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• Museum exhibit brings doomed Franklin Expedition to life

  01-03-2018 23:26 via ottawacitizen.com
  Karen Ryan, as an Arctic archaeologist, had always wanted to create an exhibit on the doomed Franklin Expedition.
  By 2014, she was planning one at the Canadian Museum of History, focusing on how two strong ships and 129 sailors had vanished without a trace in the 1840s, defeating all efforts to find them ever since.
  Then searchers found one ship in 2014. Two years later, they found the other.
  The exhibit took a hard left turn. The result opens Friday at the museum: Death in the Ice, a joint effo
  
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• Bagnall: After Phoenix, what will it take to build a new payroll system?

  01-03-2018 23:18 via ottawacitizen.com
  Can it be done? Can the federal government build a new pay system from scratch, even as it’s engaged in a herculean effort to fix a Phoenix platform that is careening out of control?
  The answer, of course, is yes. This isn’t metaphysics, merely a laborious process of aligning pay rules with a computerized system for calculating what should appear on employees’ pay stubs.
  But whatever path government and its unions select for rebuilding, the decision has to come quickly. The kno
  
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• Reevely: Elliott's edge over other Tory candidates on health care is an asset as the system buckles

  01-03-2018 23:07 via ottawacitizen.com
  Health care is the Ontario government’s biggest responsibility by far, and it was only at Wednesday night’s leadership debate that we first heard any details about what the four people who want to lead the Progressive Conservative party would do with it.
  We spend $53 billion a year on health care, well over a third of the provincial budget — education is second, and its budget is only half as big. Hospitals are jammed. Rural areas are still short on health services. The Liberal
  
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• 19 year-old man charged after threats made to Petawawa high school bit.ly/2t8Li1l https://t.co/qj7HnmAiuQ

  01-03-2018 22:03 via twitter.com
  
  19 year-old man charged after threats made to Petawawa high school bit.ly/2t8Li1l https://t.co/qj7HnmAiuQ
  
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• Trump promises big tariffs on steel, aluminum; impact on Canada still unclear bit.ly/2HUmrSm https://t.co/uWBw3KPeZ3

  01-03-2018 21:54 via twitter.com
  
  Trump promises big tariffs on steel, aluminum; impact on Canada still unclear bit.ly/2HUmrSm https://t.co/uWBw3KPeZ3
  
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• Ottawa in compliance with Ontario's long-term care order bit.ly/2oBfBJp https://t.co/kvOSP3kCbR

  01-03-2018 21:39 via twitter.com
  
  Ottawa in compliance with Ontario's long-term care order bit.ly/2oBfBJp https://t.co/kvOSP3kCbR
  
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• Retailer MEC to stop carrying Vista Outdoor brands in response to Florida shooting bit.ly/2t7tyDQ https://t.co/TKf1Pql4yp

  01-03-2018 21:30 via twitter.com
  
  Retailer MEC to stop carrying Vista Outdoor brands in response to Florida shooting bit.ly/2t7tyDQ https://t.co/TKf1Pql4yp
  
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• City confirms compliance with provincial long-term care order

  01-03-2018 20:35 via ottawacitizen.com
  The city says it has satisfied the requirements of a provincial order issued last summer over the state of its long-term care homes.
  In a memo sent to council on Thursday, community and social services general manager Janice Burelle says the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care inspected the city’s four long-term care facilities in December and January after receiving the city’s compliance plans in September.
  The city’s long-term care homes are Garry J. Armstrong, Peter D. Cla
  
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• Door-to-door sales ban begins in Ontario

  01-03-2018 20:17 via ottawacitizen.com
  The province’s ban on door-to-door sale of certain services and appliances came into effect Thursday.
  The ban, which has been long discussed by the Ontario government, comes after Ontarians have flooded the government’s consumer protection officials with complaints about salespeople showing up at homes and using questionable methods to sell water heaters, furnaces and water filters.
  “These new laws will ensure that people aren’t being taken advantage of through unsolicite
  
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• Today's letters: Who has the fix for Phoenix?

