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• Census: Ottawans are better educated, commute for longer

  29-11-2017 23:55 via ottawacitizen.com
  We really are different.
  That’s the clear message from the 2016 census, which has been published in stages this year concluding with Wednesday’s assessment of education, labour, commuting patterns and language of work.
  To date, we’ve learned that residents in the National Capital Region earn more money, are aging gracefully, and speak English and French more fluently than their compatriots in the rest of the country.
  On Wednesday, the census confirmed we are also better educate
  
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• Jonathan Pitre out of hospital, feeling better

  29-11-2017 23:32 via ottawacitizen.com
  Jonathan Pitre has been discharged from hospital after another remarkable rebound as his latest tests show that his transplanted bone marrow is producing healthy levels of red blood cells and platelets.
  Red blood cells ferry oxygen throughout the body while platelets halt bleeding.
  What’s more, an X-ray taken Tuesday revealed no sign of the condition, pneumatosis, that had Pitre’s doctors concerned earlier this month. 
  Pneumatosis is a rare condition in which air seeps into the
  
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• City hall symposium aimed at engaging black, newcomer communities

  29-11-2017 23:22 via ottawacitizen.com
  June Girvan, an elder in Ottawa’s black community, opened a symposium Wednesday by blowing a special African horn, filling the atrium of Ottawa City Hall with a muffled sound not unlike that of a harmonica.
  The Jamaican-Canadian was issuing, she explained to the audience, a call to action — a call for the community to “come together to act in the best interest of the whole.”
  It was in that spirit that about 40 people spent the day discussing how members of the black and n
  
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• Reevely: Ottawa wants to hike hotel-room tax, apply it to Airbnb rentals

  29-11-2017 22:52 via ottawacitizen.com
  Tourists visiting Ottawa can expect to pay higher taxes on their hotel rooms in the new year and won’t be able to dodge them by renting places with services like Airbnb.
  The provincial government gave Ontario cities more power to impose these taxes this year and city hall’s finance staff are urging city council to take this one up.
  If council agrees, a voluntary three-per-cent charge already levied by most hotels in the city is to be replaced with a mandatory four-per-cent tax o
  
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• Trump retweets videos critical of Muslims ow.ly/Kduz30gU2ye https://t.co/tTmI8hhpJU

  29-11-2017 22:25 via twitter.com
  
  Trump retweets videos critical of Muslims ow.ly/Kduz30gU2ye https://t.co/tTmI8hhpJU
  
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• Stunt drivers call 911 after officers impound their cars on Highway 401

  29-11-2017 21:34 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ontario Provincial Police officers charged two drivers on Sunday after their cars were seen travelling more than 50 km/h over the speed limit along a busy roadway in the Thousand Islands near Gananoque.
  Two men from Quebec, aged 20 and 44, were charged with stunt driving on Highway 401. Their cars were towed and impounded for seven days.
  After police pulled them over, the two men, upset because their cars were being towed, called 911 from the side of the highway while still in the presence of th
  
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• Pothole claims spike in 2017 as Ottawa roads batter vehicles

  29-11-2017 21:32 via ottawacitizen.com
  More people want money from Ottawa City Hall as compensation for their dinged-up vehicles.
  The number of pothole-related vehicle damage claims received by the city has increased by 411 so far in 2017 compared to 2016, according to the city.
  The statistics are in a written response published Wednesday as part of a transportation committee agenda. Coun. Diane Deans asked the city solicitor’s office about the claims in light of the harsh winter at the beginning of the year.
  The city says it h
  
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• Editorial: Common sense for road safety

  29-11-2017 20:59 via ottawacitizen.com
  Monday’s crash on Highway 401, which killed two people, has raised – again – hard questions about the safety of Ontario’s highways. Less than two weeks earlier, there was a 401 fatality near Kingston. There have been 16 fatal crashes on the eastern Ontario section of the highway since May. This isn’t counting the 30-vehicle pileup near Mallorytown in March that killed one and landed 29 people in hospital for exposure to spilled chemicals.
  What’s the solution?
  
