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• Quebec transport driver charged in Highway 401 rollover

  06-01-2018 23:02 via ottawacitizen.com
  A 53-year-old Quebec transport truck driver has been charged with with careless driving after his truck went out of control Thursday and rolled into the median of Highway 401 just past Kingston.
  The crash occurred shortly before 9 a.m. when the truck, hauling a double-trailer of commercial lumber, crashed through steel barriers before rolling its side into the steep embankment.
  Paramedics treated the driver for minor injuries.
  The roll spilled lumber across the eastbound lanes causing traffic to
  
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• National Gallery closes for two weeks for maintenance

  06-01-2018 21:02 via ottawacitizen.com
  Art lovers will have to take a two-week break from the National Gallery of Canada starting Monday as the institution gets set for a major maintenance project.
  The closure until Jan. 22 is to allow workers to prepare for replacement of the windows and roof in the main entrance and Colonnade sections of the building. 
  The gallery describes the work as “the next phase of an essential part of the life cycle maintenance of the building.”
  The gallery will re-open Jan. 23 and will rema
  
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• NCC to open second section of Skateway Sunday

  06-01-2018 20:48 via ottawacitizen.com
  After seeming to take forever, the Rideau Canal Skateway is moving full-speed ahead to a complete opening of the world’s largest skating rink.
  The National Capital Commission has announced that two more kilometres of ice, from the Pretoria Bridge to Rideau Street (National Arts Centre) will be open for to skaters and visitors as of 8 a.m. Sunday.
  The addition of the latest section means about seven kilometres of the 7.8 km landmark is open and leaves less than a kilometre of ice in the Ska
  
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• Jessica Linnebach on Bartók: "My first exposure to badass music"

  06-01-2018 20:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  The NAC Orchestra’s Edmonton-born associate concertmaster Jessica Linnebach is the featured soloist at two concerts to be conducted by New York’s Karina Canellakis. Linnebach, a former child prodigy, spoke to Lynn Saxberg about everything from music and family to finding her perfect instrument and the Zukerman influence. 
  Q: You’re in the spotlight with the NAC Orchestra next week. How big of a deal is this concert for you?A: A lot of things are cool about the concert. The
  
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• ICYMI: Nepean blaze forced up to 10 people out of their homes. Damage is pegged at $350,000. 1310news.com/2018/01/06/thr… https://t.co/QnAU9GyeFt

  06-01-2018 19:45 via twitter.com
  
  ICYMI: Nepean blaze forced up to 10 people out of their homes. Damage is pegged at $350,000. 1310news.com/2018/01/06/thr… https://t.co/QnAU9GyeFt
  
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• Labour body sets up hotline to out corporate minimum-wage 'bullies'

  06-01-2018 18:40 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa workers who feel they are being abused by employers reducing benefits or taking other cost-cutting measures in reaction to Ontario’s new minimum age laws now have an outlet.
  The Ottawa and District Labour Council has set up a hotline to identify corporate “bullies” that claim the benefits reductions are the only way they can pay the new minimum wage without cutting staff.
  Ontario’s minimum rose to $14 an hour Jan. 1, a $2.40-an-hour boost making it the highest mini
  
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• ICYMI: World Junior GOLD once again for Canada. 1310news.com/2018/01/06/can… https://t.co/xjfduDvpQ6

  06-01-2018 17:45 via twitter.com
  
  ICYMI: World Junior GOLD once again for Canada. 1310news.com/2018/01/06/can… https://t.co/xjfduDvpQ6
  
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• ICYMI: A @WestJet plane full of 168 passengers and a crew of six was stationary and waiting to go to a gate when it… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  06-01-2018 17:15 via twitter.com
  ICYMI: A @WestJet plane full of 168 passengers and a crew of six was stationary and waiting to go to a gate when it… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• A $350,000 blaze on Woodvale Gr. in Nepean continues to be under investigation. 1310news.com/2018/01/06/thr… https://t.co/iHYl0FCYlE

  06-01-2018 16:45 via twitter.com
  
  A $350,000 blaze on Woodvale Gr. in Nepean continues to be under investigation.1310news.com/2018/01/06/thr… https://t.co/iHYl0FCYlE
  
