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• War Museum 'pleased' NCC board understands memorial concerns

  13-09-2017 23:55 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Canadian War Museum says it appreciates that the National Capital Commission’s board of directors decided to hold off on a decision to allow adjacent land to be used for a new Afghanistan war memorial.
  “We’re just really pleased those concerns were put forward and they seem to be understood,” said Yasmine Mingay, the museum’s director of public affairs, major gifts and sponsorship.
  The NCC board was asked on Tuesday to approve 2,500 square metres of land west of
  
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• Redblacks QB Harris hopes for return in 2 weeks, Tate ready to go

  13-09-2017 23:47 via ottawacitizen.com
  Since he got hurt Saturday night in a loss to the Hamilton Tiger-Cats, the injury to Trevor Harris’ right throwing shoulder has been called “bruised” and a “second-degree sprain.”
  On Wednesday, the Ottawa Redblacks quarterback gave it another diagnosis, admitting it was separated, but said he hopes to speed up the recovery process.
  “It’s depressing, it’s deflating,” he told reporters. “They told me a certain time frame (up to
  
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• .@sureteduquebec arrest 35 y. o. man in drug bust @ #Gatineau Detention Centre. #ottnews 1310news.com/2017/09/13/sur…

  13-09-2017 23:30 via twitter.com
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• Senators new D-man Johnny Oduya aiming to have a "redemption year"

  13-09-2017 23:24 via ottawacitizen.com
  Most hockey photos of Johnny Oduya show him wearing a thick black beard that could rival any in the NHL, at least this side of San Jose.
  But when he reports to Canadian Tire Centre on Thursday morning for training camp physicals, the 35-year old defenceman will be clean-shaven and sporting a look of determination. 
  Oduya, signed by the Senators over the summer to bolster a blue line that lost veteran Marc Methot, is determined to wear that playoff face again. He’s also determined to p
  
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• Downsized: Veteran Sens season ticket holder finds his seats eliminated

  13-09-2017 23:22 via ottawacitizen.com
  Imagine Robert Giroux’s surprise when he turned on the TV and saw that the Ottawa Senators seats he’s bought for the last six years were now covered by a black tarp and not for sale.
  Giroux and his seats had been downsized.
  “Well thank you Sens owner for kicking me out of my seats,” Giroux wrote in a comment on an Ottawa Citizen story about new team president Tom Anselmi’s decision to shrink the capacity of the Canadian Tire Centre by 1,500 this year.
  “I&rsquo
  
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• Reevely: Don't let Amazon fever cost us billions

  13-09-2017 23:07 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa has begun plotting its pitch to Amazon to put a giant new headquarters here, a task Mayor Jim Watson concedes might be beyond us.
  “I’m realistic. This is an uphill battle for us. I’m not thinking it’s anywhere near a slam dunk. But my understanding is they said ‘North America’ and they meant ‘North America’,” Watson said, anticipating the first conference call Wednesday of the city’s “Amazon task force.”
  A week ago, A
  
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• City briefs: Parking limits extended, Hard Rock Casino, LRT expansion

  13-09-2017 22:40 via ottawacitizen.com
  City council on Wednesday reaffirmed its position that government-endorsed gambling should only happen at the south-Ottawa horse track, which is now Hard Rock Casino Ottawa.
  A public consultation and council vote were requirements under a provincial regulation since the slot operation at the Rideau Carleton Raceway is being transferred to Hard Rock.
  Hard Rock can install 21 tables games, such as poker and roulette, under the land-use rules for the property.
  It’s believed Hard Rock will eve
  
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• Scanlan: 'Grassroots Grannies' cycle the distance to help grandmothers in Africa

  13-09-2017 22:35
  
  If you want something done in this country, ask a grandmother.Stephen Lewis, educator and former politician, did this more than a decade ago and it resulted in a significant contribution to African grandmothers left with orphans from the AIDS crisis that continues to rage in Africa. Lewis, of course, was the United Nations special envoy for HIV/AIDS
  
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• 'I was in shock': Ottawa mom sparks debate over pornography in libraries - Globalnews.ca

  13-09-2017 22:27
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  'I was in shock': Ottawa mom sparks debate over pornography in libraries
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  An Ottawa mother says she wants public libraries across Canada to consider setting up an adults-only computer section after her two daughters were exposed to hard-core pornography at their local branch this summer. The incident, first reported by CBC ...
  
