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• As Karlsson closes in on return, Senators have put points in the bank

  14-10-2017 23:49 via ottawacitizen.com
  EDMONTON — The Ottawa Senators will have Erik Karlsson waiting for them when they arrive home from Western Canada on Sunday.
  If all has gone well during the past seven days, head coach Guy Boucher said Saturday afternoon, the club’s captain could suit up for his first game since off-season foot surgery as early Tuesday against the Vancouver Canucks in the opener of a five-game homestand at Canadian Tire Centre.
  If Karlsson doesn’t play then, Boucher said before the Senators fac
  
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• Zombies walk the streets of Almonte

  14-10-2017 23:44 via ottawacitizen.com
  Arms outstretched, they staggered through the streets of Almonte on Saturday afternoon as foreboding clouds pressed down on them from above, the living, breathing, costumed undead shuffling along for a good cause.
  It was a gory scene on the streets of the picturesque town some 50 kilometres west of Ottawa, but the day was brightened by the fact the rains didn’t come to wash all that fake blood away, and the third annual Almonte Zombie Walk For Hunger was able to go ahead as scheduled.
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• Johnny Oduya returns as Senators face Connor McDavid and the Oilers - Ottawa Citizen

  14-10-2017 23:20
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  Johnny Oduya returns as Senators face Connor McDavid and the Oilers
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  Senators head coach Guy Boucher said at the club's downtown hotel that Mike Condon would start in net and that defenceman Johnny Oduya would return after missing four games with an undisclosed injury. He'll replace rookie Christian Jaros, who was sent ...and more »
  
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• Johnny Oduya returns as Senators face Connor McDavid and the Oilers

  14-10-2017 23:20 via ottawacitizen.com
  EDMONTON — The Ottawa Senators have a chance to complete a rare Western Canada sweep.
  They know they’ve got their hands full in this one as they prepare to face Connor McDavid and the Edmonton Oilers on Saturday night.
  Senators head coach Guy Boucher said at the club’s downtown hotel that Mike Condon would start in net and that defenceman Johnny Oduya would return after missing four games with an undisclosed injury. He’ll replace rookie Christian Jaros, who was sent back
  
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• Iraqis and Kurds in armed standoff – some clashes already reported

  14-10-2017 22:35 via ottawacitizen.com
  Iraq’s government has ordered the Kurds to surrender key military positions in the disputed city of Kirkuk.
  The Kurds have been given until late Saturday night to comply.
  Brief clashes also erupted between Kurdish forces and Shia militia backing the Iraqi government, the BBC has reported.
  Defense Secretary Jim Mattis on Friday urged Iraqi and Kurdish Peshmerga forces to focus on defeating the Islamic State group and not fight each other, as tensions spiked in the disputed region around Kir
  
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• 5 Questions About The Ottawa Senators With SB Nation's Silver Seven - The Copper & Blue (blog)

  14-10-2017 20:07
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  5 Questions About The Ottawa Senators With SB Nation's Silver Seven
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  Ryan Dzingel's last name is probably as good as Dave Snuggerud's once was. Anne-Marie Sorvin-USA TODAY Sports. The Senators! Wind up Erik Karlsson and he'll take care of everything. But what happens when the Senators are without their best player?and more »
  
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• Community holds benefit to support farm family devastated by fire

  14-10-2017 19:23 via ottawacitizen.com
  Supporters from across the region are expected to attend a benefit in North Gower Saturday night in aid of a Barrhaven family who lost tits barns and most of its dairy herd in a fire last month.
  The Ruiter family’s three barns were destroyed in the fire at Black Rapids Farm on Sept. 8. Eighty Holstein cows and calves perished in the blaze, which wiped out most of the herd. However, farmer Peter Ruiter still had 10 cows in a pasture across Prince of Wales Drive and another six in a neighbou
  
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• Museum of Nature warehouse opens up to showcase rare treasures

  14-10-2017 19:21 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Museum of Nature opened the doors to its private warehouse in Gatineau on Saturday, offering a rare opportunity to catch a glimpse of some of the most unusual objects in the museum’s collection — and meet the people who work with them.
  The event, held every year in a warehouse the size of five hockey ricks, aims at pulling back the curtain on the rarest of the more than 14.6 million artifacts in the museum’s collection, including many that don’t make it on displa
  
