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Posted Feb 2, 2012 By Blair EdwardsEMC News - Jon Lovagi still struggles with his son Dustyn's suicide. The 20-year-old had so much going for him: a loving family, friends and a place on the Dean's List at Algonquin College. But one night in 2005, Dustyn stepped in front of a truck...
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Former A.Y. Jackson teacher 'sexually involved' with numerous students, Joanne Léger-Legault pleads no contest to allegations
Posted Feb 2, 2012
By Blair Edwards and Nevil Hunt
EMC News - A former teacher at A.Y. Jackson Secondary School accused of having "an intimate sexual relationship" with two of her students and kissing another on the lips has had her teaching licence revoked by the Ontario College of Teachers. Joanne...
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Anti- bullying group offers scholarship
Posted Feb 2, 2012 By EMC NewsBullyingCanada EMC News - BullyingCanada, Canada's National anti-bullying charity, is now accepting applications for the organization's scholarship program. The scholarship is open to students in their final year of high school, who have worked...
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Frustration 'palpable' during rezoning workshop
Posted Feb 2, 2012 By Jessica CunhaEMC News - Neighbours, friends and residents of the Beaverbrook community gathered for a hastily assembled workshop to deal with an application to rezone the land at 2 The Parkway, on Jan. 24 at Earl of March Secondary School. Kanata North Coun. Marianne...
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Humane Society offers reward in dead cat in dumpster case
Posted Feb 2, 2012 By Jennifer McIntoshThe Ottawa Humane Society is offering a reward for any information leading to charges in the case of a dead cat found in a dumpster behind an apartment complex on Morisset Avenue. The cat, a female calico, was found on Jan. 20 in a dumpster behind...
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Mayor's key honours orchestra maestro
Posted Feb 2, 2012
By Laura Mueller
Ottawa Symphony Orchestra music director and conductor David Currie began his 20th season with the OSO on a high note as he was presented with a key to the city. The honour, which was bestowed upon Currie just prior to the start of a 20th-anniversary...
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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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Kanata entrepreneur invents water-activated shower stick
Posted Feb 2, 2012
By Blair Edwards
EMC News - Nick May's eureka moment happened during a mixing mishap in his kitchen last year. The 23-year-old rural Kanata man was experimenting with chemicals, trying to create a water-activated shaving cream for women. May was mixing different...
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OC Transpo set to release bus-location data March 22
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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Local high-school educator named outstanding principal
Posted Feb 2, 2012 By Kristy WallaceEMC Community - Jennifer Oake may have been named one of Canada's 40 outstanding principals for 2012, but the St. Pius X High School principal said her staff makes the school a better place. "I've worked with lots of inspirational people," said Oake,...
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iPads coming to Barrhaven and Hintonburg libraries
Posted Feb 2, 2012 By Laura MuellerEMC news - The Ottawa Public Library is becoming more and more mobile - and now that mobility is even showing up within branches. Library users at Hintonburg's Rosemount and Barrhaven's Ruth E. Dickinson branches will have a chance to test drive iPad...
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Beaverbrook man creates one-of-a-kind guitars
Posted Feb 2, 2012
By Jessica Cunha
EMC News - A Beaverbrook man's passion for handmade guitars started in high school with a teacher who owned a handcrafted instrument. Patrick Hawley, who took classical guitar lessons during his teenage years, became enthralled with the idea that the...
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Sweeping plan for arts and heritage has city's support
Posted Feb 2, 2012
By Laura Mueller
EMC News - A brand new five-year plan for arts, heritage and culture is drawing support for ideas like building a new downtown library, re-introducing a local poet laureate, overhauling the city's process for commemorative naming and establishing a plan...
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No parking on Uplands after Lulu traffic 'nightmare'
Posted Feb 2, 2012 By Laura MuellerAfter the local city councillor raised concerns about traffic and parking after a warehouse sale at the new CE Centre, "no-parking" signs have been installed along Uplands Drive. The Lululemon sale at the new trade-show centre on Jan. 20 led to a backlog...
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Tenants turning McAuley place 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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City seeks young artists
Posted Feb 2, 2012 By EMC NewsCity of Ottawa EMC News - The City of Ottawa invites young artists to enter Young at Art 2012 - the citywide artist-juried exhibition for youth. Applications are now available for Ottawa artists between 12 and 19 years of age. Young at Art provides...
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Hopewell students learn less is more
Posted Feb 2, 2012 By Michelle NashEMC 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 gym...
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'State of the city' address offers new ideas, Sesquicentennial, youth summit plans get underway
Posted Feb 2, 2012 By Laura MuellerEMC 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 the morning...
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