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• Heart Institute to open 145,000-square-foot expansion

  14-03-2018 23:12 via ottawacitizen.com
  Three years after breaking ground, the University of Ottawa Heart Institute is set to open a 145,000-square-foot facility that it calls the “latest and most sophisticated in Canada.”
  Official opening of the tower will take place next week, although renovations to older parts of the Heart Institute will continue for several years.
  The new building includes an additional 27-bed critical-care unit, five operating rooms, one hybrid operating room, labs and space for expansion. It is part
  
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• A scaled-down 2018 Montebello Rockfest lineup announced

  14-03-2018 23:08 via ottawacitizen.com
  Lamb of God, Cannibal Corpse and Steel Panther are just a few of the bands in this year’s Montebello Rockfest lineup.
  The festival, which takes place June 14-16 in the Quebec village about an hour northeast of Ottawa, features rock, metal, alternative, hip hop and punk bands. Many recognizable performers and up-and-coming bands will be taking the stage, according to Rockfest creator Alex Martel.
  “It’s going to be amazing,” Martel said. “It is a pretty crazy vibe. We
  
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• Going out best bets, March 15 to 21

  14-03-2018 22:47 via ottawacitizen.com
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  Carlos Santana, the guitar legend who added a Latin flavour to the psychedelic ’60s, returns to Ottawa on Sunday, his six-string faculties still very much intact at the age of 70. Accompanied by an eight-piece band that sports a monster rhythm section, including two percussionists and drummer Cindy Blackman Santana (Carlos’s wife), he’s been making his way across Canada on his Divination tour, delighting audiences with a career-spanning performance that includes plent
  
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• Gatineau to implement new rules about garbage disposal

  14-03-2018 22:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  Gatineau residents will be expected to reduce the amount of their bi-weekly waste disposal to 120 litres starting July 15.
  On Tuesday night, Gatineau city council approved new rules to the municipal collection service with the intent of banning large volumes of compost and recyclable materials that make their way into the trash.
  The city plans to fine households that exceed the 120-litre limit.
  Apartment dwellers will also be encouraged to begin composting. The city plans on visiting apartment u
  
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• Man, 34, hit by wooden beam in workplace accident

  14-03-2018 22:24 via ottawacitizen.com
  Quebec’s health and safety agency is investigating after a workplace accident in which a man lost consciousness after being hit by a falling wooden beam.
  Outaouais police responded to 7 chemin du Progrès in La Pêche around 1 p.m. Wednesday when a 34-year-old Cantley man called 911 after being hit by a beam. The man was moving the beams by himself when one fell on his head. He lost consciousness, then phoned for help when he came to. 
  The man was taken to Hull hospital in
  
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• Patient of doctor facing sex charges frustrated by fee to transfer family's files

  14-03-2018 22:21 via ottawacitizen.com
  Patients of a University of Ottawa Health Services doctor accused of sex crimes are “free” to find a new family doctor elsewhere, says the clinic. But making the switch will cost them. 
  Marie Noreau, a longtime patient of the criminally charged Dr. Vincent Nadon, says she was told it would cost $250 to transfer the medical records of her family of six to a new doctor. That’s $50 for the first file and $40 for each subsequent file.
  “We can pay that if we have to, but
  
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• The 'park's heartbeat': Beloved tree in Perth to come down Thursday

  14-03-2018 22:15 via ottawacitizen.com
  For many decades, the iconic tree named Jessie has been a friend to the residents of Perth, comforting them with shade on hot summer days and providing a familiar presence every year during the Stewart Park Festival.
  On Thursday, however, locals bid farewell to their treasured companion, which has towered over Stewart Park with its thick branches and rough, mossy bark. The silver maple tree has been deemed a safety hazard by arborists and must be cut down.
  “I think of (Jessie) as the park&
  
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• Small-lot intensification anxiety extends to Orléans as city plans LRT extension

  14-03-2018 22:12 via ottawacitizen.com
  Intensification on small lots is no longer a concern specific to established urban neighbourhoods. The suburbs are starting to feel the same anxiety with the expansion of LRT.
  An application by Danzac Holdings for 840 Balsam Dr., at the corner of Jeanne D’Arc Boulevard in Orléans, was approved by the committee of adjustment last month, even though one resident collected 38 signatures from neighbours opposing the plan, which calls for a second bungalow on the land.
  Pat Trites, who ha
  
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• Opioid overdoses down, but officials say too soon to link with naloxone, injection sites

  14-03-2018 22:01 via ottawacitizen.com
  Six months after a spike in opioid overdoses raised alarms across the city, the numbers are down. But Ottawa Public Health says it is too soon to claim any victories in the opioid crisis.
  According to preliminary public health statistics, drug-related emergency room visits have dipped from more than 40 a week in September to closer to 25 a week in late January. Monthly opioid overdose emergency room visits have steadily declined since last summer.
  OPH and service agencies rallied last summer aft
  
