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• Army sniper and fine artist, Ted Zuber painted the Korean and Gulf wars

  01-11-2018 23:40 via ottawacitizen.com
  Artist Ted Zuber grew up in Montreal during the Second World War, listening to radio broadcasts from the front lines, spoiling for the chance to prove himself a soldier.
  “If you weren’t in uniform, you didn’t exist almost,” he said of the time. Zuber turned 13 when the fighting in Europe ended in May 1945.
  Five years later, when war broke out on the Korean Peninsula, Zuber didn’t waste time in enlisting as a paratrooper. He weighed only 136 pounds and Canadian Army
  
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• Oprah, Trump, Obama: Georgia's star-studded closing act ottawamatters.com/world-news/opr…

  01-11-2018 23:30 via twitter.com
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• Pittsburgh synagogue suspect pleads not guilty ottawamatters.com/world-news/pit…

  01-11-2018 23:00 via twitter.com
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• Google employees walk out to protest treatment of women ottawamatters.com/world-news/goo…

  01-11-2018 22:30 via twitter.com
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• Freeland affirms 'ironclad' support of Israel following Pittsburgh murders ottawamatters.com/national-news/…

  01-11-2018 22:00 via twitter.com
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• Traffic alert: Rideau Canal change huts to be installed this weekend

  01-11-2018 21:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  Sections of the roadways of both Queen Elizabeth Driveway and Colonel By Drive will be temporarily closed to motorists on Saturday as crews work to install changing and washroom facilities in preparation for winter skating season.
  The National Capital Commission, which oversees the waterway, said closures will occur:Along Colonel By Drive between Hawthorne Avenue (Pretoria Bridge) and Daly Avenue between 5:30 a.m. and 10 a.m.
  Along Colonel By Drive between Hog’s Back Road and the Bronson A
  
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• Canada Post workers join rotating strikes in Hamilton, Ont., La Mauricie, Que. ottawamatters.com/national-news/…

  01-11-2018 21:30 via twitter.com
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• Ottawa first responders to get Canada's first research-based mental health clinic

  01-11-2018 21:11 via ottawacitizen.com
  An Ottawa-based team is aiming to open Canada’s first research-based mental health clinic for first responders early in 2019.
  The ground-breaking project has two prongs. First, to talk to city police officers, firefighters and paramedics to find out what they want and need from a clinic geared to first responders. The second will be opening an outpatient clinic for a one-year pilot project.
  A growing pile of evidence has concluded that first responders are more likely than the average pers
  
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• Ottawa first responders to get Canada's first research-based mental health clinic - Ottawa Citizen

  01-11-2018 21:08 via ottawacitizen.com
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  Ottawa first responders to get Canada's first research-based mental health clinic
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  An Ottawa-based team is aiming to open Canada's first research-based mental health clinic for first responders early in 2019. The ground-breaking project has two prongs. First, to talk to city police officers, firefighters and paramedics to find out ...
  
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• Mom of soldier who died by suicide after Afghan tour named Silver Cross Mother ottawamatters.com/national-news/…

  01-11-2018 21:00 via twitter.com
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• Police lay additional charges against Mississippi Mills man charged with attempted murder

  01-11-2018 20:48 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ontario Provincial Police have laid more charges against a Mississippi Mills man who is already charged with attempted murder.
  On Sept. 13, around 2:30 p.m., emergency crews responded to calls requesting help for a woman who was found in a wooded area in McNab Braeside Township. When they arrived, police found the injured woman in the bush, near Gunsmith Road, near the Madawaska River. She was taken to hospital with critical injuries.
  A man was arrested at the scene and treated in hospital for m
  
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• Missen family pleased after jury makes 27 recommendations to revamp Ontario's patchwork 911 system

  01-11-2018 20:38 via ottawacitizen.com
  After a three-week inquest, a coroner’s jury investigating the deaths of four people whose calls for help fell through cracks in the province’s patchwork 911 system says it wants a single Ontario agency to oversee the service.
  Kathryn Missen of Kemptville died four years ago. Unable to speak clearly during an asthma attack, she called 911 but her call was relayed from one centre to another. Delays set in and help didn’t arrive.
  Three people also died near Sudbury after a boat c
  
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• The far-flung members of Way North find ways to make potent folk-jazz together

