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• Ottawa allocates close to $12 million for Indigenous commercial fisheries in B.C. - Globalnews.ca

  23-02-2022 23:57
  
  Ottawa allocates close to $12 million for Indigenous commercial fisheries in B.C.  Globalnews.ca
  
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• Ottawa police reviewing MPP Randy Hillier’s social media posts - Toronto Star

  23-02-2022 23:54
  
  Ottawa police reviewing MPP Randy Hillier’s social media posts  Toronto Star
  
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• GARRIOCH: Colin White ready to make his season debut Saturday - Ottawa Sun

  23-02-2022 23:26
  
  GARRIOCH: Colin White ready to make his season debut Saturday  Ottawa Sun
  
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• City of Ottawa promotes deputy to become new fire chief

  23-02-2022 22:51 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Paul Hutt is the next chief of Ottawa Fire Services. Read More
  
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• Free LRT to Valentine's do-over: Ottawa city council tries to spark downtown rebound - CBC.ca

  23-02-2022 22:39
  
  Free LRT to Valentine's do-over: Ottawa city council tries to spark downtown rebound  CBC.ca
  
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• Ottawa police board cancels regular meeting, drawing criticism from community

  23-02-2022 22:29 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  A move by the Ottawa Police Services Board to cancel its regular monthly meeting has angered community members who expected to talk about their experiences during the "Freedom Convoy" protests that snarled downtown for three weeks. Read More
  
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• Governor General's Performing Arts Awards: Tomson Highway, David Foster, Crystal Pite among GGPAA laureates

  23-02-2022 22:10 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Musician David Foster, choreographer Crystal Pite and author/playwright Tomson Highway are among the talented Canadians named as laureates to this year’s edition of the Governor General’s Performing Arts Awards.  Read More
  
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• Ottawa public, Catholic school boards plan late winter break for 2022-23 school year - CTV News Ottawa

  23-02-2022 22:06
  
  Ottawa public, Catholic school boards plan late winter break for 2022-23 school year  CTV News Ottawa
  
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• Tomson Highway, David Foster, Crystal Pite among GGPAA laureates

  23-02-2022 22:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  PLEASE NOTE EMBARGO, 12;01 AM FEB. 24. OKAY FOR PRINT THURS. Read More
  
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• Study finds a spike in youth emergency visits for cannabis in years even before it was legalized

  23-02-2022 21:49 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Cannabis-related hospital emergency visits for children and youth increased five-fold in Ontario between 2003 and 2017, according to a new study led by the CHEO Research Institute. Read More
  
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• Ottawa police officer cleared of wrongdoing after cruiser strikes man at Merivale Mall - CTV News Ottawa

  23-02-2022 21:29
  
  Ottawa police officer cleared of wrongdoing after cruiser strikes man at Merivale Mall  CTV News Ottawa
  
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• Cohen: U.S. conservatives — don't lecture Canada about freedom

  23-02-2022 21:01 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  To Marc Thiessen, columnist, The Washington Post re: your column "Canada turns authoritarian to shut down the Freedom Convoy.” Read More
  
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• Charges not warranted after police cruiser on urgent call injures pedestrian: SIU

  23-02-2022 20:36 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  The province's police watchdog has found no reasonable grounds to believe that an Ottawa Police Service officer committed a criminal offence in connection after a 26-year-old man suffered a head injury when he was struck by a police cruiser last October. Read More
  
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• City expects occupation will cost $30M, but with an ongoing police operation, the bills are still coming in

  23-02-2022 20:24 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  The final cost of the "freedom convoy" occupation could hit $30 million and Ottawa's municipal government will be looking to the upper levels to pay the bills, city manager Steve Kanellakos said Wednesday. Read More
  
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• Glavin: Putin's attack on Ukraine isn't about NATO; it's about stifling democracy

  23-02-2022 20:08 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  It’s never easy to figure out what’s happening in the mind of a psychopath, so we should go easy on the foreign-policy establishment figures and holders of international-relations degrees who argue with one another on talk-show panels about what the hell Russian strongman Vladimir Putin thinks he’s doing by invading Eastern Ukraine right now. Read More
  
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• As ‘Freedom Convoy’ leaves Ottawa, residents continue looking over their shoulders - Globalnews.ca

  23-02-2022 19:55
  
  As ‘Freedom Convoy’ leaves Ottawa, residents continue looking over their shoulders  Globalnews.ca
  
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• Ottawa closes street along Parliament, mulls permanent change in wake of protest - CP24 Toronto's Breaking News

  23-02-2022 19:53
  
  Ottawa closes street along Parliament, mulls permanent change in wake of protest  CP24 Toronto's Breaking News
  
