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• Police seek help locating missing woman

  27-03-2019 23:37 via ottawacitizen.com
  Smiths Falls police are seeking the public’s help in locating a missing woman in Ottawa.
  Christine Cutler, 56, is 5-5, weighs 225 pounds and has collar-length brown and grey hair. She walks with a cane and wears glasses.
  She has not been seen since March 1. Police say she is known to frequent the ByWard Market and Elgin Street. Foul play is not suspected.ALSO IN THE NEWS:
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• More than 10,000 people in national capital region on 2018 Sunshine List

  27-03-2019 23:26 via ottawacitizen.com
  Familiar names lead the list of Ottawa’s top public service earners in the province’s annual salary disclosure, which was published Wednesday afternoon and now includes more than 10,078 employees in the national capital region.
  The document, more commonly known as the “Sunshine List”, is provincially mandated. The release of the publication, which must be pushed out by March 31, details all annual salaries exceeding $100,000 for employees of Ontario crown corporations and
  
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• Ottawa City Councillor calling for audit of LRT Phase 2 bidding process - OttawaMatters.com

  27-03-2019 22:17 via ottawamatters.com
  Ottawa City Councillor calling for audit of LRT Phase 2 bidding process  OttawaMatters.comDespite a memo from City Manager Steve Kanellakos saying 'no,' some councillors still want more information about how builders were chosen for the ...
  
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• Councillor wants City of Ottawa’s auditor general to probe LRT Stage 2 procurement process - Global News

  27-03-2019 22:13 via globalnews.ca
  Councillor wants City of Ottawa’s auditor general to probe LRT Stage 2 procurement process  Global NewsA city councillor who is frustrated with the “very little information” he argues council has received about the procurement process for the $4.66-billion second ...
  
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• Mayor Watson has no problem with auditor general investigating Stage 2 procurement

  27-03-2019 21:55 via ottawacitizen.com
  Mayor Jim Watson says he has “no difficulty” with the auditor general scrutinizing the secretive Stage 2 O-Train procurement process, which included the selection of SNC-Lavalin as a contractor, after a councillor announced he’ll ask colleagues to recommend an investigation.
  “I’d have no difficulty if the auditor general does that. He has the right to do that,” Watson said after a council meeting Wednesday.
  Council’s audit committee is scheduled to appro
  
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• Man convicted in 'sexsomnia' case appealing his conviction for third time

  27-03-2019 21:54 via ottawacitizen.com
  The man convicted of sexual assault in the so-called “sexsomnia” case is appealing his conviction.
  The appeal, filed in Ontario Superior Court in Brockville on Wednesday, marks the third appeal by Ryan Hartman since he assaulted Bekah D’Aoust at an Oxford Mills house party more than eight years ago.
  Chris Sewrattan of Toronto, Hartman’s new lawyer, said he is appealing Justice Kimberly Moore’s rejection of the defence application to have the case thrown out because
  
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• Almost 4,000 City of Ottawa employees made the Sunshine List in 2018: government - Global News

  27-03-2019 21:54 via globalnews.ca
  Almost 4,000 City of Ottawa employees made the Sunshine List in 2018: government  Global NewsThe government of Ontario released its annual public sector salary disclosure on Wednesday and 3,829 City of Ottawa employees made the list.
  
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• Gatineau man facing attempted murder, harassment charges

  27-03-2019 21:51 via ottawacitizen.com
  A Gatineau man has been charged with attempted murder, criminal harassment and uttering death threats in connection with an incident early Wednesday that left a woman in hospital with serious injuries.
  Gatineau police went to a residence on Davidson Street West in Gatineau at the request of paramedics early Wednesday morning.
  They found an injured woman, in her forties, who was transported to Hull Hospital for treatment. She is in stable condition.
  Police arrested a man in his fifties at the sce
  
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• Ottawa employees on this year's Sunshine List - CBC.ca

  27-03-2019 21:48 via cbc.ca
  Ottawa employees on this year's Sunshine List  CBC.caThe release of the 2018 Ontario Sunshine List gives a peek into the salaries of provincial public sector employees. We broke down the numbers for Ottawa.
  
