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• Judge says guilty finding possible; gas plants trial to go ahead

  09-11-2017 23:52 via ottawacitizen.com
  TORONTO Some evidence exists that could ultimately lead to the conviction of two former senior political aides accused of illegally destroying documents related to an Ontario government decision to cancel two gas plants in 2011, a judge ruled Thursday.
  In rejecting defence arguments that the prosecution had no case at all against David Livingston and his deputy Laura Miller, Ontario court Judge Timothy Lipson said the trial should proceed.
  At issue in the interim ruling, the judge said, was not
  
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• Ace Mercado, restaurant at centre of Mellos closing drama, to shut down Sunday

  09-11-2017 23:45 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ace Mercado, the hip restaurant that found itself in the middle of a drama during the closing of its venerable neighbour Mellos on Dalhousie Street, has announced on Facebook it will permanently close as of Sunday.
  In a post, managers of the restaurant, which offers a “modern authentic take on Mexican cuisine,” said there will be a closing party on Saturday night.
  “Thanks to everyone who enjoyed coming over the years and best of luck to the new group taking over the space at 12
  
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• Reevely: Transitions between health providers are painful points for Ontario patients, ombudsman reports

  09-11-2017 23:24 via ottawacitizen.com
  Somewhere in Ontario this past year, a lonely person needed surgery to cure a painful condition. The patient had no support system, nobody to take him or her home afterward and make sure everything was OK for a few hours, as the hospital insisted. The hospital cancelled the surgery.
  Yes, we can fix you. But first you’ll have to make some really good friends.
  This is the most heartless story detailed in the first report from Ontario’s new health-care ombudsman, former Progressive Cons
  
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• Today's letters: College strike, older workers, ripped jeans

  09-11-2017 23:19 via ottawacitizen.com
  The community college strike continues to worry students, while some of our readers are voicing concerns over ripped jeans. Got an opinion? Write us a letter, at [email protected]
  You will find some helpful guidelines here.
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  College administration doesn’t care
  Re: Algonquin College Students’ Association puts pressure on politicians to end the faculty strike, Nov. 3.
  The notion that students “don’t really carry how (the dispute ends), we just want to be bac
  
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• Arrest warrant issued after west-end pharmacy robbery

  09-11-2017 23:07 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa police have issued a warrant for the arrest of a 34-year-old Ottawa man in connection with a pharmacy robbery.
  The police service robbery unit has laid charges relating to the theft of cash in a holdup at a pharmacy on Holland Avenue, near Inglewood Place, in August 2015. Police say two suspects entered the pharmacy and issued a note demanding narcotics.
  When no narcotics were available, a demand was made for cash, police said. The suspects, in disguise, left the premises with an undisclo
  
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• Carn Davidson 9, Joshua Rager Nonet, Gaia Wilmer Octet CDs reviewed

  09-11-2017 23:03 via ottawacitizen.com
  Murphy (self-released)Carn Davidson 9
  Jondo (Bent River Records)Joshua Rager Nonet
  Migrations (Red P:iano Records)Gaia Wilmer Octet
  Here’s an omnibus review of three discs that feature different and equally accomplished examples of what a mid-sized modern mainstream jazz ensemble can do.
  Out of Toronto, there’s Murphy, the sophomore release from Toronto’s Carn Davidson 9, a group that picked up a Juno nomination in 2014 for its debut disc, Nine. Co-led by trombonist William Car
  
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• Accused killer Adam Picard seeks leave to appeal in Supreme Court

  09-11-2017 22:57 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa’s Adam Picard wants the Supreme Court of Canada to hear his appeal of a ruling that would see him stand trial for murder more than five years after his arrest.
  Defence lawyer Lawrence Greenspon will be asking the country’s highest court to reverse the Ontario Court of Appeal’s decision to reinstate murder charges against Picard, a former soldier accused of killing Barrhaven construction worker Fouad Nayel.
  In September 2016, Picard became only the second person in the co
  
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• Flowers from the front: Exhibit engages senses to convey emotion of Great War

