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• Canada to buy surplus Australian F-18s, says report

  05-12-2017 23:56 via ottawacitizen.com
  Canada is scrapping a plan to buy 18 new Boeing Super Hornet fighter jets and will instead buy surplus Australian F-18s, according to a report from Reuters news agency.
  Reuters, citing three sources familiar with the matter, reported that an announcement will be made next week.
  The Canadian government is not commenting on the report.
  In late September, Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan acknowledged that Canada was focused on purchasing surplus Australian F-18s for interim aircraft. “As you kn
  
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• Passes to skate on Parliament Hill available online for Thursday's opening day

  05-12-2017 23:51 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Canada 150 rink offers a chance to skate in the shadow of the Peace Tower with passes available online for opening day Thursday.
  The rink is open from Dec. 7 to Feb. 28 and more than 40,000 Canadians are expected to take in what’s billed as a “once-in-a-lifetime” opportunity.
  Passes are available starting 48 hours ahead of each skating day. For example, if you want to skate Dec. 7, passes become available Dec. 5 at noon Eastern time.  People can get up to six passes at
  
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• War museum acquires historic Passchendaele Victoria Cross

  05-12-2017 23:46 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Canadian War Museum has added another Victoria Cross to its collection, the second time in a week the museum has purchased the honour for bravery in the face of the enemy.
  The Victoria Cross was awarded to Cpl. Colin Fraser Barron for his actions on Nov. 6, 1917, during the First World War bloodbath of Passchendaele. Barron’s medals and VC were sold at auction Monday in London, England for 350,000 pounds or nearly $600,000 Cdn.
  “This medal is a testament to one soldier&rsquo
  
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• 'The visible and the invisible': Female photographers provide rare glimpses of Middle East at war museum

  05-12-2017 23:17 via ottawacitizen.com
  From the Arabian Nights to the Arab Spring, Westerners see images of the Middle East in our own pop culture, news and art.
  But what does the region look like through the lens of local women?
  The exhibit She Who Tells a Story includes 85 images taken from the 1990s to today by a dozen female photographers from Iran and the Arab world.
  They aim to challenge Western conceptions and illuminate contemporary life and politics.
  Organized by the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the exhibit opens at the Ca
  
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• Egan: When a house burned down, a whole street shone bright

  05-12-2017 23:16 via ottawacitizen.com
  Close to midnight on Nov. 9, fire began to smoulder in a ground-floor wall at 14 Gould St., a narrow, steeply pitched-roof house where the Hill family lived for about 30 years.
  The house held three people, including six-year-old Noah, a dog named Daisy, cats George and Izzy, and a couple of turtles with the temporary handles of Jack and Frost. It is the only house Rachel Hill, 26, Noah’s mother, has ever lived in and that night, she was steps away in the heated garage, reorganizing storage
  
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• OC Session: Ed Lister’s Prime Rib Big Band

  05-12-2017 22:50 via ottawacitizen.com
  Since last March, trumpeter and bandleader Ed Lister has been beefing up Ottawa’s jazz scene with his Prime Rib Big Band.
  The 11-piece band has a standing gig at Irene’s Pub in the Glebe, playing the first Wednesday of every month. Lister’s band has also played two noon-hour concerts at Southminster United Church, plus shows at jazz festivals in Ottawa, Aylmer and Merrickville. Not bad at all given the cost of hiring a big band.
  Next up for the Prime Rib Big Band is an appropri
  
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• Civilian panel to begin auditing how Ottawa police handle sexual assault cases

  05-12-2017 22:47 via ottawacitizen.com
  In the next few weeks, a civilian panel will start running quarterly reviews of dozens of Ottawa cases in the hopes of improving the way police investigate sexual assault and domestic violence.
  The problem the project is aimed at changing is a long-standing one —  many women who come forward with reports of sexual assault feel police don’t believe them.
  A large proportion of sexual assault cases are “unfounded,” meaning police have concluded that no crime occurred or
  
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• Jazz is a dynamic, universal language, says Norway-based Mozambican saxman Ivan Mazuze

  05-12-2017 22:42 via ottawacitizen.com
  As keen as many are to call jazz the classical music of America, there are practitioners who push for a broader take, such as the Mozambique-raised, Norway-based saxophonist Ivan Mazuze.
  Pursuing an international career that has seen him in recent months tour in Europe, Southern Africa and South America, Mazuze lands in Canada this week. With a Toronto-based rhythm section, he plays the Mercury Lounge in Ottawa Thursday, and then Toronto’s Small World Music Centre on Saturday. 
  Below,
  
