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• To stay together, the Senators need to get their act together - Ottawa Sun

  11-12-2017 23:51
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  To stay together, the Senators need to get their act together
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  Ottawa Senators forward Zack Smith heads to the bench after blocking a Winnipeg Jets shot in Winnipeg on Sun., Dec. 3, 2017. Kevin King/Winnipeg Sun/Postmedia NetworkKevin King / Kevin King/Winnipeg Sun. BUFFALO — Breaking up is hard to do, but if the ...
  Senators' Erik Karlsson: I want to win in OttawaSportsnet.ca
  Trading Erik Karlsson would only accelerate the Ottawa Senators' current nosediveESPNall 71
  
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• The public has spoken, and they're not happy with the Erik Karlsson trade rumour

  11-12-2017 23:31 via ottawacitizen.com
  Public reaction to the Erik Karlsson trade rumour was loud and clear in Ottawa Monday: It’d be devastating for the team’s play, and devastating for the franchise’s future.
  On Sunday, it was reported that general manager Pierre Dorion had asked the Ottawa Senators captain and nine other players to each submit a list of 10 teams they don’t want to be dealt to.
  Karlsson, who is in his ninth season as a Senator and fourth as captain, will become an unrestricted free
  
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• Travers fellowship winners to report on deadly antibiotic-resistant superbugs

  11-12-2017 23:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  Two Vancouver-based reporters have been awarded the 2018 R. James Travers Foreign Corresponding Fellowship to look into the issue of containing antibiotic-resistant superbugs — a threat that poses a deadly risk to Canadians, the award recipients say.
  Aleksandra Sagan and Laura Kane will use their award, worth $25,000, to investigate antimicrobial resistance against the backdrop of a potential worldwide health outbreak. They will detail the work of various countries for The Canadian Press i
  
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• .@OttawaPolice @OPP & @ONtransport do one-day commercial vehicle blitz in w/end #Ottawa. Result: 22 charges incl. u… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  11-12-2017 23:11 via twitter.com
  .@OttawaPolice @OPP & @ONtransport do one-day commercial vehicle blitz in w/end #Ottawa. Result: 22 charges incl. u… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• At a loss for words: How an Ottawa firm recovered from losing its key contract

  11-12-2017 23:01 via ottawacitizen.com
   
  Masha Krupp’s world imploded Sept. 27, 2016.
  That was the day the Ottawa entrepreneur learned her 25-year-old firm had lost half its revenues in a heartbeat.
  Canada Revenue Agency, for whom Masha Krupp Translation Group had been translating documents for more than a decade, had just informed her their relationship was over. Gone were assignments averaging 14 million words a year, and annual billings that topped $4 million. This lucrative business would now be taken over by CLS Lexi-
  
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• OPP on lookout for suspicious man who approached children with gingerbread house offer

  11-12-2017 22:52 via ottawacitizen.com
  Police are asking the public to be on alert after a man was seen approaching children near a school in Rockland, Ont. and asking if they wanted to accompany him home to see gingerbread houses.
  Police received a complaint about a suspicious man seen on Dec. 7 around 2:25 p.m. talking to kids walking home from a school in Rockland, about 40 kilometres east of Ottawa.
  One of the children he talked to ran away, and the man did not engage in pursuit.
  He is described as between five foot eight and six
  
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• Scanlan: The Senators freefall may go down as the curse of Kyle Turris

  11-12-2017 22:26 via ottawacitizen.com
  Dynasties are anathema to Gary Bettman’s salary-capped NHL, where parity, not prominence, is king.
  Fans of the Ottawa Senators are asking these days – could someone please deliver a cup of parity this way?
  Senators partisans would kill for a middling run of mediocrity, a flirtation with .500, a memo from on high that would assure them Erik Karlsson ain’t going anywhere, via trade or free agency.
  Somehow, despite playing in a league in which analysts love to say, “on any g
  
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• 75/25 split of legalized pot tax revenues for provinces, feds. #ottnews twitter.com/cmaconthehill/…

  11-12-2017 22:20 via twitter.com
  75/25 split of legalized pot tax revenues for provinces, feds. #ottnews twitter.com/cmaconthehill/…
  
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• STORY: Ontario premier sues Opposition leader for defamation ow.ly/hb4L30h9P8r https://t.co/bhVtKdkQwr

