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• Ottawa man leaves lasting impact on two Canadian charities - The Globe and Mail

  15-02-2019 23:24
  Ottawa man leaves lasting impact on two Canadian charities  The Globe and MailLynn Ostergaard has left $1.2-million to two Canadian-based charities; half to Médecins sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders) and half to the Ottawa-based ...
  
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• Ottawa man charged after pedestrian struck, killed by vehicle in Kanata - Ottawa Citizen

  15-02-2019 22:56
  Ottawa man charged after pedestrian struck, killed by vehicle in Kanata  Ottawa CitizenSenior appears in court on charges of failure to stop and criminal negligence causing death.
  
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• Ottawa man charged after pedestrian struck, killed by vehicle in Kanata

  15-02-2019 22:54 via ottawacitizen.com
  A 68-year-old man has been charged after a pedestrian was struck and killed by a vehicle on Goulbourn Forced Road in North Kanata.
  Fakhreddin Noureddin of Ottawa was charged with failure to stop and criminal negligence causing death, Ottawa police said Friday.
  At about 5 p.m. Thursday, a vehicle southbound on Goulbourn Forced Road, just south of Kanata Rockeries Private, hit a man walking south at the edge of the northbound lane, police said.
  The 58-year-old man died at the scene. Police have no
  
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• Ottawa's $40-million investment in BlackBerry 'a very encouraging sign' - TheRecord.com

  15-02-2019 22:51
  Ottawa's $40-million investment in BlackBerry 'a very encouraging sign'  TheRecord.comA tech analyst says the federal government's investment in BlackBerry shows the company has reinvented itself as a software and services company.
  
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• François Legault wants Ottawa to ‘settle’ with SNC-Lavalin so firm avoids trial - Global News

  15-02-2019 22:28
  François Legault wants Ottawa to ‘settle’ with SNC-Lavalin so firm avoids trial  Global NewsQuebec Premier François Legault says he wants the federal government to settle with engineering firm SNC-Lavalin "as soon as possible."
  
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• Bagnall: Ottawa's new juggernauts — why Shopify and Canopy Growth matter

  15-02-2019 22:01 via ottawacitizen.com
  Something profoundly important is taking place in the region’s economic engine — and the shape of it could be discerned this week.
  The Ottawa area is finally acquiring the flagship corporations that have been so lacking since the disappearance of Nortel Networks to bankruptcy, and the exit of Cognos and Newbridge Networks to acquisitions.
  On Tuesday, emerging e-commerce giant Shopify posted its first $1 billion US in annual revenues while on Thursday, Canopy Growth, showed why it is
  
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• Bagnall: Ottawa's new juggernauts — why Shopify and Canopy Growth matter - Ottawa Citizen

  15-02-2019 21:57
  Bagnall: Ottawa's new juggernauts — why Shopify and Canopy Growth matter  Ottawa CitizenSomething profoundly important is taking place in the region's economic engine — and the shape of it could be discerned this week.The Ottawa area is finally ...
  
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• Canadians make harrowing trek to Haiti airport as Ottawa advises against travel - CTV News

  15-02-2019 21:56
  Canadians make harrowing trek to Haiti airport as Ottawa advises against travel  CTV NewsMONTREAL -- An Ottawa physician who navigated the dangerous roads of Haiti Friday to get to the Port-au-Prince airport with three Canadian colleagues says ...
  