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• KINSELLA: The reporting wrongs about the Ottawa occupation - Toronto Sun

  23-02-2022 19:31
  
  KINSELLA: The reporting wrongs about the Ottawa occupation  Toronto Sun
  
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• Ottawa is redoing Valentine's Day on March 14 because of the convoy protest - CTV News Ottawa

  23-02-2022 19:29
  
  Ottawa is redoing Valentine's Day on March 14 because of the convoy protest  CTV News Ottawa
  
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• West Lincoln votes against investigating Ontario councillor who took part in Ottawa protest - CBC.ca

  23-02-2022 19:20
  
  West Lincoln votes against investigating Ontario councillor who took part in Ottawa protest  CBC.ca
  
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• People on the Move: Former Ottawa city planner Alain Miguelez joins NCC as senior-level executive - Ottawa Business Journal

  23-02-2022 19:14
  
  People on the Move: Former Ottawa city planner Alain Miguelez joins NCC as senior-level executive  Ottawa Business Journal
  
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• Sheehan: Making Ottawa a federal district would strengthen its response to future crises - Ottawa Citizen

  23-02-2022 18:58
  
  Sheehan: Making Ottawa a federal district would strengthen its response to future crises  Ottawa Citizen
  
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• Sheehan: Making Ottawa a federal district would strengthen its response to future crises

  23-02-2022 18:54 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Like watching a slow-motion train wreck, the large majority of Canadians witnessed the trucker-freedom-convoy-anti-vaccine-mandate (or insert any word other than insurrection) protest. Recommendations and answers will come out in inquiries, analyses, internal reviews and media outlets for years to come. Read More
  
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• Kirschbaum: Notes from a beleaguered pandemic capital city

  23-02-2022 18:39 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  On Family Day weekend 2022, my five-year-old son goes shopping with his father to purchase a belated birthday present, at a toy store in a local suburban mall, only to encounter a mass arrest in the adjacent parking lot.  Protesters from the trucker protest have moved out of downtown and are taking refuge at plazas in the suburbs of the city, perhaps waiting, as a close friend speculated, for the police to let down their guard. Read More
  
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• NAC to reopen this week

  23-02-2022 17:19 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  In a sign that the coast is clear in downtown Ottawa, the National Arts Centre will reopen for performances and dining on Friday.  Read More
  
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• NAC to reopen this week - Ottawa Citizen

  23-02-2022 17:16
  
  NAC to reopen this week  Ottawa Citizen
  
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• Ottawa-area road crews battle ice pellets, freezing rain - CityNews Ottawa

  23-02-2022 17:13
  
  Ottawa-area road crews battle ice pellets, freezing rain  CityNews Ottawa
  
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• How 'Make Ottawa Boring Again' went from inside joke to serious fundraiser - CBC.ca

  23-02-2022 16:53
  
  How 'Make Ottawa Boring Again' went from inside joke to serious fundraiser  CBC.ca
  
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• COVID-19: Province reports 19 deaths; ByTowne Cinema to continue proof of vaccination rules

  23-02-2022 16:47 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Nineteen new COVID-19-related deaths were reported in Ontario on Wednesday, bringing the total number of fatalities to 12,306 since the pandemic’s start. Read More
  
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• Sustainable redevelopment: Zibi opens its first rental units with self-contained energy plant

  23-02-2022 16:42 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  The sustainable redevelopment of the former Domtar and E.B. Eddy site straddling the Ottawa River between downtown Ottawa and Gatineau has reached a new milestone with the opening of its first rental apartment building, as well as the completion of the self-contained energy plant that will run everything in the 34-acre project. Read More
  
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• One person unaccounted for fire engulfs house in South Glengarry Township

  23-02-2022 16:41 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  One person remains unaccounted for after South Glengarry firefighters battled a blaze that destroyed a house on Concession Road 4 Tuesday night, Ontario Provincial Police said. Read More
  
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• Boy, 8, dies in Athens-area house fire

  23-02-2022 16:21 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  The mother of an eight-year-old boy who died in a house fire near Athens Sunday broke two ribs in an effort to save him, a friend of the family says in an emotional online appeal for the stricken family. Read More
  
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• Convoy organizer Tamara Lich's lawyer prepping bail review application; Pat King awaits decision

  23-02-2022 16:12 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Two of the most visible and vocal organizers behind the "Freedom Convoy" protests remain in an Ottawa jail as Tamara Lich was denied bail Tuesday and Pat King will wait until Friday to learn whether a judge will grant his request to return to Alberta under bail conditions. Read More
  
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• Protesters gone from downtown Ottawa but camps remain nearby - CBC.ca

