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• The number of new employees to be hired by Ottawa Bylaw Services and Solid Waste Services to monitor for illegal dumping once the three can limit begins this September. The City fears that the public will attempt to dump garbage in parks because, we assume, that three cans are not enough to contain their rubbish. (Josh Pringle at CTV)
  

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Meaghan Ciotti, Robert Davidson, Dr. Colleen Forestie, Alexander Poirier, Tim O’Neil, James Wicker, and Danny Paul

• The seven were recognized by the Ottawa Paramedic Service at the first Community Champion Coin Awards. All seven are members of the public who were minding their own business when they saw someone in distress and saved their life. (City of Ottawa) 
  

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I want to support the fundraising organized by Ottawa Victim Services for Dhanushka Wickramasinghe, who is coping with unimaginable pain and loss

• Mayor Mark Sutcliffe announcing that he will be running the Ottawa Marathon this upcoming weekend and raising money for Wickramasinghe, who is the sole survivor of the family murdered in Barrhaven last March. (Ottawa Citizen) (Fundraiser)