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• 'Those are not the kind of steps that were taken in the past' : Public servants invited into pay system development

  04-02-2019 23:57 via ottawacitizen.com
  It’s been nearly a year and a half since Brian Araujo moved to Elections Canada from another federal department and thanks to the Phoenix pay system, he’s out more than $10,000 as he continues to wait for his pay profile to be transferred.
  His is one of many similar stories shared Monday at the latest in a series of “NextGen User Expos,” a federal government initiative designed to engage public servants in their second crack at procuring a new system by which bureaucrats
  
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• Analysis: Revenue could be volatile heading into Ottawa's 2019 city budget

  04-02-2019 22:31 via ottawacitizen.com
  The City of Ottawa will table its draft 2019 budget on Wednesday with questions about the municipality’s exposure to volatile revenue streams, especially under a belt-tightening provincial government.
  The city is poised to go to the property taxpayer for even more money in 2019 through the annual tax increase. Council has called for a budget with tax-supported spending increases capped at three per cent.
  But the wild card of Ottawa’s municipal budget is out of city hall’s contr
  
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• Analysis: Revenue could be volatile heading into Ottawa's 2019 city budget - Ottawa Citizen

  04-02-2019 22:26
  Analysis: Revenue could be volatile heading into Ottawa's 2019 city budget  Ottawa CitizenThe City of Ottawa will table its draft 2019 budget on Wednesday with questions about the municipality's exposure to volatile revenue streams, especially under ...
  
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• Ottawa says Ontario’s call to drop retaliatory tariffs would mean ‘surrender’ - CityNews

  04-02-2019 21:31
  Ottawa says Ontario’s call to drop retaliatory tariffs would mean ‘surrender’  CityNewsOttawa dismissed a call from Ontario's economic development minister Monday to drop retaliatory tariffs against the United States, saying doing so would mean ...
  
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• Three children receive minor injuries in day care ceiling collapse - Ottawa Citizen

  04-02-2019 20:58
  Three children receive minor injuries in day care ceiling collapse  Ottawa CitizenTORONTO — Police say three children were injured when part of a Toronto day care centre's ceiling collapsed today.Toronto police say they were called to the ...
  
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• Ottawa the top gainer since 2016 in Canada's asymmetric housing markets

  04-02-2019 20:54 via ottawacitizen.com
  If you were lucky enough to own a single-family home in Ottawa over the past couple of years, you would have experienced something very unusual. You would have seen the value of your house jump fastest among the country’s six largest cities.
  The average price hike in Ottawa was nearly 15 per cent, giving a new total of $433,500 — up $56,300 as of December, according to benchmark data published last month by the Canadian Real Estate Association.
  Remarkably, the absolute gain was doubl
  
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• Housing markets in Canada: What Ottawa now has in common with Toronto and Vancouver - National Post

  04-02-2019 20:54
  Housing markets in Canada: What Ottawa now has in common with Toronto and Vancouver  National PostThe average price hike in Ottawa was nearly 15 per cent, giving a new total of $433500 — up $56300 as of December, according to benchmark data published ...
  
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• Ottawa mother, told she wouldn't live past her son's second birthday, watches him turn four (AUDIO) - OttawaMatters.com

  04-02-2019 20:42
  Ottawa mother, told she wouldn't live past her son's second birthday, watches him turn four (AUDIO)  OttawaMatters.comOttawa's Jillian O'Connor shares her story of percerverence on 1310 NEWS' The Rick Gibbons Show (hosted, February 4, by 1310 NEWS' Mark Day): ...
  
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• Venezuelan opposition leader Guaido appeals for help in Ottawa via video - TheChronicleHerald.ca

  04-02-2019 20:30
  Venezuelan opposition leader Guaido appeals for help in Ottawa via video  TheChronicleHerald.caOTTAWA — Venezuela's Western-backed opposition leader Juan Guaido made a larger than life appeal to Canada and its Western Hemisphere partners to end ...
  
