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• Politicians, Salvation Army must come together, housing leader says

  24-07-2017 23:59 via ottawacitizen.com
  Politicians, Salvation Army officials and community leaders at odds over the $50-million plan to relocate an emergency shelter and support centre to Vanier must forge a way forward together and not lose sight of the vulnerable people at the centre of the debate, says the head of an Ottawa charity that provides stable housing for people with mental illnesses.
  Ottawa Salus executive director Lisa Ker has been watching closely from the sidelines in recent weeks as the debate over a p
  
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• Smart Building technology to be rolled out across federal buildings

  24-07-2017 23:49
  Public Works has announced that over 100 buildings will get Smart Building technology—plugging them into the Internet of Things—over next three years
  
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• Today's letters: Modesty, cycling and weed

  24-07-2017 23:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  Readers take on toplessness, inattentive cycling and a news story about purchasing cannabis. You can write to us too, at [email protected]
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  Women’s breasts are harmless
  Re: Quebec and Ontario water park operator bans female toplessness, July 19.
  The tired rationale for such a prohibition is that, at a family destination, the site of a topless woman might be offensive to some patrons. Let’s get real.What’s offensive is perpetuating the absurd notion among our kids
  
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• New Senate building to come with bees

  24-07-2017 23:22
  Public works clears the way for beehives on top of new building.
  
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• Police Services Board Vice-Chair calls Canada Day lines an ‘unmitigated disaster’

  24-07-2017 23:13
  He made the comments during Monday’s meeting, and said something needs to change
  
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• Conservation Authority fighting spread of dangerous weed

  24-07-2017 22:50
  The invasive species, first reported in Ottawa four years ago, has the ability to grow through pretty much anything—even concrete.
  
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• Reevely: Feds' tax crackdown will nail Ontario doctors and cut care, medical association warns

  24-07-2017 22:19 via ottawacitizen.com
  The federal government is planning to suck millions of dollars out of Ontario doctors’ pockets with tweaks to the tax system, destabilizing their shaky relationship with the provincial government and maybe leading them to work less.
  “What I would hope is that they would take a thoughtful, measured response to this and say, how is this going to affect tiny medical businesses? How is it going to affect patient care?” said Dr. Shawn Whatley, the president of the Ontario Medical As
  
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• Senators add two-time Stanley Cup champion Johnny Oduya to the defence - Ottawa Citizen

  24-07-2017 21:24
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  Senators add two-time Stanley Cup champion Johnny Oduya to the defence
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  The Ottawa Senators have added solid veteran experience to their blueline, signing 35-year-old Johnny Oduya. Jeff Roberson / THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. Share Adjust Comment Print. In Sweden, the concept of fika — breaking up the day with a casual ...
  Ottawa Senators sign veteran defenceman Johnny Oduya to one-year contractToronto Star
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• Wet Weather Woes

  24-07-2017 21:10
  If you've kept a close, studious eye on Ottawa's weather, you might've noticed something: it's been raining.
  
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• Ottawa office vacancy rate falls to 11.7% - Ottawa Business Journal

  24-07-2017 21:00
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  Ottawa office vacancy rate falls to 11.7%
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  Ottawa's office vacancy rate fell by half a percentage point in the second quarter as tenants snatched up class-A space downtown and in Kanata, recently released figures show. Colliers International's most recent office market report said the citywide ...
  
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• Police investigating after two bodies found near Elmhurst Park

  24-07-2017 20:49
  The bodies were discovered Monday, while police investigated after a man arrived at an Ottawa hospital with gunshot wounds
  
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• Two men found dead of gunshot wounds in Ottawa's west end, another man injured after shooting [Video]

  24-07-2017 20:18
  
  Ottawa police are investigating the city’s seventh homicide of the year after a man was found dead on a west-end driveway not long after his brother showed up at hospital with gunshot wounds.
  
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• Two men found dead of gunshot wounds in Ottawa's west end, another man injured after shooting

  24-07-2017 20:11 via ottawacitizen.com
  Two men were found dead Monday of gunshot wounds in the city’s west end and another man is in serious condition in hospital after being shot.
  It’s not clear if the two deaths are related.
  However, police are treating the first death as a homicide after a body was found on the property of a home near Lincoln Fields Monday morning. It was Ottawa’s seventh homicide of the year. About two hours earlier, the deceased man’s brother had shown up at hospital with gunshot wounds.&
  
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• Senators add two-time Stanley Cup champion Johnny Oduya to the defence

  24-07-2017 20:03 via ottawacitizen.com
  In Sweden, the concept of fika – breaking up the day with a casual conversation over coffee – is a basic ritual.
  It also helps explain the Ottawa Senators signing of 35-year-old veteran defenceman Johnny Oduya to a one-year, $1 million contract on Monday. Oduya, who won the Stanley Cup with the Chicago Blackhawks in 2013 and 2015, can earn an additional $1.25 million in performance bonuses.
  While Senators general manager Pierre Dorion has been working on the contract since the openin
  
