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• Gord Downie’s last concert in Ottawa

  18-10-2017 23:57
  Downie kicked off his Secret Path concert project in Ottawa
  
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• LRT: City seeking a consultant for largest art buy in Ottawa's history

  18-10-2017 23:48 via ottawacitizen.com
  City hall needs a consultant to manage the largest-ever art buy for Ottawa and it’s willing to pay nearly $200,000 for the outsourced services.
  The city is poised to spend $11 million on original art for the Stage 2 rail expansion of the Confederation Line LRT and the Trillium Line.
  There’s so much work coordinating the art program for Stage 2 that the city needs an outside advisor to help manage that part of the transit expansion project scheduled to be done in 2023.
  The city,
  
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• Gen. Jon Vance – the Canadian military’s (almost) $300,000 man

  18-10-2017 23:42 via ottawacitizen.com
  Chief of the Defence Staff Gen. Jon Vance could be seeing his salary increased.
  Amanda Connolly of iPolitics is reporting that the pay package for Vance, the Chief of the Defence Staff, is increasing.
  The salary range for the CDS position had been between $219,100 and $257,700. But on October 12, that salary range was boosted by the government. The CDS salary is now between $247,900 to $291,600. That raise is also backdated to July 17 of this year.
  Still, Vance’s pay packet is a little beh
  
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• After fights in three straight games, Borowiecki sitting out with injury

  18-10-2017 23:20 via ottawacitizen.com
  Rugged Ottawa Senators defenceman Mark Borowiecki was playing coy Wednesday, refusing to go beyond the standard “bumps and bruises” when describing his latest injury setback.
  Whatever it is — he seemed to be favouring his shoulder as he sat in the penalty box following Tuesday’s fight against Vancouver’s Derek Dorsett — it will keep him out for at least Thursday’s game against the New Jersey Devils.
  “A little banged up, a little bit of wear an
  
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• Will the Canadian Forces switch to multicam?

  18-10-2017 23:12 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Canadian Special Operations Forces Command is outfitting all its personnel, including support staff, with new uniforms for day-to-day use. The federal government recently issued a notice to industry that it was looking to buy over a five-year period more than 18,000 of those “multicam” uniforms. Those have a distinct camouflage pattern originally developed for the U.S. Army. Another request also went out for multicam flight suits for special forces tactical helicopter crews.
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• City needs a consultant for largest art buy in Ottawa's history

  18-10-2017 23:11
  
  City hall needs a consultant to manage the largest-ever art buy for Ottawa and it’s willing to pay nearly $200,000 for the outsourced services.The city is poised to spend $11 million on original art for the Stage 2 rail expansion of the Confederation Line LRT and the Trillium Line.T
  
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• Cycling without Age: How a Danish bike fan brought pedal power to the elderly

  18-10-2017 23:07 via ottawacitizen.com
  Even Ole Kassow thought he was crazy when he showed up unannounced at a Copenhagen nursing home on a three-wheeled rickshaw bike and offered to take anyone who wanted for a bike ride.
  Five years later, Cycling without Age is a worldwide phenomena, operating in 38 countries, including Canada, with the help of more than 10,000 volunteers. Total up the number of kilometres Kassow’s volunteer rickshaw “pilots” have pedalled their elderly passengers, and you have a journey three tim
  
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• Bail hearing adjourned for man charged in fatal Arnprior crash

  18-10-2017 22:52 via ottawacitizen.com
  Bail proceedings for Zachary Wittke have been adjourned for another two weeks.
  The 20-year-old Eganville man, who has been charged with dangerous operation of a motor vehicle causing death in the wake of a crash in Arnprior on Sept. 25, will remain in custody at the Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre. On Wednesday, the case was adjourned until Nov. 1 for a video remand.
  Assistant Crown attorney Elizabeth Ives-Ruyter told a Pembroke court that disclosure has been sent to Wittke’s lawyer, Paol
  
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• Forever Hip: Remembering Gord Downie - a City News Special begins at 5pm here - 1310news.com/2017/10/18/for… (or channel 15 on Rogers) #ottnews