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• Ottawa could change infrastructure rules if SNC convicted: Champagne - BNNBloomberg.ca

  27-03-2019 21:27 via bnnbloomberg.ca
  Ottawa could change infrastructure rules if SNC convicted: Champagne  BNNBloomberg.caOttawa is keeping the possibility of changing the laws to allow SNC-Lavalin Group Inc. to continue bidding on federal contracts despite any potential criminal ...
  
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• Smoky, soggy cats pulled from Cantley house fire wreckage

  27-03-2019 21:21 via ottawacitizen.com
  Firefighters in Cantley were unfortunately unable to save a home that caught fire early Wednesday.
  But they were able to pull two cats from the smouldering wreckage.
  Fire broke out in mid-morning at the home at 155 chemin Ste-Élisabeth and spread rapidly through the structure.
  Residents were not at home at the time.
  Damages were estimated at $200,000.
  Firefighters combing the structure afterwards came across the two soggy, smoky but apparently uninjured kitties.ALSO IN THE NEWS: 
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• Ottawa eyed by dockless scooter-sharing company with controversial history in States

  27-03-2019 21:15 via ottawacitizen.com
  A scooter-sharing company that has courted controversy in the U.S. could become the newest method of public transportation in Ottawa by the end of the year, as long as provincial laws are changed to accommodate the vehicles.
  Lime, a California-based transportation company formerly known as LimeBike, allows users to rent electric scooters that are available through the Lime app. A single ride costs a $1 flat fee plus 30 cents per minute, which is paid through the app.
  One of the key selling point
  
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• Ottawa eyed by dockless scooter-sharing company with controversial history in States - Ottawa Citizen

  27-03-2019 20:53 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa eyed by dockless scooter-sharing company with controversial history in States  Ottawa CitizenA scooter-sharing company that has courted controversy in the U.S. could become the newest method of public transportation in Ottawa by the end of the year, ...
  
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• Caitlan Coleman recounts abuse by Joshua Boyle while held hostage in Afghanistan - Ottawa Citizen

  27-03-2019 19:03 via ottawacitizen.com
  Caitlan Coleman recounts abuse by Joshua Boyle while held hostage in Afghanistan  Ottawa CitizenCaitlan Coleman says the final two years of her captivity in Afghanistan were marked by physical and emotional abuse from her husband, Joshua Boyle, who ...
  
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• Taxis struggling 3 years after Uber's arrival in Ottawa - CBC.ca

  27-03-2019 18:59 via cbc.ca
  Taxis struggling 3 years after Uber's arrival in Ottawa  CBC.caNearly three years after Uber went from law-breaking upstart to legitimate business model, Ottawa's remaining licensed taxi drivers say they're struggling.
  
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• Caitlan Coleman testifies about the rocky start to her relationship with Joshua Boyle

  27-03-2019 18:52 via ottawacitizen.com
  Former Afghanistan hostage Caitlan Coleman took the witness stand late Wednesday morning to give evidence against her estranged husband, Joshua Boyle, who stands accused of her physical, sexual and emotional abuse upon their return to Canada after five years in captivity.
  Coleman, 33, is the Crown’s central witness in the case against Boyle, who faces 19 charges, including assault, sexual assault and confinement.
  Coleman is the complainant in 17 of those charges.
  Boyle has pleaded not guil
  
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• Rubin: Let's put the brakes on Ottawa's runaway LRT money train

  27-03-2019 17:21 via ottawacitizen.com
  Here’s the thing about the still-secret, lower-than-acceptable technical scores of SCN-Lavalin in its “successful” bid for Ottawa’s light rail Trillium expansion project.
  I have been battling, using freedom-of-information legislation, to get LRT Stage 1 non- conformance or construction-quality reports.
  I now have received more than 800 such Rideau Transit Group reports, though none yet of the thousands produced by the city itself.
  The RTG reports submitted to the City of
  
