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• Thrills and chills: It's dragon boat racing on ice

  09-02-2019 23:38 via ottawacitizen.com
  The third Ottawa Ice Dragon Boat Festival brought 125 teams onto the ice at Dow’s Lake as part of the middle weekend of Winterlude activities.
  Entries for the first 100 teams sold out in less than 10 minutes on Oct. 1, with another block of 25 additional spaces added in November.
  It was also announced at that time that the Ottawa event would constitute the first IIDBF World Club Crew Dragon Boat Championships, with entries from Canada, China, New Zealand, Ukraine and the United States
  
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• Thrills and chills: It's dragon boat racing on ice - Ottawa Citizen

  09-02-2019 23:30
  Thrills and chills: It's dragon boat racing on ice  Ottawa CitizenThe third annual event, held during Winterlude, attracted 125 entries.
  
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• Man charged, victim with life-threatening injuries following Lowertown stabbing - Ottawa Citizen

  09-02-2019 22:32
  Man charged, victim with life-threatening injuries following Lowertown stabbing  Ottawa CitizenOttawa police central criminal investigators continued on Saturday to probe a Lowertown stabbing that left one man on life support in hospital and another ...
  
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• Man charged, victim with life-threatening injuries following Lowertown stabbing

  09-02-2019 22:32 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa police central criminal investigators continued on Saturday to probe a Lowertown stabbing that left one man on life support in hospital and another charged with aggravated assault.
  Ottawa police responded to the stabbing around 4:20 p.m. Friday and found a man in his 40s bleeding outside an Ottawa Community Housing apartment building at 380 Murray St.
  The man was taken to hospital with life-threatening injuries. He was on life support Friday, but as of Saturday afternoon was listed in sta
  
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• The best councillor tweets from the Ottawa Transit Challenge - OttawaMatters.com

  09-02-2019 22:30
  The best councillor tweets from the Ottawa Transit Challenge  OttawaMatters.comThe Ottawa transit challenge was a popular topic on social media.
  
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• Radar upgrades for Halifax-class frigates and other news on defence contracts

  09-02-2019 21:27 via ottawacitizen.com
  Here are some updates on defence and aerospace industry contracts and appointments, that I outlined in the latest issue of Esprit de Corps magazine:
  The Canadian government has awarded a contract to Saab Microwave Canada for radar upgrades on the Halifax-class frigates. The $21.7 million contract is to procure a modern electronically-stabilized antenna set for the Sea Giraffe 180 radar, already installed on the frigates. The contract includes an option to acquire 12 more antenna sets, which
  
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• Search for Susan Kuplu's body on 'operational pause'

  09-02-2019 19:23 via ottawacitizen.com
  After an intensive two-week search for Susan Kuplu’s remains in a city landfill site, police are taking a “brief operational pause” to give officers and equipment operators some rest.
  What began as a missing persons case in early January turned into an Ottawa police homicide probe with murder charges laid against Kuplu’s teen daughter, Lennese Kublu, and Lennese’s boyfriend, Dwight Brown.
  Kuplu, 37, was last seen by her probation officer during a meeting at the
  
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• Ted Bundy's murderous charm still polarizes, 40 years later - Ottawa Citizen

  09-02-2019 19:10
  Ted Bundy's murderous charm still polarizes, 40 years later  Ottawa CitizenCINCINNATI — She kept her eyes on the dapper, wavy-haired man who smiled, winked and exuded self-confidence as the courtroom proceedings moved along ...
  
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• Memorial service details announced for the late Paul Dewar bit.ly/2I3MF9n #Ottnews https://t.co/werXdOnw8h

  09-02-2019 16:13 via twitter.com
  
  Memorial service details announced for the late Paul Dewar bit.ly/2I3MF9n #Ottnews https://t.co/werXdOnw8h
  
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• The celebration of life for Paul Dewar will be hosted by First United Church at Carleton University, Dominion-Chalm… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  09-02-2019 15:09 via twitter.com
  The celebration of life for Paul Dewar will be hosted by First United Church at Carleton University, Dominion-Chalm… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Bundle up and get out and enjoy the sunshine - Ottawa Citizen

  09-02-2019 13:55
  Bundle up and get out and enjoy the sunshine  Ottawa CitizenSaturday's forecast high of -8 C and a brisk west wind of 30 hm/h, gusting to 50 will make it feel more like -22.
  
