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• Egan: Injured squirrel, gimpy stray dog? Call 311, not Humane Society

  02-01-2018 23:34 via ottawacitizen.com
  As of Friday, the City of Ottawa will be handling all calls about injured stray animals and wildlife — from gimpy squirrels to rabid raccoons to cats injured in traffic.
  Ottawa’s director of bylaw services, Roger Chapman, said the city has agreed to use its 311 answering service and animal control officers to transport injured animals to the Ottawa Humane Society or appropriate veterinary clinic.
  For decades, these pickups had been performed by the Humane Society. However, after a pr
  
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• Former hostage held for five years in Afghanistan faces long list of criminal charges including assault. #ottnews… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  02-01-2018 23:28 via twitter.com
  Former hostage held for five years in Afghanistan faces long list of criminal charges including assault. #ottnews… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Cale Makar makes it 2-0 #TeamCanada #WJHC2018 twitter.com/HC_WJC/status/…

  02-01-2018 22:24 via twitter.com
  Cale Makar makes it 2-0 #TeamCanada #WJHC2018 twitter.com/HC_WJC/status/…
  
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• 48 seconds in! #WJHC2018 twitter.com/HC_WJC/status/…

  02-01-2018 22:11 via twitter.com
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• JUST IN: Environment Canada has issued a "Winter Weather Travel Advisory" for Ottawa and its surrounding areas. The… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  02-01-2018 21:40 via twitter.com
  JUST IN: Environment Canada has issued a "Winter Weather Travel Advisory" for Ottawa and its surrounding areas. The… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Vice suspends 2 top execs after sexual misconduct report bit.ly/2CgHStL https://t.co/uZk8fBoWwx

  02-01-2018 21:34 via twitter.com
  
  Vice suspends 2 top execs after sexual misconduct report bit.ly/2CgHStL https://t.co/uZk8fBoWwx
  
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• Trim, Perrault Roads closed near fire scene

  02-01-2018 21:34 via ottawacitizen.com
  Police have now closed two streets near the scene of a house fire in Navan.
  Trim Road southbound is closed at Perrault Road, and Perrault is closed between Trim and Milton Road.
  Ottawa Fire reports the home at 4329 Trim Road is a two-storey single family home. Firefighters are working on both floors. No injuries are reported. Trucks are bringing water to the scene.
  Ottawa Fire on scene of a Working Fire at 4329 Trim Road in Navan. Building is a 2 storey single family home. Interior attack underw
  
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• Warmer weather to provide some relief from cold snap bit.ly/2lFb5Z0 https://t.co/CpFVl5ECwq

  02-01-2018 21:28 via twitter.com
  
  Warmer weather to provide some relief from cold snap bit.ly/2lFb5Z0 https://t.co/CpFVl5ECwq
  
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• UPDATE: One dead in Highway 7 crash between Perth and Carleton Place bit.ly/2EGRfEz https://t.co/PzJxHBKf4k

  02-01-2018 21:17 via twitter.com
  
  UPDATE: One dead in Highway 7 crash between Perth and Carleton Place bit.ly/2EGRfEz https://t.co/PzJxHBKf4k
  
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• Cold facts: The ice bridge and the wolves of Lake Superior

  02-01-2018 21:13 via ottawacitizen.com
  Winter is upon us and the cold is here to last, with double-digit negative temperatures forecast for the next week. Is there a bright side to any of this? Not really. But we offer the tiniest of silver linings! To accompany this cold snap, we’re running a short-term daily feature: Cold Facts. 
  Lake Superior is showing signs of forming an “ice bridge” from the mainland across to Isle Royale, home of one of the world’s oddest group of wolves.
  Wolves crossed t
  
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• From the scene @ house fire south of #Navan No injuries reported. #ottnews twitter.com/OFSFirePhoto/s…

  02-01-2018 21:01 via twitter.com
  From the scene @ house fire south of #Navan No injuries reported. #ottnews twitter.com/OFSFirePhoto/s…
  
