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• Carleton prof harnesses machine learning to explore the bone trade netherworld

  21-06-2019 23:27 via ottawacitizen.com
  If someone in the world is willing to buy something, there's a market for it online — even human remains like skulls and bones. Read More
  
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• Lobbying over Salvation Army shelter complex returns to city hall with council decision looming

  21-06-2019 23:14 via ottawacitizen.com
  It's like 2017 all over again at Ottawa City Hall when it comes to the Salvation Army's controversial development project in Vanier. Read More
  
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• Egan: If the NCC can't improve the Château addition, why have an NCC?

  21-06-2019 23:14 via ottawacitizen.com
  A neighbour asked a good question the other day. Read More
  
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• Woman, 34, reported missing June 6 may be in North Bay

  21-06-2019 22:45 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa police are asking the public to help them find a 34-year-old woman who was reported missing on June 6 and could be in North Bay. Read More
  
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• Ottawa’s Jazz Fest heats up in June - Chatham Daily News

  21-06-2019 22:18 via chathamdailynews.ca
  Ottawa’s Jazz Fest heats up in June  Chatham Daily NewsIf you're looking for great music acts in the great outdoors, look no further than Ottawa this summer. Or closer to home the Chatham Concert Band's Wednesday ...
  
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• Ottawa man spins his way to $500K - OttawaMatters.com

  21-06-2019 21:36 via ottawamatters.com
  Ottawa man spins his way to $500K  OttawaMatters.comJeff-Romeo Cliff bought his winning ticket at Giant Tiger on Wellington Street in Ottawa.
  
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• "People have helped me and it’s my time to help others," says Syrian refugee rescued from airport limbo

  21-06-2019 21:28 via ottawacitizen.com
  In late November, Syrian refugee Hassan Al Kontar was rescued from his airport purgatory by the kindness of strangers. Read More
  
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• What makes a Forty Under 40 recipient? - Ottawa Business Journal

  21-06-2019 21:18 via obj.ca
  What makes a Forty Under 40 recipient?  Ottawa Business JournalAhead of Friday evening's celebration for this year's Forty Under 40 award recipients, we break down what makes this year's class special.
  
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• Volunteers save Kevin's bacon: pig in peril finds new home

  21-06-2019 21:13 via ottawacitizen.com
  Remember Kevin Bacon, the potbelly pig in a pickle? Read More
  
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• After Ebola: The world is learning more about the mental health needs of survivors

  21-06-2019 21:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  It was a familiar scene during the massive Ebola outbreak in West Africa that began in 2014: Elated survivors dancing as they left treatment centres free of the deadly virus. Read More
  
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• Ottawa to announce new supports for LNG Canada - Alaska Highway News

  21-06-2019 20:21 via alaskahighwaynews.ca
  Ottawa to announce new supports for LNG Canada  Alaska Highway NewsFinance Minister Bill Morneau will be in Kitimat Monday to announce new supports for the LNG Canada project. The supports are coming from the government's ...
  
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• 'Dream come true': Ottawa's Marial Shayok drafted by Philadelphia 76ers - CBC.ca

  21-06-2019 20:17 via cbc.ca
  'Dream come true': Ottawa's Marial Shayok drafted by Philadelphia 76ers  CBC.caA guard from St. Patrick's High School has latched onto one of the best teams in the NBA. Ottawa's Marial Shayok was selected in the second round, 54th overall ...
  
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• Editorial: Bumps in the road for Ottawa Hospital's new records system

  21-06-2019 20:10 via ottawacitizen.com
  Health care is a field of astonishing innovation. So it’s a jolt when patients realize how many medical records are still held in paper form, shared between practitioners by such outmoded means as fax machines. Read More
  
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• Man electrocuted on Hawthorne Road

  21-06-2019 20:01 via ottawacitizen.com
  A 47-year-old man was electrocuted at work on Hawthorne Road near Rideau Road Friday morning. Read More
  
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• No charges against police in arrest of teen gym trespasser

  21-06-2019 20:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  No charges will be laid against the police officer who used force and finally a taser to arrest an 18-year-old man whom police had twice been summoned to remove from a Barrhaven gym, the province's civilian police watchdog has concluded. Read More
  
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• Editorial: Bumps in the road for the Ottawa Hospital's digital records system - Ottawa Citizen

  21-06-2019 19:57 via ottawacitizen.com
  Editorial: Bumps in the road for the Ottawa Hospital's digital records system  Ottawa CitizenIt's a jolt when patients realize how many records are still held in paper form, shared by fax. Yet a new electronic system has run into glitches.
  
