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ONTARIO ELECTION

• Meet the Ontario election candidates in Ottawa and eastern Ontario

  CTVNewsOttawa.ca looks at the candidates in Ottawa and eastern Ontario for the Ontario election campaign.

  

• Election campaign signs defaced in Ottawa

  Two Ottawa candidates in the provincial election have had multiple signs defaced and destroyed within the last week.

• Ottawa police issues warning that damaging election signs is illegal

  Ottawa police are reminding the public that damaging campaign signs is illegal, after several candidates in the Ontario election reported damage to campaign signs.

• One new COVID-19 death reported in Ottawa over the weekend

  Ottawa Public Health is reporting a single COVID-19 death in the city over the weekend, with hospitalizations and the viral signal on the decline.

  

• Masks no longer mandatory in most indoor settings in Gatineau, Que.

  Across Quebec, masks are no longer mandatory in most indoor public places like bars, restaurants, shopping centres, cinemas, venues, school and sports facilities, and museums.

• These Ottawa neighbourhoods have the highest three dose vaccination rates

  As of Monday, May 9, Island Park – Wellington West had the highest third dose vaccination rates for residents aged 12 and older, at 79.6 per cent.

• Biker protest cost up to $3M to police, sustainable solution needed: board chair

  The 'Rolling Thunder' protest in the national capital over the weekend cost an estimated $2.5 to $3 million to police, says the chair of Ottawa's police services board.

  

• Police investigating 'hate-motivated mischief' at Ottawa bikers' church

  Ottawa police say they are investigating an incident of 'hate-motivated mischief' at a Vanier church, discovered three hours before a service was held as part of the 'Rolling Thunder' biker rally, after reports of thumbtacks strewn across the ground and graffiti on one of the church's walls.

• 'Rolling Thunder Ottawa' event wraps up with bikers' church service

  Hundreds of people packed a church in Ottawa’s Vanier neighbourhood for a 'bikers' church service,' the final scheduled event of the 'Rolling Thunder Ottawa' biker event this weekend. The service was held just hours after Ottawa police launched an investigation into 'hate-motivated mischief' over graffiti spray-painted on the church’s walls.