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• UPDATE: OPP has identified the man killed in this morning's Highway 7 crash between Carleton Place and Perth as Nad… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  02-01-2018 20:32 via twitter.com
  UPDATE: OPP has identified the man killed in this morning's Highway 7 crash between Carleton Place and Perth as Nad… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Fire crews en route to house fire south of Navan. Yield to emergency vehicles. #OttNews twitter.com/OttFire/status…

  02-01-2018 20:11 via twitter.com
  Fire crews en route to house fire south of Navan. Yield to emergency vehicles. #OttNews twitter.com/OttFire/status…
  
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• Today's letters: Bring on the snowblowers

  02-01-2018 19:59 via ottawacitizen.com
  A letter last week decrying snowblowers led to, um, an avalanche of feedback. Here’s some of it.
  You can write to us on this or other issues, at [email protected]
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  Snowblowers beat the alternative
  Re: Shovels over snowblowers, please; Dec. 29.
  I totally disagree with the writer’s scenario of the harm snowblowers might be doing to the environment, either by noise or pollution. If it were the case, can you imagine the harm done in the summer months, when thousands o
  
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• Mark your calendar: Shows to see in 2018

  02-01-2018 19:37 via ottawacitizen.com
  Time to stop replaying your concert videos and crowd selfies from 2017. A whole new year of live music awaits, and it’s not just Rod Stewart and Nana Mouskouri highlighted on my concert calendar. (Although, if you’re interested, Stewart plays Canadian Tire Centre on March 30, and Mouskouri, who’s 83, appears at the National Arts Centre on May 14).Even as the global recorded-music industry continues to slide, the live-music scene is hanging on, propelled by fans who never seem t
  
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• A look back at a controversial year for Ottawa's restaurant scene

  02-01-2018 19:25 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa’s restaurant scene dished up a lot of stories in 2017. Unfortunately, a few of them were hard to stomach.
  Most unpalatable was veteran Ottawa chef Matthew Carmichael’s admission in late October that he had sexually harassed three female co-workers with inappropriate comments while cocaine and alcohol abuse fuelled his behaviour. Carmichael, who has a stake in the highly visible downtown restaurants Riviera, Datsun and two El Camino locations, said that he had entered reha
  
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• Pellerin: A challenge for Canada on inequality

  02-01-2018 19:06 via ottawacitizen.com
  Our series, “Politics for the rest of us,” continues today. It’s an attempt to see if Canadians can find common ground, without resorting to name-calling and insults, between differing views. Today, meet a socialist who wants some blunt talk on inequality:
  You don’t need a university degree in rhetoric or experience working in advertising to sell socialism to your fellow Canadians, but it certainly can’t hurt. Chuka Ejeckam, 27, is back to studying full-time at the
  
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• What's behind the 'staying power' of the cold air in Ottawa

  02-01-2018 18:52 via ottawacitizen.com
  Like the holiday guest who won’t go home, cold air has gripped this region since Boxing Day.
  Now we have found out why.
  “If you look at it since (December) 26, you have had no weather,” says David Phillips, the senior climatologist at Environment Canada. It turns out he means no stormy weather.
  “That’s a key in the staying power of this cold air. Because what kicks it out is a storm, a major weather could come through — an Alberta Clipper or a Saskatchewan Sla
  
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• The @rick_gibbons Show for Tuesday, January 2nd: 1:10: @iHR_Coaching 1:20: @LeslieSmejkal 1:25: #LindsayOvington 1… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  02-01-2018 18:50 via twitter.com
  The @rick_gibbons Show for Tuesday, January 2nd: 1:10: @iHR_Coaching 1:20: @LeslieSmejkal1:25: #LindsayOvington 1… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Man faces multiple weapons charges after police seize handgun in traffic stop

  02-01-2018 18:22 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa police say a handgun has been taken off the streets following a traffic stop in the south end early Sunday morning.
  Around 2 a.m., a driver was arrested for drug offences during a stop at the corner of Spratt and Limebank roads. Police said investigators found a loaded handgun in the driver’s seat area of the vehicle.  The driver did not have a certificate to possess or transport a handgun.
  Ali Mohammed Hussein, 36, faces numerous weapons-related charges, including careless sto
  
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• Man dead, another in hospital after Highway 7 crash

