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• A decision on the potential construction of a new NHL arena at the LeBreton Flats is expected this month. #ottnews… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  11-01-2018 23:51 via twitter.com
  A decision on the potential construction of a new NHL arena at the LeBreton Flats is expected this month. #ottnews… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Egan: If segregation is no longer discipline, what now with bad inmates?

  11-01-2018 23:49 via ottawacitizen.com
  Segregation in Ontario prisons used to be a form of punishment — versions of “the hole” — to deter or punish bad behaviour or serve as a means of protecting vulnerable inmates.
  Not so anymore, says a union leader representing correctional officers at the Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre.
  ”It’s changed, with the new segregation, to the point where it’s a joke,” says Scott Forde, 44, a guard for 17 years and vice-president of Local 411 of the Ontario
  
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• New skating trail (under an orchard) opens near Metcalfe this weekend

  11-01-2018 23:45 via ottawacitizen.com
  As a boy skating on the frozen South Castor River, Trevor Jamieson didn’t want to be any place else in the world.
  As an adult, Jamieson returned from the city back to rural life near Metcalfe, about 30 kilometres southeast of Ottawa. Skating is a central theme in his new venture.
  On Saturday at his property on Yorks Corners Road, about a five-minute drive east of Metcalfe, Jamieson is launching the grand opening for the RiverOak Estates skating trail. There will be kids games, a bonfire an
  
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• Reevely: Let us try, once more, to save Sparks Street

  11-01-2018 23:31 via ottawacitizen.com
  With light-rail stations due to open nearby, a new Indigenous centre promised for Wellington Street and a push on by the federal government to spiff up the Parliamentary Precinct, the city is holding a public consultation on Saturday on how to revive Sparks Street. Again.
  Wait, no, it’s too soon to be cynical. I’ll hold off for a few hundred words.
  The session will be led personally by Mayor Jim Watson. That’s unusual, and a sign of how seriously the city is taking it. The city
  
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• City doesn't have a financial responsibility to give lifeline to Sens, Mayor Watson says

  11-01-2018 23:21 via ottawacitizen.com
  The City of Ottawa has no financial responsibility to keep an NHL team in the municipality, even if the owner of the Ottawa Senators has mused about relocating the club, Mayor Jim Watson says.
  “We should not be using property tax dollars to subsidize an NHL team. That’s not the role of a municipal government, in my opinion,” Watson said on Thursday in his first interview with this newspaper since his recovery from appendicitis.
  Watson looked forward to being at the NHL 100
  
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• Activists say death following presumed overdose at health centre highlights need for more supervised sites

  11-01-2018 23:07 via ottawacitizen.com
  A young woman collapsed in a bathroom at the Sandy Hill Community Health Centre earlier this week and died in hospital from what’s presumed to be a drug overdose.
  The death happened Monday as the health centre continued its years-long wait to open a supervised injection site.
  “We know that had this overdose happened in a supervised environment, they would have survived,” said Rob Boyd, director of the health centre’s harm reduction program.
  The woman, who has no
  
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• Security industry vet appointed to Ottawa police board

  11-01-2018 23:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  A new provincially appointed member of the Ottawa police board is set to be sworn in at the end of the month. 
  The board announced Thursday that the lieutenant governor of Ontario has appointed Andrea Blaustein for a two-year term. That appointment began on Monday and would end in 2020.
  Blaustein is an honours graduate from Algonquin College in security management. She has worked in the security industry in various levels of government, and studied criminology and law at Carleton University
  
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• Still hoping for the best in NAFTA talks, Canadian government ‘prepared for every eventuality,’ Freeland says… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  11-01-2018 21:29 via twitter.com
  Still hoping for the best in NAFTA talks, Canadian government ‘prepared for every eventuality,’ Freeland says… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Bullets strike three east-end homes on second anniversary of gang homicide

