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• The Taliban go tacticool….insurgent gunmen mimic U.S. special forces

  05-09-2017 23:51 via ottawacitizen.com
  Over the years the Taliban have cranked out various videos for recruiting and propaganda purposes. But a recently released video is catching the attention of some analysts.
  The video features the usual imagery of ambushes and IEDs going off. But the Military Times newspaper points out that the first 10 minutes of the video features shots of Taliban fighters armed with U.S. weapons, optics and tactical gear and conducting
  It’s not typical for Taliban propaganda videos, which often display T
  
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• Derick Brassard pleased with shoulder surgery recovery

  05-09-2017 23:47 via ottawacitizen.com
  Derick Brassard likely won’t be rushed back from right shoulder surgery for the start of training camp next week, but the Ottawa Senators’ centre believes his recovery is ahead of schedule.
  “I feel pretty good,” Brassard said after an informal workout with many of his teammates Tuesday. “It was a short summer. I had the surgery (for a torn labrum) a couple of weeks after the last game, so I was pretty busy with that in training. Now, I’m just excited to be bac
  
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• The #BlueJays and Marco Estrada take on the Red Sox tonight. Hear it live right here starting at 7pm.

  05-09-2017 23:42 via twitter.com
  The #BlueJays and Marco Estrada take on the Red Sox tonight. Hear it live right here starting at 7pm.
  
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• Former Senator veterans Neil and Kelly await next move in hockey career

  05-09-2017 23:42 via ottawacitizen.com
  Chris Neil and Chris Kelly were thrilled by their first order of business Tuesday: helping get their youngsters off to school.
  The two long-serving Ottawa Senators veterans then went to skate in the first week of September without something they’ve had seemingly forever: a contract.
  “It’s the first time in 20 years, that once September rolls around, I don’t have a place to go to,” said Neil, who has scored 112 goals and 138 assists in 1,026 regular season games, all
  
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• Breaking down Carleton and U of O's sexual violence prevention policies

  05-09-2017 23:27 via ottawacitizen.com
  In March 2o16, the Ontario government passed legislation that required universities to have policies to address sexual violence by January 2017.
  For some institutions, it was a simple administrative exercise. For others, including Carleton University, it became a drawn-out and controversial process. Student and faculty groups at Carleton fought for acknowledgment that “rape culture” exists on campus. The term is a reference to “a culture in which dominant ideas, social practice
  
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• Big hairy deal: Ottawa man wins second in world championship of facial hair

  05-09-2017 23:09 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa’s Colin Geitzler, a.k.a. Snidely Wildstache, has always been a bit of a savant of facial fuzz.
  At the age of 12, his mother had to beg him to shave his neck beard for school pictures. By the time he was 14, he had a full beard and moustache. For much of his teen years he rocked a goatee.
  Geitzler had to hold back a little during a brief stint in the military. Then, in 2012, he grew a moustache for a Halloween party and kept it for Movember. Four years ago, he started competing inter
  
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• Q&A: Do you need a water softener if you live in Ottawa?

  05-09-2017 23:08 via ottawacitizen.com
  We were peppered with questions following the tale of an Ottawa woman slapped with a $6,000 lien on her home to fulfill the contract on a water softener system sold by a door-to-door agent.
  Patsy Miller was required to pay out the entire 120-month rental on the system, even though she sold the Barrhaven home after 17 months and no longer had any use for the softener. She felt deceived by the sales agent, who left the impression the city’s water is loaded with harmful contaminants. This, of
  
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• University of Ottawa sees boost in world university ranking

  05-09-2017 23:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  While students are just returning to their studies, universities around the world have already received their report cards – with the University of Ottawa’s standings improved over last year.
  According to the Times Higher Education (THE) World University rankings released Tuesday, uOttawa ranked in a band between 201 to 250 among 1,000 universities rated around the world. That’s a step up from the year before when it placed in the 251-300 range after it lost ground in its
  
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• Hydro Ottawa responding to outage in Elizabeth Park area. 570 people affected. Caused by a collision in the area. ERT is 10:30 #ottnews

  05-09-2017 22:55 via twitter.com
  Hydro Ottawa responding to outage in Elizabeth Park area. 570 people affected. Caused by a collision in the area. ERT is 10:30 #ottnews
  
