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• Two injured in stabbing near pizza restaurant on Baseline Road

  04-12-2017 23:31 via ottawacitizen.com
  One person was seriously wounded in a stabbing outside of a pizza restaurant on Baseline Road Monday afternoon, and a second person received less serious injuries.
  The attack occurred around 3:10 p.m. near the Milano Pizzeria on Baseline, east of Greenbank Road.
  Ottawa police say one 27-year-old man was seriously wounded, while another man, 35, was injured less seriously, but there was no information yet as to what type of injury he suffered.
  Both men were taken to hospital.
  More to come.
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• Heads up: Road closures on the way into the Queensway Carleton Hospital. #ottnews twitter.com/OttawaPolice/s…

  04-12-2017 23:31 via twitter.com
  Heads up: Road closures on the way into the Queensway Carleton Hospital. #ottnews twitter.com/OttawaPolice/s…
  
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• Orléans residents hot over 13-storey 'flatiron' building proposed for St. Joseph Boulevard

  04-12-2017 22:45 via ottawacitizen.com
  Residents in an Orléans community are perturbed by a Toronto developer’s plan for a 13-floor “flatiron” building on a triangular chunk of land across from Place d’Orléans — creating a rare tall-building controversy in the eastern suburb.
  The Torgan Group, planning this project under the name Orléans Heights Developments, wants to construct the building at 3030 St. Joseph Blvd. in the community of Queenswood Heights, which is considered a gateway
  
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• STORY: Police probe west end stabbing - 1310news.com/2017/12/04/pol… #ottnews https://t.co/SJBs253LDW

  04-12-2017 22:32 via twitter.com
  
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• Reevely: Transit fares must keep rising to pay for LRT, even as ridership slips

  04-12-2017 22:32 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa’s transit fares will increase another 2.5 per cent next year after OC Transpo missed its ridership targets again, because the city needs the money to pay for light rail, transit commission chair Stephen Blais said after the commission approved its 2018 budget.
  “Our affordability plan for transit into the long term … over the next 25, 30 years, shows that fares and the transit levy need to go up by two-and-a-half per cent a year,” Blais said. “That’s th
  
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• Paramedics tells us a man in his 20's has been taken to the trauma centre after a stabbing at Baseline and McWatter… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  04-12-2017 22:22 via twitter.com
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• Liberal MP Sherry Romanado accuses Conservative MP James Bezan of 'humiliating' comments, sexual in nature… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  04-12-2017 21:50 via twitter.com
  Liberal MP Sherry Romanado accuses Conservative MP James Bezan of 'humiliating' comments, sexual in nature… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• BREAKING: Liberal MP Sherry Romanado accuses Conservative MP James Bezan of 'humiliating' comments, sexual in nature.

  04-12-2017 21:47 via twitter.com
  BREAKING: Liberal MP Sherry Romanado accuses Conservative MP James Bezan of 'humiliating' comments, sexual in nature.
  
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• Ontario spending $93 million to expand bike lanes across the province ow.ly/8NWX30h0v8q https://t.co/TRPMy9k1IW

  04-12-2017 21:37 via twitter.com
  
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• Tony Harris' year of painting furiously: The Ottawa artist has completed portraits of NHL's 100 greatest

  04-12-2017 21:28 via ottawacitizen.com
  It all started with pencil drawings of Chicago Blackhawks netminder Tony Esposito sketched obsessively on notebooks and page margins.
  Tony Harris was then a Grade 3 student at Lakefield District Public School near Peterborough, and like many boys of his era, he found in Esposito an artist’s muse: He made countless attempts at perfecting the goalie’s half-moon mask; the coiled tension of his crouch; the black tape on his Northland stick.
  This year, Harris — now a celebrated
  
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• Police search for suspect in break and enter - 1310news.com/2017/12/04/pol… #ottnews https://t.co/uqKw42wwR7

  04-12-2017 21:24 via twitter.com
  
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• Man, 53, charged in weekend robberies on St. Laurent Boulevard

