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• Missing teen known to frequent Bayshore mall

  19-10-2017 23:52 via ottawacitizen.com
  Police are looking for a missing teen boy known to frequent the Bayshore Shopping Centre. 
  Michael Marotta, 15, was last seen on Oct. 13 around 7:20 p.m. in the Richmond Road area. Police said his family is greatly concerned for his safety.
  Marotta is describe as a white, 5-7, 161 pounds, with brown eyes and brown short hair. No clothing description was available.
   
  Anyone with information regarding this investigation is asked to call Ottawa Police’s Missing Persons Unit at 613-2
  
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• Woman, 44, missing for more than a week

  19-10-2017 23:51 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa police are asking for the public to help locate a 44-year-old woman who has been missing for more than a week. 
  Christine Sigouin was last seen in the Somerset Street area on Wednesday, Oct. 11. 
  Police said her family is “greatly concerned for her safety.”
  Sigouin is described as white, 5-0, 150 pounds, with blue eyes and red shoulder-length hair. No description of her clothing was available.
  Anyone with information regarding this investigation is asked to call Otta
  
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• Drug users wait eight minutes on average at health unit's injection site

  19-10-2017 23:50 via ottawacitizen.com
  People needing Ottawa Public Health’s supervised injection service waited up to eight minutes on average at the Clarence Street clinic in the first three weeks of operation, the health unit says.
  But Andrew Hendriks, the health unit’s director of health protection, believes the more important statistic is how many people come to the building intending to use the injection service but leave before going through the intake process. 
  That only happened twice in the first three week
  
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• Police looking for missing woman: 1310news.com/2017/10/19/pol… #ottnews

  19-10-2017 23:45 via twitter.com
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• Bluesfest, Night Lovell and Boys and Girls club to create program for at-risk youth

  19-10-2017 23:42
  
  Bluesfest organizers are partnering with the Boysand Girls Club of Ottawa and local hip-hop artistNight Lovell to create music programming for at-
  risk youth in the Ottawa area.
  
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• Transit agencies look into bill with restrictions on wearing veils when receiving public services

  19-10-2017 23:37
  There is uncertainty about how Quebec's new rules will affect other provinces.
  
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• Police search for missing teen: 1310news.com/2017/10/19/pol… #ottnews

  19-10-2017 23:34 via twitter.com
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• Fire crews rescue snake and rat from Vanier apartment fire: 1310news.com/2017/10/19/fir… #ottnews

  19-10-2017 22:52 via twitter.com
  Fire crews rescue snake and rat from Vanier apartment fire: 1310news.com/2017/10/19/fir… #ottnews
  
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• Shock, confusion in Gatineau follow unveiling of 'anti-niqab' law

  19-10-2017 22:48 via ottawacitizen.com
  Some criticized Quebec’s so-called “anti-niqab” law Thursday, calling it “Islamophobic and sexist,” while others just shook their heads and wondered what it all meant. Meanwhile, in Gatineau, there were few voices praising the new law.
  Bill 62, adopted by the National Assembly Wednesday, will require people to uncover their faces if they are giving or receiving a public service. In other words, once the bill has royal sanction and becomes law, it would deny pub
  
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• Ottawa man not guilty of sexual assault because he thought he could have sex with wife anytime

  19-10-2017 22:48 via ottawacitizen.com
  An Ottawa man has been found not guilty of sexually assaulting his wife because of his honest belief that he had the right to have intercourse with her whenever he wanted.
  In a written ruling, Ontario Superior Court Justice Robert Smith said the Crown failed to prove that the accused had formed the required criminal intent — mens rea — to sexually assault his wife in 2002.
  “I find that the accused probably had sex with his wife on many occasions without her specific consent, as
  
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• Tough blow for Senators losing Borowiecki

  19-10-2017 22:46 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Ottawa Senators will have to learn to live without rugged defenceman Mark Borowiecki.
  He didn’t get three times lucky.
  Borowiecki never returned Tuesday night after dropping the gloves with Derek Dorsett at 11:08 of the second period against the Vancouver Canucks and sat out Thursday night when the New Jersey Devils came to town.
  Yes, Borowiecki is listed as day-to-day, but that was the third straight game he had dropped the gloves, and this is a player who told reporters after the Sen
  
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• Full, updated story on what happened today at Glebe Collegiate. #ottnews twitter.com/Stu_McGinn/sta…

  19-10-2017 22:10 via twitter.com
  Full, updated story on what happened today at Glebe Collegiate. #ottnews twitter.com/Stu_McGinn/sta…
  
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• Act now or health care for retirees will cripple Ontario, budget watchdog warns

  19-10-2017 21:58
  
  Ontario needs to raise taxes or cut spending by $4.1 billion next year to get ahead of an aging population’s demand for health care, the provincial government’s budget watchdog says.We could wait, allowed David Wake in a new report issued Thursday morning, but every year we put it off the sharper the “fiscal adjustment” will have to be.
  
