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• Young hockey player faces long, painful wait for hip surgery at CHEO

  21-08-2017 23:46 via ottawacitizen.com
  When Connor Cose-Manuel turned up ice with the puck last year during a hockey game with the ‘AA’ Nepean Raiders, he felt something in his right hip go “pop.” He completed a pass and limped to the bench, worried.
  Cose-Manuel has yet to return to the ice. In fact, the 15-year-old Barrhaven youth has been in pain ever since that Dec. 16 game as he continues to wait for corrective hip surgery at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario.
  He still does not have a date f
  
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• Ottawa hospitals and paramedics say no solar eclipse injuries - Ottawa Citizen

  21-08-2017 23:35
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  Ottawa hospitals and paramedics say no solar eclipse injuries
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  Congrats Ottawa, you avoided being the tail-end of a bad Bruce Springsteen/Manfred Mann song-lyric joke. According to an Ottawa paramedics spokesman, there have been no reported cases of injuries related to viewing Monday's partial eclipse without ...and more »
  
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• Ottawa hospitals and paramedics say no solar eclipse injuries

  21-08-2017 23:34 via ottawacitizen.com
  Congrats Ottawa, you avoided being the tail-end of a bad Bruce Springsteen/Manfred Mann song-lyric joke.
  According to an Ottawa paramedics spokesman, there have been no reported cases of injuries related to viewing Monday’s partial eclipse without protection.
  “It was like trying to look at the sun on any normal day — it’s difficult to look at,” said Marc-Antoine Deschamps.
  Deschamps also said the message of not staring directly into the sun may h
  
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• Unifying efforts to keep the Ottawa River clean 1310news.com/2017/08/21/uni…

  21-08-2017 23:08 via twitter.com
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• Walking through the history of Ottawa’s Gay Village

  21-08-2017 23:04
  Though it only got its official designation as such in 2011, Ottawa’s Gay Village, at Bank and Somerset, has an important place in the history of the city’s LGBT community.
  
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• Extended Stay hotel, Rideau Street LCBO land sales lead first-half Ottawa investments - Ottawa Business Journal

  21-08-2017 22:51
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  Extended Stay hotel, Rideau Street LCBO land sales lead first-half Ottawa investments
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  Westdale Properties purchased the property at the corner of Rideau Street and King Edward Avenue, leased to the LCBO, for $24 million earlier this year. (Google Street View image). By: Peter. Kovessy. Peter Kovessy. Published: Aug 21, 2017 4:05pm EDT.
  
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• Indigenous Peoples' Court to open in Ottawa

  21-08-2017 22:37
  Indigenous Peoples' Courts, sometimes known as Gladue courts, are aimed at finding alternatives to incarceration for Canada's Indigenous population.
  
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• 15 Stories: Death of Nichola Goddard showed modern face of Canada's fighting forces

  21-08-2017 22:37 via ottawacitizen.com
  In 2006, Capt. Nichola Goddard became Canada’s first female soldier to die in combat. It was a death that shocked a nation. This is one of 15 Canadian stories we present as part the Citizen’s Canada 150 coverage.
  Nichola Goddard was attending Royal Military College and looking forward to a career in the Canadian Forces when a friend gave her advice: Don’t tell the Forces you like camping.
  That would be a quick way to be selected for the infantry, where camping meant hard, unfor
  
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• The big total eclipse of 2017 is over, but Canadians in some parts of the country can look forward to their own totality in seven years.

  21-08-2017 22:28 via twitter.com
  The big total eclipse of 2017 is over, but Canadians in some parts of the country can look forward to their own totality in seven years.
  
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• Society 'failed' Marlene Carter: Royal shoots back after $75,000 health and safety fine

  21-08-2017 22:26
  
  In an extraordinary and unprecedented public statement, The Royal Ottawa Hospital says society has failed to protect Marlene Carter, the Indigenous woman at the centre of a health and safety violation that led to the hospital being fined $75,000 last week.“This will happen again,” said Dr. AG Ahmed, associate chief of forensic psychiatry at The Royal
  
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• Ottawa River gets heritage designation

  21-08-2017 22:11
  Symbolic status doesn't affect responses to large-scale sewage spills.
  