  04-12-2017 21:23 via ottawacitizen.com
  A 53-year-old man has been charged with robbery after a string of holdups in Ottawa last weekend.
  The robberies all took place Saturday night in the 1700 block of St. Laurent Boulevard, near Innes Road. The suspect first went to a gas bar, said he had a gun in his pocket, and demanded cash. He ran away without any money when some other customers arrived.
  Police said the suspect then went to a nearby restaurant and again demanded money, but left empty-handed when staff told him to go away.
  The ma
  
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• Somerset West to be first supervised injection site outside of downtown core

  04-12-2017 21:12 via ottawacitizen.com
  Somerset West Community Health Centre has received permission to open what will become the city’s first supervised injection site outside of the downtown core.
  The centre, located on Eccles Street in Chinatown, said Monday that Health Canada has granted it an exemption from federal drug laws that will allow the site to legally open, although renovation work still has to be done. No opening date has been set.
  The news comes as overdose deaths in the area are spiking. There have been four fa
  
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• STORY: Zaun releases apology after being fired for inappropriate comments ow.ly/1ARn30h0scd https://t.co/vVIdIp8DaC

  04-12-2017 21:11 via twitter.com
  
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• Ramos: We need a census of robots and AI

  04-12-2017 19:52 via ottawacitizen.com
  The last release of information from the 2016 Census came out last week on mobility and migration, and on Dec. 8 Statistics Canada will close its public consultation for the next census in 2021. As that date approaches, the agency should be encouraged to rethink Canada’s demographic mix by considering how robots and artificial intelligence (AI) will be a part of it.
  By now, most Canadians have seen estimates of up to 42 per cent of jobs being taken by robots or AI. If those projections are
  
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• Police seek to identify suspect in west-end home robbery

  04-12-2017 19:45 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa police are seeking the public’s help to identify a man believed to have been involved in a home robbery in the city’s west end last month.
  According to police on Monday, the man entered a home on Saunders Avenue in Lincoln Heights on Nov. 15 through a door that was not locked. The homeowners were outside of the residence at the time.
  The suspect allegedly fled the scene with a wallet. A short time later, a transaction occurred at a store in the ByWard Market area, using a
  
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• Pick-up driver charged after school bus carrying 21 kids rear-ended

  04-12-2017 19:37 via ottawacitizen.com
  None of the 21 kids or the driver aboard a yellow school bus were hurt Monday morning when it was rear-ended by a pick-up truck, Russell County OPP reports.
  It happened around 7:50 a.m. on Lacroix Road in Clarence-Rockland.
  The driver of the pick-up truck was charged with following too closely.
  
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• Toddlers taken into care, seven arrested in street drug sweep

  04-12-2017 19:15 via ottawacitizen.com
  Seven people have been charged in a two-month sting of street-level drug selling in the ByWard Market and Lowertown, with police calling it a “first wave” of arrests.
  They’re among a total of 21 people involved in selling drugs who have been identified by the street-crime unit in Project Mitigate, police said Monday. Investigators believe they were selling crack, amphetamines and opioids but say the analysis of many of the seized drugs is still pending.
  The arrests be
  
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• Today's letters: Blind River, and development woes

  04-12-2017 18:55 via ottawacitizen.com
  Our investigation into the town of Blind River, and zoning issues for a development at Southminster Church, caught readers’ attention early this week. Then there is the “Bonjour-Hi” debate … You can write to us too, at [email protected]
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  Our city holds some blame over Blind River
  Re: How solar energy dreams became a nightmare for the small Ontario town of Blind River, Dec. 2.
  I wonder if any of the past or present members of Ottawa city council and former
  
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• The @rick_gibbons Show for Monday, December 4th: 1:10: @MacLeodLisa 1:15: @UofT_PolSci 1:30: @SWCHC 2:05:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  04-12-2017 18:54 via twitter.com
  The @rick_gibbons Show for Monday, December 4th: 1:10: @MacLeodLisa 1:15: @UofT_PolSci 1:30: @SWCHC 2:05:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Police "Project Mitigate' cracks down on local drug trafficking - 1310news.com/2017/12/04/pol… #ottnews https://t.co/v9CMTXuOu2

