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• Wet'suwet'en supporters briefly block downtown traffic - CTV News

  12-02-2020 23:43 via ottawa.ctvnews.ca
  
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• Wet'suwet'en supporters block downtown Ottawa traffic - CTV News

  12-02-2020 23:43 via ottawa.ctvnews.ca
  
  Wet'suwet'en supporters block downtown Ottawa traffic  CTV News
  
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• protestors block traffic in downtown Ottawa - CTV News

  12-02-2020 23:43 via ottawa.ctvnews.ca
  
  protestors block traffic in downtown Ottawa  CTV News
  
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• Shopify shares finish up nearly eight per cent as firm tops Q4 forecasts

  12-02-2020 23:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Shopify's share price was on steroids in early trading Wednesday following the release of better-than-expected fourth-quarter results. Shares were up roughly 20 per cent, reaching $593.89 on the New York Stock Exchange and C$786.07 on the TSX, before retreating to a still-healthy gain of nearly eight per cent on the day. Read More
  
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• Updated: Council wants more records released of Trillium Line procurement that led to SNC-Lavalin as the winner

  12-02-2020 23:05 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Under pressure to expose more secrets behind the Trillium Line procurement, council has unanimously ordered the unprecedented release of classified documents related to SNC-Lavalin's winning bid, including the legal opinion that compelled the city to keep the company alive in the contract competition despite receiving a terrible technical review. Read More
  
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• Gatineau police continue searching for missing uOttawa student - Ottawa Citizen

  12-02-2020 22:58 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Gatineau police continue searching for missing uOttawa student  Ottawa Citizen
  
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• Gatineau police continue searching for missing uOttawa student

  12-02-2020 22:58 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Gatineau police continue to ask for public help in finding missing University of Ottawa student Jonathan Blanchette. Read More
  
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• Shopify shares finish up nearly 8% as firm tops Q4 forecasts

  12-02-2020 22:55 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Shopify's share price was on steroids in early trading Wednesday following the release of better-than-expected fourth-quarter results. Shares were up roughly 20 per cent, reaching $593.89 on the New York Stock Exchange and C$786.07 on the TSX, before retreating to a still-healthy gain of nearly eight per cent on the day. Read More
  
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• 'Walk the walk': Wet'suwet'en chiefs sue Ottawa to force Crown to act on climate change - CBC.ca

  12-02-2020 22:52 via cbc.ca
  
  'Walk the walk': Wet'suwet'en chiefs sue Ottawa to force Crown to act on climate change  CBC.ca
  
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• Ottawa: No better place to watch a football game - Ottawa REDBLACKS

  12-02-2020 22:50 via ottawaredblacks.com
  
  Ottawa: No better place to watch a football game  Ottawa REDBLACKS
  
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• UNESCO wants Château hotel addition re-assessed 'before any irrevocable decisions are made'

  12-02-2020 22:31 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  UNESCO warns that the planned addition to the Château Laurier could damage the "viewscape" and the overall value of the Rideau Canal, which is a World Heritage site. Read More
  
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• Ottawa city council OKs outside review of Stage 2 LRT procurement, release of more documents - Global News

  12-02-2020 22:27 via globalnews.ca
  
  Ottawa city council OKs outside review of Stage 2 LRT procurement, release of more documents  Global News
  
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• Gatineau standoff ends when man in his 60s surrenders

  12-02-2020 22:22 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Police in Gatineau are investigating after a more than 14-hour standoff with an apparently armed man in his sixties. Read More
  
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• Manconi apologizes to council for maintenance payment confusion - Ottawa Citizen

  12-02-2020 22:21 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Manconi apologizes to council for maintenance payment confusion  Ottawa Citizen
  
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• Manconi apologizes to council for maintenance payment confusion

  12-02-2020 22:21 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  City transportation boss John Manconi apologized to council Wednesday for failing to tell members about a September maintenance payment to the LRT contractor. Read More
  
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• ‘We can’t continue like this’: Quebec, Ottawa form committee to address rail line blockades - Global News

  12-02-2020 22:16 via globalnews.ca
  
  ‘We can’t continue like this’: Quebec, Ottawa form committee to address rail line blockades  Global News
  
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• Egan: Hello teach? Not following this lesson on labour relations

  12-02-2020 22:14 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  The goal of the strike — any strike, surely —  is to hurt the employer, halt production, and drag now-chastened bosses back to the bargaining table to negotiate. It doesn't seem to be working. After three or six or seven days off the job (depends which union), honestly, are we any further ahead today than in December? Read More
  
