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• The puzzling silence at Shopify

  05-10-2017 23:59
  
  At one level it’s easy to see why Shopify adopteda low profile following allegations from CitronResearch that its share price is overvalued and itsmarketing practices “illegal”.
  
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• 'Vision for a just and inclusive Canada': Metro talks with NDP leader Jagmeet Singh

  05-10-2017 23:57
  The new NDP leader gives us his thoughts on carding, climate change, cycling, opioids and style.
  
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• Bagnall: The puzzling silence at Shopify

  05-10-2017 23:49 via ottawacitizen.com
  At one level it’s easy to see why Shopify adopted a low profile following allegations from Citron Research that its share price is overvalued and its marketing practices “illegal”.
  Ottawa’s e-commerce technology star just last week closed the books on its third quarter and is therefore constrained in what it can say publicly until the results are published in three or four weeks.
  Even so, Shopify’s response to Citron managing editor Andrew Left’s incendiary at
  
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• Former NHLer Jeff Brown, family, thrilled with son Logan's NHL debut

  05-10-2017 23:45 via ottawacitizen.com
  Jeff Brown spent all day Wednesday in airports, making the trek to Ottawa.
  The first flight out of St. Louis was delayed, the family missed a connection in Chicago and instead of having dinner at The Keg Wednesday night, with Ottawa Senators centre Logan Brown before his NHL debut against the Washington Capitals Thursday, they didn’t land here until after 10 p.m.
  That’s OK, the trip was worth it.
  Jeff Brown, a 51-year-old Ottawa native who started his NHL career as a defenceman with
  
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• Women's rights groups rally as Borutski trial begins

  05-10-2017 23:38 via ottawacitizen.com
  Women’s rights groups gathered at the Human Rights Monument on Elgin Street on Thursday afternoon in solidarity with the families of three Wilno-area women who were killed in 2015, along with others who suffer from gender-based violence on a daily basis.
  The rally happened outside the courthouse as the trial Basil Borutski was getting underway inside. Borutski is facing three first- degree murder charges in the killings of Carol Culleton, 66, Anastasia Kuzyk, 36, and Nathalie Warmerdam, 48
  
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• On video, Borutski told police murder, killing differ 1310news.com/2017/10/05/vid… #ottnews

  05-10-2017 23:36 via twitter.com
  On video, Borutski told police murder, killing differ 1310news.com/2017/10/05/vid… #ottnews
  
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• City issues fine after resident spreads manure @ site of pop-up injection tent in Raphael Brunet Park. #ottnews 1310news.com/2017/10/05/man…

  05-10-2017 23:35 via twitter.com
  City issues fine after resident spreads manure @ site of pop-up injection tent in Raphael Brunet Park. #ottnews1310news.com/2017/10/05/man…
  
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• Seven doctors leaving Centretown medical clinic en masse

  05-10-2017 23:25 via ottawacitizen.com
  Seven doctors are leaving an Elgin Street family medicine clinic en masse early next year.
  They reassured patients late last month via email that they’ll continue to care for them after next March at a yet-to-announced new location. 
  But earlier this week, the owners of the Heart of Ottawa Medical Centre then sent their own message to patients calling the doctors’ decision “incomprehensible to us.” They also posted it on the centre’s website.
  Patient Megan Cart
  
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• Former deputy auditor distorts facts in lawsuit claiming political meddling, city says

  05-10-2017 23:12 via ottawacitizen.com
  A former deputy auditor general who claims he was wrongfully sacked by the city after Mayor Jim Watson blocked his bid to become the top municipal watchdog is grossly distorting the facts that led up to his termination, the city says in its first response to the lawsuit.
  Raymond Kostuch alleges that Watson prevented him from becoming auditor general because the men have different political affiliations. Kostuch was once a Tory candidate in a provincial election and Watson is a former Liberal MPP
  
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• Reevely: Smelling political gain, Liberals slow their own law for bubble zones around abortion clinics

