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• City distributing millions for homelessness programs as it records COVID-19 cases in shelters

  20-04-2020 23:58 via ottawacitizen.com
  The City of Ottawa is using and distributing $11.4 million from upper-levels of government to boost homelessness programs during the COVID-19 pandemic after people in the shelter system have tested positive for the virus. Read More
  
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• Laurier Manor 'under seige' from COVID-19 say family members

  20-04-2020 23:25 via ottawacitizen.com
  With dozens of cases of COVID-19 among residents and staff, members of the family council at Laurier Manor are pleading for help to get the long-term care home through the crisis. Read More
  
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• Some good news: flood watch ends on the Ottawa River

  20-04-2020 23:21 via ottawacitizen.com
  One less thing to worry about: Two conservation authorities have ended their flood watch on the Ottawa River for this year. Read More
  
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• COVID-19 roundup: Are all Ottawa's cards now on the table? - The Logic

  20-04-2020 23:07
  
  COVID-19 roundup: Are all Ottawa's cards now on the table?  The Logic
  
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• YMCA-YWCA to move one-third of Shenkman residents to allow for physical distancing

  20-04-2020 23:01 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Eighty people living at the Taggart Family Y's Shenkman Residence will be moved to new homes to allow for more physical distancing inside the Argyle Street facility where at least five people have tested positive for COVID-19. Read More
  
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• Garbage, recycling delayed in four Ottawa wards after employees come into close contact with COVID-19 - OttawaMatters.com

  20-04-2020 22:58
  
  Garbage, recycling delayed in four Ottawa wards after employees come into close contact with COVID-19  OttawaMatters.com
  
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• Loaded handgun seized in McLeod Street search

  20-04-2020 22:27 via ottawacitizen.com
  A 22-year-old woman has been charged after an Ottawa police raid on McLeod Street Friday that netted a loaded nine-millimetre handgun. Read More
  
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• Egan: The uncut truth behind hundreds of cancelled surgeries

  20-04-2020 22:11 via ottawacitizen.com
  In normal times — and we can scarcely remember them — the Queensway Carleton Hospital did 30 to 40 cases of elective surgery every day. Read More
  
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• Suspect charged in back-to-back Sandy Hill break-ins

  20-04-2020 21:48 via ottawacitizen.com
  City police have arrested a 39-year-old Ottawa man in connection with two break and enters on Daly Avenue Monday morning. Read More
  
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• Missing man, 43, was last seen in Ottawa one year ago

  20-04-2020 21:26 via ottawacitizen.com
  City police are asking for tips to locate a 43-year-old Ottawa man who was last seen in the capital in April 2019 and may have moved on to British Columbia or the Montreal area. Read More
  
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• Stanley Fields,1918-2020: Veteran landed at Juno Beach on D-Day

  20-04-2020 20:56 via ottawacitizen.com
  One day a few years ago, Ryan Stewart was sitting in his family cottage on Mosque Lake, near Ompah, north of Sharbot Lake, admiring the handiwork of his grandfather, whose hands built the cottage in the early 1970s. Ryan looked at every joint, beam, post and board, and wondered how Stanley Fields managed such a feat on his own. Ryan, then about 40, decided to pen a letter to his grandfather, thanking him. Read More
  
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• Phone fraudsters exploiting pandemic fears as Ottawa hydro scams surge

  20-04-2020 20:38 via ottawacitizen.com
  Tamara Galko was immediately suspicious when she answered the phone to a woman’s voice claiming her hydro was about to be cut off for non-payment, but she decided to play along with the scam. Read More
  
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• D-Day veteran Stanley Fields: 1918-2020

  20-04-2020 20:38 via ottawacitizen.com
  One day a few years ago, Ryan Stewart was sitting in his family cottage on Mosque Lake, near Ompah, north of Sharbot Lake, admiring the handiwork of his grandfather, whose hands built the cottage in the early 1970s. Ryan looked at every joint, beam, post and board, and wondered how Stanley Fields managed such a feat on his own. Ryan, then about 40, decided to pen a letter to his grandfather, thanking him. Read More
  
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• Gurski: The Nova Scotia massacre could leave us with more questions than answers

  20-04-2020 20:37 via ottawacitizen.com
  We are reeling today in the aftermath of the massacre in Nova Scotia. At least 18 are dead, including an RCMP officer, an elementary teacher, two nurses and others, in addition to the alleged gunman, a 51-year-old denturist. More bodies may still be found as several homes appear to be have been torched. Read More
  
