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• Ottawa police to replace 140 aging Tasers

  18-12-2017 23:52 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa police will replace 140 aging Tasers at a cost of more than a quarter-million dollars.
  The police board approved the sole-source contract Monday, which would see the force fork over $265,290.20 plus taxes to M. D. Charlton Co. Ltd. As a sole-source contract that’s more than $100,000, the civilian oversight body had to approve the purchase.
  The province currently only allows Ontario police services to purchase conducted energy weapons manufactured by Taser International, and only two
  
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• Inquest to be held into 2015 death of Ottawa roofer - CBC.ca

  18-12-2017 23:46
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  Inquest to be held into 2015 death of Ottawa roofer
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  An inquest will be held into the death of a 47-year-old worker who fell during a roofing incident at an Ottawa construction site two years ago, the Ontario coroner's office announced Monday. Robert Garry Cyr of Ottawa died in hospital from injuries he ...and more »
  
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• Ottawa police take aim at impaired driving during holiday season - Ottawa Citizen

  18-12-2017 23:45
  Ottawa police take aim at impaired driving during holiday season
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  Ottawa police say they're ready for the festive season — and the dangerous driving that could come with it. This year, they're watching out for more drivers impaired by drugs. “That's a trend that's been continuing in the past three or four years ...and more »
  
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• Ottawa police take aim at impaired driving during holiday season

  18-12-2017 23:45 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa police say they’re ready for the festive season — and the dangerous driving that could come with it.
  This year, they’re watching out for more drivers impaired by drugs.
  “That’s a trend that’s been continuing in the past three or four years,” said Const. T.J. Jellinek of the police traffic unit. “We definitely anticipate with (marijuana) legalization coming in that the trend is going to continue to climb.”
  And the increase isn’t t
  
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• Police investigate Sunday afternoon shooting

  18-12-2017 23:40 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Ottawa police guns and gangs unit is investigating a shooting that occurred Sunday at 2:45 p.m.
  Police say they responded to the Crestway Drive and Prince of Wales Drive area after multiple 911 calls were made about a shooting. Officers found a spent shell casing at the scene. No victims or suspects were located.
  Police say a male victim was later found at an Ottawa hospital with a non-life threatening gunshot injury. 
  The investigation is ongoing. 
  Anyone with information is asked
  
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• Reevely: With LeBreton bargaining at critical point, take Melnyk's complaints in stride

  18-12-2017 23:25 via ottawacitizen.com
  Manipulating Ottawans into telling the National Capital Commission to give Eugene Melnyk whatever he wants because we’re terrified of losing the Senators is a ploy.
  It’s Trumpian in its sophistication.
  That’s the way to interpret Melnyk’s complaining about the scant attendance at his Ottawa Senators’ games and his musing that he might just walk away from the LeBreton deal with the NCC and build a new rink somewhere else. Maybe in Ottawa, maybe some other city.
  The N
  
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• The changing face of legal leadership in Ottawa - Ottawa Business Journal

  18-12-2017 22:52
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  The changing face of legal leadership in Ottawa
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  Mia Hempey is the chief operating officer of Nelligan O'Brien Payne. (Photo by Mark Holleron). By: Shannon. Bain. Shannon Bain. Published: Dec 18, 2017 3:34pm EST. Comments. Share: Topic: Local. Organizations: Nelligan O'Brien Payne · McMillan. People ...and more »
  
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• This won't be another winter with robins

  18-12-2017 22:36 via ottawacitizen.com
  The robins that stayed in Ottawa all last winter have done the sensible thing instead this year.
  Ottawa’s annual Christmas Bird Count confirmed it this weekend: While thousands upon thousands of robins survived our winter a year ago, there are almost none here this winter. Birder Bruce Di Labio was out all day Sunday and saw one.
  Maybe the robins saw what happened to the black-throated gray warbler, a southwestern bird that flew into Ottawa by mistake this winter. It froze last week.
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• Ottawa women's shelter moving to take pets of those fleeing domestic abuse - CTV News

  18-12-2017 22:36
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  Ottawa women's shelter moving to take pets of those fleeing domestic abuse
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  OTTAWA -- An Ottawa women's shelter says it will be opening doors to pets in an effort to keep families together. Interval House of Ottawa, the city's oldest shelter for women and children, says it is creating an onsite animal housing area for pets of ...and more »
  