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• Apartment residents head to emergency centre following Jasmine Crescent apartment blaze

  29-11-2017 20:36 via ottawacitizen.com
  Residents of an east end apartment building are being directed to an emergency reception centre after a fire severely damaged the building on Jasmine Crescent.
  The fire began began on the second floor of the 60-unit building and spread until heavy smoke and flames burst through the roof.
  The fire was extinguished but it wasn’t immediately known how many residents will be able to return home.Many of the units were badly damaged by flames and power had yet to be restored as of Wedn
  
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• Job scam in #Brockville 1310news.com/2017/11/29/bro…

  29-11-2017 20:19 via twitter.com
  Job scam in #Brockville1310news.com/2017/11/29/bro…
  
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• Police team up with MedicAlert to help 'most vulnerable' when they go missing

  29-11-2017 20:03 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa police say that a new partnership with MedicAlert Foundation Canada will help the “most vulnerable,”  from wandering people with dementia to lost children with autism, who’d be assisted by responding officers having access to their personal data and needs.
  The charity’s Connect Protect service gives police 24-hour access to a subscriber’s photo, identity, medical condition or special need and past history through their MedicAlert medical IDs. It costs $6
  
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• City's IT budget, overseen by councillor Chiarelli, not 'fake,' he says

  29-11-2017 19:57 via ottawacitizen.com
  The councillor who accused the city of drafting a “fake budget” says the information technology portion, which he oversees as a council chairman, is a genuine financial forecast for 2018.
  Coun. Rick Chiarelli has somehow managed to get more than a two-per-cent increase to the IT department’s proposed budget.
  “Our estimates are going to be accurate, so if we’re saying we’re going to do a certain amount of work, we’re going to show the real cost of that,&r
  
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• The @rick_gibbons Show for 11/29/17 with @cmaconthehill filling in: 1:15: @UVicLaw 1:30: @_MarkSutcliffe &… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  29-11-2017 18:44 via twitter.com
  The @rick_gibbons Show for 11/29/17 with @cmaconthehill filling in: 1:15: @UVicLaw 1:30: @_MarkSutcliffe &… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Coming up at 11:30: @petershankman joins @markdaynews to discuss his new book: Listen: bit.ly/1uwtdOs https://t.co/zCAnDMSfXa

  29-11-2017 17:25 via twitter.com
  
  Coming up at 11:30: @petershankman joins @markdaynews to discuss his new book: Listen: bit.ly/1uwtdOs https://t.co/zCAnDMSfXa
  
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• Coming up at 11: The World with Professor Elliot Tepper in studio: bit.ly/1uwtdOs @MarkDayNews https://t.co/j6Qqb2e5EM

  29-11-2017 16:55 via twitter.com
  
  Coming up at 11:The World with Professor Elliot Tepper in studio:bit.ly/1uwtdOs@MarkDayNews https://t.co/j6Qqb2e5EM
  
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• Firefighters extricate injured woman from partially submerged car in east-end crash

  29-11-2017 16:51 via ottawacitizen.com
  A woman of about 20 years old was taken to the local trauma centre after T-bone collision at Leitrim and Ramsayville roads in the city’s east end Wednesday morning.
  One person was freed by firefighters from a two-door car that was partially submerged in water in a partially-filled ditch after the 8:26 a.m. crash.
  They used cutters and spreaders and had the patient extricated at 8:46 a.m.
  A third vehicle was also being towed away.
  Police said that westbound Leitrim Road was closed to traffi
  
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• Dining Out: At Orto Trattoria, chef Rene Rodriguez makes an Italian comeback

  29-11-2017 16:40 via ottawacitizen.com
  Orto Trattoria151 – C Second Ave., 613-244-6786, orto.ca
  Open: Monday to Wednesday 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. and 5:30 to 10 p.m., Thursday to Saturday 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. and5:30 to 11 p.m., closed Sunday
  Prices: lunch items $10 to $16, appetizers at dinner $7 to $20, pastas $17 to $25, mains $24 to $32
  Access: no steps to front door or washrooms
  You can’t keep a good chef down. But you can strikingly change the food that he serves. 
  That’s my take after two dinners at Orto Tr
  
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• Coming up at 10:45: @SNkylebukauskas has your Sens/Habs preview: Listen: bit.ly/1uwtdOs @MarkDayNews https://t.co/WYJhwm74jV

