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• PC Leader Patrick Brown calls for maximum temperature in schools

  27-09-2017 23:08
  Ottawa schools suffered through extreme heat this week
  
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• Ottawa cuts spending, issues debt, defers budgeting to 2019 to shave stormwater rate hike

  27-09-2017 23:03
  Rural councillors pushed for lower hike to rates.
  
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• STORY: Woman, 37, in critical condition after a tree fell on her near Ottawa Hospital. #ottnews… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  27-09-2017 23:00 via twitter.com
  STORY: Woman, 37, in critical condition after a tree fell on her near Ottawa Hospital. #ottnews… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Trudeau ‘disappointed’ in 219 per cent duty hike on Bombardier jets

  27-09-2017 22:55
  U.S. aerospace giant Boeing contends that the Montreal-based plane maker is propped up by Canadian government subsidies that allow it to offer the jets at unfair low prices in the U.S. market.
  
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• Teenager Formenton gets another shot versus Winnipeg

  27-09-2017 22:55 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa Senators coach Guy Boucher is giving Alex Formenton a shot on the fourth line against the Winnipeg Jets on Wednesday.
  That’s nothing new.
  Only four months ago, Formenton was serving as a fourth-liner for the powerful London Knights of the OHL.
  It’s a stunning rise for the speedy 18-year-old left-winger, who scored a grand total of zero points in 14 playoff games for London last spring.
  “I was playing a third-line role up until the trade deadline and we got some higher-en
  
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• Tax changes will cause doc apocalypse in Ontario, doctors claim implausibly

  27-09-2017 22:53
  
  Ontario will lose two-thirds of its doctors after Finance Minister Bill Morneau changes the tax rules for their personal corporations, if you believe a survey by a group called Concerned Ontario Doctors, which you shouldn’t.Over 40 percent of current Ontario doctors say they’ll bail out, the survey found.
  
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• Woman critically injured after tree falls on her during thunderstorm

  27-09-2017 22:48
  
  Rain came pouring down in Ottawa for the first time in days on Wednesday, after Environment Canada issued a severe thunderstorm warning for Kanata, Ottawa North and Orléans.The warning was issued just before 3 p.m. when the agency began tracking a severe storm south Arnprior that was heading eastward.
  
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• Reevely: Tax changes will cause doc apocalypse in Ontario, doctors claim implausibly

  27-09-2017 22:47 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ontario will lose two-thirds of its doctors after Finance Minister Bill Morneau changes the tax rules for their personal corporations, if you believe a survey by a group called Concerned Ontario Doctors, which you shouldn’t.
  Over 40 percent of current Ontario doctors say they’ll bail out, the survey found — move to another province or country, or just give up on medicine altogether. Another quarter says they’ll retire earlier, continuing to work not being worth the effort
  
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• After 15 years abroad, jazzman Kenji Omae returns to Canada to teach at StFX

  27-09-2017 22:42 via ottawacitizen.com
  Canadian saxophone fans rejoice – after more than a decade abroad, Ottawa-born tenorist Kenji Omae is back in the country.
  Now teaching at St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, N.S., Omae, who is in his early 40s, was a cornerstone of the Seoul jazz scene for almost 15 years, where he also taught at the Dong-Ah Institute Of Media And Arts and Paek-Che Art College.
  During that time, he wasn’t entirely absent from the jazz radar, provided you knew where to look. Omae has three C
  
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• With Lindley starting at QB, Redblacks need to be in sync

  27-09-2017 22:35 via ottawacitizen.com
  With the “Who’s going to start at quarterback?” question lingering into Wednesday’s practice, Ottawa Redblacks head coach Rick Campbell was not “evasive” in his answer.
  For the second straight week, it’ll be Ryan Lindley, this time facing the Saskatchewan Roughriders on Friday night at TD Place. Judging by what happened at Wednesday’s practice, Drew Tate (shoulder, ribs and a cut on his elbow) will be the backup quarterback, with Danny Co
  
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• Egan: Chased to death — we need smarter ways to pursue suspects

