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• Police identify teen stabbed to death in Vanier - CBC.ca

  28-11-2017 23:47
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  Police identify teen stabbed to death in Vanier
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  Zakaria Iqbal, 18, has been identified as the victim in Monday night's homicide in Vanier, Ottawa police have confirmed. Iqbal was fatally stabbed near the intersection of Montreal Road and Lajoie Street around 9:30 p.m. during what police described ...
  Man killed in Vanier altercationCTV News
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• 'This can't be happening to me'. Young lung cancer patient a surprising face of the deadly disease

  28-11-2017 23:42 via ottawacitizen.com
  It was Friday the 13th and Kayla Bradford was in a bed at  Queensway Carleton Hospital’s emergency department, waiting to learn the results of a brain scan and chest X-ray she had just undergone.
  The 26-year-old mother from Kanata, who had been suffering worrisome symptoms, from a persistent cough to weight loss and exhaustion, had driven herself to the hospital, leaving her fiancé at home with their two-month-old son.
  “I guess I don’t know what I was expecting. I e
  
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• Planning committee buys time for controversial Southminster church development

  28-11-2017 23:36 via ottawacitizen.com
  Southminster United Church and the Windmill Development Group had a three-metre problem at council’s planning committee on Tuesday.
  A single storey is preventing a community buy-in on a development, but that extra floor could protect the future of the church at 1040 Bank St. in Old Ottawa South.
  Residents don’t find Windmill’s proposed design offensive.
  “It just needs to be rejigged, that’s all,” resident Brian Tansey told the committee.
  Easier said than
  
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• UPDATED: Police release name of 14th homicide victim of 2017 1310news.com/2017/11/28/pol… #ottnews

  28-11-2017 23:29 via twitter.com
  UPDATED: Police release name of 14th homicide victim of 2017 1310news.com/2017/11/28/pol… #ottnews
  
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• Reevely: City council's hear-no-evil budget debates shut citizens out

  28-11-2017 22:39 via ottawacitizen.com
  You have two weeks left to tell city council what you think of the plans for Ottawa’s 2018 budget, if you see any point in it.
  Committees are holding their annual pretend hearings on the most important thing council does each year, before a final council vote due Dec. 13.
  Councillors are wearing the handcuffs they snapped on themselves a couple of days after they were sworn in back in 2014. Back then they approved a 268-page report on how council should work for the next four years that in
  
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• Prescott mayor fuming at inaction over safety after two dead in 401 crash

  28-11-2017 22:34 via ottawacitizen.com
  The mayor of Prescott is frustrated at delay and inaction on the “blood sport” that is Highway 401 traffic after a pair of serious crashes on the roadway Monday left two dead.
  Brett Todd has been among the local leaders lobbying for new safety measures since March, when about 30 vehicles, including a dozen tractor trailers, piled up in nearby Mallorytown, leaving one dead and sending 29 people to the hospital after they were exposed to spilled chemicals. 
  “Seeing what happ
  
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• Sudden death of man near Barry's Bay deemed accidental ow.ly/Jm8D30gSqmz https://t.co/7zah7jHjJM

  28-11-2017 22:19 via twitter.com
  
  Sudden death of man near Barry's Bay deemed accidental ow.ly/Jm8D30gSqmz https://t.co/7zah7jHjJM
  
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• Phoenix, arrested development: RCMP puts off move to new pay system indefinitely

  28-11-2017 22:10 via ottawacitizen.com
  There seems to be no end to the knock-on effects of the Phoenix pay debacle.
  Acting RCMP commissioner Daniel Dubeau confirmed in an email to staff Monday that the RCMP would indefinitely delay a proposed shift of 4,000 plus civilian members into the Phoenix pay system.
  “We will not move forward … until we resolve ongoing challenges and make sure that the pay centre and pay system are ready,” Dubeau wrote.
  The transfer to Phoenix had been scheduled for April 26, 2018, coincidin
  
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• North Korea launches its 1st missile in 2 months: U.S. - 1310news.com/2017/11/28/nor… #ottnews https://t.co/oKMdzf86oe

  28-11-2017 21:49 via twitter.com
  
  North Korea launches its 1st missile in 2 months: U.S. - 1310news.com/2017/11/28/nor… #ottnews https://t.co/oKMdzf86oe
  
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• 'Crisis management' for Gatineau minor hockey after sex allegations