  11-12-2017 21:59 via twitter.com
  
  STORY: Ontario premier sues Opposition leader for defamation ow.ly/hb4L30h9P8r https://t.co/bhVtKdkQwr
  
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• BREAKING: Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne is suing Opposition leader Patrick Brown for defamation over comments made… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  11-12-2017 21:56 via twitter.com
  BREAKING: Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne is suing Opposition leader Patrick Brown for defamation over comments made… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• OPP cracking down on distracted truckers by patrolling in transport trucks ow.ly/3LvX30h9OAn https://t.co/gNIw0Bvo3S

  11-12-2017 21:53 via twitter.com
  
  OPP cracking down on distracted truckers by patrolling in transport trucks ow.ly/3LvX30h9OAn https://t.co/gNIw0Bvo3S
  
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• UPDATE: 3 hurt when bomb strapped to man explodes in NY subway ow.ly/1IJ230h9O3Q https://t.co/QYblPXloUW

  11-12-2017 21:47 via twitter.com
  
  UPDATE: 3 hurt when bomb strapped to man explodes in NY subway ow.ly/1IJ230h9O3Q https://t.co/QYblPXloUW
  
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• STORY: Feds, provinces reach agreement on sharing tax revenue from pot sales ow.ly/t1Ci30h9Nzd https://t.co/pTsmw2z64E

  11-12-2017 21:41 via twitter.com
  
  STORY: Feds, provinces reach agreement on sharing tax revenue from pot sales ow.ly/t1Ci30h9Nzd https://t.co/pTsmw2z64E
  
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• Ferocious young tenors (Adam Larson, Chad Lefkowitz-Brown and Paul Jones CDs reviewed)

  11-12-2017 21:25 via ottawacitizen.com
  Second City (Inner City Music)Adam Larson
  Onward (self-released)Chad Lefkowitz-Brown
  Clean (self-released)Paul Jones
  Tenor saxophonist Adam Larson opens his fourth and latest album, Second City, with something of a rhetorical question — namely, an original piece he calls Who Even is That?
  The title refers, Larson says, to the non-stop parade of accomplished jazz players who move to New York each year and keep the scene vital with their talents and creativity. That said, I’m sure
  
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• #BREAKING: Deal reached on marijuana taxation between feds & provincial/territorial governments twitter.com/cmaconthehill/…

  11-12-2017 21:19 via twitter.com
  #BREAKING: Deal reached on marijuana taxation between feds & provincial/territorial governments twitter.com/cmaconthehill/…
  
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• UPDATE: Power Restored in Bayshore area #ottnews twitter.com/1310NEWS/statu…

  11-12-2017 20:36 via twitter.com
  UPDATE: Power Restored in Bayshore area #ottnews twitter.com/1310NEWS/statu…
  
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• Three charged in alleged luxury SUV conspiracy worth $745,000

  11-12-2017 20:32 via ottawacitizen.com
  Three men face charges after a year-long probe dubbed Project Tahara that began when local police noticed a string of thefts of luxury Lexis and Toyota SUVs.
  The investigation wrapped up with the help of police in York and Montreal, the Canadian border service and the Insurance Bureau of Canada.
  The Ottawa Police Service’s organized auto theft section noticed the trend in September 2016, then later that year located video surveillance images of the vehicles being stolen directly from resid
  
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• Reevely: Ontario will run deficits despite the healthy economy, watchdog says

  11-12-2017 20:05 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ontario is facing years of worsening deficits because none of the major parties has a plan to make the province’s spending line up with its income, says the government’s Financial Accountability Office.
  “To the extent the government delays making those adjustments today, the adjustments will become more difficult in the future, and you’re shifting it to future generations and to young people,” said David West, the office’s chief economist, releasing the agency
  
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• Today's letters: Hospital ERs need help

  11-12-2017 18:58 via ottawacitizen.com
  Readers weigh in today on the state of hospital emergency departments. You can write to us on this or any topic, at [email protected] And please see our special callout at the bottom of this article.
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  ERs have become a dumping ground
  Re: Why hospital ERs are so overcrowded; it’s not patients’ fault, Dec. 4.
  In the late 1990s, political decisions were taken to downsize the number of Ontario hospitals and establish a new structure designed to make the supersized hospital
  
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• Government expected to make announcement Tuesday of purchase of used Australian F-18s

