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UPDATE: Rapist Brendon Spurrell arrested after evading police
He had been on the lam after he was released from the Innes Road jail by mistake last week while awaiting trial for sex assault and death threats.
Herder, Graham and Gold: Canada must rethink how it gets life-saving drugs and vaccines to market
Canada’s Ebola vaccine, ZEBOV, is an example of the problem. Private sector partners slow-walked its development while precariously employed public researchers did the work.
Brown: Is the Trudeau government losing interest in LGBTI rights?
Justin Trudeau has been a better ally to gay communities than his predecessor. However, he seems to be losing interest in protecting the rights of LGBTI people in other countries, despite the despe…
Cohen: Canada should welcome Harry and Meghan but ditch the monarchy
Glamorous, maybe. But the truth is that most Canadian don’t love the monarchy. Support for the institution varies here, depending on when polls are taken, but most reflect reliable indifference.
Ivison: Tehran skies were thick with tension, and an airliner had no place near a conflict zone
Iran’s failure to stop flights suggests gross negligence or, worse, an attempt to use civilian aircraft as human shields
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The Bank of Canada is working on a new $5 bill and it wants your input on who should be on it
Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Canada’s first francophone prime minister, is currently featured on the $5 note
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The Bank of Canada is working on a new $5 bill and it wants your input on who should be on it ottawacitizen.com/news/economy/b… pic.twitter.com/q155vp96eN
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Malek: For Iran's diaspora, plane crash brings grief across oceans and borders
Much of Canada’s Iranian population began arriving in the mid-1990s and into the 2000s as skilled workers, business or investor immigrants, refugees and students. Now, we mourn together.
Eight Ottawa residents among 63 Canadians killed in plane crash near Tehran
“I heard a massive explosion and all the houses started to shake. There was fire everywhere.”
Today's letters: Warning labels on booze aren't going to help
On booze, a quick-fix mentality pervades societyRe: Booze and our brains, Dec. 31The article mentions that in the U.S., groups are pushing to have cancer-warning labels pasted on beer, wine and liq…
Medically assisted deaths prove a growing boon to organ donation in Ontario
Ontario’s waiting list for organs typically hovers around 1,600 without any great headway made to eliminate that number.
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Canadian military temporarily suspends all Iraq training – troops to focus on their own safety
The Canadian Forces has temporarily suspended its training activities in Iraq as tensions in that country continue to rise because of the U.S. assassination of a top Iranian general.The temporarily…
Former spouses, same rare brain cancer: They don't think it's a coincidence
They were both diagnosed with a rare and deadly brain cancer within two weeks of each other.
Canadian surveillance satellite system now operational
Canada’s RADARSAT Constellation Mission is now operational and federal government departments will start receiving data from the surveillance and earth observation satellites.The RADARSAT Con…
A new study shows dogs can process numbers, and they're (roughly) counting their treats
‘Our work not only shows that dogs use a similar part of their brain to process numbers of objects as humans do — it shows that they don’t need to be trained to do it’
Thai navy SEAL who took part in cave rescue dies after year-long infection
BANGKOK — A Thai navy SEAL who took part in the dramatic rescue of 12 boys and their soccer coach from a flooded cave in northern Thailand last year has died from a blood infection he contrac…
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Thai navy SEAL who took part in cave rescue dies after year-long infection ottawacitizen.com/pmn/health-pmn… pic.twitter.com/MiWIUDesJe
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Top newsmaker of the decade — Jonathan Pitre: 'You could never have enough of him'
Over the past 10 years we’ve watched Ottawa transform, from billions of dollars invested in infrastructure to our ever-expanding suburbs. Our city’s transformation hasn’t just been physical. We’ve …
2019 Jazz List Bliss
Here’s a follow-up to my 2019 all-Canadian jazz lists. For those who don’t do this sort of thing, it’s even harder to cast the net wider. The first list expands on the 10-entry ba…
Griffin and his robot offer hope for other cerebral palsy patients
Griffin Shales is an extremely social and animated youngster, and when he’s at CHEO, he likes to go on walks in the hallways and introduce himself.“Hi, I’m Griffin,” he&rsqu…
Glavin: Canada's China policy in 2020 – continue to kowtow
Beijing has got us right where it wants us. Cowering agreeably, gibbering pathetically, bowing and scraping.
Science of winter: Why harsh winters make evergreens grow
Today we continue our annual look at what makes this season special, a time when nature is doing much more than just going to sleep for three months. Welcome to the Science of Winter.Winter shapes …