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• Provincial announcement could mean big changes for Ottawa paramedics

  06-06-2017 23:54
  
  Among the changes, Ontario will launch a new medical dispatch system and also amend Ambulance Act.
  
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• Canada's pot market can't meet the huge demand if legal in 2018

  06-06-2017 23:21 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Inside a nondescript building in an industrial park in Carleton Place, construction crews are building growing rooms for cannabis plants.
  RockGarden Medicinals is the third medical marijuana grower to pop up within an hour’s drive of Parliament Hill. The mother-son team behind the business is hoping to be awarded a licence from Health Canada this summer.
  It’s part of a green rush of grow-ops as Canada moves to legalize recreational marijuana. The federal government’s target dat
  
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• Canada's legal pot market can't meet the huge demand by 2018

  06-06-2017 23:21 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Inside a nondescript building in an industrial park in Carleton Place, construction crews are building growing rooms for cannabis plants.
  RockGarden Medicinals is the third medical marijuana grower to pop up within an hour’s drive of Parliament Hill. The mother-son team behind the business is hoping to be awarded a licence from Health Canada this summer.
  It’s part of a green rush of grow-ops as Canada moves to legalize recreational marijuana. The federal government’s target dat
  
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• Dead homicide suspect's parents also shot dead

  06-06-2017 23:09 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  A homicide suspect shot dead by Ottawa police was just seven years old when both of his parents were gunned down in what was probed as a drug deal gone bad in a Montreal suburb.
  Raymond Alliman, who is at the centre of investigations by both city police and the civilian police watchdog, was shot dead in a gunfight with an officer early Saturday morning inside a ByWard Market parking garage. That shootout came after Alliman, 31, had already shot two other people as bars closed in the Market
  
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• OPP identify man found dead in Ottawa River - Ottawa - CBC News - CBC.ca

  06-06-2017 22:56
  
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  Ontario Provincial Police have identified a man who was found dead after he was earlier spotted in a stolen boat on the Ottawa River.
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• OPP identify man found dead in Ottawa River - CBC.ca

  06-06-2017 22:56
  
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  OPP identify man found dead in Ottawa River
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  Ontario Provincial Police have identified a man who was found dead after he was earlier spotted in a stolen boat on the Ottawa River near Clarence-Rockland. A canine unit, a marine unit and a team of firefighters searched for the man on June 1. They ...
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• Councillor wants proactive policing strategy after ByWard Market shootings

  06-06-2017 22:52 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  The latest gunfire and bloodshed in the ByWard Market is an example of why police need a better protection strategy for the entertainment district, the area’s councillor says.
  “It’s tragic to see incidents like that in the city,” Rideau-Vanier Coun. Mathieu Fleury said Tuesday. “It makes it worst in my mind because (the market) is historic and one of the gems in the community.”
  Two men were shot dead early Saturday. Raymond Alliman shot and killed one man, and
  
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• Calls continue for probe of murder-suicide involving former Canadian soldier 1310news.com/2017/06/06/cal…

  06-06-2017 22:52 via twitter.com
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• Dawson: SIU fails to give public needed answers in Devon LaFleur death

  06-06-2017 22:48 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  It took less than one minute from when Toronto police arrived on scene to when they pumped Devon LaFleur full of bullets last March. 
  The Special Investigations Unit has cleared the three police officers, who hit the 30-year-old with eight of the nearly two-dozen bullets they fired on March 4, 2016, after catching up with LaFleur, who’d fled from Ottawa, with police looking for him in connection to an armed robbery. 
  From the available information, this appears to have been terri
  
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• ON AIR NOW: The Afternoon News with @MarkDayNews & @MelAdams1310 On 1310NEWS or online: player.1310news.com https://t.co/TgRySq8OXQ

  06-06-2017 22:02 via twitter.com
  
  ON AIR NOW: The Afternoon News with @MarkDayNews & @MelAdams1310On 1310NEWS or online: player.1310news.com https://t.co/TgRySq8OXQ
  
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• Reevely: Paramedics angry as more firefighters to do emergency medicine in Ontario

