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• Canadian special forces freeze training and assist program in Iraq

  27-10-2017 23:59 via ottawacitizen.com
  Canadian special forces have put on hold the assistance it is providing to Iraqi security forces.
  Canadian commandos have been working with the Kurds and some assistance has been provided to the Iraqis. But that has all been put on hold as Iraqi and Kurdish forces battle each other.
  “Given the fluidity of the current situation, Canada’s Special Operations Task Force has temporarily suspended the provision of assistance to various elements of Iraqi security forces,” Canadian For
  
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• Fire doused, no injuries in Vanier apartment building

  27-10-2017 23:53 via ottawacitizen.com
  Fire crews doused a blaze in a Vanier apartment building Friday morning.
  They were called to 650 Rue de l’église off Montreal Road at about 11:30 a.m., confirmed on arrival that there was a working fire billowing black smoke and had the flames under control at 11:53 a.m.
  Crews were remained on scene for some time after that, clearing smoke and making sure the fire hadn’t spread to other parts of the three-storey building west of St. Laurent Boulevard.
  Occupants were able
  
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• Michael Pitfield (1937-2017): Trudeau confidant stood at nexus of government, politics

  27-10-2017 23:44 via ottawacitizen.com
  April 17, 1982 was one of the most important days in Canadian history.
  Sitting in the shadow of the Peace Tower, Canada’s head of state, Queen Elizabeth, and head of government, prime minister Pierre Trudeau, prepared to sign the constitutional proclamation, the final act in granting Canada full sovereignty.
  And there, too, was Michael Pitfield, clerk of the Privy Council, pointing helpfully as if to say, “Sign here, Your Majesty.”
  It seemed to be ever that way for Pitfield, th
  
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• Politics matters: Children, fossil fuels and, of course, ethics

  27-10-2017 23:04 via ottawacitizen.com
  Political cynics had plenty of fodder this week, with the curious timing of multibillion-dollar-spending announcements and morphing Liberal views on veils.
  Parliament Hill was caught up in the twists and turns of Finance Minister Bill Morneau’s ethics saga. But the Liberals also gloated over Monday’s upset byelection win deep in traditionally separatist territory in Quebec.
  At the same time, the Liberals’ rhetoric on what to do about Quebec’s new ban on face coverings whe
  
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• City doesn't want to cover LeBreton Flats cleanup costs, report reveals

  27-10-2017 22:54 via ottawacitizen.com
  LeBreton Flats needs to be a showpiece neighbourhood once it’s rebuilt, the city says, as long as it costs the city government as little as possible.
  It wants nothing to do with cleaning up contaminated ground in the former industrial neighbourhood, for instance. It wants users of a new hockey arena there to pay for extra transit service for games and concerts. It doesn’t want new parks and civic spaces there to be too fancy to maintain.
  This is all laid out in the bargaining positio
  
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• Outpouring of sorrow after death of young hockey player in crash, three others injured

  27-10-2017 22:01 via ottawacitizen.com
  Both Renfrew-area residents and the region’s junior hockey communities were in mourning Friday after a crash that killed a teenage player and injured three others.
  Brandon Thomas Hanniman of Admaston Bromley Township was pronounced dead at the scene on Calabogie Road about two kilometres south of Burnstown, a village south of Renfrew.
  The four young men, all of them 18, were in the car when it went off the road and into a rock cut. A passing motorist came upon the wrecked vehicle and calle
  
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• Crash survivor searches for nurse who came to her aid on Highway 416 in August

  27-10-2017 21:53 via ottawacitizen.com
  Amanda Chartrand’s hero is a woman she’s never met, and she wants to thank her for likely saving her life.
  Chartrand, 24, was driving home toward Kemptville on Highway 416 just past Roger Stevens Drive on Aug. 11 around 11:20 p.m. when she hit the shoulder of the road, overcorrected and flipped her Jeep several times before skidding almost 100 feet into a ditch.
  While a roll bar and seat belt provided some protection, her head smashed against the driver-side window during the violent
  
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• How a stroke brought new urgency to the work of an Ottawa cholesterol researcher

  27-10-2017 21:40 via ottawacitizen.com
  Xiaohui Zha was in Baltimore watching one of her students make a presentation when she suddenly lost hearing in one ear and then felt a strange surge from one side of her head to the other.
  The senior scientist with The Ottawa Hospital Research Institute and associate professor at the University of Ottawa did not want to interrupt the presentation, so she walked carefully across the front of the room and out the door into a hallway where she promptly collapsed.
  Zha, who leads crucial research in
  