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• Iraqi forces close in on IS-held town west of Mosul 1310news.com/2017/08/21/ira…

  21-08-2017 22:07 via twitter.com
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• Egan: Ottawa mom fights tech giants for clues in son's death

  21-08-2017 22:03 via ottawacitizen.com
  On Sept. 14, an Ottawa mother with no legal training is hauling billion-dollar tech giants Apple, Google, Facebook and Bell into court to help answer a basic but haunting question.
  How did her son die?
  Maureen Henry, 54, refuses to believe that suicide was the reason her son, Dovi, was found washed up on the shores of Lake Ontario in central Toronto on July 27, 2014.
  Only 23, his body was badly decomposed and the case became one of unidentified remains that sat in a morgue for nearly two years,
  
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• Egan: Ottawa mom fights tech giants for clues in son's death - Ottawa Citizen

  21-08-2017 21:44
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  Egan: Ottawa mom fights tech giants for clues in son's death
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  On Sept. 14, an Ottawa mother with no legal training is hauling billion-dollar tech giants Apple, Google, Facebook and Bell into court to help answer a basic but haunting question. How did her son die? Maureen Henry, 54, refuses to believe that suicide ...and more »
  
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• #EclipseDay in #Ottawa twitter.com/JustinTrudeau/…

  21-08-2017 21:23 via twitter.com
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• Manitoba, Ottawa heal infected health-care wound - Winnipeg Free Press

  21-08-2017 21:17
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  Manitoba, Ottawa heal infected health-care wound
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  OTTAWA — Manitoba has signed on to Ottawa's health-funding agreement, securing an extra $5 million for the province after an eight-month stalemate that it argues isn't over yet. Monday's announcement would appear to end Manitoba's five-month stretch ...
  Provinces gained little from holding out on health-care deal with Ottawa, observers sayNational Post
  Manitoba, Ottawa ink 10-year health-care funding
  
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• Landry: We must always call out hate when we see it

  21-08-2017 20:50 via ottawacitizen.com
  This past weekend, in Montreal, Canadians from across the country came together to celebrate the significant strides towards improving the rights of the LGBTQ2S community.
  It was the first national Pride celebration for Canada, and it was a spirited and modern display of support for a historically marginalized group. Amid all the posters and catchphrases, one T-shirt in particular stood out for me. It simply said: “Humankind — be both.”
  Human. Kind.
  It’s a message made al
  
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• One half at a time, Ottawa River gets heritage status - Ottawa Citizen

  21-08-2017 19:51
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  One half at a time, Ottawa River gets heritage status
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  The Quebec side of the Ottawa River is finally just as historic as the Ontario side — but the new status doesn't bring any new form of automatic protection. The designation by Quebec Monday celebrates the river's history as a superhighway and focus of ...
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• One half at a time, Ottawa River gets heritage status

  21-08-2017 19:51 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Quebec side of the Ottawa River is finally just as historic as the Ontario side — but the new status doesn’t bring any new form of automatic protection.
  The designation by Quebec Monday celebrates the river’s history as a superhighway and focus of human settlement in the thousands of years before roads.
  It is one of North America’s most important flyways, providing habitat to more than 300 species of birds, and sustains more than 80 species at risk.
  The Ontario s
  
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• Eight teens nabbed as OPP solve wave of theft, vandalism, arson

  21-08-2017 19:49 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Hawkesbury OPP says a series of raids have solved a six-month crime spree that ranged from broken windows and stolen school buses to burning an abandoned home to the ground.
  Eight teenagers were arrested and face a total of 90 criminal charges related to more than two dozen property crimes in the Hawkesbury area from February to July.
  Police conducted three search warrants in the area about 100 km east of Ottawa and say they’ve also solved crimes that happened in Grenville, Q
  
