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• Elijah Woods x Jamie Fine will perform on Parliament Hill on Canada Day

  30-05-2018 23:56 via ottawacitizen.com
  A  pop-up performance by well-known Canadian artists Elijah Woods x Jamie Fine on Wednesday marked the official countdown to this year’s Canada Day celebrations. Following the noon performance at the Bank of Canada Plaza, Minister of Canadian Heritage Mélanie Joly unveiled this year’s program for Canada Day celebrations in Canada’s Capital Region.
  Want to know who will be performing on June 30 and July 1 in the capital region? Find it all here.
  
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• Cabbies don't prove 'bad faith' in city's new taxi bylaw, judge rules

  30-05-2018 23:38 via ottawacitizen.com
  Uber and Lyft can live on in Ottawa.
  A Superior Court judge Wednesday released her decision on a judicial challenge of the City of Ottawa’s bylaw governing taxis and private transportation companies. Justice Maria Linhares de Sousa concluded the Ottawa taxi union didn’t prove that the bylaw exhibits bad faith or an illegal bonus scheme, as alleged by the cabbies.
  The taxi union asked the court to quash the vehicle-for-hire bylaw and reinstate the former taxi-only licensing regim
  
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• Caroline Mulroney's 'star' power helps rally Ottawa PC campaigns

  30-05-2018 22:48 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Progressive Conservatives sent Caroline Mulroney to the nation’s capital Wednesday hoping to rally support around their local provincial candidates ahead of the June 7 election.
  At noon, a couple dozen supporters of Ottawa South PC candidate Karin Howard waited patiently for Mulroney, the party hopeful in York-Simcoe and former leadership candidate, to show up at the Walkley Road campaign office and talk about the election over sandwiches and veggies.
  She arrived about 45 minutes late,
  
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• A sneak peek at Mosaïculture Gatineau 2018

  30-05-2018 22:29 via ottawacitizen.com
  After a hugely successful inaugural season last summer, the team behind MosaïCanada 150 have their work cut out for them to build similar hype for the horticultural exhibit’s second iteration in Gatineau.
  “The challenge is to present something more than last year,” Lise Cormier said Tuesday. Cormier is the vice-president of Mosaïcultures Internationales de Montréal, the non-profit behind the garden dreamscape that drew 1.3 million visitors to Jac
  
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• .@JohnFraserOS joined The @rick_gibbons Show to respond to accusations of spying from @karinottawa. Howard's campai… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  30-05-2018 22:28 via twitter.com
  .@JohnFraserOS joined The @rick_gibbons Show to respond to accusations of spying from @karinottawa. Howard's campai… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• What you need to know before you vote

  30-05-2018 22:09 via ottawacitizen.com
  Where do you vote? How do you vote? Not sure what riding you live in? Jon Willing has the answers and more!
  
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• Canopy Growth reaches into Africa with purchase of cannabis company in Lesotho

  30-05-2018 21:22 via ottawacitizen.com
  Canopy Growth in Smiths Falls has extended its reach into Africa with the purchase of a cannabis company in the Kingdom of Lesotho.
  Canopy announced Wednesday the $28.8-million purchase of Daddy Cann Lesotho PTY Ltd. The facility is in a mountainous area that receives more than 300 days of sunshine a year, has ideal humidity and growing conditions for greenhouse cannabis and low operating costs, said Canopy in a release. “This places Canopy in a growth position to produce large quantities
  
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• Windmill seeks record $60M grant from city for cleanup of Zibi site

  30-05-2018 21:06 via ottawacitizen.com
  Windmill Developments has filed the largest ever grant application to the city to help finance the cleanup costs of contaminated industrial lands on the Ottawa River, where the company plans to build its flagship Zibi community.
  The developer is asking for more than $60 million in brownfields rehabilitation grant and development charge credits to clean up the 6.5 hectares of land it owns at 3 and 4 Booth St., on Chaudière and Albert islands.
  The city’s program, which caps all grants
  
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• .@arkellsmusic and @lights are two of the main acts performing on Parliament Hill this Canada Day, and it should be… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  30-05-2018 20:59 via twitter.com
  .@arkellsmusic and @lights are two of the main acts performing on Parliament Hill this Canada Day, and it should be… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Officer who hit and choked hospital patient docked pay, ordered to take class

