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• Premier-designate Doug Ford stands with the PM on trade. ottawamatters.com/national-news/…

  13-06-2018 23:57 via twitter.com
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• "Remember why you ran for office." Former MP Paul Dewar addresses NDP colleagues. ottawamatters.com/national-news/…

  13-06-2018 23:45 via twitter.com
  "Remember why you ran for office." Former MP Paul Dewar addresses NDP colleagues.ottawamatters.com/national-news/…
  
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• Synthetic heart tissue researched in Ottawa has potential to change lives of heart attack patients

  13-06-2018 23:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  Inside a lab at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute, researchers are creating biosynthetic heart tissue that might some day change the lives of patients with damaged hearts.
  Federal officials watched Wednesday as a member of the team working on the project demonstrated how the liquid bio-material becomes gel-like when warmed to body temperature. When it is injected into the heart, it acts as a kind of “scaffolding” that reinforces weakened heart tissue, said Dr. Erik Suuronen, l
  
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• US Fed rate hike drags North American markets lower. ottawamatters.com/national-busin…

  13-06-2018 23:20 via twitter.com
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• North American bottom line translates into winning 2026 World Cup bid ottawamatters.com/national-news/… https://t.co/tRHByLRnsO

  13-06-2018 23:05 via twitter.com
  
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• Severe thunderstorm warning issued for Wednesday night

  13-06-2018 22:57 via ottawacitizen.com
  In a sure sign of summer, city splash pads open Wednesday but it looks like Mother Nature has her own way of cooling off with showers and a thunderstorm warning in the forecast.
  Environment Canada issued a thunderstorm warning for the Ottawa-Gatineau region at about 5 p.m.
  “Conditions will become favourable for severe thunderstorms to develop this afternoon as a cold front moves through,” the agency had warned earlier in the day. “The main threat is damaging wind gusts of 90 to
  
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• Camera records three suspects in May 13 robbery on Morriset Ave.

  13-06-2018 22:47 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa police are looking for three men who robbed another man in an apartment building on Morriset Avenue on May 13.
  The robbery took place about 3:30 p.m., police say. The victim was beaten up and needed medical treatment in hospital.
  The attackers were all aged 18 to 25, and one may have been wearing a cast or a fingerless glove on one hand.
  Anyone with information is asked to call the robbery unit at (613) 236-1222, extension 5116.
  Anonymous tips can be submitted by calling Crime Stoppers to
  
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• UPDATED: Deputy mayor Bob Monette not running for re-election ottawamatters.com/local-news/dep… https://t.co/14T0XDfHVH

  13-06-2018 22:35 via twitter.com
  
  UPDATED: Deputy mayor Bob Monette not running for re-electionottawamatters.com/local-news/dep… https://t.co/14T0XDfHVH
  
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• #otttraffic #perth #Hwy7 twitter.com/511Ontario/sta…

  13-06-2018 22:29 via twitter.com
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• Reevely: Police, potholes and trains — pre-election goodies sprinkle out of city hall

  13-06-2018 22:28 via ottawacitizen.com
  In barely a week, Mayor Jim Watson has found more than $2 million to fill more potholes, hire more police officers and study a light-rail extension to Barrhaven. An election is in the air.
  The pothole money is skimmed from cash that turned out not to be needed for a bunch of under-budget capital projects. Rather than putting the money into reserves, the city’s going to spend $1 million more on superficial road repairs — on top of the $10 million city councillors decided to spend out
  
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• Dining Out: At the Cameron's sublime summery patio, hits and misses were served

  13-06-2018 22:12 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Cameron176 Cameron Ave. (upstairs at the Ottawa Tennis and Lawn Bowling Club), 613-730-7207, instagram.com/the_cameron_ottawaOpen: Weekdays 4 to 11 p.m., Saturday and Sunday 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. for brunch, 3:30 to 11 p.m. for dinnerPrices: most mains under $20Access: Steps to front door, dining room upstairs
  If you’re feeling that summer vacation can’t come soon enough, I suggest you get yourself down to the Cameron in Old Ottawa South for dinner on a warm, sunny night.
  The seasonal
  
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• Catholic school board passes budget ottawamatters.com/local-news/cat… https://t.co/Ujf5ZLAXBC