  11-01-2018 21:24 via ottawacitizen.com
  When bullets struck three homes – two of them with children inside – on Claremont Drive in the east end over the supper hour Wednesday, it marked a grim anniversary.
  Exactly two years earlier, a neighbour recalled, she had called 911 and tried to comfort Mohamed Najdi, a dying Crip gang member who’d been lured to the dead-end street where he was shot in the back.
  “They picked a quiet neighbourhood,” said the woman, who declined to give her name, gesturing to  t
  
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• STORY: Brule, Raymond, Roy among former NHL veterans named to men's Olympic team bit.ly/2Dimu8B https://t.co/DGfX1BOisx

  11-01-2018 21:23 via twitter.com
  
  STORY:Brule, Raymond, Roy among former NHL veterans named to men's Olympic team bit.ly/2Dimu8B https://t.co/DGfX1BOisx
  
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• Driver, 70, loses license for three days after crashing into LCBO store

  11-01-2018 20:29 via ottawacitizen.com
  A 70-year-old man was slapped with an alcohol-related three-day licence suspension after driving his car into the side of the LCBO store in Killaloe.
  Both were banged up.
  It was about 3:20 p.m Wednesday when members of the OPP detachment in the town about 160 km west of Ottawa were called to a single-vehicle crash at the Queen Street liquor store.
  The driver from the Township of Killaloe, Hagarty and Richards was also charged with having open liquor in a public place.
  His vehicle was t
  
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• Rideau Centre to open electric vehicle charging stations

  11-01-2018 20:01 via ottawacitizen.com
  Electric vehicle operators will have a new spot to charge up while they shop with the opening of a new charging centre in the CF Rideau Centre parking lot.
  The charging station is part of a national program by property owners Cadillac Fairview.
  The Rideau Centre project, in partnership with charging station specialists FLO, will include 20 superchargers for Tesla vehicle owners, two “Level 2” chargers and one universal fast charger. The latter two units are compatible with all m
  
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• Today's letters: Sparks street, drugs and mayoral candidates

  11-01-2018 19:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  Sparks should return to its past
  While I have registered for Saturday’s townhall on Sparks Street, I’d like to get my four cents in. (One penny for every decade I have performed there.)
  As a longtime busker on Sparks, beginning in the late ’70s, I have seen how the original vision, as well as the ill-fated revisions to Sparks Street have functioned.
  The original design was liked by everyone. There were food, flower and fruit vendors. There was a Zellers, a Woolworths, a Hardwar
  
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• Limit access to nuclear weapons for “petulant and foolish” Trump, say retired nuke missile officers

  11-01-2018 18:11 via ottawacitizen.com
  Seventeen former nuclear missile launch officers have sent a letter to the U.S. congress raising their concerns about what they have called President Donald Trump’s unfettered access to nuclear weapons.
  They warn that the current U.S. nuclear launch process “poses a clear and present danger to the country and the world.” The officers, who have all served  in missiles silos, point out that “No one — not the secretary of defense, not the attorney general, not Con
  
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• The @rick_gibbons Show for Thursday, January 11th: 1:05: @JimWatsonOttawa 1:30: @mspratt 1:45: @SprottSchool 2:05:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  11-01-2018 17:55 via twitter.com
  The @rick_gibbons Show for Thursday, January 11th: 1:05: @JimWatsonOttawa 1:30: @mspratt 1:45: @SprottSchool 2:05:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Coming up on the Power Lunch at 12: @SaraBuchan & @RyanKennery join @_MarkSutcliffe in studio: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  11-01-2018 17:40 via twitter.com
  Coming up on the Power Lunch at 12: @SaraBuchan & @RyanKennery join @_MarkSutcliffe in studio: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Coming up at 11:45: @ProfRAHansen joins @_MarkSutcliffe on how a new book about Donald Trump helped his book sale… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  11-01-2018 17:40 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 11:45: @ProfRAHansen joins @_MarkSutcliffe on how a new book about Donald Trump helped his book sale… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Bon Jovi to perform at Canadian Tire Centre May 7

