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• The number of years ago that a time capsule was sealed at Nepean High School. As part of the school’s 100th anniversary, it was opened to reveal ... Kraft Dinner, a signed water polo ball, a Presto card, a ‘Nepean purple’ paint stick, a frisbee, a projector and laptop, posters for the GSA club, Key Club and other clubs, the school yearbook, and a list of students. The school is putting together another timecapsule to be opened in 2049. (Kitchissippi Times)

ottawan of the day

Dave Poulin

• Ian Mendes in The Athletic has a long conversation with the Sens' new senior vice president of hockey operations' ‘colourful path that led him to Ottawa’ including working on Wall Street, scoring a playoff overtime goal with three broken bones in his foot, 
• leading the search that landed DeMaurice Smith his job as the head of the National Football League Players Association, and laying the groundwork for building a new arena on the campus of Notre Dame.

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Everyone else would get only harm—a polluted Ottawa River, plummeting property values, increased health risks, never-ending costs to remediate the mess and a big black mark on Canada’s international reputation

• From a letter to the Federal government by Ralliement contre la pollution radioactive, the Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility and Concerned Citizens of Renfrew County and Area. The groups have filed suit in Federal court to quash approval of the nuclear waste dump in Deep River, 192 km upstream from Ottawa.  (Toula Mazloum at CTV)