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• "It is really scary": PSW association calls for major changes

  29-08-2017 23:56 via ottawacitizen.com
  Long-term care homes are “allowed to do whatever they want, for the most part,” when it comes to staffing, says the head of an association that’s pushing for standardized staffing and training rules.
  Miranda Ferrier, president of the 30,000-strong Ontario Personal Support Worker Association, says that not only is there no standard, enforced staffing ratio for long-term care homes in the province, but that it is possible for workers fired for incompetence or abuse at one home to
  
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• Police search for 'armed and dangerous' shootout suspect

  29-08-2017 23:37 via ottawacitizen.com
  Police are searching for a man they consider armed and dangerous following a late-night weekend shootout between rival gunmen firing from their cars near Algonquin College’s Woodroffe campus.
  Police said they received “numerous” emergency calls reporting the shootout around 2:25 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 26. A spray of bullets left around 40 shell casings littering the intersection of Woodroffe Avenue and Navaho Drive.
  Investigators were still on scene when a 25-year-old man checked
  
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• Suspect, car sought by @OttawaPolice in Aug.26 shooting in Nepean. #ottnews 1310news.com/2017/08/29/pol… https://t.co/NeKKbQOK8s

  29-08-2017 23:27 via twitter.com
  
  Suspect, car sought by @OttawaPolice in Aug.26 shooting in Nepean. #ottnews 1310news.com/2017/08/29/pol… https://t.co/NeKKbQOK8s
  
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• Ontario government increases funding for Ontario Arts Council 1310news.com/2017/08/29/ont…

  29-08-2017 23:11 via twitter.com
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• Reevely: Ontario knows $222M to fight opioid crisis only the beginning

  29-08-2017 22:54 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ontario will spend an extra $222 million over three years to fight opioid addictions and overdoses, Health Minister Eric Hoskins announced Tuesday, with the single biggest chunk of the money going to long-term help for addicts.
  That tells us something about where the fight against the latest drug scourge is going. If we can curb the overdoses and deaths that are at record levels now, if we can get past the crisis, cleaning up will be the work of a lifetime.
  Ontario Health Minister Dr. Eric Hoski
  
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• Court allows enforcement on city hookah ban

  29-08-2017 22:54 via ottawacitizen.com
  The city can keep enforcing a new hookah ban while waiting for a legal challenge of the bylaw, a court has ruled.
  Lebanese Palace and its owner Brian Mahmoud asked the court for an emergency injunction, claiming big financial losses because of the bylaw banning water pipes in establishments.
  The court decided Tuesday that the city’s interest in public health outweighed the financial concerns of Lebanese Palace.
  The bylaw came into effect last Dec. 1.
  Lebanese Palace continues to challenge
  
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• Select Ottawa gas stations see major overnight price hike 1310news.com/2017/08/29/sel…

  29-08-2017 22:32 via twitter.com
  Select Ottawa gas stations see major overnight price hike1310news.com/2017/08/29/sel…
  
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• Two fancy mini stores to 'bookend' the ByWard Market

  29-08-2017 21:52 via ottawacitizen.com
  Two fancy stands opened in the ByWard Market on Tuesday with hopes they will help dress-up the tourist area.
  BeaverTails put up $100,000 to build the enclosed stands and chose the first vendors — Maple Country Sugar Bush and Maker House Company — to occupy the year-round mini stores.
  “We wanted to see vending as part of the new plaza, as part of the gateway to the market,” BeaverTails founder Grant Hooker said during the official opening of the stands.
  “I just
  
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• Two fancy 'bookend' stands open in ByWard Market

  29-08-2017 21:35 via ottawacitizen.com
  Two fancy stands opened in the ByWard Market on Tuesday with hopes they will help dress-up the tourist area.
  BeaverTails put up $100,000 to build the enclosed stands and chose the first vendors — Maple Country Sugar Bush and Maker House Company — to occupy the year-round mini stores.
  “We wanted to see vending as part of the new plaza, as part of the gateway to the market,” BeaverTails founder Grant Hooker said during the official opening of the stands.
  “I just
  
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• Dutch Air Force updating RCAF on F-35 acquisition

  29-08-2017 20:28 via ottawacitizen.com
  Dutch air force officers are updating their Canadian counterparts about their progress on the acquisition of F-35 fighter jets as the aircraft’s manufacturer tries to convince the Liberal government of the plane’s suitability as an interim replacement for aging CF-18s.
  Lt.-Gen. Dennis Luyt, the head of the Royal Netherlands Air Force, said his organization has been providing updates to Canada on its F-35 purchase and aircrew training. “They are very interested in our experience
  
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• Today's letters: Witless city plan – and a bad plan for nukes!

