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Several senators facing subpoenas for Mike Duffy's April trial
Crown attorneys are lining up a wide range of senators – including some who have not previously been named in RCMP court documents – to be witnesses at the fraud trial of suspended Sen. Mike Duffy. The...
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Letters: Medical system errors must be reduced
Re: Medical error; Research suggests that each year thousands of patients die as a result of treatment, Jan. 19. This recent Citizen article on medical errors has prompted me to write of my hospital...
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Surviving Auschwitz: Ottawa man who endured horrors now has 'beautiful life'
When David Moskovic stepped out of the overstuffed cattle car that carried him and his family to Auschwitz in the early summer of 1944, the first thing he saw was piles of clothing and shoes, then a...
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Investigators find body after house fire south of Pembroke
A body was found after a Pembroke-area residential fire in the early hours of Monday. Ontario Provincial Police responding to an emergency call at around 1:10 a.m. found a burning house on Mud Lake...
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NDP demands fiscal update after government delays budget
The Official Opposition NDP is demanding the government give the country an immediate update on how badly plunging oil prices are affecting the federal treasury, as Finance Minister Joe Oliver says the...
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Trudeau takes aim at Tories as battle of Ontario looms
Call it the new battle of Ontario. Preaching his message of change, Liberal leader Justin Trudeau accused Stephen Harper’s Conservatives of all but ignoring Canada’s most populous province in a...
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Canada's first Andaz Hotel is coming to the ByWard Market
A luxury boutique hotel chain has chosen the ByWard Market as the location for its first Canadian hotel. Hyatt Hotels Corporation announced Monday that its affiliate has reached a management contract...
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Arrest warrant issued for suspect in two bank robberies
Ottawa police have issued a warrant for the arrest of a 19-year-old man charged with robbing two banks in November. Police say the first robbery occurred Nov. 5 at about 3:30 p.m., when a man entered a...
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NYC dodges 'snowmageddon' but travel woes continue (with video)
A predicted ‘snowmageddon’ that had been forecast for the U.S. northeast largely failed to materialize Tuesday morning, but travel disruptions spilled over as travellers tried to re-book cancelled...
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Senate committee seeks to update 'privilege' rules
Rules that allow MPs and senators to say what they want with impunity are, in some cases, being abused, and may be a hindrance to making Parliament more transparent, a new report says. The report from...
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Op-Ed: Getting people the mental-health care they need, now
When you think of mental-health services, a walk-in clinic probably isn’t what comes to mind. But a new service in Ottawa is showing the value of timely, accessible help. It has been a year since The...
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Building code updates to tackle energy efficiency
Updates coming to the Ontario Building Code will force new homes to be more energy efficient and while it will cost more to build them, homeowners will save at least that much in lower energy costs,...
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Glowing creatures light up attendance at Canadian Museum of Nature
Attendance is up 10 per cent at the Canadian Museum of Nature, and officials are giving glowing creatures much of the credit. Through the first nine months of the current fiscal year, which runs from...
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Chewbacca actor to appear at Ottawa Comiccon
It’s Take 2 for Peter Mayhew, better known as Chewbacca from the Star Wars films, at this year’s Ottawa Comiccon. The seven-foot-two actor was due to make an appearance at the festival, held annually...
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Adam: A call for government buildings that don't look cheap
If you’ve lived in Ottawa for any length of time, you’ve heard over and over again that public buildings in Ottawa are bland and boring, and the federal government couldn’t care less. Developers...
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New home sales forecast to jump 10 per cent this year
Despite lower results than expected for 2014, the forecast for Ottawa’s housing market this year is a positive one. Tumbling oil prices, steady incomes and employment and continued low interest rates...
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Future Shop to close Gloucester location Friday morning
Electronics retailer Future Shop said Wednesday that it will be closing the doors to its Gloucester Silver City Centre store effective Friday morning. The retailer, which is owned by Best Buy, has been...
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Briefly: What happened at Ottawa city council
All aboard, Algonquin Algonquin College’s universal bus pass program, which students recently voted in favour of in a referendum, has been approved by council for the 2015-16 academic year and beyond....
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First family of Shopify to restore Opinicon resort
Fiona McKean knew that buying and refurbishing the iconic Opinicon Resort would take a lot of work and money. Not to mention the fact that she and her husband Tobius Lütke, co-founder of the wildly...
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Dale Smith: The unintended consequences of making Parliament more...
With the Ottawa Citizen’s recent look at MPs’ attendance records and finding NDP-turned-independent MP Sana Hassainia’s voting attendance to be poorest, something she blames largely on the demands of...
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