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• Lukk: On 70 years since the mass deportation of Estonians

  27-03-2019 17:19 via ottawacitizen.com
  March, 1949. Though the sun was growing higher and higher above the horizon, with promises of sunnier days to come, the spring days remained cold. The soil was frozen solid. Clear skies became flurries at a moment’s notice.
  Operation “Priboi” (“Tide”) began with a pounding on the door in the early hours of March 25. This was a wake-up call that changed the lives of many Estonians forever. NKGB (People’s Commissariat for State Security) agents and their collabo
  
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• Rubin: Let's put the brakes on Ottawa's runaway LRT money train - Ottawa Citizen

  27-03-2019 17:13 via ottawacitizen.com
  Rubin: Let's put the brakes on Ottawa's runaway LRT money train  Ottawa CitizenHere's the thing about the still-secret, lower-than-acceptable technical scores of SNC-Lavalin in its “successful” bid for Ottawa's light rail Trillium expansion ...
  
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• Province offers $50,000 reward for info in 10-year-old Belleville homicide

  27-03-2019 17:13 via ottawacitizen.com
  It was 11 years ago this week that Calvin Wallace Vanness was last seen in the Belleville area behind the wheel of his Pontiac Grand Prix with distinctive red flames painted on the side.
  On April 1, 2008, the Belleville man’s car, which police believe someone else had been driving, was found abandoned in a parking lot on Highway 38 in Kingston.
  Vanness, 65, hasn’t been seen since.
  OPP photo of Calvin Vanness’ car
  Belleville Police and the OPP have been treating his disappearanc
  
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• Council going after more accessibility funds from Uber and Lyft

  27-03-2019 16:46 via ottawacitizen.com
  Council on Wednesday directed city staff to try getting more money from Uber and Lyft for accessible transportation programs.
  Nearly three years ago, council approved new regulations for taxis and private transportation companies (PTC).
  At the time, the city’s consultant, KPMG, recommended PTCs make a 30-cent-per-ride contribution to the city for accessible transportation programs. The city, however, said it doesn’t have authority from the province to charge a mandatory accessibility
  
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• Algonquin College president Jensen to retire at end of five-year term

  27-03-2019 16:44 via ottawacitizen.com
  Algonquin College is searching for a new president after Cheryl Jensen has announced she’ll retire at the end of her five-year term.
  The college’s first female president, Jensen was appointed in 2014.
  Peter Nadeau, the chairman of the college’s board, said in a news release Tuesday that the search will begin immediately and that the college is “truly indebted” to Jensen for her service.
  “Under her leadership, we have broken enrolment records, opened the cuttin
  
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• More alleged victims for man accused of assaulting child at hospice

  27-03-2019 15:43 via ottawacitizen.com
  A man already accused of sexually assaulting victims including a boy in a palliative hospice is now facing a dozen new sex charges in relation to “multiple” incidents involving two other boys, one of them a child with disabilities, police said Wednesday.
  Police will only say that the victims involved in the new charges are between three and 17 years old. The incidents are alleged to have happened in and around Ottawa from 2012 to 2019.
  “Investigators are concerned there could b
  
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• Dining Out: Bar Lupulus should be in the conversation for Canada's best restaurants

  27-03-2019 15:42 via ottawacitizen.com
  Bar Lupulus1242 Wellington St. W., 613-759-4677, barlupulus.caOpen: Monday to Friday 11:30 a.m. to late, Saturday 5 p.m. to late, Sunday 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., 5 p.m. to latePrices: small dishes $15 to $19, mains $22 to $30Access: wheelchair accessible, including washroom on main level (other washrooms downstairs)
  Under normal circumstances, I visit an Ottawa-area restaurant a few times, write up my take, and then not step foot in the place for another five or six years. The rotation, so to speak, i
  
