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• Legal pot shop proposed for Wellington Street West

  08-02-2019 23:32 via ottawacitizen.com
  A legal cannabis store has been proposed for the bustling retail strip in the heart of Wellington West village.
  One of the winners of the provincial pot-shop lottery has planned a store called Superette on the ground floor of a five-storey commercial building at 1306 Wellington St. W. It’s next door to Watson’s Pharmacy and across the street from the Ottawa Bagelshop and Deli.
  It is the first proposed cannabis store in Eastern Ontario, where five lottery winners have applied for shop
  
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• Facebook faces investigation by privacy commissioner over RBC access - Ottawa Citizen

  08-02-2019 23:18
  Facebook faces investigation by privacy commissioner over RBC access  Ottawa CitizenA Facebook spokesman said Royal Bank had the power to read, write and delete private messages by Facebook members, The Tyee reported on Jan. 30.
  
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• Ottawa parents upset by changes to Ontario autism program funding bit.ly/2Gy4gnk #ottnews https://t.co/rCWuysTKjd

  08-02-2019 23:15 via twitter.com
  
  Ottawa parents upset by changes to Ontario autism program funding bit.ly/2Gy4gnk #ottnews https://t.co/rCWuysTKjd
  
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• Stop setting deadlines for LRT: Meehan

  08-02-2019 23:07 via ottawacitizen.com
  As Ottawa councillors prepare for a key meeting with the builders of the city’s $2.1-billion light-rail transit system next week, one councillor says setting deadlines for service to begin is counter-productive.
  “I think it’s time to stop setting deadlines for the LRT to open,” Coun. Carol Anne Meehan tweeted Friday afternoon. “It disappoints people and shakes their confidence. The LRT will be ready when it’s ready to roll. Can’t wait.”
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• MP Stetski honours Bud Abbott in Ottawa - Cranbrook Townsman

  08-02-2019 23:03
  MP Stetski honours Bud Abbott in Ottawa  Cranbrook TownsmanKootenay Columbia MP Wayne Stetski rose in the House of Commons to honour Bud Abbot, a beloved Cranbrook icon who recently passed away days after his ...
  
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• Ottawa parents upset by changes to Ontario autism program funding - OttawaMatters.com

  08-02-2019 22:57
  Ottawa parents upset by changes to Ontario autism program funding  OttawaMatters.comOntario is overhauling its autism program to clear a wait list of 23,000 children, but families are worried the new funding is going into the wrong hands.
  
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• Stop setting deadlines for LRT: Meehan - Ottawa Citizen

  08-02-2019 22:55
  Stop setting deadlines for LRT: Meehan  Ottawa CitizenAs Ottawa councillors prepare for a key meeting with the builders of the city's $2.1-billion light-rail transit system next week, one councillor says setting deadlines ...
  
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• Police find man hugging pooch after marijuana melee in Kingston

  08-02-2019 22:36 via ottawacitizen.com
  Called to an altercation between a man and a woman, Kingston police found the man hugging his dog while the woman yelled at him.
  They later learned the fight was over a pot stash.
  Police were called to the mid-town address at about 1:15 p.m. Wednesday, then reviewed a video of the man fleeing the apartment with his pooch while the woman chased and tackled him, then kicked him repeatedly until he got to his feet and punched her.
  The source of the video was not explained.
  A 20-year-old woman and 2
  
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• Ridealong: Stittsville councillor shares the highs and lows of the transit week challenge

  08-02-2019 22:35 via ottawacitizen.com
  When Stittsville Coun. Glen Gower took on the transit week challenge, he was ready to learn about commuters’ experiences but wasn’t prepared for the cancellations, congestion, and his very wet shoes.
  The challenge, organized by advocacy group Free Transit Ottawa, asked councillors to ride the bus every day this week in order to highlight the importance of accessible transportation services. Seventeen out of 23 councillors agreed to participate. 
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• Relax, Nepean. The soldiers are only training

  08-02-2019 22:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  From Friday through Monday residents of the Bellwood area of Nepean are likely to see groups of soldiers and their vehicles moving around the area.
  It’s only a training exercise, National Defence says. And the soldiers will be unarmed.
  The Forces call it “a series of exercises in the area of the Tactical Systems Integration Lab in Nepean.”
  Most of the activity will happen during the day. The announcement adds that “measures are being taken to ensure minimum inconvenience
  
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• COAL BOWL: Ottawa basketball team’s diversity creates lifelong friendships - Cape Breton Post

  08-02-2019 22:08
  COAL BOWL: Ottawa basketball team’s diversity creates lifelong friendships  Cape Breton PostArmand Malumalu had never seen basketball before moving to Canada as a refugee in 2012. Now it's given him a second family after losing contact with his ...
  
