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• Two people extricated from truck after rollover - Ottawa Sun

  26-12-2018 23:57
  Two people extricated from truck after rollover  Ottawa SunFirefighters extricated two people from a pickup truck Wednesday morning after a two-vehicle collision in Barrhaven.According to the Ottawa Fire *Service*, ...
  
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• Ottawa newsmakers 2018: L'Affaire Chagall

  26-12-2018 23:48 via ottawacitizen.com
  This year was one of disasters, tragedy, boondoggles and love. From wild politics to wild winds to a Senators team that couldn’t stay out of the news, 2018 was filled with twists and the unexpected. It was also a year in which the whole city paused to mourn, after losing its Butterfly Boy. In 2018, some narratives transfixed us, while others dominated our conversations — and here, in our annual newsmakers series, we return to examine the year’s biggest stories. Today, L&rs
  
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• Tech entrepreneur looks for a made-in-Canada solution to Ottawa's troubled Phoenix payroll system - The Globe and Mail

  26-12-2018 23:45
  Tech entrepreneur looks for a made-in-Canada solution to Ottawa's troubled Phoenix payroll system  The Globe and MailThe federal government's payroll system has been a failure since it launched in February, 2016, but entrepreneur David Ossip is hoping he can win the contract ...
  
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• Ottawa newsmakers 2018: Paul Dewar

  26-12-2018 23:45 via ottawacitizen.com
  This year was one of disasters, tragedy, boondoggles and love. From wild politics to wild winds to a Senators team that couldn’t stay out of the news, 2018 was filled with twists and the unexpected. It was also a year in which the whole city paused to mourn, after losing its Butterfly Boy. In 2018, some narratives transfixed us, while others dominated our conversations — and here, in our annual newsmakers series, we return to examine the year’s biggest stories. Today, Paul
  
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• Ottawa newsmakers 2018: L'Affaire Chagall - Ottawa Citizen

  26-12-2018 23:34
  Ottawa newsmakers 2018: L'Affaire Chagall  Ottawa CitizenThis year was one of disasters, tragedy, boondoggles and love. From wild politics to wild winds to a Senators team that couldn't stay out of the news, 2018 was ...
  
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• Ottawa newsmakers 2018: Paul Dewar - Ottawa Citizen

  26-12-2018 23:30
  Ottawa newsmakers 2018: Paul Dewar  Ottawa CitizenIn the first month of 2018, Paul Dewar's name was being bandied about as the person with the best chance to unseat Jim Watson to be Ottawa's next mayor.
  
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• Egan: When the army calls for help — vets drop-in centre first in Canada

  26-12-2018 21:19 via ottawacitizen.com
  Robert Praet had served his country in uniform, and damn near ruined his back while he was at it.
  Now he was 74, newly arrived in Ottawa during a cold December, sleeping at the Salvation Army, getting the brushoff from welfare and Veterans Affairs Canada, and running out of money.
  “That was probably the lowest point,” he says. “The only thing you can compare it to is when you go into basic training and you sleep in bunk beds. But you sleep with one eye open at the Salvation Arm
  
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• Why we asked Paul Dewar to hand over his mail: Behind the News 2018 in review

  26-12-2018 21:01 via ottawacitizen.com
  In the summer of 2018, a few months after former MP Paul Dewar publicly shared the news of his terminal brain cancer diagnosis, reporter Matthew Pearson did something unexpected. He asked Dewar to hand over his mail.
  Paul and his wife, Julia, said yes, and our Matthew Pearson read every card, letter and word of support they had received, which turned into a beautiful work of journalism that Pearson likes to call, “Letters to Paul.”
  The project was elevated further when photograp
  
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• Ottawa man gives son an early Christmas gift: his own kidney - CBC.ca

  26-12-2018 20:00
  Ottawa man gives son an early Christmas gift: his own kidney  CBC.caWhen Ottawa's Jacques Corriveau found out his 27-year-old son needed a new kidney, he didn't give it a second thought. Corriveau stepped up and served as a ...
  
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• Firefighters extricate two people after truck rollover in Barrhaven

  26-12-2018 17:43 via ottawacitizen.com
  Firefighters extricated two people from a pickup truck Wednesday morning after a two-vehicle collision in Barrhaven.
  According to the Ottawa Fire Service, firefighters responded to the crash at Woodroffe Avenue and Rideaucrest Drive and extricated the trapped people from a Ford Ranger at 10:49 a.m. Firefighters had to remove the roof of the truck to free the occupants.
  There was no immediate word from paramedics if they transported patients from the crash scene.
  Police said traffic wasn’t
  
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• Ottawa bracing for freezing rain - CTV News

  26-12-2018 17:15
  Ottawa bracing for freezing rain  CTV NewsThe weather agency is calling for a possible period of freezing rain Thursday evening.
  
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• Freezing Rain Warning issued for Ottawa - CTV News

  26-12-2018 17:15
  Freezing Rain Warning issued for Ottawa  CTV NewsEnvironment Canada warns freezing rain is expected Thursday night into Friday.
  
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• Freezing drizzle advisory ends - CTV News

  26-12-2018 17:15
  Freezing drizzle advisory ends  CTV NewsA freezing drizzle advisory has ended for the Ottawa area.
  
