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• Local backlash against Tim Hortons continues after benefit cuts

  10-01-2018 23:50 via ottawacitizen.com
  Demonstrators gathered on Wednesday in front of the Tim Hortons franchise on Sparks Street to pressure the restaurant chain to reverse benefit clawbacks implemented after the province’s minimum wage increase went into effect on Jan. 1.
  The Ontario Federation of Labour and the Fight for $15 and Fairness Campaign held a joint day of action across the province to denounce the company for eliminating or reducing workers’ benefits such as paid breaks, access to basic drug and dental benef
  
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• Laura Brahaney sentenced 5 1/2 years for luring, kidnapping Vanier man

  10-01-2018 23:36 via ottawacitizen.com
  An Ottawa woman found guilty in a string of violent robberies was sentenced five-and-a-half years for her role in one of the crimes, where a Vanier man was lured from a bar, then robbed and beaten by two accomplices.
  Laura Brahaney, 28, will serve a total of 26 months in prison after Justice Marc Labrosse sentenced Brahaney Wednesday, and ruled on the credit she will get for time already served since her Sept. 2014 arrest.
  The judge said Brahaney’s role in the robbery “was more than
  
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• Ottawa action star Alain Moussi is making movies for kicks

  10-01-2018 23:24 via ottawacitizen.com
  Among the stars of the upcoming film Kickboxer: Retaliation are the global household names Jean-Claude Van Damme (“the Muscles from Brussels”) and Mike (“Iron Mike”) Tyson. But neither of them is the movie’s star.
  Instead, doling out the film’s righteous punishment is Alain Moussi.
  So what’s his nickname?
  “I don’t have one yet,” he laughs. “It has to be assigned.” Then, he remembers that when he was a stuntman, before he bec
  
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• Province's new wage laws won't apply to students under 18, film and TV workers

  10-01-2018 23:17 via ottawacitizen.com
  The province of Ontario has quietly passed exemptions to its Fair Workplaces, Better Jobs law, removing firefighters, film and TV industry workers, and students under the age of 18 from certain aspects of the new legislation.
  Some experts contend the exemptions could open the door for employers to exploit certain workers, particularly those under the age of 18, by forcing them to work for far less than their peers.
  The legislation, which came into effect on Jan. 1, raised the minimum wage i
  
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• Skateway closing at 10 p.m. Wednesday night

  10-01-2018 23:10 via ottawacitizen.com
  If you didn’t lace up the skates and get out on the Rideau Canal Skateway this week, you’ve missed your opportunity to skate virtually the entire distance — at least for now.
  Three days after opening a section that pushed the total ice available to seven kilometres (of the Skateway’s 7.8-km length), the National Capital Commission announced that the ice surface would be closed as of 10 p.m. Wednesday night.
  “Snow, freezing rain or water on the ice surface may hide s
  
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• First director of ByWard, Parkdale markets: "Ottawa is my town"

  10-01-2018 22:57 via ottawacitizen.com
  Jeff Darwin has hired two staff, inked a property management deal and partnered with artist Andrew King in his first 10 days as the first executive director of Ottawa Markets, the new agency tasked with transforming the ByWard Market.
  “Really, really excited to take on the challenge and starting to get some things in place,” Darwin said on Wednesday.
  “I’m a real homer. Ottawa is my town.”
  Jeff Darwin is the executive director of Ottawa Markets.
  Ottawa Markets assume
  
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• Reevely: Redevelopment plans mean the end for Fifth Avenue Court in the Glebe

  10-01-2018 22:44 via ottawacitizen.com
  Minto wants to tear down its Fifth Avenue Court building in the Glebe, ending a 40-year run for an interesting public space that’s never quite lived up to its promise.
  Under plans submitted to the city and now up for public comment, the commercial strip along Bank Street between Fourth and Fifth avenues (home to Von’s restaurant at one end and Pure Gelato at the other) stays intact but everything behind it goes. That’s a combined office and retail complex constructed in the lat
  
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• Preston Street restaurant, Salt, closes

  10-01-2018 22:33 via ottawacitizen.com
  Another high-profile Ottawa eatery quietly closed its doors in late December, leaving staff with little notice that it would be ceasing operations.
  Salt restaurant located at 345 Preston Street sent notices to its employees on Dec. 27 that the business wouldn’t be open any longer. According to employees affected, the owners made the decision to focus on other business opportunities. Employees were paid out remaining wages and vacation entitlements.
  Salt opened as a key tenant in the Presto
  
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• Release risk list of long-term care homes: NDP leader

