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• Hundreds gather to celebrate life of Carleton prof killed in Ethiopian Airlines crash - Ottawa Citizen

  16-03-2019 23:53
  Hundreds gather to celebrate life of Carleton prof killed in Ethiopian Airlines crash  Ottawa CitizenIn 2013, as part of a writing exercise, Pius Adesanmi was asked to pen his own epitaph. “Here lies Pius Adesanmi,” he wrote, “who tried as much as he could to ...
  
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• St. Patrick paraders brave gusty winds, chilly temps

  16-03-2019 20:18 via ottawacitizen.com
  Gusty winds and chilly temperatures weren’t enough to discourage thousands of spectators who lined the route for Ottawa’s 37th annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade on Saturday.
  The sea of green departed City Hall at 11 a.m., travelling down Laurier Avenue before turning left up Bank Street for the main promenade.
  Outgoing police Chief Charles Bordeleau drove the lead vehicle, a shamrock festooned green-and-white SUV cruiser.
  The 37th Annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade made its wa
  
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• Ottawa's 37th annual St. Patrick's Parade in photos - OttawaMatters.com

  16-03-2019 19:00
  Ottawa's 37th annual St. Patrick's Parade in photos  OttawaMatters.comThe parade started at Ottawa City Hall and concluded at Lansdowne Park.
  
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• Police investigating shots fired in Orléans

  16-03-2019 18:02 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa police are investigating shots fired in an Orléans neighbourhood Saturday morning.
  According to police, the incident occurred around 10:20 a.m. on Aspen Village Circle, just north of Innes and Pagé roads.
  At least one bullet struck a home on the quiet street of townhouses, according to reports.
  There were no reports of any injuries.ALSO IN THE NEWS:
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• Police investigating shots fired in Orléans - Ottawa Citizen

  16-03-2019 17:52
  Police investigating shots fired in Orléans  Ottawa CitizenOttawa police are investigating reports of shots being fired in Orléans on Saturday morning.
  
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• City would ask court to confirm agreement to protect Kanata golf course land

  16-03-2019 17:32 via ottawacitizen.com
  The City of Ottawa would ask the courts to make sure a legacy agreement to protect a Kanata golf course is ironclad, according to the city’s legal department.
  Kanata North Coun. Jenna Sudds on Friday posted on her website a much-anticipated letter from a city lawyer, confirming the city would stick up for the “40 per cent agreement” protecting green space in the Kanata Lakes area.
  The Kanata Golf and Country Club is considered part of that green space but the golf course owner,
  
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• Ottawa school lunch supervisor charged with sexual assault, sexual interference - CTV News

  16-03-2019 17:22
  Ottawa school lunch supervisor charged with sexual assault, sexual interference  CTV NewsOttawa police say a school lunch supervisor has been charged with sexual assault and sexual interference.
  
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• Life lessons from Ottawa's older generation - CBC.ca

  16-03-2019 17:02
  Life lessons from Ottawa's older generation  CBC.caWe asked three of Ottawa's older residents — a former doctor, a military veteran and a world traveller — to pass along one piece of timeless wisdom. Here's what ...
  
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• Ottawa man charged with sexual assault, interference

  16-03-2019 16:51 via ottawacitizen.com
  A 23-year-old Ottawa man has been charged with sexual assault, sexual interference and uttering threats.
  The Ottawa Police Service’s Sexual Assault and Child Abuse Section laid the charges against Zacharie Rosembert on Saturday.
  The charges stem from incidents that occurred between February and May 2018, while Rosembert was employed by the Conseil des écoles publiques de l’Est de l’Ontario as a lunch supervisor at a school in the Vanier/Overbrook area. Rosembert will app
  
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• Ottawa man charged with sexual assault, interference - Ottawa Citizen

  16-03-2019 16:48
  Ottawa man charged with sexual assault, interference  Ottawa CitizenA 23-year-old Ottawa man has been charged with sexual assault, sexual interference and uttering threats. The Ottawa Police *Service's* Sexual Assault and Child ...
  
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• MacDougall: Will Liberals define themselves by what they despise?

