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• City could be encouraged to divert diapers from dump, but continues ban for green bin

  21-03-2018 23:28 via ottawacitizen.com
  The city doesn’t want dirty diapers in its green bin program, but in a few years it might not have a choice. 
  The city is in the midst of amending its contract with Orgaworld — the company responsible for handling Ottawa’s compost — and plans on keeping diapers and other sanitary products out of the green bin. But that possibly doesn’t align with provincial plans, with Ontario eying a move to get diapers out of the regular waste stream as early as 2022.&nb
  
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• Ottawa school board facing $8M in lawsuits after sex abuse claims, former basketball players share their stories

  21-03-2018 23:14 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Ottawa-Carleton District School Board has been named in four separate lawsuits seeking $8 million in damages for sexual abuse that former students claim to have suffered at the hands of gym teacher and basketball coach Donald Greenham. 
  Greenham, 75, died of a heart attack earlier this month at his home in Addison, near Brockville, two months before he was to stand trial on 54 counts of indecent assault, gross indecency and issuing threats.
  The charges involved 14 former students, some
  
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• The devastation of stillbirth: Symptoms sometimes similar to PTSD

  21-03-2018 22:20 via ottawacitizen.com
  Erik and Melinda Karlsson’s painful public statement about the death of their son, Axel, this week has shone a spotlight on stillbirth — a devastating loss that has long been hidden in the shadows.
  “We feel very lucky to be Axel’s parents. Even though he was stillborn, we know we will hold him again one day under different circumstances and the joy he gave us will be with us forever,” the Ottawa Senators captain and Melinda wrote in a statement released along with a
  
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• Carleton's student medic team seeks levy from grad population

  21-03-2018 21:55 via ottawacitizen.com
  A few weeks ago, Connor Fyfe was working a night shift as a volunteer student medic at Carleton University when a call came in. Somewhere in residence, an unnamed student was having a mental health emergency.
  Remembering his new mental health first-aid training, Fyfe jumped into action. When his team arrived at the scene, they quickly assessed the patient’s condition to ensure they were not in any danger.
  “We were able to determine that that person was not in a state where they were
  
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• The Canadian Union of Public Employees Local 4721 is concerned about the outsourcing of jobs at the Montfort Hospit… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  21-03-2018 21:35 via twitter.com
  The Canadian Union of Public Employees Local 4721 is concerned about the outsourcing of jobs at the Montfort Hospit… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• ICYMI: Ottawa group asking city to consider different changes to its green bin program ottawamatters.com/local-news/ott… https://t.co/IPTlT970ox

  21-03-2018 21:25 via twitter.com
  
  ICYMI: Ottawa group asking city to consider different changes to its green bin programottawamatters.com/local-news/ott… https://t.co/IPTlT970ox
  
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• Tests sponsored by PSPC showing high legionella levels may be unreliable, says PSPC

  21-03-2018 21:18 via ottawacitizen.com
  Public Services and Procurement Canada doesn’t accept data suggesting cooling systems in some federal buildings have high levels of legionella bacteria, saying that while the department sponsored the research, it believes the testing technology is still unproven.
  This week an Ottawa company said its DNA testing, which it stands by, found unexpectedly high levels of the bacteria that can cause legionnaires’ disease, a form of potentially lethal pneumonia. 
  The bacteria can grow i
  
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• CÉGEP foresees high demand for courses to certify workers for cannabis industry

  21-03-2018 21:17 via ottawacitizen.com
  Gatineau’s CÉGEP de l’Outaouais is aiming at becoming the first post-secondary institution in Quebec to train technologists and technicians to work in the cannabis industry.
  The CÉGEP has teamed with the medical cannabis producer Hydropothecary in Masson-Angers, which is providing the workplace data and analysis to demonstrate the growing need for trained workers, said the CÉGEP’s director of studies, Jacqueline LaCasse. 
  “We approached them
  
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• Mint honours 100th anniversary of CNIB with coin-medallion set featuring braille ottawamatters.com/around-ontario… https://t.co/ILBL3SAMGL

