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• Globe editorial: Ottawa needs to show some results on dealing with refugee claimaints - The Globe and Mail

  26-04-2018 23:57 via theglobeandmail.com
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  Globe editorial: Ottawa needs to show some results on dealing with refugee claimaints
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  Canada's largest city has 6,806 beds in its emergency shelters, but a rising influx of asylum seekers has pushed it to the breaking point. There are 2,351 refugee claimants in Toronto shelters right now, compared to 459 in 2016, city officials said ...
  Ottawa must do more to help Toronto welcome refugeesToronto Starall 11 news articles »
  
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• Flood response hampered by city's lack of emergency management expertise, documents reveal

  26-04-2018 23:40 via ottawacitizen.com
  Inexperienced staff, inconsistent communications and disorganized volunteers hindered the city’s emergency response to the devastating floods along the Ottawa River in spring 2017, a report commissioned by the city has found.
  International Safety Research, which was contracted by the city to produce an “after-action” report, sent its findings to the city’s office of emergency management in January. A copy of the report was obtained through a freedom of information re
  
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• Flood review lauds city wellness visits, work by community associations

  26-04-2018 23:24 via ottawacitizen.com
  It wasn’t all dark clouds hanging over the city’s response to the 2017 spring floods.
  International Safety Research, the company hired by the city to review the response, found several positive aspects of the city’s emergency work.
  Flood-affected residents felt reassured when city staff arrived to visit their homes, the consultant learned. Community associations’ wellness visits also helped co-ordinate response and identify residents’ needs.
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• Mint calls RCMP after two kilos of gold worth $110K go missing

  26-04-2018 23:23 via ottawacitizen.com
  Two kilograms of gold have gone missing from the Royal Canadian Mint, three years after an employee repeatedly — and with international notoriety — stole chunks of the precious metal by hiding it in his rectum.
  The mint confirmed Thursday that an employee has been fired and the RCMP called after the discovery of the missing gold, two one-kilogram blanks, together worth about $110,000. 
  “Last month, as a result of robust internal inventory processes, employees of the Royal
  
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• Flood response hampered by city's lack of emergency management expertise: report

  26-04-2018 23:23 via ottawacitizen.com
  Inexperienced staff, inconsistent communications and disorganized volunteers hindered the city’s emergency response to the devastating floods along the Ottawa River in spring 2017, a report commissioned by the city has found.
  International Safety Research, which was contracted by the city to produce an “after-action” report, sent its findings to the city’s office of emergency management in January. A copy of the report was obtained through a freedom of information re
  
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• Ottawa man charged after woman alleges massage therapist sexually assaulted her

  26-04-2018 23:09 via ottawacitizen.com
  An Ottawa man faces charges of sexual assault and criminal harassment after a woman alleged she was assaulted during a massage appointment. 
  The woman reported to Ottawa police that a massage therapist had sexually assaulted her on Tuesday and had then repeatedly attempted to communicate with her after the appointment at a home-based business in the west end. 
  Chatelain Jean, 38, was charged with two counts of sexual assault and two counts of criminal harassment on Thursday following a
  
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• Man on moped charged after allegedly blowing stop sign, evading police

  26-04-2018 23:02 via ottawacitizen.com
  A 36-year-old man was charged after allegedly blowing through a stop sign and evading Kingston police on a moped just metres from Queen’s University campus early Wednesday morning.
  Around 4:45 a.m., police said a patrol officer spotted the driver run a stop sign at the intersection of Earl Street and University Avenue.
  The officer attempted to pull the man over, but he allegedly took off down Earl Street. 
  Police said the man evaded officers by weaving in and out of streets just west
  
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• Reevely: Surprised by unsurprising news about Ontario's finances, Ford promises major public inquiry