  09-11-2017 21:43 via ottawacitizen.com
  Amid the mud and death of the First World War, Lt-Col. George Stephen Cantlie found flowers blooming in the gardens, fields and hedges of war-ravaged Europe.
  He pressed them between the pages of a book, then sent them home in letters to “wee Celia,” his baby daughter in Montreal. She was only a year old when he sailed in 1914. He feared she would never know him.
  “He decided he had to do something to make her remember him,” Cantlie’s surviving granddaughter, oct
  
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• K9 Officer and Police Service Dog save a life: 1310news.com/2017/11/09/k9-… #ottnews

  09-11-2017 20:48 via twitter.com
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• LISTEN: Artist @rupikaur_ is making her way to Ottawa this weekend. @MeehanCarolAnne is talking to the woman who is… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  09-11-2017 20:44 via twitter.com
  LISTEN: Artist @rupikaur_ is making her way to Ottawa this weekend. @MeehanCarolAnne is talking to the woman who is… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• LISTEN: @MeehanCarolAnne is joined by @lindsaysealey to talk about her book Growing Strong Girls.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  09-11-2017 20:30 via twitter.com
  LISTEN: @MeehanCarolAnne is joined by @lindsaysealey to talk about her book Growing Strong Girls.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Cameras not needed in Uber vehicles, city says

  09-11-2017 20:23 via ottawacitizen.com
  There’s no evidence to support making Uber drivers install cameras in their cars, based on the first year of legal operations by the service in Ottawa, the city says.
  On the other hand, Uber hasn’t provided the city any information on passenger complaints. The bylaw leaves it up to the company to manage its own complaint process, which means it doesn’t have to share that information with the city.
  Council asked the bylaw department to report after the first year of a new licens
  
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• LISTEN: Dr. Christiane Kuntz of Ottawa is being recognized as one of the area's best physicians. @MeehanCarolAnne t… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  09-11-2017 20:15 via twitter.com
  LISTEN: Dr. Christiane Kuntz of Ottawa is being recognized as one of the area's best physicians. @MeehanCarolAnne t… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Plaque honours James Fletcher, plant scientist who gave Ottawa its Arboretum

  09-11-2017 20:11 via ottawacitizen.com
  It took more than a century, but the man who created the Arboretum will soon have a plaque there honouring his enormous contribution to the scientific understanding of plants across Canada.
  James Fletcher died in 1908, aged only 56. But in a short life he set up the machinery for studying Canada’s wild plants and agricultural crops, and also the insects that prey on them.
  Fletcher was appointed the Dominion Entomologist and Botanist in 1884, shortly before the Central Experimental Far
  
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• Poppies, fighter jets, artillery fire to mark Remembrance Day

  09-11-2017 20:04 via ottawacitizen.com
  The parliamentary precinct will offer fighter jet flybys and artillery fire to mark Remembrance Day Saturday.
  The Royal Canadian Air Force 3 Wing from Bagotville, Que. will send a pair of CF-18 Hornets for flyovers.
  The first pass is at 11:05 a.m. over the National War Memorial on Wellington Street, at the main site for the proceedings. They will then soar over Beechwood Cemetery and finally, fly over the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 632 in Orléans.
  Meanwhile, the 30th Field Artillery Reg
  
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• LISTEN: @LauraPeck6 joins @MeehanCarolAnne for their weekly review of major news headlines. player.1310news.com https://t.co/2d8GKgEc6i

  09-11-2017 20:03 via twitter.com
  
  LISTEN: @LauraPeck6 joins @MeehanCarolAnne for their weekly review of major news headlines. player.1310news.com https://t.co/2d8GKgEc6i
  
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• LISTEN: Ontario's Patient Ombudsman Christine Elliott has released her first report. @MeehanCarolAnne is asking her… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  09-11-2017 19:45 via twitter.com
  LISTEN: Ontario's Patient Ombudsman Christine Elliott has released her first report. @MeehanCarolAnne is asking her… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• LISTEN: Dr. Peter MacDougall joins @MeehanCarolAnne to talk about how pain doctors are prescribing opioids given th… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  09-11-2017 19:30 via twitter.com
  LISTEN: Dr. Peter MacDougall joins @MeehanCarolAnne to talk about how pain doctors are prescribing opioids given th… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Long-term care audit should be done early in 2018, AG says