  05-10-2017 23:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  Women in Ontario seeking abortions don’t need to be protected from harassment and intimidation until the Liberal party can extract maximum political advantage from talking about it, the governing party has decided.
  Not even a day after Attorney General Yasir Naqvi introduced a bill to forbid protests around abortion clinics, because the abuse of women seeking a legal health-care treatment has gone on long enough, he rejected an offer from the Progressive Conservatives to make his bill the
  
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• Smelling political gain, Liberals slow their own law for bubble zones around abortion clinics

  05-10-2017 22:44
  
  Women in Ontario seeking abortions don’t need to be protected from harassment and intimidation until the Liberal party can extract maximum political advantage from talking about it, the governing party has decided.
  
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• Feds to announce payout of up to $800M to Indigenous victims of '60s Scoop 1310news.com/2017/10/05/new…

  05-10-2017 22:39 via twitter.com
  Feds to announce payout of up to $800M to Indigenous victims of '60s Scoop 1310news.com/2017/10/05/new…
  
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• 'Solidarity Rally' held outside courthouse on first full day of Borutski trial - 1310news.com/2017/10/05/sol… #ottnews https://t.co/XXq4sAk6IJ

  05-10-2017 22:14 via twitter.com
  
  'Solidarity Rally' held outside courthouse on first full day of Borutski trial - 1310news.com/2017/10/05/sol… #ottnews https://t.co/XXq4sAk6IJ
  
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• Canadian Press reports federal government has agreed to pay hundreds of millions of dollars to Indigenous survivors of the '60s Scoop.

  05-10-2017 21:40 via twitter.com
  Canadian Press reports federal government has agreed to pay hundreds of millions of dollars to Indigenous survivors of the '60s Scoop.
  
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• No charges against OPP officers after man took his own life

  05-10-2017 21:36 via ottawacitizen.com
  There are no “reasonable grounds” to charge Ontario Provincial Police officers after they discovered a man who had taken his own life near Hawkesbury last May, the province’s police watchdog said Thursday.
  Ontario’s Special Investigations Unit was investigating the death of a 41-year-old man in St-Bernardin, near Hawkesbury, on May 13, 2016.
  The agency said Hawkesbury OPP were called to Concession Road 8 in Nation Township Friday responding to reports of a man in dis
  
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• "No reasonable grounds to lay charges against police officers" in Hawkesbury suicide: SIU 1310news.com/2017/10/05/no-… #ottnews

  05-10-2017 21:01 via twitter.com
  "No reasonable grounds to lay charges against police officers" in Hawkesbury suicide: SIU 1310news.com/2017/10/05/no-… #ottnews
  
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• .@MeehanCarolAnne talking Sens home opener and the latest on Captain Karlsson with Matt Kellison.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  05-10-2017 20:50 via twitter.com
  .@MeehanCarolAnne talking Sens home opener and the latest on Captain Karlsson with Matt Kellison.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Windstorm brings new growth to Britannia forest

  05-10-2017 20:35
  
  Despite all the damage last week’s windstorm did, it is already a force for regeneration in the area it hit hardest — Britannia.
  
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• Police, family plea for information about Inuit woman missing 6 months

  05-10-2017 20:27 via ottawacitizen.com
  Mary Papatsie has not been seen in more than 150 days.
  During those five months, there has been little public attention to her disappearance. There has been no mass mobilization.
  Just a few police news releases, and a growing sense of despair among those who loved her.
  Her family clings to a stubborn hope — that someone, somewhere must know something.
  The Ottawa woman, a mother of 10, seems to be slowly but surely fading into the ranks of Canada’s missing and murdered Indigenous wome
  
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• Thanksgiving long weekend open, closed 1310news.com/2017/10/05/tha… https://t.co/qli4W6MEwl

  05-10-2017 20:20 via twitter.com
  
  Thanksgiving long weekend open, closed1310news.com/2017/10/05/tha… https://t.co/qli4W6MEwl
  
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• Tarion warranty payouts to be fast-tracked under new legislation

  05-10-2017 20:15
  Proposed legislation will save home owners from red tape when they have problems with home builders.
  
