Word: ottawa
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...media observers, the problematic issue is whether objective reporting is being compromised. "You get a sense that some of the reporters down there are listening awfully closely to Mr. Black's defense team," says Christopher Waddell, associate director of the Journalism School at Ottawa's Carleton University. Waddell points to articles suggesting that Donald Trump was about to testify in Black's defense. It didn't happen, "but meanwhile [the defense] got their story out there," he says...
...team was eliminated by Italy in the second round. Akpan and company commence group play against Korea Republic on June 30, followed by Poland on July 3 and Brazil on July 6. The U.S. will play its first two games at the Olympic Stadium in Montreal before traveling to Ottawa to face Brazil...
...have the money or expertise to run their own online ticketing sites. So a new crop of companies has emerged to help them. "When you outsource your ticketing, you lose the touch point with your customers," says Tom Gillis of Capital Tickets, which runs ticketing for the Ottawa Senators hockey team and several large venues in the Ottawa area. Instead of steering buyers to Ticketmaster, the Senators keep fans on its own website (and the revenue from online ads) using software by Paciolan. Jim Royce of the Center Theatre Group in Los Angeles switched from Ticketmaster to Dallas-based Tessitura...
...airline also travels to - well, not exactly sexy destinations. Torontonians, after all, can be a snobby bunch when it comes to other Canadian cities. "If there is one thing I do not want as a Torontonian, it is a one-way ticket to Ottawa," wrote popular Toronto Star columnist Joey Slinger. "You couldn't sell me one for 79 cents." How about to New York? Porter has applied to begin operating flights to Newark's Liberty International Airport. The U.S. Department of Transportation is reviewing the application, and will factor in objections from Air Canada, Continental Airlines and Northwest Airlines...
...miles from the city centre. The airport is not accessible by subway, so downtowners have to slog through traffic snarls to get there. That looked like an opportunity to aviation entrepreneur Robert Deluce, who, last October, launched Porter Airlines. Porter offered 10 round-trip flights every week day to Ottawa (and later, to Montreal), taking off and landing at idyllic Toronto Island, just a five-minute ferry ride from the city center. The island's green parks, beaches and petting zoo had long made the island a treasured summer escape for city residents - not even private cars were allowed...