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• Farm Boy to open at Rideau Centre's former food court Saturday

  07-12-2017 23:25 via ottawacitizen.com
  A new Farm Boy location is set to open at the Rideau Centre on Saturday with a bigger selection of ready-made food to go.
  The official opening of its newest “urban fresh food experience” will take place in the former food court of the newly renovated downtown mall.
  Located at the mall’s entrance off Rideau Street at Sussex Drive, this is the 24th store for the food chain, which opened its first location in Cornwall, On. 36 years ago.
  The store, which will open at 8 a.m., will i
  
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• Mayor Watson defends proposed 2% tax hike, trades jabs with councillors

  07-12-2017 23:15 via ottawacitizen.com
  Sensing a possible move to stymie his tax promise, Mayor Jim Watson is battling councillors who want even more money from property owners in 2018.
  Watson traded jabs with councillors on social media before delivering his annual economic outlook speech to a business crowd at the Shaw Centre.
  On Twitter, he zeroed in on Kitchissippi Coun. Jeff Leiper.
  After his speech, Watson noted that Leiper, who suggests adding another 0.5 per cent to the 2018 tax increase, ran for council on the idea of keepin
  
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• Gatineau minor hockey coach facing sex charges. 1310news.com/2017/12/07/gat… #ottnews #Gatineau

  07-12-2017 22:55 via twitter.com
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• Bah humbug: Six Big Brothers Big Sisters clothing bins stolen

  07-12-2017 22:51 via ottawacitizen.com
  In the season of giving, a local charity that collects clothing to support youth programs is reeling after six of their donation bins were stolen.
  The Big Brothers Big Sisters Ottawa’s purple drop boxes, used to collect gently used clothing and household items, were taken sometime Wednesday night or early Thursday morning.
  The organization’s executive director says it’s not the first time the 1,000-pound boxes have been stolen from a charity, and says the thefts of the bin
  
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• Skate like (almost) royalty for free: Five capital outdoor rinks

  07-12-2017 22:39 via ottawacitizen.com
  You, too, can skate like Canada’s vice-regal.
  Saturday is opening day at the Rideau Hall rink, which has welcomed skaters since the days of Lord Dufferin nearly a century and a half ago – although today it has all the modern conveniences that come with a refrigerated rink. 
  Officials at Gov. Gen. Julie Payette’s historic mansion promise a “truly magical experience” skating on a forest-line outdoor rink to the sounds of traditional music.
  But there’s a str
  
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• Gatineau hockey coach charged with luring, police seek other potential victims

  07-12-2017 22:39 via ottawacitizen.com
  Gatineau police are asking for those with more information to step forward after a 20-year-old hockey coach was arrested and charged Thursday with crimes of a sexual nature involving minors.
  Police have received three complaints so far and say there may be other victims. Police allege the incidents occurred over the course of more than a year. 
  In October, media in the Outaouais reported that a staff member with the Gatineau Intrepide Midget AAA hockey team was indefinitely suspended on all
  
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• 'Precarious' stop as driver doing 40 km/h in 401 fast lane pulled over

  07-12-2017 22:19 via ottawacitizen.com
  A 47-year-old Ottawa woman netted an almost unheard of traffic ticket Wednesday.
  She was cited for driving too slow — a snail’s-pace 40 km/h — in the fast lane on Highway 401 in Front of Yonge Township near Brockville.
  “Numerous” motorists called in the eastbound vehicle with its high beams on at about 8:10 p.m.
  Police officers located the vehicle and made several attempts to get it pulled over safely. On the first go, the driver simply stopped in a live lane. Final
  
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• Canada's Capital Cappies launches a new season of top-drawer performances

  07-12-2017 21:31 via ottawacitizen.com
  For some the number 13 is unlucky, but Canada’s Capital Cappies team sees it as something to be proud of as they embark on their 13th season of high school plays and musicals next week.
  The local Cappies chapter is excited to continue bringing students the chance to see top-drawer high school performances and write student critic reviews, beginning with two shows opening on Dec. 14: Holy Trinity’s production of Of Mice and Men and Ashbury College’s rendition of Legally Blonde.
  
