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• 'It's a joke!' Air Transat passengers stranded on Ottawa tarmac to get $400 cheques

  11-08-2017 23:57 via ottawacitizen.com
  While other passengers on Air Transat TS157 from Brussels were dealing with panic attacks, difficulty breathing and crying children, Maryanne Zéhil had an added anxiety: She was worried about her furry, four-legged friend, who was locked away in the plane’s cargo hold.
  Zéhil describes the scene as pandemonium: After a six-hour delay on the Ottawa airport tarmac on July 31, she says, people were pleading with Air Transat staff members to let them get off the plane. Her frustra
  
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• Ottawa's access to abortion pill expected to improve: Planned Parenthood

  11-08-2017 23:45 via ottawacitizen.com
  While some are concerned about the availability of the newly introduced abortion pill, Ottawa patients have better access than most areas of the province, says the head of Planned Parenthood Ottawa.
  And availability should only improve in the coming months.
  As of Thursday, women with a valid health card and prescription from their doctor or nurse practitioner will be able to get the publicly funded Mifegymiso for free at participating pharmacies across the province. The two-medication drug,
  
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• Ottawa's emerald ash borer infestation is in decline, but that's not necessarily good news

  11-08-2017 23:34 via ottawacitizen.com
  Like a freeloading relative who cleans out the fridge then skips town, Ottawa’s emerald ash borers are moving on. 
  After eight years and 50,000 tree removals, the voracious tree-killing beetle infestation appears to be on the decline. The reason? There’s just not that much left for it to eat.
  “We are, in a sense, over some of the more significant and difficult years of large numbers of tree removals,” said Jason Pollard, a forester with the City of Ottawa.
  The b
  
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• Letters: Sound advice for Trump's new envoy

  11-08-2017 23:26 via ottawacitizen.com
  Letter writers opined on the new U.S. ambassador, on health matters, even on the fate of the right whale. You can sound off too, at [email protected]
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  New U.S. envoy should heed columnist’s advice
  Re: A U.S. ambassador’s quick guide to Canada, Aug. 9.
  How can we ensure Kelly Knight Craft, the newly appointed U.S. ambassador to Canada, reads Andrew Cohen’s letter? At a minimum, it is masterful outreach. It is a detailed, nuanced and perfectly balanced missive that
  
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• More than two years later, Kurdish husband finally joins wife in Aylmer

  11-08-2017 23:09 via ottawacitizen.com
  It took nearly 29 months, but an Aylmer woman has been reunited with her husband, a Kurd who had taken sanctuary in Germany.
  Gholi Fathoullahnejad, 46, had appealed to the Citizen and her MP for help after months of frustrating silence from officials at Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada.
  Finally, the logjam was broken. Fathoullahnejad said her husband, Taher Rahimi, 42, was granted a visa to travel to Canada at the end of July and arrived in Aylmer this week.
  “It is a
  
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• ICYMI: .@realDonaldTrump has issued an urgent warning to North Korea not to go ahead with its missile testing.… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  11-08-2017 22:49 via twitter.com
  ICYMI: .@realDonaldTrump has issued an urgent warning to North Korea not to go ahead with its missile testing.… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• ICYMI: One of two men injured in a serious crash off Hwy. 417 at Nicholas has passed away. 1310news.com/2017/08/11/ser… https://t.co/qMG3YDpDcW

  11-08-2017 22:43 via twitter.com
  
  ICYMI: One of two men injured in a serious crash off Hwy. 417 at Nicholas has passed away. 1310news.com/2017/08/11/ser… https://t.co/qMG3YDpDcW
  
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• Tightening drunk driving laws would put Canada closer to many other countries: MADD

  11-08-2017 22:32 via ottawacitizen.com
  Canada does a lousy job of preventing impaired driving deaths compared to other countries and lowering legal blood alcohol limits would be a step toward improving that, according to the national director of legal policy for MADD Canada.
  “We have a terrible record in terms of impaired driving,” said Robert Solomon, who is a professor of law at the University of Western Ontario in addition to being the legal policy director for Mothers Against Drunk Driving.
  Solomon made the comments a
  
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• Canada's 'Arctic soldiers' shouldn't be our only line of defence in the North

  11-08-2017 22:27 via ottawacitizen.com
  This month, Canada’s largest annual arctic sovereignty exercise (Nanook 2017) will take place in Nunavut and Labrador.
  As with each and every sovereignty exercise, the vaunted Canadian Rangers, our so-called “Arctic soldiers” will be touted by the Armed Forces and government as the permanent military symbol of Canada’s determination to assert its sovereignty in the region. 
  This is not far from reality since, apart from a tiny shell of administrative, technical and a
  
