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• Reevely: Public-private partnership means Ottawa's LRT delays happen in a black box

  10-09-2018 23:50 via ottawacitizen.com
  The unique deal Ottawa struck to get its light-rail system built is keeping us from finding out exactly why we’re getting the thing so late.
  The deal with the Rideau Transit Group, a consortium of tunnelling, building, track and train companies, was supposed to be a good deal because RTG had the know-how and flexibility to adapt if things went wrong, and powerful financial incentives to stick to schedules.
  The deal also thew a big thick blanket of obscurity over what RTG is up to. The comp
  
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• Deal reached in case of 2012 Quebec legionnaires' disease outbreak that killed 14. ottawamatters.com/national-news/…

  10-09-2018 23:45 via twitter.com
  Deal reached in case of 2012 Quebec legionnaires' disease outbreak that killed 14.ottawamatters.com/national-news/…
  
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• Ottawa's light rail transit delayed once again ottawamatters.com/local-news/ott…

  10-09-2018 23:44 via twitter.com
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• CHEO lottery dream home in Stittsville most lavish yet at $2.1 million

  10-09-2018 23:43 via ottawacitizen.com
  This year’s CHEO lottery dream home is the most expensive yet, with an estimated value of $2.1 million.
  The grand prize in the annual lottery fundraiser for the hospital features an in-law suite on the ground floor and a roller skating rink in the basement.
  The furnished house in a Minto subdivision in Stittsville also comes with a few perks — including a new Jeep Wrangler and $100,000 in spending money — that boost the total value of the top prize to $2.3 million. Last year, t
  
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• The Ford government will for the first time in Ontario history invoke the Constitution's notwithstanding clause to… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  10-09-2018 23:29 via twitter.com
  The Ford government will for the first time in Ontario history invoke the Constitution's notwithstanding clause to… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• 'It will get better': As research hones in on identifying those at risk of suicide, a mental-health advocate speaks up

  10-09-2018 23:14 via ottawacitizen.com
  Brianne Moore was in Grade 9 when she first tried to take her life. By the end of Grade 12, the young Ottawa woman says, she had attempted suicide more times than she can now count.
  Today, the 20-year-old mental health advocate speaks to youth and others about her struggles with mental illness and her successes, in an effort to offer others hope.
  On World Suicide Prevention Day Monday, speaking to a gathering of frontline workers at the Royal Ottawa Mental Health Centre, Moore had a message for
  
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• The big questions regarding Ottawa's delayed LRT

  10-09-2018 22:52 via ottawacitizen.com
  Another delay in the launch of the $2.1-billion LRT system will surely draw questions from taxpayers and commuters. The city says the largest infrastructure project in the city’s history won’t be ready by the end of November, as promised.
  So when will the LRT system finally open to customers?
  The city doesn’t know yet. It estimates sometime in the first quarter of 2019 if it receives the LRT system on Nov. 30, which is the new handover date proposed by the Rideau Transit Group.
  
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• Shania Twain addresses Avril Lavigne's Lyme Disease battle ottawamatters.com/around-ontario…

  10-09-2018 22:45 via twitter.com
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• Update: LRT likely not ready until 2019, city says it will penalize builder $1M

  10-09-2018 22:43 via ottawacitizen.com
  The city revealed Monday its LRT system will not be ready until 2019, marking the second delay in the construction of the $2.1-billion project.
  The builder will face a $1-million penalty for failing to meet the deadline, said John Manconi, the city’s transportation general manager.
  Manconi broke the news to frustrated councillors at the finance and economic development committee on Monday that the Rideau Transit Group likely won’t deliver the LRT system on Nov. 2, which means light r
  
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• Ottawa's Kevin Haime Golf Centre fuses game's traditions with Toptracer tech ottawamatters.com/around-ontario…

  10-09-2018 22:15 via twitter.com
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• Ford fights back against ruling striking down council-cutting plan ottawamatters.com/national-news/…

  10-09-2018 21:45 via twitter.com
  Ford fights back against ruling striking down council-cutting planottawamatters.com/national-news/…
  
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• Today's letters: Naomi Osaka showed class; Serena Williams didn't

  10-09-2018 18:53 via ottawacitizen.com
  US Open: What about honouring the winner?
  Re: Sure, Serena was angry – she had every right to be, Sept. 10.
  I am very disappointed: Where in your paper is the picture of Naomi Osaka raising her victory trophy? Everything was about Serena Williams and her anger.
  Sure she was angry, but that does not give her the right to yell at the umpire the way she did. Her coach coached her and he admitted he did. Life is not always fair, but for Williams to set an example to younger players she has to
  
