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• Fire, police to use outdated radio system until 2018

  21-09-2017 23:44 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Ottawa Police Service and Ottawa Fire Services won’t switch over to a new radio system until some point in 2018 as the city and its contractor continue to resolve the bugs hampering the full rollout.
  It means for several more months the two emergency services, which make up a large portion of radio users in Ottawa, will continue using a legacy system that dates back to the mid-1990s and was declared end-of-life in 2015.
  Earlier this year the city adjusted its plans to have police and f
  
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• Dzingel will have to wait for pre-season debut

  21-09-2017 23:44 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ryan Dzingel was a welcome visitor to the Ottawa Senators’ practice Thursday.
  Ideally, he’s here to stay.
  After missing the club’s first two preseason games with a groin injury, Dzingel, who will likely play a top-six role this year, skated for the first time with the full group. If all goes well, he’ll suit up for the club’s final two exhibition games against the Winnipeg Jets next Wednesday at the MTS Centre and the Montreal Canadiens next Saturday at the Bell Cen
  
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• Trudeau tells UN of Canada's shame over Indigenous Peoples 1310news.com/2017/09/21/tru… #cdnpoli https://t.co/Zn6VDXKtWZ

  21-09-2017 23:42 via twitter.com
  
  Trudeau tells UN of Canada's shame over Indigenous Peoples 1310news.com/2017/09/21/tru… #cdnpoli https://t.co/Zn6VDXKtWZ
  
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• 'In living memory': War museum unveils updated gallery from Gulf War to Afghanistan

  21-09-2017 23:34 via ottawacitizen.com
  It’s history told by the living in their own words and mementos – a camera shattered by an IED blast, an Olympic torch passed by grateful victims of war, the antidote to a deadly nerve gas attack – brought home from war.
  The Canadian War Museum unveiled an update Thursday to the final section of its gallery covering the Cold War to the present with new artifacts and eyewitness testimony on Canada’s role in conflicts, from the Gulf War to Afghanistan.
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• Glavin: Trudeau, at the UN, charms democrats and mass murderers alike

  21-09-2017 23:28 via ottawacitizen.com
  NEW YORK – In his address to the 72nd United Nations General Assembly here Thursday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau succeeded in ingratiating himself with the presidents of mid-level democracies, ruthless dictators and mass murderers alike. He delivered a magnificent performance that pleased everyone and offended no one.
  Trudeau’s emphasis on his government’s efforts to address the longstanding alienation and impoverishment of Canada’s Indigenous communities struck just th
  
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• City delaying new radio system for police and fire until 2018

  21-09-2017 23:23
  
  The Ottawa Police Service and Ottawa Fire Services won’t switch over to a new radio system until some point in 2018 as the city and its contractor continue to resolve the bugs hampering the full rollout.
  
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• Privacy czar blames RCMP after woman denied entry to U.S. over suicide attempt

  21-09-2017 23:21 via ottawacitizen.com
  A Canadian woman was turned back at the U.S. border after information about her suicide attempt was inappropriately shared with American officials through an RCMP-administered database, the federal privacy watchdog says.
  The incident is just one illustration of how government agencies and private businesses must do a better job of safeguarding personal data in the digital era, privacy commissioner Daniel Therrien said Thursday.
  Reforms are needed to strengthen the federal privacy law that covers
  
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• Federal pay system privacy breaches included salary information: watchdog 1310news.com/2017/09/21/fed… #ottnews https://t.co/OhCuhPfGlQ

  21-09-2017 23:21 via twitter.com
  
  Federal pay system privacy breaches included salary information: watchdog 1310news.com/2017/09/21/fed… #ottnews https://t.co/OhCuhPfGlQ
  
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• Karlsson at practice, but still no timetable for his return to the ice

  21-09-2017 23:16 via ottawacitizen.com
  Erik Karlsson stood on the bench and took in the skate Thursday at the Canadian Tire Centre.Unfortunately, he has yet to lace them up himself.
  The Senators’ captain has missed a week of on-ice sessions at the club’s training camp and, if there’s a schedule for the club’s best player to take a twirl after offseason foot surgery to repair a damaged tendon, nobody is hinting at when that might happen.
  Coach Guy Boucher said he’s preparing as if Karlsson won’t be
  
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• Feds pledge help for stalled inquiry into missing, murdered Indigenous women

  21-09-2017 23:16
  The head commissioner told a Senate committee Wednesday that the process has been stymied by bureaucracy and an unfeasible deadline.
  
