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• In the snow: What’s open and closed for the holidays in Ottawa

  22-12-2017 23:40 via ottawacitizen.com
  Will you be spending the holidays in Ottawa’s winter wonderland? Don’t be left out in the cold. Whether it’s for a last-minute gift or ingredient, this newspaper has you covered in terms of what’s open and what’s closed over the holiday season.
  Read on to find out about businesses and public services operating from Dec. 24 to Dec. 26.
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  LCBO
  All LCBO stores will be open during normal business hours on Christmas Eve and Boxing Day, with extended store hours un
  
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• New non-profit to run ByWard, Parkdale markets

  22-12-2017 22:33 via ottawacitizen.com
  The details are in place for a new not-for-profit corporation to take over management of the ByWard Market.
  Ottawa Markets will be in charge of the ByWard Market starting Jan. 1, making this the last December holiday season that city hall has direct oversight of the tourist destination.
  Council signed off on the final marching orders during its last meeting of 2017, clearing the way for a smooth transition between the planning department and the new Ottawa Markets board, which is chaired by form
  
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• Christmas plans uncertain after fire destroys Nepean church

  22-12-2017 22:29 via ottawacitizen.com
  The fate of Christmas services remains uncertain for a congregation whose church was destroyed in a fire Thursday.
  On Friday morning, the Living Waters Christian Assembly thanked Ottawa residents for their “prayers and support” in posts on Facebook and Twitter. The Pentecostal church was planning a carol event on Christmas Eve.
  The pastors of the church could not be reached Friday and have not released any further information.
  The Nepean church on Slack Rd. burned down Thursday after
  
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• Police riding shotgun lay 1,836 charges in provincewide truck safety blitz

  22-12-2017 22:16 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ontario Provincial Police officers stopped 3,500 commercial vehicles and laid 1,836 charges during a provincewide blitz focusing on catching distracted truck drivers.
  The blitz, called “Operation Safe Trucking,” took place between Dec. 11 and 15.
  OPP officers monitored commercial truck drivers while riding as passengers in transport trucks in various locations across the province. The height of the cab afforded the officers an improved vantage point and allowed them to catch 223
  
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• #ottnews #OTTTRAFFIC twitter.com/DutyInspector/…

  22-12-2017 22:09 via twitter.com
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• Cheryl Gallant being challenged for Conservative nomination

  22-12-2017 21:57 via ottawacitizen.com
  MP Cheryl Gallant has defeated candidates from all opposing parties since winning the riding of Renfrew-Nipissing-Pembroke in 2000. Now she’ll have to battle one of her own.
  Michael Coates, 61, a longtime Conservative backroom operative, has declared his intention to challenge Gallant, 57, for the Conservative nomination in the next general election, scheduled for 2019.
  Coates said he submitted his nomination papers by the Dec. 15 deadline, the first step in a process that should result in
  
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• Fatal collision closes Highway 7 near Carleton Place; OPP investigating bit.ly/2BDOvtJ https://t.co/bnRDPfPQV4

  22-12-2017 21:36 via twitter.com
  
  Fatal collision closes Highway 7 near Carleton Place; OPP investigating bit.ly/2BDOvtJ https://t.co/bnRDPfPQV4
  
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• Police nab speed demons undeterred by bad winter weather bit.ly/2zi1HOQ https://t.co/EO0627EBSD

  22-12-2017 21:21 via twitter.com
  
  Police nab speed demons undeterred by bad winter weather bit.ly/2zi1HOQ https://t.co/EO0627EBSD
  
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• UPDATE: @OPP_ER reports a man is dead following Highway 7 crash near Carleton Place involving pickup and transport #ottnews #onroads

  22-12-2017 21:18 via twitter.com
  UPDATE: @OPP_ER reports a man is dead following Highway 7 crash near Carleton Place involving pickup and transport #ottnews #onroads
  
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• STORY: Travel plans? Special weather statements continue outside the city bit.ly/2BA0Y1J https://t.co/JYOxEl9srR

  22-12-2017 21:09 via twitter.com
  
  STORY: Travel plans? Special weather statements continue outside the city bit.ly/2BA0Y1J https://t.co/JYOxEl9srR
  
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• Ottawa man sexually assaulted woman he met on dating site, police allege bit.ly/2DwahwK https://t.co/fHe4lYvMaq

  22-12-2017 21:05 via twitter.com
  
  Ottawa man sexually assaulted woman he met on dating site, police allege bit.ly/2DwahwK https://t.co/fHe4lYvMaq
  
