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• Man charged with weapons offences after Glebe altercation

  10-11-2017 23:20 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa police have charged an Ottawa man with weapons offences after he pulled out what initially appeared to be a handgun during an altercation in the Glebe.
  Officers reported to a call early afternoon on Tuesday, about a man “in distress” and causing a disturbance. Police said the man was initially co-operative, but grew agitated and then pulled out an apparent handgun.
  After a gunpoint arrest and an attempt to de-escalate the situation, police were able to get the suspect to
  
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• Reevely: Hard Rock needs casino expansion to pay province what it owes, it says

  10-11-2017 23:05 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Hard Rock casino in Ottawa needs more gambling tables because it owes the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp. more money than 21 poker tables and roulette wheels can generate, the company’s publicist says.
  Put another way, Hard Rock has to undermine Ottawa city council’s limits on gambling here to satisfy the demands of a provincial government agency. First with its current application to Ottawa’s committee of adjustment to up its limit on table games from 21 to 35, and eventu
  
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• Money that colleges save during the faculty strike will go to students hurt by dispute, says Ontario minister

  10-11-2017 22:44 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ontario colleges will have to put all the money they are saving during the faculty strike into a fund to help students who are being hurt by it, says Deb Matthews, the minister for Advanced Education and Skills Development.
  “Students have been in the middle of this strike for too long and it’s just not fair,” she said in a statement released Friday.
  The strike by 12,000 professors, instructors, librarians and counsellors at Ontario colleges is nearing the end of its fourth week
  
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• Algonquin and La Cite colleges cancel most of Christmas break to make up classes lost to faculty strike

  10-11-2017 22:44 via ottawacitizen.com
  Most of the Christmas break has been cancelled for students at Algonquin and La Cité colleges in Ottawa to make up coursework lost due to the province-wide faculty strike.
  Students at both colleges will have about a week off at Christmas, with the remainder of the break used for classes, labs and clinical placements.
  The fall term will extend into January, although it’s not known yet by how many weeks, said a statement by La Cité.
  La Cité has also cancelled its Februar
  
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• Gatineau man who defused live suicide bomber honoured in new book

  10-11-2017 21:03 via ottawacitizen.com
  When the call came in to Leading Seaman Bruno Guevremont that there was a suicide bomber in Kandahar, the navy bomb technician assumed he was being sent to pick up bits and pieces.
  To Guevremont’s surprise, when his unit arrived, the bomber was still very much alive, pinned by the arms by two Afghan policemen, a belt of explosives strapped to his body, two detonator switches dangling from his hands.
  There was no time to put on his heavy and cumbersome bomb suit — nor at that close di
  
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• I Am War: Ottawa veteran featured in documentary

  10-11-2017 20:59 via ottawacitizen.com
  In 2003, Sgt. Dan Matthews was in Afghanistan when the vehicle he was in exploded. It was the first-ever IED attack on Canadian soldiers. 
  Matthews described what happened next in the Canadian documentary I Am War, which airs on the History Channel, Friday at 9 p.m. 
  
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• Battle of Rockcliffe Park: Is this house addition a blight on the stately community?

  10-11-2017 20:53 via ottawacitizen.com
  A proposed modern addition to a 90-year-old house overlooking McKay Lake in Rockcliffe Park has become the battleground for residents who fear city hall is being willy-nilly with the heritage character of their stately community.
  Daniel Weinand, the prospective buyer of the Tudor Revival-style house on a bluff at 551 Fairview Ave., wants to build a two-storey addition made of stone, wood and glass. The proposal includes other changes to the property, such as moving the driveway, but it’s t
  
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• LISTEN:Robin Duetta is in for Foodie Friday, then Bart Cormier gets us set for all of this weekend's events around… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  10-11-2017 20:40 via twitter.com
  LISTEN:Robin Duetta is in for Foodie Friday, then Bart Cormier gets us set for all of this weekend's events around… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• LISTEN: Guitars for Vets is holding its Songwriter's Circle event tonight in Ottawa. Jim Lowther talks to… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  10-11-2017 20:30 via twitter.com
  LISTEN: Guitars for Vets is holding its Songwriter's Circle event tonight in Ottawa. Jim Lowther talks to… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• LISTEN: Author Susan Raby-Dunne speaks to @MeehanCarolAnne about her new book, Morrison: The Long-Lost Memoir of Ca… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  10-11-2017 20:15 via twitter.com
  LISTEN: Author Susan Raby-Dunne speaks to @MeehanCarolAnne about her new book, Morrison: The Long-Lost Memoir of Ca… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Remembrance Day in the capital: Everything you need to know