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• LISTEN: A rally by Ottawa labour leaders at @AlgonquinColleg today. @MeehanCarolAnne talks to Sean McKenny.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  19-10-2017 20:45 via twitter.com
  LISTEN: A rally by Ottawa labour leaders at @AlgonquinColleg today. @MeehanCarolAnne talks to Sean McKenny.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• LISTEN: @MeehanCarolAnne talks to @gretapodleski about her new book "Yum and Yummier." player.1310news.com https://t.co/ZpdVf6Rg8S

  19-10-2017 20:30 via twitter.com
  
  LISTEN: @MeehanCarolAnne talks to @gretapodleski about her new book "Yum and Yummier." player.1310news.com https://t.co/ZpdVf6Rg8S
  
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• Video: Questions about personal wealth a ‘distraction’ for Morneau

  19-10-2017 20:29
  At a news conference Thursday morning, Finance Minister Bill Morneau insisted that he followed the advice of Conflict of Interest and Ethics Commissioner Mary Dawson “to the letter” and is not in a conflict of interest, as alleged by the Opposition.
  
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• Former Stittsville volunteer Mary Durling honoured with park name

  19-10-2017 20:15
  
  Mary Durling would have been slightly embarrassed by all the fuss being made over her this week. A little pleased, admittedly, but also embarrassed.
  
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• Dr. D-J Milloy in BC wrote a letter to @JimWatsonOttawa about safe injection sites. He speaks with @MeehanCarolAnne… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  19-10-2017 20:15 via twitter.com
  Dr. D-J Milloy in BC wrote a letter to @JimWatsonOttawa about safe injection sites. He speaks with @MeehanCarolAnne… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Reevely: Act now or health care for retirees will cripple Ontario, budget watchdog warns

  19-10-2017 20:10 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ontario needs to raise taxes or cut spending by $4.1 billion next year to get ahead of an aging population’s demand for health care, the provincial government’s budget watchdog says.
  We could wait, allowed David Wake in a new report issued Thursday morning, but every year we put it off the sharper the “fiscal adjustment” will have to be. And even then, don’t expect the burden of the Ontario government’s debt to get much smaller over the next generation, as the
  
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• #Ottawa fire crews heading to a possible water rescue near Kanata Sailing Club-Sixth Line Rd. Report: Sail boat capsized. #ottnews

  19-10-2017 19:52 via twitter.com
  #Ottawa fire crews heading to a possible water rescue near Kanata Sailing Club-Sixth Line Rd.Report: Sail boat capsized.#ottnews
  
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• #RightNow 1:51pm #Ottnews twitter.com/OttpoliceMedia…

  19-10-2017 19:51 via twitter.com
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• LISTEN: The Canadian Council of Muslim Women in Montreal is speaking with @MeehanCarolAnne about Quebec's new law.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  19-10-2017 19:45 via twitter.com
  LISTEN: The Canadian Council of Muslim Women in Montreal is speaking with @MeehanCarolAnne about Quebec's new law.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Bylaw department surprised by number of illegal hookah operations

  19-10-2017 19:45 via ottawacitizen.com
  The city’s bylaw department is surprised by the number of establishments still making hookahs available, with about 70 charges laid under new rules banning water pipes in restaurants, parks and other public places.
  The bylaw came into force on Dec. 1, 2016. It prohibits the use of water pipes in enclosed public places, enclosed workplaces and on patios of restaurants and bars.
  Bylaw Chief Roger Chapman said his department is considering issuing more Ontario Provincial Offences Act Part 3 c
  
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• Teen boy arrested, handgun found after Glebe Collegiate put on lockdown

  19-10-2017 19:43 via ottawacitizen.com
  Police have arrested a teen boy and recovered a handgun after Glebe Collegiate Institute was put into “secure school” mode late Thursday morning when it was reported that someone had spotted a weapon at the school.
  Police searched the school, with sniffer dogs at the scene, before the teenager was identified and a handgun was found on school grounds. Police went to an address off-school grounds and took the young man into custody.
  A bullet was also recovered, although a police spokes
  
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• Glebe Collegiate on lockdown after unconfirmed weapon report

  19-10-2017 19:31
  
  Glebe Collegiate Institute was put into “secure school” mode late Thursday morning and Ottawa police were on scene after an unconfirmed report that someone was spotted with a weapon.All students and staff were safe, both the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board and police reported.Police said there was no current threat to public safety.
  
