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• Fire association wants council to consider Ottawa for 'fire-medic' trial

  01-09-2017 23:51 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa’s firefighters union is putting the heat on municipal politicians to consider volunteering the city as a provincial “fire-medic” test site.
  John Sobey, vice-president of the Ottawa Professional Fire Fighters Association, said the union has been meeting with council members over the summer to promote the provincial plan to test a fire-medic model in two municipalities.
  According to Sobey, the union wants council to ultimately decide if Ottawa should be a willing city for
  
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• Fire association wants council to consider Ottawa for 'fire-medic' trial - Ottawa Citizen

  01-09-2017 23:49
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  Fire association wants council to consider Ottawa for 'fire-medic' trial
  Ottawa Citizen
  Ottawa firefighters and paramedics worked together on Friday to free a technician trapped underneath an elevator. The fire association wants city council to consider Ottawa for a provincial pilot on "fire-medics." Scott Stilborn / Ottawa fire photos ...
  Responders rescue maintenance worker crushed under elevatorOttawa Sun
  Man rescued after being pinned underneath elevator in OrléansCBC.
  
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• Gatineau and Ottawa police catch school-zone speeders

  01-09-2017 23:46 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa and Gatineau police handed out some back-to-school speeding tickets on Friday.
  Kids return to school next week, and on Friday morning Const. Phil Kane and another officer from the Ottawa police traffic unit ticketed 15 drivers for speeding in a 40 km/h school zone along Spratt Road.
  “When we were writing up tickets, people were still flying by,” said Kane, who was positioned near one of the schools in the area for an hour.
  He said the drivers they stopped were t
  
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• Gatineau and Ottawa police catch school-zone speeders - Ottawa Citizen

  01-09-2017 23:45
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  Gatineau and Ottawa police catch school-zone speeders
  Ottawa Citizen
  Kids return to school next week, and on Friday morning Const. Phil Kane and another officer from the Ottawa police traffic unit ticketed 15 drivers for speeding in a 40 km/h school zone along Spratt Road. “When we were writing up tickets, people were ...and more »
  
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• Gym trainer opens doors to disadvantaged, hopes others will open hearts

  01-09-2017 23:13 via ottawacitizen.com
  Sometimes a story sparks a surge.
  Our profile of Ryan Armitage, who trains physically challenged adults at the Jewish Community Centre (JCC), changed his life and is changing the lives of others. 
  Since the story was published three weeks ago, Armitage has been swamped with requests to work with others facing hurdles just to get to a gym, let alone work out. Global National interviewed him for one of their “Everyday Hero” TV segments. He has been asked to speak in public about t
  
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• One dead, another in serious condition after Highway 17 collision

  01-09-2017 22:59 via ottawacitizen.com
  One person is dead and another is in serious condition after a collision between a motor vehicle and a motorcycle on Highway 17 about noon Friday.
  A spokeswoman for the Ontario Provincial Police said the passenger on the motorcycle was transported by air ambulance and later pronounced dead.
  The other person who had been on the motorcycle was at a local hospital in serious condition. 
  The highway is closed between Pembroke and Mattawa as officers investigate.
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• Welcoming party greets father and son, 9, as they complete bike ride for autism

  01-09-2017 22:55 via ottawacitizen.com
  Nine-year-old James Potvin was already something of a celebrity by the time he rolled into Mooney’s Bay to the cheers of a welcoming party, with fire and police officials, and local politicians among the supporters cheering him to the finish line.
  James and his father, Chris Potvin, struck out from their Whitby home last Saturday, hoping to complete the 400-plus-kilometre journey along a network of trails before reaching Ottawa, where young James had set his sights on visiting the mas
  
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• Ottawa venues dishing deals to draw groups on local startup's app - Ottawa Business Journal

  01-09-2017 22:37
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  Ottawa venues dishing deals to draw groups on local startup's app
  Ottawa Business Journal
  Ottawa's restaurants, bars and clubs have a new tool to drive larger groups to their venues this weekend, thanks to a local startup's app. ViiMe lets business owners offer specific deals to groups of friends in hopes of becoming a go-to destination for ...and more »
  
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• Moodie LRT station won't have park and ride because there's no room

  01-09-2017 22:27 via ottawacitizen.com
  West-end commuters won’t be able to ditch their cars at the future Moodie LRT station and ride the rails to downtown Ottawa.
  There simply isn’t enough room near the station to build a park-and-ride facility, according to a report on the Stage 2 transit expansion.
  Council had asked staff to see if a park and ride could be built at Moodie station, which will become one of the western terminuses of the Confederation Line LRT in 2023.
  The Moodie LRT extension is being added to the $3-bil
  