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• Overdose Prevetion Ottawa's pop up site has gained the attention of the provincial government. #ottnews twitter.com/odpreventionot…

  05-09-2017 22:35 via twitter.com
  Overdose Prevetion Ottawa's pop up site has gained the attention of the provincial government. #ottnews twitter.com/odpreventionot…
  
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• The temperature reached 30 C only six days this entire year

  05-09-2017 22:25 via ottawacitizen.com
  At first it didn’t seem like the worst of summers, once you got past record-setting rains in June and July. Then David Phillips dug deeper.
  “If there was anything about this summer, it was just consistently poor,” he said Tuesday.
  Phillips, Environment Canada’s senior climatologist, began by pulling up the numbers for weekends — and they are not pretty.
  There have been 31 Saturdays, Sundays and holiday Mondays since June 1. They played out badly, like so:
  There were
  
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• Hundreds of firefighters face off at FireFit in Ottawa

  05-09-2017 22:18
  
  It’s billed as the toughest two minutes in sports.Sweating in heavy bunker gear and breathing bottled air, a firefighter totes a 42-pound hose pack up six flights of stairs, hauls another roll of hose up hand-over-hand by rope from the ground, then races back down.
  
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• Reevely: Morneau's corporate-tax tweaks will cost Ontario eventually

  05-09-2017 22:07 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Ontario government tried to get something for nothing by urging doctors to take advantage of a federal tax loophole, and now it’s biting us all.
  As tends to happen, when governments try to get something for nothing.
  Finance Minister Bill Morneau’s midsummer proposal to change tax treatments for some small businesses (a desperate snooze unless you run one) is worsening into a battle royale, with freaked-out MPs fretting about protests through the fall, Conservative finance critic
  
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• Hundreds of firefighters face off at FireFit in Ottawa first starting Wednesday

  05-09-2017 22:06 via ottawacitizen.com
  It’s billed as the toughest two minutes in sports.
  Sweating in heavy bunker gear and breathing bottled air, a firefighter totes a 42-pound hose pack up six flights of stairs, hauls another roll of hose up hand-over-hand by rope from the ground, then races back down. Then they shift a steel beam with a mallet, run around a series of hydrants, drag a charged hose line and blast water at a target. The final test is dragging a man-sized dummy to safety.
  Each stage of the Scott FireFit Cha
  
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• Police locate missing man in Brockville area

  05-09-2017 21:37
  
  Police have located a 32-year-old man who was believed to be in the Brockville or Prescott area.
  
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• Grenville County OPP have located Lance Fulsom - safe & in good health. #ottnews twitter.com/OPP_COMM_ER/st…

  05-09-2017 21:30 via twitter.com
  Grenville County OPP have located Lance Fulsom - safe & in good health. #ottnews twitter.com/OPP_COMM_ER/st…
  
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• Police hunt suspect alleged to have assaulted woman in Riverside Drive apartment

  05-09-2017 20:28
  
  Police say they’re looking for a man who approached a woman in her apartment building and sexually assaulted her early Saturday morning.It happened on Riverside Drive near Smyth Road at about 3:45 a.m.I
  
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• Today's letters: Union work, Sir John A. and thanks to Air Canada

  05-09-2017 20:04 via ottawacitizen.com
  Today’s letter writers weigh in on unions, Sir John A. and a trip gone wrong – but made better by Air Canada staff.
  Got opinions? Write to us at [email protected].
  Credit to unions for progress
  Re: Unions have made Canada a better place, Sept. 2
  Thanks to Ed Finn for his thoughtful and intelligent explanation of the many contributions made by unions to the high standard of social justice we enjoy in Canada today. It was not large corporations that put a high priority on safet
  
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• Woman's ashes stolen at Pembroke garage sale

  05-09-2017 19:41
  
  The family of a Pembroke woman who died two years ago is asking whoever took an urn with her ashes to bring it back.Patricia Ann Guimond’s ashes were mostly buried in 2015, except for small amounts left in small urns as keepsakes for family members.
  