  28-11-2017 21:49 via ottawacitizen.com
  Quebec’s provincial hockey body is in “crisis management” after sex allegations involving a Gatineau coach and a player led to a rollercoaster few days, involving the suspension and then resignation of the president of Hockey Outaouais. 
  Mario Lemery, the president of Hockey Outaouais, was temporarily suspended by the provincial minor hockey body Nov. 7, reinstated on Friday, then promptly quit on Monday.
  Lemery’s whirlwind few days followed October allegations
  
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• STORY: In House of Commons, Trudeau says sorry for so-called 'gay purge' ow.ly/eQWd30gSmje https://t.co/8zu0yfrRNx

  28-11-2017 21:30 via twitter.com
  
  STORY: In House of Commons, Trudeau says sorry for so-called 'gay purge' ow.ly/eQWd30gSmje https://t.co/8zu0yfrRNx
  
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• #RightNow Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is apologizing on behalf of the federal government for perpetrating decad… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  28-11-2017 21:10 via twitter.com
  #RightNow Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is apologizing on behalf of the federal government for perpetrating decad… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• It's Tuesday. Are you giving? - CTV News

  28-11-2017 20:23
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  It's Tuesday. Are you giving?
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  It's Tuesday. Are you giving? | CTV Ottawa News ...and more »
  
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• Cut tree limb causes power surge, tense situation in Carlingwood area

  28-11-2017 20:21 via ottawacitizen.com
  A person with a saw trimming a tree in the Carlingwood area set off a chain reaction of events, including smoke in a home basement and 11 homes without power.
  According to firefighters, someone attempted to cut down a tree limb around 1:30 p.m.. The limb fell the wrong way, slicing through a power line and a phone line that lay beneath it.
  The falling wires tangled, causing them to arc out. The arc sent a power surge through nearby homes, causing at least one to call 911 after smoke filled the h
  
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• Cold Specks opens up with third album, Fool's Paradise

  28-11-2017 20:21 via ottawacitizen.com
   When it comes to crafting a persona as a singer-songwriter, being mysterious is a good thing.
  Being confusing, however, is not.
  Ever since she emerged onto the international scene with her 2012 debut I Predict a Graceful Expulsion, there has been an undeniable layer of intrigue to singer-songwriter Ladan Hussein. The album introduced a fully formed artist who offered a unique mix of intimacy and mystery in a genre she dubbed “doom soul.” She named the project Cold Specks. When
  
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• Cut tree limb causes power surge, tense situation in Carlingwood area - Ottawa Citizen

  28-11-2017 20:18
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  Cut tree limb causes power surge, tense situation in Carlingwood area
  Ottawa Citizen
  Downed power lines prompted electrical issue in home on Haymarket St. Thank you to quick thinking occupants evacuating & calling 911. No injuries. Ottawa Fire Services. Share Adjust Comment Print. A person with a saw trimming a tree in the Carlingwood ...and more »
  
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• Planning committee buys time for controversial Southminister church development

  28-11-2017 20:03 via ottawacitizen.com
  Southminister United Church and the Windmill Development Group had a three-metre problem at council’s planning committee on Tuesday.
  A single storey is preventing a community buy-in on a development, but that extra floor could protect the future of the church at 1040 Bank St. in Old Ottawa South.
  Residents don’t find Windmill’s proposed design offensive.
  “It just needs to be rejigged, that’s all,” resident Brian Tansey told the committee.
  Easier said than
  
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• Truck dumps patio stones all over Bank Street in Greely

  28-11-2017 19:46 via ottawacitizen.com
  Traffic around the south end of Bank Street in Greely was disrupted for hours Tuesday afternoon after a tractor-trailer lost its load of heavy patio stones.
  Police said the truck dumped its cargo shortly after 12:18 p.m. at Bank Street between Parkway Road and Meadow Drive.
  The incident, which caused traffic chaos, was not caused by a collision, according to police.
  An investigation is ongoing to determine the cause.
  A section  of the roadway has been closed while crews work to clean up the
  
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• Bank Street re-opened @ Parkway Rd after patio stones clean-up. Traffic will be slow #ottnews #otttraffic twitter.com/OttawaPolice/s…

  28-11-2017 19:46 via twitter.com
  Bank Street re-opened @ Parkway Rd after patio stones clean-up. Traffic will be slow #ottnews #otttraffic twitter.com/OttawaPolice/s…
  
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• Warning: OPP not soliciting funds for community teddy bear program

  28-11-2017 19:37 via ottawacitizen.com
  The OPP is warning the public about a scam involving telephone callers posing as police officers to solicit money for teddy bears.
  The Killaloe OPP say several area detachments have received calls from concerned citizens asking about “police-related organizations” calling to solicit monies for teddy bears.
  Police advise that it does not solicit money from the public for the Community Bear Program or any other OPP program.
  They are asking citizens to verify the legitimacy of any organ
  
