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• Elderly woman found dead in Sandy Hill; police charge son with second degree murder - CTV News

  18-08-2017 23:44
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  Elderly woman found dead in Sandy Hill; police charge son with second degree murder
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  Ottawa Police say a man is facing a second degree murder charge in the death of his elderly mother. Steven Mair was arrested Friday morning after his mother was pronounced dead inside a Sandy Hill apartment building near Range Rd. Police were called ...
  
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• Son charged with second-degree murder after elderly woman found dead in Sandy Hill [Video]

  18-08-2017 23:33
  
  An elderly woman is dead and her son is in custody after police responded to a “disturbance” on Range Road early Friday morning — the city’s 11th homicide of 2017.
  
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• PMO Statement on one Canadian killed, 4 injured in #Barcelona attack. #ottnews https://t.co/gx2SLmCqnn

  18-08-2017 23:26 via twitter.com
  
  PMO Statement on one Canadian killed, 4 injured in #Barcelona attack. #ottnews https://t.co/gx2SLmCqnn
  
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• Woman in serious but stable condition after east-end crash

  18-08-2017 23:01 via ottawacitizen.com
  A 51-year-old woman was in serious but stable condition after her car collided with a truck in the city’s east end shortly before 11 a.m. Friday.
  Paramedics said she sustained chest, abdomen and back injuries from the crash at Innes and Tenth Line roads. 
  She was hooked up to pain medication while she was transported to the trauma centre.
  No other details were given.
  
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• Update: Son in custody after elderly woman found dead in city's 11th homicide [Video]

  18-08-2017 22:43
  
  An elderly woman is dead and her son is in custody after police responded to a “disturbance” on Range Road early Friday morning — the city’s 11th homicide of 2017.
  
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• Son charged with second-degree murder after elderly woman found dead in Sandy Hill

  18-08-2017 22:41 via ottawacitizen.com
  An elderly woman is dead and her son is charged with second-degree murder after police responded to a “disturbance” on Range Road in Sandy Hill early Friday morning — the city’s 11th homicide of 2017.
  Police confirmed Friday afternoon the death was a homicide after spending most of the day describing it as “suspicious.”
  They were summoned to an apartment building at 85 Range Rd., at the intersection of Templeton Street, after a call to police around 5:30 a.m.
  
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• Thunderstorm warning issued, but fingers crossed for a sunny Sunday [Video]

  18-08-2017 22:17
  
  The record-setting big wet just keeps getting wetter but we can pin our hopes on Sunday — the only day without a risk of rain until late next week, according to the latest from Environment Canada.Friday’s forecast is showers — no kidding — with the risk of a thunderstorm (surprise!).
  
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• Thunderstorm warning issued, but fingers crossed for a sunny Sunday

  18-08-2017 22:11 via ottawacitizen.com
  Guess what?
  Environment Canada issued a thunderstorm warning Friday for the capital region. Yes, again.
  But we can pin our hopes on Sunday — the only day without a risk of rain until late next week, according to the latest from Environment Canada.
  Friday’s forecast is showers — no kidding — with the risk of a thunderstorm (surprise!). Fog patches should burn off on the way to a high of 25 C that will feel more like 34 because of the humidity.
  The showers should end Friday
  
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• Hundreds in Ottawa plan to rally against racism at American embassy Tuesday - Ottawa Sun

  18-08-2017 22:10
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  Hundreds in Ottawa plan to rally against racism at American embassy Tuesday
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  Heather Heyer A makeshift memorial of flowers and a photo of victim, Heather Heyer, sits in Charlottesville, Va., Sunday, Aug. 13, 2017. Heyer died when a car rammed into a group of people who were protesting the presence of white supremacists who had ...and more »
  
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• Hundreds in Ottawa plan to rally against racism at American embassy Tuesday

  18-08-2017 22:05 via ottawacitizen.com
  Hundreds of Ottawans are already rallying to join an anti-racism protest set for Tuesday at the American embassy.
  By Friday afternoon, more than 750 people indicated on Facebook that they were going and more than 3,100 were interested in the noon event on Sussex Drive.
  It’s billed as a peaceful protest against white supremacy and racism in solidarity with people who were harmed by “neo-Nazi” demonstrators, including a young woman who died after being mowed down by a car, in Cha
  
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• Former LPGA stars from Canada offer Henderson some advice