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• Ontario to offer naloxone to police, firefighters as opioid-related deaths rise ow.ly/REzh30h5ffE https://t.co/UTXDJ3OYkJ

  07-12-2017 21:30 via twitter.com
  
  Ontario to offer naloxone to police, firefighters as opioid-related deaths rise ow.ly/REzh30h5ffE https://t.co/UTXDJ3OYkJ
  
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• Did you know you can get a ticket for driving too slowly? 1310news.com/2017/12/07/dri… #ottnews

  07-12-2017 20:53 via twitter.com
  Did you know you can get a ticket for driving too slowly? 1310news.com/2017/12/07/dri… #ottnews
  
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• ATV driver seriously injured in Luskville-area crash with transport truck

  07-12-2017 20:31 via ottawacitizen.com
  A man was taken to hospital in Gatineau Thursday afternoon following a collision between a heavy truck and an all-terrain vehicle on Highway 148 in the Luskville area.
  MRC des Collines police said the crash occurred at about noon and required response from several agencies, including the provincial ministry of transport to untangle the vehicles and rescue the victim, who was driving the ATV.
  Police did not release the victim’s identity and said the cause of the crash remains under investig
  
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• Health minister declares opioid emergency after overdose rates spike over summer

  07-12-2017 20:23 via ottawacitizen.com
  The number of Ontarians taken to hospitals with opioid overdoses surged over the summer, which has pushed Health Minister Eric Hoskins to declare the situation a public-health emergency.
  That will let the provincial government approve temporary supervised drug-injection sites without waiting for the federal government to sign off, he said in a Toronto announcement Thursday. The province is also distributing anti-overdose kits to every fire department in the province, since firefighters are often
  
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• Police charge Ottawa man with aggravated sexual assault

  07-12-2017 20:21 via ottawacitizen.com
  Police have charged a 24-year-old Ottawa man with aggravated sexual assault, following an investigation that began in October.
  Police have not released any specifics about the incident in order to protect the identity of the victim.
  Charged with aggravated sexual assault is William Vatcher. He is to appear in an Ottawa court on Jan. 11.
  Police are concerned there could be other victims.
  Anyone with information is asked to contact Ottawa police at 613-236-1222, ext. 5944 or phone Crime Stopp
  
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• Sod-turning for new fixed wing SAR aircraft training centre set for Friday

  07-12-2017 20:17 via ottawacitizen.com
  Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan will attend a traditional sod-turning ceremony for the new Fixed-Wing Search and Rescue Aircraft Training Centre. That will be held 19 Wing Comox, BC
  on Friday.
   
  
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• SIU investigates after man, 52, dies of gunshot wound west of Renfrew

  07-12-2017 20:08 via ottawacitizen.com
  A 52-year-old man died Wednesday of a gunshot wound while he was “interacting” with OPP officers on a farm southwest of Renfrew, says the province’s Special Investigations Unit.  
  The SIU is probing the circumstances behind the death, which occurred around 3 p.m. near the corners of Scotch Bush Road and Sutherland Road between the villages of Douglas and Dacre. 
  Family members say the man is Russell Sutherland, 52, a long-time area resident, farmer and father of four
  
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• Police, bailiff enforce Cannabis Culture eviction on Bank Street

  07-12-2017 19:52 via ottawacitizen.com
  Police raided the Cannabis Culture marijuana dispensary on Bank Street Thursday morning for the third time since it opened nearly a year ago.
  But this time they arrived with a bailiff who was enforcing an eviction notice from the landlord.
  The lock was changed on the front door and a notice posted there saying the tenant’s lease was being terminated.
  Five people working inside were released without charges, said Reggie Belanger, who was one of them.
  In the two previous raids on the shop, c
  
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• The Nobel Prize: Women aren't getting the credit they deserve

