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• Cyclone helicopter involved in photo shoot shortly before crash, Canadian military confirms

  19-05-2020 23:11 via ottawacitizen.com
  A Cyclone helicopter was flying close to a Canadian frigate for a photo shoot when it crashed into the sea off the coast of Greece, the Canadian military confirmed Tuesday. Read More
  
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• What you need to know about COVID-19 in Ottawa on Tuesday, May 19 - CBC.ca

  19-05-2020 23:08
  
  What you need to know about COVID-19 in Ottawa on Tuesday, May 19  CBC.ca
  
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• Ottawa airport eyes more domestic flights as projected deficit balloons - Ottawa Business Journal

  19-05-2020 23:04
  Ottawa airport eyes more domestic flights as projected deficit balloons  Ottawa Business Journal
  
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• Ottawa stores reopen their doors, two metres at a time - Ottawa Citizen

  19-05-2020 22:25
  Ottawa stores reopen their doors, two metres at a time  Ottawa Citizen
  
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• Bylaw officers warn hundreds but ticket none on long weekend

  19-05-2020 21:58 via ottawacitizen.com
  The City of Ottawa stepped down from its hardline approach against enforcing COVID-19 orders on the Victoria Day long weekend. Read More
  
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• City police lay raft of tickets as Ottawa boating season launches - Ottawa Sun

  19-05-2020 21:55
  
  City police lay raft of tickets as Ottawa boating season launches  Ottawa Sun
  
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• Dining In: Fine-dining restaurant Atelier adapts to the pandemic with drive-through tasting menu

  19-05-2020 21:52 via ottawacitizen.com
  Before the coming of the COVID-19 crisis, grabbing a drive-thru snack was one of this restaurant critic's guilty pleasures, usually involving a late-night impulse purchase of fries that would gobbled down only to precede a few fitful hours of sleep. Read More
  
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• COVID-19 costs could linger for Ottawa city hall, former insider warns - OttawaMatters.com

  19-05-2020 21:40
  
  COVID-19 costs could linger for Ottawa city hall, former insider warns  OttawaMatters.com
  
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• Cyclone helicopter involved in photo shoot when it crashed, Canadian military confirms

  19-05-2020 21:32 via ottawacitizen.com
  A Cyclone helicopter was flying close to a Canadian frigate for a photo shoot when it crashed into the sea off the coast of Greece, the Canadian military confirmed Tuesday. Read More
  
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• Groups ask Ottawa to press 'pause' on nuclear waste disposal - Tbnewswatch.com

  19-05-2020 21:30
  
  Groups ask Ottawa to press 'pause' on nuclear waste disposal  Tbnewswatch.com
  
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• Ottawa stores reopen their doors, two metres at a time

  19-05-2020 21:02 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Baseball players get jitters on opening day. John Digney had them on reopening day. Read More
  
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• Funding drive set up to support family of Ottawa man killed while trying to help collision victim

  19-05-2020 20:40 via ottawacitizen.com
  A GoFundMe page has been set up to support the family of an Ottawa man killed while trying to help a collision victim near Portland last week. Read More
  
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• Ottawa boating season gets underway with a raft of tickets laid by city police

  19-05-2020 20:39 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa police officers took to the water over the long weekend, stopping more than 120 vessels and writing 57 tickets – including for not having critical safety equipment – as the boating season began. Read More
  
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• COVID-19: Ontario schools closed for rest of school year, Ford confirms; Canada-U.S. border shutdown extended

  19-05-2020 19:22 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ontario students won’t be heading back to classrooms this school year, but the province is working to allow child care centres to safely open their doors in the second phase of Ontario’s economic reopening plan, Premier Doug Ford said Tuesday. Read More
  
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• Ontario's publicly funded schools to remain closed until end of school year

  19-05-2020 19:15 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ontario’s publicly funded schools will remain closed until the end of the school year, Premier Doug Ford announced Tuesday. Read More
  
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• COVID-19: Ontario schools closed until September, Ford confirms; Canada-U.S. border shutdown extended

  19-05-2020 19:02 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ontario students won’t be heading back to classrooms this school year, but the province is working to allow child care centres to safely open their doors in the second phase of Ontario’s economic reopening plan, Premier Doug Ford said Tuesday. Read More
  
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• Cohen: COVID-19 – what we have lost and what we have gained

  19-05-2020 18:55 via ottawacitizen.com
  Every day, the pandemic brings news of death. We are reminded of the loss of life, which is most heartbreaking, but there is another kind of loss, too, mounting and stinging: the loss of life as we lived it. Read More
  
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• Denley: Champions of a denser Ottawa need to persuade homebuyers and neighbours

  19-05-2020 18:32 via ottawacitizen.com
  The outcome of Ottawa’s Official Plan debate seems pre-determined. The mayor and his supporters will approve a staff plan for growth that is described as balanced and middle of the road. Advocates for a denser, greener, more urban city will face yet another defeat from the champions of city-destroying sprawl. Read More
  
