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• Reevely: Business consultant alleges racial profiling by security at Westgate Shoppers Drug Mart

  21-12-2017 23:32 via ottawacitizen.com
  An Ottawa man has filed a human-rights complaint alleging he was harassed at the Shoppers Drug Mart at Westgate mall, not once but twice, because he’s black.
  Douglas Addo likes to walk, he says, often going for long meditative rambles by himself in the middle of the night.
  “I work internationally, so I’m often up at odd hours,” he says. He’s a business consultant, mainly helping Canadian companies seeking customers in Africa.
  Addo lives with his wife and two childre
  
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• #ottnews #otttraffic Slack Rd. closed between Woodroffe Ave. & Grenfell Cres. for @OttFire operations. https://t.co/rUuzIHE9ga

  21-12-2017 22:19 via twitter.com
  
  #ottnews #otttraffic Slack Rd. closed between Woodroffe Ave. & Grenfell Cres. for @OttFire operations. https://t.co/rUuzIHE9ga
  
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• #otttraffic Slack Road closed. @ottfire crews working to contain fire @ Living Waters Christian Assembly Church. No… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  21-12-2017 22:13 via twitter.com
  #otttraffic Slack Road closed. @ottfire crews working to contain fire @ Living Waters Christian Assembly Church. No… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Flames visible @OttFire crews on the scene of a fire in a church on Slack Road. #ottnews twitter.com/PlumCantaloupe…

  21-12-2017 22:06 via twitter.com
  Flames visible @OttFire crews on the scene of a fire in a church on Slack Road. #ottnews twitter.com/PlumCantaloupe…
  
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• Sent to our sister station @kissottawa Fire in a church on Slack Road. Avoid area. #ottnews twitter.com/THEryanlindsay…

  21-12-2017 22:04 via twitter.com
  Sent to our sister station @kissottawaFire in a church on Slack Road. Avoid area. #ottnews twitter.com/THEryanlindsay…
  
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• Police allege woman threw another woman into Christmas tree, attacked man with knife ow.ly/biDN30hnG4R https://t.co/6di1oGF7tK

  21-12-2017 21:48 via twitter.com
  
  Police allege woman threw another woman into Christmas tree, attacked man with knife ow.ly/biDN30hnG4R https://t.co/6di1oGF7tK
  
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• UN vote calls U.S. move on Jerusalem 'null and void' ow.ly/UJI930hnFE1 https://t.co/JcOjfIeGx9

  21-12-2017 21:42 via twitter.com
  
  UN vote calls U.S. move on Jerusalem 'null and void' ow.ly/UJI930hnFE1 https://t.co/JcOjfIeGx9
  
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• Ottawa Police looking for missing teen last seen in early November ow.ly/aRFi30hnESJ https://t.co/1POHA6USIO

  21-12-2017 21:32 via twitter.com
  
  Ottawa Police looking for missing teen last seen in early November ow.ly/aRFi30hnESJ https://t.co/1POHA6USIO
  
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• Mourners gather to pay tribute to billionaire couple Barry and Honey Sherman ow.ly/ANhp30hnElJ https://t.co/yvTMCQUo4t

  21-12-2017 21:24 via twitter.com
  
  Mourners gather to pay tribute to billionaire couple Barry and Honey Sherman ow.ly/ANhp30hnElJ https://t.co/yvTMCQUo4t
  
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• STORY: Tool bag may have caused Ontario helicopter crash that killed 4:TSB ow.ly/72Z230hnE5f https://t.co/jnR0MQgoXe

  21-12-2017 21:21 via twitter.com
  
  STORY: Tool bag may have caused Ontario helicopter crash that killed 4:TSB ow.ly/72Z230hnE5f https://t.co/jnR0MQgoXe
  
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• Gatineau police re-check site where pedestrian killed by hit-and-run driver

  21-12-2017 20:37 via ottawacitizen.com
  Gatineau police closed half of the intersection of Gréber Boulevard and Jacques Cartier Street Thursday morning as they continue the investigation into a fatal hit-and-run accident Saturday.
  A woman in her late 60s died after she was struck by a driver who left the scene.
  Police said a minibus of the type used to carry handicapped passengers turned left from Jacques Cartier onto Gréber, hitting the woman. The accident happened a little before 2 p.m. Saturday.
  Investigators were tak
  
