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• Redblacks QB Trevor Harris says he's ready to face Lions

  03-10-2017 23:48 via ottawacitizen.com
  Nearly a month after separating his right shoulder, Trevor Harris will be the Ottawa Redblacks’ starting quarterback Saturday night in Vancouver, unless something drastic happens between now and then.
  “It’s not up to me, it’s going to be up to what the doctor thinks,” Harris said Tuesday at TD Place stadium, where he took first-team reps in practice, a good indicator of the team’s plans. “But I’m going to be lobbying pretty hard. I have to see how
  
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• Nordik Spa-Nature to build new 60-room hotel

  03-10-2017 23:47
  
  Nordik Spa-Nature will soon be able toaccommodate more overnight guests with a new60-room hotel that will be dedicated to wellness,yoga and meditation.
  
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• Laurier Avenue Bike Lanes reducing collision says City of Ottawa

  03-10-2017 23:43
  Study of Laurier lanes show big jump in cycling
  
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• Laurier bike lane audit recommends more colours, longer buffers, fewer signs

  03-10-2017 23:39
  
  A safety audit of the Laurier Avenue segregatedbike lanes, launched after the death of a cyclistlast year, recommends adding more colouring,warning infrastructure and barriers along theincreasingly popular downtown cycling route.
  
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• Proposed unit additions on Byron Avenue illustrate planning 'water torture,' councillor says

  03-10-2017 23:31 via ottawacitizen.com
  A city councillor is accusing a builder of trying to pull off a bait-and-switch by adding basement units to two recently constructed buildings on Byron Avenue.
  “Situations such as these are the water torture of planning for residents,” Kitchissippi Coun. Jeff Leiper writes in a staff report that supports one additional unit each at 266 and 270 Byron Ave.
  “It is a steady drip-drip-drip of applications and approvals that ultimately result in the developer getting everything they
  
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• Tree trimming work near overhead wires has tripped a power outage in the BayKitchissippi area. 776 cust. affected.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  03-10-2017 23:24 via twitter.com
  Tree trimming work near overhead wires has tripped a power outage in the BayKitchissippi area. 776 cust. affected.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Police raid Cannabis Culture on Bank Street for the second time

  03-10-2017 23:23 via ottawacitizen.com
  Police raided one of the city’s busiest pot shops on Tuesday, hauling away five clerks in handcuffs while a handful of demonstrators jeered.
  It’s the second time the Cannabis Culture dispensary on Bank Street near Gladstone Avenue has been raided. The illegal shop closed for a day last March after police arrested five  clerks for drug trafficking and hauled away the dried weed, cannabis concentrates and oils on sale.
  On Tuesday, drug squad officers in balaclavas, the SWAT team a
  
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• Back in business at Billings Bridge after daytime gunfire

  03-10-2017 23:08 via ottawacitizen.com
  Normality replaced terror at Billings Bridge Shopping Centre Tuesday, the day after a fight between men armed with a gun and a knife escalated into a shot fired in broad daylight.
  Police said they’re continuing to investigate Monday afternoon’s incident. 
  Two men, who are believed to have been involved in the fight, fled before officers arrived Monday but later turned up at a local hospital with injuries that were not life-threatening.
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  'We were terrified': Customers flee
  
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• Seven women, five men selected for jury in Basil Borutski triple murder trial

  03-10-2017 23:04 via ottawacitizen.com
  A jury of seven women and five men will decide the legal fate of Basil Borutski, whose triple murder trial was expected to formally begin Wednesday.
  The panel of 12 jurors and two alternates was finalized in court Tuesday, with Borutski accused in the killings of Anastasia Kuzyk, 36, Nathalie Warmerdam, 48, and Carol Culleton, 66.
  All three women were killed within hours of each other in a Sept. 22 rampage in and around the Renfrew County community of Wilno.
  After Ontario Justice Robert Maranger
  
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• Charges against two Magna Terra pot dispensary clerks are going ahead, says prosecutor

  03-10-2017 22:33 via ottawacitizen.com
  Prosecutors say drug trafficking charges against two clerks arrested during raids on Magna Terra marijuana dispensaries in Ottawa are going ahead, contrary to a previous report in the Citizen.
  Charges against two of the seven people arrested during raids on two Magna Terra shops last March were withdrawn, according to records given to the Citizen by the court. While that is correct, the charges were subsequently filed again, said a spokeswoman for the Public Prosecution Service of Canada. The co
  