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• Cost of Canadian navy warship project increases to $70 billion, according to new PBO estimate

  21-06-2019 19:55 via ottawacitizen.com
  The cost of the Canadian navy’s new surface combatant ships has further increased because of delays and changes in the size of the ship, according to a new report from the Parliamentary Budget Officer. Read More
  
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• Draft Day could see Ottawa Senators make some moves - SenShot

  21-06-2019 19:15 via senshot.com
  Draft Day could see Ottawa Senators make some moves  SenShotToday is the first day of the 2019 NHL Entry Draft and the Ottawa Senators could be primed to make some interesting moves.
  
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• Canadian Federation of Students congregates in Ottawa - The Manitoban

  21-06-2019 19:01 via themanitoban.com
  Canadian Federation of Students congregates in Ottawa  The ManitobanMembers of the Canadian Federation of Students from across the country gathered in Ottawa last week for the federation's yearly national general meeting.
  
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• TD Ottawa Jazz Festival concert rediscovers prolific NFB composer Eldon Rathburn

  21-06-2019 19:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  Jazz fans familiar with the genius of Duke Ellington or John Coltrane could be forgiven for seeing a listing for the jazz concert in Ottawa on Sunday called The Romance of Improvisation in Canada: the Genius of Eldon Rathburn and thinking "Who's he?" Read More
  
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• While Ottawa waits, Kitchener-Waterloo welcomes light-rail transit

  21-06-2019 18:49 via ottawacitizen.com
  KITCHENER — Last November, commuters in the Kitchener-Waterloo region were promised they'd be riding light-rail transit in the spring of 2019. Read More
  
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• TD Ottawa Jazz Festival concert rediscovers prolific NFB composer Eldon Rathburn - Ottawa Citizen

  21-06-2019 18:49 via ottawacitizen.com
  TD Ottawa Jazz Festival concert rediscovers prolific NFB composer Eldon Rathburn  Ottawa CitizenJazz fans familiar with the genius of Duke Ellington or John Coltrane could be forgiven for seeing a listing for the jazz concert in Ottawa on Sunday called The ...
  
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• While Ottawa waits, Kitchener-Waterloo welcomes light-rail transit - Ottawa Citizen

  21-06-2019 18:45 via ottawacitizen.com
  While Ottawa waits, Kitchener-Waterloo welcomes light-rail transit  Ottawa CitizenLast November, commuters in the Kitchener-Waterloo region were promised they'd be riding light-rail transit in the spring of 2019.
  
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• Techopia Live: CybernetIQ gaining momentum following $250K AccelerateOTT win - Ottawa Business Journal

  21-06-2019 18:27 via obj.ca
  Techopia Live: CybernetIQ gaining momentum following $250K AccelerateOTT win  Ottawa Business Journal*Fresh* off his pitchfest win at last week's AccelerateOTT, CybernetIQ founder Joe Cummins joined Techopia Live this week to talk about how his history as a ...
  
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• Police seeking 15-year-old girl missing from Orléans

  21-06-2019 18:27 via ottawacitizen.com
  Missing persons investigators are asking the public to help them find a 15-year-old girl who was last seen on Maisonneuve Street in Orléans June 9. Read More
  
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• Ottawa teen who went missing and was found in May, now missing again - OttawaMatters.com

  21-06-2019 18:18 via ottawamatters.com
  Ottawa teen who went missing and was found in May, now missing again  OttawaMatters.comThe Ottawa Police *Service* is asking for the public's help in finding a 15-year-old girl who has gone missing for a second time. Kiersta Goldsmith was last seen on ...
  
