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• Redblacks' Diontae Spencer looking to catch a little of that Game 2 magic

  03-08-2017 23:35 via ottawacitizen.com
  In Game 2 of the season, a 43-39 Ottawa Redblacks loss in Calgary, Diontae Spencer had three catches for 105 yards and another 148 yards on six punt returns, one of them for 96 yards and a touchdown.
  It was a coming out party for the 25-year-old receiver, who signed with the Redblacks in the offseason after two years in Toronto. Outside of that, though, the explosive receiver hasn’t had the ball in his hands enough. In the five other games, he has caught 13 passes for 131, and there have a
  
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• Two seriously injured after car crashes into tree near Queensway on-ramp

  03-08-2017 23:23 via ottawacitizen.com
  Firefighters had to free the injured driver of a vehicle after it went out of control on the eastbound on-ramp to Highway 417 at Nicholas Street early Thursday and struck a tree.
  A passenger in the car was also injured.
  Paramedics were on the scene first and notified the fire department of the crash at 3:25 a.m.
  Fire crews had to remove the driver’s side door to extricate the driver, who was freed at 3:43 a.m. and taken to the hospital.
  Paramedics said that the driver suffered extensive in
  
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• Ottawa police seek witnesses to Iris Street homicide, suspect vehicle

  03-08-2017 23:14 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa police are looking for anyone who might have seen a dark-coloured sedan fleeing the scene of the 9 p.m. fatal shooting of man in an Iris Street strip mall near Greenbank Road.
  The police major crime unit said in a release that it is believed the suspect or suspects fled in the car, which might have been driven erratically east along Iris Street and in the area of Baseline Road, Greenbank Road and Woodroffe Avenue between 9 p.m. and 10 p.m.
  Anyone with information is asked t
  
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• Q&A: Key questions about Salvation Army's Vanier 'mega-shelter' proposal

  03-08-2017 23:10 via ottawacitizen.com
  Fierce debate has swirled in Vanier and beyond ever since the Salvation Army announced plans in late June to build a new multi-purpose facility — which opponents call a “mega-shelter” — on Montreal Road.
  The plan calls for a 9,600-square-metre hub that includes an emergency shelter, day programs, medical care, addiction services and administrative space. It would replace the Concorde Motel beside the current Salvation Army thrift store. A house on Ste. Anne Avenue would b
  
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• Bass wagers that the Redblacks will prevail over his former teammates

  03-08-2017 23:08 via ottawacitizen.com
  Linebacker Khalil Bass didn’t say what the stakes were, but he’s got a bet with former teammate Chris Randle on the outcome of Friday’s game between the Ottawa Redblacks and Winnipeg Blue Bombers.
  Bass, with 181 tackles in his two years in Winnipeg, is now the enemy. You can bet there will be tongues wagging when he lines up against several former teammates and friends.
  “For me, it’s just another ballgame. We only have one win right now, so I can’t think reall
  
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• Mayor wants Canada Post out of bike lanes

  03-08-2017 22:58
  Watson and Egli send letter making clear they want change.
  
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• One-win Redblacks 'know it's go time' as they prepare to face underdog Bombers

  03-08-2017 22:49 via ottawacitizen.com
  Funny enough, the team with just one win six games into the CFL season is favoured by two-and-a-half points over the team with three wins in five games.
  Yes, the Ottawa Redblacks, returning to the field after a 10-day break between games (the latest setback came by a 27-24 score in Toronto), are the pick of oddsmakers to knock off Winnipeg on Friday night at TD Place. The reality is the Redblacks have sprinkled plenty of good things into their six games, losing four by a collective total of 10 p
  
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• Police describe suspected getaway car wanted in Iris Street homicide - CBC.ca

  03-08-2017 22:46
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  Police describe suspected getaway car wanted in Iris Street homicide
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  Ottawa police have released a description of the suspected getaway car involved in a fatal shooting Monday night outside an Iris Street strip mall. Police say a dark-coloured sedan was seen heading eastbound on Iris Street following the shooting of ...
  Ottawa police seek witnesses to Iris Street homicide, suspect vehicleOttawa Sunall 3 news articles »
  
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• Air Transat, explain that Ottawa airport episode

  03-08-2017 22:32 via ottawacitizen.com
  Air Transat is the latest airline with a big public relations problem, during a year in which the aviation industry has not exactly covered itself in glory with consumers.
  Recall the video of a Kentucky doctor being dragged off a United Airlines flight in April. Or the surprise cancellation of some passenger tickets in the spring by Air Canada, thanks to an over-active fraud-detection system. And let’s not start on the problems travellers now face routinely: lost baggage, last-minute chang
  