  18-10-2017 22:50 via twitter.com
  Forever Hip: Remembering Gord Downie - a City News Special begins at 5pm here - 1310news.com/2017/10/18/for… (or channel 15 on Rogers) #ottnews
  
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• A Tribe Called Red member announces he's leaving group

  18-10-2017 22:40 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ian Campeau, one of the founding members of the Ottawa-based DJ crew A Tribe Called Red, has announced his departure from the award-winning musical group. In an interview, he said he made the decision after returning home from a string of American tour dates last month, only to realize he was dreading the next stretch of touring. 
  “It was a very big decision,” said Campeau, hours after posting the news of a “major life announcement” on social media. “But tourin
  
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• Honoring Gord Downie on Parliament Hill. #ottnews twitter.com/SenateCA/statu…

  18-10-2017 22:20 via twitter.com
  Honoring Gord Downie on Parliament Hill. #ottnews twitter.com/SenateCA/statu…
  
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• Mapped: Canadian locales in the Hip's iconic songs 1310news.com/2017/10/18/map… https://t.co/avjfOYvw8s

  18-10-2017 22:14 via twitter.com
  
  Mapped: Canadian locales in the Hip's iconic songs 1310news.com/2017/10/18/map… https://t.co/avjfOYvw8s
  
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• Six years in, time to turf $500M lawsuit over cancelled wind farm, province's lawyers say

  18-10-2017 22:09
  
  Ontario government lawyers are making another run at dismissing a $500-million lawsuit over the cancellation of a massive wind-power station that might have been built in Lake Ontario off Kingston, a case that’s been in litigation for more than six years.
  
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• Sutcliffe: Gord Downie, Canada's secret mirror

  18-10-2017 21:13 via ottawacitizen.com
  Generations of Canadian writers, artists, performers have struggled with a fundamental question: Where do I situate my stories? Will I reach more people, have more impact, sell more copies if my experiential and geographical references are ambiguous or, more to the point, American? Do I take my Canadian narrative and transplant it to New York, California or some loosely defined Midwestern town?
  Immune to such existential crises, Gord Downie and the Tragically Hip sang about Bobcaygeon, Millhaven
  
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• Reevely: Six years in, time to turf $500M lawsuit over cancelled wind farm, province's lawyers say

  18-10-2017 20:58 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ontario government lawyers are making another run at dismissing a $500-million lawsuit over the cancellation of a massive wind-power station that might have been built in Lake Ontario off Kingston, a case that’s been in litigation for more than six years.
  The government’s lawyers say the case is “plainly devoid of merit” and should be tossed, in their formal notice of their intentions filed in September.
  Trillium Power Wind Corp.’s lawyer says the government just do
  
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• Police searching for missing Ottawa man

  18-10-2017 20:39 via ottawacitizen.com
  Police are asking for help in locating a 44-year-old man who has been missing since Tuesday.
  Daniel Brede was last seen at about 5 p.m. Tuesday on Carling Avenue near the Royal Ottawa Mental Health Centre around 5 p.m. 
  He is described as a white male, five foot ten inches (178 cm) tall, with a slim build, short brown hair, and wearing a grey winter jacket, black pants and blue winter tuque.
  His family is extremely concerned for his safety. 
  If you know his location, please c
  
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• NAC preview: Kyrie Kristmanson channels 800 years of song

  18-10-2017 20:22 via ottawacitizen.com
  Women have been facing challenges in the music industry for a long time. In fact, the issue has been going on for more than 800 years, points out singer-songwriter Kyrie Kristmanson.The latest album by the Ottawa-born, Paris-based chanteuse is Modern Ruins, a collection of songs inspired by Kristmanson’s research into the female troubadours of the Middle Ages, an area of expertise gained while pursuing a Master’s degree at La Sorbonne university in Paris.“Eight hundred years ag
  
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• Fire crews tackle flaming Smart Car on Hwy. 417

  18-10-2017 20:16
  
  It burned smartly alright.Fire crews doused a fully engulfed Smart Car on Hwy. 417 westbound near Bronson Avenue early Wednesday afternoon after the tiny micromodel turned into a big ball of flame and plume of smoke.Thankfully, the car’s passengers had safely cleared out by the time fire crews arrived.
  
