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• Interim fighter aftermath – U.S. Commerce Dept. upholds duties against Bombardier

  20-12-2017 23:48 via ottawacitizen.com
  The U.S. Commerce Department upheld on Wednesday the nearly 300 per cent in duties that Bombardier will face on C Series passenger jets delivered in the U.S.
  The ruling had been expected.
  Boeing filed the complaint against its aerospace rival earlier this year, claiming that Bombardier was selling  civilian passenger aircraft at cut-rate prices to Delta Airlines in the U.S. It complained to the Trump administration that Bombardier was receiving subsidies from the Canadian government.
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• City risks closing book on 2017 with a stalled library project

  20-12-2017 23:29 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa’s central library project is like the dusty novel on your shelf that has a bookmark at the beginning of Chapter 3 but hasn’t been opened in months.
  Picking up where you left off might require thumbing a few pages back to find out what happened.
  There’s a council-approved site at 557 Wellington St., which is just west of Albert Street and Bronson Avenue.
  However, city hall doesn’t know yet what it will build because it hasn’t heard from its potential developme
  
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• Health ministry falls short on long-term care home inspections, auditor general reports

  20-12-2017 22:56 via ottawacitizen.com
  As problems with the province’s long-term care system came into sharper focus this year, the government was still grappling with how to fix numerous issues with home inspections that were identified by Ontario’s auditor general in 2015. 
  The province was given a laundry list of recommendations on how to improve its inspection process of long-term care homes in a 2015 report by Bonnie Lysyk, the province’s auditor general.
  And while the government has made multiple fix
  
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• Colleges strike: Arbitrator issues settlement, but key items go to task force for study

  20-12-2017 22:49 via ottawacitizen.com
  An arbitrator has settled the contract dispute that led to a five-week strike by faculty at Ontario’s 24 colleges.
  The 12,000 part-time instructors, full-time faculty, counsellors and librarians will receive a wage increase of 7.75 per cent over four years, according to the ruling released Wednesday by arbitrator William Kaplan. He was appointed after the province passed back-to-work legislation to end the longest college strike in Ontario history.
  Wage increases, however, were never a sti
  
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• SCANLAN: Original Sens owner Bruce Firestone sees LeBreton — and Ottawa — in team's future

  20-12-2017 22:27 via ottawacitizen.com
  NHL hockey at LeBreton Flats is close enough to reality for fans to imagine the possibilities.
  Bruce Firestone, the original Senators owner, imagined it, too, back in 1987. He recalls a conversation with the late Jean Pigott, then-chair of the National Capital Commission, going something like this when he inquired about putting an NHL rink on NCC lands. (First, of course, he would have to acquire an NHL franchise). 
  “Bruce, do you want the public or private answer?” Firestone re
  
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• SCANLAN: NHL has put trend of moving hockey teams on ice

  20-12-2017 22:25 via ottawacitizen.com
  There was a time when the NHL was in the business of relocating franchises.
  Between 1995 and 1997, the NHL oversaw the transfer of three franchises in consecutive seasons — the Quebec Nordiques to Colorado in 1995, the Winnipeg Jets to Phoenix in 1996 and the Hartford Whalers to Carolina in 1997.
  Since then, NHL commissioner Gary Bettman has shown a preference for keeping franchises where they are, despite market and attendance issues. This bodes well for an Ottawa market that is stil
  
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• A Gatineau woman is dead after a tour bus crash in eastern Mexico, which killed 12 people. #ottnews… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  20-12-2017 22:19 via twitter.com
  A Gatineau woman is dead after a tour bus crash in eastern Mexico, which killed 12 people. #ottnews… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• A Constance Bay Christmas: celebrating the holidays without a home

  20-12-2017 21:16 via ottawacitizen.com
  Seven months after Constance Bay was flooded, some displaced residents will be celebrating the holiday season without a home of their own. While some properties have been torn down; others are still not fully habitable. 
  The house Christine Renaud and her family lived in for 16 years was so badly damaged, it was one of two in the community demolished in its entirety. She is heartbroken at the thought of spending Christmas somewhere unfamiliar.
  “It’s very upsetting,” R
  
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• The road less gravelled: Why can't the city get repairs right?