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• Aylmer daycare operator found guilty of choking child ottawamatters.com/local-news/ayl… https://t.co/k9ycbQknZT

  14-03-2018 21:10 via twitter.com
  
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• Police collar two people, seek a third in armed robbery at The Source

  14-03-2018 20:57 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ontario Provincial Police have collared and charged two people and are looking for a third after an armed robbery at The Source electronics store in Rockland.
  Around 9:20 p.m. on March 9, police said two armed, masked men reportedly entered the store at 3004 Richelieu St., while a third person waited outside in a dark-coloured Chevrolet pick-up truck without license plates. 
  The OPP said the masked men exited the building with an undisclosed amount of cash and electronics, then made a getaw
  
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• Ontario health spending not keeping pace with aging population: FAO ottawamatters.com/around-ontario… https://t.co/hbBvhJmoZz

  14-03-2018 20:45 via twitter.com
  
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• More local farmers dealing with cat crisis ottawamatters.com/local-news/mor… https://t.co/RJJ0p3uC7e

  14-03-2018 20:20 via twitter.com
  
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• Dining Out: Izakaya Shingen brings Japanese bar food to Ottawa with style

  14-03-2018 18:59 via ottawacitizen.com
  Izakaya Shingen201 Bank St., 613-680-0802, izakayashingen.comOpen: Sunday to Thursday, 5 to 10 p.m., Friday and Saturday 5 to 11 p.m.Prices: small plates up to $13.50 Access: one step to front door
  With so many flattering photos of meaty morsels displayed on the menu at Izakaya Shingen, some of my dining companions have found it hard to get excited about ordering the grilled rice balls.
  And yet, as humble as they may sound, yaki onigiri, as they’re known in Japan, have an impress
  
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• A strategic approach to startup success

  14-03-2018 18:47 via ottawacitizen.com
  Marketing maven Erin Bury has seen it all when it comes to the do’s and don’ts of launching a new Canadian business venture into the crowded online market space.
  As the managing director of Eighty-Eight, a top-flight Toronto-based creative communications agency, Bury says she sees many emerging entrepreneurs make the same predictable mistakes by charging out of the gate with no real understanding of who their target customers are, or even how to reach them effectively. It’s a c
  
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• Woman, 58, charged after allegedly fleeing on foot from highway crash

  14-03-2018 18:12 via ottawacitizen.com
  A 58-year-old woman from Cornwall has been charged with careless driving, after allegedly swerving toward transport trucks on a highway, crashing into one and fleeing the scene by foot. 
  On Wednesday around 5:10 a.m., OPP officers received a call from someone reporting an aggressive driver heading eastbound on Highway 401. The driver was reportedly swerving toward transport vehicles.
  Five minutes later, the driver crashed into a tanker-truck east of Highway 137 in the Leeds and the Thousand
  
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• Striking support staff take Carleton fight to labour board

  14-03-2018 17:35 via ottawacitizen.com
  Amid accusations of “bargaining in bad faith,” the union representing striking Carleton University support staff has filed a complaint with the Ontario Labour Relations Board over what it calls unfair labour practices.
  “We are calling out the university’s administration for bargaining in bad faith,” said CUPE negotiator Jacynthe Barbeau in a statement late Tuesday night.
  Nearly 850 university support workers, library staff and administrative staff walked off the job
  
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• Glavin: In Syria – and everywhere else – champions of liberal democracy have failed terribly

  14-03-2018 17:26 via ottawacitizen.com
  It was seven years ago this month that the bright hopes of a nonviolent, democratic revolution erupted in people singing and marching peacefully in the streets of Syria. Since then, seven decades’ worth of solemn UN covenants, international treaties and binding conventions have gone up in flames in the hell hole of corpse heaps, concentration camps and ruined cities that the Baathist mass murderer Bashar Assad has been permitted to make of his country.
  Out of a population of 22 million peo
  
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• Armed intruder videos to be filmed at government buildings this weekend

  14-03-2018 17:09 via ottawacitizen.com
  If you hear people yelling and screaming about an armed intruder at Global Affairs Canada facilities this weekend, don’t be alarmed.
  The government plans to film a video for training purposes that depicts a lockdown involving a shooter, said the City of Ottawa in a press release Wednesday.
  The filming will take place on Saturday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. at 125 Sussex Dr. and on Sunday from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. at 234 Laurier Ave.
  The city said the video will contain an RCMP officer in plain-clot
  
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• Home and Garden show set to inspire outdoor living enthusiasts

  14-03-2018 16:42 via ottawacitizen.com
  The impending thaw spring will soon transform your outdoor space from a blinding white patch to something more vibrant. The Ottawa Home and Garden Show will have a wide array of ideas and inspiration to help get you started.
  The show, which runs from March 22 to 25, will feature cutting-edge landscape designs, along with dozens of experts and exhibitors such as builders, furniture and decor companies, pool and spa businesses, and mortgage specialists that will fill the EY Centre in Uplands Drive
  