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• Police take over probe of smashed bus shelters in Greenboro neighbourhood

  18-10-2017 20:15 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa police confirm they have taken over the investigation after at least six OC Transpo bus shelters were smashed along Lorry Greenberg Drive in Greenboro in the city’s south end on Tuesday night.
  OC Transpo special constables began the probe early Wednesday, gathering details before passing the file to Ottawa police.
  According to Jim Babe, chief special constable with OC Transpo, the investigation had not turned up any viable suspects.
  While police confirmed they were investigating the
  
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• National Gallery of Canada unveils new acquisitions in 2017 Biennial

  18-10-2017 20:14 via ottawacitizen.com
  Q: What is the 2017 Biennial at the National Gallery of Canada?A: It’s an exhibit of more than 100 works of art that have been acquired by the National Gallery of Canada’s departments of Contemporary Art, Indigenous Art and the Canadian Photography Institute in the last three years, including more than 50 Canadian, Indigenous and, for the first time, international artists. It opens Oct. 19 and runs until March 18, 2018. 
  Q: Three years? Doesn’t a Biennial usually cover two
  
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• Remembering Gord Downie through his lyrics

  18-10-2017 19:54 via ottawacitizen.com
  Gord Downie chose to bravely confront death head-on, raising awareness of his causes and his cancer.
  He showed Courage, and Grace, Too. Instead of privately fading away, he brought us along on his journey to the other side, continuing to educate us and setting an example to live up to, including the fight for Indigenous communities.
  I imagine, with a heavy heart, that he is meeting his maker in picturesque Bobcaygeon, surrounded by family and bandmates, a bittersweet ending to a life fully lived
  
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• Family concerned for missing man's safety: 1310news.com/2017/10/18/pol… #ottnews

  18-10-2017 19:42 via twitter.com
  Family concerned for missing man's safety: 1310news.com/2017/10/18/pol… #ottnews
  
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• LISTEN: Plenty of Gord Downie reaction to start today's @MeehanCarolAnne Show. Ken Craig first with @LiveNation.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  18-10-2017 19:10 via twitter.com
  LISTEN: Plenty of Gord Downie reaction to start today's @MeehanCarolAnne Show. Ken Craig first with @LiveNation.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Quebec passes religious neutrality bill that will force citizens to uncover their faces while giving and receiving provincial services.

  18-10-2017 18:59 via twitter.com
  Quebec passes religious neutrality bill that will force citizens to uncover their faces while giving and receiving provincial services.
  
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• Coming up at 12:30: @CosmoChez joins @_MarkSutcliffe live in studio on the life/legacy of #GordDownie:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  18-10-2017 18:15 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 12:30: @CosmoChez joins @_MarkSutcliffe live in studio on the life/legacy of #GordDownie:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Ottawa man, 40, charged on child pornography offences

  18-10-2017 18:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa police have arrested and charged a 40-year-old man with child pornography-related offences after a police investigation allegedly linked the man to questionable content online.
  Police said they launched an investigation into the man in September using an online peer-to-peer (P2P) network which is known to have users that share illicit computer files, including images and videos, of child pornography.
  While looking into the P2P network, investigators identified a computer’s
  
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• Denley: Community college instructors should put students first

  18-10-2017 17:31 via ottawacitizen.com
  Let’s hope Ontario’s community college teachers don’t expect much public sympathy for a strike that is disrupting the education of hundreds of thousands of students, including those at two colleges in Ottawa.
  This strike is not primarily about pay. The college teachers have already received a reasonable offer of 7.75 per cent over four years. The real issue here is who runs the province’s community colleges, the workers or the management.
  The Ontario Public Sector Employe
  
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• Coming up 11:45: @nathancullen joins @_MarkSutcliffe to discuss #Morneau conflict of interest… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  18-10-2017 17:31 via twitter.com
  Coming up 11:45: @nathancullen joins @_MarkSutcliffe to discuss #Morneau conflict of interest… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Egan: No second chance at a liver transplant — the undying gratitude of Dr. Aubrey Goldstein