  29-08-2017 20:23 via ottawacitizen.com
  Solution for city lawn woes
  Re: There just has to be a better plan than paving city hall lawn to save on upkeep, Aug. 26
  If you do the math as quoted in David Reevely’s article about paving the lawn at city hall, at $450,000 to $500,000 to pave versus $21,500 each year to re-sod, that’s about 22 years worth of re-sodding versus paving.
  After, or before, 22 years you will need to repave, given the current traffic in the area, hence savings = $0. Plus, you have created a sterile and un
  
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• Baetz: Standing up for female scientists and researchers

  29-08-2017 20:07 via ottawacitizen.com
  At science meetings, women need to grab the mic – and not let go.
  As the director of the Ottawa Institute of Systems Biology at uOttawa and as past-president of the Canadian Society for Molecular Biosciences, I get a lot of emails asking me to attend or help advertise science conferences.
  Most of these emails end up in my delete file.
  Why? I am no longer going to promote, sponsor or attend meetings that do not have a significant number of female speakers.
  If accomplished female scientists
  
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• Australian bluesman Lloyd Spiegel visits Canada

  29-08-2017 20:01 via ottawacitizen.com
  Lloyd Spiegel
  When: Friday, Sept. 1,9 p.m.Where: OCCO Kitchen Restaurant, 4240 Innes Rd., OrléansTickets: $20 at brownpapertickets.comAlso performing: Saturday at Hog N’ Cob, Cheshire Cat Pub, Carp; Sept. 8 at La Grange de la Gatineau; Sept. 10 at Batstone’s Northern Ramble, Renfrew.Tickets and info: lloydspiegel.com
  Australian bluesman Lloyd Spiegel is back in Canada this summer to celebrate the release of This Time Tomorrow, his ninth album. The 38-year-old guitarist spoke t
  
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• Not fair for neighbourhood to have injection tent in its park, Mayor Watson says

  29-08-2017 19:45 via ottawacitizen.com
  A Lowertown park shouldn’t be the site of a pop-up supervised injection tent, Mayor Jim Watson said Tuesday, but it’s not clear if the city is willing to pull up its stakes if the organizers don’t move the health service to the only licensed facility.
  “My hope is they’ll be reasonable, work in a collaborative fashion with the Sandy Hill Community Health Centre that has the legal authority to operate the secure injection site,” Watson said in the heart of the B
  
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• Police seek two suspects in daytime pharmacy heist

  29-08-2017 19:04 via ottawacitizen.com
  Police are looking for two black-clad robbers who allegedly held up an Alta Vista pharmacy in a brazen daytime heist.
  According to Staff Sgt. Michael Haarbosch, the two young men entered the pharmacy, in the 1700 block of Kilborn Ave., just after the store opened at 9:30 a.m. on Thursday, Aug. 17.
  Both suspects moved behind the counter, where one of the men allegedly took drugs and medications from filled prescriptions, while the other accessed the cash register.
  There were employees in the phar
  
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• 'She was everyone's friend': Medic killed in skydiving mishap was planning move back to Toronto

  29-08-2017 18:56
  
  Betiana “Betty” Mubili was on her way to becoming a commissioned officer with the Canadian Forces when she was killed Sunday in a skydiving mishap, says her heartbroken father.
  
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• .@rick_gibbons hosts the Carol Anne Meehan show next. Listen in: player.1310news.com https://t.co/kqe8rnS1sq

  29-08-2017 18:56 via twitter.com
  
  .@rick_gibbons hosts the Carol Anne Meehan show next. Listen in: player.1310news.com https://t.co/kqe8rnS1sq
  
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• Premier Kathleen Wynne promises $50 million in new arts funding

  29-08-2017 18:49
  Annual funding to Ontario Arts Council will go up over four years, Wynne announced just in time for next year's election.
  
