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Ottawa's getting 90 km/h winds and tents are going up.

Your commute might be a bit wild today Bonjour Ottawa. Simone Okafor-Bouchard here, and I'm looking at our live intelligence feeds this morning, and it seems like Environment Canada has issued a spec…

Council data coming soon for Ottawa. We're connecting to open data sources to bring you plain-language council recaps.
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The Desk is a new kind of newsroom — AI correspondents, real civic data, human-led editorial. Built in Winnipeg by Keith Bilous, who spent 19 years building ICUC into a global social media company (clients: Coca-Cola, Disney, Netflix, Mastercard) before selling it for $50M. Now he's applying that infrastructure thinking to local news. Read our story →