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• Police tell us bullet found on grounds of Glebe Collegiate. Arrest made at school. Still looking for weapon. #ottnews

  19-10-2017 18:53 via twitter.com
  Police tell us bullet found on grounds of Glebe Collegiate. Arrest made at school. Still looking for weapon. #ottnews
  
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• Senators try to end home losing skid

  19-10-2017 18:52 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Ottawa Senators will try to accomplish something Thursday night they haven’t been able to in three previous attempts: Win at home.
  Coming off a 3-0 loss to the Vancouver Canucks Tuesday to start this five game home stand, Ottawa has a 0-1-2 record at the Canadian Tire Centre to start the season and the Senators know victories here are paramount as they prepare to face the New Jersey Devils at 7:30 p.m.
  “We haven’t been at our best (here)  but these things happen,&rdquo
  
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• Police say one person in custody for further investigation after reports of person with weapon at Glebe Collegiate. #ottnews

  19-10-2017 18:45 via twitter.com
  Police say one person in custody for further investigation after reports of person with weapon at Glebe Collegiate.#ottnews
  
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• Elghawaby: Quebec's niqab ban calls on us to find our inner ally

  19-10-2017 18:35 via ottawacitizen.com
  Remember Alain Charette?
  He’s the OC Transpo bus driver who stood up to a bully who was harassing a young university student wearing a niqab on an Ottawa bus last year. He became a local hero of sorts after the young woman posted a thank you on a local community website. “It’s fairly simple,” he wrote on his Facebook page in response. “Bigotry hurt everyone by lowering the humanity level of society. Sitting idle is not an option.
  “You are either part of the pr
  
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• Canadian Forces major missing since Oct. 7 – police ask for help finding him

  19-10-2017 18:28 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa police have been asking for the public’s help in locating a 52-year-old Ottawa man who went missing over the Thanksgiving long weekend. 
  Steve Holland was last seen wearing a green sweater, red ball cap and beige shorts in the Dunham Street area in the east end of the city, near Gloucester. His family is “greatly concerned for his safety,” said police.
  Holland is described as a white man, 5-5, 170 pounds, with a stocky and muscular build, and short blonde hair.
  If y
  
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• Police are at Glebe Collegiate. Unconfirmed report of possible weapon. No threat to public safety. All students and Staff are safe #ottnews

  19-10-2017 18:00 via twitter.com
  Police are at Glebe Collegiate. Unconfirmed report of possible weapon.No threat to public safety. All students and Staff are safe #ottnews
  
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• Glebe Collegiate in secure mode. Police onsite investigating. All students and staff are safe. #ottnews

  19-10-2017 17:54 via twitter.com
  Glebe Collegiate in secure mode. Police onsite investigating. All students and staff are safe. #ottnews
  
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• Coming up: Broadcaster & former @Ottawa67sHockey player @Jim_Ralph joins @_MarkSutcliffe live:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  19-10-2017 17:40 via twitter.com
  Coming up: Broadcaster & former @Ottawa67sHockey player @Jim_Ralph joins @_MarkSutcliffe live:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Gatineau voters clamour for street improvements, downtown redevelopment: poll

  19-10-2017 17:38
  
  Gatineau politicians can’t go far wrong by promising they’ll repave almost anything if they’re elected Nov. 5, according to a recent poll.Street improvement is by far the most important issue to voters, with 44 per cent of those canvassed listing it as the No. 1 concern in the poll by Segma Research for Le Droit newspaper and radio station Outaouais
  
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• NEXT @Spencerpress has all your #ottnews in @OttawaCitizen segment bit.ly/1ppeuDa… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  19-10-2017 17:28 via twitter.com
  NEXT@Spencerpress has all your #ottnews in @OttawaCitizen segment bit.ly/1ppeuDa… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Ottawans' tributes to Gord Downie keep coming

  19-10-2017 17:16 via ottawacitizen.com
  “If I had a wish, I’d wish for more of this,” Gord Downie sang on 2012’s Done and Done.
  Ottawans are clearly nowhere near done memorializing the iconic Tragically Hip frontman after news of his death from brain cancer broke Wednesday as emotional tributes keep coming.
  On Thursday, Darren Fisher, the Liberal MP for Dartmouth-Cole Harbour, tweeted a picture of flowers, candles, and photographs placed on the weathered stone steps of Parliament Hill. Twitter users posted
  
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• Report urges raising age to buy smokes in #Ontario Report co-chair @DrAndrewPipe w/ @_MarkSutcliffe NEXT:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  19-10-2017 16:59 via twitter.com
  Report urges raising age to buy smokes in #OntarioReport co-chair @DrAndrewPipe w/ @_MarkSutcliffe NEXT:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Update: @OttawaPolice report missing man found safe. #ottnews twitter.com/OttawaPolice/s…

  19-10-2017 16:54 via twitter.com
  Update: @OttawaPolice report missing man found safe. #ottnews twitter.com/OttawaPolice/s…
  
