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• Ottawa city's 2018 draft budget keeps tax promise | Ottawa Citizen - Ottawa Citizen

  08-11-2017 23:52 via ottawacitizen.com
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  Proposed changes to annual tax bill in 2018: Average $404,000 assessed home would pay $76 more in urban area and $62 in rural area. Average commercial ...
  Making sense of the dollars in Ottawa's draft budget - Ottawa - CBC ...CBC.ca
  Heading into election year, city proposes 2% property tax hikeOttawa Business Journalall 8 news articles »
  
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• 'Think Airbnb for RVs': Ottawa police officer takes business pitch to Dragons' Den

  08-11-2017 23:47 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa police Const. Michael McNaught had just started his shift with a Tim Hortons coffee in hand when a call came in for a sexual assault suspect at a DriveTest location in April 2016.
  McNaught would end up injured, his uniform ripped right off of him, and his right bicep tendon torn through.
  But in an unexpected twist, exactly one year later, he’d be in the Dragons’ Den, asking Canadian business icons on the CBC reality show for $150,000 in exchange for 10 per cent of a company he
  
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• 'Think Airbnb for RVs': Ottawa police officer takes business pitch to Dragons' Den - Ottawa Citizen

  08-11-2017 23:40 via ottawacitizen.com
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  'Think Airbnb for RVs': Ottawa police officer takes business pitch to Dragons' Den
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  Ottawa police Const. Michael McNaught had just started his shift with a Tim Hortons coffee in hand when a call came in for a sexual assault suspect at a DriveTest location in April 2016. McNaught would end up injured, his uniform ripped right off of ...
  
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• Council sounds bell over potential cost of volunteer firefighters

  08-11-2017 23:39 via ottawacitizen.com
  A story in this newspaper about ballooning municipal costs under a proposed provincial law is prompting council to light a fire under Queen’s Park.
  Coun. Diane Deans, chair of the community and protective services committee, noted on Wednesday the “significant impacts” to the city if it’s forced to pay volunteer firefighters for a minimum of three hours when they’re on call.
  Volunteer firefighters would also need to make the same pay as full-time firefighters under
  
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• Barrhaven man faces multiple child porn charges

  08-11-2017 23:34 via ottawacitizen.com
  A 56-year-old Barrhaven man faces five child porn charges after a police investigation uncovered “sadistic images” from an Ottawa IP address.
  The Ottawa police’s internet child exploitation unit identified an IP address in the Ottawa area making available “sadistic images” and videos of children being sexually abused.
  Antonio Rossi, 56, has been charged with one count of making child pornography available, three counts of accessing child pornography and one count of
  
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• Reevely: Watson's latest budget doesn't use the old tricks to hide problems — it uses new ones

  08-11-2017 23:06 via ottawacitizen.com
  Fixing the roads isn’t a sexy election-year promise, but it’s Jim Watson to a tee. Odd, then, that the 2018 city budget the mayor presented Wednesday includes a cut to road maintenance.
  “The changing weather patterns have created major challenges in maintaining our roads, pathways and community infrastructure,” Watson said in his budget speech. “The abundance of rain and spring flooding, the extraordinary amount of snow, and the number of freeze-thaw cycles has sign
  
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• Winter is coming, warns Environment Canada: Winter weather travel advisory issued for Thursday night

  08-11-2017 22:39 via ottawacitizen.com
  Environment Canada has issued a winter weather travel advisory for the Ottawa area, urging travelers to carefully consider travel plans on Thursday evening.
  A combination of snowfall and rapidly falling temperatures could affect road conditions, the weather agency warns. While Thursday will start out mild, with highs of about 7 C around noon, the temperature will drop to a low of -11 C overnight.
  “As this front passes temperatures will drop and scattered rain showers will change to flurrie
  
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• Province proposes to expand personal emergency leave, end need for doctor's note

  08-11-2017 22:34 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ontario’s minister of labour was in Ottawa on Wednesday to speak about increased workers’ rights under the province’s proposed Fair Workplaces, Better Jobs Act.
  As part of the beefed-up plan known as Bill 148, Kevin Flynn introduced a revised personal emergency leave policy that would include a minimum of 10 days off per year, with two of those days paid, for all workers, as well as a ban on the requirement for a doctor’s note.
  Flynn, who made the announcement at the Some
  
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• Updated: OC Transpo confirms fare increases in LRT launch year