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• Don't be alarmed! Ottawa airport conducting emergency exercises Wednesday

  27-03-2019 15:24 via ottawacitizen.com
  This is just a drill …
  Officials at Ottawa International airport are forewarning travellers not to be alarmed if they see something “out of the ordinary” on the tarmac Wednesday.
  The airport will be staging two emergency exercises, one at 10 a.m. and one at 2 p.m.
  The session, in collaboration with Ottawa Paramedic Service, is to increase airport situational awareness for new paramedic superintendants.
  “The scenario will simulate an aircraft with smoke in the cockpit, an
  
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• Look up Wednesday evening in Ottawa, see a spaceship - Ottawa Citizen

  27-03-2019 14:37 via ottawacitizen.com
  Look up Wednesday evening in Ottawa, see a spaceship  Ottawa CitizenEveryone likes to watch a spaceship fly overhead at 28000 kilometres per hour, and Wednesday evening brings a good chance. The weather forecast calls for ...
  
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• Look up Wednesday evening in Ottawa, see a spaceship

  27-03-2019 14:37 via ottawacitizen.com
  Everyone likes to watch a spaceship fly overhead at 28,000 kilometres per hour, and Wednesday evening brings a good chance. The weather forecast calls for clear skies.
  The International Space Station is due to fly over Ottawa at prime time: 7:50 p.m. (It can arrive a minute or two late, so be patient.)
  What you’ll see: A bright white light, brighter than a star, moving steadily from west to east. It will be visible for four minutes.
  Where to look: It will appear medium-high in the west-nor
  
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• Don't be alarmed! Ottawa airport conducting emergency exercises Wednesday - Ottawa Citizen

  27-03-2019 14:37 via ottawacitizen.com
  Don't be alarmed! Ottawa airport conducting emergency exercises Wednesday  Ottawa CitizenThis is just a drill …Officials at Ottawa International airport are forewarning travellers not to be alarmed if they see something “out of the ordinary” on the tarmac ...
  
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• Ottawa bakery mixing east and west, one sweet at a time - OttawaMatters.com

  27-03-2019 14:35 via ottawamatters.com
  Ottawa bakery mixing east and west, one sweet at a time  OttawaMatters.comMidweek Mugging: Talluza Desserts is mixing cultures to bake success.
  
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• Where is Ottawa's worst pothole? - Ottawa Sun

  27-03-2019 13:47 via ottawasun.com
  Where is Ottawa's worst pothole?  Ottawa SunOttawans are eagerly offering up their commuting routes in a CAA "contest" for the worst roads in Ontario with potholes the #1 complaint.
  
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• Traffic: Watch out for deer and vote for Ottawa's worst pothole

  27-03-2019 13:12 via ottawacitizen.com
  Let’s play dodge the deer and the potholes.
  Ottawans are eagerly offering up their commuting routes in a CAA “contest” for the worst roads in Ontario with potholes the #1 complaint.
  Contenders include Carling Avenue between Holland and Bronson avenues for the “perpetual potholes” and St. Joseph Boulevard for general madness.
  You can vent and offer a suggestion at caaworstroads.com .
  Meanwhile, the OPP is warning of another hazard after a spate of car-deer collisions
  
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• Police seek missing girl last seen at Loyalist Twp. gas station

  27-03-2019 13:11 via ottawacitizen.com
  The OPP is asking the public for any leads on the whereabouts of a 17-year-old girl missing since Tuesday afternoon.
  MacKenzie MacDonald, who goes by “Kenzie,” was last seen at Mr. Gas on County Road 6 in Loyalist Township at about 2:30 p.m. but may be in the Wooler or Belleville area, police said.
  She’s described as six feet two inches tall with brown, shoulder-length hair and blue eyes.
  She was wearing a green winter coat with a fur-trimmed hood, white shoes, white tights wit
  