  13-06-2018 22:05 via twitter.com
  
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• Public prompted to clear out cars after 'rash' of thefts

  13-06-2018 22:04 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa police are warning the public not to leave valuables in their cars after “a rash of theft from vehicles” this year.
  According to police, there have been around 1,600 thefts from vehicles reported since the start of the year — an average of more than 10 every day. Half of those, police said, took place downtown.
  “Thieves are literally going door to door looking for an unlocked vehicle, and once they gain entry, they go through the entire car, including the trunk,&rd
  
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• Memories of Montebello: Sum 41's Deryck Whibley recalls his return to mass crowds

  13-06-2018 21:47 via ottawacitizen.com
  It was a hot and sticky summer music festival in front of tens, nay, hundreds of thousands — a rockin’ good time for the fist-pumpers, the head-nodders and the shirtless moshers alike.
  And it should have felt like home to Deryck Whibley. But the frontman of Canadian punk band Sum 41 says it’s more likely he was, well, at least briefly, quite terrified.
  Two years ago, Whibley and the boys were about to play what was then known as the Amnesia Rockfest in Montebello, Que
  
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• Ceremony to be held Friday for cutting of steel on the first Joint Support Ship

  13-06-2018 21:44 via ottawacitizen.com
  Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan and Procurement Minister Carla Qualtrough will take part in a steel cutting ceremony for the first of two Joint Support Ships. That is happening on Friday at Seaspan’s Vancouver Shipyards.
  Taxpayers will have to spend $1.1 billion extra on new navy supply ships, the Liberal government recently acknowledged.
  Previously the cost of building the two Joint Support Ships at Seaspan shipyards had been pegged at $2.3 billion.
  But the governm
  
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• Ottawa clothing company aiming to provide comfort for cancer patients ottawamatters.com/local-news/ott… https://t.co/Zx1hMdz07v

  13-06-2018 21:35 via twitter.com
  
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• Police looking for trio after Carlington robbery ottawamatters.com/police-beat/po… https://t.co/xXM0EE2Uip

  13-06-2018 21:24 via twitter.com
  
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• Tweaks to supply management possible, according to Federal Agriculture Minister. ottawamatters.com/national-news/…

  13-06-2018 21:01 via twitter.com
  Tweaks to supply management possible, according to Federal Agriculture Minister.ottawamatters.com/national-news/…
  
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• Council grants Coun. Jody Mitic a leave of absence

  13-06-2018 20:29 via ottawacitizen.com
  Jody Mitic, the councillor for Innes ward, is officially on a leave of absence from city hall with an unknown return date.
  Council voted unanimously Wednesday to grant Mitic a leave of absence after the councillor and Canadian war veteran provided written notice to the clerk that he can’t attend committee and council “for the foreseeable future.” His notice also came with medical documentation.
  On Tuesday, Mitic posted on Facebook, “I will be off these means for 90 days.&
  
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• Glavin: Trump and Kim do all despots a favour

  13-06-2018 20:27 via ottawacitizen.com
  After leaving no sidebar unturned, not one prominent expert unquestioned and not a single outlandish remark unparsed, the efforts of thousands of journalists assigned to chase down every conceivable angle to the reality-television spectacle in Singapore choreographed by U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un this week leave only one small question unanswered.
  What the hell just happened?
  One reason the question is practically impossible to answer is that you’d have
  
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• Police seek public input on new south campus slated for 2021

  13-06-2018 19:35 via ottawacitizen.com
  City police are inviting public feedback June 26 on plans for an $81-million campus in the city’s burgeoning south end.
  The drop-in event is from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. at the Rideau Valley Conservation Authority’s headquarters at 3889 Rideau Valley Dr.
  “The South Campus is an important community-building initiative that will result in enhanced services to the fastest growing area in our city, Ottawa’s south end,” Chief Charles Bordeleau said in a release.
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• Hamilton-area truck driver faces charges connected to #HWY401 crash Tuesday night west of Prescott. twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…

  13-06-2018 19:16 via twitter.com
  Hamilton-area truck driver faces charges connected to #HWY401 crash Tuesday night west of Prescott. twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…
  