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• Reevely: Ontario's jails can't even count their dead, review finds

  03-10-2017 22:31 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ontario’s Corrections Minister Marie-France Lalonde will rewrite the law governing the province’s jails, she promises, after realizing there are few central rules for how we treat inmates who are at our mercy.
  She’s driven by a final report from Howard Sapers, formerly the official in charge of handling inmate complaints in federal prisons. The province hired him to tell it what to do about a jail system so bad it let one particular inmate, Adam Capay, languish in solitary conf
  
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• 'You can’t be much more honest than I was,' says star soprano Measha Brueggergosman of her new memoir

  03-10-2017 22:12 via ottawacitizen.com
  Measha Brueggergosman
  Something Is Always On Fire book launch
  When: Friday, Oct. 6, 7 p.m.
  Where: Southminster United Church, 15 Aylmer Ave.
  Admission: $15 ($10 reduced) at writersfestival.org, $5 more at the door
  Canadian opera singer Measha Brueggergosman says her just-released memoir falls short of a tell-all. “It’s not like I gave everything away,” the star soprano says. “I still have plenty of secrets for myself.”
  That said, Something Is Always On Fire, de
  
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• Accused hotel grifting couple with Irish accents wanted by Ottawa police

  03-10-2017 22:05 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa police have issued a public appeal for help in locating a family — believed to be from the British Isles — that has allegedly skipped out on bills at 20 hotels and bed and breakfasts during the past two months. 
  The Ottawa Police Service’s organized fraud unit said the couple, travelling with two teenager sons, has targeted places to stay in both Ottawa and Gatineau since early August. 
  According to police, they have made false complaints about their accommodat
  
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• Double amputee gets a loaner set of wheels while waiting for permanent ride

  03-10-2017 21:32 via ottawacitizen.com
  That Ottawa is a generous community gets reaffirmed every time there is a person in need.
  John Woodhouse, whose need for a new wheelchair was recently made public in the Citizen, has received numerous offers of support. Yet, finding the right fit for an individual with special needs is proving to be a great challenge.
  Woodhouse, 63, a double-amputee who suffers from dystonia, has decided to accept a used wheelchair on a loan basis until a replacement chair arrives from the Ontario Disability Sup
  
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• Ontario's jails can't even count their dead, review finds

  03-10-2017 21:26
  
  Ontario’s Corrections Minister Marie-France Lalonde will rewrite the law governing the province’s jails, she promises, after realizing there are few central rules for how we treat inmates who are at our mercy.She’s driven by a final report from Howard Sapers, formerly the official in charge of handling inmate complaints in federal prisons.
  
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• Police looking for fraud suspects travelling with British and Irish passports 1310news.com/2017/10/03/pol… #ottnews

  03-10-2017 21:23 via twitter.com
  Police looking for fraud suspects travelling with British and Irish passports 1310news.com/2017/10/03/pol… #ottnews
  
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• Today's letters: Personal support workers show great dedication

  03-10-2017 19:58 via ottawacitizen.com
  We are going to need more personal support workers, two letter writers say, while another bids “RIP” to Tom Petty and concerns are raised about cycling.
  We want your opinions. Send letters to [email protected].
  Celebrate good personal support workers
  Re: Why is it taking you so long to die? Sept. 29
  Our mother, who had severe dementia and recently passed away, spent the better part of the last nine years in the care of Peter D. Clark (bungalows and houses), so we feel we can
  
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• BREAKING: A 4th Canadian killed in the Las Vegas shooting has been identified; 34 year old Tara Roe of Calgary. #ottnews

  03-10-2017 19:24 via twitter.com
  BREAKING: A 4th Canadian killed in the Las Vegas shooting has been identified; 34 year old Tara Roe of Calgary. #ottnews
  
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• Opinion: Impaired driving bill overly targets medical cannabis users

  03-10-2017 19:07 via ottawacitizen.com
  Recently, the House of Commons Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights has focused its attention on Bill C-46, which will tighten impaired driving laws, particularly cannabis impaired driving.
  While there is no disagreement that laws targeting impaired driving should be strongly enforced, and the government has taken a positive step forward in contemplating impaired driving law reforms, the proposed testing and enforcement mechanisms in Bill C-46 raise significant questions and concerns a
  
