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$2.6 million

• The amount of outstanding parking tickets owed to municipalities that no longer exist: Cumberland, Osgoode, Gloucester, Vanier, Nepean, Ottawa, Goulbourn, Kanata, and the Regional Municipality of Ottawa-Carleton. The CIty of Ottawa, which assumed the fines upon amalgamation in 2001, has now given up and forgiven them. It’s about 71,835 tickets. (CBC)
  

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Jerzy Jurewicz

•  The senior project architect and vice-president at Edward J. Cuhaci and Associates Architects has been named the 2024 Integrity and Ethics Award winner by the General Contractors Association of Ottawa. (Ottawa Construction News) 
  

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The main storyline is always about him and her falling in love, or becoming great friends. It’s an assembly line product, but I try to bring truth and relatability to it

• Director Marita Grabiak on the Christmas film productions that are attracted to Ottawa and surrounding towns. Grabiak is currently making Hocus Pocus Christmas in Almonte.(L'Agence France-Presse)