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Eight storeys

• The height of the planned new building being constructed by the Shepherds of Good Hope at 216 Murray St. The new building will include housing for 48 Indigenous people who are homeless and spaces for services. The Shepherds had just received $1 million from the Taggart Parkes Foundation and is currently fundraising for the rest. (Ottawa Citizen) (Donate)

ottawan of the day

Dr. Kerri-Anne Mullen

• Mullen is a scientist and director of the Canadian Women’s Heart Health Centre at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute. Today is Wear Red Canada Day, the sixth anniverary of the campaign awareness about women’s heart health. ‘Historically 70 per cent of research on heart and vascular diseases has been done on men’, she says. (Elizabeth Payne in the Ottawa Citizen) (Wear Red Canada)

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I would dress in several layers in an attempt to stay warm but there were still many times where I was close to tears because I was in so much pain from the cold

• Danica Coote, a student at Canterbury High School in Urbandale, who was one of many to tell of unreliable OC Transpo service to the Ottawa Transit Commission. (Nickolas Pietrobon in Capital Current)