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• Ottawa security firm Interset bought by U.K. software giant

  15-02-2019 21:51 via ottawacitizen.com
  An Ottawa security and data analytics firm has been bought by a massive U.K. software company for an undisclosed amount.
  Interset, which has been a fixture of the national capital’s technology landscape for decades, will be acquired by Micro Focus. The deal, which was announced early Friday morning, will give the U.K. software maker a presence in Ottawa, with apparent plans to expand.
  “Micro Focus recognized that an even more advanced analytics ecosystem was needed to assist in this
  
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• Is the City of Ottawa prepared for a cyber attack? Management think so

  15-02-2019 21:45 via ottawacitizen.com
  In the fourth quarter of 2018 alone, more than 4,000 attempts to compromise City of Ottawa workstations and laptops were prevented, according to city data.
  “Like any major municipality, we’re a target,” said Chris Fulton, city manager of technology security, at Friday morning’s information technology sub-committee meeting. “We do block lots of malicious activity.”
  Fulton was asked after the meeting how prepared the city is for a cyber attack.
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• Is the City of Ottawa prepared for a cyber attack? Management think so - Ottawa Citizen

  15-02-2019 21:25
  Is the City of Ottawa prepared for a cyber attack? Management think so  Ottawa CitizenIn the fourth quarter of 2018 alone, more than 4000 attempts to compromise City of Ottawa workstations and laptops were prevented, according to city data.
  
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• Be careful on your commute after 46 crashes Friday, police warn

  15-02-2019 21:12 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa police warned motorists to be careful on the commute home for the long weekend Friday.
  A total of 46 collisions were reported since 5 a.m., they tweeted at about 2:20 p.m., adding that snow continues to impact travel for everyone so “please be patient and aware of each other as you share the road.”
  The City of Ottawa said that the way home should be clearer soon. City crews started removing snowbanks from streets Thursday night and will keep at it over the weekend into ne
  
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• Ottawa security firm Interset bought by U.K. software giant - Ottawa Citizen

  15-02-2019 20:11
  Ottawa security firm Interset bought by U.K. software giant  Ottawa CitizenAn Ottawa security and data analytics firm has been bought by a massive U.K. software company for an undisclosed amount.
  
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• Annual Kindness Week kicks off in Ottawa Friday

  15-02-2019 20:06 via ottawacitizen.com
  Community volunteers gathered Friday for the launch of Kindness Week 2019 which highlights the small gestures that make our city better and acknowledges people for acts of generosity in a bid to create a “culture of kindness.”
  Suzanne Pinel, better known to her fans as the children’s entertainer Marie-Soleil, was the first to be honoured at the kick-off event at the west-end Accora Centre, which featured remarks by Rabbi Reuven Bulka.
  Bulka said that “simple little things
  
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• Annual Kindness Week kicks off in Ottawa Friday - Ottawa Citizen

  15-02-2019 19:45
  Annual Kindness Week kicks off in Ottawa Friday  Ottawa CitizenCommunity volunteers gathered Friday for the launch of Kindness Week 2019 which highlights the small gestures that make our city better and acknowledges ...
  
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• Social Services Minister Lisa MacLeod 'can't recall' comment to behaviour analysts

  15-02-2019 19:44 via ottawacitizen.com
  Social Services Minister Lisa MacLeod says she can’t recall whether she said it would be a “long four years” for an association of behaviour analysts if it didn’t support the government’s changes to autism programming in the province.
  The Ontario Association for Behaviour Analysis has alleged MacLeod told them it would be a long four years if it did not publicly support the revamped autism program, which the group contends will leave many children without adequ
  
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• Service changes, what's open and closed Family Day in Ottawa - OttawaMatters.com

  15-02-2019 19:39
  Service changes, what's open and closed Family Day in Ottawa  OttawaMatters.comMany City of Ottawa services are going to be running on modified schedules this Family Day. Below you will find all of those details and more. All Ottawa LCBO ...
  
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• May: We need an independent inquiry into the Wilson-Raybould affair

  15-02-2019 18:02 via ottawacitizen.com
  The November 2015 appointment of Jody Wilson-Raybould as Canada’s Minister of Justice was a moment of genuine pride.
  As a Canadian, no matter that I lead an opposition party, I was so moved by the historic breakthrough. Wilson-Raybould had become the first Indigenous person to serve as Canada’s Attorney General and Minister of Justice. As a prominent lawyer, well-known champion of British Columbia Indigenous rights and member of the Vancouver Island We Wai Kai First Nation, Wilson-Ra
  
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• Ottawa business community suits up for 29th Annual Ski for Kids - Ottawa Business Journal

  15-02-2019 17:43
  Ottawa business community suits up for 29th Annual Ski for Kids  Ottawa Business JournalWith more than a foot of *fresh* snow and mild temperatures awaiting, some 250 members of Ottawa's business community got to be ski bums for a day at Mont ...
  