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• Mark Hamill just tweeted about Justin Trudeau and Star Wars fans are going nuts [Video]

  21-09-2017 23:05
  
  You don't often see Luke Skywalker showing interest in a world leader's sartorial choices. Let alone their socks. But it's not everyday that the Prime Minister of Canada wears wookie socks to a major function.
  
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• Festival reverses policy on controversial 'pay-to-play' contest

  21-09-2017 23:05 via ottawacitizen.com
  A student-run music festival is pulling an about-face on a policy that required local artists to sell tickets for a chance to perform in what has been compared to a “pay-to-play” scheme.
  The Everybody Love Everybody Festival, which begins Friday and runs through the weekend at the University of Ottawa, announced Thursday afternoon it had changed course since announcing the “contest” last week.
  “We are set to announce our very talented local artist line-up very soon
  
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• Final chapter being written for human remains recovered during LRT dig

  21-09-2017 23:03 via ottawacitizen.com
  Perhaps one of the most poignant events of Canada’s 150th year will take place Sunday at the Canadian Museum of History.
  There, members of the public will get a chance to pay their respects to a group of this region’s early settlers.
  They are Ottawa’s forgotten.
  The remains of 79 people who were left behind in what was once Barrack Hill Cemetery, the city’s first known graves site for Europeans, were unearthed in downtown Ottawa in 2013 after being discovered during
  
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• ELE Festival reverses policy on controversial 'pay-to-play' contest for local artists

  21-09-2017 22:53
  
  A student-run music festival is pulling an about-face on a policy that required local artists to sell tickets for a chance to perform in what has been compared to a “pay-to-play” scheme.
  
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• Senators have plenty of options to fill out roster

  21-09-2017 22:52 via ottawacitizen.com
  The answers will have to come from within for the Ottawa Senators.
  As the clock ticks toward the club’s season opener against the Washington Capitals on Oct. 5 at the Canadian Tire Centre, there are a lot of questions left to be answered as the battle for jobs continues in training camp.
  While Ottawa GM Pierre Dorion has shown serious interest in Colorado Avalanche forward Matt Duchene, indications are the two sides aren’t on the same page in trade talks, which means nobody should ho
  
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• Underfunding the real problem in Ottawa's city-run nursing homes, city says

  21-09-2017 22:46
  
  The people living in Ottawa’s city-run nursing homes are content, they’re cared for by diligent professionals, and if there are any problems they’re mostly the miserly provincial government’s fault, city council’s community-services committee agreed Thursday.
  
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• Search ends for Kingston military officer 1310news.com/2017/09/21/sea… #ygk https://t.co/9B0oiQoDGb

  21-09-2017 22:24 via twitter.com
  
  Search ends for Kingston military officer 1310news.com/2017/09/21/sea… #ygk https://t.co/9B0oiQoDGb
  
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• Reevely: Underfunding the real problem in Ottawa's city-run nursing homes, city says

  21-09-2017 22:22 via ottawacitizen.com
  The people living in Ottawa’s city-run nursing homes are content, they’re cared for by diligent professionals, and if there are any problems they’re mostly the miserly provincial government’s fault, city council’s community-services committee agreed Thursday.
  Those problems include a personal-support worker’s being recorded punching a debilitated resident in the face, patients’ families being barred after complaining about their loved ones’ care, a
  
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• Driver faces $3,214 fine in fifth drunk-driving arrest

  21-09-2017 22:06 via ottawacitizen.com
  MRC des Collines police stopped an alleged drunk driver around 3:15 Wednesday afternoon on Route 307 near Val des Monts.
  Police said Thursday the arrest was the man’s fifth for drinking and driving.
  The 55-year-old man, whose identity was not released, was charged with driving under the influence of alcohol.
  Besides a licence suspension and possible jail term, he faces a fine of $3,214.
   
  
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• ON AIR NOW: The Afternoon News with @MarkDayNews & @MelAdams1310 On 1310NEWS or online: player.1310news.com https://t.co/QJp5sPgOZY

  21-09-2017 22:00 via twitter.com
  
  ON AIR NOW: The Afternoon News with @MarkDayNews & @MelAdams1310On 1310NEWS or online: player.1310news.com https://t.co/QJp5sPgOZY
  
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• Police identify victim in fatal daylight shooting 1310news.com/2017/09/21/pol… #ottnews

  21-09-2017 21:48 via twitter.com
  Police identify victim in fatal daylight shooting1310news.com/2017/09/21/pol… #ottnews
  
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• Ontario’s budget watchdog Stephen LeClair resigns

  21-09-2017 21:45
  'Personal reasons' behind sudden departure, which comes just five months after a return from medical leave.
  
