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• Police search for purse-snatching cyclist 1310news.com/2017/11/03/pol… #ottnews

  03-11-2017 23:26 via twitter.com
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• Scanlan: Coach battles emotion recalling brief life of a special player, Alex Paquette

  03-11-2017 23:25 via ottawacitizen.com
  Saying goodbye to Alex Paquette was the most difficult moment of Tony Iob’s life.
  Yet, there is someone in the Iob household hurting worse — Iob’s own son, Cameron, who called Paquette his best friend.
  “It hurts to see my son in so much pain,” Iob said, his voice faltering, a week after Paquette’s death in a car crash near Burnstown. Paquette’s funeral was held in Renfrew on Friday.
  Cameron Iob, like Paquette, is 18. A goaltender for the Ottawa West
  
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• Gatineau picks a mayor: The election that couldn't make up its mind

  03-11-2017 23:07 via ottawacitizen.com
  For Gatineau voters, this fall has been the election campaign that couldn’t pick an issue.
  Taxes? Culture? Floods? Paving sidestreets? Condo towers? Economic growth? Pick any. They have all floated in and out of debates and headlines, even the $79-million decision to build a new hockey arena, long after that decision was supposedly in the bag.
  But none of them became a big, standout issue that dominated debates or public discussion.
  In the absence of a big issue, incumbent Maxime Pedneaud-
  
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• Police searching for man facing child pornography charges

  03-11-2017 23:05 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa Police are looking for information that could help investigators locate a 45-year-old man facing child pornography charges.
  On Oct. 4, officers in the Internet Child Exploitation Unit executed a search warrant in the 100 block of Barrette Street just south of Beechwood Avenue in Vanier and seized electronic devices. Investigators are now searching for Nikolay Krivoshein, who faces one charge of child pornography and another of accessing child pornography.
  Investigators believe Krivoshein
  
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• Reevely: Mayor hopes winter freezes pop-up injection site out of Lowertown

  03-11-2017 22:56 via ottawacitizen.com
  The pop-up supervised injection tent run by activist volunteers in Lowertown has saved lives, Mayor Jim Watson says, but he’s still refused an offer from the provincial government to help keep them and their clients warm.
  Overdose Prevention Ottawa’s tent in Raphael Brunet Park on St. Patrick Street is modelled on ones in Vancouver, where the climate is warmer, and Toronto, where it isn’t.
  Toronto’s pop-up site has been using a light tent, the kind you could buy at Costco
  
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• Egan: My precious Passat targeted in rampant Kijiji-PayPal scam

  03-11-2017 22:47 via ottawacitizen.com
  It pains me to sell my old ride but, in dog or car years, 16 is pretty ancient — so the 2001 VW Passat’s gotta go.
  Parting with the olive-skinned beauty, with enough therapy, I will handle. The cold hand of the scammer, though, is the real shock to the system.
  Only hours after an ad went on Kijiji and Auto Trader, the inbox lit up with a couple of promising offers, including one from an anxious buyer offering more than the asking price of $1,500.
  It seemed weird, but there was someth
  
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• Gatineau votes: Returning Gatineau mayor hunting for support — then for deer

  03-11-2017 22:45 via ottawacitizen.com
  Months of electioneering are winding down, thousands of handshakes, nine mayoral debates (nine!) and now Maxime Pedneaud-Jobin’s focus is mostly on Sunday, when the voting takes place. But not entirely.
  He’s also dreaming about next weekend. For the first time in eight years, he’s going hunting. At least, that’s his plan.
  In an interview at a Old Hull Starbucks last week, Pedneaud-Jobin was asked to tell something about himself that most people don’t know. It’
  
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• WANTED: @ottawapolice issue arrest warrant for suspect in child porn investigation. #ottnews twitter.com/OttawaPolice/s…

  03-11-2017 22:44 via twitter.com
  WANTED: @ottawapolice issue arrest warrant for suspect in child porn investigation. #ottnews twitter.com/OttawaPolice/s…
  
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• Gatineau election: Mayor stands alone against massive Place des Peuples

  03-11-2017 22:43 via ottawacitizen.com
  The touchiest development plan in ages in Gatineau is a study in contracts: Two sleek towers, one of them 55 stories tall, soaring over the Canadian Museum of History and narrow streets with little houses nearby.
  Gatineau developer Brigil wants to build the Place des Peuples, a hotel and condo complex with commercial space looking across at Parliament Hill.
  But the incumbent candidate for mayor and his Action Gatineau party stand in the way.
  As well, public opinion is split right down the middle
  
