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• Snapshots: Senators send out details for town hall sessions with owner Eugene Melnyk - Ottawa Sun

  04-04-2018 23:54 via ottawasun.com
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  Snapshots: Senators send out details for town hall sessions with owner Eugene Melnyk
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  BUFFALO — The Ottawa Senators have reached out to season-ticket holders for next week's town hall sessions. Senators owner Eugene Melnyk sent a note to subscribers Wednesday inviting them to the meetings. which will include general manager Pierre ...and more »
  
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• Soldier's wife 'sad and frustrated' by high cost of sending morale-boosting packages overseas

  04-04-2018 23:46 via ottawacitizen.com
  With her soldier husband overseas with the Canadian Armed Forces, Nicole Code wanted to send a “care package” from home for him and his friends: Good coffee, trail mix to carry on patrol, current magazines to read in his isolated camp in a Mideast desert.
  She was shocked to find it was going to cost her $96 in postage to send the morale-boosting box for her husband, Capt. Jeff Code.
  “Actually, shocked is an understatement,” Code said from her home in Kemptville. &ldq
  
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• Egan: Sorry was a hard word — life without Mom a harder sentence

  04-04-2018 23:18 via ottawacitizen.com
  Cornwall resident Robert Cadieux finally found his apology, after clawing — to the point of tears — through a justice system he didn’t understand.
  Now comes the harder part: getting on with life without his wife, Kristine, and trying to shine light on an adversarial process that can shun victims and ignore the value of reconciliation.
  Cadieux, 51, is still recovering from an accident on Highway 401 on June 28, 2017 that killed Kristine, 32, and left him with three children to r
  
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• Camp Davern will be co-ed — with one week just for the girls — when it reopens in July

  04-04-2018 23:13 via ottawacitizen.com
  Camp Davern’s new owner plans to maintain the “historic elements” that made the camp “unique” when he reopens its doors in July.
  The Maberly summer camp for girls closed in 2015 after 69 years of operation because of low registration. The YMCA-YWCA said in a letter that the decision to sell the property in 2017 caused an outpouring of stories from alumnae, staff and members.
  The organization announced in February that Andrew Martin, owner and director of Camp Can-Aq
  
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• Reevely: Police chief has Mayor Jim Watson's support, come what may

  04-04-2018 23:12 via ottawacitizen.com
  Mayor Jim Watson doesn’t want to hear anonymous complaints about Chief Charles Bordeleau of the Ottawa police. He wants unhappy officers to call their boss out publicly, so he can ignore their complaints in person.
  The mayor’s energy for happy public events is properly legendary. You have to follow him on social media to see his id come out and snarl. It happened Tuesday night, after a meeting with Bordeleau about public safety. People keep getting shot. Watson has chosen not to sit
  
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• Mosaïculture back to Gatineau for second edition this summer

  04-04-2018 23:09 via ottawacitizen.com
  The popular horticulture exhibit that took over Jacques-Cartier Park in Gatineau last year for Canada 150 celebrations will be back in 2018 — but you’ll have to pay. 
  The Quebec and federal governments announced that the exhibit — known last year as MosaïCanada 150, and run by Mosaïcultures Internationales de Montréal — will return June 24 to Oct. 15, lasting one month longer than last year.
  Geneviève Ménard, the director of public
  
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• Addition of Cuddy not cruddy but Bluesfest less fantastic with loss of Boombastic

  04-04-2018 23:08 via ottawacitizen.com
  After a three-year absence, Blue Rodeo will be returning to Ottawa’s RBC Bluesfest main stage.
  Organizers announced the lineup addition on Wednesday. The band, led by frontman Jim Cuddy, will perform on July 12 in support of its new album, 1000 Arms.
  Other acts added to the popular music festival’s lineup since it’s initial launch include Common Deer (July 8); Eat A Peach: Allman Brothers Band Tribute (July 12); Hunter Siegel and Chuurch, presented by Deadbeats (July 13); and L
  
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• Wind warning issued for Ottawa area - Ottawa Citizen

  04-04-2018 22:33 via ottawacitizen.com
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  Environment Canada issued a wind warning Wednesday for the Ottawa area. Justin Tang / The Canadian Press. Share Adjust Comment Print. A wind alert has been issued for Ottawa, with wind gusts expected to reach as high as 80 to 90 km/h late this ...and more »
  