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• Ottawa patients, survivors and parents raise flag for childhood cancer

  01-09-2017 22:19 via ottawacitizen.com
  Cradling his three-year-old daughter in one arm while using his free hand, Thomas Geniole was one of several parents helping a group of children raise the Childhood Cancer Awareness flag on the front lawn of city hall Friday morning. 
  It was Geniole and his wife Becky’s first time at the event’s fourth annual flag raising ceremony.
  “We just came back from a stem cell transplant (at the hospital) in February,” said Geniole, refe
  
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• Today's letters: Loneliness, and fighting shoreline erosion - Ottawa Citizen

  01-09-2017 22:07
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  Today's letters: Loneliness, and fighting shoreline erosion
  Ottawa Citizen
  Large boats make their way through the Ottawa Locks at the Rideau Canal and the Ottawa River Saturday July 18, 2015. Some shoreline property owners are concerned about the impact boats are having on shoreline erosion on the Rideau River. Ashley ...
  
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• Today's letters: Loneliness, and fighting shoreline erosion

  01-09-2017 22:06 via ottawacitizen.com
  Dying art of conversation
  Re: We’re living in lonely bubbles – and it’s bad for our health, Aug. 29
  I so agree with Melanie Sabo as the art of conversation is vanishing. No matter where I go, grocery store, bank or in some cases, church, people just choke up when I say hello or good morning. What is wrong with you people? What happened along the way?
  To me a lot of the problem is cellphones, as people are obsessed with them. Even at a ball game, I see people staring at them or
  
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• Undead wanted for Diefenbunker museum zombie adventure

  01-09-2017 22:03 via ottawacitizen.com
  Watch out, the Diefenbunker Museum is recruiting for its undead army.
  Canada’s Cold War museum is looking for “lead zombies” and others to join its “mindless horde” October zombie adventure at the bunker. 
  The scary experience is called the “Incident at the Bunker: a Zombie Adventure” and is presented in partnership with Ottawa’s Haunted Walk.
  Leaders of the undead help co-ordinate zombies, problem solve and assist with pro
  
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• Editorial: Confronting racism and white supremacy

  01-09-2017 20:52 via ottawacitizen.com
  To punch or not to punch? That is the question. 
  Or, at least, it seems to be, in the whirlpool (cesspool?) of online debate over how to confront neo-Nazis and white supremacists. Is it excusable to meet ideas premised upon violence with fists and batons?
  In a civilized society, of course not. Violence begets violence, no matter how theoretically satisfying it might be. In an Ottawa courtroom on Thursday, though, the other way of confronting and countering extremism was on di
  
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• Reevely: Looking for money, Ottawa hurries to get Barrhaven rail underpass plans 'shovel-ready'

  01-09-2017 20:32
  
  The city is hurrying to get studies done for rail overpasses in Barrhaven, hoping to have plans to wave if upper-level governments show up with bags of money.
  
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• Reevely: Looking for money, Ottawa hurries to get Barrhaven rail underpass plans 'shovel-ready' - Ottawa Sun

  01-09-2017 20:22
  Ottawa Sun
  Reevely: Looking for money, Ottawa hurries to get Barrhaven rail underpass plans 'shovel-ready'
  Ottawa Sun
  The city is hurrying to get studies done for rail overpasses in Barrhaven, hoping to have plans to wave if upper-level governments show up with bags of money. The rush comes after a 20-year delay on the projects, which local governments first ...and more »
  
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• University of Ottawa student union told to abandon orientation week naloxone kits

  01-09-2017 20:11
  
  Student leaders running the University of Ottawa’s orientation week events won’t be allowed to administer the opioid antidote naloxone in the event of an overdose due to liability concerns if the injection were to go wrong.
  
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• 15 Canadian Stories: Viola Desmond, reluctant social activist

  01-09-2017 20:06 via ottawacitizen.com
  On a November evening in 1946, Viola Desmond was dragged from a Nova Scotia movie theatre when wouldn’t be moved to a balcony seat, the designated area for blacks. She spent a night in jail, was fined $20 plus costs. In 2018, her image will replace that of Sir John A. Macdonald on the $10-dollar bill. This is one of 15 Canadian stories we present as part the Citizen’s Canada 150 coverage.
  Viola Desmond was on her way from her home in Halifax to a business meeting in Sydney, N.S., on
  
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• Reevely: Hoping for a windfall, Ottawa hurries to get Barrhaven rail underpass plans 'shovel-ready'