  04-12-2017 18:50 via twitter.com
  
  Police "Project Mitigate' cracks down on local drug trafficking - 1310news.com/2017/12/04/pol… #ottnews https://t.co/v9CMTXuOu2
  
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• Operation Red Nose skips Ottawa again

  04-12-2017 18:48 via ottawacitizen.com
  Operation Red Nose, a volunteer-run service that helps people pilot their vehicles home after a holiday party involving alcohol, will again not be running in Ottawa this season.
  The organizers of the service said no Ottawa-based organization stepped forward to coordinate the initiative.
  However, Project Red Nose — or Operation Nez Rouge — will be operating in Gatineau this year. Revellers there who will need to return their vehicles to Ottawa can use the service from the Quebec side
  
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• Coming up at 12:30: Associate Professor @padams29 joins @_MarkSutcliffe live: bit.ly/1ppeuDa https://t.co/pRrJRQlk22

  04-12-2017 18:27 via twitter.com
  
  Coming up at 12:30: Associate Professor@padams29 joins @_MarkSutcliffe live: bit.ly/1ppeuDa https://t.co/pRrJRQlk22
  
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• Why hospital ERs are so overcrowded – it's not patients' fault

  04-12-2017 18:11 via ottawacitizen.com
  Recent coverage in the Citizen of negative patient experiences in local hospital emergency departments has prompted me to provide some necessary context.
  As an emergency/family physician, I have worked in a number of emergency departments in Canada since completing my internship in 1979. I was the chief of the emergency department at the Perth and Smiths Falls District Hospital (Perth site) for 28 years. I have also been the president of the national specialty society, the Canadian Association o
  
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• Coming up at 11:45: @BSinopoli on his two-year deal with the @REDBLACKS: Listen: bit.ly/1uwtdOs… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  04-12-2017 17:37 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 11:45: @BSinopoli on his two-year deal with the @REDBLACKS: Listen: bit.ly/1uwtdOs… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Coming up on the Power Lunch at noon: @RyanKennery & @markblevis join @_MarkSutcliffe in studio: Listen:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  04-12-2017 17:35 via twitter.com
  Coming up on the Power Lunch at noon: @RyanKennery & @markblevis join @_MarkSutcliffe in studio: Listen:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Health Canada approves supervised injection site in Chinatown - 1310news.com/2017/12/04/hea… #ottnews https://t.co/OXPZ2vXqw3

  04-12-2017 17:30 via twitter.com
  
  Health Canada approves supervised injection site in Chinatown - 1310news.com/2017/12/04/hea… #ottnews https://t.co/OXPZ2vXqw3
  
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• Coming up at 11:30: Weekly guest @michaeltaube joins @_MarkSutcliffe to talk politics: bit.ly/1uwtdOs https://t.co/YIqUrC0wcm

  04-12-2017 17:20 via twitter.com
  
  Coming up at 11:30:Weekly guest @michaeltaube joins @_MarkSutcliffe to talk politics:bit.ly/1uwtdOs https://t.co/YIqUrC0wcm
  
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• Police charge Ottawa man after string of weekend robberies

  04-12-2017 17:10 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa police have charged a local man after a string of weekend robberies in the downtown area and Nepean.
  Police allege three robberies — all by the same suspect — took place on Sunday between 6 a.m. and 7:40 a.m.
  In the first two incidents, the suspect produced a note demanding cash; in the final incident, he made a verbal demand. In all three cases, the suspect fled with an undisclosed amount of money. No weapon was produced.
  Kyle Alinott, 24, of Ottawa was located and apprehende
  
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• Coming up 11:15: Data scientist @Colettod joins @_MarkSutcliffe for weekly segment: bit.ly/1uwtdOs https://t.co/OxoBkGSVFU

  04-12-2017 17:08 via twitter.com
  
  Coming up 11:15:Data scientist @Colettod joins@_MarkSutcliffe for weekly segment:bit.ly/1uwtdOs https://t.co/OxoBkGSVFU
  
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• Somerset West to open supervised injection site in Chinatown