  18-10-2017 17:27 via ottawacitizen.com
  As a doctor, a transplant expert, as an organ recipient, Aubrey Goldstein knew how dire things were in April.
  Who, after all, but an arrestingly honest man would say:
  “If we’re getting close to the end and I don’t get another transplant, I don’t regret anything. I lived a full life,” he told us with a profound candour.
  “A couple of people die every day on the transplant list. I’ve been super fortunate. If this is it, I have to accept that.”
  This wa
  
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• Coming up 11:30: @borealissaves on the unanswered questions surrounding Joshua Boyle & family:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  18-10-2017 17:20 via twitter.com
  Coming up 11:30: @borealissaves on the unanswered questions surrounding Joshua Boyle & family:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Online outpouring of tributes to Gord Downie is swift, heartfelt

  18-10-2017 17:15 via ottawacitizen.com
  No dress rehearsal, this is our life.
  The outpouring of tributes from Canadians began the instant that news broke Wednesday morning that iconic Tragically Hip frontman Gord Downie had died of brain cancer at 53.
  The news wasn’t unexpected – Downie had announced in May 2016 that he had incurable glioblastoma – but social media users expressed their shock and hailed him for being a poetic voice of Canada and for using the limelight to promote reconciliation with indigenous people
  
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• #BREAKING: Quebec passes "religious neutrality" bill, requiring citizens to uncover faces while giving and receiving public services.

  18-10-2017 17:05 via twitter.com
  #BREAKING: Quebec passes "religious neutrality" bill, requiring citizens to uncover faces while giving and receiving public services.
  
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• Ontario will bid for Amazon’s 50,000 jobs by investing in education

  18-10-2017 17:03
  The region’s formal bids to win the hotly contested competition for Seattle-based Amazon’s second headquarters will be submitted this week.
  
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• Tractor-trailer loaded with vehicles lands in ditch after collision on Highway 417

  18-10-2017 16:58
  
  Ottawa Fire Service is warning motorists to avoid westbound Highway 417 at Anderson road after a tractor-trailer loaded with vehicles collided with a van, landing the trailer in a ditch.
  
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• Coming up 11: #TheWorld w/ Elliot Tepper live in studio bit.ly/1uwtdOs @Carleton_U… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  18-10-2017 16:50 via twitter.com
  Coming up 11:#TheWorld w/ Elliot Tepper live in studiobit.ly/1uwtdOs@Carleton_U… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• DJ NDN announces departure from A Tribe Called Red

  18-10-2017 16:42 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ian Campeau, one of the founding members of the Ottawa-based DJ crew, A Tribe Called Red, has announced his departure from the award-winning musical group.In a social media post entitled ‘Major Life Annoucement,’ Campeau, whose stage name is DJ NDN, wrote that he’s decided to leave the band after almost a decade to “shift my energy towards my speaking career, mentorship and advocacy work.”He wrote that he’s grown apart from his bandmates, Tim “2oolman&rd
  
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• Coming up on the #PowerLUNCH @ NOON: @markblevis & @caitlinkealey join @_MarkSutcliffe live in studio:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  18-10-2017 16:41 via twitter.com
  Coming up on the #PowerLUNCH @ NOON: @markblevis & @caitlinkealey join @_MarkSutcliffe live in studio:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Early morning fire in Vanier sets off investigation

  18-10-2017 16:05
  
  An investigator was on the way to probe a garage fire in Vanier that was quickly doused by fire crews early Wednesday morning. They were called to Lebrun Street near Michel Circle at 7:21 a.m. by reports that a home’s detached garage was in flames.
  
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• Firefighters absorb harmful chemicals through skin according to groundbreaking Ottawa research

  18-10-2017 15:49
  
  Like most firefighters, Ottawa Fire Capt. David Matschke has watched colleagues, including close friends, die from cancer.It is a common story among firefighters, who are exposed to harmful toxins on the job. Most know all too well the price some pay for that exposure.
  