  26-04-2018 21:59 via ottawacitizen.com
  Professing shock at the provincial auditor’s condemnation of how the Liberals have kept Ontario’s books, Progressive Conservative Leader Doug Ford is promising a major inquiry into provincial finances if he wins the June election.
  “We will initiate a full, independent, end-to-end commission of inquiry that builds on and includes the work of the auditor general (and) includes the independent participation of outside auditors and investigators,” Ford said in a Toronto news
  
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• Bill Cosby convicted of drugging and molesting a woman ottawamatters.com/world-news/bil… https://t.co/F01GNV9j0X

  26-04-2018 21:28 via twitter.com
  
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• STORY: Councillor making case for LRT extension in west end ottawamatters.com/local-news/cou… https://t.co/L0YapZSzx8

  26-04-2018 21:11 via twitter.com
  
  STORY: Councillor making case for LRT extension in west endottawamatters.com/local-news/cou… https://t.co/L0YapZSzx8
  
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• Flood watch in Mississippi Valley ottawamatters.com/local-news/flo… https://t.co/f8U4GFP7nz

  26-04-2018 21:08 via twitter.com
  
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• Extensive cutting by NCC in protected area of Mud Lake called 'carnage'

  26-04-2018 20:28 via ottawacitizen.com
  Residents near Mud Lake, one of Ottawa’s protected natural areas, have been shocked by the National Capital Commission’s decision to cut down the trees and shrubs growing beside a narrow forest path.
  Residents thought the NCC was just taking out a few diseased trees over the winter in the area, formally known as the Britannia Conservation Area.
  Then the snow melted, and people started walking through the woods again. Where they used to have branches brushing against their arms as the
  
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• Wave of young chefs to square off at 2018 Ottawa Gold Medal Plates competition

  26-04-2018 20:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  This year’s edition of Ottawa’s Gold Medal Plates competition will see the chefs who finished second and third at last year’s event challenged by a slate of young, accomplished rivals including four first-time competitors.
  Returning to compete will be Yannick Lasalle of Les Fougères in Chelsea and Steve Harris of two six {ate} on Preston Street, who finished second and third respectively at last fall’s edition of the gala fundraiser in support of Canada’s Oly
  
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• Neumann and Bittle: More workplace deaths occur than are ever reported. We need tougher action

  26-04-2018 20:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  Saturday, April 28 marks the annual Day of Mourning. Across the country and around the world, union members, politicians, workers and their families and loved ones will gather to pay homage to those killed or made sick at work.
  While an important, yet somber occasion to “mourn for the dead and fight for the living,” the Day of Mourning is also a frustrating event. Beyond the efforts of the dedicated individuals struggling for safer workplaces, nothing much changes. After all the expr
  
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• Where to Buy Now: 4 'hoods to watch in Ottawa's intense real estate market - Ottawa Magazine

  26-04-2018 19:15 via ottawamagazine.com
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  Where to Buy Now: 4 'hoods to watch in Ottawa's intense real estate market
  Ottawa Magazine
  Read the full Where to Buy Now feature in the Real Estate 2018 issue of Ottawa Magazine Back in the late 1950s, the Canadian dream home was a big bungalow on a big suburban lot, preferably on a quiet cul-de-sac where the family's 3.9 children could ...
  
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• SWAT teams and patent trolls: inside Ottawa's IP plan to promote ... - CBC.ca

  26-04-2018 18:59 via cbc.ca
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  SWAT teams and patent trolls: inside Ottawa's IP plan to promote ...
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  Canada will bring in new rules to protect innovative companies from foreign predators, and create programs to help them leverage intellectual property to benefit both their bottom lines and the country's economic growth. Innovation Minister Navdeep ...
  Ottawa to unveil IP strategy aimed at innovators, small businesses ...Financial Postall 2 news articles »
  
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• 'I couldn't take it anymore': Another inmate attempts to kill himself at Ottawa jail