  06-06-2017 21:50 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Paramedics won’t have to take all their patients to emergency rooms and firefighters will be allowed to do more emergency medicine under new laws promised for this fall, the Ontario government says.
  The idea is to save money and paramedics’ time and have more ambulance teams helping more people, though it’s going to take a new computer-aided dispatching system that’ll cost about $10 million, Ottawa South MPP John Fraser says. He’s an assistant to Health Minister Eri
  
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• More Canadian troops to leave for Latvia on June 9

  06-06-2017 21:48 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Approximately 100 Canadian Army soldiers will leave Edmonton on June 9 for Latvia, in support to Operation REASSURANCE. The soldiers, from 1 Canadian Mechanized Brigade Group, will form part of the enhanced Forward Presence (eFP) Battle Group.
   This group will join an advance party of roughly 50 Canadian Army personnel already in Latvia, with additional personnel departing over the next week, the Canadian Army noted in a news release. The deployment will involve 450 Canadian Forces personne
  
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• Schools in Alta Vista and Hunt Club the next targets in closure debates

  06-06-2017 21:42 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  The explosive debates over public school closures move to the Alta Vista and Hunt Club neighbourhoods next.
  The Ottawa-Carleton District School Board plans to study 19 Alta Vista schools as part of a sweeping, five-year review aimed at trimming excess pupil spaces across the district.
  The Alta Vista-Hunt Club “accommodation review” is expected to start in September. A final decision on school closures and changes would be made in March 2018, according to the timetable in a staff repo
  
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• Ottawa Police warn of increase in personal robberies

  06-06-2017 21:41
  
  Both personal robberies and swarmings have risen substantially year over year.
  
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• Suspect ID'd in alleged theft of $4,000 in donations to autism group

  06-06-2017 21:27 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Ottawa police have identified a woman who allegedly stole $4,000 in donations from the Autism Speaks Canada walk on Sunday.
  Police had reached out to the public with a photo of the suspect early on Tuesday, asking for help to identify her. She was identified Tuesday afternoon, although she has not been arrested or charged. Police said an investigation into the incident is still ongoing.
  A woman was working at a charity fundraising event for Autism Speaks Canada. She disappeared at some point dur
  
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• Ottawa shelters see bump in donations inspired by victim of London attack - CBC.ca

  06-06-2017 21:21
  
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  Ottawa shelters see bump in donations inspired by victim of London attack
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  Homeless shelters and resource centres in Ottawa are benefiting from acts of kindness inspired by the Canadian woman who died in last weekend's terror attacks in London. Christine Archibald of Castlegar, B.C., was one of seven people killed when ...
  #chrissysentyou resonating in Ottawa homeless shelters with upsurge in calls, donationsCTV News
  'He held her and watched her die in his arms': London attack
  
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• Chelsea pulls out the last spike from Wakefield Steam Train

  06-06-2017 21:16
  
  The last train for Chelsea — the very last ever, it now turns out — steamed out of the station in 2011. And now crews are going to tear up the tracks.For six years, ever since the latest landslide washed out the tracks, backers had talked of a return someday of the little locomotive and the green cars that carried thousands of passengers up the Gatineau
  
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• OC Sessions: Rhythm and Burgundy bring comedic songs to Ottawa Fringe Festival

  06-06-2017 20:49 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  After Kristine Shadid and Alli Harris mounted their first full-length Rhythm and Burgundy musical comedy show last fall, friends urged them to take it to the Fringe.That would be the Ottawa Fringe Festival, of course, the annual, non-curated celebration of theatre in which performers are selected by lottery. The 20th-anniversary edition starts Thursday and runs until June 18 in various downtown locations.“It was a huge tipping point for us,” says Shadid of their November show at the
  
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• Michael Potter to host lavish $5,000-a-ticket gala in support of hospital

  06-06-2017 20:29
  
  Ottawa’s renowned philanthropist and high-tech icon Michael Potter is opening his home to host one of the city’s most lavish fundraising events of the year.The Twinkle Twinkle Future Stars Gala, to be held Wednesday, will cost $5,000 per ticket, with proceeds going to support The Ottawa Hospital’s Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at the General Hospital
  
