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• Fixing supply chains wrecked by COVID-19: Kinaxis bulks up

  15-06-2020 23:51 via ottawacitizen.com
  Electronic commerce giant Shopify made so much noise crashing into the top ranks of Canada's most valuable corporations you could be forgiven for not noticing the swift rise of another Ottawa software star. Read More
  
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• Ottawa orders 13 million non-medical cloth masks months after discouraging public mask use - National Post

  15-06-2020 23:46 via nationalpost.com
  
  Ottawa orders 13 million non-medical cloth masks months after discouraging public mask use  National Post
  
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• COVID cuts: Barbers, stylists begin to undo the damage of three months of DIY 'dos

  15-06-2020 23:43 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  After 32 years in the barbering business, Tony El Haddad has seen a lot of bad haircuts. But nothing like some of the do-it-yourself 'dos that have walked through the door of Francesco’s at Carlingwood Mall after three months of lockdown. Read More
  
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• Ottawa to consider non-traditional data to revive economy, rework pandemic aid: Morneau - Financial Post

  15-06-2020 23:04 via business.financialpost.com
  
  Ottawa to consider non-traditional data to revive economy, rework pandemic aid: Morneau  Financial Post
  
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• City buying new waterproofing for leaky Glebe parkade as lawsuits linger

  15-06-2020 22:56 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  A four-year-old municipal parking garage with a leaky roof will see its faulty waterproofing ripped out this year as the city and its contractors continue a legal fight to determine whose fault it is. Read More
  
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• Two hundred plaintiffs involved in proposed suit against fertility doctor

  15-06-2020 22:35 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Two hundred people — 16 of them his biological children — have joined a proposed class-action lawsuit against former Ottawa fertility doctor Norman Barwin. Read More
  
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• Stretch of Trim, Wall roads reopened; crash left motorcyclist with serious injuries

  15-06-2020 21:09 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  A stretch of road  in Orléans has reopened after a crash that caused serious injuries to a man riding a motorcycle during the Monday morning commute. Read More
  
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• Small plane crashes into Ottawa River at Constance Bay: Ottawa Fire - CTV News Ottawa

  15-06-2020 20:19 via ottawa.ctvnews.ca
  
  Small plane crashes into Ottawa River at Constance Bay: Ottawa Fire  CTV News Ottawa
  
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• Today's letters: Having black teachers is a key start to ending systemic racism

  15-06-2020 19:14 via ottawacitizen.com
  
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• City of Ottawa seeking contractor to build new library branch at LeBreton Flats - CTV News

  15-06-2020 19:01 via ottawa.ctvnews.ca
  
  City of Ottawa seeking contractor to build new library branch at LeBreton Flats  CTV News
  
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• COVID-19: Federal government plans to extend emergency benefits for jobless

  15-06-2020 18:58 via ottawacitizen.com
  
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• Wolfert: Pandemic offers perfect opportunity for Ontario to kick its addiction to gambling proceeds

  15-06-2020 18:09 via ottawacitizen.com
  
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• Bystanders attend to man critically injured in east-end Ottawa motorcycle crash - Globalnews.ca

  15-06-2020 17:13 via globalnews.ca
  
  Bystanders attend to man critically injured in east-end Ottawa motorcycle crash  Globalnews.ca
  
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• COVID-19: Mandatory masks on OC Transpo, new cases in Ontario continue to decrease

  15-06-2020 16:57 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Ontario reported just 181 new cases of COVID-19 Monday, the lowest the daily case count has been since mid-March. Read More
  
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• Stretch of Trim, Wall roads closed; crash left motorcyclist with serious injuries

  15-06-2020 16:47 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Ottawa police warned of road closures in Orléans after a crash that caused serious injuries to a man riding a motorcycle during the Monday morning commute. Read More
  
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• Virtual Canada Day features Alanis Morissette, Avril Lavigne, Sarah McLachlan

  15-06-2020 16:40 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  The COVID-19 pandemic has cancelled Canada Day on Parliament Hill but the virtual July 1 evening show unveiled Monday features entertainers including Alanis Morissette, Avril Lavigne and Sarah McLachlan. Read More
  
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• Ottawa's English public school board launches new online report card portal - OttawaMatters.com

  15-06-2020 15:52 via ottawamatters.com
  
  Ottawa's English public school board launches new online report card portal  OttawaMatters.com
  
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• GNCC wants Ottawa to consider regional approach to reopening border - Newstalk 610 CKTB (iHeartRadio)

  15-06-2020 15:49 via iheartradio.ca
  
  GNCC wants Ottawa to consider regional approach to reopening border  Newstalk 610 CKTB (iHeartRadio)
  
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• ORLEANS: Crash with serious injuries closes stretches of Trim, Wall roads - Ottawa Sun

  15-06-2020 15:28 via ottawasun.com
  
  ORLEANS: Crash with serious injuries closes stretches of Trim, Wall roads  Ottawa Sun
  
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• What you need to know about COVID-19 in Ottawa on Monday, June 15 - CBC.ca

  15-06-2020 15:19 via cbc.ca
  
  What you need to know about COVID-19 in Ottawa on Monday, June 15  CBC.ca
  
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• Stretch of Trim, Wall roads closed due to crash with serious injuries: Police

  15-06-2020 15:14 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Ottawa police warned of road closures in Orléans after a crash with "serious injuries" during the Monday morning commute. Read More
  
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• Bringing injured individuals – and their families – hope after tragedy - Ottawa Business Journal

  15-06-2020 15:07 via obj.ca
  Bringing injured individuals – and their families – hope after tragedy  Ottawa Business Journal
  
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• Getting around: Day 1 of mandatory masks on transit, new construction