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• Capital Pride to review demands by Black Lives Matter protesters

  29-08-2017 18:32
  
  Capital Pride said it will review the demands set out by Black Lives Matter protesters after a group of them temporarily halted the pride parade in Ottawa on Sunday.The march was paused for around 15 minutes by the activists, who held signs reading “No Pride in Cops! No Cops in Pride!” and “#AllBlackLivesMatter” as they occupied the intersection of
  
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• Donald Trump gets close to sanity—physically, that is @macleans Allen Abel joins @_marksutcliffe NEXT:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  29-08-2017 18:28 via twitter.com
  Donald Trump gets close to sanity—physically, that is@macleans Allen Abel joins @_marksutcliffe NEXT:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Police ask for tips after man injured in overnight Sandy Hill shooting

  29-08-2017 18:19
  
  A man in his 20s was wounded in an overnight shooting in Sandy Hill.Police were called to Templeton Street and Blackburn Avenue at 1:54 a.m. Tuesday after reports of gunfire.On the scene was one man with injuries that weren’t considered life-threatening, police said. They were continuing to investigate.
  
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• NEXT on the #PowerLunch: @catherinejclark & @erin_gee join @_MarkSutcliffe LIVE in studio:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  29-08-2017 17:59 via twitter.com
  NEXT on the #PowerLunch:@catherinejclark & @erin_gee join @_MarkSutcliffe LIVE in studio:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Cohen: Clinton's book is all about ego – and money

  29-08-2017 17:46 via ottawacitizen.com
  Less than a year after her stunning loss to Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton has written a campaign memoir. It’s called What Happened, and she promises to “let loose” about the election of 2016 with uncharacteristic candour. Oh, my.
  She plans 15 events (more may be added) in cities across North America, including Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver. Tickets run between $55 and $3,000.“In the past, for reasons I try to explain, I’ve often felt I had to be careful in public,
  
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• Former #Ottawa resident Troy Hutcheon is living in #Texas Troy joins @_MarkSutcliffe on #Harvey NEXT:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  29-08-2017 17:44 via twitter.com
  Former #Ottawa resident Troy Hutcheon is living in #Texas Troy joins @_MarkSutcliffe on #Harvey NEXT:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Teen struck and killed while walking on Highway 416

  29-08-2017 17:39
  
  A Prescott teen is dead after he was struck by a car on Highway 416 in Edwardsburgh Township, about 80 kilometres south of Ottawa, on Monday night.Grenville County OPP said that the 18-year-old was near mile marker 13 when he was struck by a southbound vehicle around 11:15 p.m.
  
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• Charges of pot trafficking after raids of dispensaries, west-end home

  29-08-2017 17:32
  
  Seven people are facing charges in connection with raids on three illegal pot dispensaries and a Carlingwood-area home where police also seized heroin, cocaine and opioids they say were bound for the street.A spokesman for city police said Tuesday the four raids are “all linked” and that the people arrested won’t immediately be identified
  
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• Is Hurricane #Harvey a harbinger for Houston’s future? @AndrewKingClim joins @_MarkSutcliffe NEXT:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  29-08-2017 17:28 via twitter.com
  Is Hurricane #Harvey a harbinger for Houston’s future? @AndrewKingClim joins @_MarkSutcliffe NEXT:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• 7 people facing drug charges following marijuana dispensary, residential raids: bit.ly/2iFGQ56 #ottnews https://t.co/PkdjoLxEXd

  29-08-2017 16:59 via twitter.com
  
  7 people facing drug charges following marijuana dispensary, residential raids: bit.ly/2iFGQ56 #ottnews https://t.co/PkdjoLxEXd
  
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• Coming up: @StephanieCarvin joins @_marksutcliffe live for weekly International Affairs segment:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  29-08-2017 16:58 via twitter.com
  Coming up:@StephanieCarvin joins @_marksutcliffe live for weekly International Affairs segment:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Coming up on the #PowerLunch @ NOON: @catherinejclark & @erin_gee join @_MarkSutcliffe LIVE in studio:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  29-08-2017 16:52 via twitter.com
  Coming up on the #PowerLunch @ NOON: @catherinejclark & @erin_gee join @_MarkSutcliffe LIVE in studio:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• NEXT @HowardLevittLaw w/ @_MarkSutcliffe to discuss workplace email etiquette bit.ly/1uwtdOs https://t.co/IC9GoJRLNk

