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• The Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario celebrates its 50th birthday today, after years of lobbying by mothers starting in the 60s. (Elizabeth Payne in the Ottawa Citizen)
  

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Amit, Anand, and Arun Munje

• Amit and Arun have developed software, AIHEARU, to assist people who have difficulty speaking inspired by brother Anand, who has cerebral palsy.

• Using the software, Anand has launched a YouTube channel, Anand’s World, featuring  interviews with entrepreneurs, academics and artists and comments about chess.   (Matthew Kupfer at CBC) 

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If you get a good (packing) box, you keep it

• New offensive line coach for the Ottawa RedBlacks, Pat Perles, has moved team eight times since he was married 24 years ago. Perles’ wife Karen, from St Catharines, has ‘been wanting to come back, she’s a proud Canadian, so everything just worked out’. (Don Brennan in the Ottawa Citizen)