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• Woman seriously hurt, man in custody in Gatineau stabbing

  27-03-2019 12:55 via ottawacitizen.com
  One man was arrested after a Gatineau woman was stabbed in an early morning incident Wednesday in the city’s east end.
  Paramedics summoned Gatineau police to an address on Davidson Avenue East at about 1:45 a.m. where they the paramedics had found the seriously wounded woman.
  A man the woman knew was arrested at the scene.
  “It’s not a random attack – it’s two people who know each other,” a Gatineau police spokeswoman said.
  The woman was taken to hospital with
  
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• Traffic: Watch out for deer and vote for Ottawa's worst pothole - Ottawa Citizen

  27-03-2019 12:44 via ottawacitizen.com
  Traffic: Watch out for deer and vote for Ottawa's worst pothole  Ottawa CitizenOttawans are eagerly offering up their commuting routes in a CAA "contest" for the worst roads in Ontario with potholes the #1 complaint.
  
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• Spring outside while you can, the wet weather will return

  27-03-2019 12:39 via ottawacitizen.com
  After days and days of weather gloom, your patience is being rewarded today with a sunny, slightly warmer taste of spring.
  Wednesday’s high is expected to top 6 C under clear skies and a moderate UV index of 5.
  The evening chill is expected to slip to -3 C, feeling like -8, but you’ll probably be indoors when that happens.
  Thursday, clouds are back, increasing through the day with, sigh, periods of rain beginning in the afternoon. The high is expected to be about 7 C.
  There’s a
  
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• Cohen: Clear of Mueller, Trump is free to be even more Trump-like

  27-03-2019 11:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  So Donald Trump declares that Robert Mueller has cleared him. Total vindication. The president asserts his innocence, and the unfairness of it all, like a crazed parrot in a gilded cage.
  At every opportunity since Mueller’s findings landed — before Trump got on Air Force One in Florida, after he got off Air Force One in Washington, at the White House and on Twitter — he has called this a hoax, a witch hunt, a lynching, an auto-de-fé.
  Worse, this was a campaign carried ou
  
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• Anti-vax movement called threat to vaccine campaigns in developing world

  27-03-2019 11:27 via ottawacitizen.com
  Anti-vaccine beliefs — some fuelled by online Russian trolls — are beginning to spread to the developing world, threatening efforts to vaccinate children in some of the poorest countries, says the head of the global vaccine alliance, Gavi.
  Seth Berkley, an epidemiologist and chief executive of the alliance that brings together the public and private sector with the aim of vaccinating children in the world’s poorest countries, said the anti-vaccine movement is a growing concern.
  
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• Today's letters: Police officers' work, and the strain that comes with it, too often ignored

  27-03-2019 10:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  Thank you for your service
  Re: There’s a dark side to Ottawa that most people don’t see, March 25
  This piece really struck home. Kevin Richard’s compassion for those he serves and those he has attempted to save from personal disaster and those whom he was unable to reach in time paints a picture of a remarkable human being. Someone who in essence, performing the position entrusted to him, sacrifices his own well-being in service to others.
  Mr. Richard’s descriptive and po
  
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• Ottawa city councillors still seeking LRT scores - OttawaMatters.com

  27-03-2019 09:53 via ottawamatters.com
  Ottawa city councillors still seeking LRT scores  OttawaMatters.comSome councillors want to see just how well SNC Lavalin did in the procurement process.
  
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• Sabres' Carter Hutton: Sliced by Senators in Ottawa - CBSSports.com

  27-03-2019 05:08 via cbssports.com
  Sabres' Carter Hutton: Sliced by Senators in Ottawa  CBSSports.comHutton stopped 27 of 31 shots in Tuesday's 4-0 loss to the Senators. That's three straight losses for Hutton, who has won just once in his last 10 appearances.
  
