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• City acknowledges responsibility to compensate victims of Westboro bus crash

  07-01-2020 23:15 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  The City of Ottawa on Tuesday publicly acknowledged its responsibility for compensating victims of the fatal bus crash at Westboro Station, four days before the one-year anniversary of the tragedy. Read More
  
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• Even the morgue is overcapacity at The Ottawa Hospital

  07-01-2020 23:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  The Ottawa Hospital, which has struggled to cope with overcrowding in recent years, is facing a new challenge: an overflowing morgue. Read More
  
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• The Sens Panel S2 Ep 16 Borowiecki, Pageau, Bernard-Docker

  07-01-2020 21:48 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  The Sens are off on a road trip after a pretty bad streak, watch the Sens Panel for all the gossip on your favourite team. Read More
  
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• Ryan Hartman appeal of sex assault conviction denied, again

  07-01-2020 20:40 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  BROCKVILLE — Ryan Hartman was taken away in handcuffs Tuesday morning after a Superior Court judge dismissed his latest appeal. Read More
  
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• Loblaw to shut Sheffield Road facility by 2021

  07-01-2020 20:09 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Loblaw Cos. has announced it will close its distribution centre on Sheffield Road in Ottawa's east end by the end of next year. Read More
  
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• Best bets, Jan. 9 to 15: A virtuoso Ottawa cellist, and an indie film wowing critics

  07-01-2020 19:28 via ottawacitizen.com
  
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• Trio faces long list of charges after sex assault raid uncovers loaded handgun

  07-01-2020 19:12 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Three people face a long list of charges after police recovered a loaded 9 mm pistol while executing a search warrant Monday. Read More
  
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• Ottawa man, 24, charged with sex assault of youth under 16

  07-01-2020 18:40 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Ottawa police have charged a 24-year-old man with sexual assault, sexual interference and invitation to sexual touching in connection with an alleged assault of a youth under the age of 16 last August. Read More
  
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• Forster: Struggling with Australia's wildfires, we're on the leading edge of climate change

  07-01-2020 18:37 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  The following is excerpted from a letter by Anne Forster, a former Ottawa resident, to her Canadian friends recently. She lives in Australia. Read More
  
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• Denley: Tory leadership contender Bryan Brulotte won't be an unknown for long

  07-01-2020 18:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Can a complete political unknown become the next leader of the federal Conservative Party? Ottawa businessman Bryan Brulotte thinks so, and he’s willing to spend the next six months crisscrossing the country in an attempt to make that dream come true. Read More
  
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• Some Canadian troops to be pulled out of Iraq – they will be relocated to Kuwait

  07-01-2020 18:19 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  An undisclosed number of Canadian troops will be pulled out of Iraq as concerns increase about the volatile situation in that country. Read More
  
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• Some Canadian troops to be pulled out of Iraq

  07-01-2020 17:59 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  An undisclosed number of Canadian troops will be pulled out of Iraq as concerns increase about the volatile situation in that country. Read More
  
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• Police seek assistance to identify robbers

  07-01-2020 17:15 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Ottawa police are seeking public assistance in identifying a man and woman believed to be responsible for a break-and-enter Sunday night at a business in the city's southwest end. Read More
  
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• Pedestrian suffers 'life-threatening' injuries in Carling Avenue collision

  07-01-2020 16:18 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  A "elderly" woman suffered "life-threatening" injuries Tuesday morning when she was struck by a bus while crossing Carling Avenue in front of the Ottawa Hospital's Civic campus. Read More
  
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• Hackers and scammers: City creates new management position for cyber security

  07-01-2020 16:07 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  A top-level tech buff will be in charge of protecting the City of Ottawa against hackers and scammers in a new position created by the municipal government as it tries to bolster confidence in its cyber defences. Read More
  
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• Salvation Army kettle campaign soars past targets

  07-01-2020 15:20 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  The Salvation Army reports a record season for its Christmas campaign, with donations soaring to $606,166. Read More
  
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• After the Implosion: BlackBerry's Second Chance

  07-01-2020 14:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  It's still painful to contemplate what might have been. Ten years ago BlackBerry was at flood tide, the world's biggest maker of smartphones with annual sales of $20 billion (all figure U.S.)  The Waterloo firm seemed well on its way to taking over from Nortel Networks as the country's flagship technology company. Read More
  
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• Your commute: Water main break in Alta Vista, LRT 'running well' as a.m. peak starts

  07-01-2020 13:50 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Take it slow with 6.6 cm of freshly-fallen snow on sidewalks and side streets Tuesday morning. Read More
  
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• Flurries a constant this week, but expect high of 5 C by Friday

  07-01-2020 13:07 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  It's looking like a bit of daily precipitation is the only constant this week. Read More
  
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• Gentile: Here's how Canada can help the world put an end to genocide

  07-01-2020 12:31 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Forty-one years ago today, on Jan. 7, 1979, the four year-long Cambodian genocide, perpetrated by the fanatical Khmer Rouge, was brought to a halt. Invading Vietnamese armed forces defeated the Khmer Rouge and ended the brutal genocide. Up to two million people had died from summary executions, starvation and disease in a mad experiment to transform Cambodia into an agrarian utopia. Anyone identified as educated was killed, often after being brutally tortured. Vietnamese and Cham Muslim minoriti
  
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• Today's letters: On the assassination of Qassem Soleimani

  07-01-2020 12:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Moral principles should apply everywhere Read More
  
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• Blaze at south Ottawa townhome displaces 2 residents; police, fire investigating - Global News

  07-01-2020 09:00 via globalnews.ca
  
  Blaze at south Ottawa townhome displaces 2 residents; police, fire investigating  Global News
  
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• Crash victim Yolanda Wallace, 38, was devoted mother of two

  07-01-2020 04:29 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Tributes flowed Monday for Yolanda Wallace, the 38-year-old woman who died following a single-vehicle crash on March Road early Sunday. Read More
  
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• Nova Scotia fossil first example of parental care, say Carleton researchers

  07-01-2020 01:52 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  A partnership between a Nova Scotia fossil hunter and Carleton University researchers has yielded the earliest fossil evidence of a parent caring for its offspring — a skeleton of a 300-million-year-old animal that appeared to be concealing and protecting a juvenile in a den. Read More
  
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• Son of famed Inuk artist unfit for trial in 2019 slaying of mother

  07-01-2020 01:21 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  The day after Jed Ootoova was arrested in the April killing of his mother, even grieving friends said he would never have meant her any harm and believed it was an accident. Read More
  
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• Hobo cannabis shop proposed for Merivale Road as chain expands

  07-01-2020 00:08 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Hobo Cannabis Co. says a third retail shop is planned in Ottawa for Merivale Road. Read More
  
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• Future of Canada’s military mission in Iraq facing more turmoil as situation changes by the hour

  07-01-2020 00:06 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  The future of Canada’s military mission in Iraq is facing more turmoil after a U.S. general confirmed to Iraq’s government that American forces would leave over the coming days even as U.S. President Donald Trump said troops were going nowhere until Iraq pays billions of dollars. Read More
  
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