  11-01-2018 17:33 via ottawacitizen.com
  The legendary Jon Bon Jovi and his eponymously named band will be making a stop in Ottawa this spring as part of the the Canadian leg of their This House Is Not for Sale tour.
  Presented by Live Nation, the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame 2018 inductees will play at Richcraft Live at Canadian Tire Centre in Ottawa on May 7.
  The Grammy-winning band will also celebrate their return to the road with the re-release of the This House Is Not For Sale album as a new version, containing two new so
  
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• Coming up at 11:30: @roccorossiTO joins @_MarkSutcliffe with the @OntarioCofC statement on minimum wage: 📻: 1310… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  11-01-2018 17:22 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 11:30:@roccorossiTO joins @_MarkSutcliffe with the @OntarioCofC statement on minimum wage:📻: 1310… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Freezing rain ends after causing school bus cancellations, outages and crashes

  11-01-2018 17:16 via ottawacitizen.com
  It’s a messy one out there.
  Environment Canada’s freezing rain warning ended at about 11 a.m. after the precipitation caused cancelled school buses across the region, power outages east of the city and some traffic-snarling collisions.
  Meanwhile, the agency has also issued a special weather statement alerting that mild and wet conditions could lead to pooling water before a cold front sweeps through bringing potentially “significant” amounts of snow.
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• Electrocution victim Sabryna Mongeon out of coma after latest amputation

  11-01-2018 17:11 via ottawacitizen.com
  Sabryna Mongeon is conscious and out of her induced coma after the successful amputation of her a section of her right leg on Wednesday.
  Sabryna, 18, cannot speak because she is intubated, but she is aware of her surroundings and understands conversation directed at her.
  Though they kept the conversation light, her older sister Samantha said, “she is in the process of realizing what has happened to her.”
  There is currently no timeline for her release as doctors are treating her burns
  
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• Meet Friedemann Weinhardt: Award-winning designer is not swayed by trends

  11-01-2018 17:10 via ottawacitizen.com
  When interior designer Friedemann Weinhardt won the coveted Designer of the Year award at this year’s Greater Ottawa Home Builders’ Association gala, he said winning never gets old.
  That’s because the man, known for his sleek, contemporary kitchens and bathrooms, has collected more than 100 awards from various organizations over his 30-year career.
  This is the first year he entered his work in this category.
  “It really is an honour to receive feedback from our industry. I
  
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• Coming up at 11:15: @AlexandraCutean joins @_MarkSutcliffe on the rise of autonomous vehicles: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  11-01-2018 17:05 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 11:15: @AlexandraCutean joins @_MarkSutcliffe on the rise of autonomous vehicles: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• 'Mothers who regret having children are speaking up like never before' @anne_kingston joins @_MarkSutcliffe coming… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  11-01-2018 16:35 via twitter.com
  'Mothers who regret having children are speaking up like never before'@anne_kingston joins @_MarkSutcliffe coming… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Tiny distances will make a big difference in Saturday snowstorm

  11-01-2018 16:31 via ottawacitizen.com
  A map from the U.S. National Weather Service shows the big snowstorms coming Saturday may clobber one spot but leave a only light dusting a few kilometres away.
  The map shows probabilities, not the amount of snow.
  Here’s how it works:
  This map illustrates the likelihood of getting at least six inches (15 centimetres) of snow by the end of Saturday, and you can pick different time periods on the U.S. National Weather Service winter precipitation page.
  The brown strip around the edge of the
  
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• Coming up at 10:30: @powerstim of @abacusdataca joins @_MarkSutcliffe LIVE: 📻: 1310 💻: bit.ly/1uwtdOs… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  11-01-2018 16:25 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 10:30: @powerstim of @abacusdataca joins @_MarkSutcliffe LIVE:📻: 1310 💻: bit.ly/1uwtdOs… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Russia, China shut out of Canadian conference on Korea – value of meeting questioned

  11-01-2018 16:24 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Canadian government has organized a meeting in Vancouver on Jan. 16 for various countries to come up with an international response to North Korea’s nuclear weapons and missile program. The plan is to seek “a more peaceful, prosperous and nuclear-free future” Korean Peninsula
  That’s a fine idea, except two of the top players in the region and the countries believed to have the most influence on North Korea– China and Russia – aren’t invited.
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• Summerlee: How Carleton is leading in innovation

