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• The number of bouquets of tulips delivered to the Ottawa Hospital from Embassy of The Netherlands yesterday. In exile after the invasion by the Nazis, Princess Margriet was famously born at Ottawa Civic Hospital on Jan. 19, 1943 in a room that the Canadian government temporarily declared as ‘extraterritorial’ so she could be born as a natural Netherlander. (Abyssinia Abebe in the Ottawa Citizen) (Video message to citizens of Ottawa by Princess Margriet)
  

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Joyce Napier

• The journalist has been appointed as Canada’s new ambassador to the Vatican. In a 40-year career, the Italian-speaker has reported for The Canadian Press, CBC, The Globe and Mail,La Presse, Radio-Canada, and CTV and has been the only Parliamentary bureau chief for both a French and English outlet. (Toronto Star)
  

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I want to win a Stanley Cup and I’m going to push this team to get to that place

• New head coach for the Ottawa Senators Travis Green, who was officially appointed yesterday. (Faith Greco at CBC)