  02-01-2018 18:05 via ottawacitizen.com
  One man is dead in a crash on Highway 7 in Mississippi Mills Tuesday morning and a second person was airlifted to hospital.
  The man was declared dead at the scene where two passenger vehicles collided near Ramsay Concession 1 southwest of Carleton Place at about 7:25 a.m. 
  Highway 7 is expected to be closed for hours between Ferguson Falls Road, west of the collision, and Ramsay Concession 2A to the east, as police investigate.
  Detours are in place and motorists are asked to avoid the
  
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• Man, 26, charged with arson after Gatineau apartment fire

  02-01-2018 17:57 via ottawacitizen.com
  A young man was due to appear in a Gatineau court Tuesday on charges of arson relating to an apartment fire that broke out late Monday evening.
  Residents of a four-storey Gatineau apartment building were driven into the frigid night by a fire just before midnight.
  There were 32 residents who evacuated the 16 apartments at 16 rue Tassé, in the Mont-Bleu area. The fire was under control about half an hour later.
  The fire was confined to one apartment. Damage is estimated at $85,000.
  Fire of
  
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• Cohen: Again, France proves the value of actually building things

  02-01-2018 17:50 via ottawacitizen.com
  MILLAU, France – The Millau Viaduct soars above the creases of the countryside of Languedoc, etched against the gun-metal sky, a singular feat of modern engineering.
  Tapered concrete pylons support a latticework of cables. The bridge soars 343 metres high. This road to heaven is paved with style. Designed by Norman Foster, the celebrated British architect, it opened in 2004. A new visitor’s centre mixes film (an “expérience immersif!”) and virtual reality, but merc
  
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• Defence Minister Sajjan committed to Jordanian roadbuilding project without knowing the cost

  02-01-2018 17:46 via ottawacitizen.com
  Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan recently announced that Canada would support the construction and “rehabilitation” of a road along Jordan’s northern border with Syria. The project will contribute to the security and stability of Jordan by allowing the Jordanian Armed Forces to better respond to threats along the border, according to the Department of National Defence.
  How much will this cost Canadian taxpayers?
  Who knows? DND says it doesn’t.
  “We are in the proc
  
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• Wanted man nabbed at theft-in-progress, police say

  02-01-2018 17:38 via ottawacitizen.com
  A man wanted by police on a string of outstanding warrants was arrested as patrol officers responded to a theft-in-progress on Sussex Drive, the break-and-enter unit said Tuesday.
  On Thursday, police asked the public to help them track down 40-year-old Casey Leigh Boland, who officers said faced both “numerous” outstanding arrest warrants and had new charges pending.
  Boland was arrested around 12:15 a.m. Sunday as officers responded to the call and “encountered this suspect as
  
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• Anti-abortion protest law to come into effect Feb. 1

  02-01-2018 17:23 via ottawacitizen.com
  A new law restricting protesters from demonstrating outside Ontario’s abortion clinics will come into effect Feb. 1, 2018.
  The “safe access zone” legislation, announced by Attorney General Yasir Naqvi in October, will create a 50-metre “bubble” zone around eight abortion clinics in the province — including The Morgentaler Clinic on Bank Street, which says it has faced years of intimidation and harassment from protesters holding graphic anti-abortion signs outs
  
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• The extreme cold warning for the region has ended. #ottnews

  02-01-2018 16:43 via twitter.com
  The extreme cold warning for the region has ended. #ottnews
  
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• Coming up at 10:45: Guy Laflamme joins @markdaynews to review @2017ottawa celebrations/ talk retirement:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  02-01-2018 16:38 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 10:45:Guy Laflamme joins @markdaynews to review @2017ottawa celebrations/ talk retirement:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Coming up 10:30: @Kyle_Duggan joins @markdaynews LIVE: bit.ly/1uwtdOs @ipoliticsca https://t.co/aOBs2UJQaD

  02-01-2018 16:22 via twitter.com
  
  Coming up 10:30:@Kyle_Duggan joins @markdaynews LIVE: bit.ly/1uwtdOs@ipoliticsca https://t.co/aOBs2UJQaD
  