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• Coming up at 11:45: @TristinHopper joins @_MarkSutcliffe on Belgium flag confusion/ how France showed up Trudeau:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  14-03-2018 16:40 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 11:45: @TristinHopper joins @_MarkSutcliffe on Belgium flag confusion/ how France showed up Trudeau:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• The @rick_gibbons Show for Wednesday, March 14th: 1:08: @StephenBlais 1:17: @ChrisAylwardVP 1:30: @trinafraser 1:45… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  14-03-2018 16:39 via twitter.com
  The @rick_gibbons Show for Wednesday, March 14th: 1:08: @StephenBlais 1:17: @ChrisAylwardVP 1:30: @trinafraser 1:45… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Coming up on the Power Lunch at 12: @OPA_President & @mcroc join @_MarkSutcliffe in studio: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  14-03-2018 16:35 via twitter.com
  Coming up on the Power Lunch at 12: @OPA_President & @mcroc join @_MarkSutcliffe in studio: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Coming up at 11:30: @DrRob_Thacker joins @_MarkSutcliffe on the legacy of Stephen Hawking: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  14-03-2018 16:25 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 11:30: @DrRob_Thacker joins @_MarkSutcliffe on the legacy of Stephen Hawking: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Alleged serial killer Bruce McArthur's case put over another month: bit.ly/2InmwhA https://t.co/wkPkNBTOAC

  14-03-2018 15:51 via twitter.com
  
  Alleged serial killer Bruce McArthur's case put over another month: bit.ly/2InmwhA https://t.co/wkPkNBTOAC
  
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• Coming up at 10:45: @pwaldieGLOBE joins @_MarkSutcliffe to discuss the nerve agent attack against a former Russia… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  14-03-2018 15:40 via twitter.com
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• Denley: Doug Ford needs an election platform. Here's one

  14-03-2018 15:19 via ottawacitizen.com
  New Ontario PC leader Doug Ford is looking for a short and simple platform to carry his party to victory in the June provincial election. That’s just the right approach.
  In recent years, political parties have typically opted for a catalogue of promises in an attempt to give something to every interest group and demographic. At some point, it just gets silly. Under former leader Patrick Brown, the PCs were promising to spend up to $19 million a year to subsidize snow tire buyers.
  That plat
  
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• Snow problem causes big change of plans for sci tech museum addition

  14-03-2018 15:02 via ottawacitizen.com
  The designers of the new Canada Science and Technology Museum knew that one job stood out: this time, they had to keep out the rain and snow.
  Years of chronic roof leaks doomed the old museum as water and mould crept through the building.
  The crumbling roof dropped bits of asbestos on visitors and staff. It dripped water onto artifacts. An evaluation in 2014 warned that a winter with 25 centimetres of snow could even make the roof cave in.
  Patch after patch failed to fix it until finally enginee
  
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• More snow! Weather statement issued for some areas outside of Ottawa

  14-03-2018 14:29 via ottawacitizen.com
  Winter didn’t get the memo that the first day of spring is just a week away.
  Wednesday’s forecast is for as much as 9 cm more snow and double-digit lows are on tap later this week.
  On Wednesday, expect periods of snow totalling 5 cm, northwest winds at 20 km/h gusting to 40 and a high of 1 C.
  A man in the Glebe takes a breather from shovelling.
  Overnight, Environment Canada predicts 2-4 cm of snow and a low of-3 C.
  There’s a 40 per cent chance of flurries Thursday, a high of -1
  
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• Cohen: Rex Tillerson's gone. Be afraid, very afraid of what comes next

  14-03-2018 13:45 via ottawacitizen.com
  For months, the departure of Rex Tillerson was imminent. He would leave by Thanksgiving, he would leave by Christmas, he would leave by Valentine’s Day. A former senior official of the State Department told me recently that Tillerson was expected to announce his departure around the first anniversary of his swearing-in, on Feb. 1.
  Tillerson was said to be waiting to be free of the financial rules (his net worth is said to be $300 million) imposed on a cabinet secretary. That was to happen
  
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• National Gallery of Canada unveils new season of art

  14-03-2018 12:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  It’s a year of firsts in the new series of exhibitions coming to the National Gallery of Canada, where art lovers can experience everything from centuries-old Impressionist masterpieces to state-of-the-art augmented reality technology.“We’ve got a really rich and diverse program this year,” said gallery director and chief executive Marc Mayer in an interview. “I think there will be all kinds of surprising things for people.”
  Mayer is confident the offerings wi
  
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• Fraud charges against Ottawa couple leave investors worried