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• Truck convoy set to snarl traffic in Ottawa Tuesday - CBC.ca

  15-02-2019 17:30
  Truck convoy set to snarl traffic in Ottawa Tuesday  CBC.caA convoy demanding the federal government do more to get oil pipelines built is set to slow down traffic in Ottawa next week.
  
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• Hobin Architecture scales up, but designs communities on a human scale

  15-02-2019 17:17 via ottawacitizen.com
  Two very different communities that share important similarities are prime examples of the effect that Hobin Architecture, a firm applauded more often for its custom home designs is having on Ottawa’s mass housing market.
  Those communities — Greystone Village, a mixed-use redevelopment of the former Oblates land in Old Ottawa East that will see more than 900 residential units; and The Haven, an affordable housing project of 98 townhomes and apartments close to the Longfields transit
  
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• Family Day 2019: What to do in Ottawa for Family Day long weekend - Global News

  15-02-2019 16:51
  Family Day 2019: What to do in Ottawa for Family Day long weekend  Global NewsBefore you head out over the weekend to enjoy the long weekend, here's a list of some of the events going on in Ottawa over the Family Day weekend.
  
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• The Big Bang theory of health reform: Why Doug Ford's plans have some worried about unintended consequences

  15-02-2019 16:03 via ottawacitizen.com
  It is being called the Big Bang approach to health care reform: Blow it up and start over again.
  That is, approximately, the plan being put forward by Ontario’s Progressive Conservative government. It is a plan that has been revealed, so far, in a series of leaked documents. After vowing to end hallway medicine, the province is poised to turn the health system on its head.
  The provincial government is planning to create a super agency to oversee health care in Ontario, which would absorb a
  
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• Temperature rising to 2 C then plunging to -16 with wind chill

  15-02-2019 15:42 via ottawacitizen.com
  Weather whiplash is on the way for Friday with the temperature rising to 2 C with the risk of rain before the mercury plummets again to -9 C ahead of a mostly sunny but chilly weekend.
  For Friday, snow totalling 2 cm ends near noon then it’s cloudy with a 60 per cent chance of rain showers or flurries. Southeasterly winds at 30 km/h gusting to 50 switch to southwesterly at 30 km/h gusting to 50 near noon.
  Overnight, there’s a 60 per cent chance of more flurries and winds turn norther
  
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• First two used Australian fighter jets arrive in Canada on Sunday

  15-02-2019 15:36 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Royal Canadian Air Force will be showing off its first two used Australian fighter jets on Sunday at 4 Wing Cold Lake in Alberta.
  Representatives from the Royal Australian Air Force and the RCAF will mark the arrival of the F-18 jets that morning. Only local media have been invited to cover the event.
  The aircraft will be used to bolster the RCAF’s CF-18 fleet.
  Pat Finn, assistant deputy minister for materiel at the Department of National Defence, told Postmedia in a recent interv
  
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• Update: 58-year-old man dead after being struck by vehicle in Kanata

  15-02-2019 15:24 via ottawacitizen.com
  A pedestrian died after being struck by a vehicle on Goulbourn Forced Road in North Kanata at about 5 p.m. Thursday.
  Police said that the victim was a 58-year-old man. They have notified his next of kin.
  Investigators have identified the driver and took witness statements, police said. They expected to release further details later Friday.
  A witness, who asked not to be identified, said Friday that she was still shaken by the disturbing scene she encountered while out walking her dog.
  The woman
  
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• Ottawa advises against all travel to Haiti as Canadians remain trapped amid unrest - TheChronicleHerald.ca

  15-02-2019 15:17
  Ottawa advises against all travel to Haiti as Canadians remain trapped amid unrest  TheChronicleHerald.caMONTREAL — The federal government has issued a new advisory for Haiti, saying Canadians should avoid all travel to the Caribbean country as it works to get ...
  