  26-04-2018 18:40 via ottawacitizen.com
  Hours before Theodore Flowers, a thief and drug addict, tried to kill himself at the Ottawa jail last week, he begged for his medication.
  Flowers, 48, had been cut off from his medication for opioid addiction and couldn’t handle the withdrawal anymore. He was cut off for suspected medication hoarding and the final time he begged for his drugs he says a guard told him to “hang in there.”
  “That was my snapping point,” he recalled.
  So on the other side of midnight
  
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• School boards, public health schooling Ottawa parents about pot

  26-04-2018 18:23 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Ottawa-Carleton District School Board and the Ottawa Catholic School Board are teaming up with Ottawa Public Health to offer a pair of information sessions aimed at teaching parents about cannabis.
  The first is Thursday, April 26 from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at Gloucester High School, 2060 Ogilvie Rd.
  A second will be held Thursday, May 3 from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at Sir Robert Borden High School, 131 Greenbank Rd.
  Organizers say the presentation will tackle myths, review how cannabis laws
  
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• Local bike tour hits hidden Ottawa war memorial sites

  26-04-2018 18:19 via ottawacitizen.com
  Just in time for the warmer weather, a local bike tour is aiming to reveal hidden historical gems across the city.
  The initiative was set up by Rob Collins and Larry Capstick, two retirees who met while volunteering at the Canadian War Museum.
  In dealing with tourists and family members of soldiers, Collins said they realized there was no complete list of all the capital’s war memorials, as far as they could tell.
  As history buffs and cycling enthusiasts, Collins and Capstick decided to ta
  
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• Tomlin and Bernstein: Feminist voices can make the G7 much stronger

  26-04-2018 18:04 via ottawacitizen.com
  Early one April morning, Laura received an anonymous phone call. “I know your son,” said a disembodied male voice. “It would be so sad if something happened to him.”
  The caller demanded that Laura and her small women’s rights organization stop seeking justice for the more than 15,000 survivors of sexual violence in Colombia’s civil war. “Stop, or there will be trouble,” the caller warned. The line went dead.
  For women’s rights activists such
  
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• Local bike tour hits hidden Ottawa war memorial sites - Ottawa Citizen

  26-04-2018 17:57 via ottawacitizen.com
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  Local bike tour hits hidden Ottawa war memorial sites
  Ottawa Citizen
  Just in time for the warmer weather, a local bike tour is aiming to reveal hidden historical gems across the city. The initiative was set up by Rob Collins and Larry Capstick, two retirees who met while volunteering at the Canadian War Museum. In ...
  
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• SWAT teams and patent trolls: inside Ottawa's IP plan to promote Canadian innovators - CBC.ca

  26-04-2018 17:54 via cbc.ca
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  SWAT teams and patent trolls: inside Ottawa's IP plan to promote Canadian innovators
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  The federal government will unveil a series of measures today to promote and protect the intellectual property of Canadians firms as they look to compete against much larger multinational firms in tech and innovation sectors. Innovation Minister ...
  Ottawa to unveil IP strategy aimed at innovators, small businessesFinancial Postall 2 news articles »
  
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• The @rick_gibbons Show for Thursday, April 26th: 1:08: @nansequiturs 1:17: @ottawahealth 1:30: @Gallup 1:37:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  26-04-2018 17:45 via twitter.com
  The @rick_gibbons Show for Thursday, April 26th: 1:08: @nansequiturs 1:17: @ottawahealth 1:30: @Gallup 1:37:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Coming up on the Power Lunch at noon: @JulieBeun & @KeithEgli join @_MarkSutcliffe in studio: Listen: 📻: 1310… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  26-04-2018 17:45 via twitter.com
  Coming up on the Power Lunch at noon: @JulieBeun & @KeithEgli join @_MarkSutcliffe in studio: Listen:📻: 1310… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Ottawa shoe store Armstrong & Richardson closes doors after 84 years

