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• Lawyers circle over the Franklin searches

  25-06-2017 23:56 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Someone is flooding Parks Canada with access-to-information requests about the search for HMS Terror — 30 of them released so far since the fall.
  The search last summer ended with the discovery of the wreck of Terror, one of two Royal Navy ships that Sir John Franklin took into Arctic waters in the 1840s. All 129 officers and men died.
  Federal laws protect the names of those making the access requests, but the department says they are split about evenly between reporters and lawyers.
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• Canadians love the outdoors, at least in theory

  25-06-2017 23:51 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  A recent Angus Reid poll illustrates how difficult it is for Canadians to break free from household devices to enjoy outdoor recreation.
  Apparently, we don’t tolerate summer bugs or iffy weather and we worry about having a solid WI-FI connection in that national park offering free admission this summer for Canada’s 150th birthday.
  The study, which formed the basis for the Coleman Canada Outdoor Report, surveyed 1,500 Canadians. More than 98 per cent agreed that spending time outdoors
  
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• Alfie could learn he's a Hall of Famer on Monday

  25-06-2017 23:18 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  CHICAGO — So is Daniel Alfredsson a first ballot hall-of-famer?
  We’re about to find out.
  The Hockey Hall of Fame will announce its inductees Monday afternoon, and this will the first year that Alfredsson, the Ottawa Senators’ former captain, is eligible for voting by the committee that will meet in Toronto in the morning.
  While former Winnipeg Jets’ winger Teemu Selanne, who finished his career with the Anaheim Ducks, is expected to be an automatic for induction in his fi
  
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• Clegg Street pedestrian and cycling bridge gets provincial funding

  25-06-2017 22:56
  
  On Friday, Ontario committed $5 million towards the cost of the bridge.
  
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• Head coach Guy Boucher says Ottawa Senators can't rest on their laurels

  25-06-2017 22:47 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  CHICAGO — Training camp doesn’t start until September, but it’s not hard to figure out what Guy Boucher’s message will be to Ottawa Senators players.
  You can’t rest on your laurels.
  Yes, the Senators made great strides this past season and they came up just a goal short against the Pittsburgh Penguins in Game 7 of the National Hockey League’s Eastern Conference final, but that doesn’t mean they can just show up next season and think it will be easy to ta
  
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• ‘Very good year’ for strawberries: Pick-your-own season arrives in Ottawa

  25-06-2017 22:24
  
  The weather over the winter and wet wheather this spring has led to one of the best yields in years.
  
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• Canadian snipers to get new protective vests

  25-06-2017 22:24 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  The Canadian Forces has requested bids from companies for a new protective vest for its snipers. Bids are to go in by Aug. 2
  Here are some the details provided by the federal government to companies:
  “The sniper community currently has access to the in-service Fragmentation Protective Vest (FPV) that is worn by all Canadian Forces (CF) members. The in-service FPV is an all-in-one system, meaning the soft armour and in-service Bullet Resistant Plate (BRP) pockets are part of one garment.Whi
  
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• Quebec police say Rockfest fan felled by heart attack

  25-06-2017 21:58
  
  Quebec police said Sunday the man whosebody was found outside the Rockfest musicfestival in Montello on the weekend died of aheart attack.
  
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• Missing Inuk woman ‘a very strong person’

  25-06-2017 20:34
  
  Mary Papatsie, 39, has not been seen since April.
  
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• Jazzfest review: Kenny Barron's jazz standards put class, swing and geniality on display

  25-06-2017 19:20 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Kenny BarronTD Ottawa Jazz FestivalSaturday, June 23
  Before Kenny Barron set his hands on the piano Saturday night, he gave his fans in the NAC Theatre’s front row a self-effacing little warning.
  “You guys are going to hear all my mistakes,” the 74-year-old Brooklyn-based jazz master said.
  He said that he was still fatigued from his travels the day before. “I’m a little tired,” Barron said, before adding: “However sometimes that’s when you play you
  
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• Capital Builders: Lady Aberdeen, Canadian feminist

  25-06-2017 19:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Lady Aberdeen was involved in every facet of Ottawa life during her five years in Canada. From hosting a historic fancy dress ball on the carpets of the House of Commons to starting poverty-relief organizations in the city, Lady Aberdeen used her status as the Governor General’s wife to launch herself into volunteering.
  “The solution to all life’s difficulties can be put into one word: service,” she said to an audience of young women at Rideau Hall in 1898. She emphasized
  
