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• #Renfrew OPP issue warrant for man a "risk to public safety" who may bve in #Ottawa #ottnews 1310news.com/2017/10/20/ren… https://t.co/Ucgwk9rgAw

  20-10-2017 23:59 via twitter.com
  
  #Renfrew OPP issue warrant for man a "risk to public safety" who may bve in #Ottawa #ottnews 1310news.com/2017/10/20/ren… https://t.co/Ucgwk9rgAw
  
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• Motorcyclist killed in South Dundas collision

  20-10-2017 23:54 via ottawacitizen.com
  One man is dead after a motorcycle collided head-on with a car near Morrisburg on Friday afternoon.
  The OPP said Friday evening that detours remained in place near the scene of the crash, near the intersection of County Road 2 and County Road 31 in South Dundas.
  According to investigators, a vehicle driven by a woman was heading eastbound on County Road 2 when it crossed the median and collided with a westbound motorcycle in the westbound lane at 2:28 p.m.
  The adult male riding the motorcycle wa
  
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• Crown denied earlier trial date for cop charged in Abdi death

  20-10-2017 23:53 via ottawacitizen.com
  A judge on Friday refused the Crown’s argument that the court must book an earlier trial for the cop charged in the death of Abdirahman Abdi.
  And for the first time, the public got a sense of what direction Const. Daniel Montsion’s criminal trial will take without any evidence being presented yet.
  The case could turn on the cause of Abdi’s death.
  “This is not a beating,” defence lawyer Michael Edelson said in court, suggesting Abdi died of a heart attack.
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• As college strike continues, Algonquin students worry about making up lost studies [Video]

  20-10-2017 23:47
  
  Algonquin College nursing student Mia Menard is studying on her own at home in Orléans while her professors are on strike.But she can’t replace the two shifts a week at the Queensway Carleton Hospital that were giving her the practical experience required to complete her degree this spring.
  
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• Senators are ready for the Battle of Ontario against Maple Leafs

  20-10-2017 23:46 via ottawacitizen.com
  Finally, a Battle of Ontario with meaning.
  As the Ottawa Senators prepare to face off against the Toronto Maple Leafs on Saturday at Canadian Tire Centre in Round 1 of the 2017-18 edition of the provincial rivalry, there are two points on the line that will come in handy when the National Hockey League hands out playoff spots in April.
  After a trip to the Eastern Conference final for the first time in a decade last spring, the Senators are trying to get back to the playoffs again this season, wh
  
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• Federal NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh has begun the process of embracing federal politics. He's resigned his seat in Ontario's legislature.

  20-10-2017 23:38 via twitter.com
  Federal NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh has begun the process of embracing federal politics. He's resigned his seat in Ontario's legislature.
  
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• As college strike continues, Algonquin students worry about making up lost studies

  20-10-2017 23:29 via ottawacitizen.com
  Algonquin College nursing student Mia Menard is studying on her own at home in Orléans while her professors are on strike.
  But she can’t replace the two shifts a week at the Queensway Carleton Hospital that were giving her the practical experience required to complete her degree this spring.
  With the strike by faculty at Ontario’s 24 colleges entering its sixth day on Saturday, questions are mounting among students about how they will salvage their semester.
  Menard has receive
  
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• Reevely: Brown is making the Liberals Ontario's right-wing bad guys and they haven't figured it out

  20-10-2017 23:28 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ontarians should not only disapprove of Quebec’s new face-coverings law, the government should find a legal case to support to get it struck down, Progressive Conservative leader Patrick Brown says, continuing to harry the Liberal party from the left.
  They keep saying he’s a frightening right-winger and he keeps refusing to play along. Brown criticizes the governing party not for being bleeding-heart incompetents, which they’re used to and know how to answer, but for letti
  
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• Politics matter: Bombardier, bigotry and Bill Morneau

  20-10-2017 23:19 via ottawacitizen.com
  After months spent fanning the embers of class warfare with their proposed tax reforms, this was the week the brushfire blew back on the federal Liberals.
  Fresh accusations of questionable decisions around ethics and disclosure fuelled the opposition all week, pushing Finance Minister Bill Morneau to publicly declare himself “naïve,” change the way he declares his wealth and commit to selling off all his shares in his family’s pension business.
  At the same time, the govern
  
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• Alleged panty-thief collared, police ask any victims to come forward

  20-10-2017 23:15
  
  A 61-year-old former Renfrew man is accused of breaking into two homes to steal women’s underwear.John Douglas Burwell, known as “Doug,” was initially charged by Ontario Provincial Police in September when the first victim went to police with surveillance video of a suspect stealing women’s underwear from a home in Whitewater Region Township.
  