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• One in five sausages tested across Canada had meat not on label: study 1310news.com/2017/08/03/one…

  03-08-2017 22:28 via twitter.com
  One in five sausages tested across Canada had meat not on label: study1310news.com/2017/08/03/one…
  
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• Key pockets in Ottawa real estate market turning in sellers' favour

  03-08-2017 22:16
  
  After a couple of months of seeing nearly double-digit price gains, the Ottawa housing market in July returned to more typical patterns.Prices for Ottawa homes sold through the multiple listing service climbed 5.3 per cent year over year in July, reaching $420,335, the Ottawa Real Estate Board reported Thursday.
  
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• ON AIR NOW: The Afternoon News with @MarkDayNews & @MelAdams1310 On 1310NEWS or online: player.1310news.com https://t.co/M9s7lA2k7c

  03-08-2017 22:05 via twitter.com
  
  ON AIR NOW: The Afternoon News with @MarkDayNews & @MelAdams1310On 1310NEWS or online: player.1310news.com https://t.co/M9s7lA2k7c
  
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• Through art, a powerful statement about sexual violence

  03-08-2017 22:04
  A three-year-long project, which brings survivors together through art, landed in Ottawa this week.
  
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• Key pockets in Ottawa real estate market turning in sellers' favour ... - Ottawa Citizen

  03-08-2017 22:03
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  Key pockets in Ottawa real estate market turning in sellers' favour ...
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  Location, always important in real estate, is really starting to matter in Ottawa. While benchmark prices for single-family homes across the region climbed 6.8 per ...
  Condo market recovery buoys Ottawa real estate market in July ...Ottawa Business Journalall 2 news articles »
  
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• What's open and closed in Ottawa this Civic long weekend? 1310news.com/2017/08/03/wha…

  03-08-2017 21:38 via twitter.com
  What's open and closed in Ottawa this Civic long weekend? 1310news.com/2017/08/03/wha…
  
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• Let's think quite differently about Canada Day in future

  03-08-2017 21:33 via ottawacitizen.com
  On July 1, 2017, 150 relics of Canada’s first centennial descended on Ottawa. They came from the East, West, North and South – paddling 36-ft. freighter canoes.
  Not surprisingly, they were old. Fred Stark from Sechelt, B.C. was 80 and had driven across the country to join us at Kingston. He knew some Salish paddling songs and taught them to us as we paddled along through the monsoon summer which had descended on the Ottawa Valley.
  Last year, we burned in a drought. This year at midsu
  
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• Doucet: Let's think quite differently about Canada Day in future

  03-08-2017 21:33 via ottawacitizen.com
  On July 1, 2017, 150 relics of Canada’s first centennial descended on Ottawa. They came from the East, West, North and South – paddling 36-ft. freighter canoes.
  Not surprisingly, they were old. Fred Stark from Sechelt, B.C. was 80 and had driven across the country to join us at Kingston. He knew some Salish paddling songs and taught them to us as we paddled along through the monsoon summer which had descended on the Ottawa Valley.
  Last year, we burned in a drought. This year at midsu
  
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• Toughen your rules about parking in bike lanes, mayor tells Canada Post

  03-08-2017 21:18 via ottawacitizen.com
  Canada Post needs to specifically instruct its employees to not stop their delivery trucks in Ottawa’s bike lanes, Mayor Jim Watson says in a new letter to the corporation’s chief executive.
  Last week, after a Toronto parking-enforcement officer said publicly that Canada Post drivers are the worst offenders in his city for parking in bike lanes where no stopping is allowed, the mail service publicly ordered its workers to stop it. Find someplace safe and legal to park or bring parcel
  
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• Sex assault charges laid against former master warrant officer posted to HMCS Toronto

  03-08-2017 21:10 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Canadian Forces National Investigation Service charged a retired master warrant officer on Aug. 3 with five counts under the National Defence Act.
  The charges relate to alleged incidents involving another member of the Canadian Forces reported to have taken place while the accused was posted to Her Majesty’s Canadian Ship Toronto between January 2010 and September 2011.
  According to the NIS, Master Warrant Officer (retired) Andrew Durnford, of Halifax, faces the following charges:
  -two
  
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• Reevely: In Caroline Mulroney, Patrick Brown gets first star candidate

  03-08-2017 20:44 via ottawacitizen.com
  Job One for the Progressive Conservative party’s new star candidate is proving that she belongs in the riding she wants to represent, so Caroline Mulroney is talking to reporters only in York-Simcoe for at least the next month, her spokeswoman said Thursday.
  “Caroline is busy in the riding meeting with community members and selling memberships,” Rebecca Grundy said. “As you know, this is what wins nominations and that is her sole focus so that she can be the PC Candi
  