  07-12-2017 18:37 via ottawacitizen.com
  When this year’s Nobel prize-winners gather in Stockholm and Oslo on Dec. 10, not one of the 11 laureates will be a woman.
  The 2017 Peace Prize is being awarded to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons. A Hiroshima survivor, Setsuko Thurlow (who is now a Canadian), will accept the prize on behalf of the campaign, but she herself is not a laureate. 
  This is the ninth time this century that the slate of Nobel laureates has included no women. In the 116 years since the No
  
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• Today's letters: Don't be so sensitive

  07-12-2017 18:34 via ottawacitizen.com
  Letter writers weigh in on inappropriate comments on the Hill – and if they’re being taken too seriously. Meanwhile, those LRT costs. One writer says it was totally foreseeable that fares would need to go up. You, too, can write to us: [email protected] 
  LRT problems totally foreseeable
  Re: All aboard the inflation express, Dec. 5
  This death spiral of rising costs to pay for LRT and declining ridership was entirely predictable. Rail transit has been a boondoggle almost e
  
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• The @rick_gibbons Show for 12/7/17: 1:10: #AnnaPasquarella 1:15: @JDMacBeth 1:30: @ForumPoll 1:45: @BacchusBarua 1:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  07-12-2017 18:26 via twitter.com
  The @rick_gibbons Show for 12/7/17: 1:10: #AnnaPasquarella 1:15: @JDMacBeth 1:30: @ForumPoll 1:45: @BacchusBarua 1:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Coming up on the Power Lunch at 12 p.m. @wickdchiq & @OPA_President join @MarkDayNews in studio: Listen:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  07-12-2017 17:40 via twitter.com
  Coming up on the Power Lunch at 12 p.m. @wickdchiq & @OPA_President join @MarkDayNews in studio: Listen:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Dognapped mastiff kept safe and warm by Kingston Good Samaritan

  07-12-2017 17:35 via ottawacitizen.com
  Pharaoh, the dognapped 40-kilogram mastiff puppy, is safe and sound thanks to a dog-loving Good Samaritan in Kingston.
  On Tuesday, three teenaged Kingston girls, including a pair of 13-year-olds, were arrested after allegedly stealing a 40-kilogram bull mastiff type dog, then leaving abandoning it chained to a fence.
  Hours later, the dog had not been found, Kingston police reported Wednesday. The city experienced strong winds and rain overnight.
  But it turned out that the dog was spotted by
  
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• Editorial cartoons for December 2017

  07-12-2017 17:28 via ottawacitizen.com
  Here’s how our cartoonists see Canada and the world.ShareHow our cartoonists see the world in DecemberTumblr Pinterest Google Plus Reddit LinkedInEmailGALLERY:How our cartoonists see the world in December Holiday party  Patrick Lamontagne/OTTwp Christmas tree  Patrick Lamontagne/OTTwp
  
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• Renovation Transformation: Basement turned urban skatepark, complete with graffiti

  07-12-2017 17:21 via ottawacitizen.com
  Winter weather puts a quick stop to heel flips and half pipe slips at Ottawa’s local skateparks. While most kids are packing away their skateboards or scooters two Ottawa pre-teens are just warming up.
  Only a flight a stairs separates them and a skatepark, designed for scooters, complete with two quarter pipes, ramps and vibrant graffiti-covered plywood walls.
  The skatepark, designed with scooters in mind, includes two quarter pipes and ramps. The smaller pieces can be moved to change the
  
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• Coming up at 11:15: @dianedeans joins @MarkDayNews on the city's transportation budget: Listen:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  07-12-2017 17:08 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 11:15: @dianedeans joins @MarkDayNews on the city's transportation budget: Listen:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Live next: @ShadQadri joins @MarkDayNews to talk Kanata LRT: Listen: bit.ly/1uwtdOs https://t.co/3SkNJnrKZe

  07-12-2017 17:07 via twitter.com
  
  Live next: @ShadQadri joins @MarkDayNews to talk Kanata LRT:Listen: bit.ly/1uwtdOs https://t.co/3SkNJnrKZe
  
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• Atelier, Carben, Le Baccara crack OpenTable's 2017 list of Canada's 100 best restaurants

