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• Ottawa becomes first Canadian city to test driverless cars on public roads 1310news.com/2017/10/12/ott… #ottnews

  12-10-2017 23:29 via twitter.com
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• Police seek assistance to find missing woman

  12-10-2017 23:24 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Ottawa police are asking for assistance in locating a missing woman, Aline Karegeya, who was last seen on Oct. 6.
  The 47-year-old Lowertown resident is described as black, 5-7 and 160 pounds. She has very short, curly black hair, speaks both English and French, and uses public transportation. She has a medical condition that requires medicine and her right hand is noticeably cramped. There are concerns for her well-being and safety. 
  Anyone with information about Karegeya’s wherea
  
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• Missing woman requires medication: 1310news.com/2017/10/12/mis… #ottnews

  12-10-2017 23:24 via twitter.com
  Missing woman requires medication: 1310news.com/2017/10/12/mis… #ottnews
  
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• City, law enforcement still standing down as injection tent hits seven weeks

  12-10-2017 23:21 via ottawacitizen.com
  The unsanctioned supervised injection tent in a Lowertown park will have been operating for seven weeks on Friday and city hall still hasn’t figured out what to do about it.
  Top officials are trying to move the tent from Raphael Brunet Park to another location. Mayor Jim Watson continues to leave it up to law enforcement to decide how to handle Overdose Prevention Ottawa’s makeshift injection site, which is open for three hours each evening.
  “That’s a decision of bylaw an
  
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• 'It makes you feel you're not alone': Supervised injection trailer arrives at Shepherds of Good Hope

  12-10-2017 23:19 via ottawacitizen.com
  Just before 11 a.m. on Thursday, John Sangster sat cross-legged on the pavement in a Lowertown parking lot with a needle filled with the opioid hydromorphone pressed into his arm.
  A woman in a Porsche SUV pulled into the lot next to Saint Brigid’s Centre for the Arts looking for a spot as Sangster packed up a black plastic bag with syringes, a lighter and disposable wipes, got to his feet and walked back toward the Shepherds of Good Hope, one block away.
  It’s a daily ritual for
  
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• Hockey on Parliament Hill could be the perfect Canada 150 farewell

  12-10-2017 23:13
  
  It seems a bit early to be constructing an outdoor hockey rink.Yet, workers were laying the groundwork Thursday for what figures to be a unique skating pad on the lawn of Parliament Hill, one that should provide fitting closure to Canada 150 celebrations.
  
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• Did someone say wiener dog parade? 5 Things to do in Ottawa this week

  12-10-2017 23:11
  Also on tap are Art in the Dark and a Mad Crafters tea party event.
  
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• 'We the Parents' hold opioid forum in Kanata tonight 1310news.com/2017/10/12/par… #ottnews

  12-10-2017 23:09 via twitter.com
  'We the Parents' hold opioid forum in Kanata tonight1310news.com/2017/10/12/par… #ottnews
  
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• Carleton notifies faculty and staff of phishing scam, cuts service provider

  12-10-2017 23:09
  
  Carleton University sent out a notice to students Thursday warning their names and email addresses may have been accessed by several email phishing scams in September.
  
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• Scanlan: Hockey on Parliament Hill could be the perfect Canada 150 farewell

  12-10-2017 23:06 via ottawacitizen.com
  It seems a bit early to be constructing an outdoor hockey rink.
  Yet, workers were laying the groundwork Thursday for what figures to be a unique skating pad on the lawn of Parliament Hill, one that should provide fitting closure to Canada 150 celebrations.
  Heritage Canada, along with the Ottawa Senators and the Bell Capital Cup tournament, have announced the temporary rink will be used for various public skating and hockey initiatives from Dec. 7 to 31.
  It isn’t hard to imagine a New Year&
  
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• UPDATED: Canadian-American family held captive by Taliban-linked group released 1310news.com/2017/10/12/can…

  12-10-2017 22:52 via twitter.com
  UPDATED: Canadian-American family held captive by Taliban-linked group released 1310news.com/2017/10/12/can…
  
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• Cyclists are lighting up the road—literally

  12-10-2017 22:42
  New cycling infrastructure on O'Connor will alert drivers to oncoming cyclists through the use of blinking LEDs triggered by thermal cameras
  
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• Pardy: Canadians held hostage – we can't be complacent

  12-10-2017 22:21 via ottawacitizen.com
  Successful rescues of overseas kidnap victims, such as the freeing of the Boyle family by Pakistani security forces, are rare. More often than not, such actions end with the death of the victims or the rescuers. Experts say less than 20 per cent of rescue attempts succeed. 
  That’s one reason the Canadian government can’t be complacent when our citizens are kidnapped abroad.
  Canadian Joshua Boyle and his wife, Caitlan Coleman, an American, were kidnapped in early October 2012 as
  
