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• NCC gives green light to revised LeBreton Flats concept plan

  23-01-2020 23:37 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  The National Capital Commission hopes to have "shovels in the ground" next year after taking one more step forward on the long-delayed development of LeBreton Flats, approving a "preliminary master concept plan" at its board meeting Thursday morning. Read More
  
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• Inuit art installation unveiled at The Ottawa Hospital

  23-01-2020 23:33 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  A 17-foot glass and wood kayak made by Inuit artists now owns a permanent place in a waiting room near The Ottawa Hospital's main entrance. Read More
  
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• Top city boss backs transit management as LRT problems continue

  23-01-2020 22:12 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Top municipal bureaucrat Steve Kanellakos launched into an impassioned defence of city management Thursday, shielding transportation general manager John Manconi from calls for his firing. Read More
  
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• City manager backs transit management

  23-01-2020 22:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Top municipal bureaucrat Steve Kanellakos launched into an impassioned defence of city management Thursday, shielding transportation general manager John Manconi from calls for his firing. Read More
  
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• Cameron Love named new president, CEO of The Ottawa Hospital

  23-01-2020 21:28 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  After serving in various leadership roles at the The Ottawa Hospital for two decades, Cameron Love has been named  president and chief executive officer of the city's most important health care facility. Read More
  
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• Police ID victim of head-on collision near Buckingham

  23-01-2020 19:58 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  The Sûreté du Québec has identified the victim of Wednesday's head-on crash on Autoroute 50 near Buckingham as Raymonde Larock, 54, of Gatineau. Read More
  
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• Planning committee endorses hundreds of new rental units in Sandy Hill with reduced parking

  23-01-2020 19:57 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Robinson Village at the south end of Sandy Hill is an appropriate community for 328 new rental units spread across four buildings, the planning committee decided Thursday. Read More
  
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• Ottawa man charged with indecent acts, police fear may be more victims

  23-01-2020 19:43 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Ottawa police have charged a 43-year-old man with one count each of performing an indecent act and voyeurism following an incident last May at a business in the Kanata Centrum Shopping Centre. Read More
  
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• Police looking for woman, 27, missing since Wednesday

  23-01-2020 19:37 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Ottawa police are seeking public assistance in locating a woman missing since Wednesday. Read More
  
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• Take a first peek at what Ottawa's new 'super library' will look like - Ottawa Citizen

  23-01-2020 19:25 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Take a first peek at what Ottawa's new 'super library' will look like  Ottawa Citizen
  
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• Take a first peek at what Ottawa's new 'super library' will look like

  23-01-2020 18:53 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  This is the super library the public wanted. Read More
  
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• Woman, three teens charged after woman seriously injured in robbery

  23-01-2020 18:22 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  An 18-year-old woman and three minor females have been charged after a woman was seriously injured in an assault and robbery in the Heron Gate district last week. Read More
  
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• LGBTQ2+ memorial to be built near Library and Archives Canada

  23-01-2020 17:24 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  A site near Library and Archives Canada with clear views of the Supreme Court of Canada and Parliament Hill will be the home for Canada's monument to the LGBTQ2+ Purge. Read More
  
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• Chagger: Canada stands up for LGBTQ2 communities, here and abroad

  23-01-2020 17:19 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  The following is offered in rebuttal to a Jan. 15 column by Stephen Brown on the Trudeau government's commitment to LGBTI rights internationally: Read More
  
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• Break-in suspects used stolen loot to furnish their home, police say

  23-01-2020 17:06 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  MRC des Collines police have identified two suspects in a Val-des-Monts break-in earlier this year in which an estimated $75,000 worth of items were stolen, much of it to furnish the suspects' own home. Read More
  
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• ByTowne preview: Documentary puts forward notion that communication can lead to reconciliation

  23-01-2020 16:22 via ottawacitizen.com
  
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• Adam: NCC should forget about a new Ottawa River bridge

  23-01-2020 16:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Under orders from the federal government, the National Capital Commission is currently “refreshing” an abandoned 2013 plan to build a new bridge in the capital. The review is expected to be completed early this year. At the same time, the government has charged the NCC with developing an integrated, sustainable transportation plan for the capital that includes LRT, buses, cars and cycling. The NCC is in the process of hiring a consultant to complete that plan by the spring of 2021. R
  
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• Cornwall woman, 49, faces charges after seizure of 618 kg of tobacco

  23-01-2020 15:27 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  A 49-year-old Cornwall woman faces a number of charges after RCMP seized more than 615 kilograms of unstamped cut tobacco ferried across the St. Lawrence River earlier this year. Read More
  
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• DND clears up 37,000 Phoenix pay cases, has another 39,000 to go

