DeJohnette. It plays the NAC Theatre Sunday, June 24, at 9 p.m. Its new, debut album ticks off many musical boxes, with the band indulging in gritty ex
  
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• Project aims to help shatter healthcare's leadership glass ceiling

  16-06-2017 23:03 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  At a time when women outnumber men at medical schools and make up 80 per cent of the health workforce, the number of women in health leadership roles makes a stark contrast.
  Women hold relatively few leadership jobs in healthcare in Canada and head fewer than 20 per cent of hospitals. The Ottawa Hospital’s 28-member senior leadership team, for example, contains more than twice as many men as women, including its CEO Dr. Jack Kitts, which is not unusual.
  A new project, by professors from th
  
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• Ontario reviewing court ruling on abortion information

  16-06-2017 22:52 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  The Ontario government is reviewing a court ruling that struck down a law preventing information about abortion services from being made public.
  “The government is currently reviewing the decision and considering next steps,” said a spokesperson for the Ministry of Government and Consumer Services, which oversees the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act.
  Last week, an Ontario Superior Court judge declared the section of FIPPA that excludes information about abortion s
  
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• Project aims to help shatter healthcare's glass ceiling

  16-06-2017 22:41 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  At a time when women outnumber men at medical schools and make up 80 per cent of the health workforce, the number of women in health leadership roles makes a stark contrast.
  Women hold relatively few leadership jobs in healthcare in Canada and head fewer than 20 per cent of hospitals. The Ottawa Hospital’s 28-member senior leadership team, for example, contains more than twice as many men as women, including its CEO Dr. Jack Kitts, which is not unusual.
  A new project, by professors from th
  
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• Ottawa road closures for busy June weekend - CBC.ca

  16-06-2017 22:39
  
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  Saturday and Sunday are looking a little damp in Ottawa, but it's not going to stop thousands of people from attending this weekend's festivals. Prepare for your commute to take longer as the city closes major roads for the events. But on the bright ...
  
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• Court hears two tragic tales as ByWard Market killer sentenced 14 years

  16-06-2017 22:31 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Kayla Sullivan never got the chance at the reconciliation she so desperately wanted with her young daughter, who she named Justice.
  That chance was robbed from her, said her family in powerful court testimony, by her killer Peter Herauf, who was sentenced to 14 years on Friday after pleading guilty to manslaughter in the October 2016 slaying.
  Sullivan, 30, was killed after a botched small-time pot deal. She took about a gram from Herauf without paying, and walked away to rejoin her friends outsi
  
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• Hundreds of rare and obscure films now streaming on new Ottawa Public Library service

  16-06-2017 22:16 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Revanche, a little-known German-language film about guilt and revenge in Vienna, is the surprise top choice of Ottawa Public Library patrons using the library’s new streaming video service of classic, hard-to-find movies.
  Maybe viewers are lured by the director’s “tense, existential, and surprising portrait of vengeance and redemption” — or maybe it’s the picture of the naked woman on its cover — but the Oscar-nominated Revanche is the most streamed film
  
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• Singer-songwriter Tony Turner explores life after 'Harperman'

  16-06-2017 22:15 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  In some respects, Tony Turner can divide his life into before and after segments.
  Before Harperman and after Harperman.
  Turner, a soft-spoken Ottawa singer-songwriter and former public servant, kept a low profile in this town until his Harperman ballad, a sing-along broadside at then-PM Stephen Harper, went viral two years ago.
  “It really did change my life and I had no idea that it would,” Turner says. “I think what Harperman did was cause me to think I should be writing songs
  
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• Harperman songwriter Tony Turner is making a creative move to the West Coast

  16-06-2017 22:13
  
  In some respects, Tony Turner can divide his life into before and after segments.Before Harperman and after Harperman.Turner, a soft-spoken Ottawa singer-songwriter and former public servant, kept a low profile in this town until his Harperman ballad, a sing-along broadside at then-PM Stephen Harper, went viral two years ago.
  