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• Wind warning issued for Ottawa area

  04-04-2018 22:32 via ottawacitizen.com
  A wind alert has been issued for Ottawa, with wind gusts expected to reach as high as 80 to 90 km/h late this afternoon or early this evening.
  The winds could produce power outages, while damage to buildings, such as to roof shingles and windows, may occur. Loose objects may be tossed by the wind and cause injury or damage.
  Rain and snow may accompany the wind, with a low tonight expected to reach -11 C.
  Environment Canada urges people in the Ottawa area to take necessary safety precautions. The
  
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• City hall blog: Ottawa Markets might have been just following city's own rules about busker insurance

  04-04-2018 21:02 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa Markets found itself embroiled in controversy on Tuesday because it wanted to force buskers to have insurance if they wanted permits to perform in the ByWard Market.
  It didn’t help (or it did help, depending on where you fall in the debate) that the Ottawa music strategy was up for approval at the finance and economic development committee.
  In response to questions from reporters, Mayor Jim Watson called the busker insurance rule ridiculous. This is a city, after all, that’s t
  
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• Dining Out: Social Thai, a small, classy eatery in Centretown, doles out intense flavours

  04-04-2018 20:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  Social Thai399 Bank St., 613-230-0084, ottawasocialthai.caOpen: Monday to Wednesday 5 to 10 p.m., Thursday and Friday 5 to 11 p.m., Saturday 4 to 11 p.m., Sunday 4 to 9 p.m.Prices: sharable main dishes $16 to $22Access: step to front door, washrooms downstairs
  The last time I had dinner at Social Thai, the wintry wind whooshed from Bank Street into the dining room with every delivery man that entered to stock up, quite possibly on pad Thai meant for someone in Centretown.
  The tw0-year-old r
  
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• Pair nabbed in gunpoint robbery, kidnapping of Kingston woman

  04-04-2018 20:22 via ottawacitizen.com
  Kingston police say they’ve collared a man and a woman in their 20s after a woman was robbed at gunpoint, beaten and kidnapped before the male suspect — who was already wanted on a Canada-wide warrant — fired a stolen revolver several times then led police on a foot chase.
  It began at about 11:30 p.m. on March 28 when the duo pulled a gun on the woman in the area of Amberdale Crescent, stole her jewelry and a tablet computer. She alleged suffered minor injuries in an assault, p
  
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• Today's letters: Dismayed by Mosaïculture return

  04-04-2018 20:21 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Citizen’s letter writers weigh in on Mosaïculture, drugs and the recent columns by Andrew Cohen and Andrew MacDougall. 
  You too can write to us: [email protected]
  Dismayed by sculptures’ return
  While I supported the Canada 150 celebration, I am dismayed to find out that Mosaïculture will be running again this year.
  It is not fair that parking in the Jacques Cartier Park area is so compromised. The large parking lot by the river was taken over by employees a
  
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• Transportation committee approves LRT-era changes to Albert and Slater streets

  04-04-2018 19:48 via ottawacitizen.com
  Council’s transportation committee on Wednesday approved a redesign plan for two downtown streets as the city prepares to reduce the number of buses when the Confederation Line opens.
  The bus-only lanes on Albert and Slater streets won’t be necessary when the LRT line is running through the tunnel under Queen Street in November. The number of buses cutting through the downtown will be reduced by half, and more in some locations.
  Under the proposed redesign plan, separated bike lanes
  
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• Kingston pair arrested in attempt to smuggle drugs into maximum security prison

  04-04-2018 19:11 via ottawacitizen.com
  Two Kingston men face a raft of charges after police foiled an attempt to smuggle a drugs and other materials into Millhaven maximum security prison.
  Police said the arrests occurred last week when the two men were spotted at the main courthouse in Kingston. 
  Police and security watched as one man concealed a quantity of drugs and substances inside the building.
  “The drugs were left with the intent that a federal inmate attending court could retrieve the drugs and deliver them to Mill
  
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• Icy roads no deterrent for speeders, traffic police find