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• Coming up on the 10 O'Clock Talk: @AGMacDougall, @David_Moscrop & @1310glennis join @_MarkSutcliffe live:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  18-10-2017 15:40 via twitter.com
  Coming up on the 10 O'Clock Talk: @AGMacDougall, @David_Moscrop & @1310glennisjoin @_MarkSutcliffe live:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Remembering the life and legacy of Gord Downie (1964 – 2017) 1310news.com/2017/10/18/rem… #RIPGordDownie #RIPGord https://t.co/UIsJTLbjQi

  18-10-2017 15:25 via twitter.com
  
  Remembering the life and legacy of Gord Downie (1964 – 2017) 1310news.com/2017/10/18/rem… #RIPGordDownie #RIPGord https://t.co/UIsJTLbjQi
  
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• NEXT @mclomedia joins @_MarkSutcliffe live for weekly political segment: bit.ly/1uwtdOs… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  18-10-2017 15:24 via twitter.com
  NEXT@mclomedia joins @_MarkSutcliffe live for weekly political segment:bit.ly/1uwtdOs… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Coming up 9:45: @ThatEricAlper joins @_MarkSutcliffe on the life/legacy of #GordDownie: bit.ly/1uwtdOs https://t.co/IAPVjHuJ32

  18-10-2017 15:20 via twitter.com
  
  Coming up 9:45: @ThatEricAlper joins @_MarkSutcliffe on the life/legacy of #GordDownie: bit.ly/1uwtdOs https://t.co/IAPVjHuJ32
  
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• Coming up 9:15: @nathancullen joins @_marksutcliffe to discuss #Morneau conflict of interest… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  18-10-2017 15:00 via twitter.com
  Coming up 9:15: @nathancullen joins @_marksutcliffe to discuss #Morneau conflict of interest… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Why aren’t more people using the green bin? Story: bit.ly/2xQ3HlB #ottnews #ottcity

  18-10-2017 14:58 via twitter.com
  Why aren’t more people using the green bin?Story: bit.ly/2xQ3HlB #ottnews #ottcity
  
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• Sunshine and 19 C Wednesday as warm weather returns

  18-10-2017 14:33 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa had its late-coming first frost earlier this week but don’t fear a repeat performance anytime soon with unseasonably fine fall weather in the forecast.
  Wednesday is expected to be sunny with a high of 18 C and low of 11 C, according to Environment Canada.
  For Thursday, expect a mix of sun and cloud, gusty winds around noon and a 30 per cent chance of afternoon showers. The forecast high is 19 C and the low 6 C.
  Yesterday was #Ottawa's first #frost of the season. Typical first is Oct
  
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• Ottawa weather: An unseasonably fine fall forecast [Video]

  18-10-2017 14:32
  
  Ottawa had its late-coming first frost earlier this week but don’t fear a repeat performance anytime soon with unseasonably fine fall weather in the forecast. Wednesday is expected to be sunny with a high of 18 C and low of 11 C, according to Environment Canada.
  
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• Investigator en route after crews douse Vanier garage fire

  18-10-2017 14:23 via ottawacitizen.com
  An investigator was on the way to probe a garage fire in Vanier that was quickly doused by fire crews early Wednesday morning.
  They were called to Lebrun Street near Michel Circle at 7:21 a.m. by reports that a home’s detached garage was in flames.
  Firefighters fought the blaze from inside the structure and had it under control by 7:43 a.m. and extinguished by 7:47 a.m.
  They used a thermal imaging camera to make sure there were no pockets of fire in the garage’s eaves.
  The cause
  
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• Mom and baby healthy after speedy delivery by paramedics

  18-10-2017 14:02 via ottawacitizen.com
  A little boy who just couldn’t wait to get out into the world made a speedy but healthy début in an ambulance early Wednesday morning.
   
  Mom and baby are both doing well, the paramedic service reports.
   
  Paramedics Matt Friesen and Courtney Healey were called to Carling Avenue and Bayshore Drive to the woman in her late 30s having her fourth baby.
   
  They were almost at the General campus of the Ottawa Hospital when the pair had to pull over near the intersection of Sm
  
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• Schwisberg: Time to properly evaluate the Khadr payout

  18-10-2017 14:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  Now that the dust has settled since the $10.5-million settlement by the Canadian government to Omar Khadr, the time is ripe for a rational and non-partisan consideration of the related public policy issues. 
  Canadians deserve objective answers to several questions.
  Did the government have a legal obligation to pay damages to Khadr? If so, was the sum paid excessive? If not, is there something flawed with a legal system that pays a maximum of $360,000 for pain and suffering to a person who s
  
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