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• Human-trafficking cases in Ottawa have revealed shocking details

  09-06-2017 23:59 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Human trafficking has traditionally been difficult to prosecute. Its victims have usually suffered extensive trauma; many have addictions. It means they often have imperfect memories, which makes it difficult for courts to rely on their testimony. What’s more, victims are often afraid to testify against their former traffickers.
  One federal study found that out of 53 cases in which human trafficking was the most serious charge, only about a third (30 per cent) resulted in a conviction.
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• A murky, misunderstood hell: On the front lines of human trafficking in Ottawa

  09-06-2017 23:59 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  For Virginia, the end to her three-month nightmare came on a highway near Cornwall when she leapt from a moving car toward freedom.
  It was September 2015, and Virginia — not her real name — had spent much of the past three months being ferried between hotel rooms and private homes in the National Capital Region, to have sex for money.
  The man who claimed to be her boyfriend had convinced her that by working temporarily as a call girl she could help them build a future together: to bu
  
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• ByWard Market tent installation to offer 150 'new perspectives'

  09-06-2017 23:53 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  For Arif Jaffer, riding on Via Rail is like riding the Hogwarts Express.
  “I romanticize everything,” said Jaffer, 23, who is originally from Toronto and works as a civil servant in Ottawa.
  “I essentially wanted to be the brown Harry Potter, that was my end-goal in life.”
  One train ride in particular was a turning point in his life, but he is waiting to share that story at next week’s Trophy event.
  Jaffer is one of 150 storytellers who will be sharing their life expe
  
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• Ottawa Police charge man with impersonating a dentist - CTV News

  09-06-2017 23:40
  
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  Ottawa Police charge man with impersonating a dentist
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  Ottawa Police have arrested a man for pretending to be a dentist. 29-year-old Omar Anwar appeared in court today to face several charges. Remember that movie "Catch me if you can?" He's no Leonardo DiCaprio, but police say his ruse was elaborate and ...
  
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• 'Not a fortress': Mayor, police chief outline Canada Day security on Parliament Hill

  09-06-2017 23:29 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Security on Parliament Hill and throughout downtown Ottawa must strike a fine balance between keeping the public safe and letting them rejoice in the largest Canada Day celebration in the city’s history, Mayor Jim Watson said Friday.
  The RCMP, Ottawa police, the city’s emergency and protective services department and others have been at work for more than a year on a plan to make the Hill as accessible as possible for as many Canadians and visitors as possible, while recognizing the
  
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• Hoyeck: The abortion debate in our secular state: Why the two sides can't talk to each other

  09-06-2017 23:29 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Last month, Attorney General Yasir Naqvi promised a provincial law setting an anti-protest “bubble zone” around abortion clinics, to be passed in the fall. The announcement followed mounting controversy around regular protest activity outside Ottawa’s Morgentaler Clinic.
  The predictable effect of Naqvi’s promise has been to reignite the perennial debate about abortion here in Ottawa. What is so striking about this debate, more than any other, is the extent to which each s
  
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• Reevely: Jack MacLaren unbound, and never happier

  09-06-2017 23:22 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Jack MacLaren is two weeks free of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario and the happiest he’s been in years, he says.
  “You know where I am? I’m out here on Tom Black’s deck, looking out and waiting for the soybeans to grow,” he says over the phone on Friday, the breeze blowing into the handset.
  Black’s the president of the Ontario Landowners Association, the rural-populist movement MacLaren led before he went into politics and became the MPP for Carle
  
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• Updated: Ottawa man faces fraud, ID theft charges after allegedly posing as dentist

  09-06-2017 23:01 via ottawacitizen.com
  An Ottawa man is in custody for allegedly posing as a dentist, although police can only confirm he has worked as a dental assistant at two Ottawa clinics.
  Police received a call from the National Dental Examining Board of Canada (NDEB) that someone was attempting to take dental exams on May 27-28 with falsified credentials. In order to write the exam, applicants must have a degree from an accredited dental school.
  The investigation revealed that the man allegedly accessed the university cre
  
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• Politics matters: The world, the kids and the watchdogs

