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• Ottawa Fire Services budget could go up by as much as $13.3 million without any additional services

  07-11-2017 23:58 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa may have to spend as much as $13.3 million more each year on firefighters — without getting any new services — as a result of new provincial legislation meant to benefit low-income earners.
  The possible increase is due to how volunteer firefighters — who are considered on-call workers — are paid, and how their pay would change after the Ontario government’s Bill 148 becomes law. 
  Bill 148, which is more commonly known as the Fair Workplaces, Better Jobs
  
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• New Health Canada guidelines mean accessing abortion pill will be easier

  07-11-2017 23:50 via ottawacitizen.com
  Health Canada has announced new guidelines around the prescribing and dispensing of Mifegymiso, stripping away several barriers women faced to access the so-called “abortion pill.”
  The changes include allowing the medication to be directly dispensed to patients by a pharmacist, which they could not do before. The new regulations also allow Mifegymiso to be prescribed up to nine weeks or 63 days into a pregnancy. The previous limit was seven weeks or 49 days.
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• Mayor Watson on Ottawa's 2018 city budget: 'People will be very pleased'

  07-11-2017 23:49 via ottawacitizen.com
  When the 2014 budget was tabled four years ago, Mayor Jim Watson surprised many with a 1.9 per cent tax increase — a lower rate than what had previously been suggested. It was something positive he and other council members seeking re-election the next year could take to voters.
  But the mayor, who’s already announced his intention to seek a third term, wasn’t saying Tuesday whether there would be a similar election-year treat in the 2018 budget, to be tabled Wednesday.
  Indeed,
  
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• Ontario to invest $115 million in new long-term care beds, staffing

  07-11-2017 23:07 via ottawacitizen.com
  At a time when more than 32,000 people are on waiting lists for long-term care in Ontario, the province says it will spend $115 million over the next three years to create thousands of new beds and increase staffing levels.
  Premier Kathleen Wynne made the announcement in Hamilton Tuesday, laying out the government’s 20-point plan — called Aging with Confidence — to bolster services for the province’s senior population.
  The announcement included 5,000 new long-term care be
  
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• 'Angry and ashamed,' Overdose Prevention Ottawa packing up its ... - CBC.ca

  07-11-2017 23:02 via cbc.ca
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• Overdose Prevention Ottawa closing its supervised injection site 1310news.com/2017/11/07/ove… #ottnews

  07-11-2017 22:46 via twitter.com
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• Watch Live: Prime Time Sports coverage of Roy Halladay’s death sportsnet.ca/baseball/mlb/w… https://t.co/l60zJf3xuX

  07-11-2017 22:23 via twitter.com
  
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• Mayor, city manager to negotiate on LeBreton Flats — without local councillor

  07-11-2017 22:21 via ottawacitizen.com
  The mayor and city manager got the green light Tuesday to speak on the city’s behalf during negotiations between the National Capital Commission and RendezVous LeBreton regarding the redevelopment of LeBreton Flats.
  But members of city council’s finance committee Tuesday were divided over what role — if any — Somerset Coun. Catherine McKenney should play. LeBreton Flats is in her ward.
  Gloucester-Southgate Coun. Diane Deans raised the question of McKenney’s inv
  
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• Brunet Park pop-up injection site to close

  07-11-2017 22:18 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa’s pop-up injection site in Lowertown’s Raphael Brunet Park is closing.
  “It is with heavy hearts that Overdose Prevention Ottawa share that we are closing the service we have provided on the patch of grass located at 307 St. Patrick Street since August 25, 2017,” the organization said in a statement released Tuesday afternoon.
  In the nearly 11 weeks since it opened, Overdose Prevention Ottawa says it received 3,445 visits, reversed five overdoses with the use of nal
  
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• BREAKING: Plane owned by former #BlueJays pitcher Roy Halladay has crashed into Gulf of Mexico. It's not known if Halladay was on the plane.

  07-11-2017 22:02 via twitter.com
  BREAKING: Plane owned by former #BlueJays pitcher Roy Halladay has crashed into Gulf of Mexico. It's not known if Halladay was on the plane.
  