  10-11-2017 20:07 via ottawacitizen.com
  The ceremony at the National War Memorial in Ottawa organized by Dominion Command of the Royal Canadian Legion is an Ottawa tradition to honour veterans and those who fell in service of Canada.
  While there are events organized by branches across the city, tens of thousands come to the National War Memorial at the intersection of Elgin and Wellington streets.
  Arrive early Saturday to get a good view although large screens are set up around the memorial to broadcast the ceremony, organizers say. R
  
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• LISTEN: @MeehanCarolAnne gets advice from Movie Enthusiast Keith Whittier (@cfl_fan) on what to see at the theatres… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  10-11-2017 20:03 via twitter.com
  LISTEN: @MeehanCarolAnne gets advice from Movie Enthusiast Keith Whittier (@cfl_fan) on what to see at the theatres… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Gormley: Canadians risk closing themselves off to the world

  10-11-2017 19:55 via ottawacitizen.com
  Conservatives face some critical decisions in Western democracies, but none more important than whether or not they will observe and enforce basic human truths that must be self-evident even to themselves.
  “Don’t march for white power.” “Don’t threaten to lock up political opponents.” “Don’t commit treason.” Or, to phrase these no-nos in the current fashion as positive affirmations: “Be nice.” “Be tolerant.” “Be
  
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• LISTEN: Ontario @NDP Health Critic France Gelinas joins @MeehanCarolAnne to talk about the latest Liberal plan for… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  10-11-2017 19:50 via twitter.com
  LISTEN: Ontario @NDP Health Critic France Gelinas joins @MeehanCarolAnne to talk about the latest Liberal plan for… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• 9mm seized during traffic stop on St. Laurent Blvd: 1310news.com/2017/11/10/fir… #ottnews

  10-11-2017 19:45 via twitter.com
  9mm seized during traffic stop on St. Laurent Blvd: 1310news.com/2017/11/10/fir… #ottnews
  
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• Traffic stop leads to seizure of handgun, marijuana charges

  10-11-2017 19:41 via ottawacitizen.com
  A 25-year-old Ottawa man faces a host of charges, including possession of a 9 mm handgun, following a traffic stop in the east end Thursday night.
  Police said the man’s vehicle was pulled over at about 11 p.m. by patrol officers around St. Laurent Boulevard and Donald Street.
  In the first interaction, an officer arrested the driver for possession of marijuana.
  During a subsequent search of the vehicle, police allegedly found the handgun. 
  Jason Campbell is charged with six firear
  
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• LISTEN: New numbers are released today regarding violence against hospital staff in Ottawa. @MeehanCarolAnne talks… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  10-11-2017 19:40 via twitter.com
  LISTEN: New numbers are released today regarding violence against hospital staff in Ottawa. @MeehanCarolAnne talks… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• LISTEN: @MeehanCarolAnne talks to Richard Robins -- a social worker who is growing his 'stache for this year's Mov… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  10-11-2017 19:30 via twitter.com
  LISTEN: @MeehanCarolAnne talks to Richard Robins --a social worker who is growing his 'stache for this year's Mov… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• LISTEN: @AlgonquinColleg Student President Victoria Ventura and two students in Cornwall join @MeehanCarolAnne to d… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  10-11-2017 19:14 via twitter.com
  LISTEN: @AlgonquinColleg Student President Victoria Ventura and two students in Cornwall join @MeehanCarolAnne to d… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Punching, hitting, violence on the job routine, hospital workers say

  10-11-2017 19:01 via ottawacitizen.com
  It’s becoming routine for frontline hospital workers to be punched, kicked and have things thrown at them, according to research from the union that represents nurses, personal support workers and others across Ontario.
  Many of those hospital workers say they are afraid to report assaults for fear of reprisal, according to a poll of workers.
  Sometimes workplace violence has catastrophic results. This summer, an admitting clerk at Perth and Smiths Falls District Hospital was stabbed re
  
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• Squirrel hunting may be coming to Quebec

  10-11-2017 18:36 via ottawacitizen.com
  Quebec may soon allow squirrel hunting, an entry-level type of hunting that is already legal in Ontario and most U.S. states.
  A committee will make recommendations to the Ministry of Forests, Wildlife and Parks in a few months.
  Quebec allows small-game hunting ranging from rabbits to foxes to pigeons, but excludes squirrels, which are not native to Quebec (or Eastern Ontario) and arrived only in the 1900s.
  Hunters typically use lighter shotguns or .22-calibre rifles to hunt squirrels. 
  And
  