  11-01-2018 16:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  Last month at the Bayview Yards innovation centre, Environment and Climate Change Canada Minister Catherine McKenna announced the national Smart Cities Challenge, a $50 million prize for the large Canadian city with the best plan for improving the lives of its residents through innovation, data and technology.
  The location of McKenna’s announcement was perfect, because Bayview Yards is a nexus for partnerships between the high-tech sector, post-secondary institutions and all three levels o
  
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• Coming up next on the 10 O'Clock Talk: @LMartinWashDC, @David_Moscrop & @1310glennis join @_MarkSutcliffe live:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  11-01-2018 15:56 via twitter.com
  Coming up next on the 10 O'Clock Talk: @LMartinWashDC, @David_Moscrop & @1310glennis join @_MarkSutcliffe live:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Ernesto Cervini's Turboprop CD reviewed

  11-01-2018 15:43 via ottawacitizen.com
  Rev (Anzic Records) Ernesto Cervini’s Turboprop
  Toronto drummer Ernesto Cervini is batting two for two. With his sextet Turboprop’s new album Rev, Cervini again earned one of the top spots in my year-end list of the best Canadian jazz albums.
  That’s what you get when you put sparkling material in front of top-notch musicians who bring out the best in each other. Here’s my expanded take on the disc in question, Rev, which Cervini and his band will be launching Thursday and
  
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• Coming up at 9:45: @AndreaHorwath joins @_MarkSutcliffe on minimum wage hike: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  11-01-2018 15:30 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 9:45: @AndreaHorwath joins @_MarkSutcliffe on minimum wage hike: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• POLL: Should Prime Minister Trudeau testify before the ethics committee on his trip to the Aga Khan's private island?

  11-01-2018 15:22 via twitter.com
  POLL: Should Prime Minister Trudeau testify before the ethics committee on his trip to the Aga Khan's private island?
  
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• Coming up at 9:30: @Geddes28 of @macleans joins @_MarkSutcliffe live: 📻: 1310 💻: bit.ly/1uwtdOs 📞: 6… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  11-01-2018 15:22 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 9:30: @Geddes28 of @macleans joins @_MarkSutcliffe live: 📻: 1310 💻: bit.ly/1uwtdOs 📞: 6… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Anne will join @_MarkSutcliffe this morning at 10:45: twitter.com/1310NEWS/statu…

  11-01-2018 15:11 via twitter.com
  Anne will join @_MarkSutcliffe this morning at 10:45: twitter.com/1310NEWS/statu…
  
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• Coming up at 9:15: @KentThornhillMP joins @_MarkSutcliffe on Trudeau ethics controversies: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  11-01-2018 15:00 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 9:15: @KentThornhillMP joins @_MarkSutcliffe on Trudeau ethics controversies: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• School bus cancellations, power outages and crashes as freezing rain falls

  11-01-2018 14:58 via ottawacitizen.com
  It’s a messy one out there.
  Environment Canada’s freezing rain warning remained in effect Thursday morning leading to cancelled school buses across the region, power outages east of the city and some traffic-snarling collisions.
  Meanwhile, the agency has also issued a special weather statement alerting that mild and wet conditions could lead to pooling water before a cold front sweeps through bringing potentially “significant” amounts of snow.
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• Skateway closed Wednesday night

  11-01-2018 14:39 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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• Gatineau police seek two men in violent home invasion: bit.ly/2qTf35h https://t.co/mozjSsIlex

  11-01-2018 14:34 via twitter.com
  
  Gatineau police seek two men in violent home invasion: bit.ly/2qTf35h https://t.co/mozjSsIlex
  
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• All school bus service has been cancelled