  20-12-2017 20:08 via ottawacitizen.com
  Those who think our roads need dramatic improvement saw some progress in last week’s city budget, but that progress is small compared to the size of problem.
  The city says it will boost road-repair spending by $8 million, and some of the $10 million councillors added to infrastructure repairs at the last minute will likely go to roads as a onetime addition. However, the gap between what the city will spend and what it should spend to keep roads in good repair is still $41 million a year.
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• Police warn of Uber scam in downtown and Market areas

  20-12-2017 20:05 via ottawacitizen.com
  Police are warning the public about a scam in which a person posing as an Uber driver robs riders’ accounts after stealing their credit or debit card data.
  Police say the male suspect typically waits at night for people leaving bars or restaurants looking for taxis — particularly in the ByWard Market area — and approaches them claiming to be an Uber driver. At this point, the customers have not requested a ride through the Uber app. After driving to the riders’ destinatio
  
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• Today's letters: An elder care system that didn't care

  20-12-2017 19:47 via ottawacitizen.com
  Long-term care isn’t just a problem in Ontario, as our letter writers note today. You can write to us too, at [email protected]
  —
  Separating this couple was cruel
  Re: Care home separates longtime N.B. couple, Dec. 20.
  Separating an elderly couple after 69 years of marriage, ironically in order to provide a higher level of care, is the modern-day version of cruel.
  As our population ages, we desperately need to fix a system that feels it has no alternative but to divide loved o
  
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• City increases training on abuse prevention in long-term care homes

  20-12-2017 19:46 via ottawacitizen.com
  All staff in Ottawa’s four city-run long-term care homes have received enhanced training on preventing abuse after incidents earlier this year led to a rare order from the province for the city to improve care at its homes.
  Dean Lett, acting director of long-term care for the city, updated “residents, families and friends” on work that has been done in the homes to respond to the compliance order from the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care.
  That order came after a series of
  
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• Sick kitten stolen from Ottawa Humane Society

  20-12-2017 19:23 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Ottawa Humane Society is asking for the public’s help in locating a sick kitten that was stolen from the shelter on Dec. 16.
  The four-month-old stray, named Briana by staff, was on antibiotics to treat an upper respiratory infection. She was scheduled for a checkup with a veterinarian on the morning of Dec. 17 when staff noticed she was gone.“We’re asking that Briana (be) returned to the OHS no questions asked. She needs to be seen by a veterinarian as soon as possible,&rdq
  
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• Royal Canadian Navy finishes modifications on frigates to deal with mould

  20-12-2017 18:49 via ottawacitizen.com
  Defence Watch has reported on a number of cases about complaints from sailors regarding mould on Royal Canadian Navy ships. The RCN has said it is working on the problems.
  Here is more from the RCN in a posting from the service’s website:
  Some of the fixes seem rather obvious, such as in the heads and wash places where many components of the space are fabricated out of stainless steel and additional ventilation is provided.
  In some instances the fix is more complex and a more comprehensive
  
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• Man, 25, checks himself into hospital with gunshot wound

  20-12-2017 18:46 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa police are seeking public assistance after a 25-year-old man suffering from a gunshot wound checked himself into hospital early Wednesday.
  The Ottawa Police Service says the victim’s wounds were not life-threatening but gave no more information.
  They said the victim was not cooperating with detectives and investigators have so far been unable establish where the shooting took place.
  The guns and gangs unit is asking that anyone who may have heard gunshots or who has knowledge of the
  
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• Dining Out: It's definitely worth ducking into Meat Press for dinner

  20-12-2017 18:44 via ottawacitizen.com
  Meat Press Creative Charcuterie and Sandwich Shop
  45 Armstrong St., 613-695-7737, meatpress.ca, twitter.com/MeatPressShop
  Open: for sandwiches Tuesday and Wednesday 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Thursday and Friday 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. (takeout only after 5 p.m.), Saturday 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. (brunch is also served); for dinner Thursday to Saturday 5 to 10 p.m.; closed Sundays and Mondays
  Prices: sandwiches $9 to $12, charcuterie boards and mains $20 to $28
  Access: steps to front door
  I wanted my fina
  
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• The @rick_gibbons Show for Wednesday, December 20th: 1:10: @KateComeauRD 1:15: @DeGrootSteel 1:30: @JeanCloutierOtt… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  20-12-2017 18:42 via twitter.com
  The @rick_gibbons Show for Wednesday, December 20th: 1:10: @KateComeauRD 1:15: @DeGrootSteel 1:30: @JeanCloutierOtt… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Dawson: Why long-term care reports shouldn't hide the IDs of the dead