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• Ottawa-area coaches, volunteers among potential victims of Equifax data breach

  10-11-2017 18:25 via ottawacitizen.com
  Credit monitoring giant Equifax Inc. won’t reveal whether the personal financial information of any Ottawa-area coaches or volunteers was exposed during a massive data breach earlier this year.
  In a bid to cut back on wait times faced by paper applications for background checks, the Ottawa Police Service introduced an online service that allows people to apply for a background check through a website.
  It’s a two-part process. The online service uses Equifax to verify the id
  
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• Coming up 12:30: @markdaynews joins @_MarkSutcliffe to preview tomorrow's #RemembranceDay special - - airing live… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  10-11-2017 18:24 via twitter.com
  Coming up 12:30:@markdaynews joins @_MarkSutcliffe to preview tomorrow's #RemembranceDay special - - airing live… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Five injured in serious Belleville crash involving OPP vehicle

  10-11-2017 18:12 via ottawacitizen.com
  Five people were rushed to hospital Thursday after a “serious” crash involving an OPP cruiser and a civilian sedan in Belleville.
  The marked OPP SUV and car collided at the intersection of Dundas West and Sidney at about 10:30 p.m.,  Belleville police said.
  Two OPP officers, a person who was in their custody and two civilians were taken to Belleville General Hospital.
  The intersection was expected to be closed to east and westbound traffic for hours, police said.
  The provin
  
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• Harley Card CD reviewed

  10-11-2017 18:01 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Greatest Invention (self-released)
  Harley Card 
  Ottawa-raised, Toronto-based guitarist Harley Card has been putting out albums as a leader at a measured pace. First there was his debut, Non Fiction, in 2008 — the same year he was a semi-finalist in the Montreux Jazz Festival Guitar Competition. Then came his follow-up in 2013, Hedgerow. I thought that Card made a lot of musical progress between his first and second albums, and I’d say he’s made another big leap, in par
  
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• Capital Voices: A father and son's first parade together

  10-11-2017 17:55 via ottawacitizen.com
  To mark Canada’s sesquicentennial, the Citizen’s Bruce Deachman met and photographed 150 people in the Ottawa area, encouraging them to tell their stories that, combined, painted an intimate portrait of the region and the people who live, work and play here. The series, which was published daily leading up to Canada Day, was called Capital Voices. It continues on a somewhat less rigorously defined schedule.
  Ralph Storey: “I was born on November 11, 1937, in Napanee. So my birth
  
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• After 13-year hiatus, QNX cofounder returns to company to spur expansion

  10-11-2017 17:54 via ottawacitizen.com
  He’s back in the saddle again.
  After a 13-year hiatus to focus on family, Gordon Bell has returned to the company he helped create in 1980, where he’ll spearhead a new generation of technology products and services he believes are about to turn the world on its head.
  “I’m excited. I’m so pumped to be here,” said the 62-year-old, who has been quietly working at Blackberry QNX’s Kanata labs for months. “I’m having the time of my life. I see a c
  
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• uOttawa prof Sébastien Grammond appointed to federal court

  10-11-2017 17:46 via ottawacitizen.com
  A University of Ottawa law professor has been appointed to the Federal Court, the minister of justice announced Thursday.
   Sébastien Grammond, a professor in the civil law section of the university’s law school and former dean, replaces Mr. Justice S.B. Noël, who retired Sept. 1.
  Proud to announce Sébastien Grammond is appointed a judge of the Federal Court. He has led notable reforms on child welfare legislation. He has also led reforms on services in First Nations
  
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• Dawson: The slippery slope of self-deputized health care

  10-11-2017 17:38 via ottawacitizen.com
  When night falls this evening, there will be no safe injection site in Lowertown’s Raphael Brunet park. It won’t be the first time; inclement weather has forced it to close before. But now, it’s final. Thursday evening was the last hurrah.
  This harm reduction site was a new sort of facility, if a tent can be called that: health-care-by-freebooters, offering services that government had shuffled, instead of sprinted, towards delivering. “It is shameful that so many individ
  
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• Armstrong: Let pot producers brand and market their legal weed

  10-11-2017 17:36 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ontario introduced a bill last week governing sales of recreational cannabis. Meanwhile, the House of Commons is proceeding with its legalization legislation. As both governments finalize the details, they must ensure they allow cannabis producers to effectively brand their products.
  Customers can easily evaluate many products before purchase. Before buying shirts, I can see colour, feel texture and test fit. In product-design terms, those are “search” features. I judge the
  