  11-12-2017 18:39 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Liberal government will hold a news conference Tuesday on what is expected the announcement of the purchase of used Australian F-18s. Carla Qualtrough, Minister of Public Services and Procurement, Harjit Sajjan, Minister of National Defence, Navdeep Bains, Minister of Innovation, Science and Economic Development, Marc Garneau, Minister of Transport, and General Jonathan Vance, Chief of the Defence Staff, will be at the news conference. It is expected the Liberals will also announce the begin
  
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• The @rick_gibbons Show for 12/11/17: 1:10: @iHR_Coaching 1:15: @DownGoesBrown 1:30: @Ian_Holliday 1:45:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  11-12-2017 18:35 via twitter.com
  The @rick_gibbons Show for 12/11/17: 1:10: @iHR_Coaching 1:15: @DownGoesBrown 1:30: @Ian_Holliday 1:45:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• OPP trading its cruisers for truck tractors during safety blitz

  11-12-2017 18:34 via ottawacitizen.com
  It takes one to spot one.
  The OPP is taking an unconventional approach to a trucking safety blitz that launched Monday – officers are conducting patrols in truck tractors to better spot drivers who are distracted behind the wheel.
  The strategy is being used for the first time during Operation Safe Trucking, which runs through Friday and aims to reduce the number collisions involving commercial vehicles on OPP-patrolled roads.  
  The five-day blitz tackles speeding, following too closel
  
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• Why making artificial snow is a very slippery slope

  11-12-2017 18:25 via ottawacitizen.com
  With the ski season rapidly approaching, many resorts across Canada are beginning to prepare to make artificial snow, a process that has become an annual tradition. Although snow-making has been used extensively since the early 1970s, we now see it used more and more because of climate change and declining annual snow cover across the nation.  In fact, according to Statistics Canada, the mean annual snow cover in Canada declined by 5.1 per cent from 1972 to 2010.
  Unfortunately, the process
  
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• Trump's trip-up over Jerusalem may hurt everybody

  11-12-2017 18:20 via ottawacitizen.com
  In the post-9/11 era, metal detectors are increasingly common, especially in “high-security” areas such as airports or public buildings.
  This made it hard for some to understand the Arab World’s outrage after Israel decided to install them at the entrance to Jerusalem’s Temple Mount last July. “You go through them when entering synagogues, churches, even the Holy City of Mecca,” commentators reasoned. It seemed like an issue of security.
  I was a stone’s
  
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• Is Canada getting too cozy with China? @tonykeller1 joins @_MarkSutcliffe coming up at 11:45: Listen:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  11-12-2017 17:37 via twitter.com
  Is Canada getting too cozy with China?@tonykeller1 joins @_MarkSutcliffe coming up at 11:45: Listen:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Coming up on the Power Lunch at 12 p.m. @mcroc & Ottawa Lawyer John MacDonell join @_MarkSutcliffe in studio: Li… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  11-12-2017 17:32 via twitter.com
  Coming up on the Power Lunch at 12 p.m.@mcroc & Ottawa Lawyer John MacDonell join @_MarkSutcliffe in studio: Li… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Coming up at 11:30: Weekly guest @michaeltaube joins @_MarkSutcliffe to talk politics: bit.ly/1uwtdOs https://t.co/YZA6B7O8h8

  11-12-2017 17:25 via twitter.com
  
  Coming up at 11:30:Weekly guest @michaeltaube joins @_MarkSutcliffe to talk politics:bit.ly/1uwtdOs https://t.co/YZA6B7O8h8
  
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• Mario Batali steps down after sexual misconduct allegations: bit.ly/2AeTkEY https://t.co/GHnLWmqT1X

  11-12-2017 17:15 via twitter.com
  
  Mario Batali steps down after sexual misconduct allegations: bit.ly/2AeTkEY https://t.co/GHnLWmqT1X
  
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• Coming up 11:15: @Colettod of @abacusdataca joins @_MarkSutcliffe for weekly segment: Listen:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  11-12-2017 17:10 via twitter.com
  Coming up 11:15:@Colettod of @abacusdataca joins @_MarkSutcliffe for weekly segment:Listen:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• 'Hundreds of Canadians complain to Veterans Affairs about disorganized Vimy Ridge ceremony' @TomSpears1 joins… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  11-12-2017 16:53 via twitter.com
  'Hundreds of Canadians complain to Veterans Affairs about disorganized Vimy Ridge ceremony'@TomSpears1 joins… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• UPDATE: Eastern Ontario Heath Unit has extended BOIL WATER Advisory for Hawkesbury to L'Orignal & Vankleek Hill #ottnews #boilwater

