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• Business leaders warn of tariff pain. ottawamatters.com/national-busin…

  26-06-2018 23:35 via twitter.com
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• Reevely: Safe detour for Queensway footbridge rebuild still stands a chance

  26-06-2018 23:31 via ottawacitizen.com
  The city’s plan to replace the Harmer Avenue footbridge over Highway 417 with thoughts and prayers for two years could yet be fixed, depending on how a meeting Coun. Jeff Leiper has on Thursday turns out.
  While the rundown footbridge west of downtown is rebuilt over the next two years, the city planned a temporary segregated bike lane on Holland Avenue just to the east. Then 118 people signed a petition objecting to the lost parking. Then 650 people signed a petition asking for the track.
  
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• Canada Day on Parliament Hill could be a scorcher: Here's what you need to know

  26-06-2018 23:21 via ottawacitizen.com
  This Canada Day will rival the hottest July 1 in Ottawa on record, with the temperature forecast to hit a scorching 36 C.
  Environment Canada issued a special weather statement Tuesday and is expected to upgrade it to a full heat warning.
  “This looks like it will be a multi-day heat event, not just for Ottawa but right across southern Ontario,” said Geoff Coulson, meteorologist with Environment and Climate Change Canada.
  Ottawa’s current record high for July 1 is 36.7 C, reached
  
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• Taxpayers paid $337,000 for Canadian Forces VIP "party flight"

  26-06-2018 22:34 via ottawacitizen.com
  A Canadian Forces VIP trip that ended in a sex assault charge against former NHL player Dave “Tiger” Williams cost taxpayers more than $337,000, according to figures compiled by Postmedia.
  When Williams was charged in February, the Canadian Forces suggested such trips, which involve sending celebrities and sports personalities overseas to boost the morale of troops, cost around $15,000 each.
  The Dec. 2-3, 2017 flight to Greece and Latvia was planned by the office of Chief of the Defe
  
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• Project 4000: City recruiting hundreds of workers for October election

  26-06-2018 22:33 via ottawacitizen.com
  From the Home and Garden show and the Canadian Tulip Festival to the Great Glebe Garage Sale and the Good Companions seniors’ centre, staff from Ottawa’s elections office have criss-crossed the city this spring to recruit 4,000 people to work at polling stations on election day.
  Sporting navy blue T-shirts and considerable enthusiasm for the democratic process, the teams of Elections Ottawa recruiters have scheduled more than two dozen outreach events. Their goal is to sign people up
  
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• Police constable lauded for 'brave and courageous act' after fire rescue

  26-06-2018 22:25 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa Fire Services are thanking an Ottawa police constable who ran into a house filling with smoke to rescue a small child from the basement on Monday evening.
  Around 8 p.m., while responding to an unrelated call, police noticed black smoke coming from a home on Irma Private. A mother was outside with her two children, and notified the constable of a third child who was still in the basement. While officers helped the mom and kids outside, the constable stormed into the house and was able to g
  
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• Dog that bit tot in Aylmer euthanized, police confirm

  26-06-2018 22:13 via ottawacitizen.com
  The owner and caregiver of a dog that mauled an Aylmer toddler have both been ticketed for bylaw infractions and the dog has been put down, police said.
  As detectives continued to investigate Tuesday whether a crime was committed, they reported that violations of the rules governing potentially dangerous dogs jumped to 216 last year from 120 in 2016.
  Bites and aggressive attacks increased to 33 in 2017 from 24 the year before.
  Cléothilde Lefebvre-Bergeron was pushing her two-year-old son,
  
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• Bluesfest killdeer's 'bluesnest' is on the move

  26-06-2018 22:13 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Bluesfest killdeer and the four eggs in its inconvenient “bluesnest” are on the move.
  Whether that means a relocation to a new site on LeBreton Flats out of harm’s way, or a three-hour drive to the Woodlands Wildlife Sanctuary in Minden, On., won’t be known until bird experts arrive in Ottawa later Tuesday.
  Woodlands executive director, Monika Melichar, left for Ottawa Tuesday afternoon after Bluesfest organizers got the OK from Environment Canada to move the nest, wh
  
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• HEADS UP: @ottawahealth advising #CanadaDay2018 revelers to prepare of extreme temperatures. #ottnews twitter.com/ottawahealth/s…