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• Shopify finish up nearly 8% as firm tops Q4 forecasts

  12-02-2020 22:11 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Shopify's share price was on steroids in early trading Wednesday following the release of better-than-expected fourth-quarter results. Shares were up roughly 20 per cent, reaching $593.89 on the New York Stock Exchange and C$786.07 on the TSX, before retreating to a still-healthy gain of nearly eight per cent on the day. Read More
  
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• Egan: Hello teach? Not following this lesson on labour relations - Ottawa Citizen

  12-02-2020 22:08 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Egan: Hello teach? Not following this lesson on labour relations  Ottawa Citizen
  
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• Bonspiel raises more than $25,000 for Ottawa Heart Institute - The Review Newspaper

  12-02-2020 21:53 via thereview.ca
  
  Bonspiel raises more than $25,000 for Ottawa Heart Institute  The Review Newspaper
  
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• Coyotes try to rediscover winning recipe in Ottawa - National Post

  12-02-2020 21:40 via nationalpost.com
  
  Coyotes try to rediscover winning recipe in Ottawa  National Post
  
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• Ottawa councillor wants city to create policy to protect councillors from themselves on Twitter - Ottawa Citizen

  12-02-2020 21:15 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Ottawa councillor wants city to create policy to protect councillors from themselves on Twitter  Ottawa Citizen
  
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• Ottawa councillor wants city to create policy to protect councillors from themselves on Twitter

  12-02-2020 21:15 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  A first-term councillor is taking a stand against colleagues who are roasting each other on social media, calling on the clerk and integrity commissioner to consider policies that would crack down on cyberbullying by city officials. Read More
  
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• Ottawa holds pre-budget consultations - DrydenNow.com

  12-02-2020 21:13 via drydennow.com
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• Ottawa spends $1.23 million on Arviat's young hunters program - Nunatsiaq News

  12-02-2020 21:03 via nunatsiaq.com
  
  Ottawa spends $1.23 million on Arviat's young hunters program  Nunatsiaq News
  
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• FOUND: Police search for missing Ottawa man - OttawaMatters.com

  12-02-2020 20:58 via ottawamatters.com
  
  FOUND: Police search for missing Ottawa man  OttawaMatters.com
  
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• New Ontario Northland bus service between Ottawa and Thunder Bay - CTV News

  12-02-2020 20:39 via northernontario.ctvnews.ca
  
  New Ontario Northland bus service between Ottawa and Thunder Bay  CTV News
  
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• Ontario education unions announce one-day walkout that would close all schools on Feb. 21

  12-02-2020 20:36 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Unions representing 200,000 Ontario education workers say their members will walk off the job on Feb. 21 in a one-day strike that would close every school in the province. Read More
  
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• Jim Little’s big task is filling the seats in Ottawa - TSN

  12-02-2020 20:32 via tsn.ca
  
  Jim Little’s big task is filling the seats in Ottawa  TSN
  
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• Glavin: Why we can't believe China on coronavirus - Ottawa Citizen

  12-02-2020 20:19 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Glavin: Why we can't believe China on coronavirus  Ottawa Citizen
  
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• Glavin: Why we can't believe China on coronavirus

  12-02-2020 20:18 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Roughly 60 million people are now locked down in the most extensive and draconian quarantine in human history. China’s economy has come to a standstill. Factories are silent. Trains sit idle in the stations. In Wuhan, the teeming city at the epicentre of the coronavirus outbreak, the streets are strangely empty. State censors work 'round the clock to scrub the Internet of independent reporting. Citizen journalists are disappearing without a trace. Nobody knows quite what to believe, or who
  
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• Integrity watchdog won’t end misconduct probe despite demand from Ottawa councillor’s lawyers - Global News

  12-02-2020 20:17 via globalnews.ca
  
  Integrity watchdog won’t end misconduct probe despite demand from Ottawa councillor’s lawyers  Global News
  
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• 9 Things To Do In Ottawa This Weekend February 14-16 - Narcity

  12-02-2020 20:02 via narcity.com
  
  9 Things To Do In Ottawa This Weekend February 14-16  Narcity
  
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• You & Your BFFs Could Rent This Entire Ottawa Mansion & Private Beach For Just $75 Each - Narcity

  12-02-2020 19:55 via narcity.com
  
  You & Your BFFs Could Rent This Entire Ottawa Mansion & Private Beach For Just $75 Each  Narcity
  
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• Low-cost airline Flair to expand into Ottawa - CTV News

