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• Updated: 'Sunshine List' reveals thousands of $100K earners at Ottawa organizations

  23-03-2018 23:46 via ottawacitizen.com
  Nearly 9,000 workers whose Ottawa-based organizations receive funding from the Ontario government made at least $100,000 in 2017, according to the annual salary disclosure published Friday.
  At the top of the local “Sunshine List” is Jack Kitts, president and CEO of The Ottawa Hospital, who pulled in $630,485 in salary and $69,108.37 in taxable benefits. Kitts, who has headed the hospital since February 2002, has the 23rd highest salary on the province-wide salary disclosure.
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• Liberals announce $1.8 billion for new Ottawa Hospital while testing election message

  23-03-2018 22:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  Liberal cabinet ministers road tested Friday what promises to be a central election message — that a Progressive Conservative government would put important spending promises at risk — as they announced $1.8 billion for a new Ottawa super hospital. 
  The commitment, announced at a celebratory news conference at The Ottawa Hospital’s Civic campus, will be included in next week’s provincial budget. 
  That pre-election budget would also add $38 million to the an
  
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• As inflation continues to march upward, so do the number of public servants on the 'Sunshine List'

  23-03-2018 22:28 via ottawacitizen.com
  The number of people on the annual public sector salary disclosure list has ballooned again this year, as annual raises and the effects of inflation on salaries continues to push up the average pay of public sector government workers.
  According to experts, “you ain’t seen nothing yet.”
  In 2017, there were a total of 131,742 people on the annual public sector salary disclosure list, which is more commonly known as the “Sunshine List.” The number was a 5.9 per ce
  
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• Indigenous hip-hop star on healing after school racism

  23-03-2018 22:25 via ottawacitizen.com
  As a student at St Matthew’s High School in Orléans, Cody Coyote was accustomed to taunts, to having his ponytail pulled, to being told he was ugly and that he didn’t belong.
  But the word that cut deepest was “savage.”
  “You hear that word? Stop using it,” Coyote told a crowd of about 150 mostly Indigenous students at a symposium Friday hosted by the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board.
  “That was the word that stung. It was the word that made me
  
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• Pedestrian trapped beneath car in Vanier crash dies

  23-03-2018 22:14 via ottawacitizen.com
  A man in his 60s died after suffering chest injuries early Friday afternoon when he was struck and trapped beneath a car in Vanier, Ottawa paramedics said.
  Firefighters arrived at the crash shortly after noon and found the victim trapped beneath one of the car’s wheels.
  They were able to lift the vehicle off the victim by about 12:27 p.m. using extrication equipment and paramedics immediately began care, the fire department said. 
  The man was in cardiac arrest but paramedics worked &l
  
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• Ottawa woman keeps fighting to help end the stigma surrounding endometriosis

  23-03-2018 22:07 via ottawacitizen.com
  Carine Boustani says that in order to give the most honest description of endometriosis, getting into the graphic details of the condition is necessary and unavoidable. 
  “I feel like my pelvic area is being stabbed with metal spikes that are on fire and that I feel a constant hard blow to my stomach that, on many occasions, makes me feel faint,” the 24-year-old Ottawa woman said on the eve of Worldwide Endometriosis March 2018. “Nausea, chronic fatigue, pain
  
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• NAC preview: The Illusionists's Colin Cloud on what inspired his mind-reading career

  23-03-2018 22:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  When Colin Cloud was a child growing up in the small Scottish village of Harthill, he found the inspiration for what he would do with his life while playing hide and seek in his school’s library.
  “I’ll never forget looking up and seeing a book cover, with this guy wearing a silly hat, smoking this weird-shaped pipe,” Cloud remembers.
  That image was enough to prompt him open the book, and by chance he found himself reading about Sherlock Holmes and his uncanny ability to k
  
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• Blood samples from Ontario newborns studied at CHEO to help babies worldwide

  23-03-2018 20:44 via ottawacitizen.com
  Blood samples taken from Ontario newborns and analyzed at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario are helping improve the health of tiny babies in developing countries around the world.
  A research program, funded with a $1-million grant from the Gates Foundation, will help identify the gestational age of newborns in low-resource countries, which will allow for public health measures to prevent pre-term births, considered an urgent international health challenge.
  Dr. Kumanan Wilson, rese
  
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• Juno-nominated Kapri credits time spent in capital along her road to success

  23-03-2018 20:33 via ottawacitizen.com
  Juno-nominated singer, songwriter and choreographer Kapri credits her time spent in Ottawa for helping her “discover” her voice.
  But it was her upbringing — by a single mom with Trinidad and Tobago roots — in Edmonton that developed her passion for performing.
  Kapri was introduced to singing and dancing at a young age when her mom opened Alberta’s first contemporary Afro-Caribbean dance school. As a young girl, Kapri would watch the performers practise.After high sc
  