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• Mosaïvernales will bring shining snow sculptures to Gatineau

  22-12-2017 21:01 via ottawacitizen.com
  Jacques-Cartier Park in Gatineau will be the setting of a garden of illuminated snow sculptures from late January to March, an exhibit called Mosaïvernales.
  It is put on by Mosaïcultures, the organization that created the sculptures of plants in the same park this summer.
  Nearly 20 master-sculptors from China will create the exhibit. The central sculpture is called Terre Mère (Mother Earth), a tribute to one of the most popular exhibits in Mosaïculture’s hugely succes
  
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• Scanlan: Polowin Avenue is a stroll down memory lane for decorated naval man

  22-12-2017 20:55 via ottawacitizen.com
  Alex Polowin received a pleasant surprise when he tried to pay for some body repair work on his car.
  First, you should know that Polowin is 92, a navy man who served in the Second World War, having signed up for duty just before his 17th birthday. His father, an immigrant from Lithuania, couldn’t read or write English so didn’t realize the paper he was signing said that Alex was 18, old enough to serve his country. Outfoxed by his own kid.
  So here was the ancient mariner at the body
  
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• Arson squad called to investigate fire in Richmond garage

  22-12-2017 20:12 via ottawacitizen.com
  Arson investigators have been called in connection with a fire in a detached garage in Richmond Friday morning.
  Firefighters were called to 78 Colonel Murray St. shortly before 9 a.m. and found the detached garage burning.
  Crews concentrated on containing the blaze from spreading to a residence approximately three metres from the garage.
  An investigator and a police arson unit were called to the scene. Damages are estimated at around $20,000.
  No injuries were reported.  
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• Cappies review: Holy Trinity presents poignant production of Of Mice and Men

  22-12-2017 19:42 via ottawacitizen.com
  Of Mice and Men
  Where: Holy Trinity Catholic High School
  Director: Stavros Sakiadis
  Evelyn Ashworth, Lead CriticAll Saints High School
  During the Great Depression, employment, hope, and acceptance were scarce amongst millions of struggling Americans. At a time when discrimination and ignorance dominated society, those who were considered lesser were condemned to be hated. Holy Trinity Catholic High School’s production of Of Mice and Men told the story of friendship beyond these limita
  
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• #CarletonPlace #hwy7 closure: Both ways from Townline to Tatlock for 2 vehicle crash w/ injuries. #ottnews… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  22-12-2017 19:26 via twitter.com
  #CarletonPlace #hwy7 closure: Both ways from Townline to Tatlock for 2 vehicle crash w/ injuries. #ottnews… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• The best Canadian jazz albums of 2017

  22-12-2017 19:19 via ottawacitizen.com
  It was almost as if Canadian jazz musicians responded to this year’s sesquicentennial with an even more impressive range of music than usual. Call it true northern jazz, swinging and free.
  Whittling down the contenders for this year’s best Canadian jazz recordings was harder than ever, given the quality of music from the jazz scenes in Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal and beyond, and from expats who have relocated to New York for its exceptional creative stimulations. It’s telling
  
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• Ottawa man, 37, charged with sexual assault

  22-12-2017 19:10 via ottawacitizen.com
  Police have charged an Ottawa man with sexual assault after he allegedly forced himself on a woman in a public area.
  According to police, the man met the woman on an online dating website in November and they agreed to meet in a public place.
  They walked together to secluded area where the man allegedly sexually assaulted the victim.
  The woman reported the incident to police who launched an investigation.
  On Friday, police charged Jay Lennox, 37, of Ottawa with sexual assault and forcible c
  
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• UPDATE: #HWY401 crash w/b near #prescott - vehicles off the road, left lane open #ottnews #OTTTRAFFIC #onroads twitter.com/OPP_COMM_ER/st…

  22-12-2017 19:08 via twitter.com
  UPDATE: #HWY401 crash w/b near #prescott- vehicles off the road, left lane open #ottnews #OTTTRAFFIC #onroads twitter.com/OPP_COMM_ER/st…
  
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• Injuries in 2 vehicle collision west of Carleton Place. OPP have closed section of Highway 7 between Tatlock Road &… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  22-12-2017 18:53 via twitter.com
  Injuries in 2 vehicle collision west of Carleton Place. OPP have closed section of Highway 7 between Tatlock Road &… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• RIP, Roswell Rudd

