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• Boeing reacts to the Liberal government's "Boeing clause"

  12-12-2017 23:57 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Liberal government has brought in a new clause – dubbed the Boeing clause – which will be used in the process of selecting winners of military equipment procurements. The clause would assess the “economic harm” a company might have on Canada’s economy because of its policies or trade complaints.
  My article on this development is at the National Post website here:
  http://nationalpost.com/news/politics/in-shot-at-boeing-19b-competition-to-build-new-fighter-jets-wi
  
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• Reevely: Ottawa councillors' infrastructure rebellion seems doomed — but it's a noble failure

  12-12-2017 23:55 via ottawacitizen.com
  Every year, Mayor Jim Watson dares city councillors to find a way to mess with his budget. This year, a record eight councillors are taking him up on it, proposing a small one-time infrastructure levy to fix crumbling roads and maybe replace a pipe or two.
  Unless something truly extraordinary happens in Wednesday’s city council meeting, they will fail. Ten councillors are firmly against them, two are openly very skeptical, and 12 votes is the ballgame.
  But that eight councillors signed up
  
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• Big Brothers Big Sisters to use GPS tracking to protect capital region bins

  12-12-2017 23:32 via ottawacitizen.com
  A charity that had its clothing bins stolen will be installing security chips in the steel boxes to protect thousands of dollars worth of donations that go to support families over the holidays and throughout the year.
  Over the past couple of months, Big Brothers Big Sisters Ottawa and its Outaouais chapter have had around a dozen donation bins stolen. The items inside — typically gently-used garments, household goods and toys  — were taken and neither Ottawa nor Gatineau police
  
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• Russell woman forced to raised thousands for melanoma drug that arrived too late to help her

  12-12-2017 21:56 via ottawacitizen.com
  Nine months after she was diagnosed with advanced melanoma, Carolyn Pol is at home just outside Russell, surrounded by family, receiving palliative care.
  It is something the deeply religious mother of five says she is at peace with. Still, she wonders if things might have been different.
  Pol, 51, and her family had to raise tens of thousands of dollars before she could begin taking an expensive combination of two immunotherapy drugs that her oncologist hoped might extend her life, as it has the
  
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• Today's letters: Taxes and veterans

  12-12-2017 21:46 via ottawacitizen.com
  Readers are riled about local taxes and treatment of veterans. Got an opinion? Write to us at: [email protected]
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  Are infrastructure funds well spent?
  Re: Proposed infrastructure levy on a bumpy road to the budget vote, Dec. 11.
  Residents would agree that infrastructure is in great need of repairs. But have councillors insured that spending in their wards has been done properly? Rideau-Rockcliffe has seen the Legoland main street strip on Hemlock-Beechwood dug up and redone a numb
  
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• Police clear scene outside south-end home after search for armed robbery suspect

  12-12-2017 21:44 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa police patrol officers and a tactical team cleared the scene outside a home Tuesday in the city’s south end where police believed a robbery suspect armed with a gun had retreated.
  The operation began with a mid-morning call to police from a Tim Hortons on Heatherington Road.
  A police spokesman confirmed an operation was underway after an investigation led officers to a home on Angela Private near the corner of Heatherington.
  “From there, the investigation pursued to this locat
  
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• Venta Prep School closes only months after death of 103-year-old founder

  12-12-2017 21:02 via ottawacitizen.com
  A Carp-area private school founded by a child psychologist who died in August at the age of 103 has closed its doors suddenly and mysteriously.
  Venta Preparatory School, located just off March Road on about 20 sprawling hectares, had about 83 day and boarding students. The school was closed effective Monday, said director of studies Shaun Quinn.
  Quinn directed questions to the chairman of the school’s board of directors, Hanns Baader, who also confirmed the school was closed. But Baader sa
  
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• Editorial: Crowd control shouldn't be this hard

  12-12-2017 20:04 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ceremonies to mark major events in Canada’s history should be about more than colourful photo ops for political leaders. Apparently, however, they are not.
  Canadians learned that in stark fashion on Canada Day, when tens of thousands were trapped in and around the parliamentary precinct trying to get on to Parliament Hill to celebrate the sesquicentennial in patriotic fashion. Instead, they were stuck in long, chaotic lines that led nowhere, or given wrong information about the delays, or
  
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• Where you can eat for free on your birthday in Ottawa