  04-04-2018 18:50 via ottawacitizen.com
  There’s no such thing as a snow day for Ottawa’s traffic patrol.
  Despite the “icy” roads, Const. Jon Hall, who tweets as @TheBeardedCop, reported that he’d caught 15 speeders on Hunt Club Road well before noon Wednesday.
  Most were clocked at over 100 km/h. Hunt Club includes 60 zones with major intersections so “when collisions happen here, they usually are big ones at those speeds,” Hall warned.
  He tweeted a snap of one of the cars he stopped, adding a
  
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• Moon: Pope's refusal to apologize for residential schools evokes a past tragedy

  04-04-2018 17:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Pope has declined to issue an apology to residential school survivors. The Canadian Council of Bishops reported that “after carefully considering the request” for an apology, the Pope “felt that he could not personally respond.” 
  Earlier this year, Pope Francis apologized in Chile for the sexual abuse of minors by priests:  “I feel bound to express my pain and shame, shame I feel for the irreparable damage caused to children by some ministers
  
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• A wind warning is in effect

  04-04-2018 17:25 via ottawacitizen.com
  So far, it’s not as bad as expected.
  At least, not yet.
  Granted, there is some snow to clear off of your car this morning (about five cm of wet snow fell in total) and some surfaces are a bit icy but we were spared heavy accumulation and completely iced-over roads.  
  Freezing rain could still hit parts of the city until late morning, so be wary of that as you make your way to work.
  There’s also a wind warning in effect. Ottawa North, Kanata, Orléans, Ottawa
  
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• Police ask for public's help to identify robbery suspect

  04-04-2018 17:10 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Ottawa Police Service is asking for the public’s help to identify a suspect who is believed to have been involved in a robbery outside a Centrepointe bank on March 19 at around 7 p.m.
  According to police, a person tried to access a bank at 117 Centrepointe Dr. when they were approached by a man who demanded cash. Police did not provide any details about the incident after the man made his demand.
  The man is described as black, standing between five feet seven inches and five feet
  
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• Gatineau proposes to welcome dogs to more parks, but not all parks

  04-04-2018 17:05 via ottawacitizen.com
  A dog’s life in Gatineau will soon be a walk in the park.
  Dogs today are banned from most of Gatineau’s 353 parks. But city hall wants to raise the number of dog parks from 25 to 258 — 10 times the current number.
  At least, that’s the proposal. Some councillors wagged their tails approvingly this week, but the plan has to pass a council vote next month.
  Naturally there will be rules involved, such as:
  • No more than two dogs per human, or four in parks that are speci
  
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• Glavin: Canada can lead on Myanmar, says Bob Rae. But will we?

  04-04-2018 16:56 via ottawacitizen.com
  It is sober reading, as you might imagine. Released Tuesday under the title “Tell them we’re human: What Canada and the world can do about the Rohingya crisis,” the 12,963-word final report by former Liberal foreign affairs minister Bob Rae, appointed Special Envoy to Myanmar last October, is a study in surrender.
  This is not to say Rae’s assessment of the agonies endured by Myanmar’s brutally persecuted Rohingya Muslim minority is the work of a coward, or an exerci
  
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• Denley: The PCs need to define the Ontario election – or they'll lose

  04-04-2018 16:40 via ottawacitizen.com
  Defining an election’s main issue is considered a precursor to victory for political parties. If so, things are looking up for the Ontario Liberals.
  Their short and simple “care or cuts” slogan casts them on the right side of a good versus evil struggle. If that’s all people know going into the voting booth, June 7 will be a happy day for Kathleen Wynne.
  The Progressive Conservatives haven’t exactly delivered a devastating critique of the big-spending Liberal budget
  
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• Diana Ross, Queen of Motown, is coming to O-town

  04-04-2018 16:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  Diana Ross, the Queen of Motown, will join the NAC Orchestra as the featured performer at this year’s National Arts Centre gala on Oct. 3.It’s an unexpected booking for the NAC, which often strives to spotlight Canadian performers at its signature fundraising event. In recent years, the black-tie affair has featured Canadian musicians k.d. lang and Diana Krall, although Chinese concert pianist Lang Lang was the marquis guest in 2015.Ross, who may not have visited Ottawa since a Civic
  
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• Support agreement for RCAF Chinooks approved for another five years

