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• Reevely: New stop signs will make intersections more dangerous, councillors warned

  02-07-2017 23:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Two stop signs will occupy some of city council’s time this week, the latest attempts to repair botched road designs with impotent street signs.
  Both of these are in Orléans, but we’re starting to do this all over — reacting to resident’s complaints that their streets are unsafe by putting up stop signs and lowering speed limits, knowing that at best they’ll be ignored and at worst endanger innocent people who assume they’ll be safer than they really ar
  
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• Strong turnaround has Senators prospect Filip Chlapik going in right direction

  02-07-2017 22:20 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  The wakeup call was delivered to Filip Chlapik one year ago, and he has answered in a big way.
  After last summer’s development camp, the Ottawa Senators were ready to cut ties with their 2015 second-round draft pick. Chlapik had followed up a 33-goal season in his draft year by scoring 12. His compete level was low. His habits were poor. He played on the perimeter. His overall game was undesirable.
  The Senators told Chlapik he wouldn’t be offered a contract.
  “He got it right be
  
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• Conservation authority issues watershed 'conditions statement' for creeks

  02-07-2017 22:14
  
  Some small streams in the Rideau River watershed have overrun their banks after heavy rains over the weekend.The conservation authority said in a news release on Sunday that as much as 42 millimetres of rain was recorded at the Ottawa International Airport on Canada Day, and 31 mm at Franktown on the upper reaches of the Jock River.
  
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• Why many are still in limbo after the great flood of 2017

  02-07-2017 21:07 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Sandy Zhang couldn’t believe her bad luck. The Ottawa River in early May had swept over the front lawn of her Constance Bay home and into the basement and living room.  
  When the water reached knee level, Zhang and her husband, Honggao Ji, took refuge in the apartment above the nearby Lighthouse Grocery Store and Restaurant, the business they had acquired only three years earlier.
  Just one problem. The Lighthouse was also on the flood plain. Two days after Zhang and Ji relocated, the
  
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• The great flood of 2017: aftermath finds many in limbo

  02-07-2017 21:07 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Sandy Zhang couldn’t believe her bad luck. The Ottawa River in early May had swept over the front lawn of her Constance Bay home and into the basement and living room.  
  When the water reached knee level, Zhang and her husband, Honggao Ji, took refuge in the apartment above the nearby Lighthouse Grocery Store and Restaurant, the business they had acquired only three years earlier.
  Just one problem. The Lighthouse was also on the flood plain. Two days after Zhang and Ji relocated, the
  
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• Donald Trump takes down CNN WWE-style in Twitter video

  02-07-2017 20:36 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  BRIDGEWATER, N.J. – A day after defending his use of social media as befitting a “modern day” president, U.S. President Donald Trump slammed CNN in a tweet — literally.
  Trump, who is on vacation at his Bedminster golf resort, posted on Twitter an old video clip of him performing in a WWE professional wrestling match, but with a CNN logo superimposed on the head of his opponent. In the clip, Trump is shown slamming the CNN avatar to the ground and pounding him with pu
  
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• Lights are on. @hydroottawa says power restored in So. Gloucester, Barrhaven & Manotick #ottnews https://t.co/NSV7GyIKDk

  02-07-2017 18:24 via twitter.com
  
  Lights are on. @hydroottawa says power restored in So. Gloucester, Barrhaven & Manotick #ottnews https://t.co/NSV7GyIKDk
  
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• Heading to the Hill for #WEdayCanada ? Expect security checks & delays 2-3 hours & leave the selfie stick behind.… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  02-07-2017 18:16 via twitter.com
  Heading to the Hill for #WEdayCanada ? Expect security checks & delays 2-3 hours & leave the selfie stick behind.… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Police seek help locating missing man

  02-07-2017 17:42 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Police are hoping the public can help them find a missing Ottawa man.
  Alexander Miller, 29, was last seen Saturday in the area of Beechwood Avenue. Police released a photo of Miller but had no other details about the case.
  Anyone who has information about Miller is asked to contact the Central District Investigations division at 613-236-1222 Ext 5166.
   