  18-08-2017 22:01 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Canadian Pacific Women’s Open is not like any other LPGA Tour event for Canadian players. Never was under any previous banner, either.
  Not every Open is equal for every Canadian player, though. They all matter, but those contested at or near home come with even higher expectations.
  Therefore, Canadian Golf Hall of Fame inductees Sandra Post and Jocelyne Bourassa would be quite pleased if folks from the national capital region could give Brooke Henderson some personal space next week at
  
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• .@OttawaPolice warn of fraudulent website to book road tests. #ottnews #fraud #fraudalert https://t.co/CufSqG45TU

  18-08-2017 22:00 via twitter.com
  
  .@OttawaPolice warn of fraudulent website to book road tests. #ottnews #fraud #fraudalert https://t.co/CufSqG45TU
  
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• Update: Police say Range Road death of elderly woman is 'homicide,' man in custody [Video]

  18-08-2017 20:35
  
  An elderly woman is dead and a man in custody after police responded to a disturbance on Range Road early Friday morning.
  
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• National Post View: Canada's facing an immigration fiasco. Why was Ottawa not better prepared? - National Post

  18-08-2017 20:31
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  National Post View: Canada's facing an immigration fiasco. Why was Ottawa not better prepared?
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  “Sometimes you need to sleep, too,” Normand Faille recently told CTV News. Faille is the fire chief in Lacolle, Que., a small community just a few kilometres from the Canada-U.S. border, and ground zero for an unfolding migration fiasco. In recent ...
  
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• Evans: The Nazi next door — make no mistake, white supremacists live among us

  18-08-2017 19:54 via ottawacitizen.com
  We ask ourselves this question each time we are confronted with an event as troubling as the one this past week in Virginia: What is it about far-right ideology that motivates young men to imagine life through the prism of violence?
  The appeal of white supremacism is not new. While many of us were reminded by the death of Ernst Zundel that Canada has had its own dalliance with far-right activism, white pride organizations have a long history on this continent. Long before Hitler’s rise to
  
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• Gurski: Radicalization is all about people

  18-08-2017 19:53 via ottawacitizen.com
  Elizabeth Moore, the subject of a news story in Friday’s Citizen, was once the “pretty public face” of one of Canada’s nastier white supremacist organizations, Heritage Front.
  She joined it in high school before doubts started to set in, and she left after only a few years. She began to speak out publicly against the Front and eventually married a Jewish man, the very ethnicity/faith that her former “colleagues” hated so much.
  In her own interpretation of why
  
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• Editorial: Madmen diplomacy

  18-08-2017 19:50 via ottawacitizen.com
  This week’s searing failure of leadership on the part of U.S. President Donald Trump after the brazen neo-Nazi display of muscle in Charlottesville, Virginia prompts a spate of worrying questions. One of which is: Does Canada have the relationship right with this U.S. administration?
  Media reports of a “friendship” between Justin Trudeau’s principal secretary, Gerry Butts, and Trump’s now ousted alt-right adviser Steve Bannon raised brief speculation that we might b
  
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• Five hurt as balcony collapses on Gatineau site

  18-08-2017 19:36 via ottawacitizen.com
  Five people were injured, at least one of them seriously, when scaffolding and a balcony collapsed on a Gatineau construction site Friday morning.
  Police said they were called to the site at 12 Horizon St., in the city’s Plateau neighbourhood, at about 9 a.m.
  A balcony on an upper floor of the condo site started to sag, then collapsed. Four workers went tumbling about 10 metres to the ground, police said. 
  One of the workers apparently had time to jump inside the third floor unit, but
  
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• Science of summer: Good news for baby loons

  18-08-2017 19:32 via ottawacitizen.com
  Our Science of Summer series continues as the August days become shorter. Today Tom Spears looks at a potential risk for baby birds born late in the summer.
  This summer has been torture for loons, as a huge crop of biting flies drove adults off their nests across the northern U.S. states and southern Canada.
  Parents abandoned their eggs in large numbers, often returning a week or two later to lay new eggs when the flies had gone. Many had babies that hatched very late in the season — in mi
  
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• Five hurt as balcony collapse on Gatineau site

  18-08-2017 19:20
  
  Five people were injured, at least one of them seriously, when scaffolding and a balcony collapsed on a Gatineau construction site Friday morning.
  