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• Gentiane MG CD reviewed

  27-10-2017 21:14 via ottawacitizen.com
  Eternal Cycle (self-released)
  Gentiane MG
  The young Montreal pianist Gentiane MG (Michaud-Gagnon, if you must know) is on a roll this week, having won the François-Marcaurelle/ Guilde des musiciens et musiciennes du Québec prize just as she and her trio arrived in Mexico for two weeks of touring.
  What’s all the fuss about? I can refer you to the 25-year-old McGill University grad’s debut album, released this summer, for an answer as to why Michaud-Gagnon&rsquo
  
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• At the GCTC, the actors in Ordinary Days set intentions to music

  27-10-2017 20:49 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ordinary DaysWhere: Great Canadian Theatre Company, 1233 Wellington St. W.
  When: Oct. 31 to Nov. 19
  Tickets: preview nights (Oct. 31 and Nov. 1) $29, evening performances Nov. 2 and after starting at $42, available at gctc.ca or the GCTC box office
  Last week, in the Great Canadian Theatre Company’s black box studio theatre, actor Gab Desmond was rehearsing — and admitting along the way that he had yet to master the material.  
  “It’s one thing to memorize, b
  
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• NEXT: Ottawa's food scene and happenings around the city this weekend with @MarkDayNews. #CarolAnneMeehanShow… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  27-10-2017 20:40 via twitter.com
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• Allegations of 'inappropriate' conduct sink Gatineau council candidate's campaign

  27-10-2017 20:23 via ottawacitizen.com
  Allegations of “inappropriate” kissing and other “inappropriate” actions have torpedoed the election campaign of a candidate in Gatineau’s municipal election, as several unnamed women have complained about new candidate Patrick Doyon.
  Two Outaouais TV stations — TVA and Radio-Canada — say Doyon told them Friday he is withdrawing from the contest for the seat in the Plateau district.
  Doyon hasn’t responded to calls from Postmedia. As of Friday after
  
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• This brilliant Ottawa tech pioneer had wealth and a wonderful family. His suicide shocked everyone.

  27-10-2017 20:13 via ottawacitizen.com
  It was an unseasonably warm day in early November when an Ottawa police officer noticed the car.
  The silver Honda Civic was parked on a Vanier street, blocking traffic.        
  When the constable approached, the man inside was, as he’d later be described, “combative,” and would reply to the officer only in German.
  The driver’s licence indicated the occupant was Antoine Paquin, one of this city’s best-known entrepreneurs.
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• LISTEN: Reviewer Keith Whittier joins @MarkDayNews to help you figure out what to see in theatres this weekend.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  27-10-2017 20:03 via twitter.com
  LISTEN: Reviewer Keith Whittier joins @MarkDayNews to help you figure out what to see in theatres this weekend.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Man, 85, suffers minor injuries in dramatic single-car crash

  27-10-2017 19:51 via ottawacitizen.com
  An 85-year-old man suffered a minor cut to his hand after the Jeep he was driving collided with a hydro pole on Iris Street late Friday morning.
  According to emergency responders on the scene, the man lost consciousness while driving.
  The vehicle jumped the curb and sidewalk before crashing into the pole.
  No one else was hurt.
  
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• Editorial: Still awaiting Morneau's apology

  27-10-2017 19:51 via ottawacitizen.com
  When Finance Minister Bill Morneau failed to disclose his French villa or put his assets in a blind trust, and when he continued owning shares in his family firm through a numbered company, what did he think was going to happen?
  Indiscretions commonly come to light in politics. So why did Morneau – arguably the second-most important man in the federal government – act as he did? And does he even understand the problem? He has said he followed the advice of the federal ethic
  
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• Reevely: Ottawa MPPs bill to forbid discrimination for poverty, refugee status, more

  27-10-2017 19:46 via ottawacitizen.com
  Employers shouldn’t be allowed to demand their employees take genetic tests, dentists shouldn’t be allowed to evict homeless-seeming people from their waiting rooms, landlord shouldn’t be able to refuse to rent to refugee claimants, and people who’ve had criminal charges dropped shouldn’t have that held against them, says Ottawa-Vanier Liberal MPP Nathalie Des Rosiers, who’s proposing changes to Ontario’s human-rights code.
  “I think it’s very
  
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• Firefighters tackle backyard shed fire in the Glebe

  27-10-2017 19:38 via ottawacitizen.com
  Firefighters worked hard Friday to protect neighbouring homes from a fire that broke out in a backyard shed in the Glebe.
  The high-heat conditions did damage to the house on Oakland Avenue near Monk Street where fire crews were called at about noon.
  Firefighters issued the all-clear after using thermal imaging cameras to search for embers.
  Police were holding the scene until a fire investigator could arrive.
  UPDATE: Oakland Ave fire originated in backyard shed. High heat conditions damaged home.
  