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• Canadian defence industry considers increasing its profile in India

  25-06-2017 18:53 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  The Ottawa-based Canadian Association of Defence and Security Industries is trying to determine how much interest there is among its members to take part in a potential Government of Canada trade mission to India. The trade mission will coincide with DEFEXPO, India’s National Defence and Security Trade Show taking place in February/March 2018.
  India, which spends a little more than $55 billion (U.S.) per year, has been ranked 5th in the list of countries who spend the most o
  
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• #DrugAmnesty box being used, but overdoses still ocurring @EscapadeMF #ottnews 1310news.com/2017/06/25/amn…

  25-06-2017 18:25 via twitter.com
  #DrugAmnesty box being used, but overdoses still ocurring @EscapadeMF #ottnews1310news.com/2017/06/25/amn…
  
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• Photos: RCN's Maritime Tactical Operations Group work with Australian Navy

  25-06-2017 18:22 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  The crew of HMCS Winnipeg are at sea for Poseidon Cutlass. With them are members of the Royal Canadian Navy’s Maritime Tactical Operations Group (MTOG) who have been conducting training. They have been working with Australian Navy personnel, including conducting training exercises on Her Majesty’s Australian Ship Ballarat. Here are photos courtesy of the Canadian Forces. Photos by Cpl Carbe Orellana, MARPAC Imaging Services.
  Members of the Maritime Tactical Operations Group (MTOG) cu
  
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• Ottawa councillor unsure about Salvation Army's plans

  25-06-2017 17:48
  
  Coun. Matheiu Fleury applauds investment, but unsure about new location.
  
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• Boy, 13, now stable after paramedics called to pool in Orléans

  25-06-2017 17:39
  
  A 13-year-old boy was taken to hospital in critical condition on Saturday evening after Ottawa paramedics were called to a residential pool in Orléans. Paramedics received a call at 6:07 and said in a tweet they found the boy in cardiac arrest in a pool on Fortune Street near Highway 174 and Orléans Boulevard. Family members had initiated CPR.
  
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• Orléans boy, 13, pulled from pool now stable

  25-06-2017 17:38 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  A 13-year-old boy was taken to hospital in critical condition on Saturday evening after Ottawa paramedics were called to a residential pool in Orléans.
  Paramedics received a call at 6:07 and said in a tweet they found the boy in cardiac arrest in a pool on Fortune Street near Highway 174 and Orléans Boulevard. Family members had initiated CPR, the tweet said.
  Paramedics said they started aggressive resuscitation before the patient was transported to hospital.
  On Sunday, the boy&rsq
  
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• No swim advisory for three Ottawa beaches

  25-06-2017 17:32 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  The Ottawa public health department has issued a no-swim advisory at three area beaches, following Saturday evening’s rainfall.
  Mooney’s Bay, Westboro and the Petrie Island River beaches were all red flagged Sunday morning.
  Ottawa Public Health collects water samples daily. The results take 18 to 24 hours to process. Test results indicate the level of E.coli per 100 mL of water.
  Westboro Beach showed the highest levels, 374 per 100 mL.
  
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• Andrew Scheer on free speech, Canada's cities and how to appeal to millennials

  25-06-2017 17:23
  
  The head of the Opposition discusses his party's appeal to millennial voters, his views on social issues and free speech on campus, and the policies that he thinks are best for Canadian cities.
  
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• Six taken to hospital from Escapade concert

  25-06-2017 17:22 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Ottawa police reported a “quieter than expected” night at the Escapade electronic dance concert.
  While nine people were treated by medical staff at the indoor/outdoor parties at Lansdowne Park Saturday night, six were taken to hospital. A police spokesman said five of the six involved drug overdoses, but none of the cases was critical.
  To accommodate the early curfew at Lansdowne (11 p.m.), several bars in the Byward Market operated with extended hours to 4 a.m. There were no reporte
  
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• From condoms to caskets: Merchandise marks Canada's 150th birthday 1310news.com/2017/06/25/fro…

  25-06-2017 17:19 via twitter.com
  From condoms to caskets: Merchandise marks Canada's 150th birthday 1310news.com/2017/06/25/fro…
  
