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• National arts contest launched in Ottawa to combat hate, confront Islamophobia

  23-06-2017 23:55 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  At an anti-Muslim rally earlier this year in Toronto, youth filmmaker Eduardo Alves Dos Anjos was searching for something he thought would be hard to find: a positive representation of the Muslim community. 
  Dos Anjos, a Muslim convert, was skeptical at first, but he managed to find voices against Islamophobia at the rally. 
  With those voices, he produced a three minute film as a part of a National Council of Canadian Muslims workshop to engage Muslim youth.
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• GM Pierre Dorion poised to negotiate with Senators' potential free agents - Ottawa Citizen

  23-06-2017 23:55 via ottawacitizen.com
  
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  Goaltender Mike Condon can become an unrestricted free agent July 1 if the Senators don't re-sign him before then. Christian Petersen/Getty Images Christian Petersen / SunMedia. Share Adjust Comment Print. CHICAGO — Pierre Dorion is ready to get ...and more »
  
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• GM Pierre Dorion poised to negotiate with Senators' potential free agents

  23-06-2017 23:55 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  CHICAGO — Pierre Dorion is ready to get down to business.
  With the National Hockey League expansion draft in the rearview mirror, the Ottawa Senators general manager says his plan is to get on the phone with the club’s restricted and unrestricted free agents while here in the Windy City, trying to get at least some of them.
  With the talking period for free agents set to open next week, Dorion plans to speak with agents for unrestricted free agents Mike Condon, Viktor Stalberg, Tommy
  
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• Oops! Parks Canada reveals secret map of Franklin shipwreck

  23-06-2017 23:41 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Secrecy has surrounded the discoveries of the doomed ships of the Franklin Expedition since they were found — HMS Erebus in 2014 and Terror in 2016.
  First, former prime minister Stephen Harper insisted on revealing the Erebus find personally in a controlled photo-op. No questions allowed.
  Since then, Parks Canada has given out information in tightly-controlled media releases. Even academic historians have only limited access to the story.
  And the tightest secret of all? The locations of th
  
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• Fury looks to jump up table with franchise points record

  23-06-2017 23:38 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Approaching the mid-way point of its season, Ottawa Fury FC has already established a franchise record for most points after 13 games.
  The 5-4-4 mark and 19 points obliterates last year’s total of nine points after 13 contests, the 10 points produced in 2014 and tops the 18 points the 2015 edition posted, with all those marks coming with Fury FC as a member of the North American Soccer League.
  Now the club is in the United Soccer League, but, just the same, Fury FC head coach Paul Dal
  
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• Ottawa Police renew calls for help finding Mary Papatsie, 39, missing since late April #ottnews 1310news.com/2017/06/23/pol…

  23-06-2017 23:33 via twitter.com
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• Skeptics question JTF2 sniper claim, NDP says it shows troops in combat

  23-06-2017 23:20 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  The discussion continues about the claim from Canadian special forces that one of their snipers now holds a new world record for long-distance killing.
  The Globe and Mail first reported the news on June 22. Citing military sources, it claimed that a JTF2 sniper “shattered the world record for the longest confirmed kill shot in military history at a staggering distance of 3,450 metres.”
  The individual used a McMillan TAC-50 sniper rifle.
  “It is a world record that might never be
  
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• OC Transpo bus slams into overhang near CHEO entrance

  23-06-2017 23:08
  
  OC Transpo is investigating after one of its buses slammed into an overhang near an entrance to the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario on Friday.According to OC Transpo, the bus collided with the overpass around 2 p.m. There were no injuries in the crash.According to spokespeople from CHEO, there was no structural damage to the building.
  
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• 'Deadly weapon': Ottawa couple dealt lengthy prison sentences for trafficking fentanyl

  23-06-2017 23:08 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  The fast-money life for an Ottawa couple has come to an abrupt end, with the freshly-engaged lovers off to prison for supplying the street with hard drugs, including deadly fentanyl.
  Joshua Eyamie-Binks, 31, and Cortney Rattray-Johnson, 27, dabbed at tears as they pleaded guilty to drug trafficking and possession of all the restricted guns that went hand-in-hand with their hard-drug business.
  They expressed remorse and have announced plans to get married once released from prison.
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• Drug amnesty box pilot project debuting a @EscapadeMF this weekend #ottnews 1310news.com/2017/06/23/dru…

  23-06-2017 23:02 via twitter.com
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• Royal swans mark 50 years, but still cooped up in temporary winter digs

  23-06-2017 23:01
  
  The Crown swans return to the Rideau River on Saturday during a jolly event marking the 50th anniversary of the regal gift, while the city endures a royal headache trying to find permanent winter lodging for the birds.
  