  12-12-2017 19:26 via ottawacitizen.com
  I have a friend — let’s call him Birthday Bob — who likes to eat and loves freebies. 
  Each year, during the two weeks centred around his birthday, he loosens his belt and plots an itinerary that takes him from one restaurant to another for a series of free (or at least discounted) meals and treats. He asked me this year if I wanted to tag along. I (mostly) declined because I really didn’t think my stomach would be up to it. But I did decide to keep tabs on Birthday B
  
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• Accused Ottawa woman skips out on robbery trial, but gets acquitted anyway

  12-12-2017 19:08 via ottawacitizen.com
  It’s one thing to beat a rap for armed robbery, but quite another to do it when you don’t show up for trial.
  On Nov. 30, Ottawa defence lawyer Jason Gilbert won his client a jury acquittal even though she had absconded.
  In fact, it’s not clear if Hibo Hassan even knows she was acquitted in absentia, because her lawyer hasn’t been able to reach her. The onetime sex-trade worker showed up for jury selection but absconded before the trial started hearing evidence.
  A bench wa
  
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• Firefighters turn to 'duck tape' to rescue trapped Goldeneye

  12-12-2017 18:33 via ottawacitizen.com
  The ever-useful duct tape became duck tape Tuesday morning when firefighters used it, along with pike poles and more than a little ingenuity, to free a duck trapped on the ice off Strathcona Park.
  A bystander called them at 9:24 a.m. to report that the female Goldeneye duck was stuck on the banks of the Rideau River.
  Thank you @OttFire @IncendiesOttawa for freeing this female Goldeneye duck today from the ice. pic.twitter.com/WlvaIGigwW
  — Sonia Mansour Robaey (@SoniaMRobaey) December 12, 2
  
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• Burton: Canada-China relations are now ready for a rethink

  12-12-2017 18:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  Besides skewering Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s China strategy, Beijing’s gruff refusal last week to factor labour, gender or environmental rights into free trade talks likely marks Canada’s last gasp in a futile, decades-long effort to engage China in global institutions on Western terms.
  In the early 1980s, after “Red China” abandoned its Maoist revolutionary agenda to pursue strength and prosperity through international trade, Canada began transferring hundreds
  
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• Boughner: Today is the most important shovelling day of the year

  12-12-2017 18:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  It’s your old pal Joe the Suburban Dad here with the first “Driveway Shovelling Tips from a Suburban Dad” offering of the season.
  So tie on your scarves, lace up your boots and dig out your YakTrax. We’ve got work to do.
  Now sure, friends, we’ve had a few false alarms already. The more keen of us have even been out for a few practice runs with our trusty shovels.
  But aside from the few, the proud and the obsessive, nature’s thrown nothing at us that a bit of p
  
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• Gift of $2 million from Carleton University prof Elaine Keillor will support research in Canadian music

  12-12-2017 18:26 via ottawacitizen.com
  Carleton University music professor Elaine Keillor will give $2 million to the university to bolster research on Canadian music, a topic that she has championed.
  The university announced Tuesday that Keillor’s gift, which will include a bequest in her will, will be used to create the Helmut Kallmann Chair for Music in Canada, which will work with undergraduate and graduate students and research topics of Canadian music. The endowed position, named after the former head of the music divisio
  
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• ALERT: No parking on city streets in #Ottawa overnight (Dec. 12-13); winter parking ban is now in effect. twitter.com/ottawacity/sta…

  12-12-2017 18:26 via twitter.com
  ALERT: No parking on city streets in #Ottawa overnight (Dec. 12-13); winter parking ban is now in effect. twitter.com/ottawacity/sta…
  
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• The @rick_gibbons Show for Tuesday, December 12th: 1:10: @Hydropothecary 1:15: @CdnToy 1:30: @GryphonReport 1:45:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  12-12-2017 18:10 via twitter.com
  The @rick_gibbons Show for Tuesday, December 12th: 1:10: @Hydropothecary 1:15: @CdnToy 1:30: @GryphonReport 1:45:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Firefighters 'quack' through river ice to free frozen duck - CBC.ca

  12-12-2017 18:01
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  Firefighters 'quack' through river ice to free frozen duck
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  Ottawa firefighters got handed a unique test of their water rescue skills Tuesday morning when a duck was discovered frozen in the ice of the Rideau River. Someone living near Strathcona Park in Sandy Hill called the fire department around 9:25 a.m. to ...and more »
  