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• Heading down CFL stretch, Redblacks are believers

  14-10-2017 18:44 via ottawacitizen.com
  REGINA – Through thick and thin, through injuries, adversity and a chilly October Friday night in Saskatchewan, the Ottawa Redblacks insist their belief has never wavered.
  Now that they have clinched a playoff spot in the Canadian Football League’s East Division, the Redblacks are not only battle tested, they’re confident they have what it takes to repeat as Grey Cup champions.
  After back-to-back comeback wins out west, the latest 33-32 over the Roughriders, the Redblacks have
  
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• Ontario Liberals put abortion clinic bubble zone bill on 'accelerated timeline'

  14-10-2017 18:16 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Ontario Liberals appear poised to move ahead with fast-tracking a law to create “bubble zones” around abortion clinics, despite a statement earlier this month that they wanted to take the time to “strengthen the bill.”
  The House Leaders have made a tentative agreement on the schedule for Bill 163, said a spokesperson for Attorney General Yasir Naqvi.
  “The motion for unanimous consent (UC) will be moved on Monday October 16th with a scheduling agreement to move t
  
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• Milnes: A library, Frank Lloyd Wright and a Canada 150 time capsule

  14-10-2017 16:50 via ottawacitizen.com
  Arthur Milnes and his wife, Alison, embarked upon a special project to mark Canada’s sesquicentennial year: A time capsule. But rather than filling it with things from around their home in Kingston, the pair have reached out far and wide to people, places and institutions with any connection to this country. The responses, whether from small towns or celebrities, have shed light on Canada’s true identity and place in the world. This is the latest in an ongoing series of columns on hi
  
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• Meet a senior public servant looking to make a career switch by becoming Gatineau mayor

  14-10-2017 15:38 via ottawacitizen.com
  It didn’t take any arm-twisting when a visitor remarked on a lovely standup parlour piano in the living room of Gatineau mayoral hopeful Clément Bélanger recently.
  “Yeah, I play some,” he said, lifting the keyboard cover and comping a few bars of Elvis Presley’s signature tune Can’t Help Falling In Love.
  It was a flourishy, polished rendition. You could imagine ice cubes tinkling in glasses in the casino lounge. 
  Only a cad would think of the song
  
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• Ottawa Senator Craig Anderson scores his first shutout of the season - CTV News

  14-10-2017 15:35
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  Ottawa Senator Craig Anderson scores his first shutout of the season
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  NEWARK, N.J. -- Nicklas Backstrom had a goal and three assists and the Washington Capitals knocked the surprising New Jersey Devils from the unbeaten ranks with a 5-2 victory Friday night. T.J. Oshie had two goals and an assist, and Alex Ovechkin ...and more »
  
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• Successful graphic novelist on growing up with a mentally ill mother

  14-10-2017 15:27 via ottawacitizen.com
  Von Allan remembers the time he was 12 or 13 and his teacher at Glashan Public School began to lecture him about his poor attendance record.
  “Some teacher was getting angry at me. I was missing a lot of classes. And I had literally, the night before, picked my mom up off the floor because she had passed out,” he said.
  “That was one of the realizations that I had as a kid that this whole school-reality-marks thing is bulls—. My mom’s in trouble. That’s what I n
  
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• The IT Factor: What Ottawa must do to brand itself as a true national tech hub

  14-10-2017 15:23 via ottawacitizen.com
  For most of the past 15 years — ever since Nortel began hemorrhaging jobs — the morning rush hour traffic in Kanata has largely been outbound, heading into downtown Ottawa or other parts of the region. Office buildings had floors of unused space.
  That’s changed in the past few years. Both office space and talent are scarce in the Kanata tech park and, if there’s still traffic heading east, there’s an equal amount of it heading into Kanata, says Jenna Sudds, the outg
  
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• The latest update on contract negotiations for faculty of Ontario's 24 colleges - 1310news.com/2017/10/13/alg… #ottnews https://t.co/3JHXkZ1drE

  14-10-2017 15:10 via twitter.com
  
  The latest update on contract negotiations for faculty of Ontario's 24 colleges - 1310news.com/2017/10/13/alg… #ottnews https://t.co/3JHXkZ1drE
  
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• Death From Above return with third album, to kick off tour in Ottawa