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• Pharmacy robber claimed she had a bomb, police allege

  20-04-2020 20:17 via ottawacitizen.com
  A 30-year-old suspect was arrested Friday after a woman walked into a Meadowlands Drive pharmacy and demanded narcotics after handing over a note stating she had a bomb. Read More
  
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• Kavanagh: COVID-19 – Lessons for the citizens of Ottawa from the pandemic

  20-04-2020 18:42 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  It’s been a little over a month since everything about life in Ottawa changed overnight. COVID-19 has had far-reaching impacts on every aspect of our lives. Every day our city identifies and works on new solutions to the latest issue arising from the pandemic. Already there are some stark lessons we’re learning about what we have. Read More
  
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• Ontario projects COVID-19 community spread has peaked, while warning of worsening long-term care outcomes

  20-04-2020 18:32 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Community spread of COVID-19 in Ontario appears to have peaked, although cases of the novel coronavirus in long-term care homes continue to grow, according to new modelling released by the province Monday. Read More
  
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• Charlebois: COVID-19 will change the way we think about food, particularly dairy

  20-04-2020 18:09 via ottawacitizen.com
  Before COVID-19 occurred, the dairy industry was struggling with its image and its focus. For a growing number of consumers, it had become old and boring, and more people found themselves hesitant to trust what was happening in the dairy sector. Cities were winning the war of values over farming communities, who clearly were not ready for new attitudes among consumers. Animal activists and environmentalists were gaining on the industry, which could provide little in the way of response to their
  
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• Ottawa chief medical officer suggests wearing a mask in public, especially in close quarters - OttawaMatters.com

  20-04-2020 17:43
  
  Ottawa chief medical officer suggests wearing a mask in public, especially in close quarters  OttawaMatters.com
  
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• COVID-19: Ontario sees largest single-day increase in confirmed cases

  20-04-2020 17:18 via ottawacitizen.com
  -Ontario is reporting 606 new cases of COVID-19, the largest single-day increase, and 31 new deaths. Despite the large increase, the new total of 11,184 cases is just 5.7 per cent higher than the day before, continuing a relatively low growth trend. The total includes 584 deaths and 5,515 resolved cases. The number of people in hospital confirmed to have COVID-19 and those on a ventilator went down slightly, while the number of people in intensive care remained stable. Read More
  
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• Man in surgical mask robbed Somerset Street West bank, police say

  20-04-2020 16:11 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa police are looking for a suspect in an incident in which a man in a surgical mask walked into a bank on Somerset Street West near Bronson Avenue wearing a surgical mask and gave the teller a note demanding cash. Read More
  
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• Perth senior's grocery money stolen as pandemic brings out 'the best and the worst'

  20-04-2020 15:55 via ottawacitizen.com
  The OPP says the COVID-19 pandemic is bringing out both "the best and the worst in people" after a thief stole a senior Perth woman's grocery money. Read More
  
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• Dump truck rolls on Highway 416, trapping driver

  20-04-2020 15:23 via ottawacitizen.com
  Police were warning motorists that there was no access to Highway 416 at Fallowfield Road Monday morning after a dramatic crash. Read More
  
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• Driver collides head-on with OC Transpo bus on Vanier Parkway

  20-04-2020 15:06 via ottawacitizen.com
  A driver had to be extricated from his vehicle by firefighters after he collided head-on with an OC Transpo bus on the Vanier Parkway Sunday night. Read More
  
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• Home prices climb in March, paced by Ottawa-Gatineau - The Globe and Mail

  20-04-2020 14:45
  
  Home prices climb in March, paced by Ottawa-Gatineau  The Globe and Mail
  
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• Getting around: COVID-19 closures, construction on West Hunt Club, Eagleson roads

  20-04-2020 14:27 via ottawacitizen.com
  It's the first weekday commute for those still heading to their jobs – thank you, essential workers! – with Queen Elizabeth closed between Fifth and Laurier avenues and lane closures on the Bank Street Bridge plus a spate of new construction projects at busy spots. Read More
  
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• Unseasonably chilly but sunny skies ahead of – you guessed it – more rain and snow

  20-04-2020 13:52 via ottawacitizen.com
  So-called "normals" for mid-April include daytime highs of 13 C but Ottawa won't get anywhere near that balmy until the end of the week. Read More
  
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• Causes of overnight house fires in Nepean, Greenboro under investigation

  20-04-2020 13:42 via ottawacitizen.com
  No one was injured in a separate house fires doused by city firefighters overnight with the causes of both blazes still under investigation, Ottawa Fire Services said. Read More
  
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• Pellerin: After the COVID-19 plague has ended, does it have to be politics as usual?

