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• Senators bring veteran Chris VandeVelde to training camp on tryout basis

  11-09-2017 23:59 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Ottawa Senators already have a dozen forwards signed to guaranteed NHL contracts and top Boston College prospect Colin White is among the top prospects hoping to win a spot out of training camp.
  But that won’t stop the Senators from taking a look at other proven NHL veterans.
  The Senators announced Monday that they have invited Chris VandeVelde to training camp on a professional tryout contract.
  VandeVelde, 30, scored six goals and nine assists in 81 games with Philaelphia last season.
  
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• Cuba 'devastated' by Hurricane Irma, CARE Canada rep says

  11-09-2017 23:46 via ottawacitizen.com
  It will be months, maybe even years, before Cuba recovers from the devastation wrought by Hurricane Irma, says a CARE Canada aid worker in Havana.
  “The storm was massive. Not only high intensity, but it was massive in area. It ran along the north coast, but it was felt across the entire island,” said Richard Paterson, who rode out the storm at his home in the capital. Paterson, an Ottawa native, has been CARE Canada’s man in Havana for 2 1/2 years.
  “The coastal communitie
  
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• Two men rescued following rollover near Algonquin College

  11-09-2017 23:45 via ottawacitizen.com
  Emergency crews Monday afternoon freed two men after their vehicle rolled over near Algonquin College, at the intersection of Baseline Road and Woodroffe Avenue.
  Ottawa firefighters, called to the scene by police shortly before 4 p.m., stabilized both the vehicle and the two trapped inside.
  Crews used cutters and spreaders. By 4:15 p.m., they had extricated the driver and passenger.
  Ottawa paramedics said the men were both in stable condition at the trauma centre. 
  
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• Bruised shoulder could keep Redblacks' Harris out weeks, not months

  11-09-2017 23:39 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa Redblacks coach Rick Campbell delivered some good news early Monday morning on TSN 1200.
  Turns out quarterback Trevor Harris has a bruised shoulder, it’s not separated. Not only is it not a season-ending injury, Harris, who was injured when he was thrown to the turf in Ottawa’s 26-22 loss to Hamilton Saturday, could be back soon. Until then, Campbell confirmed, Drew Tate will be the team’s starting quarterback.
  “I think it’s going to be a matter of weeks,&rdq
  
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• Karlsson may not be ready to play until November

  11-09-2017 23:25 via ottawacitizen.com
  If Ottawa Senators fans were holding out slim hope for captain Erik Karlsson to be ready for the season opener on October 5, forget about it.
  Take it from the horse’s mouth.
  Karlsson says that it may be another “two to three weeks” before he skates on his surgically repaired left foot — including the insertion of an artificial tendon — for the first time, post-surgery. Three weeks from Monday brings us to Oct. 2.
  He also suggested that he could push back the st
  
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• Stolen urn returned under mysterious circumstances

  11-09-2017 23:07 via ottawacitizen.com
  The case of a missing urn took a strange twist over the weekend as the OPP reported that a pink urn containing the ashes of a recently deceased woman had been recovered and returned to the family.  
  The Pembroke detachment of the Upper Ottawa Valley OPP are continuing their hunt for the thief. The odd bit has to do with how the urn was discovered.
  Police began their investigation Sept. 2 when the urn was stolen from a residence on Garden Street in Pembroke. The family had been holding
  
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• Ottawa custodian rescues skunk with juice box on its head — without raising a stink

  11-09-2017 22:40 via ottawacitizen.com
  No good deed goes unpunished, supposedly. But Josh Gordon rescued a skunk without getting skunked himself.
  Gordon, a custodian at John Young Elementary School, was walking to the front doors of the Kanata school early Friday morning when he saw a skunk running in panicky circles in a paved yard beside the main entrance of the school. 
  With a juice box firmly wedged on his head, the skunk couldn’t see where it was going. The critter was obviously disoriented, occasionally running head-
  
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• Limit on tax hikes puts handcuffs on police budget

  11-09-2017 22:34 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Ottawa Police Service has cobbled together a 2018 draft budget that puts off contributions to capital reserves and information technology upgrades to satisfy financial constraints demanded by city council.
  “Let city council understand, we are plugging holes here,” said Eli El-Chantiry, the chair of the police services board, after seeing the 2018 estimates Monday.
  The police board’s finance and audit committee received an early look at the financial forecasts before managem
  
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• Watchdog investigating hanging incident at Wakefield police station