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• The biggest problem in long-term care? Many point to low staff levels

  21-12-2017 20:09 via ottawacitizen.com
  Virtually everyone involved with long-term care in Ontario has a story about staff shortages and how they affect the elderly.
  Over the past fews months, as numerous troubling incidents in Ottawa long-term care homes have surfaced, this newspaper has heard dozens and dozens of these stories, from families, staff and former staff. 
  They include the former long-term care worker who spent time at her dying father’s bedside in an Ontario long-term care home recently. Overnight, she said, t
  
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• Health minister looks to use new powers 'to fullest extent' to increase safety in Ottawa nursing homes

  21-12-2017 19:31 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ontario’s health minister has instructed staff to look at how newly acquired legislative powers can be used “to their fullest extent” in order to increase “safety and well-being” in Ottawa long-term care homes.
  Eric Hoskins’ comments follow a series of stories by this newspaper on Ottawa long-term care homes. Since 2012, there have been 163 reported cases of resident abuse, 2,033 instances of non-compliance with provincial legislation and at least 17 deaths th
  
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• Police seek 15-year-old boy missing since November

  21-12-2017 18:56 via ottawacitizen.com
  The police are asking for help in locating missing 15-year-old Ottawa boy.
  Dustin Lance-Lavier’s parents are concerned for his safety. He was last seen on Nov. 7, 2017, in the area of Tenth Line Road in Orléans. He was wearing a black hoodie, black pants and black Nike Air Force 1 shoes.
  Dustin is described as Caucasian, five feet nine inches (175 cm) tall with a slim build, hazel-coloured eyes and short brown hair.
  Anyone with information regarding this investigation is asked
  
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• MISSING: Have you seen 15 y.o. Dustin Lance-Lavier? @OttawaPolice say his family is concerned about him & wants him… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  21-12-2017 18:41 via twitter.com
  MISSING: Have you seen 15 y.o. Dustin Lance-Lavier? @OttawaPolice say his family is concerned about him & wants him… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• The @rick_gibbons Show for Thursday, December 21st: 1:10: @doughoyes 1:15: @mspratt 1:30: @MikeDColledge 1:45:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  21-12-2017 18:25 via twitter.com
  The @rick_gibbons Show for Thursday, December 21st: 1:10: @doughoyes 1:15: @mspratt 1:30: @MikeDColledge 1:45:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Blais plans to break two-term promise by seeking re-election in 2018

  21-12-2017 18:15 via ottawacitizen.com
  Coun. Stephen Blais says he’s running to remain in the Cumberland seat at city council in the 2018 municipal election, potentially breaking his two-term promise.
  Blais, who was first elected in 2010, said the prospect of going back on his word weighed heavy as he considered whether or not to run again in the next vote on Oct. 22, 2018.
  “That’s why I think it took a little bit longer,” Blais said in an interview on Thursday.
  “I love the job. It’s a lot of fun.
  
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• Pellerin: The non-appeal of politics

  21-12-2017 18:14 via ottawacitizen.com
  This is part of a series we’ve dubbed “Politics for the rest of us” – an attempt to see if Canadians can find common ground, without rancour, between differing views. Today, meet a self-made businesswoman who’d rather avoid political discussion altogether:
  It’s a quintessentially Canadian story. The daughter of refugees from the former Yugoslavia becomes a successful self-made businesswoman, has four children and two grandkids by age 45, has plenty of friends
  
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• Black mould drives teams out of Kanata fire station

  21-12-2017 18:02 via ottawacitizen.com
  Firefighters and equipment from a Kanata fire station have been redeployed to other locations after black mould was discovered at the Eagleson Road firehall.
  Ottawa fire Chief Gerry Pingitore said in a statement that emergency services should not be disrupted as crews and equipment work on a “dynamic deployment model” to maintain coverage in the district.
  After an initial air quality analysis in late November, it was determined on Dec. 11 that air quality in Station 41 was safe &ldqu
  