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• Why didn’t Gen. Vance or Sajjan’s official search for Norman documents? Blame the Justice Dept. says DND

  15-02-2019 15:13 via ottawacitizen.com
  In late January during the pre-trial hearing for Vice Admiral Mark Norman the judge heard that despite a court order, Chief of the Defence Staff Gen. Jon Vance and Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan’s chief of staff Zita Astravas didn’t search their personal email and phone accounts for data related to the naval officer.
  Norman’s legal team has been engaged in an ongoing quest to get records they argue could be essential to defending the naval officer on one count of breach of trus
  
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• Pellerin: Don't just freeze OC Transpo fares – make transit free

  15-02-2019 15:07 via ottawacitizen.com
  A week of taking the bus prompted Capital ward Coun. Shawn Menard to demand cheaper transit, calling on Monday for a fare freeze. Noting that OC Transpo fares had jumped significantly while ridership had seen a major decline in the last few years, he said it was time for the city to “stop squeezing riders for every last nickel.”
  No, I don’t know what’s wrong with him either. A fare freeze is a terrible idea. I want FREE transit. I thought he used to want that, too. Why is
  
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• 16+ fun things to do in the Ottawa Valley this long weekend: Feb. 15 - 18 - www.insideottawavalley.com/

  15-02-2019 14:27
  16+ fun things to do in the Ottawa Valley this long weekend: Feb. 15 - 18  www.insideottawavalley.com/Outdoor winter fun, Family Day, and (late) Valentine's Day events are the themes this long weekend in the Valley! 1) Valentine's Partner Yoga and Wine Come ...
  
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• Temperature rising to 2 C then plunging to -16 C

  15-02-2019 14:10 via ottawacitizen.com
  Weather whiplash is on the way for Friday with the temperature rising to 2 C with the risk of rain before the mercury plummets again to -9 C ahead of a mostly sunny but chilly weekend.
  For Friday, snow totalling 2 cm ends near noon then it’s cloudy with a 60 per cent chance of rain showers or flurries. Southeasterly winds at 30 km/h gusting to 50 switch to southwesterly at 30 km/h gusting to 50 near noon.
  Overnight, there’s a 60 per cent chance of more flurries and winds turn norther
  
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• Friday commute moving at a glacial pace

  15-02-2019 13:59 via ottawacitizen.com
  Friday’s commute is slick and slow.
  The eastbound Queensway headed downtown was molasses well before 7 a.m. when a stalled truck added to the delays by blocking a lane and the right shoulder.
  Motorists were reported backed up traffic on Highway 416 at the West Hunt Club Road and Fallowfield Road exits.
  OC Transpo was reporting about two dozen cancelled trips by 7:45 a.m.
  Pedestrians were also complaining of busy spots that still had not been cleared Thursday, including the Mackenzie King B
  
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• Mumford and Sons on extracting the emotional core from each song

  15-02-2019 13:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  Mumford and Sons
  with Cat Power
  7:30 p.m. March 5, Canadian Tire Centre
  Tickets: Start at $80.60, including surcharges, available at ticketmaster.ca
  It’s been a decade since Mumford and Sons broke through to the mainstream with their banjo-driven folk-rock songs, exploding into one of the biggest selling acts of the 2010s. They won Grammys, entertained Barack Obama and shared stages with legendary artists such as Bob Dylan and U2.
  With their fourth and latest album, Delta, Marcus Mumford a
  
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• MacDougall: Why Justin Trudeau will not sacrifice his PMO come hell or SNC-Lavalin