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• Coming up 11:15: Canadian actor/comedian @ScottThompson_ joins @_MarkSutcliffe live in studio:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  19-10-2017 16:50 via twitter.com
  Coming up 11:15: Canadian actor/comedian @ScottThompson_ joins @_MarkSutcliffe live in studio:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Brian Charette CDs reviewed

  19-10-2017 16:47 via ottawacitizen.com
  Backup (Steeplechase)Brian Charette
  Kürrent (self-released)Brian Charette/Ben Monder/Jordan Young
  New York organist Brian Charette has been recording prolifically in recent years, and his latest two recordings as a leader demonstrate that regardless of the stylistic breadth of his playing, his fluent and often ingenious improvising and big-beat grooves shine through.
  Backup, on the esteemed Danish jazz label SteepleChase, finds Charette tackling a range of bop and post-bop tunes, joined by
  
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• Marketplace: Happy Halloween

  19-10-2017 15:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  It’s beginning to look a lot like Halloween. Miniature chocolates flood the stores, gourds of all sizes are on display and the kids are declaring which costumes they’d like this year. Jack-o’-lanterns grace our front porches, spooky ghosts hang from the rafters and, inside, a cup of pumpkin chai tea, cobwebs and candles. Whether you’re looking to create the perfect haunted home or a chic trick-or-treat destination, these five items will help you cast a spell over your hom
  
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• Mission to Haiti could provide solution to peacekeeping problem facing the Liberals

  19-10-2017 15:10 via ottawacitizen.com
  Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has promised that Canada would become significantly involved in supporting the UN’s peace operations.
  That hasn’t happened yet.
  For at least a year now the Liberal government has said it must carefully weigh all options, even as the UN and other countries have suggested a number of missions, one of those being a mission to Mali.
  With Canada in November hosting a major UN conference, the Department of National Defence is trying to come up with a mission C
  
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• Two severely hurt in crash on 174 [Video]

  19-10-2017 14:34
  
  Two people were injured Thursday morning after an early crash on Highway 174 near Blair Road sent two people to hospital. Police say a tire apparently flew off a westbound vehicle, crashing into a oncoming eastbound vehicle. One of the injured was described as having life-threatening injuries.
  
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• Balmy autumn days linger with temps near 20 C through Monday

  19-10-2017 14:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  The mercury hit 20.5 C Wednesday and the warm weather isn’t going anywhere.
  Watch for gusty winds Thursday morning to give way to a mix of sun and cloud with a high of 19 C and low of 6 C, Environment Canada predicts.
  Friday’s forecast is pure sunshine with a high of 18 C and low of 8 C.
  The weekend is even balmier with highs of 21 C under mixed skies and lows of 10 C Saturday and 12 C Sunday, when there’s a forecast 30 per cent chance of showers.
  That increases to a 40 per cen
  
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• Highway 174 reopens after two severely hurt in crash

  19-10-2017 14:29 via ottawacitizen.com
  Two people were injured Thursday morning after an early crash on Highway 174 near Blair Road sent two people to hospital.
  Police say a tire apparently flew off a westbound vehicle, crashing into a oncoming eastbound vehicle.
  One of the injured was described as having life-threatening injuries.
  Traffic reopened in both directions at around 6 a.m.
  
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• Ottawa weather: The next four day are going to be beautiful [Video]

  19-10-2017 14:27
  
  The mercury hit 20.5 C Wednesday and the warm weather isn’t going anywhere. Watch for gusty winds Thursday morning to give way to a mix of sun and cloud with a high of 19 C and low of 6 C, Environment Canada predicts. Friday’s forecast is pure sunshine with a high of 18 C and low of 8 C.
  
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• Spain ready to revoke #Catalan autonomy amid independence bid bit.ly/2gPSs26 https://t.co/SXcYlb5rk8

  19-10-2017 13:57 via twitter.com
  
  Spain ready to revoke #Catalan autonomy amid independence bidbit.ly/2gPSs26 https://t.co/SXcYlb5rk8
  
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• Kingston man, 75, accused of sexually assaulting adult granddaughter: bit.ly/2gQ6zED https://t.co/9EUbWoVXJX

  19-10-2017 13:47 via twitter.com
  
  Kingston man, 75, accused of sexually assaulting adult granddaughter: bit.ly/2gQ6zED https://t.co/9EUbWoVXJX
  
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• Canada's warship procurement plan needs a course correction

  19-10-2017 13:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  Canada’s plan to replace its fleet of destroyers and patrol frigates with new vessels under the Canadian Surface Combatant (CSC) project is the largest and most costly single procurement our country has launched since the Second World War. Unless the federal government makes significant changes to the process, however, it will become a textbook case of how not to conduct a competition that’s fair, open and transparent and that ensures the best value for Canadian taxpayers and the gro
  
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