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• Interim injection site to open next Tuesday 1310news.com/2017/09/22/int… #ottnews https://t.co/fpdx7NAEyU

  22-09-2017 23:39 via twitter.com
  
  Interim injection site to open next Tuesday 1310news.com/2017/09/22/int… #ottnews https://t.co/fpdx7NAEyU
  
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• Wark: In praise of John Le Carre, master of the spy novel

  22-09-2017 23:18 via ottawacitizen.com
  John Le Carre has produced his greatest, and probably his last, spy novel.
  The master, who stole the spy fiction genre from the greedy clutches of Ian Fleming, creator of James Bond, is, after all, 86 years old. As the dust jacket for A Legacy of Spies relates, in modest fashion, he has “lived by the pen” for the past 55 years.
  Before that, he was a spy. He has abided by the spy’s code and spilled none of Her Majesty’s secrets. But he has singlehandedly transformed the wo
  
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• Milnes: How a 150 Time Capsule made me long for the view from Taber Hill

  22-09-2017 23:15 via ottawacitizen.com
  Arthur Milnes and his wife, Alison, embarked upon a special project to mark Canada’s sesquicentennial year: A time capsule. But rather than filling it with things from around their home in Kingston, the pair have reached out far and wide to people, places and institutions with any connection to this country. The responses, whether from small towns or celebrities, have been overwhelming. This is the latest in a series of columns on his Canada 150 time capsule. 
  Born in 1966 I grew up i
  
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• Reevely: Complaints to limit use of offensive content on Ottawa's library computers

  22-09-2017 23:11 via ottawacitizen.com
  Anyone who doesn’t like what you’re reading or watching on an Ottawa library computer can make you stop, under a “refined” policy on public internet access the library is adopting.
  Some patrons are using library computers to look at pornographic videos. Which, ew, people shouldn’t do that. But the policy extends well beyond that.
  Back in 2003, the library board struggled with the porn problem when workers complained about being exposed to smut. The solution was to b
  
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• Ottawa mother heads new council to help users cope with health system

  22-09-2017 23:11 via ottawacitizen.com
  When Julie Drury’s young daughter, Kate, was diagnosed with a rare and complex form of mitochondrial disease, the Ottawa mother and her family were forced to navigate the health-care system largely on their own.
  Now, 20 months after her eight-year-old daughter’s death, Drury is using her painfully gained experience to help other families and patients.
  Drury has been appointed chair of the province’s new Patient and Family Advisory Council, aimed at ensuring patients and familie
  
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• Extreme heat warning issued as humidex set to reach 40 degrees

  22-09-2017 23:11 via ottawacitizen.com
  A stretch of unseasonably hot and humid weather has meteorologists issuing a heat warning, with summer-like humidex values expected to peak at 40 degrees for the first weekend of fall.
  Environment Canada issued a heat warning Friday afternoon, with “unseasonably warm temperatures” expected to hit 30 degrees Celsius while the humidity will make it feel more like 40 degrees. The late-arriving heat wave, after a cool and wet summer, is expected to persist into next week.
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• Woman charged in death of Toronto boy left alone in car on hot day 1310news.com/2017/09/22/nan… https://t.co/YGqGuHio63

  22-09-2017 23:10 via twitter.com
  
  Woman charged in death of Toronto boy left alone in car on hot day 1310news.com/2017/09/22/nan… https://t.co/YGqGuHio63
  
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• Wayward horses corralled after making break for freedom on Albion Road

  22-09-2017 23:08 via ottawacitizen.com
  Five horses made a brief break for freedom Friday afternoon, galloping and grazing along Albion Road before being corralled.
  The horses bolted from the Greenbelt Riding School at 3960 Albion Rd. around 2:45 p.m.
  “We have three fences. It’s virtually impossible for them to get out — but then, obviously it is …” owner Walter Kahrer said with a laugh.
  “The lead horse found an opening and then they all ran.”
  The horses tasted freedom for about half an hour
  
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• Complaints to limit use of Ottawa's library computers

  22-09-2017 23:00
  
  Anyone who doesn’t like what you’re reading or watching on an Ottawa library computer can make you stop, under a “refined” policy on public internet access the library is adopting.Some patrons are using library computers to look at pornographic videos. Which, ew, people shouldn’t do that. But the policy extends well beyond that.
  