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• Man with meth had knives, baton, pellet gun: Kingston police

  04-02-2019 20:10 via ottawacitizen.com
  Kingston police found an arsenal of weapons and suspected crystal methamphetamine on a 37-year-old suspect when they responded to a report of a man armed with a gun, mace, a baton and a knife Saturday night.
  When officers arrived at the Joseph Street apartment at about 8:30 p.m., they found the suspect attaching a large knife into a sheath on his belt. When they arrested and searched him, they found a second knife, a collapsible baton and a black handgun-style pellet gun concealed in his clothin
  
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• Ottawa-based Shopify is now Canada's most valuable tech firm - Ottawa Business Journal

  04-02-2019 20:03
  Ottawa-based Shopify is now Canada's most valuable tech firm  Ottawa Business JournalWhat began just over a decade ago as a way for some local entrepreneurs to sell snowboards on the side is now Canada's most valuable tech company by ...
  
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• Rideau Canal temporarily closing to skaters Monday night

  04-02-2019 19:52 via ottawacitizen.com
  The National Capital Commission will temporarily close the entire length of the Rideau Canal Skateway Monday night to try to preserve the ice, as temperatures are set to soar Tuesday.
  The gates go up at 10 p.m. between the National Arts Centre and Hartwell Locks.
  The mercury is expected to rise to a rainy 6 C by Tuesday morning before plunging again to -17 C overnight.
  “The Rideau Canal Skateway crews will continue necessary operations to reopen the skateway as quickly as possible, as weat
  
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• BIG THAW: Canal temporarily closing to skaters Monday night - Ottawa Sun

  04-02-2019 19:52
  BIG THAW: Canal temporarily closing to skaters Monday night  Ottawa SunThe National Capital Commission will temporarily close the entire length of the Rideau Canal Skateway Monday night to try to preserve the ice, as temperatures ...
  
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• Man in his 20s dead in head-on crash near Buckingham

  04-02-2019 19:42 via ottawacitizen.com
  A Gatineau man in his 20s died after his vehicle appears to have lost control and struck first an oncoming vehicle and then another vehicle in the Buckingham area Sunday morning.
  Gatineau police officers were called to the intersection of Buckingham and Lépine avenues just before 7 a.m.
  The driver of the second vehicle in the head-on crash had minor injuries.
  Police shut down the area so crash investigators and technicians could examine the scene and interviewed witnesses.
  Investigat
  
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• Const. Daniel Montsion pleads not guilty to all charges as manslaughter trial begins

  04-02-2019 19:36 via ottawacitizen.com
  “Not guilty to all the charges,” Const. Daniel Montsion told court as he was officially arraigned on charges of manslaughter, aggravated assault and assault with a weapon in the July 24, 2016 death of Abdirahman Abdi.
  What is expected to be a closely-watched high-profile trial began Monday with Crown prosecutors laying out the criminal case against Monstion, a veteran member of the police tactical unit who was one of the officers who responded to the initial call for a disturbance on
  
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• Ottawa City Councillors want to introduce tax-levy to tackle homelessness - OttawaMatters.com

  04-02-2019 19:34
  Ottawa City Councillors want to introduce tax-levy to tackle homelessness  OttawaMatters.comMathieu Fleury wants the City of Ottawa to introduce a 1 per cent tax increase to offset the cost of keeping families in hotels.
  
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• HEADS UP: The @NCC_CCN is closing the full 7.8KM of the @NCC_Skateway as of 10pm this evening, to preserve the ice… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  04-02-2019 19:34 via twitter.com
  HEADS UP: The @NCC_CCN is closing the full 7.8KM of the @NCC_Skateway as of 10pm this evening, to preserve the ice… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Burglar smashes door, steals cash at Kemptville cafe

  04-02-2019 19:03 via ottawacitizen.com
  Police say they’re looking for the burglar who smashed the door of a “popular” Kemptville cafe Saturday morning.
  Grenville County OPP is asking for tips and called in the force’s forensic identification unit to help in their investigation into the break-in at Brewed Awakenings, which reopened Sunday.
  Police responded to the break and enter at the County Road 43 coffee shop at about 5:19 a.m.
  Anyone with information is asked to call the OPP at 613-258-3441. Anonymous
  
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• Busing: We can better support those facing death or grieving

  04-02-2019 18:28 via ottawacitizen.com
  Living well and dying well are what we all hope for. As we face dying and death, we need all the support we can get. It comes from many places, but we all know about the challenges associated with crowded emergency departments, the wait for hospital beds, the inadequate number of community placements, the stress on home care, the shortage of personal support workers … the list goes on.
  Most Canadians (75 per cent in recent surveys) want to die at home, but most cannot. Most palliative car
  
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• Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido appeals for help in Ottawa via video - National Post

  04-02-2019 18:23
  Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido appeals for help in Ottawa via video  National PostVenezuela's Western-backed opposition leader Juan Guaido made a larger than life appeal to Canada and its Western Hemisphere partners to end the ...
  
