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• Ontario election 2022: Interesting facts about how Ottawa and Ontario vote

  01-06-2022 23:22 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Voters in Ottawa and across Ontario will head to the polls Thursday to elect their representatives at Queen's Park. In the last election in 2018, Doug Ford led the Progressive Conservatives to a majority government, ending 15 years of Liberal rule. The NDP also enjoyed a surge in support, forming the second-largest caucus in the legislature, while the Liberals suffered their worst showing in party history, falling to third place with only seven seats. Read More
  
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• Ottawa rejects request to fly Russian flag at City Hall on Russia's Independence Day - CTV News Ottawa

  01-06-2022 23:07 via ottawa.ctvnews.ca
  
  Ottawa rejects request to fly Russian flag at City Hall on Russia's Independence Day  CTV News Ottawa
  
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• Egan: Eganville Leader rescued, hot dog king recovers, LRT shed eyed for redo

  01-06-2022 22:45 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Some good news to start June, away from COVID, monkeypox and the ruinous state of everything. Read More
  
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• Second case of monkeypox confirmed in Ontario; all tests conducted in Ottawa have been negative

  01-06-2022 22:19 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  As Ontario was reporting a second monkeypox case in Toronto Wednesday, Ottawa Public Health confirmed it has been testing some patients for the disease “out of an abundance of caution.” There have been no positive results in the city. Read More
  
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• Ottawa police adopt What3Words app to help find missing people, other emergencies

  01-06-2022 22:09 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Ottawa Police Service's communications centre is integrating the What3Words app into their system to help locate missing persons and for other emergencies. Read More
  
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• Body recovered from Rideau River identified as that of missing man, 74

  01-06-2022 22:03 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Ottawa Police Service reported Wednesday that the body of a man recovered from the Rideau River April 22 has been positively identified as that of a 74-year-old man who had been reported missing April 4. Read More
  
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• Ottawa man convicted of unlawfully confining Liberal MP Anita Vandenbeld

  01-06-2022 21:53 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  In the fall of 2020, Steven Potter believed the Liberal Party of Canada was using red cars in a bizarre conspiracy to track his every move so he started filming the vehicles to document his theory. Read More
  
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• Ottawa man convicted of unlawfully confining Liberal MP Anita Vandenbeld - Ottawa Citizen

  01-06-2022 21:52 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Ottawa man convicted of unlawfully confining Liberal MP Anita Vandenbeld  Ottawa Citizen
  
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• Doors Open Ottawa is this weekend - Atlético Ottawa

  01-06-2022 21:34 via ottawa.ca
  Doors Open Ottawa is this weekend  Atlético Ottawa
  
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• OPP investigating after swastika graffiti discovered on Embrun trail

  01-06-2022 21:33 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  The Russell detachment of the Ontario Provincial Police is looking for tips to identify whoever left graffiti including a swastika on a trail in Embrun, southeast of Ottawa. Read More
  
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• Bystander leaps in to save struggling swimmer, both rescued by fire services team

  01-06-2022 21:27 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Ottawa Fire Service were able to pluck two swimmers from the water about 200 metres from shore at Britannia Beach Wednesday afternoon. Read More
  
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• Struggling swimmer, Samaritan rescued by fire services team

  01-06-2022 21:13 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Ottawa Fire Service were able to pluck two swimmers from the water about 200 metres from shore at Brittania Beach Wednesday afternoon. Read More
  
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• Police seek assistance in search for 15-year-old youth missing in Orléans

  01-06-2022 19:58 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Ottawa police are seeking public assistance to locate a 15-year-old youth missing in the Orleans area since Monday night. Read More
  
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• Ottawa jazzman Alex Moxon calls debut album a culmination of all he had worked on

  01-06-2022 19:43 via ottawacitizen.com
  At long last, at the National Arts Centre's Fourth Stage, Ottawa jazz guitarist Alex Moxon will give his eponymous debut album the sendoff it's deserved for a while now. Read More
  
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• Ottawa jazz guitarist Alex Moxon calls his debut album a culmination of everything he had worked on

  01-06-2022 19:02 via ottawacitizen.com
  At long last, at the National Arts Centre's Fourth Stage, Ottawa jazz guitarist Alex Moxon will give his eponymous debut album the sendoff it's deserved for a while now. Read More
  
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• COVID-19: What you need to know on Wednesday, June 1

  01-06-2022 19:01 via ottawacitizen.com
  
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• Cohen: As we mark the Queen's Platinum Jubilee, celebrate Britain too

  01-06-2022 18:28 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  MANCHESTER, England — The Platinum Jubilee is at hand. For four days, Britons will celebrate the 70 years of the reign of Queen Elizabeth as only they can. Read More
  
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• Military Police to apologize to RMC cadet for botched investigation into harassment, sexual misconduct

  01-06-2022 17:53 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  The head of the Canadian Armed Forces Military Police is being called upon to apologize to one Royal Military College cadet and to the family of another whose life has become “medically compromised,” after they failed to investigate allegations of harassment and sexual misconduct at the university in 2019. Read More
  
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• 'To be as old as I am and to see the changes I’ve seen has been extraordinary.'