  26-06-2018 22:06 via twitter.com
  HEADS UP: @ottawahealth advising #CanadaDay2018 revelers to prepare of extreme temperatures. #ottnews twitter.com/ottawahealth/s…
  
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• Glebe development latest to leave councillor's head hurting over planning

  26-06-2018 21:36 via ottawacitizen.com
  Coun. David Chernushenko has a headache from developers getting more than what the city’s planning rules allow.
  “I feel like I’ve run up a wall enough times that my head hurts,” Chernushenko said Tuesday during a planning committee meeting, which approved a seven-storey building in the Glebe.
  “I don’t think the problem is my head. I think it’s the wall.”
  Minto Communities is proposing the building at 99 Fifth Ave. as an addition to the historic two
  
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• BREAKING: Former Ottawa Senators Captain Daniel Alfredsson did not make it into the Hockey Hall of Fame this year… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  26-06-2018 21:17 via twitter.com
  BREAKING: Former Ottawa Senators Captain Daniel Alfredsson did not make it into the Hockey Hall of Fame this year… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Wood Buffalo National Park - Canada's largest - under threat, according to environmental assessment. ottawamatters.com/national-news/…

  26-06-2018 21:15 via twitter.com
  Wood Buffalo National Park - Canada's largest - under threat, according to environmental assessment. ottawamatters.com/national-news/…
  
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• South-end chiropractor charged with sexual assault, police fear more victims

  26-06-2018 20:38 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa police say that there may be more victims of a chiropractor who was charged with sexual assault charges on Tuesday.
  Dr. William McLeod, a 69-year-old chiropractor, allegedly sexually assaulted a woman in her 50s in early April while she was a patient of his south-end Ottawa clinic.Police allege McLeod offered the woman a “free massage” and subsequently assaulted her in a private area of the clinic. 
  The woman reported the incident to police three days later on April 9.
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• Fire crews extricate victim from flipped vehicle in Hunt Club crash

  26-06-2018 19:59 via ottawacitizen.com
  A two-vehicle crash on Hunt Club Road early Tuesday afternoon left one person trapped in a vehicle that landed on its side.
  Fire crews were able to free the person from the the wreckage of the crash near the intersection of Paul Benoit Driveway at about 1:30 p.m.
  There was no immediate word on the extent of injuries.
  Police said the “serious” collision closed westbound Hunt Club starting at Paul Anka Drive and warned commuters to avoid the area.
   
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• How to make the most of an Ottawa summer

  26-06-2018 19:47 via ottawacitizen.com
  Option: Rent a canoe, kayak or pedal boat at Dow’s Lake Marina
  When: Available between May and September. Summer hours: 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., seven days a week.
  Info: Enjoy a day on the historic Rideau Canal and take in Ottawa’s beauty. Rentals range from $20 for an hour in a pedal boat and $12 for each additional hour, to $26 for a two-person kayak. Also $12 for each additional hour. A life jacket is included in the rental cost.
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  Option: The Capital Fair
  When: Aug. 17 to
  
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• U.S. Tariffs pose major risk to Canada's economy. ottawamatters.com/national-news/…

  26-06-2018 19:45 via twitter.com
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• Editorial: Gatineau's LRT should get full support

  26-06-2018 19:41 via ottawacitizen.com
  The City of Gatineau is pushing aggressively for its own light-rail transit system. Good: Until that goal is achieved, Gatineau’s bus-only transit will be out of synch with Ottawa’s new LRT.
  Gatineau wants to build a 26-kilometre rail line at an estimated cost of $2.1 billion. It hopes to use the Alexandra and Prince of Wales bridges to cross the Ottawa River and connect with our LRT. This would be a huge step forward for the thousands of Ontarians and Quebecers who commute inte
  
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• 'East Flats' towers approved for next phase of LeBreton Flats neighbourhood

  26-06-2018 19:39 via ottawacitizen.com
  Five towers, with one reaching 45 storeys, can be built in the next phase of residential development near the future LRT station on LeBreton Flats, the planning committee unanimously decided Tuesday.
  The five-tower East Flats development by Claridge Homes would have about 1,600 units across 133 Booth St. and 301 and 324 Lett St. The plan calls for a 45-storey tower, two 30-storey towers and two 25-storey towers.
  There’s potential for restaurants, a child-care facility and a grocery store u
  