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• Ontario and Quebec urge Ottawa to lift tariffs on U.S. steel and aluminium - Toronto Star

  04-02-2019 18:15
  Ontario and Quebec urge Ottawa to lift tariffs on U.S. steel and aluminium  Toronto StarThe governments of Ontario is urging Ottawa to do more to end the trade war with the United States that is hurting steel and aluminium industries in Canada.
  
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• The @rick_gibbons Show for Monday, February 4th w/ @MarkDayNews: 1:07: @farhia4real 1:17: @OttawaHospital 1:30:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  04-02-2019 18:08 via twitter.com
  The @rick_gibbons Show for Monday, February 4th w/ @MarkDayNews: 1:07: @farhia4real 1:17: @OttawaHospital 1:30:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Hamilton, Cats, Waitress and Rent are bound for the NAC - Ottawa Citizen

  04-02-2019 17:55
  Hamilton, Cats, Waitress and Rent are bound for the NAC  Ottawa CitizenThe touring productions of the Broadway smash hit Hamilton will come to the National Arts Centre for almost a month in the spring of 2020, Broadway Across ...
  
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• WANTED: Suspect sought in Hazeldean Road robbery - Ottawa Citizen

  04-02-2019 17:41
  WANTED: Suspect sought in Hazeldean Road robbery  Ottawa CitizenThe robbery unit is asking the public to help them identify a suspect in the robbery of a Hazeldean Road gas bar last month.The man walked into the store near ...
  
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• WANTED: Suspect sought in Hazeldean Road robbery

  04-02-2019 17:41 via ottawacitizen.com
  The robbery unit is asking the public to help them identify a suspect in the robbery of a Hazeldean Road gas bar last month.
  The man walked into the store near Huntmar Drive at about 8:30 p.m. Jan. 24, robbed the clerk of an undisclosed sum, police allege.
  He is described as black, 18 to 25 years old and about five feet, nine inches tall. He wore a dark winter parka with a fur-lined hood, a black and white scarf, blue jeans and newer white high-top sneakers.
  Anyone with information is asked to c
  
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• 'We're not in Kansas anymore' as mom shames wrong Ottawa

  04-02-2019 17:39 via ottawacitizen.com
  An Ottawa mom had a good laugh after publicly chastising the City of Ottawa for its snow clearing performance Monday.
  That’s because she tagged Ottawa, Kansas, a city of about 13,000 people, situated about 2,000 km southwest of Canada’s capital, where it’s a sunny -2 C with only “sprinkles” in the forecast.
  She’d intended to “shame, shame, shame” the city into sending plows to clear the snowbanks around Elmdale Public School, where she said parents
  
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• 'We're not in Kansas anymore' as mom shames wrong Ottawa - Ottawa Citizen

  04-02-2019 17:38
  'We're not in Kansas anymore' as mom shames wrong Ottawa  Ottawa CitizenAn Ottawa mom had a good laugh after publicly chastising the City of Ottawa for its snow clearing performance Monday.That's because she tagged Ottawa, ...
  
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• Kilgour: Democracy may soon return to Venezuela

  04-02-2019 17:36 via ottawacitizen.com
  Venezuela has long played an important democratic role in the Americas, including becoming the first Latin American nation to end military rule in 1958. However, as Nicolás Maduro was sworn in for his second term as president on Jan. 10, the country, one of the hemisphere’s most oil-rich, was experiencing a humanitarian catastrophe.
  The GDP has fallen by almost half since 2013. Millions lack food, access to doctors, medicine, running water and electricity; three million, one-tenth o
  
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• Ottawa says Ontario's call to drop retaliatory tariffs would mean 'surrender' - CBC.ca

  04-02-2019 17:20
  Ottawa says Ontario's call to drop retaliatory tariffs would mean 'surrender'  CBC.caOttawa dismissed a call from Ontario's economic development minister Monday to drop retaliatory tariffs against the United States, saying doing so would mean ...
  