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• BREAKING: 29-year-old Alexandre Bissonnette has been sentenced to minimum 40 years in prison without parole for the… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  08-02-2019 21:41 via twitter.com
  BREAKING: 29-year-old Alexandre Bissonnette has been sentenced to minimum 40 years in prison without parole for the… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• $17-million bid for Francophonie Games lacked advice from Ottawa - CBC Sports

  08-02-2019 21:39
  $17-million bid for Francophonie Games lacked advice from Ottawa  CBC SportsNew Brunswick's initial low bid for the Francophonie Games was hobbled by Ottawa's decision to not provide advice or expertise, a senior civil servant told a ...
  
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• Irish PM says he's listening, but not negotiating on Brexit. ottawamatters.com/national-busin…

  08-02-2019 21:05 via twitter.com
  Irish PM says he's listening, but not negotiating on Brexit.ottawamatters.com/national-busin…
  
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• Director Spike Lee boycotts Gucci, Prada over blackface. ottawamatters.com/national-busin…

  08-02-2019 20:35 via twitter.com
  Director Spike Lee boycotts Gucci, Prada over blackface.ottawamatters.com/national-busin…
  
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• Passerby's call spells quick end to Prince of Wales Drive fire

  08-02-2019 20:22 via ottawacitizen.com
  A passerby’s 911 call helped firefighters make quick work of a fire at a south-end house under renovation Friday afternoon.
  A motorist spotted black smoke and flames at 2893 Prince of Wales Drive at 12:55 p.m. and called for help.
  Crews engaged in a rapid fire attack and quickly extinguished a small fire in the upstairs portion of the home.
  Firefighters had the flames out at 1:03 p.m. They then completed minimal overhaul by removing drywall to ensure there was no fire spread
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• Additional job seekers raise Ottawa-Gatineau unemployment rate to 5.2% in January - Ottawa Business Journal

  08-02-2019 20:17
  Additional job seekers raise Ottawa-Gatineau unemployment rate to 5.2% in January  Ottawa Business JournalOttawa-Gatineau's unemployment rate ticked up slightly to 5.2 per cent in January, thanks partly to an increase in the number of people looking for work, ...
  
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• Rideau Canal reopens to skaters Saturday morning

  08-02-2019 20:16 via ottawacitizen.com
  These plunging temperatures have a silver lining.
  The entire 7.8 km length of the Rideau Canal Skateway reopens Saturday morning at 8 a.m., just in time for the second weekend of Winterlude and the Ottawa Ice Dragon Boat Festival – the world’s largest.
  The canal closed temporarily Feb. 4 to ensure mild temperatures wouldn’t erode the ice surface.
  There’s little danger of that for the foreseeable future, with daily highs averaging about -8 C.
   
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• Rideau Canal reopens to skaters Saturday morning - Ottawa Citizen

  08-02-2019 20:12
  Rideau Canal reopens to skaters Saturday morning  Ottawa CitizenThe entire 7.8 km length of the Rideau Canal Skateway reopens Saturday morning at 8 a.m., just in time for the second weekend of Winterlude and the Ottawa ...
  
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• Okay, just one more #Winterlude tweet. Ride the free shuttle tomorrow from the ByWard Market to Rideau Hall for… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  08-02-2019 20:11 via twitter.com
  Okay, just one more #Winterlude tweet. Ride the free shuttle tomorrow from the ByWard Market to Rideau Hall for… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Ottawa facilities, vital for children and families, getting provincial dollars - OttawaMatters.com

  08-02-2019 20:05
  Ottawa facilities, vital for children and families, getting provincial dollars  OttawaMatters.comNepean MPP Lisa MacLeod made an announcement at Total Communication Environment, a non-profit charitable organization that provides residential, day ...
  
