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• Time for Fury FC to take step forward is now

  28-07-2017 23:53 via ottawacitizen.com
  With 14 days between games smack in the middle of the United Soccer League season, Ottawa Fury FC team members might have been tempted to take a few days off and scatter back to their respective hometowns or at least enjoy a few days away from TD Place.
  Not so.
  Instead, they used the opportunity to work on what has kept them from moving up the USL table: putting the ball in the net.
  “The last week, a lot of the sessions were designed around getting as many goals as possible,” midfiel
  
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• Rainy summer a 'disaster' for farmers, Lanark Federation of Agriculture says

  28-07-2017 23:45 via ottawacitizen.com
  Last year it was a drought. This year it was a deluge. And farmers are fearing for their crops for a second year in a row.
  Heavy rains have delayed planting, which means yields will be lower. For many farmers, it has been too wet to harvest hay. That will affect the entire local agricultural ecosystem. Beef farmers and dairy farmers who can’t produce enough hay will have to buy supplemental feed. Riding stables face scrounging for hay to feed horses.
  “In the front of our house, there
  
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• Scanlan: McKeown rails against CFL as former teammates die of brain disease

  28-07-2017 23:39 via ottawacitizen.com
  Anyone who has played organized sport looks back on old team pictures and reminisces.
  Bob McKeown sees those old photos and weeps for the dead and the dying.
  McKeown, an award-winning reporter for the CBC’s Fifth Estate and a former Ottawa Rough Riders lineman, is beyond concerned for the CFL players of his era who are plagued with or have died from degenerative brain disease.
  “I did a list from the five teams I played for,” says McKeown, a Rider from 1971-75. “I have com
  
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• Science of Summer: A trek through the forest is no walk in the park

  28-07-2017 23:31 via ottawacitizen.com
  Summer’s at its height, and the Citizen’s Tom Spears looks at the science of summer — the way we connect with the all-too-short season we revere.
  It’s great to follow a trail through Gatineau Park that Canadian taxpayers allow staff to create and maintain.
  Nice, too, to ride a mountain bike that dominates the wilderness.
  But what about the real wilderness, the forest where there are no paths that meet federal park safety standards? What did our ancestors face in the fores
  
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• #LaMachine #Ottawa twitter.com/ottawacity/sta…

  28-07-2017 23:02 via twitter.com
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• #BREAKING Donald Trump appoints John Kelly as new White House chief of staff, ousting Reince Priebus.

  28-07-2017 22:59 via twitter.com
  #BREAKING Donald Trump appoints John Kelly as new White House chief of staff, ousting Reince Priebus.
  
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• Conservation body looks for new project after Navan rejects wetland

  28-07-2017 22:47 via ottawacitizen.com
  The conservation authority that was denied building an artificial wetland in Navan is looking for another Ottawa community to enhance.
  The South Nation Conservation Authority is working with the city to find a candidate site.
  “We plan to select an area that would benefit from enhancements to biodiversity while improving water quality in a community with local support,” according to John Mesman, a spokesman for the conservation authority.
  Mesman said the conservation authority will of
  
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• Reevely: The fight over the proposed Vanier shelter was inevitable

  28-07-2017 22:20 via ottawacitizen.com
  Since we force the Salvation Army to act like a pushy private developer so it can build a new homeless shelter, it’s doing the only sensible thing by fighting hard to get that shelter built in Vanier.
  The story of the 350-bed shelter and health-care complex the Salvation Army wants to build just off Montreal Road follows familiar lines.
  The way it usually goes, a private developer wants to make money by constructing a condo tower or something, demolishing smaller houses or closing existing
  
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• 1 dead, 6 wounded after knife attack at German supermarket 1310news.com/2017/07/28/ger… https://t.co/KxPY6PtGRN

  28-07-2017 22:07 via twitter.com
  
  1 dead, 6 wounded after knife attack at German supermarket 1310news.com/2017/07/28/ger… https://t.co/KxPY6PtGRN
  
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• Reevely: Pushing a new shelter on Vanier a rational answer to the perverse way we help the homeless

  28-07-2017 22:05 via ottawacitizen.com
  Since we force the Salvation Army to act like a pushy private developer so it can build a new homeless shelter, it’s doing the only sensible thing by fighting hard to get that shelter built in Vanier.
  The story of the 350-bed shelter and health-care complex the Salvation Army wants to build just off Montreal Road follows familiar lines.
  The way it usually goes, a private developer wants to make money by constructing a condo tower or something, demolishing smaller houses or closing existing
  