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• BREAKING: @odpreventionott is closing its tent site @ Raphael Brunet Park. #ottnews twitter.com/odpreventionot…

  07-11-2017 21:50 via twitter.com
  BREAKING: @odpreventionott is closing its tent site @ Raphael Brunet Park. #ottnews twitter.com/odpreventionot…
  
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• Reevely: Trying to slip a casino through the committee of adjustment is a betrayal

  07-11-2017 21:49 via ottawacitizen.com
  Councillors should be careful what they say about the Hard Rock casino’s effort to add more gambling tables to the Rideau Carleton Raceway, the city’s top lawyer has warned them, even though the casino is trying to undermine a city council decision.
  The Rideau Carleton’s relatively small casino is limited to 21 tables for things like poker and roulette, thanks to zoning set by the city and reaffirmed in 2013. Hard Rock signed a deal with the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corp. las
  
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• Farooqi and Elghawaby: Nothing honourable about violence against women

  07-11-2017 20:09 via ottawacitizen.com
  Survivors of gender-based violence need to be believed and supported. They also need society to describe the harm they experience with appropriate language. Yet time and again, violence against Muslim women is framed as “honour-based,” further stigmatizing victims and the wider communities to which they belong.
  It’s time for this to stop.
  Recently, news emerged that a young Muslim woman in Gatineau had filed a complaint of domestic abuse against her father. The police called it
  
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• Man in his 60s injured by exploding chlorine container

  07-11-2017 18:40 via ottawacitizen.com
  A man in his 60s was injured Tuesday morning when the container of chlorine he was using to dose his pool exploded.
  It happened on a residential street near the intersection of Carling and Woodroffe avenues just after 11 a.m.
  The man was conscious but suffered soft-tissue injuries to his face, arm and leg, said paramedics, who dressed his “multiple” wounds and started an IV to raise his falling blood pressure.
  He was in stable condition at the trauma centre, paramedics said.
   
  
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• Man injured in chlorine container explosion: 1310news.com/2017/11/07/man… #ottnews

  07-11-2017 18:32 via twitter.com
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• Also ahead: @obj_news @CarolinePhil has your #Ottawa social calendar: bit.ly/1uwtdOs… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  07-11-2017 18:32 via twitter.com
  Also ahead: @obj_news @CarolinePhil has your #Ottawa social calendar: bit.ly/1uwtdOs… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• 'Aging With Confidence': Ontario Liberals unveil $155M seniors' plan

  07-11-2017 18:25
  With an election looming next spring, Premier Kathleen Wynne has unveiled a new $155-million “seniors’ strategy.”
  
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• Today's Letters: FINE! Make the GG a robot, then!

  07-11-2017 17:43 via ottawacitizen.com
  Well, the great Payette debate of 2017 continues without any sign of slowing down. Here’s what Citizen readers think about the brouhaha.
  (For more on this, see Andrew Cohen’s column, and the Citizen editorial board’s view.)
  Got opinions? Write to us at [email protected].  
  Science, faith, not in conflict
  Re: Mockery never the answer, Nov. 4
  As a medical student, I am well aware of the importance of evidence-based practices, of promoting scientific concepts and
  
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• Drink tossed off overpass damaged transport but could have been 'deadly': OPP

  07-11-2017 17:39 via ottawacitizen.com
  A 15-year-old Brockville boy is facing a mischief charge after allegedly dropping a beverage over a Highway 401 overpass Monday afternoon, striking a westbound transport.
  The truck’s moonroof was damaged but the result could have been tragic, Insp. Mike Francis warned.
  “To propel an item off of an overpass onto a vehicle traveling 100 km/hr can result in an absolute deadly and catastrophic outcome,” the Leeds County OPP detachment commander said. “This is a stark reminder
  
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• Coming up 11:45 @condorsottawa @jimperkins61 discusses @kyleturris impact on #Ottawa community… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  07-11-2017 17:37 via twitter.com
  Coming up 11:45@condorsottawa @jimperkins61 discusses @kyleturris impact on #Ottawa community… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Cohen: Here's why Payette was right to speak out

  07-11-2017 17:24 via ottawacitizen.com
  Oh, to be Governor General of Canada, the world’s most earnest country. Oh, to be Governor General encumbered with an education in mathematics, engineering and aeronautics. Oh, to be Governor General celebrating science with a refreshing if artless honesty.
  This is what it is to be Julie Payette. Address a science conference, as a scientist, and defend science. Question creationism and a little astrology, too. Dare, if you may, to doubt that a “sugar pill” can cure cancer.
  Try
  
