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• Today's letters: Allegiance to our own flag

  02-11-2017 23:42 via ottawacitizen.com
  Shouldn’t Canadians pledge allegiance, one letter-writer asks? Plus, more on the niqab, and on the price of bread. You can write to us at [email protected]
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  How about a Canadian ‘Pledge of Allegiance’?
  As a member of a veterans’ group, I have often visited our counterparts in the United States. They invariably open their meetings with the “Pledge of Allegiance” to the flag. It is simple: “I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United State
  
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• Chief, association, police board welcome changes to Police Services Act

  02-11-2017 23:27 via ottawacitizen.com
  The most contested issue has proven to be the most measured reform to come from proposed changes to the Police Services Act, says Ottawa’s police union boss.
  Police chiefs across Ontario have long asked that the province give them the power to suspend without pay officers accused of egregious wrongdoing. The actual cost savings wouldn’t be substantial but the public trust earned would be, they’ve argued.
  Thursday, the provincial government granted them that as part of a sweepin
  
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• SIU determines no wrongdoing in 2016 police chase that injured child, father

  02-11-2017 22:53 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ontario’s police watchdog, the Special Investigations Unit, has ruled there are no reasonable grounds to lay charges against an Ontario Provincial Police officer after a 35-year-old man and a four-year-old child were injured in a 2016 single-vehicle crash in Pembroke.
  In the early morning of April 17, 2016,  the child was taken by her father from her home in Aurora, north of Toronto. Police said the man was spotted driving his 2008 silver Toyota Sienna near Pembroke and a chase e
  
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• Ottawa children to give OC Transpo trains 'a little bit of personality'

  02-11-2017 22:12
  Names for the 40 trains on the Confederation LRT, set to open next year, must fit into one of five categories: people, animals, the natural world, Canadian culture and history.
  
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• Councillor can't derail Salvation Army's shelter proposal by asking who'll pay for it, city lawyers say

  02-11-2017 22:12 via ottawacitizen.com
  Whether the Salvation Army should be allowed to open a new homeless shelter on Montreal Road is strictly a land-use issue and can’t be handled by the group of councillors responsible for social services, the city hall legal department said Thursday afternoon.
  The city’s top lawyer Rick O’Connor shot down multiple efforts by Rideau-Vanier Coun. Mathieu Fleury to change the way the city will deal with the charity’s controversial application to move out of its obsolete Booth
  
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• Police investigating possible threat to Canterbury High School: 1310news.com/2017/11/02/pol… #ottnews

  02-11-2017 21:34 via twitter.com
  Police investigating possible threat to Canterbury High School: 1310news.com/2017/11/02/pol… #ottnews
  
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• Reevely: Massive overhaul of Ontario policing must come with money to make it work

  02-11-2017 21:31 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ontario will demand better from our police officers — after acknowledging that we’ve been asking them to do too much for too long with the wrong resources and direction.
  Officers will still have to be emergency social workers, crisis counsellors and addictions experts. And they will be subject to more public scrutiny. But, if the province lives up to its promises, they will not be left to do as much of this alone as they have been.
  On Thursday in Toronto, Community Safety Minister Ma
  
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• Downtown section of Rideau Canal added to federal contaminated sites inventory: 1310news.com/2017/11/02/dow… #ottnews

  02-11-2017 20:58 via twitter.com
  Downtown section of Rideau Canal added to federal contaminated sites inventory: 1310news.com/2017/11/02/dow… #ottnews
  
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• New sinkhole on Rideau Street forces street closure, buses rerouted

  02-11-2017 20:54 via ottawacitizen.com
  Crews are working to determine the cause of a newly formed sinkhole in the north lane of Rideau Street near Sussex Drive, which forced rush-hour traffic and bus services to be rerouted Thursday afternoon.
  The hole, a few metres wide, is located in the same area where a massive sinkhole formed on June 8, 2016, causing a gas leak, building evacuations and closing the street down for months. 
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• 'Rocksino' at Rideau Carleton Raceway quietly asks for more table games

  02-11-2017 19:58 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Hard Rock Casino Ottawa is making its play to expand gambling, choosing to avoid the political games at city hall.
  Hard Rock, which has partnered with the Rideau Carleton Raceway to build a new entertainment facility at the horse track, is asking for permission to add 14 more table games.
  The zoning for the land at 4837 Albion Rd. only allows for a maximum of 21 table games, which was set by city council in 2011.
  Hard Rock believes increasing the number of table games to 35 is considered a m
  