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• This morning near Gander, Newfoundland. No joke. ottawamatters.com/national-news/…

  26-06-2018 19:25 via twitter.com
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  26-06-2018 19:22 via twitter.com
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• More design work on Château Laurier endorsed by planning committee

  26-06-2018 19:22 via ottawacitizen.com
  There wasn’t much fuss over the proposed Château Laurier expansion during Tuesday’s planning committee meeting.
  Councillors simply approved a recommendation from the built-heritage subcommittee to send the hotel owner, Larco Investments, back to the drawing board and create a fifth version of the addition, which is currently on paper as a glassy seven-storey building connected to the north side of the hotel.
  The political drama over the addition to the historic hotel has been d
  
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• Two-car collision blocks traffic at south-end intersection

  26-06-2018 19:05 via ottawacitizen.com
  Traffic was blocked but there were no major injuries in a Tuesday morning crash in the city’s south end.
  First responders were called to the scene at the intersection of Albion Road South and Hunt Club Road at about 10 a.m.
  There were no passengers trapped in the cars. There was no report of injuries.
   
  
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• Cole: The latest Public Service survey shows us what to fix

  26-06-2018 19:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  Privy Council Clerk Michael Wernick has recently rejected the conclusion of Canada’s auditor general that the Public Service has a “broken culture.” Wernick feels that this view is not supported by much evidence. Where could one find such evidence?
  Well, the government is committed to ensuring that ongoing workplace improvement is based on evidence such as that collected through the Public Service Employee Survey. Treasury Board reports the results of the survey and yes, there
  
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• The @Senators put forward Alex Burrows on waivers with the intention of buying out his contract. #ottnews twitter.com/Sportsnet/stat…

  26-06-2018 18:43 via twitter.com
  The @Senators put forward Alex Burrows on waivers with the intention of buying out his contract. #ottnews twitter.com/Sportsnet/stat…
  
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• Crash knocks out power, closes road in Alta Vista

  26-06-2018 18:34 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa police warned motorists to avoid the area of Smyth Road and Barnhart Place Tuesday morning after a multi-vehicle collision downed two power poles.
  There were no reported injuries, paramedics said.
  As of 12:30 p.m. Hydro Ottawa said that some 380 clients remained without power. There was no ETA for completion of repairs.
  VIDEO: Update on restoration work in Smyth Road/Barnhart Place area from Hydro Ottawa's Darcy Provost. Cause of outage: motor vehicle accident. Smyth Rd eastbound is curre
  
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• Cohen: Even today, America still ignores the black experience

  26-06-2018 18:21 via ottawacitizen.com
  MONTGOMERY, Alabama – The most unlikely expression of the unsettled past in the “Cradle of the Confederacy” is not the duelling monuments to civil war and civil rights that line the capital’s gracious Dexter Avenue. It is a few miles from downtown, more subtly, on Ann Street.
  The school is one of those standard mid-century, low-slung red-brick institutions. From behind, it looks like an abandoned warehouse of smeared windows and cracked walls.
  In front, though, a life-siz
  
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• The @rick_gibbons Show for Tuesday, June 26th: 1:08: @LeBoatVacations 1:17: @NicBoyon 1:30: @SamLapradeCFRE 1:45:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  26-06-2018 18:02 via twitter.com
  The @rick_gibbons Show for Tuesday, June 26th: 1:08: @LeBoatVacations 1:17: @NicBoyon 1:30: @SamLapradeCFRE 1:45:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• NEXT on the Power Lunch: @ScottMoffatt21 and @karinottawa join @_MarkSutcliffe in-studio 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  26-06-2018 17:56 via twitter.com
  NEXT on the Power Lunch: @ScottMoffatt21 and @karinottawa join @_MarkSutcliffe in-studio📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• UPDATE: Lights back on in College ward after a tree contacted some powerlines. #ottnews twitter.com/hydroottawa/st…

  26-06-2018 17:37 via twitter.com
  UPDATE: Lights back on in College ward after a tree contacted some powerlines. #ottnews twitter.com/hydroottawa/st…
  
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• Heat wave threatens first long weekend of summer - ottawamatters.com/local-news/hea… #ottnews https://t.co/V1L4g2aWUX

