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Home buyer's guide: Deciding to downsize
Editor’s note: Janice and Dan Kennedy have downsized from a four-bedroom home to a 1,200-square-foot condo at Petrie’s Landing II, an experience that was both draining and cathartic. Janice offers a...
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Home buyer's guide: Making sense of floor plans
It can be tough to look at a two-dimensional floor plan and get a sense of space, especially for first-timers. So how do you overcome this? Walking through lots of models, with floor plans in hand, is...
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Home buyer's guide: Understanding finances is key
Do you have to accept the mortgage rate your bank is offering? What happens to your $35,000 deposit if the builder goes bankrupt before completing your dream home? And just what the heck is a gross...
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Home buyer's guide: Questions to answer before you start
You’ve decided you want to buy new, sorted out your finances and settled on a general location. Now you need to fine-tune just what you want in a home. What’s more important, yard size or home size? Do...
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Duffy's attendance record on Senate business
From the time Mike Duffy became a senator in early 2009, until his suspension almost five years later on Nov. 4, 2013, he was deemed to have been working on 86.5 per cent of the Senate’s sitting days....
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The UpBeat: A doll show and dollars to help the Ottawa Food Bank
Anne Taller Did you have a favourite doll, toy or teddy bear when you were a child? Perhaps you still have it. If you were very fortunate, it was put away, perhaps temporarily forgotten or deliberately...
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Letter: Bravo, Ottawa Senators for defying the odds
Re: Senators control their own destiny after blanking Rangers 3-0, April 10. For the past two months — and I admit I was too skeptical to believe — the Ottawa Senators not only surprised themselves,...
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Owners vow to rebuild burned Glebe structure 'just the way it was'
When George Helal and Sam Bellama came to Ottawa from Beirut as young men in the 1950s they dreamed of building a new life full of success and family. A few decades later, the savvy men became business...
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Firefighters quell Findlay Creek garage fire
There were no injuries and damages were limited after a fire broke out inside a Findlay Creek garage early Saturday afternoon. Shortly before 1 p.m., firefighters received a 911 call reporting smoke...
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Ottawa police and fire marshal's office confirm Glebe fire deliberately set
After continuing to scour the Glebe fire scene Sunday, the Ottawa police arson division confirmed the fire on Bank Street had been deliberately set and will be treated as a criminal investigation. The...
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Bertschi files suit against Trudeau over Orléans Liberal nomination
Ottawa lawyer David Bertschi has broadened his legal action against the Liberal Party of Canada over his disqualification as a potential candidate, adding leader Justin Trudeau and several top advisers...
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Proposed OC Transpo contract includes raises for drivers
Members of OC Transpo’s largest union are poised for pay increases of two per cent in each of the next three years and 2.25 per cent in the final year of a four-year deal, according to details released...
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Real estate: What they got in Blossom Park
Address: 3883 Autumnwood St. Features: Custom-built stone home with four large bedrooms, three bathrooms (with a rough-in for a fourth in the basement), fantastic master ensuite, hardwood/tiled floors...
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Police search for suspect in linked gas station robberies
The Ottawa Police Service is searching for one suspect in a pair of gas station robberies in March that it believes are related. According to police, at around 5:30 a.m. on Mar. 15, a man armed with a...
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Letters: 'Duffenfreude' days and lessons in ethics
I enjoy these days of ‘Duffenfreude’ Re: So, Duffy spent decades on Hill but never knew how it worked, his lawyer tells us, April 13. I have calculated that each senator costs me less than 10 cents a...
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The child care conundrum: Who will pay – and how much – for universal day care?
Lindsay McGinn’s child care costs were reasonable. She paid $23 a day for her daughter Amina to be in a subsidized day care space in Ottawa. Amina turned two in January, around the same time McGinn...
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Young man stabbed to death in east Ottawa highrise stairwell
A young man is dead, the victim of a stairwell stabbing in an east-side apartment complex. The young man — thought to be in his late teens — suffered multiple stab wounds to his chest in the attack...
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Ottawa police issue warrant in Montreal Road bank robbery
The Ottawa Police Service has issued an arrest warrant for an Ottawa man following a bank robbery on Montreal Road. According to police, the robbery occurred on March 23rd. Charged with a count of...
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A is for Apple: New Ottawa TV series offers the ABCs of cooking
Bananas and bacon. Kale and kumquats. Apples and anchovies: These are just some of the possible combinations for Gusto TV’s new original series A is for Apple. The new series from the Ottawa-based...
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Indian Prime Minister Modi inks uranium deal, talks trade with Stephen Harper
Canada and India have moved beyond what was once a “frosty relationship” with a series of agreements and promises that will send Canadian uranium to the South Asian nation, liberalize visas for...
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