  08-11-2017 22:29 via ottawacitizen.com
  OC Transpo will mark the long-awaited opening of the Confederation LRT Line next year by raising transit fares, but low-income riders will finally get a break on single-ride trips.
  A year after launching the monthly EquiPass for eligible transit users who live below the low-income cut-off, OC Transpo will introduce EquiFare.
  The single-ride fare will cost $1.75, compared to the 2018 single-ride cash fare of $3.50.
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• Winter travel advisory issued for Ottawa - Ottawa - CBC News - CBC.ca

  08-11-2017 22:27 via cbc.ca
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  Winter travel advisory issued for Ottawa - Ottawa - CBC News
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  Dropping temperatures and scattered rain showers could make for slippery driving conditions in Ottawa.
  Winter travel advisory issued for ThursdayCTV Newsall 17 news articles »
  
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• Charges laid after stabbing downtown sends man to hospital 1310news.com/2017/11/08/sta… #ottnews

  08-11-2017 21:46 via twitter.com
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• Making mixed-use developments work in Ottawa - Ottawa Business Journal

  08-11-2017 21:08 via obj.ca
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  Making mixed-use developments work in Ottawa
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  A rendering of the planned Trinity Centre at Bayview Station development, across from the Bayview LRT station near the intersections of Albert and Preston streets. (Image courtesy of the Trinity Group.) By: Shannon. Bain. Shannon Bain. Published: Nov 8 ...
  
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• Seven-month gun, drug-running probe suspects includes man in high-profile fight for citizenship

  08-11-2017 21:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  An Ottawa-born but officially stateless man is one of seven people charged in a region-wide bust that netted assault rifles, an estimated $1.7 million in cocaine, methamphetamine and pot, plus more than $150,000 in cash.
  Deepan Budlakoti, 28, faces the most charges in the operation called Project Landslide: A total of 83 counts of gun trafficking, possessing the proceeds of crime and breaching a gun ban. The results of the investigation by the OPP’s organized crime enforcement bureau
  
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• LISTEN NOW: A rally is planned for Parliament Hill tomorrow. Students against tobacco companies. @MeehanCarolAnne… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  08-11-2017 20:51 via twitter.com
  LISTEN NOW: A rally is planned for Parliament Hill tomorrow. Students against tobacco companies. @MeehanCarolAnne… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• AK-47 and AR-15 assault rifles seized in drugs and weapons bust: 1310news.com/2017/11/08/pol… #ottnews

  08-11-2017 20:44 via twitter.com
  AK-47 and AR-15 assault rifles seized in drugs and weapons bust: 1310news.com/2017/11/08/pol… #ottnews
  
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• Editorial: Ottawa budget a careful election-year effort

  08-11-2017 20:36 via ottawacitizen.com
  If there’s a lesson Jim Watson can take from the recent stunning defeat of Denis Coderre as Montreal’s mayor, it’s this: Stay close to your citizens and listen – really listen – to their concerns.
  In presenting the city’s 2018 draft budget Wednesday, Watson showed he is indeed taking taxpayers seriously. He embraced their priorities while presenting a plan that stays within the two-per-cent tax-increase ceiling that has long been his pledge.
  That doesn’t
  
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• LISTEN: A new role for midwives suggests they can perform abortions. @MeehanCarolAnne is talking to Katrina Kilroy,… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  08-11-2017 20:30 via twitter.com
  LISTEN: A new role for midwives suggests they can perform abortions. @MeehanCarolAnne is talking to Katrina Kilroy,… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• LISTEN: @MeehanCarolAnne discusses money lost by the Canadian government due to tax havens. @PercyDowne wants to se… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  08-11-2017 20:15 via twitter.com
  LISTEN: @MeehanCarolAnne discusses money lost by the Canadian government due to tax havens. @PercyDowne wants to se… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Ottawa 67's to Host Gatineau in Historic Outdoor Game: 1310news.com/2017/11/08/ott… #ottnews #ottsports

  08-11-2017 20:06 via twitter.com
  Ottawa 67's to Host Gatineau in Historic Outdoor Game: 1310news.com/2017/11/08/ott… #ottnews #ottsports
  
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• LISTEN: @MeehanCarolAnne is talking to parents who know liver disease all too well ahead of this weekend's LIVERigh… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  08-11-2017 20:02 via twitter.com
  LISTEN: @MeehanCarolAnne is talking to parents who know liver disease all too well ahead of this weekend's LIVERigh… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Daniel Alfredsson hasn't ruled out a return to hockey - Ottawa Sun

  08-11-2017 19:50 via ottawasun.com
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  Daniel Alfredsson hasn't ruled out a return to hockey
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  STOCKHOLM — Daniel Alfredsson took a break from his life away from the NHL to join the celebration of the games taking place in Sweden this week. While the former Ottawa Senators captain walked away from his role as a senior adviser to hockey ...and more »
  