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• Murder suspect on the run, wanted for Caldwell shooting

  20-10-2017 23:09 via ottawacitizen.com
  A 20-year-old man once accused of a gunpoint home invasion in Toronto is now wanted for murder in a brazen daylight homicide on Caldwell Avenue, the Citizen has learned. 
  Ottawa homicide detectives have charged 20-year-old Farah Handule, of Toronto, with second-degree murder in the fatal shooting of 20-year-old Hamzeh Serhan on Sept. 20.
  Handule’s whereabouts are currently unknown and he’s believed to be on the run. A warrant has been issued for his arrest.
  Serhan was shot multi
  
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• Patching over the past: Traces of Oct. 22 shooting fade

  20-10-2017 23:08 via ottawacitizen.com
  Three years after gunman Michael Zehaf-Bibeau fatally shot reservist Cpl. Nathan Cirillo as he stood guard at the National War Memorial, and then stormed Centre Block where he died in a shootout with parliament security personnel, traces of that Oct. 22 day are disappearing.
  According to the Office of the Speaker, heritage experts at Public Works and Government Services Canada worked with the curator of the House of Commons following the shooting to determine the most appropriate approach for re
  
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• Police issue arrest warrant in fatal Caldwell shooting; warn suspect may be armed: 1310news.com/2017/10/20/pol… #ottnews

  20-10-2017 22:36 via twitter.com
  Police issue arrest warrant in fatal Caldwell shooting; warn suspect may be armed: 1310news.com/2017/10/20/pol… #ottnews
  
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• Part-time professors at University of Ottawa give union strike mandate

  20-10-2017 21:58
  
  Part-time professors at the University of Ottawa are in a position to strike as early as Oct. 30.In a strike vote held Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, 92 per cent of the members of the Association of Part-Time Professors University of Ottawa (APTPUO) who cast a ballot voted in favour of a strike, said union spokesman Shawn Philip Hunsdale.
  
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• OPP want to hear from anyone in #Renfrew area who has been a victim of underwear theft: 1310news.com/2017/10/20/ont… #ottnews

  20-10-2017 21:47 via twitter.com
  OPP want to hear from anyone in #Renfrew area who has been a victim of underwear theft: 1310news.com/2017/10/20/ont… #ottnews
  
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• MISSING: @PoliceGatineau looking for Bruno Gagnon, 48, last seen October 13th. #ottnews #Gatineau twitter.com/PoliceGatineau…

  20-10-2017 20:54 via twitter.com
  MISSING: @PoliceGatineau looking for Bruno Gagnon, 48, last seen October 13th. #ottnews #Gatineau twitter.com/PoliceGatineau…
  
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• Today's letters: What kind of face coverings are forbidden?

  20-10-2017 20:53 via ottawacitizen.com
  Readers take on the niqab ban, a freed kidnap family and the community college strike. You can write to us too, at [email protected]
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  Bill 62 obviously targets Muslims
  Re: Quebec pretends niqab ban isn’t a niqab ban, Oct. 19.
  I was recently in Quebec City and it was filled with tourists – an economic boom for the city. Several people were wearing surgical masks either to prevent catching or spreading illness. Are these tourists going to be denied boarding a bus or visi
  
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• LISTEN: @MeehanCarolAnne gets the lowdown on weekend events from @ottawacity's Bart Cormier. player.1310news.com https://t.co/TgBmxzNqrf

  20-10-2017 20:50 via twitter.com
  
  LISTEN: @MeehanCarolAnne gets the lowdown on weekend events from @ottawacity's Bart Cormier. player.1310news.com https://t.co/TgBmxzNqrf
  
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• LISTEN: It's Foodie Friday! @MeehanCarolAnne talks where best to eat with Culinary Events Producer Robin Duetta.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  20-10-2017 20:45 via twitter.com
  LISTEN: It's Foodie Friday! @MeehanCarolAnne talks where best to eat with Culinary Events Producer Robin Duetta.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Killer confessed to cellmate, pleads guilty to second-degree murder

