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• Mike Condon says people don't express opinions on NFL anthem protests

  29-09-2017 23:51 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa Senators goaltender Mike Condon approaches the on-going social protests in the United States from an intriguing place.
  Brought up outside Boston as the son of a Massachusetts State Trooper, his childhood wasn’t one of luxury, but he parlayed athletic talent into a scholarship at Princeton University. As a political science major, he also has the educational background to discuss the issue of National Football League players kneeling for his national anthem from a scholarly position.
  
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• Canadian Army considering small training mission to Tunisia

  29-09-2017 23:50 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Canadian Army is looking at sending five soldiers to Tunisia to provide counter-terrorism training for that country’s military.
  “As part of Canada’s Counter-Terrorism Capacity Building Program, Canadian Armed Forces personnel are looking at deploying to as part of an international effort to train other nations’ security forces to augment their ability to maintain security within their borders,” said Department of National Defence spokesman Daniel Le Bouthillier.
  
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• Ottawa Senators appear to be set in goal for the next three seasons

  29-09-2017 23:33 via ottawacitizen.com
  Pierre Dorion couldn’t wipe the smile off his face.
  A couple of hours after the signing of Craig Anderson to a two-year contract extension was made official, the Ottawa Senators general manager was happy to have both his goalies under contract for the next three seasons.
  With backup Mike Condon signed to a three-year, $7.2 million deal in the off-season and Anderson under contract for an average of $4.75 million beginning in 2018-19, the Senators appear to be in good shape in net.
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• 'Absolutely ludicrous': Minto tenants upset visitors will have to pay for parking

  29-09-2017 23:29
  
  A group of angry tenants has filed an application with the Landlord and Tenant Board in an attempt to overturn Minto Group’s decision to charge for visitor parking at many of its Ottawa rental buildings.
  
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• Close the pop-up injection tent and you'll have blood on your hands, advocates warn

  29-09-2017 23:20
  
  For over a year, Rideau-Vanier Coun. Mathieu Fleury has been one of city council’s most vocal backers of a supervised drug-injection site to save Ottawa drug users from overdoses. Friday, protesters crowded outside Fleury’s city hall office, calling him everything but a killer.
  
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• Police looking for info about man allegedly assaulted by group in Smiths Falls

  29-09-2017 23:10
  
  Police are looking for more information after a male was allegedly assaulted by a group of people in the Parkland Court area in Smiths Falls on Friday, causing several schools to shut down.Around noon, police received a call about the assault.
  
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• 'Absolutely ludicrous': Minto tenants upset visitors will have to pay

  29-09-2017 23:08 via ottawacitizen.com
  A group of angry tenants has filed an application with the Landlord and Tenant Board in an attempt to overturn Minto Group’s decision to charge for visitor parking at many of its Ottawa rental buildings.
  Tenants in at least five Minto-operated buildings have received notices during the past two months, announcing that paid parking will be put into effect for visitors.
  The notices said that metered parking was being introduced because too many tenants were using the visitors’ spots. P
  
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• Reevely: Close the pop-up injection tent and you'll have blood on your hands, advocates warn

  29-09-2017 23:01 via ottawacitizen.com
  For over a year, Rideau-Vanier Coun. Mathieu Fleury has been one of city council’s most vocal backers of a supervised drug-injection site to save Ottawa drug users from overdoses. Friday, protesters crowded outside Fleury’s city hall office, calling him everything but a killer.
  About 100 supporters of Overdose Prevention Ottawa and its “pop-up” tent in a Lowertown park chanted “Shame!” and demanded he “man up!” and face them.
  They were — they
  
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• Councillor Mathieu Fleury refuses meeting with OPO protestors at City Hall - 1310news.com/2017/09/29/cou… #ottnews https://t.co/Hn5o03e6NV

  29-09-2017 22:48 via twitter.com
  
  Councillor Mathieu Fleury refuses meeting with OPO protestors at City Hall - 1310news.com/2017/09/29/cou… #ottnews https://t.co/Hn5o03e6NV
  
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• Ottawa woman faces prospect of vision loss following eye 'tattoo.' #ottnews 1310news.com/2017/09/29/eye…

  29-09-2017 22:47 via twitter.com
  Ottawa woman faces prospect of vision loss following eye 'tattoo.' #ottnews 1310news.com/2017/09/29/eye…
  