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• 'I'm determined to be mayor': Sylvie Goneau a voice for flood victims

  03-11-2017 22:38 via ottawacitizen.com
  Driving along Hurtubise Street in Gatineau, mayoral candidate Sylvie Goneau points to her neighbours’ homes, recalling the flooding in April and May. Some of the houses look fine from the outside, but their lingering emptiness tells a different story.
  According to the municipality, 2,214 homes in Gatineau were impacted by the spring flooding and 1,407 people were affected by evacuation orders. Goneau was among them.
  Over the summer, the Quebec government drafted new rules that stipulated h
  
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• ON AIR NOW: The Afternoon News with @MarkDayNews & @1310JasonWhite On 1310NEWS or online: player.1310news.com https://t.co/gq5UP6kGnZ

  03-11-2017 22:32 via twitter.com
  
  ON AIR NOW: The Afternoon News with @MarkDayNews & @1310JasonWhiteOn 1310NEWS or online: player.1310news.com https://t.co/gq5UP6kGnZ
  
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• Ontario announces first cities to get cannabis stores 1310news.com/2017/11/03/ont…

  03-11-2017 22:10 via twitter.com
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• POWER OUTAGE: MOUNTBATTEN AVE, BANK ST, RANDALL AVE ALTA VISTA DR area. @hydroottawa pegs the cause as animal interference. #ottnews

  03-11-2017 21:35 via twitter.com
  POWER OUTAGE: MOUNTBATTEN AVE, BANK ST, RANDALL AVE ALTA VISTA DR area. @hydroottawa pegs the cause as animal interference. #ottnews
  
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• Housing market tilts west as resale prices climb 7.1 per cent - Ottawa Citizen

  03-11-2017 21:33 via ottawacitizen.com
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  Housing market tilts west as resale prices climb 7.1 per cent
  Ottawa Citizen
  The great east-west divide in Ottawa's resale housing market widened in October, according to the latest data compiled by the Ottawa Real Estate Board. The composite price for single-family homes across the city increased 7.1 per cent year-over-year to ...
  
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• 'Information is power': Local restaurant dishing info on sexual assault, harassment

  03-11-2017 20:24 via ottawacitizen.com
  As the Ottawa restaurant industry reacts to a high-profile admission, one local restaurant is serving up an information session about sexual harassment and assault Sunday.
  The event is at Union Local 613 on 315 Somerset St. W. at 3:30 p.m.
  Sgt. Carolyn Botting of the Ottawa police sexual assault and child abuse section and Jo-Ann Meloche, a lawyer who provides independent legal counsel to victims of sexual assault, will be on hand to answer questions and facilitate discussion.
  “Obviously i
  
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• #Ottawa Police search for purse-snatching cyclist 1310news.com/2017/11/03/pol… #ottnews https://t.co/rGEVmB1GE5

  03-11-2017 20:17 via twitter.com
  
  #Ottawa Police search for purse-snatching cyclist 1310news.com/2017/11/03/pol… #ottnews https://t.co/rGEVmB1GE5
  
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• LISTEN: More parents may have to drive their kids to school. The OSBA talks min. wage for drivers. @MeehanCarolAnne… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  03-11-2017 19:15 via twitter.com
  LISTEN: More parents may have to drive their kids to school. The OSBA talks min. wage for drivers. @MeehanCarolAnne… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• LISTEN: @MeehanCarolAnne speaks with Tech Specialist @tedhenley about the release of the iPhone X.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  03-11-2017 18:30 via twitter.com
  LISTEN: @MeehanCarolAnne speaks with Tech Specialist @tedhenley about the release of the iPhone X.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Dawson: Laws alone can't make bad cops good

  03-11-2017 18:21 via ottawacitizen.com
  A government alone cannot, with the stroke of a pen or the deliberations of a legislature, change entirely the nature of interactions between police officers and citizens, or the tragedies that sometimes occur. These are the products of centuries of policing culture and practice – right or wrong – and the way they intersect with crime, fear, mental illness and racism.
  But Yasir Naqvi, Ontario’s attorney general, and Corrections Minister Marie-France Lalonde, both Ottawa MP
  
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• Review: At the GCTC, self-discovery and laughs mingle musically in Ordinary Days

  03-11-2017 18:20 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ordinary DaysGreat Canadian Theatre CompanyUntil Nov. 19
  The odds are that you’ll be able to relate to one or more of the four people singing their hearts out in Ordinary Days.
  While other plays in recent memory at the Great Canadian Theatre Company have concerned themselves with prime ministers, King Henry VIII or even racy marionettes, the GCTC production that opened Thursday explores and reveals lives that are closer to the mean than the extremes.
  With their contemporary dilemmas and fo
  
