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• Ottawa to buy $100-million worth of technology from startups under new program to boost tech sector - The Globe and Mail

  13-12-2017 23:33
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  Ottawa to buy $100-million worth of technology from startups under new program to boost tech sector
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  The subject who is truly loyal to the Chief Magistrate will neither advise nor submit to arbitrary measures. close panel. © Copyright 2017 The Globe and Mail Inc. All Rights Reserved. Terms & Conditions Privacy Policy. Ottawa to buy $100-million worth ...
  
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• 'Shrouded in secrecy:' Parents shocked by abrupt closing of private school

  13-12-2017 23:27 via ottawacitizen.com
  Parents of students at Carp’s Venta Preparatory School say they were shocked and mystified when they got an early morning email from the school principal on Saturday saying the private school would close immediately.
  Many are also wondering whether they would get back part of the money they have spent on tuition — $20,500 for a day student.
  But calls and emails to school administration have gone unanswered and parents say they are in the dark about why the school closed and what happ
  
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• Vanier protestors resist hibernation, march on city hall in frigid temperatures

  13-12-2017 23:13 via ottawacitizen.com
  Bundled in winter coats, hats, and clutching signs in gloved hands, around 20 Vanier residents marched on city hall Wednesday.
  The group endured a -14 C chill as they demonstrated against a proposal to build a Salvation Army homeless shelter in their neighbourhood.
  The proposal to allow the shelter’s construction was approved at council by a 16-7 vote on Nov. 22. However, an appeal by local businesses supported by SOS Vanier — the community group that has led the charge against the p
  
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• Sex charges pile up for former Ottawa teacher | Ottawa Citizen - Ottawa Citizen

  13-12-2017 23:08
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  Sex charges pile up for former Ottawa teacher | Ottawa Citizen
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  Ottawa police on Wednesday laid 11 more charges against a former teacher and coach who's already accused of several historical sex-related offences from his days working in the public school system.Police said Donald Greenham, 75, committed the crimes ...
  Former Ottawa teacher faces 11 new sexual assault-related charges ...CBC.caall 3 news articles »
  
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• Sex charges pile up for former Ottawa teacher

  13-12-2017 23:07 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa police on Wednesday laid 11 more charges against a former teacher and coach who’s already accused of several historical sex-related offences from his days working in the public school system.
  Police said Donald Greenham, 75, committed the crimes between 1972 and 1981. The new charges are gross indecency, indecent assault on a male and counselling an offence.
  There are four male victims who were between 12 and 16 years old at the time of the offences, police said. The alleged crimes
  
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• Reevely: City treasurer finds surprise $10M, potholes get fixed, Watson reminds renegade councillors who's in charge

  13-12-2017 23:05 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa’s potholes will get an extra $10 million worth of fixes next year, Ottawa taxpayers won’t have to pay an extra infrastructure levy to cover the cost, and Mayor Jim Watson got to show a group of eight rebellious city councillors on Wednesday what happens when they cross him.
  All thanks to several million dollars the city’s finance department found in city hall’s couch cushions last week, just in time for the final vote on the city government’s 2018 budget.
  The
  
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• Unexpected $10M smoothes passage of 2018 city budget

  13-12-2017 22:52 via ottawacitizen.com
  Facing an unprecedented uprising from eight councillors who backed an infrastructure levy intended to raise extra cash to repair crumbling roads, parks and buildings, Mayor Jim Watson pulled a rabbit from a hat at Wednesday’s budget meeting — an extra $10 million thanks to a better-than-expected surplus this year. 
  Before the debate got underway, city treasurer Marian Simulik informed council the forecast for the 2017 year-end has improved significantly. As a result, she project
  
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• JUST IN: A boil water advisory has been lifted for Hawkesbury, Vankleek Hill and L'Orginal.

  13-12-2017 22:15 via twitter.com
  JUST IN: A boil water advisory has been lifted for Hawkesbury, Vankleek Hill and L'Orginal.
  
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• Today's letters: Wage hikes, transit fares and the CBC

  13-12-2017 22:14 via ottawacitizen.com
  Better wages are about fairness
  Re: Public sees red over blaming wage hike for demise of Tomato, Dec. 13.
  Focusing on a minimum-wage increase as the logic for closing a longstanding, successful, high-end iconic restaurant seems puzzling. Fancy food, fancy surroundings – and staff paid below the poverty line. Seems a bit jarring to me.
  A “living minimum wage” is a justice issue. It affects 30 per cent of the province’s population. Income disparities have become colossal in
  
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• Former teacher and coach facing more child sex assault charges ow.ly/ulmt30hd2Wv https://t.co/SGMUFY07H6

  13-12-2017 22:13 via twitter.com
  
  Former teacher and coach facing more child sex assault charges ow.ly/ulmt30hd2Wv https://t.co/SGMUFY07H6
  
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• BREAKING: @REDBLACKS announce they've re-signed QB Trevor Harris for the 2018 season.