  27-09-2017 22:32 via ottawacitizen.com
  On the afternoon of Sept. 15, the OPP managed to capture a suspected killer — the subject of a two-province manhunt — by using a spiked belt to disable his vehicle on County Road 132 near the village of Dacre, deep in Renfrew County.
  Once crippled, the SUV plowed through a flower bush and came to rest against a stone fence, according to a couple startled in their rural home.
  Consider the highly-dangerous moment. The driver was not only a suspect in his wife’s slaying but was li
  
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• #UPDATE 4:30pm SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECT SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING ENDED HEAT WARNING ENDED

  27-09-2017 22:31 via twitter.com
  #UPDATE 4:30pmSEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IN EFFECTSEVERE THUNDERSTORM WARNING ENDEDHEAT WARNING ENDED
  
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• #Ottnews #OttStorm twitter.com/OttawaParamedi…

  27-09-2017 22:30 via twitter.com
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• OPO tent remains open despite calls for closure from city officials - 1310news.com/2017/09/27/opo… #ottnews https://t.co/soVwKNYfXs

  27-09-2017 22:15 via twitter.com
  
  OPO tent remains open despite calls for closure from city officials - 1310news.com/2017/09/27/opo… #ottnews https://t.co/soVwKNYfXs
  
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• Senators goaltender Craig Anderson says he would go to White House

  27-09-2017 22:14 via ottawacitizen.com
  After deflecting away pucks at practice late Wednesday morning, Ottawa Senators goaltender Craig Anderson did his best to deflect away any political questions that came his way.
  Anderson, who was born in Chicago and spends his off-seasons in Florida, acknowledges it’s impossible to not be aware of the anti-Donald Trump protests which took over the NFL last weekend. Countless players opted to kneel during the playing of the Star Spangled Banner — protesting against overt racism, socia
  
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• Multiple storm-related outages. 7,000 customers affected. #ottnews twitter.com/hydroottawa/st…

  27-09-2017 22:05 via twitter.com
  Multiple storm-related outages. 7,000 customers affected. #ottnews twitter.com/hydroottawa/st…
  
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• Listeners sending in pictures of downed tree limbs on cars in Lincoln Heights area #ottnews https://t.co/1blNlZKEPZ

  27-09-2017 21:58 via twitter.com
  
  Listeners sending in pictures of downed tree limbs on cars in Lincoln Heights area #ottnews https://t.co/1blNlZKEPZ
  
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• 'The best I've seen him in months': Jonathan Pitre, mother can see 'light at end of tunnel'

  27-09-2017 21:29
  
  Jonathan Pitre’s mother says she can finally see light at the end of the tunnel five months after her son’s stem cell transplant at the University of Minnesota Masonic Children’s Hospital.“Jonathan is the best I’ve seen him in months,” Boileau said in an interview Wednesday.
  
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• Posing as a military man, fraudster fleeced woman he met online, police allege

  27-09-2017 21:20
  
  A 36-year-old Trenton man is facing charges including pretending to be a member of the Canadian Forces – apparently right down to the uniform – after allegedly stealing thousands from a woman he met online.Napanee OPP officers responded to a report of a theft in Loyalist Township on Sept. 22.
  
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• Gatineau Park free shuttle from Ottawa to start this weekend

  27-09-2017 21:08
  Shuttle aims to ease congestion on park roads.
  
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• Going out best bets, Sept. 28 to Oct. 4

  27-09-2017 20:58 via ottawacitizen.com
  Film 
  The 28th edition of the One World Film Festival, which showcases Canadian and international documentaries devoted to social justice issues, runs Thursday through Sunday at Saint Paul University on Main Street. Among its 20 or so films is 500 Years, which tells the story of the successful resistance of Guatemala’s indigenous Mayan population. In addition to screenings, the festival will include panel discussions, interviews with filmmakers and more. Passes range in price fro
  