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• Ottawa Police investigating Sunday afternoon shooting in Barrhaven ow.ly/X2N430hiZFt https://t.co/60BvaWWMzV

  18-12-2017 21:48 via twitter.com
  
  Ottawa Police investigating Sunday afternoon shooting in Barrhaven ow.ly/X2N430hiZFt https://t.co/60BvaWWMzV
  
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• JUST IN: Ottawa Police are investigating a shooting that injured one man at Prince of Wales and Crestway Drive. The… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  18-12-2017 21:36 via twitter.com
  JUST IN: Ottawa Police are investigating a shooting that injured one man at Prince of Wales and Crestway Drive. The… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Tractor-trailer hits OPP cruiser in Napanee; Quebec driver charged ow.ly/EVxf30hiWR4 https://t.co/jeHOz74y3k

  18-12-2017 21:13 via twitter.com
  
  Tractor-trailer hits OPP cruiser in Napanee; Quebec driver charged ow.ly/EVxf30hiWR4 https://t.co/jeHOz74y3k
  
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• STORY: Multiple deaths after Amtrak train derails onto busy freeway ow.ly/FXQ430hiWrq https://t.co/ikicZNbGar

  18-12-2017 21:07 via twitter.com
  
  STORY: Multiple deaths after Amtrak train derails onto busy freeway ow.ly/FXQ430hiWrq https://t.co/ikicZNbGar
  
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• Editorial: Long-term care report card needed

  18-12-2017 21:02 via ottawacitizen.com
  Few people who have spent time inside a long-term care home would be surprised at the numbers the Citizen revealed this week. Sixty-six cases of reported resident abuse in 2016 at local long-term care homes. Five hundred and sixteen notices of non-compliance with provincial orders in these same facilities. We already know long-term care is both difficult to deliver and under-resourced; the numbers would seem to bolster that conclusion.
  But how to put them into real-life context? If you or a rela
  
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• Ottawa Archbishop to kick off multi-faith blood drive

  18-12-2017 20:54 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa Archbishop Terrence Prendergast will kick off the 2nd annual multi-faith blood drive Thursday with a donation of his own.
  Ottawa’s Give Together, Live Together drive first came about a year ago, when Jewish, Muslim and Christian communities came together in a united show of support for the Canadian Blood Services’ Boxing Day blood drive, after a number of houses of worship in Ottawa had been vandalized.
  This year’s event will take place over five days — Dec. 2
  
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• #SeeSnowGoSlow #otttraffic #ottnews twitter.com/OttawaPolice/s…

  18-12-2017 19:59 via twitter.com
  #SeeSnowGoSlow #otttraffic #ottnews twitter.com/OttawaPolice/s…
  
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• Techopia Year in Review: Invest Ottawa's new CEO sets the plan forward - Ottawa Business Journal

  18-12-2017 18:46
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  Techopia Year in Review: Invest Ottawa's new CEO sets the plan forward
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  The Invest Ottawa ending the year is not the same Invest Ottawa that began 2017. Fresh leadership, a fully-operational innovation centre and a new plan forward have transformed the regional economic development agency going in to 2018. Invest Ottawa ...
  
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• Global defence spending set to reach highest level since end of Cold War: report

  18-12-2017 18:44 via ottawacitizen.com
  Global defence expenditure is set to increase again in 2018 to reach its highest level since the end of the Cold War, according to the annual Jane’s Defence Budgets Report released Monday.
  Defence spending will grow for the fifth consecutive year, reaching $1.67 trillion in 2018 and overtaking the previous post-Cold War record of $1.63 trillion seen in 2010, according to the Jane’s report. (All expenditures in U.S. dollars)
  Here is more about the report provided in the
  
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• Coming up at 12:30: Deputy Mayor @BobMonette1 responds to Senators owner Eugene Melnyk comments: Listen:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  18-12-2017 18:22 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 12:30: Deputy Mayor @BobMonette1 responds to Senators owner Eugene Melnyk comments: Listen:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• The @rick_gibbons Show for Monday, December 18th: 1:10: @doughoyes 1:15: @joe_warmington 1:30: @DownGoesBrown 1:45:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  18-12-2017 18:14 via twitter.com
  The @rick_gibbons Show for Monday, December 18th: 1:10: @doughoyes 1:15: @joe_warmington 1:30: @DownGoesBrown 1:45:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Canada's most conservative prime minister? It's not who you think