  16-03-2019 16:41 via ottawacitizen.com
  What if Stephen Harper had done it?
  It’s the question principled Liberals ought to be asking on SNC-Lavalin, but aren’t.  And the Liberals are avoiding it because they know what the answer to that question would be, and they don’t like what it would say about Justin Trudeau’s conduct.
  Of coursethe Liberals would be braying for Harper’s head had he done something comparable, say, for a large oil & gas multinational headquartered in Calgary. Following a
  
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• NAC's new English theatre season takes the audience to imaginative realms

  16-03-2019 13:58 via ottawacitizen.com
  After a season in which none of the plays were produced by the NAC English Theatre department, the 2019-20 season features four in-house productions, including one directed by Jillian Keiley herself. The English Theatre department’s artistic director has also renewed her NAC contract until 2022.Highlights of the coming season include The Unnatural and Accidental Women, a co-production with the NAC’s new Indigenous theatre department (which will announce the rest of its season in the
  
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• Weather: Blustery and snowy for the St. Patrick's Day Parade

  16-03-2019 12:41 via ottawacitizen.com
  If you are heading downtown to catch the St. Patrick’s Day Parade, you will want to bundle up.
  Saturday morning will see some flurries and local blowing snow with winds out of the west at 30 km/h gusting to 50. The temperature will fall in the morning to -4 C, then rise to 0 C. The windchill will make it feel closer to -9.
  Snow accumulation should be in the 2 cm range.
  PLS RT | ATTENTION #ottcity: No parking please on Bank Street between Laurier and Lansdowne Park TOMORROW March 16 between
  
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• Weather: Blustery and snowy for the St. Patrick's Day Parade - Ottawa Citizen

  16-03-2019 12:40
  Weather: Blustery and snowy for the St. Patrick's Day Parade  Ottawa CitizenIf you are heading downtown to catch the St. Patrick's Day Parade, you will want to bundle up.
  
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• Today's letters: Ontario's math changes add up - Ottawa Citizen

  16-03-2019 12:00
  Today's letters: Ontario's math changes add up  Ottawa CitizenSaturday, March 16: Adding up the numbers on Ontario's math, banning cellphones in class, and more – much more – on the Jody Wilson-Raybould saga.
  
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• Today's letters: Ontario's math changes add up

  16-03-2019 12:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  A formula for math success
  Re: New Ontario math curriculum goes back to the basics, March 13.
  As a retired math teacher and tutor, I welcome the news that Ontario students will be returning to a tried-and-true formula for math success. I have long advocated for this because I see the damage that has been done to high school math students.  A strong basic foundation is necessary for understanding and achievement at a higher level. Finally, one plus one equals two.
  Janet McGuire, Greely
  On ma
  
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• Nussbaum: Public input will be key to developing LeBreton Flats

  16-03-2019 12:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  The development potential of LeBreton Flats is undeniable. We have an unprecedented opportunity to create a dynamic, thriving, connected and sustainable new community, as well as a visionary destination in the heart of the nation’s capital — a chance to build something great, and to build it together.
  As the National Capital Commission moves forward to build LeBreton, we also feel a responsibility to digest the lessons learned from previous efforts to develop the area. We will involv
  
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• NAC French theatre's 2019-20 season presents nine innovative shows focused on Patti Smith, Mozart, Hydro-Québec and more

  16-03-2019 11:59 via ottawacitizen.com
  The upcoming season of the National Arts Centre’s French theatre department offers a broad slate of nine plays inspired by everything from U.S. punk rocker Patti Smith to Hydro-Québec.
  The plays “are the sheer mirror of our society’s main concerns, and convey beauty and hope from various standpoints,” says Brigitte Haentjens, artistic director of French theatre at the NAC. “They are a friendly hand extended towards a more kind and caring society.”
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• Lightburn: How government can help drive more electric vehicle use

  16-03-2019 11:45 via ottawacitizen.com
  With the federal budget around the corner, the wishlist for policies that support climate action is high. On that list is getting electric vehicles rolling.
  Canada has made strong commitments: to reach 10 per cent zero-emission vehicle sales by 2025, 30 per cent by 2030 and 100 per cent by 2040. But there’s a long way to go. Just 2.5 per cent of total vehicle sales last year were for electrics. Canada has fewer EVs on the road than smaller countries such as Norway, Belgium and the Netherla
  
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• Editorial: To teach math better, Ontario must train teachers better

  16-03-2019 11:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  There is nothing horribly wrong with the Ontario government’s plan to revise how mathematics is taught; educators and parents have long been alarmed over the shaky fundamental math skills of elementary students. Although public schools have never deviated from their goal of ensuring children learn the basics, the pressure to do better has been strong.
  Yet the changes announced Friday miss two deeper problems – one the government can fix over time, and one the rest of us must tackle.
  
