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• Select permit fees waived for Ottawa residents rebuilding after Orléans tornado - Global News

  12-06-2019 23:51 via globalnews.ca
  Select permit fees waived for Ottawa residents rebuilding after Orléans tornado  Global NewsOttawa city council voted on Wednesday to have the municipal planning department waive certain types of permit fees for those affected residents.
  
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• It took 39 years but the head of Ottawa’s Bluesfest finally has his university degree - CTV News

  12-06-2019 23:41 via ottawa.ctvnews.ca
  It took 39 years but the head of Ottawa’s Bluesfest finally has his university degree  CTV NewsIn 1984 Mark Monahan left Carleton University just two credits short of graduation. 39 years later he returned to finish what he started.
  
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• Vancouver mayor blames Ottawa for continued growth of homelessness in city - National Post

  12-06-2019 23:21 via nationalpost.com
  Vancouver mayor blames Ottawa for continued growth of homelessness in city  National PostVancouver Mayor Kennedy Stewart says it's “devastating” to see the homeless count rise and the city needs more investment from Ottawa if it's going to solve the ...
  
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• Panel calling on Ottawa to create pharmacare plan; Two Canadians rescued in Ghana - mycoastnow.com

  12-06-2019 23:17 via mycoastnow.com
  Panel calling on Ottawa to create pharmacare plan; Two Canadians rescued in Ghana  mycoastnow.comPanel calling on Ottawa to create pharmacare plan to cover every Canadian. An expert panel is calling for the federal government to work with the provinces and ...
  
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• Legal aid cuts 'mean-spirited', Ottawa lawyers warn

  12-06-2019 23:16 via ottawacitizen.com
  Cuts to Legal Aid Ontario are "mean-spirited" and will push the province closer to a two-tiered legal system, where Indigenous people, the poor, and refugees will be at an even greater disadvantage, Ottawa lawyers warn. Read More
  
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• Heated council meeting ends with extended transit fare freeze but no reduction

  12-06-2019 23:16 via ottawacitizen.com
  Feisty councillors on Wednesday battled over two options for bringing fare relief to frustrated transit customers, and at one point banged their desks when Mayor Jim Watson condemned criticism of transit management. Read More
  
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• Legal aid cuts 'mean-spirited', Ottawa lawyers warn - Ottawa Citizen

  12-06-2019 23:07 via ottawacitizen.com
  Legal aid cuts 'mean-spirited', Ottawa lawyers warn  Ottawa CitizenCuts to Legal Aid Ontario are “mean-spirited” and will push the province closer to a two-tiered legal system, where Indigenous people, the poor and refugees will ...
  
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• Ottawa city council extends transit fare freeze until LRT becomes operational - OttawaMatters.com

  12-06-2019 22:48 via ottawamatters.com
  Ottawa city council extends transit fare freeze until LRT becomes operational  OttawaMatters.comThe City of Ottawa has decided to keep a freeze on public transit fares until its riders can jump aboard the new light rail Confederation Line. Councillor Allan ...
  
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• Police seek suspect in Bayshore armed robbery

  12-06-2019 22:46 via ottawacitizen.com
  Police are asking the public to help identify a suspect in the knifepoint robbery of cash, cigarettes and lottery tickets from a Bayshore Drive store Sunday. Read More
  
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• City of Ottawa ends state of emergency as flood recovery continues

  12-06-2019 22:45 via ottawacitizen.com
  Watson declared the state of emergency on April 25 as flood water creeped onto private properties and city roads. Read More
  
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• Ottawa to launch ‘pay experiments’ as next step to replace Phoenix pay system - Toronto Star

  12-06-2019 22:37 via thestar.com
  Ottawa to launch ‘pay experiments’ as next step to replace Phoenix pay system  Toronto StarThe minister responsible for replacing the federal government's disastrous civil *service* pay system says it will likely be running for several years while a series of ...
  
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• Ottawa city council extends transit fare freeze until after LRT opens - Global News

  12-06-2019 22:35 via globalnews.ca
  Ottawa city council extends transit fare freeze until after LRT opens  Global NewsOne week after learning the builder of Ottawa's LRT would blow past yet another deadline, city council voted unanimously to delay the OC Transpo fare increase ...
  