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• LISTEN: Canadian singer-songwriter @barneybentall returns with a new album. @MarkDayNews speaks with him, next.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  27-10-2017 19:30 via twitter.com
  LISTEN: Canadian singer-songwriter @barneybentall returns with a new album. @MarkDayNews speaks with him, next.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• What does $250 on Kijiji get you? A herd of alpaca located near Gatineau

  27-10-2017 19:20 via ottawacitizen.com
  Have you been feeling lonely lately and longing for company? Is your life missing the warmth that can only be found in a friend who’ll give you the shirt off his back so you can bundle up in the coziest socks, mittens, tuques and sweaters during the long cold winter?
  And do you have at least a couple of acres of land, preferably with grass or hay and some sort of shelter, all enclosed by at least a two-metre-high fence?
  If you answered yes to all of these, then you could be in for the deal
  
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• .@MarkDayNews takes over the Carol Anne Meehan Show today -- kicking things off talking JFK files with @AlanYuhas.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  27-10-2017 19:13 via twitter.com
  .@MarkDayNews takes over the Carol Anne Meehan Show today -- kicking things off talking JFK files with @AlanYuhas.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• NEXT @TheBlade27 joins @_MarkSutcliffe on being named to Rugby Hall of Fame bit.ly/1uwtdOs… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  27-10-2017 18:29 via twitter.com
  NEXT @TheBlade27 joins @_MarkSutcliffe on being named to Rugby Hall of Famebit.ly/1uwtdOs… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• The victim of the fatal crash in Calabogie was a CCHL player for the Renfrew Jr. Wolves - 1310news.com/2017/10/27/one… #ottnews

  27-10-2017 18:10 via twitter.com
  The victim of the fatal crash in Calabogie was a CCHL player for the Renfrew Jr. Wolves - 1310news.com/2017/10/27/one… #ottnews
  
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• UPDATED: Police identify teen killed in crash near #Calabogie 1310news.com/2017/10/27/one… #ottnews

  27-10-2017 18:04 via twitter.com
  UPDATED: Police identify teen killed in crash near #Calabogie 1310news.com/2017/10/27/one… #ottnews
  
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• Coming up on the #PowerLUNCH at NOON: @Baileymariereid & @KatlynHarrison join @_MarkSutcliffe in studio:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  27-10-2017 17:59 via twitter.com
  Coming up on the #PowerLUNCH at NOON: @Baileymariereid & @KatlynHarrison join @_MarkSutcliffe in studio:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• NEXT George Hunter joins @_MarkSutcliffe to chat Stanley Cup monument bit.ly/1uwtdOs #ottnews https://t.co/JSKdg2BswY

  27-10-2017 17:29 via twitter.com
  
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• Gormley: Unfortunately, Morneau isn't an isolated case of conflict

  27-10-2017 17:25 via ottawacitizen.com
  Finance Minister Bill Morneau must feel quite lonely in his infamy. Most of us, after all, cannot relate to having tens of million of dollars’ worth of shares; or, if we do have them, cannot relate to having the power to regulate the very company those shares are in. To whom can he turn for sympathy, then, when pushing regulations that may have benefited him financially cost him a great deal politically?
  In the midst of his seeming isolation, this solitary figure, the people’s r
  
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• Firefighters free critically-hurt woman from flipped car in south end

  27-10-2017 17:09 via ottawacitizen.com
  Firefighters freed and extricated a seriously injured woman whose car flipped into a ditch in the city’s south end Friday.
  Firefighters were called to the scene on Greenbank Road near Prince of Wales Drive by police shortly after 10 a.m.
  The victim was still hanging from her seatbelt in the vehicle, which was upside-down in the ditch.
  Firefighters were able to free her and safely remove her from the vehicle by about 10:16 a.m.
  She was transferred to a backboard for the trip to the hospital
  
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• One dead, three seriously injured after single-vehicle crash near Burnstown

