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• The number of home sales in Gatineau to Ottawa residents. Five years ago, it was five per cent. These days, the average house price in Ottawa is $740,000, while in Gatineau it’s $500,000. (Evan Bryant, Sylina Wright, Grace Huntley, and Hannah Daramola in Capital Current)

ottawan of the day

Talk, David Francey, Sylvie Cheng and Byran Cheng, Steph Larochelle, and Belly

• These Ottawa-area musicians were all nominated for Juno awards yesterday.
  
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  Talk: breakthrough artist, songwriter, alternative album AND best album, best single
• David Francey: traditional roots album
• Sylvie Cheng and Byran Cheng: classical album
• Steph Larochelle: adult-contemporary album
• Belly: rap single of the year
  
  (Lynn Saxberg in the Ottawa Citizen)

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A parent came to me and said, ‘I’m scared because kids will play in the street,’ and I said ‘Yes, that's exactly it: we want young people to play in the street before school’

•  Rideau-Vanier ward councillor Stéphanie Plante on the closure to traffic of Alice Street in front of Vanier’s école élémentaire publique Trille des Bois between 8:15 am and 8:45 am on Tuesdays. The trial project is to gauge the impact of making the street pedestrian-only.
• And yes, someone somewhere decided that the best way to get some data is to run a test that is a half hour long, once per week. (CBC)