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• Health teams: Ontario government rethinking numbers as more than 150 groups vying to deliver care

  12-06-2019 22:21 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Ontario government is rethinking the number of health teams that will eventually deliver care throughout the province after being inundated with applications. Read More
  
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• CRA, RCMP conduct raids across Ontario, Western Quebec in tax evasion probe - Ottawa Citizen

  12-06-2019 21:57 via ottawacitizen.com
  CRA, RCMP conduct raids across Ontario, Western Quebec in tax evasion probe  Ottawa CitizenThe Canada Revenue Agency executed 15 simultaneous search warrants across Ontario and Quebec on Thursday, the CRA said.The raids, assisted by the ...
  
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• Ottawa's royal swans may make Quebec their permanent home - CTV News

  12-06-2019 21:53 via montreal.ctvnews.ca
  Ottawa's royal swans may make Quebec their permanent home  CTV NewsA City of Ottawa report recommends they remain year round at their winter home at Parc Safari in Hemmingford.
  
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• Ottawa's MindBridge AI combines public-private investments for $29.6M series-B round - Ottawa Business Journal

  12-06-2019 21:12 via obj.ca
  Ottawa's MindBridge AI combines public-private investments for $29.6M series-B round  Ottawa Business JournalOne of Ottawa's leading artificial intelligence firms has secured $29.6 million in series-B financing, matching a contribution from the federal government with ...
  
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• LRT plans lift some Ottawa real estate prices: tornadoes have a lingering effect in Dunrobin - Ottawa Citizen

  12-06-2019 20:39 via ottawacitizen.com
  LRT plans lift some Ottawa real estate prices: tornadoes have a lingering effect in Dunrobin  Ottawa CitizenIf it wasn't apparent before, it sure was in May — typically the busiest month for Ottawa's 3000 plus realtors.
  
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• Senate report calls on Ottawa to fix 'neglected' Arctic - CBC News

  12-06-2019 20:13 via cbc.ca
  Senate report calls on Ottawa to fix 'neglected' Arctic  CBC NewsCanada's Northern regions have been neglected, overlooked, and passed by for far too long, according to a report released Tuesday by a Senate special ...
  
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• Future of LeBreton Flats, ByWard Market explored at City-Building Summit - Ottawa Business Journal

  12-06-2019 20:00 via obj.ca
  Future of LeBreton Flats, ByWard Market explored at City-Building Summit  Ottawa Business JournalThe future of LeBreton Flats, major infrastructure projects such as a potential new interprovincial bridge and the revitalization of the ByWard Market are just some ...
  
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• Chris Galletta given two-year sentence for June 2017 crash that killed two teen girls, plans to appeal

  12-06-2019 19:45 via ottawacitizen.com
  Chris Galletta is filing an appeal after he was sentenced to two years in jail for criminal negligence causing the deaths of Michaela Martel, 18, and Maddie Clement, 17, who were killed instantly in the June 18, 2017 crash that seriously injured 17-year-old Sommer Foley. Read More
  
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• Mealshare adds 28 more Ottawa restaurants to its roster - Ottawa Business Journal

  12-06-2019 19:18 via obj.ca
  Mealshare adds 28 more Ottawa restaurants to its roster  Ottawa Business JournalMembers of Ottawa's restaurant community gathered at Queen Street Fare on Tuesday night to celebrate the largest-ever expansion launch in Mealshare ...
  
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• Glavin: Hong Kong, at least, won't go down without a fight

  12-06-2019 19:09 via ottawacitizen.com
  The latest mobilization in Hong Kong’s ongoing popular insurrection against Beijing’s steady encirclement began in the most unlikely way, on Tuesday evening, just before midnight. Roughly 2,000 people showed up outside the Legislative Council headquarters in the Admiralty District. Some were singing Christian hymns. Others broke out into what has become something of an anthem among Hong Kong’s brave democrats, from the musical Les Misérables: Do You Hear The People Sing?
  
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• Shipping container bistros popping up in 3 Ottawa parks - CBC.ca

  12-06-2019 19:02 via cbc.ca
  Shipping container bistros popping up in 3 Ottawa parks  CBC.caNew, temporary patios will soon be set up on National Capital Commission land in the Glebe, downtown Ottawa and along the Ottawa River.
  
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• Ottawa delivers $5M to offset Manitoba costs for asylum-seekers - Winnipeg Free Press

  12-06-2019 19:00 via winnipegfreepress.com
  Ottawa delivers $5M to offset Manitoba costs for asylum-seekers  Winnipeg Free PressOTTAWA — The federal Liberals say they will only pay one-third of the costs the Manitoba government has identified for border-crossing asylum-seekers.
  
