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An Ottawa Scout troop helps rebuild earthquake ravaged city in Peru. – Page 7
COMMUNITY
South hopefuls square off at debate
Candidates battle over parties’ records on balancing budget Sabine Gibbins sabine.gibbins@metroland.com
Service dogs aid veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder. – Page 9
News - It was standing room only at a debate for the Ottawa South riding hosted at the Canterbury Community Centre on July 24. Nine candidates took part in the debate: Jean-Serge Brisson (Libertarian), John Fraser (Liberal), Bronwyn Funiciello (NDP), Taylor Howarth (Green Party), David McGruer (Freedom Party), Daniel Post (Independent), John Redins (Party for the People with Special Needs), John Turmel (Paupers), and Matt Young (PC).
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HEALTH CARE
The Canadian Museum of Nature is buggy about its new ants exhibit. – Page 19
On the issue of health care, most of the candidates were on the same page, promising fair and equal care for all residents, including those of refugee and immigrant status. “We need to make sure there are no barriers,” said Funiciello. Fraser said that, as a multicultural society, everyone must be treated equally, and blasted the Conservative government’s plan to cut funding to the federal immigration program. See CANDIDATES, page 6
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Ottawa police officers search for clues in the bushes behind Kelsey’s restaurant in the South Keys shopping centre on the morning of July 29, the day after the body of Melissa Richmond, 28, was discovered nearby.
Police ID South Keys murder victim Winchester’s Melissa Richmond victim of homicide: Ottawa police Laura Mueller laura.mueller@metroland.com
News - Friends were remembering North Dundas woman Melissa Richmond, as a caring person and loving wife after learning of her murder on Monday evening. Less than a week earlier, Richmond spent the evening with her husband, Howard, and friends before heading out for a drive to unwind, said long-time
friend Shelley Rabinovitch. On Friday, her gold Sebring was discovered in the parking lot of South Keys Shopping Centre near Kelsey’s restaurant. Richmond’s body was discovered nearby two days later on the morning of Sunday, July 28. Although friends and family expected an autopsy to identify the body as Richmond’s, Rabinovitch said “a certain excruciating finality” came with the
news. Richmond’s husband, Howard – a close friend of Rabinovitch’s – was “completely shattered,” she said. The husband didn’t get an update until late Monday afternoon after Rabinovitch contacted police upon learning from a friend that a police press release was about to be issued. “I was very upset because another member of the media had informed me that a press
release was about to go out and they were just waiting for the French translation, and I knew damn well they hadn’t told Howard because I had been in (his) house for four days,” she said. How her friend ended up dead in Ottawa is a mystery, said Rabinovitch, who couldn’t think of anyone who didn’t love Richmond. “There was no one who ever met her who didn’t love her immediately,” Rabinovitch said. See RICHMOND, page 5