  13-12-2017 21:49 via twitter.com
  BREAKING: @REDBLACKS announce they've re-signed QB Trevor Harris for the 2018 season.
  
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• STORY: 'Traumatic' hostage situation at bank in Vaughan over, gunman dead ow.ly/UgVZ30hd0ZN https://t.co/U4P8qPRcHU

  13-12-2017 21:46 via twitter.com
  
  STORY: 'Traumatic' hostage situation at bank in Vaughan over, gunman dead ow.ly/UgVZ30hd0ZN https://t.co/U4P8qPRcHU
  
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• Feds provide more details on revisions to controversial tax proposals ow.ly/ks5G30hd0dF https://t.co/kfby0NlYd6

  13-12-2017 21:36 via twitter.com
  
  Feds provide more details on revisions to controversial tax proposals ow.ly/ks5G30hd0dF https://t.co/kfby0NlYd6
  
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• HMCS Nanaimo returns from Caribbean deployment Friday

  13-12-2017 20:45 via ottawacitizen.com
  Her Majesty’s Canadian Ship Nanaimo returns to Canadian Forces Base Esquimalt, BC following its deployment in support of Operation CARIBBE. HMCS Nanaimo will arrive Friday morning. Operation CARIBBE is Canada’s contribution to the multinational campaign against illicit trafficking by transnational organized crime in the Caribbean basin and the eastern Pacific.
   
  
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• Dining Out: The Jack Ketch in Stittsville riffs on British fare in a cosy setting

  13-12-2017 20:36 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Jack Ketch1536 Stittsville Main St., Stittsville, 613-831-2624, thejackketch.comOpen: Tuesday 5 to 11 p.m., Wednesday and Thursday 11:30 a.m. to 11 p.m., Friday 11:30 a.m. to midnight, Saturday 5 p.m. to midnight, Sunday 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., closed Monday
  Prices: appetizers $6 to $13, mains $18 to $26 
  Access: steps to entrance on the side of the building
  This year, I’ve had more good meals than usual in Ottawa’s suburbs. I’d happily send you to Orl&e
  
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• Aylmer man identified in fatal Embrun crash, witnesses sought

  13-12-2017 20:23 via ottawacitizen.com
  Russell County OPP and collision investigators are seeking witnesses to a crash that killed an Aylmer man earlier this month.
  Shawn Perry, 28, succumbed to the injuries he suffered in the crash on Notre Dame Road in Embrun just after 7 p.m. on Dec. 5. 
  A second driver was also rushed to the hospital.
  Anyone with information is asked to contact Const. Anne-Christine Gauthier at [email protected] or 613-443-4499 or Crimestoppers at 1-800-222-8477. &n
  
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• City-centred health care hurting Pontiac region residents, report says

  13-12-2017 20:19 via ottawacitizen.com
  Health care in the Pontiac is suffering because bureaucratic decisions made in Gatineau are stifling the flexible, creative style in which rural medicine thrives, says a new report.
  The document comes from Santé Outaouais 2020, an advocacy group that criticizes economy measures by Quebec Health Minister Gaétan Barrette.
  Too much has been centralized in the name of saving money, the group says.
  “Local services have been greatly reduced. In summary, the staff are anxious, frust
  
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• OPH issues first #FrostbiteAdvisory of the season. Windchill values of -30 expected tonight. #ottnews twitter.com/ottawahealth/s…

  13-12-2017 20:00 via twitter.com
  OPH issues first #FrostbiteAdvisory of the season. Windchill values of -30 expected tonight. #ottnews twitter.com/ottawahealth/s…
  
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• Denley: A slippery mayor confronts a small outburst of democracy

  13-12-2017 19:59 via ottawacitizen.com
  Eels would be envious of the slipperiness of Mayor Jim Watson.
  It looked as if the mayor was in for a difficult session at the city budget discussion Wednesday.
  Eight city councillors wanted to break Watson’s sacred promise of a two per cent tax limit by imposing a small levy to help fix up the city’s crumbling infrastructure.
  The motion was never going to pass, but it was uncomfortable for Watson, who is never happy when others hold an idea that is different from his. Worse, the mot
  