  10-01-2018 22:25 via ottawacitizen.com
  Saying families have a right to the information, Ontario NDP Leader Andrea Horwath demanded Wednesday that the province make its secret list of high-risk long-term care homes public.
  “Families with loved ones in care are now being left to wonder if their loved ones, their mom or dad, is in a facility that the ministry itself calls high risk,” she said.
  Horwath made the demand following a story by this newspaper about the list of high- and medium-risk homes across Ontario, and the pro
  
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• Dining Out: Veteran east-end eatery Chahaya Malaysia upholds spicy, savoury standards

  10-01-2018 22:09 via ottawacitizen.com
  Chahaya Malaysia1690 Montreal Rd., 613-742-0242, facebook.com/chahayamalaysiaOpen: Tuesday to Thursday 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. and 5 p.m. to 10 p.m., Friday 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m., 5 p.m. to 11 p.m., Saturday 5 p.m. to 11 p.m., Sunday 5 p.m. to 10 p.m., closed MondayPrices: main dishes up to $18 Access: one step at entrance, washrooms downstairs
  On the other side of the window, the temperature was close to -20 C. The wind gusted. Yet somehow, the six of us were happily digging int
  
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• STORY: NCC temporarily closes Rideau Canal Skateway due to freezing rain and mild conditions bit.ly/2D1vIsk https://t.co/MMicnUzMPe

  10-01-2018 21:55 via twitter.com
  
  STORY: NCC temporarily closes Rideau Canal Skateway due to freezing rain and mild conditions bit.ly/2D1vIsk https://t.co/MMicnUzMPe
  
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• A small breakthrough for brain cancer, a new outlook for a patient

  10-01-2018 21:50 via ottawacitizen.com
  Denis Raymond put his life on hold when he was diagnosed with incurable brain cancer more than four years ago.
  He knew people, on average, live about a year after being diagnosed with glioblastoma, the deadly brain cancer that killed Tragically Hip frontman Gord Downie last year.
  Raymond, then 26, had been planning to do a master’s degree in social work at University of Ottawa, but it didn’t seem to make sense given his diagnosis and treatment.
  Denis Raymond is continuing to look to
  
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• JUST IN: NCC says the Rideau Canal will be temporarily closed as of tonight at 10 pm from Rideau Street to Dows Lak… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  10-01-2018 21:48 via twitter.com
  JUST IN: NCC says the Rideau Canal will be temporarily closed as of tonight at 10 pm from Rideau Street to Dows Lak… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Celebrate the new year with pinball, perogies and polka-rock

  10-01-2018 21:39 via ottawacitizen.com
  One of Ottawa’s most popular party bands, Ukrainia, celebrates the Ukrainian New Year on Saturday with a House of Targ bash on Saturday, adding its polka-rock blitz to the basement bar’s signature blend of pinball and perogies.There’s been a slight shift in musical direction for the 15-year-old band, as you can hear on its third and latest release, Shadow Era, which came out last year. Synthesizers and scratching sounds are part of the action, as well as a guest appearance by f
  
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• Star springer De Grasse headlines Commonwealth Games athletics team bit.ly/2FlZl61 https://t.co/ikftNBk38P

  10-01-2018 21:21 via twitter.com
  
  Star springer De Grasse headlines Commonwealth Games athletics team bit.ly/2FlZl61 https://t.co/ikftNBk38P
  
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• Road conditions could get dicey around Ottawa, starting around 6pm, according to @environmentca. It's issuing a fre… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  10-01-2018 21:15 via twitter.com
  Road conditions could get dicey around Ottawa, starting around 6pm, according to @environmentca. It's issuing a fre… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• GCTC preview: Hannah Moscovitch explores women's rights in What a Young Wife Ought To Know

  10-01-2018 19:27 via ottawacitizen.com
  What a Young Wife Ought to KnowBy Hannah Moscovitch, directed by Christian BarryProduced by 2B Theatre CompanyWhen: Jan. 16 to Feb. 4Where: Great Canadian Theatre CompanyTickets: GCTC box office, online at gctc.ca or by phone, 613-236-5196
  Inspired by a 75-cent garage sale find, Hannah Moscovitch set out to write a love story set in the 1920s, when birth control was illegal and women were desperately seeking ways to cope with multiple pregnancies.But the topic hit closer to home than antici
  
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• Food bank prospers as donors re-gift Loblaw price-fixing cards