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• .@MeehanCarolAnne is talking the Scalper Bot Bill & abortion clinic safe zones with @Yasir_Naqvi. Listen live:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  05-10-2017 19:48 via twitter.com
  .@MeehanCarolAnne is talking the Scalper Bot Bill & abortion clinic safe zones with @Yasir_Naqvi. Listen live:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Sections of Sir John A. Macdonald Parkway to shut down Friday for repair work

  05-10-2017 19:41
  
  Sections of the Sir John A. Macdonald Parkway will be shut down for several hours Friday while workers repair four catch basins.A section of the westbound left lane on the parkway, west of the Canadian War Museum, and a section of the westbound left land near the Richmond Road overpass will be closed from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
  
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• .@lraitt and Gatineau Mayor Maxime Padeneau-Jobin and @MeehanCarolAnne talk the Energy East Pipeline cancellation.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  05-10-2017 19:30 via twitter.com
  .@lraitt and Gatineau Mayor Maxime Padeneau-Jobin and @MeehanCarolAnne talk the Energy East Pipeline cancellation.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Scanlan: These are the root issues at heart of Sens attendance woes

  05-10-2017 19:24 via ottawacitizen.com
  Fans and the hockey club grow weary of the topic.
  Yet, the attendance issue of the Ottawa Senators is not something we can just tarp over and forget. Last spring, during the Senators spectacular run to the Eastern Conference final, Ottawa’s attendance became a national story and is likely to become one again this season, judging by the soft sales for the first two home games of the season, Thursday against the Washington Capitals and Saturday versus the Detroit Red Wings.
  For a better sens
  
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• What Jagmeet Singh's victory should mean for minorities

  05-10-2017 19:23 via ottawacitizen.com
  At the end of the day, Jagmeet Singh’s victory as leader of the embattled federal NDP wasn’t all that surprising. He’s young, charismatic, well-dressed, of minority origin (read non-white). That last one was probably more of a clincher than we would like to admit, given his relatively average performance in defining his mandate. And he probably had Justin Trudeau to thank a little, what with all the groundwork the prime minister laid through his “because it’s 2015&r
  
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• Public Service has more work to do on bilingualism

  05-10-2017 19:15 via ottawacitizen.com
  The bilingualism bonus given to some federal public servants has recently become an issue again, having appeared in one of the recommendations of the report on language of work, released Sept. 14 by Clerk of the Privy Council Michael Wernick. The report is not just about the bonus, however.
  It marks the second milestone in a very necessary and useful conversation on language of work in the federal public service.
  Language of work has been the subject of numerous controversies in the federal
  
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• Feds overestimated, ignored issues with Phoenix before roll out: Review 1310news.com/2017/10/05/fed…

  05-10-2017 19:04 via twitter.com
  Feds overestimated, ignored issues with Phoenix before roll out: Review 1310news.com/2017/10/05/fed…
  
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• Canadian military personnel charged with sexual assault

  05-10-2017 18:33 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Canadian Forces National Investigation Service says it has charged two members of the Canadian military with sexual assault. Those charges are related to two separate alleged incidents.
  In one case, the charge relates to an alleged incident involving another member of the Canadian Armed Forces during training at 5th Canadian Division Support Base Gagetown in August 2017.
  Corporal George MacLeod, a member of 36 Combat Engineer Regiment, a Primary Reserve unit in Sydney, Nova Scotia,
  
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• Karlsson out against Capitals, could return Saturday vs. Wings

  05-10-2017 18:14 via ottawacitizen.com
  Erik Karlsson won’t suit up Thursday night against the Washington Capitals.
  But the Ottawa Senators may not be without their captain for long.
  Senators general manager Pierre Dorion told reporters the club is “hopeful” Karlsson, who is recovering from foot surgery he had in June, could make his season debut as early as Saturday night against the Detroit Red Wings at home.
  Karlsson, who was given Thursday off, will rejoin the Senators for practice Friday at the Canadian Tire Cen
  
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• Crying Amanda Lindhout testifies about her 460 days of hell

  05-10-2017 17:59
  
  An emotional Amanda Lindhout is testifying in the trial of a man accused of kidnapping her in Somalia.
  