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• Behind the scenes at the Canadian War Museum – Improvised Explosive Devices

  28-07-2017 21:45 via ottawacitizen.com
  As noted in a recent posting, I received a behind-the-scenes look at the Canadian War Museum’s storage facilities/vaults as specialists there prepare for reworking exhibit areas at the museum.
  The concluding area of Gallery 4: From the Cold War to the Present is being redeveloped to explore Canadian involvement in operations in the Gulf War, Somalia, Rwanda, the former Yugoslavia and Afghanistan. New artifacts, eyewitness testimonies and artwork connected to individual stories will hi
  
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• Support staff at Ontario's 24 community colleges have a tentative extension agreement to their current collective agreement.

  28-07-2017 21:36 via twitter.com
  Support staff at Ontario's 24 community colleges have a tentative extension agreement to their current collective agreement.
  
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• #RightNow Ottawa News, Sports, Traffic & Weather with @MarkDayNews & @MelAdams1310 LIVE: player.1310news.com https://t.co/V6ukNJ02nm

  28-07-2017 21:17 via twitter.com
  
  #RightNowOttawa News, Sports, Traffic & Weather with @MarkDayNews & @MelAdams1310LIVE: player.1310news.com https://t.co/V6ukNJ02nm
  
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• La Machine takes over downtown core; expect traffic delays 1310news.com/2017/07/26/la-… https://t.co/YsNEuEmReh

  28-07-2017 21:11 via twitter.com
  
  La Machine takes over downtown core; expect traffic delays1310news.com/2017/07/26/la-… https://t.co/YsNEuEmReh
  
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• Chamberfest preview: Cris Derksen's eclectic music fits in many stylistic boxes

  28-07-2017 21:05 via ottawacitizen.com
  Cris Derksen Trio
  When: Tuesday, Aug. 1, 10 p.m.
  Where: La Nouvelle Scène, 333 King Edward Ave.
  Tickets: chamberfest.com
  Toronto-based cellist Cris Derksen considers it “super-lucky” that her accident earlier this month happened as it did.
  Before she was to play at the Winnipeg Folk Festival in early July, a piece of metal fell from a construction site 23 floors up and hit her hand. Derksen says that, fortunately, the metal struck her right hand, which bows her instrument
  
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• Ottawa shouldn't be drawn to the dark side

  28-07-2017 21:02 via ottawacitizen.com
  The world’s great cities know a thing or two about turning on the lights at night. Think Rome and the Colosseum, or London’s Westminster, or the Parthenon looming imposingly above Athens after dusk. Think Toronto and the CN Tower, artfully illuminated in different hues on certain evenings. And they don’t call Paris the “City of Lights” for no reason.
  As Ottawa evolves into a bigger and better destination, the National Capital Commission has worked up proposals to be
  
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• After dark: Ottawa should showcase our landmarks

  28-07-2017 21:02 via ottawacitizen.com
  The world’s great cities know a thing or two about turning on the lights at night. Think Rome and the Colosseum, or London’s Westminster, or the Parthenon looming imposingly above Athens after dusk. Think Toronto and the CN Tower, artfully illuminated in different hues on certain evenings. And they don’t call Paris the “City of Lights” for no reason.
  As Ottawa evolves into a bigger and better destination, the National Capital Commission has worked up proposals to be
  
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• Giant mechanical spider and dragon 'come alive' to roam Ottawa streets - CTV News

  28-07-2017 20:50
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  Giant mechanical spider and dragon 'come alive' to roam Ottawa streets
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  Two giant mechanical creatures are now roaming the streets of Ottawa in a four-day urban theatre performance involving a spider that can reach 20 metres when completely outstretched and a 45-ton half-dragon half-horse that towers 12 metres high.
  'It's magic': La Machine creatures wow crowd in OttawaOttawa Citizen
  La Machine: Day 2 in videos and pictures so far - Ottawa - CBC NewsCBC.ca
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• Gatineau police investigating after 11-month-old girl injured at Aylmer daycare

  28-07-2017 20:45
  
  Gatineau police are investigating after an 11-month old girl sustained injuries at a private Aylmer daycare earlier this week.Police received a complaint on Monday about the baby who has injuries that included bruises and a bite mark “that looked like a child bite.” She was sent to the hospital to be treated and assessed.“We opened an investigation
  
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• Conservation authority looks for new project after Navan controversy