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• LISTEN: @ottawacity's draft budget is on the table. Dep. Mayor Mark Taylor joins @MeehanCarolAnne next.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  08-11-2017 19:42 via twitter.com
  LISTEN: @ottawacity's draft budget is on the table. Dep. Mayor Mark Taylor joins @MeehanCarolAnne next.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• LISTEN: College teachers have been asked to return to teaching before getting a new contract agreement.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  08-11-2017 19:30 via twitter.com
  LISTEN: College teachers have been asked to return to teaching before getting a new contract agreement.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Dining Out: Shanghai One brings a sweet and oily Chinese cuisine to Ottawa

  08-11-2017 19:25 via ottawacitizen.com
  Shanghai OneUnit C – 1872 Merivale Rd., 613-686-1380, shanghaione.ca
  Open: Sunday to Thursday 11 a.m. to 10:30 p.m., Friday and Saturday  11 a.m. to 11:30 p.m.
  Prices: most main dishes $12.95 to $18.95, more for seasonal and deluxe seafood  
  Access: no steps to front door or washrooms
  We entered Shanghai One, a huge restaurant in a mall at Hunt Club and Merivale roads, thinking that it looked very familiar. The menu, however, was dotted with mysteries.
  Previou
  
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• Today's letters: Allegiance to Canada, guns in America

  08-11-2017 19:11 via ottawacitizen.com
  Canadiana. Americana. Both were on the minds of our letter-writers today. You’re welcome to write to us too, at [email protected] . Find our guidelines here.
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  Let’s use Canada’s ‘pledge of allegiance’
  Re: Allegiance to our own flag, letters, Nov. 2.
  Letter-writer Les Peate laments the absence of a Canadian “Pledge of Allegiance” from our civic lexicon, and challenges young people to come up with an appropriate dedication.
  The thing is, we&
  
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• Suspect, 27, charged following serious stabbing in Lowertown park

  08-11-2017 19:09 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa police said Wednesday a 27-year-old Ottawa man faces a number of charges following stabbing that occurred during a fight near Raphael Brunet Park Tuesday night.
  they have arrested a suspect in connection with a stabbing Tuesday night near Raphael Brunet Park shortly after 8 p.m. Tuesday.
  A 37-year-old man suffered “significant blood loss,” was treated at the scene and taken to the trauma centre where he was reported to be in serious condition.
  His condition was upgraded t
  
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• LISTEN: @MeehanCarolAnne is getting reaction to the closure of @odpreventionott's tent and talking to a doctor abou… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  08-11-2017 19:05 via twitter.com
  LISTEN: @MeehanCarolAnne is getting reaction to the closure of @odpreventionott's tent and talking to a doctor abou… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Board tables Ottawa police budget: $12 increase to taxpayer

  08-11-2017 18:33 via ottawacitizen.com
  City council and the Ottawa police board have tabled the force’s 2018 draft budget, which would see the average homeowner pay $615 to the Ottawa Police Service.
  The draft budget sees police operating on a gross budget of $330 million, with 82 per cent of that — $271.4 million — going toward paying officers and civilian staff. The budget continues a trend of having the majority of the spending allotted to police force staff.
  The average homeowner’s police property tax will
  
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• 'One night at St. Francis Xavier, Canada’s top party school' @MeaganCampbel12 joins @_MarkSutcliffe coming up:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  08-11-2017 18:27 via twitter.com
  'One night at St. Francis Xavier, Canada’s top party school'@MeaganCampbel12 joins @_MarkSutcliffe coming up:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Ottawa city's draft budget keeps tax promise, puts focus on infrastructure, social services

  08-11-2017 18:26 via ottawacitizen.com
  Your 2018 Ottawa city draft budget highlights:
  Property taxes proposed to increase two per cent
  More focus on non-transit infrastructure, such as roads, after years of planning for LRT
  A three per cent increase for social service agencies
  New EquiFare for low-income transit passengers
  Recreation fees would increase two per cent
  $3.42 billion in proposed tax-supported operating spending in 2018
  Proposed four per cent increase in water rate, five per cent increase in wastewater rate and five per c
  
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• OC Transpo confirms fare increases in LRT launch year

  08-11-2017 18:23 via ottawacitizen.com
  OC Transpo will mark the long-awaited opening of the Confederation LRT Line next year by raising transit fares, but low-income riders will finally get a break on single-ride trips.
  A year after launching the monthly EquiPass for eligible transit users who live below the low-income cut-off, OC Transpo will introduce EquiFare.
  The single-ride fare will cost $1.75, compared to the 2018 single-ride cash fare of $3.50.
  OC Transpo is aiming to make the new fare available before the end of June 2018, M
  
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• Going out best bets Nov. 9 to 15 - Ottawa Citizen

  08-11-2017 18:16 via ottawacitizen.com
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  Going out best bets Nov. 9 to 15
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  The youthful French group Ensemble Variances brings its interesting instrumentation — violin, cello, clarinet, piano, saxophone and flute — to Dominion Chalmers United Church on Sunday night. Under the direction of pianist Thierry Pécou, the group ...
  