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• Belleville high school could be named after late Hip lead singer Gord Downie ow.ly/xBMt30h2hmI https://t.co/T4w8fle5ct

  05-12-2017 21:52 via twitter.com
  
  Belleville high school could be named after late Hip lead singer Gord Downie ow.ly/xBMt30h2hmI https://t.co/T4w8fle5ct
  
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• UPDATE: Borutski sentencing pushed to Wednesday ow.ly/kvfe30h2f8O https://t.co/lvMUcsRMZ7

  05-12-2017 21:25 via twitter.com
  
  UPDATE: Borutski sentencing pushed to Wednesday ow.ly/kvfe30h2f8O https://t.co/lvMUcsRMZ7
  
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• STORY: IOC suspends Russian Olympic committee, will allow athletes to compete as neutrals ow.ly/CHye30h2eGf https://t.co/Txdg5DjV95

  05-12-2017 21:19 via twitter.com
  
  STORY: IOC suspends Russian Olympic committee, will allow athletes to compete as neutrals ow.ly/CHye30h2eGf https://t.co/Txdg5DjV95
  
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• Transpo/Loblaw food drive registers recording-breaking totals

  05-12-2017 20:36 via ottawacitizen.com
  The counting’s finally done.
  The 33rd annual OC Transpo/Loblaw Christmas Food Drive brought in a record-breaking total of 139,322 food and non-perishable items, as well as $38,176 in cash and food vouchers to restock the shelves at the Food Bank’s Michael Street warehouse in time for the holidays.
  On Saturday, Transpo buses were parked outside participating Loblaws, Real Canadian Superstore, Your Independent Grocer and No Frills locations, aided by hundreds City of Ottawa worker
  
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• Research team shocked by extent of violence against health workers

  05-12-2017 20:18 via ottawacitizen.com
  Two researchers say they were shaken by what they heard when they talked to health-workers across Ontario about violence on the job.
  “We had no idea of the magnitude of the problem or how serious it was. We actually ended up being quite disturbed,” said Margaret Keith, a University of Windsor researcher and co-author of the just-released report on violence against health workers called Assaulted and Unheard.
  Keith and her co-authors James Brophy, also a University of Windsor research
  
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• #BREAKING The IOC has suspended Russian Olympic committee, but will allow athletes from the country to compete as… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  05-12-2017 19:41 via twitter.com
  #BREAKINGThe IOC has suspended Russian Olympic committee, but will allow athletes from the country to compete as… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Cohen: In 'fake news' era, New York Times still prevails

  05-12-2017 19:20 via ottawacitizen.com
  There was a time, a quarter-century ago or so, that you could see Canada through foreign eyes. Foreign journalists stationed here offered us a different, illuminating perspective.
  The Times of London, the Guardian and other British newspapers once had correspondents or stringers in Canada. So did American newspapers: the Washington Post, the Boston Globe and the New York Times.
  The New York Times, in particular, has a long association with our peaceable kingdom; it covered Confederation in 1867.
  
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• Rockland pair charged with trafficking following raid

  05-12-2017 18:54 via ottawacitizen.com
  Two Rockland residents face charges of drug trafficking and weapons possession following a Nov. 23 raid.
  A group of provincial police from several squads conducted the raid following several complaints from neighbours.
  Investigators seized cocaine and methamphetamine (speed) pills as well as more than two pounds of marijuana. Police also seized an unspecified amount of cash and a Taser-type weapon.
  Charged are Patrick Lanthier, 40, and Chantal Gélinas, 39.
   
  
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• Purse Project brings necessities to women in shelters

  05-12-2017 18:37 via ottawacitizen.com
  A community initiative to bring purses filled with sanitary products to women in shelters across the city has returned this season.
  Women often arrive at shelters with nothing but the clothes on their backs and spending $5 to $10 a month on tampons and pads is frequently a hardship.
  The Purse Project, launched by staff at the Anglican Diocese of Ottawa, involves getting a gently used purse, filling it up with life’s necessities — which can include anything from tampons and toiletries
  