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• Kingston police seek scam suspect caught on camera in Ottawa

  08-02-2019 19:46 via ottawacitizen.com
  Kingston police are searching for a suspect in an emergency scam caught on camera in Ottawa collecting money sent from the Limestone City.
  On Dec. 12, 2018, a woman received a phone call from a man posing as her son, Kingston police said.
  The man was crying hysterically and told her that he was being arrested for hitting a young girl while driving. Another man then came on the phone claiming to be a lawyer representing her son. The lawyer stated there was a gag order in place and warned the woma
  
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• Ottawa's 1st legal cannabis shop could open on Wellington Street W. - CBC.ca

  08-02-2019 19:25
  Ottawa's 1st legal cannabis shop could open on Wellington Street W.  CBC.caThe first proposal to open a legal cannabis shop in eastern Ontario would see a store on Wellington Street W. near Island Park Drive. The Alcohol and Gaming ...
  
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• Renovation Transformation: Broken dishwasher sparks entire home reno

  08-02-2019 19:11 via ottawacitizen.com
  It started with a broken dishwasher.
  It was an old appliance and the cost of fixing it equaled the price of a brand new one. Instead of an easy switch, the kitchen floor would have to be torn up in an effort to install a new dishwasher.
  That triggered homeowners Ken Richardson and his partner to start thinking about a renovation. But the dishwasher problem soon became a kitchen problem, and when it didn’t make sense to refurbish just one area of the 1960s bungalow, it became an entire home
  
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• Plan to prop up Ottawa's crumpled Magee House should work, expert says - Ottawa Citizen

  08-02-2019 18:41
  Plan to prop up Ottawa's crumpled Magee House should work, expert says  Ottawa CitizenA plan to use new structural steel to save Hintonburg's partially crumpled Magee House could salvage it and other old buildings in danger of collapse, says an ...
  
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• Plan to prop up Ottawa's crumpled Magee House should work, expert says

  08-02-2019 18:41 via ottawacitizen.com
  A plan to use new structural steel to save Hintonburg’s partially crumpled Magee House could salvage it and other old buildings in danger of collapse, says an engineering professor from the University of Ottawa who specializes in saving buildings from catastrophe.
  Murat Saatcioglu said a steel “skeleton” will take over the job of holding up the walls and roof.
  With professional engineering involved, he said, “I would have full confidence.
  “If you have the funds
  
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• Federal public service gets active with evolving workspaces

  08-02-2019 18:41 via ottawacitizen.com
  When Stéphanie Poliquin started her public service career in 1988 at what was then known as Public Works Canada, she said “everything was orange. And dusty, and thick.”
  In an interview last fall, she recalled the days of filing cabinets almost too tall to reach, and furniture too heavy to move into different layouts when it came time for brainstorming between bureaucrats.
  Now a vice-president with the Public Service Commission, Poliquin’s office is a far cry from th
  
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• Adam: City of Ottawa's draft budget shows the mayor is indeed listening

  08-02-2019 18:03 via ottawacitizen.com
  One of the recurring criticisms of Jim Watson by many of those who went for Clive Doucet in the last municipal election was that the mayor had become so powerful he had stopped listening. Watson rejected the notion, of course, and went on to win the election in a landslide. But the 2019 draft budget shows that whether or not Watson was actually listening then, he is now.
  The $3.6-billion draft budget, with its signature three-per-cent property tax increase, $85-million spending increase and reco
  
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• Adam: City of Ottawa's draft budget shows the mayor is indeed listening - Ottawa Citizen

  08-02-2019 17:51
  Adam: City of Ottawa's draft budget shows the mayor is indeed listening  Ottawa CitizenThis is still a work in progress, of course, and nothing is won or lost until the final version is approved by Ottawa Council on March 6.
  
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• Battle tested: Ottawa's tactical paramedics are using war-zone developed gear

  08-02-2019 17:24 via ottawacitizen.com
  Originally published on February 3, 2017
  Ottawa’s team of tactical paramedics might be found wherever there’s danger — stabbings, shootings, explosions, police raids, suspicious packages, hazmat calls.
  And some of the medical techniques and products they’ll use at these scenes are coming straight from the battlefields of Afghanistan and Iraq.“We’ve learned a bit from the battlefields,” says Craig MacInnes, acting commander of special operations with the
  
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• Test drive your LRT commute with new app

  08-02-2019 17:11 via ottawacitizen.com
  Wondering how the new light-rail system will change your commute?
  There’s an app for that.
  The Ready for Rail Travel Planner includes sample days have been added to the Travel Planner using routes and schedules that are planned to operate with O‑Train Confederation Line.
  The line is scheduled to be delivered by builders to the city at the end of March and could be open to the public by the end of April.
  It’s billed as bringing a modern light rail transit service to Ottawa,
  
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• Wellington Street W. could be home to Ottawa’s 1st legal pot shop - Global News

  08-02-2019 17:09
  Wellington Street W. could be home to Ottawa’s 1st legal pot shop  Global NewsAn applicant behind the store name "Superette" has filed for a licence to open a cannabis retail shop on Wellington Street West. If approved, it could be the ...
  
