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• #Gatineau twitter.com/PoliceGatineau…

  12-09-2017 23:58 via twitter.com
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• Today's letters (II): Genetics, pot sales and taxing doctors

  12-09-2017 23:51 via ottawacitizen.com
  What else can we inherit genetically?
  Re: Can we inherit fear? Sept. 9.
  Kudos for raising awareness of epigenetics, and the potency of fear and anxiety. Could you also cover research asking “Can we inherit loving kindness?” and the impact of this on health and illness?
  Dr. Sue Johnson of Ottawa has a wealth of information in one of her more recent books. A powerful mindfulness-meditation practice, Metta (Loving Kindness), shows great promise. There are many other ways to “pass
  
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• Mounties got lost, volunteers fibbed: Tales from the Canada Day trenches

  12-09-2017 23:51 via ottawacitizen.com
  Mounties guiding crowds on Canada Day didn’t know names of downtown streets, and “uninformed” volunteers made up information, says a list of key complaints from Canadian Heritage.
  The document was released through the Citizen’s access-to-information request.
  Related
  Critics savage Canada Day in the capitalIt identifies many problems that were already well-known: “Fake lines” that led nowhere, “not enough bathrooms outside the (Parliament Hill) perimeter,
  
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• 'It requires a worthy place': Site for Afghanistan memorial gets NCC pushback

  12-09-2017 23:46
  National Capital Commission board members deferred on a vote designating land for the memorial, saying a site near the Canadian War Museum was the wrong choice.
  
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• CHEO Dream of a Lifetime Lottery kicks off 1310news.com/2017/09/12/che… #ottawa #ottnews https://t.co/QoQCKV96ac

  12-09-2017 23:34 via twitter.com
  
  CHEO Dream of a Lifetime Lottery kicks off1310news.com/2017/09/12/che… #ottawa #ottnews https://t.co/QoQCKV96ac
  
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• Nauseous and tired, Jonathan Pitre awaits gallbladder surgery

  12-09-2017 22:38 via ottawacitizen.com
  Jonathan Pitre remains in a Minnesota hospital as doctors strive to prepare him for gallbladder surgery by hiking the number of blood-clotting cells in his body. 
  Pitre’s gastrointestinal system is struggling to eliminate the waste chemical, bilirubin, which has yellowed his eyes and skin, and left him nauseous and exhausted.
  Bilirubin is a brownish-yellow substance made when the body breaks down old red blood cells.
  Doctors believe that the bile ducts of Pitre’s gallb
  
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• Afghanistan war memorial site next to Canadian War Museum stirs controversy

  12-09-2017 22:19 via ottawacitizen.com
  The National Capital Commission is caught in another memorial controversy.
  The Canadian War Museum and its architect are resisting a plan to locate the National Memorial to Canada’s Mission in Afghanistan at a site near the building.
  NCC management on Tuesday recommended that the board approve the site location just west of the War Museum, but CEO Mark Kristmanson won support to defer the vote, sensing cold feet around the table.
  Board member Carol Loughrey, who’s from New Brunswick,
  
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• #1310NEWS Gas Price Update Enpro predicts the price of gas will drop 5 cents overnight, to an avg. of 118.9 a litre at most Ottawa stations

  12-09-2017 22:13 via twitter.com
  #1310NEWS Gas Price UpdateEnpro predicts the price of gas will drop 5 cents overnight, to an avg. of 118.9 a litre at most Ottawa stations
  
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• Reevely: Minimum wage hike will hurt some people who need help most, finance watchdog says

  12-09-2017 22:10 via ottawacitizen.com
  Raising Ontario’s minimum wage will cost 50,000 jobs and much of the money meant to help working poor people will end up in the hands of the relatively well-off, says a new analysis from the government’s Financial Accountability Office released Tuesday.
  Hiking the minimum wage from $11.40 to $15 an hour by 2019 is a signature move for Premier Kathleen Wynne and her Liberal party, the biggest item on a list of labour reforms the premier says are about making Ontario’s economy wo
  
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• ON AIR NOW: The Afternoon News with @MarkDayNews & @MelAdams1310 On 1310NEWS or online: player.1310news.com https://t.co/JyT4oNq6bJ

  12-09-2017 21:33 via twitter.com
  
  ON AIR NOW: The Afternoon News with @MarkDayNews & @MelAdams1310On 1310NEWS or online: player.1310news.com https://t.co/JyT4oNq6bJ
  