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• It's Money Monday on the Carol Anne Meehan show! Call in with your money questions for @MoneycoachJudi now 613-750-… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  24-07-2017 20:00 via twitter.com
  It's Money Monday on the Carol Anne Meehan show! Call in with your money questions for @MoneycoachJudi now 613-750-… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• BREAKING: body found in car on Wayne Avenue: 1310news.com/2017/07/24/pol… #ottnews

  24-07-2017 19:56 via twitter.com
  BREAKING: body found in car on Wayne Avenue: 1310news.com/2017/07/24/pol… #ottnews
  
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• Police find dead male in vehicle on Wayne Ave. Major Crime is investigating. At this time, no connection to earlier shooting #ottnews

  24-07-2017 19:48 via twitter.com
  Police find dead male in vehicle on Wayne Ave. Major Crime is investigating. At this time, no connection to earlier shooting #ottnews
  
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• Coming up next on the Carol Anne Meehan show, @MurphyChiro on staying healthy the natural way. https://t.co/lW256nw1jM

  24-07-2017 19:30 via twitter.com
  
  Coming up next on the Carol Anne Meehan show, @MurphyChiro on staying healthy the natural way. https://t.co/lW256nw1jM
  
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• Man killed, his brother injured by gunfire Monday as police investigate crime scene in west end [Video]

  24-07-2017 19:19
  
  Ottawa police are investigating the city’s seventh homicide of the year after a man was found dead on a west-end driveway not long after his brother showed up at hospital with gunshot wounds.
  
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• OPP identify victim as 85-year-old woman in Friday crash on 401 near Mallorytown

  24-07-2017 19:06
  
  The Ontario provincial police have identified the victim in a car crash on Highway 401 near Mallorytown on Friday.Police said the driver of the vehicle was 85-year-old Edna Winch of Richmond Hill.
  
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• Alleged drunken joyride leads to man crashing ATV into OPP vehicle

  24-07-2017 19:04
  
  A man’s alleged drunken joyride through Picton, Ont. came to an abrupt halt when he crashed an all-terrain vehicle into a police car on the tourist town’s Main Street late Saturday night.According to the Prince Edward County detachment of the OPP, two officers suffered minor injuries when their police cruiser was struck by the ATV around 2:50 a.m.
  
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• .@MarkDayNews hosts the Carol Anne Meehan show next. Listen in live: player.1310news.com

  24-07-2017 19:00 via twitter.com
  .@MarkDayNews hosts the Carol Anne Meehan show next. Listen in live: player.1310news.com
  
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• F-35 fleet flight time now exceeds 100,000 hours, says Lockheed Martin

  24-07-2017 19:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  Lockheed Martin says its F-35 fighter aircraft fleet recently exceeded 100,000 flight hours while the F-35 Integrated Test Force teams are completing the remaining requirements in the program’s System Development and Demonstration phase.
  “This 100K milestone marks a significant level of maturity for the program and the F-35 weapons system,” Lockheed Martin Executive Vice President and F-35 Program General Manager Jeff Babione. said in a statement. “We are well positioned
  
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• Police investigating homicide and shootings near Lincoln Fields ... - CTV News

  24-07-2017 18:53
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  Police investigating homicide and shootings near Lincoln Fields ...
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  It has been a deadly day in the city's west end, with two men shot to death and a third in critical condition with gunshot wounds. It all started with a man showing ...
  Police investigating after two bodies found near Elmhurst Park ...MetroNews Canada
  'Quite horrific': Ottawa police investigating after shootings leave 2 dead, 1 injuredCBC.caall 8 news articles »
  
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• Are we winning the fight against cancer in women? @VanessaMilne joins @_MarkSutcliffe ahead:… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  24-07-2017 18:28 via twitter.com
  Are we winning the fight against cancer in women?@VanessaMilne joins @_MarkSutcliffe ahead:… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• When is a tax 'loophole' really a loophole?

  24-07-2017 18:20 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Minister of Finance recently announced proposed revisions to Canadian taxes affecting small business corporations and their shareholders. Current tax planning for almost all small business corporations would allow the net, after-tax income of the corporation to be distributed to shareholders as dividends. Because we give recipients of the dividend a “dividend tax credit,” it is possible to distribute over $30,000 to low-tax recipients free of tax. Also, should a corporation be so
  
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• NEXT on the #POWERLunch: @SusanSherring & @KatlynHarrison join @_MarkSutcliffe LIVE in studio:… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  24-07-2017 17:58 via twitter.com
  NEXT on the #POWERLunch: @SusanSherring & @KatlynHarrison join @_MarkSutcliffe LIVE in studio:… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Dawson: Where's the Ottawa monument to Indigenous suffering?