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• From Hudson to Feist to Mavis Staples, great music beckons at the TD Ottawa Jazz Festival

  16-06-2017 22:08 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Among opinionated music critics, unanimity is rare. But the Citizen’s Peter Hum, Aedan Helmer and Lynn Saxberg agreed on one must-see show at the TD Ottawa Jazz Festival: Hudson.
  An all-star band with lots of crossover appeal, the quartet consists of guitarist John Scofield, keyboardist John Medeski, bassist Larry Grenadier and drummer Jack DeJohnette. It plays the NAC Theatre Sunday, June 24, at 9 p.m. Its new, debut album ticks off many musical boxes, with the band indulging in gritty ex
  
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• The train is coming: LRT stations taking shape as Belfast berm removed

  16-06-2017 21:44 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Ottawa’s LRT builder has nearly reached the half-way mark of its busiest year of construction.
  Work by the Rideau Transit Group is underway at all 13 Confederation LRT Line stations and the 12.5-kilometre rail line that connects them.
  Close to nine kilometres of track in either direction has either been laid or is in the process of being laid along the mainline and more than one-third of the overhead wires used to power the trains have been installed. Thirteen Alstom Citadis light rail veh
  
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• #CosbyTrial twitter.com/anne_kingston/…

  16-06-2017 21:35 via twitter.com
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• Police union severs ties with police brass over 'double-standard' of officer treatment

  16-06-2017 21:19 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  The rank-and-file Ottawa police union has severed ties with the police executive after what its president says have been months of double-standards and refusal to treat officers fairly, the Citizen has learned.
  That fraught relationship was further fractured by recent serious criminal allegations against senior police officials. 
  “The ongoing relationship between the (union) and the (police) executive is unworkable,” Ottawa Police Association president Matt Skof wrote in a Frida
  
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• Editorial: Ontario should open up on pot planning

  16-06-2017 21:17 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  With pot legalization about a year away, we can conclude that the Ontario government is working on a plan. Or at least a plan for a plan. 
  And yes, the “Legalization of Cannabis Secretariat” exists and, apparently, is busily holding meetings. With whom, it won’t say. But not the public. Not yet, anyhow. 
  This doesn’t inspire much confidence. Other provinces are puffing along nicely: New Brunswick is holding public hearings this summer; Quebec’s convening a
  
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• Ottawa research explores the role of culture in reaction to traumas

  16-06-2017 21:14 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  What matters more: nature or nurture, genes or environment?
  It’s always been a big question for science, but in recent decades it has become apparent that it’s also not an either/or question. Biology can actually be changed by experience and, at the same time, culture has a role in how it plays out.
  Carleton University and the Mental Health Research Institute at The Royal Ottawa Mental Health Centre have launched a new partnership to probe the role culture plays in mental health and
  
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• What's happening around the Nation's Capital this weekend? @Bartcormier has everything you need to know https://t.co/eD4dm6NM0W

  16-06-2017 20:44 via twitter.com
  
  What's happening around the Nation's Capital this weekend? @Bartcormier has everything you need to know https://t.co/eD4dm6NM0W
  
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• The Red Bull Global Rallycross happens this weekend. @stevearpin is a fan favourite and only Canadian racing. He jo… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  16-06-2017 20:32 via twitter.com
  The Red Bull Global Rallycross happens this weekend. @stevearpin is a fan favourite and only Canadian racing. He jo… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Scott Maxwell and Astrid Neyland, a biker from Fitzroy Harbour join @MeehanCarolAnne from Vimy for the… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  16-06-2017 20:20 via twitter.com
  Scott Maxwell and Astrid Neyland, a biker from Fitzroy Harbour join @MeehanCarolAnne from Vimy for the… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Egan: Desperate Ottawa man turns to Germany for cancer care — 'It's not a bad tooth'

  16-06-2017 20:14 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Ontario’s Ministry of Health is preparing for clinical trials on a promising treatment for pancreatic cancer — a ray of hope against a dark prognosis.
  But Hy Elmas, 69, does not have the luxury of time. “It’s not a bad tooth,” says the retired property manager, nearly pounding his meaty fist on the kitchen table, birds chirping outside on a sunny day in Centrepointe.
  “It’s cancer and it kills.”
  While a Toronto hospital’s “ethics review
  
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• Thinking of seeing Cars 3 or Rough Night? You'll want to hear Keith Whittier's reviews on the @MeehanCarolAnne Show https://t.co/e8FePZ0TrH

