Some cheer winter clearing of 'stair prisons', others question cost | Ottawa rocker who died of opioid overdose honoured with scholarship | Ottawa enters 'diciest' weeks for viral transmission
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Good evening, these are your top stories for Sunday, November 19, 2023.
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Some cheer winter clearing of 'stair prisons', others question cost; Corktown Footbridge closed-off stairs, November 2023, Ottawa

Some cheer winter clearing of 'stair prisons', others question cost

November 19 , 2023 • 04:00 AM EST

Pedestrians are mixed on a plan to keep some stairways near the Rideau Canal open and cleared of snow this winter after they've been blocked off — along with many other so-called "stair prisons" in the city — in previous years.
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Ottawa rocker who died of opioid overdose honoured with scholarship; Ottawa musician Riley Taylor was 26 when he died in 2022 of an opioid overdose\. A \$1,000 grant will now be awarded in his memory each year to an undergraduate student studying guitar or percussion at Carleton University\.

Ottawa rocker who died of opioid overdose honoured with scholarship

November 19 , 2023 • 09:02 AM EST

Riley Taylor was 26 when he died last year of an overdose. Now, a new $1,000 grant will be awarded annually to an undergraduate student studying guitar or percussion at Carleton University's music program.
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Ottawa enters 'diciest' weeks for viral transmission; A person draws out Moderna vaccine during a COVID-19 vaccine clinic at St\. Lawrence College in Kingston, Ont\. in January 2022\.

Ottawa enters 'diciest' weeks for viral transmission

November 19 , 2023 • 04:00 AM EST

Public health experts urge residents to stay vigilant and get vaccinated as flu season arrives amid rising COVID-19 numbers in the Ottawa area.
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Drivers keep going the wrong way down this Ottawa street. Google Maps is to blame; Scattered across intersections along Glen Avenue are no-entry and one-way signs\.

Drivers keep going the wrong way down this Ottawa street. Google Maps is to blame

November 18 , 2023 • 04:00 AM EST

There are no-entry and one-way signs posted at intersections along Glen Avenue in Old Ottawa South, but that doesn't stop Google Maps from sending drivers down the street in the wrong direction.
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Police investigate suspicious death after woman's body found in river; Ontario Provincial Police say Rose Kerwin's blue 2013 Mazda GX four-door sedan, with licence plate CSXW383 is currently missing\.

Police investigate suspicious death after woman's body found in river

November 17 , 2023 • 10:47 AM EST

Ontario Provincial Police have identified the body of a woman found in the water near Pakenham, Ont., last weekend.
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Health care and Doug Ford dominate final Ontario Liberal leadership debate; Liberal MP and former provincial cabinet minister Yasir Naqvi, right, and Liberal MP Nate Erskine-Smith, are banding together to urge their supporters to put the other as a second choice in a bid to stop Mississauga mayor Bonnie Crombie from finishing at the top of the pack\.  

November 19 , 2023 • 08:54 AM EST

Health care and Doug Ford dominate final Ontario Liberal leadership debate

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Dozens sickened with salmonella after eating cantaloupes in Canada, U.S.; Cantaloupes are displayed for sale in Virginia on Saturday, July 28, 2017\. On Friday, Nov\. 17, 2023, the U\.S\. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is warning consumers not to eat certain whole and cut cantaloupes and pre-cut fruit products linked to an outbreak of salmonella poisoning\. At least 43 people in 15 states have been infected in the outbreak announced Friday, including 17 people who were hospitalized\. Several brands of whole and pre-cut cantaloupes and pre-cut fruit have been recalled\. They include Malichita brand whole cantaloupe, Vinyard brand pre-cut cantaloupe and ALDI whole cantaloupe and pre-cut fruit products\.  

November 17 , 2023 • 08:59 PM EST

Dozens sickened with salmonella after eating cantaloupes in Canada, U.S.

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Pay-it-forward meal donations catch on in Ottawa Valley restaurants; Signs calling for people who can to donate meals for those in need hang on the wall of the Nelson Street Pub in Pembroke, Ont\.  

November 19 , 2023 • 04:00 AM EST

Pay-it-forward meal donations catch on in Ottawa Valley restaurants

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Quebec wants public sector unions to submit counter-offer in strike negotiations; Quebec public sector workers in health, education and social services hold a one-day strike in Montreal, Monday, Nov\. 6, 2023\. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Christinne Muschi  

November 19 , 2023 • 01:27 PM EST

Quebec wants public sector unions to submit counter-offer in strike negotiations

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No Frills reaches tentative deal with Unifor workers, averts strike at 17 stores in Ontario; Franco's No Frills broke COVID-19 rules in the middle of an outbreak\.  

November 19 , 2023 • 09:16 AM EST

No Frills reaches tentative deal with Unifor workers, averts strike at 17 stores in Ontario

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