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• Borutski victim never reached panic alarm

  30-10-2017 23:50
  Forensic investigators searching the scene of Nathalie Warmerdam’s slaying identified two items of interest in her bedroom, though there was evidence she never made it that far.
  OPP Const. Andrew Doherty testified Monday police found a “domestic violence panic alarm” on her bed, right next to her pillow.
  Under her bed, still in its carrying case, was a shotgun.
  Warmerdam’s body was found at the base of the stairs, still wearing her housecoat, her half-eaten breakfast on t
  
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• Premier Wynne warns union, colleges to return to bargaining table

  30-10-2017 23:45
  ’I don’t want to see any students in this province lose their term,’ says Kathleen Wynne.
  
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• Murder charge laid after chase that ended in Arnprior woman's death

  30-10-2017 23:43
  A 20-year-old Eganville man already facing charges in a police chase that ended in the death of an Arnprior woman now also faces a first-degree murder charge.
  On Sept. 25, Sheila Welsh, 65, was declared dead at the scene after her car was struck by a stolen Ford F150 on Daniel Street in Arnprior. Police had been pursuing the truck.
  Family photo of Sheila Welsh, 65, killed in a crash in Arnprior.
  Zachary Wittke already faces numerous charges in the Sept. 25 collision, including dangerous operatio
  
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• Ottawa taking stand on new arena cost

  30-10-2017 23:05
  Proposal part of the revitalization of LeBreton Flats
  
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• BREAKING - First degree murder charge laid in crash that killed #Arnprior woman: 1310news.com/2017/10/30/cha… #ottnews

  30-10-2017 22:39 via twitter.com
  BREAKING - First degree murder charge laid in crash that killed #Arnprior woman:1310news.com/2017/10/30/cha… #ottnews
  
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• Suspect sought in assault of gas station employee

  30-10-2017 22:32
  Ottawa police are looking to identify a man suspected of assaulting a gas station employee in early October.
  On Sunday Oct. 8 around 6:30 p.m., police said an employee from a gas station confronted a “suspicious” man on the 1600 block of Bank Street, near Heron Road.
  Police allege the suspect became violent in the confrontation and assaulted the employee, before leaving the area and heading east on Heron Road.
  Police described the suspect as an Aboriginal man in his late 20s or early
  
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• Egan: Scary sinkhole in Barrhaven on eve of Halloween

  30-10-2017 22:24
  On the eve of Halloween, it wasn’t the trick or treat Jeff Burnett was expecting — a grave-sized sinkhole on the front lawn.
  After a concerned call from his wife, the Barrhaven resident hurried home from work around mid-day Monday to find a chunk of their lawn on Broxburn Crescent had disappeared.
  By late afternoon, after a deluge earlier in the day, the oval-shaped hole was at least a metre across and well over a metre deep — big enough “to swallow a kid,” a city w
  
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• Elaborate fake gold bar sparks investigation by RBC, police

  30-10-2017 22:16
  RBC Royal Bank is working with police to investigate allegations that one of its branches on Bank Street sold a gold bullion one-ounce bar that turned out to be an elaborate counterfeit.
  CBC reported Monday that on Oct. 18, Samuel Tang walked into the bank, located at the corner of Bank Street and First Avenue, to buy a one-ounce gold bar. Tang is a gemologist and jewelry designer who works across the road at Joy Creations. The small bar he was provided looked as if it had come from the Roy
  
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• Reevely: More accused should get bail, not jail, Naqvi says

  30-10-2017 21:52
  Ontario’s Crown prosecutors will stop trying to keep people in jail while they face charges unless there’s no other choice, their boss Yasir Naqvi said Monday.
  The province’s attorney general and the Liberal MPP for Ottawa Centre has sent a new directive on bail — what prosecutors should seek and what they should agree to — that’s to kick in on Nov. 14.
  It’s virtually the opposite of the 12-year-old instruction it will replace.
  “An accused is presu
  
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• Police release image of assault suspect: 1310news.com/2017/10/30/pol… #ottnews

  30-10-2017 21:31 via twitter.com
  Police release image of assault suspect: 1310news.com/2017/10/30/pol… #ottnews
  
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• Petawawa soldier sentenced to eight years for filming women during sex assaults