  15-02-2019 12:48 via ottawacitizen.com
  When Justin Trudeau was leader of Canada’s third-largest party in the House of Commons, he had big opinions on the Prime Minister’s Office and how it functioned.
  According to Trudeau, Stephen Harper’s PMO (of which I was a part) was too secretive, too controlling and too partisan. “The boys in short pants” (as we were known) were running amok manhandling elected members and clubbing bureaucrats in the manner of baby seals (I paraphrase, but lightly).
  The apotheosis
  
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• LeBlanc: Don't make uOttawa students choose between books and food

  15-02-2019 12:43 via ottawacitizen.com
  For a year and a half, I worked at the food bank at the University of Ottawa.
  It was extremely rewarding work, but it was also all-consuming. Keeping the food bank open five days a week without full-time staff was very difficult, and I was always unloading deliveries or trekking across town to pick up bread.
  Even though roughly 300 to 400 students a month depend on the food bank, including many with children, the food bank only has stable funding until April 30. If funding is not secured on time
  
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• Ottawa Hospital's emergency psych units 'softened' after suicide

  15-02-2019 12:19 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Ottawa Hospital has “softened” the look of its emergency psychiatric unit in response to a year-long campaign by the grieving parents of a mentally ill wedding photographer who feared its windowless rooms.
  Ryan Parent, 37, suffered from depression and anxiety. He took his own life at home in November 2017.
  Five months before he died, Parent spent 56 hours in the psychiatric emergency services (PES) unit at the Civic campus while waiting for a bed to open on the psychiatric ward.
  
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• Quebec premier wants Ottawa to 'settle' with SNC so firm avoids trial - BNNBloomberg.ca

  15-02-2019 11:52
  Quebec premier wants Ottawa to 'settle' with SNC so firm avoids trial  BNNBloomberg.caQuebec Premier Francois Legault says he wants the federal government to settle with engineering firm SNC-Lavalin "as soon as possible" in order to protect ...
  
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• Out-of-town thieves targeting Ottawa suburbs - CBC.ca

  15-02-2019 10:00
  Out-of-town thieves targeting Ottawa suburbs  CBC.caOttawa police believe a "nomadic" gang of criminals is targeting the city's suburbs, breaking into unoccupied homes to steal cash, jewelry and electronics.
  
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• Family Day schedule changes - CTV News

  15-02-2019 08:51
  Family Day schedule changes  CTV NewsHere's a look at what's open and closed across Ottawa on Family Day – Monday, February 18. City Services: Ottawa City Hall and all seven Client *Service* ...
  
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• How will Ontario's cannabis shops work? Here's what's coming to a corner near you

  15-02-2019 05:48 via ottawacitizen.com
  Here’s a safe prediction about the design of Ottawa’s first legal cannabis shop: It will resemble a trendy boutique.
  The landlord of Superette, the proposed shop in the heart of Wellington West Village, describes it as “high-end retail.”
  After all, the middle-income and affluent residents in the neighbourhood are the store’s target demographic, says Derek Noble, owner of Huntington Property Group, which owns the five-storey building at 1306 Wellington St. West, betw
  
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• Canopy Growth sales quadruple on pot legalization

  15-02-2019 05:39 via ottawacitizen.com
  A lot was riding on Canopy Growth’s first (nearly) full quarter in which recreational pot was legal — we’re talking the three months ended Dec. 31. Anxious investors have been keen for evidence Canopy Growth really is the country’s biggest producer of recreational cannabis products and is building an organization that can supply the fast-developing global market in medical marijuana. How else to justify the Smiths Falls firm’s extravagant market value of $21 billion
  
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• Carlington community housing project for seniors an 'exciting milestone'

  15-02-2019 04:46 via ottawacitizen.com
  In what was touted as an “exciting milestone years in the making,” the Carlington Community Housing Corporation unveiled its latest project Thursday, featuring 42 new affordable homes for seniors.
  With a combined investment of $18 million from the Ottawa Community Housing Corporation, the neighbouring Carlington Community Health Centre and all three levels of government, the “green” building features environmentally friendly homes and will include a ground-level primary-c
  
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• Couples celebrate Valentine's Day at Ottawa IKEA - CTV News

  15-02-2019 04:25
  Couples celebrate Valentine's Day at Ottawa IKEA  CTV NewsIKEA Ottawa hosted a romantic Valentine's Day dinner for more than 200 people.
  