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• #otttraffic bit of a mess on Bank @ Parkway Rd. near #Greely twitter.com/OttawaPolice/s…

  28-11-2017 18:59 via twitter.com
  #otttraffic bit of a mess on Bank @ Parkway Rd. near #Greely twitter.com/OttawaPolice/s…
  
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• The @rick_gibbons Show for Tuesday, November 28th: 1:10: @environmentca 1:15: @cwacanada1 1:30: @GryphonReport 1:4… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  28-11-2017 18:45 via twitter.com
  The @rick_gibbons Show for Tuesday, November 28th: 1:10: @environmentca 1:15: @cwacanada1 1:30: @GryphonReport1:4… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Amos: Let's fix this Citizenship Act obstacle to Canadians overseas

  28-11-2017 18:22 via ottawacitizen.com
  Canada punches above its weight internationally because of our own citizens’ contributions to stable, equitable and peaceful global governance. In an era of unpredictable, overlapping and complex global threats, the world needs an engaged Canada to assert this internationalist character on the global stage. We must encourage our best and brightest to assume roles in humanitarian, academic, development assistance and business domains internationally.
  Roméo Dallaire sought to stop the
  
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• Highway 401 partially closed as two dead, trucker arrested in crash near Prescott

  28-11-2017 18:20 via ottawacitizen.com
  A Quebec trucker was arrested early Tuesday morning hours after two people were killed in a five-vehicle crash late Monday on Highway 401.
  Four people were also taken to hospital after the crash at about 10:30 p.m. Monday between Prescott and Highway 416, one of them by air ambulance with life-threatening injuries.
  Two people were pronounced dead at the scene of the crash, which involved two transport trailers and three other eastbound vehicles, according to Grenville County OPP’s pre
  
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• Alleged Pembroke poppy box thief captured, charged

  28-11-2017 18:19 via ottawacitizen.com
  A 30-year-old Pembroke man has been charged with several counts of theft after the contents of two poppy sales boxes were stolen at a pair of Mac’s convenience stores in Pembroke earlier this month.
  The man, identified as Cory Grant Albert Lapierre, was also charged with the theft of merchandise from a Staples store and nine counts of breach of probation.
  He was to appear in court Tuesday.
  Provincial police say a second suspect who stole candy from one of the Mac’s stores has been id
  
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• Ottawa police rescue women in Grey Cup prostitution blitz - CBC.ca

  28-11-2017 18:09
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  Ottawa police rescue women in Grey Cup prostitution blitz
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  Ottawa police say they rescued two women in a prostitution blitz on downtown hotels during the recent Grey Cup festival. Ottawa police say they rescued two women and identified more than a dozen others who may be at risk in a four-day prostitution ...
  Sex trade workers rescued during Grey CupCTV News
  Ottawa police run human trafficking blitz during Grey Cup festivitiesNational Postall 5 news articles »
  
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• Man, 18, slain in Vanier stabbing

  28-11-2017 17:51 via ottawacitizen.com
  A teen who had just graduated from high school was fatally stabbed Monday night in Vanier, this newspaper has learned.
  Zakaria Iqbal was found without a pulse lying on the ground on Montreal Road near Lajoie Street. Police received multiple 911 calls alerting them to a fight in the area around 9:30 p.m. Initial reports to police were that as many as three men had been stabbed. Once police arrived, they found only Iqbal.
  Police have not located any additional victims.
  Responders initiated CPR and
  
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• Cohen: Social media are making us anything but social

  28-11-2017 17:48 via ottawacitizen.com
  My father had a friend named Reuben. He owned a venerable men’s clothing store. Reuben was always stylish.
  Winter, spring, summer, fall – Reuben would wear shirts, ties and sports jackets that were in fashion. His commitment to the new extended to cars, diets and trends such as adult education.
  Call Reuben a faddist. What was shiny, novel and popular he embraced; for him the virtue of being new was enough. Like articles of clothing, he would discard what was no longer in vogue to ado
  
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• Postmedia CEO defends shuttering of 24 newspapers - CBC.ca

  28-11-2017 17:42
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  Postmedia CEO defends shuttering of 24 newspapers
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  The CEO of Postmedia is defending a decision to shutter 24 newspapers — 15 of them in eastern Ontario — by mid-January. The deal between between Postmedia and Torstar to swap dozens of community papers was announced Monday. Postmedia ...
  Update 2: Nine Ottawa newspapers to close in wake of Torstar-Postmedia dealOttawa Business Journal
  Metro Ottawa among local papers to close, after Postmedia-Torstar dealOttawa Citi
  
