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20 hrs ago | Macleans

The real estate gambleA home is seen as a ticket to retirement. But is that wise?

A home is seen as a ticket to retirement. But is that wise? It may be winter, but Vancouver's love affair with real estate is in full bloom.

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Related Topix: Personal Finance, Retirement, Canada, Home, Mortgage, North America, World News

Sat Dec 19, 2009

The Toronto Star

Sausage possibly contaminated with Listeria

OTTAWA The Canadian Food Inspection Agency and Toronto-based Superior Sausage and Meat Products Ltd.

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Thu Dec 17, 2009

Ottawa Citizen

New building for Waano Centre will be 'jewel' on Montreal Road

A striking new building for the Wabano Centre for Aboriginal Health promises to invigorate Montreal Road, says John Baird, federal minister of transport and infrastructure.

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Ottawa Sun

Decade witnessed changes in city governance

The new decade brought about lots of changes. If you lived in the Ottawa-Carleton region, there was one change that was inescapable.

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Tue Dec 15, 2009

Ottawa Sun

Woman fights off car robber

A 22-year-old Ottawa man faces charges after a woman fought off an attempted car robbery.

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Sun Dec 13, 2009

Ottawa Sun

Ottawa's homicides of 2009

Donna Ellen Jones-Hutt's death is Ottawa's seventh homicide of 2009. Here are the other six: Joshua Oqallak, 41, a skilled stone carver and drum maker from Nunavut, was found dead in an upstairs apartment at 391 Dieppe St.

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Sat Dec 12, 2009

Ottawa Sun

Harkats ready for more big changes

Mohamed Harkat was arrested Dec 10, 2002 on a federal security certificate alleging he associated with terrorists.

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Related Topix: Rachel Getting Married, Canada, Terrorism

Thu Dec 10, 2009

Ottawa Citizen

Ottawa tennis instructor pleads guilty to assaulting 11-year-old student

"I'm friends with benefits, aren't I," an Ottawa court heard Thursday an 65-year-old tennis instructor told an 11-year-old girl after he offered to swap her underwear for tennis shorts.

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Wed Dec 09, 2009

CFRA

City Hires New Fire Chief

A City Councillor wants the City of Ottawa to require the Fire Chief is bilingual.

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Mon Dec 07, 2009

Nanotechnology latest papers

Distinct termination morphologies for vertically aligned carbon nanotube forests

Vertically aligned carbon nanotube forests, including single-walled nanotubes, are imaged optically as they grow in situ from cobalt/alumina catalyst using water-assisted acetylene chemical vapor deposition.

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Related Topix: Canada, Physics, Science

Sat Dec 05, 2009

Star Phoenix

Divorce rate in Canada lower than previously thought

The persistently cited statistic that half of all marriages end in divorce stems from misunderstanding of how divorce rates are calculated and the dominance of American figures from the 1980s OTTAWA a ' Fewer marriages in Canada are ending in divorce than is commonly thought, but the effects of the split can affect every member of the family, a new ...

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Related Topix: North America, Canada, World News, Family, Kids,

Thu Dec 03, 2009

Ottawa Sun

Boards ID full-day kindergarten schools

School board officials have identified 33 local schools as candidates to host full-day kindergarten when the Ontario government begins implementing it next fall.

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Tue Dec 01, 2009

Ottawa Citizen

School boards release all-day list

The city's public and Catholic school boards have released their lists of candidate schools for all-day kindergarten next September.

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Sun Nov 29, 2009

Queen's University News

Monday November 23, 2009

Pat Sheahan Gaels football team headed to the Vanier Cup, in the Globe and Mail.

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Fri Nov 27, 2009

CBC

Ottawa cat hoarders charged with cruelty

Only four of the 33 cats found in the apartment, including this one, were deemed suitable for adoption.

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Related Topix: Canada, Animal Rights

Ottawa Sun

Money for drug counsellors in schools

Another $100,000 will be donated to project s.t.e.p. Thursday to help fund the placement of drug counsellors in all 55 high schools throughout the Ottawa area.

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Wed Nov 25, 2009

Regina Leader Post

More women are primary breadwinner in families

A Statistics Canada report released earlier this year found that 18 per cent of women are now their families' primary breadwinners in terms of hourly earnings, bringing in 55 per cent or more of the household income.

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Mon Nov 23, 2009

Ottawa Sun

Lines for H1N1 vaccine vary

Wait times for the H1N1 vaccine varied widely yesterday as Ontario health units strove to meet demand on the first weekend of the shot's availability to the general public.

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Related Topix: H1N1 Influenza / Swine Flu, Health, Canada,

Sat Nov 21, 2009

Ottawa Sun

Crack team steps up fight

When Vern White took on the role of police chief in Ottawa, he didn't know crack cocaine was such a big problem in the city.

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Ottawa Sun

New affordable housing for Aboriginal community

Forty Aboriginal households living off-reserve will benefit from new affordable housing in Ottawa.

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