  04-04-2018 16:28 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Canadian government arrangement with Boeing to service the RCAF’s Chinook helicopter fleet will continue to 2023.
  Under a $313 million fixed-price amendment, Boeing will continue to provide full system logistics, engineering support, supply chain, data analytics and training services to the fleet of 15 CH-147F Chinooks, according to the company. The helicopters are based at Petawawa, Ontario. Operating under a 20-year performance-based sustainment and training contract since 2013, the
  
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• Antiques: Timing great for clock set

  04-04-2018 15:28 via ottawacitizen.com
  Q: This clock and two candle holders were brought over from England by my father’s family who lived in Bristol and owned a general store there called “Christmas’s Store” as my grandmother’s maiden name was Christmas. The two side ornaments have tops that come off to hold a candle. The clock does work and I have the key and pendulum to make it work. It is extremely heavy and the feet have claws that go into holes in the velvet bases. It is 51 cm high (20 inches). I w
  
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• Ottawa artist's disaster 'hacks' of older paintings finds fresh shelter at Diefenbunker

  04-04-2018 14:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  Marc Adornato, Ruined LandscapesWhen: April 5 to July 15, vernissage/opening party April 5, 7 to 9 p.m., artist talk May 17Where: The Diefenbunker Museum, 3929 Carp Rd., CarpAdmission: free to the vernissage, Diefenbunker admission fees apply for the rest of the dates)
  A few years ago, Ottawa artist Marc Adornato scoured thrift stores, flea markets and even online ads for antique frames that he would re-use to frame his own works.
  Often the recovery process involved throwing out the old pai
  
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• Arnprior man accused of sexual assault on teenagers

  04-04-2018 14:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  A 42-year-old Arnprior resident is facing sexual assault charges in an OPP investigation that began when two teenage girls reported that they’d been assaulted by a man they knew.
  Police have since laid charges including two counts of sexual assault, two counts of failing to comply with a probation order, two counts of trafficking in a controlled substance and one count of causing injury to a dog.
  They’re continuing to investigate an allegation of possession of child pornogr
  
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• Freezing rain and wind warnings are in effect

  04-04-2018 13:48 via ottawacitizen.com
  So far, it’s not as bad as expected.
  At least, not yet.
  Granted, there is some snow to clear off of your car this morning (about five cm of wet snow fell in total) and some surfaces are a bit icy but we were spared heavy accumulation and completely iced-over roads.  
  Freezing rain could still hit parts of the city until late morning, so be wary of that as you make your way to work.
  There’s also a wind warning in effect. Ottawa North, Kanata, Orléans, Ottawa
  
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• Today's letters: Ancestry, Phoenix, fake news

  04-04-2018 13:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  How much should your background matter, wonders one Citizen letter-writer. Another is angry over Phoenix, and yet another thinks journalism should cast a wider net in the fight against “fake news.” You can write to us too, on these or any other topics, at: [email protected]
  Find our guidelines here.
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  Stop reinforcing our differences
  Re: Are Ancestry Tests Reinforcing Racism? April 3.
  This article was excellent, and I believe Timothy Caulfield is quite correct. One adve
  
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• The reinvention of Gunner Adam Jones

  04-04-2018 13:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  After his military career was halted by a training accident that left him with a traumatic brain injury, Gunner Adam Jones wasn’t sure who was he was anymore.
  Jones had grown up in a military family with a tradition of continuous service that dates to the American Revolutionary War. He didn’t consider any other career after high school: He applied to the Canadian Forces for three consecutive years until gaining a place with Ottawa’s 30th Field Artillery Regiment in 2012.
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• Ottawa Comiccon adds Dr. Who, Tron and You Can't Do That On TV actors

  04-04-2018 11:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa Comiccon is adding three new names to its list of celebrity guests, including a doctor, a man who plays a computer program and a sketch comic.
  The annual celebration of geek culture announced Wednesday it would be adding to its celebrity ranks Matt Smith, the 11th doctor in the hit TV series Doctor Who. Smith first appeared on the show in 2010, when, at 26 years old, he became the youngest actor to play the role.
  He appeared in three regular series, as well as the Doctor Who mini ser
  
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• Auditor again flags pension fund for military reservists as 'problematic' ottawamatters.com/national-news/…

  04-04-2018 06:04 via twitter.com
  Auditor again flags pension fund for military reservists as 'problematic'ottawamatters.com/national-news/…
  