  10-01-2018 18:51 via ottawacitizen.com
  Canadians have turned Loblaw’s bread price-fixing scandal into a push to fight food poverty donating their gift cards to food banks across the country.
  A social media movement encouraging people to donate their $25 Loblaw gift cards to local food banks has already generated an increase in donations, according to the Ottawa Food Bank.
  “It’s a grassroots movement that’s growing every day,” said Michael Maidment, the food bank’s executive director.
  Jennifer Cavan
  
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• Glavin: Canadian relations with Iran should be a non-starter

  10-01-2018 18:36 via ottawacitizen.com
  Now that Iran’s Khomeinist tyranny is filling its jails with protesters and threatening to impose the death penalty upon anyone who continues to defy the ayatollahs’ rule, it may well be that the working class rebellion that has been churning through the streets of 80 cities across the country for the past two weeks has run its course. That’s what the Islamic Revolutionary Guard claims, anyway.
  But the IRGC says a lot of things.
  It’s hard to know, owing to Iran’s ir
  
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• Graydon: Here's why we should feature more women in the public sphere

  10-01-2018 18:17 via ottawacitizen.com
  Here’s a no-cost resolution for companies seeking to attract more talented women to help diversify their workforce: In 2018, they might feature a few of the ones they already employ in more public roles.
  In our contradictory world, girls are told they can grow up to be whatever they want, but many of the most visible female role models are still pushing outdated definitions of what success looks like. Excessively groomed and superficially preoccupied reality TV stars in search of a husband
  
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• The @rick_gibbons Show for Wednesday, January 10th: 1:10: @OttpoliceMedia 1:15: @SparksStreet 1:30:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  10-01-2018 18:13 via twitter.com
  The @rick_gibbons Show for Wednesday, January 10th: 1:10: @OttpoliceMedia 1:15: @SparksStreet 1:30:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Delivery of new Canadian military trucks delayed again

  10-01-2018 17:56 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Canadian Armed Forces was supposed to start receiving the first of its new standard military pattern trucks by the end of 2017.
  The Standard Military Pattern or SMP trucks are coming from Mack Defense, LLC.
  The delivery of the trucks was originally supposed to take place in the summer of 2017 but was pushed back to late 2017.
  But now Defence Watch has been told that the truck delivery has been delayed once again. Issues with certain aspects on the trucks emerged and had to be dealt with.&nbs
  
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• Coming up on the Power Lunch at 12: @OPA_President & @MrsLoulou join @_MarkSutcliffe in studio: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  10-01-2018 17:35 via twitter.com
  Coming up on the Power Lunch at 12: @OPA_President & @MrsLoulou join @_MarkSutcliffe in studio: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Coming up at 11:30: @TristinHopper joins @_MarkSutcliffe with the reasons it’s never been a better time to be ali… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  10-01-2018 17:25 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 11:30: @TristinHopper joins @_MarkSutcliffe with the reasons it’s never been a better time to be ali… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Environment Canada makes it official with freezing rain warning

  10-01-2018 17:24 via ottawacitizen.com
  Nothing like a little freezing rain “warning” to start the day off.
  It’s all part of this week’s crazy patchwork of weather extremes and the freezing rain is described as a signal of a warm front coming in overnight.
  Environment Canada issued an official warning at about 11 a.m. that things were going to get slippery, saying light freezing rain is expected to develop at around 6 p.m.
  “Patchy freezing rain or freezing drizzle can be expected … in the Ottawa va
  
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• Algonquin College names executive director of truth, reconciliation and indigenization

  10-01-2018 16:58 via ottawacitizen.com
  Algonquin College has appointed an executive director of truth, reconciliation and indigenization — the first such role for a Canadian post-secondary institution.
  The Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s calls to action included improving access to education for Indigenous students, as well as incorporating Indigenous knowledge and teaching methods into the curriculum for all students.
  Ron McLester,who was appointed as executive director of aboriginal initiatives and special adviser
  
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• Coming up at 11: Professor Elliot Tepper joins @_MarkSutcliffe in studio: 📻: 1310 💻: bit.ly/1uwtdOs 📞… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  10-01-2018 16:50 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 11:Professor Elliot Tepper joins @_MarkSutcliffe in studio: 📻: 1310 💻: bit.ly/1uwtdOs 📞… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Coming up at 10:45: @Ira_Wells joins @_MarkSutcliffe to discuss kids and smartphones: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  10-01-2018 16:40 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 10:45: @Ira_Wells joins @_MarkSutcliffe to discuss kids and smartphones: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Coming up at 10:30: @jandrewpotter joins @_MarkSutcliffe for Potter's Corner: 📻: 1310 💻: bit.ly/1uwtdOs… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  10-01-2018 16:25 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 10:30: @jandrewpotter joins @_MarkSutcliffe for Potter's Corner:📻: 1310 💻: bit.ly/1uwtdOs… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• We could get hit by freezing rain later today