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• Test drive your LRT commute with new app - Ottawa Citizen

  08-02-2019 16:57
  Test drive your LRT commute with new app  Ottawa CitizenThere's an app for that. The Ready for Rail Travel Planner includes sample days have been added to the Travel Planner using routes and schedules that are ...
  
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• Surviving member of 'Nepean cluster' says watching colleagues die changed his career in firefighting

  08-02-2019 16:02 via ottawacitizen.com
  Jim Andrews remembers the day his doctor phoned with the news.
  He was in his mid-30s at the time, a career firefighter, married with two children. He had joined the former City of Nepean’s fire department when he was 23 years old.
  Early in 2001, his wife noticed a mole on Armstrong’s chest that didn’t look right. His doctor tested it, but didn’t seem too concerned.
  And then Andrews got the phone call.
  As he listened, he wrote the word “malignant” on the blackb
  
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• The other battle: Firefighters work to change a culture and protect themselves from cancer-causing toxins

  08-02-2019 16:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  When Norm Smith looked in the mirror and saw the rash on his face, he immediately contacted his doctor.
  The veteran firefighter had been in the business long enough, and seen enough friends with cancer, to know better than taking any chances.
  His doctor prescribed cream to burn off what turned out to be basal cell carcinoma, a type of cancer that can typically grow on parts of your skin that get a lot of sun.
  Smith applied the cream, only to have his skin turn bright red in a familiar patte
  
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• ModBox: Upscale condo development betting on Lebreton Flats future and LRT

  08-02-2019 15:32 via ottawacitizen.com
  Location, location, location.
  It’s all too common mantra, but nevertheless spot on.
  For a new condo development in Ottawa, location means everything. The six-unit building, named the Grid Lofts, is being built just minutes away from the future hub station of the city’s Confederation Line LRT and a short drive from the proposed LeBreton Flats development.
  “In real estate, it’s always about location first,” said Chantal Smith, a spokesperson for builder ModBox Inc. &l
  
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• Renovation Transformation: Broken dishwasher sparks entire home renovation

  08-02-2019 15:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  It started with a broken dishwasher.
  It was an old appliance and the cost of fixing it equaled the price of a brand new one. Instead of an easy switch, the kitchen floor would have to be torn up in an effort to install a new dishwasher.
  That triggered homeowners Ken Richardson and his partner to start thinking about a renovation. But the dishwasher problem soon became a kitchen problem, and when it didn’t make sense to refurbish just one area of the 1960s bungalow, it became an entire home
  
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• ​Ottawa convoy distances from Yellow Vests, gets ready to roll | Oil & Gas - JWN

  08-02-2019 15:28
  ​Ottawa convoy distances from Yellow Vests, gets ready to roll | Oil & Gas  JWNThere's been some turns in the road, but it looks like there will indeed be a convoy of trucks rolling across Western Canada right up to Parliament Hill to let the ...
  
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• Body found on rural road near Madoc: OPP

  08-02-2019 15:16 via ottawacitizen.com
  Central Hastings OPP is investigating after a person was found dead on a rural road south of the Village of Madoc Friday morning.
  Police were called to Blakely Lane in the township about 200 km west of Ottawa at 7:45 a.m.
  The road is closed for the ongoing investigation, police said, adding that “the OPP have no concerns for public safety at this time.”ALSO IN THE NEWS:
  Suspect sought in west end robberies
  Kingston police seek scam suspect caught on camera in Ottawa
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• Police find man hugging pooch after marijuana melee

  08-02-2019 15:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  Called to an altercation between a man and a woman, Kingston police found the man hugging his dog while the woman yelled at him.
  They later learned the fight was over a pot stash.
  Police were called to the mid-town address at about 1:15 p.m. Wednesday then reviewed a video of the man fleeing the apartment with his pooch while the woman chased and tackled him then kicked him repeatedly until he got to his feet and punched her.
  It was not explained where the video came from.
  A 20-year-old woman an
  