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• Half-smoked Winston Churchill cigar sells for $12,000 1310news.com/2017/10/12/hal…

  12-10-2017 22:19 via twitter.com
  Half-smoked Winston Churchill cigar sells for $12,0001310news.com/2017/10/12/hal…
  
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• Capital Voices: She was a drum majorette and she swung her steel baton with authority

  12-10-2017 22:15 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.
  “I was the first drum majorette for the Ottawa Rough Riders, and the on
  
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• .@PoliceGatineau looking for 16 y.o. Angélique Gilbert-Séguin, #MISSING since Aug.26. May be in the #Montreal area.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  12-10-2017 22:14 via twitter.com
  .@PoliceGatineau looking for 16 y.o. Angélique Gilbert-Séguin, #MISSING since Aug.26. May be in the #Montreal area.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Algonquin lays out strike plans 1310news.com/2017/10/12/alg…

  12-10-2017 22:11 via twitter.com
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• Reevely: Two years later, still waiting for the Progressive Conservatives to stand for something

  12-10-2017 20:50 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Ontario Progressive Conservatives look as though they’ll finish nearly two years of deciding what they stand for without much more idea than they had going in.
  Next month they’ll study 139 policy resolutions at a major convention in Toronto, laying groundwork for the 2018 election campaign. They released the list Wednesday night. They’re not policy yet, and party policy is not a campaign platform. The Tories started this at an Ottawa convention in late winter 2016, where le
  
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• Nussbaum: How to build public support for urban intensification

  12-10-2017 20:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  You could not be faulted for approaching the new Minto building at the western gateway of Beechwood Avenue with excited anticipation.
  After a fire devastated the previous structure in 2011, reducing apartments and beloved shops to ash, the sad and barren site sat boarded up until 2015, when construction began on a nine-storey, mixed-use building.
  As you approach the new edifice, however, you may be puzzled. You recall the renderings showed an attractive entrance and transparent windows at a notc
  
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• Today's letters: Ode to Ottawa's bird lady

  12-10-2017 20:17 via ottawacitizen.com
  The fun side of bird expert Elizabeth Le Geyt, and the serious topic of guns and terrorism, moved our letter writers today. You can write to us too at [email protected]  
  If you’re a first-time writer, please consult our guide, which you can find here.
  —
  Warm and funny, Le Geyt will be missed
  Re: Citizen’s ‘bird lady’ inspired generation of naturalists, Oct. 7.
  It was my privilege to know Elizabeth Le Geyt personally. I treasured my visits with her
  
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• LISTEN: @MeehanCarolAnne talks to Howard Sapers about a call for a ban on solitary confinement in Ontario prisons.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  12-10-2017 20:15 via twitter.com
  LISTEN: @MeehanCarolAnne talks to Howard Sapers about a call for a ban on solitary confinement in Ontario prisons.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• LISTEN: @MeehanCarolAnne chats with @LauraPeck6 about this week's top trending stories in the news.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  12-10-2017 20:02 via twitter.com
  LISTEN: @MeehanCarolAnne chats with @LauraPeck6 about this week's top trending stories in the news.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• LISTEN: @MacLeodLisa joins @MeehanCarolAnne to talk about an event tonight put on by @WeTheParentsCAN.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  12-10-2017 19:45 via twitter.com
  LISTEN: @MacLeodLisa joins @MeehanCarolAnne to talk about an event tonight put on by @WeTheParentsCAN.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• LISTEN: Wendy Muckle of Ottawa Inner City Health talks to @MeehanCarolAnne about a new supervised injection trailer… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  12-10-2017 19:30 via twitter.com
  LISTEN: Wendy Muckle of Ottawa Inner City Health talks to @MeehanCarolAnne about a new supervised injection trailer… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Game Day: Ottawa Redblacks at Saskatchewan Roughriders

  12-10-2017 19:21 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa at Saskatchewan
  WHEN: 10 p.m. EST Friday
  WHERE: Mosaic Stadium
  RADIO: TSN 1200, FM 104,7, Sirius XM 167 (English), 174 (French)
  STREAM: TSN GO
  TV: TSN, RDS, ESPN 3 (in the U.S.)
  WEATHER: 3C, could be 0C by end of game, 30% chance of precipitation.
  GAME LINE: Roughriders by 3.
  FIVE THINGS TO WATCH1. Redblacks RB William PowellPowell rushed for a career-high 187 yards two weeks ago, the highest single-game by a Redblacks player in the team’s four-year history. Powell had his back-to-b
  
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• CFL Alumni Legends Luncheon a Grey Cup Festival highlight