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• Mayor Watson impressed by proposal to relocate Salvation Army shelter to Vanier

  23-06-2017 22:55
  
  Mayor Jim Watson likes the proposal to relocate the Salvation Army shelter in the ByWard Market to a modern social services facility in Vanier, challenging opponents to suggest another location if not Montreal Road.
  
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• 'Deadly weapon': Ottawa couple dealt lengthy prison sentences for trafficking fentanyl - Ottawa Citizen

  23-06-2017 22:55 via ottawacitizen.com
  
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  'Deadly weapon': Ottawa couple dealt lengthy prison sentences for trafficking fentanyl
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  The fast-money life for an Ottawa couple has come to an abrupt end, with the freshly-engaged lovers off to prison for supplying the street with hard drugs, including deadly fentanyl. Joshua Eyamie-Binks, 31, and Cortney Rattray-Johnson, 27, dabbed at ...and more »
  
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• Looming LCBO strike not a worry for Ottawa customers - CBC.ca

  23-06-2017 22:48 via cbc.ca
  
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  The looming possibility of an LCBO strike the week before Canada Day isn't worrying many Ottawa residents, but small breweries say they are watching the labour dispute closely. The union representing the chain's 7,500 employees say they are poised to ...and more »
  
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• Egan: Why the Sally Ann's Vanier move shows street smarts

  23-06-2017 22:47 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Set aside all the hand-wringing about process and public consultation — Ottawa’s cottage industry, if not its DNA — and ask the central questions.
  Does it make sense for the Salvation Army to move its George Street shelter and social-service hub out of the ByWard Market, and is the proposed location on Montreal Road a good home?
  Yes and yes.
  For years, we’ve been collectively squawking about the concentration of shelters in the core: the Sally’s Booth Centre on Geor
  
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• Why the Sally Ann's Vanier move shows street smarts

  23-06-2017 22:24
  
  Set aside all the hand-wringing about process and public consultation — Ottawa’s cottage industry, if not its DNA — and ask the central questions.Does it make sense for the Salvation Army to move its George Street shelter and social-service hub out of the ByWard Market, and is the proposed location on Montreal Road a good home?Yes and yes.
  
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• Standing by the children of the fallen: Scholarships awarded to youth who lost a parent in service

  23-06-2017 22:15 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Without the help of a Canada Company scholarship, Adam Naismith wouldn’t have been able to so quickly turn his love for education into days spent teaching a classroom full of 10-year-olds in a small Saskatchewan town.
  But it was more than just money for Naismith, who wasn’t much older than his students when his father, Capt. Kevin Naismith, died in 2003 when his CF-18 crashed during a training exercise in northern Alberta.
  The scholarship brings its recipients together for events tha
  
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• Fifth-Clegg footbridge to start construction in fall but we need more like it and faster

  23-06-2017 22:15
  
  The footbridge between Fifth Avenue and Clegg Street is finally being built after 110 years on the books, with a promise of $5 million in Ontario government money delivered on Friday.
  
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• Trudeau must speak out on Hassan Diab

  23-06-2017 22:01 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Justin Trudeau once proclaimed that “A Canadian is a Canadian is a Canadian.” But if the Canadian’s name is Hassan Diab, the government would prefer not to speak up. That’s no longer good enough. 
  In November 2014, Diab, an Ottawa academic who is Lebanese-born, was extradited to France. There, he’s been in prison as he is investigated over the 1980 bombing of a Paris synagogue that killed several people and wounded many more. It’s alleged h
  
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• Reevely: Fifth-Clegg footbridge to start construction in September but

  23-06-2017 22:01 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  The footbridge between Fifth Avenue and Clegg Street is finally being built after 110 years on the books, with a promise of $5 million in Ontario government money delivered on Friday.
  Ottawa Centre MPP Yasir Naqvi has spoken fondly of the Rideau Canal bridge for his entire political career but it took this long to find all the money for a span that’s been included in federal and municipal plans since early in the last century.
  “If we can start the construction in 2017, it can technic
  
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• Jonathan Pitre still ailing as doctors search for answers

  23-06-2017 21:49
  
  Doctors in a Minnesota hospital continue to search for answers to a mysterious infection that has left Jonathan Pitre feverish, nauseated and short of breath.
  