  27-10-2017 16:21 via ottawacitizen.com
  One person was declared dead at the scene and three others were in critical condition after a single-vehicle crash on Calabogie Road near Burnstown Road, Renfrew County Paramedics report.
  Four 18-year-old men were in the vehicle when it left the roadway and struck a rock cut about two kilometres west of Burnstown, OPP reported from the scene Friday morning.
  Michael Nolan, Renfrew paramedics chief, said responders were not able to tell what kind of vehicle the young men were in because it was &ld
  
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• Dawson: A carding system for smokers? What a positively terrible idea

  27-10-2017 15:48 via ottawacitizen.com
  What’s this? Ontario should crank up the cost of cigarettes, raise the smoking age to 21 and rate movies 18A if someone dares smoke on-screen, according to a new report.
  “It has taken far too long to stop a problem that we know how to solve,” says the report, commissioned by the Ministry of Health and Long-term Care.
  It’s a document so outlandish, it’s almost satirical. Honestly, have the anti-smokers got nothing new?
  Many of the solutions that may work to achieve t
  
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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…

  27-10-2017 15:44 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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• Restoration returns heart and history to abandoned Vankleek Hill farmhouse

  27-10-2017 15:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  Dane Simon was only 23 on the autumn day when he first spied the long-abandoned farmhouse near Vankleek Hill, nearly hidden by a tangle of scrub so dense he could only walk down its long laneway.
  It felt forlorn.
  But there was a wraparound veranda held up by gingerbread brackets, rare pressed-tin siding and his feeling that the house simply belonged on its 120 acres of fallow fields and stands of trees. A suburban Montrealer who’d long dreamed of living in the country, he walked down to th
  
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• COMING UP: @cmaconthehill joins @_MarkSutcliffe for weekly #cdnpoli segment: LISTEN: bit.ly/1ppeuDa… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  27-10-2017 15:30 via twitter.com
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• New unit at Perley Rideau key to reducing hospital overcrowding

  27-10-2017 15:10 via ottawacitizen.com
  A key piece in Ontario’s plan to reduce hospital overcrowding will fall into place Friday at Ottawa’s Perley and Rideau Veterans’ Health Centre with the launch of a 20-bed unit aimed at getting frail elderly patients out of hospital beds and into a more appropriate setting.
  The first of its kind in Canada, the unit will provide medical care and allow extended recovery time for patients who would otherwise be occupying hospital beds. The unit essentially moves aspects of the acu
  
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• NEXT at 9:15 @BarrhavenJan joins @_MarkSutcliffe to chat Fallowfield Road closures bit.ly/1uwtdOs… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  27-10-2017 15:09 via twitter.com
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• LIVE 9A-1P: #OttawaToday with @_MarkSutcliffe: LISTEN: player.1310news.com https://t.co/KEJE7f8Hzv

  27-10-2017 15:00 via twitter.com
  
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• Cyberattacks 'more worrisome than all the other stuff': Bank of Canada governor 1310news.com/2017/10/26/cyb… https://t.co/0PKsROpcYE

  27-10-2017 14:25 via twitter.com
  
  Cyberattacks 'more worrisome than all the other stuff': Bank of Canada governor 1310news.com/2017/10/26/cyb… https://t.co/0PKsROpcYE
  
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• One killed, three injured in Calabogie Road crash 1310news.com/2017/10/27/one… #ottnews https://t.co/0VKgZgCSqx

  27-10-2017 14:11 via twitter.com
  
  One killed, three injured in Calabogie Road crash 1310news.com/2017/10/27/one… #ottnews https://t.co/0VKgZgCSqx
  
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• One dead, three critical after single-vehicle crash near Burnstown

  27-10-2017 14:09 via ottawacitizen.com
  One person was declared dead at the scene and three others were in critical condition after a single-vehicle crash on Calabogie Road near Burnstown Road, Renfrew County Paramedics report.
  The OPP advised at about 12:30 a.m. Friday that the intersection was closed in Burnstown, a village south of Renfrew and about 85 km west of Ottawa.
  Single vehicle crash.4 occupants. 1 patient pronounced by @RenCtyParamedic at scene. 3 patients treated w. critical injuries. #ottnews https://t.co/uTITjZh50y
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• Sunshine on tap ahead of rainy days, risk of Halloween flurries