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• Pop-up injection site receives mixed reviews from Lowertown businesses, residents

  29-09-2017 22:26
  
  A pop-up injection site on the edge of the ByWard Market is drawing mixed reviews from Lowertown residents, landlords and business owners.A
  
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• Capital Voices: 'You just get to spend time with your pet more, and I love doing that'

  29-09-2017 21:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  To mark Canada’s sesquicentennial, the Citizen’s Bruce Deachman met and photographed 150 people in the Ottawa area, encouraging them to tell their stories that, combined, painted an intimate portrait of the region and the people who live, work and play here. The series, which was published daily leading up to Canada Day, was called Capital Voices. It continues on a somewhat less rigorously defined schedule.
  “We’re showing sheep today. This is my first year showing sheep;
  
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• Woman who had eyeball tattooed tells @MeehanCarolAnne she wants to press charges against man who performed procedure. #ottnews

  29-09-2017 20:53 via twitter.com
  Woman who had eyeball tattooed tells @MeehanCarolAnne she wants to press charges against man who performed procedure. #ottnews
  
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• Brassard could play in season opener next Thursday

  29-09-2017 20:51 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa Senators centre Derick Brassard couldn’t help but laugh when captain Erik Karlsson was the first player to hit him hard Friday.
  Brassard, who has been rehabilitating his surgically repaired right shoulder throughout training camp, has taken a major step forward by being cleared to take contact at practice.
  The twist is that Karlsson, recovering from his own off-season foot surgery – and not yet cleared to receive hits himself – provided the first test.
  “I got hit b
  
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• .@Bartcormier joins @MeehanCarolAnne to tell you about all the events hitting Ottawa this weekend. @1310NEWS… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  29-09-2017 20:50 via twitter.com
  .@Bartcormier joins @MeehanCarolAnne to tell you about all the events hitting Ottawa this weekend. @1310NEWS… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• #BREAKING Ismael Habib, Quebec man convicted of attempting to leave Canada to join Islamic State has been sentenced to 9 years in prison.

  29-09-2017 20:43 via twitter.com
  #BREAKINGIsmael Habib, Quebec man convicted of attempting to leave Canada to join Islamic State has been sentenced to 9 years in prison.
  
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• Downtown heritage battle puts heats into Gatineau election

  29-09-2017 20:38 via ottawacitizen.com
  Expanding the heritage status of a downtown Gatineau neighbourhood would restrict condo development that would bring jobs, new homes and tax revenues, says a business group backing downtown development.
  Gatineau has proposed heritage status for the entire Museum District, a neighbourhood of narrow streets and old houses just north of Place du Portage and Gatineau City Hall. Many of the old homes are now restaurants or law offices.
  The district has about 50 buildings, including the Collège
  
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• This weekend's Panda Game has special meaning for @uOttawaGeeGees. @MeehanCarolAnne has the story with Sue Hylland.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  29-09-2017 20:30 via twitter.com
  This weekend's Panda Game has special meaning for @uOttawaGeeGees. @MeehanCarolAnne has the story with Sue Hylland.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• A tattoo gone wrong. @MeehanCarolAnne speaks with Ottawa woman Catt Gallinger about how her eye ended up like this.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  29-09-2017 20:15 via twitter.com
  A tattoo gone wrong. @MeehanCarolAnne speaks with Ottawa woman Catt Gallinger about how her eye ended up like this.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Egan: Compassion is not a 'system,' nursing care not a set of rules

  29-09-2017 20:11 via ottawacitizen.com
  So, inevitably perhaps, we are going to have an outside investigation into “systemic” failures at Ottawa’s four municipally-run nursing homes.
  Why? Can someone tell me what kind of “system” prevents a personal care worker from asking a disabled woman, 85, with memory problems: “Why is it taking you so long to die?”
  Human beings are capable of monstrous behaviour, even those, evidently, trained to be care workers for the vulnerable. What kind of
  
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• Compassion is not a 'system,' nursing care not a set of rules

  29-09-2017 20:08
  
  So, inevitably perhaps, we are going to have an outside investigation into “systemic” failures at Ottawa’s four municipally-run nursing homes.Why? Can someone tell me what kind of “system” prevents a personal care worker from asking a disabled woman, 85, with memory problems: “Why is it taking you so long to die?”Human beings are capable of monstro
  