  01-03-2018 19:48 via ottawacitizen.com
  Readers continue to react to our series on the Phoenix pay debacle, and to the budget announcements around it. Plus, a few environmental thoughts from you  …
  You can write to us at: [email protected]
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  Phoenix: Show us the (real) money
  The Great Phoenix Fiasco is an excellent example of why computerized financial transactions are a bad, bad idea. When “money” is replaced with “financial information,” that information can be manipulated, tweaked,
  
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• City spending $150K fix to clear stinky pond air in Riverside South

  01-03-2018 19:24 via ottawacitizen.com
  The city government thinks it can finally kill the stench coming from a stormwater pond in Riverside South.
  The pond between Dusty Miller Crescent and Limebank Road stinks. The sulphur smell has made the area reek like rotten eggs in the winter. It’s been on city hall’s radar for years, but it hasn’t been able to stop the stench. Construction of new stormwater ponds in the community have made residents nervous.
  But now, a $150,000 solution for the stinky pond is in the works an
  
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• Hailed as 'voice for farmers, Eastern Ontario,' former MPP Noble Villeneuve dead at 79

  01-03-2018 19:08 via ottawacitizen.com
  Tributes to former Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry MPP Noble Villeneuve poured in Thursday after news of his death spread through the region and his party.
  Villeneuve, a Progressive Conservative, served from 1983 to 1999. His roles included a stint as deputy speaker and four years of serving both as minister for francophone affairs and agriculture in premier Mike Harris’s government. He died in Maxville Wednesday at 79.
  Leeds-Grenville MPP Steve Clark, the Progressive Conservative party&rsq
  
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• Nolan: Trudeau’s budget was momentous for women

  01-03-2018 18:55 via ottawacitizen.com
  On Tuesday, the #MeToo and #TimesUp movements, alongside women’s ongoing struggle for equity, won a victory. Never has Canada released a federal budget as progressive and in-step with a movement for change.
  The common cycle is that an issue sparks outrage in the media, leading to outcries on social media, trending hashtags and organized marches, followed by the release of reports and the sharing of heart-wrenching stories – only to be met with inaction and disappointment. That cycle
  
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• TRAFFIC UPDATE: Watermain break in #Gatineau repaired & detours lifted. No boil water advisory needed for residents… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  01-03-2018 18:19 via twitter.com
  TRAFFIC UPDATE: Watermain break in #Gatineau repaired & detours lifted. No boil water advisory needed for residents… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Aylmer intersection reopens after Gatineau police reconstruct fatal crash

  01-03-2018 18:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  Gatineau police have reopened the intersection of Aylmer and Fraser roads after investigators spent more than two hours reconstructing a Jan. 24 collision that caused the death of a 59-year-old woman.
  Detectives were accompanied by an accident reconstruction specialist to try to better determine the circumstances surrounding the crash.
  Police did not release details of the reconstruction.
  On Jan. 24, the victim was struck at about 4:15 p.m. by a vehicle turning left from Rue Duchesnay as she was
  
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• Does the Canadian Forces need an additional aircraft for close air support? Who knows?

  01-03-2018 17:57 via ottawacitizen.com
  At the recent Senate defence committee there was an interesting exchange between Senator Diane Griffin and Chief of the Defence Staff Gen. Jon Vance. Griffin, a conservationist from Prince Edward Island, sits as an independent.
  She asked Vance about the CF-18s.
  “My understanding is that they were not used in Afghanistan in support of combat operations, but does the RCAF need an additional combat aircraft that can provide increased close air support for our Canadian Forces members on the gr
  
