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• Algonquin College students have mixed feeling about possible teacher strike

  13-10-2017 23:59
  
  Algonquin College nursing student Mia Menard says she is “totally supportive” of her professors who are threatening to strike on Monday.“But at the same time, I’m really nervous about my own schooling, and what’s going to happen,” said the 23-year-old in an interview Friday.
  
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• Algonquin College students have mixed feelings about possible teacher strike

  13-10-2017 23:53 via ottawacitizen.com
  Algonquin College nursing student Mia Menard says she is “totally supportive” of her professors who are threatening to strike on Monday.
  “But at the same time, I’m really nervous about my own schooling, and what’s going to happen,” said the 23-year-old in an interview Friday. Her reaction was typical among a smattering of students interviewed on campus as the clock ticks toward a Monday morning strike deadline set by the faculty union.
  College president Cheryl
  
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• Fury FC hoping to end frustrating season on winning note

  13-10-2017 23:51 via ottawacitizen.com
  It took 11 agonizing results spread over eight often frustrating weeks, but Julian de Guzman finally has a game ball.
  Ottawa Fury FC’s interim head coach has it safely stored in his office at TD Place stadium. Now all he needs are signatures from all the players who made it a keepsake.
  Since recording his first victory as head coach, last Sunday’s wildly impressive 4-0 triumph against Cincinnati FC, de Guzman has received congratulatory texts from the man he replaced back back in mid
  
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• Charges against two Ottawa criminal lawyers resolved

  13-10-2017 23:46 via ottawacitizen.com
  Criminal charges separately laid against two Ottawa defence lawyers have been resolved with a conditional discharge and a peace bond.
  Criminal defence lawyer Natasha Calvinho was charged in 2016 with dangerous driving after what police alleged was a November 2015 hit-and-run that left another driver with minor injuries. In August of this year, Calvinho was given a conditional discharge and 12 months probation.
  Calvinho was previously charged with impaired driving and failing or refusing to give
  
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• All charges dropped against Winchester man, ending epic legal saga

  13-10-2017 23:42 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Crown has dropped all criminal charges laid against a Winchester man in the course of a cold case investigation into unsolved homicides in Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry. 
  Crown attorney Jason Pilon announced earlier this week in a Morrisburg court that the case against James Henry “Jimmy” Wise has been withdrawn. 
  He did not give any reasons for the decision and did not return calls from the Citizen. 
  Wise, 73, was charged with 10 criminal counts following an Onta
  
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• Scoffield: Politics matters – cars, Carr and Quebec

  13-10-2017 23:39 via ottawacitizen.com
  Any hope the Liberals had of a quiet Thanksgiving break melted away quickly this week, even with MPs back in their ridings and the party leaders politicking in distant places.
  The hullabaloo over the government’s tax proposals degenerated into a head-scratcher, with the governing party having to revise, re-explain and eventually retract an obscure tax change on retail employees’ benefits that suddenly grabbed the public’s interest.
  While it’s still unclear whether slivers
  
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• U.S. drops bombshell auto parts demand on NAFTA trade talks - 1310news.com/2017/10/13/u-s… https://t.co/OA2JaBxZyh

  13-10-2017 23:30 via twitter.com
  
  U.S. drops bombshell auto parts demand on NAFTA trade talks - 1310news.com/2017/10/13/u-s… https://t.co/OA2JaBxZyh
  
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• BREAKING: City fined after O-Trains fail to stop at red lights - 1310news.com/2017/10/13/cit… #ottnews https://t.co/YOJ0ah6hdC

  13-10-2017 23:24 via twitter.com
  
  BREAKING: City fined after O-Trains fail to stop at red lights - 1310news.com/2017/10/13/cit… #ottnews https://t.co/YOJ0ah6hdC
  
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• City fined after train blows through signal again

  13-10-2017 23:08 via ottawacitizen.com
  The City of Ottawa has been fined $42,708.06 because a Trillium Line train blew a signal last May — not the first time it has happened.
  Transportation general manager John Manconi told council in a memo on Friday that on May 3, a train was travelling at a low speed as it approached a passing track. It rolled through a red signal after a train travelling in the opposite direction had already passed, the memo said.
  The train system’s automated protection system kicked in and broug
  
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• Stardust and slimy creatures on the list for Ottawa this weekend - CBC.ca

  13-10-2017 23:02
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  Stardust and slimy creatures on the list for Ottawa this weekend
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  Creatures great and small, peace of mind and a love story set in dark times are among the activities happening in Ottawa this weekend. Meet the creatures. A chance to wander through the landscape of Canada's living history, the Canadian Museum of ...
  
