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Electricity returns to thousands of customers in Ottawa after an afternoon outage

Electricity has been restored to most homes and businesses in Nepean and eastern Ontario after a major outage on Saturday afternoon. Hydro Ottawa reported that 27,000 customers were without electricity at 12:45 pm in an area bounded by 416 to the west, the Ottawa River to the north, West Hunt Club Road to the south …

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Rogers Communications says it will sell Freedom Mobile to Quebecor for $ 2.85 million

Rogers Communications Inc. will sell Freedom Mobile Inc. at Quebecor Inc. for $ 2.85 billion in a deal that is expected to appease federal regulators opposed to its proposed acquisition of Shaw Communications Inc. The deal comes after the antitrust regulator reiterated its opposition to Rogers’ plan to buy Shaw and is subject to approval …

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A Chinese telescope found no alien signal. The search continues.

It was a project that launched a thousand interstellar dreams. Fifty years ago, NASA published a 253-page book entitled “Project Cyclops.” He summarized the results of a NASA workshop on how to detect alien civilizations. What was needed, concluded the assembled group of astronomers, engineers and biologists, was Cyclops, a wide range of radio telescopes …

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HIGHLIGHTS: Watch the action of the second training session in Montreal, while Verstappen leads the Ferraris

Max Verstappen doubled his first day of racing in Montreal, with the championship leader topping the times for the second training session at the Canadian Grand Prix. Verstappen clocked a time of 1m 14.127s with the soft tire, to lead the Ferraris of Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz, in second and third, by 0.081 and …

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Toronto will offer 2 smallpox vaccine clinics with extended eligibility this weekend

Toronto will host two monkeypox vaccination clinics this weekend with extended eligibility, as health officials confirm 21 cases in Ontario, with the majority in the GTA. The two vaccination clinics will be held on June 18 at The 519 (519 Church St.) from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., and at the Metro Hall (55 John …

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