  09-11-2017 19:18 via ottawacitizen.com
  City auditor general Ken Hughes says his audit into the city’s long-term care homes should be complete by the first quarter of 2018.
  Hughes said his office intends to start the audit in January. There was a bit of a delay to the audit when the province issued an order to the city on safety and care of patients.
  The results of the audit will be presented to council’s audit committee when the review is complete.
  Hughes told the audit committee on Thursday that he expects his audit will
  
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• LISTEN: Changes to pensions for Canadian Veterans. @MeehanCarolAnne is speaking with retired Major Mark Campbell.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  09-11-2017 19:15 via twitter.com
  LISTEN: Changes to pensions for Canadian Veterans. @MeehanCarolAnne is speaking with retired Major Mark Campbell.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• LISTEN: How cold will it get for how long, and what other nastiness can we expect weather-wise? @MeehanCarolAnne is… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  09-11-2017 19:04 via twitter.com
  LISTEN: How cold will it get for how long, and what other nastiness can we expect weather-wise? @MeehanCarolAnne is… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• A peek behind the curtain: #LaMachine shows some of the workings of #LongMa. #ottnews #socool twitter.com/lamachinefr/st…

  09-11-2017 18:45 via twitter.com
  A peek behind the curtain: #LaMachine shows some of the workings of #LongMa. #ottnews #socool twitter.com/lamachinefr/st…
  
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• Somerset: America's faith in guns never wavers. Why?

  09-11-2017 18:22 via ottawacitizen.com
  Freedom shoots 82 people in a movie theatre. Freedom kills 20 children in their classrooms. Freedom shoots more than 100 in a nightclub; 49 die.
  Yet America’s faith does not waver, not even when Freedom machine-guns 600-odd concert-goers. If the shooting of 26 more Americans in their church changes no one’s mind, we have no right to be surprised. Freedom is America’s capricious god, and he revels in the cruelty of his mockeries.
  Nothing is so immovable as faith.
  We fit the fact
  
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• The Citizen needs your help for our act of remembrance project: @WeAreTheDead

  09-11-2017 18:18 via ottawacitizen.com
  This Remembrance Day, the Citizen will again ask readers for help in honouring one of Canada’s war dead.
  The name of a soldier will be randomly issued on Saturday at 11:11 a.m. in an online memorial created by the Citizen, called “We Are The Dead.”
  The name will be published on a Twitter account, @WeAreTheDead, that for six years  has issued names from the list of 119,531 uniformed Canadians who have lost their lives in service to this country. A new name is published
  
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• Winter weather advisory in effect for Ottawa-Gatineau - CBC.ca

  09-11-2017 18:08 via cbc.ca
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  Winter weather advisory in effect for Ottawa-Gatineau
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  Things are about to change. Winter is coming — and here's the timeline. Today, there's the possibility of a few showers by the afternoon as the high hits 7 C under cloudy skies and a strengthening southerly wind. Ian Black's forecast on Twitter. By ...
  
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• Piché: Here's why we should stop planning for a new jail

  09-11-2017 18:05 via ottawacitizen.com
  As one of many organizations that has called on the Ontario government to enact meaningful reforms to the penal system, The Criminalization and Punishment Education Project is pleased that Attorney General Yasir Naqvi is proceeding with measures designed to reduce the number of accused awaiting trial in remand centres. We’re also happy with his directives to limit the conditions imposed on those granted bail as a means of reducing breaches that often result in the unnecessary placement of
  
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• Taking umbrage at being carded, man robs gas station of cigarettes

  09-11-2017 17:55 via ottawacitizen.com
  Police are hunting for a man, with a woman in tow, who threatened a clerk at a Montreal Road gas bar then robbed the place of cigarettes.
  Police say it was on Nov. 4 at about 7 a.m. when the man and woman went into the gas station near the Vanier Parkway and asked for cigarettes. When asked for ID, the man became “agitated and verbally aggressive” then walked behind the counter and grabbed smokes. The clerk was threatened when he tried to intervene but unhurt.
  The pair then fled
  
