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Sunny skies graced the opening of the world's largest tulip festival in Ottawa May 4 with officials expecting over 500,000 visitors to attend the 17-day event. "Millions of tulips bloom in the heart of Canada's capital," proclaimed the National Capital Commission in a news release. Governor General Michaelle Jean launched the Canadian Tulip Festival at an opening program at Rideau Hall.
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Ottawa artist Lynda Turner touches up some of the 150 fiberglass tulips at Major's Hill Park on the opening day of the Canadian Tulip Festival May 4. The tulips were created by local artists to mark the 150th anniversity of Ottawa in 2005.
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St. John the Baptist Ukrainian Catholic Shrine in Ottawa is 20-years old this year. It was completed in 1987 and designated as a Sobor (Shrine) and a national monument to commemorate the Millennium of Christianity in Ukraine (988-1988). |
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High Dynamic Range image of the interior of Notre Dame Roman Catholic Cathedral-Basilica
in Ottawa shows details of the church's $10-million facelift in 1999. The basilica is a
national historic site and is Ottawa's oldest surviving church, built more than 150 years
ago. |
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Former
Liberal cabinet minister Bill Graham -- who is not seeking re-election -- is to be
installed May 8 as the 12th chancellor of Trinity College in Toronto. Graham and his wife
Cathy, are both grads of Trinity and were married in the Trinity College Chapel. Trinity's
Faculty of Divinity is the oldest Anglican theological school in Canada. |
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The
Canadian War Museum says it isn't about to change the wording of a 60-word panel that has
angered many veterans of the Second World War bombing campaign against Germany. The
veterans say the panel accuses them and those who died in the campaign of war crimes.
However, museum officials and historians told a Senate sub-committee May 2 that there is
nothing in the the display that accuses bomber crews of any crime or immoral action.
"What the museum does say — that the strategic bombing campaign is an
‘enduring controversy’ — remains beyond all reasonable argument," said
Dean Oliver, a musuem official.
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Time
Magazine has chosen Canadian Maher Arar as one of the world's 100 most influential people.
He was deported by the U.S. to Syria in 2002 where he was imprisoned and tortured. In a
statement issued through the Centre for Constitutional Rights, Arar says he is "very
honored" to be on the Time list and expresses gratitude to everyone who supported him
"throughout this struggle for justice." In January, Arar was awarded a
$10.5-million compensation package after being exonerated of any suspected terrorist
involvement through a public inquiry last year.
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