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• OPP seize 12 vehicles over the weekend for stunt driving

  10-09-2018 18:47 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Ontario Provincial Police seized seven motorcycles and five other vehicles over the weekend for stunt driving on Highway 417.
  According to police, some of the vehicles were witnessed hitting speeds of up to 200 km/h.
  When caught and accused of stunt driving, drivers face an immediate seven day driver’s license suspension and their vehicle is impounded for seven days.
  Ottawa #OPP members seized 7 motorcycles and 5 other vehicles over the weekend… all for Stunt Driving on Highway
  
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• The @rick_gibbons Show for Monday, September 10th: 1:05: @JennnPritchard 1:09: @Mike_Palecek 1:17: @TheRoyalMHC 1:3… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  10-09-2018 18:28 via twitter.com
  The @rick_gibbons Show for Monday, September 10th: 1:05: @JennnPritchard 1:09: @Mike_Palecek 1:17: @TheRoyalMHC 1:3… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• NEXT on the Power Lunch: @SamLapradeCFRE & Alex Lewis join @_MarkSutcliffe in-studio: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  10-09-2018 17:55 via twitter.com
  NEXT on the Power Lunch:@SamLapradeCFRE & Alex Lewis join @_MarkSutcliffe in-studio: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Coming up at 11: @_scottreid joins @_MarkSutcliffe on the Trump / NYT Op-Ed: 📻: 1310 💻: bit.ly/2oQd8u1… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  10-09-2018 16:55 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 11: @_scottreid joins @_MarkSutcliffe on the Trump / NYT Op-Ed: 📻: 1310 💻: bit.ly/2oQd8u1… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Coming up at 10:45: @scott_stinson joins @_MarkSutcliffe on Serena Williams: 📻: 1310 💻: bit.ly/2oQd8u1… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  10-09-2018 16:40 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 10:45: @scott_stinson joins @_MarkSutcliffe on Serena Williams: 📻: 1310 💻: bit.ly/2oQd8u1… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• 'I'm pretty angry right now': LRT likely won't be ready until 2019

  10-09-2018 16:37 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Confederation Line LRT likely won’t be ready for customers by the end of 2018, councillors learned Monday.
  Transportation general manager John Manconi told the finance and economic development committee that he received a call from RTG on the way home from work on Friday around 6 p.m. suggesting a new schedule of completion.
  RTG was supposed to deliver the $2.1-billion LRT system on Nov. 2. The company has now suggested it can deliver it on Nov. 30. Based on the testing that would need
  
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• CHEO lottery dream home offers plenty of wow moments

  10-09-2018 16:01 via ottawacitizen.com
  New location, new approach and new look: This year’s Minto dream home offers a fresh take on the annual CHEO lottery grand prize.
  After several years in south Ottawa, the 2018 home has moved to Stittsville — just a stone’s throw from Canadian Tire Centre — representing a chance to shake things up a bit for both Minto Communities, which builds the home, and the CHEO Foundation, which runs the hugely popular Dream of a Lifetime Lottery, of which the home makes up the bulk o
  
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• UPDATE: Renfrew woman killed in motorcycle crash near Calabogie identified

  10-09-2018 15:06 via ottawacitizen.com
  A Renfrew woman has been identified as the victim of a motorcycle crash on Highway 511 near Calabogie Sunday afternoon.
  Joanne Ciphery, 54, died at the scene after the southbound Honda she was aboard left the road north of White Lake Road in the Township of Lanark Highlands, Lanark OPP said Monday. Officers were called to the scene at 2:09 p.m.
  The driver, 57-year-old Brian Robinson of Pembroke, was taken by air ambulance to an Ottawa hospital with major injuries.
  The highway was closed for abou
  
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• POLL: Is Serena Williams, who was fined $17,000 for her behaviour in the US Open final, the victim of a double-stan… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  10-09-2018 14:41 via twitter.com
  POLL: Is Serena Williams, who was fined $17,000 for her behaviour in the US Open final, the victim of a double-stan… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Serena Williams fined total of $17K at US Open: bit.ly/2MhcDD6 https://t.co/TrwBL3iSZA

  10-09-2018 14:35 via twitter.com
  
  Serena Williams fined total of $17K at US Open: bit.ly/2MhcDD6 https://t.co/TrwBL3iSZA
  