  14-10-2017 15:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  Death From Above has dropped the 1979 from their name and returned with a third album of dance-punk fury. Produced by Queens of the Stone Age collaborator Eric Valentine, Outrage! Is Now finds the Toronto-based duo of drummer/vocalist Sebastien Grainger and bassist/synthman Jesse F. Keeler striving to keep things fresh. Keeler spoke to Lynn Saxberg about songwriting, touring and the state of the world. Here’s a condensed version of the wide-ranging interview. 
  Q: Congratulations on th
  
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• Cloudy weekend, showers, Humidex(!) of 27 on Sunday

  14-10-2017 14:19 via ottawacitizen.com
  It’s looking like it’ll be a bit of a warm, dull weekend, with sunshine to return on Monday. 
  Environment Canada is forecasting a 40 per cent chance of showers for Saturday, with a high of 19 C.
  Winds will be from the west, switching to the northeast this evening. 
  It will be cloudy with a 60 per cent chance of showers tonight. Periods of rain should begin after midnight with a low of 15 C.
  Sunday will have a Humidex of 27,  and showers with risk of a thunderstorm. Win
  
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• Today's letters: Chaudière Falls deserve veneration, not flashy shows - Ottawa Citizen

  14-10-2017 14:01
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  Today's letters: Chaudière Falls deserve veneration, not flashy shows
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  For Ottawa River project by Don Butler 1823 Library and Archives Canada Artist: DuVernet, Henry, active 1816-1842. WRIGHT, PHILEMON - BUILDINGS, MILLS, CHAUDIÈRE FALLS, OTTAWA RIVER A View of the Mill and Tavern of Philemon Wright at the ...
  
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• Today's letters: Chaudière Falls deserve veneration, not flashy shows

  14-10-2017 14:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  Today, readers share their views on the Chaudière Falls, Nepean Point, the Phoenix pay system and a host of other issues. You can write to us too, at [email protected]. Please see our guidelines here.
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  Chaudière light show disrespectful
  Re: Chaudière Falls light show opens, Oct. 3.
  The circus has come to town! An experience not known for 100 years, “enlivened with all the multimedia tricks.” Lights, glitz, glamour. Press the button and let the side
  
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• The IT Factor: What Ottawa must do to brand itself as a true national tech hub - Ottawa Citizen

  14-10-2017 14:00
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  The IT Factor: What Ottawa must do to brand itself as a true national tech hub
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  Allan Wille, President and CEO of Klipfolio, in their downtown Ottawa offices, which have a young friendly vibe and are also dog friendly. Rocco (lower right), is one of the many mascots in the office. JULIE OLIVER / Postmedia. Share Adjust Comment Print.
  
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• Edmonton Oilers Game Day vs Ottawa Senators - Edmonton Journal

  14-10-2017 14:00
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  Edmonton Oilers Game Day vs Ottawa Senators
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  The Edmonton Oilers were on the community rink ice to prepare for their fourth game of the regular season against Ottawa. Share Adjust Comment Print. Ottawa Senators at Edmonton Oilers. 8 p.m., Rogers Place. TV: Sportsnet/CBC Radio: 630 CHED.
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  Ottawa Senators vs. Edmonton Oilers: NHL Odds, PredictionSports Interactionall 30 news articles &r
  
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• #Redblacks clinch playoff spot with thrilling comeback win over Saskatchewan - 1310news.com/2017/10/14/red… #ottnews https://t.co/4l7g4O7VFv

  14-10-2017 13:46 via twitter.com
  
  #Redblacks clinch playoff spot with thrilling comeback win over Saskatchewan - 1310news.com/2017/10/14/red… #ottnews https://t.co/4l7g4O7VFv
  
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• Family freed returns to Canada, says infant daughter murdered - 1310news.com/2017/10/14/for… #ottnews https://t.co/h4Eltt2MHx

  14-10-2017 13:15 via twitter.com
  
  Family freed returns to Canada, says infant daughter murdered - 1310news.com/2017/10/14/for… #ottnews https://t.co/h4Eltt2MHx
  
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• More transparency needed in long-term care

