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• Ottawa is the most bilingual it has ever been, but growth rates have barely budged

  02-08-2017 23:48
  
  Canada and Ottawa both have more bilingualresidents than ever before, according to StatisticsCanada figures released Wednesday.
  
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• Redblacks like CFL shift to one challenge a game

  02-08-2017 23:44 via ottawacitizen.com
  While it doesn’t solve a problem of sub-par officiating, the Ottawa Redblacks are giving a big thumbs up to a CFL video review system rule change introduced Wednesday that limits coaches to one challenge per game.
  It certainly should speed up the games.
  Prior to this change, each team had two challenges a game and a third was earned if a coach was successful with their first two challenges.
  A team will still need to have a timeout to initiate a challenge, and, if their challenge is not suc
  
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• Fire crews from #Ottawa & #Gatineau help boaters in trouble on the Deschenes Rapids. No injuries #ottnews twitter.com/SaraBuchan/sta…

  02-08-2017 23:24 via twitter.com
  Fire crews from #Ottawa & #Gatineau help boaters in trouble on the Deschenes Rapids. No injuries #ottnews twitter.com/SaraBuchan/sta…
  
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• At La Machine, some saw robots, others saw blasphemy

  02-08-2017 23:23
  Although bot battle garnered near-universal praise, a small — and colourful — section of the Catholic community took umbrage.
  
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• Reevely: Ex-Ottawa cop probing police beating of black teen in Durham

  02-08-2017 23:19 via ottawacitizen.com
  Not in dispute is that an off-duty Toronto police officer and his brother chased a black teenager down a residential street in Whitby last December and then beat him so badly the young man, Dafonte Miller, will lose an eye.
  Figuring out how the Durham police came to arrest Miller and why nobody reported the beating to the Special Investigations Unit, has fallen to a high-flying former Ottawa cop who’s talked about as a future chief here.
  This is a career-defining moment for Deputy Chief Ud
  
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• Second-year Redblacks lineman hopes to get back in after struggling against Argos

  02-08-2017 23:10 via ottawacitizen.com
  Professional football players are often their own worst critics, and Ottawa Redblacks offensive lineman Jason Lauzon-Seguin admits he didn’t play well last week against Toronto.
  Lining up against former Redblacks defensive lineman Shawn Lemon, Lauzon-Seguin was beaten a few times. Possibly as a result of that, he might take a seat while Jake Silas steps into the right tackle position Friday night at TD Place against Winnipeg.
  “It wasn’t my best,” said Lauzon-Seguin, who t
  
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• Redblacks hope to get injured players back soon

  02-08-2017 22:44 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Ottawa Redblacks hope their injury list becomes much shorter in the next week or two.
  A couple of weeks ago, fullback Anthony Gosselin was a late scratch, just before the Redblacks played the Montreal Alouettes.
  Redblacks GM Marcel Desjardins explained on Wednesday: “Game day against Montreal, he got sick — throwing up and whatnot. So it was, ‘OK, he ate something.’ Even going into the next game, the Toronto game, he wasn’t getting any better. Eventually, he was
  
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• West end community members meet following recent gun violence - 1310news.com/2017/08/02/wes… #ottnews https://t.co/HRi77M5Ksi

  02-08-2017 22:30 via twitter.com
  
  West end community members meet following recent gun violence - 1310news.com/2017/08/02/wes… #ottnews https://t.co/HRi77M5Ksi
  
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• Ottawa biologist meets wolf — at 1 a.m. in his tent

  02-08-2017 22:08 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa’s Paul Sokoloff was doing a peaceful survey of plants in the High Arctic when a wolf stuck its head into his tent.
  So Sokoloff did the only thing that made sense. He grabbed his camera.
  Sokoloff is a plant biologist at the Canadian Museum of Nature and has just returned from a three-week expedition charting the plants of several Arctic sites. He was at Lake Hazen on Ellesmere Island when he woke up in the bright Arctic night and saw an Arctic wolf poking its head through his tent do
  
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• A knife-point robbery at an ATM in the city's west end has @OttawaPolice looking for this man.… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  02-08-2017 22:00 via twitter.com
  A knife-point robbery at an ATM in the city's west end has @OttawaPolice looking for this man.… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Ex-Ottawa cop investigating police beating of black teen in Durham