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• Going out in Ottawa best bets, June 13 to 19 - Ottawa Citizen

  12-06-2019 19:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  Going out in Ottawa best bets, June 13 to 19  Ottawa CitizenFoodWhile good ice cream is always a cause for celebration, Pascale's Ice Cream on Gladstone Avenue is going to pull out the stops on Saturday afternoon with ...
  
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• Going out in Ottawa best bets, June 13 to 19

  12-06-2019 19:00 via ottawacitizen.com
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• Radarsat Constellation to track ships, provide surveillance over Arctic and other regions – satellites successfully launched

  12-06-2019 18:59 via ottawacitizen.com
  Canada's RADARSAT Constellation Mission was launched successfully into space aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket this morning from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. Read More
  
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• Baltacioglu: Advice from an immigrant to Carleton university grads

  12-06-2019 18:17 via ottawacitizen.com
  The following is excerpted from the June 10 installation speech of Carleton University Chancellor Yaprak Baltacioglu to graduates: Read More
  
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• Police and paramedics respond after truck crashes through fence in IKEA parking lot

  12-06-2019 18:13 via ottawacitizen.com
  A tractor trailer ran over a curb and crashed through a fence in the parking lot of the Pinecrest Shopping Centre, near IKEA, around 10:30 am Wednesday, coming to a rest a few meters from the edge of the eastbound lanes of Highway 417. Read More
  
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• Man, 20, charged after handgun recovered in rural south Ottawa - Ottawa Citizen

  12-06-2019 18:11 via ottawacitizen.com
  Man, 20, charged after handgun recovered in rural south Ottawa  Ottawa CitizenA 20-year-old man appears in court Wednesday facing more than half-a-dozen firearm charges after a handgun was discovered near Johnston Corners.
  
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• Man, 20, charged after handgun recovered in rural south Ottawa

  12-06-2019 18:11 via ottawacitizen.com
  A 20-year-old man appears in court Wednesday facing more than half-a-dozen firearm charges after a handgun was discovered near Johnston Corners. Read More
  
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• Kit Downes, a British jazz musician of dizzying stylistic breadth, plays in West Quebec on Saturday

  12-06-2019 18:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  To make his 2018 album Obsidian, British musician Kit Downes stepped back from the pianos and Hammond organs that he usually plays to visit three churches and explore how their chamber organs would inspire him. Out came a mix of uniquely composed and improvised pieces that were nuanced and patient, always highly evocative and even haunting. Read More
  
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• Dining Out: Nana Thai Cuisine's chef adds lesser-known but vibrant dishes from her homeland to her menu

  12-06-2019 18:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  In Thailand, a dish called boat noodles flourishes in the restaurants of several central cities, although it originated in Bangkok in the early 1940s, when, as per its name, it was first served from boats along the capital's canals. Read More
  
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• Babineau: Why complainant against Ottawa police uses the 'race card'

  12-06-2019 17:40 via ottawacitizen.com
  In a recent article in the Ottawa Citizen, a lawyer for the Ottawa Police Service who is defending the force in a human rights complaint file by Insp. Samir Bhatnagar reportedly accused the complainant of “playing the race card." As that lawyer surely learned in law school, that is what a complaint for discrimination based on the prohibited ground of “race” is all about: race. Read More
  
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• City of Ottawa lifts state of emergency declared in April due to floods - Global News

  12-06-2019 17:29 via globalnews.ca
  City of Ottawa lifts state of emergency declared in April due to floods  Global NewsAfter 49 days, the City of Ottawa has ended the state of emergency it declared as the bloated Ottawa River spilled over into several communities earlier this ...
  
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• Richardson: Please let us think about basketball, not politics

  12-06-2019 17:26 via ottawacitizen.com
  Like a lot of people, I have become an instant basketball expert. Before the Raptors’ thrilling rise to the NBA finals, I knew it to be a game played with an orange ball by two groups of very tall people running back and forth in a gym. Their sneakers squeaking on the glossy hardwood floor brought back bad memories of grade 8 phys ed class. These days, I sit on my couch and critique Kawhi Leonard’s ability to sink three-pointers and yell at the TV whenever the Raps are fouled. I pret
  
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• Ottawa rejects majority of Senate amendments to C-69, setting stage for court challenge - National Post

  12-06-2019 16:45 via nationalpost.com
  Ottawa rejects majority of Senate amendments to C-69, setting stage for court challenge  National PostOTTAWA — Environment Minister Catherine McKenna rejected the majority of industry-friendly amendments proposed for Ottawa's sweeping bill to change how ...
  
