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• Ottawa’s chief medical officer talks priorities as public health agency braces for change - Global News

  24-04-2019 23:42
  Ottawa’s chief medical officer talks priorities as public health agency braces for change  Global NewsAs Ottawa's public health agency faces some uncertainty over what its structure, governance and provincial funding will look like moving forward, the city's chief ...
  
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• Church treasurer found guilty of four-year, $600,000 fraud

  24-04-2019 23:25 via ottawacitizen.com
  The longtime treasurer at Saint Luke Lutheran Church siphoned more than $600,000 of church money into a failing property development scheme in a desperate bid to stave off personal disaster, a court has heard.
  In a recent ruling, Ontario Court Justice Matthew Webber found that accountant Barton Burron, a former member of the Auditor General of Canada’s office, was guilty of fraud.
  Burron deceived church officials, Webber said, and kept them in the dark for four years about his “persi
  
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• New Zibi observation tower offers new view of Ottawa River - CTV News

  24-04-2019 23:19
  New Zibi observation tower offers new view of Ottawa River  CTV NewsThe Zibi Observation Tower opens to the public next week, allowing people to see the development in the making.
  
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• Are spring floods the disturbing new normal?

  24-04-2019 23:15 via ottawacitizen.com
  Two years ago, homeowners in the capital region could comfort themselves that record floods were a freak anomaly. Rainfall in the Ottawa River basin that April — all 159 millimetres of it —was the highest it had been in 125 years according to the Ottawa River Regulation Planning Board.
  That, combined with a significant snow melt, produced enough river water to flood thousands of homes in Quebec and more than 500 residences in Ottawa.
  Now, here we are again, with flood waters approach
  
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• Are spring floods the disturbing new normal? - Ottawa Citizen

  24-04-2019 23:09
  Are spring floods the disturbing new normal?  Ottawa CitizenTwo years ago, homeowners in the capital region could comfort themselves that record floods were a freak anomaly. Rainfall in the Ottawa River basin that April ...
  
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• Ottawa declares climate emergency - CBC.ca

  24-04-2019 22:35
  Ottawa declares climate emergency  CBC.caOttawa city council has declared climate change an emergency, joining other Canadian municipalities in making the declaration.
  
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• Security concerns raised at Ottawa City Hall after protesters try to confront politician - OttawaMatters.com

  24-04-2019 22:33
  Security concerns raised at Ottawa City Hall after protesters try to confront politician  OttawaMatters.comOne councillor is worried about the safety of visitors at city hall after an incident at the Mayor's Breakfast Series.
  
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• CHEO issues list of fees for autism services: 'We are used to people handing us an OHIP card, not a bank card'

  24-04-2019 22:22 via ottawacitizen.com
  For the first time ever at CHEO, parents will be asked for a bank card so their children can receive autism treatment services.
  CHEO released a spring and summer guide to autism services Wednesday that includes a fee-for-service price list — including $3,360 for 40 hours of intensive applied behavioural analysis therapy to $300 a week for a school readiness program.
  Parents say the cost of many of the services listed in the new guide far exceeds the childhood budgets for families of childr
  
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• Zibi House wants to be the National Capital Region's next 'destination' spot

  24-04-2019 21:51 via ottawacitizen.com
  On the outside, it looks like a collection of dark blue shipping containers. Inside, it feels more like a sleek, tranquil spa. And when you ride its freight elevator eight storeys up, it affords you a birds-eye view of Chaudière Falls and Parliament Hill that might make you rethink the heart of the National Capital Region.
  All of these aspects come together at the unique, multi-purpose facility called Zibi House, on the Gatineau shore of the Ottawa River. It opened Wednesday following a p
  
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• Zak's Diner to open its third restaurant on Elgin Street