  16-06-2017 20:04 via twitter.com
  
  Thinking of seeing Cars 3 or Rough Night? You'll want to hear Keith Whittier's reviews on the @MeehanCarolAnne Show https://t.co/e8FePZ0TrH
  
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• Review: Russell Braun outstanding in Louis Riel opera, which kicks off NAC's Canada Scene

  16-06-2017 19:51 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Louis RielCanadian Opera Company/National Arts CentreJune 15 and 17, Southam Hall, NACReviewed Thursday
  An ambitious reworking of a classic Canadian opera about Metis leader Louis Riel kicked off opening night of the National Arts Centre’s Canada Scene festival on Thursday.Created as a centennial project in 1967 by composer Harry Somers and librettist Mavor Moore, it was the first opera written by a Canadian to be presented by the Canadian Opera Company. It was, however, an artifact o
  
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• The NAC has announced its first ever Artistic Director of Indigenous Theatre. @KevilorKevin joins @MeehanCarolAnne… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  16-06-2017 19:46 via twitter.com
  The NAC has announced its first ever Artistic Director of Indigenous Theatre. @KevilorKevin joins @MeehanCarolAnne… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Amazon is set to buy Whole Foods for more than $13B. So what will it mean for shoppers? Professor Ian Lee joins… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  16-06-2017 19:38 via twitter.com
  Amazon is set to buy Whole Foods for more than $13B. So what will it mean for shoppers? Professor Ian Lee joins… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• .@crimegarden joins @MeehanCarolAnne with the latest on the trial of accused serial rapist Phillip Wilson

  16-06-2017 19:32 via twitter.com
  .@crimegarden joins @MeehanCarolAnne with the latest on the trial of accused serial rapist Phillip Wilson
  
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• 'Dream' response and 'little miracles' help quell latest Ebola outbreak

  16-06-2017 19:31
  
  A quick-thinking male nurse in a remote part of the Democratic Republic of Congo — who had not been paid for at least a year — is one of the “little miracles” that helped prevent the latest Ebola outbreak from turning into a repeat of the deadly West Africa epidemic, according to Canada’s leading Ebola expert.
  
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• Senators will open pre-season against Maple Leafs

  16-06-2017 19:27 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  The Ottawa Senators will open the pre-season with a Battle of Ontario.
  If the Senators want to get a good idea of where they stand going into next season, there’s no better measuring stick than a home-and-home series against the arch-rival Toronto Maple Leafs to open the exhibition schedule.
  The club will play two exhibition games at the Canadian Tire Centre while they’ll play a home game in O’Leary, P.E.I. against the New Jersey Devils on Sept. 25 as part of the Kraft Hockeyvi
  
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• More on the "I'm Out" campaign and the cracks showing within the provincial PCs. Former Senator Marjory LeBreton jo… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  16-06-2017 19:14 via twitter.com
  More on the "I'm Out" campaign and the cracks showing within the provincial PCs. Former Senator Marjory LeBreton jo… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• 'Little miracles' help quell latest Ebola outbreak

  16-06-2017 19:11 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  A quick-thinking male nurse in a remote part of the Democratic Republic of Congo — who had not been paid for at least a year — is one of the “little miracles” that helped prevent the latest Ebola outbreak from turning into a repeat of the deadly West Africa epidemic, according to Canada’s leading Ebola expert.
  The nurse quickly flagged a very sick patient as likely suffering from some form of hemorrhagic fever. He immediately sent a blood sample for testing. Althoug
  
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• Canadian military units take on ceremonial duties as the Queen’s Guard in London

  16-06-2017 19:08 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  On Sunday, June 18, a company of 80 personnel from the 2nd Battalion, Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry and 35 members of the Royal Canadian Artillery Band will assume ceremonial duties as the Queen’s Guard in London, England, the Canadian Forces says. That will continue until July 3.
  The Queen’s Guard are soldiers charged with guarding the official royal residences in the UK. These include Buckingham Palace, St. James’s Palace, Windsor Castle, and the Tower of
  
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• The @MeehanCarolAnne Show starts now. Listen live here player.1310news.com https://t.co/DJzOtkJonq

  16-06-2017 19:04 via twitter.com
  
  The @MeehanCarolAnne Show starts now.Listen live here player.1310news.com https://t.co/DJzOtkJonq
  