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• Acts with roots in the Ottawa area head to the Juno Awards

  23-03-2018 20:32 via ottawacitizen.com
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  Juno-nominated Kapri credits time spent in capital along her road to success
  Bruce CockburnBackground: Veteran singer-songwriter-guitarist, 72, born and raised in Ottawa, has 12 Juno Awards on his shelf.Album: Bone on BoneCategory: Contemporary roots album of the year.
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  METZBackground: Band member Alex Edkins, from Winchester, Ont. and drummer/artist Hayden Menzies met through the Ottawa punk scene. With bassist Chris Slorach, they’re based in Toronto.Album: Strange PeaceCatego
  
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• Native species flex their mussels in battle against zebra invasion

  23-03-2018 19:37 via ottawacitizen.com
  There’s good news for lakes and rivers despite the wave of zebra mussels across Eastern Ontario: Native mussels that are an important part of our fresh waters are fighting back.
  In some cases, they smother their attackers to death while surviving themselves. But their ability to do this depends on having the right conditions — specifically, the right kind of sediment.
  “There is some clear evidence along the Rideau River of refugia for native freshwater mussels against zebra mus
  
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• Man, 52, arrested, drug cache seized in Embrun raid

  23-03-2018 18:55 via ottawacitizen.com
  Provincial police arrested one man and seized a large cache of drugs in a raid Thursday on a property in Embrun, about 45 kilometres east of Ottawa.
  Sezied in the raid were more than 55,000 methamphetamine pills, one kilogram of cocaine, more than five kilos of hashish, in addition to marijuana, cash, weapons, contraband cigarettes and other drug trafficking equipment.
  The raid was a result of an investigation led by the Russell County OPP – CSCU after receiving numerous complaints from re
  
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• Pedestrian trapped beneath car in Vanier crash in critical condition

  23-03-2018 18:44 via ottawacitizen.com
  A man in his 40s suffered critical chest injuries early Friday afternoon when he was struck and trapped beneath a car in Vanier, paramedics said.
  Firefighters arriving at the crash shortly after noon and found the victim trapped beneath one of the car’s wheels.
  They were able to lift the vehicle off the victim by about 12:27 p.m. using extrication equipment and paramedics immediately began care, the fire department said. 
  The man was in cardiac arrest but paramedics worked “aggr
  
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• Bantey: Is it harassment when a journalist pursues a source?

  23-03-2018 17:52 via ottawacitizen.com
  A journalist’s job is often to ask tough questions of public figures and to give them an opportunity to respond. But when does that questioning turn into stalking or criminal harassment?
  The arrest of CBC reporter Antoine Trépanier last week raises troubling questions about how far a reporter should go in getting the answers.
  Trépanier had been conducting an investigation of Yvonne Dubé, the head of the Gatineau chapter of the Big Brothers Big Sisters organization. Dub
  
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• Ottawa health execs again top Sunshine List of $100,000-plus earners in 2017

  23-03-2018 17:13 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Ontario government published the annual Sunshine List on Friday, revealing the public servants who made $100,000 or more in 2017.
  Ottawa residents will recognize familiar names among the local earners. As always, the health bigwigs are among the top.Ottawa Hospital president Jack Kitts pulled in $630,485 in salary, plus $69,108.37 in taxable benefits. The salary is the exact same reported in the previous year’s Sunshine List.
  Montfort Hospital president Bernard Leduc collected $417,935
  
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• Spotlight: How a trip to the library changed a youngster's life

  23-03-2018 16:41 via ottawacitizen.com
  Spotlight is a weekly look at some of the people who are part of the Ottawa area’s arts community. This week, Bruce Deachman talks with storyteller Mary Wiggin. She’ll be performing at the NAC on May 24 as part of the Ottawa StoryTellers’ Speaking Out series. Info: www.ottawastorytellers.ca.
  “I loved to read when I was a youngster. I absolutely loved to read. I was a huge Nancy Drew fan, that kind of thing. But my parents were not fans of reading. They woul
  
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• Gormley: Worried about privacy? We have hardly any left anyhow

  23-03-2018 16:38 via ottawacitizen.com
  That companies are abusing private data is unsettling. More unsettling still is that enough private data has been made public to abuse.
  After Cambridge Analytica was found to be exploiting the data of Facebook users, it is not quite enough to blame the company that grabbed personal information from individuals. Nor is it quite correct to blame the individuals who left it lying out in the open only for it to be grabbed. A company has harmed individuals, but it was helped along by individuals who
  