  04-12-2017 17:02 via ottawacitizen.com
  Somerset West Community Health Centre has received permission to open what will become the city’s first supervised injection site outside of the Lowertown and ByWard Market area.
  The centre, located on Eccles Street just south of Somerset Street West in Chinatown, said Monday that Health Canada has granted it an exemption from federal drug laws that will allow the site to legally open, although renovation work still has to be done. No opening date has been set.
  Somerset Ward, according to
  
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• CBC’s digital shift is helping to kill local news outlets @barriemckenna joins @_MarkSutcliffe coming up at 11:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  04-12-2017 16:50 via twitter.com
  CBC’s digital shift is helping to kill local news outlets@barriemckenna joins @_MarkSutcliffe coming up at 11:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Coming up at 10:45: @ASandmeyer discusses the firing of Greg Zaun: Listen: bit.ly/1uwtdOs… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  04-12-2017 16:37 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 10:45: @ASandmeyer discusses the firing of Greg Zaun: Listen: bit.ly/1uwtdOs… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Ottawa men face drug charges in Killaloe-area traffic stop - Ottawa Citizen

  04-12-2017 16:36
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  Ottawa men face drug charges in Killaloe-area traffic stop
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  Two Ottawa men are accused of possessing pot for the purpose of trafficking after being pulled over for speeding in North Algona Wilberforce Township on Saturday. OPP in Killaloe reported that officers stopped the pair on Highway 60 around 10:20 p.m ...
  
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• Ottawa men face drug charges in Killaloe-area traffic stop

  04-12-2017 16:36 via ottawacitizen.com
  Two Ottawa men are accused of possessing pot for the purpose of trafficking after being pulled over for speeding in North Algona Wilberforce Township on Saturday.
  OPP in Killaloe reported that officers stopped the pair on Highway 60 around 10:20 p.m.
  The driver was found to be breaching bail conditions and officers then found what they suspected to be pot in the car, the OPP said.
  Yasin Ibrahim, 26, was charged with two counts of failing to comply with a recognizance and possession of less
  
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• Ottawa Regional Youth Choir dusts off Vivaldi classic for Thirteen Strings performance - Ottawa Citizen

  04-12-2017 15:46
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  Ottawa Regional Youth Choir dusts off Vivaldi classic for Thirteen Strings performance
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  Jamie Loback, Conductor of the Ottawa Children's Chamber Choir is seen rehearsing the choir that will perform with Thirteen Strings on Tuesday, Dec. 5. Jean Levac. Share Adjust Comment Print. Inside St. Joseph's Parish in Sandy Hill, dozens of young ...
  
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• Ottawa Regional Youth Choir dusts off Vivaldi classic for Thirteen Strings performance

  04-12-2017 15:46 via ottawacitizen.com
  Inside St. Joseph’s Parish in Sandy Hill, dozens of young voices are melding in the reverberant space, exulting in the splendour of Antonio Vivaldi’s choral work Gloria.
  The Ottawa Regional Youth Choir’s sopranos, altos, tenors and baritones — mostly Ottawa high school students — are arranged in a square, with their conductor, Jamie Loback, in the middle, next to their piano accompanist.
  “We’re just kind of dusting it off,” Loback says in an interv
  
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• Coming up on the 10 O'Clock Talk: @anne_kingston, @janicedickson & @1310Andrew join @_MarkSutcliffe live: Liste… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  04-12-2017 15:45 via twitter.com
  Coming up on the 10 O'Clock Talk: @anne_kingston, @janicedickson & @1310Andrew join @_MarkSutcliffe live: Liste… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Coming up at 9:45: Statistical Analyst @MikeKellyNHL joins @_marksutcliffe on the Ottawa Senators struggles this… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  04-12-2017 15:38 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 9:45: Statistical Analyst @MikeKellyNHL joins @_marksutcliffe on the Ottawa Senators struggles this… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Ticket giveaway this morning! twitter.com/_MarkSutcliffe…

  04-12-2017 15:35 via twitter.com
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• House Works: Concrete blocks are more beautiful, better than ever, and can even capture carbon

  04-12-2017 15:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  It’s easy to overlook the fact that building materials are steadily getting better and more beautiful.
  This means the appearance of new structures and renovations look more interesting, and concrete blocks are part of this long wave improvement.
  What started out as the plainest, cheapest and simplest way to build with masonry, concrete blocks have evolved into an option that combines beauty along with construction speed, durability and economy.
  It’s now possible to build block walls
  