  01-06-2022 16:57 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  In celebration of Pride month, we are highlighting nine members of Ottawa’s queer and trans communities — one for each of the colours of the Pride flag — and the stories they wanted to share. For black, we feature Marie Robertson, a proud senior, a lipstick lesbian, an activist, and a counsellor. Read More
  
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• Three victims identified in two-car crash on Christie Lake Road

  01-06-2022 16:28 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Provincial police have released the identities of three people who died in a head-on collision on Christie Lake Road near Perth Tuesday morning. Read More
  
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• 'I learned I was actually taller than I thought I was'

  01-06-2022 16:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  In celebration of Pride month, we are highlighting nine members of Ottawa’s queer and trans communities — one for each of the colours of the Pride flag — and the stories they wanted to share. For blue, we feature Bill Staubi, a queer supporter of the arts and LGBTQ+2S communities. Read More
  
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• 'Who knows where it could’ve gone if we had more opportunities to celebrate our relationship?'

  01-06-2022 15:59 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  In celebration of Pride month, we are highlighting nine members of Ottawa’s queer and trans communities — one for each of the colours of the Pride flag — and the stories they wanted to share. For green, we feature Victoria Xiu Wang, co-chairperson of the board of directors of Capital Pride. They are also a proud public servant and foreign service officer with Global Affairs Canada. Read More
  
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• Storm recovery: 1,400 Hydro Ottawa customers still without power on Day 12

  01-06-2022 15:59 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  The number of Hydro Ottawa customers still off the grid following the devastating May 21 storm dropped from 2,300 Tuesday night to 1,400 Wednesday morning. Read More
  
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• 'In the last 10 or 15 years, it's like we're so mainstream that we're almost boring'

  01-06-2022 15:57 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  “I don't have a coming out story, because I was never in. I started seeing women and sleeping with women when I was 14 years old, so I didn't have much time to figure out anything; I just dove right into it. But I have a going out story — going out in big style. Read More
  
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• 'In a weird way, I had felt like I couldn’t be queer and Indigenous. I felt like those things didn’t match'

  01-06-2022 15:56 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  In celebration of Pride month, we are highlighting nine members of Ottawa’s queer and trans communities – one for each of the colours of the Pride flag – and the stories they wanted to share. For yellow, we feature Howard Adler, an Anishnawbe and Jewish band member of Lac des Mille Lacs First Nation. He is a two-spirited artist and filmmaker, and co-director/programmer of the Asinabka Film and Media Arts Festival. Read More
  
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• 'We knew we were making history'

  01-06-2022 15:55 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  In celebration of Pride month, we are highlighting nine members of Ottawa’s queer and trans communities – one for each of the colours of the Pride flag – and the stories they wanted to share. For orange, we feature Lyle Borden, a senior, gay Black man who has been an advocate for many years within the queer community. Read More
  
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• 'My life is now just about doing what makes me happy … and that is drag'

  01-06-2022 15:55 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  In celebration of Pride month, we are highlighting nine members of Ottawa’s queer and trans communities – one for each of the colours of the Pride flag – and the stories they wanted to share. For the light blue, pink and white portion that represents the trans flag, we feature drag queen Savannah Couture, who describes herself as a bubblegum Barbie galactical creature. Read More
  
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• 'I was just pissed off right from the beginning. Discrimination was not acceptable. I had to get involved'

  01-06-2022 15:55 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  In celebration of Pride month, we are highlighting nine members of Ottawa’s queer and trans communities — one for each of the colours of the Pride flag — and the stories they wanted to share. For black, we feature Marie Robertson, a proud senior, a lipstick lesbian, an activist, and a counsellor. Read More
  
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• 'You're a part of something bigger, being part of the LGBTQ+ community'

  01-06-2022 15:54 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  In celebration of Pride month, we are highlighting nine members of Ottawa’s queer and trans communities – one for each of the colours of the Pride flag – and the stories they wanted to share. For brown, we feature Gillian Fenwick, a gender queer lesbian, public servant and intersectional feminist. Read More
  
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• 'The queer experience doesn’t always have to include this devastating rejection from society and self-loathing'

  01-06-2022 15:53 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  In celebration of Pride month, we are highlighting nine members of Ottawa’s queer and trans communities – one for each of the colours of the Pride flag – and the stories they wanted to share. For purple, we feature Naledi, a queer Motswana-Canadian Afro House musician. Read More
  
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• Hooodunnit? Great Horned Owl solves the crime in children's play debuting at Shenkman Arts Centre - Ottawa Citizen

  01-06-2022 14:46 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Hooodunnit? Great Horned Owl solves the crime in children's play debuting at Shenkman Arts Centre  Ottawa Citizen
  