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• Weather: Temps to hit the lowest of the lows, and snow on the way

  06-01-2018 16:03 via ottawacitizen.com
  And you thought it couldn’t get any worse.
  The capital region’s Deep Freeze is expected to hit the lowest of the lows Saturday, with a “high” of only about -20 C.
  Add in the winds of 30 kilometres an hour gusting to 50 km/h and you have a walking around “feels like” -40 situation on your hands (and face and ears).
  The authorities have maintained their extreme cold warnings and frostbite alerts.
  Saturday night is expected to see a low of -28 C, but the wind mig
  
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• Childhood memories loom large in Robert Lepage's 887

  06-01-2018 16:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  EDITOR’s NOTE: This piece originally appeared in the Montreal Gazette in April 2016. After more than 30 years in the business and with a staggering number of productions behind him (including such multi-hour epics as The Dragons’ Trilogy, The Seven Streams of the River Ota and Wagner’s Ring cycle), Robert Lepage is unquestionably a giant of the theatre. So it seems apt that in his latest touring show, he roams among scale models of apartment buildings and cars li
  
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• 2017 In Stories: Discovering the citizens who built the city we know and love

  06-01-2018 15:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Best Stories of 2017
  Editor’s Note: As we prepare to usher in 2018, it’s important that we here in the newsroom take a moment to consider the year that was. The news cycle has a forward momentum and it’s easy — too easy — to stay focused on the here and now. It’s essential to us as an organization, as part of the community, as individuals, to look back at the moments that moved us, the stories that changed us, and the people that we will never forget.
  
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• 2017 In Stories: Making 150 new friends, one story at a time

  06-01-2018 15:16 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Best Stories of 2017
  Editor’s Note: As we usher in 2018, it’s important that we here in the newsroom take a moment to consider the year that was. The news cycle has a forward momentum and it’s easy — too easy — to stay focused on the here and now. It’s essential to us as an organization, as part of the community, as individuals, to look back at the moments that moved us, the stories that changed us, and the people that we will never forget. 
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• The latest Senatorial from @Stu_McGinn: #Sens twitter.com/Stu_McGinn/sta…

  06-01-2018 15:04 via twitter.com
  The latest Senatorial from @Stu_McGinn:#Sens twitter.com/Stu_McGinn/sta…
  
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• Jeanne Fuller (1930-2017): Philanthropist was the 'heart' behind the Fuller dynasty

  06-01-2018 15:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  When she was 12 years old, Jeanne Fuller would play with her young friend and gaze across Britannia Bay at the sunset.
  Seventy-five years later, on Dec. 17 as she lay dying in The Moorings, the Fuller family’s estate adjacent the Britannia Yacht Club, she stared across the same water at another sunset, with her children gathered around her. She was listening to a hymn set to her favourite poem, Tennyson’s Crossing the Bar, a laminated copy of which she carried in her purse.
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• Tyler Steenbergen scored the winner with just 1:40 to play in regulation as the Canadians downed Sweden 3-1 on Frid… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  06-01-2018 14:21 via twitter.com
  Tyler Steenbergen scored the winner with just 1:40 to play in regulation as the Canadians downed Sweden 3-1 on Frid… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• The Transportation Safety Board says it’s investigating after two passenger planes collided on the ground at Toront… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  06-01-2018 14:07 via twitter.com
  The Transportation Safety Board says it’s investigating after two passenger planes collided on the ground at Toront… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• University of Ottawa Heart Institute's 'Dr. K' is Canada's first Inuk cardiac surgeon

  06-01-2018 14:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  There were no doctors in Donna May Kimmaliardjuk’s family. No nurses, not even a physiotherapist. Still, from the time she was very young, Kimmaliardjuk was determined to become a physician.
  Now 28, she is doing a residency in heart surgery.
  Kimmaliardjuk — “Dr. K” to patients at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute — is Canada’s first Inuk heart surgeon, recently recognized with an Indspire Award for being a role model for young women and Indigenous youth
  
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• Editorial: Poking holes in doughnuts