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• NAC's new English theatre season takes the audience to imaginative realms - Ottawa Citizen

  16-03-2019 11:01
  NAC's new English theatre season takes the audience to imaginative realms  Ottawa CitizenAfter a season in which none of the plays were produced by the NAC English Theatre department, the 2019-20 season features four in-house productions, ...
  
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• NAC's new dance season will explore the world

  16-03-2019 11:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  Get ready for a “horizontal journey” through the world of dance in the National Arts Centre’s 2019-20 season.“We’re taking people on quite the horizontal journey, as I like to say,” said series producer Cathy Levy. “We open with Dancers of Damelahamid, this beautiful, visually stunning multi-disciplinary work from the west coast of Canada, and close it with Danza Contemporánea de Cuba, an eclectic, energetic, high-energy, diverse program from Cuba
  
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• NAC Presents season is a mix of stars, returning favourites and under-the-radar talents

  16-03-2019 11:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  Heather Gibson doesn’t think of herself as a gatekeeper at the entrance of an exclusive palace of performing arts, where you have to be rich and well-dressed to pass through its pearly gates.Instead, the executive producer of NAC Presents, the National Arts Centre’s concert series that puts the spotlight on Canadian singer-songwriters, is working to make the institution accessible to everyone, a vision that was originally championed by the centre’s former CEO, Peter Herrndorf.&
  
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• NAC Orchestra's 2019-20 promises a kaleidoscope of diverse music, musical director Alexander Shelley says

  16-03-2019 11:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  The National Arts Centre Orchestra’s 2019-20 season will be “really diverse and colourful,” says music director Alexander Shelley, with cherished music by Verdi, Handel, Prokofiev and Debussy alternating with concerts featuring Inuk vocalist Susan Aglukark, Quebecoise singer Diane Dufresne, Scottish percussion virtuoso Evelyn Glennie, violin star Joshua Bell and Wu Man, the world’s premier exponent of the pipa, the Chinese lute.
  The season’s three dozen or so concer
  
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• Ottawa joins together for vigil after Christchurch attack - CBC.ca

  16-03-2019 09:00
  Ottawa joins together for vigil after Christchurch attack  CBC.caDozens of people gathered at the Human Rights Monument on Elgin Street to pay tribute to the victims of the New Zealand mosque shootings.
  
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• Ottawa, B.C. announce 5-year salmon restoration fund to rebuild wild stocks - CBC.ca

  16-03-2019 02:13
  Ottawa, B.C. announce 5-year salmon restoration fund to rebuild wild stocks  CBC.caThe federal and British Columbia governments announced a five-year partnership program today to protect wild salmon habitat and restore stocks. Federal ...
  
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• Call out white supremacy and Islamophobia, Ottawa vigil hears

  16-03-2019 02:13 via ottawacitizen.com
  In the rain, they gathered at the foot of the Human Rights Monument.
  Hundreds stood, together, to grieve, to mourn and to call for change to the rhetoric that makes the murder of Muslims at prayer an all-too-common reality.
  Organizer Shahad Khalladi woke up Friday and told a friend that they had to plan another vigil. They gathered, too, for the six people killed in the Quebec City mosque shooting in 2017.
  “A few years later, it’s not easier to mourn,” she said. “Today is
  
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• ‘Stand together’, Imams urge as New Zealand mosque attacks shock Ottawa’s Muslim community - Global News

  16-03-2019 01:47
  ‘Stand together’, Imams urge as New Zealand mosque attacks shock Ottawa’s Muslim community  Global NewsFarhan Iqbal and Luqman Ahmed, both Imams in Ottawa, said Muslim residents in the city are "rightfully worried" but urged them to continue to go to mosque.
  
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• Call out white supremacy and Islamophobia, Ottawa vigil hears - Ottawa Citizen

  16-03-2019 01:10
  Call out white supremacy and Islamophobia, Ottawa vigil hears  Ottawa CitizenHundreds stood, together, to grieve, to mourn and to call for change to the rhetoric that makes the murder of Muslims at prayer an all-too-common reality.
  
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• Ottawa police seeking 35-year-old on arrest warrants

  16-03-2019 00:05 via ottawacitizen.com
  A 35-year-old man is being sought on outstanding arrest warrants, Ottawa police announced Friday evening.
  Jessie Judge is wanted on five charges of break and enter, three charges of breach of probation and others for fraud under $5,000, uttering a forged document and failure to appear in court.
  He is also accused of a handful of commercial break and enter incidents in the Centretown neighbourhood, police said.
  A media release by police described Judge as a Caucasian male standing 5-10 and weighi
  
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