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• The @rick_gibbons Show for Tuesday, December 5th: 1:10: #LucLeBlanc 1:15: @PierrePaulHus 1:30: @GryphonReport 1:45:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  05-12-2017 18:34 via twitter.com
  The @rick_gibbons Show for Tuesday, December 5th: 1:10: #LucLeBlanc 1:15: @PierrePaulHus 1:30: @GryphonReport 1:45:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Coming up at 12:30: @Scott_Gilmore joins @_MarkSutcliffe to discuss his article 'The Coming American Explosion."… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  05-12-2017 18:20 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 12:30: @Scott_Gilmore joins @_MarkSutcliffe to discuss his article 'The Coming American Explosion."… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Sick jazzman forces Ottawa Jazz Festival to cancel Dec. 12 Charlie Brown Christmas concert

  05-12-2017 18:16 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Ottawa Jazz Festival has been forced to cancel its now-traditional Charlie Brown Christmas concert that was scheduled for Dec. 12.
  The concert’s star musician, Halifax drummer Jerry Granelli, has been hospitalized with pneumonia and has had to cancel his touring, the festival’s executive producer Catherine O’Grady posted on Facebook. All ticket holders will be refunded in two to three business days, the festival’s website says.
  The 76-year-old Granelli, who performed
  
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• Area police to focus on impaired driving, unsafe lane changes in December

  05-12-2017 18:04 via ottawacitizen.com
  Police from Ottawa and Gatineau will be focusing on impaired driving and unsafe lane changes during the month of December.
  The two forces announced the crackdown on Tuesday as part of their regular Selective Traffic Enforcement Program (STEP).
  According to police between 2011 and 2015, there were 1,890 reportable collisions involving impaired driving resulting in 13 fatalities and 813 injuries.
  Police also said, during the same period there were 6,062 collisions resulting in 655 injuries as a re
  
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• Coming up 11:45: Pollster @niknanos joins @_MarkSutcliffe for weekly segment: bit.ly/1uwtdOs https://t.co/Nfj17ABZQE

  05-12-2017 17:40 via twitter.com
  
  Coming up 11:45: Pollster @niknanos joins @_MarkSutcliffe for weekly segment: bit.ly/1uwtdOs https://t.co/Nfj17ABZQE
  
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• New Constellations mixes Indigenous and non-Indigenous performers for all-star revues

  05-12-2017 17:36 via ottawacitizen.com
  Jason Collett has one hard-and-fast rule when it comes to the New Constellations tour.
  Performers must watch each other perform.
  “The artists are not allowed to just hang out backstage,” says the singer-songwriter, in an interview with Postmedia from his home in Toronto. “Typically, whenever we do benefits together, that’s how it goes. Everybody is a snob about their peers and they are just hanging in the green room until it’s their time to be on stage and they are
  
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• Coming up 11:30: @RogerLMartin joins @_MarkSutcliffe live: Listen: bit.ly/1uwtdOs https://t.co/NlhyZRhWsb

  05-12-2017 17:20 via twitter.com
  
  Coming up 11:30: @RogerLMartin joins @_MarkSutcliffe live: Listen: bit.ly/1uwtdOs https://t.co/NlhyZRhWsb
  
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• Gatineau police seek assistance in heavy equipment theft investigation

  05-12-2017 17:09 via ottawacitizen.com
  Have you seen a 50-foot industrial lift in your travels?
  Gatineau police are looking for thieves who made off with two pieces of heavy equipment over the Nov. 10-13 weekend from a construction site on Amsterdam Boulevard near Plateau Boulevard in the Aylmer sector.
  Stolen were a Fraco industrial lift, 50 feet long, as well as a “Zoom Boom,” model 8044 telescopic material handler.
  A 50-foot industrial lift was stolen in Gatineau over the Nov. 10-14 weekend.
  Police say thieves would ha
  
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• Coming up NEXT: @mikevonmassow on why we should end tipping in time for Christmas: Listen:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  05-12-2017 16:48 via twitter.com
  Coming up NEXT: @mikevonmassow on why we should end tipping in time for Christmas: Listen:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Coming up 10:30: @Kyle_Duggan of @ipoliticsca joins @_MarkSutcliffe LIVE: bit.ly/1uwtdOs https://t.co/yTfMmXGcAN

  05-12-2017 16:25 via twitter.com
  
  Coming up 10:30:@Kyle_Duggan of @ipoliticsca joins @_MarkSutcliffe LIVE: bit.ly/1uwtdOs https://t.co/yTfMmXGcAN
  
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• Two charged in connection with binge that included seven bank robberies

  05-12-2017 16:17 via ottawacitizen.com
  A 26-year-old Ottawa man faces a host of charges in connection with a string of robberies at banks and a pharmacy during November.  
  The man has been charged with 13 counts of robbery, eight counts of wearing a disguise and six counts of breach of undertaking. He had also been wanted on a Canada-wide arrest warrant in relation to breaching conditions of his parole.
  He and a suspected accomplice were arrested separately on Nov. 30.
  The man appeared in court Dec. 1 and is being held
  