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• Scoffield: Politics Matters – freedoms and failures

  22-09-2017 22:51 via ottawacitizen.com
  The winner of the first week back from summer on Parliament Hill? A banner-dragging aircraft-for-rent.
  On Monday, the Canadian Taxpayers Federation hired a plane to welcome MPs back to Ottawa for the fall session, pulling a giant banner that denounced Finance Minister Bill Morneau’s tax proposals as too anti-business.
  Not to be outdone, opponents of investor provisions in the North American Free Trade Agreement welcomed incoming trade negotiators from Mexico and the United States with a hi
  
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• ON AIR NOW: The Afternoon News with @MarkDayNews & @MelAdams1310 On 1310NEWS or online: player.1310news.com https://t.co/iDGyuS0q16

  22-09-2017 22:48 via twitter.com
  
  ON AIR NOW: The Afternoon News with @MarkDayNews & @MelAdams1310On 1310NEWS or online: player.1310news.com https://t.co/iDGyuS0q16
  
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• Excessive force conviction against Ottawa officer voided by police commission

  22-09-2017 22:32
  
  An excessive force conviction against an Ottawa police officer has been quashed after nearly a decade of legal limbo.It comes after a failed bid by Const. Kevin Jacobs’ own police force to have the Supreme Court intervene and the withdrawal of the complaint by the man who said he was brutally taken down by Jacobs in the first place.I
  
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• To criticize or harass? MPP Hillier slapped with workplace complaint for 'doing duty'

  22-09-2017 22:27
  
  Is there a limit to how much criticism a municipal official should be expected to take from the public or a politician?A fascinating case in tiny Tay Valley Township, just outside Perth, asks this very question.
  
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• Egan: To criticize or harass? MPP Hillier slapped with workplace complaint for 'doing duty'

  22-09-2017 22:25 via ottawacitizen.com
  Is there a limit to how much criticism a municipal official should be expected to take from the public or a politician?
  A fascinating case in tiny Tay Valley Township, just outside Perth, asks this very question, with an additional twist: the critic is MPP Randy Hillier, who finds himself dragged into an investigation under the Occupational Health and Safety Act for alleged workplace harassment.
  Too indignant to remain silent, the Lanark-area MPP sent a news release this week admitting he is the
  
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• Inuit in Ontario face heightened risk of cancer, report states

  22-09-2017 22:16 via ottawacitizen.com
  A new report highlighting the high risk of cancer facing Inuit in Ontario is a “call to action,” says Jason LeBlanc, executive director of the Ottawa Inuit organization that produced the report, along with Cancer Care Ontario.
  The report, which is the first to take a comprehensive look at cancer risk factors among Inuit outside of the North, found, among other things, that Inuit living in Ottawa and other parts of Ontario have significantly higher risk factors for some cancers than n
  
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• BREAKING: Heat warning issued for #Ottawa, eastern Ontario 1310news.com/2017/09/22/sta… #ottnews https://t.co/biES7VTSKH

  22-09-2017 22:14 via twitter.com
  
  BREAKING: Heat warning issued for #Ottawa, eastern Ontario 1310news.com/2017/09/22/sta… #ottnews https://t.co/biES7VTSKH
  
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• Prince Harry in Toronto setting stage for Invictus Games 1310news.com/2017/09/22/pri… https://t.co/8PkH5xlRMd

  22-09-2017 21:58 via twitter.com
  
  Prince Harry in Toronto setting stage for Invictus Games 1310news.com/2017/09/22/pri… https://t.co/8PkH5xlRMd
  
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• Editorial: Phoenix could burn up some Liberal seats in 2019

  22-09-2017 21:47 via ottawacitizen.com
  On Thursday, Canada’s privacy commissioner reported new errors with the Phoenix pay system, glitches that have exposed salary information and other data about some public servants. Daniel Therrien noted there are still weaknesses in the system’s security and there could be more privacy breaches in future.
  His revelations were yet another indignity heaped atop the frustration, desperation and disgust felt by thousands of public servants who have suffered pay problems under Phoenix ove
  
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• Trudeau shows off farming skills at International Plowing Match 1310news.com/2017/09/22/tru… https://t.co/hghmvcVQRr

  22-09-2017 21:12 via twitter.com
  
  Trudeau shows off farming skills at International Plowing Match 1310news.com/2017/09/22/tru… https://t.co/hghmvcVQRr
  
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• Public Service shuffle at DND – Jody Thomas named new Deputy Minister

  22-09-2017 21:12 via ottawacitizen.com
  Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced a number of changes at the Department of National Defence on Friday. Jody Thomas, currently Senior Associate Deputy Minister of National Defence, becomes Deputy Minister of National Defence. That is effective October 23. Bill Matthews, currently Comptroller General of Canada, becomes Senior Associate Deputy Minister of National Defence. Gordon Venner, currently Assistant Deputy Minister (Policy), National Defence, becomes Associate Deputy Minister of Natio
  