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• Are Canadian grocery stores fixing bread prices? Business reporter @arminaligaya coming up 11:30… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  07-11-2017 17:23 via twitter.com
  Are Canadian grocery stores fixing bread prices?Business reporter @arminaligaya coming up 11:30… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Scientists voice concerns to Trudeau about weaponization of Artificial Intelligence

  07-11-2017 16:59 via ottawacitizen.com
  A letter calling for a ban on weaponization of Artificial Intelligence was sent by Canadian scientists to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
  More than 200 AI researchers in Canada signed the open letter to the Prime Minister “calling on you and your government to make Canada the 20th country in the world to take a firm global stand against weaponizing AI. Lethal autonomous weapons systems that remove meaningful human control from determining the legitimacy of targets and deploying le
  
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• OUTAGE: in Alta Vista. < 200 customers affected. @hydroottawa crews on scene. #ottnews twitter.com/hydroottawa/st…

  07-11-2017 16:50 via twitter.com
  OUTAGE: in Alta Vista. < 200 customers affected. @hydroottawa crews on scene. #ottnews twitter.com/hydroottawa/st…
  
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• Coming up at 11 @StephanieCarvin in studio for weekly International Affairs segment bit.ly/1uwtdOs… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  07-11-2017 16:50 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 11@StephanieCarvin in studio for weekly International Affairs segmentbit.ly/1uwtdOs… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Coming up on the #PowerLUNCH at NOON: @hollyanndoan & @sherrilynne join @_MarkSutcliffe in studio:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  07-11-2017 16:46 via twitter.com
  Coming up on the #PowerLUNCH at NOON: @hollyanndoan & @sherrilynne join @_MarkSutcliffe in studio:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Coming up 10:45: @PrajaktaDee on how @MinisoOfficial is going to disrupt dollar stores in Canada… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  07-11-2017 16:37 via twitter.com
  Coming up 10:45:@PrajaktaDee on how @MinisoOfficial is going to disrupt dollar stores in Canada… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• NEXT: @Kyle_Duggan joins @_MarkSutcliffe LIVE: bit.ly/1uwtdOs @ipoliticsca https://t.co/htrSe4T8An

  07-11-2017 16:23 via twitter.com
  
  NEXT: @Kyle_Duggan joins @_MarkSutcliffe LIVE: bit.ly/1uwtdOs@ipoliticsca https://t.co/htrSe4T8An
  
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• Coming up on the 10 O'Clock Talk: @RyanKennery, @Justin_Ling & @1310JasonWhite join @_MarkSutcliffe:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  07-11-2017 15:45 via twitter.com
  Coming up on the 10 O'Clock Talk:@RyanKennery, @Justin_Ling & @1310JasonWhite join @_MarkSutcliffe:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Is it time for #Facebook to grow up? @shanedingman joins @_MarkSutcliffe at 9:45: bit.ly/1uwtdOs… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  07-11-2017 15:34 via twitter.com
  Is it time for #Facebook to grow up?@shanedingman joins @_MarkSutcliffe at 9:45:bit.ly/1uwtdOs… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Antiques: Small art provides big value

  07-11-2017 15:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  Q A set of 10 of these small paintings has been in my husband’s family for many years, originating from an uncle who lived in Bermuda. They range in size from 7.5 to 12.5 cm (three to five inches), and the backs of some feature hand-written notes. Dates of those portrayed range from a birth in 1757 to a death in 1845; home towns include Derry, Bristol and Quebec; and titles mentioned include Lord, General, Captain, Earl, Bishop and Lady. The two pictured here are husband and wife, married
  
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• Coming up 9:15: Wendy Muckle on approval for supervised injection trailer at @ShepsGoodHope… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  07-11-2017 15:00 via twitter.com
  Coming up 9:15: Wendy Muckle on approval for supervised injection trailer at @ShepsGoodHope… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Just follow the signs, OPP sighs after transport wedged at border crossing

  07-11-2017 14:43 via ottawacitizen.com
  Police are being polite about it but their warning after a transport truck driver who got stuck in the wrong lane at the Ivy Lea border crossing is the master of understatement.
  It was at 12:25 a.m. Sunday when officers were called to Canada Border Services at the bridge west of Brockville. A transport truck driver had torn off part of a parking canopy and destroyed a surveillance camera.
  Turned out the 55-year-old Quebec man had tried to wedge his rig into the auto route lanes, instead of
  
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• Dig out those mitts – frigid temperatures are on the way