  26-06-2018 16:57 via twitter.com
  
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• Police probe Gatineau fire, two displaced

  26-06-2018 15:40 via ottawacitizen.com
  Police are investigating after a fire caused heavy smoke and water damage to a house in Gatineau’s La Blanche neighbourhood on Monday.
  One person was evacuated from the blaze and two displaced, the fire department said.
  Crews were called to 10 Boyes St. off St. René Boulevard East at 5:42 p.m.
  They found flames on a terrace behind the house involving a wall and the roof.
  They were able to limit the spread of the flames to the outside and roof and had the situation under control at 7
  
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• Antiques: $35,000 Group of Seven painting makes big impression

  26-06-2018 15:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  Q: My family has had this Group of Seven painting ever since it was received from my grand uncle as a wedding gift to my parents upon their marriage in 1935. We have often wondered what public or private history may be behind “The Red Barn” from its painted signature and date of ‘L.L. FITZGERALD 1921.’ It measures 20 x 28 cm tall (8 x 11 inches).
  Any information you might be able to add, including its potential value, would be very much appreciated.
  Edward, Pointe-Claire,
  
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• Kingston developer looks to purchase, renovate notorious P4W prison

  26-06-2018 14:35 via ottawacitizen.com
  A Kingston developer has plans to renovate the former Prison for Women site.
  The Doornekamp family’s ABNA Investment Ltd. has an approved offer to buy the 3.27-hectare property from Queen’s University, which purchased it in 2007 but didn’t follow through on plans to renovate the building on Sir John A. Macdonald Boulevard to house its archives.
  The P4W, which held maximum security inmates such as Karla Homolka, took its first inmates in 1934 and was closed in 2000. In 1994, the
  
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• Woman faces murder charge after pedestrian struck by car in Quinte West

  26-06-2018 14:11 via ottawacitizen.com
  A 45-year-old Quinte West woman is facing a second-degree murder charge laid nine days after a pedestrian was fatally struck with a vehicle.
  Nicole Lorraine Scardino was scheduled to appear in court in Belleville Tuesday for a bail hearing.
  Samuel Joseph Andrews, 49, was pronounced dead at the scene of the single-vehicle collision on West Street on the afternoon of June 16.
  Officers from the Quinte West detachment, paramedics and the fire department responded to the scene but the OPP quickly lau
  
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• The economic cost of substance use in Canada in 2014 was $38.4 billion, or about $1,100 for every Canadian, says a… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  26-06-2018 13:53 via twitter.com
  The economic cost of substance use in Canada in 2014 was $38.4 billion, or about $1,100 for every Canadian, says a… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Weather: Cool Tuesday, but Canada Day looking hot and humid

  26-06-2018 13:46 via ottawacitizen.com
  Enjoy this relatively cool day – it’s getting hot, hot, hot with the mercury hitting 36 C by Canada Day.
  Add in the humidity factor and some forecasts indicate it will “feel like” 45.
  Ottawa awoke to a morning low of just 7 C Tuesday with a forecast high of 25 C under sunny skies and just a smidge of humidity that will make it feel like 26. The UV index is 8 or very high. The low is a comfortable 12 C.
  Wednesday should start out with mixed skies then turn cloudy by late m
  
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• Egan: When a neighbour opens a 'ghost hotel' in your backyard

  26-06-2018 13:14 via ottawacitizen.com
  They are sometimes called “ghost hotels,” these Airbnb-style rentals in neighbourhoods all over the city — “ghost” because there’s no front desk, no staff, often just a digital handshake with a nameless, absent owner.
  And, as Tracy Penniston discovered, no one to turn to when trouble breaks out, or things go boo in the night.
  “I hate being antagonistic about it, but it’s a big accident waiting to happen. It really is,” she said on a sun-dappl
  
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• An education advocacy organization says students deemed to have special needs are increasingly being asked to stay… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  26-06-2018 12:58 via twitter.com
  An education advocacy organization says students deemed to have special needs are increasingly being asked to stay… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Planning committee tables recommendation for redrawing of latest Chateau Laurier design - ottawamatters.com/local-news/pla…… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  26-06-2018 12:35 via twitter.com
  Planning committee tables recommendation for redrawing of latest Chateau Laurier design - ottawamatters.com/local-news/pla…… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Today's letters: The Senators, the Château, the festival