  
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• OUTAGE UPDATE: @hydroottawa crews doing some emergency switching-ETA 4 lights back on 12:30p for So.Gloucester, Barrhaven, Manotick #ottnews

  02-07-2017 17:36 via twitter.com
  OUTAGE UPDATE: @hydroottawa crews doing some emergency switching-ETA 4 lights back on 12:30p for So.Gloucester, Barrhaven, Manotick #ottnews
  
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• OUTAGE: @hydroottawa reports 8723 customers impacted in South Gloucester, Barrhaven, Manotick area. Restoration time (est.) 5:30p #ottnews

  02-07-2017 17:21 via twitter.com
  OUTAGE: @hydroottawa reports 8723 customers impacted in South Gloucester, Barrhaven, Manotick area. Restoration time (est.) 5:30p #ottnews
  
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• MISSING: @OttawaPolice looking for Alexander Miller, 29. Anyone with info should call Ottawa Police 613-236-1222 X… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  02-07-2017 16:40 via twitter.com
  MISSING: @OttawaPolice looking for Alexander Miller, 29. Anyone with info should call Ottawa Police 613-236-1222 X… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Advice for @WEMovement event attendees on Parliament Hill from Parliament Precinct Security. #ottnews #WEdayCanada twitter.com/PPS_SPP/status…

  02-07-2017 16:27 via twitter.com
  Advice for @WEMovement event attendees on Parliament Hill from Parliament Precinct Security. #ottnews #WEdayCanada twitter.com/PPS_SPP/status…
  
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• Capital Builders: John Pearson, the genius architect of Parliament

  02-07-2017 16:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  His influence towers over Ottawa — literally — and is seen around the world as a symbol of Canada, yet few people today recognize the name of John Andrew Pearson.
  Pearson was chief architect of the Peace Tower and Parliament’s rebuilt Centre Block, creating a masterpiece in place of the ashes and rubble left by the devastating fire of 1916.
  Centre Block architect John Pearson, circa 1895.
  His hand was in every step of the design, from the grand rotunda of Confede
  
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• Prep work for @WEMovement on Parliament Hill well underway. we.ca/we-day-canada/ #ottnews https://t.co/E7coaHuFjZ

  02-07-2017 15:21 via twitter.com
  
  Prep work for @WEMovement on Parliament Hill well underway. we.ca/we-day-canada/ #ottnews https://t.co/E7coaHuFjZ
  
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• ICYMI: Daniel Alfredsson leaving the Senators. 1310news.com/2017/07/01/alf… #ottnews https://t.co/PeazLn35ZD

  02-07-2017 14:54 via twitter.com
  
  ICYMI: Daniel Alfredsson leaving the Senators. 1310news.com/2017/07/01/alf… #ottnews https://t.co/PeazLn35ZD
  
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• Picnic on the Bridge later this morning (11A) with @JimWatsonOttawa & @MPedneaudJobin #ottnews #otttraffic twitter.com/ottawacity/sta…

  02-07-2017 14:13 via twitter.com
  Picnic on the Bridge later this morning (11A) with @JimWatsonOttawa & @MPedneaudJobin #ottnews #otttraffic twitter.com/ottawacity/sta…
  
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• Showers & maybe a T-storm in the @environmentca forecast for Ottawa. #ottnews https://t.co/zZnhuz0PxW

  02-07-2017 13:51 via twitter.com
  
  Showers & maybe a T-storm in the @environmentca forecast for Ottawa. #ottnews https://t.co/zZnhuz0PxW
  
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• 'It is the capital, after all.' Fireworks show caps Canada Day

  02-07-2017 05:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  It was Canada Day, so Oura Fofana made a point of being at Major’s Hill Park to watch the annual fireworks display.
  “Since I’ve been in Ottawa, I’ve been more interested in Canada Day,” said Fofana, a 22-year-old from Hamilton.
  Thousands gathered around Parliament Hill and Major’s Hill Park for the giant pyrotechnics show that lasted 20 minutes and 17 seconds in honour of Canada 150.
  Those spectators in the muddy surroundings at Major’s Hill Park looked
  
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• Fury FC comes up short in road match on Canada Day in Louisville