  07-12-2017 16:33 via ottawacitizen.com
  Three Ottawa-area fine-dining restaurants — Atelier on Rochester on Rochester Street, Carben on Wellington Street West and Le Baccara in the Casino du Lac Leamy in Gatineau — are on OpenTable’s 2017 list of Canada’s 100 best restaurants that was released Wednesday.
  In terms of representing Ottawa’s restaurant scene, the recognition is a notable step up from last year, when no Ottawa-area restaurants made the 2016 compiled by the interna
  
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• DreamWorks characters come to life at Canadian Museum of History

  07-12-2017 16:28 via ottawacitizen.com
  You have to wonder: In some alternate universe, is Shrek blue? Blond-haired? Even more rotund? Wearing a kilt?
  At the Canadian Museum of History, four of about 400 items in a new special exhibition show these different iterations of the beloved animated character. They’re part of DreamWorks Animation: The Exhibition, which opens its four-month run at the museum on Friday. 
  Initially developed by the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) in partnership with DreamWorks Anim
  
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• Coming up at 10:30: @powerstim joins @MarkDayNews LIVE: bit.ly/1uwtdOs https://t.co/DpPokgzzwy

  07-12-2017 16:25 via twitter.com
  
  Coming up at 10:30: @powerstim joins @MarkDayNews LIVE: bit.ly/1uwtdOs https://t.co/DpPokgzzwy
  
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• Blood clinic overrides city hall piano tribute on National Day of Remembrance

  07-12-2017 16:24 via ottawacitizen.com
  Elise Letourneau arrived at Ottawa City Hall just before 9 a.m. on Wednesday ready to play her piano tribute for the 14 women murdered at École Polytechnique de Montréal on Dec. 6, 1989.
  She was silenced by a blood clinic.
  “I was prepared to play. The piano was open and available,” Letourneau said of the public piano that sits in the city hall rotunda.
  But before she could even set a finger on a key, someone from city hall asked her not to play a note. According to Leto
  
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• Police hunt knife-wielding would-be purse-snatcher

  07-12-2017 16:12 via ottawacitizen.com
  Police are looking for a suspect armed with a knife who made off with cash after an attempted purse-snatching outside a Herongate apartment building Wednesday night.
  It happened at about 10:50 p.m. on Fairlea Crescent.
  The woman was walking towards an apartment building and had just reached it when a man approached her from behind.
  She saw a knife as he made a grab for her purse and demanded everything she had. Instead, she produced a small amount of cash.
  The robber took it and fled.
  The man is
  
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• Live Now: @aronhellerap is based in Jerusalem -- he joins @MarkDayNews on Trump/Jerusalem fallout: Listen:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  07-12-2017 15:49 via twitter.com
  Live Now:@aronhellerap is based in Jerusalem -- he joins @MarkDayNews on Trump/Jerusalem fallout: Listen:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Coming up on the 10 O’Clock Talk @LMartinWashDC, @David_Moscrop & @1310Alexblack join @MarkDayNews… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  07-12-2017 15:45 via twitter.com
  Coming up on the 10 O’Clock Talk @LMartinWashDC,@David_Moscrop & @1310Alexblack join @MarkDayNews… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• We have a reporter on Parliament Hill for the official opening of the @canada150th skating rink -- follow Jason for… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  07-12-2017 15:34 via twitter.com
  We have a reporter on Parliament Hill for the official opening of the @canada150th skating rink -- follow Jason for… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Police search for suspect in armed robbery attempt: bit.ly/2nCM5oP https://t.co/pDnxBBikfX

  07-12-2017 15:32 via twitter.com
  
  Police search for suspect in armed robbery attempt: bit.ly/2nCM5oP https://t.co/pDnxBBikfX
  
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• Weather: Morning traffic a mess with slick, slow roads, more flurries forecast

  07-12-2017 15:05 via ottawacitizen.com
  The official first day of winter is Dec. 21 but Thursday is looking like a contender with slick and slow roads for the morning commute and blowing snow in the city’s west end.
  Ottawa police was warning of black ice in spots.
  BLACK ICE on the roads this morning. Please drive slowly and leave extra, extra, stopping distance. #otttraffic pic.twitter.com/HfgD1ZqYmj
  — Ottawa Police (@OttawaPolice) December 7, 2017The fire department reported just before 7 a.m. that they were on their way
  
