{"id":96193,"date":"2026-06-19T23:58:24","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T23:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/96193\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T23:58:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T23:58:24","slug":"news-of-the-day-is-ottawa-ready-for-no-supervised-consumption-major-defence-procurements-take-16-years-on-average-house-of-commons-transcribers-and-editors-get-higher-wage-increase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/96193\/","title":{"rendered":"News of the day: Is Ottawa ready for no supervised consumption?; Major defence procurements take 16 years on average; House of commons transcribers and editors get higher wage increase"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s Friday, June 19. Here are the top stories from the Ottawa Citizen newsroom today.<\/p>\n

IS OTTAWA READY FOR NO SUPERVISED CONSUMPTION?<\/p>\n

The city just closed its last two consumption and treatment services sites. Those who know the area well are already sounding the alarm bell.<\/p>\n

Read the story<\/a><\/p>\n

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The South Korean submarine Dosan Ahn Chang-ho arrives at CFB Esquimalt in Victoria on Saturday.<\/p>\n

MAJOR DEFENCE PROCUREMENTS TAKE 16 YEARS ON AVERAGE: WATCHDOG<\/p>\n

Experts bullish on potential of new Defence Investment Agency but want more details about how it will operate, report finds.<\/p>\n

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The House of Commons text and processing bargaining unit includes around 49 full-time employees and 34 seasonal staff who work between 700 and 1,820 hours per year.<\/p>\n

BINDING ARBITRATION NETS HOUSE OF COMMONS TRANSCRIBERS AND EDITORS HIGHER WAGE INCREASE<\/p>\n

The workers who prepare reports on debates and other documents related to business inside the\u00a0House of Commons\u00a0have received a retroactive higher wage adjustment for 2023 through arbitration, among other decisions.<\/p>\n

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It\u2019s time to rethink how residents of Ottawa park \u2014 where, for how long, and at what cost.<\/p>\n

HERE\u2019S A BETTER WAY TO DO STREET PARKING IN OTTAWA | OPINION<\/p>\n

Brigitte Pellerin: Imagine each resident being allowed to add their car to a city account that lets you park anywhere there\u2019s a meter without paying.<\/p>\n

Read the story<\/a><\/p>\n

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Ottawa 67\u2019s forward Thomas Vandenberg tracks the puck during an Ontario Hockey League playoff game.<\/p>\n

REMARKABLE ROOKIE YEAR WITH OTTAWA 67\u2019S PROPELS NEPEAN\u2019S THOMAS VANDENBERG UP NHL DRAFT RANKINGS<\/p>\n

Jumping at the opportunity to play for one of his childhood teams, the 17-year-old was third on the 67\u2019s in goal scoring this past season and will soon learn his future National Hockey League home.<\/p>\n

Read the story<\/a><\/p>\n

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Thanks for reading the daily update. See you tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Friday, June 19. Here are the top stories from the Ottawa Citizen newsroom today. IS OTTAWA READY…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":96194,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[13779,35619,35620,16023,1115,61,879,35618],"class_list":["post-96193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-consumption","tag-consumption-and-treatment-services","tag-dean-dewar","tag-defence-investment-agency","tag-jean-levac","tag-ottawa","tag-ottawa-citizen","tag-sandy-hill"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}