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• Keith Whittier joins @MeehanCarolAnne on @1310NEWS to talk about some big movies hitting theatres this weekend.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  29-09-2017 20:00 via twitter.com
  Keith Whittier joins @MeehanCarolAnne on @1310NEWS to talk about some big movies hitting theatres this weekend.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Pedestrian killed when struck by transport truck in Casselman

  29-09-2017 19:49
  
  Ontario Provincial Police are investigating the death of a pedestrian who was hit by a transport truck in the town of Casselman early Friday morning.According to police, the pedestrian was struck on Principale Street between Racine Street and Lafleche Boulevard around 10:30 am.
  
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• President of the Ottawa-Carleton Local of ETFO talks classroom violence on the @MeehanCarolAnne Show. @1310NEWS… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  29-09-2017 19:45 via twitter.com
  President of the Ottawa-Carleton Local of ETFO talks classroom violence on the @MeehanCarolAnne Show. @1310NEWS… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• James Hutt with Overdose Prevention Ottawa joins @MeehanCarolAnne on @1310NEWS to talk about today's rally downtown… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  29-09-2017 19:30 via twitter.com
  James Hutt with Overdose Prevention Ottawa joins @MeehanCarolAnne on @1310NEWS to talk about today's rally downtown… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Reid: Big Alcohol sells women 'connectedness'

  29-09-2017 19:23 via ottawacitizen.com
  As I came into womanhood, and began to define who I was, drinking became intrinsically linked to that self-image. I realized quickly that I could drink more than a lot of the other young women I knew. I didn’t throw up while I was drinking, I didn’t shut myself down as soon as I started to feel drunk. This adult Bailey could drink with the boys, could go all night, could pound beers, could keep up.
  I have no idea if I was as sloppy then as I am now, or if that’s just something
  
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• Following a rally downtown, @MeehanCarolAnne welcomes Sean O'Leary of We The Parents to talk on the opioid crisis.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  29-09-2017 19:15 via twitter.com
  Following a rally downtown, @MeehanCarolAnne welcomes Sean O'Leary of We The Parents to talk on the opioid crisis.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Beatrice Riddell took on the sexist world of financial journalism

  29-09-2017 19:15
  
  As a young Toronto girl, Beatrice Wylie Riddell had the unusually good fortune to spend her summers near a Georgian Bay island owned by arts patron Dr. James MacCallum.She paddled her canoe frequently from her parents’ cottage to meet with MacCallum’s friends, who included the Group of Seven artist A.Y. Jackson.
  
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• Spencer: No, Hugh Hefner didn't bring enlightenment about sexuality

  29-09-2017 18:59 via ottawacitizen.com
  The legacy of Hugh Hefner can be seen, in part, in the convulsions the Ottawa Public Library recently endured as it debated what to do if customers watched porn on its computers. Toss them out? So 1950s! Respect their freedom of expression (while asking for discretion)? That we contemplate this second question in 2017 is surely one bequest of the Playboy emperor.
  Hefner, the smoking-jacketed, Bunny-enveloped publisher whose parties gushed with glamorous people, is being credited with making sexu
  
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• The path travelled: Beatrice Riddell took on the sexist world of financial journalism

  29-09-2017 18:58 via ottawacitizen.com
  As a young Toronto girl, Beatrice Wylie Riddell had the unusually good fortune to spend her summers near a Georgian Bay island owned by arts patron Dr. James MacCallum.
  She paddled her canoe frequently from her parents’ cottage to meet with MacCallum’s friends, who included the Group of Seven artist A.Y. Jackson. One day, Bea set up her own easel and tried using oils to paint her own landscape. When she asked for pointers, Jackson strolled over to have a look.
  “You should follo
  
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• China's new stealth fighter now officially in service

  29-09-2017 18:40 via ottawacitizen.com
  China’s J-20 stealth fighter has been officially commissioned into military service, the Chinese government’s Xinhua News Agency reports.
  Wu Qian, spokesperson for China’s Ministry of National Defense, told the news agency that flight tests are being conducted as scheduled. The jet made its maiden flight in 2011 and its public debut last year.
  The aircraft is currently in low rate production for China’s People’s Liberation Army Air Force, or PLAAF, with at least six
  