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• Coming up at 11:45: Ottawa farmer Peter Ruiter joins @_MarkSutcliffe to discuss plans to rebuild his farm that wa… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  21-12-2017 17:37 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 11:45: Ottawa farmer Peter Ruiter joins @_MarkSutcliffe to discuss plans to rebuild his farm that wa… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Coming up on the Power Lunch at 12 p.m. @stephegan613 & @SyntaxStrategic Jennifer Stewart in studio with… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  21-12-2017 17:35 via twitter.com
  Coming up on the Power Lunch at 12 p.m.@stephegan613 & @SyntaxStrategic Jennifer Stewart in studio with… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Coming up at 11:30: @Spencerpress of the @OttawaCitizen joins @_MarkSutcliffe live: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  21-12-2017 17:25 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 11:30: @Spencerpress of the @OttawaCitizen joins @_MarkSutcliffe live: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Used Australian F-18s to be operated from two Canadian bases

  21-12-2017 17:20 via ottawacitizen.com
  When Canada was looking to buy new Super Hornets from Boeing, the understanding was that they would be set up in one stand alone squadron, likely at CFB Cold Lake.
  So how will the 18 used Australian F-18s be distributed? Will they be in one location?
  Here is what a senior government official – speaking on background – had to say on that topic during the recent announcement:
  “The force structure of the aircraft from Australia has not yet been finalized.  We’re going t
  
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• Coming up at 11:05: @Yasir_Naqvi joins @_MarkSutcliffe for his year-end review: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  21-12-2017 16:57 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 11:05: @Yasir_Naqvi joins @_MarkSutcliffe for his year-end review: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Coming up at 10:45: @NDP ethics critic @nathancullen joins @_MarkSutcliffe on Justin Trudeau's violation of confl… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  21-12-2017 16:37 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 10:45: @NDP ethics critic @nathancullen joins @_MarkSutcliffe on Justin Trudeau's violation of confl… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Coming up at 10:30: @powerstim of @abacusdataca joins @_MarkSutcliffe LIVE: bit.ly/1uwtdOs https://t.co/gnSH7rkcbq

  21-12-2017 16:25 via twitter.com
  
  Coming up at 10:30: @powerstim of @abacusdatacajoins @_MarkSutcliffe LIVE: bit.ly/1uwtdOs https://t.co/gnSH7rkcbq
  
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• Woman sues rapper Nelly claiming sexual assault, defamation: bit.ly/2kCkK2b https://t.co/vnYglJx6AH

  21-12-2017 16:15 via twitter.com
  
  Woman sues rapper Nelly claiming sexual assault, defamation: bit.ly/2kCkK2b https://t.co/vnYglJx6AH
  
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• 'I can't believe they would do this to me': Good Samaritan is robbed of precious tools

  21-12-2017 16:04 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Good Samaritan who drove his vintage tractor around Ontario to raise money for an Ottawa-area mother with terminal cancer, has been robbed of some of his most precious possessions — the tools he uses to repair that tractor.
  Mike Thompson, who owns property northwest of Pakenham, said he arrived there a few days ago to find out thieves had stolen between $6,000 and $7,000 worth of tools and machinery from his workshop there.
  “I can’t believe they would have done this to me.&
  
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• Coming up on the 10 O'Clock Talk: @LMartinWashDC, @David_Moscrop & @1310glennis join @_MarkSutcliffe live: 📻: 1… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  21-12-2017 15:45 via twitter.com
  Coming up on the 10 O'Clock Talk: @LMartinWashDC, @David_Moscrop & @1310glennis join @_MarkSutcliffe live: 📻: 1… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• OPP charge Perth man after following suitcase tracks in snow

  21-12-2017 15:40 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ontario Provincial Police officers have charged a Perth man with theft after tracking the trail of a suitcase he was dragging through the snow back to an alleged crime scene.
  Police said officers noticed a man pulling a purple suitcase through the snow along a street at about 1:30 a.m. on Wednesday.
  They stopped to talk to the man, who offered few explanations about what he was doing with the suitcase in the snow at the late hour.
  The officers followed the suitcase’s impressions back to a
  