  10-01-2018 15:55 via ottawacitizen.com
  Nothing like a little freezing rain “watch” to start the day off.
  It’s all part of this week’s crazy patchwork of weather extremes and the freezing rain is described as a signal of a warm front coming in overnight.
  The slippery stuff could arrive in late afternoon or evening across southern and eastern Ontario.
  “Latest analysis suggests that the freezing rain will be fairly light and patchy,” Environment Canada says. “Temperatures are expected to rise ab
  
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• Coming up on the 10 O'Clock Talk: @AGMacDougall, @DerickFage & @1310Alexblack join @_MarkSutcliffe live: 📻: 131… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  10-01-2018 15:50 via twitter.com
  Coming up on the 10 O'Clock Talk: @AGMacDougall, @DerickFage & @1310Alexblack join @_MarkSutcliffe live: 📻: 131… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Ottawa police work fast to make bank robbery collar

  10-01-2018 15:49 via ottawacitizen.com
  Armed with a surveillance camera image, city police identified a suspect accused in a Rideau Street bank robbery and arrested him within hours Tuesday.
  Police say a suspect walked into the bank near Cumberland Street at about 11:45 a.m., said he had a gun – although none was seen – and demanded cash.
  He fled with an undisclosed sum.
  Patrol officers got a “good quality” image of the suspect and were able to identify him as someone who frequents the ByWard Market area,
  
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• 'CFL players admit hiding concussion symptoms, according to research study' @HockeyScanner joins @_MarkSutcliffe c… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  10-01-2018 15:40 via twitter.com
  'CFL players admit hiding concussion symptoms, according to research study'@HockeyScanner joins @_MarkSutcliffe c… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Antiques: Great interest (and value) in Avro Arrow memorabilia

  10-01-2018 15:30 via ottawacitizen.com
   Q. I served as Chief of the Evaluation Performance Department at Avro Canada in Malton, ON during the 1950s while the Arrow jet was being developed.
  This is a 30 cm (12 inches) metal model of the ‘203’ I received after the third one was completed and tested, of four in total. It’s a 30 cm (12 inches) metal model of the Arrow.
  There’s also a boxed set of five pins from another family member with graphics including ‘With Compliments of Avro Newsmagazine on Behal
  
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• Coming up at 9:30 @mclomedia joins @_MarkSutcliffe live for weekly political segment: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  10-01-2018 15:23 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 9:30@mclomedia joins @_MarkSutcliffe live for weekly political segment:📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• POLL: Who would you be most interested in seeing run for mayor of Ottawa?

  10-01-2018 15:18 via twitter.com
  POLL: Who would you be most interested in seeing run for mayor of Ottawa?
  
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• Coming up at 9:15: @JimWatsonOttawa joins @_MarkSutcliffe live: 📻: 1310 💻: bit.ly/1uwtdOs 📞: 613-750… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  10-01-2018 15:00 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 9:15: @JimWatsonOttawa joins @_MarkSutcliffe live: 📻: 1310 💻: bit.ly/1uwtdOs 📞: 613-750… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Malaysia to pay firm up to $70M if it finds missing plane: bit.ly/2Dfk9LG https://t.co/Pd0WRJFmsD

  10-01-2018 14:28 via twitter.com
  
  Malaysia to pay firm up to $70M if it finds missing plane: bit.ly/2Dfk9LG https://t.co/Pd0WRJFmsD
  
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• Man, 23, shot dead on Paul Anka Drive, Ottawa's first homicide of 2018

  10-01-2018 14:14 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa police were investigating a homicide Tuesday night after a young man was gunned down by a housing complex on Paul Anka Drive.
  Tarek Dakhil, 23, was identified as the victim of the city’s first homicide of 2018.
  Police said that patrol officers responded to reports of gunfire at about 8:30 p.m.They found the victim in “severe” medical distress and started first aid until paramedics took over and rushed him to the hospital where he died of his injuries.
  Several teens &mdas
  
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• BREAKING: Ottawa Police have identified the victim of the city's first homicide of 2018 as 23-year-old Tarek Dakhil. #ottnews

  10-01-2018 13:58 via twitter.com
  BREAKING: Ottawa Police have identified the victim of the city's first homicide of 2018 as 23-year-old Tarek Dakhil. #ottnews
  