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• LISTEN: We now know Ottawa is getting one of Canada's first cannabis stores. @MeehanCarolAnne has more...… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  03-11-2017 18:17 via twitter.com
  LISTEN: We now know Ottawa is getting one of Canada's first cannabis stores. @MeehanCarolAnne has more...… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Police seek suspect in Empress Avenue purse-snatching

  03-11-2017 18:16 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa police are recommending residents be vigilant in the Empress Avenue area following a purse-snatching Thursday night.
  The theft occurred when the female victim was approached by a man in his 40s riding a bicycle at about 6:50 p.m. When she reached the stairs behind the palliative care institute, the suspect jumped from his bike and grabbed the purse after a short struggle.
  The victim was not injured and the suspect fled on a black mountain bike west along Primrose Avenue.
  He was descr
  
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• LISTEN: @AlgonquinColleg students rally and we talk to a journalism student who's lost class time. @MeehanCarolAnne… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  03-11-2017 18:05 via twitter.com
  LISTEN: @AlgonquinColleg students rally and we talk to a journalism student who's lost class time. @MeehanCarolAnne… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Elderly woman in critical condition after struck by truck in Vanier

  03-11-2017 17:40 via ottawacitizen.com
  A woman in her 80s was in life-threatening condition after she was struck by a truck near the intersection of Montreal Road and Lajoie Street in Vanier Friday morning.
  Paramedics arriving on the scene found the woman unconscious and began performing “aggressive airway management” measures once she was loaded into the ambulance.
  The victim was taken to the Ottawa Hospital’s trauma centre with what paramedics described as a critical head injury.
  10:16 MTL-Lavoie:Elderly fema
  
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• Gormley: Trudeau is no Superman, and neither is Canada

  03-11-2017 17:36 via ottawacitizen.com
  If Justin Trudeau ought not to have dressed as Superman for Halloween, it is only because he wore the costume a little too well. 
  When he pulled up his blue hosiery that morning, he may not have regarded the man in the mirror quite as an extraterrestrial hero, but throughout his tenure as prime minister he has made few attempts to dissuade people from believing he was born to save the world from the evil clutches of itself. Eventually, people cannot help but notice that the world goes unsav
  
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• Missing Ottawa man Steve Holland found

  03-11-2017 17:29 via ottawacitizen.com
  Steve Holland, 52, an Ottawa man missing since the Thanksgiving weekend has been found safe, Ottawa police said Friday.
  Holland is a major in the Canadian armed forces, which had asked for Ottawa police assistance in finding the man.
   
  
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• Proposed Canadian purchase of missiles is for Super Hornets but weapons could be used for CF-18s

  03-11-2017 17:24 via ottawacitizen.com
  Several days ago a number of media outlets, including Defence Watch, reported that Canada is looking at purchasing AIM-120D Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missiles for its CF-18 fighter jets.
  The cost of the purchase is $140 million U.S., according to the U.S. State Department which has advised Congress of the pending Foreign Military Sale. The procurement includes thirty-two AIM-120D Advanced Medium-Range Air-to Air Missiles (AMRAAMs) plus other equipment.
  The RCAF couldn’t provide any
  
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• Today's letters: The future of men, the community college strike

  03-11-2017 17:12 via ottawacitizen.com
  Letter writers weigh in on the future of the sexes, the college strike and the niqab. Want to respond? Have your own views on the news? Write to us at [email protected]. 
  What is the future for men?
  Re: The future really is female, not male – and it’s not fair, Oct. 30.
  David Millard Haskell protests unfairness against men. Notably, men’s representation has decreased to 40 per cent in universities while suicide rates have increased. Simultaneously, men’s
  
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• Kingston pedestrian killed when struck by city bus

  03-11-2017 17:08 via ottawacitizen.com
  Kingston police are investigating after a man in his 30s died of head injuries he sustained when he was struck by a city bus Friday morning.
  The collision occurred at about 7:15 a.m. on John Counter Boulevard near Leroy Grant Drive .
  The city bus turning off John Counter when it struck the pedestrian.
  John Counter Boulevard between Rigney Street and Lappan’s Lane was closed to allow investigators to work.
  Anyone who witnessed the crash is asked to call Const. Greg Smith at 613-549-466
  
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• 'A turning point': Police legislation will provide more transparency, say Abdi supporters