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• .@OttFire crews used 'The Handyman's Secret Weapon' (duct tape) to free duck trapped in ice. #ottnews twitter.com/SoniaMRobaey/s…

  12-12-2017 17:54 via twitter.com
  .@OttFire crews used 'The Handyman's Secret Weapon' (duct tape) to free duck trapped in ice. #ottnews twitter.com/SoniaMRobaey/s…
  
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• Welcome to winter. Expect delays. And more snow. And no street parking

  12-12-2017 17:45 via ottawacitizen.com
  Welcome to winter.
  Tuesday morning features snow-covered roads, a hydro outage and school bus cancellations in outlying areas. And yes, schools are open today.
  It also marked the season’s first overnight parking ban. Parking is banned on city streets between 1 a.m. to 7 a.m. for all but passholders, to allow for snow removal operations.
  An overnight parking ban is in effect. Plan ahead. #ottnews pic.twitter.com/nZ8A1N8jXY
  — Ottawa By-law (@OttawaBylaw) December 12, 2017In all, Ottawa
  
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• Accused Ottawa woman skips out on robbery trial, but gets acquitted anyway - Ottawa Citizen

  12-12-2017 17:44
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  Accused Ottawa woman skips out on robbery trial, but gets acquitted anyway
  Ottawa Citizen
  It's one thing to beat a rap for armed robbery, but quite another to do it when you don't show up for trial. On Nov. 30, Ottawa defence lawyer Jason Gilbert won his client a jury acquittal even though she had absconded. In fact, it's not clear if Hibo ...
  
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• Exclusive: Yashin excited to return, but unsure about reception he'll get - Ottawa Sun

  12-12-2017 17:43
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  Exclusive: Yashin excited to return, but unsure about reception he'll get
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  But, the former Ottawa Senators' centre isn't sure what kind of reception he'll get. Yashin, who had a love/hate relationship with the fans of the Senators (they either loved him or they loved to hate him), before the organization finally gave him his ...and more »
  
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• Welcome to winter. Expect delays. And more snow. And no street parking - Ottawa Citizen

  12-12-2017 17:41
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  Welcome to winter. Expect delays. And more snow. And no street parking
  Ottawa Citizen
  Tuesday morning features snow-covered roads, a hydro outage and school bus cancellations in outlying areas. And yes, schools are open today. It also marked the season's first overnight parking ban. Parking is banned on city streets between 1 a.m. to 7 ...
  More than 5000 Hydro One customers face a power outageCTV Newsall 2 news articles »
  
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• Coming up at 11:45: Green Party leader @ElizabethMay joins @_MarkSutcliffe live for year-end review: Listen:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  12-12-2017 17:32 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 11:45: Green Party leader @ElizabethMay joins @_MarkSutcliffe live for year-end review: Listen:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Coming up on the Power Lunch at 12 p.m. @qaqishmichael & @UW_Michael join @_MarkSutcliffe in studio: Listen:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  12-12-2017 17:30 via twitter.com
  Coming up on the Power Lunch at 12 p.m. @qaqishmichael & @UW_Michael join @_MarkSutcliffe in studio:Listen:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Coming up 11:30: Pollster @niknanos joins @_MarkSutcliffe for weekly segment: bit.ly/1uwtdOs https://t.co/MiyGGVOWWN

  12-12-2017 17:25 via twitter.com
  
  Coming up 11:30: Pollster @niknanos joins @_MarkSutcliffe for weekly segment: bit.ly/1uwtdOs https://t.co/MiyGGVOWWN
  
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• Snowstorm hits Ottawa - CTV News

  12-12-2017 17:13
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  Snowstorm hits Ottawa
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  The first major snowstorm of the season is hitting Ottawa today. Environment Canada has issued a special weather statement for Ottawa and eastern Ontario. An Alberta Clipper moving across the region is expected to bring 15 to 20 cm of snow by tonight ...
  