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• Tree Canada Director @Paul_Jorgenson is talking #NationalTreeDay with @MeehanCarolAnne on @1310NEWS.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  27-09-2017 20:45 via twitter.com
  Tree Canada Director @Paul_Jorgenson is talking #NationalTreeDay with @MeehanCarolAnne on @1310NEWS.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• TD Bank forecasting 90,000 lost jobs with minimum wage hike. Economist Derek Burleton joins @MeehanCarolAnne.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  27-09-2017 20:30 via twitter.com
  TD Bank forecasting 90,000 lost jobs with minimum wage hike. Economist Derek Burleton joins @MeehanCarolAnne.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Glavin: Persecuted Kurds have few friends (including us)

  27-09-2017 20:29 via ottawacitizen.com
  Here’s something that doesn’t happen very often. On one of the deepest tectonic stresses underlying the blood-soaked ground of the Greater Middle East, an orderly referendum carried out this week in the most exemplary democratic fashion in Northern Iraq has pitted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, European radical leftists and one of the most persecuted minorities on the face of the earth against U.S. President Donald Trump, Syrian mass murderer Bashar Assad, Turkish strongm
  
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• Why veterans should 'Take a Knee' at the Invictus Games

  27-09-2017 20:25 via ottawacitizen.com
  Without a doubt, Canada’s disabled veteran athletes competing at this year’s Invictus Games in Toronto are worthy of the public’s respect and admiration. Day by day, competition after competition, this special, elite element of our disabled veteran community is living up to the motto of the games:
  “I am the master of my fate; I am the captain of my soul.”
  Finding the will and the strength to compete, and being selected for the Games, will certainly help these indivi
  
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• Karlsson says doctors took half his ankle bone out during surgery

  27-09-2017 20:23 via ottawacitizen.com
  Erik Karlsson was a full participant at Senators practice on Tuesday, but said he doesn’t think he’ll be able to play the regular season opener Oct. 5.
  “Most likely not,” said the Ottawa captain. “Again, anything could happen.”
  Karlsson revealed more details about his operation at the end of last season.
  “They took half my ankle bone out,” said Karlsson. “The part that is there should be as normal as possible.”
  
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• Dining Out: Taco tour of Ottawa finds well-made beauts and sloppy bores

  27-09-2017 20:20 via ottawacitizen.com
  Casa México1489 Merivale Rd., 613-695-7899, casa-mexico.ca
  Ola Cocina62 Barrette St., 613-746-6222, olacocina.ca
  La Cocina Loca1079 Wellington St., 613-798-9292, facebook.com/olacocinahinto
  El Camino81 Clarence St., 613-422-5918, eatelcamino.com 
  Zak’s Cantina10 ByWard Market Sq., 613-422-9257, zakscantina.com
  I’ve taken a taco tour of Ottawa in recent weeks, grazing at some of the newer places that focus on that sometimes more, sometimes less, Mexican treat. Be
  
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• Rural councillor 'absolutely wimped out' on new stormwater plan, colleague says

  27-09-2017 20:19 via ottawacitizen.com
  A rural councillor “absolutely wimped out” in voting against a lower stormwater fee increase for 2018, a council colleague said Wednesday.
  Barrhaven Coun. Jan Harder skewered Osgoode Coun. George Darouze after a council meeting at which politicians voted 20-3 to increase the stormwater fee by five per cent in 2018, rather than the 13 per cent recommended by staff. Councillors Jeff Leiper and Michael Qaqish also voted against it.
  Harder, who explained how councillors worked behind the
  
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• Dr. Kulvinder Gill with Concerned Ontario Doctors joins @MeehanCarolAnne to talk tax changes squeezing system.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  27-09-2017 20:15 via twitter.com
  Dr. Kulvinder Gill with Concerned Ontario Doctors joins @MeehanCarolAnne to talk tax changes squeezing system.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Farmers are asking the feds to delay tax reform plans. Ron Bonnett with the CFA joins @MeehanCarolAnne.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  27-09-2017 20:10 via twitter.com
  Farmers are asking the feds to delay tax reform plans. Ron Bonnett with the CFA joins @MeehanCarolAnne.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• .@RiverWardRiley joins @MeehanCarolAnne, talking about a march against violence in Carlington area this afternoon.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  27-09-2017 20:00 via twitter.com
  .@RiverWardRiley joins @MeehanCarolAnne, talking about a march against violence in Carlington area this afternoon.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Q&A: Humourist Drew Hayden Taylor on Sir John A, residential schools and teaching with humour