  24-07-2017 17:55 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Truth and Reconciliation Commission said in 2015 that there should be monuments across Canada commemorating and honouring residential school victims and survivors, but there’s no indication that a national marker of any sort is even close to being started in Ottawa.
  The TRC’s calls to action 81 and 82 – two of 94 recommendations the commission that was looking into the grim legacy of residential schools made – say every provincial and territorial capital, plus the nat
  
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• NEXT Chair of @J4Abdirahman Dahabo Ahmed Omer on planned memorial for Abdirahman Abdi: bit.ly/1uwtdOs… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  24-07-2017 17:27 via twitter.com
  NEXTChair of @J4Abdirahman Dahabo Ahmed Omer on planned memorial for Abdirahman Abdi: bit.ly/1uwtdOs… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Ottawa actress cast in Riverdale, the hit series based on Archie comics

  24-07-2017 17:21 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa native Vanessa Morgan has been cast in the hit series Riverdale, a soapy teen drama loosely based on the Archie comic books.
  Morgan, 25, will play the character of Toni Topaz. 
  “So excited!” Morgan tweeted. She grew up in Ottawa, and graduated from Colonel By Secondary School in 2010.
  The character Toni is a “vivacious” member of the Southside Serpents gang, who is known for her signature pink hair and impressive appetite for hamburgers, according to ET, which
  
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• Still ahead: @adam_stanley on #JordanSpieth winning #2017 #BritishOpen: bit.ly/1ppeuDa @_MarkSutcliffe https://t.co/ht7vWUZ78X

  24-07-2017 16:58 via twitter.com
  
  Still ahead: @adam_stanley on #JordanSpieth winning #2017 #BritishOpen: bit.ly/1ppeuDa@_MarkSutcliffe https://t.co/ht7vWUZ78X
  
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• Saving #OmarKhadr: 'We plugged all the holes,' chopper medic recounts: bit.ly/2uqa8IT https://t.co/JuyhYsR3Jf

  24-07-2017 16:58 via twitter.com
  
  Saving #OmarKhadr: 'We plugged all the holes,' chopper medic recounts: bit.ly/2uqa8IT https://t.co/JuyhYsR3Jf
  
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• Senators add veteran defenceman Johnny Oduya

  24-07-2017 16:50 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Ottawa Senators have added solid veteran experience to their blueline, signing 35-year-old Johnny Oduya, a two-time Stanley Cup winner, on Monday.
  Maybe with an eye on pairing the Swedish defenceman with Erik Karlsson, the Senators gave Oduya a one-year, $1-million contract – there are also incentives for games played, time-on-ice and playoff bonuses that could add up to another $1,250,000.
  Oduya started last season with the Dallas Stars before a February trade returned him to the Chic
  
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• With Scaramucci, Trump going to war – w/ media, w/ the truth, w/ America @_scottreid w/ @_MarkSutcliffe NEXT:… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  24-07-2017 16:44 via twitter.com
  With Scaramucci, Trump going to war – w/ media, w/ the truth, w/ America@_scottreid w/ @_MarkSutcliffe NEXT:… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• #Montreal newborn in critical condition after pregnant woman #stabbed several times; suspect at large:… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  24-07-2017 16:39 via twitter.com
  #Montreal newborn in critical condition after pregnant woman #stabbed several times; suspect at large:… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Coming up on the #POWERLunch @NOON: @SusanSherring & @KatlynHarrison join @_MarkSutcliffe LIVE in studio:… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  24-07-2017 16:35 via twitter.com
  Coming up on the #POWERLunch @NOON: @SusanSherring & @KatlynHarrison join @_MarkSutcliffe LIVE in studio:… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Body found near Lincoln Fields after man shows up at hospital with gunshot wound

  24-07-2017 16:33 via ottawacitizen.com
  Police have found a body in a wooded area south of Lincoln Fields shopping centre that they are treating as a crime scene.
  The body was found Monday morning as police searched the area in west Ottawa in connection with an investigation that began after a man showed up at a local hospital with a gunshot wound.
  However, police can’t make a direct link between the body and the gunshot victim, said Const. Chuck Benoit. He had no details on the age or sex of the person found dead around Elmhurs
  
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• Has the women’s march movement lost steam? @sarahboesveld joins @_MarkSutcliffe ahead: bit.ly/1ppeuDa… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  24-07-2017 16:28 via twitter.com
  Has the women’s march movement lost steam?@sarahboesveld joins @_MarkSutcliffe ahead: bit.ly/1ppeuDa… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Ahmed: Abdirahman Abdi's death one year later – Through a tragic loss, a community rises