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• Coming up on the 10 O'Clock Talk: @Justin_Ling, @KimothyWalker & @Stu_McGinn join @markdaynews live: Listen:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  02-01-2018 15:50 via twitter.com
  Coming up on the 10 O'Clock Talk:@Justin_Ling, @KimothyWalker & @Stu_McGinn join @markdaynews live: Listen:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Coming up at 9:45 @ottawahealth @B_Isernhagen joins @markdaynews on the extreme cold: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  02-01-2018 15:38 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 9:45@ottawahealth @B_Isernhagen joins @markdaynews on the extreme cold:📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Crash on slick roads closes Hwy. 7 west of Carleton Place

  02-01-2018 15:31 via ottawacitizen.com
  Looks like the holidays are officially over. 
  It’s Jan. 2 and #otttraffic is trending on Twitter in Canada with a string of crashes on slick roads including one that closed Highway 7 west of Carleton Place.
  Firefighters had to extricate three people from a vehicle that went down an embankment after a collision on the eastbound Highway 417 at Moodie Drive just before 8 a.m.
  None of the injuries were life-threatening, paramedics said.
  Fire crews were called at 7:55 a.m. by the OPP and h
  
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• Gatineau fire forces residents into frigid night

  02-01-2018 15:24 via ottawacitizen.com
  Residents of a four-storey Gatineau apartment building were driven into the frigid night by a fire at midnight Monday.
  There were 32 residents who evacuated the 16 apartments at 16 rue Tassé, in the Mont-Bleu area. The 32 firefighters reported the fire under control at 32 minutes after midnight.
  The fire was confined to one apartment. Damage is estimated at $85,000.
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• Coming up at 9:30: @RandallMoore26 of @1061CHEZ joins @MarkDayNews in studio: bit.ly/1uwtdOs https://t.co/fPYz2iaZqm

  02-01-2018 15:22 via twitter.com
  
  Coming up at 9:30:@RandallMoore26 of @1061CHEZ joins @MarkDayNews in studio:bit.ly/1uwtdOs https://t.co/fPYz2iaZqm
  
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• Serious crash closes Highway 7 between Perth and Carleton Place: bit.ly/2DS155w https://t.co/4eXKAIF0QW

  02-01-2018 15:12 via twitter.com
  
  Serious crash closes Highway 7 between Perth and Carleton Place: bit.ly/2DS155w https://t.co/4eXKAIF0QW
  
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• Coming up at 9:15 @environmentca Senior Climatologist David Phillips joins @MarkDayNews on the extreme cold: 📻: 1… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  02-01-2018 15:12 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 9:15@environmentca Senior Climatologist David Phillips joins @MarkDayNews on the extreme cold:📻: 1… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• On Air: 9 a.m to 1 p.m. Ottawa Today live with your guest host @markdaynews on @1310NEWS: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  02-01-2018 14:57 via twitter.com
  On Air: 9 a.m to 1 p.m. Ottawa Today live with your guest host @markdaynews on @1310NEWS: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• One man charged with arson, assault in Gatineau fire: bit.ly/2CEjnYg https://t.co/jAZ3SNtmqq

  02-01-2018 14:44 via twitter.com
  
  One man charged with arson, assault in Gatineau fire: bit.ly/2CEjnYg https://t.co/jAZ3SNtmqq
  
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• 'Significant' water leak shuts down Ben Franklin Place

  02-01-2018 14:24 via ottawacitizen.com
  A water leak has shut down Ben Franklin Place “until further notice,” the City of Ottawa said Tuesday morning.
  No further details were given in the early-morning tweet.
  The building at 101 Centrepointe Drive, once the city hall of the pre-amalgamation Nepean, houses a city service centre, staff of various city departments, an Ottawa Public Library branch and a theatre.
   