  01-11-2018 20:34 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa saxophonist Petr Cancura admits he’s been in a few projects that were one-album wonders.
  “I think a lot of co-op projects last one recording and that’s that … I’ve been in a number of those,” he says.
  But in comparison, Way North, the leaderless folk-jazz quartet that includes Cancura, trumpeter Rebecca Hennessy, bassist Michael Herring and drummer Richie Barshay, has staying power.
  “Everybody loves everybody,” Cancura says. “There is
  
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• Baloney Meter: Has there been a significant reduction in irregular migrantion? ottawamatters.com/national-news/…

  01-11-2018 20:30 via twitter.com
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• Case of Toronto van attack suspect Alek Minassian heading straight to trial ottawamatters.com/national-news/…

  01-11-2018 20:00 via twitter.com
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• 'It's okay to be white' signs appear in Ottawa

  01-11-2018 19:50 via ottawacitizen.com
  Posters proclaiming “It’s okay to be white” were reported at downtown Ottawa intersections Thursday morning, a year after they first appeared on streets and campuses across the continent.
  Stewart Wiseman, a 26-year-old civil servant, photographed some of the unattributed posters he spotted at intersections near his bus stop at Albert and O’Connor streets on his way to work.
  “The first thing in my mind was thinking about Pittsburgh and what happened in the United Sta
  
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• Video of Airbnb homicide victim being shot multiple times circulating on Snapchat

  01-11-2018 19:34 via ottawacitizen.com
  Guled Ahmed was walking up to the side door of an Airbnb rental on Carruthers Avenue after an evening celebrating a wedding when he was shot multiple times at close range by a hooded gunman, a video of the killing viewed by this newspaper shows.
  Ahmed, 23, ran along the side of the house, fleeing continued gunfire, before he collapsed in a back alleyway with multiple gunshot wounds to the chest. He was found dead minutes later.
  Surveillance video of the homicide from the camera at the door of th
  
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• 'It's okay to be white' signs appear in Ottawa - Ottawa Citizen

  01-11-2018 19:17 via ottawacitizen.com
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  Posters proclaiming “It's okay to be white” were reported at downtown Ottawa intersections Thursday morning, a year after they first appeared on streets and campuses across the continent. Stewart Wiseman, a 26-year-old civil servant, photographed some ...
  
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• Rideau Canal change rooms to be installed this weekend

  01-11-2018 18:53 via ottawacitizen.com
  Sections of the roadways of both Queen Elizabeth Driveway and Colonel By Drive will be temporarily closed to motorists on Saturday as crews work to install changing and washroom facilities in preparation for winter skating season.
  The National Capital Commission, which oversees the waterway, said closures will occur:Along Colonel By Drive between Hawthorne Avenue (Pretoria Bridge) and Daly Avenue between 5:30 a.m. and 10 a.m.
  Along Colonel By Drive between Hog’s Back Road and the Bronson A
  
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• Jury makes 27 recommendations to revamp Ontario's patchwork 911 system

  01-11-2018 18:37 via ottawacitizen.com
  A coroner’s jury investigating the deaths of four people whose calls for help fell through cracks in the province’s patchwork 911 system wants a single Ontario agency to oversee the service.
  Kathryn Missen of Kemptville died four years ago. Unable to speak clearly, she called 911 but her call was relayed from one centre to another. Delays set in and help didn’t arrive.
  Three boaters also died near Sudbury after a boat crash as rescuers had trouble pinning down their location.
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• The @rick_gibbons Show for Thursday, November 1st: 1:08: @DrAndrewPipe 1:17: @mspratt 1:30: @MDawsonHistory 1:45:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  01-11-2018 17:49 via twitter.com
  The @rick_gibbons Show for Thursday, November 1st: 1:08: @DrAndrewPipe 1:17: @mspratt 1:30: @MDawsonHistory 1:45:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Feds look to Davie, Seaspan, Irving to do $7 billion maintenance work on frigates

  01-11-2018 17:29 via ottawacitizen.com
  Public Services and Procurement Canada, on behalf of National Defence, has issued Advance Contract Award Notices to Irving Shipbuilding Inc., of Halifax, Nova Scotia, Chantier Davie Canada Inc., of Lévis, Quebec, and Seaspan Victoria Shipyards, of Victoria, British Columbia, for maintenance support services for Canada’s 12 Halifax-class frigates. The combined value of the three contracts will be approximately $7 billion, according to the federal go
  