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• The @rick_gibbons Show for Wednesday, June 13th: 1:05: @BobMonette1 1:17: @SunDoniB 1:30: @HowardLevittLaw 1:45:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  13-06-2018 18:35 via twitter.com
  The @rick_gibbons Show for Wednesday, June 13th: 1:05: @BobMonette11:17: @SunDoniB 1:30: @HowardLevittLaw 1:45:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Trucker drunk when he hit sign truck, hurt worker: OPP

  13-06-2018 18:31 via ottawacitizen.com
  A Hamilton-area trucker had twice the legal limit of alcohol in his blood when was arrested for hitting a stopped construction sign truck on Highway 401 Tuesday night then fleeing the scene, the OPP alleges.
  The occupant of the sign truck was hurt but the injuries aren’t considered life-threatening.
  The tractor-trailer hit the sign truck at about 10 p.m. on the westbound Highway 401 in Augusta Township, about 100 km south of Ottawa, leaving a passenger’s side door behind, according t
  
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• Coming up at 12:30: @REDBLACKS @kyhebert joins @_MarkSutcliffe in-studio: 📻: 1310 💻: bit.ly/2oQd8u1… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  13-06-2018 18:20 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 12:30:@REDBLACKS @kyhebert joins @_MarkSutcliffe in-studio:📻: 1310 💻: bit.ly/2oQd8u1… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Library faces court challenge over cancellation of controversial film

  13-06-2018 18:09 via ottawacitizen.com
  The organizer of a screening of the controversial film Killing Europe at the Ottawa Public Library last November has applied for a judicial review of the library’s decision to cancel the showing.
  Madeline Weld claims in her application, which was filed Monday in Toronto, that the library’s decision to cancel “violated (her) constitutional right to free expression” as well as the rights of the audience to see the film.
  Weld argues the library “acted arbitrarily
  
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• Today's letters: A few choice words from our readers to Donald Trump

  13-06-2018 18:05 via ottawacitizen.com
  Keep Trump out: Build the wall
  Re: Trump slams ‘dishonest & weak’ Trudeau, backs out of G7 consensus, June 9.
  Given the recent behaviour and comments from President Donald Trump and some of his Republican confrères, I think we should consider building a wall between Canada and the United States and making the Americans pay for it!
  Larry Wilson, Manotick
  Who makes Trump look weak? Trump himself
  Donald Trump would like people to think that his thoughts, decisions and regular
  
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• Fatal crashes involving transports up 25% in 2018, OPP launches safety blitz

  13-06-2018 17:55 via ottawacitizen.com
  Twenty-five people have been killed in Ontario crashes involving transport trucks so far this year, a 25 per cent increase over last year, the OPP reports as the force launches a blitz Wednesday aimed at bad driving and “dangerous habits.”
  As Operation Corridor hits all of Ontario’s major truck routes June 13-14, the OPP reports that officers have tackled 3,047 collisions involving transport trucks this year.
  The force commended the truckers who are committed to safe driving an
  
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• Fraudster sends victim, 70, to Ottawa hotel for payment of $5,000 in bitcoins

  13-06-2018 17:48 via ottawacitizen.com
  Renfrew OPP is warning of a new twist on a familiar scam after fraudsters got a senior to send them $5,000 in digital currency by threatening that he was facing arrest for unpaid taxes.
  The man in his 70s in the Township of McNab Braeside got a call from someone pretending to represent the Canada Revenue Agency, OPP reported. The fraudster told the man that he would be arrested if he didn’t pay the agency.
  He was instructed to go to an Ottawa hotel that has a Bitcoin ATM and transfer the f
  
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• 'It's breaking my heart': Tearful plea from mom, sisters for return of missing Brockville man

  13-06-2018 17:26 via ottawacitizen.com
  Police in Brockville have helped a devastated family send a video message to a missing son and brother.
  Joshua Hawkins went missing from the city hospital in January and mom Kim and sisters Rebecca, Shania and Sarah issued a new appeal Wednesday on social media for him to come home and for witnesses to come forward with information.
  “We just want him home,” Kim says tearfully on the video shot by police with three of her four daughters behind her to lend their support.  “S
  