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• 'Jordan Rule' letting some parking ticket fighters off scot-free - 1310news.com/2017/08/03/jor… #ottnews https://t.co/JdXa9E2Of8

  03-08-2017 20:39 via twitter.com
  
  'Jordan Rule' letting some parking ticket fighters off scot-free -1310news.com/2017/08/03/jor… #ottnews https://t.co/JdXa9E2Of8
  
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• Road, river and pathway closures for Casino du Lac Leamy fireworks

  03-08-2017 20:35 via ottawacitizen.com
  Casino du Lac Leamy’s Sound of Light fireworks show returns Saturday night and and four other dates in August (Aug. 9, 12, 16 and 19).
  A number of streets in Gatineau’s Hull sector will be closed in the evening during the dates of the show and the Alexandra Bridge will be also closed to cars and pedestrians on show nights.
  The road closings are:
  From 9 p.m. to 10:15 p.m. the following roads will be closed– Laurier Street, between les boulevards Maisonneuve and Sacré-Coeu
  
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• Museum prepares to fly Ottawa's next one-tonne dino skull out of an ... - Ottawa Sun

  03-08-2017 20:30
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  Museum prepares to fly Ottawa's next one-tonne dino skull out of an ...
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  A helicopter will arrive in southeastern Alberta Friday to pluck a one-tonne dinosaur skull off a rocky hillside and send it to Ottawa.After two years of field work, ...and more »
  
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• Museum set to fly one-tonne dino skull from Alberta to Ottawa

  03-08-2017 20:06 via ottawacitizen.com
  A helicopter will arrive in southeastern Alberta Friday to pluck a one-tonne dinosaur skull off a rocky hillside and send it to Ottawa.
  After two years of field work, paleontologist Jordan Mallon will watch the skull leave the hill where it spent tens of millions of years in a matter of minutes.
  The helicopter flight is unusual, but necessary.
  “There’s a lot of ups and downs and the hills are pretty steep,” said Mallon, who works at the Canadian Museum of Nature.
  “We have
  
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• Museum prepares to fly Ottawa's next one-tonne dino skull out of an Alberta hillside

  03-08-2017 20:00
  
  A helicopter will arrive in southeastern Alberta Friday to pluck a one-tonne dinosaur skull off a rocky hillside and send it to Ottawa.After two years of field work, paleontologist Jordan Mallon will watch the skull leave the hill where it spent tens of millions of years in a matter of minutes.The helicopter flight is unusual, but necessary.
  
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• Join @rick_gibbons for the Carol Anne Meehan show now Listen in: player.1310news.com https://t.co/FZMbZp0oCD

  03-08-2017 19:04 via twitter.com
  
  Join @rick_gibbons for the Carol Anne Meehan show now Listen in: player.1310news.com https://t.co/FZMbZp0oCD
  
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• Cirque du Soleil's Volta brings hair-raising spectacles to Zibi site

  03-08-2017 18:12 via ottawacitizen.com
  Volta
  When: Aug. 3 to 27, except Mondays; 8 p.m. Tuesday to Saturday and 5 p.m. Sunday; 4:30 Thursday to Saturday and 1:30 p.m. Sunday
  Where: Zibi Site, 2 Laurier St., Gatineau (Hull sector)
  Tickets: starting at $39 at cirquedusoleil.com/volta 
  Last week, Danila Bim vacationed in Ottawa and was able to catch up on her personal affairs and give her body a bit of a rest.
  But this week, it was time for the Cirque du Soleil aerialist to get back to work, which meant tying her hair into a s
  
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• Police searching for man in his 30's area Bank/Sparks. Complaints of him walking around with wooden stick, looks to be in distress. #ottnews

  03-08-2017 18:04 via twitter.com
  Police searching for man in his 30's area Bank/Sparks. Complaints of him walking around with wooden stick, looks to be in distress. #ottnews
  
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• NEXT on the @PowerLunch: @rick_gibbons & @PaulDewar join @_MarkSutcliffe LIVE in studio:… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  03-08-2017 17:59 via twitter.com
  NEXT on the @PowerLunch: @rick_gibbons & @PaulDewar join @_MarkSutcliffe LIVE in studio:… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Canadian combat boots tell of Afghan battle – Behind the scenes at the Canadian War Museum

  03-08-2017 17:33 via ottawacitizen.com
  I recently 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 highlight how these mis
  