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• Ottawa's Twin Flames up for three 2017 Canadian Folk Music Awards

  21-09-2017 21:38 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa-based Indigenous duo Twin Flames has been nominated for three Canadian Folk Music Awards.
  The group’s album Signal Fire notched up nominations for vocal group of the year, Aboriginal songwriter of the year and world group of the year. Twin Flames won the CFMA’s Aboriginal songwriter of the year award last year.
  Also among the 75 nominees announced Thursday afternoon were three other musicians with Ottawa-area connections. Stittsville’s Jim Bryson is vying for producer of
  
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• Autopsy confirms body found in St. Lawrence that of missing Forces officer

  21-09-2017 20:42 via ottawacitizen.com
  An autopsy has confirmed a body found in the St. Lawrence River near Kingston 10 days ago was that of Capt. Timothy Bowman, 36.
  The Canadian Forces officer had been reported missing since August.
  Foul play is not suspected.
   
  
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• Austrian pianist Anna Magdalena Kokits, on transmitting the "indescribable" through music

  21-09-2017 20:26 via ottawacitizen.com
  The young Viennese pianist Anna Magdalena Kokits is about to embark on a cross-Canada tour, from Halifax to Vancouver, that will include a free concert next Wednesday in the National Gallery of Canada’s auditorium.
  Below, Kokits, who is not yet 30, discusses the passion that she’s had for music since she was a child, as well as her interest in presenting “buried treasures” along with the works of  renowned composers. 
  Q: How were you exposed and attracted to mus
  
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• Coroner confirms Gatineau couple died of fentanyl overdose

  21-09-2017 20:22 via ottawacitizen.com
  A couple found dead in a Gatineau apartment in February while the man’s three-year-old boy was left to fend for himself died of a fentanyl overdose, a Quebec coroner has found.
  The badly decomposed bodies of Chris Lecouvie, 33, and his 20-year-old girlfriend, Amélie Gauthier-Matte, were found by a friend on Feb. 27 in Gauthier-Matte’s second-floor apartment on Rue Bégin.
  The woman went to check on the couple after she saw the toddler tossing toys out the window, wr
  
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• Ottawa's forgotten: Final chapter being written for remains recovered during LRT dig

  21-09-2017 20:04 via ottawacitizen.com
  Perhaps one of the most poignant events of Canada’s 150th year will take place Sunday at the Canadian Museum of History.
  There, members of the public will get a chance to pay their respects to a group of this region’s early settlers.
  They are Ottawa’s forgotten.
  The remains of 79 people who were left behind in what was once Barrack Hill Cemetery, the city’s first known graves site for Europeans, were unearthed in downtown Ottawa in 2013 after being discovered during
  
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• Mark Hamill just tweeted about Justin Trudeau and Star Wars fans are going nuts

  21-09-2017 20:04 via ottawacitizen.com
  You don’t often see Luke Skywalker showing interest in a world leader’s sartorial choices. 
  Let alone their socks.
  But it’s not everyday that the Prime Minister of Canada wears wookie socks to a major function.
  Justin Trudeau did this, FYI, on Wednesday while attending the Bloomberg Global Business Forum.
  These are his socks here.Social media went wild for the Kashyyykian beauties but it wasn’t until Mark Hamill weighed in that this story really took off:Here's
  
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• The story of 'Burial 8': One of Ottawa's forgotten emerges from the mist of history

  21-09-2017 20:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  In the early 1800s there was a rugged thirty-something labourer who walked the dusty streets of Bytown with a tobacco pipe clenched between his teeth.
  His days were long, breaking a sweat, possibly in the lumber trade or constructing the Rideau Canal. And, at times, he found himself in violent scuffles that left him with serious injury and pain.
  The man, who was five foot seven inches tall, right-handed and of European descent, was raised poor, and relatively new to the Bytown area. With no dent
  
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• Cowan: Invictus Games an opportunity for Canada to recommit to landmine campaign