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• .@rickgibbons hosts the Carol Anne Meehan show now. Listen in: player.1310news.com https://t.co/KA9Fiz6PWu

  18-08-2017 19:13 via twitter.com
  
  .@rickgibbons hosts the Carol Anne Meehan show now. Listen in: player.1310news.com https://t.co/KA9Fiz6PWu
  
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• Dieppe at 75: Remembering the Canadian chaplain who earned a Victoria Cross

  18-08-2017 18:19 via ottawacitizen.com
  Seventy-five years ago, as the main Canadian assault force fought its way onto the beaches of Dieppe under blistering German machine gunfire, a determined chaplain was with them.
  For months after the ill-fated raid, the unnamed chaplain was known only as “Padre X.”
  Canadian soldiers who survived the fiasco told stories about the mysterious padre’s courage that day: how he delivered first-aid and morphine to dozens of injured soldiers; how he repeatedly exposed himself to heavy
  
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• Coming up the #POWERLunch @NOON: @Baileymariereid & @_ECinc join @_MarkSutcliffe in studio… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  18-08-2017 18:00 via twitter.com
  Coming up the #POWERLunch @NOON: @Baileymariereid & @_ECinc join @_MarkSutcliffe in studio… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• SIU clears OPP officers after man suffers cracked rib in arrest

  18-08-2017 17:46 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Special Investigations Unit has cleared two Ontario Provincial Police officers in the case of a man who suffered a fractured rib while being handcuffed last year. 
  “With respect to the amount of force used by officers in their attempts to arrest and handcuff the complainant, on a review of all of the evidence, I find that their actions were justified in the circumstances and that they used no more force than necessary to effect the arrest of the complainant,” said 
  
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• NEXT: @BarryDavis_ joins @_MarkSutcliffe for weekly #BlueJays talk. bit.ly/1uwtdOs #ottnews https://t.co/agmi8WSWKO

  18-08-2017 17:43 via twitter.com
  
  NEXT: @BarryDavis_ joins @_MarkSutcliffe for weekly #BlueJays talk. bit.ly/1uwtdOs#ottnews https://t.co/agmi8WSWKO
  
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• Five hurt as scaffolding, wall collapse on Gatineau site

  18-08-2017 17:35 via ottawacitizen.com
  Five people were injured, at least one of them seriously, when scaffolding and a portion of a wall collapsed on a Gatineau construction site Friday morning.
  Police said they were called to the site at 12 Horizon St., in the city’s Plateau neighbourhood, at about 10 a.m.
  One of the victims was on the third floor of the site with injuries to his back and leg. Gatineau fire personnel and a special  extrication team from Ottawa Fire Services were required to free him.
  None of the injuries
  
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• NEXT @JimWatsonOttawa joins @_MarkSutcliffe on long-term home care bit.ly/1ppeuDa #ottnews https://t.co/UlzenCRYWY

  18-08-2017 17:30 via twitter.com
  
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• City files planning application for new Civic hospital land

  18-08-2017 17:28 via ottawacitizen.com
  The City of Ottawa has started paving the way for the Ottawa Hospital’s relocation of the Civic campus to a chunk of the Central Experimental Farm.
  The city’s planning department recently filed the rezoning application which, if approved by council, will make the necessary changes in the official plan to essentially hive off the future hospital land from the rest of the research farm.
  The federal government is making available 21 hectares of the old Sir John Carling site at the east
  
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• Canadian Army reserve units, US National Guard conduct large combat training exercise at Gagetown

  18-08-2017 17:28 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Canadian Army is hosting a large combat training exercise at the 5th Canadian Division Support Base Gagetown starting today and running until Aug. 27.
  The exercise involves Army Reserve soldiers from units throughout Atlantic Canada and the United States National Guard.
  Exercise STRIDENT TRACER 2017 is a collective training exercise that provides hundreds of Army Reservists from 28 units in Atlantic Canada and five United States National Guard units with an “opportunity to hone individ
  
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• Gormley: Fascism is here – the first step is to tell it to get out

  18-08-2017 17:27 via ottawacitizen.com
  The president of the United States has been asked to unequivocally condemn the neo-Nazis who are tearing his country apart; he’s declined. The Speaker of the House has been asked to unequivocally condemn the neo-Nazi sympathizer who is destroying the Republican party; he’s declined as well.
  Perhaps we should not be so surprised then, that when world leaders are asked to condemn the fascist who leads the country that purports to lead the world, they too take a hard pass.
  Still, it&rsq
  
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• Canadian military divers in Latvia to clear explosives from past wars

  18-08-2017 17:19 via ottawacitizen.com
  Eleven Canadian Armed Forces clearance divers and support personnel are participating in Operation OPEN SPIRIT 2017 in Latvia. That exercise started Friday and runs until Aug. 31.
  The divers come from the Fleet Diving Units (Atlantic and Pacific) in both Halifax, Nova Scotia and Esquimalt, British Columbia. They are working alongside personnel from the Latvian Naval Flotilla and 13 other partner nations, according to the Royal Canadian Navy. Their mission is to clear explosive remnants of the Fi
  