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• Coming up at 11:30: @JoelHardenONDP joins @_MarkSutcliffe in-studio: 📻: 1310 💻: bit.ly/2oQd8u1… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  13-06-2018 17:25 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 11:30: @JoelHardenONDP joins @_MarkSutcliffe in-studio: 📻: 1310 💻: bit.ly/2oQd8u1… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• TRAFFIC: @OPP_ER have adjusted detours for #Hwy7 crash near #Perth: #HWY7 is closed between Cameron Side Rd and Gl… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  13-06-2018 16:55 via twitter.com
  TRAFFIC: @OPP_ER have adjusted detours for #Hwy7 crash near #Perth: #HWY7is closed between Cameron Side Rd and Gl… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Coming up at 11: Professor Elliot Tepper joins @_MarkSutcliffe live: 📻: 1310 💻: bit.ly/2oQd8u1 📞:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  13-06-2018 16:55 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 11: Professor Elliot Tepper joins @_MarkSutcliffe live:📻: 1310 💻: bit.ly/2oQd8u1 📞:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• "Team officials and Hoffman knew about harassment allegations for weeks, agent says" @Citizenkwarren joins… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  13-06-2018 16:40 via twitter.com
  "Team officials and Hoffman knew about harassment allegations for weeks, agent says"@Citizenkwarrenjoins… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Coming up at 10:30: Canadian pole vaulter @alysha_newman94 joins @_MarkSutcliffe in-studio: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  13-06-2018 16:25 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 10:30:Canadian pole vaulter @alysha_newman94 joins @_MarkSutcliffe in-studio: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Special forces from Qatar to use Canadian aircraft

  13-06-2018 16:19 via ottawacitizen.com
  Special forces from Qatar will be using Canadian aircraft for skydiving training.
  Qatar’s military recently signed an agreement with Viking Air of British Columbia to purchase Twin Otter DHC 6-400 aircraft.
  Major General Mubarak Mohammed Al Kamit Al Khayarin, commander of the Amiri Air Force and Peter Walker, Viking’s Regional Sales Director for Africa, Middle East, and Asia Pacific, signed the agreement at Doha Air Base, according to news reports from Qatar.
  No details were released
  
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• On today's Power Lunch: @Gen_Tellier & @OPA_President join @_MarkSutcliffe in-studio: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  13-06-2018 16:10 via twitter.com
  On today's Power Lunch: @Gen_Tellier & @OPA_President join @_MarkSutcliffe in-studio: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Police have closed the highway from Harper Road to Cameron Side Road. twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…

  13-06-2018 16:09 via twitter.com
  Police have closed the highway from Harper Road to Cameron Side Road. twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…
  
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• Splash pads open Wednesday, but thunderstorm watch, showers in the forecast

  13-06-2018 15:58 via ottawacitizen.com
  In a sure sign of summer, city splash pads open Wednesday but it looks like Mother Nature has her own way of cooling off with showers and a thunderstorm watch in the forecast.
  Wednesday’s forecast is for increasing cloudiness and a 40 per cent chance of morning showers.
  Environment Canada issued a thunderstorm watch for the region from Pembroke to Cornwall, including Ottawa-Gatineau, at about 10 a.m.
  “Conditions will become favourable for severe thunderstorms to develop this afternoo
  
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• Mayor Watson wants council to spend money on studying Barrhaven LRT

  13-06-2018 15:51 via ottawacitizen.com
  It was only a matter of time before city hall addressed the elephant on the LRT blueprint: Barrhaven.
  Mayor Jim Watson and Barrhaven Coun. Jan Harder announced they’ll ask council on Wednesday to earmark $600,000 to go toward an environmental assessment for an LRT extension from Algonquin College to Barrhaven.
  An environmental assessment is the first necessary step to building an LRT line, but the actual construction is likely many years away. Watson has said the obvious Stage 3 LRT projec
  
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• Bob Monette says he won't seek re-election in Orléans

  13-06-2018 15:29 via ottawacitizen.com
  Orléans Coun. Bob Monette says he won’t seek re-election in the October municipal vote.
  Monette, who had registered for the election, made the announcement Wednesday morning, saying “family decisions” compelled him to put an end to his political career at city hall.
  “Public service is ultimately a family business. During my time in politics I have been blessed to be able to count on many friends and neighbours, but most importantly I have enjoyed the unequivocal su
  
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• Hwy. 7 shut down near Perth after 'serious' crash draws air ambulance

  13-06-2018 15:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  A long stretch of Highway 7 was closed Wednesday morning as the OPP tackled what they report was a “serious” two-vehicle crash involving a jack-knifed tractor-trailer west of Perth.
  An air ambulance had been dispatched for at least one injured person, Lanark OPP reported.
  The highway was closed between Gambles Side Road and Cameron Side Road after the 7:37 a.m. crash in Tay Valley Township.
  Traffic was expected to be detoured along Christie Lake Road.
   