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• Trio face drug, gun charges after Prescott-area traffic stop

  04-02-2019 17:15 via ottawacitizen.com
  Three people are facing drug and gun charges after a traffic stop in Augusta Township early Saturday morning.
  When Grenville County OPP pulled over the westbound vehicle on Highway 2 near Prescott at about 2:30 a.m., they discovered that there was an outstanding warrant for the arrest of the woman behind the wheel and one of her passengers had breached his bail conditions, police said in a press release Monday.
  Brittney McIlvenna, 20, and Timothy McGuire, 24, of Augusta Township and Zachary Alle
  
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• Trio face drug, gun charges after Prescott-area traffic stop - Ottawa Citizen

  04-02-2019 17:12
  Trio face drug, gun charges after Prescott-area traffic stop  Ottawa CitizenThree people are facing drug and gun charges after a traffic stop in Augusta Township early Saturday morning.When Grenville County OPP pulled over the ...
  
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• Start your engines: Ottawa's private AV test track opening soon - Ottawa Business Journal

  04-02-2019 17:00
  Start your engines: Ottawa's private AV test track opening soon  Ottawa Business JournalOttawa's private autonomous vehicle test track, the first of its kind in North America, is almost open for business.
  
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• Ottawa school board busing employees set strike date - OttawaMatters.com

  04-02-2019 16:53
  Ottawa school board busing employees set strike date  OttawaMatters.comIf a new contract is not agreed upon by March 1, Ottawa Carleton District School Board and the Ottawa Catholic School Board bus services could be disrupted.
  
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• Charges have been laid, including impaired driving causing bodily harm. twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…

  04-02-2019 16:25 via twitter.com
  Charges have been laid, including impaired driving causing bodily harm. twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…
  
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• Ottawa says Ontario's call to drop retaliatory tariffs would mean 'surrender' - CTV News

  04-02-2019 16:16
  Ottawa says Ontario's call to drop retaliatory tariffs would mean 'surrender'  CTV NewsOttawa is dismissing a call from Ontario's economic development minister to drop retaliatory tariffs against the United States, saying doing so would mean ...
  
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• Last week's questioning of Gen. Jon Vance by Norman’s lawyer a preview of what is to come?

  04-02-2019 16:01 via ottawacitizen.com
  Vice Admiral Mark Norman has faced an uphill battle getting the documents from the Canadian Forces and the Department of National Defence that he needs to defend himself against a charge of breach of trust. That charge is related to allegations by the RCMP that Norman leaked information to a shipbuilder about Liberal government plans to derail the company’s project to provide a supply ship to the Royal Canadian Navy.
  Norman has pleaded not guilty and counters that he was following orders f
  
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• Our reporter @Momin680NEWS is in Toronto, and will be live tweeting updates from the sentencing hearing for Bruce M… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  04-02-2019 15:53 via twitter.com
  Our reporter @Momin680NEWS is in Toronto, and will be live tweeting updates from the sentencing hearing for Bruce M… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Pembina going ahead with petrochemical plant joint venture in Alberta - Ottawa Citizen

  04-02-2019 15:46
  Pembina going ahead with petrochemical plant joint venture in Alberta  Ottawa CitizenCALGARY — A $4.5-billion Alberta project to turn propane into plastic will help deliver world prices to land-locked western Canadian oil and gas producers, ...
  
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• Remember This? The first Ottawa International Dog Derby - OttawaMatters.com

  04-02-2019 15:42
  Remember This? The first Ottawa International Dog Derby  OttawaMatters.comTens of thousands of spectators turned up in downtown Ottawa to watch the first ever dog sledding derby held in the region.
  
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• Detained Canadian gets third consular visit in China since his arrest - Ottawa Citizen

  04-02-2019 15:40
  Detained Canadian gets third consular visit in China since his arrest  Ottawa CitizenOTTAWA — The federal government says Canadian Michael Kovrig has received his third meeting with consular officials since his December arrest in China on ...
  