  18-12-2017 17:42 via ottawacitizen.com
  The following is adapted from a recent speech by Ottawa author Bob Plamondon to the Albany Club. It’s based on Plamondon’s latest book, The Shawinigan Fox: How Jean Chrétien Defied the Elites and Reshaped Canada.
  Sir John A. Macdonald, Robert Borden, R.B. Bennett, John Diefenbaker, Brian Mulroney and Stephen Harper were leaders of majority Conservative governments who all left their mark on our country.
  But who was the biggest “small-c” conservative prime minister?
  
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• It's a boy for Erik and Melinda Karlsson! Now all they need is a name …

  18-12-2017 17:35 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa Senators captain Erik Karlsson and his wife, Melinda, are having a boy.
  Melinda informed the world via Instagram, with a video of her hubby shooting a hockey puck that exploded with blue powder.
  That was followed by whooping, hugs and kisses for the happy couple, who announced last month they were expecting a baby. The video was posted Sunday, and by Monday morning 190,000 people had watched it.
  CONGRATULATIONS, KARLSSONS! pic.twitter.com/vhDYD1JQzz
  — NHL on NBC (@NHLonNBCSports) De
  
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• Coming up on the Power Lunch at 12 p.m. @sherrilynne & @RickChiarelli join @_MarkSutcliffe live in studio: List… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  18-12-2017 17:30 via twitter.com
  Coming up on the Power Lunch at 12 p.m. @sherrilynne & @RickChiarelli join @_MarkSutcliffe live in studio: List… 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/u0Pf3v3bB6

  18-12-2017 17:25 via twitter.com
  
  Coming up at 11:30:Weekly guest @michaeltaube joins @_MarkSutcliffe to talk #politics:bit.ly/1uwtdOs https://t.co/u0Pf3v3bB6
  
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• Coming up 11:15: @Colettod of @abacusdataca joins @_MarkSutcliffe live: bit.ly/1uwtdOs https://t.co/iBGkp2HHDK

  18-12-2017 17:10 via twitter.com
  
  Coming up 11:15:@Colettod of @abacusdataca joins @_MarkSutcliffe live: bit.ly/1uwtdOs https://t.co/iBGkp2HHDK
  
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• Travelling westward today? @environmentca has a freezing rain warning in effect. #ottnews https://t.co/Nd623YWLcV

  18-12-2017 16:54 via twitter.com
  
  Travelling westward today? @environmentca has a freezing rain warning in effect. #ottnews https://t.co/Nd623YWLcV
  
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• Coming up at 11: @JulieSLalonde on the #OutOfTheShadows project, in collaboration with @AmbivalentlyYou: Listen… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  18-12-2017 16:50 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 11: @JulieSLalonde on the #OutOfTheShadows project, in collaboration with @AmbivalentlyYou: Listen… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Coming up at 10:45: Associate Professor @padams29 joins @_MarkSutcliffe live: bit.ly/1ppeuDa https://t.co/7MKUzUrIaK

  18-12-2017 16:40 via twitter.com
  
  Coming up at 10:45: Associate Professor@padams29 joins @_MarkSutcliffe live: bit.ly/1ppeuDa https://t.co/7MKUzUrIaK
  
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• Twitter rolls out stricter rules on abusive content: bit.ly/2kGWmva https://t.co/cpQgvWxAVX

  18-12-2017 16:15 via twitter.com
  
  Twitter rolls out stricter rules on abusive content: bit.ly/2kGWmva https://t.co/cpQgvWxAVX
  
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• JUST IN: The demise of Sears Canada voted Canadian Press business story of the year. https://t.co/xaEywRf9DL

  18-12-2017 16:10 via twitter.com
  
  JUST IN: The demise of Sears Canada voted Canadian Press business story of the year. https://t.co/xaEywRf9DL
  
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• Is it time for Canada’s Iraq commitment to wrap up?