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• Coming up at 11:45: @jillianclark joins @_MarkSutcliffe live in studio: 📻: 1310 💻: bit.ly/1uwtdOs… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  01-03-2018 17:40 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 11:45: @jillianclark joins @_MarkSutcliffe live in studio:📻: 1310 💻: bit.ly/1uwtdOs… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• TRAFFIC UPDATE: @PoliceGatineau crash reconstructionists have completed this morning's work @ Alymer & Fraser. Road… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  01-03-2018 17:39 via twitter.com
  TRAFFIC UPDATE: @PoliceGatineau crash reconstructionists have completed this morning's work @ Alymer & Fraser. Road… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• The @rick_gibbons Show for Thursday, March 1st: 1:05: @CPnewsboy 1:17: @mspratt 1:37: @Colettod 1:45: @Ottawalabour… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  01-03-2018 17:21 via twitter.com
  The @rick_gibbons Show for Thursday, March 1st: 1:05: @CPnewsboy 1:17: @mspratt 1:37: @Colettod 1:45: @Ottawalabour… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Kaplan: Ontario PC debate thin on alternative ideas – and that's a problem

  01-03-2018 17:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  The second Ontario Progressive Conservative Party debate, Wednesday night in Ottawa, was a bit more entertaining than the first one. Tanya Granic Allen came out swinging (mostly at Caroline Mulroney), and Doug Ford took some surprising shots at Christine Elliott. The spirit of Patrick Brown loomed large, as the candidates discussed a variety of issues related to the strange saga of the former leader. Althia Raj – the debate’s moderator – added a playful, humorous tone to the ev
  
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• Coming up at 11: @quito_maggi joins @_MarkSutcliffe with the latest Ontario PC leadership race polling: 📻: 1310… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  01-03-2018 16:55 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 11: @quito_maggi joins @_MarkSutcliffe with the latest Ontario PC leadership race polling:📻: 1310… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Coming up at 10:45: @davidreevely joins @_MarkSutcliffe on the Ontario PC leadership debate: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  01-03-2018 16:40 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 10:45: @davidreevely joins @_MarkSutcliffe on the Ontario PC leadership debate: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• From @macleans: Want men to support feminism? Stop treating them as the problem: bit.ly/2HRlMkB https://t.co/qmUyXE0ZAH

  01-03-2018 15:55 via twitter.com
  
  From @macleans: Want men to support feminism? Stop treating them as the problem: bit.ly/2HRlMkB https://t.co/qmUyXE0ZAH
  
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• Twin Elm Rugby Park in need of a serious makeover

  01-03-2018 15:52 via ottawacitizen.com
  Over the past four decades, Twin Elm Rugby Park has been home to all manner of rugby competition, including international test matches involving Canada, New Zealand and England.
  But the Twin Elm clubhouse — in southwest Ottawa, near Richmond — is badly in need of repair and is the subject of a public fundraising campaign to undertake about $100,000 in upgrades.
  Owned by four Ottawa area rugby clubs, Twin Elm is managed by a volunteer board.
  New Park president Lee Powell has hopes of
  
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• Holland's Cake and Shake closing but pastry chef makes delicious deal with coffeehouse

  01-03-2018 15:50 via ottawacitizen.com
  Holland’s Cake and Shake is closing but its treats aren’t leaving the Parkdale Market area.
  Owner Michael Holland has announced that Morning Owl Coffeehouse is taking over Holland’s Armstrong Street location but he will become the resident pastry chef.
  Holland said on Instagram that as his business entered the last year of their lease, he was faced with big decisions.
  “Having grown MUCH more than we ever anticipated, I was faced with considering expansion or simply put, s
  
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• POLL: Should the city create a women's bureau at Ottawa City Hall? 1310news.com/2018/03/01/cit…

  01-03-2018 15:41 via twitter.com
  POLL: Should the city create a women's bureau at Ottawa City Hall? 1310news.com/2018/03/01/cit…
  
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• Coming up at 9:45: @GrahamDavidA joins @_MarkSutcliffe on the sharp rise and sudden departure of Hope Hicks: Li… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  01-03-2018 15:39 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 9:45: @GrahamDavidA joins @_MarkSutcliffe on the sharp rise and sudden departure of Hope Hicks: Li… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Coming up: @Geddes28 joins @_MarkSutcliffe for their weekly @macleans on the Hill segment: Listen: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  01-03-2018 15:25 via twitter.com
  Coming up: @Geddes28 joins @_MarkSutcliffe for their weekly @macleans on the Hill segment:Listen:📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Gatineau police shut Aylmer intersection to reconstruct fatal collision