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• Discover traditional Arabian hospitality at the Saudi Cultural Days festival Sept. 26-28

  12-09-2017 20:10 via ottawacitizen.com
  The legendary tradition of Arabian hospitality is coming to the National Capital Region, as the Royal Embassy of Saudi Arabia presents the Saudi Cultural Days festival Sept. 26-27 at Ottawa Welcomes the World, part of the year-long Ottawa 2017 celebrations. The main portion of the festival will take place in the Horticulture Building at Lansdowne Park and feature an exhibition on Saudi culture, art and heritage. The festival continues the following day, Sept. 28, with a Saudi folklore performanc
  
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• Today's letters: Amazon and east-end Ottawa

  12-09-2017 19:10 via ottawacitizen.com
  Orléans should host Amazon
  Re: Ottawa mayor expresses interest in Amazon campus Sept. 7.
  With the city of Ottawa announcing that it is in the running to win Amazon’s second headquarters contest, many focus groups will be part of the discussion: from universities to high-tech to hydro and government, and one wishes them well. Ottawa would truly be a wonderful fit with Amazon, which values smaller, trendier, affordable, smarter cities. In other words, Richard Florida’s “cr
  
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• War of 1812 names for Joint Support Ships are history – Protecteur and Preserver are the new names

  12-09-2017 19:08 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Royal Canadian Navy has jettisoned the names selected by the previous Conservative government for its new joint support ships and will revert to calling the vessels by the names of the previous supply ships.
  The new ships will be called HMCS Protecteur and HMCS Preserver, to honour the service of those two ships over the years.
  The Conservative government’s decision to name the joint support ships after War of 1812 battles never sat well with navy officers, according to defence sources
  
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• Still ahead: @obj_news @CarolinePhil has your social calendar: bit.ly/1uwtdOs @_MarkSutcliffe… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  12-09-2017 18:44 via twitter.com
  Still ahead: @obj_news @CarolinePhil has your social calendar: bit.ly/1uwtdOs@_MarkSutcliffe… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Cohen: The environmental end-of-days is on its way

  12-09-2017 18:37 via ottawacitizen.com
  September brings the Days of Awe, the period between the Rosh Hashanah and the Day of Atonement. For Jews, it is a time of repentance, prayer and charity.
  This year the Days of Awe are preceded by a new, secular interlude of anxiety. You don’t have to be Jewish to see it. You don’t have to read the Bible.
  Just tune in to CNN. Listen to the warnings from officials around Hurricane Irma. To them this was the End of Days, an unprecedented, apocalyptic disaster.
  Watching the wall-to-wall
  
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• Ottawa's health unit rushes to open its own supervised injection site

  12-09-2017 18:36 via ottawacitizen.com
  With opioid overdoses rising, Ottawa’s public health unit wants to open its own supervised drug-injection site, health officer Dr. Isra Levy told the board of health Tuesday.
  “It is my intent to begin to offer these services as soon as we can responsibly do so, and we are aiming to achieve that within the next two weeks,” he wrote in a mid-day memo. Levy said he believes he has the authority to do it without direct approval from the board, but he’ll ask for a vote on his
  
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• Still ahead: @MathieuFleury joins @_MarkSutcliffe to discuss overdose prevention site in #Lowertown:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  12-09-2017 18:28 via twitter.com
  Still ahead: @MathieuFleury joins @_MarkSutcliffe to discuss overdose prevention site in #Lowertown:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Let's do more for children's mental health

  12-09-2017 18:21 via ottawacitizen.com
  How many more reports and research showing that Canadian youth have poor access to mental health and addictions care will it take for government to make mental health care and addictions a funding priority?
  The latest report, released just last week by the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES), shows again just how much children and youth are suffering and in need of more mental health supports. It reveals that Canadian young people between the ages of 15 and 19, who are struggling w
  
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• Firefighters rescue dog caught in Ottawa River current

  12-09-2017 18:09 via ottawacitizen.com
  Firefighters launched a rescue boat to reunite a dog and owner late Tuesday morning after the animal got caught in the current of the Ottawa River.
  The dog, which looked like a Labrador retriever, was about 50 feet offshore when it was able to climb onto a bridge abutment at Lemieux Island that couldn’t be accessed on foot.
  Firefighters, who feared the owner would plunge into the water to rescue her pet, warned bystanders to get out of the water for their own safety.
  After the story’
  
