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Another year, another fantastic Pride week in Ottawa. Celebrations kicked off August 15 with a flag raising at city hall. .. https://twitter.com/QaqishPolitico/status/765284478105194496 https://twitter.com/JimWatsonOttawa/status/765223218592440320 https://twitter.com/cmckenney/status/765299314088407040 A stirring human rights vigil in honour of the June 12 Orlando gay nightclub shooting… ...

_ (Via Mayor’s office) _ ** Ottawa, ON ** – Today, Mayor Jim Watson announced the high-profile names of world leaders from politics, entertainment, business and the community who will be attending the 2016 One Young World Summit taking place in Ottawa from September 28 to October 1, 2016. ...

_ (press release) _ ** Ottawa ** – Mayor Jim Watson and the Honourable Catherine McKenna, Minister of Environment and Climate Change, will raise the rainbow flag as the City of Ottawa celebrates the start of Capital Pride. Somerset Ward Councillor Catherine McKenney and Capital Pride Grand Marshal Charlie Lowthian-Rickert will also take part in the flag raising and proclamation, which will take place at noon on Monday, August 15 at Marion Dewar Plaza at Ottawa City Hall, 110 Laurier Avenue West. ...

_ (Editor’s note: Below is a clipping from a GoFundMe for KoKo, a service dog with a malignant anal tumour. The dog’s owner Dan has limited income and can’t afford the cost of care. The Blair Animal Hospital did confirm the claims to ** OttawaStart. ...

It seems everyone made an appearance in a new music video released Wednesday. The video is a cover of Justin Timberlake’s “Can’t Stop The Feeling”, sung by Ottawa’s Konah Raynes. Among the dancers - police officers, paramedics, firefighters, staff at several well-known Ottawa restaurants and even Mayor Jim Watson. ...

_ (press release) _ _ Ottawa Capital Pride honours three Parade Marshals who have been important activists and champions for the LGBTTQ+ community _ ** OTTAWA, Aug 2, 2016 ** ** _ Parade Grand Marshal _ ** Charlie Lowthian-Rickert, age 10 ...

_ (Post via organizers of Saturday’s March for Justice in memory of Abdirahman Abdi) _ OTTAWA — We release these demands towards the City of Ottawa and the Ottawa Police Service. Release entire SIU report into Abdirahman’s murder. _ Editor’s note: It wouldn’t be up to Ottawa Police or the City to release the SIU’s report. ...

_ (Press release) _ Student apprentices at the University of Ottawa’s Entrepreneurship Hub partner with Ottawa’s The Door Youth Centre to make 3D printed prosthetic hands for youth abroad. ** About ** : The Give Us A Hand Project aims to create affordable, 3D printed prosthetic hands, and to send them overseas to persons in need. ...

An incorrectly addressed letter from an 11-year-old girl to her Grandma has been delivered, thanks to the efforts of Perth mail carrier Tash Villeneuve. The letter, sent by a young girl named Abby while at summer camp, simply said “To Grandma from Abby,” along with the postal code of a home on RR #3 - a route with over 800 homes, impossible to know who to give it to. ...

_ (press release) _ ** Ottawa ** – Baseball fans who came to RCGT Park last evening to watch the Ottawa Champions host the Rockland Boulders first joined Mayor Jim Watson, president of the Ottawa Champions David Gourlay and Mr. Keeping’s family to remember popular local community builder Max Keeping. ...