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• Adam: Internet for inmates? Yes, but …

  03-08-2017 17:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  Recent problems and dysfunction at the Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre and other jails around the country have shown that there’s a lot wrong with Canada’s incarceration system. But lack of emails and internet access for inmates is not one of them. There are more important issues to deal with.
  In a 2015/2016 report, the outgoing correctional investigator made recommendations on improving computer and online access for inmates. He recommended a pilot project, and full implementation
  
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• Ottawa house sales momentum slows in July, good news for buyers

  03-08-2017 17:25 via ottawacitizen.com
  After a couple of months of seeing nearly double-digit price gains, the Ottawa housing market in July returned to more typical patterns.
  Prices for Ottawa homes sold through the multiple listing service climbed 5.3 per cent year over year in July, reaching $420,335, the Ottawa Real Estate Board reported Thursday.
  The average sale price for condominiums was $267,640, up 2.8 per cent during the same period.
  Even these modest increases exaggerate the strength of the market somewhat.
  Residential pri
  
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• Speeder clocked at double the legal limit on Hwy 401

  03-08-2017 17:08 via ottawacitizen.com
  Talk about a speed freak.
  A 23-year-old Quebec man was clocked by Napanee OPP going 216 km/h on Highway 401 early Thursday morning.
  Police were on patrol on the westbound highway at 2 a.m. when the officer “locked in” the vehicle going more than double the posted 100 km/h speed limit.
  The man from the Montreal suburb of Côte-Saint-Luc had his car impounded for a week and driver’s licence suspended.
   
   
  
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• Police identify victim in ATV crash near Belleville

  03-08-2017 17:02 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ontario Provincial Police have identified the victim of an all-terrain vehicle crash near Belleville last Saturday as Jean-François Roberto, 42, of Quinte West.
  First responders were called to the scene on an Ontario Federation of Snowmobile Clubs trail at about 2:30 p.m. July 29.
  They found the victim trapped under the ATV. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
  The investigation continues.
   
  
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• NEXT on the #EthicsLab: #Ethics of tipping & paying surrogates bit.ly/1uwtdOs @dk_munro… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  03-08-2017 16:59 via twitter.com
  NEXT on the #EthicsLab:#Ethics of tipping & paying surrogates bit.ly/1uwtdOs @dk_munro… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Road closures for Casino du Lac Leamy fireworks

  03-08-2017 16:49 via ottawacitizen.com
  Casino du Lac Leamy’s Sound of Light fireworks show returns Saturday night and and four other dates in August (Aug. 9, 12, 16 and 19).
  A number of streets in Gatineau’s Hull sector will be closed in the evening during the dates of the show and the Alexandra Bridge will be also closed to cars and pedestrians on show nights.
  The road closings are:
  From 9 p.m. to 10:15 p.m. the following roads will be closed– Laurier Street, between les boulevards Maisonneuve and Sacré-Coeu
  
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• Pair who dumped dying man to be tried separately

  03-08-2017 16:44 via ottawacitizen.com
  CORNWALL — The pair of men accused of dumping a dying man at the Alexandria hospital before fleeing into the night back in early June will be tried separately.
  Anh Quang Nguyen, 29, appeared in a Cornwall courtroom on Wednesday via video conference to hear the Crown intends to force him to have a trial by jury, instead of in front of a judge.
  Nguyen is accused of being an accessory to murder after the fact in the death of Khan Nguyen, 29, of Ottawa, and of producing marijuana for trafficki
  
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• Coming up @Go_Taylor on community meeting to discuss rash of violence in Bay Ward bit.ly/1uwtdOs… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  03-08-2017 16:44 via twitter.com
  Coming up@Go_Taylor on community meeting to discuss rash of violence in Bay Ward bit.ly/1uwtdOs… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Cirque du Soleil's new production Volta brings hair-raising spectacles to Zibi Site in Gatineau

  03-08-2017 15:53 via ottawacitizen.com
  Volta
  When: Aug. 3 to 27, except Mondays; 8 p.m. Tuesday to Saturday and 5 p.m. Sunday; 4:30 Thursday to Saturday and 1:30 p.m. Sunday
  Where: Zibi Site, 2 Laurier St., Gatineau (Hull sector)
  Tickets: starting at $39 at cirquedusoleil.com/volta 
  Last week, Danila Bim vacationed in Ottawa and was able to catch up on her personal affairs and give her body a bit of a rest.
  But this week, it was time for the Cirque du Soleil aerialist to get back to work, which meant tying her hair into a s
  
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• Renovation Transformation: Crooked Centretown home becomes minimalist beauty