  02-07-2017 04:38 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  The Ottawa Fury FC was the loser in Louisville on Canada Day.
  After giving up goals in the 14th and 71st minutes, the Fury attempted to rally, but fell short, ultimately dropping a 2-1 decision to Louisville City FC in United Soccer League action at Slugger Field on Saturday night.
  Steevan Dos Santos scored the Fury goal with a header set up by Shane McEleney at the 87th minute.
  Louisville’s Brian Ownby and Luke Spencer beat Fury keeper Callum Irving earlier.
  Ottawa’s first good chan
  
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• Motorcyclist in hospital after accident in Centretown

  02-07-2017 04:18
  
  A motorcyclist was in hospital after an accident at the corner of Frank Street and O’Connor Street in Centretown on Saturday evening. Ottawa paramedics said they received a call about the accident at 6:44 p.m. A 50-year-old man had a serious head injury.
  
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• Man, 32, falls three storeys after trying to climb to roof of building

  02-07-2017 03:42 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  A 32-year-old man was in critical, but stable condition after falling while trying to climb from a balcony to the roof of a building on Cummings Avenue on Saturday night.
  At 7:09 p.m., Ottawa paramedics received a call reporting that the man had fallen three storeys. 
  Paramedics said he had a critical head injury and was transported to the trauma centre at the Civic Campus of The Ottawa Hospital.
  
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• 'Welcome home': New Canadians sworn in on Canada Day

  02-07-2017 03:23 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Deepa Varghese’s name was called first at the Canadian citizenship ceremony at the NAC Studio on Saturday afternoon, and although the 35-year-old has been living in Canada for six years — and her second child, four-year-old Elena, was born here — she admits she felt some sudden nervousness as she approached the stage.
  “I don’t know why,” she said. “I felt a bit tense.”
  Earlier, she’d noted how chuffed she was that her ceremony had been schedu
  
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• Missing Gatineau woman last seen at Confederation Park

  02-07-2017 03:22 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  The Ottawa Police asked the public for help to find a Gatineau woman who went missing from Confederation Park on Saturday.
  Louise Rene de Cotret, 62, who has Alzheimer’s, was last seen at 4:30 p.m. 
  She is five feet, five inches tall and has short grey-brown hair. She was wearing a red windbreaker, white Capri shorts, pale blue patterned sleeveless top and running shoes.
  Anyone with information was asked to contact Ottawa Police Dispatch at 613-236-1222. Anonymous tips could be submit
  
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• Motorcyclist in hospital after collision at Frank and O'Connor

  02-07-2017 03:14 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  A motorcyclist was in hospital after an accident at the corner of Frank Street and O’Connor Street in Centretown on Saturday evening. 
  Ottawa paramedics said they received a call about the accident at 6:44 p.m.
  A 50-year-old man had a serious head injury. According to paramedics, he was in serious, but stable condition at the trauma centre at the Civic campus of The Ottawa Hospital. 
  
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• Firefighters rescue cat from kitchen fire on Cobourg Street

  02-07-2017 02:49 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Ottawa fire crews rescued a cat from a kitchen fire in a unit near Macdonald Gardens Park on Saturday night. 
  Firefighters received a call about black smoke coming from an apartment at 110 Cobourg St. and Beausoleil Drive at 6:09 p.m. 
  Crews found heavy black smoke and flames inside a kitchen on the fifth floor. 
  At 6:21 p.m., the fire was deemed under control by firefighters. 
  The cat was reunited with its owners, who have been displaced from the apartment bec
  
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• A call for 'liberation of indigenous nations' amid the Canada 150 bash

  02-07-2017 02:45 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  The way forward is not always the clearest or easiest path.
  While dignitaries from Prince Charles to Justin Trudeau spoke about reconciliation from Parliament Hill’s Canada Day stage, indigenous demonstrators rejected the notion as “lip service” and demanded action.
  They held signs calling for the “liberation of indigenous nations” and, in a sign that questioned the significance of the number 150, proclaimed “500 years of indigenous resistance.”
  A teepee
  
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• Brooke Henderson still contending for Women's PGA Championship title