  21-03-2018 21:05 via twitter.com
  
  Mint honours 100th anniversary of CNIB with coin-medallion set featuring brailleottawamatters.com/around-ontario… https://t.co/ILBL3SAMGL
  
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• Dining Out: At the Third, simple food, smaller portions and prices appealingly turn back the clock

  21-03-2018 21:01 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Third1017 Wellington St., 613-728-2965, facebook.com/thethirdottOpen: Tuesday to Friday 11:30 a.m. to closing, Saturday and Sunday 9 a.m. to closing, closed MondayPrices: up to $12.50 for mains and burgersAccess: one step to front door
  It’s easy to feel nostalgic at the Third.
  That’s true, even if the almost-four-month-old pub and eatery’s name is somewhat new-fangled and even a little cryptic. Its explanation lies in the fact that almost 30 years ago, American sociolo
  
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• Local high school choir Vocal Rush to perform with Foreigner

  21-03-2018 20:49 via ottawacitizen.com
  A group of Ottawa high school students will be joining Foreigner on stage Friday during their 40th anniversary tour stop at TD Place.The St. Francis Xavier High School choir, Vocal Rush, has been chosen to perform alongside the band as they perform their hit song I Want To Know What Love Is. 
  When vocal coach, Filomena Pasqua, learned about a contest being held through CHEZ 106.1, she taught the students some quick harmonies and submitted a video on March 2 (the day submissions were due). N
  
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• Austin bombing suspect blows himself up as SWAT moves in ottawamatters.com/world-news/aus… https://t.co/A6AlVn9cL9

  21-03-2018 20:45 via twitter.com
  
  Austin bombing suspect blows himself up as SWAT moves inottawamatters.com/world-news/aus… https://t.co/A6AlVn9cL9
  
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• BREAKING: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has broke his silence on the Cambridge Analytica scandal. This statement w… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  21-03-2018 20:43 via twitter.com
  BREAKING: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has broke his silence on the Cambridge Analytica scandal. This statement w… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• 'Ottawa is with you' — Tributes pour in for Erik and Melinda Karlsson after tragic loss of couple's stillborn son

  21-03-2018 20:25 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Ottawa Senators’ extended family, its fans, and the hockey world at large took a pause Tuesday to rally around one of the sport’s brightest stars in a time of unimaginable grief.
  Tributes poured in from Ottawa’s hockey community and beyond after it was announced Senators captain Erik Karlsson and his wife Melinda had lost their child, who was stillborn.
  “The collective thoughts and prayers of the Ottawa Senators organization, the city of Ottawa and entire hockey commu
  
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• FYI: @cupe4600 will join @CUPE2424 in a solidarity march around @Carleton_U at 5 p.m. today #ottnews twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…

  21-03-2018 20:25 via twitter.com
  FYI: @cupe4600 will join @CUPE2424 in a solidarity march around @Carleton_U at 5 p.m. today #ottnews twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…
  
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• Antiques: Bazaar find yields photo with valuable view of the park

  21-03-2018 20:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  Q: My daughter bought this picture at a recent bazaar with the intention of removing the picture and painting the frame white. When she turned it over she saw the writing ‘This is valuable – One of a kind.’ The writing along the bottom front mat edge, in part says ‘…Park, N. The photo is 16 x 11 cm (6.25 x 4.25 inches). I have tried to do some research but can find nothing. I am excited to find out about the photo. Thank you for getting back to me.
  Barbara, Ottawa
  
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• Chamberfest: Angela Hewitt, Marc-André Hamelin, Roby Lakatos top lineup that fetes festival's 25th anniversary

  21-03-2018 18:15 via ottawacitizen.com
  Top-flight virtuosos including pianists Angela Hewitt and Marc-André Hamelin and violinist Roby Lakatos will play this summer when the Chamberfest kicks off its 25th anniversary celebrations.
  The festival, which is to present about 80 concerts and events between July 26 and Aug. 9, with strive to satisfy lovers of both traditional classical music and the more diverse and outward-bound strains of chamber music that the Ottawa Chamber Music Society has additionally come to program, say
  
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• Val-des-Monts seeks residents' input into watershed plans