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• Federal government unveils ads warning of drug-impaired driving dangers: bit.ly/2AT5yH2 https://t.co/Qc3V1taGvD

  05-12-2017 15:56 via twitter.com
  
  Federal government unveils ads warning of drug-impaired driving dangers: bit.ly/2AT5yH2 https://t.co/Qc3V1taGvD
  
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• Coming up on the 10 O'Clock Talk: @KimothyWalker, @Justin_Ling & @1061ChezEric join @_MarkSutcliffe live: Liste… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  05-12-2017 15:45 via twitter.com
  Coming up on the 10 O'Clock Talk: @KimothyWalker, @Justin_Ling & @1061ChezEric join @_MarkSutcliffe live: Liste… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• 'Theresa May is right to publicly feud with Donald Trump' @ShannonGormley joins @_MarkSutcliffe at 9:45: Listen:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  05-12-2017 15:38 via twitter.com
  'Theresa May is right to publicly feud with Donald Trump'@ShannonGormley joins @_MarkSutcliffe at 9:45:Listen:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Antiques: Painting's auction value sails in uncharted waters

  05-12-2017 15:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  Q. This beautiful oil on canvas is part of our Mom’s estate. She bought it in the 1980s. The artist is Ivan Aivazovsky, 1817-1900, titled “The Sea”, and was apparently painted around 1860. 
  It has some documentation including a certificate of authenticity – part of which was done by the Artistic Commission of Tretjakov Gallery in Moscow, 1971. It was initially bought directly from the artist and was in one family’s hands for 70 yea
  
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• Coming up at 9:30 @RandallMoore26 of @1061CHEZ joins @_MarkSutcliffe live in-studio: bit.ly/1uwtdOs https://t.co/YNg9PIPQ5U

  05-12-2017 15:23 via twitter.com
  
  Coming up at 9:30@RandallMoore26 of @1061CHEZ joins @_MarkSutcliffe live in-studio:bit.ly/1uwtdOs https://t.co/YNg9PIPQ5U
  
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• Chalk River labs signs deals to lead Deep River fire department

  05-12-2017 15:08 via ottawacitizen.com
  DEEP RIVER – Canadian Nuclear Laboratories (CNL) and the Town of Deep River have signed an interim agreement that will see CNL’s Chalk River Laboratories fire operations provide management of the town’s fire services.
  Deep River, with a population of 4,000, is the smallest community in Ontario with full-time firefighters, at a cost of $1.5 million per year. The town is about 200 kilometres northwest of Ottawa.
  Discussions have been going on for years on how to help the struggli
  
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• Do you have questions about transit hikes in the city? @StephenBlais joins @_MarkSutcliffe at 9:15: Listen:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  05-12-2017 15:07 via twitter.com
  Do you have questions about transit hikes in the city?@StephenBlais joins @_MarkSutcliffe at 9:15:Listen:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Weather: Tuesday traffic thick on wet roads with rain and high of 9 C

  05-12-2017 14:15 via ottawacitizen.com
  Tuesday’s forecast is warm and wet, but watch for slippery roads that seemed to be slowing morning traffic.
  Environment Canada predicts that periods of rain that began in early morning won’t end until evening with southwest winds at 30 km/h gusting to 50 to blow it around. The expected high is 9 C dipping to -4 C overnight.
  Wednesday’s forecast is mainly sunny with the same southwest winds, a high of 0 C and a low of -4 C.
  For Thursday, expect a mix of sun and cloud, a high of
  
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• An undetermined number of packages are up in smoke after an overnight fire at a Maryland UPS centre.

  05-12-2017 13:28 via twitter.com
  An undetermined number of packages are up in smoke after an overnight fire at a Maryland UPS centre.
  