  06-01-2018 13:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  People usually act in their self-interest, and are fully entitled to do so. As a result, it should surprise no one that the business sector – in particular small business – is moving to protect its interests as a result of Ontario’s minimum-wage hike.
  The results haven’t been pretty. Yet the premier responsible for the wage changes seems astonished that her policies have actual consequences. And so, facing a spring election, Kathleen Wynne this week picked a rhetorical fi
  
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• Four homeless after three-alarm Woodvale Green townhouse fire

  06-01-2018 05:51 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa firefighters battled flames and freezing temperatures at a townhouse fire on Woodvale Green in Craig Henry on Friday night.
  There were no injuries reported in the three-alarm fire that broke out at around 6:30 p.m. in the middle of a five-unit row of houses at 39 Woodvale Green. High winds hampered firefighters’ efforts to control the spread of the blaze, forcing crews to retreat and work to contain the spread of the flames to adjacent units.
  Four people who lived in Unit C, the hou
  
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• Napanee wildlife rescue centre appeals for help after fire destroys barn

  06-01-2018 04:31 via ottawacitizen.com
  A Napanee wildlife rescue centre suffered “a devastating blow” Friday when fire destroyed a barn that held much of the straw and hay the centre needs for feed and bedding for its animals.
  The fire at Sandy Pines Wildlife Centre broke out at about 11 a.m. and destroyed a barn on the property, about five kilometres west of Napanee. Only a few animals were in the barn and all but one pig and a rabbit were able to escape safely. The fire was extinguished at around 4 p.m. with the help of
  
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• Shot fired at Overbrook home

  06-01-2018 04:28 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa police are investigating after a shot was fired into a house in the 300 block of King George Street in Overbrook on Friday night.
  The incident occurred at about 7 p.m. Police searched the area near King Edward and Lola Street but found neither suspects nor anyone injured in the shooting.
  It is the third report of gunfire in Ottawa in 2018.
  
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• Photos: the best images for 2017 of Canada's soldiers at work

  06-01-2018 03:31 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Canadian Army public affairs branch forwarded a number of photos taken throughout 2017 which they considered among the best images taken by military photographers. I’ve added a few more from the Combat Camera website. Here they are, showing Canadian Army personnel on a variety of exercises or training missions.
  Candidates of Development Phase 1 (DP1) Field Artilleryman serial 0047 participate in a M777 Howitzer training exercise at 5th Canadian Divsion Support Base, Gagetown, New Bruns
  
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• Third alarm called for Woodvale Green townhouse fire

  06-01-2018 03:04 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa firefighters battled flames and freezing temperatures at a townhouse fire on Woodvale Green in Craig Henry on Friday night.
  There were no injuries reported in the three-alarm fire that broke out at around 6:30 p.m. in the middle of a five-unit row of houses at 39 Woodvale Green. High winds hampered firefighters’ efforts to control the spread of the blaze, forcing crews to retreat and work to contain the spread of the flames to adjacent units.
  Seventeen-year-old Ezequiel Garcia was i
  
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  06-01-2018 01:49 via twitter.com
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• Napanee wildlife rescue centre appeals for help after fire destroys hay supply

  06-01-2018 00:54 via ottawacitizen.com
  A Napanee wildlife rescue centre suffered “a devastating blow” Friday when fire destroyed a barn that held much of the straw and hay the centre needs for feeding and bedding for its animals.
  The fire at Sandy Pines Wildlife Centre broke out at about 11 a.m. and destroyed a barn on the property, about five kilometres west of Napanee. Only a few animals were in the barn and all but one pig and a rabbit were able to escape safely, according to a post on the centre’s Facebook page.
  
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• Sewer construction to block off parts of Confederation Park, surrounding streets

  06-01-2018 00:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  The construction of new sewage infrastructure in Confederation Park will cause temporary closures of adjacent traffic lanes and a portion of the park, starting in March.
  Work to construct the Rideau Canal Interceptor Diversion Chamber is scheduled to continue until January 2019. It’s part of a larger city project, called the Combined Sewage Storage Tunnel, which seeks to reduce sewage overflows into the Ottawa River during heavy rainfall. The diversion chamber being built in Confedera
  
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