  02-08-2017 21:45 via ottawacitizen.com
  Not in dispute is that an off-duty Toronto police officer and his brother chased a black teenager down a residential street in Whitby last December and then beat him so badly the young man, Dafonte Miller, will lose an eye.
  Figuring out how the Durham police came to arrest Miller and why nobody reported the beating to the Special Investigations Unit, has fallen to a high-flying former Ottawa cop who’s talked about as a future chief here.
  This is a career-defining moment for Deputy Chief Ud
  
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• Thunderstorm watch issued for region

  02-08-2017 20:56 via ottawacitizen.com
  Keep the glorious memories of La Machine and beautiful weather in your minds for a while.
  Things are looking to be a little less wonderful over the next few days.
  Environment Canada has issued asevere thunderstorm watch (less urgent than a warning) for Ottawa and Gatineau.
  “Conditions will be favourable for some of the thunderstorms to produce torrential downpours,” the agency intones.
  “Local rainfall amounts of 50 mm in an hour or less are possible in localities that are affec
  
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• The strange cases of travelling cats, chihuahuas, and top-secret goats

  02-08-2017 20:41 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Eastern Ontario man who was moving to China was frantic, making call after call to Canadian government offices to rescue his two cats from Chinese quarantine.
  They arrived last August without the proper paperwork, and Chinese officials told him that after a week in quarantine they might be given back to him — or they might be killed.
  The man had proof of rabies shots and an “international health certificate” from a vet. But he didn’t have an export certificate from th
  
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• 67's announce big plans to celebrate 50th anniversary

  02-08-2017 20:28 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Ottawa 67’s announced Wednesday they will play a series of signature games celebrating the past, present and future of the Barber Poles.
  In their 50th anniversary season, the 67’s also announced plans for a legacy project and unveiled their anniversary logo.
  “We have much to celebrate and plenty to be excited for,” said 67’s governor Jeff Hunt. “The moments, memories and players over the past five decades will be remembered during this 50th anniversar
  
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• Chamberfest preview: Kinan Azmeh and Kevork Mourad respond to suffering in Syria with a charged performance

  02-08-2017 19:57 via ottawacitizen.com
  Home Within: The Syrian Experience
  What: Audio-visual performance by clarinetist Kinan Azmeh, artist Kevork Mourad
  When: Thursday, Aug. 3, 10 p.m.
  Where: La Nouvelle Scène, 333 King Edward Ave.
  Tickets: chamberfest.com
  Clarinetist and composer Kinan Azmeh says he never wanted to become an expatriate.
  After he moved to New York to further his musical studies and career in 2000, Azmeh thought he would shuttle back and forth between Syria, his homeland, and the U.S. “I still consider h
  
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• Baby, two adults suffer minor injuries in Bells Corners crash

  02-08-2017 19:52 via ottawacitizen.com
  Three people, including a baby, were taken to the hospital by paramedics after a collision in which one of the two vehicles involved rolled over in the city’s west end Wednesday.
  Their injuries are believed to be minor.
  First responders were called to the intersection of Robertson Road and Moodie Drive just before noon.
  Firefighters found that one of the cars had flipped but rolled over back onto its wheels. Fire crews stabilized the vehicles and cut away a post from one of the vehicles to
  
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• Weather: Thunderstorm watch issued for region; showers, cool temps for long weekend [Video]

  02-08-2017 19:38
  
  Keep the glorious memories of La Machine and beautiful weather in your minds for a while. Things are looking to be a little less wonderful over the next few days. For Wednesday, it’s looking muggy and humid.
  
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• What's your worst airline experience? Share them this afternoon on the Carol Anne Meehan show with @rick_gibbons ca… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  02-08-2017 19:08 via twitter.com
  What's your worst airline experience? Share them this afternoon on the Carol Anne Meehan show with @rick_gibbons ca… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• .@rick_gibbons hosts the Carol Anne Meehan show next. Listen in: player.1310news.com https://t.co/8TeWnjXJP0

  02-08-2017 19:00 via twitter.com
  
  .@rick_gibbons hosts the Carol Anne Meehan show next.Listen in: player.1310news.com https://t.co/8TeWnjXJP0
  
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• 1 person extricated from vehicle after collision at Moodie & Robertson. Fire dept. says vehicle rolled over back onto its wheels. #ottnews

  02-08-2017 18:58 via twitter.com
  1 person extricated from vehicle after collision at Moodie & Robertson. Fire dept. says vehicle rolled over back onto its wheels. #ottnews
  