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• The @MeehanCarolAnne show is next. Listen in: player.1310news.com https://t.co/7D6YzHj8P1

  03-10-2017 18:56 via twitter.com
  
  The @MeehanCarolAnne show is next. Listen in: player.1310news.com https://t.co/7D6YzHj8P1
  
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• Dad's video in evidence as police charge driver with failing to stop for school bus

  03-10-2017 18:40 via ottawacitizen.com
  A motorist is facing a $490 fine and six demerit points if convicted after being charged with passing a school bus that had stopped to let off children near Perth, Lanark County OPP said Tuesday.
  The Sept. 28 incident is alleged to have been captured on video by a concerned dad who set up a camera in his Drummond-North Elmsley Township driveway.
  Police said it was around 3:21 p.m. on Thursday when the school bus was stopped on the south side of Highway 43 east of Foster Side Road, lights fl
  
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• Why 'pop-up' drug overdose sites are morally and legally right

  03-10-2017 18:29 via ottawacitizen.com
  Despite the mounting toll of overdose-related deaths in Ontario, Ottawa’s mayor and certain city councillors are trying to close a “pop-up” overdose prevention site in Raphael Brunet Park. The site, staffed by concerned volunteers with Overdose Prevention Ottawa and funded via community donations, provides life-saving harm reduction services for people who use drugs. There have been more than 1,150 visits and no fatalities since it opened five weeks ago.
  Various political &ldqu
  
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• Ottawa Senators unveil helmet sticker to honour Bryan Murray

  03-10-2017 18:02 via ottawacitizen.com
  On Tuesday, the Ottawa Senators unveiled a helmet sticker in honour of Bryan Murray.For Bryan. pic.twitter.com/ytJ82PKfLU
  — Ottawa Senators (@Senators) October 3, 2017
  It reads: Family man, friend, coach and mentor.
  The former Ottawa Senators GM and coach passed away in August after being diagnosed with Stage 4 colon cancer in 2014.
  ALSO: Senators executive Bryan Murray passes away at 74
  Ottawa Senators helmet with a Bryan Murray tribute. Courtesy the Ottawa Senators
  
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• Next on the #PowerLUNCH @Alison_Sandor & #Ottawa Lawyer John MacDonell join @_MarkSutcliffe in studio:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  03-10-2017 17:58 via twitter.com
  Next on the #PowerLUNCH@Alison_Sandor & #Ottawa Lawyer John MacDonell join @_MarkSutcliffe in studio:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• New documentary about Canadian combat engineers in Kandahar to be released

  03-10-2017 17:55 via ottawacitizen.com
  A new documentary about Canadian Forces combat engineers in Afghanistan will be shown later this month. On Thursday, October 26, Clearing the Way: Combat Engineers in Kandahar will have its world premiere as the opening film of the Forest City Film Festival in London, Ont.  The film is based on the book,  “Clearing the Way” by London native, Colonel Mark Gasparotto
  Former Canadian Army commander, retired Lt.-Gen. Peter Devlin, will introduce the film, which is produced and
  
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• Next: Dr. David Attwood has tips on how to get to know someone with #mentalillness bit.ly/1uwtdOs… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  03-10-2017 17:44 via twitter.com
  Next: Dr. David Attwood has tips on how to get to know someone with #mentalillness bit.ly/1uwtdOs… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Amorous bulls, escaped goats and a pony on the loose for Leeds County OPP

  03-10-2017 17:35 via ottawacitizen.com
  Leeds County OPP officers have been tackling a string of livestock-on-the-loose calls this fall.
  Their conclusion?
  “Good fences make good neighbours,” the detachment said in a release Tuesday.
  On Monday, officers were called to a home on Kitley Line 8 in Elizabethtown-Kitley Township where wandering bulls were trying to meet with the complainants’ heifers.
  While officers were settling that cattle complaint, a herd of goats escaped their confines.
  On Friday, officers had been ca
  
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• Cohen: How Julie Payette could redefine the Governor General's role

  03-10-2017 17:34 via ottawacitizen.com
  Julie Payette did something extraordinary after taking the oath as Governor General of Canada this week: She stood (rather than sat) in the well of the Senate, and she spoke (rather than read) her remarks. Without text or teleprompter, she just talked.
  It was a performance. Her words were picked, cut and arranged like an autumn bouquet. To prompt herself,  she wrote key words on her fingers, like a Jesuit.
  Her remarks never felt forced. She looked unhurried and unfazed, even faintly bemused
  