  11-09-2017 22:14 via ottawacitizen.com
  Quebec’s independent police watchdog is investigating after a 29-year-old prisoner was found alive following a reported hanging at the Wakefield police station Monday morning.
  The man, who’d been taken into custody by MRC des Collines-de-l’Outaouais police, was taken to hospital after he was found hanged with a blanket around 9:20 a.m. His injuries were not life-threatening.
  Le Bureau des enquêtes indépendantes said in news release that it has yet to
  
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• Egan: Sell pot just like LCBO, where boss earns $500K and clerks $27 an hour

  11-09-2017 22:05 via ottawacitizen.com
  The government selling weed to anybody is a terrible idea.
  So is the creation of a subsidiary of the Liquor Control Board of Ontario to create and run a retail network.
  I was noodling around Ontario’s sunshine list on Monday, the phone-book sized document that catalogues public-sector salaries over $100,000.
  The LCBO has either 359 or 313 employees on the list — honestly, it was like counting jelly beans in a giant jar — including a president and CEO who made $494,308 in 2016.
  
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• Reevely: Trials and big-money announcements kick off Ontario's longest-ever election campaign

  11-09-2017 21:53 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ontario’s legislature’s sitting after its summer break. Ministers are racing around the province announcing and re-announcing. Liberal aides are going on trial. New Democrats are trying to put attention on them. Tories want to talk about Liberal failures and hope a smooth nomination for a star candidate will take some heat off their previous candidate-selection fiascoes.
  All happening at once, like the scenes in a Bosch triptych.
  In Toronto on Monday, Housing Minister Peter Milc
  
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• Friends, neighbours fundraise after Barrhaven family farm fire 1310news.com/2017/09/11/fri…

  11-09-2017 21:45 via twitter.com
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• ON AIR NOW: The Afternoon News with @MarkDayNews & @MelAdams1310 On 1310NEWS or online: player.1310news.com https://t.co/y7KTIiWSJR

  11-09-2017 21:16 via twitter.com
  
  ON AIR NOW: The Afternoon News with @MarkDayNews & @MelAdams1310 On 1310NEWS or online: player.1310news.com https://t.co/y7KTIiWSJR
  
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• Police investigating shots fired in Lowertown 1310news.com/2017/09/11/pol…

  11-09-2017 21:06 via twitter.com
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• Editorial: How Canada can help those fleeing Myanmar

  11-09-2017 20:59 via ottawacitizen.com
  It’s hard to square the outpouring of sympathy Canadians have shown for Syrian refugees with their seeming apathy in the case of Myanmar’s Rohingya, who have been grappling with violence for years. In recent weeks, around 300,000 of them have fled their homes in the state of Rakhine.
  Yet there are similarities between both crises. Just as Syrian refugees chanced crossing the Mediterranean, Rohingya have been scrambling aboard boats to get to Bangladesh, and many, mostly women an
  
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• Woman in stable condition after Mechanicsville stabbing

  11-09-2017 20:02 via ottawacitizen.com
  A woman in her 20s was in stable condition at the trauma centre after suffering a stab wound in an incident in Mechanicsville Monday.
  Paramedics said they were called to Forward Avenue, near Scott Street and Parkdale Avenue, at 12:30 p.m.
  An Ottawa police spokesman said investigators have made an arrest but further details were not immediately available.
  Police had been called to a residence in the 200 block of Forward Avenue at 12:29 p.m.
  The woman’s injuries were not consi
  
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• Collision, criminal charges follow dirt bike ride through Gatineau streets

  11-09-2017 20:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  A 17-year-old from Gatineau faces both criminal charges and traffic fines after driving an off-road motorbike through the streets and colliding with a Gatineau police cruiser.
  Police running a speed trap saw the off-road bike on Lorrain Boulevard near Chemin Dufresne around 10 p.m. Sunday and tried to pull over the driver, but he allegedly sped off. He tried to make a U-turn on Lorrain, and that’s when he and the cruiser collided.
  The young man, who cannot be named because of his age, had
  
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• The private war of Mike Trauner: Soldier who lost both legs in Afghanistan still trains six days a week [Video]

  11-09-2017 19:59
  
  PEMBROKE, Ont. — Every morning, Mike Trauner wakes up to war.Like clockwork, the former Canadian Forces soldier returns to that cold morning in December 2008, when an improvised explosive device detonated beneath him in Afghanistan.“I try not to think about it, but every single day, I’m reminded of it,” the 37-year-old says.“I can’t forget,
  
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• Charlebois: Weeding out the weak parts of Ontario’s pot strategy

  11-09-2017 19:59 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ontario has become the first province to define how it intends to sell non-medicinal marijuana to the public. Around 150 stores across the province will open and will be operated by a division of the province’s liquor board, the LCBO. Marijuana won’t be sold alongside wine or liquor, but in separate, independent stores, as recommended by a parliamentary committee earlier this year. While Ontario deserves some credit for forging ahead with guidelines for its legal marijuana distributi
  