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• Coming up at 9:45 @environmentca Senior Climatologist David Phillips joins @_MarkSutcliffe with the top 10 weather… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  21-12-2017 15:37 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 9:45@environmentca Senior Climatologist David Phillips joins @_MarkSutcliffe with the top 10 weather… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Fuelled by gasoline prices, annual inflation accelerates to 2.1 per cent: bit.ly/2BTAbMZ https://t.co/r4tMP3yryK

  21-12-2017 15:32 via twitter.com
  
  Fuelled by gasoline prices, annual inflation accelerates to 2.1 per cent: bit.ly/2BTAbMZ https://t.co/r4tMP3yryK
  
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• POLL: How significant is it that the prime minister broke conflict of interest rules when he accepted a vacation to… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  21-12-2017 15:28 via twitter.com
  POLL: How significant is it that the prime minister broke conflict of interest rules when he accepted a vacation to… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Coming up at 9:30: @Geddes28 of @macleans joins @_MarkSutcliffe live: 📻: 1310 💻: bit.ly/1uwtdOs 📞: 61… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  21-12-2017 15:22 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 9:30: @Geddes28 of @macleans joins @_MarkSutcliffe live: 📻: 1310 💻: bit.ly/1uwtdOs📞: 61… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Coming up at 9:15: Dave Perry of @ISN_Inc on the Sherman homicide investigation: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  21-12-2017 15:05 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 9:15: Dave Perry of @ISN_Inc on the Sherman homicide investigation: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• On Air: 9 a.m to 1 p.m. Ottawa Today live with your host @_MarkSutcliffe on @1310NEWS & @rogersottawa22: 📻: 131… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  21-12-2017 14:50 via twitter.com
  On Air: 9 a.m to 1 p.m. Ottawa Today live with your host @_MarkSutcliffe on @1310NEWS & @rogersottawa22: 📻: 131… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• JUST IN: Fuelled by gasoline prices, annual inflation accelerates to 2.1 per cent

  21-12-2017 14:42 via twitter.com
  JUST IN: Fuelled by gasoline prices, annual inflation accelerates to 2.1 per cent
  
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• Weather: Leadup to Christmas looks chilly with a bit of snow each day

  21-12-2017 14:31 via ottawacitizen.com
  Today, the first day of winter, marks the start of a brisk and possibly snowy adventure in the capital region.
  The forecast is for highs mostly in the minus double digits and at least a dusting of the white stuff every day right through the weekend.
  Thursday, clouds are expected to roll in in the morning, and the high should be a chilly -12 C.
  Thursday night has a 40 per cent chance of flurries, with the low dipping to -16 C.
  Friday look for periods of light snow, with an accumulation of about t
  
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• Operation Big Turkey growing to seven sites: bit.ly/2BJRCwY https://t.co/WSzGazvvFI

  21-12-2017 14:23 via twitter.com
  
  Operation Big Turkey growing to seven sites: bit.ly/2BJRCwY https://t.co/WSzGazvvFI
  
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• Prince Harry and Meghan Markle engagement photos released: bit.ly/2BVWTnW @KensingtonRoyal https://t.co/pGly0praQr

  21-12-2017 14:02 via twitter.com
  
  Prince Harry and Meghan Markle engagement photos released: bit.ly/2BVWTnW@KensingtonRoyal https://t.co/pGly0praQr
  
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• Today's letters: Organ transplants, Melnyk and the outdoor game

  21-12-2017 14:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  Today, we feature more on the debate over liver transplants, and on the hockey news – from the outdoor game, to Eugene Melnyk, to LeBreton Flats. You, too, can write to us, at [email protected]
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  Amnesty International fires back
  Re: The organ donation system does not discriminate, Dec. 20.
  Rabbi Dr. Reuven Bulka, chair of the board of directors for the Trillium Gift of Life Network, responded this week to Amnesty International’s concerns about Ontario’
  
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• The top 10 Canadian weather events of 2017 (three happened in Ottawa)