  30-05-2018 20:15 via ottawacitizen.com
  An Ottawa police officer who hit a handcuffed hospital patient in the neck and then choked him for not being quiet will forfeit five days’ pay and attend a class on emotional intelligence, according to a decision handed down last week.
  Const. Greg Thomson pleaded guilty in April to one count of unlawful or unnecessary exercise of authority for unjustifiably grabbing the man and choking him in January 2017.
  Thomson, an Ottawa police officer since 2006, responded to a 911 call and found a ma
  
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• Dining Out: Mouldy cake one of the failings at marc | kitchen — a restaurant you'd like to like

  30-05-2018 20:05 via ottawacitizen.com
  marc | kitchen40 Adeline St., 613-695-9739, marckitchen.caOpen: Monday to Wednesday 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., Thursday and Friday 11 a.m. to 9 p.m., Saturday 5 to 9 p.m., closed SundayPrices: most lunch items $17, appetizers $15, mains $24 to $30Access: steps to front door
  If Marc Behiels were a luckier chef-restaurateur, he would have thrown out that citrus cornmeal cake before a shockingly substandard piece of it arrived at my table.
  Instead, at marc | kitchen in Little Italy, the finishing touc
  
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• Denley: Doug Ford has a plan – but not all the numbers

  30-05-2018 19:57 via ottawacitizen.com
  Progressive Conservative leader Doug Ford’s two main opponents have had some fun claiming he has no platform, although he has offered a substantial of mix of tax cuts, new spending and expenditure reductions throughout the campaign.
  Wednesday, Ford finally released a document that pulls it all together.
  What’s missing is the important page that shows how Ford’s plan will be phased in and how it affects the bottom line. That’s a big omission, and probably not a smart one,
  
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• 'Thank God we’re all OK': Dozens displaced after townhouse complex blaze on Chapman Mills

  30-05-2018 19:32 via ottawacitizen.com
  Dozens of people lost their homes in a three-alarm blaze that destroyed part of a stacked townhouse development in Barrhaven Wednesday morning, while several say they are grateful to have escaped with their lives.
  Multiple 911 calls came in at 8:28 a.m. reporting flames at 601 Chapman Mills Dr.
  Arriving fire crews immediately declared a three-alarm fire as flames spread through the back of the complex between Woodroffe Avenue and Longfields Drive. As many as 16 units were affected. One person su
  
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• Going out best bets, May 31 to June 6: From Veg Fest to Doors Open Ottawa and A Tribe Called Red

  30-05-2018 19:31 via ottawacitizen.com
  Classical
  This Sunday afternoon, at its last concert of the season, Thirteen Strings will be joined by acclaimed Montreal violinist and Juno Award-winner Alexandre Da Costa. The concert’s theme will be opera favourites, and the program will draw upon works by Mozart (excerpts from The Magic Flute), Bizet (Habanera from Carmen), Handel (Overture to Athalie) and others. The concert begins at 3 p.m. at Dominion-Chalmers Church. Tickets ranging from $10-$40 are available at The Leading Note, C
  
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• Today's letters: Cycling injuries are a sad reality

  30-05-2018 19:26 via ottawacitizen.com
  Health spending is out of controlRe: Pricey beer is worth the cost of health care, May 28
  In response to the letter about the price of beer, gas and apple crisp in Canada versus the United States.
  I don’t think Canadians mind paying extra to support our health care – I think people are overwhelmed by how much we are paying extra. The fact is, it’s gone too far, and every time the government wants more, they bring out the health care boogeyman.
  It’s time to get this under
  
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• How to get into Ottawa museums for free

  30-05-2018 18:08 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa has some of the best museums in the world.
  And – if you plan ahead – you can get into many of them for free.
  Watch the video to find out how.
   