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• Jazzfest preview: Questing pianist Kris Davis says her art is "all over the place… but still just me"

  21-06-2019 18:10 via ottawacitizen.com
  When Kris Davis settled in behind the piano for her concert at the 2008 Earshot Festival in Seattle, she was troubled by one question: What would her mother, who was in the audience, think of the extreme music that her group, Paradoxical Frog, was about to play? Read More
  
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• Two foot long hot dog!? Ottawa is just getting started! - CFL.ca

  21-06-2019 18:01 via cfl.ca
  Two foot long hot dog!? Ottawa is just getting started!  CFL.caWhen this photo from the REDBLACKS Instagram showed up on feeds this week people's minds were blown! With comments like “I know what I'm having for ...
  
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• Your choice for Ottawa's best bike path - CBC.ca

  21-06-2019 18:00 via cbc.ca
  Your choice for Ottawa's best bike path  CBC.caWhether by the water or through the fields, competition was fierce to pick the capital's best cycling route. So fierce, we ended up with a tie. The most popular ...
  
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• Ottawa's Portage Power boosts renewable energy generation capacity - Ottawa Business Journal

  21-06-2019 17:57 via obj.ca
  Ottawa's Portage Power boosts renewable energy generation capacity  Ottawa Business JournalAs it continues expanding in the U.S. and eastern Canada, a local renewable power generation company is adopting a new name as it works to build a more ...
  
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• Three of four Ottawa beaches opened to swimmers for first weekend of summer - OttawaMatters.com

  21-06-2019 17:39 via ottawamatters.com
  Three of four Ottawa beaches opened to swimmers for first weekend of summer  OttawaMatters.comAs Environment Canada predicts the capital region will bask in sunshine and hot temperatures for the first weekend of summer, Ottawa Public Health says most ...
  
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• Denley: Doug Ford's cabinet shuffle goes part way toward fixing things

  21-06-2019 17:32 via ottawacitizen.com
  The new cabinet Doug Ford announced Thursday will almost certainly be stronger than the premier’s previous team. Refreshingly, people who have demonstrated merit have been given larger responsibilities and those who have struggled have been demoted. That’s as it should be. Read More
  
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• Martin: Pharmacare proposal is a victory for Canadian patients

  21-06-2019 17:10 via ottawacitizen.com
  It isn’t easy being a patient in the Canadian health system. For all our collective achievements, being sick is still frightening, the processes confusing, the terminology indecipherable. We are lucky that we don’t risk financial ruin because of an ICU stay or a course of cancer treatment, but the financial burden of illness exists nonetheless, in terms of missed time at work, the need for additional paid child or elder care, and of course, drugs. Read More
  
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• Meth-addicted driver whose 'deadly choices' killed teen faces prison term

  21-06-2019 14:39 via ottawacitizen.com
  It was nearing the end of another day at work for pest-control man Nathan Foster-Hunt, when, on Jan. 20, 2017, the meth addict took near-lethal doses of the powerful drug and got behind the wheel of his 2015 Chevy Express cargo van and started driving in the wrong lane on Fallowfield Road. Read More
  
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• Memorial to Carleton University student Nadia Kajouji sits in disrepair

  21-06-2019 14:33 via ottawacitizen.com
  There’s an old derelict wooden bench at the edge of Brantwood Park, tucked away in a small, weedy stand of paperback maples, dogwood, burdock and dandelions alongside the Rideau River. Its iron armrests are broken, the seat so worn and tenuous that only the small and slender dare test its strength. Read More
  
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• Traffic: Airport paving, Portage work ending, Transpo summer routes kick in

  21-06-2019 14:28 via ottawacitizen.com
  It's an old joke that there are only two seasons in Ottawa — winter and construction. Read More
  
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• One teen girl stabbed near Experimental Farm, second arrested

  21-06-2019 14:18 via ottawacitizen.com
  A teenage girl suffered injuries police say are not life-threatening when she was stabbed inside a building near the Experimental Farm Thursday evening. Read More
  
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• Ottawa Redblacks get huge offensive performance in win over Saskatchewan Roughriders - Global News

  21-06-2019 13:54 via globalnews.ca
  Ottawa Redblacks get huge offensive performance in win over Saskatchewan Roughriders  Global NewsDominque Davis threw three touchdown passes and Lewis Ward kicked six field goals in the Ottawa Redblacks win over the Saskatchewan Roughriders.
  