  21-03-2018 18:02 via ottawacitizen.com
  Val-des-Monts is developing a watershed management plan and it wants input from people who live or have cottages there.
  The plan will covers the Blanche Ouest River watershed, which takes in St. Pierre de Wakefield, Val-des-Monts and McGregor Lake, as well as smaller lakes and rivers.
  The municipality says a draft plan addresses “the major environmental issues facing our region and puts forward solutions designed to protect, restore and properly develop our water resources. Specifical
  
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• Today's letters: The Delwin Vriend case, the statue of Buddha

  21-03-2018 17:47 via ottawacitizen.com
  The other heroes of the ‘Vriend’ case
  Re: How the Vriend case made legal history, March 18.
  Delwin Vriend is rightly characterized as the reluctant hero of this tale. As plaintiff in this landmark case, he provided the facts that propelled it to the Supreme Court of Canada.
  However, one has to wonder how far those facts would have gotten him without the willingness of Sheila Greckol to represent him on a pro bono (without charge) basis.  Lawyers such as Greckol, and the other me
  
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• 'One-man crime wave' ends with robbery collar: police

  21-03-2018 17:19 via ottawacitizen.com
  Patrol officers collared a suspect Tuesday in connection with a citywide string of robberies.
  Staff-Sgt. Michael Haarbosch of the robbery and break-and-enter units took to Twitter to hail their work shutting down what he dubbed a “one man crime wave.”
  It totaled four robberies in which the suspect claimed to be armed – although no weapon was seen –  and two burglaries.
  Some great work yesterday by Frontline officers brings a one man crime wave to an end. Multiple rob
  
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• Defence Watch takes a break – back posting April 2

  21-03-2018 17:13 via ottawacitizen.com
  Thanks, Dave Pugliese
  
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• How Carleton University's pension fight could affect us all

  21-03-2018 17:05 via ottawacitizen.com
  I write as a concerned faculty member during the third week of the CUPE 2424 strike at Carleton University. The labour dispute, as the administration calls it, provides an object lesson in the workings of institutional power. But the politics of this power and the economies on which it relies are not quite as self-evident as the administration might have us believe.
  The university wishes to expunge from CUPE 2424’s collective agreement language that prevents the Pension Committee and the B
  
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• Coming up on the Power Lunch at 12pm: @TerryLake16 & @SaraBuchan join @_MarkSutcliffe in studio: Listen: 📻: 13… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  21-03-2018 16:55 via twitter.com
  Coming up on the Power Lunch at 12pm: @TerryLake16 & @SaraBuchan join @_MarkSutcliffe in studio: Listen:📻: 13… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Glavin: We're off to Mali – but it's a meagre commitment

  21-03-2018 16:43 via ottawacitizen.com
  With the announcement this week that Canadian peacekeepers will be headed to Mali, perhaps as soon as August, Canada has finally come around to something like a consummation of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s election campaign vow to revive this country’s purportedly starring role as champion and avatar of the United Nations’ blue-helmeted peace warriors.
  With the long-awaited decision finally made, it should be useful to step back a bit for a clearer reading of the UN’s
  
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• Denley: Ontario can't afford more spending

  21-03-2018 16:43 via ottawacitizen.com
  Andrea Horwath and Kathleen Wynne like to say their election platforms provide a stark contrast with the approach of Progressive Conservative leader Doug Ford. Let’s hope they do, because the public needs an alternative to the onslaught of unaffordable spending and debt that the NDP and Liberal leaders are promising.
  Take pharmacare as an example. It was an NDP idea filched by the Liberals when Wynne brought in drug coverage for young people at an estimated cost of $465 million a year. Now
  