  23-01-2020 15:09 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  The Phoenix pay fiasco, which has been going for four years now, continues to affect tens of thousands of federal employees Read More
  
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• Police looking for girl, 18, missing since Wednesday

  23-01-2020 14:12 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Ottawa police are seeking public assistance in locating a teenage girl missing since Wednesday. Read More
  
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• Griffiths: Canada must not make assisted suicide any easier

  23-01-2020 14:08 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Canada has gone further and faster than just about any other nation in legalizing and normalizing the killing of human beings through its medical system. In this trailblazing project, we are poised once again to break into new territory in 2020, and the public has but a few days to participate in the government’s initial consultation process. Read More
  
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• Pellerin: Cutting down on food waste would help people and the planet

  23-01-2020 14:04 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  January is a good time to adopt better, healthier habits. It distracts us from the frozen mess Mother Nature throws at us, I suppose. Read More
  
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• Your commute: LRT up to 12 trains but special buses still running

  23-01-2020 13:43 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  A dozen trains were running on the O-Train Line 1 Thursday morning – still short of the usual 13 but up from a low of eight earlier this week – however OC Transpo will still be running special buses heading downtown. Read More
  
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• Weather: Warm temps prompt closure of Skateway stretch, snowy weekend in view

  23-01-2020 13:12 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Except for the snow all over the place, you could mistakenly think that spring has sprung in the capital! Read More
  
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• The slow death of plastic: Why the path to a plastic-less future is so complicated

  23-01-2020 13:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  A few years back, Valérie Leloup read a book called Zero Waste Home, about a family who reduced its waste to one jar per year, mostly by not buying useless materials in the first place. Read More
  
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• Egan: Start the car! When LRT pushes us back behind the wheel

  23-01-2020 12:45 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  With all the sound and fury about OC Transpo and LRT this week, a profoundly important issue has escaped attention, one critical to transit's longterm future: rider abandonment. Read More
  
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• 'You couldn’t survive alone': 75 years after camp's liberation, Ottawa Auschwitz survivor recalls horrific events

  23-01-2020 12:40 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  When David Moskovic washes dishes, makes the bed or performs any of the chores that constitute his day, he pays no mind to the four-digit number tattooed on his left forearm — 6024 — a faded reminder of the darkest moments in his, and humankind’s, life. Read More
  
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• Tierney: We need public libraries more than ever – and Ottawa will see the design for its new main branch today

  23-01-2020 12:35 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  It’s finally here. Read More
  
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• 75 years after camp's liberation, Ottawa Auschwitz survivor recalls horrific events

  23-01-2020 12:15 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  When David Moskovic washes dishes, makes the bed or performs any of the chores that constitute his day, he pays no mind to the four-digit number tattooed on his left forearm — 6024 — a faded reminder of the darkest moments in his, and humankind’s, life. Read More
  
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• Man's body recovered from Alexandria garage fire

  23-01-2020 04:07 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  A man's body was found in the remains of a garage destroyed by fire in Alexandria on Wednesday, provincial police said. Read More
  
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• Trailer fire doused at Walkley Road Giant Tiger lot

  23-01-2020 03:24 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Ottawa police say a trailer fire was extinguished at the Giant Tiger outlet at 2480 Walkley Rd. Read More
  
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• Crown drops appeal of two verdicts against accused Sandy Hill serial rapist

  23-01-2020 02:05 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Accused serial rapist Paul Batchelor has won yet another legal victory. Read More
  
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• Police chief asks to 'accelerate' hiring to bring on 100 new officers by 2021

  23-01-2020 01:57 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  In an unprecedented move, Ottawa police Chief Peter Sloly will ask the police board to approve the fast-tracked hiring of 100 new officers this year by scrapping millions of dollars in funding allocated elsewhere because public safety demands it, according to a report to the police board. Read More
  
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• Alcohol, unsafe ice main dangers to snowmobilers, police say in safety week message

  23-01-2020 01:55 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Alcohol was involved in about 45 per cent of the 175 snowmobile deaths in Ontario between 2009 and 2019, the Ontario Provincial Police said Tuesday. Read More
  
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• Crown drops appeal of two verdicts against accused serial rapist

  23-01-2020 01:32 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Accused serial rapist Paul Batchelor has won yet another legal victory. Read More
  
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• Police, fire respond to rescue call on Rideau River

  23-01-2020 00:58 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  The Ottawa Police Service marine unit, along with the Ottawa Fire Service, was trying to rescue a man from the Rideau Rideau near Bank Street and Riverside Drive, police reported Wednesday evening. Read More
  
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• To find the identities of dead people, NRC starts with the skull

  23-01-2020 00:13 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Jonathan Daoust-Séguin flew all the way to Vancouver to make copies of the skulls of unknown dead people — and eventually give them back their names. Read More
  
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