  21-09-2017 19:11 via ottawacitizen.com
  When Prince Harry arrives in Toronto this weekend to open the third Invictus Games, he will bring the eyes of the world with him. The Prince puts his personal popularity to the service of several important issues and set up the games to inspire the recovery and rehabilitation of service men and women with life-changing injuries. His commitment to the cause is both laudable and personal. 
  The Prince has spoken publicly of his shock at witnessing the injuries sustained by his fellow soldiers
  
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• The @MeehanCarolAnne show starts now. Listen in: player.1310news.com https://t.co/v9cGpzMwPx

  21-09-2017 19:00 via twitter.com
  
  The @MeehanCarolAnne show starts now. Listen in: player.1310news.com https://t.co/v9cGpzMwPx
  
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• Google is linking secret, court-protected names - including victim IDs - to online coverage [Video]

  21-09-2017 18:50
  
  Google’s powerful search engine is defeating some court-ordered publication bans in Canada and undermining efforts to protect young offenders and victims.Computer experts believe it’s an unintended, “mind-boggling” consequence of Google search algorithms.In six high-profile cases documented by the Citizen, searching the name of a young offender or
  
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• Peckford: McKenna was right to take on the trolls

  21-09-2017 18:43 via ottawacitizen.com
  In the middle of one of the United Nation’s largest gatherings to discuss crucial global developments, I have no doubt that it was the last thing Minister Catherine McKenna expected to do: respond to a reckless tweet from a current MP and former minister who decided to deploy the verbal weapon, “Climate Barbie.”  
  It was one of those moments countless women have confronted, when you’ve been the target of a sexist slur by virtue of simply walking down the street,
  
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• Ottawa police warn residents about return of 'debt'-collection scam - Ottawa Sun

  21-09-2017 18:22
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  Ottawa police warn residents about return of 'debt'-collection scam
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  Ottawa police are warning residents about the re-emergence of an old “debt”-collection scam and are asking the public to think twice before falling for it. The scam sees emails sent to people that claim to come from high-ranking officials at a business ...and more »
  
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• NEXT on the #POWERLunch: @intheglebe Andrew Peck & @Baileymariereid join @_MarkSutcliffe LIVE in STUDIO… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  21-09-2017 17:58 via twitter.com
  NEXT on the #POWERLunch:@intheglebe Andrew Peck & @Baileymariereid join @_MarkSutcliffe LIVE in STUDIO… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Stop talking about Sparks Street and do something about it

  21-09-2017 17:46 via ottawacitizen.com
  The revitalization of Sparks Street has been an exercise in futility for half a century. It remains one of the greatest failures of urban vision in Ottawa, and one hopes Mayor Jim Watson’s vow to transform the pedestrian mall is not just more talk.
  As part of the mall’s 50th anniversary, the city is teaming up with the federal government to seek proposals on how to revive what has become a dead zone. Watson is promising a “hands-on” role in this new effort, and it remains
  
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• Still ahead Former @survivorcbs contestant @zekerchief chats w/ @_marksutcliffe ahead of @AlgonquinColleg speech… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  21-09-2017 17:40 via twitter.com
  Still aheadFormer @survivorcbs contestant @zekerchief chats w/ @_marksutcliffe ahead of @AlgonquinColleg speech… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Ottawa police warn residents about return of 'debt'-collection scam

  21-09-2017 17:38 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa police are warning residents about the re-emergence of an old “debt”-collection scam and are asking the public to think twice before falling for it.
  The scam sees emails sent to people that claim to come from high-ranking officials at a business, demanding money from the recipient. Some of the emails claim there is some sort of a debt owed and the business is reaching out to settle the account. 
  Police said some of the emails demand that large amounts of money be&nbs
  
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• Adam: Stop talking about Sparks Street and actually do something this time - Ottawa Citizen

  21-09-2017 17:29
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  Adam: Stop talking about Sparks Street and actually do something this time
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  Sometimes folks love Sparks Street – as this crowd on the mall for Ribfest shows. But mostly, it's a pedestrian space desperately in need of help. Julie Oliver / Ottawa Citizen. Share Adjust Comment Print. The revitalization of Sparks Street has been ...
  