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• 'Too dearly loved to be forgotten': Dutch volunteers keep Canadian soldiers' stories from being forgotten

  10-11-2017 16:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  “We had a chap killed this morning and just across the road from where I am sitting they are burying him now. The padre just finished saying the sermon; God, it’s so sad. … They have found a nice spot for him though and have a white cross with his rank, name and no. on it and R.I.P. for Rest In Peace. They give the fellows as nice a funeral as possible but it will be so wonderful to be home again and to get away from the feeling that around each corner, someone wants to take a
  
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• These are the Ottawa-area Second World War dead buried in the Netherlands - Ottawa Citizen

  10-11-2017 16:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa Citizen
  These are the Ottawa-area Second World War dead buried in the Netherlands
  Ottawa Citizen
  Flowers and flags grace the manicured grave of a Canadian soldier in the Groesbeek Canadian War Cemetery in the Netherlands. Wouter Brandsma / Special to QMI Agency. Share Adjust Comment Print ...
  
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• Also ahead: Has the Liberal government lived up to its promises to Canadian veterans? #QuestionOfTheDay #cdnpoli twitter.com/1310NEWS/statu…

  10-11-2017 16:14 via twitter.com
  Also ahead: Has the Liberal government lived up to its promises to Canadian veterans?#QuestionOfTheDay#cdnpoli twitter.com/1310NEWS/statu…
  
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• LIVE NEXT: Topics: #BillMorneau #RemembranceDay2017 #Hollywood sexual harassment twitter.com/1310NEWS/statu…

  10-11-2017 16:03 via twitter.com
  LIVE NEXT: Topics: #BillMorneau #RemembranceDay2017 #Hollywood sexual harassment twitter.com/1310NEWS/statu…
  
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• Everyday Heroes: Mitic book honours Canadian veterans

  10-11-2017 15:57 via ottawacitizen.com
  When the call came in to Leading Seaman Bruno Guevremont that there was a suicide bomber in Kandahar, the navy bomb technician assumed he was being sent to pick up bits and pieces.
  To Guevremont’s surprise, when his unit arrived, the bomber was still very much alive, pinned by the arms by two Afghan policemen, a belt of explosives strapped to his body, two detonator switches dangling from his hands.
  There was no time to put on his heavy and cumbersome bomb suit — nor at that close di
  
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• Coming up on the 10 O'Clock Talk: @jonathanmcleod, @WendyBoomer & @catherinejclark join @_MarkSutcliffe live:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  10-11-2017 15:45 via twitter.com
  Coming up on the 10 O'Clock Talk:@jonathanmcleod, @WendyBoomer & @catherinejclark join @_MarkSutcliffe live:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Overnight fires at west-end house and home of Gatineau radio station

  10-11-2017 15:42 via ottawacitizen.com
  Firefighters on both sides of the river were hopping early Friday with a house fire in Ottawa’s Wellington West neighbourhood and a blaze in a commercial building that houses a local radio station in Gatineau.
  Ottawa firefighters were called to 14 Gould St. just after midnight when a 911 caller reported spotting smoke and flames.
  Given high winds, extra resources were immediately dispatched, and the first on the scene declared a working fire and began an “aggressive” attack.
  Th
  
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• MacDougall: The reasons I've come to hate the news

  10-11-2017 15:40 via ottawacitizen.com
  I hate the news.
  A weird thing for a columnist to cop to in a newspaper, to be sure, but since going back to work full-time after a year and a half of daddy day care and freelance writing, I’ve come to hate the news. It’s become ungovernable.
  Every time I peek into my Twitter feed — still my default vein — there are now hundreds (if not thousands) of new posts, many of which appear wildly out of (chronological) sequence.
  I don’t know what’s coming or going. My
  
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• Coming up 9:45 @SandraKiss1053 in studio w/ @_MarkSutcliffe with all your entertainment news:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  10-11-2017 15:36 via twitter.com
  Coming up 9:45@SandraKiss1053 in studio w/ @_MarkSutcliffe with all your entertainment news:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• A kitchen that just looks custom – Local firm Swedish Door hacks IKEA for you

  10-11-2017 15:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  A 30-something Ottawa couple, one in high-tech and the other a doctor, wanted a new kitchen that didn’t look big box, but didn’t break the bank, either.
  Enter designer Kim Teron, who called on Swedish Door. It took her clients “less than 15 seconds” to choose the year-old local company’s white and fossil gray shaker fronts to go on Ikea cabinets. The cost difference over all-Ikea was only about $3,500 more.
  “It brings it up to a custom level without
  