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• Capital region jobless rate inches up to 5.2 % despite 1,900 new jobs

  08-02-2019 14:59 via ottawacitizen.com
  Capital region’s jobless rate ticked up to 5.2 per cent in January, from five per cent in December.
  It’s the highest rate since December, 2017 but still low by historical standards.
  The January bump came despite a net increase of 1,900 jobs.
  The labour force, which includes people looking for work, was up 4,000.
  There was a lot of movement by sector in capital region’s workforce.
  Statcan reports tech jobs were up 3,900 in January over December, while public admin employment dro
  
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• Suspect sought in west end robberies

  08-02-2019 14:55 via ottawacitizen.com
  City police are asking the public to help them identify a suspect in three west-end robberies, two of them within 20 minutes on Thursday after staff at the first targeted business refused to hand over cash.
  On Friday, Feb. 1 at 9:56 a.m., a suspect walked into a bank on Merivale Road north of Baseline Road and demanded money. He said he had a weapon, although none was seen, and fled with an undisclosed sum.
  On Thursday, a man police believe is the same suspect entered a restaurant on Baseline Ro
  
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• Suspect sought in west end robberies - Ottawa Citizen

  08-02-2019 14:50
  Suspect sought in west end robberies  Ottawa CitizenCity police are asking the public to help them identify a suspect in three west-end robberies, two of them within 20 minutes on Thursday after staff at the first ...
  
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• Third flu death confirmed in Ottawa - OttawaMatters.com

  08-02-2019 14:25
  Third flu death confirmed in Ottawa  OttawaMatters.comThis flu season has seen three deaths in Ottawa stemming from influenza virus.
  
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• Heavy wind expected Friday as cold front moves in - CTV News

  08-02-2019 14:12
  Heavy wind expected Friday as cold front moves in  CTV NewsFriday morning is starting off mild, but a cold front will bring strong wind gusts that could knock down trees and affect the power grid.
  
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• Kingston police seek scam suspect caught on camera in Ottawa - Ottawa Citizen

  08-02-2019 14:02
  Kingston police seek scam suspect caught on camera in Ottawa  Ottawa CitizenKingston police are searching for a suspect in an emergency scam caught on camera in Ottawa collecting money sent from the Limestone City.
  
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• In 1954, Black train porters called on Ottawa to transform Canada into 'a country of equality' - OurWindsor.ca

  08-02-2019 13:40
  In 1954, Black train porters called on Ottawa to transform Canada into 'a country of equality'  OurWindsor.caOn April 26, 1954 a train arrived in Ottawa. Inside one of its cars: a 35-member delegation of the Negro Citizenship Association. In They Call Me George, ...
  
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• Wet, windy commute could turn icy by afternoon

  08-02-2019 13:32 via ottawacitizen.com
  It was wet and windy on the way to work Friday morning.
  Traffic was already thick and slow on Queensway heading from the west end downtown, where commuters and residents had to contend with a power outage straddling Bank Street and stretching from the highway to Lisgar Street.
  Hydro Ottawa had estimated restoration time at 1 p.m., but worked in record time and had it restored by 8 a.m.
  School buses are running except those for kids at public and Catholic schools served by the Renfrew County Join
  
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• Windy warning 'heralds' cold front, with temps plunging in afternoon

  08-02-2019 13:28 via ottawacitizen.com
  To start the day off right, here’s today’s Special Weather Statement from Environment Canada:
  “Strong southwest winds gusting to 70 to 80 km/h will herald the arrival of the cold front, along with quickly falling temperatures.”
  The wind warning has prompted Renfrew County to cancel school buses. It’s also suspected in a power failure affecting about 1,000 clients in the Elgin Street area.
  I don’t need to blow-dry my hair today. #ottweather pic.twitter.com/TqUX
  
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• William Prince, to play Ottawa Feb. 15, finds new inspiration from Neil Young

  08-02-2019 13:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  Come See and Hear the World presents: William Prince
  8 p.m. Feb. 15, Southminster United Church, 15 Aylmer Ave.
  Tickets: $30, available in advance at comeseeandheartheworld.ca
  WINNIPEG — William Prince had what he considered the biggest night of his musical career on Monday.On his 33rd birthday, the deep-voiced singer-songwriter had the honour of opening for rock legend Neil Young in his hometown’s grandest venue, with his mother in the audience.“I can’t believe
  
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