  29-11-2017 16:38 via twitter.com
  
  Coming up at 10:45: @SNkylebukauskas has your Sens/Habs preview: Listen: bit.ly/1uwtdOs @MarkDayNews https://t.co/WYJhwm74jV
  
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• Coming up at 10:30: @jandrewpotter joins @MarkDayNews: Listen: bit.ly/1uwtdOs https://t.co/ITMOHFdTvd

  29-11-2017 16:25 via twitter.com
  
  Coming up at 10:30: @jandrewpotter joins @MarkDayNews:Listen: bit.ly/1uwtdOs https://t.co/ITMOHFdTvd
  
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• Today's letters: Strange new 'rules of the road' in Barrhaven

  29-11-2017 15:54 via ottawacitizen.com
  One letter writer observes bizarre behaviour on the roads of Barrhaven, while another says Canada shouldn’t tell Russia what to do.Write to us: [email protected] new rules of the road are in effect
  Based on what I am observing of many drivers, I must be unaware that new rules of the road apply in and around Barrhaven. Here are some examples:
  1. Stop signs and red lights when turning right at intersections are to be ignored. Treat them as a yield.
  2. Texting while stopped at a
  
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• Irving wants to sell Arctic patrol ships to other customers but are the vessels too expensive?

  29-11-2017 15:47 via ottawacitizen.com
  Irving Shipbuilding is facing a gap between the building of the Canadian Surface Combatant and the end of the construction of the Arctic Offshore Patrol Ship fleet. That gap in work could mean layoffs at Irving.
  Both the federal government and Irving are now trying to figure out how to fill that gap.
  Irving Shipbuilding president Kevin McCoy said one way could be to sell AOPS to international customers.
  McCoy said there are nations that might to take advantage of a “hot production line&rdq
  
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• Coming up on the 10 O'Clock Talk: @DerickFage, @AGMacDougall & @1310Alexblack join @MarkDayNews live in studio:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  29-11-2017 15:45 via twitter.com
  Coming up on the 10 O'Clock Talk: @DerickFage, @AGMacDougall & @1310Alexblack join @MarkDayNews live in studio:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Coming up at 9:45: Author/GG Award winner @writeoncherie joins @MarkDayNews: Listen: bit.ly/1uwtdOs https://t.co/oDbSqdb03I

  29-11-2017 15:36 via twitter.com
  
  Coming up at 9:45: Author/GG Award winner @writeoncherie joins @MarkDayNews: Listen: bit.ly/1uwtdOs https://t.co/oDbSqdb03I
  
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• POLL: How should we deal with foreign fighters who return to Canada? @MarkDayNews #QuestionOfTheDay

  29-11-2017 15:21 via twitter.com
  POLL: How should we deal with foreign fighters who return to Canada?@MarkDayNews#QuestionOfTheDay
  
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• Coming up at 9:30 @mclomedia joins @MarkDayNews live for weekly political segment: bit.ly/1uwtdOs… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  29-11-2017 15:20 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 9:30@mclomedia joins @MarkDayNews live for weekly political segment:bit.ly/1uwtdOs… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Twice burned, Gatineau bridge will rise again

  29-11-2017 15:09 via ottawacitizen.com
  A covered wooden bridge in Gatineau twice built lovingly by volunteers and both times destroyed by arson will be built again in 2018.
  The Brabant-Philippe Bridge carried pedestrians and bicycles across the Rivière Blanche in the city’s east end. It’s the only crossing for a kilometre in either direction.
  But the site is surrounded by trees and has no lighting, and twice the traditional red bridge has been burned under cover of night, first in 2011 and again, after a full recon
  
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• How should we deal with foreign fighters who return to Canada? Professor Lorne L. Dawson joins @MarkDayNews coming… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  29-11-2017 15:09 via twitter.com
  How should we deal with foreign fighters who return to Canada?Professor Lorne L. Dawson joins @MarkDayNews coming… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• STORY: Canadians working longer, taking longer to get there: census: bit.ly/2i17J0f https://t.co/eu1gaSVAT4