  12-02-2020 19:55 via ottawa.ctvnews.ca
  
  Low-cost airline Flair to expand into Ottawa  CTV News
  
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• Ottawa launches consultations on Indigenous ownership of Trans Mountain pipeline - battlefordsNOW

  12-02-2020 19:04 via battlefordsnow.com
  
  Ottawa launches consultations on Indigenous ownership of Trans Mountain pipeline  battlefordsNOW
  
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• Ottawa provides support for grain farm production code of practice - 620 CKRM.com

  12-02-2020 18:55 via 620ckrm.com
  
  Ottawa provides support for grain farm production code of practice  620 CKRM.com
  
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• Ottawa woman's pizza box-folding skills make cameo in Oscar-winner Parasite - CBC.ca

  12-02-2020 18:54 via cbc.ca
  
  Ottawa woman's pizza box-folding skills make cameo in Oscar-winner Parasite  CBC.ca
  
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• Ottawa couple stuck on cruise ship in South China Sea because no port will accept them over coronavirus fears - CTV News

  12-02-2020 18:51 via ottawa.ctvnews.ca
  
  Ottawa couple stuck on cruise ship in South China Sea because no port will accept them over coronavirus fears  CTV News
  
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• MAiD recipients more likely to be high-income, married, living at home, study says

  12-02-2020 18:02 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  People who received medical assistance in dying (MAiD) in Ontario in its first few years were not the poor and vulnerable. Read More
  
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• New album by Canada-New Zealand artist Tami Neilsen designed for 'sustainable' touring

  12-02-2020 18:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Tami Neilson is no stranger to the road. The singer-songwriter with the big hair, an urgent twang in her soulful voice and a retro-rockabilly vibe has been gigging since she was a kid, cutting her teeth by criss-crossing Canada with her mom, dad and two brothers in their family band, The Neilsons.  Read More
  
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• PRINCIPALS: Postpone EQAO literacy test because of high school labour disruption - Ottawa Sun

  12-02-2020 17:43 via ottawasun.com
  
  PRINCIPALS: Postpone EQAO literacy test because of high school labour disruption  Ottawa Sun
  
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• EQAO literacy test should be postponed because of labour disruption in high schools, say Ontario principals

  12-02-2020 17:28 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Principals at Ontario schools are urging the provincial government to postpone the province-wide literacy test given to Grade 10 students in March, saying labour disruptions make it impossible to administer. Read More
  
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• Council wants more records released of Trillium Line procurement that led to SNC-Lavalin as the winner

  12-02-2020 17:20 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  They're political foes, but Mayor Jim Watson and Coun. Shawn Menard are teaming up to kick open the doors to backroom discussions that led to a $1.6-billion Trillium Line contract awarded to SNC-Lavalin. Read More
  
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• Shopify up 20% in early trading as firm tops Q4 forecasts

  12-02-2020 16:22 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Shopify's share price was on steroids in early trading Wednesday following the release of better-than-expected fourth-quarter results. Shares were up roughly 20 per cent, reaching $593.89 on the New York Stock Exchange and C$786 on the TSX, before retreating somewhat to a gain of 12 per cent. Read More
  
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• New trustee appointed to Ottawa-Carleton District School Board - OttawaMatters.com

  12-02-2020 15:38 via ottawamatters.com
  
  New trustee appointed to Ottawa-Carleton District School Board  OttawaMatters.com
  
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• Shopify tops Q4 forecasts but losses to accelerate in 2020

  12-02-2020 14:36 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Ottawa's e-commerce technology giant Shopify exceeded fourth-quarter revenue forecasts by a significant margin while operating losses were smaller than expected. Read More
  
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• Missing man, 33, was last seen walking his dog in Orléans

  12-02-2020 14:27 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  City police are asking the public to help them find a 33-year-old man who was last seen walking an approximately 160-pound bullmastiff on St. Joseph Boulevard late Tuesday night. Read More
  
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• Shopify confirms new Ottawa R&D centre as stock soars following Q4 profit - Ottawa Business Journal

  12-02-2020 14:24 via obj.ca
  Shopify confirms new Ottawa R&D centre as stock soars following Q4 profit  Ottawa Business Journal
  
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• Your commute: 13 LRT trains running, Via cancels Toronto-bound trains

  12-02-2020 13:54 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  While O-Train Line 1 is on a roll with 13 trains running again, Via Rail has outright cancelled Ottawa to Toronto service through Thursday amid blockades by Indigenous groups in the Belleville area. Read More
  
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