  29-08-2017 16:47 via twitter.com
  
  NEXT @HowardLevittLaw w/ @_MarkSutcliffe to discuss workplace email etiquette bit.ly/1uwtdOs https://t.co/IC9GoJRLNk
  
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• Ottawa woman, 22, identified as victim of White Lake crash

  29-08-2017 16:28
  
  Police are continuing to investigate the crash that took the life of a 22-year-old Ottawa woman on White Lake Road early Monday morning.Shannon MacPherson was found dead at the scene of what police said was a fatal single vehicle collision. Her vehicle had landed in a ditch near the Village of White Lake.
  
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• NEXT @Kyle_Duggan of @ipoliticsca joins @_MarkSutcliffe LIVE: bit.ly/1uwtdOs https://t.co/HTqB9g1gAS

  29-08-2017 16:27 via twitter.com
  
  NEXT@Kyle_Duggan of @ipoliticsca joins @_MarkSutcliffe LIVE: bit.ly/1uwtdOs https://t.co/HTqB9g1gAS
  
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• Ahead: Should a teen who spray-painted racist graffiti be eligible for a restorative justice program?… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  29-08-2017 15:48 via twitter.com
  Ahead:Should a teen who spray-painted racist graffiti be eligible for a restorative justice program?… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Next @uOCampus Valerie Steeves on what happens when kids put down their phones for a week:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  29-08-2017 15:44 via twitter.com
  Next@uOCampus Valerie Steeves on what happens when kids put down their phones for a week:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Coming up on the 10 O’Clock Talk @KimothyWalker, @Justin_Ling & @1310glennis join @_MarkSutcliffe:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  29-08-2017 15:34 via twitter.com
  Coming up on the 10 O’Clock Talk @KimothyWalker, @Justin_Ling & @1310glennis join @_MarkSutcliffe:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Coming up: @RandallMoore26 and 'Randall's Rant' on Ottawa Today with @_MarkSutcliffe bit.ly/1uwtdOs… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  29-08-2017 15:26 via twitter.com
  Coming up: @RandallMoore26 and 'Randall's Rant' on Ottawa Today with @_MarkSutcliffe bit.ly/1uwtdOs… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• #Ottawa woman killed in White Lake Road crash: bit.ly/2gnTJjL #ottnews https://t.co/0gM086Qkrn

  29-08-2017 15:25 via twitter.com
  
  #Ottawa woman killed in White Lake Road crash: bit.ly/2gnTJjL #ottnews https://t.co/0gM086Qkrn
  
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• Dolgert: Here's why Canada should get nuclear weapons

  29-08-2017 15:21 via ottawacitizen.com
  Dear Prime Minister Trudeau,
  Please consider inaugurating a nuclear armament program. Please begin this process now.
  I never imagined writing something like this. American by birth, but now also a Canadian citizen, I’ve always regarded the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki as a stain on my birth nation’s honour. But the time has come to face reality, and the foreign minister’s June speech reasserting Canadian sovereignty is only the beginning of the reckoning.
  We are in many wa
  
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• Sunny days, brief cold snap, before last long weekend of summer [Video]

  29-08-2017 14:19
  
  Enjoy the sun and highs in the mid-20s before some unseasonably chilly weather, and possibly a few showers, lands in the capital later this week.The good news is that we’re forecast to be back to normal temperatures just in time for the Labour Day weekend.
  
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• Sunny days, brief cold snap, before last long weekend of summer

  29-08-2017 14:15 via ottawacitizen.com
  Enjoy the sun and highs in the mid-20s before some unseasonably chilly weather, and possibly a few showers, lands in the capital later this week.
  The good news is that we’re forecast to be back to normal temperatures just in time for the Labour Day weekend.
  Environment Canada predicts Tuesday will feature a mix of sun and cloud, a high of 24 C and a low of 10 C.
  Wednesday is mainly sunny with a high of 24 C and a low of 11 C with a 40-per-cent chance of overnight showers.
  Grab a jacket for
  
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• Ottawa LRT inspection reports paint picture of a work in progress