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• Coming up at 11:30: @Spencerpress has all your #ottnews in @OttawaCitizen segment bit.ly/1ppeuDa… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  09-11-2017 17:25 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 11:30: @Spencerpress has all your #ottnews in @OttawaCitizen segment bit.ly/1ppeuDa… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Coming up at 11:15: @PattyHajdu joins @_MarkSutcliffe to discuss #workplace #harassment & her call for a cultural… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  09-11-2017 17:05 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 11:15: @PattyHajdu joins @_MarkSutcliffe to discuss #workplace #harassment & her call for a cultural… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Is #Facebook a ‘con’ or not? @cfhorgan joins @_MarkSutcliffe coming up at 11: LISTEN: bit.ly/1uwtdOs https://t.co/Ev2HXiRIvP

  09-11-2017 16:55 via twitter.com
  
  Is #Facebook a ‘con’ or not? @cfhorgan joins @_MarkSutcliffe coming up at 11: LISTEN: bit.ly/1uwtdOs https://t.co/Ev2HXiRIvP
  
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• NEXT @SubbanKarl on his new book 'How We Did It: The Subban Plan for Success in Hockey, School and Life'… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  09-11-2017 16:45 via twitter.com
  NEXT@SubbanKarl on his new book 'How We Did It: The Subban Plan for Success in Hockey, School and Life'… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Still Ahead: @powerstim joins @_MarkSutcliffe LIVE: bit.ly/1uwtdOs #cdnpoli @abacusdataca https://t.co/Tmf9BkqW4H

  09-11-2017 16:25 via twitter.com
  
  Still Ahead:@powerstim joins @_MarkSutcliffe LIVE: bit.ly/1uwtdOs #cdnpoli @abacusdataca https://t.co/Tmf9BkqW4H
  
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• Also ahead: Are you satisfied with the mayor's performance on taxes over the four years of his term? #ottnews… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  09-11-2017 15:59 via twitter.com
  Also ahead: Are you satisfied with the mayor's performance on taxes over the four years of his term?#ottnews… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Kingston police charge city bus driver in death of pedestrian

  09-11-2017 15:53 via ottawacitizen.com
  Kingston police have charged the driver of a city bus that struck and killed a pedestrian last Friday.
  Police said in a news release Wednesday that the unidentified driver was charged under the Highway Traffic Act with failure to yield to a pedestrian.
  Emergency services were called to the intersection of John Counter Boulevard and Leroy Grant Drive for the collision at approximately 7:15 a.m.
  Kingston police said that the bus was traveling west on John Counter Boulevard when it turned left on a
  
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• Kingston police charge city bus driver in death of pedestrian - Ottawa Citizen

  09-11-2017 15:52 via ottawacitizen.com
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  Kingston police charge city bus driver in death of pedestrian
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  Police investigate the scene of a fatal collision involving a pedestrian and a city bus Friday, Nov. 3. Ian MacAlpine / Postmedia. Share Adjust Comment Print. Kingston police have charged the driver of a city bus that struck and killed a pedestrian ...
  Bus driver charged in death of Kingston pedestrianCBC.caall 2 news articles »
  
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• Coming up on the 10 O'Clock Talk: @LMartinWashDC, @David_Moscrop & @1310Alexblack join @_MarkSutcliffe… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  09-11-2017 15:45 via twitter.com
  Coming up on the 10 O'Clock Talk: @LMartinWashDC,@David_Moscrop & @1310Alexblack join @_MarkSutcliffe… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Are city bus stop alerts working properly? #Ottawa lawyer Terrance Green coming up 9:45 bit.ly/1uwtdOs… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  09-11-2017 15:40 via twitter.com
  Are city bus stop alerts working properly?#Ottawa lawyer Terrance Green coming up 9:45 bit.ly/1uwtdOs… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Christmas comes early on the Carleton Place Home Tour

  09-11-2017 15:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Christmas in Carleton Place Home Tour again sets the quintessential winter holiday scene in this picturesque town. 
  In its sixth year, eight homes will be open to tour on Dec. 2 and 3, along with two bonus locations at Sinders Bridal Salon, inside a Victorian brick home and at the Waterside retirement community. 
  From heritage to modern, all properties will be fragrant and sparkling with lights, both inside and out.
  “The entire house will be decorated top to bottom by the hom
  
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• Coming up at 9:30: @Geddes28 joins @_MarkSutcliffe for their weekly @macleans on the Hill segment… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  09-11-2017 15:18 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 9:30: @Geddes28 joins @_MarkSutcliffe for their weekly @macleans on the Hill segment… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• New Order of Military Merit recipients – here is the list