  09-06-2017 22:51 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  When Justin Trudeau grabbed a bite with Barack Obama in Montreal this week, it was far more than a couple of friends catching up over crab cakes. Beyond the frame of the immaculately staged and cheery photo the prime minister tweeted out Tuesday night, the world order was in convulsions.
  Trudeau was knitting together a network of G7 countries who could pressure the United States to stick with the plan on climate. His foreign affairs minister was declaring Canada’s newfound love for “
  
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• The word on the street is yum — local food trucks rallying for summer 2017

  09-06-2017 22:02
  
  After a clammy start to the street food season, Ottawa’s trucks and carts are in high gear for the summer of 2017. They’re cooking up everything from wood-fired pizza and ceviche to churros and gelato on city streets and at rallies in ‘burbs like Barrhaven and Bells Corners.
  
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• #new U.S. President Trump on whether the Comey tapes exist: "I’ll tell you about that, maybe, some time in the very near future."

  09-06-2017 21:21 via twitter.com
  #newU.S. President Trump on whether the Comey tapes exist: "I’ll tell you about that, maybe, some time in the very near future."
  
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• ON AIR NOW: The Afternoon News with @MarkDayNews & @MelAdams1310 On 1310NEWS or online: player.1310news.com https://t.co/S728sQ2kvE

  09-06-2017 21:06 via twitter.com
  
  ON AIR NOW: The Afternoon News with @MarkDayNews & @MelAdams1310On 1310NEWS or online: player.1310news.com https://t.co/S728sQ2kvE
  
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• Strange bedfellows – Boeing and Bombardier file complaints about U.S. military contract

  09-06-2017 20:52 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  In a new twist on their aerospace rivalry, Bombardier has joined Boeing to protest the awarding of a U.S. military aircraft contract to another company.
  The challenge comes as Bombardier finds itself the target of a Boeing complaint over the Quebec firm’s sales of commercial aircraft in the U.S.
  Boeing has accused Bombardier of receiving Canadian government subsidies that allowed it to sell its C-Series passenger planes at cut-rate prices. That, in turn, set in motion the Liberal governmen
  
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• Marc Seaman new chair of NCC

  09-06-2017 20:52 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Marc Seaman, an executive with Microsoft who has been chair of the Shaw Centre for four years, is the new chair of the board of the National Capital Commission.
  He has been appointed for a five-year term, replacing Russ Mills, who retired earlier this year after 10 years in the job.
  The announcement from the Department of Canadian Heritage says Seaman “has extensive experience in senior management and leadership, and expertise in strategic marketing and communications, public affairs and g
  
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• Farmers 'weeks behind' after rain swamps Eastern Ontario lands

  09-06-2017 20:45 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Corn should have sprouted by now all over Eastern Ontario. Soybeans should be planted, greenhouse tomatoes should be red. And south of Smiths Falls, Ellie Renaud should have hay cut and baled for her beef cattle.
  But the flooding rains came instead, and weeks of cool, dampish weather have left fields like soaked sponges, unable to dry.
  “We are weeks behind,” Renaud said Friday. “You have to tell the insurance company by the 15th of June if you think you’re going to have a
  
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• A full rundown of Ottawa events with @Bartcormier next on the @MeehanCarolAnne show. https://t.co/PmZCflSZvc

  09-06-2017 20:45 via twitter.com
  
  A full rundown of Ottawa events with @Bartcormier next on the @MeehanCarolAnne show. https://t.co/PmZCflSZvc
  
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• City delays decision on payday loan companies until next year

  09-06-2017 20:37
  
  The city will wait until after the next municipal election to decide if it should license payday loan companies, which traditionally charge enormous fees to those who can’t get bank loans or credit cards.
  