  
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• The @rick_gibbons Show for 5/30/18: 1:08: @Ian_Holliday 1:17: @JohnFraserOS 1:30: @MichaelMaidment & @erinnsalewski… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  30-05-2018 18:07 via twitter.com
  The @rick_gibbons Show for 5/30/18: 1:08: @Ian_Holliday 1:17: @JohnFraserOS 1:30: @MichaelMaidment & @erinnsalewski… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Major tractor trailer collision leaves at least one dead on Hwy 401

  30-05-2018 18:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  A driver has died after a collision between two tractor trailers resulted in a fire on Highway 401 between Deseronto Road and Highway 49 Wednesday morning.
  Emergency services were called to the crash at approximately 6:40 a.m. Fire crews were still on scene fighting the fire that had engulfed one of the tractors in the westbound lanes as of 10 a.m.
  The Ontario Provincial Police closed the westbound lanes at Deseronto Road.
  The OPP say the lanes “will remain closed for an extended period of
  
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• NEXT on the Power Lunch: @MelAdams1310 & @awudrick join @_MarkSutcliffe live in-studio: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  30-05-2018 17:55 via twitter.com
  NEXT on the Power Lunch: @MelAdams1310 & @awudrick join @_MarkSutcliffe live in-studio: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Speed a potential factor in crash that killed two in Gatineau Park

  30-05-2018 17:47 via ottawacitizen.com
  Speed is being eyed as a likely factor in a crash that killed a man and woman in their 20s overnight in Gatineau Park.
  First responders found them unresponsive after their car went off the road and crashed into trees on the Champlain Parkway near Huron Lookout at about 12 a.m. Wednesday. They were pronounced dead at the scene soon after.
  The parkway remained closed Wednesday morning as RCMP officers reconstructed the circumstances of the fatal crash.
  The names of the dead were not being released
  
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• Coming up at 11:45: Former Ottawa mayor Jim Durrell joins @_MarkSutcliffe on his Ottawa Sports Hall of Fame induc… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  30-05-2018 17:40 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 11:45: Former Ottawa mayor Jim Durrell joins @_MarkSutcliffe on his Ottawa Sports Hall of Fame induc… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• "Ontario Election: Voter antipathy sets up strategic voting face-off between Conservatives & NDP" @Ian_Holliday jo… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  30-05-2018 17:25 via twitter.com
  "Ontario Election: Voter antipathy sets up strategic voting face-off between Conservatives & NDP"@Ian_Holliday jo… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Chapman Mills fire update from @OttFire #ottnews twitter.com/OttFire/status…

  30-05-2018 17:18 via twitter.com
  Chapman Mills fire update from @OttFire#ottnews twitter.com/OttFire/status…
  
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• The #RCMP investigating fatal crash in Gatineau Park. #ottnews #gatnews twitter.com/RCMP_Nat_Div/s…

  30-05-2018 17:16 via twitter.com
  The #RCMP investigating fatal crash in Gatineau Park.#ottnews#gatnews twitter.com/RCMP_Nat_Div/s…
  
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• Coming up at 11: Professor Elliot Tepper joins @_MarkSutcliffe live to discuss global affairs. Listen: 📻: 13… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  30-05-2018 16:55 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 11:Professor Elliot Tepper joins @_MarkSutcliffe live to discuss global affairs.Listen:📻: 13… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• UPDATE: from @OttFire on Chapman Mills blaze. #ottnews twitter.com/OttFire/status…

  30-05-2018 16:44 via twitter.com
  UPDATE: from @OttFire on Chapman Mills blaze. #ottnews twitter.com/OttFire/status…
  
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• Coming up at 10:48: @UW_Michael joins @_MarkSutcliffe on the Community Builder of the Year Awards Gala: 📻: 1310… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  30-05-2018 16:40 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 10:48: @UW_Michael joins @_MarkSutcliffe on the Community Builder of the Year Awards Gala: 📻: 1310… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Coming up on today's Power Lunch: @MelAdams1310 & @awudrick join @_MarkSutcliffe live in-studio: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  30-05-2018 16:35 via twitter.com
  Coming up on today's Power Lunch: @MelAdams1310 & @awudrick join @_MarkSutcliffe live in-studio: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Coming up at 10:40: @MacLeodLisa joins @_MarkSutcliffe on the Ontario election: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  30-05-2018 16:30 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 10:40: @MacLeodLisa joins @_MarkSutcliffe on the Ontario election:📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Coming up on the 10 O'Clock Talk: @JLMadigan, @DerickFage & @AGMacDougall join @_marksutcliffe LIVE: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  30-05-2018 15:50 via twitter.com
  Coming up on the 10 O'Clock Talk: @JLMadigan, @DerickFage & @AGMacDougall join @_marksutcliffe LIVE: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Coming up at 9:45: @ElizabethMay joins @_marksutcliffe on the Tran Mountain pipeline: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  30-05-2018 15:38 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 9:45: @ElizabethMay joins @_marksutcliffe on the Tran Mountain pipeline: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• House Works: Tips for a great new roof