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• It's one of the trendiest festivals of the summer! We rundown this year's @GlowFair next on the @MeehanCarolAnne sh… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  06-06-2017 20:15 via twitter.com
  It's one of the trendiest festivals of the summer! We rundown this year's @GlowFair next on the @MeehanCarolAnne sh… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Dead suspect's own parents also victims of homicide

  06-06-2017 20:15
  
  A homicide suspect shot dead by Ottawa police was just seven years old when both of his parents were gunned down in what was probed as a drug deal gone bad in a Montreal suburb.Raymond Alliman, who is at the centre of investigations by both city police and the civilian police watchdog, was shot dead in a gunfight with an officer early Saturday morning
  
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• Watson would welcome centre for indigenous peoples in former U.S. embassy

  06-06-2017 20:13
  
  Although a portrait gallery would have been his preferred use for the former U.S. embassy across from Parliament Hill, Mayor Jim Watson welcomed news Tuesday that the federal government plans to dedicate the heritage building to indigenous, Métis and Inuit people.The mayor was reacting to reports
  
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• Coming up at 2:15pm, it's ask a vet on the @MeehanCarolAnne show - Call in with your pet questions 613-750-1310! https://t.co/80Z7nFvEj2

  06-06-2017 20:05 via twitter.com
  
  Coming up at 2:15pm, it's ask a vet on the @MeehanCarolAnne show - Call in with your pet questions 613-750-1310! https://t.co/80Z7nFvEj2
  
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• Police ID suspect after $4K stolen from autism charity walk - CBC.ca

  06-06-2017 19:43
  
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  Police ID suspect after $4K stolen from autism charity walk
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  Ottawa police have identified a person who allegedly stole more than $4,000 from an autism charity walk after volunteering over the weekend. Ottawa police suspect theft volunteer Autism Speaks Canada Walk June 4 2017. Ottawa police have released this ...
  Volunteer allegedly stole $4000 from autism group at Ottawa event, then disappeared on bathroom breakNational Post
  Ottawa Police looking for volunteer who walked off
  
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• Dead suspect wanted when shot by police

  06-06-2017 19:42
  
  The homicide suspect shot dead by a tacticalpolice officer this weekend was wanted on abench warrant in Vaughan at the time of hisdeath, Postmedia has learned.
  
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• New paramedic dispatch system to give most serious calls top priority - CBC.ca

  06-06-2017 19:15
  
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  New paramedic dispatch system to give most serious calls top priority
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  Ottawa is expected to be among the first communities in the province to get a new paramedic dispatch system aimed at giving the most serious cases top priority, and sending less serious cases to non-emergency medical centres. The new system is also ...
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• New paramedic dispatch system to give most serious calls top ... - CBC.ca

  06-06-2017 19:15
  
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  New paramedic dispatch system to give most serious calls top ...
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  Ottawa is expected to be among the first communities in the province to get a new paramedic dispatch system aimed at giving the most serious cases top priority, ...
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• Coming up next on the @MeehanCarolAnne show: Hydro One Submits 5-Year Rate Application @ToddSmithPC weighs-in https://t.co/AUdbd0Iccp

  06-06-2017 19:15 via twitter.com
  
  Coming up next on the @MeehanCarolAnne show: Hydro One Submits 5-Year Rate Application @ToddSmithPC weighs-in https://t.co/AUdbd0Iccp
  
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• Snowbirds back on the air show circuit- ready for appearance over Parliament Hill

  06-06-2017 19:12 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  The Canadian Forces Snowbirds are resuming the 2017 air show season after taking a break to do additional training.
  The military aerobatic team cancelled a number of appearances at air shows in Canada and the U.S. last month after concerns were raised by the Snowbirds’ leadership about issues with flying skills.
  As a result, the team returned to its home base of 15 Wing Moose Jaw, Sask. for further training.
  The Snowbirds’ first performance since the break will be at the air show in
  
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• The @MeehanCarolAnne show starts now, listen in: player.1310news.com https://t.co/XXrDvAkAW1

  06-06-2017 19:00 via twitter.com
  
  The @MeehanCarolAnne show starts now, listen in: player.1310news.com https://t.co/XXrDvAkAW1
  
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• House Works: Drying basements with dimpled membrane and wet wood with fans