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• Federal privacy head to approach Google over linking secret, court-protected names to online coverage

  22-09-2017 20:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  The federal privacy commissioner will be approaching Google officials to obtain more information about how the company’s search engine can knit together the court-protected names of young offenders and victims with online news stories of their cases.
  A spokeswoman for the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada said it was not previously aware of the issue.
  While the issue raises potentially important privacy concerns, Anne-Marie Cenaiko said, the office has received no formal complai
  
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• 'I want to prove I can be a good leader,' says Canada's Invictus Games co-captain [Video]

  22-09-2017 20:11
  
  Retired master corporal Natacha Dupuis is once again leading soldiers.Eight years after losing two young troopers to a roadside bomb on her first day of command in Afghanistan — an incident that caused post-traumatic stress, depression and anxiety — Dupuis will serve as co-captain of Team Canada at this year’s Invictus Games.
  
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• Take new ByWard Market shuttle to view Gatineau Park fall colours

  22-09-2017 20:08 via ottawacitizen.com
  The return of the autumn leaves in the capital brings the annual Fall Rhapsody shuttle service, with a new departure point from the ByWard Market.
  The new stop — added by the National Capital Commission as part of Canada’s 150th anniversary — will link to Gatineau Park’s most popular destinations: Pink Lake, the Mackenzie King Estate, King Mountain and Champlain Lookout.
  “The National Capital Commission’s free shuttle from the ByWard Market to Gatineau Park wi
  
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• 'I want to prove I can be a good leader,' says Canada's Invictus Games co-captain

  22-09-2017 20:02 via ottawacitizen.com
  Retired master corporal Natacha Dupuis is once again leading soldiers.
  Eight years after losing two young troopers to a roadside bomb on her first day of command in Afghanistan — an incident that caused post-traumatic stress, depression and anxiety — Dupuis will serve as co-captain of Team Canada at this year’s Invictus Games.
  For Dupuis, 38, of Gatineau, Saturday’s opening ceremonies in Toronto will mark an important milestone in her recovery.
  “I think this is
  
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• Salvation Army not considering injection facility for proposed Vanier complex

  22-09-2017 19:55 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Salvation Army isn’t planning a supervised injection site for the shelter and health complex it has proposed for Vanier, but the organization is putting thought into how it could transport clients to those licensed facilities.
  While the topic has come up in public, Salvation Army spokesman Glenn van Gulik said the organization has no intention of running an injection site if it receives planning approval for the project at 333 Montreal Rd.
  Van Gulik said the Salvation Army has been con
  
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• Health Canada gives OK for health unit's interim injection site in Lowertown

  22-09-2017 19:43
  
  Health Canada on Friday granted the necessary exemption for an interim supervised injection site in Lowertown, with Ottawa Public Health planning to greet the first clients on Tuesday.The health unit is using the federal exemption granted to the Sandy Hill Community Health Centre to run the temporary injection facility at 179 Clarence St.
  
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• What whack-a-mole has taught researchers about dementia

  22-09-2017 19:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  Nobody enjoys being tested for memory problems, a stressful process with questions that can seem irrelevant.
  Dr. Frank Knoefel, a physician at the Bruyère Memory Clinic, knows about the stress. Besides, these tests are notoriously inaccurate as cognitive abilities decline. So, with help from partners ranging  from universities to an Ottawa day program for adults, he tried using a computer game based on whack-a-mole.
  “There’s something about a competitive game. As we know,
  
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• Neighbour advocates for double amputee in need of new wheels

  22-09-2017 19:15
  
  Crystal Bastien lives in awe of John Woodhouse, a double-amputee with dystonia who lives down the street in Vanier.Woodhouse, 63, is a regular at city council meetings, monitoring access issues for the disabled and travels across town to the Jewish Community Centre three times a week to train in a gym.
  
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• Back to the '80s with Souljazz Orchestra

  22-09-2017 19:14 via ottawacitizen.com
  When Souljazz Orchestra bandleader Pierre Chretien brought his latest compositions to the rest of the band members, they suspected a prank.Brimming with synthesizers and electro-boogie sounds, the new material sure didn’t sound like it came from the brain of a jazz-funk purist like Chretien, whose vision for the band has always been heavily influenced by vintage funk of the ’60s and ’70s.But there it was, an ’80s-inspired framework for what would become Under Burning Skie
  
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• Today's letters: Can Sparks Street be saved?