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• Jury makes 27 recommendations to revamp Ontario's hodgepodge 911 system

  01-11-2018 17:28 via ottawacitizen.com
  A coroner’s jury investigating the deaths of four people whose calls for help fell through cracks in the province’s hodgepodge 911 system wants a single Ontario agency to oversee the service.
  Kathryn Missen of Kemptville died four years ago. Unable to speak clearly, she called 911 but her call was relayed from one centre to another. Delays set in and help didn’t arrive.
  Three boaters also died near Sudbury after a boat crash as rescuers had trouble pinning down their location.
  
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• Coming up: @DrRob_Thacker joins @_MarkSutcliffe for a weekly Science Segment 📻: 1310 💻: bit.ly/2oQd8u1… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  01-11-2018 17:25 via twitter.com
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• Cannabis mislabeled, leading to more delays according to government seller

  01-11-2018 17:22 via ottawacitizen.com
  A label mix-up is the latest on the list of things that have caused delays in receiving orders from The Ontario Cannabis Store.
  According to notifications sent by OCS to customers who still had not received orders placed when cannabis became legal on Oct. 17, the provincial pot retailer received product that wasn’t labeled properly, leading to lengthy delays while the issue is being sorted out.
  “Some of the items we received from Health Canada-authorized licensed producers were
  
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• Adam: In the next Ottawa city election, we need more people voting

  01-11-2018 17:20 via ottawacitizen.com
  The municipal election is over and now we look ahead to a new era of open, transparent government.
  But as we do that, it is important to reflect on why so many of us failed to vote. Of the 633,946 eligible voters locally, 269, 772 voted, a measly 42.55-per-cent turnout, up from the woeful 39.92 per cent in 2014. Year after year, election after election, we moan about low turnout but do nothing concrete to alleviate the problem. That must change, and all of us – city council, citizens and c
  
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• Canadian special forces soldier charged after gun parts, military gear recovered, equipment sold on-line

  01-11-2018 17:10 via ottawacitizen.com
  A member of Canada’s special forces has been charged with trafficking stolen goods and theft after generators, gun parts, and clothing owned by the military was taken and some sold on-line.
  The charges relate to alleged stealing, possession, and trafficking of stolen goods by the accused between early December 2015 and early March 2017 at or near Ottawa, according to the Canadian Forces National Investigation Service. The total amount of goods was approximately $23,500, said NIS spokesman
  
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• Kingston businessman sentenced to time served for assaulting, ripping off escorts

  01-11-2018 17:02 via ottawacitizen.com
  KINGSTON — A Kingston businessman who decided to rip off a couple of travelling escorts found it an expensive proposition.
  Basit A. Qureshi, 36, pleaded guilty in Kingston’s Ontario Court of Justice to assaulting one of the women; stealing their wallets and a MacBook from their motel room; all the while violating the curfew attached to a pre-existing bail order; and subsequently obstructing justice.
  He spent 36 days in pretrial custody and on Tuesday was sentenced by Justice Alison W
  
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• Hintonburg bakery outs alleged poppy thieves on social media

  01-11-2018 16:59 via ottawacitizen.com
  A Wellington West bakery raised the alarm about poppy box thieves Wednesday, taking to social media to share images of the alleged perpetrators.
  “A warning to fellow neighbouring businesses, we got our poppy collection box stolen yesterday,” Hintonburg’s Les Moulins La Fayette reported on social media.
  “As a veteran-run business, this is quite saddening to see that someone would decide to steal the box.”
  Wellington West BIA executive director Dennis Van Staaldu
  
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• Statistics Canada wants to know how much you'd pay for cannabis

  01-11-2018 16:43 via ottawacitizen.com
  Statistics Canada appears to be wrapping up a year-long poll to monitor the price that Canadians are willing to pay for cannabis.
  The federal statistician has been collecting data on the topic since at least January. Now, the question of the month for November is: “Cannabis has been legalized, and Statistics Canada is measuring prices before and after the change in legislation. We want to hear from consumers—what price are you willing to pay?”
  This is at least the fourth time S
  