  12-10-2017 19:20 via ottawacitizen.com
  While there will be plenty of familiar faces around Ottawa for next month’s Grey Cup, your best place to meet former CFL stars will be Nov. 24 at the CFL Alumni Association’s Legends Luncheon.
  The event, at noon at the Shaw Centre’s Canada Hall, will have a star-studded group of legends on hand – with tickets going for $100 each or $850 for a table of 10. You can order the tickets at tdplace.ca/promo-code (the promo code is CFLAA). More than 650 tickets have already been
  
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• LISTEN LIVE: @MeehanCarolAnne gets the latest on a potential teachers strike from OPSEU's JP Hornick. player.1310news.com

  12-10-2017 19:16 via twitter.com
  LISTEN LIVE: @MeehanCarolAnne gets the latest on a potential teachers strike from OPSEU's JP Hornick. player.1310news.com
  
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• LISTEN LIVE: A skating rink on Parliament Hill! @canada150th's Andrew Cambell joins @MeehanCarolAnne.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  12-10-2017 19:05 via twitter.com
  LISTEN LIVE: A skating rink on Parliament Hill! @canada150th's Andrew Cambell joins @MeehanCarolAnne.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Police seek public's help to identify assailants in September assault

  12-10-2017 18:58 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa police are seeking the public’s assistance to identify suspects that may have been involved in a Sept. 8 assault that took place along Rideau Street.
  According to police, at around 7:40 p.m. that day, the two female victims entered a fast food restaurant located near the Rideau Centre in downtown Ottawa. The two victims encountered a large group of 11 men and women inside the establishment. They decided to leave. Once outside they realized they had been followed out of the
  
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• NEXT #Astrophysics Prof @DrRob_Thacker w/ @_MarkSutcliffe for his weekly #science segment bit.ly/1ppeuDa… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  12-10-2017 18:28 via twitter.com
  NEXT#Astrophysics Prof @DrRob_Thacker w/ @_MarkSutcliffe for his weekly #science segmentbit.ly/1ppeuDa… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Parliament Hill to host public skating rink in December

  12-10-2017 18:06
  
  Canadians are invited to lace up their skates and take to The Hill this December.The government said Thursday it will build a family skating rink on Parliament Hill as the country closes out its 2017 150th birthday celebration.The rink will be open for skating from Dec. 7 until Dec. 31 and will culminate with a New Year’s Eve celebration
  
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• NEXT on the #PowerLUNCH: @RadioNewsGuy & @johnsonthree join @_MarkSutcliffe live in studio:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  12-10-2017 17:58 via twitter.com
  NEXT on the #PowerLUNCH:@RadioNewsGuy & @johnsonthree join @_MarkSutcliffe live in studio:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Supervised injection trailer arriving at Shepherds of Good Hope as staff wait for federal OK

  12-10-2017 17:46 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa Inner City Health and the Shepherds of Good Hope aren’t waiting for Health Canada’s approval before preparing a supervised injection site at what one executive calls the “ground zero” of Ottawa’s opioid crisis.
  Deirdre Freiheit, president and CEO of the Shepherds, said staff are “barely making it by the skin of our teeth” trying to keep clients safe, constantly scouring the block around the King Edward Avenue shelter for anyone who has overdo
  
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• Four teens caught in Escape, arrested for theft

  12-10-2017 17:42 via ottawacitizen.com
  It was just before lunchtime on Wednesday when a Gatineau police officer noticed a familiar car — familiar because the officer herself had taken the report when it was allegedly stolen a few days earlier.
  The red Ford Escape was parked outside a massage studio next door to a tattoo shop on St. Joseph Boulevard near Boulevard des Allumettières.
  There were three young men in the Escape. The officer arrested all three on the spot, and arrested a teenage girl after some further inv
  
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• NEXT at 11:30 @Spencerpress joins @marksutcliffe for weekly @OttawaCitizen segment: bit.ly/1ppeuDa… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  12-10-2017 17:22 via twitter.com
  NEXT at 11:30@Spencerpress joins @marksutcliffe for weekly @OttawaCitizen segment: bit.ly/1ppeuDa… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Camera technology aimed at making O'Connor bike lanes safer

  12-10-2017 17:21 via ottawacitizen.com
  New camera technology installed along sections of the O’Connor Street bike lanes is aimed at making the roadway safer for cyclists, Ottawa police announced Thursday. 
  According to police, the cameras, which are installed near the intersection of O’Connor and Waverley streets, will detect the motion of cyclists approaching the intersection, send that information to computers stored in protected casings on nearby hydro poles and activate nine LED lights wh
  
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• SIU investigating after one person extricated in rollover on Maple Park Private

  12-10-2017 16:57 via ottawacitizen.com
  The province’s police watchdog is investigating after one person had to be extricated from a car that rolled over and came to rest in the yard at 3 Maple Park Private on Wednesday evening.
  A call came in at 6:12 about a crash at Maple Park and Hunt Club Road, Ottawa Fire Services said in a news release.
  Ottawa paramedics also responded, and said in a tweet that two teenage males suffered minor injuries while a third party was released at the scene.
  Ottawa police said the Special Investigat
  