  14-10-2017 13:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  When Viola Lucas, 79, was found dead at the Extendicare Laurier Manor long-term care home, her head was wedged between the mattress and the railing of her bed. Whether she had suffered in this position or had died from some other cause before her body was found in its agonizing posture, isn’t known.
  Yet a report from the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care described her fate blandly: “Resident #001 was found by Personal Support Worker #S116 in his/her bedroom with certain body part
  
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• Stranded passengers on grounded Air Transat flight voice final concerns - CBC.ca

  14-10-2017 11:03
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  Stranded passengers on grounded Air Transat flight voice final concerns
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  Appalled passengers are coming forward to dispute Air Transat's closing argument into what happened onboard a pair of infamous flights stranded on an Ottawa tarmac this past summer. The flights, from Brussels and Rome to Montreal, were diverted on July ...and more »
  
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• Redblacks fight back to beat Roughriders, clinch CFL playoff spot

  14-10-2017 07:42 via ottawacitizen.com
  Redblacks 33, Roughriders 32
  REGINA — As Ottawa Redblacks coach Rick Campbell says, “Only in the CFL!”
  In a game that looked as if it had slipped away, the Redblacks scored two touchdowns in the final three minutes, scoring the winning points on a Ryan Lindley quarterback sneak with two seconds left, to beat the Saskatchewan Roughriders 33-32 in a Canadian Football League thriller on Friday night.
  A pass-interference penalty against the Roughriders had given the Redblacks one l
  
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• Redblacks fight back to beat Roughriders, clinch CFL playoff spot - Ottawa Citizen

  14-10-2017 07:20
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  Redblacks fight back to beat Roughriders, clinch CFL playoff spot
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  Redblacks wide receiver Diontae Spencer catches a touchdown pass during first-half against the Roughriders on Friday night. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Mark Taylor Mark Taylor / THE CANADIAN PRESS. Share Adjust Comment Print. Redblacks 33 ...
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  Lindley's late TD lifts Ottawa Redblacks over Saskatchewan Roughriders 33-32Globalne
  
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• Shutout goaltending and power-play goals lift Senators past Flames

  14-10-2017 06:20 via ottawacitizen.com
  Senators 6, Flames 0
  CALGARY — Guy Boucher decided to stick with the hot hand to try to beat the Calgary Flames on Friday night.
  Mission accomplished.
  In the hours before the club’s visit to the Saddledome, the Ottawa Senators’ head coach gave Craig Anderson his fourth consecutive start in net and Anderson’s strong effort plus some timely scoring led to an important two points from the second consecutive win on this Western Canada swing.
  While Anderson made 25 stops for h
  
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• Missing Lanark Highlands man found

  14-10-2017 05:01 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Lanark County OPP announced that 67-year-old Lanark Highlands resident Ian Paige, who had been missing since Thursday evening, has been found.
  Paige was located in Lanark County early Friday afternoon.
  
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• North Dundas man charged with sexual assault

  14-10-2017 04:09
  
  A 31-year-old North Dundas man faces charges of assault, sexual assault, criminal harassment, distribution of intimate images without consent and possession of a controlled substance as a result of a sexual assault investigation by the Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry OPP.
  
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• 67's get thumped by Wolves

  14-10-2017 03:34 via ottawacitizen.com
  Wolves 7, 67’s 1
  Cédrick Andrée’s first Ontario Hockey League start in goal for the Ottawa 67’s didn’t go as anyone would have hoped.
  The 17-year-old rookie allowed seven goals on 34 shots as the 67’s lost 7-1 to the Sudbury Wolves in an Ontario Hockey League game at Sudbury on Friday night.
  Dmitry Sokolov scored three goals for the Wolves (2-4-2), who also received two goals and two assists from David Levin and single goals from Nolan Hutcheson and Re
  
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• All charges stayed against Winchester man, ending epic legal saga

  14-10-2017 03:27 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Crown has stayed 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 Ontar
  
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• 'I feared for her,' testifies friend of homicide victim in Borutski trial

  14-10-2017 02:18 via ottawacitizen.com
  Carol Culleton told a friend all about her troubles with the handyman she had met in Wilno, and as Jeff Shelp testified Friday, he saw red flags all over the man Culleton called “Basil.”
  Shelp, 55, a senior analyst with the Department of National Defence and friend of Culleton’s, told court Friday she had become increasingly worried about her friendship with “Basil” or “Baz” in the months before her death.
  Basil Borutski, 59, remained silent in the priso
  
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• Growing wild turkey population takes bite out of Ontario forests [Video]

  14-10-2017 02:05
  
  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.
  