  20-10-2017 20:44 via ottawacitizen.com
  An Ottawa killer who pleaded guilty Friday had confessed to a jailhouse cellmate that he murdered Lonnie Leafloor because he was “tired of being punked” with diluted pills.
  Idris Abdulgani, 22, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder for Leafloor’s fatal stabbing in April 2016.
  Homicide detectives began investigating the case after a maintenance man at Leafloor’s apartment building at 1400 Lepage Ave. found Leafloor, 56, dead inside unit 315 on May 2, 2016.
  He had been kil
  
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• LISTEN: Mom of @AmandaLindhout, @LorindaStewart joins @MeehanCarolAnne to talk about her new book, One Day Closer.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  20-10-2017 20:30 via twitter.com
  LISTEN: Mom of @AmandaLindhout, @LorindaStewart joins @MeehanCarolAnne to talk about her new book, One Day Closer.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Teen faces gun charges in Glebe high school incident

  20-10-2017 20:26 via ottawacitizen.com
  A 17-year-old male is facing a string of charges related to a gun that was spotted at Glebe Collegiate Institute Thursday morning, sending the school into lockdown for hours.
  The guns and gangs unit have laid half-a-dozen charges including careless use, handling or storage of a firearm, possession of a weapon dangerous to the public peace, carrying a concealed weapon, possession of a restricted or prohibited firearm without holding a license and registration certificate and possession of a loade
  
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• LISTEN: @Go_Taylor joins @MeehanCarolAnne to talk about the challenges @ottawacity is facing in the budget.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  20-10-2017 20:15 via twitter.com
  LISTEN: @Go_Taylor joins @MeehanCarolAnne to talk about the challenges @ottawacity is facing in the budget.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• LISTEN: @MeehanCarolAnne and movie reviewer Keith Whittier can help you decide what to see in theatres this weekend… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  20-10-2017 20:03 via twitter.com
  LISTEN: @MeehanCarolAnne and movie reviewer Keith Whittier can help you decide what to see in theatres this weekend… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Family considering public memorial for Gord Downie: 1310news.com/2017/10/20/sup…

  20-10-2017 19:49 via twitter.com
  Family considering public memorial for Gord Downie: 1310news.com/2017/10/20/sup…
  
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• LISTEN: Pollution doing more damage than war, disaster and hunger? @MeehanCarolAnne talks to Philip Landrigan.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  20-10-2017 19:45 via twitter.com
  LISTEN: Pollution doing more damage than war, disaster and hunger? @MeehanCarolAnne talks to Philip Landrigan.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• LISTEN: A study shows firefighters absorbing more toxins in their skin. @MeehanCarolAnne talks to Dr. Jules Blais.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  20-10-2017 19:30 via twitter.com
  LISTEN: A study shows firefighters absorbing more toxins in their skin. @MeehanCarolAnne talks to Dr. Jules Blais.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Ottawa Police say missing woman Aline Karegeya, 47, has been located deceased. Foul play is not suspected. #ottnews

  20-10-2017 19:21 via twitter.com
  Ottawa Police say missing woman Aline Karegeya, 47, has been located deceased.Foul play is not suspected. #ottnews
  
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• LISTEN: A Saskatchewan MP is making noise about the Phoenix pay system. Erin Weir joins @MeehanCarolAnne.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  20-10-2017 19:15 via twitter.com
  LISTEN: A Saskatchewan MP is making noise about the Phoenix pay system. Erin Weir joins @MeehanCarolAnne.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Home care wait list drops by more than three-quarters in Ottawa region

  20-10-2017 19:15
  
  Wait lists for home care in the region have dropped by more than three-quarters since last spring — a figure so favourable, it was unexpected even by the agency responsible for delivering the service.The Champlain Local Health Integration Network (LHIN), which coordinates health care over much of Eastern Ontario
  
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• Editorial: Politicians should hide their faces in shame over the niqab ban