  30-05-2018 15:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  Most houses in Canada have asphalt shingle roofs, and June is an excellent month to have new shingles installed. With hot weather on the way, shingles will seal down reliably later on in the summer sun. But June itself is also not usually so hot that the shingles will be soft and easily damaged underfoot during installation.
  Because you’re interested in getting the best possible asphalt shingle roofing job, there are details you need to discuss with your roofer. As with any other professio
  
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• Denley: Doug Ford – by the numbers

  30-05-2018 15:09 via ottawacitizen.com
  Progressive Conservative leader Doug Ford’s two main opponents say he has no platform. That could easily leave voters with the mistaken impression that Ford is refusing to tell us what his government would do. That’s far from the case.
  Ford has outlined a series of major proposals, but what’s missing, so far, is the important page that shows how Ford’s plan for tax cuts, new spending and expenditure reductions will be phased in and how it affects the bottom line.
  That&rsq
  
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• Crews tackle three-alarm fire at townhouse complex on Chapman Mills Drive

  30-05-2018 15:07 via ottawacitizen.com
  Firefighters asked commuters to stay clear as they tackled a three-alarm blaze that broke out in a stacked townhouse complex on Chapman Mills Drive Wednesday morning.
  The call came in at 8:28 a.m. and was immediately upgraded to a three alarm as flames threatened multiple units in the complex at 601 Chapman Mills Dr., between Woodroffe Avenue and Longfields Drive.
  Ottawa police said Chapman Mills was closed between Beatrice Drive and Leamington Way.
  More to come.
  Fire in townhomes on Chapma
  
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• Two dead in Gatineau Park crash overnight

  30-05-2018 14:57 via ottawacitizen.com
  A man and woman are dead after their car went off the road and crashed into trees in Gatineau Park overnight.
  The Champlain Parkway remained closed Wednesday morning as RCMP officers reconstructed the circumstances of the fatal crash near Champlain Lookout.
  Officers from MRC des Collines were the first police on the scene at about 12 a.m. Wednesday. First responders found the pair unconscious in the vehicle and they succumbed to their injuries.
  Next of kin were still being notified, an RCMP spok
  
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• Sunny scorcher in store as mercury hits 30 C

  30-05-2018 13:26 via ottawacitizen.com
  It’s no record-breaker but get ready for the summer of 2018’s first scorcher.
  If the mercury on Wednesday reaches the forecast of 30 C it will be the hottest day since last September. And it will feel even hotter with a Humidex of 36 and a UV index of 9 or very high. The overnight low will only reach 19 C.
  A typical high for the end of May is 22 C but Environment Canada’s record high for May 30 was 33.2 C in 2016.
  Mainly-cloudy skies return in Thursday’s forecast with a 4
  
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• Boyle faces charges including assault, sexual assault, unlawful confinement and causing someone to take a noxious s… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  30-05-2018 12:10 via twitter.com
  Boyle faces charges including assault, sexual assault, unlawful confinement and causing someone to take a noxious s… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Reevely: Lies, damned lies, and the major parties' hydro plans

  30-05-2018 12:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Ontario New Democrats’ very bad plan for electricity will make consumer hydro bills shoot up, the Progressive Conservatives charged Tuesday. As opposed to the Tories’ very good plan, which will make bills shoot up later.
  “Today we want to shine light on the consequences of the NDP’s real hydro policies and how they will hurt you,” Nepean Tory candidate Lisa MacLeod said in Toronto, with fellow incumbent MPP Todd Smith. They’re the Tories’ former and
  
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• MPs to burn midnight oil amid legislative scramble before summer break: bit.ly/2H1PPEO https://t.co/kUl0B8hacw

  30-05-2018 12:00 via twitter.com
  
  MPs to burn midnight oil amid legislative scramble before summer break: bit.ly/2H1PPEO https://t.co/kUl0B8hacw
  