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• Gee: Hospital ERs are the face of a beleaguered – but compassionate – system

  12-12-2017 17:01 via ottawacitizen.com
  Henry David Thoreau asked, “Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?” Health care is about the privilege of being able to look through someone else’s eyes – or to walk in their shoes. Caring for a patient, no matter what the condition, is about being human, with each other but also with ourselves. It is that humanity on which our entire health-care system, and its compassion that patients depend
  
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• Snowy, windy weather means cancellations, delays in Ottawa-Gatineau - CBC.ca

  12-12-2017 16:49
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  Snowy, windy weather means cancellations, delays in Ottawa-Gatineau
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  The Ottawa-Gatineau area is getting hit by blowing snow all day, which is affecting travel. Up to 20 centimetres of snow could fall by the time the storm peters out tonight, with winds up to 50 km/h affecting visibility. As of 1 p.m., 11 centimetres of ...
  Slow driving on Ottawa roadsCTV Newsall 2 news articles »
  
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• Trump says accusations of sexual misconduct 'fabricated' bit.ly/2BgQhzU https://t.co/IwlcGxNidg

  12-12-2017 16:31 via twitter.com
  
  Trump says accusations of sexual misconduct 'fabricated' bit.ly/2BgQhzU https://t.co/IwlcGxNidg
  
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• Hawkesbury boil water advisory enters third day, schools closed after water plant malfunctions

  12-12-2017 16:31 via ottawacitizen.com
  A boil-water advisory has entered its second day in the Hawkesbury area after a malfunction at the Hawkesbury water treatment plant late Sunday.
  The boil-water warning was extended to Vankleek Hill and L’Orignal on Monday, the Eastern Ontario health unit said.
  “Please use water sparingly,” the Town of Hawkesbury asked residents on its website.
  The warning was issued late Sunday night after an incident of decreased pressure at the plant. Officials in the town about 90 kilometres
  
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• Coming up 10:30: @Kyle_Duggan joins @_MarkSutcliffe LIVE: bit.ly/1uwtdOs @ipoliticsca https://t.co/THq52iHvQ3

  12-12-2017 16:25 via twitter.com
  
  Coming up 10:30:@Kyle_Duggan joins @_MarkSutcliffe LIVE: bit.ly/1uwtdOs @ipoliticsca https://t.co/THq52iHvQ3
  
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• Big changes coming to Scott, Albert streets once LRT opens - CBC.ca

  12-12-2017 16:19
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  Big changes coming to Scott, Albert streets once LRT opens
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  The City of Ottawa has unveiled its plan for how a two-kilometre stretch of Scott and Albert streets will look following the expected opening of the east-west Confederation light rail line next summer. The reconfigured stretch will run from ...
  
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• Cost of Kanata road widening grows secretly, councillor says - CBC.ca

  12-12-2017 16:18
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  Cost of Kanata road widening grows secretly, councillor says
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  City councillors are being asked to increase the budget for a controversial road-widening project in Kanata South by $4 million, according to one city councillor for the area — but they don't know it. The $38.7-million Kanata South Link project ...and more »
  
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• Police reporting 25 collisions on Ottawa roads since 6 a.m. twitter.com/OttawaPolice/s…

  12-12-2017 16:16 via twitter.com
  Police reporting 25 collisions on Ottawa roads since 6 a.m. twitter.com/OttawaPolice/s…
  
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• Turbulent Senate race now in hands of Alabama voters: bit.ly/2AxZtAs https://t.co/mqkIIMA0fJ

  12-12-2017 16:11 via twitter.com
  
  Turbulent Senate race now in hands of Alabama voters: bit.ly/2AxZtAs https://t.co/mqkIIMA0fJ
  
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• Wagner was born in Montreal & earned a law degree from the University of Ottawa in 1979. twitter.com/cmaconthehill/…

  12-12-2017 16:01 via twitter.com
  Wagner was born in Montreal & earned a law degree from the University of Ottawa in 1979. twitter.com/cmaconthehill/…
  
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• UPDATE: Power is back on for all but 27 customers. twitter.com/1310NEWS/statu…

  12-12-2017 15:46 via twitter.com
  UPDATE: Power is back on for all but 27 customers. twitter.com/1310NEWS/statu…
  
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• Coming up on the 10 O'Clock Talk: @Justin_Ling, @Stall680news & @JLMadigan join @_MarkSutcliffe in studio: Liste… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  12-12-2017 15:45 via twitter.com
  Coming up on the 10 O'Clock Talk:@Justin_Ling, @Stall680news & @JLMadigan join @_MarkSutcliffe in studio: Liste… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Coming up at 9:45: @_MarkSutcliffe speaks to the man in charge of the @Canada150Rink Randy Watt: Listen:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  12-12-2017 15:36 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 9:45: @_MarkSutcliffe speaks to the man in charge of the @Canada150Rink Randy Watt: Listen:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Coming up at 9:30 @RandallMoore26 of @1061CHEZ joins @_MarkSutcliffe live in-studio: bit.ly/1uwtdOs https://t.co/0hb2esbjB1