  01-03-2018 15:22 via ottawacitizen.com
  Investigators in Gatineau are returning to the scene of a Jan. 24 collision that caused the death of a 59-year-old woman to try to reconstruct the crash at Chemin d’Aylmer and Chemin Fraser.
  Detectives will be accompanies by an accident reconstruction specialist to try to better determine the circumstances surrounding the crash.
  On Jan. 24, the victim was struck at about 4:15 p.m. by a vehicle turning left from Rue Duchesnay as she was walking north on Chemin Aylmer.
  She died one week late
  
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• Branford Marsalis talks classical vs. jazz and Donald Trump

  01-03-2018 15:09 via ottawacitizen.com
  Speaking on the phone a few weeks ago from his home in North Carolina, Branford Marsalis was looking ahead to a short run of classical concerts and the practising that he needed to do to be performance-ready.
  The week before the interview, the renowned saxophonist had performed in Memphis. Ahead, Marsalis had a recital in Philadelphia, and after that, concerts in Baltimore and finally, Ottawa.
  “I’ve been kind of forced to practise 15 pieces in rotation, which really does kind of chea
  
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• Coming up at 9:15: @mclomedia of @Trans4mLeaders joins @_MarkSutcliffe with his take on who won the Ontario PC lea… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  01-03-2018 15:07 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 9:15:@mclomedia of @Trans4mLeaders joins @_MarkSutcliffe with his take on who won the Ontario PC lea… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Petawawa school reopens after Wednesday lockdown, OPP officers remain as precaution

  01-03-2018 13:54 via ottawacitizen.com
  Classes are back to normal at Petawawa’s Valour School Thursday but OPP officers are to be on hand as a precaution, the Renfrew County District School Board said.
  Upper Ottawa Valley OPP officers and the force’s emergency response team were dispatched to the school early Wednesday – a day that had been dedicated to combating bullying – after the report of a threat to the school being made to a student on social media.
  Police were called at about 7:25 a.m. and reported aro
  
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• Man killed after van crashes with truck hauling logs near Shawville, Que.

  01-03-2018 13:44 via ottawacitizen.com
  A man in his 60s was killed Wednesday following a crash between a van and a log truck on Highway 148 just past Shawville, Que.
  The Sûreté du Québec says the crash occurred at about 2:30 p.m. when a van crashed head-on into the trailer truck on the winding road in Clarendon township.
  First responders had to use cutters and spreaders to free the victim, as the van was covered in logs that fell off the larger truck.
  He was declared dead at the scene. The investigation continues.
  
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• March comes in like a lamb but there's snow in the forecast

  01-03-2018 13:33 via ottawacitizen.com
  Baa-a-a!
  March is coming in with a lamb-like high of 5 C and a UV index – remember those? – of 3 or moderate.
  Overnight, there’s a 60 per cent chance of flurries and a low of just -2 C.
  Typical temperatures for early March are highs of -1 C and lows of -10 C.
  You know what that say. March: In like a lamb, out like a lamb. #yow #ottweather pic.twitter.com/RDbVnJMxdj
  — Liam Mooney (@JackpineLiam) February 28, 2018For Friday, periods of snow are forecast to end in the aftern
  
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• 'I'm here to entertain,' says man at centre of Ottawa 'dwarf-toss' debate

  01-03-2018 13:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  “Mighty” Mike Murga doesn’t much care for the ethical debate swirling around his profession of choice.
  The California-based entertainer says his short stature hasn’t kept him from living the high life, spending the better part of two decades in a showbiz career that has taken him around the world.
  He’s toured the globe with Mötley Crüe and Britney Spears, partied with Green Day and Cypress Hill, played dozens of roles in movies, TV shows and music videos,
  
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• City councillor pushes for women's bureau at city hall 1310news.com/2018/03/01/cit… #ottnews https://t.co/TLda7r1ShX