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• Going out best bets Nov. 9 to 15

  08-11-2017 18:16 via ottawacitizen.com
  The youthful French group Ensemble Variances brings its interesting instrumentation — violin, cello, clarinet, piano, saxophone and flute — to Dominion Chalmers United Church on Sunday night. Under the direction of pianist Thierry Pécou, the group will play selections by Ravel, Milhaud, Saint-Saëns, Piazzolla, Debussy’s Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun and Stravinsky’s The Soldier’s Tale. The concert, presented by Chamberfest, starts at 7:30 p.m.
  
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• 6 more charged in drug, weapons bust that netted stateless Ottawa man - CBC.ca

  08-11-2017 17:58 via cbc.ca
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  6 more charged in drug, weapons bust that netted stateless Ottawa man
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  Seven people have been arrested following a seven-month police operation that netted assault rifles, handguns and more than $1.7 million in illicit drugs and led to 83 charges against a stateless Ottawa man. Project Landslide was intended to break up ...
  Police seize guns, drugs and charge seven people in Ottawa, Gatineau, Que., areaNational Postall 5 news articles »
  
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• U.S. has spent $4.3 trillion on Iraq, Afghan and other recent wars, new study finds

  08-11-2017 17:54 via ottawacitizen.com
  Brown University’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs has just published its accounting of U.S. overseas conflicts covering 2001 to present.
  The figures include previous and new defence spending for combat operations in  Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq and Syria.
  The actual wars are estimated to cost $4.3 trillion U.S. That overall figure also includes increased spending on veterans from those wars. In addition, the cost figure includes $783 billion in spending for the
  
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• City to hit 2% tax target in 2018 - CBC.ca

  08-11-2017 17:44 via cbc.ca
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  City to hit 2% tax target in 2018
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  Even before the 2018 draft budget was tabled, at least one councillor is expressing skepticism about the document. "It's a fake budget with fake numbers," said Coun. Rick Chiarelli, who left his seat at the council table to speak with reporters in the ...and more »
  
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• Hill: Was the Russian revolution about communism or organized crime?

  08-11-2017 17:34 via ottawacitizen.com
  The door is thick and well padded, but it was not enough to protect the leaders of the first Russian revolution.
  It is located in a room in the labyrinth-like Hermitage Palace on the seafront of Saint Petersburg. Today, the Hermitage is the world’s largest museum. In October 1917, it was the headquarters of the Mensheviks – a weak, social democratic government.
  The Mensheviks had overthrown Czar Nicholas II a few months before and captured his vast palace. Unable to govern effectivel
  
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• Search for missing Aylmer man, 70, moves to marina, beach areas

  08-11-2017 17:29 via ottawacitizen.com
  Gatineau police have organized search teams around Aylmer Marina and Moussette Beach in the continued hunt for Bernard Lachance, 70, who has been missing since Monday.
  They also urge residents to check any places on their properties such as backyards, sheds or wooded areas where Lachance might have taken shelter overnight.
  They also caution searchers to only travel through woods they are familiar with.
  Lachance was last seen Monday morning as he headed out for his daily walk, which normally incl
  
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• Coming up at 11:30 @odpreventionott James Hutt discusses the closure of the OPO pop-up tent:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  08-11-2017 17:22 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 11:30@odpreventionott James Hutt discusses the closure of the OPO pop-up tent:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Coming up on the #PowerLUNCH at NOON: Sen. Vern White & @OPA_President join @_MarkSutcliffe live in studio:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  08-11-2017 17:21 via twitter.com
  Coming up on the #PowerLUNCH at NOON:Sen. Vern White & @OPA_President join @_MarkSutcliffe live in studio:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• ‘Do not not try us’ Trump sends warning to Kim Jong Un

  08-11-2017 17:10 via ottawacitizen.com
  SEOUL – President Donald Trump on Wednesday warned against the threats posed by “a country ruled by a cult” in North Korea in a hard line speech aimed at rallying international pressure on Pyongyang over its escalating nuclear weapons program.
  Trump said dictator Kim Jong Un’s regime seeks to “sow conflict abroad to distract from total failure they suffer at home” in his address to the South Korean national assembly.
  “Do not underestimate us,” Trum
  
