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New N.S. bishop named to replace Lahey

Raymond Lahey makes his way into the courthouse in Ottawa Friday Oct. 9, 2009. The Canadian Press Sault Ste Marie bishop to take over Antigonish diocese as Raymond Lahey faces child pornography charges A new bishop has been...

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Canada Border Services - Arbitrary Censors Gone Wild (Pample the Moose)

Canada Border Services is up to its old nasty tricks again, seizing gay films destined for Ottawa's gay & lesbian Inside Out film festival. All three films have been shown in Canada before, and two of them are rated PG. But...

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Lesbian U.S. deserter deportation stayed

OTTAWA, Nov. 20 (UPI) -- Canada's federal court in Ottawa stayed a deportation order Friday for a lesbian U.S. Army deserter and ordered the refugee board to re-hear her case. Bethany Smith, 21, fled to Canada in September 2007...

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Canadian soldiers to face 'California Taliban' before real thing

By Andrew Duffy, Ottawa CitizenNovember 20, 2009 5:03 PM Photograph by: Jorge Silva, Reuters OTTAWA — In the northeastern reaches of the Mojave Desert lie a series of small villages with exotic names such as Medina Wasl, Al...

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Your job should be a ‘contact sport,’ PS told

Speech last night by Martha Piper, ex-President of UBC, as reported by the Ottawa Citizen: In a speech at the National Arts Centre, Piper likened today’s public service to the declining popularity of the wristwatch. Everyone...

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Gosselin pleads guilty in sponsorship scandal

OTTAWA — Gilles-Andre Gosselin, a key player in the federal sponsorship scandal, pleaded guilty Friday to several fraud charges. Gosselin was immediately sentenced by an Ottawa judge to two years, plus a day. “I’m sorry and I...

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Ottawa will stay course on stimulus: Flaherty

Rather than turning off the stimulus taps or pouring more fuel on the economic fire, Ottawa will stand pat with the $61 billion in stimulus spending announced in January, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty says.

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Ottawa's H1N1 vaccine clinics maxed out

Ottawa's six H1N1 vaccination clinics reached their capacity and began turning away patients by mid-morning on Friday. At 11 a.m., Ottawa Public Health said all clinics had stopped distributing wristbands for vaccinations later...

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Ottawa adds extra weekend H1N1 vaccine clinics

Health officials say the city received 100,000 doses of the H1N1 vaccine this week and more is on the way. (CBC) Ottawa Public Health will open two additional H1N1 vaccination clinics this weekend to provide the public with...

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City of Ottawa faces budget squeeze

Ottawa city councillors will begin the process of drafting the 2010 budget on Friday, as they grapple with ways to pay a multimillion dollar settlement for the city's failed light rail plan while limiting program cuts and a tax...

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