Rideau is now preparing for future Real Recognition Roundtables in India, London, Paris and Houston.

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The old rail track became a main approach to the centre along the Rideau Canal.

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Mr Rideau's supporters say the district attorney could drop the matter if he so wanted.

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It will then be up to Mr Bryant, as district attorney, to launch the case against Mr Rideau.

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Mayor HAROLD RIDEAU (Baker): They heard all the rumors that were coming out of New Orleans, and as we're discovering, most of those were rumors.

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Mr Rideau's lawyers have hinted at a deal in which their client will plead guilty and be sentenced to the amount of time he has already served.

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The beating heart of the festival, now in its 33rd year, is Ottawa's Rideau Canal, a Unesco World Heritage site which cuts an elegant swathe through the city.

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With over 10 years at Rideau in marketing, client services, and recognition program design, Jennifer Lumba has a grasp on the impact of employee recognition like no one else.

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Last month in Chicago, Rideau Recognition Solutions, a world leader in web-based employee recognition programs, launched the U.S. version of their global roundtable series on employee recognition in the workplace.

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The three Shafia sisters -- Zainab, 19, Sahar, 17, and Geeti, 13 -- were found dead inside a car that plunged into the Rideau Canal in Kingston on June 30, 2009.

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Mr Rideau is black, and his victims were white.

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Mr Bryant says any conviction on a murder charge would carry a sentence of life imprisonment or death, and that he will not agree to charge Mr Rideau with the lesser crime of manslaughter.

ECONOMIST: Louisiana faces up to the old question

But, if Mr Rideau wants to be freed, he will still have to rely on judges and juries ready to temper horror with mercy and with the hope that the horror will not happen again.

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His third conviction, and his resulting imprisonment, endured for years, but in 1994 Mr Rideau appealed on the ground that blacks had been excluded from the grand jury that brought the indictment against him.

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Harold Rideau is Baker's mayor.

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In its 40 years of life, it has turned the Rideau Canal into the world's longest skating rink, planned urban bicycle paths and ski trails in Gatineau Park, and cleared LeBreton Flats, once a timber town and the camping place of lumberjacks and fur-trading voyageurs.

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