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• NEXT on the #POWERLunch @LauraPeck6 & @Alison_Sandor join @_MarkSutcliffe LIVE in STUDIO:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  12-09-2017 17:58 via twitter.com
  NEXT on the #POWERLunch@LauraPeck6 & @Alison_Sandor join @_MarkSutcliffe LIVE in STUDIO:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• STILL AHEAD: Pollster @niknanos joins @_MarkSutcliffe for weekly segment: bit.ly/1uwtdOs https://t.co/igxXthrnzY

  12-09-2017 17:29 via twitter.com
  
  STILL AHEAD:Pollster @niknanos joins @_MarkSutcliffe for weekly segment:bit.ly/1uwtdOs https://t.co/igxXthrnzY
  
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• Ontario's child and youth advocate looking out for young asylum seekers

  12-09-2017 17:26
  
  Ontario’s advocate for children and youth is expanding his reach to include teenage asylum seekers.Irwin Elman said this week that he is increasingly concerned about vulnerable youth entering Canada on their own.
  
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• The dream is bigger than ever - CHEO Foundation, Minto unveil 5,000 square foot homage to Canada [Photos]

  12-09-2017 17:10
  
  Canada's rich heritage is the theme of the 2017 Dream Home with builder Minto saying "we went big" to celebrate the nation's sesquicentennial.The showpiece prize of the CHEO Dream of a Lifetime Lottery is dubbed the Red Maple.
  
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• Coming up on the #POWERLunch @NOON: @LauraPeck6 & @Alison_Sandor join @_MarkSutcliffe LIVE in STUDIO:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  12-09-2017 16:53 via twitter.com
  Coming up on the #POWERLunch @NOON: @LauraPeck6 & @Alison_Sandor join @_MarkSutcliffe LIVE in STUDIO:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Coming up: @DavidOvalle305 on #HurricaneIrma devastation in #FloridaKeys: bit.ly/1uwtdOs… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  12-09-2017 16:44 via twitter.com
  Coming up: @DavidOvalle305 on #HurricaneIrma devastation in #FloridaKeys:bit.ly/1uwtdOs… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Sens president Anselmi says lots of negotiations remain on LeBreton Flats arena project

  12-09-2017 16:40 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa Senators president Tom Anselmi made a pitch to a business audience on Tuesday to help fill the Canadian Tire Centre this hockey season, while predicting the move to a planned downtown arena is still four to five years away.
  The hockey club, through RendezVous LeBreton Group, continues to negotiate with the National Capital Commission to transform LeBreton Flats into a mixed-use community, including the NHL arena.
  After his speech at Ottawa City Hall, Anselmi told reporters that it’s
  
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• The dream is bigger than ever – CHEO Foundation, Minto unveil 5,000 square foot homage to Canada

  12-09-2017 16:35 via ottawacitizen.com
  Canada’s rich heritage is the theme of the 2017 Dream Home with builder Minto saying “we went big” to celebrate the nation’s sesquicentennial.
  The showpiece prize of the CHEO Dream of a Lifetime Lottery is dubbed the Red Maple. Its 5,392-square feet features rustic stone, Douglas Fir beams and wood floors milled from reclaimed logs pulled from the Ottawa River, in a development set amid green fields in Manotick.
  But KISS Design Group, led by principal designer Donna
  
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• Police block off area of Old Ottawa South in search for domestic assault suspect

  12-09-2017 16:31 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa police called in extra officers and the canine unit to Old Ottawa South Tuesday morning in a search for a suspect in a domestic dispute.
  Police arrived on the scene at about 9 a.m.
  They asked residents on Bellwood Avenue and Cameron Avenue between Riverdale and Bank streets to go into their houses and stay off street.
  At one point, an officer told a Bellwood resident to get off the sidewalk and go back inside their house.
  “You are contaminating a canine track,” the officer sai
  
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• NEXT: @BJSiekierski of @ipoliticsca joins @_MarkSutcliffe LIVE on #OttawaToday: bit.ly/1uwtdOs https://t.co/uXvq2rdJlo

  12-09-2017 16:28 via twitter.com
  
  NEXT:@BJSiekierski of @ipoliticsca joins @_MarkSutcliffe LIVE on #OttawaToday: bit.ly/1uwtdOs https://t.co/uXvq2rdJlo
  