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• A look at childcare plans proposed this election by Ontario's three main parties: bit.ly/2xq3gyL https://t.co/UxEIL6t0u6

  30-05-2018 11:37 via twitter.com
  
  A look at childcare plans proposed this election by Ontario's three main parties: bit.ly/2xq3gyL https://t.co/UxEIL6t0u6
  
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• A piece of the cast iron bell was left behind on the lawn of the Trinity Anglican Church. #Ottnews twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…

  30-05-2018 11:32 via twitter.com
  A piece of the cast iron bell was left behind on the lawn of the Trinity Anglican Church. #Ottnews twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…
  
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• CP Rail train operators on strike; signal workers reach agreement: bit.ly/2sjcBDp https://t.co/1jbgxbV6Qr

  30-05-2018 11:05 via twitter.com
  
  CP Rail train operators on strike; signal workers reach agreement: bit.ly/2sjcBDp https://t.co/1jbgxbV6Qr
  
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• Ottawa South PC candidate accuses Liberal campaign of harassment

  30-05-2018 05:04 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa South Progressive Conservative candidate Karin Howard accused her Liberal opponent John Fraser in a debate Tuesday night of having her followed, photographed, and videotaped.
  “There is a party that is following me, taking photos of me, and taping me,” said Howard during her closing statements. But, while being trailed by reporters after the debate, she refused to answer any questions or substantiate her claims
  “I made the statement. It’s true, and if you want to kn
  
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• One suspect in Mississauga Indian restaurant bombing may be woman: Cops

  30-05-2018 02:03 via ottawacitizen.com
  MISSISSAUGA — One of two suspects wanted in connection with an explosion that injured 15 people at an Indian restaurant may be a woman, contrary to earlier reports, police said Tuesday.
  Peel Regional Police originally said both suspects seen on video entering the Bombay Bhel restaurant on Hurontario near Eglinton last week were men, but new video evidence and witness input suggests at least one of the suspects could be female, Supt. Rob Ryan said.
   
  
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• Kingstonv woman arrested for graffiti incident. ottawamatters.com/around-ontario…

  30-05-2018 01:47 via twitter.com
  Kingstonv woman arrested for graffiti incident. ottawamatters.com/around-ontario…
  
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• 5 things to watch for at Mosaïculture Gatineau 2018

  30-05-2018 01:31 via ottawacitizen.com
  After a hugely successful inaugural season last summer, the team behind MosaïCanada 150 have their work cut out for them to build similar hype for the horticultural exhibit’s second iteration in Gatineau.
  “The challenge is to present something more than last year,” Lise Cormier said Tuesday. Cormier is the vice-president of Mosaïcultures Internationales de Montréal, the non-profit behind the garden dreamscape that drew 1.3 million visitors to Jac
  
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• Bank breaches highlight rise of cyber threats. ottawamatters.com/national-busin…

  30-05-2018 01:20 via twitter.com
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• 'It makes me feel awful … I loved him,' says father on trial for killing son

  30-05-2018 01:08 via ottawacitizen.com
  Three weeks before John Mcrae knifed his son to death, he feared his drunken son so much that he slept with a baseball bat for protection.
  The old ex-con, now 73, could once handle himself with his fists, but these days he gets winded from a flight of stairs.
  So he kept a bat close by for fear his son, Michael, would make good on his threats to kill “the rotten old bastard.”
  And on the evening of July 7, 2017, after another day of drinking and fighting with his son over ren
  
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• Local schools face nearly $1-billion in disrepair - ottawamatters.com/local-news/loc… https://t.co/ybe6lReSqj

  30-05-2018 01:00 via twitter.com
  
  Local schools face nearly $1-billion in disrepair - ottawamatters.com/local-news/loc… https://t.co/ybe6lReSqj
  
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• Super library projected to be done in 2024 at new cost of $174.8 million

  30-05-2018 00:59 via ottawacitizen.com
  The estimated cost of a super library on LeBreton Flats is now $174.8 million and the City of Ottawa will need to borrow $80 million to help cover its end of the development deal with Library and Archives Canada, a new report says.
  The completion year is 2024, which adds an additional year to the last estimated timeline.
  The city on Tuesday revealed its financing plan for a joint municipal flagship library and Library and Archives building. Construction costs have gone up by $6.8 milli
  
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