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• Egan: Doc's orders — she worked with kids till 103, for no salary

  11-08-2017 22:26 via ottawacitizen.com
  In 1981, at age 67, Agatha Sidlauskas embarked on an audacious retirement project.
  On 50 rolling acres outside Carp, the child psychologist opened a boarding school, Venta Preparatory, to which she devoted the rest of her life, teaching the likes of Kiefer Sutherland, a Chrétien child or two, and scores of others who benefited from individual learning methods.
  Over the next 36 years, not once did she take a salary, sometimes dipping into her own funds to meet payroll. Even well into her 9
  
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• Investigation underway into highrise rooftop fire in Hog's Back

  11-08-2017 21:53 via ottawacitizen.com
  An investigation is underway into a rooftop fire Friday at a highrise apartment building at 900 Dynes Rd. in the Hog’s Back area.
  Ottawa fire dispatch received a number of 911 calls at about 11:40 a.m. for smoke coming from the building’s roof.
  Responders declared a working fire, which was knocked down quickly.
  No one was reported injured in the fire and no one was displaced.
  Damage was estimated at $50,000 to the structure of the building.
   
  
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• Ottawa teen charged in Centretown assault case from January

  11-08-2017 21:47
  
  An Ottawa teen was arrested and charged Friday, six months after police made an initial callout to the public to help identify a “person of interest” in a Centretown assault. On Jan. 10 around 12:30 a.m., Ottawa police said an aggravated assault took place in the 400 block of MacLaren Street, between Bank and Kent streets.
  
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• .@OttawaPolice say swarmings and personal robberies are up by a large margin so far this year.… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  11-08-2017 21:39 via twitter.com
  .@OttawaPolice say swarmings and personal robberies are up by a large margin so far this year.… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Compensation is now being offered to @airtransat passengers, who were left sitting on the tarmac in Ottawa.… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  11-08-2017 21:26 via twitter.com
  Compensation is now being offered to @airtransat passengers, who were left sitting on the tarmac in Ottawa.… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Investigation underway into high-rise rooftop fire in Hog's Back

  11-08-2017 20:34 via ottawacitizen.com
  An investigation is underway into a rooftop fire Friday at a high-rise apartment building at 900 Dynes Rd in the Hog’s Back area.
  Ottawa fire dispatch received a number of 911 calls at about 11:40 a.m. for smoke coming from the building’s roof.
  Responders declared a working fire, which was knocked down quickly.
  No one was reported injured in the fire and no one was displaced.
  Damages were estimated at about $50,000 to the structure of the building.
   
  
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• Sober second thoughts on drunk driving

  11-08-2017 19:32 via ottawacitizen.com
  Federal Justice Minister Jody Wilson-Raybould’s proposal to lower the legal blood alcohol limit for drivers to .05 per cent from .08 per cent seems logical, based on the evidence. But will toughening the sanctions against drunk driving actually reduce the number of drinking-related road fatalities and accidents? Not by itself.
  Back in 1969, when the .08 per cent standard became law, it was considered the point of significant impairment. Newer research, however, says the number is really .0
  
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• Dewar: A Canada 150 legacy for Ottawa

  11-08-2017 19:09 via ottawacitizen.com
  The uniqueness and importance of Canada 150 was powerfully illustrated on Canada Day, when Indigenous community members lit a sacred fire on Parliament Hill and held ceremonies in the shadow of the Peace Tower as thousands of revellers from across the country celebrated around them.
  Ottawa’s Canada 150 celebrations have been at moments inspiring and transfixing, disorganized and chaotic, thought-provoking and pedestrian – a microcosm of our country’s relationship to this milest
  
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• Capital Voices: You're in Paris, stranded after being scammed. What do you do? Call the PM and ask for a ride

  11-08-2017 18:52 via ottawacitizen.com
  To mark Canada’s sesquicentennial, the Citizen’s Bruce Deachman met and photographed 150 people in the Ottawa area, encouraging them to tell their stories that, combined, painted an intimate portrait of the region and the people who live, work and play here. The series, which was published daily leading up to Canada Day, was called Capital Voices. It continues, today and beyond, on a somewhat less rigorously defined schedule.
  “My husband, John, and I were married on June 30, 19
  