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• Cycling grannies deliver the loot to those in need

  13-09-2017 22:13 via ottawacitizen.com
  If they were so inclined, a group of very active grandmothers in the area could be excused for putting their feet up this week.
  As promised, the Grassroot Grannies of Ottawa recently completed their 260-km bike ride in support of African grandmothers via The Stephen Lewis Foundation, raising $60,000 to help support families who have lost parents to AIDS-related disease. A total of 26 riders local led by co-ordinator Nancy Hough finished the three-day trek on Sept. 8, with stops en route includin
  
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• For his new album, pianist Florian Hoefner takes inspiration from Newfoundland, his newfound home

  13-09-2017 22:08 via ottawacitizen.com
  Born and raised in Germany and educated in New York, jazz pianist Florian Hoefner has made a solo record inspired by where he now calls home — Newfoundland.
  Hoefner, who is in his mid-30s, left New York for St. John’s in 2014, when his wife, Canadian clarinetist Christine Carter, was hired as a professor at Memorial University. Rather than pine for the jazz hub of the world, the pianist who came from away has made an album called Coldwater Stories, supported by the Newfoundland and L
  
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• Pop-up injection site could close when Ottawa Public Health site opens, says organizer

  13-09-2017 22:02 via ottawacitizen.com
  A pop-up injection site at Raphael Brunet Park says it plans to continue operating — at least until Ottawa Public Health can get its own temporary site up and running in the weeks ahead.
  Marilou Gagnon, an organizer with Overdose Protection Ottawa (OPO) and associate professor at the University of Ottawa, applauded OPH’s announcement on Tuesday to open its own satellite injection site on Clarence Street.
  Health officer Dr. Isra Levy said the opioid crisis has created an urgent need i
  
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• Editorial: Health unit's move to open an injection site is right

  13-09-2017 21:17 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa Public Health says it plans to quickly open a supervised-injection site, which will put an end to the “pop-up” injection site that’s operating illegally in town. Good.
  One of the perplexing things about the response of governments at all levels to the burgeoning opioid crisis is that Ontario has long been able to see it coming. British Columbia was hard-hit early on; we knew the mounting death toll of addicts would eventually spill into Ontario and other provinces. While
  
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• Gatineau jail employee arrested after drugs seized

  13-09-2017 21:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  Sûreté du Québec officers have arrested a male employee of the Gatineau Detention Centre after a search at the jail turned up a variety of drugs.
  The SQ arrived with a search warrant and found 180 grams of hashish, 25 grams of marijuana, 190 pills that appear to be methamphetamine and 100 pills that appear to be codeine.
  They also found cellphones and smuggled tobacco.
  A 35-year-old man was arrested but released, and will appear in court in December. He is likely to face traf
  
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• Glavin: How Jagmeet Singh is shaking up the NDP leadership

  13-09-2017 20:51 via ottawacitizen.com
  It is surely a most unpleasant turn of events for all those New Democrats who looked to the rise of British Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn and hoped that Tom Mulcair’s replacement might be cut from the same rough sort of retrograde cloth. But, as things are turning out, the odds-on favourite to win the contest for the NDP leadership is a charming, nattily dressed, 38-year-old Sikh hipster, human rights lawyer and martial-arts champion, and he is not at all what the NDP’s dreary old soci
  
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• Men in construction gear allegedly invade Kanata home at gunpoint

  13-09-2017 20:32 via ottawacitizen.com
  Police are hunting for two men armed with handguns who allegedly forced their way into a Kanata home and robbed a lone woman Monday.
  The pair, wearing spotless construction gear and sunglasses, rang the doorbell of the home on Westover Crescent, which is near the intersection of Huntmar and Campeau drives, around 10:50 a.m. 
  The men, armed with handguns, forced their way into the house, police alleged. While one controlled the victim, the other searched the place. They left with only severa
  
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• Bélanger enters Gatineau mayoral race, vowing to unite 'divided' council

  13-09-2017 20:01 via ottawacitizen.com
  Clément Bélanger joined the mayoral race in Gatineau Wednesday, with no municipal experience or platform specifics but “a vision” of unity that he promises to turn into votes.
  He has a little over six weeks to accomplish this. The election is Nov. 5.
  Bélanger, a career federal public servant, was optimistic Wednesday as he met reporters. No experience in office? That’s as much experience as local MPP Maryse Gaudreault had when she was elected in 2008, he sa
  