  03-11-2017 16:54 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Justice for Abdirahman Coalition is pleased that many of its recommendations have been folded into new provincial legislation strengthening police oversight, says a spokeswoman.
  “If implemented, this legislation would be a turning point for policing and police oversight,” said Farhia Ahmed, the volunteer chair of group, which formed days after the July 2016 death of Abdirahman Abdi.
  Abdi, a 37-year-old Somali-Canadian man with unspecified mental health problems, died in hospital
  
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• STORY: #Ontario announces first cities to get cannabis stores (including #Ottawa) 1310news.com/2017/11/03/ont… #ottnews https://t.co/jkdiiW9HcH

  03-11-2017 16:52 via twitter.com
  
  STORY: #Ontario announces first cities to get cannabis stores (including #Ottawa) 1310news.com/2017/11/03/ont… #ottnews https://t.co/jkdiiW9HcH
  
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• Ottawa on the list of 14 municipalities to host LCBO-run stand-alone cannabis stores following Federal legalization in July '18. #ottnews

  03-11-2017 16:36 via twitter.com
  Ottawa on the list of 14 municipalities to host LCBO-run stand-alone cannabis stores following Federal legalization in July '18. #ottnews
  
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• Coming up on the #PowerLUNCH at NOON: @stephegan613 & @johnsonthree join @_mark in studio:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  03-11-2017 16:36 via twitter.com
  Coming up on the #PowerLUNCH at NOON: @stephegan613 & @johnsonthree join @_mark in studio:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Still ahead: Host of Outta The Park Podcast @BarryDavis_ joins @_MarkSutcliffe live: bit.ly/1uwtdOs… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  03-11-2017 16:35 via twitter.com
  Still ahead:Host of Outta The Park Podcast @BarryDavis_ joins @_MarkSutcliffe live: bit.ly/1uwtdOs… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Ottawa, Kingston among 14 cities getting pot shops - CBC.ca

  03-11-2017 16:35 via cbc.ca
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  Ottawa, Kingston among 14 cities getting pot shops
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  Ottawa and Kingston will be among the first Ontario municipalities to get government-run cannabis stores in July 2018, the province says. The cities are two of the 14 communities chosen for the first wave of stand-alone, LCBO-run stores, and the only ...
  Ontario outlines first 14 municipalities to sell legal cannabisCTV News
  Name that pot shop: What should Ontario's marijuana stores be called?Ottawa Citizenall 125 news articles&nb
  
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• Elderly woman struck by truck in Vanier. Critical head injury. #ottnews twitter.com/OttawaParamedi…

  03-11-2017 16:05 via twitter.com
  Elderly woman struck by truck in Vanier. Critical head injury. #ottnews twitter.com/OttawaParamedi…
  
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• Missing man, 67, found safe and sound, police say

  03-11-2017 15:57 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa police reported Friday that Arthur Whelan, 67, reported missing Thursday in the ByWard market area been found safe and sound.
   
  
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• UPDATE: Missing man located safe. #ottnews twitter.com/OttawaPolice/s…

  03-11-2017 15:53 via twitter.com
  UPDATE: Missing man located safe. #ottnews twitter.com/OttawaPolice/s…
  
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• Sleep in! Daylight savings time ends Sunday morning

  03-11-2017 15:51 via ottawacitizen.com
  Before you go to bed on Saturday night, make sure you set your clocks back by one hour.
  The end of daylight saving’s time will occur on Sunday morning at 2 a.m., giving most Canadians one more hour of much-needed sleep.
  The annual ritual began as an energy conservation measure which was used by governments during the First World War, but it became an international practice in the 1960s and has been a point of debate ever since.
  Saskatchewan does not recognize daylight savings and the
  
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• Coming up at 11: The #ethics lab with @dk_munro & @_MarkSutcliffe! bit.ly/1uwtdOs #ottnews https://t.co/ZitOZyOSZj

  03-11-2017 15:50 via twitter.com
  
  Coming up at 11: The #ethics lab with @dk_munro & @_MarkSutcliffe!bit.ly/1uwtdOs #ottnews https://t.co/ZitOZyOSZj
  
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• Live now: @xonichollexo discusses being @NHLs #hockeyfightscancer Ambassador: bit.ly/1uwtdOs… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  03-11-2017 15:48 via twitter.com
  Live now: @xonichollexo discusses being @NHLs #hockeyfightscancer Ambassador: bit.ly/1uwtdOs… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Ottawa woman charged after car crashes into Gatineau police cruiser