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• Still ahead: 1310 NEWS film critic @thordiakow has your weekend movie reviews: bit.ly/1uwtdOs… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  11-08-2017 18:28 via twitter.com
  Still ahead: 1310 NEWS film critic @thordiakow has your weekend movie reviews: bit.ly/1uwtdOs… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• NEXT on the #POWERLunch: @RyanKennery & @TimTierney join @_MarkSutcliffe live in studio:… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  11-08-2017 17:58 via twitter.com
  NEXT on the #POWERLunch: @RyanKennery & @TimTierney join @_MarkSutcliffe live in studio:… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Canada's Coat of Arms sure needs an overhaul

  11-08-2017 17:55 via ottawacitizen.com
  Emblazoning our passports, decorating our schools and government buildings, the Canadian Coat of Arms provides a regal je ne sais quoi to the loftiest of federal documents and institutions. It even features prominently in our prime minister’s Twitter postings.
  Both archaic and gorgeous, it is a symbol in need of re-imagining.
  Its current version, introduced in the early 1920s, was intended to portray Canada as a distinct nation, even as its designers employed the most imperial of symbols t
  
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• Canadian study about female shopping habits could aid Australian military recruiting

  11-08-2017 17:52 via ottawacitizen.com
  In 2007, the Verde Group, a Toronto consulting firm, and researchers at Wharton University of Pennsylvania produced a study titled, “Men Buy, Women Shop.”
  The study determined that women are more inclined than men to want personal interaction with sales associates during shopping. Men just wanted to go, buy a specific product, and get out of the store. Women were more invested in the experience of shopping.
  Fast forward a decade to Australia. The Daily Telegraph newspaper in that cou
  
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• No charges in Aug. 3 crash that claimed driver's life: OPP

  11-08-2017 17:49 via ottawacitizen.com
  Provincial police confirmed Friday that no charges are expected in a single-vehicle crash early Aug. 3 that claimed the life of an Ottawa man.
  Police identified the victim as Eric Grégoire-Liard, 22, of Ottawa.
  He died the day after the car he was driving smashed into a tree at the eastbound 417 on-ramp for Nicholas Street. A passenger in the car was also hospitalized following the crash.
  Firefighters had to remove the driver’s side door to free the driver.
   
  
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• NEXT: @BarryDavis_ joins @_MarkSutcliffe for weekly #BlueJays talk. bit.ly/1uwtdOs #ottnews https://t.co/iXGf9tLkLn

  11-08-2017 17:44 via twitter.com
  
  NEXT: @BarryDavis_ joins @_MarkSutcliffe for weekly #BlueJays talk. bit.ly/1uwtdOs#ottnews https://t.co/iXGf9tLkLn
  
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• Still ahead: @robcolin on what #NorthKorea tensions mean for #Canada: bit.ly/1uwtdOs @_MarkSutcliffe… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  11-08-2017 17:28 via twitter.com
  Still ahead: @robcolin on what #NorthKorea tensions mean for #Canada: bit.ly/1uwtdOs@_MarkSutcliffe… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• NEXT @mfriscolanti on his column 'The Russian spies who raised us' bit.ly/1uwtdOs @_MarkSutcliffe… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  11-08-2017 17:14 via twitter.com
  NEXT@mfriscolanti on his column 'The Russian spies who raised us' bit.ly/1uwtdOs @_MarkSutcliffe… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Gormley: The madness of Donald Trump

  11-08-2017 17:03 via ottawacitizen.com
  With tireless commitment to the role, North Korea’s various Dear, Supreme, Great, superlative-loving leaders have for seven decades played the part of the demented lunatic. They’ve now met their match in a man who is every bit as mad as they take great pains to appear. 
  Not so very long ago, in a time that now seems so innocent and carefree, it would have been Pyongyang making threats about “fire and fury”; this week, it is Washington. 
  Kim Jong-un’s deran
  
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• NEXT @sharon_fichman on #Canadian #DenisShapovalov making history in win over #Nadal: bit.ly/1uwtdOs… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  11-08-2017 17:00 via twitter.com
  NEXT@sharon_fichman on #Canadian #DenisShapovalov making history in win over #Nadal: bit.ly/1uwtdOs… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Still ahead: Tim Cole of @rasc joins @_MarkSutcliffe on #SolarEclipse & plans to observe event in #Ottawa:… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  11-08-2017 16:44 via twitter.com
  Still ahead: Tim Cole of @rasc joins @_MarkSutcliffe on #SolarEclipse & plans to observe event in #Ottawa:… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Sen. Bob Runciman steps down after more than 40 years in politics He joins @_MarkSutcliffe NEXT… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  11-08-2017 16:28 via twitter.com
  Sen. Bob Runciman steps down after more than 40 years in politics He joins @_MarkSutcliffe NEXT… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Trump wants to spend billions of dollars improving missile defence to counter North Korea