  UPDATE Road Closure: #Hwy
  
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• Ford issues robocall blast backing nephew of deceased MP as Tory candidate in Leeds-Grenville

  13-06-2018 14:13 via ottawacitizen.com
  Premier-designate Doug Ford has intervened in a local federal Conservative nomination race to support Colin Brown in his bid to succeed his late uncle as member of Parliament.
  Only hours after Brown announced on Monday that he would seek the Conservative nomination for the byelection, voters in Leeds-Grenville-Thousand Islands and Rideau Lakes started receiving robocalls from Ford, who urged them to support Colin Brown.
  In the recorded calls, Ford calls Brown a hard worker whom he knows personal
  
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• Splash pads open Wednesday, but watch out for showers and thunderstorms

  13-06-2018 13:37 via ottawacitizen.com
  In a sure sign of summer, city splash pads open Wednesday but it looks like Mother Nature has her own way of cooling off with showers and thunderstorms in the forecast.
  Wednesday’s forecast is for increasing cloudiness and a 40 per cent chance of morning showers. A “few” showers with thunderstorms should begin around noon. The high is 24 C but the humidex 30.
  For Wednesday night, expect a few showers with thunderstorms ending in the evening then mainly cloudy skies with a 60 pe
  
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• 'I miss my dad with all my heart and soul': Murder victim's son bemoans father's fate

  13-06-2018 13:21 via ottawacitizen.com
  The son of murder victim Raymond Collison has called the long-awaited arrest of a suspect in the case “a bitter victory.”
  Tim Collison said his father’s violent death — one in a string of unsolved homicides in and around the small town of Morewood — has caused him enormous pain.
  “I miss my dad with all my heart and soul and the fact that my son never got the chance to meet his grandpa hurts deeply,” Collison, of Cornwall, said in an email exchange with t
  
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• Ottawa's symphony orchestra steps into the future with a 3D printing contest

  13-06-2018 13:06 via ottawacitizen.com
  It is fitting that the Ottawa Symphony Orchestra will open its new season on Nov. 4 at the  Canadian Aviation and Space Museum. For while the late-afternoon concert will open with a mainstay from the golden age of classical music — Johann Sebastian Bach’s The Art of the Fugue — it will close with an uncertain yet bold leap into the future.
  A new work written by Montreal/New York composer Harry Stafylakis, whose music has been described as “an amalgamation of the clas
  
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• Meet the finalists in the Ottawa Symphony Orchestra's 3D printing contest

  13-06-2018 13:06 via ottawacitizen.com
  The finalistsThree finalists were recently announced in the Ottawa Symphony Orchestra’s National 3D Printed Musical Instrument Challenge. The winner will receive the $35,000 KUN Prize, which includes a fabrication and fitting budget, a performance of the instrument by the Ottawa Symphony Orchestra, and $5,000 cash. The winner will be announced at OSO’s open house Thursday at Dominion-Chalmers United Church.
  University of Ottawa PhD student Rob Hunter with the first iteration of his 3
  
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• What is 3D printing?

  13-06-2018 13:03 via ottawacitizen.com
  Also known as additive manufacturing, 3D printing is a process by which a three-dimensional product is made via a plotter that moves along x, y and z axes, adding material — commonly any number of plastics, polymers or metals — as it builds layer upon layer.
  The process dates back to the early 1980s, and ongoing developments have added greatly to the types of material that can be used and the speed of the printers, although the latter are largely still too slow for mass production. B
  
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• Crews quickly extinguished the fire, which is not considered suspicious. twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…

  13-06-2018 11:52 via twitter.com
  Crews quickly extinguished the fire, which is not considered suspicious. twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…
  
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• The SIU says while the officers were on the porch of the house two dogs came out of the home and both officers were… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  13-06-2018 11:45 via twitter.com
  The SIU says while the officers were on the porch of the house two dogs came out of the home and both officers were… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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