  22-12-2017 18:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  Trombonist Roswell Rudd, who was equally powerful playing with jazz’s leading avant-gardists such as Archie Shepp and Steve Lacy or collaborating with musicians from Mali and Mongolia, died Thursday night, succumbing to cancer that had been diagnosed in 2013. Rudd was 82. 
  Born in 1935 in Sharon, Connecticut, Rudd attended Yale University and played there with a student Dixieland band that recorded two albums. However, Rudd by the 1960s was making music with such revolutionary ja
  
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• Two incidents on #HWY401 this morning - speeding & distracted driving in whiteout conditions. #ottnews #OTTTRAFFIC… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  22-12-2017 18:20 via twitter.com
  Two incidents on #HWY401 this morning - speeding & distracted driving in whiteout conditions. #ottnews #OTTTRAFFIC… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• The @rick_gibbons Show for Friday, December 22nd: 1:10: @abiroach 1:30: @darrellbricker 1:45: @mescottvrooman 2:05:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  22-12-2017 18:19 via twitter.com
  The @rick_gibbons Show for Friday, December 22nd: 1:10: @abiroach 1:30: @darrellbricker 1:45: @mescottvrooman 2:05:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Environment Canada urges caution for motorists on Highway 401 corridor

  22-12-2017 17:55 via ottawacitizen.com
  Heads up for motorists planning any trips south of the capital for the next few days.
  The Environment Canada site is full of “special weather statements,” not quite official warnings but close, stretching from Hamilton to past Montreal.
  The statements say the lakeside regions, as well as the corridor up the St. Lawrence River, might receive freezing rain Saturday.
  Friday’s forecasts call for up to 10 cm of snow, followed by further snow and ice pellet amounts of two to four cm
  
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• Capital Voices: 'I want more of that in my life, more of that childhood wonder'

  22-12-2017 17:44 via ottawacitizen.com
  To mark Canada’s sesquicentennial, the Citizen’s Bruce Deachman met and photographed 150 people in the Ottawa area, encouraging them to tell their stories that, combined, painted an intimate portrait of the region and the people who live, work and play here. This week, he went to the ByWard Market in search of Christmas stories.
  “I love how beautiful and magical Christmas is when you’re a kid. Your parents put so much effort into bringing the beauty of Christmas into your
  
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• HEADS UP HOLIDAY TRAVELERS: pile-up westbound #HWY401 near #prescott PLEASE drive carefully. #ottnews #otttraffic twitter.com/OPP_COMM_ER/st…

  22-12-2017 17:43 via twitter.com
  HEADS UP HOLIDAY TRAVELERS: pile-up westbound #HWY401 near #prescottPLEASE drive carefully. #ottnews #otttraffic twitter.com/OPP_COMM_ER/st…
  
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• Capital Voices: 'It's about business, but it's also about Christmas'

  22-12-2017 17:43 via ottawacitizen.com
  To mark Canada’s sesquicentennial, the Citizen’s Bruce Deachman met and photographed 150 people in the Ottawa area, encouraging them to tell their stories that, combined, painted an intimate portrait of the region and the people who live, work and play here. This week, he went to the ByWard Market in search of Christmas stories.
  “When I was a kid, my parents did the best they could through some hard times. I remember once getting these toys that were chain-driven, but a couple
  
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• Capital Voices: 'We were living in the woods with no running water and no electricity'

  22-12-2017 17:40 via ottawacitizen.com
  To mark Canada’s sesquicentennial, the Citizen’s Bruce Deachman met and photographed 150 people in the Ottawa area, encouraging them to tell their stories that, combined, painted an intimate portrait of the region and the people who live, work and play here. This week, he went to the ByWard Market in search of Christmas stories.
  “My parents were back-to-landers for the first five years of my life, so we were living in the woods with no running water and no electricity, north of
  
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• Capital Voices: 'So you've got 25 or 30 people in the house, it's getting dark, it's getting cold'

  22-12-2017 17:40 via ottawacitizen.com
  To mark Canada’s sesquicentennial, the Citizen’s Bruce Deachman met and photographed 150 people in the Ottawa area, encouraging them to tell their stories that, combined, painted an intimate portrait of the region and the people who live, work and play here. This week, he went to the ByWard Market in search of Christmas stories.
  “This goes back to … oh, 1978 — I was 13 or 14 — and we were preparing to host my mother’s side of the family, in St. Lam
  
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• Capital Voices: 'He was just happy to be alive; he never asked for anything'