  11-12-2017 16:51 via twitter.com
  UPDATE: Eastern Ontario Heath Unit has extended BOIL WATER Advisory for Hawkesbury to L'Orignal & Vankleek Hill #ottnews #boilwater
  
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• 'Massive disappointment': One school's hopes flattened by Vimy memorial officials

  11-12-2017 15:36 via ottawacitizen.com
  A letter from one teacher sums up the waste of years of planning and fundraising by students, and also the feeling of being brushed off when the school complained about events at the Vimy memorial. (The names of the teacher, school and school board were deleted.)
  The school planned for 2 1/2 years to send a contingent of 100 students and supervisors. The students paid $3,500 each for the trip. They put in a year of weekly night classes, learned about individual soldiers who died, visited Passche
  
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• On Air 9AM-1PM Ottawa Today live with your host @_MarkSutcliffe on @1310NEWS & @rogersottawa22: Listen:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  11-12-2017 14:55 via twitter.com
  On Air 9AM-1PMOttawa Today live with your host @_MarkSutcliffe on @1310NEWS & @rogersottawa22:Listen:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• UPDATE: Law enforcement official tells @AP a man had a pipe bomb strapped to him when it went off on a New York Cit… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  11-12-2017 14:50 via twitter.com
  UPDATE: Law enforcement official tells @AP a man had a pipe bomb strapped to him when it went off on a New York Cit… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• French-Italian frigate proposal would have headed off job cuts at Irving, consortium says

  11-12-2017 14:48 via ottawacitizen.com
  Just a couple of weeks ago, Irving and federal government officials were raising concerns about layoffs at Irving because of a gap in the construction of ships. That gap was between the end of the Arctic Offshore Patrol Ship program and the start of the construction of the Canadian Surface Combatant.
  Irving and the federal government are trying to figure out how to deal with that. Selling AOPS overseas (a long shot) and giving Irving more federal government shipbuilding work are the two main way
  
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• Woman found guilty of urinating on child's grave: bit.ly/2B8aPe9 https://t.co/29YDShJvYd

  11-12-2017 14:43 via twitter.com
  
  Woman found guilty of urinating on child's grave: bit.ly/2B8aPe9 https://t.co/29YDShJvYd
  
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• Eric McCormack & the animated film ``The Breadwinner'' among Canadian nominees for this year's Golden Globe Awards. twitter.com/1310NEWS/statu…

  11-12-2017 14:37 via twitter.com
  Eric McCormack & the animated film ``The Breadwinner'' among Canadian nominees for this year's Golden Globe Awards. twitter.com/1310NEWS/statu…
  
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• RIGHT NOW: @goldenglobes live streaming this year's nominations! Watch: bit.ly/2yeYcbq https://t.co/VjBCoVNPdr

  11-12-2017 14:27 via twitter.com
  
  RIGHT NOW: @goldenglobes live streaming this year's nominations!Watch: bit.ly/2yeYcbq https://t.co/VjBCoVNPdr
  
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• Hawkesbury residents under boil water advisory, schools closed after water plant malfunctions

  11-12-2017 14:23 via ottawacitizen.com
  A malfunction at the Hawkesbury water treatment plant has the town and the Eastern Ontario Health Unit warning residents to boil drinking water until further notice.
  The warning was issued late Sunday night after an incident of decreased pressure at the plant. Officials in the town about 90 kilometres east of Ottawa say they’re working with the health unit to find the source of the problem and fix it.
  Student Transportation of Eastern Ontario reports that Pleasants Corners, VanKleek H
  
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• 'Alberta Clipper' set to bring 10-15 cm of snow by Tuesday night

  11-12-2017 14:23 via ottawacitizen.com
  By Tuesday night, the region will be under a blanket of 10 to 15 cm of snow, Environment Canada predicts.
  The flakes that comes along with what’s dubbed an Alberta Clipper is expected to hit Eastern Ontario Monday night and taper off Tuesday evening, according to a special weather statement.. Since the forecast is for snow stretching over 24 to 36 hours, it doesn’t reach the level of a snowfall warning, when 15 cm is expected per 12 hours.
  But the weather agency warns nonetheless tha
  