  26-04-2018 17:33 via ottawacitizen.com
  Longstanding Ottawa shoe store Armstrong & Richardson has filed for bankruptcy, marking the end of a family-run business that has spanned more than eight decades.  
  Customers of the shoe seller said they were surprised by a notice posted on the store at Billings Bridge Shopping Centre, telling them they’d have one last chance to buy footwear at a liquidation sale on May 1.
  “I was really shocked,” Linda Dowie said, standing in front of the shop — one of five
  
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• Ottawa shoe store Armstrong & Richardson closes doors after 84 years - Ottawa Citizen

  26-04-2018 17:32 via ottawacitizen.com
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  Ottawa shoe store Armstrong & Richardson closes doors after 84 years
  Ottawa Citizen
  Longstanding Ottawa shoe store Armstrong & Richardson has filed for bankruptcy, marking the end of a family-run business that has spanned more than eight decades. Customers of the shoe seller said they were surprised by a notice posted on the store at ...
  
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• Dewar: Canadian technology and know-how could help prevent global atrocities. Let's act

  26-04-2018 17:21 via ottawacitizen.com
  Earlier this week, Canada marked the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Mass Atrocities. This year, Canada should recommit not just to the words of “never again,” but to the actions necessary to do our part to prevent and stop mass atrocities.
  April includes the anniversary of mass atrocities in Rwanda, Cambodia, Kosovo, Bangladesh, Armenia and the Holocaust in Europe. And the world faces continued mass atrocities and humanitarian crises. In Myanmar, Yemen, the Democratic Repu
  
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• Iafolla: We do know if the Toronto attack is terrorism – it is

  26-04-2018 17:17 via ottawacitizen.com
  This commentary is a rebuttal to Phil Gurski’s op-ed “Why the Toronto attack can’t be called terrorism – yet.”
  Phil Gurski calls for an abundance of caution and for prudence in deciding whether Monday’s van attack in Toronto is terrorism.
  Certainly, when considering whether an act is terrorism we should await all the facts, but what Gurski is missing is that terrorism isn’t (just) defined by the ideology that motivates it – it is also defined by th
  
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• Coming up at 11:15: @Geddes28 joins @_MarkSutcliffe for their weekly @macleans on the Hill segment: Listen: 📻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  26-04-2018 17:10 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 11:15: @Geddes28 joins @_MarkSutcliffe for their weekly @macleans on the Hill segment:Listen:📻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Cirque du Soleil brings classic show Alegria to Gatineau in 2019

  26-04-2018 17:10 via ottawacitizen.com
  Cirque du Soleil is bringing back Alegria, one of its most famous shows, for a 25th anniversary tour that will stop in Gatineau in August 2019.
  “Honestly, there was a huge demand from fans and there were a lot of people inside (the Cirque) who were as excited as the fans,” said Daniel Fortin, the newly appointed vice-president of creation at the Cirque du Soleil. “So we said, ‘Why not?’ ”
  The biggest challenge is to respect the vision of the original crea
  
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• Coming up at 11: @JeffMarek joins @_MarkSutcliffe on the NHL playoffs: Listen: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  26-04-2018 16:56 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 11: @JeffMarek joins @_MarkSutcliffe on the NHL playoffs: Listen:📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Accused serial rapist and killer undetected working as cop: bit.ly/2KhCMBS https://t.co/unXmt6U61I

  26-04-2018 16:20 via twitter.com
  
  Accused serial rapist and killer undetected working as cop: bit.ly/2KhCMBS https://t.co/unXmt6U61I
  
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• Van attack puts spotlight on violent sentiment in 'incel' community: expert: bit.ly/2vUIk1Q https://t.co/QxTU6TgWRR

  26-04-2018 16:10 via twitter.com
  
  Van attack puts spotlight on violent sentiment in 'incel' community: expert: bit.ly/2vUIk1Q https://t.co/QxTU6TgWRR
  
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• From @macleans: Arresting officer in Toronto van attack says he’s no hero: bit.ly/2KdhWn0 https://t.co/kuE0pfwbUW