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• How can an outdoor skating rink possibly cost $5.6 million? Here's the breakdown

  28-11-2017 17:38 via ottawacitizen.com
  Outrage over the $5.6 million cost of an outdoor hockey rink on the east lawn of Parliament Hill has reverberated across Canada.
  To sum up the displeasure over the Canada 150 Ice Rink: How can it possibly cost so much to build and operate an outdoor ice rink? After all, countless Canadian families do the same thing in their backyards every winter for almost nothing. 
  The public wrath only increased last week when a list of rules for public skating were released, including no hockey, no figu
  
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• Ron Miles CD reviewed

  28-11-2017 17:04 via ottawacitizen.com
  I Am A Man (Yellowbird)Ron Miles
  In my 20-plus years of writing about jazz, a few conversations that I’ve had with jazz musicians stick out. One was an interview more than five years ago with the Denver, Colorado-based cornet player Ron Miles. As I wrote in the resulting feature that you can read if you scroll down, Miles came across as “as one of the jazz world’s true nice guys… unfailingly positive, polite, forthright, generous in his praise of others and funny.”
  
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• Today's letters: Your thoughts on the Grey Cup, and on football injuries

  28-11-2017 17:01 via ottawacitizen.com
  Today you share thoughts on concussions, on Ron Stewart and on whether Grey Cup events were well managed.  Want to write to us? Here’s the address: [email protected]
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  Pro sports should lead fight against concussions
  Re: CFL commissioner Ambrosie says not enough evidence to link concussions and CTE, Nov. 24.
  CFL Commissioner Randy Ambrosie may be technically correct but he does himself and his sport no service in adopting this stance. For the sport to endure, head-to-hea
  
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• Coming up at 10:50: @Kyle_Duggan joins @_MarkSutcliffe LIVE: bit.ly/1uwtdOs @ipoliticsca https://t.co/MejpZPPEPQ

  28-11-2017 16:45 via twitter.com
  
  Coming up at 10:50:@Kyle_Duggan joins @_MarkSutcliffe LIVE: bit.ly/1uwtdOs @ipoliticsca https://t.co/MejpZPPEPQ
  
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• Two women saved by police in human trafficking blitz: bit.ly/2hWkzNb https://t.co/fXBO7iDeHm

  28-11-2017 16:44 via twitter.com
  
  Two women saved by police in human trafficking blitz: bit.ly/2hWkzNb https://t.co/fXBO7iDeHm
  
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• Coming up at 10:30: Hall of Fame goaltender @KenDryden joins @_MarkSutcliffe in studio: Listen:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  28-11-2017 16:15 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 10:30: Hall of Fame goaltender @KenDryden joins @_MarkSutcliffe in studio: Listen:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Federal marijuana legislation approved by Commons, moves on to Senate: bit.ly/2k5psYK https://t.co/Gzevt054ZA

  28-11-2017 16:13 via twitter.com
  
  Federal marijuana legislation approved by Commons, moves on to Senate: bit.ly/2k5psYK https://t.co/Gzevt054ZA
  
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• Ottawa Senators Prospect Update: November 21-27 - Silver Seven

  28-11-2017 16:06
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  Ottawa Senators Prospect Update: November 21-27
  Silver Seven
  The Hogburglar (too soon?) put up a sparkling 0.947 sv% in two games with the Beast this week. This raised his season save percentage to 0.908 through seven games played, and would be tied for 13th in the league if he met the min. 10 games cutoff.and more »
  
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• Jay-Z leads Grammy noms with 8 as rap, R&B take centre stage: bit.ly/2j0lbSR https://t.co/gSZyrxC3dB

  28-11-2017 16:00 via twitter.com
  
  Jay-Z leads Grammy noms with 8 as rap, R&B take centre stage: bit.ly/2j0lbSR https://t.co/gSZyrxC3dB
  
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• Also ahead: Should the federal government find a way to save the ailing newspaper industry in this country?… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  28-11-2017 15:55 via twitter.com
  Also ahead: Should the federal government find a way to save the ailing newspaper industry in this country?… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Coming up on the 10 O'Clock Talk: @KimothyWalker, @Justin_Ling & @1310Andrew join @_MarkSutcliffe:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  28-11-2017 15:50 via twitter.com
  Coming up on the 10 O'Clock Talk: @KimothyWalker, @Justin_Ling & @1310Andrew join @_MarkSutcliffe:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Coming up NEXT: @gcaw on his new book "The Way of the Strangers: Encounters with the Islamic State"… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  28-11-2017 15:44 via twitter.com
  Coming up NEXT: @gcaw on his new book "The Way of the Strangers: Encounters with the Islamic State"… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Coming up at 9:30 @RandallMoore26 joins @_MarkSutcliffe live in-studio: bit.ly/1uwtdOs @1061CHEZ https://t.co/gIS1qULigl