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• ICYMI: What's open in Ottawa and city service changes for the holidays ottawamatters.com/local-news/wha…

  26-12-2018 14:00 via twitter.com
  ICYMI: What's open in Ottawa and city service changes for the holidaysottawamatters.com/local-news/wha…
  
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• For some Syrians refugees, food a lifeline to their new community

  26-12-2018 13:51 via ottawacitizen.com
  Many Ottawans opened their hearts to the arrival of Syrian refugees by sponsoring them or providing them with furniture and other necessities to help get them started in their new lives in Canada.
  Some of those refugees in the capital expressed their gratitude by sharing their culture in a gastronomical way.
  “We were the first to provide Syrian food in Ottawa grocery stores,” boasts Rehab (Rita) Adas, who runs the Syrian Kitchen, which is based out of the Portuguese Bakery on Nelson
  
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• Guly: What Syrian refugees have found since arriving in Ottawa

  26-12-2018 13:46 via ottawacitizen.com
  Almost three years ago, Canadians rallied around the federal government’s plan to resettle Syrian refugees who had fled a seemingly endless and brutal conflict in their homeland.
  Ottawans, who have a history of helping asylum seekers, from the Vietnamese “boat people” in the late 1970s to Somalis a decade later, opened their hearts and wallets to the more than 2,300 Syrians who arrived in the capital in 2015 and 2016.
  Syrian resettlement has become one of Prime Minister Justin
  
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• Significant storm on its way to Sault and area says Environment Canada ottawamatters.com/local-news/sig…

  26-12-2018 13:45 via twitter.com
  Significant storm on its way to Sault and area says Environment Canadaottawamatters.com/local-news/sig…
  
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• There's a mixed bag of winter weather coming up in the next few days

  26-12-2018 13:37 via ottawacitizen.com
  Today will dawn with some clouds and a 60% chance of snow flurries.
  As the sky clears later in the day, the temperature will drop and drop quickly.
  Expect no cloud cover at night a low of -17 C which, at the very least, is excellent for stargazing.
  Thursday’s high and low will be -9 C with periods of snow or freezing rain possible overnight.
  Friday will be messy and warm with a high of 5 C (yes, that’s above zero) and some unpleasant mixture of precipitation.
  The rain and/or snow sho
  
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• Milliken: Centre Block reno will challenge both Commons and Senate

  26-12-2018 12:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  The closure of the Centre Block will be sad and difficult for former, current and future MPs elected to our House of Commons. It is a lovely building where both houses of Parliament enjoy beautiful space for their deliberations and where many ceremonial events take place, as well as meetings and receptions for visiting dignitaries. Soon, access will be lost to all this, as well as to the beautiful Library of Parliament, which offers a wonderful reading and research space to members.
  During the r
  
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• Ditchburn: Centre Block's big makeover – at last, some oversight

  26-12-2018 12:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  There were a lot of 11th-hour trips up the Peace Tower on Parliament Hill earlier this month, a lot of group photos being taken in the halls and one-last-meals among colleagues in the fifth-floor restaurant of Centre Block. (I was one of those furiously snapping photos in all my favourite spots.) The gravity of seeing the nearly century old building close for at least a decade of rehabilitation is sinking in, and parliamentarians are justifiably leery of what changes will come when the tarp
  
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• What’s open and closed in Ottawa on Boxing Day - Global News

  26-12-2018 11:00
  What’s open and closed in Ottawa on Boxing Day  Global NewsHave a list of post-Christmas Day chores to get through? Global News Ottawa has a list of what's open and closed on Boxing Day in the capital, including city ...
  
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• Ottawa-Gatineau's top news photos of 2018 - CBC.ca

  26-12-2018 10:00
  Ottawa-Gatineau's top news photos of 2018  CBC.caTornado damage, French-language protests, and sad Erik Karlsson. Those are the subjects of just a few of the best photos to emerge from the past year in local ...
  
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• Why we asked a reporter to buy drugs this year | Behind the News, 2018 in Review

  26-12-2018 01:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  Undoubtedly, one of the most remarkable events of 2018 was the legalization of cannabis.
  While Oct. 17, 2018, will go down in the history books, the day itself, as far as Ottawa was concerned, was relatively understated. Looking back at the year as a whole, however, reveals a number of twists and turns that led to the end of 95 years of pot prohibition.The legalization date, originally scheduled for July 1 was pushed back; a change in Ontario’s government led to a late-in-the-third-pe
  
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• Industry group lobbies Ottawa for insurance against First Nations consultations - The Globe and Mail

  26-12-2018 00:35
  Industry group lobbies Ottawa for insurance against First Nations consultations  The Globe and MailCanadian Manufacturers & Exporters asks for 'some sort of guarantee' to foreign investors to protect them from 'the risk associated with First Nations ...
  
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• Dylan DeMelo and the Ottawa Senators are a perfect fit - Ottawa Sun

  26-12-2018 00:30
  Dylan DeMelo and the Ottawa Senators are a perfect fit  Ottawa SunThe commute home for Christmas was a little easier for Dylan DeMelo this year. Not long after the Ottawa Senators wrapped up their pre-holiday schedule ...
  
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• Ottawa's Carleton Tavern continues its Christmas Day meal tradition

  26-12-2018 00:28 via ottawacitizen.com
  The annual Carleton Tavern Christmas Dinner was held Tuesday, as volunteers served up food to anyone looking to join the festivities.
  About 120 volunteers took part all told.
  Some came for the food, some the company and some the live music. ShareOttawa's Carleton Tavern hosts annual Christmas Day mealTumblr Pinterest Google Plus Reddit LinkedInEmail GALLERY:Ottawa's Carleton Tavern hosts annual Christmas Day mealAnna Halchuk throws Santa for a loop when she asks him for a man as the annual Carle
  
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• CHRISTMAS CHEER: Ottawa's Carleton Tavern continues heartwarming holiday tradition - Ottawa Sun

  26-12-2018 00:28
  CHRISTMAS CHEER: Ottawa's Carleton Tavern continues heartwarming holiday tradition  Ottawa SunThe annual Carleton Tavern Christmas Dinner was held Tuesday, as volunteers served up food to anyone looking to join the festivities. About 120 volunteers ...
  
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