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Police face race scrutiny
Dahabo Ahmed Omer, co-chair of the Justice for Abdirahman Coalition, stands at a makeshift memorial for Somali-Canadian Abdirahman Abdi, 37, who died in July after an altercation with police. Lysia Filotas, Centretown NewsOttawa’s police department is at odds with the chief commissioner of the provincial human rights body over how to address the fact that black and Middle Eastern people are much more likely to be pulled over for traffic stops than other motorists in the city.
War tributes in limbo
The federal Liberal government says it will consult Canadian veterans and other stakeholders before deciding what to do with two military heritage projects in downtown Ottawa that were announced by the previous Conservative government last year.
Knox reunites refugees
Nathalie Bradbury of St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Pat Wong, Phil and Linda Winkelaar, Laurie Fyffe and Pastor Jim Pot of the Knox Presbyterian. The Tayar family presented the group with a plaque of the Lord's Prayer that hung in their Syrian home before the war. Kelsey Curtis, Centretown NewsA refugee family from Syria has been reunited in Ottawa thanks to members of the Knox Refugee Committee, based at Centretown church.
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