  30-10-2017 21:21
  A Petawawa soldier was sentenced Monday to eight years and nine months in prison for secretly videotaping and taking photographs of women during sexual assaults.
  In Pembroke superior court, Cpl. Derrick Gallagher learned he will receive five years and four months of credit for the pre-sentence custody he had already accumulated.
  The 33-year-old infantryman, a member of the Royal Canadian Regiment, pleaded guilty last summer to six counts of sexual assault and three counts of voyeurism by making
  
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• Province supports new Inner City Health supervised injection site

  30-10-2017 20:59
  Ottawa’s largest permanent supervised injection site could be open in a Lowertown trailer as soon as this weekend.
  The trailer, to be operated by Ottawa Inner City Health and located outside Shepherds of Good Hope on Murray Street, will be open 24/7 and serve a population of between 100 and 150 injection drug users, said Inner City Health executive director Wendy Muckle.
  Ontario’s Health Minister Eric Hoskins has endorsed the site in a letter to federal Health Minister Ginette P
  
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• Redblacks fan upset Grey Cup tickets left on door handle

  30-10-2017 20:56
  Don Skubiski can list his most memorable moments as an Ottawa football fan the way other people recite their children’s names.
  He loved going to Rough Rider games with his father in the early ’60s, when he was still in shorts and the players seemed like gladiators; or the 1975 Eastern Division final at Lansdowne Park, where his heart was broken when Montreal Alouette Johnny Rodgers returned a punt 95 yards for a touchdown to give the Als a lead over Ottawa that Montreal never relinqu
  
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• Woman's body found in ruins of Pembroke-area barn fire

  30-10-2017 20:50
  A woman’s body was found in the ruins of a Monday morning barn fire in Laurentian Valley Township southwest of Pembroke.
  Ontario Provincial Police said township firefighters were already on the scene when police received the call at 11:42 a.m.
  OPP said the Ontario Fire Marshall had been notified and would investigate.
  Police were withholding the victim’s name pending notification of family.
  
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• Nordik prepares Whitby spa as plans to expand ramp up

  30-10-2017 20:30
  After a brief pause, which allowed some development to happen at its flagship location, the Groupe Nordik is finally forging ahead with its plans for a Nordic Spa in Whitby, Ont.
  The company, which owns the massively popular Nordik Spa-Nature in Chelsea, Que., said the Whitby spa will be open as early as summer 2019. This is the second time the company has announced its intentions to build in Whitby. Initially, the firm revealed its plans for the city in June 2013, however, some issues
  
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• Chemist will tell why your DNA is like a telephone wire

  30-10-2017 20:28
  Your DNA can be damaged like a long-distance telephone wire, and a researcher speaking in Ottawa this week is figuring out how your body fixes its banged-up wiring.
  Jacqueline Barton of the California Institute of Technology has found that DNA turns itself into an electric wire, carrying signals that diagnose trouble.
  The chemistry professor will explain her work in this year’s Herzberg Lecture, an annual public event at Carleton University. It is at 7 p.m. Wednesday on the second lev
  
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• Borutski trial hears dramatic testimony from takedown in Kinburn field

  30-10-2017 20:19
  Before Basil Borutski was arrested near Kinburn, an Ottawa police tactical squad first had to clear the bush of a group of elementary schoolchildren on a field trip.
  Ottawa Police Service Const. Dan Thompson was the first of those tactical officers to testify Monday at Borutski’s triple-murder trial.
  The morning after his arrest, Borutski admitted in a police interview to killing Carol Culleton, 66, Anastasia Kuzyk, 36, and Nathalie Warmerdam, 48, in a Sept. 22, 2015 rampage through Renfre
  
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• Body found after barn fire in Laurentian Valley Township: 1310news.com/2017/10/30/bod…

  30-10-2017 19:46 via twitter.com
  Body found after barn fire in Laurentian Valley Township: 1310news.com/2017/10/30/bod…
  
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• LISTEN: @MeehanCarolAnne is finding out how a stand-up comedy class has grown over the last two years in Ottawa.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  30-10-2017 19:45 via twitter.com
  LISTEN: @MeehanCarolAnne is finding out how a stand-up comedy class has grown over the last two years in Ottawa.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• LISTEN: Find out what's going on around Ottawa this week as @JulieBeun joins @MeehanCarolAnne.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  30-10-2017 19:30 via twitter.com
  LISTEN: Find out what's going on around Ottawa this week as @JulieBeun joins @MeehanCarolAnne.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Ottawa's soggiest year just won't stop