  01-09-2017 20:03 via ottawacitizen.com
  The city is hurrying to get studies done for rail overpasses in Barrhaven, hoping to have  plans to wave if upper-level governments show up with bags of money.
  The rush comes after a 20-year delay on the projects, which local governments first investigated in the mid-1990s, and four years after a northbound OC Transpo bus on the Transitway adjacent to Woodroffe ran through a warning gate and hit a passing Via train, killing six people.
  The city’s about to hire consultants for a f
  
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• More than 450 military personnel to take part in shooting competition in Ottawa

  01-09-2017 19:06 via ottawacitizen.com
  More than 450 shooters and support staff, including teams from the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America, will be in Ottawa to participate in a Canadian military sponsored competition. They will be taking part in this year’s Canadian Armed Forces Small Arms Concentration (CAFSAC). The event will take place at the Connaught Ranges and Primary Training Centre. It starts Monday and runs until September 16.
  The objective of CAFSAC is to provide new and experienced C
  
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• On Claude Ranger, the great Canadian jazz drummer who simply disappeared (Book review)

  01-09-2017 18:45 via ottawacitizen.com
  Claude Ranger: Canadian Jazz Legend
  Mark MillerSelf-publishedIf music journalists overuse any word to the point of triteness, it’s “legend.” From now on, that label should be reserved for musicians who measure up to its meaning as did Claude Ranger.
  It doesn’t get more legendary than the life that veteran Canadian jazz journalist Mark Miller documents in his new biography of Ranger, which is succinctly but appropriately titled Canadian Jazz Legend.
  During his four decades
  
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• Responders rescue maintenance worker crushed under elevator

  01-09-2017 18:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  A 38-year-old man working on an elevator in Orléans was pulled out alive after the elevator carriage moved, trapping him underneath.
  Paramedics ran an intravenous line down to the man while he was trapped in the tiny space, while Ottawa fire rescue specialists members cut openings to allow them to pull him free.
  The incident happened about 10:15 a.m. Friday in a commercial building on Vanguard Drive near Tenth Line Road.
  Neither paramedics nor Ottawa Fire Services were immediately able to
  
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• 5 lightning rods in Ottawa's tax plan for small businesses - BNN

  01-09-2017 18:19
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  5 lightning rods in Ottawa's tax plan for small businesses
  BNN
  In July, the Canadian government proposed dramatic changes to federal tax rules that apply to small-business owners and entrepreneurs. Intended as a crackdown on what Ottawa considers the “unfair” (but not illegal) exploitation of certain loopholes ...
  
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• NEXT on the #PowerLunch: @RyanKennery & @TimTierney join @_MarkSutcliffe LIVE in STUDIO:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  01-09-2017 17:58 via twitter.com
  NEXT on the #PowerLunch: @RyanKennery & @TimTierney join @_MarkSutcliffe LIVE in STUDIO:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Gormley: The fall of Chris Alexander

  01-09-2017 17:46 via ottawacitizen.com
  It is unkind to kick someone when they’re down, as failed Conservative party leadership contender, disgraced snitch-line peddler and hapless alt-right band conductor Chris Alexander certainly is; but what is one to do when they kick themselves, determinedly and with great gusto, only to accuse you of committing bodily assault?
  As few people could reach his heights, few could ever fall so far as the preternaturally intelligent, accomplished, and worldly Alexander could. In this, at least, h
  
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• NEXT: @BarryDavis_ joins @_MarkSutcliffe for weekly #BlueJays talk. bit.ly/1uwtdOs #ottnews https://t.co/Eh1vhTYQBT

  01-09-2017 17:44 via twitter.com
  
  NEXT: @BarryDavis_ joins @_MarkSutcliffe for weekly #BlueJays talk. bit.ly/1uwtdOs#ottnews https://t.co/Eh1vhTYQBT
  
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• The trilogy ends in Barrhaven: Ottawa photographer Tony Fouhse turns lens on the burbs

  01-09-2017 17:33 via ottawacitizen.com
  Suburb
  Sept. 8-Oct. 3, Exposure Gallery, 1255 Wellington St. W.
  Opening reception, 6-8 p.m., Sept. 8. 
  Ottawa photographer Tony Fouhse ventured to Barrhaven about three dozen times last summer to take subtle, often striking photographs for his latest project, Suburb.But when he was invited to sit down for an interview this week, he preferred to meet in his usual Centretown stomping ground. Nothing against the southwest suburb of Ottawa, he was quick to note, but it doesn’t hold m
  