  20-04-2020 13:10 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Welcome to week (counts fingers) six of the New Normal. It was on March 16 that the Citizen printed the words of Dr. Vera Etches, Ottawa’s medical officer of health, on its front page. Stay Home, she said. Read More
  
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• That was then: Audacious gold heist launches the big-time criminal careers of the Stopwatch Gang

  20-04-2020 13:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  A regular weekly look-back at some offbeat or interesting stories that have appeared in the Ottawa Citizen as we celebrate our 175-year history. Today, a notorious airport robbery: Read More
  
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• Axworthy, Charest, Okafor and Studin: Canada must defend its international civil servants against attack

  20-04-2020 13:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  Amidst the ever-growing coronavirus pandemic and emergency, Canadians might have missed a recent, largely unprecedented statement by U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in respect of a prominent Canadian and his Canadian family. Read More
  
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• COVID-19: Canada passes 35,000 confirmed cases, global death toll now more than 165,000

  20-04-2020 12:21 via ottawacitizen.com
  The latest numbers of confirmed and presumptive COVID-19 cases in Canada as of 4:00 a.m. on April 20, 2020, via The Canadian Press: Read More
  
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• Ottawa weather: A sunny Monday that starts cold - CTV News

  20-04-2020 11:33
  
  Ottawa weather: A sunny Monday that starts cold  CTV News
  
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• YOU SAID IT: Are they on drugs? - Ottawa Sun

  20-04-2020 11:00
  
  YOU SAID IT: Are they on drugs?  Ottawa Sun
  
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• Video: Street Riding in Ottawa and Montreal for Episode 5 of the Partymaster Tour - Pinkbike.com

  20-04-2020 11:00
  
  Video: Street Riding in Ottawa and Montreal for Episode 5 of the Partymaster Tour  Pinkbike.com
  
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• The long haul: Ottawa trucker riding out pandemic on increasingly inhospitable highways - CBC.ca

  20-04-2020 10:00
  
  The long haul: Ottawa trucker riding out pandemic on increasingly inhospitable highways  CBC.ca
  
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• What you need to know about COVID-19 in Ottawa on Monday, April 20 - CBC.ca

  20-04-2020 09:00
  
  What you need to know about COVID-19 in Ottawa on Monday, April 20  CBC.ca
  
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• Ottawa records 23rd COVID-19 death, surpasses 800 confirmed cases - CTV News Ottawa

  20-04-2020 07:20
  
  Ottawa records 23rd COVID-19 death, surpasses 800 confirmed cases  CTV News Ottawa
  
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• Ottawa artist paints signs to help businesses attract customers during COVID-19 - CTV News Ottawa

  20-04-2020 07:20
  
  Ottawa artist paints signs to help businesses attract customers during COVID-19  CTV News Ottawa
  
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• A dreary, rainy Sunday in Ottawa - CTV News Ottawa

  20-04-2020 07:19
  
  A dreary, rainy Sunday in Ottawa  CTV News Ottawa
  
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• The advisory not issued: The consequences of Canada's slow COVID-19 response

  20-04-2020 04:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  It's now clear the third week of February was pivotal, when a clarion warning would have slowed the progression of the COVID-19 through much of Canada. Read More
  
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• Medical students support restaurants with FrontLineFeeds for health-care workers - Ottawa Citizen

  20-04-2020 02:21
  Medical students support restaurants with FrontLineFeeds for health-care workers  Ottawa Citizen
  
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• Medical students support restaurants with FrontLineFeeds for health-care workers

  20-04-2020 01:27 via ottawacitizen.com
  When three friends who happen to be medical students landed back at home in the midst of the pandemic, they started casting about for ways to help their future colleagues. Read More
  
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• Landry: Despite restrictions, Arbuckle branching out in Ottawa - CFL.ca

  20-04-2020 01:00
  
  Landry: Despite restrictions, Arbuckle branching out in Ottawa  CFL.ca
  
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• Province says it will stabilize income for doctors - Ottawa Citizen

  20-04-2020 00:15
  Province says it will stabilize income for doctors  Ottawa Citizen
  
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