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• Tories block some House committee travel, want to stay in Ottawa as election looms - Hill Times

  27-03-2019 05:00 via hilltimes.com
  Tories block some House committee travel, want to stay in Ottawa as election looms  Hill TimesHalf of all committee trips that have had their travel budgets approved by the Committee Budgets Subcommittee since November have not been granted travel ...
  
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• WARREN GAME REPORT: Newest Senators ignite offence as Anderson blanks Sabres - Ottawa Citizen

  27-03-2019 04:33 via ottawacitizen.com
  WARREN GAME REPORT: Newest Senators ignite offence as Anderson blanks Sabres  Ottawa CitizenSenators 4, Sabres 0In one respect, it was a nothing game between a pair of squads that kissed the playoffs goodbye a long time ago.Indeed, from a standings ...
  
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• Ottawa 67’s take commanding series lead on Hamilton Bulldogs - Global News

  27-03-2019 03:38 via globalnews.ca
  Ottawa 67’s take commanding series lead on Hamilton Bulldogs  Global NewsNoel Hoefenmayer scored what proved to be the winning goal in the second period as Ottawa edged the Bulldogs 2-1 in Hamilton on Tuesday night.
  
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• Sabres blanked in Ottawa 4-0 - WBEN

  27-03-2019 03:01 via wgr550.radio.com
  Sabres blanked in Ottawa 4-0  WBENThe Senators put a pair of goals on the board in the final minutes of the 1st period courtesy of Anthony Duclair and Brian Gibbons. Duclair skated alone to the ...
  
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• Smollett case focused unwanted attention on Chicago police - Ottawa Citizen

  27-03-2019 02:29 via ottawacitizen.com
  Smollett case focused unwanted attention on Chicago police  Ottawa CitizenCHICAGO — The surprise decision by prosecutors to drop charges against Jussie Smollett angered Chicago's police superintendent and mayor, who said the ...
  
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• Ottawa blows through snow budget for 7th straight year - The Weather Network

  27-03-2019 02:15 via theweathernetwork.com
  Ottawa blows through snow budget for 7th straight year  The Weather NetworkCity records $7.2 million deficit for winter maintenance in 2018.
  
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• Saskatoon woman's bravery honoured in Ottawa - CTV News

  27-03-2019 00:51 via saskatoon.ctvnews.ca
  Saskatoon woman's bravery honoured in Ottawa  CTV NewsA Saskatoon woman is being honoured for her act of bravery.
  
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• City drops the hammer on developers, utilities who slow traffic and damage roads

  27-03-2019 00:31 via ottawacitizen.com
  The City of Ottawa is sick of developers and utility companies mucking up the roads with too much risk falling on municipal taxpayers.
  Proposed changes to the 16-year-old road activity bylaw would give city hall more protection against cheaply done road repairs when companies, or even one of its own departments, need to dig up part of a road to access underground infrastructure.
  If staff recommendations receive council’s endorsement next month, home builders, Hydro Ottawa, Bell Canada and
  
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• No foul play in death of Ottawa teen last seen at Osheaga, coroner finds - CBC.ca

  27-03-2019 00:30 via cbc.ca
  No foul play in death of Ottawa teen last seen at Osheaga, coroner finds  CBC.caThe body of Collins Obiagboso was found in the St. Lawrence River last August, three days after he disappeared from the Montreal music festival he was ...
  
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• Judge sides with Montsion defence, allows charter application to proceed

  27-03-2019 00:25 via ottawacitizen.com
  Prosecutors in Const. Daniel Montsion’s manslaughter and assault trial forged ahead with further testimony Tuesday after the judge ruled in favour of hearing the defence’s charter application to stay charges or exclude key evidence and witness testimony.
  Ontario Court Justice Robert Kelly dismissed a counter motion from the Crown, which had sought to quash the defence application. The judge ruled the defence “has identified a basis in fact and law on which its proposed charter
  
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