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• NEXT @environmentca Senior Climatologist David Phillips on today's record low temperature:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  01-09-2017 17:28 via twitter.com
  NEXT @environmentca Senior Climatologist David Phillips on today's record low temperature:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• One dead in one of two serious morning crashes near Kingston

  01-09-2017 17:24 via ottawacitizen.com
  Highway traffic in the Kingston area was expected to be detoured for hours after a fatal crash on Highway 401 near Joyceville.
  It was one of a pair of three-car collisions involving tractor trailers that happened within hours and kilometres of each other.
  At 6:53 a.m., Frontenac OPP were called to a crash on the eastbound lanes just west of the Joyceville Road exit.
  One person was declared dead at the scene while the driver of the tractor trailer was taken to the hospital with injuries that aren
  
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• Still ahead: #Houston flood victim Troy Hutcheon joins @_marksutcliffe live with an update:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  01-09-2017 16:58 via twitter.com
  Still ahead: #Houston flood victim Troy Hutcheon joins @_marksutcliffe live with an update:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Belleville teen faces manslaughter charges in Sunday's Hwy 401 crash

  01-09-2017 16:50 via ottawacitizen.com
  A 16-year-old Belleville boy faces charges including manslaughter in connection with a crash that killed a 30-year-old Loyalist Township woman on Sunday.
  Emergency crews were called early Sunday to a head-on crash on the eastbound lanes of Highway 401 near Cannifton Road between a Subaru and a pickup truck being driven westbound in the eastbound lanes.
  The victim, a passenger in the Subaru, was pronounced dead at the scene. Her identity has not been released.
  The driver of the car, a 30-year-old
  
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• NEXT @MetroNewsCanada reporter @genna_buck on why she switched to a old-school flip phone:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  01-09-2017 16:43 via twitter.com
  NEXT@MetroNewsCanada reporter @genna_buck on why she switched to a old-school flip phone:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• These are the provinces where the #opioidcrisis is most severe: bit.ly/2guER2W @macleans https://t.co/VqDH7nfeJB

  01-09-2017 16:33 via twitter.com
  
  These are the provinces where the #opioidcrisis is most severe: bit.ly/2guER2W @macleans https://t.co/VqDH7nfeJB
  
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• Coming up: #Ottawa triathlete @sindyhooper on completing #Ironman Vichy: bit.ly/1uwtdOs… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  01-09-2017 16:27 via twitter.com
  Coming up: #Ottawa triathlete @sindyhooperon completing #Ironman Vichy: bit.ly/1uwtdOs… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Harvey, long weekend shooting up gas prices in Ottawa

  01-09-2017 16:07
  
  If you’re planning a road trip this long weekend, it may roll over your wallet. In Ottawa Friday morning, drivers reported gas prices topping out at 123.9 cents a litre, according to ottawagasprices.com. The cheapest gas was 109.9 cents a litre.Late Thursday night, one motorist spotted gas at a whopping 129.9 cents a litre.
  
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• Coming up on the #PowerLunch @ NOON: @RyanKennery & @TimTierney join @_marksutcliffe LIVE in STUDIO:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  01-09-2017 15:54 via twitter.com
  Coming up on the #PowerLunch @ NOON: @RyanKennery & @TimTierney join @_marksutcliffe LIVE in STUDIO:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Harvey, long weekend shooting up gas prices in Ottawa - Ottawa Sun

  01-09-2017 15:39
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  Harvey, long weekend shooting up gas prices in Ottawa
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  Gas pump Ottawa resident David Allard watches the dollars rack up as he filled his tank at a Petro-Canada station on Carling Avenue Wednesday (April 12, 2017). JULIE OLIVER / POSTMEDIA. Article ...
  Price of gas in Ottawa could climb above $1.30/L by Saturday: analystCTV Newsall 51 news articles »
  
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• The 100-metre diet: Think spring now to take your weedy lawn to foodie heaven

  01-09-2017 15:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  It was more than a decade ago that newly-minted locavores started buzzing about the 100-mile diet and its benefits for both our health and the earth.
  But a growing number of Ottawans like Conrad Melanson are going one better, turning lawns into vegetable gardens for bountiful harvests then year-round meals right outside their front or back doors. They’ve turned DIY into GIY (Grow It Yourself). 
  “This is like the 100-metre diet – not even,” Melanson joked.
  He and his
  
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• Harvey fallout means more gas pains over long weekend, analyst predicts

