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• Where Ottawa lies on a list of the top 100 Canadian cities for work-life balance. If you limit it to Ontario, we come in eighth. Lévis, which is across the river from Québec City is No. 1. Québec City itself is No. 2. Toronto is 49 and Sarnia is at the bottom. Burlington, at No. 4, is the best in Ontario. (Work-Life Balance in Canada)
  

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Johnathan Han

• The Grade 9 student at Merivale High School has become one of the world’s grandmasters in chess, after winning the North American Youth Chess U18 Open Championship last December. (Isabel Harder at CBC) 
  

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In many ways, this is an Ottawa issue. Maybe Pierre Poilievre hasn’t said very much about it because he’s an Ottawa-area MP

• Shachi Kurl, president of the Angus Reid Institute, on why the Federal Leader of His Majesty’s Loyal Opposition, the member of Parliament for Carleton Pierre Poilievre, has not commented on the government’s three-days-in-the-office mandate. (Catherine Morrison in the Ottawa Citizen)