  20-10-2017 19:06 via ottawacitizen.com
  At most, only a few thousand women in Quebec wear the niqab, the veil that covers facial features except for the eyes, and some estimates say the number is even lower – only a few hundred. Yet these women are considered such a threat to social cohesion that the National Assembly has passed a law that could prevent them from participating in many basic activities unless they expose their faces.
  Bill 62 requires that the face be uncovered when a person is either delivering or receiving a Que
  
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• Charges laid after gun spotted at Ottawa high school: 1310news.com/2017/10/20/tee… #ottnews

  20-10-2017 18:37 via twitter.com
  Charges laid after gun spotted at Ottawa high school: 1310news.com/2017/10/20/tee… #ottnews
  
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• CHEO urges parents to consider alternatives to emergency room after visits spike

  20-10-2017 18:35
  
  CHEO is asking parents to consider alternatives to the emergency room for non-urgent health problems after visits spiked this month.Visits were up 15 per cent in October compared to the same time period last year, part of a trend of increasing visits to the emergency room, said CHEO. October volumes are nearing the peak volumes typically expected i
  
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• Gormley: Why Austria managed to elect neo-Nazis

  20-10-2017 18:02 via ottawacitizen.com
  It is alarming enough that neo-Nazis may rule the Fatherland once more, but all the more disturbing that the Fatherland they hope to govern is not exactly the one the world learned to fear.
  This autumn, a neo-Nazi party won 13 per cent of the seats in Germany’s Bundestag. It is in Austria, though, where another such party came in second, and may become a coalition partner in government, alongside the more mainstream conservative party that itself had to mimic anti-immigrant slogans to win
  
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• Clock ticking for Canada on Super Hornet offer – don’t worry about it

  20-10-2017 17:55 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Canadian Press recently reported that the Trudeau government has until the end of the year to decide on an offer for Super Hornet fighter jets.
  There is a formal offer on the table to sell 18 Boeing Super Hornets. But that is in limbo because of Boeing’s complaint about the Canadian government and the support it has provided to Bombardier for the development of the C-Series passenger aircraft.
  The Trudeau government can ask for an extension, but there is no guarantee it will be granted
  
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• Support worker who struck elderly Ottawa resident sentenced to 90 days

  20-10-2017 17:44 via ottawacitizen.com
  A personal support worker who struck elderly long-term care resident Georges Karam repeatedly in the face has been sentenced to 90 days in jail, a sentence he can serve two days a week between work shifts.
  “Mr. Karam is one of our most vulnerable members of our community,” said Justice Julie Bourgeois. “He was not in a position to defend himself and not even to express denunciation of the situation. Vulnerable individuals must be protected.”
  The incident at Ottawa&rs
  
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• Police hunt robber in Rideau Street gas station heist

  20-10-2017 17:14
  
  City police are asking the public to help them identify a “faux-hawked” man accused of robbing a Rideau Street gas bar last Saturday.The man entered the station at the intersection of King Edward Avenue at about 7 p.m. and held one hand in his pocket, threatening the clerk that he was armed with a knife and demanding cash.
  
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• NCC wants 'big ideas' for next 50 years of Gatineau Park

  20-10-2017 17:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  The National Capital Commission is inviting some “big ideas” from the public as it envisions a new master plan for the next 50 years in Gatineau Park.
  The NCC launched a four-stage process, with each stage including extensive public consultations for the 361-square-kilometre park, where locals account for 90 per cent of the park’s 2.6 million visits per year.
  “Ultimately the goal of this whole process is to not only come up with a great plan that guides the future of the
  
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• Afghan military trainees go AWOL – here are some reasons why

  20-10-2017 16:46 via ottawacitizen.com
  The U.S. Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) has been looking into why Afghan security personnel, training in the U.S., go absent without leave.
  Here are some of the findings SIGAR says are in the report:
  — Nearly half of all foreign military trainees that went AWOL while training in the United States since 2005 were from Afghanistan (152 of 320). 
  — Of the 152 AWOL Afghan trainees, 83 either fled the United States after going AWOL or remain unaccoun
  
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• Gatineau driver, 38, in crash registers four times legal blood-alcohol limit

  20-10-2017 16:40 via ottawacitizen.com
  Gatineau police arrested a 38-year-old Gatineau woman on Thursday evening around 8 p.m. after the woman were involved in a crash near the intersection of Gamelin Street and Boulevard de la Cité-des-Jeunes.
  Police were called to the scene where a car had left the road and immediately suspected the driver was intoxicated. The driver was arrested and taken to a police station where they tested their blood-alcohol levels and found that they were more than four times over the legal limit.
  