  15-06-2020 14:13 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  As of Monday, cloth masks or face coverings are mandatory on buses and trains and in transit stations to protect riders and operators from COVID-19 but OC Transpo says it will be "focusing on education and not penalties." Read More
  
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• Lang: COVID-19 aftermath – the government can't keep improvising forever

  15-06-2020 14:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  In the time of COVID-19, are our governing institutions functioning as they should? The Queen’s University School of Policy Studies has created a Governance Working Group of leading scholars and practitioners to help answer that question. Fourth in a weekly series. Read More
  
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• Westdal: Here's why Canada should win a UN Security Council seat

  15-06-2020 13:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Thirty-two years ago, responsible in our foreign ministry for relations with international organizations, I managed Canada’s campaign for a 1989-90 seat on the UN Security Council. We won with 84 per cent of the vote, the largest margin ever recorded, beating Finland and Greece. We did very well a decade later, too, with 74 per cent, beating the Netherlands and, again, Greece. Then, in 2010, against Germany and Portugal, we blew it so badly we quit the race to save face before the final ba
  
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• Ottawa weather to heat up this week - CTV News

  15-06-2020 13:30 via ottawa.ctvnews.ca
  
  Ottawa weather to heat up this week  CTV News
  
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• Adam: Why the need to label people by a hierarchy of colours?

  15-06-2020 13:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Third in a three-part series. Read More
  
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• Weather: a string of sunny – and increasingly warm – days on the way

  15-06-2020 13:22 via ottawacitizen.com
  The forecast is practically pure sunshine with increasingly summery temperatures capped off by a sultry 32 C for the official start of the season. Read More
  
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• Wong: 'Death-ed' – Learning about end-of-life issues must be a lasting legacy of COVID-19

  15-06-2020 13:15 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  As we look towards the future, what will be the legacy of COVID-19? Experience has always been our teacher. We learned to make vaccines from smallpox. We learned first-hand the importance of personal protective equipment from SARS. We learned to use harm reduction to save lives with the ongoing opioid epidemic. We learned to promote widespread sex education after HIV/AIDS. Read More
  
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• Deif and Tayler: Canada must work to bring citizens trapped in Syria home – even ISIL suspects

  15-06-2020 13:15 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Amid a deadly global pandemic, at least 47 Canadian men, women and children remain stranded in northeast Syria. While the Trudeau government has successfully facilitated the repatriations of nearly 40,000 Canadians from around the world in response to COVID-19, it has yet to bring home even one citizen from this group. Read More
  
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• That was then: Dawson City of the Klondike like a 'miniature Ottawa'

  15-06-2020 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, our man in the Yukon. Read More
  
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• 'Like sitting ducks' Staff at city-run long-term care home say stricter testing could have stopped spread

  15-06-2020 12:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Nurses and personal support workers on the front lines of the fight against COVID-19 at city-operated long-term care homes say a stricter testing regimen for staff could have helped contain a facility-wide outbreak at the Peter D. Clark Centre, where mass surveillance testing last week turned up two new positive cases in staff. Read More
  
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• Canadian military knew in 2016 Snowbirds ejection seats needed upgrading but project still only in early stages

  15-06-2020 12:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  The Canadian military knew in 2016 the ejection seat on Snowbirds aircraft needed to be upgraded but it is still only in the early stages of modernizing that system. Read More
  
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• YOU SAID IT: Proud to be Canadian - Ottawa Sun

  15-06-2020 11:00 via ottawasun.com
  
  YOU SAID IT: Proud to be Canadian  Ottawa Sun
  
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• Ottawa Public Library launches curbside pickup at six branches - CTV News

  15-06-2020 10:00 via ottawa.ctvnews.ca
  
  Ottawa Public Library launches curbside pickup at six branches  CTV News
  
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• Angry Ottawa cyclists protest for safer streets after string of serious collisions - capitalcurrent.ca

  15-06-2020 09:00 via capitalcurrent.ca
  
  Angry Ottawa cyclists protest for safer streets after string of serious collisions  capitalcurrent.ca
  
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• Ottawa Group has opportunity to revive WTO modernization - The Hill Times

  15-06-2020 06:00 via hilltimes.com
  Ottawa Group has opportunity to revive WTO modernization  The Hill Times
  
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• Canada to virtually host fifth ministerial meeting of the Ottawa Group on WTO reform - The Hill Times

  15-06-2020 06:00 via hilltimes.com
  Canada to virtually host fifth ministerial meeting of the Ottawa Group on WTO reform  The Hill Times
  
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• Burden of trust shifts to public as social circles expand - Ottawa Citizen

  15-06-2020 04:13 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Burden of trust shifts to public as social circles expand  Ottawa Citizen
  
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• Family of four lands safely, floatplane plunges into river after two planes collide near Arnprior

  15-06-2020 03:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Dan Lynch, operations manager at the aiport, said Robertson, who was piloting the plane with his family aboard — two other adults and a child — had radioed that he'd been in a collision with a floatplane and thought his place was damaged. Lynch said another plane in the area flew alongside the Cessna and reported damage to the cowling on the nose-wheel. Read More
  
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• Burden of trust shifts to public as social circles expand

  15-06-2020 02:54 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Ontario is entering a critical phase of its reopening where, according to a leading epidemiologist, the burden of trust is shifting from doctors, scientists and public health officials and onto the everyday citizen. Read More
  
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• Ottawa 'remarkably well-behaved' during COVID-19 restrictions: Ottawa Police - CTV News

  15-06-2020 00:13 via ottawa.ctvnews.ca
  
  Ottawa 'remarkably well-behaved' during COVID-19 restrictions: Ottawa Police  CTV News
  
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