  22-09-2017 19:10 via ottawacitizen.com
  Citizen readers share their views of our historic downtown mall, of the penalties for distracted driving, and of the federal government’s tax plans. You can write to us, too, at [email protected] . You can find our guidelines here.
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  Sparks Street plans have always failed
  Re: Mayor vows to play ‘hands-on’ role in efforts to revitalize Sparks Street, Sept. 16.
  I began busking my classical flute music on Sparks Street in the late ’70s. I have witnessed decades
  
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• Coming up next on the @MeehanCarolAnne show a preview of @InvictusToronto with @JODYMITIC & @Commissionaires https://t.co/LTof1HV0mt

  22-09-2017 19:07 via twitter.com
  
  Coming up next on the @MeehanCarolAnne show a preview of @InvictusToronto with @JODYMITIC & @Commissionaires https://t.co/LTof1HV0mt
  
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• The @MeehanCarolAnne show starts now. Listen in:player.1310news.com https://t.co/WURty2YtR4

  22-09-2017 19:05 via twitter.com
  
  The @MeehanCarolAnne show starts now. Listen in:player.1310news.com https://t.co/WURty2YtR4
  
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• 'I have lived it': Ottawa mother heads new council to help users cope with health system

  22-09-2017 18:51
  
  When Julie Drury’s young daughter, Kate, was diagnosed with a rare and complex form of mitochondrial disease, the Ottawa mother and her family were forced to navigate the health-care system largely on their own.
  
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• Exercise Worthington Challenge to start Sunday

  22-09-2017 18:22 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Royal Canadian Armoured Corps School will conduct Exercise WORTHINGTON CHALLENGE 2017 at 5th Canadian Division Support Base Gagetown. The event will run from September 24th – 29th.
   “Exercise WORTHINGTON CHALLENGE provides a challenging environment for the Canadian Army to showcase their skills in crew gunnery, small arms, tactical driving, range estimation, and vehicle and aircraft recognition in an international competition,” the army noted in a news release.
  Teams p
  
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• Huge wind turbine blades will be slicing though city traffic for weeks

  22-09-2017 18:18
  
  Trucks moving massive wind-turbine blades will continue to cause turbulence on the Queensway for the next several weeks, officials say.Commuters have been tweeting pictures and complaining on Reddit about trucks carrying the giant green power components.Turns out the big blades have been traveling since Aug. 22 from a factory in Tillsonburg, Ont.
  
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• Neve: Canada’s Indigenous rights record must improve

  22-09-2017 18:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  On Thursday, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told the UN General Assembly that Canada is prepared to learn “the difficult lessons” of its long history of mistreatment of Indigenous Peoples and, as a result, other countries have much to learn from Canada’s example.
  “We know that the world expects Canada to strictly adhere to international human rights standards including the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples – and that’s what we expect of ourselv
  
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• Gormley: Merkel saves the world – whether she wants to or not

  22-09-2017 17:55 via ottawacitizen.com
  Angela Merkel has been called the chancellor of Europe and of the free world, but she is neither. She leaves these positions vacant and this is not only because they don’t actually exist. She would never wish to occupy them. 
  She will win a stunning fourth term as chancellor of Germany on Sunday — that’s all. She rejects the role of global hero even as she is observed to be saving, nearly single-handedly, internationalist principles throughout the world. 
  It’s n
  
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• Still ahead: @BarryDavis_ joins @_MarkSutcliffe for weekly #BlueJays talk. bit.ly/1uwtdOs #ottnews https://t.co/ZDn16CrZFV

  22-09-2017 17:44 via twitter.com
  
  Still ahead:@BarryDavis_ joins @_MarkSutcliffe for weekly #BlueJays talk. bit.ly/1uwtdOs #ottnews https://t.co/ZDn16CrZFV
  
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• 'THE RELENTLESS PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS' @DerickFage joins @_MarkSutcliffe next w/ his personal, inspiring story:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  22-09-2017 17:28 via twitter.com
  'THE RELENTLESS PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS'@DerickFage joins @_MarkSutcliffe next w/ his personal, inspiring story:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Fred Hersch plays Leaves of Grass at Jazz at Lincoln Center (concert review)

  22-09-2017 17:08 via ottawacitizen.com
  Fred HerschLeaves of GrassJazz at Lincoln Center, the Appel Room, New YorkSept. 15, 2017
  Before a note was played last Friday night, pianist and composer Fred Hersch went out of his way to secure a little co-operation from the crowd that packed the Appel Room of Jazz at Lincoln Center.
  Please, no applause until the music ends, Hersch requested. What was to fill the room for the next 70 minutes — a rare performance of Hersch’s Leaves of Grass song cycle — would be best presented
  