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• NEXT: @Kyle_Duggan joins @_MarkSutcliffe LIVE: bit.ly/1uwtdOs @ipoliticsca https://t.co/VAUsWU7QWN

  03-10-2017 17:29 via twitter.com
  
  NEXT: @Kyle_Duggan joins @_MarkSutcliffe LIVE: bit.ly/1uwtdOs @ipoliticsca https://t.co/VAUsWU7QWN
  
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• Committee approves big development fee breaks for key downtown O-Train land

  03-10-2017 17:25 via ottawacitizen.com
  The only O-Train junction in Ottawa is the “poster child” for transit-orientated development, council members heard Tuesday.
  The “extraordinary situation” at 900 Albert St. that planning services director Lee Ann Snedden described during a finance and economic development committee meeting was convincing enough for members to unanimously approve an $8.3-million development perk and a waiver of $920,000 in land-use fees.
  Council will be asked to approve the development dis
  
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• Committee approves development fee breaks for key downtown O-Train land

  03-10-2017 17:16
  
  The only O-Train junction in Ottawa is the “poster child” for transit-orientated development, council members heard Tuesday.
  
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• Fire crews on day two of fighting fire that engulfed 1,600 round hay bales near Kinburn

  03-10-2017 17:09 via ottawacitizen.com
  Firefighters were still on the scene Tuesday morning after working all night on a fire that broke out in a Kinburn-area coverall structure that housed 1,600 round bails of hay.
  They were called to 3741 Dominion Springs Drive near Kinburn Side Road by a 911 call at 2:23 p.m. Monday. Witnesses reported flames throughout the 20-foot by 100-foot structure and the first fire crews found it “fully involved.” They immediately began organizing the water supply shuttles essential to figh
  
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• Col. Sanders marching back to Bells Corners thanks to property tax break

  03-10-2017 16:57 via ottawacitizen.com
  A new effort to spice up Bells Corners is being led by Mayor Jim Watson, Coun. Rick Chiarelli and Col. Sanders.
  The finance and economic development committee on Tuesday approved two applications for community improvement plan grants, one which will grease the wheels for the return of KFC to the west-Ottawa community.
  Bells Corners could also see a new hotel if council votes in favour of a second tax grant next week.
  The municipal grants are designed to spur development in quiet commercial areas
  
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• Coming up at 11 @StephanieCarvin LIVE in studio for weekly International Affairs segment: bit.ly/1uwtdOs… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  03-10-2017 16:55 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 11@StephanieCarvin LIVE in studio for weekly International Affairs segment:bit.ly/1uwtdOs… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Coming up @lhugenholtz was in #LasVegas during #shooting -- she joins @_marksutcliffe live next:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  03-10-2017 16:43 via twitter.com
  Coming up@lhugenholtz was in #LasVegas during #shooting -- she joins @_marksutcliffe live next:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Coming up on the #PowerLUNCH: @Alison_Sandor & #Ottawa Lawyer John MacDonell join @_MarkSutcliffe live in studio:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  03-10-2017 16:41 via twitter.com
  Coming up on the #PowerLUNCH:@Alison_Sandor & #Ottawa Lawyer John MacDonell join @_MarkSutcliffe live in studio:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Police report man, 91, has been located

  03-10-2017 16:26 via ottawacitizen.com
  City police called off a search for a 91-year-old man after he was located on Tuesday.
  He was found safe and sound.
  
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• The @Senators season kicks off Thursday. GM Pierre Dorion joins @_MarkSutcliffe live at 10:30… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  03-10-2017 16:17 via twitter.com
  The @Senators season kicks off Thursday.GM Pierre Dorion joins @_MarkSutcliffe live at 10:30… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Located safe. #ottnews twitter.com/1310NEWS/statu…

  03-10-2017 16:08 via twitter.com
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• House Works: Cold air return, clothesline post, cottage water line

  03-10-2017 15:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  Basement Cold Air Return Ducts
  Q: Do I need to install cold air return ducts in each basement room I’m finishing? There are no bedrooms or bathrooms in my plan, just a workshop, a rec room and a utility room.
  A: The most common cause of finished basement rooms that are too cold in winter is lack of a cold air return ducts. The purpose of these ducts is to carry cold air back to the furnace foe heating, but if cold air can’t get out of a space it stops warm air from moving in to take
  