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• Not the right home for an indigenous cultural centre

  09-06-2017 20:33 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Dull grey hoardings still surround 100 Wellington St., almost two decades after the beaux-arts-style building was abandoned by American diplomats in favour of the behemoth that now looms over the ByWard Market. But sometime this month –­ likely around National Aboriginal Day on June 21 –­ the federal government intends to finally, formally announce a new use for the empty structure across from Parliament Hill: a centre dedicated in some way to Canada’s indigenous people
  
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• Next on the @MeehanCarolAnne show - Parentins tips with @shiffer @Todaysparent https://t.co/3ieRG0Aam1

  09-06-2017 20:30 via twitter.com
  
  Next on the @MeehanCarolAnne show - Parentins tips with @shiffer @Todaysparent https://t.co/3ieRG0Aam1
  
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• City waiting until next term to decide on licensing for payday loan companies

  09-06-2017 20:22 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  The city will wait until after the next municipal election to decide if it should license payday loan companies, which traditionally charge enormous fees to those who can’t get bank loans or credit cards.
  Bylaw chief Roger Chapman wrote an analysis on what the city could do to regulate the businesses, responding to a council direction from April 2016. The analysis was recently sent to council’s community and protective services committee.
  The city counted 59 payday loan business loca
  
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• ByWard Market tent installation event to offer 150 'new perspectives'

  09-06-2017 20:08 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  For Arif Jaffer, riding on Via Rail is like riding the Hogwarts Express.
  “I romanticize everything,” said Jaffer, 23, who is originally from Toronto and works as a civil servant in Ottawa.
  “I essentially wanted to be the brown Harry Potter, that was my end-goal in life.”
  One train ride in particular was a turning point in his life, but he is waiting to share that story at next week’s Trophy event.
  Jaffer is one of 150 storytellers who will be sharing their life expe
  
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• Hitting the movie theater this weekend? We're review the latest movies to hit the big screen next on the… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  09-06-2017 20:00 via twitter.com
  Hitting the movie theater this weekend? We're review the latest movies to hit the big screen next on the… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Thrive at eQuinelle: Kemptville’s resort-like community returns with new two-storey homes

  09-06-2017 19:58 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Surrounded by nature on the shores of the Rideau River, eQ Homes’ eQuinelle could be the place to begin that life you always promised yourself. It’s a resort-like community where there’s always an opportunity to improve your golf game, bike the woodland trails or paddle along the river at sunset. On Saturday June 10th, eQ Homes will be launching a new selection of two-storey detached homes at Thrive at eQuinelle.
  Thrive at eQuinelle is a family village that captures the charm a
  
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• Today's letters: How to best memorialize the Afghanistan mission

  09-06-2017 19:55 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Some letter writers aren’t fans of the plans for the old U.S. embassy. Still others worry about terrorism, long-term care and the Afghanistan war memorial . 
  Got thoughts? Email us at [email protected]
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  Afghan memorials must be completed properly
  Re: Liberals pick new home for long-awaited war memorial, June 1.
  It was certainly good news to hear that a more practical site has been selected for the Afghanistan war memorial.
  Sadly, this memorial appears destined to be a stat
  
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• Electronic dance music festival @EscapadeMF heads for Lansdowne, @chernushenko joins us next on the… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  09-06-2017 19:45 via twitter.com
  Electronic dance music festival @EscapadeMF heads for Lansdowne, @chernushenko joins us next on the… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Redblacks kicking hero Brett Maher possibly returning to team

  09-06-2017 19:36 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Sounds like former Redblacks kicker Brett Maher, an expansion-season home-opener hero, is coming back to Ottawa.
  A report by 3 Down Nation’s, Drew Edwards said Maher, who kicked for the Hamilton Tiger-Cats in 2016, has signed with the Redblacks.
  All that could be standing in the way of an announcement is paperwork being finalized and filtered through the CFL.
  It will make the final two weeks of training camp heading into the CFL regular season interesting. The Redblacks have two kickers &n
  
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• 'A place for imagination': Vast MosaïCanada exhibit set to open on banks of Ottawa River (and it's free) [Video]

  09-06-2017 18:44
  
  To enter the soon-to-be complete MosaïCanada 150/Gatineau 2017, visitors first walk into an exact replica of a 1920s Canadian Pacific Railway station – except that it’s sheathed in living plants instead of boards and shingles.On the tracks, a gardener is carefully clipping the living roof of Engine No. 374.A
  
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• Still ahead: @DougSaunders joins @_marksutcliffe on Theresa May losing majority parliament:… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  09-06-2017 18:28 via twitter.com
  Still ahead: @DougSaunders joins @_marksutcliffe on Theresa May losing majority parliament:… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• 'A place for imagination': Vast MosaïCanada exhibit set to open on banks of Ottawa River (and it's free)