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• Hooodunnit? Great Horned Owl solves the crime in children's play debuting at Shenkman Arts Centre

  01-06-2022 14:45 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  A Great Horned Owl who also happens to be a hard-boiled detective sets out to solve a mystery in a new children's play that debuts at Shenkman Arts Centre this weekend. Read More
  
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• Police ask for help finding missing man with dementia last seen in Orléans

  01-06-2022 14:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  The Ottawa Police Service is asking the public to help them find a missing man who was last seen near Grenoble Crescent and Décarie Drive at about 1 p.m. Tuesday. Read More
  
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• Ottawa, NWT in talks with U.S. charity about funding for Indigenous park guardians - The Globe and Mail

  01-06-2022 14:00 via theglobeandmail.com
  
  Ottawa, NWT in talks with U.S. charity about funding for Indigenous park guardians  The Globe and Mail
  
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• Weather: A few showers, risk of T-storms Wednesday

  01-06-2022 13:48 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  June gets a cool start with a forecast high of just 18 C and some wet weather on tap for Wednesday. Read More
  
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• Local moms off to Ottawa to push for action on overdose crisis - OrilliaMatters

  01-06-2022 13:30 via orilliamatters.com
  
  Local moms off to Ottawa to push for action on overdose crisis  OrilliaMatters
  
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• Editorial: Ontario election — think carefully about your local candidates - Ottawa Citizen

  01-06-2022 13:25 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Editorial: Ontario election — think carefully about your local candidates  Ottawa Citizen
  
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• Editorial: Ontario election — think carefully about your local candidates

  01-06-2022 13:15 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  If you had recently fled Ukraine or Afghanistan, you wouldn’t need reminding of the value of liberal democracy. Sometimes, though, Canadians — and Ontarians — need a nudge. Turnout at the last provincial election was 58 per cent, not horrible but not stellar. Let’s do better on Thursday. Read More
  
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• Today's letters: Ottawa storm didn't have to cause this much chaos - Ottawa Citizen

  01-06-2022 13:06 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Today's letters: Ottawa storm didn't have to cause this much chaos  Ottawa Citizen
  
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• Today's letters: Ottawa storm didn't have to cause this much chaos

  01-06-2022 13:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  
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• Ottawa Senators Prospect Awards 2022 - Best Defender - Silver Seven

  01-06-2022 13:00 via silversevensens.com
  
  Ottawa Senators Prospect Awards 2022 - Best Defender  Silver Seven
  
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• CDNGLOBAL® Continues Coast-to-Coast Expansion with the Opening of its Ottawa Office - Canada NewsWire

  01-06-2022 13:00 via newswire.ca
  CDNGLOBAL® Continues Coast-to-Coast Expansion with the Opening of its Ottawa Office  Canada NewsWire
  
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• Severe Thunderstorm Watch issued for the Ottawa Valley - PembrokeToday.ca

  01-06-2022 12:12 via pembroketoday.ca
  
  Severe Thunderstorm Watch issued for the Ottawa Valley  PembrokeToday.ca
  
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• Former justice warns against half-measures in Ottawa's latest attempt to reform the military - The Globe and Mail

  01-06-2022 12:12 via theglobeandmail.com
  
  Former justice warns against half-measures in Ottawa's latest attempt to reform the military  The Globe and Mail
  
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• Obituary - Louise Glatt, 1936-2022 - Ottawa Citizen

  01-06-2022 12:08 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Obituary - Louise Glatt, 1936-2022  Ottawa Citizen
  
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• Ontario election could become showdown in Toronto, poll suggests - Ottawa Citizen

  01-06-2022 12:05 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Ontario election could become showdown in Toronto, poll suggests  Ottawa Citizen
  
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• Louise Glatt, 1936-2022: Feisty and irreverent, she taught music and literacy and quietly supported those in need

  01-06-2022 12:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  When Louise Glatt arrived in Ottawa in the mid-50s with her Canadian husband, Harvey, there wasn’t much to do in the city. Compared to her hometown of New York City, where she grew up studying music and going to museums, galleries and concerts, she saw Ottawa as a cultural wasteland.  Read More
  
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• Ottawa Valley wrestler a junior national champion - Pembroke Observer

  01-06-2022 11:37 via pembrokeobserver.com
  
  Ottawa Valley wrestler a junior national champion  Pembroke Observer
  
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• Ottawa eyes provincial plan to build low-carbon industries in a bid to head off intergovernmental squabble - The Globe and Mail

  01-06-2022 11:00 via theglobeandmail.com
  
  Ottawa eyes provincial plan to build low-carbon industries in a bid to head off intergovernmental squabble  The Globe and Mail
  
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• 'Screaming into a void': Ottawa's trans community survives neglect - The Charlatan

  01-06-2022 10:00 via charlatan.ca
  
  'Screaming into a void': Ottawa's trans community survives neglect  The Charlatan
  
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