  There is a significant water leak at Ben Franklin Place. The building is closed until further notice.
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• 'Extreme cold warning' still in effect but -9 C forecast by Wednesday

  02-01-2018 14:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  Hang in there – after a record-setting cold snap, a single-digit high is on the way by Wednesday.
  Ottawa awoke to -26 C and the forecast is for a gusty high of -12 C that will feel more like -36 with southwest winds at 20 km/h gusting to 40, Environment Canada predicts. The agency still has an extreme cold warning in effect.
  Two to 4 cm of snow will have fallen by the time the mercury edges down to -16 C overnight.
  For Wednesday, expect clouds and periods of snow beginning in the morning a
  
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• 2017 In Stories: Discovering a decline in the basic athletic skills of our kids

  02-01-2018 14:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Best Stories of 2017
  Editor’s Note: As we prepare to usher in 2018, it’s important that we here in the newsroom take a moment to consider the year that was. The news cycle has a forward momentum and it’s easy — too easy — to stay focused on the here and now. It’s essential to us as an organization, as part of the community, as individuals, to look back at the moments that moved us, the stories that changed us, and the people that we will never forget.
  
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• Today's letters: Keep pressing for long-term care solutions

  02-01-2018 13:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  Speak out on long-term care 
  Re: Make Ontario’s election about elder care, Dec. 9.
  The Citizen is to be commended for its series of well-balanced articles bringing to light the systemic problems in long-term care in Ontario.
  The lack of adequate staffing levels to reflect the more complex care needs of today’s residents and the rising levels of abuse have been ignored for too long. Every reader should follow the advice of your Dec. 9 editorial and make long-term care an election
  
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• Chartier: Long-term care staff face growing challenges

  02-01-2018 13:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  Perhaps there is no better time than now to reflect on the important and often thankless role that the front-line staff in our long-term care homes play, caring for our parents and grandparents when they can no longer care for themselves.
  The women and men working in long-term care today are doing an incredible job caring for what is arguably the most clinically complex demographic in our health care system. Ninety per cent of residents in long-term care exhibit some level of cognitive impairmen
  
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• Adult children will soon take on more responsibility for aging parents

  02-01-2018 13:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  Important legislative amendments in the past month will assist adult children with the care of their ailing parents. These are also a harbinger for the increased engagement that society will demand of families in providing direct care for seniors in the years ahead. 
  Federally, employment insurance (EI) will now provide a family caregiver benefit of up to 15 weeks to care for an adult family member whose life is at risk and who has experienced a significant change in their baseline state of
  
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• A mother's love: Diplomat depletes life savings to free son charged with murder

  02-01-2018 13:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  A Canadian diplomat in a nightmare in Miami spent nearly every cent she had, took out multiple loans and sold her Ottawa house to finance a legal bid to bring her teenage son home after felony murder charges.
  Roxanne Dubé’s life changed in March 2015.
  It was a crime — and punishment — that shook two cities and thrust Dubé and her family into the spotlight.
  Just weeks after her two sons settled into a new life in Miami to join Dubé at her posting as con
  
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• Extreme cold continues for Ottawa: bit.ly/2EClJYb https://t.co/GB9DwevZ36

  02-01-2018 12:03 via twitter.com
  
  Extreme cold continues for Ottawa: bit.ly/2EClJYb https://t.co/GB9DwevZ36
  
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• 'I don't want you to die, Mummy' or how I finally quit smoking, hopefully for good

  02-01-2018 00:37 via ottawacitizen.com
  Every time I wrote about the ever-more-tragic opioid crisis in 2017, I felt a shameful pang of recognition.
  Last month, a 20-year-old woman told me how using drugs made her lead what she called a double life of lying, sneaking around and wilful blindness to the harm she was doing to herself — and to her family.
  It was a truth she could no longer deny when she awoke in a hospital bed after an overdose to see their stricken faces.
  But, even then, it took her several tries to stop.
  There were
  
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• There's no such thing as just one – and other advice from the quit-smoking trenches

  02-01-2018 00:22 via ottawacitizen.com
  When you’re the last smoker in the once-hazy newsroom, it’s time to quit. So I asked colleagues who are veterans of this not smoking thing how they did it. 
  This March will mark the 10th anniversary of the start of my current and most successful attempt to quit smoking after more than 30 years of almost tireless financial support of Ontario’s tobacco farmers.
  I had tried quitting once before, about two years earlier, in an effort that lasted a full year before I prono
  
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