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Reevely: Experimental Farm Needs Protecting, Minster McKenna saysFriday, February 19, 2016OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Dave Reevely
The Central Experimental Farm should have some formal protection that would keep politicians from handing pieces of it off to other people, environment...
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Ottawa Hospital re-evaluating site for new Civic CampusWednesday, February 17, 2016Hospital to take second look at 4 potential sitesCBC News, By Giacomo Panico
The Ottawa Hospital wants to take a fresh look at several potential sites to build a new hospital for its...
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Hospital CEO appeals for funding for new hospital, location still to be determinedWednesday, February 17, 2016OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Elizabeth Payne
The Ottawa Hospital's first big appeal to the community to raise hundreds of millions of dollars for a new hospital began with an apology from CEO Jack...
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Heritage Ottawa Awards 2016 Gordon Cullingham Research GrantsTuesday, February 16, 2016HERITAGE OTTAWA
Heritage Ottawa celebrated Heritage Day 2016 by presenting its annual Gordon Cullingham Research and Publication Fund to one of this year's three grant recipients.
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Public Seminar to present early history of Central Experimental FarmMonday, February 15, 2016HERITAGE OTTAWA
Established in 1886, the Central Experimental Farm is the third oldest continuously operated agricultural research station in the world.
In a seminar to be...
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Happy Heritage Day 2016Monday, February 15, 2016HERITAGE OTTAWA
Join Heritage Ottawa in celebrating Heritage Day on Tuesday, February 16, 2016 with special heritage events held from 11:30am to 2:00pm at Ottawa City Hall.
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Experimental Farm land deal kept under wraps before announcement, documents showThursday, February 11, 2016CBC News, By Amanda Pfeffer
Key stakeholders in a controversial decision in 2014 to lease land from the Central Experimental Farm (CEF) to The Ottawa Hospital were kept in the dark in...
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'We have to get this right': Hospital looks for options beyond Central Experimental FarmWednesday, February 10, 2016OTTAWA CITIZEN, By Elizabeth Payne
More than a year after announcing a new Civic hospital would be built on 60 acres of the historic Central Experimental Farm, The Ottawa Hospital now says...
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Ottawa Hospital to review controversial site for new Civic campusWednesday, February 10, 2016CBC News, By Amanda Pfeffer
The Ottawa Hospital will review whether the 24-hectare Experimental Farm lands are the best site for its new facility, CBC News has learned.
Eight years...
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New Exhibit Recalls 100th anniversary of Parliament Hill FireSunday, February 7, 2016An informative exhibition at the Bytown Museum revisits this traumatic event in Canada's history.OTTAWA MAGAZINE, By Paul Gessell
Ontario MP Francis Glass was in the House of Commons...