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• Reevely: Celebrity prof advises, 'See if you can take the social-justice warriors out at the top' at Carleton Place Tory event

  16-06-2017 18:44 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Kathleen Wynne is a radical leftist who wants to tear down the things that made Ontario, Canada and the West great, University of Toronto psychologist Jordan Peterson told a crowd assembled by Tory MPP Randy Hillier in Carleton Place on Thursday night.
  “If she had a shred of integrity, she’d resign,” Peterson said to applause, from a riser in a corner of a second-floor ballroom at the town arena.
  “See if you can take the social-justice warriors out at the top,” he a
  
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• Missing girl, 16, last seen leaving school on Tuesday

  16-06-2017 18:12 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Police are asking the public to help them find a 16-year-old girl who was last seen leaving her south-end Ottawa school Tuesday.
  Taryn Torrie-Smith is described as white, 5’7″ tall with a thin build, auburn hair and grey-green eyes. She has several piercings in each ear and was wearing a blue T-shirt and grey pants and carrying a blue backpack.
  Anyone who knows her current whereabouts is asked to immediately call Ottawa police dispatch at 613-236-1222. Those with other information th
  
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• NEXT on the #POWERLunch: @LauraPeck6 & @davidgourlay join @_MarkSutcliffe LIVE in studio:… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  16-06-2017 17:58 via twitter.com
  NEXT on the #POWERLunch:@LauraPeck6 & @davidgourlay join @_MarkSutcliffe LIVE in studio:… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Feds confirm Stage 2 money as three teams fight for LRT construction contract

  16-06-2017 17:54 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Prime Minister Justin Trudeau confirmed on Friday the federal government’s commitment of more than $1 billion to help expand municipal rail service in Ottawa, while three construction teams fight for a lucrative contract to extend the LRT line.
  Trudeau made the announcement at the massive LRT maintenance, assembly and storage facility on Belfast Road in front of a team of Alstom train builders and several politicians from each level of government.
  He plugged in a glowing Big Red O –
  
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• Sahi: How fear of peace bonds affects Canadian Muslims

  16-06-2017 17:23 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  In Phillip K. Dick’s science fiction story The Minority Report, the concept of “pre-crime” becomes the new way law enforcement functions, as the NYPD finds a way to detect crimes before they’re even committed.
  Fast forward from when the story was written in 1956 to Canada today, and you might see more resemblance than you think. Just about all that you’d have to do is replace the word “precog” – Dick’s characters who predict crimes – wi
  
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• Suspended Ontario driver blows three times the limit, gets fast trip to Gatineau court

  16-06-2017 17:20 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Lucerne Boulevard in Aylmer is a 70 km/h zone, so when police heard the engine of a BMW coming toward them far too fast they got the radar ready and clocked the car at 156 km/h.
  It was 2 a.m. Friday. The driver, a 30-year-old man from the Ontario side of the river, showed “multiple signs” of being extremely drunk so they gave him a test and recorded about three times the legal level of alcohol in his system.
  That’s when the flurry of charges began.
  One for extreme speeding. One
  
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• Trudeau commits funding to Stage 2 of Ottawa's LRT

  16-06-2017 17:17
  
  Widely expected announcement clears the way for Ottawa to break ground on LRT in 2019.
  
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• Trudeau confirms LRT funding — but city transport projects, not just LRT, will need serious cash from upper-tier governments

  16-06-2017 17:14 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Prime Minister Justin Trudeau confirmed on Friday the federal government’s intent to fund the city’s $3-billion blueprint to extend LRT in four directions by 2023.
  Stage 2 LRT cash has become just one morsel of funding that the City of Ottawa will need from upper levels of government to pay for a growing priority list of municipal transportation projects.
  The city wants $1.157 billion from each of the upper levels of government to pay for the Stage 2 plan. Under the anticipated finan
  
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• NEXT @JonathanWilling discusses #Ottawa's transportation projects & the funding needed bit.ly/1ppeuDa… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  16-06-2017 17:14 via twitter.com
  NEXT@JonathanWilling discusses #Ottawa's transportation projects & the funding neededbit.ly/1ppeuDa… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Coming up on the #POWERLunch @ noon: @LauraPeck6 & @davidgourlay join @_MarkSutcliffe LIVE in studio:… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  16-06-2017 17:08 via twitter.com
  Coming up on the #POWERLunch @ noon: @LauraPeck6 & @davidgourlay join @_MarkSutcliffe LIVE in studio:… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Take a walk on the wet side at the 9th annual Water Garden Tour