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• Antiques: Charming English landscape painting worth a sunny $3500

  01-11-2018 16:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  Q: This old painting has been passed down through many generations. I am lucky enough to have it now. It is painted on wood. I’m not sure about this artist, or the value. The plaque has the title ‘By The Sea Shore’ and ‘Ellis Hume, R.B.A.’ I think it is extremely old. It measures 29 x 38 cm (11.5 x 15 inches). I’m hoping you can help me with the value. Thank you for your time.
  Catherine, Barrie, Ontario
   
  A:  The inaccurate plaque and biogr
  
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• Blow stop signs? Run reds? It's deadly and expensive

  01-11-2018 16:14 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa and Gatineau police traffic officers will be stepping up enforcement at red lights and stop signs this month.
  It’s a potentially deadly practice, note members of the Selective Traffic Enforcement Program (STEP) and costly, too.
  Between 2012 and 2016, the 3,759 collisions involving running a red resulted in 1,562 people get hurt and killed four, police report. Meanwhile, the 3,129 collisions caused by failing to stop at a stop sign caused 995 injuries and three deaths.
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• Coming up: @balkissoon joins @_MarkSutcliffe to discuss when vile social media erupts into real violence.… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  01-11-2018 16:10 via twitter.com
  Coming up: @balkissoon joins @_MarkSutcliffe to discuss when vile social media erupts into real violence.… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Coming up: @powerstim of @abacusdataca joins @_MarkSutcliffe live: 📻: 1310 💻: bit.ly/1uwtdOs 📞: 61… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  01-11-2018 15:29 via twitter.com
  Coming up: @powerstim of @abacusdataca joins @_MarkSutcliffe live:📻: 1310 💻: bit.ly/1uwtdOs📞: 61… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Join @1310Andrew to help make a difference in men's health with @MovemberCA. twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…

  01-11-2018 15:28 via twitter.com
  Join @1310Andrew to help make a difference in men's health with @MovemberCA. twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…
  
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• POLL: Should some streets in the ByWard Market be closed to vehicle traffic?

  01-11-2018 15:20 via twitter.com
  POLL: Should some streets in the ByWard Market be closed to vehicle traffic?
  
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• 'Entirely new vibe': Ottawa's first food hall to open in former Hy's Steakhouse location on Queen St.

  01-11-2018 14:31 via ottawacitizen.com
  A 9,000-square-foot, high-end, licensed “food hall,” bolstered by a stage for live music, is to open Dec. 7 in the Sun Life Financial Centre on Queen Street, where Hy’s Steakhouse had been.
  The hybrid development, which is to be called Queen St. Fare and which will be steps away from the LRT Parliament station that is to open next year, will be a unique addition to downtown Ottawa and an attraction that could help spark the area’s after-hours revitalization, its proponent
  
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• 'Entirely new vibe': Ottawa's first food hall to open in former Hy's Steakhouse location on Queen St. - Ottawa Citizen

  01-11-2018 14:21 via ottawacitizen.com
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  'Entirely new vibe': Ottawa's first food hall to open in former Hy's Steakhouse location on Queen St.
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  A 9,000-square-foot, high-end, licensed “food hall,” bolstered by a stage for live music, is to open Dec. 7 in the Sun Life Financial Centre on Queen Street, where Hy's Steakhouse had been. The hybrid development, which is to be called Queen St. Fare ...
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• Tornado aftermath: Food bank has spent $800,000

  01-11-2018 14:15 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Ottawa Food Bank has spent almost $800,000 to feed the hungry in the wake of six tornadoes that swept across the region six weeks ago.
  The outlays included $300,000 in gift cards for affected people, $227,000 to buy food and $66,000 for a heavy-duty generator for the food bank’s own warehouse, the agency said in a report issued Wednesday.
  The report hails everyone who pitched in. They range from local businesses like Farm Boy, the first to offer aid, to the 2,578 individuals who took i
  
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• Help Santa Toy Parade seeking donations ahead of Nov. 17 event