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• NAC preview: The ABCs of reclaiming overused words

  23-06-2017 21:48 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Quebec playwright Olivier Choinière has given 26 writers from across Canada an assignment.Their job is to write a letter and read it on stage at the National Arts Centre on Wednesday as part of 26 Lettres: An ABC of Words That Are Losing Their Meaning. It will be the third performance of the innovative work of theatre, and the first to be staged in English Canada. It’s part of the NAC’s Canada Scene festival in association with the Ottawa International Writers’ Festival.
  
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• ON AIR NOW: The Afternoon News with @MarkDayNews & @MelAdams1310 On 1310NEWS or online: player.1310news.com https://t.co/RoEwuiM6pH

  23-06-2017 21:39 via twitter.com
  
  ON AIR NOW: The Afternoon News with @MarkDayNews & @MelAdams1310On 1310NEWS or online: player.1310news.com https://t.co/RoEwuiM6pH
  
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• Shots fired at a home in Gatineau

  23-06-2017 21:24
  
  Shots rang out on Daniel-Johnson Street in Gatineau Thursday night but no one was hurt.Police said Friday a series of shots were fired at a home by someone on the street around 11:30 p.m.
  
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• Jazzfest preview: Joel Miller and Sienna Dahlen dream of blending jazz and pop

  23-06-2017 21:09 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  While other jazz musicians are paying tribute this year to Ella Fitzgerald and Thelonious Monk, Montreal’s Joel Miller and Sienna Dahlen are singing the praises of Corey Hart.
  The ’80s Canadian pop icon is the subject of the floating ballad Corey Heart, one of a dozen concise tracks on Miller’s album Dream Cassette, which the saxman and composer released last year and which features Dahlen’s lyrics and singing. How and why did Mr. Sunglasses At Night wind up being th
  
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• Kardish: Nothing wrong with relations between developers, city staff

  23-06-2017 20:50 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  The following rebuttal was submitted in response to the Citizen’s recent coverage of the retirement of city planner John Moser:
  I read two recent Citizen articles about John Moser’s retirement party with interest. As a developer I (presumably) benefit from unfettered access to city staff and use this to my advantage. The reality is that my firm is required to file planning applications for each of our projects and is, therefore, obliged to deal with city staff and politicians. 
  
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• New site could add costs to Ottawa Hospital construction: Poilievre

  23-06-2017 20:46 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Carleton MP Pierre Poilievre says he fears The Ottawa Hospital will be stuck with the bill for extra costs associated with the Sir John Carling site for a new Civic hospital.
  Poilievre, who favours building the $2-billion-plus hospital on the original site, the Central Experimental Farm across from the existing Civic, says Sir John Carling contains costly challenges — that he fears will be borne by the hospital.
  “The (Sir John) Carling site is a sloped surface, contaminated, located
  
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• RCMP boss' unforgettable case: 'The murderer sent me a Christmas card'

  23-06-2017 20:12 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  In anticipation of Canada’s sesquicentennial celebrations, the Citizen’s Bruce Deachman has been out in search of Ottawans — 150 of them — to learn their stories of life and death, hope and love, the extraordinary and the everyday. We’ll share one person’s story every day until Canada Day.
  “Before I became senior in the RCMP, I worked investigations. And there was one that covered my rank from corporal to superintendent. And when I became commissioner, t
  
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• OPP looking for federal inmate with Ottawa connection 1310news.com/2017/06/23/opp… #ottnews

  23-06-2017 20:06 via twitter.com
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• Oops! Parks Canada reveal secret map of Franklin shipwreck

  23-06-2017 20:06
  
  Secrecy has surrounded the discoveries of the doomed ships of the Franklin Expedition since they were found — HMS Erebus in 2014 and Terror in 2016.First, former prime minister Stephen Harper insisted on revealing the Erebus find personally in a controlled photo-op. No questions allowed.
  