  09-11-2017 14:53 via ottawacitizen.com
  Julie Payette, Governor General and Commander-in-Chief of Canada, will preside over an Order of Military Merit investiture ceremony at Rideau Hall, on Friday, November 10. The Governor General will bestow the honour on 2 Commanders, 7 Officers and 36 Members. Created in 1972, the Order of Military Merit recognizes meritorious service and devotion to duty by members of the Canadian Armed Forces. The Order honours them for their commitment to Canada, according to the
  
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• Ottawa to announce expanded parental leave that'll come into effect next month - Toronto Star

  09-11-2017 13:58 via thestar.com
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  Ottawa to announce expanded parental leave that'll come into effect next month
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  Sources say the new rules will take effect next month, but the exact date will be disclosed later today by Social Development Minister Jean-Yves Duclos. Minister of Families, Children and Social Development Jean-Yves Duclos is expected to announce new ...and more »
  
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• Yauch: It’s the end of energy regulation in Ontario as we know it

  09-11-2017 13:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  The price consumers pay for power in Ontario is now a political decision, rather than an economic one. That’s the result of new measures introduced in the Fair Hydro Act, which will allow the minister of Energy to arbitrarily set electricity rates as he sees fit.  
  Much of the public debate around the Fair Hydro Act has neglected this aspect of the legislation, although it amounts to eliminating one of the last areas of independence at the Ontario Energy Board (OEB). It also caps off
  
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• Winter's on its way, and it could be here by tonight - CBC.ca

  09-11-2017 12:16 via cbc.ca
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  Winter's on its way, and it could be here by tonight
  CBC.ca
  Things are about to change. Winter is coming — and here's the timeline. Today, there's the possibility of a few showers by the afternoon as the high hits 7 C under cloudy skies and a strengthening southerly wind. Ian Black's forecast on Twitter. By ...
  
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• Rideau Canal Skateway tops poll of best skating rinks: bit.ly/2zunQeH #ottnews #ottawa @RideauCanalNHS https://t.co/5yXUkN3sGT

  09-11-2017 12:02 via twitter.com
  
  Rideau Canal Skateway tops poll of best skating rinks: bit.ly/2zunQeH #ottnews#ottawa @RideauCanalNHS https://t.co/5yXUkN3sGT
  
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• Expanded parental leave to come into effect by end of year, sources say: bit.ly/2hWxpvs https://t.co/O7LOlxUU5g

  09-11-2017 11:41 via twitter.com
  
  Expanded parental leave to come into effect by end of year, sources say: bit.ly/2hWxpvs https://t.co/O7LOlxUU5g
  
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• Review of Ottawa housing program flags shortfalls - CBC.ca

  09-11-2017 11:01 via cbc.ca
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  Review of Ottawa housing program flags shortfalls
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  The City of Ottawa's latest self-assessment of a program aimed at finding permanent housing for homeless people has uncovered two inadequacies: it's taking too long to find them a place to live, and it's inadequately subsidized. The annual review of ...
  
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• Ottawa 67's to Host Gatineau in Historic Outdoor Game 1310news.com/2017/11/08/ott…

  09-11-2017 00:17 via twitter.com
  Ottawa 67's to Host Gatineau in Historic Outdoor Game1310news.com/2017/11/08/ott…
  
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• Ottawa's junior teams lace up for outdoor hockey at family-friendly price

  09-11-2017 00:06
  Ottawa 67’s and les Olympiques de Gatineau to face off December 17 at TD Place, one day after NHL Canadian Classic.
  
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• Updated: Ottawa city's draft budget keeps tax promise, puts focus on infrastructure, social services

  09-11-2017 00:04 via ottawacitizen.com
  Your 2018 Ottawa city draft budget highlights:
  Property taxes proposed to increase two per cent
  More focus on non-transit infrastructure, such as roads, after years of planning for LRT
  A three per cent increase for social service agencies
  New EquiFare for low-income transit passengers
  Recreation fees would increase two per cent
  $3.42 billion in proposed tax-supported operating spending in 2018
  Proposed four per cent increase in water rate, five per cent increase in wastewater rate and five per c
  
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