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• Melted controls from RCAF Chinook brought down by Taliban gunfire – Behind the Scenes at the Canadian War Museum

  21-08-2017 19:33 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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• Coming up next on the Carol Anne Meehan show, details on this afternoons partial #Eclipse with @astroeducator https://t.co/uYdRoZ4vYK

  21-08-2017 19:15 via twitter.com
  
  Coming up next on the Carol Anne Meehan show, details on this afternoons partial #Eclipse with @astroeducator https://t.co/uYdRoZ4vYK
  
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• .@rick_gibbons hosts the Carol Anne Meehan show next. Listen in: player.1310news.com https://t.co/lhQgX73Y29

  21-08-2017 19:00 via twitter.com
  
  .@rick_gibbons hosts the Carol Anne Meehan show next. Listen in: player.1310news.com https://t.co/lhQgX73Y29
  
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• Still ahead @padams29 joins @_MarkSutcliffe to discuss the state of the media. bit.ly/1uwtdOs #ottnews https://t.co/jBzXxHaAA7

  21-08-2017 18:28 via twitter.com
  
  Still ahead@padams29 joins @_MarkSutcliffe to discuss the state of the media. bit.ly/1uwtdOs#ottnews https://t.co/jBzXxHaAA7
  
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• Coming up NEXT on the #POWERLunch: @SusanSherring & @mcroc join @_MarkSutcliffe LIVE in studio:… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  21-08-2017 17:59 via twitter.com
  Coming up NEXT on the #POWERLunch:@SusanSherring & @mcroc join @_MarkSutcliffe LIVE in studio:… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• How should social networks treat far-right extremists? @smaclellan of @cigionline joins @_marksutcliffe ahead:… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  21-08-2017 17:28 via twitter.com
  How should social networks treat far-right extremists? @smaclellan of @cigionline joins @_marksutcliffe ahead:… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• 40 pounds of pot seized after routine RIDE check

  21-08-2017 17:26
  
  A Friday night RIDE check turned up 40 pounds of pot sniffed out by a police dog after officers found what looked like cocaine in a stopped sedan, OPP report.
  
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• Inuk boy with cancer gets reunion with grandparents, train adventure

  21-08-2017 16:42 via ottawacitizen.com
  Jake Amarualik had just one wish.
  And when he stepped off the CP Canada 150 train in a miniature conductor’s outfit Sunday afternoon and nearly jumped onto the platform, he managed to make two come true.
  “We made it!” he yelled.
  The five-year-old Inuk boy, who has acute lymphoblastic leukemia, had been away from his grandparents who live in Resolute Bay, Nunavut, for two-and-a-half years while he was getting treatment at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario. So the
  
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• Still ahead: Canadian Allan Gray, who witnessed #Barcelona attack, joins @_marksutcliffe w/ his story: LISTEN:… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  21-08-2017 16:28 via twitter.com
  Still ahead: Canadian Allan Gray, who witnessed #Barcelona attack, joins @_marksutcliffe w/ his story: LISTEN:… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Coming up on the #POWERLunch @ NOON: @SusanSherring & @mcroc join @_MarkSutcliffe LIVE in studio:… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  21-08-2017 15:58 via twitter.com
  Coming up on the #POWERLunch @ NOON: @SusanSherring & @mcroc join @_MarkSutcliffe LIVE in studio:… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Still ahead Do you support actions of counter-protesters in #QuebecCity? @_MarkSutcliffe #QuestionOfTheDay twitter.com/1310NEWS/statu…

  21-08-2017 15:45 via twitter.com
  Still aheadDo you support actions of counter-protesters in #QuebecCity?@_MarkSutcliffe#QuestionOfTheDay twitter.com/1310NEWS/statu…
  