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• Spencer: Hurricane Irma and our duty to travellers

  13-09-2017 19:56 via ottawacitizen.com
  There was a reason Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland showed up at Pearson International Airport Monday to empathize with Canadians fleeing Hurricane Irma’s destruction. Just as there was also a reason that, while very sorry for their plight, she deliberately didn’t apologize for the government’s alleged laxness in helping these people get home.
  Freeland’s first action was driven by the metaphorical political hurricane that threatened to accompany the returning Ca
  
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• Scammers using stolen credit cards to defraud small businesses: 1310news.com/2017/09/13/sca… #ottnews

  13-09-2017 19:53 via twitter.com
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• Home invasion suspects posed as construction workers, police say - CBC.ca

  13-09-2017 19:47
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  Home invasion suspects posed as construction workers, police say
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  Armed with handguns, two men dressed as construction workers forced their way into a Kanata home on Monday and robbed a woman of her purses, according to Ottawa police. The home invasion happened at 10:50 a.m. in the 100 block of Westover Cres., ...
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• Police looking for armed suspects in Kanata home invasion robbery: 1310news.com/2017/09/13/sus… #ottnews

  13-09-2017 19:30 via twitter.com
  Police looking for armed suspects in Kanata home invasion robbery: 1310news.com/2017/09/13/sus… #ottnews
  
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• Coming up on the @MeehanCarolAnne show. Reaction to a proposed safe injection site, we talk w/ Dr. Isra Levy, @rboyd6 & @odpreventionott

  13-09-2017 19:30 via twitter.com
  Coming up on the @MeehanCarolAnne show. Reaction to a proposed safe injection site, we talk w/ Dr. Isra Levy, @rboyd6 & @odpreventionott
  
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• Police need help finding teen missing for almost two weeks

  13-09-2017 19:24 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa police are hoping the public can help them find a 14-year-old Ottawa girl who has been missing for almost two weeks.
  Abigail “Abby” Dormer has been missing since Sept. 1, although she was last seen downtown on Friday, Sept. 8.
  Police described her as a Caucasian female, 5-4 and 229 pounds, with black hair and hazel-coloured eyes.
  Anyone with information regarding Abigail Dormer’s location is asked to call the Ottawa Police Missing Persons Unit at 613-236-1222, ext. 2355.
  
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• Police search for teen missing for nearly two weeks: 1310news.com/2017/09/13/pol… #ottnews

  13-09-2017 19:19 via twitter.com
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• Durham cop blames ‘political correctness’ in prosecution alleging homophobic comment

  13-09-2017 19:19
  Union says it fully supports Sgt. Tom Andrews, who is charged with discreditable conduct.
  
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• Police need help finding teen missing for almost two weeks - Ottawa Citizen

  13-09-2017 19:08
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  Police need help finding teen missing for almost two weeks
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  Missing 14 year old teenager to locate (Ottawa) - The Ottawa Police Service is asking for public assistance in locating missing Abigail (Abby) Dormer, 14 years old, from Ottawa. Share Adjust Comment Print. Ottawa police are hoping the public can help ...
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• Ottawa Police looking for missing 14-year-old girl

  13-09-2017 19:04
  Abigail Dormer has been missing since earlier this month.
  
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• The @MeehanCarolAnne show starts now. Listen in: player.1310news.com https://t.co/xQEOuEzqjB

  13-09-2017 19:00 via twitter.com
  
  The @MeehanCarolAnne show starts now. Listen in: player.1310news.com https://t.co/xQEOuEzqjB
  
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• Citizen arts writers suggest outings during the next week

  13-09-2017 18:54 via ottawacitizen.com
  Gala — Lynn Saxberg
  A few tickets remain for k.d. lang’s performance on Saturday at the National Arts Centre gala. The Canadian superstar is celebrating the 25th anniversary of her landmark album, Ingenue. The evening begins with a welcome from Alexander Shelley and the NAC Orchestra, and ends with a post-concert reception. Tickets start at $125, available at the NAC box office and ticketmaster.ca.
  Rock — Lynn Saxberg
  New York originals the Toasters pop into Maverick’s on
  
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• CityFolk Preview: Matt Mays returns with new music