  09-06-2017 18:25 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  To enter the soon-to-be complete MosaïCanada 150/Gatineau 2017,  visitors first walk into an exact replica of a 1920s Canadian Pacific Railway station – except that it’s sheathed in living plants instead of boards and shingles.
  On the tracks, a gardener is carefully clipping the living roof of Engine No. 374.
  A duplicate of the first CPR steam locomotive to take passengers across Canada, it waits to symbolically carry visitors through a vast spectacle celebrating the c
  
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• Jedwab: Philippe Couillard's vision of Canada is wrong

  09-06-2017 18:06 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard announced last week that his government was going to invite Canadians to cross-country discussions aimed at getting the province to sign the 1982 Canadian Constitution. As Canada embarks upon major celebrations of its 150th anniversary, Couillard sincerely desires that the province formally endorse the Constitution.
  His government issued a policy statement entitled “Quebecers: Our Way of Being Canadians,” which serves as the basis for the proposed na
  
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• NEXT on the #POWERLunch: @Go_Taylor & @ShelleyMcLean_ join @_MarkSutcliffe LIVE in studio:… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  09-06-2017 17:58 via twitter.com
  NEXT on the #POWERLunch: @Go_Taylor& @ShelleyMcLean_ join @_MarkSutcliffe LIVE in studio:… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Still ahead: @BarryDavis_ joins @_MarkSutcliffe with all your @BlueJays news: bit.ly/1ppeuDa #BlueJays https://t.co/RQNf5eCCB2

  09-06-2017 17:44 via twitter.com
  
  Still ahead:@BarryDavis_ joins @_MarkSutcliffe with all your @BlueJays news: bit.ly/1ppeuDa#BlueJays https://t.co/RQNf5eCCB2
  
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• Massie: Theresa May will never recover from this one

  09-06-2017 17:44 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Theresa May called this election because she believed Britain needed a “strong and stable” government to navigate its way through the treacherous waters of Brexit. A thumping Conservative majority, she said, would “strengthen” her hand as she begins the process of negotiating the United Kingdom’s exit from the European Union. Give me the tools, she suggested, and I’ll finish the job.
  The people of Britain demurred.
  Asked the question “Who runs Britain?&r
  
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• Ottawa's soggiest spring wreaks havoc with outdoor activities

  09-06-2017 17:38
  
  Welcome to the drowned rat season – where giant carp wash onto golf courses from flooded rivers and baseballs disappear into the long, wet outfield grass.That is, when teams can play baseball at all. Or tennis. Or golf. Name an outdoor recreational pursuit and it has been affected by soaked fields or courts, and near constant rain.
  
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• Ottawa man faces fraud, ID theft charges after allegedly posing as dentist

  09-06-2017 17:37
  
  An Ottawa man is in custody for allegedly posing as a dentist, although police can only confirm he has worked as a dental assistant at two Ottawa clinics.Police received a call from the National Dental Examining Board of Canada that someone was attempting to take dental exams on May 27-28 with falsified credentials.
  
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• After wet weather, trimming the sports fields grass a tall order for city staff

  09-06-2017 17:17 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  The sight of stacked-up arena boards on city fields in April was the first sign of trouble.
  Ottawa area fields were so wet and soft from a record rainfall, city staff couldn’t get their trucks onto park grounds until late April or early May. Workers are still trying to catch up while managing some 800 sports fields around the city.
  Fields that normally open for recreation on May 1 were off-limits until May 15.
  “People look forward to the May 1 opening all year long, so that is never
  
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• Still ahead: @BoileauTina joins @_MarkSutcliffe LIVE w/ update on @pitrej02 -- now out of hospital!… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  09-06-2017 16:55 via twitter.com
  Still ahead: @BoileauTina joins @_MarkSutcliffe LIVE w/ update on @pitrej02 -- now out of hospital!… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Still ahead: @rebeccanoella on her coming performance in Montreal with @Jacksons: bit.ly/1uwtdOs… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  09-06-2017 16:44 via twitter.com
  Still ahead: @rebeccanoella on her coming performance in Montreal with @Jacksons: bit.ly/1uwtdOs… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Ottawa housing starts rise 12% in May - Ottawa Business Journal

  09-06-2017 16:42
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  Ottawa housing starts rise 12% in May
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  Ottawa's residential construction industry picked up more steam in May as homebuilders continued to accelerate the pace of new housing starts, the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. reported Thursday. The federal agency said developers started ...
  