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• #BREAKING: A judge has just ruled against the Ford government's attempt to cut Toronto City Council from 47 seats… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  10-09-2018 14:11 via twitter.com
  #BREAKING: A judge has just ruled against the Ford government's attempt to cut Toronto City Councilfrom 47 seats… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• BREAKING: There will be 47 seats in Toronto's October election. A judge has ruled not to allow the province to cut… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  10-09-2018 14:10 via twitter.com
  BREAKING: There will be 47 seats in Toronto's October election. A judge has ruled not to allow the province to cut… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Balcony fire ravages Gatineau home: bit.ly/2CEydSs https://t.co/TGk2RaBdAm

  10-09-2018 13:47 via twitter.com
  
  Balcony fire ravages Gatineau home: bit.ly/2CEydSs https://t.co/TGk2RaBdAm
  
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• Cool, wet start to the week but summer isn't over yet

  10-09-2018 13:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  This week begins with rain and a decidedly autumnal 7 C but we’ll be basking in September sunshine with summery highs again soon.
  Monday’s forecast is for increasing cloudiness, easterly winds at 20 km/h near noon and a high of just 15 C.
  A typical high for this time of year is 20 C.
  That old ditty “red skies in the morning, sailor’s warning,” likely twigged early risers to periods of rain beginning by early afternoon. They’ll end overnight although there
  
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• Decision expected today in Toronto council legal challenge: bit.ly/2MYwpbE https://t.co/byVeZUrPwT

  10-09-2018 13:22 via twitter.com
  
  Decision expected today in Toronto council legal challenge: bit.ly/2MYwpbE https://t.co/byVeZUrPwT
  
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• Paterson and Waldman: Canada Border Services needs proper oversight

  10-09-2018 13:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  Recently, the media reported the death of a Nigerian man in the custody of the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA). While the precise circumstances that lead to his death remain unclear, media reports suggest that the federal government was deporting him after he lost his long legal fight to remain in Canada, and that he strongly feared he would be killed if he were deported to Nigeria.
  There are many unanswered questions about this death of this person who was supposed to b
  
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• Kee: Can we make dorm-room innovation help society without hurting it?

  10-09-2018 13:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  Facebook’s celebrated motto to “move fast and break things” has recently taken on a whole new meaning. Mark Zuckerberg moved too quickly, and broke democracy.
  Zuckerberg’s “dorm-room defence,” which he repeated throughout his two days before the United States Senate in April, was that he should not be held accountable for decisions made in 2003 when he was a callow 18-year-old freshman, launching his company from his Harvard College residence room. In an attem
  
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• From war hero to accused killer: The sad tale of an Ottawa recipient of the Victoria Cross

  10-09-2018 13:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  Almost three decades after the end of the First World War, Filip Konowal, an Ottawa and Hull resident who was awarded the Victoria Cross for his valour during the Battle of Hill 70, joked that he had very nearly been shot for cowardice.
  “I was so fed up standing in the trench with water up to my waist that I said, ‘The hell with it and started after the German army,” he told the Citizen in 1956. “My captain tried to shoot me because he figured I was deserting.”
  On t
  
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• Taliban attack Afghan security forces in north, killing 37: bit.ly/2wYLEHm https://t.co/XfTfP5QmY6

  10-09-2018 12:56 via twitter.com
  
  Taliban attack Afghan security forces in north, killing 37: bit.ly/2wYLEHm https://t.co/XfTfP5QmY6
  
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• Ottawa lawyers file class-action against Google over publication bans

  10-09-2018 12:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  Two Ottawa lawyers have filed a proposed $80-million class-action lawsuit, alleging that Google’s search engine allows Internet users to discover names that are supposed to be shielded by court-ordered publication bans.
  The proposed lawsuit follows an investigation by this newspaper last year. That review found that plugging the publication-banned name of a young offender or crime victim into the web giant’s search engine would sometimes produce results pointing to media co
  
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• Martin: Here's what NAFTA negotiators can learn from my family

  10-09-2018 12:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  Canada’s NAFTA negotiators are not looking promising. But perhaps U.S. and Canadian trade delegates could learn a few lessons from the Brooks-Martin household where we recently hammered out the latest version of the MAFTA, or Maple Avenue Family Treatment Agreement. Although there were a number of contentious issues, I, my wife Cheryl, and our daughter Sarah managed to negotiate in good faith, compromise where necessary and eventually complete an updated agreement.
  Some of the sticking poi
  