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• The @OttawaPolice is looking for one suspect in a knife-point robbery at an ATM on Robertson Rd.… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  02-08-2017 18:36 via twitter.com
  The @OttawaPolice is looking for one suspect in a knife-point robbery at an ATM on Robertson Rd.… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Inmate at Ottawa regional jail stricken by 'contraband,' officials say

  02-08-2017 18:21 via ottawacitizen.com
  One prisoner was seriously sickened and 14 others possibly affected after ingesting contraband smuggled into the Ottawa Carleton Detention Centre, officials confirmed Wednesday.
  Only one of the inmates needed medical attention by paramedics, said a spokesman for the Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services confirmed.
  The others were searched before being returned to their cells and have been assessed by the jail’s health-care staff. None have gotten sick.
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• Glavin: If Trudeau is the free world's best hope, we're doomed

  02-08-2017 18:21 via ottawacitizen.com
  In all the eye-rolling and the uproar attending to the glamour treatment lavished upon Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on the cover of this month’s Rolling Stone magazine, there’s one thing that has been conspicuously overlooked in each of the obsessively forensic deconstructions of the gushing 7,000-word profile that accompanies the magazine’s stylish portraiture. There is nothing in it that even comes close to answering the question posed in its headline: “Is he the free
  
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• Woman suspected of robbing john turns herself in

  02-08-2017 18:02 via ottawacitizen.com
  A woman accused of robbing a man who hired her as an escort has turned herself in to police and been charged.
  Police say a john recently contacted an escort known as “Anastasia” online, and arranged to meet her at a home on Draper Avenue. He said he paid up front. 
  But later the woman claimed she hadn’t been paid. She made a call and another man showed up at the home. The customer was beaten up and robbed, police say, though he didn’t suffer serious injuries.
  On Mond
  
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• NEXT on the #POWERLunch: @JulieBeun & @KurtStoodley join @_MarkSutcliffe LIVE in studio:… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  02-08-2017 17:58 via twitter.com
  NEXT on the #POWERLunch: @JulieBeun & @KurtStoodley join @_MarkSutcliffe LIVE in studio:… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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•  The Estate in Bloom comes to the Mackenzie King Estate, August 5 to 7

  02-08-2017 17:55 via ottawacitizen.com
  Everyone is invited to “The Estate in Bloom” annual garden party to be held at the Mackenzie King Estate on the August 5 long weekend, from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.  
  This 231-hectare country estate in Gatineau Park belonged to Canada’s 10th and longest-serving prime minister, William Lyon Mackenzie King, and was bequeathed to all Canadians on his death. 
  A family-friendly event, there’ll be face painting, music and dance, as well as games for the whole family. Activit
  
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• Still ahead: @JCCFCanada John Carpay discusses if the word 'assimilate' is offensive: bit.ly/1uwtdOs… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  02-08-2017 17:44 via twitter.com
  Still ahead: @JCCFCanada John Carpay discusses if the word 'assimilate' is offensive: bit.ly/1uwtdOs… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Capital BBQ Festival, a celebration of meat and smoke, comes to Carp Fairgrounds this weekend

  02-08-2017 17:29 via ottawacitizen.com
  Capital BBQ Festival
  What: Top-flight and amateur barbecue competitions, demonstrations, bands, barbecue vendors Meatings Barbecue and Fitz’s Classic Grill BBQ Smoke House plus food trucks Bytown Bayou, Smokin’ R&Rs, Crispy Spring Rolls, Donut Rain on My Parade and the Merry Dairy plus beer from the Lowertown Brewery
  When: Aug. 4 to 6, Friday 6 to 10 p.m., Saturday noon to 10 p.m., Sunday noon to 6 p.m.
  Where: Carp Fairgrounds, 3790 Carp Rd., Carp
  Admission: Free
  Info: 
  
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• Ottawa weather: Hot, humid and a chance of thunderstorms [Video]

  02-08-2017 17:25
  
  Keep the glorious memories of La Machine and beautiful weather in your minds for a while. Things are looking to be a little less wonderful over the next few days. For Wednesday, it’s looking muggy and humid.
  