  24-04-2019 21:49 via ottawacitizen.com
  Zak’s Diner is set to open an Elgin Street eatery in the space once occupied by Dunn’s Famous Delicatessen.
  This will be the third location for Zak’s, which opened its first restaurant in the ByWard Market in 1986, followed more recently by a second location in Kanata.
  Owner John Bortsen said he’s aiming to open the new Zak’s on Sept. 1. The 3,300-square-foot space has already been gutted.
  “The trick is to open in a controlled way,” he said. “It&rs
  
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• Flood: PM visits Gatineau flood scene, NCC closes several bike paths, more road closures

  24-04-2019 21:23 via ottawacitizen.com
  Prime Minister Justin Trudeau visited Gatineau flood evacuees Wednesday afternoon, as the water levels continue to swell on both sides of the Ottawa River.
  The prime minister took no questions after the brief meeting at the relief centre.
  But in a brief statement, the PM, accompanied by Gatineau Mayor Maxime Pedneaud-Jobin, said that Canadians must face a “new reality,” that the effects of climate change mean that events such as spring flooding “will be happening more and more
  
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• Nickelback is coming to Gatineau's hot air balloon festival

  24-04-2019 21:15 via ottawacitizen.com
  Mega-selling Canadian rockers Nickelback will play the Gatineau Hot Air Balloon Festival on Aug. 30 as part of the 32-year-old festival’s bid to inflate audiences as well as balloons.
  The Alberta-born Nickelback, Billboard’s band of the decade, went back on the road in 2017 after being forced to cancel their 2015 world tour because singer Chad Kroeger required surgery for a cyst on his vocal cords, followed by a period of recovery. He was back in action with bandmates Ryan Peake, Mik
  
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• Tulip festival blooms at Commissioner's Park starting May 10

  24-04-2019 20:55 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Canadian Tulip Festival announced a 2019 lineup Wednesday that’s “re-rooted in horticulture and heritage.”
  The May 10-20 festival features an expanded series of 33 “Music & Tulips” performances produced by Julian Armour, the work of local artists among the 300,000 blooms at Commissioner’s Park overlooking Dow’s Lake and a digital app to help visitors explore the National Capital Commission gardens.
  Old favourites like the first fireworks of the s
  
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• Dining Out: NH 44 ups Ottawa's Indian food game with fresh, complex flavours

  24-04-2019 20:51 via ottawacitizen.com
  NH 44 Indian Bistro2450 Lancaster Rd., Unit 35, 613-265-6444, nh44ottawa.comOpen: Monday to Saturday 11:30 a.m. to 9 p.m.Prices: up to $16 for bowls with two curries and rice, $8 for snacks, appetizersAccess: no steps to front door or washrooms
  In India, NH 44 is the country’s longest road. National Highway 44, as it’s more formally known, cuts a 3,745-kilometre swath from the top of India to the bottom and traverses eight states.
  In Ottawa’s east end, NH 44 is a lot less consp
  
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• Flood: PM visits Gatineau scene, NCC closes several bike paths, more road closures

  24-04-2019 20:36 via ottawacitizen.com
  Prime Minister Justin Trudeau visited Gatineau flood evacuees Wednesday afternoon, as the water levels continue to swell on both sides of the Ottawa River.
  The prime minister took no questions after the brief meeting at the relief centre.
  But in a brief statement, the PM, accompanied by Gatineau Mayor Maxime Pedneaud-Jobin, said that Canadians must face a “new reality,” that the effects of climate change mean that events such as spring flooding “will be happening more and more
  
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• Glavin: Sri Lanka atrocities add to a long history of hatred

  24-04-2019 20:19 via ottawacitizen.com
  At least two of the suicide bombers had law degrees. Two were brothers from a wealthy Colombo family, one of whom attended university in the United Kingdom and earned a postgraduate degree in Australia. There were nine of them altogether, eight men and a woman. Most were “well-educated and come from middle or upper-middle class,”  Ruwan Wijewardene, Sri Lanka’s deputy defence minister, told reporters.
  There is still much to piece together from what happened on Easter Sunda
  
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• Constitution Square landlord hitting refresh button on downtown Ottawa complex - Ottawa Business Journal

  24-04-2019 20:00
  Constitution Square landlord hitting refresh button on downtown Ottawa complex  Ottawa Business JournalOne of Ottawa's largest class-A office complexes is responding to changing tenant tastes as it looks to modernize the buildings.
  
