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• The number of cats and kittens admitted to the Ottawa Humane Society on one day, last Thursday. Eighteen were kittens. Yet again, the link has pictures of kitties; as if anyone would be interested. (Ted Raymond at CTV) (Adopt)
  

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Tim Tierney

• The Beacon Hill-Cyrville ward councillor Tim Tierney hosted a fundraiser Saturday for the families displaced by a fire at a Donald Street tower. Fifty-six people have been displaced, eight of whom were sent to hospital, two children and a woman seriously. (Natalia Goodwin at CBC) (Donate via Eastern Ontario Resource Centre)
  

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I haven’t seen patients in this condition since I did overseas mission dentistry work in Haiti and Peru

• Ottawa dentist Dr Melvin Lee on his experience of patients in the first two weeks of Canada’s new public dental insurance plan. As of May 1, people over the age of 70 were eligible for Federal dental coverage. (Marina von Stackelberg at CBC)
  

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