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• NEXT @mpearson78 joins @_MarkSutcliffe on how Ottawa's LRT is taking shape bit.ly/1ppeuDa #ottnews https://t.co/TiX4TiNINE

  18-08-2017 17:13 via twitter.com
  
  NEXT @mpearson78 joins @_MarkSutcliffe on how Ottawa's LRT is taking shapebit.ly/1ppeuDa #ottnews https://t.co/TiX4TiNINE
  
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• NEXT @JuneauKatsuya joins @_MarkSutcliffe on Spain terror attacks bit.ly/1ppeuDa #ottnews https://t.co/6V8Di2gspL

  18-08-2017 17:13 via twitter.com
  
  NEXT@JuneauKatsuyajoins @_MarkSutcliffe on Spain terror attacks bit.ly/1ppeuDa #ottnews https://t.co/6V8Di2gspL
  
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• Robert Cray salutes Memphis, disses Trump on new album

  18-08-2017 16:59 via ottawacitizen.com
  Robert Cray Band
  With Lucas Haneman Express
  8 p.m. Aug. 25, Algonquin Commons Theatre, 1385 Woodroffe Ave.
  Tickets: $55 to $59, plus surcharges, available at spectrasonic.com
  Doors open at 7 p.m.
  The politically charged tune Just How Low stands out like a sore thumb on the latest album by American singer-guitarist Robert Cray.The album, Robert Cray and Hi Rhythm, is the brainchild of Grammy-winning producer Steven Jordan, who wanted to salute the vintage Memphis sound that came out of Hi Records
  
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• UPDATED: Suspicious death in Sandy Hill 1310news.com/2017/08/18/sus… #ottnews @MikeVlasveld https://t.co/u6qvnHEsvj

  18-08-2017 16:58 via twitter.com
  
  UPDATED: Suspicious death in Sandy Hill 1310news.com/2017/08/18/sus… #ottnews @MikeVlasveld https://t.co/u6qvnHEsvj
  
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• Today's letters: Drugs, Dieppe and assisted dying

  18-08-2017 16:58 via ottawacitizen.com
  Citizen letter-writers hold strong views on the drug problem, and offer insights into the Dieppe raid and the assisted dying debate. You can write to us too, at [email protected] . Our guidelines can be found here.
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  Time to legalize all drugs
  Re: Canada should decriminalize all drugs, Aug. 15.
  Decriminalization of all drugs is something I’ve believed should be done for a very long time.
  I’m a retired police officer (RCMP) and never really understand the waste of money
  
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• Ruparelia: Being shocked by Charlottesville shows you weren't paying attention

  18-08-2017 16:48 via ottawacitizen.com
  Immediately following what many considered to be Donald Trump’s unexpected U.S. election victory, Saturday Night Live produced a brilliant sketch in which a group of friends gather together for a presidential election party.
  The white liberals in attendance, confident that Hillary Clinton will be elected their first woman president, remain in denial of Trump’s pending victory even as the election results roll in. When Trump is finally announced the winner, one of the white women, cle
  
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• NEXT @DrDebraSoh joins @_MarkSutcliffe on Google manifesto bit.ly/1ppeuDa #ottnews https://t.co/ssTAQAVxq5

  18-08-2017 16:43 via twitter.com
  
  NEXT@DrDebraSoh joins @_MarkSutcliffe on Google manifesto bit.ly/1ppeuDa #ottnews https://t.co/ssTAQAVxq5
  
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• NEXT @kevraire17 joins @_MarkSutcliffe on donating brain for concussion research bit.ly/1ppeuDa… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  18-08-2017 16:25 via twitter.com
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• Guns N' Roses: 30 years ago, Appetite for Destruction changed rock n' roll

  18-08-2017 16:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  Guns N’ Roses
  Aug. 21, Lansdowne Park, TD Place
  With Our Lady Peace
  Tickets range from $75 to $275, plus surcharges, available at the TD Place box office, online at tdplace.ca or by calling 1-877-489-2849.Gates open at 6:25 p.m.Appetite for Destruction changed everything about rock in the ’80s.Released 30 years ago this summer, Guns N’ Roses’ first major-label album came out at a time when Bon Jovi was at the top of the charts, Ronald Reagan was president and glam metal w
  
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• Cops arrest three, seize weapons, drugs in Gatineau raids

  18-08-2017 15:41
  
  Three men have been arrested, and a sawed-off shotgun, a Taser-type weapon and small quantity of illegal drugs seized in a pair of raids in Gatineau Thursday. The first raid was at about 5:20 a.m., when police searched an apartment in a building on Notre-Dame Street and arrested a 44-year-old man.
  