  21-12-2017 13:54 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa lived through three of the country’s Top Ten weather events of 2017 — a list of weather that it’s usually better to miss.
  There were spring floods that drowned hundreds of houses, the summer that “went missing” in a long stretch of cool and wet days, and finally a little good news — record-breaking warmth and sunshine in September.
  Environment Canada’s David Phillips selected the 10 biggest weather news stories, and says this about our local Big T
  
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• EGAN: Refugee board bars five-year-old triplets from mom's hearing

  21-12-2017 13:52 via ottawacitizen.com
  A single Ottawa mother wants compensation and an apology after a member of the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada insisted her five-year-old triplets couldn’t be present during her testimony at a hearing in Montreal last month.
  Margaret Nakibuuka said she was shocked at the ruling from presiding member Maude Côté that the children might be a distraction during the proceedings, aimed at determining whether the family can be granted refugee protection, a stepping stone to p
  
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• Science of Winter: The first day of winter kickstarts a long warming trend

  21-12-2017 13:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  Today we begin our annual look at what makes this season special, a time when nature is doing much more than just turning dormant for three months. This is a series we like to call The Science of Winter.
  Spring is coming.
  Even as winter tightens its grip, the sun’s annual race to our summer all begins today, slow but unstoppable, like a huge freighter pulling away from the dock.
  The sun on Thursday is directly overhead for people in São Paulo, Brazil, or anyone else on the
  
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• NAC's Kipnes Lantern to serve as "digital campfire"

  21-12-2017 12:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  The curtain is about to go up on the signature architectural feature of National Arts Centre’s $110.5 million rejuvenation. The Kipnes Lantern is the glass tower that presides over the Elgin Street entrance, a state-of-the-art structure made up of a series of transparent LED screens. Starting on New Year’s Eve, it will light up the night sky with a multimedia display of digital images and videos. To find out more, Lynn Saxberg sat down with NAC project leaders Chris Dearlove and Brid
  
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• Canadian weather in 2017 saw 'too much' of everything: chief climatologist: bit.ly/2p62bb2 https://t.co/Ua5SzN0n7u

  21-12-2017 11:23 via twitter.com
  
  Canadian weather in 2017 saw 'too much' of everything: chief climatologist: bit.ly/2p62bb2 https://t.co/Ua5SzN0n7u
  
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• Live 5-9 a.m. Ottawa's breaking news, traffic & weather with @Stu_McGinn & @1310Alexblack Listen:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  21-12-2017 10:57 via twitter.com
  Live 5-9 a.m.Ottawa's breaking news, traffic & weather with @Stu_McGinn & @1310Alexblack Listen:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Man, 37, charged by Ottawa police after child porn tip

  21-12-2017 04:02 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa police have charged a 37-year-old man with accessing and possessing child pornography after a tip from the public.
  Internet child exploitation investigators said Wednesday that they received information “from a concerned member of the public” last week, who tipped them that a man was viewing child porn.
  After seizing the man’s computer, hard drive and an external hard drive, police found several hundred images of child pornography.
  Police on Wednesday charged Sylvai
  
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• Brockville newspaper carrier dies of injuries after struck by snowplow

  21-12-2017 01:25 via ottawacitizen.com
  BROCKVILLE — A Brockville Recorder and Times carrier who was struck by a snowplow at a Cartier Place apartment complex Tuesday died of his injuries, city police have confirmed.
  Tyler Burtch, 30, was waiting for his father to drive him to the newspaper office to pick up his papers to begin his route Tuesday morning when the crash happened.
  When police and paramedics arrived at the scene, they found Burtch “to be in very serious condition” and he was taken first to Brockville Gen
  
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• Gatineau woman among 12 killed in Mexico bus crash

  21-12-2017 01:22 via ottawacitizen.com
  MONTREAL — The Canadian who was among 12 people killed in a bus crash in eastern Mexico has been identified by her family as Stephanie Horwood of Gatineau.
  Carole Pommet Reinthaler told The Canadian Press that her daughter-in-law was in Mexico with her husband and their two daughters, aged nine and 11.
  All three were injured.
  Pommet Reinthaler says there will be two funeral services — one in Horwood’s native St. John’s, N.L., and the other in Gatineau.
  She says it was her
  
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