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• Police looking for suspect in sexual assault in Riverside apartment building 1310news.com/2017/09/05/pol… #ottnews

  05-09-2017 19:35 via twitter.com
  Police looking for suspect in sexual assault in Riverside apartment building 1310news.com/2017/09/05/pol… #ottnews
  
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• Coming up next on the Carol Anne Meehan show - @LisaRaitt joins us to discuss Trudeau's controversial plan to elimi… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  05-09-2017 19:30 via twitter.com
  Coming up next on the Carol Anne Meehan show - @LisaRaitt joins us to discuss Trudeau's controversial plan to elimi… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• There will be no "park and ride" at the Moodie Dr. LRT Station. Next on the Carol Anne Meehan show @RickChiarelli… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  05-09-2017 19:20 via twitter.com
  There will be no "park and ride" at the Moodie Dr. LRT Station.Next on the Carol Anne Meehan show@RickChiarelli… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Man faces charges after confrontation with Carleton University special constables

  05-09-2017 19:20 via ottawacitizen.com
  A 24-year-old man faces numerous charges after a suspect wearing a face mask and brandishing what appeared to be a weapon confronted two Carleton University special constables shortly before 4 a.m. Sunday.
  A replica firearm was later located and seized in Brewer Park, across Bronson Avenue from the campus. 
  A Carleton University spokesman said students and staff were not endangered in the confrontation. However, one of the special constables sustained minor injuries. 
  “At no
  
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• Pot shop closes in west end, pops up at Parkdale Market

  05-09-2017 19:08 via ottawacitizen.com
  A marijuana shop that was robbed three times this summer has cleared out of its west-end building and opened up in a new spot near the Parkdale Market.
  The CannaGreen dispensary on McEwen Avenue near the intersection of Richmond Road closed last week. Georges Aoun, who owns the nearby MacEwen gas bar and convenience store, said he’s glad the store is gone. “I tell you, it was a bad experience,” he said. “Oh my God, nothing but problems.”
  Besides the robberies, the s
  
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• It's the first day of School! Coming up on the @MeehanCarolAnne show we check in with @OCDSB & Gloucester High Scho… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  05-09-2017 19:05 via twitter.com
  It's the first day of School! Coming up on the @MeehanCarolAnne show we check in with @OCDSB & Gloucester High Scho… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Cohen: In Maine, what is a town to do when the lobsters leave?

  05-09-2017 19:05 via ottawacitizen.com
  VINALHAVEN, Maine – On the islands of coastal Maine, boys and girls mark the end of summer and their departure for the mainland by holding hands at the edge of the town pier and jumping into Penobscot Bay. It is a sweet seasonal ritual.
  It is unlikely the kids have noticed that the ocean is warming. When they hit the water, they shriek and laugh, splashing around in the numbing cold. The temperature is 13 C.
  Yet scientists think global warming in the Gulf of Maine is happening faster than
  
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• .@MeehanCarolAnne is back! Join us for the Carol Anne Meehan show next. Listen in: player.1310news.com https://t.co/f3ZkKqQ0wH

  05-09-2017 19:00 via twitter.com
  
  .@MeehanCarolAnne is back! Join us for the Carol Anne Meehan show next.Listen in: player.1310news.com https://t.co/f3ZkKqQ0wH
  
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• Coming up: @GasBuddyDan joins @_marksutcliffe on sky high #gasprices in #Ottawa/ #Gatineau… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  05-09-2017 18:28 via twitter.com
  Coming up: @GasBuddyDan joins @_marksutcliffe on sky high #gasprices in #Ottawa/ #Gatineau… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• 2017: The year that summer forgot

  05-09-2017 18:15 via ottawacitizen.com
  At first it didn’t seem like the worst of summers, once you got past record-setting rains in June and July. Then David Phillips dug deeper.
  “If there was anything about this summer, it was just consistently poor,” he said Tuesday.
  Phillips, Environment Canada’s senior climatologist, began by pulling up the numbers for weekends — and they are not pretty.
  There have been 31 Saturdays, Sundays and holiday Mondays since June 1. They played out badly, like so:
  There were
  
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• Ottawa man charged with firearm offences after incident with police officers - 1310news.com/2017/09/05/ott… #ottnews https://t.co/9jwMpjyzXn