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• NEXT at 11 Sen. Vern White joins @_marksutcliffe to discuss #opioidcrisis in #Ottawa: bit.ly/1uwtdOs… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  12-10-2017 16:52 via twitter.com
  NEXT at 11Sen. Vern White joins @_marksutcliffe to discuss #opioidcrisis in #Ottawa: bit.ly/1uwtdOs… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• #HarveyWeinstein and the theatre of victim blame: @anne_kingston joins @_marksutcliffe coming up at 10:45:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  12-10-2017 16:30 via twitter.com
  #HarveyWeinstein and the theatre of victim blame:@anne_kingston joins @_marksutcliffe coming up at 10:45:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Coming up 10:30 @powerstim joins @_MarkSutcliffe LIVE: bit.ly/1uwtdOs #cdnpoli… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  12-10-2017 16:20 via twitter.com
  Coming up 10:30@powerstim joins @_MarkSutcliffe LIVE: bit.ly/1uwtdOs #cdnpoli… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Renovation Transformation: A (free) roof over their heads

  12-10-2017 15:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  Pam Dupuis has lived in her semi-detached home for almost 45 years. She was raised in the charming Nepean household and left to pursue her post-secondary education out west. Later on, she inherited her childhood home from her parents and now lives there with her four children.
  Over the years, the roof had fallen into a state of disrepair — the tiles had started to curl and lift off the rooftop. It hadn’t started leaking yet but Pam was afraid that it wasn’t going to surviv
  
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• NEXT at 915: @WeTheParentsCAN Sean O'leary on #opioid forum being held tonight in #Kanata:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  12-10-2017 15:07 via twitter.com
  NEXT at 915: @WeTheParentsCAN Sean O'leary on #opioid forum being held tonight in #Kanata:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Canadian-American family held captive by Taliban-linked group released bit.ly/2z2A0dt https://t.co/QvaIwAjxdr

  12-10-2017 14:55 via twitter.com
  
  Canadian-American family held captive by Taliban-linked group releasedbit.ly/2z2A0dt https://t.co/QvaIwAjxdr
  
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• Deadly and vast #CaliforniaFires could gain momentum: bit.ly/2gemK1u https://t.co/qicUUROtIU

  12-10-2017 14:50 via twitter.com
  
  Deadly and vast #CaliforniaFires could gain momentum: bit.ly/2gemK1u https://t.co/qicUUROtIU
  
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• Picazo: Why the 'she's someone's daughter' defence is hollow

  12-10-2017 14:43 via ottawacitizen.com
  In the wake of allegations swirling around Harvey Weinstein, a powerful, dominant figure in Hollywood, where the emerging picture suggests decades of sexual predation, many women are finding their voice in this rare window for candid dialogue and raw confession.
  The response from some of Hollywood’s leading men, however, has been a standard refrain, one that helps maintain the power dynamic which allows abuse to happen.When Matt Damon claims “as the father of four daug
  
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• It was 1 C this morning – enjoy today's sun because it's getting cold again

  12-10-2017 14:41 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa awoke to 1 C and a frost advisory Thursday but the mercury is forecast to climb to a balmy 15 C under mainly sunny skies.
  Environment Canada predicts an overnight low of 3 C with a risk of frost.
  Expect increasing cloudiness Friday with a 30 per cent chance of afternoon showers and a high of 17 C. There’s a forecast 40 per cent chance of showers overnight and a low of 14 C.
  The forecast is for clouds and highs of 19 C through the weekend with 40 per cent chance of showers Satur
  
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• POLL: Is the TDSB right to eliminate the word "chief" from job titles out of respect for indigenous people? STORY: bit.ly/2xAMLzB

  12-10-2017 14:14 via twitter.com
  POLL: Is the TDSB right to eliminate the word "chief" from job titles out of respect for indigenous people? STORY: bit.ly/2xAMLzB
  
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• UPDATE: The SIU has now invoked its mandate, which it does any time there are injuries in incidents involving polic… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  12-10-2017 13:58 via twitter.com
  UPDATE: The SIU has now invoked its mandate, which it does any time there are injuries in incidents involving polic… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• POLL: When will you be comfortable sharing the road w/ an #Autonomous car? -Right away -When they are fully tested… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  12-10-2017 13:50 via twitter.com
  POLL: When will you be comfortable sharing the road w/ an #Autonomous car?-Right away -When they are fully tested… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Autonomous car road test set for this afternoon in #Ottawa; first in #Canada bit.ly/2yHH1UR #ottnews… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  12-10-2017 13:45 via twitter.com
  Autonomous car road test set for this afternoon in #Ottawa; first in #Canada bit.ly/2yHH1UR #ottnews… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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