  22-12-2017 17:38 via ottawacitizen.com
  To mark Canada’s sesquicentennial, the Citizen’s Bruce Deachman met and photographed 150 people in the Ottawa area, encouraging them to tell their stories that, combined, painted an intimate portrait of the region and the people who live, work and play here. This week, he went to the ByWard Market in search of Christmas stories.
  “My grandfather lived in Picton, and we usually went there for Christmas. But the one year after my grandma died, he was alone so we decided to invite
  
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• Capital Voices: 'Everyone pretended to be very congenial'

  22-12-2017 17:36 via ottawacitizen.com
  To mark Canada’s sesquicentennial, the Citizen’s Bruce Deachman met and photographed 150 people in the Ottawa area, encouraging them to tell their stories that, combined, painted an intimate portrait of the region and the people who live, work and play here. This week, he went to the ByWard Market in search of Christmas stories.
  “We live here in the Market and we go to church here in the Market, and two Christmases ago I had a newborn baby and a two-year-old, and we decided to
  
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• Coming up on the Power Lunch at 12 p.m. @ShelleyMcLean_ & @davidgourlay join @_MarkSutcliffe in studio: 📻: 131… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  22-12-2017 17:33 via twitter.com
  Coming up on the Power Lunch at 12 p.m. @ShelleyMcLean_ & @davidgourlay join @_MarkSutcliffe in studio:📻: 131… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Dear Santa: Can I please have a doll for myself and one for a little girl whose family can't afford one?

  22-12-2017 17:31 via ottawacitizen.com
  Gisele Allam wants an American Girl doll for Christmas. So it’s not surprising that she and her family chose to buy a large, brown-haired doll for a nameless child who may not have many presents under the tree.
  Allam’s carefully-selected doll — “for a little girl, a six-year-old, like me,” she explained solemnly – was among a mountain of more than 500 toys, games, dolls and other gifts donated by students at Mutchmor Public School to the Children’s Aid S
  
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• Christmas singalong coming up NEXT! Joe Turner, Robin Moir & Braiden Turner join @_MarkSutcliffe & @ShelleyMcLean_… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  22-12-2017 17:28 via twitter.com
  Christmas singalong coming up NEXT!Joe Turner, Robin Moir & Braiden Turner join @_MarkSutcliffe & @ShelleyMcLean_… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Gormley: A rational approach to UFOs, aliens and extraterrestrials

  22-12-2017 17:22 via ottawacitizen.com
  There is a distinct possibility that aliens exist. What’s more, they may have made contact.
  These two claims have been strongly implied, if not confirmed, by institutions that wouldn’t normally go in for that sort of thing — “that sort of thing” being trippy hallucinations. In 2007, The Pentagon created a program to investigate reports of unidentified flying objects. Last week, the New York Times reported on this effort in a manner sober enough to suggest it conside
  
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• Reevely: Canada's 150th an excuse for a nationwide spray of awards

  22-12-2017 17:14 via ottawacitizen.com
  Politicians have given out hundreds of medals and pins this fall in honour of Canada’s 150th birthday, even though there’s no national program to do it.
  So many, in fact, that it’s hard to escape the worry that the politicians are up to something.
  The Department of Canadian Heritage gave each member of Parliament 20 pins, made from reclaimed copper from the parliamentary roof, to distribute largely as they see fit. It’s not quite an official honour, but that’s the i
  
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• Christmas singalong coming up at 11:30! Joe Turner, Robin Moir & Braiden Turner join @_MarkSutcliffe &… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  22-12-2017 17:10 via twitter.com
  Christmas singalong coming up at 11:30!Joe Turner, Robin Moir & Braiden Turner join @_MarkSutcliffe &… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• NEW* Canada to gain luge bronze from Sochi Olympics due to Russian doping

  22-12-2017 16:57 via twitter.com
  NEW* Canada to gain luge bronze from Sochi Olympics due to Russian doping
  