  20-12-2017 18:37 via ottawacitizen.com
  Those who die in unusual circumstances in long-term care homes go unnamed in official reports, unknown to anyone except those who loved them or, perhaps, those who worked with them in their final days and moments, caregivers to whom many elderly people become quite close. 
  But still, when they pass, these people are treated as numbers. Statistics. Little more. Their years of existence shrink to a few details in provincial inspection reports on potential broken rules or guidelines.
  Yet
  
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• Glavin: In the Shepherd affair, the left has sided with the bosses

  20-12-2017 18:14 via ottawacitizen.com
  “At the dances I was one of the most untiring and gayest,” the dangerously courageous and brilliant revolutionary anarchist Emma Goldman wrote in her early 1930s memoir, Living My Life, and it was because of her “reckless abandon” on the dance floor, among other things, that she was routinely belittled and upbraided by the more dreary and humourless among her comrades.
  Despite the 1960s’ feminist slogans, Goldman never said, “If I can’t dance, I don&rsqu
  
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• Man walks into hospital with gunshot wounds; police trying to find crime scene 1310news.com/2017/12/20/man… #ottnews

  20-12-2017 17:43 via twitter.com
  Man walks into hospital with gunshot wounds; police trying to find crime scene 1310news.com/2017/12/20/man… #ottnews
  
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• 'Resident-on-resident assault a shocking reality of long-term care' @egpayne of the @OttawaCitizen joins… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  20-12-2017 17:40 via twitter.com
  'Resident-on-resident assault a shocking reality of long-term care'@egpayne of the @OttawaCitizen joins… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Coming up on the Power Lunch at 12 p.m. @ScottMoffatt21 & @peter_tilley join @_MarkSutcliffe in studio: 📻: 1310… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  20-12-2017 17:30 via twitter.com
  Coming up on the Power Lunch at 12 p.m. @ScottMoffatt21 & @peter_tilley join @_MarkSutcliffe in studio: 📻: 1310… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• .@ottawahumane is looking for a stolen kitten which is in need of medical attention. #ottnews… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  20-12-2017 17:29 via twitter.com
  .@ottawahumane is looking for a stolen kitten which is in need of medical attention. #ottnews… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Coming up at 11:30 @mclomedia joins @_MarkSutcliffe live for weekly political segment: bit.ly/1uwtdOs https://t.co/AREbPMx5WH

  20-12-2017 17:25 via twitter.com
  
  Coming up at 11:30@mclomedia joins @_MarkSutcliffe live for weekly political segment:bit.ly/1uwtdOs https://t.co/AREbPMx5WH
  
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• Going out best bets Dec. 21 to Dec. 27

  20-12-2017 17:23 via ottawacitizen.com
  Theatre
  Fans of the Dickens classic have two versions of A Christmas Carol to choose from this weekend. Adapted and directed by Jillian Keiley, the NAC’s version is an all-white affair (in costumes and staging) starring Newfoundland comedic master Andy Jones. It runs until Dec. 24, with nightly performances at 7:30 p.m. and 2 p.m. weekend matinees (tickets range from $38 to $76, plus surcharges, available through ticketmaster.ca). Meanwhile, over at the Gladstone Theatre, 910 Gladstone Av
  
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• No list of banned groups for Canadian military personnel

  20-12-2017 17:19 via ottawacitizen.com
  The CBC has reported that the commander of Canadian Forces Base Valcartier believes the values of people in the far-right group La Meute are in direct contradiction to those of the military, but he’s not about to order soldiers to leave the group.
  La Meute — which means wolf pack in French — takes the position that Quebec’s policies of immigration and cultural diversity threaten the province, and its members are particularly worried about Islamic
  
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• Coming up at 11: Professor Elliot Tepper in studio with @_MarkSutcliffe: bit.ly/1uwtdOs https://t.co/QLjEhPlayw

  20-12-2017 16:55 via twitter.com
  
  Coming up at 11:Professor Elliot Tepper in studio with @_MarkSutcliffe: bit.ly/1uwtdOs https://t.co/QLjEhPlayw
  
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• Sexual harassment named Canadian Press News Story of the Year: bit.ly/2BGFnkZ https://t.co/Fdah8v5o2Z

  20-12-2017 16:48 via twitter.com
  
  Sexual harassment named Canadian Press News Story of the Year: bit.ly/2BGFnkZ https://t.co/Fdah8v5o2Z
  
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• Return of stolen Mary and Jesus raises theological quandary at Bancroft church