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• Severe thunderstorm watch extended to #Ottawa #Gatineau, Prescott-Russell #ottwx

  25-06-2017 17:05 via twitter.com
  Severe thunderstorm watch extended to #Ottawa #Gatineau, Prescott-Russell #ottwx
  
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• Jazzfest review: Gary Peacock / Marc Copland / Joey Baron made glowing, intimate music

  25-06-2017 16:33 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Gary Peacock / Marc Copland / Joey BaronNational Arts Centre TheatreTD Ottawa Jazz FestivalFriday night
  On Friday night at the NAC Theatre, bassist Gary Peacock, pianist Marc Copland and drummer Joey Baron treated six expansive pieces like wall-sized canvases on which to paint vivid, nuanced music.
  Here’s the set list: 
  Estate (Bruno Martino and Bruno Brighetti)I Loves You Porgy (George and Ira Gershwin)Time Was (Marc Copland)Rainy Night House (Joni Mitchell)Footprints (Wayne Shorter)
  
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• Severe thunderstorm watch issued for Ottawa south, Richmond, Metcalfe, Smiths Falls, Perth and Eastern Lanark County

  25-06-2017 16:25 via twitter.com
  Severe thunderstorm watch issued for Ottawa south, Richmond, Metcalfe, Smiths Falls, Perth and Eastern Lanark County
  
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• Jazzfest review: Gravel-voiced Kenny Rogers regaled fans with tales, memory-lane hits

  25-06-2017 16:19 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Kenny RogersTD Ottawa Jazz Festival, Confederation ParkReviewed Saturday
  Kenny Rogers made one thing clear right from the start of Saturday’s headline performance at the TD Ottawa Jazz Festival: He came to play.
  With his final world tour, dubbed The Gambler’s Last Deal, rolling through Ottawa on his way to a well-earned retirement, the 78-year-old Rogers limped on stage, hobbled by a recent knee replacement.
  “I think they replaced the wrong dang knee,” he joked, warning t
  
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• Multiple roads closed today #otttraffic twitter.com/Ottawa_Traffic…

  25-06-2017 15:57 via twitter.com
  Multiple roads closed today #otttraffic twitter.com/Ottawa_Traffic…
  
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• Teen found in cardiac arrest in a backyard pool in Orleans #ottnews 1310news.com/2017/06/25/tee…

  25-06-2017 15:50 via twitter.com
  Teen found in cardiac arrest in a backyard pool in Orleans #ottnews1310news.com/2017/06/25/tee…
  
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• No swim advisory in place at 3 of 5 city beaches. Britannia and Petrie East beaches still open #ottnews twitter.com/ottawahealth/s…

  25-06-2017 15:36 via twitter.com
  No swim advisory in place at 3 of 5 city beaches. Britannia and Petrie East beaches still open #ottnews twitter.com/ottawahealth/s…
  
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• OC Transpo starts summer bus schedule, renumbered routes #ottnews 1310news.com/2017/06/25/oc-…

  25-06-2017 14:52 via twitter.com
  OC Transpo starts summer bus schedule, renumbered routes #ottnews 1310news.com/2017/06/25/oc-…
  
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• "I have never seen anything like it in my life. Victims trapped in the fireball. ...We saw bodies everywhere"… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  25-06-2017 13:44 via twitter.com
  "I have never seen anything like it in my life. Victims trapped in the fireball. ...We saw bodies everywhere"… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• LCBO is urging you to stock up ahead of a possible strike by workers just after midnight 1310news.com/2017/06/25/tal… https://t.co/riPd38vTvl

  25-06-2017 13:39 via twitter.com
  
  LCBO is urging you to stock up ahead of a possible strike by workers just after midnight 1310news.com/2017/06/25/tal… https://t.co/riPd38vTvl
  
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• Capital Voices: 'There are a lot of sneaky people'

  25-06-2017 13:00 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 extraordinary and the everyday. We’ll share one person’s story every day until Canada Day.
  “I’m an immigrant. I came here from Libya 13 years ago as a graduate student. I studied at the University of Manitoba.
  “The good, interesting story that I
  
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• Capital Facts: The one Ottawa mayor with a special distinction

