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'State of the city' proposes summit for youth, civic honour
Posted Feb 2, 2012
By Laura Mueller
EMC news - A summit for youth, plans for Canada's 150th birthday celebrations and a new award, the Order of Ottawa, are a few of the new ideas Mayor Jim Watson highlighted in his first-ever state of the city address. Delivered to city council on Jan...
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Auditor to oversee NCC bridge process
Posted Feb 2, 2012 By Michelle NashEMC news - A fairness auditor will be installed to look out for the public interest during the latest consultation process for the National Capital Commission's interprovincial bridge project. The plans to introduce the auditor were announced at the...
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New Edinburgh closes on acquisition of new centre
Posted Feb 2, 2012 By Michelle NashEMC news - A New Edinburgh-based organization is taking the final steps to purchase the manse from the McKay United Church so the community can finally acquire a permanent home for programming. It was in August 2011 when the Crichton Cultural Community...
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Correction
Posted Feb 2, 2012 By EMC NewsIn an article titled "Residents question museum parking plan" published in the Jan. 26 edition of Ottawa East EMC, a reference to the state of the Museum of Nature's finances was incorrect. The story should have stated the museum said it has a $2.5 million...
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Residents urged to comment on Overbrook-Orleans water main
Posted Feb 2, 2012 By Michelle NashEMC news - A recent presentation of a city water main project at an Overbrook Community Association meeting raised concerns from residents about the proposed route. Identified in the city's infrastructure master plan, the Orleans water main link will...
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New 'city council' to spread green word
Posted Feb 2, 2012
By Michelle Nash
EMC news - A new community-driven shadow city council is being created to ensure Ottawa residents can voice their concerns about the environment to their municipal government. The initiative, brought forward by Ecology Ottawa, was organized and created...
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Event busting out all the moves to fight breast cancer
Posted Feb 2, 2012 By Michelle NashEMC news - A one-day event offering the chance to participate in a number of activities for people of all fitness levels, will give Ottawans a different way to raise money to support breast cancer awareness and treatment. The Bust A Move campaign...
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Search for chief to stay in-house
Posted Feb 2, 2012 By Laura MuellerEMC news - Ottawa is set to promote its first police chief from within its ranks in a dozen years. During a meeting on Jan. 23, police services board members agreed that limiting the search for Vern White's replacement to members of the Ottawa police...
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City to release bus GPS data in March
Posted Feb 2, 2012
By Laura Mueller
EMC news - Following the outrage that ensued after OC Transpo management backtracked on a promise to release bus-location data openly to the public, the transit agency is set to keep its commitment and release the information by March 22. Beacon Hill-Cyrville...
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Short list for new police chief too short
Posted Feb 2, 2012 By EMC NewsThe city has picked up a nasty habit. In the interest of harm reduction, an intervention is in order as our elected representatives appear to have learned little from the Lansdowne reconstruction fiasco. In that case, council voted to accept a proposal...
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Web Poll
Posted Feb 2, 2012 By EMC NewsTHIS WEEK'S POLL QUESTION Is the city's police services board right to limit its search for a new chief to internal candidates only? A) They're the experts - if they feel the right person is in-house, hire away. B) No. It should be the city's policy...
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Everything for nothing on the web?
Posted Feb 2, 2012 By Charles GordonIf there was a way to sneak into the NHL All-Star Game without paying, some of us would have. Most of us wouldn't. That's the way we were brought up. If somebody is selling something and you want it, you pay for it. But if someone offered us a pirated...
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The stuff of life
Posted Feb 2, 2012 By Brynna LeslieIt's been six weeks since Christmas, and I'm finding it difficult to get around my house. Everywhere I step there are toys, toys and more toys. My mom called the other day to say she was ordering a table top hockey game for my son's birthday in February....
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Tenants turning public housing into a community
Posted Feb 2, 2012
By Laura Mueller
EMC community - When Hibo Ismail moved into McAuley Place almost three years ago, a large room just off the entrance of the building had become a dusty, unwelcoming storage area. But on Jan. 25, the bright and repainted lounge was buzzing with people...
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Hopewell students learn less is more
Posted Feb 2, 2012
By Michelle Nash
EMC news - Students at Hopewell Avenue Public School learned new tools of how to stay safe while using social networking websites during a talk delivered by Canada's privacy commissioner on Jan. 24. Privacy commissioner Jennifer Stoddart asked a gymnasium...
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What's Happening This Week
Posted Feb 2, 2012
By EMC News
February 3: Karsh-Masson Gallery opens a new show on Feb. 3 called Karen Jordon: Slow Dance. Gallery open Wednesday, Friday to Sunday from 12 p.m. to 5 p.m., Thursdays from 12 p.m. to 8 p.m. at 136 St. Patrick St. The show runs until April 8. For more...
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