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• #Carfentanil, #fentanyl found in local drug supply. @rboyd6 joins @_MarkSutcliffe coming up:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  05-10-2017 17:44 via twitter.com
  #Carfentanil, #fentanyl found in local drug supply.@rboyd6 joins @_MarkSutcliffe coming up:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Libs & Con statistically tied; NDP a distant 3rd @VoiceOfFranky of @EKOSResearch NEXT bit.ly/1uwtdOs… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  05-10-2017 17:13 via twitter.com
  Libs & Con statistically tied; NDP a distant 3rd@VoiceOfFranky of @EKOSResearch NEXTbit.ly/1uwtdOs… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• HMCS Edmonton, HMCS Yellowknife return from Arctic on Friday

  05-10-2017 17:08 via ottawacitizen.com
  Her Majesty’s Canadian (HMC) Ships Edmonton and Yellowknife return to Canadian Forces Base Esquimalt, BC on Friday following their deployment to the Arctic in support of Operation LIMPID.
  The ships arrive around 10 a.m. local time.
   
  
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• B& B gone: How alleged scammers, now located, met their match in an Orléans proprietress

  05-10-2017 16:53 via ottawacitizen.com
  When a couple allegedly decided to rip off Orléans’s bed and breakfast operator Cathy Boretski, they had no idea who they were dealing with.
  Not only did Boretski convince them to pose for mug shots (which she would later turn over to police), she had the engagement ring they “accidentally” left behind as collateral for their unpaid bill appraised. It came from a dollar store.
  Boretski took the mug shots the morning after the couple’s first night at her Spoile
  
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• Coming up 11:05: @HockeyScanner on #Sens attendance woes: bit.ly/1uwtdOs @_MarkSutcliffe #ottnews https://t.co/BiBA212gy5

  05-10-2017 16:52 via twitter.com
  
  Coming up 11:05:@HockeyScanner on #Sens attendance woes:bit.ly/1uwtdOs @_MarkSutcliffe #ottnews https://t.co/BiBA212gy5
  
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• Gatineau mayor rejects developer's 'threats' to move projects to Ottawa

  05-10-2017 16:51 via ottawacitizen.com
  A running spat over two proposed condo towers in Gatineau has crossed the provincial border, with the head of Brigil Construction saying Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson is in his corner.
  Brigil wants to build two towers in a heritage district near the Museum of History. One would be 55 stories, the other 35.
  No way, says Gatineau Mayor Maxime Pedneaud-Jobin, who argues the towers would be fine somewhere else, but not among these narrow streets and historic homes.
  The city has proposed protected her
  
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• Ottawa Senators sign Mark Borowiecki to two-year extension

  05-10-2017 16:50 via ottawacitizen.com
  Mark Borowiecki has signed a two-year extension with the Ottawa Senators, keeping him under contract through the end of the 2019-20 season.
  Borowiecki, who is making $1.2 million this season, will also make $1.2 million in the following two campaigns.
  Borowiecki led the NHL in hits last season.
  More to come.
  
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• After #EdmontonAttack, vigilance & defiance Dr. Sheema Khan joins @_MarkSutcliffe NEXT bit.ly/1uwtdOs… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  05-10-2017 16:44 via twitter.com
  After #EdmontonAttack, vigilance & defianceDr. Sheema Khan joins @_MarkSutcliffe NEXT bit.ly/1uwtdOs… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Gatineau police seek witnesses, victims to exhibitionism

  05-10-2017 16:34 via ottawacitizen.com
  A man has been cruising the streets of Gatineau in a white van, offering women money to watch him masturbate.
  Now police want witnesses.
  The man in the white Ford Transit has been seen in the Mont-Bleu neighbourhood, Gatineau police say. He has been propositioning women in English.
  Last week police charged David Gibbs, 26, with exhibitionism and committing an indecent act in the presence of three women, but they also believe there may be more cases.
  The man may also have driven a black Ford Fusi
  