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• Antiques: A.J. Casson silk screen print celebrates Canada

  02-08-2017 17:22 via ottawacitizen.com
  Q  I bought this old picture at a yard sale many years ago. I think it’s a lithograph of Canada’s Coat of Arms, but I’m not sure. The bottom of the crest is signed “A.J. CASSON.” Could it be the same one of the Group of Seven? The print measures 59 by 47 cm (23 x 18.5 inches).
  Jerry, Dieppe
  This rare and beautiful print should be in high demand for Canada’s 150th this year, with a value of at least $650.
  A.  What a way to celebrate Canada’
  
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• OPP divers recover body of swimmer in Bob's Lake

  02-08-2017 17:13 via ottawacitizen.com
  Provincial police and the coroner’s office are investigating the death of a man who went missing Tuesday while swimming in Bob’s Lake, about 130 kilometres south of Ottawa.
  Police responded to the call in South Frontenac Township shortly before noon.
  A call went out to the force’s marine unit, as well as search and rescue personnel from CFB Trenton.
  Police divers located the body during the afternoon.
  The victim’s identity was not released.
   
  
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• Has anybody told #Calgary its #Olympic bid plan is a horrible idea? @TristinHopper joins @_MarkSutcliffe next… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  02-08-2017 16:44 via twitter.com
  Has anybody told #Calgary its #Olympic bid plan is a horrible idea?@TristinHopper joins @_MarkSutcliffe next… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Dining Out: Some hits, some misses at South Branch Bistro in Kemptville

  02-08-2017 16:26 via ottawacitizen.com
  South Branch Bistro15 Clothier St. E., Kemptville, 613-258-3737, southbranchbistro.comOpen: Weekdays 7 a.m. to 11 p.m., Saturday 8 a.m. to 11 p.m., Sunday 8 a.m. to 9 p.m.
  Prices: Starters, $6 to $14
  Access: steps to front door
  Twice this summer, my travels back to Ottawa have taken me past Kemptville around dinner time, and twice we’ve eaten in town at the South Branch Bistro.
  The casual eatery and music venue opened almost a year ago in its circa-1880 stone building,
  
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• Emmy-winning actress sues for $5M after dog bites her while filming love scene on Ottawa movie set

  02-08-2017 16:22 via ottawacitizen.com
  An Emmy award-winning American actress has launched a $5 million lawsuit for the trauma that she says she suffered after a dog bit her in the face during a love scene on an Ottawa movie set.
  Adrienne Frantz, 39, a celebrated U.S. soap opera star, was suddenly attacked by the dog as she filmed a scene with Canadian actor John Cor on the set of the movie, The Perfect Girlfriend, in November 2014. 
  In an interview Tuesday, Frantz’s Vancouver-based lawyer, Robyn Wishart, describ
  
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• Denley: Public art has its place – if we do it correctly

  02-08-2017 16:04 via ottawacitizen.com
  It’s easy to be against the city’s decision to spend $7.3 million on art to dress up its 13 new LRT stations. After all, as some Citizen letter writers have noted, the city’s roads are falling apart. Why spend money on art when we could spend it on asphalt?
  The short answer is that we need to do more to beautify our often-drab city. Whether the LRT art blowout will do much to contribute to that goal is debatable, but the intention is correct.
  Aside from the architecturally inte
  
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• Chamberfest preview: The Art of Time Ensemble's Andrew Burashko muses on the power of Sgt. Pepper

  02-08-2017 15:37 via ottawacitizen.com
  Sgt. Pepper Returns
  When: Friday, Aug. 4, 7 p.m.
  Where: Dominion-Chalmers United Church
  Tickets: from $30, at chamberfest.com
  When the Toronto-based Art of Time Ensemble brought its re-imagining of the music from the Beatles album Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band to Chamberfest in 2013, it drew a record-setting audience, almost selling out Dominion-Chalmers United Church.
  Knowing a crowd-pleaser when it sees one, Chamberfest has brought back the genre-spanning project for a reprise on
  
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• Coming up NEXT: @mclomedia joins @_MarkSutcliffe live: bit.ly/1uwtdOs @Trans4mLeaders https://t.co/fpsjRUPP1U

  02-08-2017 15:28 via twitter.com
  
  Coming up NEXT:@mclomedia joins @_MarkSutcliffe live: bit.ly/1uwtdOs @Trans4mLeaders https://t.co/fpsjRUPP1U
  
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• Going out best bets, Aug. 3 to 9