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• NEXT on the 10 O’Clock Talk @KimothyWalker, @Justin_Ling & @1310Alexblack join @_MarkSutcliffe:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  12-09-2017 16:02 via twitter.com
  NEXT on the 10 O’Clock Talk @KimothyWalker, @Justin_Ling & @1310Alexblack join @_MarkSutcliffe:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Crowley: Don't cast aside Sir John A. Macdonald

  12-09-2017 15:51 via ottawacitizen.com
  Should efforts to exile Canada’s pre-eminent founder, Sir John A. Macdonald, to the scrap heap of history be allowed to succeed? No. Anger at monuments and memorials misunderstands our history and misdirects our energy. It is not with the dead but with the living that lies the responsibility to realize further the promise of Canada. And that is why, for example, Sen. Murray Sinclair’s call to celebrate Indigenous heroes rather than vilify Sir John A. strikes the right balance.
  Those
  
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• Still ahead: Should the gov't include issues like climate change & gender equality in #NAFTA renegotiations?… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  12-09-2017 15:49 via twitter.com
  Still ahead: Should the gov't include issues like climate change & gender equality in #NAFTA renegotiations?… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Woman's torso found in Lake Ontario: police: bit.ly/2wUouDb https://t.co/ospZj461hI

  12-09-2017 15:46 via twitter.com
  
  Woman's torso found in Lake Ontario: police:bit.ly/2wUouDb https://t.co/ospZj461hI
  
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• Bagnall: A sneak peek inside Ciena's new Ottawa campus

  12-09-2017 15:31 via ottawacitizen.com
  It seems every serious tech company is doing it — Apple, Google, Nvidia, LinkedIn and, soon, Amazon.
  They’re building, or have already built, vast new operations centres that celebrate the companies’ brands and provide unique working space to encourage productive employees.
  Ottawa is no stranger to the trend. On Wednesday, 1,600 plus employees of Ciena Corp. will celebrate their shift from multiple locations around Ottawa to the just-completed campus alongside Terry Fox Drive i
  
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• Protest against Boeing planned for Wednesday in Montreal

  12-09-2017 15:26 via ottawacitizen.com
  Aerospace workers will hold a rally outside the U.S. consulate in Montreal to protest Boeing’s decision to file a trade complaint against Bombardier.
  Boeing alleges that the Canadian and Quebec governments heavily subsidize Bombardier, allowing it to sell its C-Series civilian aircraft in the U.S. at below market prices. Bombardier sold the aircraft to Delta Airlines. Boeing convinced the U.S. Commerce Department and International Trade Commission to launch an investigation into Bombardier
  
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• Fire in Gatineau displaces 10

  12-09-2017 14:50
  
  Ten people were displaced following a stubborn fire early Tuesday in a multi-unit building at 61 Charpentier St. in Gatineau. Gatineau fire service reports they were called to the building at about 1 a.m. and found flames had taken hold in a back balcony, spreading towards the roof.
  
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• Ottawa weather: Sun, sun, sun, sun and more sun (but cold tonight) [Video]

  12-09-2017 14:26
  
  You’re going to want to rise up singing. This week keeps getting better and better with sunshine through the weekend and forecast temperatures that just keep getting hotter. There isn’t a drop of rain expected until next week.
  
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• Ten displaced by apartment building fire in Gatineau

  12-09-2017 14:24 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ten people were displaced following a stubborn fire early Tuesday in a multi-unit building at 61 Charpentier St. in Gatineau.
  Gatineau fire service reports they were called to the three-unit building shortly after midnight and found flames had taken hold in a back balcony, spreading towards the roof.
  The two dozen firefighters had the blaze under control within 20 minutes, but not before 10 people were forced to leave their homes.
  They have been taken into care by the Red Cross for the moment.
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• More sunshine and highs in the 20s in a glorious forecast

  12-09-2017 14:24 via ottawacitizen.com
  You’re going to want to rise up singing.
  This week keeps getting better and better with sunshine through the weekend and forecast temperatures that just keep getting hotter.
  There isn’t a drop of rain expected until next week.
  Environment Canada predicts that Tuesday will be sunny and 25 C but it will feel more like 28 under a UV index of 6 or high.
  The low is just 6 C overnight but Wednesday will heat up fast under sunny skies to 26 C, with a humidex ‘feels like’ of 31.
  
