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• One dog missing, another believed to have drowned after water rescue call

  17-03-2018 22:10 via ottawacitizen.com
  One dog is believed to have drowned and first responders are searching for another dog in the woods after a water rescue call Saturday near Upper Duck Island, just east of the Canada Aviation and Space Museum.
  Ottawa Fire Services said they received a 911 call around 3:45 p.m. for a person and dog in the water. Another person was standing on the ice unharmed.
  Upon arrival, fire crews found the person in the water had rescued themselves, but the dog was believed to have drowned. Crews were s
  
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• Algonquin College suspends seven of its programs

  17-03-2018 21:27 via ottawacitizen.com
  Seven programs run by Algonquin College at its Perth, Pembroke and Ottawa locations have been suspended because of low enrolment. 
  For the fall 2018 term, the Perth campus will suspend two office administration programs, a social service worker program, a masonry program, and a carpentry and renovation program.
  A power technician program at the Pembroke campus and a kitchen and bath program at the Ottawa campus will also be suspended.
  Algonquin said the approximately 200 students already en
  
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• Canadiens owner's 1930 retreat overlooking Meech Lake restored as boutique hotel

  17-03-2018 18:03 via ottawacitizen.com
  What was once the getaway of the industrialist owner of the Montreal Canadiens opens later this month as an intimate 11-room boutique hotel with a serene Canadiana vibe and sweeping views of Gatineau Park.
  Long-empty O’Brien House, built on a promontory overlooking Meech Lake for J. Ambrose O’Brien in 1930, has been revived and rechristened simply as O’Brien.
  It opens March 30.
  “We did our best to retain the integrity of the structure, and I think that’s been s
  
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• White House chief tells staff their jobs safe - for now. ottawamatters.com/world-news/whi… https://t.co/M6qI5sxPu5

  17-03-2018 17:00 via twitter.com
  
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• RCAF aircraft critical to support of Operation NUNALIVUT

  17-03-2018 16:38 via ottawacitizen.com
  About 350 Canadian Forces members are taking part in Operation NUNALIVUT 2018. The annual sovereignty operation in the High Arctic is being held this year in Resolute Bay and Cambridge Bay, Nunavut. Op NUNALIVUT 2018 started February 23 and will wrap up March 21.
  Air transport, of course, is critical to most operations, but particularly in the Arctic. Operation NUNALIVUT used CC-177 Globemasters and CC-130J Hercules to transport troops, supplies, and equipment to Resolute Bay and Cambridge Bay.
  
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• Gatineau man dies in head-on collision on Highway 148

  17-03-2018 16:35 via ottawacitizen.com
  A Gatineau man is dead after a car driving the wrong way down Highway 148 collided head-on with another vehicle near Lochaber, Que. early Saturday morning.
  A Sûreté du Québec spokesman said a 26-year-old woman from Thurso was driving eastbound in the wrong lane on the highway around 3 a.m., when she collided with a car heading westbound.
  The driver of the westbound car, a 29-year-old man from Gatineau, was taken to hospital where he was pronounced dead. His passenger, a 28-ye
  
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• Xi reappointed as China's president with no term limits. ottawamatters.com/world-news/xi-… https://t.co/DdonN8DyvC

  17-03-2018 16:30 via twitter.com
  
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• A boat that sank off a Greek island while smuggling migrants or refugees left at least 14 people dead Saturday, whi… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  17-03-2018 16:00 via twitter.com
  A boat that sank off a Greek island while smuggling migrants or refugees left at least 14 people dead Saturday, whi… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• President Donald Trump is considering sweeping tariffs on imports from China, with an announcement possible as earl… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  17-03-2018 15:30 via twitter.com
  President Donald Trump is considering sweeping tariffs on imports from China, with an announcement possible as earl… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• The @BPS_News searching for armed robbery suspect. White male, approximately 5'6" to 5'8" in height, in his late 2… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  17-03-2018 15:19 via twitter.com
  The @BPS_News searching for armed robbery suspect.White male, approximately 5'6" to 5'8" in height, in his late 2… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• North Korean minister meets again with Swedish counterpart. ottawamatters.com/world-news/nor…

  17-03-2018 15:00 via twitter.com
  North Korean minister meets again with Swedish counterpart.ottawamatters.com/world-news/nor…
  
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• Where's the tallest tree in Ottawa? It's complicated

  17-03-2018 14:59 via ottawacitizen.com
  The towering giant of Rochester Street — a 115-foot cottonwood tree — will meet its demise sometime in the near future, brought down amid a roar of chainsaws.Given its age, 115 years, and fears that branches as large as telephone poles may at some point fall onto houses below, the tree’s owner decided it was time to cut the cottonwood down.When that happens, a community landmark will disappear — the tree is already being mourned in the area, with an Irish-style wake plann
  