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• Charges laid in suspected meth cook in Centretown park

  11-09-2017 19:17 via ottawacitizen.com
  A 40-year-old Ottawa man is facing production-related charges after police busted a suspected meth cooking operation at a public park picnic table last week.
  He faced similar charges in February after police stumbled on an apparent meth lab in a Lowertown apartment.
  Laurence Wheatcroft is charged with unlawful production of a Schedule I substance, possession or production of items used to produce or traffic Schedule I and III substances and breach of recognizance.
  He will appear in court vi
  
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• Khan: Canada must help Myanmar's Rohingya Muslims

  11-09-2017 18:50 via ottawacitizen.com
  It seems that the mass exodus of the stateless Rohingya Muslims of Myanmar, who are fleeing a brutal extermination – what many are calling a genocide and ethnic cleansing – is not enough to tug at the heartstrings of Canadians.
  So much so that news of beheadings, flagellation of children, murders, rape and destruction of whole villages is not enough to hold the world’s attention, let alone Canada’s. Neither is the fact that this has been going on since well before the Syr
  
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• Adam: On pot, the government is right to take it slowly

  11-09-2017 18:50 via ottawacitizen.com
  Without question, the Ontario government’s plan to regulate marijuana once the drug is legalized makes eminent sense. There’s no doubt that Canada is entering unchartered waters; caution should be the watchword. We are, for the first time, legalizing the recreational use of a street drug whose broader long-term impact on the population remains uncertain and the last thing we need is to plunge into this with careless abandon.
  No, the provincial Liberals are not taking us back to the 1
  
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• 'We are plugging holes here,' police board chair says of 2018 budget

  11-09-2017 18:48 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Ottawa Police Service has cobbled together a 2018 draft budget that puts off contributions to capital reserves and information technology upgrades to satisfy financial constraints demanded by city council.
  “Let city council understand, we are plugging holes here,” said Eli El-Chantiry, the chair of the police services board, after seeing the 2018 estimates Monday.
  The police board’s finance and audit committee received an early look at the financial forecasts before managem
  
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• Many seniors are becoming less reluctant to disclose their age

  11-09-2017 18:41 via ottawacitizen.com
  While much has been written about ageism – what it looks like, sounds like and feels like – it seems that there has been less emphasis on what older adults themselves can do to address ageist attitudes and practices. One response may simply be “owning” your age.
  Too often, seniors are reluctant to disclose their age for fear of being discounted or, in the case of the workplace, discriminated against in both overt and covert ways. They may believe that if employment recrui
  
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• Coming up: @padams29 & @_MarkSutcliffe discuss the State of the Media: bit.ly/1ppeuDa @Carleton_U https://t.co/49EjfWKP05

  11-09-2017 18:28 via twitter.com
  
  Coming up: @padams29 & @_MarkSutcliffe discuss the State of the Media: bit.ly/1ppeuDa@Carleton_U https://t.co/49EjfWKP05
  
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• NEXT on the #POWERLunch @Go_Taylor & @markblevis join @_MarkSutcliffe live in studio: LISTEN:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  11-09-2017 17:58 via twitter.com
  NEXT on the #POWERLunch@Go_Taylor & @markblevis join @_MarkSutcliffe live in studio: LISTEN:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Coming up: @abacusdataca @Colettod w/ @_MarkSutcliffe for weekly segment: bit.ly/1uwtdOs… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  11-09-2017 17:44 via twitter.com
  Coming up:@abacusdataca @Colettod w/ @_MarkSutcliffe for weekly segment:bit.ly/1uwtdOs… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Two lives saved at #overdose prevention site over weekend: bit.ly/2y03cC4 #ottnews @odpreventionott https://t.co/Ds7Zz69Irs

  11-09-2017 16:57 via twitter.com
  
  Two lives saved at #overdose prevention site over weekend: bit.ly/2y03cC4 #ottnews @odpreventionott https://t.co/Ds7Zz69Irs
  
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• Coming up 11:05: Conservative MP @ErinOTooleMP joins @_marksutcliffe LIVE: LISTEN: bit.ly/1uwtdOs… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  11-09-2017 16:45 via twitter.com
  Coming up 11:05: Conservative MP @ErinOTooleMP joins @_marksutcliffe LIVE: LISTEN: bit.ly/1uwtdOs… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• RCN’s new supply ship will alternate between east and west coasts