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• Crowley: Don't cast aside Sr John A. Macdonald

  12-09-2017 13:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  Should efforts to exile Canada’s pre-eminent founder, Sir John A. Macdonald, to the scrap heap of history be allowed to succeed? No. Anger at monuments and memorials misunderstands our history and misdirects our energy. It is not with the dead but with the living that lies the responsibility to realize further the promise of Canada. And that is why, for example, Sen. Murray Sinclair’s call to celebrate Indigenous heroes rather than vilify Sir John A. strikes the right balance.
  Those
  
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• A muslim scholar on what it means to be a Canadian

  12-09-2017 13:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  This year, 2017, Canadians proudly celebrate the 150th, grand anniversary of our nation.
  In the last 22 years, since my landing on Canadian shores, I have witnessed Canada evolving, changing towards the better. Each day here gave me an opportunity to appreciate Canada and Canadians more, and feel privileged at being part of the Canadian tapestry. Yes, I was born in Bosnia but I am a Canadian; I am Bosnian in memory. An individual carries multiple identities at any given time. 
  And identitie
  
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• Quebec's police watchdog probes hanging in Wakefield: bit.ly/2xug6uX https://t.co/XfoMCth8hU

  12-09-2017 11:54 via twitter.com
  
  Quebec's police watchdog probes hanging in Wakefield: bit.ly/2xug6uX https://t.co/XfoMCth8hU
  
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• #Gatineau fire causes $150K damage -- 10 displaced: bit.ly/2wXv1MS

  12-09-2017 11:14 via twitter.com
  #Gatineau fire causes $150K damage -- 10 displaced: bit.ly/2wXv1MS
  
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• National Capital Commission mulls asset deficit

  12-09-2017 04:50 via ottawacitizen.com
  It’s easy to forget what a vast, sprawling enterprise is the National Capital Commission, the 58 year-old federal crown corporation at the heart of the national capital region. 
  Unlike other federal crown companies such as Canada Post, the NCC lacks an imposing headquarters operation. Instead, it makes its presence felt in other ways.  Pieces of the NCC touch just about everyone living here — from the interprovincial bridges and 15 urban parks to pedestrian walkways and 1,6
  
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• Anderson remains focused through hurricanes, contract status

  12-09-2017 01:44 via ottawacitizen.com
  The focus of Craig Anderson is once again being put to the test.
  When the Senators’ goalie showed up at the rink last season, it was while hoping and praying that his wife Nicholle would prevail in her battle against cancer. When he returned to Ottawa last week for training camp, it was with great concern for his friends and family who were being assaulted by the hurricane in Florida.
  Anderson’s own home in Fort Lauderdale was near the eye of the storm.
  “So far so good,”
  
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• Impossible to have an ombudsman to police industry, homebuilders say

  12-09-2017 00:47 via ottawacitizen.com
  It’s “impossible” for the Greater Ottawa Home Builders’ Association to police the development industry and there’s no way the organization would pay an ombudsman to do that, the executive director says.
  “Not going to happen,” John Herbert said Monday after receiving a letter from a councillor who wants to explore the ombudsman idea with the industry.
  Kitchissippi Coun. Jeff Leiper has been compiling a list of complaints from residents about infill c
  
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• Constitutional challenge to Canada's jail segregation laws begins 1310news.com/2017/09/11/con…

  12-09-2017 00:28 via twitter.com
  Constitutional challenge to Canada's jail segregation laws begins1310news.com/2017/09/11/con…
  
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• Ryan plans to 'identify' with the player he was in playoffs

  12-09-2017 00:23 via ottawacitizen.com
  Bobby Ryan readily admits he was slow to learn the new system employed by the Senators last season, his worst in a decade-long career.
  When he did catch on, he became the productive power winger they need him to be going forward.
  From 13 goals (no game winners) and 25 points in 62 games, Ryan had six goals (and three GWGs) and 15 points in the 19 that mattered most.
  After a summer of deliberation, he has returned to Ottawa with a theory.
  “I think I was a little more aggressive (in the play
  
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• Skydiver's death in Gatineau due to mid-air collision, missing equipment: witnesses

  12-09-2017 00:17 via ottawacitizen.com
  When Ben Dupont jumped from a plane in the skies above Gatineau on Saturday, he wasn’t wearing a device that might have saved his life.
  The 27-year-old skydiver from Sudbury collided with another jumper shortly after launching himself from the plane, witnesses told the Citizen. 
  On Monday, Gatineau police said it was too early in their investigation to tell whether Dupont lost consciousness after the mid-air collision. However, Roman Turetskiy, a long-time skydiving friend of Dupont,
  
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