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• Bono and the Edge to perform on Parliament Hill on Canada Day

  23-06-2017 20:01 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  The Ministry of Canadian Heritage appears to have found what its looking for.
  U2 bandmates Bono and The Edge will be appearing on Parliament Hill on Canada Day to perform one song during the country’s 150th anniversary celebrations.
  While the announcement was initially circulated by Twitter, the ministry confirmed the news in an email to Postmedia Friday.
  “U2 band members, Bono and the Edge, will be making a special appearance during the Canada Day Opening celebrations around noon on
  
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• Oops! Nunavut, Parks Canada reveal secret map of Franklin shipwreck

  23-06-2017 19:47 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Secrecy has surrounded the discoveries of the doomed ships of the Franklin Expedition since they were found — HMS Erebus in 2014 and Terror in 2016.
  First, former prime minister Stephen Harper insisted on revealing the Erebus find personally in a controlled photo-op. No questions allowed.
  Since then, Parks Canada has given out information in tightly-controlled media releases. Even academic historians have only limited access to the story.
  And the tightest secret of all? The locations of th
  
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• Mother sounds alarm over talent company coming to Ottawa

  23-06-2017 19:41 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  When Anne-Sophie Drouin looked at the brochure she was handed by a U.S. talent company’s employee at her 12-year-old son’s audition in Ottawa last year, she was shocked. 
  “I saw they wanted $2,000 (if my son signed up for their cheapest package) and I went, ‘Ahhh,’ ” said Drouin, a Quebec resident who works in downtown Ottawa. 
  The free audition was held downtown by the company Model and Talent — which sometimes re
  
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• Next on the @MeehanCarolAnne show, @OttawaHospital chief of staff Dr. Jeff Turnball on stepping down to devote his… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  23-06-2017 19:34 via twitter.com
  Next on the @MeehanCarolAnne show, @OttawaHospital chief of staff Dr. Jeff Turnball on stepping down to devote his… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Coming up on the @MeehanCarolAnne show, we're getting set for the @REDBLACKS home opener, we speak with @OSEGRandy… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  23-06-2017 19:28 via twitter.com
  Coming up on the @MeehanCarolAnne show, we're getting set for the @REDBLACKS home opener, we speak with@OSEGRandy… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Next on @MeehanCarolAnne show we speak with @OttawaParamedic about the measures put in place to keep @EscapadeMF fe… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  23-06-2017 19:12 via twitter.com
  Next on @MeehanCarolAnne show we speak with @OttawaParamedic about the measures put in place to keep @EscapadeMF fe… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Police offer drug amnesty drop box – 'no questions asked' – for Escapade patrons

  23-06-2017 19:07
  
  Ottawa police are doing their part to ensure the Escapade electronic dance music festival has a safe and fun time at its new venue, the Lansdowne Park complex.
  
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• Rex Tillerson's tilt gives Ottawa officials hope - The Globe and Mail

  23-06-2017 19:00 via theglobeandmail.com
  
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  “Canada has nothing to worry about. The President is a big fan. It's the single best bilateral relationship we have.” This cheery, optimistic talk came from a senior Republican, a strategist who has run top-level GOP campaigns for three decades and has ...and more »
  
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• Escapade organizers on guard against overdoses - CBC.ca

  23-06-2017 18:33 via cbc.ca
  
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  Organizers of this weekend's Escapade Festival at Lansdowne Park estimate they're spending about $200,000 on measures to help keep partygoers safe. 'We want our festival to be as safe as possible.' - Ali Shafaee, Escapade Festival. With cases of ...
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• Today's letters: Get past symbols and help Indigenous kids

  23-06-2017 18:20 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  Letter writers share views on some of the announcements around National Aboriginal Day this past week. You can write to us too, at [email protected] . Our guidelines are here.
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  Get past symbols and help indigenous kids
  National Aboriginal Day just ended and there were a lot of symbolic gestures from the federal government, but what do they really mean for truth and reconciliation?
  Symbols are not just benign trinkets. They have been used by all cultures across time as powerful ide
  
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• Couple honoured for saving Canadian lives during 2013 crisis in South Sudan