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• EARLY EDITION: A news Luddite meets the future

  10-09-2018 12:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  Take a step behind the scenes as we highlight some memorable moments from the Ottawa Citizen’s storied past. Today, Noel Taylor remembers the day the newspaper confronted modernity.
  —
  Back in 1973, after nearly 20 years in the newspaper business, my working life changed dramatically. Traumatically, even. That year, over the course of a weekend, the Citizen became the first daily of its size in North America to abandon hot lead for paste-up.
  You may not know quite what that
  
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• Melinda and Erik Karlsson held the first event for their anti-bullying organization, Can’t Dim My Light. #ottnews twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…

  10-09-2018 10:02 via twitter.com
  Melinda and Erik Karlsson held the first event for their anti-bullying organization, Can’t Dim My Light.#ottnews twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…
  
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• 'We aren't going to let them be right': Erik and Melinda Karlsson hold anti-bullying event

  10-09-2018 05:04 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ahead of a court date related to her own allegation of harassment against the fiancee of a former Ottawa Senator, Melinda Karlsson told the crowd at an anti-bullying event it’s not always easy to see through the darkness when you are “targeted, ostracized, harassed or alone.”
  On Sunday evening, Melinda and husband Erik Karlsson, captain of the Ottawa Senators, held the first fundraising event for their charity, Can’t Dim My Light. It’s meant to stop bullying of yout
  
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• 'It's pretty embarrassing:' Winnipeg aims to put less poop in river. bit.ly/2NZEaus https://t.co/5YWWIsiKs4

  10-09-2018 03:00 via twitter.com
  
  'It's pretty embarrassing:' Winnipeg aims to put less poop in river.bit.ly/2NZEaus https://t.co/5YWWIsiKs4
  
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• A model with Down syndrome fulfills her fashion week dream. bit.ly/2O8tB88 https://t.co/ns6RmNbkjx

  10-09-2018 01:24 via twitter.com
  
  A model with Down syndrome fulfills her fashion week dream.bit.ly/2O8tB88 https://t.co/ns6RmNbkjx
  
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• Woman dies in motorcycle crash near Calabogie

  10-09-2018 01:19 via ottawacitizen.com
  A woman is dead following a motorcycle crash near Calabogie on Sunday afternoon.
  The Lanark County detachment of the OPP says the crash happened around 2:09 p.m. Sunday on Highway 511 north of the intersection of White Lake Road.
  The woman, a passenger on the motorcycle, was declared dead on the scene. The driver of the motorcycle, an adult male, was taken to Ottawa by air ambulance with major injuries.
  The names and ages of the victims have not been released. No other vehicles were involved in
  
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• Woman dies in motorcycle crash near Calabogie - Ottawa Citizen

  10-09-2018 01:15 via ottawacitizen.com
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  Woman dies in motorcycle crash near Calabogie
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  The Lanark County detachment of the OPP says the crash happened around 2:09 p.m. Sunday on Highway 511 north of the intersection of White Lake Road. The woman, a passenger on the motorcycle, was declared dead on the scene. The driver of the ...
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• Memory of WWI's Battle of Hill 70 kept alive in Mountain, Ontario

  10-09-2018 01:07 via ottawacitizen.com
  There is no mountain in Mountain, Ont., nor scarcely a mound or embankment. But there is, in this village, a monument to the Battle of Hill 70. It’s the only such commemoration in Canada and, for a century, until one was erected in France last year, it was the only one in the world.
  On Sunday, 75 people gathered to remember the 1917 battle in silence and in song, as singers Garth Hampson and Marleen Fawcett, accompanied by pianist Helen Hyndman, performed music associated with the two
  
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• 'Every day is a fight': Ottawa rally lifts veil on life with FASD - CBC.ca

  10-09-2018 00:54 via cbc.ca
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  'Every day is a fight': Ottawa rally lifts veil on life with FASD
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  People with fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) and their families and supporters rallied in downtown Ottawa today to let others know about resources they can access in the city. About 4 per cent of Canadians have fetal alcohol spectrum disorder.and more »
  
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• Our latest Midweek Mugging is Ottawa Insectarium. Learn more about the home of Ottawa's insects. #ottnews… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  10-09-2018 00:30 via twitter.com
  Our latest Midweek Mugging is Ottawa Insectarium. Learn more about the home of Ottawa's insects.#ottnews… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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