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• Ottawa group urging people to leash pets after dog chases turkey into window, killing it - Global News

  24-04-2019 19:20
  Ottawa group urging people to leash pets after dog chases turkey into window, killing it  Global NewsAn organization that aims to reduce bird mortality from hitting windows is asking dog owners in the city to leash their dogs after it says one chased a turkey into a ...
  
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• Boyle trial suspended after Coleman challenges ruling allowing questions about her sexual history

  24-04-2019 19:11 via ottawacitizen.com
  The trial of former Afghanistan hostage Joshua Boyle is on hold while his estranged wife, Caitlan Coleman, challenges a ruling that allows defence lawyers to ask some questions about her sexual history.
  Coleman does not want to face questions about her consensual sex life with Boyle.
  But a ruling issued last week by Justice Peter K. Doody opened the door to some defence questions about Coleman’s sexual history with Boyle, including ones that touched on biting, bondage and anal sex.
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• Unexpected deposit as car plunges into Petawawa bank

  24-04-2019 18:58 via ottawacitizen.com
  A Petawawa bank opened a new drive-in window Tuesday after a motorist mixed up her pedals and ploughed into its facade.
  Ottawa Valley OPP officers found “significant” damage to the Petawawa Boulevard building when they responded to the crash Tuesday morning.
  No one was hurt.
  The driver, a 22-year-old Petawawa woman, wasn’t charged in the crash police blamed on “pedal misapplication.”
   
  Car vs bank in @TownofPetawawa late this morning. Luckily there were no inju
  
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• Texting in Queensway traffic costs drivers $615 each: OPP

  24-04-2019 18:49 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa OPP officers nabbed two drivers who were spied using their phones on the Queensway during rush hour Tuesday.
  Both were pulled over heading west in no-doubt heavy traffic through the city’s core, one at Parkdale Avenue and the other Rochester Street.
  While it might be tempting to start texting in bumper-to-bumper Queensway traffic, it will cost you a fine of more than $600 and a likely hike in insurance rates, police warned.
  As an object lesson, East Region OPP tweeted pictures of th
  
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• Texting in Queensway traffic costs drivers $615 each: OPP - Ottawa Citizen

  24-04-2019 18:45
  Texting in Queensway traffic costs drivers $615 each: OPP  Ottawa CitizenOttawa OPP officers nabbed two drivers who were spied using their phones on the Queensway during rush hour Tuesday.Both were pulled over heading west in ...
  
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• Ottawa declares a climate emergency

  24-04-2019 18:28 via ottawacitizen.com
  Canada’s capital city, which has been fighting rising river waters in its outlying communities, declared a climate emergency on Wednesday.
  Ottawa’s city council voted overwhelmingly to make the declaration as a way to show how serious the municipality is about protecting people from the impacts of climate change.
  It was a big win — and a somewhat surprising one — for Coun. Shawn Menard, who first brought the proposal for a climate-emergency declaration to the environment
  
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• Police seeking Rideau Street robber armed with box cutter

  24-04-2019 17:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  Police are seeking a suspect who fled after brandishing a box cutter at a Rideau Street security guard as the thief lifted a Nike tracksuit.
  The man walked into the store near Sussex Drive at about 3:20 p.m April 13.
  He picked out a track suit and started to leave. When the security guard tried to stop him, the thief pulled out the yellow box cutter and extended the blade then fled on foot.
  The suspect is described as white, in his late 20s, and with a medium build and short brown hair. He wore
  
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• Some drizzle, rain and freezing temperatures return tonight