  11-08-2017 16:18 via ottawacitizen.com
  U.S. President Donald Trump says he is going to pump billions of dollars more into the country’s missile defence system but as with a number of promises made by the president, there are questions about whether it will happen.
  Behind the spending promise is North Korea and its missile program.
  The U.S. already has a missile defence system although there are varying views on how effective it would be.
  But Trump says his administration will spend more on missile defence. “We are going t
  
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• NEXT: @cmaconthehill joins @_MarkSutcliffe for look back at the week in #cdnpoli: bit.ly/1uwtdOs… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  11-08-2017 16:14 via twitter.com
  NEXT: @cmaconthehill joins @_MarkSutcliffe for look back at the week in #cdnpoli: bit.ly/1uwtdOs… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Coming up on the #POWERLunch @NOON: @RyanKennery & @TimTierney join @_MarkSutcliffe live in studio:… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  11-08-2017 16:13 via twitter.com
  Coming up on the #POWERLunch @NOON: @RyanKennery & @TimTierney join @_MarkSutcliffe live in studio:… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Seeing clearly: Verdun first to market with the next generation of window technology

  11-08-2017 15:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  Amazingly, although windows have been used in buildings since about AD 100, there have been only three iterations of basic window frame technology.  The earliest builders in Roman times used wood frames, aluminum came into use in 1926, and then PVC frames in 1952.  
  A local window manufacturer is breaking new ground with a stronger, more energy-efficient frame that’s poised to become the standard in the near future. Verdun Windows & Doors is a Vars-based operation that&r
  
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• Is the justice system failing sex assault victims? Kim Stanton of @LEAFNational joins @_MarkSutcliffe NEXT:… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  11-08-2017 15:28 via twitter.com
  Is the justice system failing sex assault victims?Kim Stanton of @LEAFNational joins @_MarkSutcliffe NEXT:… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Coming up @ 10 Are you less likely than before to go to marine amusement parks and zoos? @_MarkSutcliffe… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  11-08-2017 15:23 via twitter.com
  Coming up @ 10Are you less likely than before to go to marine amusement parks and zoos? @_MarkSutcliffe… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• NEXT: @TaylorVaisey on #Canada's mission to one-up the #US in the next #NAFTA negotiations… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  11-08-2017 15:14 via twitter.com
  NEXT: @TaylorVaisey on #Canada's mission to one-up the #US in the next #NAFTA negotiations… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Familiar forecast: Cloudy, possible showers and T-storms [Video]

  11-08-2017 14:52
  
  Please don't attack the messenger. The messenger is as tired as you are about these lacklustre forecasts.But here we go once again: Friday looks to be starting the weekend off under cloudy skies, with a 40-per-cent chance of showers this afternoon with risk of a thunderstorm.The high is expected to be around 26 C, feeling like 31 with the humidity
  
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• Familiar forecast: Cloudy, possible showers and T-storms

  11-08-2017 14:51 via ottawacitizen.com
  Please don’t attack the messenger. The messenger is as tired as you are about these lacklustre forecasts.
  But here we go once again: Friday looks to be starting the weekend off under cloudy skies, with a 40-per-cent chance of showers this afternoon with risk of a thunderstorm.
  The high is expected to be around 26 C, feeling like 31 with the humidity factored in and a UV index of 6 or high.
  Friday night, the chance of showers climbs to 60 per cent, with continued risk of a thunderstorm and
  
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• Shania Twain to headline Grey Cup halftime show at Lansdowne

  11-08-2017 14:29 via ottawacitizen.com
  She’s gonna getcha good.
  The Canadian Football League dropped a bomb during the halftime intermission of Thursday night’s game between the Redblacks and the Edmonton Eskimos, revealing that Canadian country music icon Shania Twain will provide the halftime entertainment at this year’s Grey Cup game, Nov. 26 at Lansdowne Park. 
  The singer, who grew up in Timmins, will be releasing her fifth album, called ‘NOW,’ on Sept. 29.
  It will be her first new album since 2
  