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• Coming up at 11: #TheWorld w/ Prof. Elliot Tepper in studio for weekly segment bit.ly/1uwtdOs… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  08-11-2017 16:56 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 11:#TheWorld w/ Prof. Elliot Tepperin studio for weekly segmentbit.ly/1uwtdOs… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Lindsay Hugenholtz and her new husband escaped the #vegasshootings Listen to her live with @_MarkSutcliffe NOW:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  08-11-2017 16:51 via twitter.com
  Lindsay Hugenholtz and her new husband escaped the #vegasshootings Listen to her live with @_MarkSutcliffe NOW:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Police seek public's help to identify suspects in gas station robbery attempt

  08-11-2017 16:09 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa police are seeking the public’s assistance to identify two men who are believed to have been involved in a gas station robbery on October 16.
  According to police, the two men entered a gas station located near the intersection of Ogilvie and Montreal roads, around 11:20 pm. The pair handed the clerk a note that demanded they be provided with cash. Another customer entered the gas station as this was happening, causing the pair to panic and run off empty handed. No one was
  
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• Rideau Canal glides into No. 1 in USA Today poll of skating rinks

  08-11-2017 15:34 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Rideau Canal was sitting in first place Wednesday in a poll put up by USA Today asking readers to vote on the top 10 best skating rinks in North America.
  The 7.8-kilometre skateway has been nominated alongside 19 other rinks, including Nathan Phillips Square in Toronto and The Rink at Rockerfeller Centre in New York City.
  As of Wednesday morning, it was narrowly ahead of the Sun Valley Outdoor Ice Rink in Sun Valley, Idaho.
  The Sun Valley rink operates year-round and is known to host ma
  
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• Renovation transformation: From yellow-brick flunk to waterfront dream home

  08-11-2017 15:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  Quirky. That’s the only way to describe it.
  Three-and-a-half years ago, perched on the shore of the Rideau River, was a yellow-brick bungalow with pink accent stone, two front doors and an unlikely gazebo that protruded into the living area.
  It needed a total gut job, but one thing was for sure – you couldn’t beat the view.
  Now, the house’s four walls and roof are all that remain after a Manotick couple hired Gordon Weima Design Builder to transform the dated home into th
  
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• In Seoul speech, Trump sends warning to Kim Jong Un: ‘Do not underestimate us and do not try us’

  08-11-2017 15:20 via ottawacitizen.com
  SEOUL – President Donald Trump on Wednesday warned against the threats posed by “a country ruled by a cult” in North Korea in a hard line speech aimed at rallying international pressure on Pyongyang over its escalating nuclear weapons program.
  Trump said dictator Kim Jong Un’s regime seeks to “sow conflict abroad to distract from total failure they suffer at home” in his address to the South Korean national assembly.
  “Do not underestimate us,” Trum
  
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• The one big reason Tuesday was an even better night for Democrats in Virginia than it appears

  08-11-2017 15:10 via ottawacitizen.com
  Democrat Ralph Northam’s win in the Virginia governor’s race on Tuesday is the one that’s getting lots of attention. But the much bigger win for Democrats — at least as far as their outlook on the 2018 election — was the Virginia House of Delegates.
  Democrats went into Tuesday with few illusions about winning control of that chamber. Republicans, after all, controlled almost two-thirds of it — 66 out of 100 seats. As of late Tuesday night, though, Democrats ha
  
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• Cold and wintry weather on the way

  08-11-2017 14:50 via ottawacitizen.com
  It had to happen, but it’s still a little depressing to hear winter knocking at the door. 
  For Wednesday, expect clouds with some sun peeking out near noon, a high of 6 C and a low of -3 C overnight.
  But then things are forecast to head south and not in a good way.
  Thursday’s forecast is for increasing cloudiness, showers beginning in the afternoon and a high of 7 C and a low of -13 C.
  Environment Canada is predicting the mercury will drop into the subzero double-digits overnigh
  
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• Suspect in custody following serious stabbing in Lowertown

  08-11-2017 14:15 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa police said Wednesday they have arrested a suspect in connection with a stabbing Tuesday night near Raphael Brunet Park shortly after 8 p.m. Tuesday.
  A 37-year-old man suffered “significant blood loss,” was treated at the scene and taken to the trauma centre where he was reported to be in serious condition.
  His condition was upgraded to stable through the night.
  He was found at the corner of Cumberland Street and Guigues Avenue, near Raphael Brunet Park. The park is the l
  
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