  01-03-2018 12:10 via twitter.com
  
  City councillor pushes for women's bureau at city hall1310news.com/2018/03/01/cit…#ottnews https://t.co/TLda7r1ShX
  
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• And looking ahead to the weekend..... Saturday: Partly cloudy high 3 Sunday: Mostly sunny high 4 twitter.com/1310Alexblack/…

  01-03-2018 11:46 via twitter.com
  And looking ahead to the weekend.....Saturday: Partly cloudy high 3 Sunday: Mostly sunny high 4 twitter.com/1310Alexblack/…
  
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• Police continue to search for man in connection to summer shooting: bit.ly/2ovLVO4 https://t.co/OJ5I9jJxpj

  01-03-2018 11:36 via twitter.com
  
  Police continue to search for man in connection to summer shooting: bit.ly/2ovLVO4 https://t.co/OJ5I9jJxpj
  
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• Amid sexual misconduct allegations, Hedley to take 'indefinite hiatus' after tour: bit.ly/2HW76Rm https://t.co/qwre2k2AoJ

  01-03-2018 11:30 via twitter.com
  
  Amid sexual misconduct allegations, Hedley to take 'indefinite hiatus' after tour: bit.ly/2HW76Rm https://t.co/qwre2k2AoJ
  
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• PC leadership debate exposes troubles plaguing Tories: bit.ly/2CRgIcg https://t.co/3mc9mwKOSu

  01-03-2018 11:23 via twitter.com
  
  PC leadership debate exposes troubles plaguing Tories: bit.ly/2CRgIcg https://t.co/3mc9mwKOSu
  
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• Reevely: Progressive Conservative leadership candidates get mean in Ottawa debate

  01-03-2018 04:28 via ottawacitizen.com
  With time running short and the polls tight, the four candidates to lead the Ontario Progressive Conservatives breathed fire at one another in their final debate Wednesday night, lighting up a ballroom at Ottawa’s Shaw Centre.
  Whatever Christine Elliott, Doug Ford and Caroline Mulroney might have preferred, the ghost of Patrick Brown hung over them all, if only because Tanya Granic Allen kept summoning him up.
  “You’re all fine with Patrick Brown running for you. I’m not,&
  
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• Woman injured as raft falls from RCAF helicopter and crashes through her roof

  01-03-2018 01:24 via ottawacitizen.com
  In a bizarre incident a raft dropped from a Royal Canadian Air Force helicopter and smashed through the roof of a Miami house Wednesday, injuring a woman inside.
  The raft, which was not inflated at the time and instead was packaged in a square bundle, punched a hole in the roof a little more than a half a metre by half a metre.
  Miami-Dade Fire Rescue Capt. W.A. McAllister said the incident was a close call for the woman who was sleeping in the house at the time. “Fortunately, the occupant
  
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• Council notes: OK given to bikes on LRT and pets on transit, city reserve funds need boost

  01-03-2018 01:16 via ottawacitizen.com
  Council voted 15-9 to allow bikes on Confederation Line trains at all hours of operation when the LRT line opens in November.
  Cyclists will be required to board the train at a specific door and stand with their bikes at the nearest multi-use space on the car. There’s an initial 15-month period for the bikes to be allowed. Transpo will review how it’s working out after the first year of LRT operations.
  Bikes are already allowed on Trillium Line trains.
  Related
  DeVries and Shearer
  
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• Ottawa police collar one of two suspects in August 2017 shooting

  01-03-2018 00:13 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa police arrested a suspect in a shooting on Woodroffe Avenue last summer, but said Wednesday they continue to search for a second man.
  Joseph Madore was taken into custody on Tuesday. The police guns and gangs unit is still searching for Abraham Bihi, who is described as armed and dangerous.
  Police received numerous 911 calls about a shooting in the Woodroffe Avenue-Navaho Drive area last Aug. 26 around 2:30 a.m. A short while later a 25-year-old man showed up at hospital with non-life-thr
  
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