  27-10-2017 14:08 via ottawacitizen.com
  Now here’s a scary forecast: There’s a risk of flurries on Halloween.
  But in the meantime, we get a few sunny days to savour before the candy, according to Environment Canada.
  Friday is mainly sunny with a high of 12 C and low of 6 C.
  Saturday should be mainly sunny, at least until late afternoon when clouds and a 30 per cent chance of showers roll in. The high is 18 C and low 8 C with periods of rain overnight.Expect more rainy spells Sunday and Monday with highs of 10 C and lo
  
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• LIVE NOW: #Ottawa's breaking news, traffic & weather w/@1310Andrew &@1310Glennis player.1310news.com https://t.co/Eg0LeruKoI

  27-10-2017 13:59 via twitter.com
  
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• #BREAKING: Woman struck by vehicle downtown #ottnews twitter.com/OttawaPolice/s…

  27-10-2017 13:56 via twitter.com
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• Delta flight diverted to Labrador after experiencing 'engine performance issue' 1310news.com/2017/10/27/del… https://t.co/9GncJTck88

  27-10-2017 13:48 via twitter.com
  
  Delta flight diverted to Labrador after experiencing 'engine performance issue' 1310news.com/2017/10/27/del… https://t.co/9GncJTck88
  
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• MacDougall: Ahead of Halloween, both Trudeau and Trump looking frightfully shameless

  27-10-2017 13:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  With Halloween around the corner, Liberals are frantically ditching their snazzy emperor’s new clothes in favour of more middle class costumes.
  How else to interpret Tuesday’s surprise budget update full of benefit top-ups and tax changes, cryptically titled: “Doubling Down on Progress for the Middle Class”?
  It turns out the answer to Finance Minister Bill Morneau’s horrifying privilege is budget tricks and treats.
  One understands the urge to hand out goodies. Thing
  
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• 'Stealth' bunkhouse sneaking into Old Ottawa South, says councillor - CBC.ca

  27-10-2017 11:00 via cbc.ca
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  'Stealth' bunkhouse sneaking into Old Ottawa South, says councillor
  CBC.ca
  A builder in Old Ottawa South got approval to expand a six-unit apartment building by making assurances it would have only 12 bedrooms, but months later, the number of bedrooms suddenly ballooned to 27. And David Chernushenko, the councillor for the ...
  
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• Ottawa warned free trade talks with China risk hurting Canada-US relationship - CBC.ca

  27-10-2017 11:00 via cbc.ca
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  Ottawa warned free trade talks with China risk hurting Canada-US relationship
  CBC.ca
  The federal government is being warned that its relationship with the United States could be in jeopardy if Canada engages in free trade talks with China. Former Conservative cabinet minister James Moore, who is also member of the federal government's ...and more »
  
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• Why deny the Ukrainian Nazi connection?

  27-10-2017 07:02 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Russian Embassy in Ottawa has created quite the controversy with its latest tweets about Nazi monuments in Canada.
  “There are monumets (sic) to Nazi collaborators in Canada and nobody is doing anything about it,” one of the tweets noted.
  A monument in Oakville commemorates those who served with the 14th SS Galizien Division (aka 1st Galician/Galizien or the 1st Ukrainian Division). Another monument in Edmonton honors Roman Shukhevych, the leader of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army.
  T
  
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• Gatineau father accused of 'honour-based' violence against daughter - Ottawa Citizen

  27-10-2017 03:22 via ottawacitizen.com
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  Gatineau father accused of 'honour-based' violence against daughter
  Ottawa Citizen
  A Gatineau man is accused of “honour-based” violence against his daughter for not wearing her hijab in public. Police say the teenager told authorities she had suffered repeated violence by her father for more than a year. And when he learned that his ...
  Man accused of beating daughter who refused to wear hijabCBC.caall 3 news articles »
  
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• Gatineau father accused of 'honour-based' violence against daughter

  27-10-2017 03:22 via ottawacitizen.com
  A Gatineau man is accused of “honour-based” violence against his daughter for not wearing her hijab in public.
  Police say the teenager told authorities she had suffered repeated violence by her father for more than a year. And when he learned that his daughter was removing her hijab as soon as left the family home, the violence escalated. 
  Police spokesperson Jean-Paul Lemay said this was the first such case in Gatineau and encouraged any other women who might be victims of simi
  
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• Follow along with @Stu_McGinn for updates from tonight's #Sens game! twitter.com/Stu_McGinn/sta…

  27-10-2017 01:26 via twitter.com
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