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• Ottawa rejects majority of Senate amendments to C-69, setting stage for court challenge - TheChronicleHerald.ca

  12-06-2019 16:43 via thechronicleherald.ca
  Ottawa rejects majority of Senate amendments to C-69, setting stage for court challenge  TheChronicleHerald.caThe decision to reject most amendments could spark an uproar in some oil-rich Western provinces, where the bill became a sort of rallying cry.
  
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• Ottawa Inuit get new Inuktitut radio show - Nunatsiaq News

  12-06-2019 16:30 via nunatsiaq.com
  Ottawa Inuit get new Inuktitut radio show  Nunatsiaq NewsNewspaper of record for Nunavut, and the Nunavik territory of Quebec.
  
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• Ottawa ‘very relieved’ after 2 Canadian women abducted in Ghana rescued - CHEK

  12-06-2019 16:14 via cheknews.ca
  Ottawa ‘very relieved’ after 2 Canadian women abducted in Ghana rescued  CHEKThe two Canadian women who were rescued this morning after being abducted in Ghana last week have been identified.
  
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• Gatineau police issue warning after Facebook-organized street race

  12-06-2019 15:40 via ottawacitizen.com
  Street racing can have deadly — and costly — consequences, Gatineau police warn after breaking up a street race that was organized on Facebook May 11. Read More
  
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• Ottawa rejects majority of Senate amendments to C-69, setting stage for court challenge - Fort McMurray Today

  12-06-2019 15:36 via fortmcmurraytoday.com
  Ottawa rejects majority of Senate amendments to C-69, setting stage for court challenge  Fort McMurray TodayThe decision to reject most amendments could spark an uproar in some oil-rich Western provinces, where the bill became a sort of rallying cry.
  
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• Man, 39, faces charges after approaching teenage girls

  12-06-2019 15:11 via ottawacitizen.com
  A 39-year-old man who police allege pretended to be a taxi driver and claimed to work for a modelling agency as he approached teenage girls is facing charges including sexual assault and committing an indecent act. Read More
  
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• Traffic: Cyclist struck blocks from bike lane protest near city hall - Ottawa Citizen

  12-06-2019 14:43 via ottawacitizen.com
  Traffic: Cyclist struck blocks from bike lane protest near city hall  Ottawa CitizenSoon after the event got underway at 6:30 a.m., a cyclist suffered minor injuries when he was struck by a car at the intersection of Laurier Avenue and O'Connor ...
  
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• Traffic: Cyclist struck blocks from bike lane protest near city hall

  12-06-2019 14:39 via ottawacitizen.com
  Watch for cyclists calling for safer streets around city hall during the Wednesday morning commute. Read More
  
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• Ottawa man accused of sexual assault, harassment of teen girls - CTV News

  12-06-2019 14:33 via ottawa.ctvnews.ca
  Ottawa man accused of sexual assault, harassment of teen girls  CTV NewsOttawa Police have laid charges against a 39-year-old man after several teenage girls reported being harassed or sexually assaulted by a stranger.
  
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• Two cats unhurt in quick 'knock down' of Cumberland house fire

  12-06-2019 14:12 via ottawacitizen.com
  A homeowner and their neighbours called 911 Tuesday evening reporting smoke and fire coming from the garage and second floor of a Cardinal Creek home. Read More
  
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• Ottawa's rare halal BBQ smokehouse is marinating in success - OttawaMatters.com

  12-06-2019 14:00 via ottawamatters.com
  Ottawa's rare halal BBQ smokehouse is marinating in success  OttawaMatters.comMidweek Mugging: Nearly two years in at Moe's BBQ in south-end Ottawa and the rare Halal BBQ offerings are a hit far and wide.
  
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• Port aux Basques representatives talk transportation in Ottawa - Northern Pen

  12-06-2019 13:58 via northernpen.ca
  Port aux Basques representatives talk transportation in Ottawa  Northern PenThere were both positive and negative highlights during a recent trip to Ottawa to speak on the financial impact of federally mandated Marine Atlantic cost ...
  
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• Search continues for diver missing near Long Sault

  12-06-2019 13:40 via ottawacitizen.com
  LONG SAULT — The OPP's underwater and recovery unit is to join other groups Wednesday morning in the search for a diver who went missing Tuesday morning in the St. Lawrence River about 100 kilometres south of Ottawa. Read More
  
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