  28-07-2017 19:56 via ottawacitizen.com
  The conservation authority that was denied building a manmade wetland in Navan is looking for another Ottawa community to enhance.
  The South Nation Conservation Authority is working with the city to find a candidate site.
  “We plan to select an area that would benefit from enhancements to biodiversity while improving water quality in a community with local support,” according to John Mesman, a spokesman for the conservation authority.
  Mesman said the conservation authority will often
  
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• Why robots are the way of the future, especially for the elderly

  28-07-2017 19:16 via ottawacitizen.com
  SAN FRANCISCO — Paro closes its watery eyes, tilts its head and emits a soft cry. The robotic harp seal — the world’s best-known therapeutic robot — is the creation of Japanese scientist Takanori Shibata, but its voice is made in Canada. Shibata recorded the baby harp seal, which became the voice of Paro, on Quebec’s Magdalen Islands.
  “It’s a Canadian seal,” said Shibata, who showed off his cuddly creation at the world’s largest gat
  
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• Have you been downtown to check out La Machine? We want to hear from you, share your reaction. Give us a call 613-… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  28-07-2017 19:09 via twitter.com
  Have you been downtown to check out La Machine? We want to hear from you, share your reaction.Give us a call 613-… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Kumo the spider descends from Notre Dame Cathedral to kick off La Machine [Video]

  28-07-2017 19:06
  
  Kumo, the giant metal spider, awoke from the top of Notre Dame Cathedral on Sussex Drive on Thursday evening to kick off the highly anticipated La Machine. Hundreds of spectators went wild as the mechanical spider descended from the cathedral tower.
  
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• .@Rick_Gibbons hosts the Carol Anne Meehan show. Listen in: player.1310news.com https://t.co/cirOKdKkld

  28-07-2017 19:05 via twitter.com
  
  .@Rick_Gibbons hosts the Carol Anne Meehan show. Listen in: player.1310news.com https://t.co/cirOKdKkld
  
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• The @BellevilleSens are ready to hit the ice! @RobMullowney joins @_MarkSutcliffe ahead: bit.ly/1ppeuDa https://t.co/EMYyZRlMYk

  28-07-2017 18:28 via twitter.com
  
  The @BellevilleSens are ready to hit the ice!@RobMullowney joins @_MarkSutcliffe ahead:bit.ly/1ppeuDa https://t.co/EMYyZRlMYk
  
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• Gormley: The world loves Trudeau, but does Trudeau love the world?

  28-07-2017 18:27 via ottawacitizen.com
  The world loves Justin Trudeau, and why shouldn’t it?
  He’s handsome. He’s kind. He loves children, whimsical clothing and constitutional rights. And then there’s his touch. 
  So goes the erotic letter to Penthouse that, through an unfortunate clerical error, ended up mislabelled as a political profile in Rolling Stone magazine this week, anyway. It was a strange read. Strange, but not entirely wrong. 
  Assuming the author had a contribution to make apart from
  
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• La Machine: Long-Ma awakens

  28-07-2017 18:07 via ottawacitizen.com
  We were live from downtown Ottawa where Long-Ma awakened. 
  The giant machines — Long Ma, the horse-dragon, and Kumo, the spider — are astonishing, a combined 80 tonnes of clanking, articulated steel, escaping steam and window-rattling roars.
  Kumo can stretch 20 meters long and 13 metres high and takes more than a dozen people to operate.La Machine is a French street theatre company founded by François Delarozière, an engineer by training. Guy Laflamme, executive di
  
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• Give Thomas D'Arcy McGee's statue the honour it deserves

  28-07-2017 18:06 via ottawacitizen.com
  Over the years, many Citizen articles have been written about the assassination of Thomas D’Arcy McGee, including the recent retelling of the tale by Bruce Deachman. Yet there is part of the story that has yet to be told, except in a few old books, about the bizarre and incredible fate of McGee’s statue, and the omission by the federal government of any official honours.
  As it stands, McGee’s statue appears to be of less importance than the one of Sir Galahad on Wellington Stre
  