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• Semer Ensemble performs Jewish music from 1930s Berlin, rescued from oblivion

  02-11-2017 19:56 via ottawacitizen.com
  Semer Ensemble
  Rescued Treasure: A Treasury of Jewish Music Almost Forgotten
  Where: Southminster United Church (15 Aylmer Ave.)
  When: Thursday, Nov. 9, 7:30 p.m.
  Tickets: $30 adults, $15 students via southminsterunitedchurch.com  
  In Berlin in the 1930s, Jewish musicians made vibrant music, from pop songs, folk songs and cabaret fare in a variety of languages to cantorial music to light opera and more. Their artistry flourished even as the Nazis during their rise to power clamped down
  
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• Provincial police charge Ottawa couple in $100,000 fraud in Sharbot Lake area

  02-11-2017 19:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ontario Provincial Police officers have charged a couple from Ottawa with fraud in connection with a confidence scam police say bilked victims in the Sharbot Lake area of as much as $100,000 from August, 2013 to March, 2016.
  According to police, the pair allegedly claimed to have political connections that could be used to influence, engage and establish trust with victims. In some cases, police allege the accused would pose as people in positions of power to coerce their victims to hand over mo
  
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• Gravity means rain plus Gatineau hills is a bad combination for flooding

  02-11-2017 19:10 via ottawacitizen.com
  Water flows downhill, and the Outaouais adds an exclamation mark to the truism.
  Each heavy rainstorm seems to vent its greatest anger in West Quebec.
  This week, washed out roads in Gatineau, Chelsea, and Denholm. Last May brought devastating floods.
  And the rainstorm of St. Jean Baptiste Day 2011, washed out sections of Highways 148 and 105, along with countless smaller roads and the Wakefield Steam Train tracks. It left Ontario mostly intact.
  The difference is partly about hills, or the lack of
  
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• "Road degradation" detours OC Transpo, STO routes 1310news.com/2017/11/02/roa… #ottnews

  02-11-2017 18:53 via twitter.com
  "Road degradation" detours OC Transpo, STO routes 1310news.com/2017/11/02/roa… #ottnews
  
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• BREAKING: Changes to bus routes on Rideau St. because of "road degradation" #ottnews https://t.co/QinmfEA93B

  02-11-2017 18:40 via twitter.com
  
  BREAKING: Changes to bus routes on Rideau St. because of "road degradation" #ottnews https://t.co/QinmfEA93B
  
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• Name that pot shop: What should Ontario's marijuana stores be called?

  02-11-2017 18:38 via ottawacitizen.com
  The name of the government agency that will sell pot to Ontario has been revealed: the Ontario Cannabis Retail Corp. Doesn’t exactly roll off the tongue. But neither does LCBO, the name of the provincial liquor monolith that sells us whiskey and wine. That acronym is so well known in Ontario that today no one bothers to spell it out. 
  Will the acronym for the new marijuana agency — OCRC — become just as familiar? It has a certain slurry symmetry. It could lend itself to a
  
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• LISTEN: Changes to the Police Services Act. We have gvmnt officials and reaction from the Ottawa Police Association… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  02-11-2017 18:30 via twitter.com
  LISTEN: Changes to the Police Services Act. We have gvmnt officials and reaction from the Ottawa Police Association… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Flowers, decorations brighten Homes for the Holidays tour

  02-11-2017 18:22 via ottawacitizen.com
  This year’s Homes for the Holidays tour for Hospice Care Ottawa presents a range of modern and traditional homes from Manotick to Rockcliffe, decorated by local florists while raising funds for an important cause.
  The three-day event, now in its 15th year, has become a tradition for real estate and design enthusiasts who draw inspiration from the home interiors and the fresh, fragrant holiday decor.
  One of the stops along this year’s tour is 619 Edison Ave. in Westboro. This two
  
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• Nuclear safety boss blows up over 'outrageous' complaint about yoga garb

  02-11-2017 18:09 via ottawacitizen.com
  When an anonymous troll complained last month about what the employees at the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission were wearing to lunchtime yoga sessions – even singling out women he or she railed looked like “prostitutes” – the agency’s president fired back.
  Leaders at the nuclear watchdog “reject the shaming of women in the name of propriety, which is what the letter sought to do, and we find that comments on attire such as were in the letter to be disparagin
  