  30-10-2017 19:28
  We didn’t just set a record for wet. We blew through it Monday with two months to spare, leaving the capital wondering: How much more water can there be?
  The year 2017 has brought first heavy snow, then May floods, a Canada Day mudfest, and in spite of September’s record sunny spell, two wet records together this week.
  • 2017 is Ottawa’s rainiest year on record, since 1873. We’ve had 1,028.8 mm through Sunday night, and the average for a whole year is 758. (Context:
  
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• LISTEN: The Canadian Mint is investigating fake gold given out at a Royal Bank branch. More with @MeehanCarolAnne..… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  30-10-2017 19:15 via twitter.com
  LISTEN: The Canadian Mint is investigating fake gold given out at a Royal Bank branch. More with @MeehanCarolAnne..… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• LISTEN: It's Money Monday! Judith Cane joins @MeehanCarolAnne to talk about affording all of your kids' activities.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  30-10-2017 19:03 via twitter.com
  LISTEN: It's Money Monday! Judith Cane joins @MeehanCarolAnne to talk about affording all of your kids' activities.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Police believe alcohol contributed to crash that killed two teens in #Renfrew County: 1310news.com/2017/10/30/pol… #ottnews

  30-10-2017 19:02 via twitter.com
  Police believe alcohol contributed to crash that killed two teens in #Renfrew County: 1310news.com/2017/10/30/pol… #ottnews
  
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• LISTEN: @ottawahealth is talking about a rise in Gonorrhea and Chlamydia in Ottawa, on the @MeehanCarolAnne Show.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  30-10-2017 18:45 via twitter.com
  LISTEN: @ottawahealth is talking about a rise in Gonorrhea and Chlamydia in Ottawa, on the @MeehanCarolAnne Show.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• LISTEN: @AndreaHorwath is in Ottawa and joins @MeehanCarolAnne to talk about long-term care among other things.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  30-10-2017 18:30 via twitter.com
  LISTEN: @AndreaHorwath is in Ottawa and joins @MeehanCarolAnne to talk about long-term care among other things.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Updated: Heavy flooding as Ottawa smashes weather record

  30-10-2017 17:36
  As rain pelts the Ottawa-Gatineau region, this post will be live updated throughout the day, so check in for the latest on flooding, traffic and power outages.
  The floods at a glance:
  Avoid areas of flooding that have shut down roadways including Island Park Drive under the 417 overpass, where there’s reportedly two feet of water. Halifax Drive is flooded from Dakota Avenue to Walkley Road.
  Gatineau police are sending patrols to check on residents confined to their homes in Parc de la Rivi
  
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• Still ahead: Associate Prof. @padams29 joins @_MarkSutcliffe on State of the Media bit.ly/1ppeuDa https://t.co/MUWLAOfdtH

  30-10-2017 17:28 via twitter.com
  
  Still ahead:Associate Prof.@padams29 joins @_MarkSutcliffe on State of the Mediabit.ly/1ppeuDa https://t.co/MUWLAOfdtH
  
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• Today's letters: Get rid of Morneau, and excellent care at LTC home

  30-10-2017 17:17
  A writer weighs in on the long-term care experience, while Bill Morneau’s place continues to be up for debate and writers suggest a guest columnist missed the point. 
  Write to us at [email protected]. 
  Garry J. Armstong cared deeply for my mother
  Re: Support worker who struck elderly resident in care home sentenced to 90 days in jail, Oct. 21
  My mother lived at Garry J. Armstrong beginning in April
 2013. Hospitalization in early October 2017 deemed her a palliative
  
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• Canada's tough new law against rights abusers should be put to use

  30-10-2017 17:05
  In late October, Parliament passed an innovative and historic piece of human rights legislation known as “The Sergei Magnitsky Law.” Once implemented, it will allow the government to place targeted sanctions against global human rights abusers, by freezing their Canadian assets and banning their entry into this country.
  Vladimir Putin’s regime has predictably expressed its disproportionate outrage, which should not discourage the prime minister or his government from fully impl
  
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• PM's commute includes bypassing washed-out road on ATV

  30-10-2017 16:52
  Even Prime Minister Justin Trudeau had a messy Monday morning commute.
  The road was washed out leading to the prime minister’s summer residence at Harrington Lake, which is nestled in the woods of the Gatineau Hills near Meech Lake.
  A spokeswoman confirmed that Trudeau, who always has an RCMP security detail in tow, had to hop onto a John Deere ATV to take backroads until he reached a passable roadway. He was then picked up by his official motorcade to make the trip to Ottawa. 
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• Watch: Heavy rain knocks out power in Ottawa, forces schools to close

  30-10-2017 16:46
  While residents post videos of pumpkins, green bins, and more being washed away, experts declare 2017 the wettest year Ottawa has ever seen.
  