  20-12-2017 16:28 via ottawacitizen.com
  Baby Jesus and Mary have mysteriously reappeared at St. Paul’s United Church in Bancroft, more than a week after they were stolen.
  Sometime Tuesday night they reappeared just as quietly as they left the church, which is set prominently on a corner in the centre town.
  In the meantime, however, people rallied around the Nativity scene, even supplying a new Mary and Jesus — also anonymously and at night.
  Photo shows the original Baby Jesus and Mary figures missing from the Bancroft chur
  
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• NEXT on Ottawa Today: twitter.com/1310NEWS/statu…

  20-12-2017 16:26 via twitter.com
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• NEXT on the 10 O'Clock Talk: @AGMacDougall & @1310Alexblack join @_MarkSutcliffe live: Listen:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  20-12-2017 16:03 via twitter.com
  NEXT on the 10 O'Clock Talk: @AGMacDougall & @1310Alexblack join @_MarkSutcliffe live: Listen:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Storm travel advisory, slight break, then snow and more snow

  20-12-2017 14:36 via ottawacitizen.com
  A projected line of snow squalls that forecasters warned might drop up to five cm of white stuff in bursts, slipped by the region hardly dropping a flake Wednesday.
  Instead, blues skies were largely the order of the day by about 8:30 a.m.
  Don’t get too comfortable.
  The clear skies are expected to last through Wednesday evening, but then it looks like slightly below seasonal temps with a chance of snow every day this week.
  Thursday should see increasing clouds in the morning, with a high of
  
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• Squalls miss capital, slight break, then snow and more snow

  20-12-2017 14:36 via ottawacitizen.com
  A projected line of snow squalls that forecasters warned might drop up to five cm of white stuff in bursts, slipped by the region hardly dropping a flake Wednesday.
  Instead, blues skies were largely the order of the day by about 8:30 a.m.
  Don’t get too comfortable.
  The clear skies are expected to last through Wednesday evening, but then it looks like slightly below seasonal temps with a chance of snow every day this week.
  Thursday should see increasing clouds in the morning, with a high of
  
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• Pellerin: A fan of both tradition and history gives his take

  20-12-2017 14:31 via ottawacitizen.com
  This is the fourth 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 views. Today, a doctor who loves Canada’s traditional institutions:
  You may have cheered when Prince Harry announced his engagement to Meghan Markle, but odds are you didn’t celebrate as much as Roy Eappen did. The 56-year-old doctor, who divides his time between Toronto and Montreal and describes himse
  
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• Coming up today at 9:30: @cathmckenna joins @_MarkSutcliffe in studio: 📻: 1310 💻: bit.ly/1uwtdOs 📞: 6… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  20-12-2017 14:21 via twitter.com
  Coming up today at 9:30: @cathmckenna joins @_MarkSutcliffe in studio: 📻: 1310 💻: bit.ly/1uwtdOs📞: 6… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• UPDATE: The weather advisory has just ended for Ottawa. twitter.com/1310Alexblack/…

  20-12-2017 14:16 via twitter.com
  UPDATE: The weather advisory has just ended for Ottawa. twitter.com/1310Alexblack/…
  
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• Man stabbed outside Gatineau bar, suspect sought

  20-12-2017 14:08 via ottawacitizen.com
  A stabbing outside a Gatineau bar Tuesday night sent one man to the hospital, while police search for his assailant.
  According to Gatineau police, the incident occurred just before 11 p.m. outside Le Forum bar on Jacques-Cartier Street, near Gréber Boulevard.
  Two men were arguing when one stabbed the other in the back.
  The 50-year-old victim was taken to hospital where he was treated for non-life-threatening injuries and released.
  The suspect, in his 60s, fled the scene after the incident
  
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• OC Transpo fined for not calling out bus stops: bit.ly/2oXWD2n https://t.co/N5CIcEkGUX

  20-12-2017 13:51 via twitter.com
  
  OC Transpo fined for not calling out bus stops: bit.ly/2oXWD2n https://t.co/N5CIcEkGUX
  
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• Canadian family affected by fatal bus crash in Mexico: Global Affairs: bit.ly/2oXuGrt https://t.co/HfkfrkCwfR

  20-12-2017 13:22 via twitter.com
  
  Canadian family affected by fatal bus crash in Mexico: Global Affairs: bit.ly/2oXuGrt https://t.co/HfkfrkCwfR
  