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• Police seeking witnesses to Sunday shooting near Westcliffe Park

  19-05-2020 18:09 via ottawacitizen.com
  Police found shell casings but no one wounded after a witness heard several gunshots near Seyton Drive and Westcliffe Road Sunday evening, then spotted a vehicle being driven away. Read More
  
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• Suspect sought in connection with east-end shooting inside moving vehicle

  19-05-2020 18:02 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Ottawa police guns and gangs unit is asking the public to help them locate a 20-year-old man in connection with a May 1 incident in which the victim was shot inside a moving vehicle in the city's east end. Read More
  
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• COVID-19: Canada-U.S. border to stay closed; Ontario to investigate LTC system

  19-05-2020 17:16 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Canada-U.S. border closure will be extended for another 30 days, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau revealed Tuesday. Read More
  
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• COVID-19: Commission will investigate Ontario's LTC system; province allowing drive-in religious services

  19-05-2020 17:10 via ottawacitizen.com
  An independent commission will investigate the long-term care system in Ontario starting in September, the province announced Tuesday. Read More
  
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• Ontario students expected to find out Tuesday whether schools will open in June

  19-05-2020 15:53 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ontario elementary and secondary students are expected to find out Tuesday whether schools will reopen in June. Read More
  
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• Social Scene | Community Builders: Connected Canadians

  19-05-2020 15:48 via ottawacitizen.com
  If you know of someone doing something exceptional to help, we would love to share their story. Please send details to [email protected] and we will be in touch. Read More
  
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• Koch: Our post-pandemic 'normal' should be based on the support and solidarity we are developing now

  19-05-2020 14:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  Forget “normal.” If getting back to normal is the goal, we will have learned nothing from COVID-19.  The pandemic has been a test, showing what we need to change and how to do it. Read More
  
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• Getting around: checkpoints lifted on Quebec bridges, watch out for new construction

  19-05-2020 14:13 via ottawacitizen.com
  Expect a few spots of new construction Tuesday but also interprovincial bridges without sporadic COVID-19-era police checkpoints for the first time since April 1. Read More
  
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• Ferenczy: Should some students repeat this school year? Ontario doesn't give families a choice

  19-05-2020 14:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  
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• Weather: suddenly it's summer with sunshine, high 20s and even flirting with 30

  19-05-2020 13:27 via ottawacitizen.com
  After weeks of unseasonably cool temperatures, Mother Nature is making up for lost time with plenty of sunshine and highs nudging the 30s by the start of the weekend. Read More
  
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• Today's letters: Of bureaucrats and politicians, and who wields power

  19-05-2020 13:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  Listening to experts is what good leaders do Read More
  
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• That was then: Ottawa's best and worst sides are illustrated in one night

  19-05-2020 13:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  A regular weekly look-back at some offbeat or interesting stories that have appeared in the Ottawa Citizen over its 175-year history. Today, high-tech progress and animal cruelty: Read More
  
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• COVID-19: Trump taking risky drug and new vaccine hopes as world inches towards reopening

  19-05-2020 12:57 via ottawacitizen.com
  Here are your local, national and worldwide COVID-19 updates for May 19, 2020. Read More
  
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• Today's COVID-19 and coronavirus new and updates: New cases, outbreaks and global spread

  19-05-2020 12:53 via ottawacitizen.com
  Here are your local, national and worldwide COVID-19 updates for May 19, 2020. Read More
  
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• The future of live entertainment in Ottawa? Think Plexiglas music shows, and plays with no touching

  19-05-2020 12:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  Once the novel coronavirus has been tamed or eradicated and the world returns to “normal,” what will that look like? Will COVID-19 fundamentally and permanently alter our lives? In an occasional series, the Citizen examines the potential lasting effects of the pandemic on how we live, work and play. Read More
  
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• Waiting for a new lease on life as transplants begin to ramp up again

  19-05-2020 12:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  After years of living with an autoimmune disorder that was destroying his liver, 32-year-old Colby Demerchant could finally see an end to the life-altering fatigue and illnesses caused by his worsening condition. He was scheduled to receive a liver transplant in Toronto on April 6. His brother Shane would be his donor. Read More
  
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• City committees vote to expand Ottawa's urban boundary - CTV News

  19-05-2020 09:00
  
  City committees vote to expand Ottawa's urban boundary  CTV News
  
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• Many Ottawa retailers allowed to reopen Tuesday, but caution prevails - Ottawa Citizen

  19-05-2020 02:35
  Many Ottawa retailers allowed to reopen Tuesday, but caution prevails  Ottawa Citizen
  
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• COVID-19 death toll in Ottawa surpasses 200 with seven new deaths added Monday - CTV News Ottawa

  19-05-2020 01:20
  
  COVID-19 death toll in Ottawa surpasses 200 with seven new deaths added Monday  CTV News Ottawa
  
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• Many Ottawa retailers allowed to reopen Tuesday, but caution prevails

  19-05-2020 00:24 via ottawacitizen.com
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