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• STORY: NYPD: Responding to report of Times Square area explosion: bit.ly/2z0abgD https://t.co/6IKlIwfFjD

  11-12-2017 14:16 via twitter.com
  
  STORY: NYPD: Responding to report of Times Square area explosion: bit.ly/2z0abgD https://t.co/6IKlIwfFjD
  
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• POLL: Should the Senators consider trading Erik Karlsson? #QuestionOfTheDay @_MarkSutcliffe twitter.com/1310NEWS/statu…

  11-12-2017 13:58 via twitter.com
  POLL: Should the Senators consider trading Erik Karlsson? #QuestionOfTheDay@_MarkSutcliffe twitter.com/1310NEWS/statu…
  
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• NEW - NYPD responding to reports of explosion: twitter.com/NYPDnews/statu…

  11-12-2017 13:51 via twitter.com
  NEW - NYPD responding to reports of explosion: twitter.com/NYPDnews/statu…
  
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• Bitcoin futures rise as virtual currency hits major exchange: bit.ly/2jwKgIx https://t.co/8l1U8e0Fzc

  11-12-2017 13:44 via twitter.com
  
  Bitcoin futures rise as virtual currency hits major exchange: bit.ly/2jwKgIx https://t.co/8l1U8e0Fzc
  
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• Ottawa Senators to ask for all no-trade lists: bit.ly/2C1Ah2i https://t.co/snrh1A58xd

  11-12-2017 13:31 via twitter.com
  
  Ottawa Senators to ask for all no-trade lists: bit.ly/2C1Ah2i https://t.co/snrh1A58xd
  
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• "SHAME SHAME ON YOU!" Hundreds of Canadians complain to Veterans Affairs about disorganized Vimy Ridge ceremony

  11-12-2017 13:20 via ottawacitizen.com
  “A total disaster.”
  “Appalling.”
  “A mosh pit and Woodstock combined.”
  These were among the withering reviews received by Veterans Canada this year to its hosting of 25,000 Canadians in France for the centennial of the Battle of Vimy Ridge, one of the most famed military battles in this country’s Canadian history.
  It was a solemn occasion on April 9, the culmination of years of planning to make the event go smoothly. The ceremony was in the styl
  
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• Today's letters: Free the beer, battling for bronze

  11-12-2017 13:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  Taxes, not health, behind beer battle
  Re: There is no legal right to smuggle beer, Dec. 8.
  Rob Cunningham’s suggestion that the government’s concern about beer purchased in another province is somehow related to health programs or an issue of smuggling is wishful thinking. The so-called “sin taxes” on alcohol, tobacco and the future tax on cannabis are significant sources of revenue for governments and the loss of that income is likely the real concern.
  As price compariso
  
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• Ontario should revise discriminatory driving policy against refugees

  11-12-2017 13:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  After a harrowing escape from the Syrian city of Aleppo and spending three years as refugees in Jordan, Shyesh al-Turki, his wife, and children completed their long journey to Canada last winter. Although he has found safety in his new home, he is unable to qualify for driving jobs.
  Shyesh, 40, speaks wistfully of his work as an experienced truck driver before coming to Canada. He drove for years across Syria delivering crops, animals and equipment, and crisscrossed the region through neighbouri
  
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• One school's hopes flattened by Vimy memorial officials

  11-12-2017 13:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  A letter from one teacher sums up the waste of years of planning and fundraising by students, and also the feeling of being brushed off when the school complained about events at the Vimy memorial. (The names of the teacher, school and school board were deleted.)
  The school planned for 2 1/2 years to send a contingent of 100 students and supervisors. The students paid $3,500 each for the trip. They put in a year of weekly night classes, learned about individual soldiers who died, visited Passche
  
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• Kerr: Does the law apply when an inmate breaks prison rules?

  11-12-2017 13:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  Does the law apply in prison? A recent Federal Court decision confirms the obvious answer: Of course. Yet the fact that this was a question at all speaks to the reality of systemic lawlessness that too often describes our prison system.  
  The court decision confirmed that an inmate in prison disciplinary court had the right to defend himself by arguing that he only broke a prison rule because of serious pressure from other inmates.
  On the evening in question, all of the inmates on this man&
  
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