  16-06-2017 17:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Ian Wilson knows how to build a natural escape – his gorgeous water garden surrounds half of his home and attracts visitors from all around. Folks often stroll through his property, take a seat under the wisteria and let the sounds of nature take over. They become entranced by the array of peonies, daylilies, irises, gladioli and azaleas. Some even ask him for gardening advice. His garden will be one of 11 in the Water Garden Tour by the Greater Ottawa Water Garden Horticultural Socie
  
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• Is it time to move on from the #pipeline debate? @CharlieAngusNDP joins @_marksutcliffe coming up:… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  16-06-2017 17:00 via twitter.com
  Is it time to move on from the #pipeline debate?@CharlieAngusNDP joins @_marksutcliffe coming up:… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Gormley: What happens when nice guys fail to protect our rights?

  16-06-2017 16:45 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  A leader who brags about sexually assaulting women, such as Donald Trump, or who used to be a member of the KGB, such as Vladimir Putin, or who has confessed to serial murder in a manner decidedly bereft of the repentant tone one would normally expect of a confession, such as Rodrigo Duterte, or who is even just a little cold and a little mean to people, such as Margaret Thatcher or Stephen Harper, is easily imagined pushing civil liberties aside when those liberties stand between themselves and
  
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• Coming up: @adam_stanley joins @_MarkSutcliffe to talk #USOpen2017 & @BrookeHenderson bit.ly/1ppeuDa https://t.co/LhH9A66ib3

  16-06-2017 16:40 via twitter.com
  
  Coming up: @adam_stanley joins @_MarkSutcliffe to talk #USOpen2017 & @BrookeHenderson bit.ly/1ppeuDa https://t.co/LhH9A66ib3
  
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• Will the new central library be iconic? @JevoneNicholas joins @_marksutcliffe coming up: bit.ly/1ppeuDa… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  16-06-2017 16:28 via twitter.com
  Will the new central library be iconic?@JevoneNicholas joins @_marksutcliffe coming up: bit.ly/1ppeuDa… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• #Amazon buying #WholeFoods, making strong move into groceries: bit.ly/2tuWHEb https://t.co/0mw4ozm6Gw

  16-06-2017 16:12 via twitter.com
  
  #Amazon buying #WholeFoods, making strong move into groceries: bit.ly/2tuWHEb https://t.co/0mw4ozm6Gw
  
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• Today's letters: Indigenous centre or portrait gallery?

  16-06-2017 16:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Indigenous centre key to decolonization of Canada
  Re: How to honour (and not honour) indigenous Canadians, June 9.
  Recent word of the possible designation of the former U.S. embassy building at 100 Wellington St. as the site of a proposed national Indigenous centre has been provocative to many.
  This is as it should be, for the whole point is to decolonize, Indigenize and unsettle the national capital in a manner that is truly profound. There could be no stronger statement of Indigenous aspiratio
  
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• Ontario company wins contract to dispose of former HMCS Preserver and CFAV Quest

  16-06-2017 15:58 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Marine Recycling Corporation in Port Colborne Ont. has won the contract to dispose of the former HMCS Preserver and CFAV Quest. The contract is worth $12.6 million, according to the federal government notice.
  “The contractor will be required to prepare the ships for transfer, transfer each to the Approved Site(s), demilitarize the Controlled Goods, return any museum material, and subsequently Break (dismantle and dispose or recycle) the vessels in an efficient and environmentally responsib
  
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• Arson squad probes fire in abandoned house in Gloucester

  16-06-2017 15:43 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  The Ottawa police arson unit has taken over the investigation of a fire in an abandoned home on Ogilvie Road Thursday night, after a fire investigator’s examination of the scene raised red flags.
  Firefighters were alerted by a 7:03 p.m. 911 call reporting a fire at the home at 1098 Ogilvie Rd. near Cyrville Road.
  Crews arriving saw smoke coming from the house’s eaves, and they launched an aggressive attack, with an all clear sounded by 7:29 p.m.
  A fire investigator was dispatched to
  
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