  05-09-2017 18:14 via twitter.com
  
  Ottawa man charged with firearm offences after incident with police officers - 1310news.com/2017/09/05/ott… #ottnews https://t.co/9jwMpjyzXn
  
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• NEXT on the #POWERLunch: @miketherien & @SusanSherring join @_MarkSutcliffe LIVE in Studio… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  05-09-2017 17:58 via twitter.com
  NEXT on the #POWERLunch:@miketherien & @SusanSherring join @_MarkSutcliffe LIVE in Studio… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Stuntman Stu makes radio return after leukemia battle

  05-09-2017 16:34
  
  Stuntman Stu Schwartz is back on the airwaves after what he joked was an “18-month vacation.”The radio personality is back on Majic 100 with co-host Angie Poirier after battling leukemia.He’s now in remission, saying “I never thought this day would come but so happy it did, being reunited with Angie is just what doctor ordered.”
  
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• Banerjee: A muddled strategy in Afghanistan

  05-09-2017 16:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  An extended stay of U.S. troops is now the only way to prevent the immediate fall of the government of Afghanistan and the defeat of the international community after fighting the Taliban for 16 years.
  The current condition in Afghanistan is not that of a “stalemate,” as claimed by American commanders. All indicators now point to a losing state of war. An extended stay and increased numbers of foreign troops will be saviours in the immediate term and may generate just a stalemate. Ba
  
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• NEXT: @BJSiekierski of @ipoliticsca joins @_MarkSutcliffe LIVE on #OttawaToday: bit.ly/1uwtdOs https://t.co/Q13LODulzh

  05-09-2017 16:29 via twitter.com
  
  NEXT:@BJSiekierski of @ipoliticsca joins @_MarkSutcliffe LIVE on #OttawaToday: bit.ly/1uwtdOs https://t.co/Q13LODulzh
  
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• Have you seen this man? Police searching for him in Brockville area

  05-09-2017 16:26 via ottawacitizen.com
  Police are looking for help from the public to locate a 32-year-old man believed to be in the Brockville or Prescott area.
  Lance Fulsom was last seen around 8 a.m. Monday morning in Brockville, said a release by the Ontario Provincial Police. His vehicle was found by police but he had not been seen or heard from. Fulsom is a white male about six feet tall with a slim build who wears glasses, has a tattoo on his right shoulder and right wrist, and when last seen was unshaven.
  Anyone with informat
  
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• Sûreté du Québec employee charged with sex assaults

  05-09-2017 16:23 via ottawacitizen.com
  A 23-year-old civilian employee of the Sûreté du Québec in Gatineau has been charged with sexual assaults against three different people in the period from February through July.
  The SQ says Gabriel Raymond has been relieved of his duties.
  However the SQ won’t say anything about a report published in Le Droit that some of the alleged sex assaults happened inside the Gatineau 9-1-1 centre.
  As well, they aren’t commenting on a report that Raymond is the son of a for
  
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• Man charged with impaired and dangerous driving after crash in Carleton Place

  05-09-2017 16:08 via ottawacitizen.com
  A 36-year-old Ottawa man has been charged with impaired and dangerous driving in connection with a collision on Hwy. 7 in Carleton Place that left one person with serious injuries.
  Roy Radke has been charged with dangerous driving, impaired driving causing bodily harm and driving with more than the legal blood-alcohol limit, according to the Ontario Provincial Police.
  The crash occurred just after 5 p.m. on Sept. 1 on Hwy. 7 between Hwy. 15 and Napoleon Street in Carleton Place.
  Two vehicles, in
  
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• Ahead: Should students be blocked from using school #WiFi to access #socialmedia & streaming sites?… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  05-09-2017 15:56 via twitter.com
  Ahead:Should students be blocked from using school #WiFi to access #socialmedia & streaming sites?… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Send UN peacekeepers to eastern Ukraine, Putin says

  05-09-2017 15:53 via ottawacitizen.com
  Russia will ask the United Nations to send peacekeeping troops to eastern Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin says.
  Putin told journalists Tuesday that armed peacekeepers could provide safety for staff of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) which is monitoring the ceasefire there. “It would help resolve the problem in eastern Ukraine,” said Putin.
  More than 10,000 people have died in fighting between Ukrainian soldiers and Russian-backed separatists. A peace
  