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• Former TV commentator on why partisanship is hurting Canadian politics. Ian Capstick describes what he sees as an u… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  04-04-2018 05:41 via twitter.com
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• Man who threw banana peel at Dave Chappelle sues comedian ottawamatters.com/world-news/man…

  04-04-2018 05:27 via twitter.com
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• Trump to decide 'very quickly' on US pullout from Syria ottawamatters.com/world-news/tru…

  04-04-2018 05:11 via twitter.com
  Trump to decide 'very quickly' on US pullout from Syriaottawamatters.com/world-news/tru…
  
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• Union members ratify new Carleton University contract

  04-04-2018 05:09 via ottawacitizen.com
  The strike of Carleton University’s 850 non-academic staff has ended.
  CUPE Local 2424 announced on social media that its members ratified a new agreement with the university on Tuesday night, following a strike that lasted 30 days. The tentative deal had been reached late on Monday, following a full day of talks facilitated by an outside mediator.
  Jacynthe Barbeau, CUPE’s national representative, said that the union’s members were satisfied with the new three-year deal, which r
  
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• Toronto market ends lower, while U.S. stocks rise; Loonie gathers strength ottawamatters.com/around-ontario…

  04-04-2018 04:30 via twitter.com
  Toronto market ends lower, while U.S. stocks rise; Loonie gathers strengthottawamatters.com/around-ontario…
  
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• Arts education funding unequal across Ontario's schools: report ottawamatters.com/around-ontario…

  04-04-2018 04:07 via twitter.com
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• Symbolic NAFTA win possible, but hard work is nowhere near done: trade insiders ottawamatters.com/national-news/…

  04-04-2018 03:51 via twitter.com
  Symbolic NAFTA win possible, but hard work is nowhere near done: trade insidersottawamatters.com/national-news/…
  
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• City councillor wants Montreal police force to allow turbans and hijabs ottawamatters.com/national-news/…

  04-04-2018 03:21 via twitter.com
  City councillor wants Montreal police force to allow turbans and hijabsottawamatters.com/national-news/…
  
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• 14-year-old woke family in time to escape Britannia fire that killed pets

  04-04-2018 03:08 via ottawacitizen.com
  A 14-year-old boy “crawled on the floor” to reach his family and wake them in time to escape a Britannia house fire that killed three dogs and a cat early Tuesday morning.
  Bruce Murangira said Tuesday that he and his fiancée, Mandy Haaima, were asleep when their 14-year-old son heard “the sound of smashing glass and then the fire alarm.” 
  He said the boy opened his bedroom door to reveal a “puff of smoke”, then crawled down the hall to Murangira&rs
  
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• LRT project taking steps forward ottawamatters.com/local-news/lrt…

  04-04-2018 03:01 via twitter.com
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• Bells Corners establishing its first Neighbourhood Watch program ottawamatters.com/police-beat/be… #Ottnews

  04-04-2018 02:49 via twitter.com
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• Former TV commentator on why partisanship is hurting Canadian politics ottawamatters.com/local-news/for…

  04-04-2018 02:25 via twitter.com
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• Autonomous vehicles could hit Ottawa streets sooner than expected ottawamatters.com/local-news/aut…

  04-04-2018 02:05 via twitter.com
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• 'You're never too old to serve': Meet 'Pops' — Canada's 53-year-old army private

  04-04-2018 00:23 via ottawacitizen.com
  During his vagabond life, David Morrison has worked as a teacher, technical writer, bank executive, mortgage agent, garbage collector, letter carrier and pizza delivery man.
  So when he received a notice on his LinkedIn page, asking if he’d ever considered a career as an air combat systems officer in the Canadian Forces, he said to himself, “Sure, why not?” He had always wanted to serve — his father had been an army colonel — but Morrison worried that he didn&rs
  
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• 'People would be surprised to see who is coming for treatment': Opioid clinic opens in Ottawa's west end

  04-04-2018 00:17 via ottawacitizen.com
  A string of overdoses, including among young people, in Ottawa’s west end shocked four physicians at Queensway Carleton Hospital into taking action.
  The result is Recovery Ottawa West, an opioid treatment clinic on Robertson Road in Bells Corners that is already treating 100 patients since opening its doors in February. The clinic will hold an official opening on Wednesday afternoon.
  Dr. Elizabeth Shouldice, an emergency physician at Queensway Carleton Hospital, said she and three of her c
  
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