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• Kurl: Jagmeet Singh can rebound, but has a lot of work to do

  23-03-2018 15:36 via ottawacitizen.com
  It has been uncomfortable, to put it mildly, watching the leader of a major national political party appear to spend more time explaining his views about another country’s domestic policy than espousing domestic policy related to his own.
  The Jagmeet Singh saga also raised thorny issues. Is it racist, or inappropriate, to question the NDP leader about his feelings toward dealings with elements of the Sikh separatist movement? How well do journalists cover and understand Canada’s mino
  
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• Cappies review: Principle of good triumphs in Elmwood School's dazzling Oliver Twist

  23-03-2018 15:32 via ottawacitizen.com
  Show #8: Oliver TwistWhere: Elmwood SchoolDirector: Angela Boychuk
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  Zelia Fang, Lead CriticEarl of March Secondary SchoolTwisting through a maze haunted by misery and violence is a hard task for a 10-year-old, but when the 10-year-old’s name
  
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• Have you seen Meals-on-Wheels volunteer's missing bike trailer?

  23-03-2018 14:55 via ottawacitizen.com
  A Meals-on-Wheels volunteer has taken to social media to get her flashy delivery unit back.
  Denise Inglis uses an Easter-egg purple trailer to deliver meals to seniors and adults with disabilities but it vanished from the shed at the Good Companions Centre on Albert Street where she starts her route. 
  “My husband custom built it for me,” she said on Twitter. “Turned an old Chariot into a Meals on 2 Wheels delivery trailer that kept the meals safe and warm!
  “Let me kn
  
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• Gananoque in the running as permanent home for Canada 150 rink: Official

  23-03-2018 14:23 via ottawacitizen.com
  GANANOQUE — Gananoque is on the short list to receive the Canada 150 skating rink once it is dismantled on Parliament Hill later this month, according to the town’s recreation director Terry Gilmer.
  The federal government doesn’t want to store the rink once it is taken down so it has been shopping it around to local municipalities, Gilmer said.
  Gananoque, about 170 kilometres south of Ottawa on the St. Lawrence River, is one of the towns interested in the rink, although th
  
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• Back to school for drivers as traffic blitz nets 226 charges

  23-03-2018 13:40 via ottawacitizen.com
  City police traffic officers ended up schooling drivers in a three-day back-to-school blitz this week with a whopping 226 charges for everything from speeding and distraction to driving while suspended.
  Some low points of the post-March Break Project Interlude include an 18-year-old whose dad’s car landed in impound when he was caught going 98 km/h in a 40 km/h school zone.
  “Nothing you can say to a parent will replace the person that you MAY have hit going at those speeds in a
  
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• Closure of eastbound ramp from Carling to Queensway raises commuters' hackles

  23-03-2018 13:21 via ottawacitizen.com
  The announcement that the eastbound on-ramp to the Queensway from Carling Avenue, just west of Westgate Shopping Centre, will close permanently drew online outrage and anxiety on Thursday.
  “Anyone who has ever exited westbound at Kirkwood Avenue already knows how poorly designed it is. Diverting more people onto that specific section — highway underpass to the Kirkwood intersection– is a recipe for disaster and frustration,” said Ottawa resident Melissa Dimock, after comm
  
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• There's a chance we could see more snow

  23-03-2018 13:06 via ottawacitizen.com
  Friday morning’s -10 windchill felt frosty and we’ll get a genuine low of -10 C overnight.
  But don’t despair, Environment Canada is predicting the mercury will soar to 9 C by next week.
  Friday’s complete forecast is for clouds, a 30 per cent chance of flurries in the morning and early afternoon, northwest winds at 20 km/h and a high of 2 C.
  If the snow is going to hang around for the next day or so, might as well make the best of it #goldendoodle it’s his version of
  
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• Netflix communications with Canadian government shielded from public

  23-03-2018 12:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  As governments around the world grapple with how to tax online companies, the Canadian government is refusing to release more than 250 pages of communication it exchanged with a company at the heart of the debate in this country: Netflix.
  The popular streaming service, valued at more than $100 billion, has been operating in Canada under circumstances that would be the envy of any company: It is not collecting sales taxes from customers and it is not paying corporate taxes on its Canadian revenue
  
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• Where are the lowest gas prices in Ottawa? bit.ly/2HY1BAO @OttawaMatters https://t.co/94E2ilPrGY