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• Police searching for man, 91, last seen Monday night on Riverside Drive

  03-10-2017 14:49 via ottawacitizen.com
  City police are asking for help to find a 91-year-old man who went missing Monday night.
  Gabriele Giamberardino was last seen on Riverside Drive near the RA Centre at 10:45 p.m.
  He’s a white man, 5’6″ tall with a slim build and white hair.
  He owns a red 2016 Mazda6 with Ontario license plate BAAC 519.
  Anyone who knows his current whereabouts is asked to immediately call police dispatch at 613-230-6211.
  Those with other information that could help investigators are ask
  
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• 'We were terrified': Customers flee after shot fired in Billings Bridge Mall [Video]

  03-10-2017 14:13
  
  Panicked customers at Billings Bridge Mall fled orhid in stores after a shot was fired during a fightinvolving three men in the mall Monday afternoon.
  
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• 'We were terrified': Customers flee after shot fired in Billings Bridge Mall, two men released

  03-10-2017 14:08 via ottawacitizen.com
  Panicked customers at Billings Bridge Mall fled or hid in stores after a shot was fired during a fight involving three men in the mall Monday afternoon.
  A witness told the Citizen she was with her husband and sister in the Rogers store when they heard the fight break out at about 5:30 p.m.
  “All of a sudden we hear a lot of shouting and hollering in the mall and we see two guys beating up another guy,” said the woman, who asked her name not be used. “Then we hear the gunshot. At
  
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• Enjoy Tuesday's sunshine, Wednesday will be a wet one

  03-10-2017 14:06 via ottawacitizen.com
  Soak up that sun, wet weather is on the way.
  Tuesday is looking terrific with mainly sunny skies and a balmy high of 22 C and low of 12 C.
  But for Wednesday, Environment Canada is predicting showers beginning in the afternoon along with the risk of a thunderstorm and a high of 25 C that will feel more like 30 with the humidity.
  There’s a 70 per cent chance of nighttime showers and a low of 10 C.
  Thursday’s forecast is for a mix of sun and cloud, a 30 per cent chance of showers,
  
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• Missing person: Kanata teen last seen on Sept. 25

  03-10-2017 13:53
  
  A Kanata family and Ottawa police are asking for help finding a missing teenage girl who hasn't been seen since Sept. 25. When 15-year-old Olivia Elliott left home that Monday, she was wearing a black sun dress, black casual shoes and she may also have been carrying a black shoulder bag or purse.
  
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• Ottawa weather: Rain takes over tomorrow

  03-10-2017 13:48
  
  Soak up that sun, wet weather is on the way. Tuesday is looking terrific with mainly sunny skies and a balmy high of 22 C and low of 12 C. But for Wednesday, Environment Canada is predicting showers beginning in the afternoon along with the risk of a thunderstorm and a high of 25 C that will feel more like 30.
  
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• 54-year-old missing man located

  03-10-2017 13:35 via ottawacitizen.com
  Police have issued a release confirming that a man reported missing on Monday has been found safe and sound.
  
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• Police ask for help finding Kanata teen missing since Sept. 25

  03-10-2017 12:58 via ottawacitizen.com
  A Kanata family and Ottawa police are asking for help finding a missing teenage girl who hasn’t been seen since Sept. 25.
  When 15-year-old Olivia Elliott left home that Monday, she was wearing a black sun dress, black casual shoes and she may also have been carrying a black shoulder bag or purse.
  Olivia is white, stands five-foot-five (165 cm) and weighs 130 lbs (59 kg). She has long black hair, blue eyes and speaks English. Her family is worried about her safety, police said.
  Anyone who k
  
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• Musicians and celebrities pay tribute to rocker Tom Petty: bit.ly/2yW0sGq https://t.co/2LZguRDg3M

  03-10-2017 12:32 via twitter.com
  
  Musicians and celebrities pay tribute to rocker Tom Petty: bit.ly/2yW0sGq https://t.co/2LZguRDg3M
  
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• MISSING: Police seek teen #missing more than a week: bit.ly/2fNqxmh #ottnews https://t.co/1rCr8IQBBu

  03-10-2017 11:50 via twitter.com
  
  MISSING: Police seek teen #missing more than a week: bit.ly/2fNqxmh #ottnews https://t.co/1rCr8IQBBu
  
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