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• Gatineau hospital temporarily cuts elective surgeries by 10 per cent

  13-10-2017 22:54 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Gatineau hospital is rescheduling 10 per cent of its elective surgeries over the next two months as it deals with a shortage of specialized nurses.
  Guy Morissette, director of medical services for the hospital, said Friday patients may be treated in other Quebec hospitals in Buckingham, Maniwaki and Shawville.
  “It will take two or three months before we can go back to our regular offer of service,” said Morisette, adding the Hull hospital is also affected by the staff shorta
  
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• Sears Canada granted permission to liquidate remaining 130 stores - 1310news.com/2017/10/13/sea… #ottnews https://t.co/00jx2UooX0

  13-10-2017 22:45 via twitter.com
  
  Sears Canada granted permission to liquidate remaining 130 stores - 1310news.com/2017/10/13/sea… #ottnews https://t.co/00jx2UooX0
  
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• Editorial cartoons for October 2017

  13-10-2017 22:28 via ottawacitizen.com
  Here’s how our cartoonists see Canada and the world.ShareHow our cartoonists see the world in OctoberTumblr Pinterest Google Plus Reddit LinkedInEmailGALLERY:How our cartoonists see the world in October A Malcolm Mayes cartoon on the Harvey Weinstein allegations Malcolm Mayes NAFTA  Greg Perry Liberal taxes  Bruce MacKinnon Happy Thanksgiving  Steve Nease Fall's coming  Patrick Lamontagne Jagmeet wins  Steve Nease Vegas shooting  Steve Nease Fall is here
  
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• Police disciplinary charges against Ottawa officers stayed

  13-10-2017 22:16 via ottawacitizen.com
  Police disciplinary charges laid by the police watchdog against three Ottawa officers that were shrouded by secret proceedings were stayed last month, the Citizen has learned. 
  The charges — against an inspector and two constables for allegations made against them while they were in the drug squad — were laid by the Office of the Independent Review Director and came to a hearing which began in September 2016.
  All three officers had been charged with neglect of duty, breach of co
  
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• Police disciplinary charges against Ottawa officers stayed - Ottawa Citizen

  13-10-2017 22:14
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  Police disciplinary charges against Ottawa officers stayed
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  Police disciplinary charges laid by the police watchdog against three Ottawa officers that were shrouded by secret proceedings were stayed last month, the Citizen has learned. The charges — against an inspector and two constables for allegations made ...and more »
  
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• Politicians fund daycare subsidy program properly, praise selves

  13-10-2017 21:59
  
  Four politicians gathered in a Westboro daycare centre Friday morning to congratulate one another on spending money they promised to spend months ago, enough to make a program helping needy families pay for child care work the way it’s supposed to.“As you know, partnerships is absolutely what it’s all about.
  
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• Reevely: Politicians fund daycare subsidy program properly, praise selves

  13-10-2017 21:58 via ottawacitizen.com
  Four politicians gathered in a Westboro daycare centre Friday morning to congratulate one another on spending money they promised to spend months ago, enough to make a program helping needy families pay for child care work the way it’s supposed to.
  “As you know, partnerships is absolutely what it’s all about. When it goes to government and doing good policy, when all levels of government come together, and work together, we can actually achieve things that I think are magical,&
  
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• A Tribe Called Red pulls its music from Mìwàte

  13-10-2017 21:56 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa-based group A Tribe Called Red has pulled its music from Mìwàte, the sound and light show at Chaudière Falls, because it does not want to be associated with anything that celebrates Canada’s 150th birthday. 
  Music from the three-member DJ crew made up two minutes of the 10-minute soundtrack for the production, which launched one week ago at the falls.
  More than 13,000 people have already viewed the spectacle presented as part of Ottawa 2017, the city&r
  
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• Algonquin among 24 Ontario colleges awaiting potential faculty strike Monday - 1310news.com/2017/10/13/alg… #ottnews https://t.co/Ad9m1pIcc9