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• Today's letters: Don't play national anthems at sporting events

  29-09-2017 18:32 via ottawacitizen.com
  Eliminate anthems from sports events
  Re: Long silent, the world of sports finds its voice, Sept. 26.
  Why do we need to play national anthems at professional basketball and football games? The participants involved are not playing for their countries.
  These teams take the court or field on behalf of the cities they represent – or occasionally regions (New England Patriots), provinces (B.C. Lions and Saskatchewan Roughriders) or states (Tennessee Titans, Golden State Warriors, Minnesota Viki
  
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• Girl, 16, rushed to trauma centre after she was struck by truck in Alta Vista

  29-09-2017 18:10
  
  A 16-year-old girl suffered serious leg injuries Friday morning when she was struck by a pickup truck near the intersection of Alta Vista Drive and Heron Road.Paramedics responded at 8:48 a.m. to the call near St. Patrick’s High School, but an off-duty medic on the way to work had already stopped to help the teen.She was in serious but stable condition
  
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• Girl, 16, rushed to trauma centre after being struck by truck in Alta Vista

  29-09-2017 18:08 via ottawacitizen.com
  A 16-year-old girl suffered serious leg injuries Friday morning when she was struck by a pickup truck near the intersection of Alta Vista Drive and Heron Road.
  Paramedics responded at 8:48 a.m. to the call near St. Patrick’s High School, but an off-duty medic on the way to work had already stopped to help the teen.
  She was in serious but stable condition in hospital.8:48 Teenage female struck by pickup at Altavista/Heron, serious injuries to legs. Serious but stable at pediatric traum
  
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• Muskrat suspect in boat sinking

  29-09-2017 17:55 via ottawacitizen.com
  A pleasure boat that sank at the Tall Ships marina on Thursday was the target of a deliberate act of sabotage.
  But don’t expect the police to be trolling the aquatic underworld anytime soon.
  “I think a muskrat is actually guilty,” Brockville Fire Chief Ghislain Pigeon said Friday morning,
  Brockville firefighters, police officers and other officials were kept busy much of Thursday trying to pull the sunken 35-foot Doral boat out of the St. Lawrence River.
  No one was injured in t
  
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• Editorial: Publication bans have a place, even with Google

  29-09-2017 17:54 via ottawacitizen.com
  A teenage girl is raped. Her male attacker faces numerous charges for his brutal act. Under Canadian law, the identity of the youthful victim can’t be revealed, either during court proceedings or later – indeed, if it could, the traumatized young woman might never have come forward to police in the first place.
  Broadly, our society expects that her privacy will be respected; reflecting this, the law shelters her from both the immediate anguish of public scrutiny and future publi
  
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• Still ahead: @BarryDavis_ joins @_MarkSutcliffe for weekly #BlueJays talk. bit.ly/1uwtdOs… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  29-09-2017 17:44 via twitter.com
  Still ahead:@BarryDavis_ joins @_MarkSutcliffe for weekly #BlueJays talk. bit.ly/1uwtdOs… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Craig Anderson signs two-year extension with the Senators

  29-09-2017 17:40 via ottawacitizen.com
  Goaltender Craig Anderson has signed on the dotted line.
  The Senators announced Friday that veteran netminder has signed a two-year extension. He will make $5.5 million in 2018-19 and $4 million in 2019-20 with average annual value of $4.75 million.
  Anderson helped lead the club to the Eastern Conference final last spring.Pierre Dorion confirms that the #Sens have extended Craig Anderson for 2 years (4.75 AAV).
  — Ottawa Senators (@Senators) September 29, 2017
  The contract includes a 10-tea
  
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• Hungary brings design exhibit to NCC's International Pavilion

  29-09-2017 17:26 via ottawacitizen.com
  Hungary moves to Ottawa for October. OK, this might be an exaggeration, but only a slight one; you won’t believe the amount of programs the Embassy of Hungary is packing into its one-month tenancy in the International Pavilion at 7 Clarence St. Starting Sept. 30, two permanent exhibitions await visitors. The first one showcases modern Hungarian design featuring innovations, industrial design, decorative art and much more. Be amazed at the creativity of Hungarians displayed in this spectacu
  