  26-04-2018 16:10 via twitter.com
  
  From @macleans: Arresting officer in Toronto van attack says he’s no hero: bit.ly/2KdhWn0 https://t.co/kuE0pfwbUW
  
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• Ottawa extending olive branch to BC over Trans Mountain dispute - BNN

  26-04-2018 15:56 via bnn.ca
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  Ottawa extending olive branch to BC over Trans Mountain dispute
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  The federal government is extending an olive branch to British Columbia in an attempt to tame the building tension over the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project. Environment and Climate Change Minister Catherine McKenna published an open letter to ...
  
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• A colourful past: Randall's Decor celebrates 70 years in the business

  26-04-2018 15:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  When Randall’s Decor opened its first paint store on Bank Street in 1948, William Lyon Mackenzie King was prime minister, the current leader’s mother, Margaret Trudeau, was a newborn and a loaf of bread cost 14 cents.
  Back then, the tiny shop at 385 Bank St. featured rows of paint cans on rustic wood shelving. Seventy years later, Randall’s has morphed into a slick, 8,400-square-foot flagship store with soaring windows — just a few blocks from its original location &
  
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• Governor General gets new advisor – a public affairs general who specializes in information warfare

  26-04-2018 15:12 via ottawacitizen.com
  Brig.-Gen. Marc Theriault, the head of Canadian Forces Public Affairs, will become a new advisor to Governor General Julie Payette.
  It is unclear at this point what role Theriault will play on Payette’s staff.
  “We will have more detail about BGen Theriault’s secondment to Rideau Hall at a later date,” Department of National Defence spokeswoman Jessica Lamirande said.
  Theriault told his public affairs colleagues that he will be starting his new job with Payette in mid-May,
  
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• Quebec accuses Ottawa of encouraging challenges to homegrown pot ban - Montreal Gazette

  26-04-2018 14:48 via montrealgazette.com
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  Quebec accuses Ottawa of encouraging challenges to homegrown pot ban
  Montreal Gazette
  While the federal government proposes allowing individuals to grow up to four marijuana plants at home, Quebec wants an outright ban. Presse Canadienne. Published on: April 26, 2018 | Last Updated: April 26, 2018 11:13 AM EDT. Share Adjust Comment ...and more »
  
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• Ottawa's 'gay purge' settlement expanded to include all who suffered ... - Toronto Star

  26-04-2018 14:48 via thestar.com
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  Ottawa's 'gay purge' settlement expanded to include all who suffered ...
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  A revised version of the class-action settlement over the so-called “gay purge” explicitly includes people whose careers suffered as early as 1955 — seven years prior to a previously agreed date.and more »
  
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• Rainy, with a high of 11 C, flurries could be in store for weekend

  26-04-2018 14:47 via ottawacitizen.com
  If we can just get through the last April showers – and maybe even a few flurries – May gets a downright summery start.
  Thursday’s forecast is for periods of rain to end by afternoon, then a mix of sun and cloud with a high of 11 C and low of 0 C.
  Environment Canada has issued a warning that some parts of Eastern Ontario could be in store for heavy rain totaling 30 to 60 mm by Thursday afternoon.
  The warning covers communities including Barry’s Bay, Killalo
  
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• Road-raging biker pulls knife on plainclothes officer: Police

  26-04-2018 14:14 via ottawacitizen.com
  A 20-year-old man is facing a string of weapons charges after pulling a knife on a plainclothes police officer in an apparent road rage incident, police in Kingston report.
  An officer with the force’s street crime unit was driving an unmarked car near Ford and Drennan streets Tuesday evening when he spotted three eastbound motorcycles traveling abreast and crowding the westbound lanes.
  One gave the plainclothes officer the middle finger and as the bikers passed he noticed that they wore mo
  
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• Cirque du Soleil's Alegría to hit Gatineau's Zibi on 25th anniversary tour