  13-10-2017 21:49 via twitter.com
  
  Algonquin among 24 Ontario colleges awaiting potential faculty strike Monday - 1310news.com/2017/10/13/alg… #ottnews https://t.co/Ad9m1pIcc9
  
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• Dark matter: Carleton physicist gets $3.35M to help unravel mysteries of the universe

  13-10-2017 21:32 via ottawacitizen.com
  A Carleton University experimental physicist has been awarded $3.35 million to build a lab to help gain insight into the nature of neutrinos and dark matter. The elusive answers to those questions could lead to nothing less than a better understanding of how the universe was formed. 
  Neutrinos are much smaller than other known particles, and are very difficult to detect. The actually mass of the neutrino is not known. A measurement that would shed light on its mass and the origin of that ma
  
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• UPDATED: Police believe shooting was targeted, but don’t believe person injured was the intended target: 1310news.com/2017/10/13/one… #ottnews

  13-10-2017 21:23 via twitter.com
  UPDATED: Police believe shooting was targeted, but don’t believe person injured was the intended target:1310news.com/2017/10/13/one… #ottnews
  
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• Boucher decides to put Anderson in net against the Flames

  13-10-2017 21:18 via ottawacitizen.com
  CALGARY — Craig Anderson will stay in the net Friday night.
  While it may have made more sense for Ottawa coach Guy Boucher to hold the club’s starting goalie until Saturday night’s game against the Edmonton Oilers in this back-to-back series in Alberta, the Senators will start Anderson against the Calgary Flames at the Saddledome.
  Coming off a 3-2 shootout victory over the Vancouver Canucks Tuesday night, Boucher opted to stick with his starter. It will be Anderson’s four
  
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• Police say two man were shot in the south end this am - 1 injured. Shooting was targeted, but victim not intended target. #ottnews

  13-10-2017 21:04 via twitter.com
  Police say two man were shot in the south end this am - 1 injured. Shooting was targeted, but victim not intended target. #ottnews
  
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• Transit and economic development are top Ottawa interests in Gatineau municipal election

  13-10-2017 20:59
  
  Ottawa’s ties with Gatineau have grown stronger in recent years, which is why Mayor Jim Watson is curious to see how the municipal election will shake out on the other side of the Ottawa River.“I follow the mayor’s race because they are our next-door neighbours and it’s important that we have a good relationship, but I’ll let the voters decide.
  
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• LISTEN: @MeehanCarolAnne chats with foodie Robin Duetta and @ottawacity's Bart Cormier to talk about weekend events… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  13-10-2017 20:40 via twitter.com
  LISTEN: @MeehanCarolAnne chats with foodie Robin Duetta and @ottawacity's Bart Cormier to talk about weekend events… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• LISTEN: Sean O'Leary of @WeTheParentsCAN is letting @MeehanCarolAnne know what came of a mtg with gvmnt officials.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  13-10-2017 20:30 via twitter.com
  LISTEN: Sean O'Leary of @WeTheParentsCAN is letting @MeehanCarolAnne know what came of a mtg with gvmnt officials.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• How Elizabeth Le Geyt connected us to nature

  13-10-2017 20:25 via ottawacitizen.com
  It was the summer of 2012. I had grown to love reading Elizabeth Le Geyt’s bird columns, and sometimes she inspired me to write down my “bird” experiences. I should say that I was not a “birder” as such, just a lonely long-distance runner who would frequently find himself in the company of our flying friends. In particular, another loner, the heron.
  So it was that before dawn that Saturday in July, I revved up the engines in my legs for close to 30 kilometres up the
  
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• LEGO Ninjago a brick-based brawler that younger gamers will love

  13-10-2017 20:17 via ottawacitizen.com
  Go Ninja go.
  With it’s latest brick-based adventure, LEGO takes a small step forward to introduce some brawling basics that make this game, at times, one of the best LEGO adventures released to date.
  However, repetitive play and some technical issues that cause glitching, coupled with a rather short storyline take away from what could have been LEGO’s best offering yet.
  The game opens with a brief training session against the Master Chicken (an actual karate-fighting bird) who has ki
  
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• LISTEN: @MeehanCarolAnne is finding out how autonomous cars did on Ottawa roads from Grant Courville at Blackberry.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  13-10-2017 20:15 via twitter.com
  LISTEN: @MeehanCarolAnne is finding out how autonomous cars did on Ottawa roads from Grant Courville at Blackberry.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Ottawa Writers Festival's 20th edition puts spotlight on Indigenous authors, progressive issues