  23-03-2018 10:35 via twitter.com
  
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• Senate gives approval in principle to bill to legalize recreational marijuana: bit.ly/2IOdI4Q https://t.co/fLahjS8DtJ

  23-03-2018 10:25 via twitter.com
  
  Senate gives approval in principle to bill to legalize recreational marijuana: bit.ly/2IOdI4Q https://t.co/fLahjS8DtJ
  
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• Plans to combat racism laid out by Ottawa's police chief: bit.ly/2HYaqe5 @OttawaMatters https://t.co/3Vk7XfbJam

  23-03-2018 10:25 via twitter.com
  
  Plans to combat racism laid out by Ottawa's police chief: bit.ly/2HYaqe5 @OttawaMatters https://t.co/3Vk7XfbJam
  
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• The new 145,000 square feet tower provides the Heart Institute with 27 critical care unit beds, five operating room… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  23-03-2018 10:15 via twitter.com
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• It marked the first time McDavid had ever scored against the Sens, who were eliminated from post-season contention… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  23-03-2018 10:05 via twitter.com
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• A mammoth story: How the FBI helped Canada get back a pair of tusks, now being stored at the Canadian Museum of N… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  23-03-2018 04:52 via twitter.com
  A mammoth story: How the FBI helped Canada get back a pair of tusks, now being stored at the Canadian Museum of N… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Updated privacy policies after Facebook scandal leave room for improvement ottawamatters.com/around-ontario…

  23-03-2018 04:11 via twitter.com
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• Protest planned after fatal police shooting of unarmed man ottawamatters.com/world-news/pro…

  23-03-2018 03:52 via twitter.com
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• #UPDATE The Quebec Crown has determined no charges will be laid against a Radio-Canada journalist after a criminal… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  23-03-2018 03:40 via twitter.com
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• Montreal police say boy who disappeared March 12 likely fell into river. The boy's father has repeatedly said he be… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  23-03-2018 03:20 via twitter.com
  Montreal police say boy who disappeared March 12 likely fell into river. The boy's father has repeatedly said he be… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Agreement reached to connect 16 northern Ontario First Nations to power grid ottawamatters.com/national-news/…

  23-03-2018 03:11 via twitter.com
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• CRTC orders national wireless carriers to offer lower-priced, data-only plans ottawamatters.com/around-ontario…

  23-03-2018 03:00 via twitter.com
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• Plans to combat racism laid out by Ottawa's police chief ottawamatters.com/police-beat/pl…

  23-03-2018 02:49 via twitter.com
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• FBI works with RCMP and local museum to return mammoth tusks ottawamatters.com/local-news/fbi… https://t.co/L8nCaQzlpg

  23-03-2018 02:30 via twitter.com
  
  FBI works with RCMP and local museum to return mammoth tusksottawamatters.com/local-news/fbi… https://t.co/L8nCaQzlpg
  
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• Legal shake-up in Trump team may suggest shift in strategy ottawamatters.com/world-news/leg…

  23-03-2018 02:19 via twitter.com
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• Russian Embassy says Trudeau criticism of Putin unproductive, confrontational ottawamatters.com/national-news/…

  23-03-2018 02:10 via twitter.com
  Russian Embassy says Trudeau criticism of Putin unproductive, confrontationalottawamatters.com/national-news/…
  
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• Reviewing and updating Ottawa's homelessness strategy ottawamatters.com/local-news/rev…

  23-03-2018 01:52 via twitter.com
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• Fraud investigation leads to charge for former school administrator ottawamatters.com/police-beat/fr…

  23-03-2018 01:34 via twitter.com
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• Arrest made in Gatineau robbery ottawamatters.com/police-beat/ar…

  23-03-2018 01:17 via twitter.com
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• A Radio-Canada reporter, arrested after trying to contact the head of Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Outaouais, is… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  23-03-2018 01:05 via twitter.com
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• Radio-Canada reporter won't be charged after harassment complaint

  23-03-2018 00:29 via ottawacitizen.com
  A Radio-Canada reporter arrested for allegedly criminally harassing the executive director of the Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Outaouais will not be charged, Gatineau police say.
  Reporter Antoine Trépanier was summoned to Gatineau police headquarters and arrested on March 13 after he emailed executive director Yvonne Dubé about interviewing her for a story he was working on.
  Crown officials said Thursday they reviewed the case and came to the conclusion no crime was committed.
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• #BREAKING Senate passes marijuana legalization bill, 44 to 29 on second reading. https://t.co/yY7uRvVAEK

  23-03-2018 00:03 via twitter.com
  
  #BREAKING Senate passes marijuana legalization bill, 44 to 29on second reading. https://t.co/yY7uRvVAEK
  
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