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• Bundle up and get out and enjoy the sunshine

  09-02-2019 13:55 via ottawacitizen.com
  If you love winter, this might be the perfect weekend for you. It will be chilly and a bit windy, but the sun will be shining.
  Saturday’s forecast high of -8 C and a brisk west wind of 30 hm/h, gusting to 50 will make it feel more like -22.
  At least the wind won’t be as bad as Friday.
  With a max gust of 75km/h, today is #Ottawa's windiest Feb 8th since records began in 1956. #OttWeather pic.twitter.com/LKvlUfNsFy
  — YOW Weather Records 🎄 (@YOW_Weather) February 9, 2019Yo
  
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• Editorial: How the City of Ottawa should use its affordable housing funds - Ottawa Citizen

  09-02-2019 13:01
  Editorial: How the City of Ottawa should use its affordable housing funds  Ottawa CitizenOttawa Mayor Jim Watson is usually cautious with city budgets, and the 2019 version follows the pattern – with one exception. It contains a chunk of new money ...
  
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• Opinion: Alberta has been infected with Ottawa's red tape virus - Calgary Herald

  09-02-2019 13:00
  Opinion: Alberta has been infected with Ottawa's red tape virus  Calgary HeraldNimble. It's what built Alberta. When a challenge loomed large, Albertans had this knack for pushing through, or building over, even the most complex problems.
  
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• Editorial: How the city of Ottawa should use affordable housing funds

  09-02-2019 13:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson is usually cautious with city budgets, and the 2019 version follows the pattern – with one exception. It contains a chunk of new money for affordable housing: $15 million atop the $111 million the city already allocates to deal with housing and homelessness. Will the cash make a major difference?
  Affordable housing advocates think so. Councillors Mathieu Fleury and Catherine McKenna, for instance, praised the initiative. “This should provide a runway to s
  
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• Today's letters: City shouldn't dip into reserves for core activities - Ottawa Citizen

  09-02-2019 12:31
  Today's letters: City shouldn't dip into reserves for core activities  Ottawa CitizenSaturday, Feb. 9: Reviews are starting to come in on the city's draft budget. And that column on the suburbs has ruffled some feathers. You can write to us at: ...
  
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• Today's letters: City shouldn't dip into reserves for core activities

  09-02-2019 12:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  Tax increase should match city spending
  Re: City taps reserve funds, Feb. 7.
  There are some very good initiatives in this year’s City of Ottawa budget: funding for housing, crossing guards, investments in crime prevention, money for better snow removal, and more. But using reserve money to paper over the difference in what a three per cent tax increase brings in and the actual cost of running the city is bad public policy.
  Why? Because taking $9 million from reserves to pay for ongoing exp
  
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• Egan: A month after the deadly day, Route 269 finds the ordinary

  09-02-2019 12:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  They died on a wintry Friday like this, very near this hour, after leaving from this bus stop — or one just like it — set in a windy canyon on the Mackenzie King Bridge between the Rideau Centre and the National Defence building.
  Just after 3 p.m., here comes Route 269, the sun already low and almost blinding. A crowd clambers on, bundled like winter warriors. Who would ever sit in the top of a double-decker again after the carnage we witnessed on Jan. 11, when three were killed and
  
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• You Said It: Letter writer wrong - Ottawa Sun

  09-02-2019 11:30
  You Said It: Letter writer wrong  Ottawa SunLETTER WRITER WRONGRe: More Will Become Addicted, letter, Feb. 2 (regarding legalization of marijuana)I am a recovering drug addict and alcoholic.
  
