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Homes calendar May 23 to 29
This weekend Art show: Check out local art and take in some rural heritage Saturday at the Arts Carleton Place Art Show & Sale, which is part of a larger community event called Arts & Heritage...
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Glebe pop-up raises funds for Nepal this Saturday
Two Ottawa women and members of the city’s Nepalese community will be serving dishes at a pop-up restaurant Saturday during the Great Glebe Garage Sale, raising funds to support earthquake relief...
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Volunteer Roundup
Interested in volunteering? Need more info? Contact Volunteer Ottawa at 613-736-5270 or visit www.volunteerottawa.ca Use your computer skills to help charities: CompuCorps is a high-tech charity...
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Allan Rock says medical marijuana business is wife's venture, not his
The president of the University of Ottawa says he is not involved in a medical marijuana operation that his wife and one of their children are setting up. Allan Rock issued a statement Wednesday...
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Teaching life lessons through running
The key to success isn’t necessarily setting big goals but rather realistic ones. That’s Lara Winnemore’s motto. The 43-year-old personal trainer, yoga instructor and runner has tackled many long...
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Ottawa craft beer tour operator runs afoul of travel industry group
Brad Campeau has managed to make a successful side business off of Ottawa’s booming microbrewery industry. The 35-year-old opened Brew Donkey, a beer delivery business for area brewers that happens to...
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Model home tour: Eight models open at Cardinal Creek Village
The “jewel of the east” — Tamarack Homes’ proud term for its enormous, master planned community of Cardinal Creek Village in Orléans — is now glittering even more brightly. That’s because the builder’s...
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'This was beyond heckling, this was harassment': Ottawa comedian walks off stage
Ottawa comedian Jen Grant has performed in many a gritty club over her 16-year career. She says she knows hecklers, and how to deal with them. But a recent corporate gig in Toronto took on a darker...
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Windmill vows jobs and collaboration with Algonquin on 'Zibi' development
Algonquin construction workers and tradesmen will play a key role in the redevelopment of the former Domtar site on the Ottawa River as part of what is being called a historic collaboration between the...
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1,027 speeding tickets in one week: Police crack down in western Quebec
Police have issued 1,027 speeding tickets after a week-long crackdown on drivers in the Outaouais region of Quebec. The tickets were handed out during the week of May 11 to 17. Officers from Gatineau...
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Sutcliffe: Everybody wins when Ottawa's race weekend grows
One of the best things about a 10k race or a marathon is that success is not a scarcity. Except for the very small number of elite runners competing for the podium, all the participants can achieve...
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Letters: Memorials and hospitals
Memorials that evoke In a leafy wooded area just by Gander Lake, Newfoundland, stands a bronze sculpture of an American serviceman. On either side of him a small child holds his hand. This poignant...
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Ottawa rated most 'flood-proof' city in Canada
They picked a near-drought to tell us, but experts have rated Ottawa as the most flood-proof big city in Canada. Just about everything we do is done right, says the study commissioned by The...
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Public Works held back documents on asbestos in tax centre building
The federal Public Works department kept documents secret about an Ottawa building where concerns have been raised about employees being exposed to asbestos, newly released documents show. The...
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Ex-senator's wife charged with assaulting police, using lit cigarette as weapon
Maygan Sensenberger is in trouble with the law again. The 26-year-old actress and wife of retired senator Rod Zimmer has been accused of attacking two people at an Ottawa medical clinic with a lit...
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Letter: Ottawa should honour Leon Katz
I am writing in memory of the late Leon Katz, a friend and one of the most outstanding and prominent citizens of Ottawa, who passed away on Jan. 9, 2015 at the age of 90 but not before he, through his...
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It's Race Weekend and that means road closures
It’s going to be a busy couple of days in Ottawa with thousands of runners expected to descend on the nation’s capital for the 2015 annual Tamarack Ottawa Race Weekend on Saturday and Sunday. With the...
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Ottawa accountant pushing her limits for a good cause
For Karen Meades, every race is an Amazing Race. The 51-year-old accountant has tackled some extreme events in recent years — she has climbed Mount Kilimanjaro, swam from Alcatraz to San Francisco and...
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Around Town: Dave Smith's Wild West Jamboree
It was a night to swing your partner ’round and ’round, ride a bucking bronco and fight the urge to hug a cactus at the Dave Smith Youth Treatment Centre’s Wild West Jamboree. More than 160 wanna-be...
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Ottawa shivers through record overnight chill
If you had to turn the furnace on this morning, know that you weren’t alone. Temperatures across Ottawa and region plummeted below the freezing mark Friday night, with the wind chill falling to as low...
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