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• Coming up 9:45: The @senators kicks off season tonight & @JSportsnet has your preview: bit.ly/1uwtdOs… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  05-10-2017 15:40 via twitter.com
  Coming up 9:45: The @senators kicks off season tonight & @JSportsnet has your preview:bit.ly/1uwtdOs… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Market Place goes globe-trotting at Manotick's Third World Bazaar

  05-10-2017 15:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  Now in its 14th year in Manotick Station, the Third World Bazaar has become a rite of fall, offering colourful carpets, furniture, jewelry and home décor out of Peggy and Dick Bakker’s old barn.
  But before they ended up artfully arranged, they were gathered on buying trips around the world, from Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam to Nepal and Turkey, plus Mexico, Guatemala, Ecuador and Peru.
  “We buy directly from producers,” says Bakker, who does much of the globe
  
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• NEXT at 9:30: @Geddes28 joins @_MarkSutcliffe for their weekly @macleans on the Hill segment:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  05-10-2017 15:25 via twitter.com
  NEXT at 9:30: @Geddes28 joins @_MarkSutcliffe for their weekly @macleans on the Hill segment:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Gatineau cops seek witnesses, victims to exhibitionism

  05-10-2017 15:14
  
  A man has been cruising the streets of Gatineau in a white van, offering women money to watch him masturbate. Now police want witnesses. The man in the white Ford Transit has been seen in the Mont-Bleu neighbourhood, Gatineau police say.
  
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• Coming up on the 10 O'Clock Talk: @LMartinWashDC, @Stall680news & @1310glennis join @_marksutcliffe live:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  05-10-2017 15:14 via twitter.com
  Coming up on the 10 O'Clock Talk: @LMartinWashDC, @Stall680news & @1310glennis join @_marksutcliffe live:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Ottawa weather: Rain settles in for Thanskgiving [Video]

  05-10-2017 15:10
  
  It's the never-ending (weather) story.Starting Thursday night, Environment Canada's forecast features the risk of showers every single day through the long weekend. Temperatures, at least, continue to be well above average for Thanksgiving.
  
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• Coming up 9:15: @johanbrownrigg discusses safe zones for #abortion clinics: bit.ly/1uwtdOs… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  05-10-2017 15:06 via twitter.com
  Coming up 9:15: @johanbrownrigg discusses safe zones for #abortion clinics:bit.ly/1uwtdOs… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Were the Liberals justified in blocking an MP who opposes abortion from becoming the status of women chair? STORY: bit.ly/2xV685v

  05-10-2017 14:44 via twitter.com
  Were the Liberals justified in blocking an MP who opposes abortion from becoming the status of women chair?STORY: bit.ly/2xV685v
  
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• One dead after three-car collision on Boundary Road

  05-10-2017 14:26 via ottawacitizen.com
  Three people were injured, one fatally, in a three-car collision on Boundary Road in Ottawa’s far east end Wednesday night.
  The crash occurred just before 8 p.m. on Boundary Road near Highway 417.
  A 49-year-old man with “severe multi-system trauma” was taken to the Civic campus of The Ottawa Hospital where he was listed in critical condition, according to Ottawa paramedics.
  A 42-year-old woman suffered minor injuries and was treated at the scene.
  One of the drivers, a 30 year-o
  
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• Mild days, risk of rain through Thanksgiving long weekend

  05-10-2017 14:14 via ottawacitizen.com
  It’s the never-ending (weather) story.
  Starting Thursday night, Environment Canada’s forecast features the risk of showers every single day through the long weekend. Temperatures, at least, continue to be well above average for Thanksgiving.
  Thursday is sunny with clouds rolling in during the morning, blustery southwest winds at 20 km/h gusting to 40 near noon and a high of 19 C.
  There’s a 30 per cent chance of overnight showers as the wind drops off and the temperature dip to
  
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