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• LISTEN: More strike reaction today, kicking off the @MeehanCarolAnne Show. OPSEU held a rally today.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  02-11-2017 18:05 via twitter.com
  LISTEN: More strike reaction today, kicking off the @MeehanCarolAnne Show. OPSEU held a rally today.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• No charges against police in #Pembroke crash during Amber Alert investigation: 1310news.com/2017/11/02/no-… #ottnews

  02-11-2017 17:51 via twitter.com
  No charges against police in #Pembroke crash during Amber Alert investigation: 1310news.com/2017/11/02/no-… #ottnews
  
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• Sean McCann hosts fundraising concert to supply guitars for vets

  02-11-2017 17:49 via ottawacitizen.com
  Military veteran Jim Lowther felt trapped in a cycle of despair brought on by his injuries, both mental and physical, when he remembered the acoustic guitar that was tucked away in a corner of his home in Halifax.
  “One day, the medications weren’t working, and I had tried everything — yoga, meditation, you name it — to help break the feeling of despair,” he recalls of that dark day in 2009. “Then I picked up my guitar, dusted it off and started banging on it.
  
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• Canterbury High in 'secure mode' after social media threat

  02-11-2017 17:24 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa police are at Canterbury High School in the city’s southeast end investigating a “suspicious social media message that was received by a student.”
  Police arrived about 8:40 a.m. and were still on the scene at noon.
  “There is no lockdown. The school is in secure mode, meaning nobody can come in or out of the school,” said Const. Marc Soucy.
  “But in fact normal activities are going on.”
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• Proposed welfare reform plan includes 22% boost to payments

  02-11-2017 17:08
  Province mulls series of changes that would also include new housing benefit as part of 10-year roadmap to overhaul antiquated system.
  
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• Canterbury H.S in secure mode after suspicious email received. Police say school resource officer investigating. #ottnews

  02-11-2017 17:04 via twitter.com
  Canterbury H.S in secure mode after suspicious email received. Police say school resource officer investigating. #ottnews
  
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• Khan: Some tough questions about Canada's immigration targets

  02-11-2017 16:58 via ottawacitizen.com
  The immigration levels for 2018 announced this week by Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen come as no surprise. The Liberals have been vying to go beyond their predecessors since they took office; their plan would welcome one million new entrants by 2020 (there were 260,000 in 2015 alone).
  For a relatively under-populated country like Canada, this otherwise routine policy is extremely contentious.
  On the one hand, Canada is vying to be seen as a global leader in everything Canadian, particula
  
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• Popular Little Italy eatery The Rex to close at the end of 2017

  02-11-2017 16:07 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Rex, a cosy eatery on Adeline Street known for its well crafted soups and sandwiches at lunch and weekend dinners, is to close at the end of the year.
  The four-year-old eatery, opened by chef-owner Cody Starr, posted this message on Wednesday on social media:On Facebook, fans of the restaurant expressed their dismay. “You have consistently served the best steak I have ever had!!” wrote one. “Friends and I have enjoyed your wonderful food (understatement) on several occasion
  
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• Ontario Liberals announce overhaul of policing legislation, oversight

  02-11-2017 16:05 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Ontario Liberals are announcing plans to overhaul the province’s police watchdogs, including an expansion of the Special Investigations Unit’s mandate, and updated rules that would improve public reporting and set time limits on investigations into police. 
  The announcement at Queen’s Park in Toronto also overhauls the Police Services Act, the piece of legislation that governs officers in Ontario. It hasn’t been updated significantly since 1990.
  Among the ch
  
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• At 11:15 @OnTruck Stephen Laskowski on calls for more safety measures following #Hwy400 crash:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  02-11-2017 16:05 via twitter.com
  At 11:15@OnTruck Stephen Laskowski on calls for more safety measures following #Hwy400 crash:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• 'What I did was right': Robert Latimer steadfast 24yrs after daughter's death @macphersona w/ @_MarkSutcliffe NEXT… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  02-11-2017 15:55 via twitter.com
  'What I did was right': Robert Latimer steadfast 24yrs after daughter's death@macphersona w/ @_MarkSutcliffe NEXT… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Coming up -- #PowerLUNCH @ NOON @SusanSherring & @SyntaxStrategic Jennifer Stewart in studio w/ @_MarkSutcliffe… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  02-11-2017 15:49 via twitter.com
  Coming up -- #PowerLUNCH @ NOON @SusanSherring & @SyntaxStrategic Jennifer Stewart in studio w/ @_MarkSutcliffe… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Mitel back on track as industry consolidator