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• #EthicsLab NEXT -Equifax -Development aid experiments -Weapons of Math Destruction bit.ly/1uwtdOs… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  21-09-2017 16:58 via twitter.com
  #EthicsLab NEXT-Equifax-Development aid experiments -Weapons of Math Destruction bit.ly/1uwtdOs… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• New report outlines what went wrong with training of Afghan security forces

  21-09-2017 16:57 via ottawacitizen.com
  The U.S. government’s Afghanistan watchdog, the Office of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), released a report Thursday on the lessons learned from trying to rebuild and train Afghan’s security forces.
  Remarks by John F. Sopko, the Special Inspector General, and the report, outline the following issues with training Afghan National Defence and Security Forces (ANDSF):
  — The United States failed to understand the complexities and scale of the m
  
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• How do you find the right credit card for the long term? @MoneySense has done the leg-work to get you that answer:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  21-09-2017 16:51 via twitter.com
  How do you find the right credit card for the long term? @MoneySense has done the leg-work to get you that answer:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Caldwell Ave. homicide victim identified as Hamzeh Serhan, 20 - CBC.ca

  21-09-2017 16:49
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  Caldwell Ave. homicide victim identified as Hamzeh Serhan, 20
  CBC.ca
  The young man shot to death on Caldwell Avenue in Ottawa's Carlington neighbourhood in broad daylight Wednesday has been identified as Hamzeh Serhan. The 20-year-old, who is known to police, was found outside a townhouse complex near 1500 ...
  Former Nepean High School student murder victim of Caldwell Avenue shootingCTV Newsall 3 news articles »
  
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• Montreal woman, 70, dead in Hwy 401 crash near Belleville

  21-09-2017 16:24 via ottawacitizen.com
  A 70-year-old Montreal woman was killed in a two car collision of Highway 401 near Belleville Wednesday afternoon.
  The victim was identified as Irene Savdie-Buenavida. She was pronounced dead at the scene.
  The crash occurred shortly after 3 p.m. when a sedan and SUV collided on the highway west of Wallbridge-Loyalist Road in Quinte West.
  The driver and front passenger of the sedan were taken to hospital with non-life threatening injuries. The driver of the SUV was uninjured. 
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• Armed youths gun down man, 20, near Carlington Park in 12th homicide of the year

  21-09-2017 16:07 via ottawacitizen.com
  A young man sipping on a Slushie was swarmed by a group of armed youths on Caldwell Avenue and gunned down in broad daylight Wednesday.
  The victim has been identified as Hamzeh Serhan, 20, of Ottawa.
  Witnesses, including one eyewitness who said he stood within 20 feet of the shooting, described the suspects as a group of about six black youths, who scattered on foot once the fatal shots were fired.
  Neighbours reported hearing six or seven gunshots around 3:20 from the outdoor courtyard between O
  
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• Armed youths gun down man, 20, near Carlington Park in 12th homicide of the year [Video]

  21-09-2017 15:57
  
  A man was shot dead on Caldwell Avenue, inthe Carlington neighbourhood, on Wednesdayafternoon. The shooting happened at 3:22 p.m.,said Ottawa paramedics, who attempted“aggressive resuscitation” on the man beforetaking him to hospital.
  
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• NEXT: @REDBLACKSHC joins @_MarkSutcliffe to chat @REDBLACKS season/ @Wpg_BlueBombers game tomorrow:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  21-09-2017 15:44 via twitter.com
  NEXT: @REDBLACKSHC joins @_MarkSutcliffe to chat @REDBLACKS season/ @Wpg_BlueBombers game tomorrow:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Coming up on the #POWERLunch @NOON @intheglebe Andrew Peck & @Baileymariereid join @_MarkSutcliffe LIVE in STUDIO… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  21-09-2017 15:39 via twitter.com
  Coming up on the #POWERLunch @NOON@intheglebe Andrew Peck & @Baileymariereid join @_MarkSutcliffe LIVE in STUDIO… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Marketplace: Happy Harvest!

  21-09-2017 15:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  It’s time to trade in those googly-eyed gourds and handprint-turkeys for some stylish harvest decor. Neutral tones and natural materials mingle in harmony while lush reds, oranges and golds add glamour to create a festive home. Here are some chic centrepieces, colourful dinnerware and rustic wreaths to make your autumn a glamorous one.
  Orange Glow
  Set the perfect Thanksgiving dinner table with this Ivy Orange 16-piece dinnerware set. Available from Stokes at Bayshore for $69.99.
   
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• NEXT: @Geddes28 joins @_MarkSutcliffe for their weekly Maclean's on the Hill segment: bit.ly/1uwtdOs… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  21-09-2017 15:28 via twitter.com
  NEXT: @Geddes28 joins @_MarkSutcliffe for their weekly Maclean's on the Hill segment:bit.ly/1uwtdOs… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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