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• Coming up at 11:45: @CharlieAngusNDP joins @_MarkSutcliffe on Facebook/privacy: Listen: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  21-03-2018 16:40 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 11:45: @CharlieAngusNDP joins @_MarkSutcliffe on Facebook/privacy: Listen:📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• The @rick_gibbons Show for Wednesday, March 21st: 1:08: @sherrilynne 1:17: @BrockvilleON 1:45: @RosalieWyonch 2:05:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  21-03-2018 16:37 via twitter.com
  The @rick_gibbons Show for Wednesday, March 21st: 1:08: @sherrilynne 1:17: @BrockvilleON 1:45: @RosalieWyonch 2:05:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Coming up at 11:30: Eli Yufest of @campaignre joins @_MarkSutcliffe on why Doug Ford’s PC Party is so far ahead:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  21-03-2018 16:25 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 11:30:Eli Yufest of @campaignre joins @_MarkSutcliffe on why Doug Ford’s PC Party is so far ahead:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• A 45-year-old woman faces charges including assault, assault with a weapon and uttering threats. twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…

  21-03-2018 16:16 via twitter.com
  A 45-year-old woman faces charges including assault, assault with a weapon and uttering threats. twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…
  
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• Coming up at 11: The World with Professor Elliot Tepper and @_MarkSutcliffe in studio: Listen: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  21-03-2018 15:55 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 11:The World with Professor Elliot Tepper and @_MarkSutcliffe in studio:Listen:📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Coming up at 10:45: @ArshyMann joins @_MarkSutcliffe on how the complex history of Sikh trauma will make or break… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  21-03-2018 15:40 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 10:45: @ArshyMann joins @_MarkSutcliffe on how the complex history of Sikh trauma will make or break… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Rifle-toting Kingston woman arrested after guitar and boiling water attack on suspected cheating husband

  21-03-2018 14:33 via ottawacitizen.com
  In a case straight out of a classic country tune, a 45-year-old guitar- and gun-toting woman was arrested in Kingston Monday after allegedly hunting down a man she heard was doing her wrong, and the woman he was supposedly doing it with.
  Police said the suspect became enraged when she was told her husband was up to no good and tracked him down at a friend’s residence.
  She hit him a number of times with the guitar and, when people in the home tried to rush her out, she grabbed a pot of
  
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• "You can hear a nugget of happiness that is just waiting to explode" — The Sharon Minemoto Interview

  21-03-2018 13:41 via ottawacitizen.com
  Vancouver jazz pianist Sharon Minemoto is fulfilling a bucket-list wish this weekend, even at considerable expense to herself. 
  Without the support of touring grants, the 44-year-old and her quartet play three gigs in Central Canada, beginning with Friday’s night concert at GigSpace in Ottawa.
  Below, Minemoto, who has studied with such piano greats as Renee Rosnes, Kenny Werner and Don Thompson, introduces herself.  She also explains that she felt as strongly about hitting the ro
  
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• Survey participants split over role in reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples: bit.ly/2HRu5fw https://t.co/QlmxDCSA1w

  21-03-2018 13:09 via twitter.com
  
  Survey participants split over role in reconciliation with Indigenous Peoples: bit.ly/2HRu5fw https://t.co/QlmxDCSA1w
  
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• Weather: Relatively mild and sunny in Ottawa as Toby threatens northeast

  21-03-2018 13:05 via ottawacitizen.com
  After that cold snap, Ottawa’s forecast of mainly-sunny skies, a high of 1 C and an actual UV index (it’s 4, or moderate) feels decidedly spring-like.
  And after a winter of wacky weather, take a moment to feel lucky.
  As we think about sunscreen, our neighbours are bracing for yet another nor’ easter heading towards the U.S. northeast and Atlantic Canada. Toby is the fourth winter storm in a month.
  The Ottawa airport was already reporting cancelled flights to New York City,
  
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• Today, CUPE 4600 will join CUPE 2424 workers on the pickets lines as a show of solidarity at 5 p.m twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…

  21-03-2018 12:45 via twitter.com
  Today, CUPE 4600 will join CUPE 2424 workers on the pickets lines as a show of solidarity at 5 p.m twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…
  
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• Spring nor'easter targets Northeast with heavy snow, winds: bit.ly/2DJNCvL https://t.co/zly1ypiJax

  21-03-2018 12:40 via twitter.com
  
  Spring nor'easter targets Northeast with heavy snow, winds: bit.ly/2DJNCvL https://t.co/zly1ypiJax
  
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• The good news? No snow in the long-term forecast. twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…

  21-03-2018 12:34 via twitter.com
  The good news? No snow in the long-term forecast. twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…
  
