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💥 Clarke Kelly
- Police were called after an altercation between West Carleton - March ward councillor Clarke Kelly and the operator of a daycare. The West Carleton Kids Korner said they called Ottawa Police after Kelly ‘started yelling profanities at staff, threatening that camps has to go and using vulgar language and names towards staff and children’. The daycare had been running a summer camp in its office which is next door to Kelly’s in a City-owned complex in west Ottawa. The daycare says it is asking for a peace bond to ensure it does not happen again. Kelly says it ‘wasn't my finest moment as councillor’ but the dispute is a culmination of almost two years of messes, noise, and toys left in hallways. (William Eltherington at CTV)
🏇 Musical Ride
- The Royal Canadian Mounted Police’s Musical Ride is suffering from a lack of recruits. A new report says the Ride, based in Rockcliffe, is lacking riders because Mountie supervisors across Canada are unwilling to sign off on transfers because they themselves are short staffed. (Catharine Tunney at CBC)
↔️ Renovictions
- The new owner of an apartment building on Richmond Road is evicting hundreds of people for renovations. Richmond Road Management is offering residents $5,000 to break their lease now or come back after renovations to the same unit with higher rent. Some current residents are paying rent of $1,300 per month for a two bedroom, which will be almost impossible to find elsewhere. (Katelyn Wilson at CTV)
➕ Related Somerset ward councillor Ariel Troster says the streets around a new development on the old Greyhound station are dangerous to cyclists. The new development will have only 360 parking spaces but 1,164 bicycle racks for the 1,134 apartments.
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Thanksgiving Meals
You've invited the gang but you don't want to cook. You still have time to order from one of these local Ottawa purveyors of delicious feasts.
🌹 10 cool ways to celebrate Mother’s Day
If you have a mother figure to celebrate (we're talking about your Mom, your friend who’s a cat or dog Mom, your mother-in-law, your grandma, your favourite Aunt, etc.) there is still time to find a gift that will make her day. Here's a list of 10 cool ways to celebrate.
❤️ More Valentine’s Day Experiences and Gifts
14 different ideas.
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Korean-Japanese fusion, fancy ice-cream, and stolen peanuts.
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- The damages asked for by Dr Brian Nadler and family in a lawsuit against the Hawkesbury and District General Hospital and several staff members. Nadler was acquitted this week of four charges of first degree murder after the Crown declined to present any evidence. The doctor says that police only charged him because of ‘false statements’ from hospital staff. He maintains that the four elderly patients under his supervision at the hospital died of COVID 19 complications. (Nicole Williams and David Fraser at CBC)
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Alex Munter
- The president of CHEO is stepping down after 13 years to become the chief executive officer of the Canadian Medical Association. Munter will stay in position until October. (CBC)
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I’m big, I like to hit … I love to hit
- Gabriel Eliasson, the 6-foot-7, 207 pound Swedish defenceman, was the Sens second round draft pick last week and, according to a scout, will use his ‘nasty streak to make people pay in the crease’. (Tim Baines in the Ottawa Citizen)
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