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• Man in custody in 'suspicious death' of elderly woman in Sandy Hill

  18-08-2017 15:32 via ottawacitizen.com
  An elderly woman is dead and a man in custody after police responded to a disturbance on Range Road early Friday morning.
  The call to an address between Mann Avenue and Templeton Street in Sandy Hill came in about 5:30 a.m.
  Officers discovered the woman deceased and made the arrest.
  Paramedics declared the woman was dead of “traumatic injuries.”
  A male patient was also taken to hospital.
  Major crime investigators and forensics experts are on the scene.
  Police ask that anyone with inf
  
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• Woman dead, man in custody

  18-08-2017 15:31
  
  An elderly woman is dead and a man in custody after police responded to a disturbance on Range Road early Friday morning. The call to an address between Mann Avenue and Templeton Street in Sandy Hill came in about 5:30 a.m.Paramedics declared the woman was dead of “traumatic injuries.”
  
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• Staying small: Legault keeps building on family legacy

  18-08-2017 15:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  Go big or go home? More like stay small and build homes.
  At least that’s the way it’s done by Legault Builders, founded by the late Lucien Legault in 1976 and now run by his son Luc Legault. (Legault explained that his father was a homebuilder since 1949 — hence the tag “since 1949” on the company website — but started this particular company a little more than 40 years ago.)
  Legault prides itself on being a small builder, producing only a handful of homes eac
  
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• #OnAir 9AM-1PM #OttawaToday live with your host @_MarkSutcliffe on @1310NEWS & @rogersottawa22 LISTEN:… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  18-08-2017 14:59 via twitter.com
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• Three arrested, weapons, drugs seized in Gatineau raids

  18-08-2017 14:57 via ottawacitizen.com
  Three men have been arrested, and a sawed-off shotgun, a Taser-type weapon and small quantity of illegal drugs seized in a pair of raids in Gatineau Thursday.
  The first raid was at about 5:20 a.m., when police searched an apartment in a building on Notre-Dame Street and arrested a 44-year-old man.
  Minutes later, they raided a second apartment just around the corner on Chemin du Lac near Monseigneur-Lemieux Street and arrested a 53-year-old man.
  A 20-year-old man fled on foot but was collared nea
  
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• Spain manhunt deepens as Barcelona insists 'I am not afraid' 1310news.com/2017/08/18/spa… https://t.co/3ggkokaKiF

  18-08-2017 14:30 via twitter.com
  
  Spain manhunt deepens as Barcelona insists 'I am not afraid' 1310news.com/2017/08/18/spa… https://t.co/3ggkokaKiF
  
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• Streets, bridges and paths close for Lac Leamy fireworks grand finale Saturday

  18-08-2017 14:25 via ottawacitizen.com
  Casino du Lac Leamy’s Sound of Light fireworks festival puts on its grand finale finish Saturday night.
  A number of streets in Gatineau’s Hull sector will be closed in the evening, and the Alexandra Bridge will be also closed to cars and pedestrians.
  The road closings from 9 p.m. to 10:15 p.m. are:
  – Laurier Street, between Maisonneuve and Sacré-Coeur boulevards
  – Victoria Street, between Notre-Dame-de-l’Île and Laurier streets
  – Papinea
  
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• Ottawa weather: We might get some sun on Sunday [Video]

  18-08-2017 14:23
  
  The record-setting big wet just keeps getting wetter but we can pin our hopes on Sunday — the only day without a risk of rain until late next week, according to the latest from Environment Canada.Friday’s forecast is showers — no kidding — with the risk of a thunderstorm (surprise!).
  
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• Perry: Canada's own rise of hate: Let's not be smug about Charlottesville

  18-08-2017 14:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  Most Canadians watched with shock and repulsion as events unfolded in Charlottesville, Va.
  But was our reaction, in some corners, a little smug?
  Surely it couldn’t happen here, we seemed to say.
  Yes, it most certainly could and, in fact, it has. The recent memory of six Muslim men shot dead in St. Foy, Que., should be evidence enough that we are not immune to the violence of hatred and bigotry.
  Following the death of Heather Heyer in Virginia, Prime Minister Trudeau expressed just that sen
  
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