  18-12-2017 15:27 via ottawacitizen.com
  The U.S. and Iraq have declared that the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant is defeated.
  But coalition forces are still in Iraq and elsewhere.
  There is, however, moves to determine how long that will go on for.
  Australian forces are to remain in the region until mid-2018, the Australian government says. There are no plans to cut numbers at this point but Australia is now discussing its future plans with coalition allies and Iraq.
  The Liberal government has extended Canada’s mission in Ir
  
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• Fourth Tenor, Remigio Pereira, on the comeback

  18-12-2017 15:17 via ottawacitizen.com
  If you’re still wondering why singer Remigio Pereira veered from the script during a high-profile performance by his former group, The Tenors, his response is contained in the first new song of his post-Tenors solo career.“I did it for love, I did it for peace,” croons Pereira in a rich, velvety voice brimming with emotion. In the arty black-and-white official video, he accompanies himself on grand piano, illuminated by a single candle.“That’s the answer,” sai
  
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• Six hurt in three-car crash on Highway 138

  18-12-2017 14:40 via ottawacitizen.com
  Six people were taken to hospital Sunday evening after a head-on crash on Highway 138 in the Moose Creek area.
  A northbound driver crossed over the centre line about 8 p.m. and collided with a southbound vehicle, OPP said. A second southbound driver was unable to stop in time and ran into the first two.
  The northbound driver and five people from the two southbound cars were all taken to hospital.
  Police said the injuries were serious but not life-threatening.
  The highway was closed until after m
  
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• Henry Larson Elementary School closed Monday because of boiler problems

  18-12-2017 14:20 via ottawacitizen.com
  Henry Larson Elementary School is closed Monday because a problem with the boiler has cut heat to the building.The before-and after-school daycare in the building on Sunview Drive in Gloucester is also closed.
  Parents are asked not to bring their children to school. Updates will be posted on the website of the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board as information is available, or check the school website or Twitter account.
  Henry Larsen school is closed on Monday, Dec 18. No heat
  — Henry La
  
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• EXCLUSIVE: Ottawa nursing homes have seen at least 163 cases of abuse since 2012

  18-12-2017 14:20 via ottawacitizen.com
  Every one of Ottawa’s 27 long-term care homes, which house some of the city’s most vulnerable residents, has been the site of either violence, sexual abuse or death resulting from improper care, an investigation by this newspaper reveals.
  Since 2012, there have been at least 163 cases of reported resident abuse — either physical, sexual or verbal — and at least 17 deaths that have led to a home being found non-compliant with provincial legislation governing long-term
  
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• Get ready for rain and freezing rain (but first, snow)

  18-12-2017 14:15 via ottawacitizen.com
  After a weekend in the deep freeze, Ottawa will warm up and get more snow over the next few days.
  But be prepared for the dreaded freezing rain to make an appearance on Tuesday in time to snarl the morning commute.
  A dusting of snow Monday morning could continue throughout the day, with a high that creeps up to only -11 C and an accumulation of 2 to 4 centimetres. Expect fog patches in the evening.
  The temperature is expected to rise  to -7 C by Tuesday morning, according to Environment Can
  
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• EXCLUSIVE: Ottawa nursing homes have seen at least 163 cases of abuse since 2012 - Ottawa Citizen

  18-12-2017 13:08
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  EXCLUSIVE: Ottawa nursing homes have seen at least 163 cases of abuse since 2012
  Ottawa Citizen
  A special investigation by this newspaper has shown a disturbing number of abuse and neglect cases at Ottawa nursing homes. Heiko Küverling / Getty Images/iStockphoto. Share Adjust Comment Print. Every one of Ottawa's 27 long-term care homes, which ...
  
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• Pellerin: When the 'leftie' label doesn't quite fit

  18-12-2017 13:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  This is the third in a series we’re calling “Politics for the rest of us,” an attempt to see if Canadians can find common ground, without rancour, between differing political views. Today, a young woman who works with birds and worries about the environment shares her views:
  If you only looked at labels, you’d never know how much a young idealist leftie can have in common with a conservative. 
  Christine Henderson is a 29-year-old avian technician, passionate about Ca
  
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• Trump: I'm not considering firing special counsel Mueller: bit.ly/2zkDc7e https://t.co/OLu6fotJBd