  02-11-2017 15:25 via ottawacitizen.com
  It was a strange kind of quarter for Mitel, the telecommunications software company chaired by Terence Matthews. The Kanata firm on Thursday reported third-quarter revenues of $241.5 million, up three per cent year over year.  (All figures U.S.)
  It also recorded a net loss of $26.8 million compared to profit of $25.1 million during the same period a year ago.
  But the summary data told you very little about what’s really going on.
  Mitel is undergoing an epic upheaval in markets, techno
  
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• Crash leaves car in the outfield on Fallowfield

  02-11-2017 15:21 via ottawacitizen.com
  A car took a substantial trip across a field beside Fallowfield Road during the Thursday rush hour, but early information was that no one was hurt.
  The accident took place near the corner of Prince of Wales Drive, causing major rush hour traffic delays.
  Police didn’t have an immediate explanation for why the car skidded so far from the road, going down an embankment and through a fence on the way.
  Roads were wet after hours of rain.
  A tow truck pulled the car out of the grass.
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• Temporary halt of F-35 deliveries blamed on quality control problem

  02-11-2017 14:59 via ottawacitizen.com
  A quality control problem stopped delivery of the F-35 for a month.
  The halt in deliveries started Sept. 21 and ended Oct. 20.
  The issue centered around a primer that is used as a protective coating on aluminum fasteners. The primer is to prevent corrosion.
   “After a thorough government and industry investigation, it was discovered that Lockheed Martin had not applied the required primer in fastener holes on F-35 substructures during the aircraft production process,” Pentagon sp
  
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• Coming up 9:45: @helmera with latest on Basil Borutski trial: bit.ly/1uwtdOs @_MarkSutcliffe… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  02-11-2017 14:35 via twitter.com
  Coming up 9:45: @helmera with latest on Basil Borutski trial:bit.ly/1uwtdOs @_MarkSutcliffe… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Search continues for missing Kingston girls, 13

  02-11-2017 14:34 via ottawacitizen.com
  Kingston police continue to ask for public assistance in locating two 13-year-old girls who are believed to have been taken to Ottawa’s Rideau Centre on Sunday.
  Shyanna Mansfield and Paris Scott were last seen on Sunday in Kingston and it is believed they were dropped off at the Centre at 6 p.m.
  Paris is described as Caucasian, five-feet-two-inches tall weighing 150 pounds with dark hair and dark eyes. She was last seen wearing a blue hoodie, black pants and sandals.
  Shyanna is also Caucas
  
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• POLL: Should penalties for distracted driving in transport trucks be increased? Story: bit.ly/2zdA5xZ

  02-11-2017 14:17 via twitter.com
  POLL: Should penalties for distracted driving in transport trucks be increased? Story: bit.ly/2zdA5xZ
  
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• 'Mueller sets stage for more American dysfunction' Ex-Ambassador Derek Burney NEXT at 9:15… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  02-11-2017 14:02 via twitter.com
  'Mueller sets stage for more American dysfunction'Ex-Ambassador Derek Burney NEXT at 9:15… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• 'Rocksino' at Rideau Carleton Raceway asks for more table games

  02-11-2017 13:38 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Hard Rock Casino Ottawa is making its play to expand gaming.
  Hard Rock, which has partnered with the Rideau Carleton Raceway to build a new entertainment facility at the horse track, is asking for permission to add 14 more table games.
  The zoning for the land at 4837 Albion Rd. only allows for a maximum of 21 table games, which was set by city council in 2011.
  Hard Rock believes increasing the number of table games to 35 is considered a minor variance to the land-use rules, so it has filed i
  
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• Plumbing problem shuts down Kanata elementary school, again

  02-11-2017 13:30 via ottawacitizen.com
   
  Stephen Leacock Elementary School is closed Thursday because of a plumbing problem that began during heavy rain earlier this week.
   
  The school was also closed Monday with the Ottawa Carleton District School Board noting then, as Thursday, that “without operating toilets, the school cannot remain open.”
   