  24-04-2019 17:09 via ottawacitizen.com
  Grab your galoshes, folks, here comes the rain again, with apologies to the Eurythmics.
  The morning broke on a wet note in the capital and looks like a 60 per cent chance of drizzle and/or showers for the rest of Wednesday.
  Winds gusting up to 40 km/h should temper the forecast high of 10 C.
  Cloud cover should continue through the night, with a low of -1 C, and a wind chill of -5, if you’re out after midnight.
  ALSO: The flood of 2019: ‘Severe flood levels’ now expected
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• 'There will be cuts' to public health, health board chair warns

  24-04-2019 16:23 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa will be forced to make cuts to public health services as a result of changes announced in the provincial budget, warns Councillor Keith Egli, who chairs the city’s board of health.
  “There will be cuts, I don’t think there is any doubt about that,” he said. “Some programs we are currently offering, we will not be able to offer in the future.”
  Ottawa Public Health has learned more details about provincial changes to the way public health is funded and str
  
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• Weekend flood peak ‘just the first peak’ this spring - CTV News

  24-04-2019 16:12
  Weekend flood peak ‘just the first peak’ this spring  CTV NewsPeak flood levels on the Ottawa River are expected to arrive this weekend, with the Ottawa River Regulating Committee forecasting a 48 cm increase in the ...
  
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• Flood: PM to visit Gatineau scene, NCC closes several bike paths, more road closures

  24-04-2019 15:01 via ottawacitizen.com
  Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is to visit Gatineau flood evacuees on Wednesday, as the water levels continue to swell.
  The prime minister won’t be taking questions during the visit, scheduled for about 12:30 p.m.
  Meanwhile, the National Capital Commission warned walkers and cyclists to be careful on parts of its pathway network due to flooding.
  All trails in Gatineau Park are closed until further notice except the Sugarbush Trail near the park visitor centre.
  A Gatineau firefighters collec
  
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• Specialty popcorn becoming big business for Ottawa man and his sister - OttawaMatters.com

  24-04-2019 15:00
  Specialty popcorn becoming big business for Ottawa man and his sister  OttawaMatters.comMidweek Mugging: Ottawa's YOW Popcorn Co. has become a big hit for weddings, events and even the average popcorn lover.
  
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• House Works: Canadian glove maker protects workers and heals warriors

  24-04-2019 14:55 via ottawacitizen.com
  A year ago this spring, I discovered a Canadian work glove manufacturer that I’m surprised I hadn’t found before.
  I use work gloves almost every day, but never thought much about glove design until I came across a B.C. company called Watson Gloves. They celebrated their 100th anniversary in 2018, and since then I’ve been impressed by the variety of gloves they offer – more than 1,000 different styles in all.
  I used to think work gloves were only about choosing lined or un
  
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• Egan: Homeowner fights city and wins $2K over retaining wall squabble

  24-04-2019 14:34 via ottawacitizen.com
  Blake McIntyre fought the City of Ottawa in court on March 15 and won a judgment for $1,932, the little guy slaying the dragon with his own persistence and honesty.
  “They called me a liar, flat out,” said the retired public servant, who is dismayed at how much time and money the city’s legal department spent defending its losing position.
  It centred on who built a small retaining wall in front of his home on Tweedsmuir Avenue in 2002 and, 16 years later, who was responsible for
  
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• Ottawa gains momentum as other Canadian cities lose ground in global tech hub ranking - Ottawa Business Journal

  24-04-2019 13:47
  Ottawa gains momentum as other Canadian cities lose ground in global tech hub ranking  Ottawa Business JournalA new ranking of global startup ecosystems has Ottawa making waves as one of the top 100 tech cities in the world.
  