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• En Route names Riviera one of Canada's best restaurants

  20-10-2017 15:54
  
  Riviera, the posh Sparks Street restaurant popular with Parliament Hill politicos and Ottawa's foodies, is one of Canada's Top 10 new restaurants of 2017, according to enRoute magazine. The restaurant, opened in the summer of 2016 by chefs Matthew Carmichael and Jordan Holley, ranked seventh on the popular list.
  
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• Coming up on the 10 O'Clock Talk: @jonathanmcleod, @catherinejclark & @WendyBoomer join @_MarkSutcliffe live:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  20-10-2017 15:45 via twitter.com
  Coming up on the 10 O'Clock Talk: @jonathanmcleod,@catherinejclark& @WendyBoomer join @_MarkSutcliffe live:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Coming up 9:45 @SandraKiss1053 in studio w/ @_MarkSutcliffe for #SandRAP: bit.ly/1uwtdOs @kissottawa… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  20-10-2017 15:35 via twitter.com
  Coming up 9:45@SandraKiss1053 in studio w/ @_MarkSutcliffe for #SandRAP: bit.ly/1uwtdOs @kissottawa… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Coming up 9:30: @sarahboesveld on marketing the military to women: Listen: bit.ly/1uwtdOs… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  20-10-2017 15:15 via twitter.com
  Coming up 9:30: @sarahboesveld on marketing the military to women: Listen: bit.ly/1uwtdOs… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Police look to identify gas station robbery suspect: bit.ly/2yCfelI #ottnews https://t.co/4BDEsJKh3D

  20-10-2017 15:13 via twitter.com
  
  Police look to identify gas station robbery suspect: bit.ly/2yCfelI #ottnews https://t.co/4BDEsJKh3D
  
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• Firefighters free taxi driver after Bank Street crash

  20-10-2017 15:13
  
  Firefighters had to use cutters and spreaders to free a taxi driver from a heavily-damaged van after a crash on Bank Street early Friday morning. Despite the damage, injuries were minor, paramedics said. Fire crews were called by city police at 6:32 a.m. to the crash on northbound Bank Street near Riverdale Avenue.
  
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• Riviera on Sparks Street makes enRoute magazine's Top-10 list of best new Canadian restaurants

  20-10-2017 15:09 via ottawacitizen.com
  Riviera, the posh Sparks Street restaurant popular with Parliament Hill politicos and Ottawa’s foodies, is one of Canada’s Top 10 new restaurants of 2017, according to enRoute magazine.
  The restaurant, opened in the summer of 2016 by chefs Matthew Carmichael and Jordan Holley, ranked seventh on the popular list, announced Thursday night by Air Canada’s inflight magazine. The November issue of enRoute will feature the 10 eateries, which were chosen by critic Andrew Braithwaite a
  
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• 38-year-old OC Transpo driver makes college basketball team

  20-10-2017 15:04 via ottawacitizen.com
  About six months ago, Trevor Costello, the wiry coach of the Algonquin College men’s basketball team, was refereeing an alumni tournament in Hammond — “out in the sticks” — when one player caught his eye.
  He was a mountain of a man, balding with grey stubble, but equipped with court smarts. And Costello wondered, crazily: could this aging giant be lured to play for the Algonquin Thunder?
  A hint was dropped and it set Dan Stoddard on a mission, the fulfilment of a dr
  
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• Gatineau cops seek two suspects in armed robbery [Video]

  20-10-2017 15:01
  
  Police in Gatineau are looking for two suspects following a holdup Thursday night at a boutique in the city’s Plateau neighbourhood. Two men armed with knives entered the boutique shortly before 9 p.m. and demanded the contents of cash register. They were handed an undisclosed amount of money and fled.
  
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• 'Bill Morneau and a new sort of Liberal arrogance' @aradwanski coming up 9:15: Listen: bit.ly/1uwtdOs… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  20-10-2017 15:00 via twitter.com
  'Bill Morneau and a new sort of Liberal arrogance'@aradwanski coming up 9:15: Listen: bit.ly/1uwtdOs… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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