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• The @OttFire investigating what caused a three-alarm industrial blaze.#ottnews #OTTAWA #OttCity… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  17-03-2018 14:57 via twitter.com
  The @OttFire investigating what caused a three-alarm industrial blaze.#ottnews #OTTAWA #OttCity… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• ICYMI: St. Patrick's Day weekend in #Ottawa. #ottcity #ottnews ottawamatters.com/local-news/st-… https://t.co/bo9hJa6Sh2

  17-03-2018 14:41 via twitter.com
  
  ICYMI: St. Patrick's Day weekend in #Ottawa. #ottcity #ottnewsottawamatters.com/local-news/st-… https://t.co/bo9hJa6Sh2
  
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• The federal and provincial governments would financially support a Calgary bid for the 2026 Olympic and Paralympic… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  17-03-2018 14:35 via twitter.com
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• ICYMI: An active shooter training video to be shot on Sussex this weekend. You'll see heavy police presence, and mi… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  17-03-2018 14:24 via twitter.com
  ICYMI: An active shooter training video to be shot on Sussex this weekend. You'll see heavy police presence, and mi… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh says Canada should declare that anti-Sikh violence that took place in India more than thre… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  17-03-2018 14:00 via twitter.com
  NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh says Canada should declare that anti-Sikh violence that took place in India more than thre… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Russia expels 23 British diplomats in spy-poisoning response. ottawamatters.com/world-news/rus… https://t.co/pSdiL2T1YI

  17-03-2018 13:45 via twitter.com
  
  Russia expels 23 British diplomats in spy-poisoning response.ottawamatters.com/world-news/rus… https://t.co/pSdiL2T1YI
  
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• Radio-Canada incident: Freedom of press important — but so are rights of victims, Gatineau police chief says

  17-03-2018 13:20 via ottawacitizen.com
  Gatineau’s police chief led off a news conference about the arrest of a reporter for harassment by saying he wouldn’t discuss any details of the case.
  What followed instead on Friday afternoon was 40 minutes in which Mario Harel went back and forth on press freedoms and promises to let reporters work freely, followed by the word “but.”
  “In no circumstance do we wish to interfere with a journalist doing his work or to restrict the freedom of the press,” Ha
  
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• Ottawa sees spike in number of homeless families

  17-03-2018 12:59 via ottawacitizen.com
  A huge spike in the number of chronically homeless families last year has forced the city to rent more motel rooms, giving parents and children emergency shelter.
  The city is preparing to launch a review of its 10-year housing and homelessness plan at the midpoint of the program, which started in 2014. A report to council’s community and protective services committee sets the stage for the review, with updated statistics on the number of homeless people in Ottawa.
  One of the glaring statis
  
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• St. Paddy's Day weather: May the wind(chill) be at your back

  17-03-2018 12:57 via ottawacitizen.com
  This weekend’s temperatures with windchill are a bit more suited to January than mid-March, but skiers and families finishing off March Break will be delighted.
  (For those taking part in St. Patrick’s Day shenanigans, not so much.)
  On the plus side, Saturday will start out mostly  sunny, with clouds moving in later today, with a few flurries. The story is in the winds, at 30 km/hour gusting to 50 this morning, but lightening up later Saturday afternoon.
  Environment Canada predic
  
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• Egan: Ottawa abortion protester, fixture at Bank Street clinic, dies of heart disease

  17-03-2018 12:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  Cyril Winter was probably the most reviled and admired figure on Bank Street, the man with dead babies around his neck.
  Winter, 70, the city’s most dogged pro-life demonstrator, died in hospital on March 9, only days before his first court appearance for violating Ontario’s new law providing a bubble zone around abortion clinics.
  Friends and family say he did not survive a procedure to insert stents in his failing cardiac system.
  Winter and others that joined him in protest outside t
  
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• Canadiens owner's 1930 retreat restored as boutique hotel overlooking Meech Lake

  17-03-2018 12:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  What was once the getaway of the industrialist owner of the Montreal Canadiens opens later this month as an intimate 11-room boutique hotel with a serene Canadiana vibe and sweeping views of Gatineau Park.
  Long-empty O’Brien House, built on a promontory overlooking Meech Lake for J. Ambrose O’Brien in 1930, has been revived and rechristened simply as O’Brien.
  It opens March 30.
  “We did our best to retain the integrity of the structure, and I think that’s been s
  
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• Celebrating Rochester Street's giant cottonwood tree: 1901-2018