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• Traffic: New road closures as flood waters rise

  24-04-2019 13:46 via ottawacitizen.com
  The City of Gatineau is warning that rising flood water will complicate the commute.
  New road closures Wednesday include the on and off ramps of eastbound Highway 50 at Rue Saint-Louis have been closed.
  Watch for road closures in the Pointe-Gatineau and Lac-Beauchamp neighbourhoods.
  Meanwhile, watch for road closures on the Queen Elizabeth Driveway at Fifth Avenue in both directions from 7 a.m. to 10 a.m. to remove Rideau Canal concession equipment.
  The eastbound Highway 417 is reduced to o
  
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• Sandra Oh on returning to Ottawa this week, her high school roots and 'extraordinary' year so far

  24-04-2019 13:07 via ottawacitizen.com
  Sandra Oh doesn’t get back to Ottawa much these days — not since her parents moved to the West Coast — but when she visits this week to pick up a Governor General’s Performing Arts award, she’ll be reliving the memories of her formative years in the area.“It all started in Ottawa,” said the 47-year-old actor, who grew up in Nepean, attended Sir Robert Borden High School and recently gave a social-media shout-out to the Canadian Improv Games for everythin
  
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• YOU SAID IT: Trudeau at it again - Ottawa Sun

  24-04-2019 13:00
  YOU SAID IT: Trudeau at it again  Ottawa SunTRUDEAU AT IT AGAINRe: National security must come before pandering, editorial, April 16I agree completely with your editorial of April 16. PM Trudeau is at it ...
  
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• Sandra Oh on returning to Ottawa this week, her high school roots and 'extraordinary' year so far - Ottawa Citizen

  24-04-2019 13:00
  Sandra Oh on returning to Ottawa this week, her high school roots and 'extraordinary' year so far  Ottawa CitizenSandra Oh doesn't get back to Ottawa much these days — not since her parents moved to the West Coast — but when she visits this week to pick up a Governor ...
  
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• Adam: Playing the race card outrageous in Ottawa traffic death - Ottawa Citizen

  24-04-2019 12:32
  Adam: Playing the race card outrageous in Ottawa traffic death  Ottawa CitizenNearly four years ago, a man driving a pickup truck smashed into a cyclist, tossing him into a ditch. The driver, Deinsberg St-Hilaire, fled the scene, leaving ...
  
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• Today's letters: A pedestrian mall on Wellington Street is a good idea

  24-04-2019 12:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  Wellington Mall is an elegant idea
  Re: Sparks Street – Stop throwing good money after bad, April 15.
  I loved the ideas expressed by Bob Plamondon about opening Sparks Street to vehicle traffic and closing Wellington Street to traffic between Elgin and Lyon Streets. Practical, simple and creative.
  The Wellington Mall (The Canada Kilometre, The Freedom Walk) would showcase federal buildings, and, of course, Parliament Hill, in grand fashion. Shop owners and businesspeople on Sparks would be
  
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• Luqman: 'We need an Islam that is viable in this age'

  24-04-2019 12:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  The attacks on Christians in various parts of Sri Lanka by a radical Islamic group have rekindled the debate surrounding Muslims and radicalization. As a Muslim Imam with the Ahmadiyya Muslim Jama’at, I believe that reform must come from within. It starts by rejecting extreme interpretations of faith and welcoming legitimate voices of reform within the house of Islam. We need Islam that is viable in this age.
  A study published in the Guardian lists many Muslim majority countries in which C
  
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• Chu, Clamen and Santini: Sex workers feel anything but 'protected'

  24-04-2019 12:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  “To serve and protect” may be the mission of law enforcement, but not everybody experiences it this way. In recounting their experiences of law enforcement, sex workers across Ontario have described aggressive surveillance and abuse at the hands of police, municipal officers and Canada Border Services Agency.
  Fifty-two-year-old May (all names have been changed), a long-time permanent resident in Canada, was one of 22 individuals interviewed in a ground-breaking study documenting sex
  
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• Adam: Paying the race card outrageous in Ottawa traffic death