  11-09-2017 16:37 via ottawacitizen.com
  There was a report out of Halifax last week claiming that the new Resolve-class supply ship, being leased to the Royal Canadian Navy would be based out of that city for the next decade.
  Not so, says the RCN.
  The headquarters for the civilian crew will be in Halifax, the RCN says.
  But the ship itself will alternate between the east and west coasts.
  After its acceptance procedures at the end of this year – done in Halifax – the ship will sail for CFB Esquimalt, BC. It is expected to be
  
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• Still ahead #Ottawa's Taras Klymyshyn on taking shelter from #HurricaneIrma in #turksandcaicos:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  11-09-2017 16:28 via twitter.com
  Still ahead #Ottawa's Taras Klymyshyn on taking shelter from #HurricaneIrma in #turksandcaicos:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Coming up on the #POWERLunch @ NOON: @Go_Taylor & @markblevis join @_MarkSutcliffe live in studio: LISTEN:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  11-09-2017 16:27 via twitter.com
  Coming up on the #POWERLunch @ NOON:@Go_Taylor & @markblevis join @_MarkSutcliffe live in studio: LISTEN:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• NEXT POLL: Should feds send military to evacuate #Canadians stranded in the aftermath of #Irma? LIVE:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  11-09-2017 16:17 via twitter.com
  NEXTPOLL: Should feds send military to evacuate #Canadians stranded in the aftermath of #Irma? LIVE:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• NEXT on the 10 O’Clock Talk @anne_kingston, @amandacconn & @1310Andrew @join @_MarkSutcliffe… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  11-09-2017 15:55 via twitter.com
  NEXT on the 10 O’Clock Talk @anne_kingston, @amandacconn & @1310Andrew @join @_MarkSutcliffe… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• #Bahamas resident Simon Worley was in Ft. Lauderdale when #HurricaneIrma hit. He joins @_MarkSutcliffe NEXT:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  11-09-2017 15:44 via twitter.com
  #Bahamas resident Simon Worley was in Ft. Lauderdale when #HurricaneIrma hit.He joins @_MarkSutcliffe NEXT:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Ottawa weather: Sunny skies all week - no rain! [Video]

  11-09-2017 14:24
  
  Nothin’ but blue skies. Environment Canada’s forecast is for a string of sunny September days. Monday and Tuesday are mainly sunny highs of 24 C that will feel more like 27 C. Dig up that forgotten tube of sunscreen – the UV index Monday is 6 or high – but you’ll need a jacket overnight with a low of 6 C. Tuesday”s low is 13 C.
  
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• Loretta Avenue fire extinguished after fast attack

  11-09-2017 14:13
  
  Multiple 911 calls reporting flames in the backyard drew fire crews to a Loretta Avenue North home late Sunday night.
  
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• Shots fired in ByWard Market, cops ask public for info

  11-09-2017 14:08
  
  Ottawa police are asking the public for information about a shooting on Murray Street in the ByWard Market.Police responded to several calls from people who reported they heard shots fired in the 200 block of Murray Street on Monday at 2:30 a.m. They found shell casings in the area, but no victims or suspects.
  
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• Firefighters douse shed fire in Preston Street area

  11-09-2017 13:48 via ottawacitizen.com
  Multiple 911 calls reporting flames in the backyard drew fire crews to a Loretta Avenue North home late Sunday night.
  Ottawa Fire Services immediately declared a working fire at 174 Loretta Avenue North after arriving at the 11:29 p.m. call. 
  “With a fast attack,” the fire in a shed was quickly extinguished, the fire department said. It was under control with 10 minutes of the arrival of firefighters.
  
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• Mostly sunny skies, highs in the 20s through next weekend

  11-09-2017 13:40 via ottawacitizen.com
  Nothin’ but blue skies.
  Environment Canada’s forecast is for a string of sunny September days.
  Monday and Tuesday are mainly sunny highs of 24 C that will feel more like 27 C.
  Dig up that forgotten tube of sunscreen – the UV index Monday is 6 or high – but you’ll need a jacket overnight with a low of 6 C. 
  Tuesday”s low is 13 C.
  The forecast for Wednesday and Thursday is pure sunshine, highs of 25 C and lows of 13 C and 11 C respectively.
  Friday is e
  
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• Soldier who lost both legs in Afghanistan still trains six days a week

  11-09-2017 13:28 via ottawacitizen.com
  PEMBROKE, Ont. — Every morning, Mike Trauner wakes up to war.
  Like clockwork, the former Canadian Forces soldier returns to that cold morning in December 2008, when an improvised explosive device detonated beneath him in Afghanistan.
  “I try not to think about it, but every single day, I’m reminded of it,” the 37-year-old says.
  “I can’t forget, because when I wake up in the morning, my legs are still gone, my arms and hands are still damaged. I’m sti
  