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• Jason is live from the scene at 8:02: Listen: 📻: 1310 💻: bit.ly/1uwtdOs twitter.com/1310JasonWhite…

  10-01-2018 13:57 via twitter.com
  Jason is live from the scene at 8:02: Listen:📻: 1310 💻: bit.ly/1uwtdOs twitter.com/1310JasonWhite…
  
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• Judge rules $25 gift card terms from Loblaw Companies Ltd. not misleading: bit.ly/2mq2cDd https://t.co/TCvT1rVLk6

  10-01-2018 13:49 via twitter.com
  
  Judge rules $25 gift card terms from Loblaw Companies Ltd. not misleading: bit.ly/2mq2cDd https://t.co/TCvT1rVLk6
  
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• Navan fire destroys home, displaces five people

  10-01-2018 13:38 via ottawacitizen.com
  Five people lost their home but escaped to safety with their pets after a fire destroyed their Navan-area home early Wednesday morning.
  Damage is estimated at $700,000.
  The residents had called 911 at 12:21 a.m. to report visible flames at 4408 Sarsfield Rd.
  Fire destroyed a Navan home early Wednesday
  The family, taking their pets, had already fled to safety at a neighbour’s home when fire crews arrived and began fighting the flames at the large, two-storey house.
  Police shut dow
  
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• Weather: Freezing rain watch a slippery signal of warming trend

  10-01-2018 13:21 via ottawacitizen.com
  Nothing like a little freezing rain “watch” to start the day off.
  It’s all part of this week’s crazy patchwork of weather extremes and the freezing rain is described as a signal of a warm front coming in overnight.
  The slippery stuff could arrive in late afternoon or evening across southern and eastern Ontario.
  “Latest analysis suggests that the freezing rain will be fairly light and patchy,” Environment Canada says. “Temperatures are expected to rise ab
  
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• Ontario health ministry keeps secret list of high risk long-term care homes

  10-01-2018 13:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  Numerous Ottawa long-term care homes could be on a secret government list of facilities considered “medium risk” or “high risk” but it’s impossible to know how many or which homes, because the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care is staying quiet. 
  Ontario rates long-term care homes by risk, with about 90 per cent considered low risk. In the past year, it has revised its system of inspecting long-term care homes to focus greater attention on those it classifie
  
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• Young man gunned down as police investigate Ottawa's first homicide of 2018

  10-01-2018 04:01 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa police were investigating a homicide Tuesday night after a young man was gunned down by a housing complex on Paul Anka Drive.
  There were several reports of gun shots shortly after 8 p.m. and when police and paramedics arrived they administered CPR to a young man who was later pronounced dead. 
  Several teens — including friends of the victim — gathered across the street after the victim’s family called to say he had been shot.
  It was not clear whether police had a su
  
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• Young man gunned down on Paul Anka Drive

  10-01-2018 03:41 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa police were investigating a homicide Tuesday night after a young man was gunned down by a housing complex on Paul Anka Drive.
  There were several reports of gun shots shortly after 8 p.m. and when police and paramedics arrived they administered CPR to a young man who was later pronounced dead. 
  Several teens — including friends of the victim — gathered across the street after the victim’s family called to say he had been shot.
  It was not clear whether police had a su
  
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• ICYMI: Two dogs, a cat and a bunny are dead after a house fire in Osgoode. @OttFire says no humans were injured.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  10-01-2018 01:45 via twitter.com
  ICYMI: Two dogs, a cat and a bunny are dead after a house fire in Osgoode. @OttFire says no humans were injured.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• DND says first of three phases in HQ move complete, but target for overall project pushed out to 2020

  10-01-2018 01:25 via ottawacitizen.com
  The new headquarters for the Department of National Defence at 60 Moodie Drive is finally acquiring some critical mass following the shift of some 3,500 employees from other locations across the region.
  This represents the first of three phases that will eventually see 8,500 of the department’s 16,000 local civilian and military personnel move to the former Nortel Networks campus. 
  Nearly a decade in development, the $800 million project is running 21 months late. DND also confirmed T
  
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• Egan: When boilers turn cold and ovens heat apartments

  10-01-2018 01:14 via ottawacitizen.com
  Rehannon Hawkins, 36, lives with her 15-year-old daughter on the 11th floor at 1485 Caldwell Ave., a public housing highrise off northern Merivale Road.
  It’s their home, warmly decorated with bright colours and plastered with family photos. But this winter arrived with an especially cold heart when the hot water stopped being hot and the heater stopped giving much heat.
  “I just got so cold in here.”
  So, she moved her bed into the living room. She left the oven on at roughly 200
  
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