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• Many questions to ponder for Ottawa sports fans - Ottawa Sun

  14-10-2017 01:47
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  Many questions to ponder for Ottawa sports fans
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  It's bad enough that Ottawa sports fans have been left with an empty feeling as both their pro sports teams have spent the past week in Western Canada. But for two weekends in a row now, the coinciding schedules have made it impossible to watch one ...and more »
  
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• Brennan: Ottawa fans left to ponder questions with teams out west

  14-10-2017 01:44 via ottawacitizen.com
  It’s bad enough that Ottawa sports fans have been left with an empty feeling as both their pro sports teams have spent the past week in Western Canada, but, for two weekends in a row, the coinciding schedules have made it impossible to watch one without ignoring the other.
  Good thing for PVRs, but are you ever able to watch what you’ve taped with no hint of the outcome?
  So many more questions will become clearer when the Senators and Redblacks return to the nation’s capital nex
  
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• Craig Anderson expected to play spectator's role for Senators on Saturday

  14-10-2017 01:14 via ottawacitizen.com
  CALGARY — There won’t be any emotional return to Edmonton for Craig Anderson on Saturday night.
  Instead of starting in net against the Oilers in net, he’ll be on the Ottawa Senators’ bench.
  With back-to-back games to close out this Western Canada swing, Senators head coach Guy Boucher opted to give Anderson the start Friday against the Calgary Flames, which means Mike Condon will make his first start of the season against the Oilers.
  The possibility of giving Anderson the
  
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• Three arrested, gun seized in drug trafficking bust

  14-10-2017 00:50 via ottawacitizen.com
  Two men and a woman were arrested, and drugs and a handgun were seized Thursday following an investigation by a street crime unit into drug trafficking.
  The weeks-long investigation, which focused on the trafficking of cocaine, crack cocaine and hydromorphone, oxycodone and methamphetamine pills, saw two Ottawa residences searched on Thursday, where police discovered cocaine, crack cocaine and numerous pills, as well as a loaded .357 Smith & Wesson Magnum handgun and more that 100 rounds of
  
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• A child of schizophrenia: Graphic novelist Von Allan on growing up with a mentally ill mother [Video]

  14-10-2017 00:30
  
  Von Allan remembers the time he was 12 or 13 and his teacher at Glashan Public School began to lecture him about his poor attendance record.“Some teacher was getting angry at me. I was missing a lot of classes. And I had literally, the night before, picked my mom up off the floor because she had passed out,” he said.
  
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• Ex-Senator Curtis Lazar happy he's been given a fresh start with Flames

  14-10-2017 00:23 via ottawacitizen.com
  CALGARY — Curtis Lazar was surrounded by cameras and microphones when he left the ice Friday morning at the Saddledome.
  “Hey, did Curtis Lazar play in Ottawa?” Calgary Flames captain Mark Giordano asked as he headed for his spot in the dressing room, a few stalls down from his teammate.
  Acquired by the Flames from the Ottawa Senators last February in exchange for defenceman Jyrki Jokipakka and a second-round draft pick, Lazar, 22, who signed a new two-year deal in the off-seaso
  
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• A child of schizophrenia: Graphic novelist Von Allan on growing up with a mentally ill mother

  14-10-2017 00:06 via ottawacitizen.com
  Von Allan remembers the time he was 12 or 13 and his teacher at Glashan Public School began to lecture him about his poor attendance record.
  “Some teacher was getting angry at me. I was missing a lot of classes. And I had literally, the night before, picked my mom up off the floor because she had passed out,” he said.
  “That was one of the realizations that I had as a kid that this whole school-reality-marks thing is bulls—. My mom’s in trouble. That’s what I n
  
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• Current Swell shuffles lineup, embarks on tour

  14-10-2017 00:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  Touring a new album on home turf may not sound like the best time for a band to shuffle its lineup, but Current Swell singer-songwriter-guitar Scott Stanton says things are working out fine.That’s partly because the new bassist is actually the band’s original bassist, and an old friend. Louis Sadava was a part of the popular Vancouver Island band when they began more than a decade ago, but left when he started a family. He was replaced by the mysteriously named Ghosty Boy, who’
  
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