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ANCHOR is expanding east! 📣 Ottawa’s Alternate Neighbourhood Crisis Response program provides 24/7 support for people experiencing mental health and substance use crises. This June, we are building on its success to create a safer city for everyone: bit.ly/4disf9i

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Jennifer 🍄Feb 9

in 2017 a popular twitter game was to type a partial phrase then see what your phone auto-completes it with.

this proved so popular that it is now the only business model in the US.

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Ottawa Citizen Feb 26

Stop promising to revamp the ByWard Market. Do it already. | Opinion
https://ottawacitizen.com/opinion/stop-promising-to-revamp-the-byward-market-do-it-already-opinion?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Stop promising to revamp the ByWard Market. Do it already. | Opinion

Much of what Ottawa mayor Mark Sutcliffe is now promising was already in a 2021 plan approved by a previous Council. | Opinion

ottawacitizen

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Ryan Castellucci (they/them)

Feb 21

@mjg59 the more computer you are, the more broken your computers are, and the more cursed the causes are

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Trammell Hudson Feb 18

@liamvhogan

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CBC News Feb 10

Video game Relooted tasks you with reclaiming African artifacts in museums
https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/relooted-african-artifacts-game-9.7080541?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Arts & Entertainment @arts-entertainment-cbcnews

Video game Relooted tasks you with reclaiming African artifacts in museums | CBC News

Relooted, a new video game from African-based studio Nyamakop, tasks players with stealing real-life African artifacts from museums and private mansions to return them to their rightful historical owners.

CBC

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Ottawa Citizen Feb 4

Venus Envy to close Ottawa warehouse after 25 years
https://ottawacitizen.com/news/venus-envy-close-ottawa?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Ottawa News @ottawa-news-OttawaCititzen

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CBC News Jan 27

Sly Dunbar, Jamaican drummer who played with reggae and rock greats, dead at 73
https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/obit-drummer-sly-dunbar-9.7062470?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Sly Dunbar, Jamaican drummer who played with reggae and rock greats, dead at 73 | CBC News

Two-time Grammy Award-winning reggae drummer Sly Dunbar, who fuelled countless tracks from Bob Marley to Bob Dylan and was one-half of the influential reggae rhythm section Sly & Robbie, has died. He was 73.

CBC

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Ryan King Jan 19

The Mayfair is screening the 90s classic Hackers to raise funds for the National Capital Freenet. #ottawa https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/free-the-net-a-ncf-movie-fundraiser-with-hackers-a-90s-tech-classic-tickets-1980669416543

Free the Net: a NCF movie fundraiser with 'Hackers', a 90s tech classic

Celebrate 33 years of National Capital FreeNet's community-based internet and ensure NCF is part of the future we're fighting to build!

Eventbrite

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Marielle Quinton Jan 7

I feel like this is peak OC Transpo https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/out-of-service-oc-transpo-bus-catches-fire-while-being-towed-9.7037233

Out-of-service OC Transpo bus catches fire while being towed | CBC News

No one was hurt but the Wednesday afternoon incident is under investigation.

CBC