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• COMING UP: Weekly guest @michaeltaube joins @_MarkSutcliffe for a chat about the world of politics.… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  21-08-2017 15:40 via twitter.com
  COMING UP: Weekly guest @michaeltaube joins @_MarkSutcliffe for a chat about the world of politics.… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• Routine RIDE check nets suspected cocaine, 40 pounds of pot

  21-08-2017 15:09 via ottawacitizen.com
  A Friday night RIDE check turned up 40 pounds of pot sniffed out by a police dog after officers found what looked like cocaine in a stopped sedan, OPP report.
  The driver, a woman from Petawawa, and her passenger, a man from the Scarborough area, were arrested.
  Napanee OPP officers were running the RIDE check on the westbound off ramp of Highway 401 and Highway 33 at 11:30 p.m. when they stopped the suspects’ vehicle and found what they suspected to be cocaine inside. A search by an OP
  
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• Eclipse day weather is going to be lit [Video]

  21-08-2017 14:56
  
  Monday is going to be hot and humid but not a drop of November Rain is forecast for those watching the partial eclipse by day or rocking out to Guns N' Roses at TD Place by night. Environment Canada's forecast is mainly sunny with fog patches dissipating and a high of 30 C that will feel more like 36.
  
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• Today's letters: Drug decriminalization, MosaïCanada and neo-Nazis

  21-08-2017 14:39 via ottawacitizen.com
  Documentary should preserve MosaïCanada for all Canadians
  Last week, we had the pleasure of visiting the MosaïCanada 150 exhibition with thousands of others from far and wide.
  What an inspiring work of art to celebrate Canada’s 150th anniversary! With its horticultural scenes representative of Canada’s diverse heritage and geography, our pride in Canada once again rang with Roger Whittaker’s song, Canada is the Rocky Mountains – with fond memories also of Expo 6
  
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• Rock n' roll! Rain-free outlook for watching eclipse, GnR

  21-08-2017 13:43 via ottawacitizen.com
  Monday is going to be hot and humid but not a drop of November Rain is forecast for those watching the partial eclipse by day or rocking out to Guns N’ Roses at TD Place by night.
  Environment Canada’s forecast is mainly sunny with fog patches dissipating and a high of 30 C that will feel more like 36. Overnight, the outlook is clear with fog patches developing on the way to a low of 18 C.
   In Ottawa max eclipse is at 2:35pm. Runs from 1:17pm to 15:48pm. Do not look directly at t
  
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• Viewing events for partial eclipse across #Canada --- in #Ottawa @ the @avspacemuseum: bit.ly/2wpl6QW… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  21-08-2017 12:40 via twitter.com
  Viewing events for partial eclipse across #Canada --- in #Ottawa @ the @avspacemuseum: bit.ly/2wpl6QW… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• #PrideWeek kicking off in the capital with flag-raising: bit.ly/2xj8QxU #ottnews #capitalpride… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…

  21-08-2017 12:28 via twitter.com
  #PrideWeek kicking off in the capital with flag-raising: bit.ly/2xj8QxU #ottnews #capitalpride… twitter.com/i/web/status/8…
  
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• 1 dead as vehicle rams bus stops in #Marseille, #France: bit.ly/2vRsOBO

  21-08-2017 12:20 via twitter.com
  1 dead as vehicle rams bus stops in #Marseille, #France: bit.ly/2vRsOBO
  
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• Police and counter-protesters clash in #QuebecCity outside right-wing event: bit.ly/2uXK75u https://t.co/aJ9kCnr3gR

  21-08-2017 12:11 via twitter.com
  
  Police and counter-protesters clash in #QuebecCity outside right-wing event: bit.ly/2uXK75u https://t.co/aJ9kCnr3gR
  
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• Orléans' Dream Court development: single-family homes ideally situated

  21-08-2017 06:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  Many homeowners on Dream Court run into builder Luc Legault on a daily basis.
  They always have a good word to say about how much they’re enjoying their beautiful new homes, and they often invite him inside for a coffee or lunch.
  “This is the best part – to see them happy,” said Legault. “It’s more than a business transaction for me.”
  The Legault family’s long-standing care and attention to detail is evident in all of their previous projects, and no
  