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• Coming up: Political cartoonist @TerryMosher1 joins @_MarkSutcliffe live in studio: bit.ly/1ppeuDa https://t.co/O3hD34DSCp

  29-09-2017 16:58 via twitter.com
  
  Coming up: Political cartoonist @TerryMosher1 joins @_MarkSutcliffe live in studio: bit.ly/1ppeuDa https://t.co/O3hD34DSCp
  
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• NAC's Ideas of North Festival brings Finland's finest to Ottawa Oct. 3 to 14

  29-09-2017 16:52 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ideas of North Festival
  What: Concerts of classical and non-classical music, exhibits and more, often with a tie-in to Finland 
  Where: National Arts Centre
  When: Oct. 3 to 14
  Tickets and info: nac-cna.ca 
  With three-quarters of 2017 over, perhaps you’ve put Canada’s sesquicentennial behind you. Well, not so fast. Plus, there’s another big birthday for another country to mark, namely the 100th anniversary of Finland’s independence.
  From Oct. 3 to 14, the National
  
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• Cyclist seriously hurt when struck by car near uOttawa

  29-09-2017 16:51 via ottawacitizen.com
  A man in his 60s was rushed to hospital on a “trauma code” Friday morning after being struck by a car while riding his bicycle near in the intersection of Waller and Besserer streets.
  Paramedics got the call at 9:13 a.m. and found the man conscious but seriously hurt with “massive” injuries to his face, head and chest.
  He was in critical condition upon arrival at the trauma centre.9:13 Besserer/Waller, M60s cyclist struck by transport, massive Chest Injuries.Critical cond
  
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• Coming up 11:15: @mastersofflip join @_MarkSutcliffe live in studio: bit.ly/1ppeuDa #ottnews… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  29-09-2017 16:45 via twitter.com
  Coming up 11:15: @mastersofflip join @_MarkSutcliffe live in studio: bit.ly/1ppeuDa #ottnews… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Coming up on the #PowerLUNCH @ NOON: @hollyanndoan & @TimTierney join @_MarkSutcliffe live in studio:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  29-09-2017 16:38 via twitter.com
  Coming up on the #PowerLUNCH @ NOON: @hollyanndoan & @TimTierney join @_MarkSutcliffe live in studio:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Councillors raising $500,000 to improve mental health unit at Queensway Carleton Hospital

  29-09-2017 16:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ten city councillors have announced they are trying to raise $500,000 for the mental health unit at the Queensway Carleton Hospital.
  The councillors, who represent the west and south ends of the city, are raising the funds in support of the Queensway Carleton Hospital Foundation’s $5-million Hopes Rising campaign for mental health services. They announced their $500,000 goal before a city council meeting this week.
  The hospital needs to upgrade the space occupied by the mental health progr
  
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• Coming up on #EthicsLab @10:30: Video game ethics Taking a Knee Veggies with Wedgies bit.ly/1ppeuDa… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  29-09-2017 16:09 via twitter.com
  Coming up on #EthicsLab @10:30:Video game ethics Taking a Knee Veggies with Wedgiesbit.ly/1ppeuDa… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• #RCMP found guilty of one Labour Code violation, not guilty on two others: bit.ly/2x0QMgi https://t.co/EVNACzf95Y

  29-09-2017 16:03 via twitter.com
  
  #RCMP found guilty of one Labour Code violation, not guilty on two others: bit.ly/2x0QMgi https://t.co/EVNACzf95Y
  
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• NEXT on the 10 O'Clock Talk: @jonathanmcleod, @RyanKennery & @WendyBoomer join @_MarkSutcliffe live:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  29-09-2017 15:57 via twitter.com
  NEXT on the 10 O'Clock Talk: @jonathanmcleod, @RyanKennery & @WendyBoomer join @_MarkSutcliffe live:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• NEXT @SandraKiss1053 in studio w/ @_MarkSutcliffe for #SANDRAP: bit.ly/1ppeuDa… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  29-09-2017 15:43 via twitter.com
  NEXT@SandraKiss1053 in studio w/ @_MarkSutcliffe for #SANDRAP: bit.ly/1ppeuDa… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Why Ottawa model appears to cry purple tears

  29-09-2017 15:40
  
  An Ottawa model intent on tinting her eyeball received a rather painful lesson.
  
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