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• Coming up at 9:15: @helmera joins @MarkDayNews on the Basil Borutski triple murder trial/sentencing: Listen:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  07-12-2017 15:05 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 9:15: @helmera joins @MarkDayNews on the Basil Borutski triple murder trial/sentencing: Listen:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• New Canadian special forces compound at Petawawa to open by 2021 – project to cost $319 million

  07-12-2017 14:26 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Canadian Special Operations Regiment will have a new compound at Petawawa in the coming years.
  In total, ten buildings will be constructed in a secure compound at 4 CDSB, Petawawa.  The facilities will include working space, training facilities, vehicle maintenance areas, warehouses and medical facilities. The new facilities will consolidate CSOR activities in one complex.
  The entire project will cost approximately $319 million.
  That amount includes:
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• POLL: Will you skate on the Canada 150 rink on Parliament Hill? @MarkDayNews #QuestionOfTheDay twitter.com/1310NEWS/statu…

  07-12-2017 14:22 via twitter.com
  POLL: Will you skate on the Canada 150 rink on Parliament Hill? @MarkDayNews #QuestionOfTheDay twitter.com/1310NEWS/statu…
  
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• In the age of Amazon, Walmart is changing its legal name: bit.ly/2k3Xb0Y https://t.co/Gb7MFyDYEG

  07-12-2017 14:17 via twitter.com
  
  In the age of Amazon, Walmart is changing its legal name: bit.ly/2k3Xb0Y https://t.co/Gb7MFyDYEG
  
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• Drive slowly and carefully during your morning commute - CTV News

  07-12-2017 13:13
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  Drive slowly and carefully during your morning commute
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  Emergency crews have been busy attending various crashes in the Ottawa area already before 7 am this morning. There are reports of vehicles off the road and in the ditch along Highway 416 N/B. Some lanes are closed as emergency crews are attending ...and more »
  
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• Ottawa, Gatineau traffic updates for Dec. 7 - CBC.ca

  07-12-2017 12:17
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  Ottawa, Gatineau traffic updates for Dec. 7
  CBC.ca
  Good morning, Ottawa! It's Trevor Pritchard filling in for Doug Hempstead on the traffic desk today. I'm already hearing from listeners about some difficult, snowy conditions early today, particularly near Arnprior, where one caller has described it as ...
  
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• Senators' effort is better but it's the same old result - Ottawa Sun

  07-12-2017 12:07
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  Senators' effort is better but it's the same old result
  Ottawa Sun
  Anaheim Ducks right wing Ondrej Kase, back left, scores against Ottawa Senators goalie Craig Anderson, right, and defenseman Cody Ceci during the second period of an NHL hockey game in Anaheim, Calif., Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2017.Alex Gallardo / AP ...
  Ottawa Senators Fall 3-0 to Anaheim DucksSilver Sevenall 41 news articles »
  
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• So close! Weekend forecast: Tomorrow: Sun/cloud/windy high 0 Sat: Cloudy with flurries high 0 Sun: Sun/cloud hig… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  07-12-2017 12:01 via twitter.com
  So close!Weekend forecast: Tomorrow: Sun/cloud/windy high 0 Sat: Cloudy with flurries high 0 Sun: Sun/cloud hig… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Local teen missing for over three weeks: bit.ly/2BGaJ9W https://t.co/eU44DiP1Z1

  07-12-2017 11:51 via twitter.com
  
  Local teen missing for over three weeks: bit.ly/2BGaJ9W https://t.co/eU44DiP1Z1
  
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• Trudeau government want to 'demystify' G7 summit by involving Canadians: bit.ly/2AifsTk https://t.co/r42YkOPr5r

  07-12-2017 11:38 via twitter.com
  
  Trudeau government want to 'demystify' G7 summit by involving Canadians: bit.ly/2AifsTk https://t.co/r42YkOPr5r
  
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