  03-08-2017 15:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  Centretown is filled with an eclectic mix of older and modern highrises, heritage homes and triplexes. Many of the older homes feature closed-off layouts, small square-footage and traditional details.  They’re often advertised as a renovator’s dream or a space with a lot of potential. Unfortunately, while these homes have their charms, homeowners can inherit a mountain of problems if they’re not careful.
  One couple facing an outdated space is a pair of mathematicians livin
  
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• Seven boaters are safe after getting their pontoon boat stuck on the Ottawa River's Deschene Rapids.… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  03-08-2017 15:00 via twitter.com
  Seven boaters are safe after getting their pontoon boat stuck on the Ottawa River's Deschene Rapids.… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Gatineau rink temporarily closed due to traces of asbestos

  03-08-2017 14:53 via ottawacitizen.com
  Gatineau has temporarily closed an arena where traces of asbestos have been found.
  The Beaudry Arena, at 23 Saint-Alexandre St. in the Farmer;s Rapids neighbourhood, is closed for two days as a precaution while tests determine the extent of the asbestos. Roller-hockey is cancelled.L'aréna Beaudry est fermé pour deux jours par mesure préventive. Les activités de «roller-hockey» sont annulées. #Gatineau pic.twitter.com/PuhSBVE14H
  — Ville de Gati
  
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• Cyclist hurt after struck by car on Cummings Avenue

  03-08-2017 14:52
  
  Rush-hour traffic was hampered Thursday morning after a cyclist was treated for a fractured wrist after being struck by a vehicle northbound vehicle on travelling in the northbound lanes of Cummings Avenue near Ogilvie Road. Paramedics said they were called to the collision scene at about 7:50 a.m.
  
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• The onramp has JUST reopened #ottnews #otttraffic twitter.com/1310traffic/st…

  03-08-2017 14:51 via twitter.com
  The onramp has JUST reopened #ottnews #otttraffic twitter.com/1310traffic/st…
  
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• Cyclist injured in collision with car on Cummings Avenue

  03-08-2017 14:43 via ottawacitizen.com
  Rush-hour traffic was hampered Thursday morning after a cyclist was treated for a fractured wrist after being struck by a vehicle northbound vehicle on travelling in the northbound lanes of Cummings Avenue near Ogilvie Road.
  Paramedics said they were called to the collision scene at about 7:50 a.m.
  The northbound lanes of Cummings Avenue were closed as a result of the accident.
  The roads were reopened shortly after 8:30 a.m.
  
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• The daring doctor who brought hospitals to Newfoundland

  03-08-2017 14:27 via ottawacitizen.com
  The saga of a missionary doctor stranded on an ice floe off Newfoundland captivated so many people that Wilfred Grenfell was able to fundraise off it for years, and hence open up health care in the remote British colony. This is one of 15 Canadian stories the Citizen presents as part of its ongoing Canada 150 coverage.
  It was Easter of 1908 and a British doctor travelling by dogsled to operate on a boy in rural Newfoundland was in the worst possible trouble, drifting out to sea on a chunk o
  
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• Two seriously injured after car crashes into tree near Queensway onramp

  03-08-2017 14:25 via ottawacitizen.com
  Firefighters had to free the injured driver of a vehicle after it went out of control on the eastbound onramp to Highway 417 at Nicholas Street early Thursday and struck a tree.
  A passenger in the car was also injured.
  Paramedics were on the scene first and notified the fire department of the crash at 3:25 a.m.
  Fire crews had to remove the driver’s side door to extricate the driver, who was freed at 3:43 a.m. and taken to the hospital.
  Paramedics said that the driver suffered very signific
  
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• Queensway crash leaves two hurt

  03-08-2017 14:20
  
  Firefighters had to free the injured driver of a vehicle after it went out of control on the eastbound onramp to Highway 417 at Nicholas Street early Thursday and struck a tree. A passenger in the car was also injured. Paramedics were on the scene first and notified the fire department of the crash at 3:25 a.m.
  
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• Suspect on the run after man stabbed on OC Transpo bus

  03-08-2017 14:15
  
  Police are investigating after a man was stabbed aboard an OC Transpo bus in downtown Ottawa in the early hours of Thursday. The man’s injuries are not considered life-threatening, police said.
  
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• Ottawa weather: Hot, humid and more t-storms [Video]

  03-08-2017 14:11
  
  For those of you who may be new to the Capital Region, here’s the weather forecast. (Most people who’s been here a while are familiar with the drill.) Thursday’s looking muggy and humid with a 40-per-cent chance of showers and a risk of a thunderstorm or two in the afternoon and evening.
  
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