  02-07-2017 01:56 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  OLYMPIA FIELDS, Ill. — Brooke Henderson would like to give Canada a belated Canada Day present.
  The 19-year-old from Smiths Falls would like to wrap up a successful defence of her KPMG Women’s PGA Championship on Sunday, but to do that she will have to come from behind at Olympia Fields Country Club, just as she last year in the Pacific Northwest, where she shot a final-round 65 and then beat Lydia Ko in a playoff to win her first major title.
  Henderson, whose third round on Saturday
  
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• Future of goalie Andrew Hammond up in the air

  02-07-2017 01:28 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  The Hamburglar will have to play the waiting game.
  The Ottawa Senators are trying to trade goaltender Andrew Hammond, who is recovering from recent hip surgery, and, while they had mild interest from other National Hockey League teams before free agency began Saturday, they couldn’t find a taker.
  With starter Craig Anderson and backup Mike Condon set for next season and no intention of keeping three goalies on their roster, the Senators want to move the $1.5 million remaining on Hammond&rs
  
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• Melynk wishes Alfredsson "all the best"

  02-07-2017 01:13 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Ottawa Senators owner Eugene Melnyk was prepared to lose his senior advisor of hockey operations.
  He knew Daniel Alfredsson was leaving the team well before news broke Saturday.
  “Daniel had a two-year contract with us and it was always understood that, after two years, he’d evaluate for his family and for himself whether he wants to continue here in Ottawa with the Senators or continue elsewhere,” Melynk told Postmedia reporter Blair Crawford while downtown with his family for
  
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• Alfredsson leaves the Senators for the second time in four years

  02-07-2017 00:58 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  For the second time in four years, Daniel Alfredsson is walking away from the Ottawa Senators.
  Where he’s headed next is unknown. Why he’s leaving is also something of a mystery.
  Regardless, the news of his departure rocked the capital on Canada Day. It is also sure to cause some backlash among Senators fans who thought the most popular player in franchise history was home to stay.
  Alfredsson, who has served as a senior advisor of hockey operations for the last two years, told genera
  
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• Support of coach behind Senators' signing of free agent Nate Thompson - Ottawa Citizen

  02-07-2017 00:34 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Ottawa Citizen
  Support of coach behind Senators' signing of free agent Nate Thompson
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  There's no question centre Nate Thompson earned the trust of the Ottawa Senators head coach during the two seasons they spent together with the Tampa Bay Lightning, and that was a big reason why Thompson was signed to a two-year, $3.3-million deal ...and more »
  
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• Support of coach behind Senators' signing of free agent Nate Thompson

  02-07-2017 00:34 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Guy Boucher is big on trust.
  There’s no question centre Nate Thompson earned the trust of the Ottawa Senators head coach during the two seasons they spent together with the Tampa Bay Lightning, and that was a big reason why Thompson was signed to a two-year, $3.3-million deal on the first day of National Hockey League free agency.
  The Senators were looking for depth at centre, which was why they decided to sign the 32-year-old Thompson, who suited up for only 30 games with the Anaheim Duck
  
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• Senators have a quiet Canada Day on NHL free-agent market

  02-07-2017 00:18 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  The Ottawa Senators did a lot of window shopping on Canada Day.
  They didn’t see any need for a shopping spree.
  Not long after the National Hockey League’s lucrative free-agent market opened Saturday, general manager Pierre Dorion confirmed the signing of former Anaheim Ducks centre Nate Thompson to a two-year deal worth $3.3 million, but, with the exception of signing five players to minor-league deals, that was where additions stopped for the Senators.
  While the Senators were still
  
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• Bono, The Edge 'grateful guests' on the Canada Day stage

  02-07-2017 00:18 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  There was royalty of another sort on stage at Parliament Hill, where Irish humanitarians/rockers Bono and The Edge led a star-studded command performance.
  “Whether you have just arrived from Syria or your roots go back thousands of years, this is your home, and we are grateful guests in it,” Bono said, while The Edge strummed the opening chords of One.
  “When others build walls, you open doors. When others divide, your arms are open wide. Where you lead, others follow, and that&
  
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