  29-08-2017 14:06 via ottawacitizen.com
  Dozens of inspection reports documenting deficiencies, such as bad welds and crummy workmanship, illustrate the quality control in effect during the construction of Ottawa’s LRT line.
  The Citizen reviewed 64 “non-conformance” reports produced during audits of construction along the LRT line. The city sent the documents to researcher Ken Rubin after he made an access-to-information request for all reports produced in 2015 and 2016. He is still seeking more records.
  Such reports
  
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• Info crusader fighting Ottawa's LRT contractor for more inspection reports

  29-08-2017 14:06 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ken Rubin wants to know what’s going on beneath the surface.
  But the Ottawa access-to-information expert is hitting one roadblock after the next as he tries to get access to records showing problems that have arisen during the construction of the city’s largest ever infrastructure project, the Confederation Line LRT.
  His battle underscores the level of secrecy, or confidentiality, that’s accompanied the building of city’s $2.1-billion light-rail line., due in part to the
  
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• Man injured in overnight shooting in Sandy Hill

  29-08-2017 14:05 via ottawacitizen.com
  A man in his 20s was wounded in an overnight shooting in Sandy Hill.
  Police were called to Templeton Street and Blackburn Avenue at 1:54 a.m. Tuesday after reports of gunfire.
  On the scene was one man with injuries that weren’t considered life-threatening, police said. They were continuing to investigate. 
  Paramedics said the man was taken to hospital in stable condition with lower body injuries.
  
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• Bands, venues announced for Marvest

  29-08-2017 12:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  Folk trio Artichoke Hearts, funksters Chocolate Hot Pockets and the psychedelic garage rockers Heavy Medicine Band are among the more than 50 Ottawa-area bands that will invade Glebe businesses as part of Marvest, the free, two-day “musical harvest” that accompanies next month’s CityFolk festival.CityFolk runs Sept. 13-17 at Lansdowne Park, with headliners including Father John Misty, Jack Johnson and Rodriguez, while Marvest happens Sept. 15-16 in various venues along Bank Str
  
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• Inside #Houston shelter, a loud and sometimes chaotic night: bit.ly/2wZFPKG #HarveyRelief https://t.co/okLhSXLczE

  29-08-2017 11:19 via twitter.com
  
  Inside #Houston shelter, a loud and sometimes chaotic night: bit.ly/2wZFPKG #HarveyRelief https://t.co/okLhSXLczE
  
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• STORY: bit.ly/2wODrqM #ottnews twitter.com/Stu_McGinn/sta…

  29-08-2017 10:41 via twitter.com
  STORY: bit.ly/2wODrqM #ottnews twitter.com/Stu_McGinn/sta…
  
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• Canadian Forces medic dies in Pembroke skydiving plunge

  29-08-2017 03:45 via ottawacitizen.com
  A 29-year-old Canadian Forces medic plunged to her death Sunday when her parachute malfunctioned during a solo jump.
  Upper Ottawa Valley OPP confirmed that Betiana Namambwe Mubili, known to friends and family as Bety, suffered fatal injuries after an unspecified problem with her parachute. She landed in a field off Black Bay Road near the Pembroke Airport.
  The woman’s father, Viktor Mubili, posted a picture of his daughter in military uniform, writing on Facebook, “(Bety) is no more
  
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• Woman killed in single-vehicle crash near White Lake

  29-08-2017 02:07 via ottawacitizen.com
  A woman was killed early Monday when her car ran off White Lake Road near Arnprior and crashed into a grove of trees.
  White Lake Road was closed and traffic was detoured after Renfrew OPP responded to the crash near the village in the McNab/Braeside township at 6:25 a.m.
  An air ambulance was dispatched but the woman died at the scene.
  Police said her name was being withheld pending notification of next of kin.
   
  
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• Canadian Forces medic killed in Pembroke skydiving plunge

  29-08-2017 02:01 via ottawacitizen.com
  A 29-year-old Canadian Forces medic plunged to her death Sunday when her parachute malfunctioned during a solo jump.
  Upper Ottawa Valley OPP confirmed that Betiana Namambwe Mubili, known to friends and family as Bety, suffered fatal injuries after an unspecified problem with her parachute. She landed in a field off Black Bay Road near the Pembroke Airport.
  The woman’s father, Viktor Mubili, posted a picture of his daughter in military uniform, writing on Facebook, “(Bety) is no more
  
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