  13-10-2017 20:13 via ottawacitizen.com
  Twenty years ago, when the very first Ottawa International Writers Festival was held at the National Arts Centre, Algonquin elder William Commanda welcomed eventgoers to unceded Algonquin territory.
  “We did the right thing way back when,” says Sean Wilson, the festival’s artistic director. This year’s fall festival, which consists of 20 events from Oct. 19 to 24, will bring the event “full circle,” he adds, when it gives special prominence to Indigenous w
  
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• Growing wild turkey population takes bite out of Ontario forests

  13-10-2017 20:13 via ottawacitizen.com
  Eastern North America’s wild turkey population is growing so fast that two Pennsylvania scientists say they are damaging parts of forests in their state, and Ontario could suffer as well.
  Twenty years ago, there were no wild turkeys in Eastern Ontario and the Outaouais, but Ontario and Quebec released them as game for hunters. Today these big, tough, slightly comical birds are all around.
  At the University of Pittsburgh, Michael Chips and Walter Carson tramped through forests counting plac
  
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• LISTEN: @MeehanCarolAnne chats with movie reviewer Keith Whittier about what you need to see this weekend.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  13-10-2017 20:03 via twitter.com
  LISTEN: @MeehanCarolAnne chats with movie reviewer Keith Whittier about what you need to see this weekend.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• #Otttraffic twitter.com/OttawaPolice/s…

  13-10-2017 19:59 via twitter.com
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• LISTEN: @PierrePoilievre speaks with @MeehanCarolAnne about @Bill_Morneau's recent corporation disclosure.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  13-10-2017 19:45 via twitter.com
  LISTEN: @PierrePoilievre speaks with @MeehanCarolAnne about @Bill_Morneau's recent corporation disclosure.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• LISTEN: Ottawa Lyme Disease advocate Lesley Fleming talks to @MeehanCarolAnne about living her worst fear.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  13-10-2017 19:30 via twitter.com
  LISTEN: Ottawa Lyme Disease advocate Lesley Fleming talks to @MeehanCarolAnne about living her worst fear.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• LISTEN: @JulieSLalonde of @HollabackOttawa joins @MeehanCarolAnne to talk #Weinstein and a Twitter boycott.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  13-10-2017 19:15 via twitter.com
  LISTEN: @JulieSLalonde of @HollabackOttawa joins @MeehanCarolAnne to talk #Weinstein and a Twitter boycott.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Pest company fined $130,000 after students at cockroach-infested school sickened

  13-10-2017 18:16 via ottawacitizen.com
  A pest control company has been fined $130,000 for applying insecticides that left some kids and staff at Charles H. Hulse Public School sick, shutting down the Alta Vista elementary school for more than a month.
  Rentokil Pest Control Canada Ltd. and employee Luc Lortie pleaded guilty Thursday to one count under the Pesticides Act in the April 2015 incident. Rentokil was fined $130,000 plus a victim fine surcharge of $32,500; Lortie pleaded guilty and was fined $2,400 plus a victim fine sur
  
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• NEXT on the #PowerLUNCH: @ScottMoffatt21 & @SocialKeenan join @_MarkSutcliffe live in studio:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  13-10-2017 17:59 via twitter.com
  NEXT on the #PowerLUNCH: @ScottMoffatt21 & @SocialKeenan join @_MarkSutcliffe live in studio:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• It's time to check your carbon monoxide detectors

  13-10-2017 17:49
  
  Ottawa Fire Services are reminding residents to check the functionality of their carbon monoxide detectors after two recent close calls at homes in Ottawa. According to officials, in the past two weeks, firefighters have responded to a number of calls where carbon monoxide alarms were activated.
  