  29-11-2017 15:00 via twitter.com
  
  STORY: Canadians working longer, taking longer to get there: census: bit.ly/2i17J0f https://t.co/eu1gaSVAT4
  
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• On-Air 9AM-1PM Ottawa Today is live with your guest host @markdaynews on @1310NEWS & @rogersottawa22… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  29-11-2017 14:50 via twitter.com
  On-Air 9AM-1PMOttawa Today is live with your guest host @markdaynews on @1310NEWS & @rogersottawa22… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• New numbers just released from Stats Can twitter.com/StatCan_eng/st…

  29-11-2017 14:40 via twitter.com
  New numbers just released from Stats Can twitter.com/StatCan_eng/st…
  
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• *New* Canadians working longer, taking longer to get there: census https://t.co/zu4iui5Jnv

  29-11-2017 14:34 via twitter.com
  
  *New* Canadians working longer, taking longer to get there: census https://t.co/zu4iui5Jnv
  
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• South Algonquin TWP man, 83, drowns after falling into family pond

  29-11-2017 14:13 via ottawacitizen.com
  An 83-year-old South Algonquin Township man drowned Monday when he fell through the ice at a family pond.
  The victim was identified as John Johnson, of South Algonquin Township. 
  Police were called to the scene at about 5:11 p.m. when the victim’s family reported they had found his hat on the ice surface and were concerned that he had fallen through into the water.
  The body was recovered a short time later, and responders performed CPR before transporting the victim to hospital,
  
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• Carp home engulfed in flames overnight

  29-11-2017 14:13 via ottawacitizen.com
  A house in Carp was left a charred ruin overnight but the lone occupant managed to escape safely.
  Ottawa Fire Services reports that they got a 911 call reporting a fully-involved fire at 408 Donald B Munro Dr.They confirmed a working fire at 1:19 a.m. while still on the way to the house, which is just east of Carp Road.
  They fought the fire in “defensive mode” in a bid to keep the flames from spreading, had it under control at 2:12 a.m. 
  One person was helped by victim serv
  
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• Enjoy the sun, the temperature is dropping. Again.

  29-11-2017 14:12 via ottawacitizen.com
  After Tuesday’s weather whiplash from -13.7 C to 11 C, temperatures return to more typical territory with days above freezing and even some sunshine.
  For Wednesday, Environment Canada is predicting a high of 1 C and low of -9 C. Morning fog was forecast to turn into a 30 per cent chance of showers but skies become mainly sunny near noon and gusty winds drop off as the mercury drops to -2 C by afternoon.
  Thursday is expected to be increasingly cloudy with flurries or showers beginning near
  
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• Crews responded to a 911 call reporting a fire at 408 Donald B. Munro Dr. overnight. No word yet on a cause or a da… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  29-11-2017 11:57 via twitter.com
  Crews responded to a 911 call reporting a fire at 408 Donald B. Munro Dr. overnight. No word yet on a cause or a da… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• No injuries in Carp house fire: bit.ly/2jwz5vA https://t.co/YAeKMk3JcC

  29-11-2017 11:28 via twitter.com
  
  No injuries in Carp house fire: bit.ly/2jwz5vA https://t.co/YAeKMk3JcC
  
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• Teen homicide victim knifed after visit to crack den, police say

  29-11-2017 01:13 via ottawacitizen.com
  Police believe a teen who was fatally stabbed in Vanier was just looking for a place to smoke weed purchased at an illegal dispensary when he wound up inside a crack den, this newspaper has learned.
  Zakaria Iqbal, just 18 years old and a Gloucester High School student, died Monday night after an attack on Montreal Road.
  Detectives believe that Iqbal and his friends purchased marijuana at Dr. Greenthumb dispensary, also on Montreal Road. Employees at the dispensary said police visited the pot sho
  
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• Ottawa Police identify Vanier homicide victim - CTV News

  29-11-2017 00:07 via ottawa.ctvnews.ca
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  Ottawa Police identify Vanier homicide victim
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  Ottawa Police have identified the city's 14th homicide victim of 2017 as an 18-year-old man. Zakaria Iqbal died of his injuries after a stabbing in Vanier late Monday. Police and paramedics were called to the area of Montreal Road and Lajoie Street ...
  
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