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• Overnight on-street parking ban for @ottawacity has been lifted. #ottnews

  13-12-2017 19:53 via twitter.com
  Overnight on-street parking ban for @ottawacity has been lifted. #ottnews
  
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• Australia expects first used F-18s to be in Canadian hands early 2019

  13-12-2017 19:42 via ottawacitizen.com
  Transfer of the first two used Australian F-18 aircraft to Canada is expected to occur from the first half of 2019, according to Australia’s defence ministery. That is in line with its current plan to transition to the Joint Strike Fighter. Australia’s first two Joint Strike Fighters are expected to arrive in Australia at the end of 2018, it noted.
   
  
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• Next year's Canada Dance Festival suspended due to funding shortfall

  13-12-2017 19:34 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Canada Dance Festival will not happen in Ottawa in 2018 because “a series of grants did not come through,” the festival said in a media release Wednesday.
  The event, a spring fixture in Ottawa since 1987, is co-produced by the National Arts Centre. The news release says organizers will “explore alternate funding options” to attempt a return after next year.
  “The decision to suspend the 2018 edition was not an easy one,” said Denis Walz, who chairs the fest
  
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• Accused Pembroke candy thief nabbed with half-a-dozen kinds of drugs

  13-12-2017 19:16 via ottawacitizen.com
  A man accused of stealing candy from a Pembroke Mac’s while his sidekick emptied the poppy box has been arrested and charged with theft and possessing half-a-dozen different drugs for the purpose of trafficking.
  George Thomas Bell, 33, is the second man charged in the theft from the convenience store on Pembroke Street East on Remembrance Day.
  Upper Ottawa Valley OPP reports he’s charged with possessing methamphetamine, hydromorphone (an opioid), lorazepam (an anxiety medication), na
  
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• Council approves new $100,000 "on-ramp" one-time funding for social agencies. #ottnews #OttawaBudget2018 twitter.com/dianedeans/sta…

  13-12-2017 19:14 via twitter.com
  Council approves new $100,000 "on-ramp" one-time funding for social agencies. #ottnews #OttawaBudget2018 twitter.com/dianedeans/sta…
  
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• Unanimous support at #OttawaBudget2018 discussions to use $10M of surplus from reserves toward infrastructure renew… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  13-12-2017 18:40 via twitter.com
  Unanimous support at #OttawaBudget2018 discussions to use $10M of surplus from reserves toward infrastructure renew… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Glavin: Learn from Australia – beware of Chinese influence-peddling

  13-12-2017 18:31 via ottawacitizen.com
  As Australia continues to reel from lurid revelations about the extent of Beijing’s influence-peddling, espionage and propaganda operations in that country, Conservative Sen. Linda Frum says Ottawa should follow Canberra’s example by launching an inquiry into the extent of Beijing’s subterfuge in Canada, and by tightening laws to prevent Beijing from meddling in Canadian political processes.
  “This is essential. It’s critical. It’s essential for Canadian politi
  
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• What really happened at Wilfrid Laurier University? @hutchins_aaron joins @_MarkSutcliffe coming up: Listen:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  13-12-2017 18:25 via twitter.com
  What really happened at Wilfrid Laurier University?@hutchins_aaron joins @_MarkSutcliffe coming up: Listen:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Lanark schools locked down for 90 minutes after man spotted with crossbow

  13-12-2017 18:23 via ottawacitizen.com
  An investigation is continuing after two schools in the Village of Lanark were locked down Wednesday morning after a man was spotted carrying a crossbow nearby.
  The man’s “location and behaviour” set off alarm bells.
  Lanark County OPP responded at 9:10 a.m. to the village about 80 km southwest of Ottawa and Maple Grove Public School and Scared Heart of Jesus Catholic School were put into lockdown mode.
  The schools went into “hold and secure” mode when police ar
  
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• Stay off the Rideau Canal ice, NCC warns

  13-12-2017 18:17 via ottawacitizen.com
  Even with the deep freeze that has recently hit Ottawa, ice conditions on the Rideau Canal remain unsafe for people and pets.
  Thin ice on the canal has prompted the Rideau Canal Skateway team to issue a safety advisory, warning the public not to venture onto the ice surface.
  “Although it may appear that a layer of ice has formed on the canal’s surface, the ice is still very thin,” the advisory warned. 
  The presence of work crews on the Rideau Canal must not be taken as a s
  