  27-09-2017 19:55 via ottawacitizen.com
  Drew Hayden Taylor, the ‘blue-eyed Ojibway’ playwright and humourist from Curve Lake, near Peterborough, is the author of more than 70 works and has travelled the world “spreading the gospel of Native literature.” His latest play, Sir John: Acts of a Gentrified Ojibway Rebellion, debuts at the NAC English Theatre on Oct. 3 for a two-week run. The play was commissioned by the NAC a year ago as part of its Canada150 celebrations. The Citizen caught up with Taylor by phone i
  
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• Scrubs-wearing burglary suspect made illicit house calls: Police

  27-09-2017 19:46 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Ottawa police break and enter unit is looking for a woman in scrubs who’s accused of entering unlocked apartments in a south-end building earlier this month.
  This was no health-care worker making a house call.
  In one case she’s alleged to have made off with a quantity of cash. In two others, she fled after being confronted by the occupant, saying she had the wrong apartment.
  Police say it was late in the afternoon of Sept. 12 when a number of apartments in the Rivergate Way build
  
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• IAMAW outraged over Bombardier C-Series countervailing decision. Stan Pickthall joins @MeehanCarolAnne.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  27-09-2017 19:45 via twitter.com
  IAMAW outraged over Bombardier C-Series countervailing decision. Stan Pickthall joins @MeehanCarolAnne.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Study on impact of @Airbnb on hotel sector. Steve Ball of Ottawa Gatineau Hotel Association joins @MeehanCarolAnne.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  27-09-2017 19:30 via twitter.com
  Study on impact of @Airbnb on hotel sector. Steve Ball of Ottawa Gatineau Hotel Association joins @MeehanCarolAnne.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• .@Carleton_U Associate Prof talking to @MeehanCarolAnne -- laws re: transparency between pharma companies and docs.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  27-09-2017 19:15 via twitter.com
  .@Carleton_U Associate Prof talking to @MeehanCarolAnne -- laws re: transparency between pharma companies and docs.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• UK Def Sec warns Boeing future work could be in jeopardy because of actions against Bombardier

  27-09-2017 18:57 via ottawacitizen.com
  Boeing is celebrating its victory over Bombardier, with the U.S. government deciding that duties of up to 220 per cent should be levied against Bombardier C-Series civilian aircraft.
  But that victory has all but scuttled the Canadian government’s purchase of 18 Super Hornet fighter jets from Boeing.
  Now the British government is warning that Boeing may face some difficulties on future defence contracts in the United Kingdom.
  “Boeing is a major partner of the defence and one of the bi
  
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• Police hope to follow trail of shoes to solve break-ins

  27-09-2017 18:34 via ottawacitizen.com
  Are these your shoes? Gatineau police want to know.
  No, honestly.
  In possibly the oddest police investigation of the week, Gatineau police are hunting for the owners of these rubber slip-ons, hoping to get information about a series of break-ins.
  It began with a call to police back on Sept. 6 that someone was prowling around the back yards on Châteaufort Street. Officers arrived and arrested a man inside one of the homes there.
  Kervin Irwin John, 40, has been charged with illegal entry, an
  
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• NEXT on the #PowerLUNCH: @peter_tilley & @MeehanCarolAnne join @_MarkSutcliffe live in studio:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  27-09-2017 17:58 via twitter.com
  NEXT on the #PowerLUNCH: @peter_tilley & @MeehanCarolAnne join @_MarkSutcliffe live in studio:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• UK buyer bids $550,000 for historic Currie Victoria Cross at auction

  27-09-2017 17:53 via ottawacitizen.com
  A private buyer from the United Kingdom had the winning bid for a Canadian Victoria Cross awarded to Lt.-Col. David Currie during the bitter fighting in Normandy in 1944.
  Currie’s VC and related medals and memorabilia sold for $550,000 at an auction Wednesday in London. The price was $50,000 above the minimum bid for the items. A 20-per-cent buyer’s premium raised the total cost to the buyer to $660,000.
  Since the medals are considered culturally significant, they won’t be allo
  