  03-11-2017 14:28 via ottawacitizen.com
  It seemed like a routine traffic stop just after midnight when a Gatineau police officer pulled over a car on Boulevard des Allumettières near St. Raymond. That’s when the excitement began. 
  As the officer was stopped with her cruiser lights flashing, another car plowed into her cruiser from behind. 
  No one was hurt.
  Police at the station didn’t know how fast the car that hit the cruiser was travelling, but said the police car was totalled in the crash. 
  A 64-ye
  
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• Buses, taxis back after new Rideau Street sinkhole repaired

  03-11-2017 14:07 via ottawacitizen.com
  Bus and taxi traffic has resumed on Rideau Street after either a pothole or a sinkhole sprang open on the thoroughfare Thursday afternoon.
  There’s an explanation for why a new hole appeared Thursday in the same area where a massive sinkhole formed in June 2016 and shut down Rideau Street for months. 
  This much smaller hole, a few metres wide, prompted OC Transpo to warn riders there will be system-wide delays on several routes after Rideau Street was closed from Sussex Drive to Dalhou
  
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• Maher: No, Canadians need not fear Trump-style populism here

  03-11-2017 14:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  Stephen Maher and Shachi Kurl recently matched wits at the fifth annual Travers Debate in Ottawa, which raises money for the R. James Travers Foreign Corresponding Fellowship. The subject of their debate: Be it resolved that Canada is immune from Trump-style populism. Maher recreates his argument here. 
  Since the election of Donald J. Trump, I have become addicted to news about him. I follow every twist and turn, every act of negligence, every narcissistic outburst, ever harmful, stupid pro
  
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• Kurl: Yes, Trump-style populism could happen in Canada. Here's why

  03-11-2017 14:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  Shachi Kurl and Stephen Maher recently matched wits at the fifth annual Travers Debate in Ottawa, which raises money for the R. James Travers Foreign Corresponding Fellowship. The subject of their debate: Be it resolved that Canada is immune from Trump-style populism. Kurl recreates her argument here. 
  The morning after the 2016 U.S. election, I found myself 40 miles outside of Cleveland, Ohio, in a small college town of little consequence to anyone except those who live there, and those wh
  
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• Capital jobless rate steady at 5.8 per cent in October

  03-11-2017 13:45 via ottawacitizen.com
  The capital region jobless rate remained steady at 5.8 per cent in October over September, Statistics Canada reported Friday.
  The number of jobs was down1,200, while the labour force shrank by a similar amount.
  Nationally the unemployment rate was up 0.1 per cent to 6.3 per cent, although the economy added 35,300 net jobs in October.
  More to come
   
  
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• Ottawa woman charged after colliding with police car - CBC.ca

  03-11-2017 13:16 via cbc.ca
  Ottawa Citizen
  Ottawa woman charged after colliding with police car
  CBC.ca
  A 64-year-old Ottawa woman has been charged with impaired driving after she collided with a patrol car in Gatineau Thursday night. The police officer had already pulled over another motorist near Des Alumettières and Saint-Raymond boulevards when the ...
  Ottawa woman charged after car crashes into Gatineau police cruiserOttawa Citizenall 2 news articles »
  
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• Man, 44, stabbed in Gatineau robbery

  03-11-2017 13:12 via ottawacitizen.com
  Gatineau police are looking for two suspects after a man was stabbed in the arm in a robbery Thursday night at about 9:15 p.m.
  Police said the victim, 44, met two men who were “selling a product over the Internet.”
  The man eventually declined to make the purchase and the suspects chased him to his home on Symmes Street in the city’s Aylmer district.
  They forced their way into the residence and stabbed him in the arm while demanding money.
  The victim was not seriously wound
  
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• Canada's own sloppy counter-terrorism led to latest $31M payout

  03-11-2017 13:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  Recent news that the federal government settled for $31.25 million with three Canadian men falsely accused of terrorist links, imprisoned, and tortured overseas, was met with some public backlash. Social media comments include variations on “waste of taxpayer money,” “wouldn’t mind a little torture for $10 million,” or “why should Canada pay for a foreign country’s actions?” 
  To its credit, the federal government apologized to the three men, w
  
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• Police investigate report of shots fired in west end

  03-11-2017 12:53 via ottawacitizen.com
  An investigation continues after shots were apparently fired Thursday night on Splinter Crescent near Dumaurier Avenue in the west end.
  Police were called to the scene shortly before 10 p.m. and found several spent shell casings.
  No victims or suspects were located.
  Ottawa police west criminal investigation service is handling the case.
  Anyone with information is asked to call 613-236-1222, ext. 2666, or Crime Stoppers toll-free at 1-800-222-8477(TIPS) or by downloading the Ottawa
  
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