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• NEXT on the #POWERLunch @1310Andrew & @LauraPeck6 join @_MarkSutcliffe LIVE in studio: bit.ly/1ppeuDa… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  28-07-2017 17:58 via twitter.com
  NEXT on the #POWERLunch@1310Andrew & @LauraPeck6 join @_MarkSutcliffe LIVE in studio: bit.ly/1ppeuDa… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Still ahead: @BarryDavis_ joins @_MarkSutcliffe with all your @BlueJays news: bit.ly/1ppeuDa… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  28-07-2017 17:44 via twitter.com
  Still ahead:@BarryDavis_ joins @_MarkSutcliffe with all your @BlueJays news: bit.ly/1ppeuDa… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Coming up: @denisebatters on @AndrewScheer proposing return to a partisan Senate: bit.ly/1uwtdOs… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  28-07-2017 17:28 via twitter.com
  Coming up: @denisebatters on@AndrewScheer proposing return to a partisan Senate:bit.ly/1uwtdOs… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Renovating's last frontier – tackling that garage many of us can't even wedge a car inside

  28-07-2017 17:15 via ottawacitizen.com
  One day, shortly after the Pringles finished their garage makeover, Ruth wondered where her husband was hiding.
  She opened the door to their two-car Orléans garage and found he’d grabbed a folding chair and was just sitting out there.
  “Enjoying the view,” joked retiree Brian. “Now it feels like it’s an addition to the house – it feels like a room.”
  The New York Times has called the garage the “last frontier” of home renovations. And &l
  
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• Still ahead: @rcarrick on how helping your adult kids financially became the new normal: bit.ly/1uwtdOs… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  28-07-2017 17:14 via twitter.com
  Still ahead: @rcarrick on how helping your adult kids financially became the new normal:bit.ly/1uwtdOs… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Today's letters: Don't blame the victim

  28-07-2017 17:01 via ottawacitizen.com
  Readers were conflicted over the story a woman told us this week about how police reacted to her report of being sexually assaulted. You also shared views on public art, and on former mayor Jim Durrell’s views about Canada Day security. You can write to us too, at [email protected] Find our guidelines here.
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  Police re-victimized this woman
  Re: ‘This is why people don’t go to the police,’ July 27.
  How bitterly disappointing to read this sad story of how som
  
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• Ottawa police issue new photos of suspects in break-ins - Ottawa Citizen

  28-07-2017 16:42
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  Ottawa police issue new photos of suspects in break-ins
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  Montage of new images of suspects in a string of B&Es in the Ottawa area. Ottawa police handout. Share Adjust Comment Print. Ottawa police have issued new security camera photos of suspects sought in a series of commercial break-and-enters between ...and more »
  
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• Ottawa police issue new photos of suspects in break-ins

  28-07-2017 16:42 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa police have issued new security camera photos of suspects sought in a series of commercial break-and-enters between June 6 and July 10.
  The B&Es occurred at three times at a business on the 600 block of Eagleson Road, as well as individual break-ins at the 1500 block of Laperriere Avenue and the 200 block of Iber Road.
  In addition, a van believed to be a mid-2000’s silver or grey Pontiac Montana van, was also caught on video at one of the B&Es and may have been used by
  
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• 'Donald Trump just had his most dishonest week as president' @ddale8 joins @_MarkSutcliffe ahead:… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  28-07-2017 16:28 via twitter.com
  'Donald Trump just had his most dishonest week as president'@ddale8 joins @_MarkSutcliffe ahead:… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• La Machine live: Long-Ma awakens

  28-07-2017 16:20 via ottawacitizen.com
  We are live from downtown Ottawa where Long-Ma is awakening. 
  The giant machines — Long Ma, the horse-dragon, and Kumo, the spider — are astonishing, a combined 80 tonnes of clanking, articulated steel, escaping steam and window-rattling roars.
  Kumo can stretch 20 meters long and 13 metres high and takes more than a dozen people to operate.
  La Machine is a French street theatre company founded by François Delarozière, an engineer by training. Guy Laflamme, executiv
  
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• Coming up on the #POWERLunch @ NOON: @1310Andrew & @LauraPeck6 join @_marksutcliffe LIVE in studio:… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  28-07-2017 16:20 via twitter.com
  Coming up on the #POWERLunch @ NOON: @1310Andrew & @LauraPeck6 join @_marksutcliffe LIVE in studio:… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Police still seeking information on last weekend's gunshots in west end

  28-07-2017 16:19 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa police are asking for the public’s assistance with information about gunplay that occurred near Lee Valley Tools last Saturday.
  According to police, several spent shells were found near the intersection of Morrison Drive and Draper Avenue after residents reported the sounds of gunshots in the area.
  Further investigation found several structures and homes had sustained damage as a result of the shooting.
  However, no injuries were reported.
  Anyone with information is asked to cal
  