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• POLL: After the death of a pedestrian, should research and development of driverless cars be suspended?… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  21-03-2018 12:11 via twitter.com
  POLL: After the death of a pedestrian, should research and development of driverless cars be suspended?… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• For the rest of the week & the weekend..... Tomorrow: Sun/cloud high 4 Friday: Cloudy high 3 Saturday: Sun/cloud h… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  21-03-2018 11:51 via twitter.com
  For the rest of the week & the weekend.....Tomorrow: Sun/cloud high 4 Friday: Cloudy high 3 Saturday: Sun/cloud h… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Suspect in Austin bombing attacks blows himself up: police: bit.ly/2ua4iNE https://t.co/0Rxl9vFZP6

  21-03-2018 11:41 via twitter.com
  
  Suspect in Austin bombing attacks blows himself up: police: bit.ly/2ua4iNE https://t.co/0Rxl9vFZP6
  
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• Crews responded to a 911 call reporting smoke and flames in the kitchen at 582 Chenier Way. twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…

  21-03-2018 11:30 via twitter.com
  Crews responded to a 911 call reporting smoke and flames in the kitchen at 582 Chenier Way. twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…
  
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• Liberals tried pilot project with Facebook data whistleblower in 2016: source: bit.ly/2pvQnwD https://t.co/OoeYJVHD6o

  21-03-2018 11:19 via twitter.com
  
  Liberals tried pilot project with Facebook data whistleblower in 2016: source: bit.ly/2pvQnwD https://t.co/OoeYJVHD6o
  
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• Karlsson family grieving loss of baby: bit.ly/2DJxwCq https://t.co/uFrhnNxsKR

  21-03-2018 10:56 via twitter.com
  
  Karlsson family grieving loss of baby: bit.ly/2DJxwCq https://t.co/uFrhnNxsKR
  
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• No investigation into Mali mission leak – a double standard for the Mark Norman case?

  21-03-2018 05:21 via ottawacitizen.com
  Last Friday a government source or sources outlined details of a Cabinet decision to send Canadian military helicopters and personnel to Mali. The leak came three days before Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan and Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland made the official announcement.
  Naturally you would expect the Liberal government to launch an investigation into who leaked such sensitive – and arguably secret – military information to journalists.
  That is, of course, what happened
  
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• Progress in NAFTA talks: Canada says movement on auto offers reason for optimism ottawamatters.com/national-news/…

  21-03-2018 04:55 via twitter.com
  Progress in NAFTA talks: Canada says movement on auto offers reason for optimismottawamatters.com/national-news/…
  
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• NDP leader Singh visits striking Carleton staff ottawamatters.com/local-news/ndp… https://t.co/QWEvEwRveA

  21-03-2018 04:34 via twitter.com
  
  NDP leader Singh visits striking Carleton staff ottawamatters.com/local-news/ndp… https://t.co/QWEvEwRveA
  
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• Rush's Geddy Lee and Northern Touch All-Stars added to Juno Awards presenters ottawamatters.com/around-ontario… https://t.co/ck6L0feoZk

  21-03-2018 04:07 via twitter.com
  
  Rush's Geddy Lee and Northern Touch All-Stars added to Juno Awards presentersottawamatters.com/around-ontario… https://t.co/ck6L0feoZk
  
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• City to consider expanded green bin program ottawamatters.com/local-news/cit… #ottnews

  21-03-2018 03:52 via twitter.com
  City to consider expanded green bin programottawamatters.com/local-news/cit… #ottnews
  
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• 'Ottawa is with you' — Tributes pour in for Erik and Melinda Karlsson following tragic loss of couple's unborn son

  21-03-2018 03:26 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Ottawa Senators’ extended family, its fans, and the hockey world at large took a pause Tuesday to rally around one of the sport’s brightest stars in a time of unimaginable grief.
  Tributes poured in from Ottawa’s hockey community and beyond after it was announced Senators captain Erik Karlsson and his wife Melinda had lost their unborn child.
  “The collective thoughts and prayers of the Ottawa Senators organization, the city of Ottawa and entire hockey community rest wi
  
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