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• YOU SAID IT: Hang in there, Doug - Ottawa Sun

  21-06-2019 13:44 via ottawasun.com
  YOU SAID IT: Hang in there, Doug  Ottawa SunHANG IN THERE, DOUGWhether it be a quirk of fate or perhaps divine intervention, in many instances when the world, countries or parts of countries find ...
  
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• Weather: First weekend of summer is (finally!) warm and sunny

  21-06-2019 13:44 via ottawacitizen.com
  It's officially summer and we're getting some fabulous weather to match after a cool start to the weekend. Read More
  
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• Gagne: Let's encourage Indigenous youth talent in math and science

  21-06-2019 13:21 via ottawacitizen.com
  I grew up in Ottawa but would often visit my home reserve, Chisasibi, on the eastern shore of James Bay. Like many other kids my age on the reserve, when I had difficulty with something, I simply abandoned it. Read More
  
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• Charlebois: Canada’s first food policy is pointless and underwhelming

  21-06-2019 13:19 via ottawacitizen.com
  After more than two years of work and hearing from almost 45,000 Canadians, Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada released its first ever food policy this week. A total of $134 million will be spent to support this five-year plan that centres on four major pillars: food security, health, environment and the sustainable growth of the agriculture and food sector. Read More
  
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• Memorial to Carleton University student Nadia Kajouji sits in disrepair - Ottawa Citizen

  21-06-2019 12:01 via ottawacitizen.com
  Memorial to Carleton University student Nadia Kajouji sits in disrepair  Ottawa CitizenThere's an old derelict wooden bench at the edge of Brantwood Park, tucked away in a small, weedy stand of paperback maples, dogwood, burdock and ...
  
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• Memorial to Carleton University student sits in disrepair

  21-06-2019 12:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  There’s an old derelict wooden bench at the edge of Brantwood Park, tucked away in a small, weedy stand of paperback maples, dogwood, burdock and dandelions alongside the Rideau River. Its iron armrests are broken, the seat so worn and tenuous that only the small and slender dare test its strength. Read More
  
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• Game Wrap: Dominique Davis sparks Ottawa offence in week 2 win over Saskatchewan - CBC.ca

  21-06-2019 06:59 via cbc.ca
  Game Wrap: Dominique Davis sparks Ottawa offence in week 2 win over Saskatchewan  CBC.caThe Ottawa Redblacks improved to 2-0 on the season with a 44-41 win over the Saskatchewan Roughriders.
  
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• Ottawa Muslim Summer Camps 2019 - Muslim Link

  21-06-2019 06:54 via muslimlink.ca
  Ottawa Muslim Summer Camps 2019  Muslim LinkCheck out some of the Muslim summer camps, summer schools, and summer educational programs available in Ottawa.
  
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• Recap: Ottawa 44, Saskatchewan 41 - CFL.ca

  21-06-2019 05:38 via cfl.ca
  Recap: Ottawa 44, Saskatchewan 41  CFL.caBoth quarterbacks impressed in a game that turned into a shootout, but it's the REDBLACKS that got the win for a perfect 2-0 start to their season. Game Recap ...
  
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• Saskatchewan Roughriders fall to 0-2 with 44-41 loss to Ottawa Redblacks - Regina Leader-Post

  21-06-2019 05:03 via leaderpost.com
  Saskatchewan Roughriders fall to 0-2 with 44-41 loss to Ottawa Redblacks  Regina Leader-PostOTTAWA — Quarterback Cody Fajardo didn't win his first CFL start, but he was effective in the Saskatchewan Roughriders' 44-41 loss to the Ottawa Redblacks ...
  
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• University of Ottawa president announces measures in response to carding incident

  21-06-2019 04:51 via ottawacitizen.com
  University of Ottawa president and vice-chancellor Jacques Frémont has set in motion several new administrative measures in the wake of a carding incident on June 12 in which a black undergraduate student was handcuffed on campus for refusing to show his ID to security officers. Read More
  
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• University of Ottawa president announces measures in response to carding incident - Ottawa Citizen

  21-06-2019 04:41 via ottawacitizen.com
  University of Ottawa president announces measures in response to carding incident  Ottawa CitizenUniversity of Ottawa president and vice-chancellor Jacques Frémont has set in motion several new administrative measures in the wake of a carding incident on ...
  
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