  18-12-2017 12:52 via twitter.com
  
  Trump: I'm not considering firing special counsel Mueller: bit.ly/2zkDc7e https://t.co/OLu6fotJBd
  
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• Body of missing man recovered in Tay Valley Township: bit.ly/2BaO4H5 https://t.co/7gLkDwQCjE

  18-12-2017 12:10 via twitter.com
  
  Body of missing man recovered in Tay Valley Township: bit.ly/2BaO4H5 https://t.co/7gLkDwQCjE
  
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• Ottawa, Gatineau traffic updates for Dec. 18 - CBC.ca

  18-12-2017 12:09
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  Ottawa, Gatineau traffic updates for Dec. 18
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  Good morning commuters! There's a lot of salt around. You really need to have heaps of washer fluid if you plan on using Highway 417. If you're planning on travelling down to the Kingston area today, there's a winter weather travel advisory. Those ...
  
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• Ottawa brings new rules to make trucks and buses safer - Toronto Star

  18-12-2017 12:06
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  Ottawa brings new rules to make trucks and buses safer
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  Transport Minister Marc Garneau will use Monday announcement to mandatory electronic stability control and electronic logging for trucks and buses. The federal government will mandate changes to make truck and buses safer including electronic stability ...
  
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• Warming up tomorrow to a high PLUS 4! twitter.com/1310Alexblack/…

  18-12-2017 11:58 via twitter.com
  Warming up tomorrow to a high PLUS 4! twitter.com/1310Alexblack/…
  
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• Toronto Police release cause of death of Barry and Honey Sherman: bit.ly/2BDcZT3 https://t.co/iec9igsTFf

  18-12-2017 11:55 via twitter.com
  
  Toronto Police release cause of death of Barry and Honey Sherman: bit.ly/2BDcZT3 https://t.co/iec9igsTFf
  
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• One man charged in fatal Orleans crash: bit.ly/2jbEtEF https://t.co/0ng1HDZDLG

  18-12-2017 11:45 via twitter.com
  
  One man charged in fatal Orleans crash: bit.ly/2jbEtEF https://t.co/0ng1HDZDLG
  
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• Power has been fully restored to Atlanta's international airport: bit.ly/2AUFZly https://t.co/BadFJYxrLl

  18-12-2017 11:40 via twitter.com
  
  Power has been fully restored to Atlanta's international airport: bit.ly/2AUFZly https://t.co/BadFJYxrLl
  
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• Three sent to hospital following apparent neighbour dispute in Centretown: bit.ly/2BGidOd https://t.co/FX91ZqVvj7

  18-12-2017 11:33 via twitter.com
  
  Three sent to hospital following apparent neighbour dispute in Centretown: bit.ly/2BGidOd https://t.co/FX91ZqVvj7
  
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• Ottawa women's shelter to welcome pets - CBC.ca

  18-12-2017 11:29
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  Ottawa women's shelter to welcome pets
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  Women fleeing violence will soon be able to bring some of their family members with them — the four-legged kind. Interval House of Ottawa, a local women's shelter, is building a pet sanctuary so that families can be joined by their furry companions ...
  
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• Ancient Arctic bear had a sweet tooth, and needed a dentist

  18-12-2017 11:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  The prehistoric bear that Ottawa’s Natalia Rybczynski dug up in the Arctic looks quite a lot like black bears today, and it carries a mystery. Its teeth had cavities.
  Some 3.5 million years ago the bear they call Protarctos abstrusus lived in a warm, wet habitat on Ellesmere Island in today’s Nunavut. 
  The bear was previously known only from one fossil tooth found in Idaho. But in the Arcyic Rybczynski, a paleobiologist from the Canadian Museum of Nature, found most of a skull,
  
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• Fans brave the elements and send message to Senators owner

  18-12-2017 02:44 via ottawacitizen.com
  Some enterprising type should market the T-shirts: I Survived the NHL 100 Classic.
  As Montreal hockey writer Michael Farber says, the outdoor game is sometimes a place where hype meets hypothermia.
  Such was the case Saturday night as fans suffered frozen extremities in the name of outdoor sporting spectacle, and paid as much as $400 for the privilege. TD Place Stadium (re-branded by Scotiabank for the weekend) was full to bursting with hockey fans in a football setting, braving temperatures in t
  
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