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• Company behind Corona beer buys stake in Smiths Falls marijuana business

  30-10-2017 16:43
  Canopy Growth Corporation’s plans to develop cannabis-based drinks got a huge boost Monday with the announcement of a $245 million investment by the American company that distributes Corona beer.
  The giant U.S. drink company Constellation Brands has agreed to buy a 9.9 per cent stake in the Smiths Falls-based Canopy Growth, it was announced Monday. Canopy, the company that began three years ago in an old chocolate factory in Smiths falls, is now the world’s largest publicly-traded me
  
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• Coming up: #Baseball analyst @ShiDavidi on #WorldSeries: bit.ly/1uwtdOs @_MarkSutcliffe #BlueJays https://t.co/vobup6E5jh

  30-10-2017 16:43 via twitter.com
  
  Coming up: #Baseball analyst @ShiDavidi on #WorldSeries:bit.ly/1uwtdOs @_MarkSutcliffe#BlueJays https://t.co/vobup6E5jh
  
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• Ottawans laugh in the face of miserable weather

  30-10-2017 16:14
  Ottawans are a hardy lot but they’re apparently feeling like a wet cat or a character in a horror movie this morning.
  On a Monday morning featuring floods and power outages, Twitter users shared a few laughs to brighten the mood.
  Lights on, keep your distance, watch for puddles…..and be patient today. #otttraffic pic.twitter.com/jkIaR4xvmH
  — Phil Kane (@carbinekane) October 30, 2017Me this lovely #ottawa #monday #ottweather #alltherain ‍♀️ pic.twitter.com/8lGh
  
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• A flipped transport truck caused traffic chaos in Gatineau on Monday morning

  30-10-2017 16:14
  Not the best way to start a Monday.
  Highway 50 was blocked at the Highway 5 interchange in Gatineau for several hours.
  A truck transporting lumber turned over, spilling its cargo.
  A detour was in effect during the morning commute, but progress for drivers was slow going.
  The truck and its lost lumber was removed for the roadway slightly before 10:00 a.m. 
  Camion renversé sur l'autoroute #Gatineau: déviation vers Montcalm et Allumettières. Nos équipes sont su
  
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• Coming up 11:15: @abacusdataca @Colettod w/ @_MarkSutcliffe for weekly segment: bit.ly/1uwtdOs… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  30-10-2017 16:10 via twitter.com
  Coming up 11:15:@abacusdataca @Colettod w/ @_MarkSutcliffe for weekly segment:bit.ly/1uwtdOs… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• UPDATE: Schools closed due to outages related to rain/wind #ottnews twitter.com/OCDSB/status/9…

  30-10-2017 15:55 via twitter.com
  UPDATE: Schools closed due to outages related to rain/wind #ottnews twitter.com/OCDSB/status/9…
  
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• Coming up 11: @MathieuFleury responds to city draft report supporting proposed #Vanier shelter:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  30-10-2017 15:46 via twitter.com
  Coming up 11: @MathieuFleury responds to city draft report supporting proposed #Vanier shelter:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Coming up: @CPAC_TV Peter Van Dusen joins @_MarkSutcliffe to talk #politics: bit.ly/1ppeuDa https://t.co/XQZOaXYWv0

  30-10-2017 15:41 via twitter.com
  
  Coming up:@CPAC_TV Peter Van Dusen joins @_MarkSutcliffe to talk #politics: bit.ly/1ppeuDa https://t.co/XQZOaXYWv0
  
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• Rainstorm wreaks havoc on streets in Ottawa, Gatineau - CBC.ca

  30-10-2017 15:31
  CBC.ca
  Rainstorm wreaks havoc on streets in Ottawa, Gatineau
  CBC.ca
  A parking lot near Riverside and Bank is flooded after a rain storm in Ottawa Monday, Oct. 30, 2017. (Kimberley Molina/CBC). 0 shares. A rainstorm in the National Capital Region has flooded streets, ripped branches from trees and left thousands of ...
  Heavy rain causes flooding across OttawaCTV News
  Watch: Heavy rain knocks out power in Ottawa, forces schools to closeMetroNews Canada
  Ottawa records rainiest year ever as fresh s
  
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• Government funds research for Canadian special forces soldier system, other gear

  30-10-2017 14:46
  Up to $5 million will be spent to fund research in three defence-related areas. Proposals are being requested to support the Canadian Special Operations Forces Command and efforts to “enhance next generation Special Operations Forces integrated soldier system equipment, land mobility, and maritime mobility platforms and fighting vehicle platforms.”
  Other areas of interest include improving efficiency of defence infrastructure as well as supporting the All Domain Situational Awareness
  
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• Did members of SEAL Team Six murder a U.S. Army Green Beret?