  06-06-2017 18:48 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Dimpled Drainage Membrane Really Works
  Q: Is dimpled drainage membrane worth putting around a basement wall? We’re installing weeping tiles this year to make a wet basement dry, but the contractor doesn’t want to use dimpled membrane. He says they only use it in southern areas because they put sand around basements. He wants to use gravel only. Does this make sense?
  This dimpled layer of black plastic maintains a vertical drainage zone down the side of foundation walls, allowing wate
  
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• Police looking to ID suspect in charity theft @OttawaPolice @CrimeStoppersOT 1310news.com/2017/06/06/pol… #ottnews https://t.co/Bq0DXNqoqz

  06-06-2017 18:41 via twitter.com
  
  Police looking to ID suspect in charity theft @OttawaPolice @CrimeStoppersOT1310news.com/2017/06/06/pol… #ottnews https://t.co/Bq0DXNqoqz
  
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• Game review: Injustice 2 will make comic book fans squeal with glee

  06-06-2017 18:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Injustice 2
  Rated: 4 out of 5 stars
  Available on: PlayStation 4, Xbox One
  Rating: T for Teen
   
  Whether you’re looking for a simple brawler or a video game with an incredibly deep comic-themed story, Injustice 2 delivers.
  The game is the latest from NetherRealm Studios, which is best known for the Mortal Kombat series of games, and pits a whack of DC Comics heroes and villains against each other so that friends can play some pretty epic head-to-head battles. Batman versus Superman? Che
  
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• Still ahead: @CanLyme Rossana Magnotta on the rise of #LymeDisease across #Canada: bit.ly/1uwtdOs… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  06-06-2017 18:28 via twitter.com
  Still ahead: @CanLyme Rossana Magnotta on the rise of #LymeDisease across #Canada: bit.ly/1uwtdOs… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Suspect sought in alleged theft of $4,000 in donations to autism group

  06-06-2017 18:22 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Ottawa police are asking for the public’s help to identify a woman who allegedly stole $4,000 in donations from the Autism Speaks Canada walk on Sunday.
  According to the charity the woman was working as a volunteer at the event, which was held at the Bell Sensplex in Kanata. The event is labelled as the “single most important fundraiser” for Autism Speaks Canada, to support research, services, advocacy and awareness as it relates to autism.
  Few details are being shared about ho
  
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• Kids allowed to sell lemonade on Ottawa bike days, if they sign 3-page contract - Globalnews.ca

  06-06-2017 18:02
  
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  Kids allowed to sell lemonade on Ottawa bike days, if they sign 3-page contract
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  The National Capital Commission is allowing children to open a lemonade stand on Sunday Bikedays in Ottawa this summer, provided that the kids and their parents get a permit and agree to 15 separate conditions. Last year, the NCC made headlines when ...
  
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• NEXT on the #POWERlunch: @KurtStoodley & @JLMadigan join @_MarkSutcliffe LIVE in studio:… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  06-06-2017 17:58 via twitter.com
  NEXT on the #POWERlunch: @KurtStoodley & @JLMadigan join @_MarkSutcliffe LIVE in studio:… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Today's letters: Canada 150 is great – don't be a grump about it!

  06-06-2017 17:54 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Don’t rain on our parade!
  Re: A 150 party designed by 12-year-olds, June 2
  It’s not the pageantry nor the structures, the lights, the sounds, it’s the people involved who truly make an occasion one to remember.
  In his article Kelly Egan never gave a thought to who is behind the spectacles, the thousands of proud, giving, exceptional citizens of our region working and volunteering to make these events happen.
  It’s a chance to escape, have fun, meet people, learn, try, see
  
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• NATO to highlight Canadian-led battlegroup in Latvia

  06-06-2017 17:51 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  NATO’s enhanced Forward Presence (eFP)  battlegroup will hold a ceremony in Latvia on June 19 to mark the establishment of that military formation in that country. The ceremony for the Canadian-led eFP battlegroup will be held at Camp Ādaži, Latvia.
   