  24-07-2017 15:52 via ottawacitizen.com
  Today marks one year since the death of Abdirahman Abdi, a 37-year-old Somali-Canadian with mental health issues. He lived in the Hintonburg community. He was studying at the Adult High School and was a dedicated employee at a local car wash. He helped his neighbours carry their groceries, and he made the children in his building laugh.
  On March 6, 2017, the Special Investigations Unit (SIU) concluded that Const. Daniel Montsion should be charged with manslaughter, aggravated assault and assault
  
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• Rainfall warning issued for Ottawa

  24-07-2017 15:49
  Environment Canada says to expect significant rain on Monday.
  
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• Cops find body after man shot [Video]

  24-07-2017 15:30
  
  Ottawa Police are investigating a possible crime scene on Alpine Avenue in the west end of Ottawa after a man showed up at hospital with a gunshot wound.
  
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• Ottawa bitten by 1,536 rodent complaints over two years

  24-07-2017 14:43
  
  Ruth McCrea has mistaken rats for squirrels scurrying up a Manitoba maple tree outside her home. That's how big the rodents can get in Centretown. McCrea, who lives with her husband and their two young children on Cooper Street, said the rat problem in her community peaked in the spring and summer this year.
  
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• Rainfall warning issued for Ottawa North, Kanata, Orléans, Ottawa South, Richmond and Metcalfe [Video]

  24-07-2017 14:41
  
  Expect heavy rain all day Monday and into the evening, says Environment Canada. It has issued a rainfall warning for Ottawa North, Kanata, Orléans, Ottawa South, Richmond and Metcalfe. Flooding in low-lying areas is possible. Add to that some stiff winds at 30 km an hour, gusting to 50 km.
  
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• Rainfall warning issued for Monday in Ottawa

  24-07-2017 14:40 via ottawacitizen.com
  Expect heavy rain all day Monday and into the evening, says Environment Canada.
  It has issued a rainfall warning for Ottawa North, Kanata, Orléans, Ottawa South, Richmond and Metcalfe.
  Flooding in low-lying areas is possible. Add to that some stiff winds at 30 km an hour, gusting to 50 km.
  By Tuesday morning, between 40 mm and 100 mm of rain is expected to have fallen. Drivers should expect reduced visibility. Slow down, watch for tail lights and be prepared to stop, warns Environment Can
  
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• Ottawa crime rate jumps in 2016

  24-07-2017 14:40
  Unusually high number of homicides sees crime rate jump 10 per cent.
  
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• Police investigate possible crime scene after man shows up at hospital with gunshot wound

  24-07-2017 14:39 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa Police are investigating a possible crime scene on Alpine Avenue in the west end of Ottawa after a man showed up at hospital with a gunshot wound.
  The man arrived at a local hospital at 7:08 a.m., said spokesperson Const. Chuck Benoit.
  He had no details on the man’s condition.
  Benoit said officers were at the scene on Alpine Avenue south of Lincoln Fields shopping centre.
  Anyone with information is asked to call 613-236-1222 or @CrimeStoppersOT. Text CRIMES (274637) keyword “t
  
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• Canadian crime numbers up slightly in 2016: Statistics Canada

  24-07-2017 14:35
  Despite the increases in the last two years, overall the index has fallen 29 per cent in the last decade.
  
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• This is how easy it is to get weed at Ottawa's illegal pot shops

  24-07-2017 14:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  It’s ridiculously easy to get weed from a storefront in Ottawa today.
  With the number of pot shops in the city on the upswing, despite multiple dispensary employees facing drug-trafficking charges following police raids, the Citizen visited the city’s 17 known cannabis stores to find out how they’re screening customers. 
  The dispensaries are, of course, illegal. But when many of them opened in Ottawa, operators stressed their businesses were serving people who needed medic
  
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• Ottawa bitten by 1536 rodent complaints over two years - Ottawa Sun - Ottawa Sun

  24-07-2017 13:57
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  Ottawa bitten by 1536 rodent complaints over two years - Ottawa Sun
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  Ruth McCrea has mistaken rats for squirrels scurrying up a Manitoba maple tree outside her home. That's how big the rodents can get in Centretown. McCrea ...and more »
  
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• Rainfall warning issued for Ottawa North, Kanata, Orléans, Ottawa South, Richmond and Metcalfe

  24-07-2017 13:56
  
  Expect heavy rain all day Monday and into the evening, says Environment Canada. It has issued a rainfall warning for Ottawa North, Kanata, Orléans, Ottawa South, Richmond and Metcalfe. Flooding in low-lying areas is possible. Add to that some stiff winds at 30 km an hour, gusting to 50 km.
  
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