  14-03-2018 12:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  After years of battling side by side on the ice, he had their trust. So when Marc Brunet offered to bring friends in on a big investment opportunity, they lined up with cash in hand, they say.
  But now, years later, with their teammate facing charges after a joint investigation by the Ontario Securities Commission (OSC), the RCMP and the OPP, those same friends say they wish they’d looked into the investment offer a little more carefully.
  Brunet and his wife, Helene, have been charged with
  
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• Union reps file complaint against Carleton University amidst strike: bit.ly/2GvgoUh @OttawaMatters https://t.co/op4m1Afijy

  14-03-2018 11:46 via twitter.com
  
  Union reps file complaint against Carleton University amidst strike: bit.ly/2GvgoUh @OttawaMatters https://t.co/op4m1Afijy
  
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• But the sun might come out Friday! -Fri: Cloudy/windy with sunny breaks high -4 -Sat: Sun & cloud high -5 -Sun:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  14-03-2018 11:13 via twitter.com
  But the sun might come out Friday! -Fri: Cloudy/windy with sunny breaks high -4-Sat: Sun & cloud high -5 -Sun:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Alleged serial killer Bruce McArthur to appear by video in a Toronto court: bit.ly/2DqpRZy https://t.co/3DYOAGCJIx

  14-03-2018 10:50 via twitter.com
  
  Alleged serial killer Bruce McArthur to appear by video in a Toronto court: bit.ly/2DqpRZy https://t.co/3DYOAGCJIx
  
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• Are food-sharing apps a blue ribbon-worthy idea or half-baked fad? bit.ly/2Gp0MRS https://t.co/GjXjD4yMSm

  14-03-2018 10:40 via twitter.com
  
  Are food-sharing apps a blue ribbon-worthy idea or half-baked fad? bit.ly/2Gp0MRS https://t.co/GjXjD4yMSm
  
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• Issue with automated bus stop announcements costing city: bit.ly/2IpmWUN @ottawamatters https://t.co/5rcnRAEcSc

  14-03-2018 10:25 via twitter.com
  
  Issue with automated bus stop announcements costing city: bit.ly/2IpmWUN @ottawamatters https://t.co/5rcnRAEcSc
  
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• Stephen Hawking, best-known physicist of his time, has died: bit.ly/2FFBfms https://t.co/7KMfKL3wvk

  14-03-2018 10:15 via twitter.com
  
  Stephen Hawking, best-known physicist of his time, has died: bit.ly/2FFBfms https://t.co/7KMfKL3wvk
  
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• Amber Alert lifted for missing 10-year-old Montreal boy: bit.ly/2Gsm54Y @OttawaMatters https://t.co/xgcaEN63R0

  14-03-2018 10:05 via twitter.com
  
  Amber Alert lifted for missing 10-year-old Montreal boy: bit.ly/2Gsm54Y @OttawaMatters https://t.co/xgcaEN63R0
  
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• Issue with automated bus stop announcements costing city ottawamatters.com/local-news/iss…

  14-03-2018 06:48 via twitter.com
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• Flood victims want to use RRSPs to pay for disaster damages ottawamatters.com/local-news/flo… https://t.co/9YmdI5368b

  14-03-2018 05:34 via twitter.com
  
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• Ottawa Food Bank getting boost from Loblaws card donations ottawamatters.com/local-news/ott…

  14-03-2018 04:45 via twitter.com
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• Hydro-Quebec profits slip to $2.89 billion despite record exports ottawamatters.com/national-busin…

  14-03-2018 04:32 via twitter.com
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• Premier Kathleen Wynne is giving her thoughts on the upcoming provincial election, now that she knows who will be l… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  14-03-2018 03:30 via twitter.com
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• Affordable housing funding announced for west-end Ottawa ottawamatters.com/local-news/aff… https://t.co/bcCyAXjbCZ

  14-03-2018 03:08 via twitter.com
  
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• Search continues for gun while two are charged in Woodpark shooting ottawamatters.com/police-beat/se… #OTTNEWS

  14-03-2018 02:38 via twitter.com
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• And the first New Generation Photography awards go to …

  14-03-2018 02:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  One of the brightest talents of Ottawa’s visual arts scene, fine-art photographer Meryl McMaster, is among three winners of the inaugural New Generation Photography Award, recognition that comes with a $10,000 prize and exhibit space at the National Gallery of Canada’s Canadian Photography Institute.“I’m really grateful for this huge opportunity,” said the 29-year-old artist, “especially the chance to exhibit for the first time at the CPI at the National Galle
  
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• Higher public debt has helped slow build-up of household debt: Bank of Canada ottawamatters.com/national-news/…

  14-03-2018 02:21 via twitter.com
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• Flood victims want to use RRSPs to pay for disaster damages ottawamatters.com/local-news/flo…

  14-03-2018 02:04 via twitter.com
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