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• Ottawa spending $12M to upgrade remote airport near site of 2017 crash - Toronto Star

  15-02-2019 04:18
  Ottawa spending $12M to upgrade remote airport near site of 2017 crash  Toronto StarFOND DU LAC, SASK.—The federal government says it will spend $12 million to improve safety at a remote northern Saskatchewan airport near where a plane ...
  
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• Pro-oil convoy hits the road to drive message home to Ottawa - Toronto Star

  15-02-2019 04:11
  Pro-oil convoy hits the road to drive message home to Ottawa  Toronto StarAbout 160 vehicles filed out of Red Deer, Alta., on Thursday for Regina, Sask., on the first leg of the United We Roll Convoy for Canada, a 3500-kilometre ride to ...
  
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• Pedestrian dead after being struck by vehicle in Kanata

  15-02-2019 03:21 via ottawacitizen.com
  A pedestrian died after being struck by a vehicle on Goulbourn Forced Road in North Kanata at about 5 p.m. Thursday.
  Goulbourn was closed between Kanata Avenue and Innovation Drive due to an ongoing investigation, Ottawa police said in a news release. Access to Goulbourn from KeyRock Drive and Badgeley Avenue was also closed. Motorists and pedestrians were asked to avoid the area.ALSO IN THE NEWS:
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• Kingston police, OPP search properties as part of historical homicide probe

  15-02-2019 02:41 via ottawacitizen.com
  KINGSTON — Two properties in city’s east end were searched by Kingston police and the Ontario Provincial Police late Thursday afternoon as part of multiple historical homicide investigations.
  The properties were a yellow bungalow at 966 Cottage Farms Rd. off Highway 2 and a former feed mill at 1121 Middle Rd. On Thursday afternoon, multiple officers, some in uniform and others not, searched through and around the properties.
  While the feed mill is slightly more secluded, multiple off
  
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• Traffic chaos predicted when pipeline protest rolls into Ottawa next week

  15-02-2019 01:50 via ottawacitizen.com
  A convoy of more than 100 semi-trucks is Ottawa-bound to protest stalled pipeline projects and Ottawa police are warning commuters to be ready for traffic chaos next Tuesday and Wednesday.
  The United We Roll! convoy left Red Deer, Alta., on Thursday morning on its 4,000-kilometre journey to the capital. The drivers are upset about the stalled Trans Mountain pipeline expansion, as well as federal bills C-69, which overhauls Canada’s environmental assessment laws, and C-48, which r
  
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• Egan: OCH tenant wakes to hot, black water spewing from radiator

  15-02-2019 01:35 via ottawacitizen.com
  It’s mid-morning on Valentine’s Day and Marie Trudel is sitting on a recliner, wrapped in a Red Cross blanket, tight as a sardine in a friend’s apartment, wondering when she’ll ever get home.
  Romance, we safely say, is not in the air.
  Trouble arrived Jan. 29, at about 8:30 a.m., when she heard a loud pop in her bedroom — the upstairs neighbour thought it was a gun going off — and hot, black, slimy water started to gush from the radiator.
  Within seconds, water
  
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• 'The most exciting thing happening in this city' — Committee seeks engagement on new official plan

  15-02-2019 01:23 via ottawacitizen.com
  On the subject of legal pot or the future of a roof-mounted plastic cow in Orléans, Ottawa residents have made their opinions known. Not so much – at least not historically – on the development of an official plan that serves as the blueprint for Ottawa’s future.
  And that’s a problem, planning committee members heard Thursday.
  “I feel like I’m at some kind of a wake. I don’t know what’s going on. I don’t know if you’re grasp
  
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