  17-03-2018 12:19 via ottawacitizen.com
  There was the time Lynn Griffiths found four small boys in her backyard tree, near the north end of Rochester Street. The tree was a towering old eastern cottonwood. The boys were bad boys.
  “I had just bought the house. I was single and I came home one day and there were a bunch of kids in the tree,” she recalled this week. She didn’t know any of them.
  They had taken apart her clothes-drying rack and ripped some pickets off her fence and nailed the pieces on the tree to build s
  
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• Today's letters: Gifted students, cannabis, electing women

  17-03-2018 12:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  Education and parenting were on the minds of some readers this week – along with pot-smoking, electing women and the recent trip of Official Opposition leader Andrew Scheer. You can write to us too, at: [email protected]
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  Protect programs for gifted students
  Re: Sick leave skyrockets among teachers, classroom aides in Ottawa public school board, March 12.
  As a clinical psychologist and professor, I have carried out a number of research studies and resilience groups for young
  
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• For St. Patrick's Day Saturday, we're looking at mainly sunny skies with a high around minus 8 degrees, and continu… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  17-03-2018 04:00 via twitter.com
  For St. Patrick's Day Saturday, we're looking at mainly sunny skies with a high around minus 8 degrees, and continu… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• ICMYI: Active shooter training video being created in #Ottawa. #ottnews ottawamatters.com/police-beat/ac… https://t.co/wluNOc8AUb

  17-03-2018 03:00 via twitter.com
  
  ICMYI: Active shooter training video being created in #Ottawa. #ottnewsottawamatters.com/police-beat/ac… https://t.co/wluNOc8AUb
  
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• ICYMI: Gatineau Police Chief defends decision to arrest journalist. #ottnews #Gatineau ottawamatters.com/local-news/gat… https://t.co/vCrFTxjhlH

  17-03-2018 02:30 via twitter.com
  
  ICYMI: Gatineau Police Chief defends decision to arrest journalist.#ottnews #Gatineau ottawamatters.com/local-news/gat… https://t.co/vCrFTxjhlH
  
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• ICYMI: Here's what's happening St. Patrick's Day weekend in #Ottawa #ottnews ottawamatters.com/local-news/st-… https://t.co/CfkWF83hMz

  17-03-2018 02:02 via twitter.com
  
  ICYMI: Here's what's happening St. Patrick's Day weekend in #Ottawa #ottnewsottawamatters.com/local-news/st-… https://t.co/CfkWF83hMz
  
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• ICYMI: Sex assault charges against #Ottawa high school teacher. #ottnews ottawamatters.com/police-beat/se… https://t.co/S8K12yqtpK

  17-03-2018 01:30 via twitter.com
  
  ICYMI: Sex assault charges against #Ottawa high school teacher. #ottnews ottawamatters.com/police-beat/se… https://t.co/S8K12yqtpK
  
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• One dead in Clarence-Rockland fire

  17-03-2018 01:12 via ottawacitizen.com
  The fire marshall and provincial police are investigating a fatal fire in Clarence-Rockland on Friday.
  Firefighters responded to the fire on Caron Street in the morning and temporarily closed the road between Laurier Street and County Road 17. The fire was extinguished by mid-afternoon, but firefighters located a body inside the building.
  The cause and origin of the fire had not been determined. The identity of the victim had not been released.  
  
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• Police say they have arrested a federal offender who was wanted on a Canada-wide warrant for an alleged breach of a… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  17-03-2018 01:00 via twitter.com
  Police say they have arrested a federal offender who was wanted on a Canada-wide warrant for an alleged breach of a… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Ottawa firefighters battling three-alarm industrial blaze

  17-03-2018 00:47 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa firefighters were battling a three-alarm industrial fire in Gloucester on Friday evening.
  A 911 caller reported seeing flames visible from the back of a building at 5669 Power Rd. Firefighters said the large commercial building was used to manufacture wood products.
  Firefighters were still on scene around 8 p.m., attempting to extinguish the fire. A fire investigator was expected to attend. 
  Firefighters had not yet determined a cause. No injuries had been reported.
  
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• Police investigating vandalism of Buddhist statue

  17-03-2018 00:35 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa police are investigating after a statue of Buddha that was brought all the way from Sri Lanka was vandalized outside a Heron Road temple.
  Police responded to the Hilda Jayewardenaramaya Buddhist Monastery and meditation centre at 1481 Heron Rd. on Friday morning after members of the community discovered the damage in the front garden of the temple — the statue’s head had been cut off. 
  Police believe the damage to the single statue occurred some time between 9:30 p.m. and
  
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• Celebrating Irish contributions to the #Ottawa region this holiday. #ottnews ottawamatters.com/local-news/cel… https://t.co/ORhlCZVJTT

  17-03-2018 00:00 via twitter.com
  
  Celebrating Irish contributions to the #Ottawa region this holiday. #ottnewsottawamatters.com/local-news/cel… https://t.co/ORhlCZVJTT
  
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