  11-01-2018 12:38 via ottawacitizen.com
  It’s going to be wet and slippery today.
  School boards in the region aren’t taking any chances and have cancelled school bus service.
  All school bus service inside the city has been cancelled.
  The Upper Canada District School Board and the Catholic District School Board of Eastern Ontario have also cancelled all service.
  Schools, as always, remain open.
  Jan11@05:48 All transportation has been cancelled for today Thursday January 11, 2018.
  — STEO News (@STEO_news) January 11, 20
  
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• BREAKING: School buses are cancelled in areas served by the Upper Canada District School Board, Catholic District S… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  11-01-2018 11:49 via twitter.com
  BREAKING: School buses are cancelled in areas served by the Upper Canada District School Board, Catholic District S… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• BREAKING: All Ottawa school buses have been cancelled today because of the recent freezing rain. Buses to English-… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  11-01-2018 11:38 via twitter.com
  BREAKING: All Ottawa school buses have been cancelled today because of the recent freezing rain.Buses to English-… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Pyatt scores late, Anderson makes 45 saves as Senators beat Maple Leafs 4-3: bit.ly/2CPrJvG https://t.co/etAamSHF85

  11-01-2018 11:20 via twitter.com
  
  Pyatt scores late, Anderson makes 45 saves as Senators beat Maple Leafs 4-3: bit.ly/2CPrJvG https://t.co/etAamSHF85
  
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• And a wet evening as well! Periods of rain with the temperature staying near 6 overnight. Tomorrow: Morning rai… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  11-01-2018 11:16 via twitter.com
  And a wet evening as well!Periods of rain with the temperature staying near 6overnight. Tomorrow: Morning rai… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Police investigate multiple shots fired into homes in Manor Park: bit.ly/2qOmP0e https://t.co/FRYHKy7h6g

  11-01-2018 11:06 via twitter.com
  
  Police investigate multiple shots fired into homes in Manor Park: bit.ly/2qOmP0e https://t.co/FRYHKy7h6g
  
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• Several shots fired into Claremont Drive residences

  11-01-2018 05:41 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa police are investigating another shooting after several rounds were fired at a townhome on Claremont Drive Wednesday night.
  The targeted home was empty but bullets also penetrated two other units, both occupied with children at the time of the 7 p.m shooting. Nobody was injured in the shooting.
  Police officers responded quickly to 911 calls and are now hunting for the suspect(s).
  The targeted home on Claremont Drive is near St.Laurent Blvd. in Manor Park East.
   
  
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• Slain man tried to bribe officer on New Year's Eve: court documents

  11-01-2018 03:10 via ottawacitizen.com
  The young man gunned down just steps from his south-side home on Paul Anka Drive was charged with trying to bribe an Ottawa police officer when he was pulled over on New Year’s Eve.
  Tarek Dakhil, 23, known to friends as “T-Rex” was shot multiple times around 8:30 p.m. Tuesday in the courtyard of a co-operative housing complex at 3339 Paul Anka Dr.
  Patrol officers who responded to reports of multiple gunshots found Dakhil in “severe medical distress.” Officers admini
  
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• ByWard Market business owner says he's the victim of city's poor bylaw enforcement

  11-01-2018 01:25 via ottawacitizen.com
  The owner of a new ByWard Market hair salon and café has vowed not to convert the business into a bar or nightclub if he’s granted a liquor licence.
  Aydin Kharaghani told a licence appeal tribunal Wednesday that he has invested all of his savings in the business, Headquarters, and needs the liquor licence to make it financially viable. 
  “I have no intention of pulling it over on anybody,” Kharaghani said.
  Earlier this week, the tribunal heard from ByWard Market resi
  
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• Whistleblower Shiv Chopra remembered for 'speaking truth to power'

  11-01-2018 00:16 via ottawacitizen.com
  Shiv Chopra did not fear wading into controversy. He would do it again and again. The government scientist said it was his job to blow the whistle when the evidence showed that drugs used for animals posed a danger to the safety of Canada’s food system.
  Chopra died Sunday at the age of 84 after spending much of the past three decades in the spotlight. He was a crank to some and a hero to others.
  In 1989, he sparked debate over Canada’s veterinary drug approval process after he and fe
  
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