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• The @rick_gibbons Show for Wednesday, December 13th: 1:10: @MikeVlasveld 1:15: @SSGTBurns 1:30: @TheHSF 1:45:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  13-12-2017 18:13 via twitter.com
  The @rick_gibbons Show for Wednesday, December 13th: 1:10: @MikeVlasveld1:15: @SSGTBurns 1:30: @TheHSF 1:45:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Davie warns about government’s lack of action on shipbuilding

  13-12-2017 17:45 via ottawacitizen.com
  Davie Shipbuilding and a number of its Montreal-area suppliers will hold a news conference Thursday to warn about the federal government’s “inaction” on tending shipbuilding contracts and how that will affect jobs.
  Spencer Fraser of Davie Shipbuilding will outline the various proposals that the yard has made to the Liberal government (for icebreakers, supply ships, humanitarian response/transport ship, etc) and “present the results these efforts have yielded to date.
  
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• At city budget, a surprise $10M earmarked for infrastructure appears

  13-12-2017 17:37 via ottawacitizen.com
  Facing an unprecedented uprising from eight councillors who backed an infrastructure levy intended to raise extra cash to repair crumbling roads, parks and buildings, Mayor Jim Watson pulled a rabbit out of a hat at Wednesday’s budget meeting — an extra $10 million thanks to a better-than-expected surplus this year.
  Before the debate got underway, city treasurer Marian Simulik informed council the forecast for the 2017 year-end has improved significantly and, as a result, she was pro
  
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• Coming up on the Power Lunch at 12 p.m. Jim Durrell & @PaulDewar join @_marksutcliffe in studio: Listen:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  13-12-2017 17:35 via twitter.com
  Coming up on the Power Lunch at 12 p.m. Jim Durrell & @PaulDewar join @_marksutcliffe in studio: Listen:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Coming up at 11:45: @DougMaclean joins @_MarkSutcliffe on Senators, NHL Classic & Parliament Hill hockey: Listen… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  13-12-2017 17:30 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 11:45: @DougMaclean joins @_MarkSutcliffe on Senators, NHL Classic & Parliament Hill hockey:Listen… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Coming up at 11:30: @LMartinWashDC joins @_MarkSutcliffe on the Jones-Moore upset in Alabama: Listen:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  13-12-2017 17:20 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 11:30: @LMartinWashDC joins @_MarkSutcliffe on the Jones-Moore upset in Alabama: Listen:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Going out best bets Dec. 14 to 20

  13-12-2017 17:19 via ottawacitizen.com
  Blues: Ottawa’s favourite blues trio, MonkeyJunk, will traverse the Valley this weekend, bringing their high-energy show from Renfrew to Wakefield. Band members Steve Marriner, Tony Diteodoro and Matt Sobb play the intimate former church, Batstone’s Northern Ramble, in Renfrew at 8 p.m. Friday (tickets $35 at northernramble.com), then cross the river for two shows at the Black Sheep Inn. They play at 8 p.m. Saturday night, and give an all-ages holiday matinee at 4 p.m. Sunday. T
  
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• Cohen: The defeat of Roy Moore in Alabama is seismic. Here's why

  13-12-2017 17:05 via ottawacitizen.com
  On the first night of Hanukkah, a great light appeared in the southern sky: It was a Democrat, from the State of Alabama, alighting in the United States Senate.
  In the hierarchy of biblical wonders, the sweet triumph of Doug Jones will not challenge the miracle of the lamp in the temple (with oil enough for one day, it burned for eight). In politics, though, Jones’s upset comes close.
  For a century or so, a segregationist Alabama elected only conservative Democrats, but it switched in 1992
  
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• Coming up at 11: Professor Elliot Tepper joins @_MarkSutcliffe live in studio: bit.ly/1uwtdOs https://t.co/2fVRG413rJ

  13-12-2017 16:55 via twitter.com
  
  Coming up at 11:Professor Elliot Tepper joins @_MarkSutcliffe live in studio: bit.ly/1uwtdOs https://t.co/2fVRG413rJ
  
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• Jewish community kicks off Hanukkah, festival of lights

  13-12-2017 16:53 via ottawacitizen.com
  Mayor Jim Watson joined the city’s Jewish leaders on a blustery evening Tuesday to once again light the giant menorah celebrating the start of Hanukkah.
  The menorah, the nine-branch candleholder, is at the heart of the “festival of lights.”
  According to tradition, the centre candle is lit first, and then used to light an additional candle on each of the eight days. On Tuesday, the first night’s candle was lit by well-known community leader Rabbi Reuven Bulka.
  Rabbi R
  