  23-02-2022 16:07
  
  Protesters gone from downtown Ottawa but camps remain nearby  CBC.caCould Ottawa police be sued for failing to arrest 'freedom convoy' protesters?  The Conversation CALife slowly resumes in Ottawa under heavy police presence  Al Jazeera EnglishUpdates to the Ottawa convoy protests  Toronto StarOttawa police further reduce 'secure area' of downtown  CTV News OttawaView Full coverage on Google News
  
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• Zibi opens its first rental units

  23-02-2022 15:32 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  The sustainable redevelopment of the former Domtar and E.B. Eddy site straddling the Ottawa River between downtown Ottawa and Gatineau has reached a new milestone with the opening of its first rental apartment building, as well as the completion of the self-contained energy plant that will run everything in the 34-acre project. Read More
  
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• Red Bird Live, Ottawa's newest venue and music school, hits the right note with local music scene - CityNews Ottawa

  23-02-2022 15:00
  
  Red Bird Live, Ottawa's newest venue and music school, hits the right note with local music scene  CityNews Ottawa
  
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• Weather: Risk of freezing drizzle Wednesday morning; second day of school bus cancellations

  23-02-2022 14:40 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  There's a 60 per cent chance of flurries Wednesday with the risk of freezing drizzle in the morning on top of Tuesday's freezing rain. Read More
  
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• Police say Ottawa man, 50, faces robbery, firearms charges in Rideau Centre shutdown

  23-02-2022 14:37 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  City police say there's no further concerns for public safety after arresting an Ottawa man in a robbery investigation that temporarily shut down the Rideau Centre on the day it reopened Tuesday. Read More
  
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• Police say Ottawa man, 50, faces theft, firearms charges in Rideau Centre shutdown

  23-02-2022 14:19 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  City police say there's no further concerns for public safety after arresting an Ottawa man in a robbery investigation that temporarily shut down the Rideau Centre on the day it reopened Tuesday. Read More
  
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• FORECAST: Risk of freezing drizzle Wednesday morning, snow possible; school buses cancelled again

  23-02-2022 14:18 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  There's a 60 per cent chance of flurries Wednesday with the risk of freezing drizzle in the morning on top of Tuesday's freezing rain. Read More
  
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• Fengate acquiring 2 Ottawa dev. sites, plans 5 high-rise towers | RENX - Real Estate News EXchange

  23-02-2022 14:07
  
  Fengate acquiring 2 Ottawa dev. sites, plans 5 high-rise towers | RENX  Real Estate News EXchange
  
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• Opinion: Ottawa, a capital without imagination or ambition, collapses under siege. It's not hard to see why - The Globe and Mail

  23-02-2022 14:00
  
  Opinion: Ottawa, a capital without imagination or ambition, collapses under siege. It's not hard to see why  The Globe and Mail
  
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• Winter storm could bring 5-10 cm of snow to Ottawa on Friday - CTV Edmonton

  23-02-2022 13:59
  
  Winter storm could bring 5-10 cm of snow to Ottawa on Friday  CTV Edmonton
  
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• Den Tandt: Disinformation is breaking democracy. Let's fix it now - Ottawa Citizen

  23-02-2022 13:28
  
  Den Tandt: Disinformation is breaking democracy. Let's fix it now  Ottawa Citizen
  
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• Den Tandt: Disinformation is breaking democracy. Let's fix it now

  23-02-2022 13:20 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  When the last piece of debris from the occupation of Ottawa has been hauled to a landfill and the cacophony of blame-laying has abated, we’ll still face this intractable question: How is it that a society of mainly law-abiding, moderate people was all but paralyzed for several weeks by a small, extraordinarily determined group of protesters and occupiers, as devoted to their cause as the members of any doomsday cult? Read More
  
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• Today's letters: Thanks for police professionalism in ending trucker protest

  23-02-2022 13:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  A policing job well done Read More
  
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• How Does the Ottawa Senators Rebuild Stack Up? - Silver Seven

  23-02-2022 13:00
  
  How Does the Ottawa Senators Rebuild Stack Up?  Silver Seven
  
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• Black Canadian conductor to lead NAC Orchestra's youth concerts

  23-02-2022 13:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Calgary native Daniel Bartholomew-Poyser will bring the musical influence of Jamaica to the National Arts Centre Orchestra as part of his new role as the orchestra’s principal youth conductor and creative partner.  Read More
  
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• Why the Ottawa trucker protest could spark a new movement in Canada - CBC.ca

  23-02-2022 11:00
  
  Why the Ottawa trucker protest could spark a new movement in Canada  CBC.ca
  
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• Trucker convoy: Protest cost city of Ottawa $30 million - CTV News Ottawa

  23-02-2022 10:00
  
  Trucker convoy: Protest cost city of Ottawa $30 million  CTV News Ottawa
  
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