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• A new downtown NHL arena: What Ottawa can learn from Edmonton - Ottawa Business Journal

  04-12-2017 15:28
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  A new downtown NHL arena: What Ottawa can learn from Edmonton
  Ottawa Business Journal
  Even news that a major condo project near Edmonton's new NHL rink is being scrapped isn't enough to dampen the spirits of the arena's point man at the city. “Ten years ago, that would have been devastating news, a condo project being cancelled,” Rick ...
  
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• Coming up 9:30 @YoniFreedhoff joins @_MarkSutcliffe live for weekly health segment: bit.ly/1ppeuDa https://t.co/lRx2aYqCwZ

  04-12-2017 15:23 via twitter.com
  
  Coming up 9:30@YoniFreedhoff joins @_MarkSutcliffe live for weekly health segment:bit.ly/1ppeuDa https://t.co/lRx2aYqCwZ
  
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• Coming up at 9:15: @dianedeans joins @_MarkSutcliffe on the number of pothole claims in Ottawa: Listen:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  04-12-2017 15:05 via twitter.com
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• 'Mystery fish': Study finds rampant fish fraud in Ottawa restaurants and sushi spots - National Post

  04-12-2017 15:02
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  'Mystery fish': Study finds rampant fish fraud in Ottawa restaurants and sushi spots
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  Seafood testing in Ottawa revealed “alarming levels of fraud,” according to a report released by conservation group Oceana Canada. Seafood fraud is a huge issue worldwide and is “allegedly worth more than the heroin trade and firearms trafficking ...and more »
  
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• POLL: Would you support a ban on guns only in urban areas? STORY: bit.ly/2kkXd8z

  04-12-2017 14:59 via twitter.com
  POLL: Would you support a ban on guns only in urban areas? STORY: bit.ly/2kkXd8z
  
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• Court martial Monday for former navy base logistics officer, JTF2 member

  04-12-2017 14:55 via ottawacitizen.com
  A court martial will be held Monday morning for retired Commander Nord Mensah at CFB Esquimalt, BC.
  Mensah faces one charge of disgraceful conduct and two charges of conduct to the prejudice of good order and discipline. These charges stem from incidents that allegedly occurred between August 13, 2015 and September 5, 2015 in Victoria.
  Mensah was the Base Logistics Officer at the time.
  Mensah’s operational support experience includes stints as the Fleet Logistics Operations
  
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• Warm but wet weather on the way Monday and Tuesday

  04-12-2017 14:31 via ottawacitizen.com
  Monday’s forecast high is 4 C and Tuesday’s is 9 C but along with those unseasonably warm temperatures comes more wet weather.
  For Monday, there’s a risk of freezing drizzle as fog patches dissipate, a 60 per cent chance of overnight showers and a low of 2 C.
  Expect periods of rain for Tuesday switching to rain showers or flurries overnight as the mercury drops to – 3 C.
  The Wednesday forecast is for clouds, a 40 per cent chance of flurries by day and 30 per cen
  
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• Shenbei Fan: Canada shoots for bronze

  04-12-2017 14:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  In the twilight of our sesquicentennial year, let us abandon the familiarly self-glorifying clichés of our nation and contemplate the shortcomings of our collective reality as we continue to make history.
  Questioning Canada’s greatness is admittedly an undesirable task in 2017, with our prime minister achieving notable popularity at home and abroad, our economy outpacing much of the developed world and our international reputation admirable as ever.
  Indeed, a surface-level dissectio
  
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• 'I just go to die': Edmonton TB patient implores Ottawa to reconsider Haiti deportation - CBC.ca

  04-12-2017 14:00
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  'I just go to die': Edmonton TB patient implores Ottawa to reconsider Haiti deportation
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  Renold Francisque wept as he stepped out of the Canada Border Services building in Edmonton. A crimson growth on the side of his neck bulged over his shirt collar as he stared down at a letter that read to him like a death sentence. For the past nine ...
  
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