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• Coming up on Ethics Lab at 11: Ethics in "It's a Wonderful Life" Emotional labour And best books of 2017 Lis… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  22-12-2017 16:50 via twitter.com
  Coming up on Ethics Lab at 11: Ethics in "It's a Wonderful Life" Emotional labour And best books of 2017Lis… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Coming up at 10:45: @StephAubry_GF joins @_MarkSutcliffe on the Phoenix pay holiday nightmare: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  22-12-2017 16:35 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 10:45: @StephAubry_GF joins @_MarkSutcliffe on the Phoenix pay holiday nightmare: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Coming up at 10:30: @borealissaves joins @_MarkSutcliffe to discuss reports an accused Russian spy was in the roo… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  22-12-2017 16:20 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 10:30: @borealissaves joins @_MarkSutcliffe to discuss reports an accused Russian spy was in the roo… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Coming up on the 10 O'Clock Talk: @jonathanmcleod, @Matt_Dips & @catherinejclark join @_MarkSutcliffe live: 📻: 13… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  22-12-2017 15:54 via twitter.com
  Coming up on the 10 O'Clock Talk:@jonathanmcleod, @Matt_Dips & @catherinejclark join @_MarkSutcliffe live:📻: 13… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• StatCan October GDP flat compared with September, up from 2016: bit.ly/2zgZraF https://t.co/PEo8Ww29CP

  22-12-2017 15:33 via twitter.com
  
  StatCan October GDP flat compared with September, up from 2016: bit.ly/2zgZraF https://t.co/PEo8Ww29CP
  
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• Coming up at 9:30: @CapitalCup Scott Lawryk joins @_MarkSutcliffe in studio: 📻: 1310 💻: bit.ly/1uwtdOs… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  22-12-2017 15:23 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 9:30: @CapitalCup Scott Lawryk joins @_MarkSutcliffe in studio: 📻: 1310 💻: bit.ly/1uwtdOs… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Jonathan Pitre, mother discussing with doctors possible return home

  22-12-2017 15:17 via ottawacitizen.com
  This Christmas, his second in Minnesota, Jonathan Pitre will enjoy some hard-earned gifts: hope, optimism, healing.
  In fact, Pitre and his mother have started to discuss with his doctors the possibility of returning home. If the Russell teenager has no more serious setbacks in the near future — no more infections or high fevers — the family could be home sometime in February. 
  “I’m very determined to make that happen: I’m excited,” said Pitre, 17, who wil
  
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• Four injured in Shepherds of Good Hope fire

  22-12-2017 14:19 via ottawacitizen.com
  A late-night fire Thursday at the Shepherds of Good Hope on King Edward Avenue saw two people taken to hospital and treated for smoke inhalation, while two others were treated and released on the scene.
  The fire, which originated in a mattress on the first floor at 256 King Edward Ave., broke out just before 11 p.m.
  A 45-year-old man and a 66-year-old woman were taken to the hospital and treated for non-critical respiratory problems.
  Two people were injured in a mattress fire at the Shepherds of
  
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• Gusty winds will make the high of -11 C feel much colder, so bundle up

  22-12-2017 14:02 via ottawacitizen.com
  People who might have had any lingering worries that we wouldn’t see a white Christmas this year, can pretty much banish those thoughts.
  Starting Friday, it looks like there’ll be a little addition to the accumulation every day between now and Boxing Day, and probably beyond.
  Nothing stormy, mind you. Just steady.
  The forecast for Friday is periods of light snow or flurries throughout the day, with an accumulation of four to six cm.
  Gusty winds will make the high of -11 C feel much c
  
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• Valleriani and Roach: We need legal spaces for people to use marijuana

  22-12-2017 14:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  If you’ve been following the plans for cannabis legalization across Canada, one of the key concerns is not just how it will be sold, but where exactly people will be allowed to consume cannabis.
  Not in parks, or in the streets, certainly not in restaurants or even in places where there are existing tobacco allowances. In Ontario, the proposed legislation boils down to this: the only place we can consume legal cannabis will be in the privacy of our homes.
  While the Ontario government has no
  
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• Opposition parties call for Trudeau to repay Aga Khan vacation expenses: bit.ly/2zgiuSx https://t.co/dFMs9HWM8c

  22-12-2017 13:24 via twitter.com
  
  Opposition parties call for Trudeau to repay Aga Khan vacation expenses: bit.ly/2zgiuSx https://t.co/dFMs9HWM8c
  
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• MacDougall: Stumbling Jagmeet Singh the perfect Christmas present for Trudeau's Liberals

  22-12-2017 13:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  At what point do we begin entertaining the notion of Jagmeet Singh as a Liberal plant?
  Christmastime sounds about right; watching the new NDP leader stumble around the end-of-year interview circuit has been the perfect gift for Team Liberal.
  Singh was insipid. Over-rehearsed. A platitude wrapped inside a focus group. And when he did stray from his message track, it was to fumble an answer about working with the Conservatives. Ayoye.
  The non-MP from Toronto was indeed so poor that Justin Trudeau
  
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