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• Kirk returns to the site of her Canadian Open win

  21-08-2017 03:36 via ottawacitizen.com
  Katherine Kirk really, really likes golfing in Canada.
  The $510,271 U.S. she has won in this country represent nearly one-eighth of Kirk’s LPGA Tour career earnings, and a victory in the 2008 Canadian Women’s Open at Ottawa Hunt and Golf Club was her first of three on the circuit.
  No wonder the now 35-year-old Australian is looking forward to a return trip to the national capital for the first time since then. 
  “I wish I could have a really good explanation for it, bu
  
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• Status of Women Canada pushes for procurement to support female entrepreneurs

  21-08-2017 03:33 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Liberal government is thinking about using its massive purchasing power to support women in business.
  “Inclusive federal procurement is a potential avenue through which the Government of Canada can demonstrate leadership and support for women’s entrepreneurship,” said a November 2016 memo prepared for Patty Hajdu, who was then minister for the status of women.
  “The Treasury Board of Canada is currently looking at opportunities to better link federal procurement practi
  
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• “Proud Boys” reassigned to new military jobs as their case moves through Canadian Forces system

  21-08-2017 03:08 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Canadian Forces is still dealing with its review of the “Proud Boys” incident.
  The investigation began in early July, several days after a group of “Proud Boys” disrupted a protest organized in Halifax on Canada Day by Indigenous activists.
  The Canadian Forces confirmed five members of the military, who were off duty at the time, were involved in the incident. Military commanders apologized for the actions of the individuals.
  A number of news outlets erroneously repor
  
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• Blakefield wins National Capital Open by two strokes

  21-08-2017 02:43 via ottawacitizen.com
  It was an impressive birdie train that put Mark Blakefield in prime position Sunday.
  For all that, though, securing victory at the National Capital Open to Support Our Troops came down to making a pair of clutch, par-saving putts on the final two holes.
  “You’ve just got to get it done, one way or another,” said the long-hitting Kentucky native, whose final round, six-under 65 gave him a four-round total of 264, 20-under par, two strokes better than Kramer Hickok.
  “Winning
  
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• Minnesota man killed in Rideau Ferry regatta crash

  21-08-2017 00:52 via ottawacitizen.com
  A Minnesota man who raced vintage boats was killed while competing at a regatta in Rideau Ferry.
  Bill Pearson, 69, was critically injured Saturday afternoon when his vintage hydroplane boat “became airborne,” provincial police said. Officers from the Lanark County OPP detachment responded to the crash that occurred during the Rideau Ferry Regatta around 2 p.m. Vintage vessels were scheduled to race until 5 p.m.
  Pearson, from Lakeville, Minn., was ejected from the boat. He was ta
  
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• Slain mother worked to help immigrants and refugees

  21-08-2017 00:27 via ottawacitizen.com
  The mother of four allegedly killed by her son in their Sandy Hill apartment building was a “beautiful woman” and “extraordinary person,” according to those who worked closely with her.
  Rachelle Mair’s lifeless body was found inside apartment 1010 at the Sandringham apartment building at 85 Range Rd. on Friday after police responded to a report of a disturbance on the 10th floor around 5:30 a.m. She had been beaten to death with a baseball bat in what police be
  
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• Ottawa's Fuel Industries looks to recharge after insolvency, founder gone

  21-08-2017 00:01 via ottawacitizen.com
  A former Ottawa technology star has dimmed after a series of business decisions failed to pan out.
  Once an inspiration to other Ottawa-area software firms, Fuel Industries recently found itself insolvent and has now been acquired by one of its creditors, Chou Associates Management Inc.
  Founder Mike Burns is out as chief executive and chief creative officer and no longer has any involvement the company.
  “The old company has become insolvent; however, much of the assets, expertise
  
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