  Students and staff are safe at school, the board said in an 8 a.m. alert but parents are asked to pick up their kids as soon as possible. Staff will remai
  
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• It's back: Up to 35 mm of rain in Thursday's forecast

  02-11-2017 13:15 via ottawacitizen.com
  “Into each life some rain must fall,” Ella Fitzgerald sang. “But too much is falling in mine.”
  In the capital’s case, it’s literal – after last weekend’s deluge, Thursday’s forecast from Environment Canada includes as much as 35 mm more precipitation.
  For Thursday morning, the forecast is for periods of rain to end near noon then a 60 per cent chance of more showers with a total of five to 10 mm expected and a high of 14 C. Then for Thursday
  
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• POLL: Should penalties for distracted driving in transport trucks be increased? @_MarkSutcliffe #QuestionOfTheDay twitter.com/1310NEWS/statu…

  02-11-2017 13:10 via twitter.com
  POLL: Should penalties for distracted driving in transport trucks be increased?@_MarkSutcliffe#QuestionOfTheDay twitter.com/1310NEWS/statu…
  
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• #Highway400 reopens after deadly pileup that set off massive fireball: bit.ly/2hwqmJp https://t.co/Ft9A9eljiq

  02-11-2017 13:02 via twitter.com
  
  #Highway400 reopens after deadly pileup that set off massive fireball: bit.ly/2hwqmJp https://t.co/Ft9A9eljiq
  
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• Doctors' confusion and red tape keeping women from abortion pill, Planned Parenthood says

  02-11-2017 12:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  Conflicting guidelines and onerous after-care requirements are barring “a huge amount” of women from accessing the abortion pill, say staff at Planned Parenthood Ottawa, as doctors try to wrap their heads around the logistical hurdles. 
  “Our abortion access co-ordinator has sat in a room full of doctors who just threw up their hands and said ‘There’s no way we’re going to take on that much work,'” said Catherine Macnab, the head of Planned Parenthoo
  
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• Rainy morning, windy afternoon expected for Ottawa - CBC.ca

  02-11-2017 11:24 via cbc.ca
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  Rainy morning, windy afternoon expected for Ottawa
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  Rain and wet roads will slow you down early today, but near midday, the rain will taper to just a chance of showers. The wind will really pick up by then, and help boost the temperatures into the low teens. A pre-dawn cold front early Friday could even ...
  
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• #Astros win 1st #WorldSeries crown, top #Dodgers 5-1 in #Game7: bit.ly/2zr5iyH https://t.co/hXwgatexvY

  02-11-2017 10:05 via twitter.com
  
  #Astros win 1st #WorldSeries crown, top #Dodgers 5-1 in #Game7: bit.ly/2zr5iyH https://t.co/hXwgatexvY
  
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• Live 5-9AM: #Ottawa's breaking news, traffic & weather w/@1310JasonWhite & @1310Alexblack LISTEN:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  02-11-2017 09:56 via twitter.com
  Live 5-9AM:#Ottawa's breaking news, traffic & weather w/@1310JasonWhite & @1310Alexblack LISTEN:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Ottawa restaurants partner with high school to feed veterans

  02-11-2017 01:11 via ottawacitizen.com
  If you dine at certain restaurants over the next week-and-a-half, you will also be buying a veteran a meal.
  De La Salle high school history teacher Mathieu Deshaies and his students have joined forces with local restaurants to support Operation Veteran, a charity that provides complimentary meals to veterans who visit the Canadian War Museum. 
  The fundraising campaign, which runs from Nov. 1 to Nov. 11 and is dubbed “11 restaurants 11 days“, will feature
  
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• Natsis appeal set for drunk driving causing death conviction - Ottawa Citizen

  02-11-2017 00:53 via ottawacitizen.com
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  Natsis appeal set for drunk driving causing death conviction
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  Dr. Christy Natsis was sentenced to five years in prison in November 2015, but was released after appealing the conviction. Darren Brown / Darren Brown/Ottawa Sun/QMI Agency. Share Adjust Comment Print. The Ontario Court of Appeal has set aside Nov.
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• Natsis appeal set for drunk driving causing death conviction

  02-11-2017 00:53 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Ontario Court of Appeal has set aside two days to hear the appeal of Pembroke dentist Christy Natsis who was convicted more than two years ago of impaired and dangerous driving causing death.
  Natsis was sentenced in November 2015 to five years in prison for causing the death of Bryan Casey in a March 31, 2011 head-on crash on Highway 17 near Arnprior. Natsis was released on bail a few weeks later pending the legal challenges.
  Her first trial took 55 days over three years.
  In convicting Natsi
  
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