  28-11-2017 15:20 via twitter.com
  
  Coming up at 9:30@RandallMoore26 joins @_MarkSutcliffe live in-studio:bit.ly/1uwtdOs@1061CHEZ https://t.co/gIS1qULigl
  
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• College instructors who say they can't fit material into school year suspended for 'insubordination'

  28-11-2017 15:20 via ottawacitizen.com
  Four instructors in La Cité Collégiale’s respiratory therapy program have been suspended for “insubordination” after they balked at squeezing the remaining year’s material into a condensed school calendar following a five-week strike.
  The francophone college wanted the instructors to sign a document guaranteeing that all the necessary competencies required of the program’s 77 students would be met while still finishing the school year by the end of Apr
  
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• 'Even post-Weinstein, we cannot outsource justice to a mob' @LaurenEHeuser joins @_MarkSutcliffe live at 9:15:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  28-11-2017 15:10 via twitter.com
  'Even post-Weinstein, we cannot outsource justice to a mob'@LaurenEHeuser joins @_MarkSutcliffe live at 9:15:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Military postal clerk fired for being a lesbian awaits apology from Ottawa - CBC.ca

  28-11-2017 15:03
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  Military postal clerk fired for being a lesbian awaits apology from Ottawa
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  The lead plaintiff of an Atlantic Canadian lawsuit against the Department of National Defence says she's eager to hear an official apology this afternoon in Ottawa. "I'm looking forward to it," said 57-year-old Alida Satalic of Dartmouth, N.S., who has ...
  Globe editorial: Ottawa starts healing process with LGBTQ apologyThe Globe and Mailall 70 news articles »
  
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• Highway 401 remains closed as two dead, trucker arrested in crash near Prescott

  28-11-2017 14:24 via ottawacitizen.com
  A Quebec trucker was arrested early Tuesday morning hours after two people were killed in a five-vehicle crash late Monday on Highway 401, which remained closed in both directions.
  Four people were also taken to hospital after the crash at about 10:30 p.m. Monday between Prescott and Highway 416, one of them by air ambulance with life-threatening injuries.
  Two people were pronounced dead at the scene of the crash, which involved two transport trailers and three other eastbound vehicles, acc
  
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• Chinook-like heat wave hits the capital

  28-11-2017 14:24 via ottawacitizen.com
  If we were living in southern Alberta, we’d call today’s weather a Chinook.
  But here in the capital, let’s just call it a small blessing.
  Temperatures are expected to soar to about 10 C Tuesday, from an overnight low of about -10 C (not including any possible wind factors.)
  The day should be a mix of sun and cloud, with the wind becoming gusty by about noon, with burst up to 50 km/h.
  Tuesday evening should be mainly cloudy with showers ending before morning.  The low shoul
  
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• Ottawa jogger who wound up in an ad without her knowledge wins precedent-setting privacy fight - CBC.ca

  28-11-2017 13:43
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  Ottawa jogger who wound up in an ad without her knowledge wins precedent-setting privacy fight
  CBC.ca
  An Ottawa lawyer says his client has set a precedent in Ontario by successfully arguing in court her privacy was violated after footage of her jogging in public was used for commercial purposes. 'She was so upset and shocked that someone had used her ...
  Woman wins lawsuit against video company for recording her without permissionOttawa Citizenall 2 news articles »
  
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• Woman wins lawsuit against video company for recording her without permission

  28-11-2017 13:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  An Ottawa woman has won a lawsuit that could have profound implications on the right to privacy of people in the age of social media.
  Basia Vanderveen, a communication strategy consultant, successfully sued in small claims court after short video clip of her jogging was used in promotional video for a Westboro condominium project. 
  “It’s about the right to control one’s image,” said Paul Champ, Vanderveen’s lawyer. “We all have the right to enjoy som
  
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• Trudeau makes apologies his dad wouldn't for historic injustices: bit.ly/2jrA7sG https://t.co/8wwJPodyHc

  28-11-2017 11:46 via twitter.com
  
  Trudeau makes apologies his dad wouldn't for historic injustices: bit.ly/2jrA7sG https://t.co/8wwJPodyHc
  
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