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• COMING UP: @cmaconthehill LIVE in studio @_MarkSutcliffe for weekly #cdnpoli segment: LISTEN:… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  28-07-2017 16:14 via twitter.com
  COMING UP:@cmaconthehill LIVE in studio @_MarkSutcliffe for weekly #cdnpoli segment:LISTEN:… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Police seek assistance locating parole offender

  28-07-2017 16:04 via ottawacitizen.com
  Provincial police are seeking a federal offender wanted for breaching his parole.
  Daniel Pilon, 52, was on a long-term supervision order after completing a five-year sentence for robbery, and overcoming resistance by attempting to choke, suffocate or strangle a person and forcible confinement.
  He is described as Caucasian, six-feet-three-inches (191 cm) tall, weighing 282 pounds (128kgs). Both of Pilon’s arms are fully tattooed.
  He wears glasses.
  The offender is known to frequent the
  
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• Multiple police forces, spike belt can't stop stolen Quebec truck finally ditched in Ottawa

  28-07-2017 15:43 via ottawacitizen.com
  Pursuing police from five jurisdictions and a spike belt couldn’t put the brakes on a truck that was stolen in the Laurentians Thursday but wound up abandoned neared the Ottawa Hospital General Campus about 140 kilometres away.
  The chase was on at about 10:30 a.m. when MRC Antoine-Labelle police officers were alerted to the theft of a black Ford 150 pickup truck, lettered with a business name, and empty boat trailer from Montée St-Louis in Notre-Dame-du-Laus.
  MRC des Collines a
  
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• Tractor trailer crashes cause road closures Friday

  28-07-2017 15:07 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ontario Provincial Police were kept busy Friday morning responding to two different accidents involving tractor trailers that ran off the road.
  The first crash occurred at about 7 a.m. on Highway 401 eastbound near the entrance to Highway 416, where a tractor trailer had gone into the ditch.
  Highway 401 had to be closed in order to allow emergency crews to pull the truck back onto the road and haul it away.
  The scene was declared clear at about 8:40 a.m.
  A similar situation occurred at about 6:3
  
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• Pearson: Looking back at my year as part of Up With People, two decades later

  28-07-2017 15:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  I have finally made it to Denver. After almost two years of planning and preparations, I am at the “Mile High City.” My host parents are very nice. Tomorrow we are going to the rodeo in Cheyenne, Wyoming. It’s kind of funny — not even a day in the state and we are already going out of state. The goodbyes last night and this morning were much easier than I thought they would be. I guess I miss everyone back home but that’s only because I haven’t gotten settled
  
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• Weather: Straight shot of sunshine, no risk of rain for last July weekend [Video]

  28-07-2017 14:51
  
  Happy Friday on the day when we may lose dubious bragging rights, but gain a gorgeous summer weekend.Ottawa’s forecast is finally delivering a sunny, dry weekend even as we’re a few showers away from setting a rain record for the month of July.
  
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• Gallery: Kumo from La Machine wakes up in Ottawa

  28-07-2017 14:33
  The robot creatures from La Machine have arrived in Ottawa. Kumo, the spider, woke up just after 8 p.m. Thursday night.
  
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• Weather: Straight shot of sunshine, no risk of rain for last July weekend

  28-07-2017 14:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  Happy Friday on the day when we may lose dubious bragging rights, but gain a gorgeous summer weekend.
  Ottawa’s forecast is finally delivering a sunny, dry weekend even as we’re a few showers away from setting a rain record for the month of July.
  The Glebe BIA summed it up in a tweet.
  “This weekend is forecasted to be the first without rain since March! How do you plan on spending it?”
  Environment Canada’s forecast for Friday is mainly sunny with a high of 24 C and l
  
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• What’s driving the continued favourable ratings for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau? #cdnpoli bit.ly/2uEwtTf

  28-07-2017 14:21 via twitter.com
  What’s driving the continued favourable ratings for Prime Minister Justin Trudeau? #cdnpolibit.ly/2uEwtTf
  
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• Man stabbed in overnight skirmish in Gatineau

  28-07-2017 14:08 via ottawacitizen.com
  A Gatineau man was stabbed during a skirmish overnight in the city’s Masson district.
  Police said the attack occurred shortly before midnight.
  The man, who was stabbed in the back, was taken to hospital where he received stitches.
  He was released a few hours later.
  Investigators said the suspects were known to police.
   
  
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