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• Police seek information about shooting in ByWard Market early Monday morning

  11-09-2017 13:17 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa police are asking the public for information about a shooting on Murray Street in the ByWard Market.
  Police responded to several calls from people who reported they heard shots fired in the 200 block of Murray Street on Monday at 2:30 a.m.They found shell casings in the area, but no victims or suspects.
  Anyone with information is asked to call the Ottawa Police Guns & Gangs Unit at 613-236-1222, ext. 5050.  
  Anonymous tips can be submitted by calling Crime Stoppers toll
  
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• The Mike Trauner file

  11-09-2017 13:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  Raised in Sudbury, he graduated from Cambrian College with an engineering diploma and enlisted in the military at age 18
  Joined the infantry and trained as a paratrooper with the Royal Canadian Regiment’s Third Battalion
  Deployed to Drvar, Bosnia as part of a NATO-led mission to stabilize the country
  Fractured his spine in late 2002 when he landed on a hidden pressure ridge in a winter parachute drop onto Round Lake
  Deployed to Afghanistan in early September 2008
  While on a security detail
  
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• On 9/11 anniversary, time to expand our definition of 'victim'

  11-09-2017 13:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  In the 16 years since the tragic events of Sept. 11, 2001, the threat of terrorism has continued to evolve globally. The perpetrators of this attack, al-Qaida, have gone through a number of major changes, including having to compete for international headlines and recruits with Daesh, also known as ISIL. The weapons used by terrorist groups have also evolved significantly, from guns, bombs and aircraft to cars, trucks and knives, with the internet and social media revolutionizing how they commun
  
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• Jodie Emery: The government's reefer monopoly madness

  11-09-2017 12:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  It was the worst possible provincial legalization plan, but it just became official. The Liberal government of Ontario announced a state monopoly on the sale of legal non-medical cannabis, combined with a massive crackdown on the existing cannabis industry.
  Legalization wasn’t supposed to be like this. Canadians increasingly supported ending cannabis criminalization after watching billions of tax dollars wasted by law enforcement going after peaceful people for pot.
  Marijuana has been grow
  
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• #Ontario legislature resumes amid two #Liberal trials; focus on labour and pot: bit.ly/2jgpThY #onpoli https://t.co/7aXXXOEg59

  11-09-2017 11:26 via twitter.com
  
  #Ontario legislature resumes amid two #Liberal trials; focus on labour and pot: bit.ly/2jgpThY #onpoli https://t.co/7aXXXOEg59
  
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• Police investigating shots fired in Lowertown: bit.ly/2wUvRK7 #ottnews @1310JasonWhite https://t.co/tZMCsjWV2d

  11-09-2017 11:19 via twitter.com
  
  Police investigating shots fired in Lowertown: bit.ly/2wUvRK7 #ottnews @1310JasonWhite https://t.co/tZMCsjWV2d
  
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• Senators rookies reign in NHL rookie tournament at Toronto - Ottawa Citizen

  11-09-2017 03:58
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  Senators rookies reign in NHL rookie tournament at Toronto
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  Ottawa Senators goaltender Marcus Hogberg during day two of the the Sens Development Camp at the Bell Sensplex. July 4,2013. Errol McGihon / QMI Agency. Share Adjust Comment Print. TORONTO — The kid Senators didn't need a trophy or even two ...
  Touted defenceman Thomas Chabot carries 'high, high, high expectations' into Ottawa Senators training campNational Postall 8 news articles »
  
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• Senators rookies reign in NHL rookie tournament at Toronto

  11-09-2017 03:58 via ottawacitizen.com
  TORONTO — The kid Senators didn’t need a trophy or even two points to come home Sunday night feeling higher than the CN Tower.
  The scores of the Maple Leaf Rookie Tournament will quickly be a footnote, but it’s what the three days of live-fire war games did for player confidence and management satisfaction that will carry into main camp this week.
  Down 3-0 quickly to the Leafs, the Ottawa Senators didn’t look for the exit door, but instead whittled into the deficit in the
  
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• Ottawa sets record for world's largest scavenger hunt - Ottawa Citizen

  11-09-2017 03:25
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  Ottawa sets record for world's largest scavenger hunt
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  The previous record for the world's largest scavenger hunt was 2,079, set in 2014 by a Google-sponsored hunt in Provo, Utah. On Sunday, 2,733 people successfully completed Ottawa's event, which was put on by Escape Manor as part of the Ottawa2017 ...and more »
  
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