  13-09-2017 18:51 via ottawacitizen.com
  Matt Mays
  When: Saturday, Sept. 16, 10:15 p.m.
  Where: Ravenlaw Stage, CityFolk, Lansdowne Park
  Tickets: Full festival passes, day tickets are available. Prices range from $56.50 to $281.37, plus fees, available at tdplace.ca
  Matt Mays knows what it’s like to fall in love with someone’s work.That’s exactly what happened the minute the Canadian rocker walked into a Vancouver club and laid eyes on the intricate, folklore-inspired mural on the wall. “I was completely taken by
  
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• 5 acts to see at Marvest - Ottawa Citizen

  13-09-2017 18:41
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  5 acts to see at Marvest
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  Singer-songwriter-pianist Kaija Thaggard takes part in the soulful Ottawa hiphop collective Training Season at The Unrefined Olive on Friday, Sept. 15, as part of Marvest. Share Adjust Comment Print. Marvest is back this year to fill businesses in the ...and more »
  
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• 5 acts to see at Marvest

  13-09-2017 18:41 via ottawacitizen.com
  Marvest is back this year to fill businesses in the Glebe with free live music. An offshoot of the CityFolk festival, the “musical harvest” lets you hopscotch down Bank Street, bopping from gig to gig to check out the city’s hottest acts, sometimes in places that have a stage and a sound system, like Irene’s Pub, but also in non-traditional music venues such as a barber shop or toy store. This year’s edition runs Friday and Saturday, Sept. 15-16, with more than 50 a
  
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• Apple's #iPhoneX had to be stellar, with competitors nipping at its heels @joshmcconnell w/ @_MarkSutcliffe NEXT… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  13-09-2017 18:26 via twitter.com
  Apple's #iPhoneX had to be stellar, with competitors nipping at its heels@joshmcconnell w/ @_MarkSutcliffe NEXT… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Merchants being targeted by stolen credit card scam

  13-09-2017 18:21 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa police are warning of a scam in which fraudsters extract goods and cash from unwitting merchants using stolen credit cards.
  The organized fraud section has identified what it calls an ongoing fraud trend in which small businesses get phone orders for gifts or food that’s purportedly a gift for a family member and always includes the demand for cash.
  For example, the fraudster might order a fruit basket or flowers and ask for $50 cash to be added to the card.
  They then pick up the it
  
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• Fire crews tackle Kanata house fire

  13-09-2017 18:05
  
  No one was hurt in a fire at a Kanata home Wednesday morning.Ottawa Fire Services tweeted at about 8:30 a.m. that they were on the scene at 4 Shaughnessy Crescent, near Kanata Avenue. The flames were under control at 8:56 a.m. and crews began “overhauling” to make sure they wouldn’t reignite.
  
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• No one hurt after fire crews tackle Kanata house blaze

  13-09-2017 18:04 via ottawacitizen.com
  No one was hurt in a fire at a Kanata North home Wednesday morning.
  A heat recovery ventilator was reportedly in flames in the basement, although a fire investigator was on the way to determine the cause.
  A 911 call drew fire crews to 4 Shaughnessy Cres. near Knudson Drive and Kanata Avenue at 8:18 a.m. The residents had escaped safely when the first crew found heavy smoke coming from the two-storey house.
  They launched a “rapid attack” as flames from the basement extended to the fir
  
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• NEXT on the #POWERLunch @stephegan613 & @RadioNewsGuy join @_MarkSutcliffe LIVE in STUDIO:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  13-09-2017 17:58 via twitter.com
  NEXT on the #POWERLunch @stephegan613 & @RadioNewsGuy join @_MarkSutcliffe LIVE in STUDIO:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Fire crews free man from SUV wedged in downtown underpass

  13-09-2017 17:45 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa firefighters freed a man who uses a wheelchair after his SUV got wedged in a downtown underpass Wednesday morning.
  City police called them in at 9:14 a.m. after the single-vehicle crash with a barrier on Kent Street under the Queensway. 
  Firefighters used “cribbing” to stabilize the SUV before they could begin extrication efforts. The man was out of the vehicle at 9:47 a.m. Crews were on scene until the damaged guardrail and debris were secured.
  Paramedics said a 46-year-
  
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• NEXT #Ottawa farmer Peter Ruiter on community generosity after loss of 80 cattle in barn fire… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  13-09-2017 17:43 via twitter.com
  NEXT #Ottawa farmer Peter Ruiter on community generosity after loss of 80 cattle in barn fire… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Denley: Government fairness is a mirage, at least in Ontario