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• Ottawa man charged with impersonating a dentist - CBC.ca - CBC.ca

  09-06-2017 16:32
  
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  A 29-year-old Ottawa man faces a series of charges for allegedly impersonating a dentist and working at two clinics in the city.
  Ottawa man charged with impersonating dentist wins bail | Ottawa ...Ottawa Citizen
  Ottawa man facing charges after allegedly trying to pass himself off ...Toronto Starall 3 news articles »
  
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• Ottawa man charged with impersonating a dentist - CBC.ca

  09-06-2017 16:32
  
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  A 29-year-old Ottawa man has been charged with impersonating a dentist and working at two clinics in the city. In May, the Ottawa police organized fraud unit received a complaint from the National Dental Examining Board of Canada about a man who had ...
  Ottawa man faces fraud, ID theft charges after allegedly posing as dentistOttawa Citizen
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• NEXT @MooseConsortium Joseph Potvin on questions over rail line removal near Bayview Station:… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  09-06-2017 16:28 via twitter.com
  NEXT@MooseConsortium Joseph Potvin on questions over rail line removal near Bayview Station:… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Still ahead: @cmaconthehill with a look back at week in #cdnpoli: Listen: bit.ly/1ppeuDa… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  09-06-2017 16:14 via twitter.com
  Still ahead:@cmaconthehill with a look back at week in #cdnpoli: Listen: bit.ly/1ppeuDa… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Gatineau job market reclaims top spot over Ottawa

  09-06-2017 16:14 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  The capital region’s jobless rate jumped to 5.7 per cent in May compared to 5.3 per cent in April, driven down by developments on the Ottawa side of the river, Statistics Canada reported Friday.
  Overall, the region suffered a net decline of 800 jobs, along with an increase of 3,200 new job seekers.
  These numbers are adjusted for seasonal influences.
  Gatineau registered a strong gain of 2,800 jobs while in Ottawa the number employed dropped 3,600, with weaknesses reported in sectors that in
  
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• Coming up on the #POWERLunch @NOON: @Go_Taylor & @ShelleyMcLean_ join @_MarkSutcliffe LIVE in studio:… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  09-06-2017 15:56 via twitter.com
  Coming up on the #POWERLunch @NOON: @Go_Taylor& @ShelleyMcLean_ join @_MarkSutcliffe LIVE in studio:… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• NEXT @JLeiper on questions over rail line removal near Bayview Station: bit.ly/1uwtdOs @_MarkSutcliffe… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  09-06-2017 15:44 via twitter.com
  NEXT@JLeiper on questions over rail line removal near Bayview Station:bit.ly/1uwtdOs @_MarkSutcliffe… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Louis Riel opera takes on new meaning during time of truth and reconciliation

  09-06-2017 15:42 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  By Lauren La Rose
  Louis Riel was originally created to mark Canada’s centennial in 1967, but a new incarnation of the opera about the famed Metis leader has an added poignancy given the current era of truth and reconciliation with indigenous peoples, says director Peter Hinton.
  “They could have chosen a story that was much idealized, that celebrated Confederation, that was a kind of sea-to-shining-sea national dream, up-with-people kind of tale. And they chose one of t
  
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• Coming up: @Alex_Panetta discusses James #Comey scathing testimony: bit.ly/1uwtdOs @_MarkSutcliffe… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  09-06-2017 15:28 via twitter.com
  Coming up: @Alex_Panetta discusses James #Comey scathing testimony: bit.ly/1uwtdOs@_MarkSutcliffe… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Glavin: Canada's oldest and best friends are barely functioning

  09-06-2017 15:20 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  The political chaos that has paralyzed the United Kingdom with the crippling of Theresa May’s Conservative government at the polls Thursday is an instructive illustration of the disruptive anxiety and exhaustion sweeping the West that Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland warned about in her address to the House of Commons this week.
  A “hung Parliament” has left the Conservatives without a majority in Westminster, and without anything like the renewed mandate May had hoped
  
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