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• NEXT @UW_Michael on how @UnitedWayOttawa brought hundreds together to build giant #Ottawa map… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  27-09-2017 17:44 via twitter.com
  NEXT@UW_Michael on how @UnitedWayOttawa brought hundreds together to build giant #Ottawa map… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Ottawa builders bring home five Ontario Home Builder Awards

  27-09-2017 17:23 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa builders stepped into the winners’ circle five times at the Ontario Home Builders’ Association Awards of Distinction Tuesday in Niagara Falls.
  The 26th annual provincial awards celebrate excellence in building, renovation design, sales and marketing in the homebuilding industry.
  Local green builder, RND Construction, took home two prizes: Most Outstanding Home Renovation, $250,001 to $500,000, for Stairway 2 Haven, a collaborative project with Ha2 Architecture Design, and Most
  
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• At 11:30: @DUALOttawa Rick Sproule on calls to shutdown Lowertown #overdose prevention site… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  27-09-2017 17:20 via twitter.com
  At 11:30: @DUALOttawa Rick Sproule on calls to shutdown Lowertown #overdose prevention site… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Denley: Why's the city so bad at long-term care?

  27-09-2017 17:07 via ottawacitizen.com
  Last week’s meeting of the city’s social services committee should have been an accountability session for city managers who have done such a poor job running long-term care homes that they had to be ordered by the province to do better. Instead, it turned into a group hug with the councillors who are supposedly there to make sure the city-run homes meet standards.
  In a fine example of misplaced empathy, committee chair Diane Deans said she understood that the last few months have be
  
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• Coming up on the #PowerLUNCH @NOON @peter_tilley & @MeehanCarolAnne join @_marksutcliffe live in studio:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  27-09-2017 17:05 via twitter.com
  Coming up on the #PowerLUNCH @NOON @peter_tilley & @MeehanCarolAnne join @_marksutcliffe live in studio:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• #Ottawa now under severe thunderstorm watch & heat warning Details: bit.ly/2xBVPRg @jilltaylor680… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  27-09-2017 16:58 via twitter.com
  #Ottawa now under severe thunderstorm watch & heat warning Details: bit.ly/2xBVPRg @jilltaylor680… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Thunderstorm watch issued for region, cooler weather in sight

  27-09-2017 16:57 via ottawacitizen.com
  The autumnal heatwave is ending Wednesday, perhaps with a literal bang as the weather office has issued a severe thunderstorm watch for the capital region.
  A cold front is coming down the pike, colliding with the warm front that’s been hunkered down for days. The main concern, the weather office notes, is for the high winds.
  Another 30 C September day is forecast for Wednesday but the clouds are expected to roll in, bringing a 60-per-cent chance of showers.
  It’s expected to clear up
  
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• #WestJet names new carrier #Swoop, says ticket orders will begin in early 2018: bit.ly/2xGpj2h https://t.co/OsbtsKQlhE

  27-09-2017 16:50 via twitter.com
  
  #WestJet names new carrier #Swoop, says ticket orders will begin in early 2018:bit.ly/2xGpj2h https://t.co/OsbtsKQlhE
  
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• HMCS Halifax completes docking work period, HMCS Fredericton is next

  27-09-2017 16:37 via ottawacitizen.com
  HMCS Halifax finished her docking work period or DWP today.
  The frigate entered the graving dock at Halifax Shipyard on October 20, 2016 for a DWP that included routine maintenance and upgrades to ensure the longevity of the vessel, according to Irving Shipbuilding.
  HMCS Fredericton will now undergo its scheduled DWP, Irving noted.
  
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• After 12 calls for help this month, Quebec police ask hikers to plan ahead and use caution

  27-09-2017 16:37 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Sûreté du Québec has issued a plea to hikers who may be planning to head into Gatineau Park and other wooded areas to see the fall colours to plan carefully and take steps to stay out of trouble.
  Police said they’ve already responded to more than 12 calls for help in the National Capital Commission’s massive public park involving hikers in situations that could have been avoided.
  According to police, any excursion into the forest, or any remote area, is not wi
  
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