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• POLL: When should the government implement legal marijuana? -July 1, as it promised -Sometime in 2019 -Sometime ne… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  20-12-2017 13:09 via twitter.com
  POLL: When should the government implement legal marijuana?-July 1, as it promised -Sometime in 2019 -Sometime ne… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Bulka: The organ donation system does not discriminate

  20-12-2017 13:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  We all wish for Delilah Saunders a full recovery.
  Her case has raised serious questions about the health-care system, particularly the allocation of organs for those in need. Amnesty International, in an open letter to Health Minister Dr. Eric Hoskins and Trillium Gift of Life president and CEO Ronnie Gavsie, asserted that “To deny individuals access to necessary and life-saving medical treatment purely on the grounds of their prior or current health status – including conditions res
  
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• Recreational cannabis will become legal in the summer, not by July 1: Trudeau: bit.ly/2DdM8Lr https://t.co/DleIcMhECM

  20-12-2017 12:50 via twitter.com
  
  Recreational cannabis will become legal in the summer, not by July 1: Trudeau: bit.ly/2DdM8Lr https://t.co/DleIcMhECM
  
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• Loblaw parent company alerted competition watchdog to bread price-fixing: bit.ly/2DcunMq https://t.co/bKOfpuw6CV

  20-12-2017 12:39 via twitter.com
  
  Loblaw parent company alerted competition watchdog to bread price-fixing: bit.ly/2DcunMq https://t.co/bKOfpuw6CV
  
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• Ottawa man facing child porn charge: bit.ly/2kqmdby https://t.co/tt5JAHfexb

  20-12-2017 12:19 via twitter.com
  
  Ottawa man facing child porn charge: bit.ly/2kqmdby https://t.co/tt5JAHfexb
  
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• Resident-on-resident assault a shocking reality of long-term care

  20-12-2017 12:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  The long-term care resident was sitting in the chapel, in a wheelchair, when another resident approached and began kissing, fondling and exposing body parts.
  The following day in January 2015, the victim told a housekeeping aide at Residence Saint-Louis, the Ottawa long-term care home where they both lived, about the assault. The victim (whose age and gender is not revealed in a Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care report) grasped the housekeeper’s hand and pleaded with her not to leave b
  
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• Environment Canada says brief, heavy flurries could lead to reduced visibility/poor winter driving conditions. twitter.com/1310Alexblack/…

  20-12-2017 11:52 via twitter.com
  Environment Canada says brief, heavy flurries could lead to reduced visibility/poor winter driving conditions. twitter.com/1310Alexblack/…
  
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• Record holiday travellers could cause delays at Canadian airports: bit.ly/2z3rzhl https://t.co/35w6g2Xhdd

  20-12-2017 11:38 via twitter.com
  
  Record holiday travellers could cause delays at Canadian airports: bit.ly/2z3rzhl https://t.co/35w6g2Xhdd
  
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• Off-duty Ottawa police officer charged with assault in Outaouais

  20-12-2017 01:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  An Ottawa police officer has been charged with assault causing bodily harm stemming from an off-duty incident last week in the Outaouais.
  Ottawa police said Tuesday that the officer was arrested and charged on Dec. 15 by the MRC des Collines-de-l’Outaouais police following an incident Dec. 14.
  The officer was released from custody on a promise to appear in court.
  Ottawa police said in a news release that because the charge related to a domestic matter, the officer’s name was not
  
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• L-3 receives contract for CF-18 operational flight program upgrade

  20-12-2017 01:23 via ottawacitizen.com
  The U.S. Department of Defense has announced that L-3 Technologies Inc. of Arlington, Texas, is being awarded a $10.5 million U.S. contract that provides for a software upgrade and integration of the CF-18 Operational Flight program. This upgrade is being done for the government of Canada under the U.S. Foreign Military Sales program.  Half of the work will be performed at Arlington, Texas with the rest done at CFB Cold Lake and CFB Bagotville. The work is expected to be completed in N
  
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• Secret CSIS files assess paid RCMP spy in Ottawa terror case as 'parasitic' and 'psychopathic'

  20-12-2017 00:06 via ottawacitizen.com
  If the big RCMP case against accused terrorism financier and star recruiter Awso Peshdary ever gets to trial, the credibility of the Mountie’s star witness — a paid agent — will be severely tested.And it should come as no surprise to the RCMP. That’s because the Canadian Security Intelligence Service assessed Abdullah Milton, the prized agent, two years before he was paid at least $700,000 to infiltrate an Ottawa terrorism network linked to Peshdary. 
  The assessment
  
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