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• NEXT @jilltaylor680 joins @_MarkSutcliffe to chat weather! The 1st weekend of fall will feel like summer!… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  22-09-2017 17:00 via twitter.com
  NEXT @jilltaylor680 joins @_MarkSutcliffe to chat weather!The 1st weekend of fall will feel like summer!… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Spencer: Who's targeting diplomats? Don't ask Global Affairs Canada

  22-09-2017 16:45 via ottawacitizen.com
  In his 2004 biography, On Six Continents, former Canadian ambassador James Bartleman describes some of the harassment he and his staff endured from the Cubans while posted to Havana in the early 1980s. At one point, for instance, there were nuisance phone calls; on another occasion, a dead rat was nailed to someone’s door. Eventually he discovered his dog had been poisoned (along with the pets of other diplomats). At this point, Bartleman writes, he raced to the foreign ministry and told C
  
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• Still ahead @cmaconthehill joins @_marksutcliffe on Trudeau/UN --- as well as Conservative scandals… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  22-09-2017 16:28 via twitter.com
  Still ahead @cmaconthehill joins @_marksutcliffe on Trudeau/UN ---as well as Conservative scandals… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Justin Trudeau issues response to Mark Hamill about his Star Wars underwear

  22-09-2017 16:20 via ottawacitizen.com
  While some other world leaders are known for their Twittering, Justin Trudeau has been trending on the social platform for a few days.
  Why? His socks, of course.
  He decided to jump in on the fun early on Friday.Thanks Mark. Sadly those haven't fit in a while… #MTFBWY https://t.co/J1DMyNLUoR
  — Justin Trudeau (@JustinTrudeau) September 22, 2017
  Not a bad response.
  If you’re wondering how this all started, Trudeau was spotted wearing Star Wars themed socks at a business event on
  
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• Coming up on the #POWERLunch @ NOON: @davidgourlay & @JLMadigan join @_MarkSutcliffe live in studio:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  22-09-2017 16:05 via twitter.com
  Coming up on the #POWERLunch @ NOON: @davidgourlay & @JLMadiganjoin @_MarkSutcliffe live in studio:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• NEXT @SandraKiss1053 in studio with @_MarkSutcliffe for #SANDRAP: bit.ly/1ppeuDa… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  22-09-2017 15:44 via twitter.com
  NEXT@SandraKiss1053 in studio with @_MarkSutcliffe for #SANDRAP: bit.ly/1ppeuDa… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Coming up at 10:45: @CharlieAngusNDP joins @_marksutcliffe LIVE on #ndpldr: bit.ly/1uwtdOs #cdnpoli https://t.co/l78FrK6iQk

  22-09-2017 15:33 via twitter.com
  
  Coming up at 10:45: @CharlieAngusNDP joins @_marksutcliffe LIVE on #ndpldr: bit.ly/1uwtdOs #cdnpoli https://t.co/l78FrK6iQk
  
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• Ottawa Fall Home Show: Coach homes for retirement living, inspiration for home renos and decor

  22-09-2017 15:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  Autumn is a great time of year to take a good look at our homes and think about what we can change to make them more beautiful.
  We hunt for DIY projects on Pinterest, explore home decorating and furniture stores and walk through IKEA thinking “Gosh, I’d love to make our room look like this.” Then there are the gorgeous renovation projects to create the kitchen of our dreams, a spa-like bathroom escape and perhaps a master ensuite retreat. And, of course, there’s the tiny
  
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• Ottawa traffic: Rideau closed to traffic for roadwork this weekend

  22-09-2017 15:29
  
  Drivers and bus riders beware: Stay away from Rideau Street downtown this weekend. The thoroughfare shuts down between Sussex Drive and Dalhousie Street at 8 p.m. Friday for major roadwork. All traffic, including taxis and buses will be affected.
  
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• Rideau, Fallowfield closed to traffic for weekend for roadwork

  22-09-2017 15:17 via ottawacitizen.com
  Drivers and bus riders beware: Stay away from Rideau Street downtown this weekend.
  The thoroughfare shuts down between Sussex Drive and Dalhousie Street at 8 p.m. Friday for major roadwork.
  All traffic, including taxis and buses will be affected.
  Transpo buses will be routed to the Mackenzie Bridge stop on the other side of the Rideau Centre.
  The work is expected to be completed by Monday rush hour.From 8 pm,Sep. 22 – 6 am, Sep. 25: Rts 4,5,6,7,9,11,12,14,18,106 detoured; Rideau St. closed
  
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