  01-11-2018 14:06 via ottawacitizen.com
  Forget Halloween, suddenly it’s Christmas!
  The Ottawa Professional Firefighters Association starts collecting donations Thursday for the 49th annual Help Santa Toy Parade Nov. 17.
  Drop off new, unwrapped toys at urban fire stations or make cash donations that organizers will use to buy playthings for local kids whose families are in needs. Donate online and find a map of fire stations at toyparade.ca.
  Firefighters will also collect new toys and cash donations along the parade route between
  
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• Wet with no sign of sun 'til Sunday

  01-11-2018 12:41 via ottawacitizen.com
  The wet weather isn’t going anywhere with the next sunshine in the forecast on Sunday.
  The first of November is mainly cloudy with fog patches clearing in the morning and periods of rain beginning in the afternoon and lasting through the night. The high is 7 C and low 3 C with northeasterly winds at 20 km/h after midnight.
  Friday’s forecast features more rain and a high of 6 C. Overnight, there’s a 60 per cent chance of showers and a low of 4 C.
  Saturday is cloudy with a 40 per
  
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• Tonight: @PaulDewar to receive key to the city ottawamatters.com/local-news/pau… #ottnews https://t.co/jEE53g3MaI

  01-11-2018 12:36 via twitter.com
  
  Tonight: @PaulDewar to receive key to the city ottawamatters.com/local-news/pau…#ottnews https://t.co/jEE53g3MaI
  
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• UPDATE: Postal workers in Arnprior and Renfrew will be back on the job today. #ottnews twitter.com/cupw/status/10…

  01-11-2018 12:06 via twitter.com
  UPDATE: Postal workers in Arnprior and Renfrew will be back on the job today.#ottnews twitter.com/cupw/status/10…
  
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• He was nameless organ player who brought rink to its feet — now Glen Gower's at centre ice

  01-11-2018 11:57 via ottawacitizen.com
  Seven new faces were elected to Ottawa city council in the recent municipal election. We’re profiling each of those new councillors as they prepare to take on their new duties. On Thursday, Kelly Egan talks to Glen Gower.
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  We heard him first — only heard of him later.
  Years before Glen Gower was elected by 5,877 voters in Stittsville ward on Oct. 22, he had the sweetest gig in Ottawa: the organist for the Ottawa 67’s and Senators. We scored, his bass keys roared.
  So, by s
  
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• Ottawa Food Bank spent nearly $800,000 in tornado aftermath ottawamatters.com/local-news/ott… #ottnews https://t.co/n19QSosEIQ

  01-11-2018 11:54 via twitter.com
  
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• Today's letters: The health hazards of going nuclear

  01-11-2018 11:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  Nuclear reactors are not ‘inherently safe’
  Re: How small nuclear reactors can help save our atmosphere, Oct. 25.
  Small reactors are in fact more expensive than conventional nuclear reactors on a per unit (megawatt of generation capacity) basis. That translates into higher costs for electricity generated, not the much lower costs that John Skelton cites in his opinion article.
  He also says the International Atomic Energy Commission has classified a reactor design from Germany as &ldqu
  
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• A rotating postal strike that began in #Ottawa, #Arnprior and #Renfrew on Wednesday continues for a second day.… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  01-11-2018 11:30 via twitter.com
  A rotating postal strike that began in #Ottawa, #Arnprior and #Renfrew on Wednesday continues for a second day.… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• National Arts Centre commemorates the First World War

  01-11-2018 11:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  The National Arts Centre has unveiled plans to commemorate the centenary of the First World War with a series of events in the week leading up to Remembrance Day.The centrepiece of the commemoration is the Nov. 9 performance of Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem, featuring the NAC Orchestra and the National Youth Orchestra of Germany, joined by Russian soprano Albina Shagimuratova, Canadian tenor Isaiah Bell and baritone James Westman. The concert is already sold out.“The idea that Britt
  
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• Take note if you are flying out of @FlyYOW today. #ottnews twitter.com/FlyYOW/status/…

  01-11-2018 10:48 via twitter.com
  Take note if you are flying out of @FlyYOW today.#ottnews twitter.com/FlyYOW/status/…
  
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• #BREAKING: Postal workers in the Outaouais are on strike this morning. A rotating strike in #Ottawa continues for a second day. #ottnews

  01-11-2018 10:07 via twitter.com
  #BREAKING: Postal workers in the Outaouais are on strike this morning. A rotating strike in #Ottawa continues for a second day.#ottnews
  
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