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• Still ahead: @BarryDavis_ joins @_MarkSutcliffe to talk #baseball: bit.ly/1uwtdOs #ottnews… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  13-10-2017 17:42 via twitter.com
  Still ahead:@BarryDavis_ joins @_MarkSutcliffe to talk #baseball: bit.ly/1uwtdOs#ottnews… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Check your carbon monoxide detectors, Ottawa fire warns after recent close calls

  13-10-2017 17:40 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa Fire Services are reminding residents to check the functionality of their carbon monoxide detectors after two recent close calls at homes in Ottawa.
  According to officials, in the past two weeks, firefighters have responded to a number of calls where carbon monoxide alarms were activated. In some cases, the alarms were defective and needed new batteries or replacement.
  However, in two cases, the level of carbon monoxide detected in the homes was highly toxic.
  On the morning of Oct. 1
  
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• Suspects wanted: Cops seek two more after Train Yards bank robbery

  13-10-2017 17:30
  
  Ottawa police have arrested and charged an Ottawa man in relation to a September bank robbery in the Train Yards shopping complex.According to police, on Sept. 18 around 3:10 p.m., three suspects entered a bank on Trainyards Drive.
  
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• Coming up 11:30: @drjessicaross on preparing kids for the legalization of pot: bit.ly/1ppeuDa… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  13-10-2017 17:20 via twitter.com
  Coming up 11:30: @drjessicaross on preparing kids for the legalization of pot: bit.ly/1ppeuDa… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Gormley: What does North Korea really want? To survive

  13-10-2017 17:17 via ottawacitizen.com
  It is fair to assume that human civilization generally wishes to avoid obliteration by nuclear war. It should be admitted at the outset, however, that we cannot know all that the regime of North Korea wishes for itself. We know too little about how it thinks. 
  We know what it says in public, but this is often a lie and always an exaggeration. We know as well what it shows the public; this, though, is a nearly-three-quarters-of-a-century-long piece of performance art. 
  So despite inside
  
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• STORY: Province, feds announce child care details in #Ottawa 1310news.com/2017/10/13/pro… #ottnews https://t.co/ZQfITKHAHt

  13-10-2017 17:15 via twitter.com
  
  STORY: Province, feds announce child care details in #Ottawa1310news.com/2017/10/13/pro…#ottnews https://t.co/ZQfITKHAHt
  
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• Police charge one, seek two more after Train Yards bank robbery

  13-10-2017 17:04 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa police have arrested and charged an Ottawa man in relation to a September bank robbery in the Train Yards shopping complex.
  According to police, on Sept. 18 around 3:10 p.m., three suspects entered a bank on Trainyards Drive. The trio approached a bank employee and handed the employee a note that demanded cash, police said.
  The suspects were handed an undisclosed amount of money and then fled the premises. There were no injuries in the incident.
  Nur Said, 18, was arrested on Oct. 9 a
  
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• The lessons of Lac-Mégantic have not been learned

  13-10-2017 16:44 via ottawacitizen.com
  The trial of the three front-line workers charged with criminal negligence causing death in the Lac-Mégantic oil train disaster, has begun in a Sherbrooke, Qué. courtroom. If found guilty, they could face life in prison. The defunct company, MMA, faces the same charges but its trial will be held at a later date.
  What are the consequences of an extinct corporate shell being found guilty, but minus charges against its executives and owner? None.
  Many people in Lac-Mégantic bel
  
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• Hillary Clinton still walks the tightrope faced by all women

  13-10-2017 16:33 via ottawacitizen.com
  My disappointment at Hillary Clinton’s recent performance in Toronto is my problem, not hers.                                
   
  Like many women, I had a lot invested in her run for the U.S. presidency. I’d waited a lifetime and no woman had even gotten close – until last year. Since her days as First Lady, she’d shown herself to be smart, empathetic and committed to public service. S
  
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• Seamus O’Regan – here is an example of how screwed up your Veterans Affairs department really is

  13-10-2017 16:23 via ottawacitizen.com
  It was interesting to watch the recent news conference in which Canadian Forces and Veterans Affairs Canada staff unveiled a joint suicide prevention strategy.
  Veterans Affairs Minister Seamus O’Regan was eager and positive about his department and how it can help those with PTSD and other mental issues.
  VAC Deputy Minister Walter Natynczyk took the microphone and gave an exuberant speech about how veterans, dealing with mental illness issues, should drop in to any VAC office to call the 1
  
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• Income property gives young couple a boost up the property ladder

  13-10-2017 15:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  In the fall of 2015, Jonathan Bélanger and his wife Sara Jeanne Parenteau-Comfort were thrilled to purchase their first home in Ottawa — although it would mean sharing it with others.
  Bélanger, 30, who works in finance for the federal government, says the couple had spent “a few years” looking at income properties before taking the leap to buy their Little Italy home, where they live in one unit and rent out two others.
  “Our short-term goal was to purch
  
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