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• No Operation Red Nose in Ottawa this holiday season: bit.ly/2ioJXeQ https://t.co/GVHo07ptsP

  05-12-2017 13:16 via twitter.com
  
  No Operation Red Nose in Ottawa this holiday season: bit.ly/2ioJXeQ https://t.co/GVHo07ptsP
  
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• A free-trade deal with China needs clear, enforceable rules

  05-12-2017 13:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  As Prime Minister Trudeau visits China to discuss the possibility of a future bilateral free trade agreement (FTA), many Canadians are unsettled about closer ties with China. And for good reason. China’s compliance with existing trade agreements has been problematic. China’s widely documented practices of subsidizing exports and dumping exported goods at prices that do not reflect market costs (one of many ongoing reasons to oppose China’s classification as a market economy) al
  
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• IOC meets to decide on Russia's Olympic participation: bit.ly/2nufO3b https://t.co/HZjijRwNbo

  05-12-2017 12:54 via twitter.com
  
  IOC meets to decide on Russia's Olympic participation: bit.ly/2nufO3b https://t.co/HZjijRwNbo
  
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• It's that time of year! --- The @SnowsuitFund radiothon is happening tomorrow! Find out how you can keep a child w… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  05-12-2017 12:26 via twitter.com
  It's that time of year! --- The @SnowsuitFund radiothon is happening tomorrow!Find out how you can keep a child w… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• What will winter 2018 be like in Canada? bit.ly/2ilJbz1 https://t.co/Maf2zvitmF

  05-12-2017 12:16 via twitter.com
  
  What will winter 2018 be like in Canada? bit.ly/2ilJbz1 https://t.co/Maf2zvitmF
  
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• Definitely raincoat weather! twitter.com/1310Alexblack/…

  05-12-2017 12:01 via twitter.com
  Definitely raincoat weather! twitter.com/1310Alexblack/…
  
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• Basil Borutski is set to be sentenced today in Pembroke: bit.ly/2koBgFn https://t.co/fa3GxiDsNd

  05-12-2017 11:51 via twitter.com
  
  Basil Borutski is set to be sentenced today in Pembroke: bit.ly/2koBgFn https://t.co/fa3GxiDsNd
  
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• Trump heartily endorses Moore as GOP comes to grips with him: bit.ly/2inB7ho https://t.co/Ill3enEgDi

  05-12-2017 11:42 via twitter.com
  
  Trump heartily endorses Moore as GOP comes to grips with him: bit.ly/2inB7ho https://t.co/Ill3enEgDi
  
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• Pursuing free trade part of mission to combat populism, says Trudeau: bit.ly/2nu970Y https://t.co/wSofbJHi1S

  05-12-2017 11:32 via twitter.com
  
  Pursuing free trade part of mission to combat populism, says Trudeau: bit.ly/2nu970Y https://t.co/wSofbJHi1S
  
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• Garneau says Royal Canadian Navy doesn’t need a second supply ship. Really?

  05-12-2017 06:52 via ottawacitizen.com
  Politicians and unions in Quebec are turning up the heat on the Liberal government, questioning why Davie shipyards in the province isn’t getting any more work from the federal government. Davie converted a commercial container ship into a supply vessel for the Royal Canadian Navy. It was on time and on budget. The ship, the Asterix, goes into service early next year and under the agreement will be leased to the RCN.
  Davie is ready to quickly convert another vessel into a supply ship.
  But
  
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• Veteran trustees elected to top roles on OCDSB

  05-12-2017 04:40 via ottawacitizen.com
  Shirley Seward
  The Ottawa-Carleton District School Board has elected its chair and vice-chair for the new year. Both are veteran trustees.
  Shirley Seward has represented the board’s River Zone since 2010, and this will be her fourth term as chair.
  Lynn Scott, the vice-chair, has been a trustee for the OCDSB and before that for the Carleton Board of Education since 1994, had has served previously
  Lynn Scott
  as chair of the board and, at various times, of all its major committees.
  The OCDSB
  
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• Survey of rooming house tenants finds many scramble to pay rent

  05-12-2017 02:42 via ottawacitizen.com
  A survey of tenants in rooming houses in west-central Ottawa draws a grim picture.
  Some tenants reported paying almost three-quarters of their income for their room. More than half used food banks and soup kitchens. Almost three-quarters of those surveyed had at least one mental health condition.
  But the survey also concludes that rooming houses play an important but often overlooked role in providing affordable housing for people who might otherwise live on the streets or in homeless shelters.
  
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• Inaugural Seven Tipis lighting celebrates Indigenous culture and Canada 150

  05-12-2017 02:19 via ottawacitizen.com
  On the picturesque grounds of the Canadian Museum of History Monday, there was sight never before seen: a series of seven teepees, illuminated with colour and shining brightly against the backdrop of Parliament.
  The teepee lighting marked the launch of an event that will close out a year of Canada 150 celebrations:  Nimidiwin, A celebration of our Dance from Coast to Coast to Coast. The New Year’s Eve event will be held at the Canadian Museum of History, and will feature Indigeno
  
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