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• Manipulation in Ottawa - Medicine Hat News

  09-02-2019 09:05
  Manipulation in Ottawa  Medicine Hat NewsGood grief the constant political manipulation by the top four to five levels of the federal government public servants just continues to grow and fester like an ...
  
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• Halifax activists speak out against racism in Ottawa - The Coast Halifax

  09-02-2019 04:22
  Halifax activists speak out against racism in Ottawa  The Coast HalifaxHalifax's Black community rallies behind youth speaking up about a racial profiling incident in Ottawa.
  
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• Ottawa 67's vaunted offence sputters in Mississauga - Ottawa Sun

  09-02-2019 04:15
  Ottawa 67's vaunted offence sputters in Mississauga  Ottawa SunThe Ottawa 67's can be an intimidating bunch, and on Friday night they rolled in to Mississauga on a nine-game winning streak with an Ontario Hockey ...
  
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• Ottawa can't completely block long-term immigration detainee's lawsuit - The Globe and Mail

  09-02-2019 02:06
  Ottawa can't completely block long-term immigration detainee's lawsuit  The Globe and MailA West African man who spent seven years in a maximum security prison awaiting deportation can pursue only part of his civil lawsuit against the federal ...
  
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• Prime minister must apologize for racial profiling in Ottawa, say Black youth in Halifax - Toronto Star

  09-02-2019 01:45
  Prime minister must apologize for racial profiling in Ottawa, say Black youth in Halifax  Toronto StarHALIFAX—Dozens of members of Halifax's Black community gathered Friday to hear from local youth who say they're waiting for an apology from the prime ...
  
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• Accused killer confesses to McDonald's stabbing even though he says he can't remember it

  09-02-2019 01:12 via ottawacitizen.com
  Jorden Larocque-Laplante says he was so drunk he doesn’t remember killing Abdullah Al-Tutunji outside the McDonald’s on a Sunday morning.
  But after reviewing security video in court, he confessed on the stand at his second-murder trial Friday and apologized to the victim’s family.
  It was him who killed Al-Tutunji, a Carleton University student known as well-raised and peaceful. He killed him with a knife, stabbing him at least nine times around 2:45 a.m. on Dec. 11, 2016.
  Laroc
  
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• Parents rally to protest provincial reforms to autism supports

  09-02-2019 00:54 via ottawacitizen.com
  Dozens of parents who have children with autism spectrum disorder picketed Nepean MPP Lisa MacLeod’s Barrhaven office Friday, two days after the provincial government announced sweeping reforms to the Ontario Autism Program.
  The parents were protesting the new program that will give families a “childhood budget” until their child turns 18.
  How much parents receive from the province under the reforms will depend on how long the child remains in the program, which is targeted at
  
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• Ottawa quickly rejects Quebec’s bill to impose language, residency conditions on immigrants - The Globe and Mail

  09-02-2019 00:30
  Ottawa quickly rejects Quebec’s bill to impose language, residency conditions on immigrants  The Globe and MailOttawa opposed to Quebec setting conditions on permanent residency  CBC.caOttawa cool to giving Quebec more immigration powers  Montreal GazetteOttawa objects to giving Quebec power to force immigrants to settle in regions  CityNewsView full coverage on Google News
  
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• Ottawa orders trains to use handbrakes after deadly mountain derailment - The Globe and Mail

  09-02-2019 00:22
  Ottawa orders trains to use handbrakes after deadly mountain derailment  The Globe and MailCanada's transport minister has ordered the use of handbrakes on all trains stopped on mountain slopes following a deadly derailment earlier this week in the ...
  
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• Bill Browder hoped Ottawa would lead on sanctions. He's disappointed - The Globe and Mail

  09-02-2019 00:00
  Bill Browder hoped Ottawa would lead on sanctions. He's disappointed  The Globe and MailWhen it comes to implementing the Magnitsky act, Browder says Canada is 'actually behind the Trump administration'
  
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