  26-04-2018 14:06 via ottawacitizen.com
  Gatineau will be a stop for a 25th anniversary tour next year of Cirque du Soleil’s ground-breaking show, Alegría.
  The Montreal-based producer and Gatineau city hall announced Alegría will be staged Aug. 1-11, 2019, under the troupe’s iconic blue-and-yellow big top at the Place des Festivals site in the Zibi development.
  Last summer, the Cirque’s Volta show staged 32 performances at the same site, drawing more than 75,000 people.
  Gatineau officials said at th
  
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• The aim is to tackle myths around using marijuana, discuss how the law is changing, and give parents some insight o… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  26-04-2018 13:48 via twitter.com
  The aim is to tackle myths around using marijuana, discuss how the law is changing, and give parents some insight o… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Cappies review: Longfields-Davidson Heights Secondary School's production of The Bullying Collection

  26-04-2018 13:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  Show #15: The Bullying Collection
  Where: Longfields-Davidson Heights Secondary School
  Director: student Aaron Casey & teacher Liza Wilson
  Carter Ibach, Critic
  St. Mark High School
  Bullying, the best-known stereotype of high school. Longfields-Davidson Heights Secondary School did an excellent job demonstrating many different types of bullying and the effects it can have in their production of The Bullying Collection.
  Originally written in 2015, The Bullying Collection features 10 stories fro
  
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• Mookie Monster: Betts homers twice as Boston Red Sox top Toronto Blue Jays 4-3: bit.ly/2HZkMLI https://t.co/y7GbAVCif4

  26-04-2018 13:26 via twitter.com
  
  Mookie Monster: Betts homers twice as Boston Red Sox top Toronto Blue Jays 4-3: bit.ly/2HZkMLI https://t.co/y7GbAVCif4
  
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• Class action lawsuit launched against government over Phoenix pay system issues. #ottnews ottawamatters.com/national-news/…

  26-04-2018 13:16 via twitter.com
  Class action lawsuit launched against government over Phoenix pay system issues. #ottnewsottawamatters.com/national-news/…
  
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• Organizers wonder how big crowds will get for Winnipeg Jets street party: bit.ly/2JpQtNV https://t.co/meIpknHYey

  26-04-2018 13:09 via twitter.com
  
  Organizers wonder how big crowds will get for Winnipeg Jets street party: bit.ly/2JpQtNV https://t.co/meIpknHYey
  
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• Dr. Vera Etches is Ottawa's first female officer of health - CBC.ca

  26-04-2018 12:51 via cbc.ca
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  Dr. Vera Etches is Ottawa's first female officer of health
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  After filling the role for five months, Dr. Vera Etches was officially announced as the city's new medical officer of health on Tuesday. Mental illness, healthy lifestyles, and substance use biggest public health challenges, says Etches. Joanne ...
  
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• Today's letters: Please sign up as a potential organ donor

  26-04-2018 12:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  Please sign up for organ donation
  Re: Now’s a good time to decide you’ll donate your organs, April 19.
  National Organ and Tissue  Donation Awareness Week, April 22 to 28, raises awareness about the critical need for more donors across the country. Approximately 4,500 Canadians are waiting for a lifesaving organ transplant and many more are waiting for tissue transplants.
  The sad reality, according to Canadian Blood Services, is that on average 250 Canadians die each year wh
  
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• Chalk River's nuclear waste facility will respect safety, environment

  26-04-2018 12:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  The following is offered in response to an article by Eva Schacherl April 23, entitled Canada has a dirty, big nuclear secret at Chalk River:
  Over the past 18 months, Canadian Nuclear Laboratories (CNL) has done anything but try to keep its plans at Chalk River a secret. In fact, we have hosted 60 public engagements, in Ontario and Quebec, on the proposed Near Surface Disposal Facility (NSDF). This includes public information sessions, numerous meetings, discussions, project orientations and sit
  
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