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• Fundraising walk promoting hope, love and courage happening this weekend in #Ottawa: bit.ly/2hPPAp0… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  11-08-2017 11:55 via twitter.com
  Fundraising walk promoting hope, love and courage happening this weekend in #Ottawa: bit.ly/2hPPAp0… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• #Ottawa @REDBLACKS fall to #Edmonton 27-20 at TD Place: bit.ly/2vp6KhO #ottnews https://t.co/FXjtSYHiKl

  11-08-2017 11:43 via twitter.com
  
  #Ottawa @REDBLACKS fall to #Edmonton 27-20 at TD Place: bit.ly/2vp6KhO #ottnews https://t.co/FXjtSYHiKl
  
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• More misery as Redblacks fall to Eskimos

  11-08-2017 05:08 via ottawacitizen.com
  Eskimos 27, Redblacks 20
  Maybe the misery will end next Friday in Hamilton.
  Until then, the Ottawa Redblacks and their fans will have to live with yet another disappointment: a 27-20 loss to the Edmonton Eskimos at TD Place stadium on Thursday night.
  While the Eskimos remain undefeated at 7-0, the Redblacks have fallen to 1-6-1. That’s right. Just one win in eight games. Miserable, right? While the Eskimos have played through a long string of injuries, the Redblacks can’t use that as
  
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• Paddlers from capital region make waves at Canada Summer Games

  11-08-2017 03:40 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa-Gatineau paddlers staged their own version of Own the Podium at the Canada Summer Games in Winnipeg on Thursday, combining for 11 medals in nine of 10 finals at the Manitoba Canoe and Kayak Centre.
  Women representing Ontario and Quebec scored three gold, two silver and two bronze medals, while men notched four bronze medals.
  Rideau Canoe Club’s Rowan Hardy-Kavanagh led the parade to the podium, winning two gold medals in canoe sprints with Toronto’s Jillian Perrone, who had pr
  
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• Big rubber duck shows pluck in Brockville

  11-08-2017 03:07 via ottawacitizen.com
  If Thursday was any indication, it’s going to be an incredibly busy weekend in downtown Brockville.  After months of anticipation, a 61-foot high, 30,000-pound rubber duck – billed as the world’s largest – arrived and was inflated on Blockhouse Island over the course of three hours Thursday morning. And even that routine step drew hundreds of people to watch on. Yet despite its power to attract attention, the rubber duck, known as “Big Mama,” is
  
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• Wandering Holstein bull reunited with owner, with a prod from social media

  11-08-2017 02:31
  
  How, exactly, a two-year-old Holstein bullmade its way onto Tanya Quinn’s familyproperty in Pontiac, Que., remained a mysteryon Thursday.
  
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• Marketing pot: hip company Tokyo Smoke brings 'lifestyle' branding to medical marijuana

  11-08-2017 02:28 via ottawacitizen.com
  Would you like to indulge in an exhilarating burst of energy and creativity while enjoying an uplifting experience?
  That is what is in store for medical marijuana users purchasing a new strain called Tokyo Smoke Go, according to the Canadian “lifestyle” company that unveiled the product on Thursday.
  It’s also perhaps a peek into the future as cannabis companies scramble to create brands that will be attractive to millions of potential customers when recreational pot is leg
  
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• Milnes: Sir John and I, and my Canada 150 time capsule

  11-08-2017 02:02 via ottawacitizen.com
  Arthur Milnes and his wife, Alison, embarked upon a special project to mark Canada’s sesquicentennial year: A time capsule. But rather than filling it with things from around their home in Kingston, the pair have reached out far and wide to people, places and institutions with any connection to this country. The responses, whether from small towns or celebrities, have been overwhelming. This is the latest in a series of columns on his Canada 150 time capsule by Arthur Milnes. 
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• Steelworker who died after accident at Gatineau site had 'heart of gold’

  11-08-2017 01:41
  
  A man who died after an accident on aGatineau construction site this week had a“heart of gold,” a friend said in an emotionalFacebook tribute Wednesday.
  
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• Steelworker who died after accident at Gatineau site had 'heart of gold'

  11-08-2017 01:28 via ottawacitizen.com
  A man who died after an accident on a Gatineau construction site this week had a “heart of gold,” a friend said in an emotional Facebook tribute Wednesday.
  Steelworker Daniel Sabourin died Wednesday after suffering “several injuries while working” around 10:40 a.m. Tuesday at a construction site on Chemin Industriel in Gatineau. The cause of death has not been released.
  Sabourin was a man with “a heart of gold,” read a Facebook post by Nancie Collard, who
  
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