  24-04-2019 12:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  Nearly four years ago, a man driving a pickup truck smashed into a cyclist, tossing him into a ditch. The driver, Deinsberg St-Hilaire, fled the scene, leaving cyclist Andy Nevin to die. For nine days, St-Hilaire wove an elaborate scheme to hide from the police, and went about destroying evidence. Last year, he was found not guilty of dangerous driving causing death and walked, a free man. He pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice, but at his sentencing last week, it was Canadian justice that
  
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• Ottawa brewery partners with Niagara College to offer brewmaster scholarship - OttawaMatters.com

  24-04-2019 12:28
  Ottawa brewery partners with Niagara College to offer brewmaster scholarship  OttawaMatters.comOttawa's Dominion City Brewing Company is partnering with Niagara College to offer the Dominion City Co. & Beer.Diversity Scholarship. Beer.Diversity is an ...
  
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• The drug resistant fungus that is putting health officials on alert

  24-04-2019 12:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  A Winnipeg resident returned from India seriously ill with a brain abscess and a chronic ear infection. The unidentified patient, who had undergone dental surgery in India, was infected with a drug-resistant form of bacteria.
  And that was not all.
  The 64-year-old is now recognized as Canada’s Patient Zero for an emerging new threat that has hospitals across the country on alert — multi-drug resistant Candida auris. The fungal infection was found in the patient’s ear when &ldquo
  
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• Ottawa declares a climate emergency - Ottawa Citizen

  24-04-2019 09:00
  Ottawa declares a climate emergency  Ottawa CitizenCanada's capital city, which has been fighting rising river waters in its outlying communities, declared a climate emergency on Wednesday.
  
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• Death toll rises to 359 in Sri Lanka bombings - Ottawa Citizen

  24-04-2019 06:38
  Death toll rises to 359 in Sri Lanka bombings  Ottawa CitizenCOLOMBO, Sri Lanka — The death toll from the Easter suicide bombings in Sri Lanka rose to 359 and more suspects have been arrested, police said ...
  
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• 67's all over puck from start to finish - Ottawa Sun

  24-04-2019 05:18
  67's all over puck from start to finish  Ottawa SunGame in and game out, no member of the Ottawa 67's wins more puck battles than Sasha Chmelevski. Chmelevki's so good at it, he's even one-for-one in puck ...
  
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• Missing 15-year-old girl has been found - Ottawa Citizen

  24-04-2019 04:37
  Missing 15-year-old girl has been found  Ottawa CitizenOttawa police had been looking for information from the public that could help them find Haylie Duvall, who had gone missing on Tuesday, but she was located ...
  
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• Missing 15-year-old girl has been found

  24-04-2019 04:09 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa police had been looking for information from the public that could help them find Haylie Duvall, who had gone missing on Tuesday, but she was located that night.
  The 15-year-old was safe and had been reunited with her family, police said.
  Duvall had last been seen in the Chapman Mills area of Barrhaven around 3:30 p.m. Tuesday.
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• SIMMONS: Leafs eliminate themselves in Game 7 - Ottawa Citizen

  24-04-2019 04:00
  SIMMONS: Leafs eliminate themselves in Game 7  Ottawa CitizenBOSTON — Another year gone, another year to look to the future and hope for the forever beleaguered Toronto Maple Leafs.This time it was supposed to be ...
  
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• Courtroom erupts as LeBlanc sentenced to life, no parole for 15 years, for second-degree murder

  24-04-2019 03:50 via ottawacitizen.com
  Friends and supporters of convicted murderer Michael LeBlanc hurled obscenities across the courtroom Tuesday at the victim’s family as LeBlanc was led away to serve a life sentence with no chance of parole for 15 years.
  Justice Ronald Laliberté had just finished explaining his reasons for sentencing LeBlanc for the “brutal killing” of 19-year-old Mohammad Ali Hassan on Feb. 22, 2016, when supporters on opposite sides of the courtroom traded verbal barbs as police officer
  
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