  23-06-2017 18:18 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  When Nicholas and Jennifer Coghlan were honoured with a Meritorious Service Cross Friday at Rideau Hall, it was for a job “performed in an outstandingly professional manner,” one that “sets an example for others to follow” and “brings honour to Canada.”
  But for the 300 or so Canadians citizens who escaped the chaos and violence of South Sudan’s civil war, what it really means is the Coghlans probably saved their lives.
  In December 2013, Nicholas Cog
  
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• Gormley: Please don't get 'vexatious' with this government

  23-06-2017 18:10 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  The audacity of federal Liberal promises often seems surpassed only by the government’s audacity in breaking them: The entire electoral system was to be radically overhauled, only now it’s staying the same; the middle class was to be saved from a non-existent crisis, only now it’s to be grateful for barely existent tax cuts and some very existent tax hikes; the budget was to be balanced by 2019-20, only now it’s projected to be balanced by never. 
  Not until this week
  
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• Mother sounds alarm over talent company

  23-06-2017 18:09 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  When Anne-Sophie Drouin looked at the brochure she was handed by a U.S. talent company’s employee at her 12-year-old son’s audition in Ottawa last year, she was shocked. 
  “I saw they wanted $2,000 (if my son signed up for their cheapest package) and I went, ‘Ahhh,’ ” said Drouin, a Quebec resident who works in downtown Ottawa. 
  The free audition was held downtown by the company Model and Talent — which sometimes re
  
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• Royal Canadian Navy wraps up industry meeting in Ottawa on its X-Ship

  23-06-2017 18:07 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  The Royal Canadian Navy completed a two-day Experimental Ship (X-Ship) Industry Day held in Ottawa.
  The two-day event, which ended Thursday, saw the navy and government officials hosting roughly 100 industry and government representatives who came together to discuss areas future challenges for the RCN. Industry was asked to propose solutions based on new or emerging technologies or processes.
  The RCN designated HMCS Montréal as its X-Ship, which will see the frigate testing new systems a
  
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• Jazz pianist Marc Copland tells tales of two trios at the 2017 TD Ottawa Jazz Festival

  23-06-2017 17:59 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  The U.S. jazz pianist Marc Copland, renowned for his exquisite harmonies and singular lyricism, plays twice at the 2017 TD Ottawa Jazz Festival.
  Tonight (June 23), Copland is part of the trio Now This, which also includes bass legend Gary Peacock, best known as the low-frequency anchor of Keith Jarrett’s trio, and the always upbeat and creative drummer Joey Baron. That group, which released its debut album on ECM Records in 2015 and is to release a follow-up album later this year, plays th
  
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• NEXT on the #POWERLunch @objpublisher & @KurtStoodley join @_MarkSutcliffe LIVE in studio:… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  23-06-2017 17:58 via twitter.com
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• Still ahead: @BarryDavis_ joins @_MarkSutcliffe with all your @BlueJays news: bit.ly/1ppeuDa https://t.co/0QQEnCvtfc

  23-06-2017 17:44 via twitter.com
  
  Still ahead:@BarryDavis_ joins @_MarkSutcliffe with all your @BlueJays news: bit.ly/1ppeuDa https://t.co/0QQEnCvtfc
  
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• Born July 1, 1867, John Graham went on to become a heroic fire chief

  23-06-2017 17:38 via ottawacitizen.com
  
  The Citizen asked Randy Boswell, a longtime Ottawa journalist and Carleton University professor, to reconstruct life in the capital on the day Canada was born. The history specialist dug into archives and old newspapers, unearthing a series of long-overlooked stories that shed fresh light on Confederation’s first 24 hours and some of the people whose lives were touched by the events of that landmark day 150 years ago. This is the first of those stories. The Citizen will publish the others
  
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• NEXT @SteveHofstetter describes doing his #Ottawa show by phone after his flight was cancelled… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  23-06-2017 17:28 via twitter.com
  NEXT@SteveHofstetter describes doing his #Ottawa show by phone after his flight was cancelled… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Coming up: @REDBLACKS Jeff Hunt joins @_MarkSutcliffe with your #HomeOpener preview: bit.ly/1ppeuDa… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  23-06-2017 17:12 via twitter.com
  Coming up: @REDBLACKS Jeff Hunt joins @_MarkSutcliffe with your #HomeOpener preview: bit.ly/1ppeuDa… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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