  30-10-2017 14:06
  In a case that is shaping up like an episode of the TV show NCIS, two members of the U.S. Navy’s top special forces unit, SEAL Team Six, are said to be under investigation for killing a U.S. Army Green Beret in Mali.
  Army Staff Sgt. Logan J. Melgar, a special forces engineer, was killed in June while serving in the African nation. He had been strangled, according to reports.
  Naval Criminal Investigative Service spokesman Ed Buice confirmed to CNN and the New York Times the NCIS investigati
  
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• Ottawa smashes another weather record while more rain, flooding expected

  30-10-2017 13:47
  It’s wet and wild out there, folks.
  Environment Canada’s rainfall warning was still in effect Monday morning and the deluge isn’t expected to stop until afternoon when 20 mm of rain will have fallen in a storm that’s already made 2017 the wettest year on record. 
  Northwest winds could hit gusts of up to 80 km/h. 
  This post will be live updated throughout the day, so check in for the latest on flooding, traffic and power outtages.
  Today's 17.6㎜ of rain mov
  
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• Strike narrowly averted as part-time professors reach tentative deal with University of Ottawa

  30-10-2017 13:31
  A strike has been averted by more than 700 part-time professors at the University of Ottawa after the union and management reached a tentative deal.
  The agreement was reached early Monday morning, just hours before the professors were set to walk off the job, according to a news release from the university.
  The contract must still be ratified by the university’s Board of Governors and members of the Association of Part-Time Professors of the University of Ottawa (APTPUO).
   “Part
  
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• A flipped transport truck is causing traffic nightmares in Gatineau

  30-10-2017 13:14
  Not the best way to start a Monday.
  Highway 50 is blocked at the Highway 5 interchange in Gatineau.
  A truck transporting lumber turned over, spilling its cargo.
  A detour is in effect.Combined with the rain, traffic is barely moving:
  Camion renversé sur l'autoroute #Gatineau: déviation vers Montcalm et Allumettières. Nos équipes sont sur place pour faciliter #circulation
  — PoliceGatineau (@PoliceGatineau) October 30, 2017Un camion semi-remorque se renverse s
  
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• Allowing destruction of residential school records a bad court ruling

  30-10-2017 12:30
  In early October, the Supreme Court of Canada passed a unanimous decision in Canada v Fontaine, in extraordinarily ordinary fashion. The judgment upholds the decisions of lower courts to destroy what are called Independent Assessment Process (IAP) documents after a 15-year retention period.
  The documents contain testimonies and evidence of the more than 37,000 residential school survivors who shared their experiences during the IAP, which collected the evidence to distribute compensation to
  
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• Why we need more women and minorities in science and tech

  30-10-2017 12:00
  Who was the first Canadian female surgeon of colour? One would think that with a bit of research, the answer to this question would easily be found, but after searching and scouring the Internet I still cannot find the answer anywhere. Even more infuriating is that fact that if one image-searches the word “doctor,” all the images are of older Caucasian men.
  The representation of women in the STEM fields (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) is dismal.  Men still out
  
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• Haskell: The future really is female, not male – and it's not fair

  30-10-2017 12:00
  An Ontario Grade 12 student, Erica Brown, made the news recently when she wore a T-shirt to her high school with the slogan “The Future is Female.”
  A female teacher suggested Brown’s message might make some boys at the school feel uncomfortable and asked if she thought it would be appropriate for a male student to wear a T-shirt with the slogan “The Future is Male.”
  She was not told to remove the shirt but to simply “think about” it.
  Brown thought about
  
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• Kevin Spacey apologizes after actor accuses him of past harassment: bit.ly/2zRcXT8 https://t.co/lXAx3S44gD

  30-10-2017 11:57 via twitter.com
  
  Kevin Spacey apologizes after actor accuses him of past harassment: bit.ly/2zRcXT8 https://t.co/lXAx3S44gD
  
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