  25-06-2017 13:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  In celebration of Canada’s 150th birthday, the Citizen is rolling out one fact each day for 150 days until July 1, highlighting the odd, the fascinating and the important bits of Ottawa history you might not know about.
  Sir Richard William Scott, mayor of Ottawa for only one year in 1852, is the only mayor of the city to be knighted.
  — Rachel Dale
  
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• Ottawa Champions lose to Rockland Boulders

  25-06-2017 04:41 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  The Ottawa Champions scored in four different innings, the Rockland Boulders in only three, but the latter got more out of their rallies on the way to a 7-5 victory in a Can-Am League baseball game at Pomona, N.Y., on Saturday night.
  The Champions led 2-0 after the top of the first and 4-2 after scoring once in both the third and fourth, but the Boulders took the lead with three in the bottom of the fourth and pulled ahead to stay with two more runs in the seventh.
  The first five runs came again
  
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• Staff work furiously as football, soccer, EDM crowds flood through Lansdowne

  25-06-2017 02:34
  
  If this were a hockey practice, it would be called a flow drill.While thousands of spectators exited the west end of TD Place after the Ottawa Fury soccer game on Saturday afternoon, thousands more were lined up at the east end to enter the Escapade Music Festival. A bird’s-eye view would have suggested a very organized ant colony at work.
  
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• Jamar Dixon to the rescue as Fury FC salvages point in matchup with Red Bulls

  25-06-2017 01:41 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  On a hot, sunny day at TD Place stadium, Ottawa’s Jamar Dixon used an appropriate analogy to describe his dramatic, first-ever United Soccer League goal.
  “To be honest, the ball looked like a beach ball,” said the 28-year-old midfielder, whose header in the 94th minute lifted Fury FC to a 2-2 draw with New York Red Bulls II. “It looked huge, so I couldn’t miss it. I had to score that one. It was a good ball. I don’t know how I got so clear on that. But it happ
  
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• Ministry of Labour investigates after chemical mishap at Amberwood golf course

  25-06-2017 01:13 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  The Ontario Ministry of Labour has begun an investigation into a chemical mishap on Friday night at Amberwood Village Golf and Country Club sent five to hospital.
  The five, ranging in age from 17 to 39, were taken to hospital as a precautionary measure for treatment of respiratory inflammation after breathing the fumes that resulted from the accidental mixing of chlorine and an unspecified chemical in the area of the Stittsville golf course’s pool.
  The injuries were not considered life-thr
  
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• Boy, 13, in critical condition after paramedics called to pool in Orléans

  25-06-2017 01:09 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  A 13-year-old boy was taken to hospital in critical condition on Saturday evening after Ottawa paramedics were called to a residential pool in Orléans.
  Paramedics received a call at 6:07 and said in a tweet they found the boy in cardiac arrest in the pool. Family members had initiated CPR, the tweet said.
  Paramedics said they started aggressive resuscitation before the patient was transported to hospital.
   
  
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• Capital residents flock to summery Saturday events, big and small

  25-06-2017 00:39 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Summer seemed to officially hit the capital on Saturday, and there was no shortage of things, large and small, to see and do in the surprisingly pleasant weather.
  Environment Canada missed its forecast for most of the day, having called for a high probability of showers.
  Instead it was almost exclusively sunny through most of the day, and not too hot, luring funseekers out to sample some of the festivities.
  And it wasn’t just the highly hyped events, such as the madness at Lansdowne where
  
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• Senators Notebook: Derick Brassard's recovery after shoulder surgery 'going well'

  25-06-2017 00:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  CHICAGO — The Ottawa Senators are keeping their fingers crossed that centre Derick Brassard will be ready to start next season on time.
  Senators head coach Guy Boucher said Saturday he had spoken with Brassard and the 29-year-old forward was making progress after having surgery to repair a torn labrum in his right shoulder.
  “I talked to him the other day and he’s training already,” Boucher said. “He’s had an operation before and it’s worked out great on
  
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• Hate crimes reported to police jump 30 per cent between 2015 and 2016

  25-06-2017 00:14 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Ottawa police responded to 103 incidents of hate crime in 2016, the highest count for such activities in the past five years.
  The number of incidents police officers were called to last year represented a 30.4-per-cent jump from the 79 they responded to in 2015.
  In Canada, “hate crime” is defined as any activity, whether in person or online, that involves intimidation, harassment, physical force or threat of physical force against a person, group or property. Hate crimes are usually
  
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