  07-11-2017 14:19 via ottawacitizen.com
  Hello, sun!
  Ottawa awoke to a nippy morning – it was -5 C at 6 a.m. – but Environment Canada’s forecast is for a few days of welcome sunshine and dry skies after record rains to start November.
  The bad news is that it will be downright frigid by the end of the week.
  Tuesday is a mix of sun and cloud with a high of 4 C and low of -5 C.
  Wednesday’s forecast is for a mix of sun and cloud, a high of 6 C and a low of -3 C.
  Oooh I see blue skies and sunshine this morning! Happy
  
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• #Trump calls on #NorthKorea to 'make a deal' bit.ly/2zpDY2X https://t.co/9FXSHoLLzJ

  07-11-2017 14:10 via twitter.com
  
  #Trump calls on #NorthKorea to 'make a deal' bit.ly/2zpDY2X https://t.co/9FXSHoLLzJ
  
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• Texas church gunman had run-ins with the law before shooting: bit.ly/2hh4zsx https://t.co/485XgwAECv

  07-11-2017 11:13 via twitter.com
  
  Texas church gunman had run-ins with the law before shooting:bit.ly/2hh4zsx https://t.co/485XgwAECv
  
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• LIVE: 5am-9am #Ottawa's breaking news, traffic & weather w/@1310Andrew & @1310Alexblack LISTEN:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  07-11-2017 10:58 via twitter.com
  LIVE: 5am-9am #Ottawa's breaking news, traffic & weather w/@1310Andrew & @1310Alexblack LISTEN:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• More missile interceptors to be bought to counter North Korea, protect U.S. and allies

  07-11-2017 05:59 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Trump administration has requested billions more dollars from U.S. lawmakers to further expand the Pentagon’s missile shield as a counter to North Korea.
  A budget request for $4 billion U.S. was delivered Monday. The spending is to support “additional efforts to detect, defeat, and defend against any North Korean use of ballistic missiles against the United States, its deployed forces, allies, or partners,” according to the document.
  Some of the money would be used to buy 2
  
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• Turris on the list of Senators leaders who left a void in community

  07-11-2017 03:22 via ottawacitizen.com
  Hockey is the world’s fastest game.
  It’s nearly as fast as the speed with which players come and go.
  On Saturday, Kyle Turris, then a proud member of the Ottawa Senators, tweeted out a message for his fans/followers — “download the new NHL Supercard 2K18 with me as the official cover athlete.”
  Sure enough, the image on the cover was Turris, in action, looking good in his white No. 7 Senators sweater, an ‘A’ for alternate captain on his chest.
  A day later
  
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• Health Canada gives go-ahead for Shepherds of Good Hope injection site

  07-11-2017 00:46 via ottawacitizen.com
  A trailer at the Shepherds of Good Hope became Ottawa’s third legal supervised injection site late Monday.
  Ontario Health Minister Eric Hoskins announced in a news release that the federal government has approved an exemption permitting Inner City Health Ottawa to operate a sanctioned injection site in the trailer.
  It becomes the fifth such site funded by the province. Hoskins said the province would provide nearly $500,000 in operating funds.
  The announcement came as Mayor Jim Watson and
  
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• #BREAKING Police officer in Abbotsford, B.C., has died following an exchange of gunfire with a suspect who had allegedly stolen a vehicle.

  07-11-2017 00:27 via twitter.com
  #BREAKINGPolice officer in Abbotsford, B.C., has died following an exchange of gunfire with a suspect who had allegedly stolen a vehicle.
  
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• Ottawa transplant physician honoured for contribution to global stem cell research

  07-11-2017 00:11 via ottawacitizen.com
  Almost 20 years ago, there were skeptics when Ottawa stem cell transplant physician Dr. Harold Atkins and his colleague Dr. Mark Freedman first proposed using stem cells to “reprogram” the immune system to stop the progress of multiple sclerosis.
  In June 2016, a paper on 24 patients published in the prestigious medical journal The Lancet concluded that the treatment halted damage to the brain caused by the immune system, stopping relapses for 70 per cent of patients. The disabilities
  
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• Health Canada approves legally sanctioned supervised injection trailer: 1310news.com/2017/11/06/leg… #ottnews

  07-11-2017 00:05 via twitter.com
  Health Canada approves legally sanctioned supervised injection trailer: 1310news.com/2017/11/06/leg… #ottnews
  
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