  02-08-2017 15:27 via ottawacitizen.com
  Food Peter Hum
  Foodies can make a tasty day trip this Sunday from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. to the annual Kricklewood Farm Sunflower Festival (421 Kitley Line 8 Rd., Frankville) about one hour southwest of Ottawa. Visitors can tour the sunflower fields, shops at the farmers and artists markets, and sample the wares of seven chefs who will prepare dishes that use Kricklewood Farms’ oil. The event is a fundraiser for Mel’s Farm All Animal Rescue (melsfarm.ca), and hopes to raise $10,
  
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• Coming up @ 10 Should #Netflix take down #13ReasonsWhy after evidence of a rising number of online searches about… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  02-08-2017 15:20 via twitter.com
  Coming up @ 10Should #Netflix take down #13ReasonsWhy after evidence of a rising number of online searches about… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Is Trump's paralyzed presidency is already finished? @Andrew_Z_Cohen joins @_marksutcliffe LIVE NEXT:… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  02-08-2017 15:13 via twitter.com
  Is Trump's paralyzed presidency is already finished?@Andrew_Z_Cohen joins @_marksutcliffe LIVE NEXT:… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• More #Canadians living alone, with parents or without children: #2016census: bit.ly/2uYBft0 https://t.co/uubDRiMMBu

  02-08-2017 15:06 via twitter.com
  
  More #Canadians living alone, with parents or without children: #2016census: bit.ly/2uYBft0 https://t.co/uubDRiMMBu
  
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• Over 200 languages now spoken in Canada: census

  02-08-2017 14:56
  New numbers from Statistics Canada show English-French bilingualism reached 18 per cent in Canada, the highest proportion it has ever been.
  
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• Canadian bilingualism peaks, more than 200 languages spoken: census

  02-08-2017 14:56
  New numbers from Statistics Canada show English-French bilingualism reached 18 per cent in Canada, the highest proportion it has ever been.
  
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• "You roll with it" — Graven's trip through darkness led to new album

  02-08-2017 14:52 via ottawacitizen.com
  GravenWith Megan Nash and Tariq Anwar
  When: Friday, Aug. 4, 8 p.m.
  Where: Pressed, 750 Gladstone Ave.
  Matty McKechnie, the man behind the music of Graven, had to take a trip through the darkness before he could see the light.
  “It sounds cliché, but it’s like you have to go to the dark places to get to the good,” McKechnie said of his latest album, Jaybird.
  The album draws its name, and much of its inspiration, from the fleeting moments he shared with East Coast rock
  
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• BREAKING: More #Canadians living alone, with parents or without children: #2016census: bit.ly/2uYBft0 https://t.co/NwrVEvVbGS

  02-08-2017 14:52 via twitter.com
  
  BREAKING: More #Canadians living alone, with parents or without children: #2016census: bit.ly/2uYBft0 https://t.co/NwrVEvVbGS
  
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• More Canadians than ever before are living alone, census shows

  02-08-2017 14:39
  Stats Can data shows people living alone, more same sex couples, more people living at home.
  
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• #2016census shows more Canadians than ever living alone: twitter.com/StatCan_eng/st…

  02-08-2017 14:39 via twitter.com
  #2016census shows more Canadians than ever living alone: twitter.com/StatCan_eng/st…
  
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• JUST IN: #2016Census twitter.com/StatCan_eng/st…

  02-08-2017 14:35 via twitter.com
  JUST IN: #2016Census twitter.com/StatCan_eng/st…
  
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• Weather: Muggy Wednesday; showers, cool temps for long weekend

  02-08-2017 14:01 via ottawacitizen.com
  Keep the glorious memories of La Machine and beautiful weather in your minds for a while.
  Things are looking to be a little less wonderful over the next few days.
  For Wednesday, it’s looking muggy and humid.
  Once the overnight fog burns off, the forecast is for a mix of sun and cloud into the afternoon, with a 30-per-cent chance of showers and risk of a thunderstorm or two.
  The high is expected to be 30 C, feeling like 36 in the humidity and a UV index of 8 or very high.
  Wednesday night is
  
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• Police seek to identify four sex assault suspects: bit.ly/2hneImN #ottnews https://t.co/SRwQsCpKd4

  02-08-2017 13:46 via twitter.com
  
  Police seek to identify four sex assault suspects: bit.ly/2hneImN #ottnews https://t.co/SRwQsCpKd4
  
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