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• Winter is bad news for birds that forgot to fly south

  13-12-2017 16:43 via ottawacitizen.com
  This week’s cold and snow will likely kill off many of the birds that stayed around for Ottawa’s warm autumn, a leading birder says.
  “There are a lot of late lingering birds still around,” said birder Bruce Di Labio. On Monday he photographed a black-throated grey warbler — a little songbird that somehow took a wrong turn from its home in the southwestern United States. It should have flown south, and now it’s too late.
  “I was able to get about four feet
  
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• Coming up at 10:45: @TristinHopper on what everybody got wrong about a viral video of a starving polar bear: Li… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  13-12-2017 16:39 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 10:45: @TristinHopper on what everybody got wrong about a viral video of a starving polar bear: Li… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Coming up at 10:30: @jandrewpotter joins @_MarkSutcliffe live: Listen: bit.ly/1uwtdOs https://t.co/eauV0avxYr

  13-12-2017 16:25 via twitter.com
  
  Coming up at 10:30: @jandrewpotter joins @_MarkSutcliffe live:Listen: bit.ly/1uwtdOs https://t.co/eauV0avxYr
  
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• Our @MikeVlasveld is at City Hall for today's budget meeting and city council vote. #ottnews #ottcity #ottawa twitter.com/MikeVlasveld/s…

  13-12-2017 16:15 via twitter.com
  Our @MikeVlasveld is at City Hall for today's budget meeting and city council vote. #ottnews #ottcity #ottawa twitter.com/MikeVlasveld/s…
  
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• First responders tackle pair of crashes on Mitch Owens Road

  13-12-2017 15:55 via ottawacitizen.com
  Police and firefighters were tackling two separate collisions on Mitch Owens Road Wednesday morning and are warning motorists to avoid the area.
  Police reported at 9:10 a.m. that two vehicles collided at the Bank Street intersection.
  Fire crews were already tackling a crash at Limebank Road with the extrication of one person from a vehicle underway.
  Collision at Mitch Owens and Bank St.2 vehicles involved.Emergency crews attending
  
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• Coming up on the 10 O'Clock Talk: @AGMacDougall, @DerickFage & @1310Alexblack join @_MarkSutcliffe live: Listen… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  13-12-2017 15:46 via twitter.com
  Coming up on the 10 O'Clock Talk: @AGMacDougall, @DerickFage & @1310Alexblack join @_MarkSutcliffe live: Listen… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Johnson: City of Ottawa still lags on climate action

  13-12-2017 15:42 via ottawacitizen.com
  The city of Ottawa lags on investment in energy conservation and climate action. When the city’s 2018 budget is finalized this week,  the city’s renewable energy strategy, Energy Evolution, is set to again be under-resourced. 
  With a goal to be the greenest city in the world by 2020, Vancouver is actively working to reduce its carbon footprint by 33 per cent. Montreal has just boosted its carbon reduction target from 25 per cent  to 35 per cent —by
  
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• Coming up at 9:45: @arthur_milnes discusses his Canada 150 Time Capsule series: Listen: bit.ly/1uwtdOs… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  13-12-2017 15:38 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 9:45: @arthur_milnes discusses his Canada 150 Time Capsule series: Listen: bit.ly/1uwtdOs… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• A man and a baby have been stabbed in Toronto. The baby's injuries are serious. twitter.com/680NEWS/status…

  13-12-2017 15:08 via twitter.com
  A man and a baby have been stabbed in Toronto. The baby's injuries are serious. twitter.com/680NEWS/status…
  
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• Coming up at 9:15: @RickChiarelli joins @_MarkSutcliffe live ahead of today's budget vote: Listen:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  13-12-2017 15:05 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 9:15: @RickChiarelli joins @_MarkSutcliffe live ahead of today's budget vote: Listen:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Man dead, second injured after south end highrise fire

  13-12-2017 14:22 via ottawacitizen.com
  One man in his 60s is dead and a second was injured after a fire in an apartment on Heatherington Road overnight.
  Firefighters were called to the highrise building at 1455 Heatherington Rd near the intersection of Walkley and Albion roads at 2:09 a.m. 
  They found smoke in unit 516 and declared a working fire at 2:19 a.m.
  Firefighters removed two men from a fifth-floor unit. 
  Paramedics said that a man in his 60s was pronounced dead at the scene. A 61-year-old man was treated and releas
  
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