  
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• You might be from #Canada if....... #Political cartoonist @deAdder joins @_MarkSutcliffe coming up:… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  06-06-2017 17:44 via twitter.com
  You might be from #Canada if.......#Political cartoonist @deAdder joins @_MarkSutcliffe coming up:… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Cohen: The British have two awful options

  06-06-2017 17:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  LONDON – Two days from the national election that Theresa May’s Conservatives were expected to win in a walk, the party is now expected to do no better than a reduced majority or a minority. This is a staggering reversal of fortune.
  May is the Hillary Clinton of British politics. It was her election to lose. Blessed with the weakest opposition in memory, she’s in free fall.
  Britain isn’t France, where the pollsters predicted the surprise election of Emmanuel Macron. Polls
  
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• Ottawa man dies after being left at Alexandria hospital, two in custody

  06-06-2017 17:10 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Provincial police are looking for tips and witnesses after a 29-year-old Ottawa man died at the hospital in Alexandria where he was dropped off by a van which fled the scene.
  Police now have the two occupants of the van in custody but are saying little about the victim’s injuries and are not identifying him pending an autopsy expected to be performed in Ottawa today.
  It was at about 7:25 p.m. Monday that Stormont Dundas and Glengarry OPP were called to the hospital in Alexandria, about an
  
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• Police hunting east-end flasher who grabbed teen girl

  06-06-2017 17:09 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  A teenage girl was able to flee to safety after she was grabbed by a man who exposed himself on an Orléans pathway but the flasher is still at large, police say.
  Police are now asking the public to help them identify the suspect in the May 31 incident. 
  The girl was heading home along Prestwick Drive at about 10 p.m. then had entered a lit pathway when the man grabbed her arm and exposed himself, police said. She broke away and ran home.
  The suspect is a white male, about 30 to
  
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• LCBO union moves one step closer to possible walkout before July 1

  06-06-2017 17:07 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Citing deteriorating working conditions across the province, the bargaining team for LCBO workers has asked the Ontario Ministry of Labour for a “no board” report, moving one step closer to a possible strike or lockout at the province’s liquor stores before the end of the month.
  The chair of the Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU) bargaining team, Denise Davis, said the LCBO’s actions away from the table, as well as its refusal to move on the key concerns of wo
  
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• Train crossing malfunction in Barrhaven causes traffic disruptions

  06-06-2017 17:05 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  A malfunctioning signal at a train crossing in Barrhaven caused traffic to backup along Fallowfield Road Tuesday morning.
  According to city officials the gates to the train crossing between Hollitman Road and Woodroofe Avenue became stuck sometime around 6:30 a.m. and wouldn’t open.
  The jammed gates forced traffic along Fallowfield Road to find alternate routes.
  Via Rail engineers have been notified of the issue and are planning to manually lift the gates to allow traffic flow to return to
  
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• #LCBO staff take another step toward possible strike: bit.ly/2r1SxC1 https://t.co/omquH2MLv7

  06-06-2017 15:41 via twitter.com
  
  #LCBO staff take another step toward possible strike: bit.ly/2r1SxC1 https://t.co/omquH2MLv7
  
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• NEXT @RandallMoore26 with @_MarkSutcliffe live in studio for weekly segment: bit.ly/1uwtdOs… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  06-06-2017 15:28 via twitter.com
  NEXT@RandallMoore26 with @_MarkSutcliffe live in studio for weekly segment:bit.ly/1uwtdOs… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Coming up at 10: Is it fair for defence to question credibility of sex assault victim who had contact with accuse… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  06-06-2017 15:24 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 10: Is it fair for defence to question credibility of sex assault victim who had contact with accuse… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Ottawa weather: Deal with rain today, get rewarded with sun, heat tomorrow [Video]

  06-06-2017 15:09
  
  Just wait for Wednesday. Tuesday will be wet and cloudy with a high of 15 C. But the rain will end by late afternoon, skies clear by evening. And then Wednesday is forecast to be summery with sunshine and a high of 25 C. Environment Canada predicts a mix of sun and cloud and a high of 26 C Thursday.
  
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• Will legalization lead to massive pot shortages? Experts say yes

  06-06-2017 14:12
  
  Don't plan a Canada Day 2018 shopping bonanza at your local pot shop yet. Canadians may be more likely to find empty shelves — in provinces where stores are even up and running — and shortages.
  
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