  26-06-2018 12:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  Feeling his neck?
  Re: Senators make Brady Tkachuk the No. 4 pick in the NHL draft, June 22.
  The photo in Saturday’s Citizen shows a very proud and happy Brady Tkachuk, the Ottawa Senators’ first-round draft pick, after putting on his Senators’ sweater for the first time. Ottawa’s scouting staff are all decked out in shiny suits and ties. But like a tear in a Picasso painting, standing beside Tkachuk is Senators’ owner Eugene Melnyk, tieless, with his collar ope
  
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• Police board approves request to hire officers to focus on gun violence - ottawamatters.com/local-news/pol… #ottnews https://t.co/EvlbuuwEhy

  26-06-2018 12:14 via twitter.com
  
  Police board approves request to hire officers to focus on gun violence - ottawamatters.com/local-news/pol… #ottnews https://t.co/EvlbuuwEhy
  
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• Family of five forced from home in the Heatherington area due to kitchen fire. #ottnews twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…

  26-06-2018 10:49 via twitter.com
  Family of five forced from home in the Heatherington area due to kitchen fire. #ottnews twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…
  
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• Family of five displaced following south-end kitchen fire

  26-06-2018 05:21 via ottawacitizen.com
  Two adults and three young children are unable to return to their south-end home following a kitchen fire Monday night.
  Just before 8 p.m., Ottawa Fire Services responded to a report of black smoke at 104 Irma Private off Heatherington Road. Fire fighters entered the home to find a fire in the kitchen with the occupants of the end unit row house having already left. They quickly extinguished the fire and prevented it from spreading beyond the room.
  There were no reported injuries, according to O
  
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• Truck, car collide on Route 309 in Outaouais, four sent to hospital with injuries

  26-06-2018 04:53 via ottawacitizen.com
  Police closed the entirety of Route 309 in Outaouais on Monday night after a collision between a truck and a car sent four passengers to hospital with injuries, some serious.
  MRC des Collines-de-l’Outaouais police reported a major accident just before 6 p.m. that saw a Ford F-150 truck collide head-on with a small car.
  Police said they were on their way to intercept the F-150 following a report of erratic driving about 10 minutes before the crash.
  Three people were travelling in
  
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• Concert Review: Django Bates' Beloved at the 2018 TD Ottawa Jazz Festival

  26-06-2018 03:51 via ottawacitizen.com
  Django Bates’ Belovèd2018 TD Ottawa Jazz FestivalFirst Baptist ChurchJune 25, 7 p.m.
  If you thought you knew what a jazz piano trio sounded like, you would have had to do a rethink after hearing the group led by Django Bates play Monday night in Ottawa,
  The 57-year-old British pianist presented a wholly original and even idiosyncratic take on that time-honoured instrumentation. Whether Bates, Swedish bassist Petter Eldh and Danish drummer Peter Bruun were playing the pianist&rs
  
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• Government must address shortage of skilled cybersecurity experts. ottawamatters.com/national-busin…

  26-06-2018 03:03 via twitter.com
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• Canada's top cop says the Mounties can and must do better on Indigenous issues. ottawamatters.com/national-news/…

  26-06-2018 02:55 via twitter.com
  Canada's top cop says the Mounties can and must do better on Indigenous issues. ottawamatters.com/national-news/…
  
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• Irving shipyard employees ratify 4-year contract – disruption of work on RCN ships avoided

  26-06-2018 02:39 via ottawacitizen.com
  Members of Unifor MWF 1 have ratified a new four year collective agreement with Irving Shipbuilding after eight months of bargaining in Halifax, both Irving and the union announced Monday.
  The new collective agreement will increase wages by 2 per cent in the first year and 1.5 per cent for the next three years over the life of the contract, according to the union. The more than 800 members in the workplace will also see improvements to their RRSP, vacation, and health care benefits that were sec
  
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• Aylmer mom wants Quebec laws on dangerous dogs strictly applied after her son was attacked. ottawamatters.com/national-news/…

  26-06-2018 02:26 via twitter.com
  Aylmer mom wants Quebec laws on dangerous dogs strictly applied after her son was attacked. ottawamatters.com/national-news/…
  
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• Trade worries a big drag on the markets. ottawamatters.com/national-busin…

  26-06-2018 02:00 via twitter.com
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