  13-09-2017 17:42 via ottawacitizen.com
  Government is really big on fairness these days. Just can’t get enough of it. Both the federal and Ontario governments love the word. Even American President Donald Trump likes to go on about fairness, although his concerns are restricted primarily to himself and his fellow millionaires.
  Premier Kathleen Wynne is the queen of fairness. Pretty much every pre-election promise she makes is cast as delivering fairness. So far, she has promised fairness for young people, tenants, low-wage worke
  
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• Ottawa Senators announce 2017-18 training camp roster - Ottawa Senators (press release) (blog)

  13-09-2017 17:30
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  Ottawa Senators announce 2017-18 training camp roster
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  OTTAWA - The Ottawa Senators (@Senators) announced today the 57-player roster for the club's 2017-18 training camp, presented by Sport Chek, which will be held at Canadian Tire Centre (@CdnTireCtr) starting on Thursday, Sept. 14. The Senators ...
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• Still ahead: Younger brother of Terry Fox @dbacfox joins @_MarkSutcliffe LIVE: Listen: bit.ly/1uwtdOs… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  13-09-2017 17:28 via twitter.com
  Still ahead: Younger brother of Terry Fox@dbacfox joins @_MarkSutcliffe LIVE: Listen: bit.ly/1uwtdOs… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• #Wynne testifies at #byelection bribery trial, says she's known defendant for many years: bit.ly/2w8Edio… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  13-09-2017 17:17 via twitter.com
  #Wynne testifies at #byelection bribery trial, says she's known defendant for many years: bit.ly/2w8Edio… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• A major Canadian earthquake would be extremely costly. Ottawa might make it worse - Financial Post

  13-09-2017 17:01
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  A major Canadian earthquake would be extremely costly. Ottawa might make it worse
  Financial Post
  Neil Mohindra: Federal backstops are a source of moral hazard. Insurers would be incented to only meet regulatory requirements rather than exceed them. Special to Financial Post. September 13, 2017 10:59 AM EDT. Filed under. FP Comment. Comment.
  
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• NEXT Professor Elliot Tepper joins @_MarkSutcliffe for weekly global affairs segment bit.ly/1uwtdOs… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  13-09-2017 16:58 via twitter.com
  NEXTProfessor Elliot Tepper joins @_MarkSutcliffe for weekly global affairs segmentbit.ly/1uwtdOs… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Water and sewer rates poised to increase 5.5 per cent in 2018, with more needed over 10 years

  13-09-2017 16:55 via ottawacitizen.com
  Water and sewer rates are projected to rise 5.5 per cent in 2018, with annual increases in that ballpark expected until at least 2027.
  Rates are projected to go up between 4.4 per cent and 5.2 per cent annually over the next 10 years under a proposed financial strategy to pay for the upkeep of infrastructure.
  “Required rate increases were forecasted by service and will be minimized as much as possible and will be smoothed over the 10-year forecast period in order to provide predictability
  
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• Driver crashes into barrier at Kent underpass: bit.ly/2jnRv4Y #ottnews https://t.co/KNbtjFbRSF

  13-09-2017 16:51 via twitter.com
  
  Driver crashes into barrier at Kent underpass: bit.ly/2jnRv4Y #ottnews https://t.co/KNbtjFbRSF
  
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• Coming up: @Perkel joins @_MarkSutcliffe to discuss ongoing gas plants trial: Listen: bit.ly/1uwtdOs… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  13-09-2017 16:44 via twitter.com
  Coming up: @Perkel joins @_MarkSutcliffe to discuss ongoing gas plants trial: Listen: bit.ly/1uwtdOs… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Coming up on the #POWERLunch @ NOON @stephegan613 & @RadioNewsGuy join @_marksutcliffe LIVE in STUDIO:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  13-09-2017 16:35 via twitter.com
  Coming up on the #POWERLunch @ NOON @stephegan613 & @RadioNewsGuy join @_marksutcliffe LIVE in STUDIO:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Ottawa urged to hold public-education campaign about marijuana's risks for youth - The Globe and Mail

  13-09-2017 16:27
  The Globe and Mail
  Ottawa urged to hold public-education campaign about marijuana's risks for youth
  The Globe and Mail
  Youth health experts are warning the federal government that its push to legalize recreational cannabis should be accompanied by extensive public-education and prevention campaigns that spell out the serious risks of pot consumption on adolescent brains.
  Ottawa urged to hold huge public education campaign about pot's risks for youthMetroNews Canada
  Ottawa 'anxious' to meet 2018
  
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