  01-09-2017 14:54 via ottawacitizen.com
  If you’re planning a road trip this long weekend, it may roll over your wallet.
  In Ottawa Friday morning, drivers reported gas prices topping out at 123.9 cents a litre, according to ottawagasprices.com. The cheapest gas was 109.9 cents a litre.
  Late Thursday night, one motorist spotted gas at a whopping 129.9 cents a litre at a Nepean gas bar.
  Petroleum industry analyst Dan McTeague predicted Thursday that Ottawa would see a five-cent rise in gas prices Friday followed by a nine-cent hike
  
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• Sections of 401 closed after multiple collisions near Kingston

  01-09-2017 14:49
  
  If you’re starting the long weekend early and heading west, you might want to skip Highway 401 around Kingston. A pair of morning crashes closed both the eastbound lanes at Montreal Street and Highway 15 and the westbound lanes at Joyceville Road, the first starting in the wee hours of Friday morning.
  
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• Pair of crashes close stretches of 401 near Kingston

  01-09-2017 14:41 via ottawacitizen.com
  If you’re starting the long weekend early and heading west, you might want to skip Highway 401 around Kingston.
  A pair of morning crashes closed both the eastbound lanes at Montreal Street and Highway 15 and the westbound lanes at Joyceville Road, the first starting in the wee hours of Friday morning.
  Early reports indicate at least one person was seriously injured in one of the crashes.
  At least one person was seriously injured in a crash this morning on Hwy 401 near Kingston. The highway
  
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• Ottawa weather: Risk of frost tonight as September rolls in with a chill

  01-09-2017 14:08
  
  Another record down in this summer-that-never-was. The capital awoke Friday to the chilliest September 1 ever, with Environment Canada reporting 6 C as of 5 a.m. at the Ottawa airport. We’re headed to a mainly sunny 17 C then down to an overnight low of 3 C with the risk of frost. Frost!
  
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• .@environmentca says it is the coldest September 1 on record in Ottawa. 1310news.com/2017/09/01/ott… https://t.co/xacdNPKyZQ

  01-09-2017 14:05 via twitter.com
  
  .@environmentca says it is the coldest September 1 on record in Ottawa. 1310news.com/2017/09/01/ott… https://t.co/xacdNPKyZQ
  
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• New eviction rules in effect to protect #Ontario tenants: bit.ly/2vxlUn2 #onpoli https://t.co/REsrzl455t

  01-09-2017 13:57 via twitter.com
  
  New eviction rules in effect to protect #Ontario tenants: bit.ly/2vxlUn2 #onpoli https://t.co/REsrzl455t
  
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• September comes with record-breaking chill

  01-09-2017 13:56 via ottawacitizen.com
  Another record down in this summer-that-never-was.
  The capital awoke Friday to the chilliest September 1 ever, with Environment Canada reporting 6 C as of 5 a.m. at the Ottawa airport.
  We’re headed to a mainly sunny 17 C then down to an overnight low of 3 C with the risk of frost.
  Frost!
  Weather historian Rolf Campbell tweeted Thursday that if Ottawa’s Friday forecast of 6 C came true, it would be the capital’s coldest Sept. 1 since 1931.
  Average first frost in the capital is O
  
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• Missing woman, 60, found safe and sound

  01-09-2017 13:51
  
  Ottawa police say that Carole Pinard, 60, of Ottawa has been found safe and sound. She was last seen Wednesday at about 4 p.m. while walking her pet Chihuahua on Bilbery Drive.
  
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• #Calgary MP Darshan Kang resigns from Liberal caucus after sexual harassment allegations from a 2nd woman:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  01-09-2017 13:51 via twitter.com
  #Calgary MP Darshan Kang resigns from Liberal caucus after sexual harassment allegations from a 2nd woman:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Ottawa 2017 celebrations continue throughout the fall with events for

  01-09-2017 13:48 via ottawacitizen.com
  It has been a summer of wonders in the National Capital Region, with massive concerts, seemingly endless entertainment and even a giant dragon and spider roaming Ottawa’s streets. But although summer is coming to an end, the fun is far from over.
  Some of this summer’s big events, such as Kontinuum, will continue into September, while a number of major events such as the NHL Heritage Classic, the Grey Cup, the Canadian Videogame Happening, the World’s Largest Scavenger Hunt and
  
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• UPDATED: Carole has been found safe. #ottnews twitter.com/1310NEWS/statu…

  01-09-2017 13:41 via twitter.com
  UPDATED: Carole has been found safe. #ottnews twitter.com/1310NEWS/statu…
  
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• UPDATED: Abbie has been found safe. #ottnews twitter.com/1310NEWS/statu…

  01-09-2017 13:23 via twitter.com
  UPDATED: Abbie has been found safe. #ottnews twitter.com/1310NEWS/statu…
  
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