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• This Rooftop Bar In Ottawa Is Transforming Into A Magical Ice Bar This Month - Narcity

  04-02-2019 15:22
  This Rooftop Bar In Ottawa Is Transforming Into A Magical Ice Bar This Month  NarcityThis month the Andaz Ottawa ByWard Market has transformed into a magical ice bar that you need to see! For the three weeks of Winterlude, the Andaz's rooftop ...
  
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• Canada's asymmetric housing markets: Ottawa the top gainer since 2016

  04-02-2019 14:35 via ottawacitizen.com
  If you were lucky enough to own a single-family home in Ottawa over the past couple of years, you would have experienced something very unusual. You would have seen the value of your house jump fastest among the country’s six largest cities.
  The average price hike in Ottawa was nearly 15 per cent, giving a new total of $433,500 — up $56,300 as of December, according to benchmark data published last month by the Canadian Real Estate Association.
  Remarkably, the absolute gain was doubl
  
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• Traffic: Slick roads, OC Transpo delays and some school bus cancellations

  04-02-2019 14:26 via ottawacitizen.com
  Police are warning commuters to slow down on slick roads while OC Transpo delays and school bus cancellations outside the city may have the rest of us spinning our wheels this Monday morning.
  City school buses are running but there are cancellations for Renfrew County public and Catholic schools, Upper Canada District School Board and Catholic District School Board of Eastern Ontario schools and French schools in Merrickville, Kemptville, Renfrew, Pembroke, Arnprior, Prescott-Russell, Carle
  
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• Traffic: Slick roads, OC Transpo delays and some school bus cancellations - Ottawa Citizen

  04-02-2019 14:05
  Traffic: Slick roads, OC Transpo delays and some school bus cancellations  Ottawa CitizenPolice are warning commuters to slow down on slick roads while OC Transpo delays and school bus cancellations outside the city may have the rest of us ...
  
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• Unusual air bag instrument gets its North American debut in Ottawa - CBC News

  04-02-2019 14:02
  Unusual air bag instrument gets its North American debut in Ottawa  CBC NewsIt won't be played in the National Arts Centre Orchestra anytime soon, but a strange new instrument is in the building and children will be able to play it at the Big ...
  
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• Majority of Ottawa City Councillors commit to travelling via public transit this week - OttawaMatters.com

  04-02-2019 13:49
  Majority of Ottawa City Councillors commit to travelling via public transit this week  OttawaMatters.comFifteen councillors have agreed to only use public transit to get around for the next seven days.
  
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• Freezing rain warning in effect Monday

  04-02-2019 13:33 via ottawacitizen.com
  Just to make Monday even more marvellous, a freezing rain warning is in effect.
  “Freezing drizzle will continue today and change to periods of freezing rain later this afternoon or this evening,” Environment Canada warns.
  “Several hours of freezing rain are expected before it ends overnight. “Surfaces such as highways, roads, walkways and parking lots may become icy and slippery. Slow down driving in slippery conditions. Watch for taillights ahead and maintain a safe foll
  
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• Ottawa mayor to give Dalton McGuinty key to city - Toronto Sun

  04-02-2019 13:07
  Ottawa mayor to give Dalton McGuinty key to city  Toronto SunFormer Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty, who has kept a low profile in recent years, will soon be honoured in his old political base.Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson ...
  
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• Today's letters: Who sits on the transit commission?

  04-02-2019 13:02 via ottawacitizen.com
  So what’s council’s ‘values test’?
  Re: Transit appointee gets rough ride before council, Jan. 31.I would suggest that Coun. Shawn Menard and the other city councillors who challenged the appointment of Michael Olsen to the transit commission get together and develop and publish a list of the acceptable values, points of view, opinions etc. that people must have in order to be involved in the city government. There is no point in people who might hold differing points
  
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• Sherring: Yes, Senator White still wants his old job

  04-02-2019 12:58 via ottawacitizen.com
  There’s no doubt former Ottawa police chief Vern White – now Sen. Vern White – wants his old job back. He made that clear in an interview back in November.
  “I know now I left the job too early,” White admitted on my blog, On the City, From the Burbs. “There are things I still want to get done there.
  “So yes, if it’s an open competition for the job, I’ll be applying.”
  With the announcement by Ottawa Police Chief Charles Bordeleau th
  
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