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• NO change expected for #Ottawa gas prices overnight -- will remain at average $130.9 c/L #gasprices #ottnews https://t.co/n77lES1rkT

  05-09-2017 15:53 via twitter.com
  
  NO change expected for #Ottawa gas prices overnight -- will remain at average $130.9 c/L#gasprices#ottnews https://t.co/n77lES1rkT
  
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• NEXT: @YoniFreedhoff joins @_MarkSutcliffe for weekly #Health segment: bit.ly/1ppeuDa… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  05-09-2017 15:44 via twitter.com
  NEXT:@YoniFreedhoff joins @_MarkSutcliffe for weekly #Health segment: bit.ly/1ppeuDa… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Coming up on the #POWERLunch @ NOON: @miketherien & @SusanSherring join @_marksutcliffe LIVE in Studio… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  05-09-2017 15:43 via twitter.com
  Coming up on the #POWERLunch @ NOON: @miketherien & @SusanSherring join @_marksutcliffe LIVE in Studio… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• COMING UP: @RandallMoore26 joins @_MarkSutcliffe live in-studio for #RandallsRant player.1310news.com… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  05-09-2017 15:28 via twitter.com
  COMING UP:@RandallMoore26 joins @_MarkSutcliffe live in-studio for #RandallsRantplayer.1310news.com… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Coming up on the 10 O’Clock Talk @KimothyWalker, @Justin_Ling & @1310JasonWhite join @_MarkSutcliffe… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  05-09-2017 15:25 via twitter.com
  Coming up on the 10 O’Clock Talk @KimothyWalker, @Justin_Ling & @1310JasonWhite join @_MarkSutcliffe… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Morning collisions lead to traffic headaches [Video]

  05-09-2017 15:17
  
  Injuries were thankfully minor after a 7:23 a.m. crash at the intersection of Fallowfield and Eagleson roads that rolled both vehicles into the ditch and had the fire department warning motorists to avoid the area. Minutes later, fire crews were on their way to a crash at Boundary and Indcum roads.
  
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• Busy back-to-school traffic snarled after morning crashes

  05-09-2017 14:40 via ottawacitizen.com
  Injuries were thankfully minor after a 7:23 a.m. crash at the intersection of Fallowfield and Eagleson roads that rolled both vehicles into the ditch and had the fire department warning motorists to avoid the area.
  Minutes later, fire crews were on their way to a crash at Boundary and Indcum roads and reminding commuters to slow down and move over for emergency vehicles.
  Busy back-to-school traffic had emergency services hopping and warning drivers to watch for kids and school buses. Meanwhile,
  
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• Ottawa weather: Skies clear for back to school, more rain this week [Video]

  05-09-2017 14:20
  
  As kids head back to school to learn the three R's, thankfully one is missing – it's a rain-free forecast, at least for Tuesday. Then there's a risk of showers every day ahead of a sunny weekend.
  
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• Sun, cloud and 21 C for back to school, risk of showers rest of week

  05-09-2017 14:14 via ottawacitizen.com
  As kids head back to school to learn the three R’s, thankfully one is missing – it’s a rain-free forecast, at least for Tuesday.
  Then there’s a risk of showers every day ahead of a sunny weekend.
  The forecast for Tuesday, the first day of school for many kids in the capital, is a mix of sun and clouds with a high of 21 C and low of 12 C.School safety zones are in effect! Fines are doubled in these areas. #BackToSchool #otttraffic #ottnews pic.twitter.com/288owzBdxW
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• Ottawa, Gatineau traffic updates for Sept. 5 - CBC.ca

  05-09-2017 12:33
  CBC.ca
  Ottawa, Gatineau traffic updates for Sept. 5
  CBC.ca
  Good day, commuters! It's back-to-school for all the kids as of today. This means you'll want to leave early so there's no need to rush. Some children are walking to classes for the first time, others are making new or unfamiliar first-time bike trips ...
  
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• Death toll from #HurricaneHarvey rises to at least 60: bit.ly/2x7aAhB https://t.co/leZfV5kfF9

  05-09-2017 12:11 via twitter.com
  
  Death toll from #HurricaneHarvey rises to at least 60: bit.ly/2x7aAhB https://t.co/leZfV5kfF9
  
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