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• Coming up 9:30: @CanWarMuseum historian Tim Cook on the 100th anniversary of #Passchendaele:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  10-11-2017 15:20 via twitter.com
  Coming up 9:30: @CanWarMuseum historian Tim Cook on the 100th anniversary of #Passchendaele:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Coming up at 9:15 @environmentca Senior Climatologist David Phillips on #winter #weather in #Ottawa:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  10-11-2017 15:00 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 9:15@environmentca Senior Climatologist David Phillips on #winter #weather in #Ottawa:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Daniel Lanois explores his roots

  10-11-2017 14:52 via ottawacitizen.com
  Daniel Lanois, the renowned producer of landmark albums by the likes of Bob Dylan and U2, will be returning to his musical roots on this month’s Time On tour of Quebec and Ontario. Lynn Saxberg spoke to the celebrated singer-songwriter-musician about the tour, his memories of growing up in Gatineau and the “far-out” project he plans to release next year. Here’s a condensed version of the interview:
  Q: You’re doing a tour that stops in a few places in Quebec. Are you
  
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• POLL: Has the #Liberal government lived up to its promises to Canadian #veterans? @_MarkSutcliffe… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  10-11-2017 14:44 via twitter.com
  POLL: Has the #Liberal government lived up to its promises to Canadian #veterans? @_MarkSutcliffe… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• #RemembranceDay services in #Ottawa and the Valley: bit.ly/2zwpYmf #ottnews #RemembranceDay2017 https://t.co/zNMU8Vx7Ji

  10-11-2017 14:14 via twitter.com
  
  #RemembranceDay services in #Ottawa and the Valley: bit.ly/2zwpYmf #ottnews#RemembranceDay2017 https://t.co/zNMU8Vx7Ji
  
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• MacDougall: The reasons why I've come to hate the news

  10-11-2017 14:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  I hate the news.
  A weird thing for a columnist to cop to in a newspaper, to be sure, but since going back to work full-time after a year and a half of daddy day care and freelance writing, I’ve come to hate the news. It’s become ungovernable.
  Every time I peek into my Twitter feed — still my default vein — there are now hundreds (if not thousands) of new posts, many of which appear wildly out of (chronological) sequence.
  I don’t know what’s coming or going. My
  
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• Bundle up against a blustery -11 C Friday but sunshine set for Saturday

  10-11-2017 13:46 via ottawacitizen.com
  Brrr!
  Environment Canada has lifted its winter travel advisory but bundle up. Friday morning’s -11 C makes it the coldest Nov. 10 on record and gusty winds make it feel more like -22.
  #Ottawa #WinterIsHere pic.twitter.com/I1JuQRIT3e
  — Sarah Meaghan (@sarahmeaghang) November 10, 2017The previous record was -9 C in 1995.
  Friday’s forecast is for mainly cloudy skies, a 30 per cent chance of morning flurries, westerly winds at 30 km/h gusting to 50 and a high of -8 C.
  With a foreca
  
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• Stolen vehicle with baby on board in Gatineau recovered after 20 minutes

  10-11-2017 13:32 via ottawacitizen.com
  A mother spent a terrified 15-20 minutes in Pointe Gatineau Thursday night when her vehicle was stolen with her baby on board.
  The baby was found safe inside the vehicle about 20 minutes later.
  The jacking occurred when the mother stopped at a convenience store at Saint-Rosaire Street and Chemin de la Savane at about 7:45 p.m.
  As she reached into the car to remove her child, she was pulled onto the street and the thief jumped into the vehicle.
  The mother called police who issued an all-points a
  
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• The internet's favourite alpaca herd finds a new home

  10-11-2017 13:10 via ottawacitizen.com
  After two weeks of uncertainty about their futures, the alpacas that Ottawa-area hobby farmer Mike Caldwell posted on Kijiji for $250 have found a good home.
  Five of the six — Llucy, Stormy, J-Lo, Rocky and Snowflake — are now in the care of Ruth Vanderlaan, who operates a petting zoo on her farm in Winchester Springs, a little less than an hour’s drive south of Ottawa.
  Unfortunately, the sixth, Vinny, of an indeterminate age but by far the herd’s elder statesalpaca, didn
  
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• Overdose Prevention #Ottawa closes supervised injection site: bit.ly/2yOdTeQ #ottnews https://t.co/ojFGrNEOtf

  10-11-2017 12:08 via twitter.com
  
  Overdose Prevention #Ottawa closes supervised injection site: bit.ly/2yOdTeQ #ottnews https://t.co/ojFGrNEOtf
  
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