  12-12-2017 15:22 via twitter.com
  
  Coming up at 9:30@RandallMoore26 of @1061CHEZ joins @_MarkSutcliffe live in-studio:bit.ly/1uwtdOs https://t.co/0hb2esbjB1
  
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• Fire crews on route to a collision on the 174. Please slow down for emergency crews. twitter.com/OttFire/status…

  12-12-2017 15:21 via twitter.com
  Fire crews on route to a collision on the 174. Please slow down for emergency crews. twitter.com/OttFire/status…
  
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• Welcome to winter. Expect delays. And lots more snow

  12-12-2017 14:17 via ottawacitizen.com
  Welcome to winter.
  Tuesday morning features snow-covered roads, a hydro outage and school bus cancellations in outlying areas. And yes, schools are open today.
  The City of Ottawa’s traffic centre is warning of disruptions in the area of Kars, Manotick, North Gower and Osgoode due to a power outage that Hydro One reports is affecting 5,800 customers. Power wasn’t expected to be restored until well into the morning commute.
  Meanwhile, Ottawa school buses set out as usual but service to
  
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• Hydropothecary expansion vaults Gatineau firm into medical marijuana's big leagues

  12-12-2017 14:03 via ottawacitizen.com
  Hydropothecary, the medical marijuana producer in Gatineau, has announced an expansion that will make it one of the largest growers in Canada.
  The company has bought 78 acres of land next to its 65-acre rural property on the site of a former nursery in Masson-Angers.
  It plans to build a one-million-square-foot greenhouse, and has the $80-million funding in place to do so, said a release from the company on Tuesday.
  Hydropothecary is already a new greenhouse on its existing property and when the
  
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• Vimy 100 ceremony 'nightmare' left more than visitors upset — Canadian staff were angry, too

  12-12-2017 13:12 via ottawacitizen.com
  The results weren’t pretty when Veterans Affairs asked its own staffers about their experiences at the Vimy 100 anniversary ceremony in France this year.
  There was a lack of leadership from certain Veterans Affairs managers, some said. The communication was poor, many said. The decision-making was last minute, others said. And it was a “logistical nightmare” at the site of the commemoration ceremony, as 25,000 people shared about 40 toilets.
  The staffers’ newly revealed c
  
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• Ottawa school buses are running today. twitter.com/OttSchoolBus/s…

  12-12-2017 11:51 via twitter.com
  Ottawa school buses are running today. twitter.com/OttSchoolBus/s…
  
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• All school buses for the Upper Canada District School Board & Catholic District School Board of Eastern Ontario are… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  12-12-2017 11:46 via twitter.com
  All school buses for the Upper Canada District School Board & Catholic District School Board of Eastern Ontario are… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Ottawa remains under special weather statement; more snow on the way: bit.ly/2yhscDI https://t.co/jeaRaHWudk

  12-12-2017 11:38 via twitter.com
  
  Ottawa remains under special weather statement; more snow on the way: bit.ly/2yhscDI https://t.co/jeaRaHWudk
  
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• You can check this @OttSchoolBus link for updates on school bus delays today in Ottawa: bit.ly/1QLI4W0 twitter.com/1310NEWS/statu…

  12-12-2017 11:12 via twitter.com
  You can check this @OttSchoolBus link for updates on school bus delays today in Ottawa: bit.ly/1QLI4W0 twitter.com/1310NEWS/statu…
  
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• All school buses in Ottawa are running today. There may be some delays. @OttSchoolBus

  12-12-2017 11:03 via twitter.com
  All school buses in Ottawa are running today. There may be some delays. @OttSchoolBus
  
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• Heavy snow, high winds expected today in Ottawa - CBC.ca

  12-12-2017 11:01
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  Heavy snow, high winds expected today in Ottawa
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  Get ready for the first significant snowstorm of the season today. Both the morning and the afternoon commute should be affected by the storm, meaning it'll take you much longer to get where you need to go. By nightfall Tuesday, snowfall totals for ...
  
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