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Ottawa
Mayor Larry O'Brien is to appear in court Jan. 9 charged with bribery-related offences in
connection with the mayoral campaign last year. The Ontario Provincial Police laid the
charges Dec. 10 following an allegation that O'Brien tried to offer Terry Kilrea, another
candidate, a job if he dropped out of the race. Kilrea also alleges he was offered $30,000
to pay for his expenses. He eventually dropped out of the race, but says he never accepted
any offer. |
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Anglican
Essentials Ottawa president Tony Copple says the group plans to set up its own church in
Ottawa in January but it will not be called an Anglican church until it gets the OK from
the Anglican Network. Copple said, "This would be one of the first of its type in the
country, so it would have to be done right," the Ottawa Citizen reported Dec. 10. The
conservative Anglican Network plans to set up a parallel new national Anglican church
following decisions made by three Anglican dioceses in favour of same-sex blessings. |
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Canadian
architect Douglas Cardinal, who designed the Canadian Museum of Civilization (seen here)
and the award-winning St. Mary's Catholic Church in Red Deer, Alberta, has been chosen to
design the 20-hectare Discovery Park in Union City, Tennessee. Cardinal said he has been
hired to create "the most far-out building I have ever designed," the Ottawa
Citizen reported Dec. 10. Construction on the $100 million project is expected to
begin in March. |
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Mind if I join you?
Finding food is difficult for birds after a
fresh snowfall. These two chicadees in Ottawa were among several who welcomed a
pre-Christmas "hand out." |
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A
nuthatch in Ottawa checks out the situation before snatching some food from the palm of
the photographer. |
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Canadian
actor Kiefer Sutherland, star of the popular TV series "24" and a grandson of
former Saskatchewan Premier Tommy Douglas, has apologized for driving drunk, but Mothers
Against Drunk Driving (MADD) Canada, is not about to forgive. The organization is calling
on the Ford Motor Company of Canada to drop him as a voice behind their
advertisements, CTV reported Dec. 7. "Obviously as a company they're against drunk
driving, so why are they continuing to have somebody speak on behalf of their products
that now has been convicted... of impaired driving?" Andrew Murie, CEO of MADD told
CTV. Sutherland is serving a 48-day sentence in a California prison after pleading
no contest to a charge of drunk driving in Hollywood Sept. 25. He was on probation
for a similiar conviction three years ago. |
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Anti-poverty
activist Bill Clennett, well known as the man who former Prime Minister Jean Chretien
grabbed by the neck in 1996, has won a court victory against Loto-Québec, which runs
three casinos in Quebec. The Quebec Court of Appeal has ordered the company to release
reports about ambulance calls and attempted suicides at its casinos, the Ottawa Citizen
reported Dec. 9. Clennett, 55, has been trying to get the information since 2002
because of persistent rumours about suicide attempts by compulsive gamblers, the newspaper
reported. Loto-Québec had argued that its security could be compromised if it released
reports on suicides and attempted suicides in the casinos.Clennett has said that he
believes there have been eight to 10 suicide attempts at Quebec casinos since 1996. |
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Bishop
Andrew Atagotaaluk of the Diocese of the Arctic -- the largest Anglican diocese in
the world -- is front and centre snapping pictures at a recent fundraising concert in
Ottawa to replace St. Jude's, the igloo-shaped cathedral in Iqaluit, destroyed
in a fire in 2006. "I’m just speechless," he said. "I am amazed
at how many talented people there are here." |
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