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• .@OttFire rescues stranded ATVers who went through the ice at Mud Pond near Dunrobin. #ottnews… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  04-01-2018 23:56 via twitter.com
  .@OttFire rescues stranded ATVers who went through the ice at Mud Pond near Dunrobin. #ottnews… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Firefighters use snowmobiles, drone after ATV riders go through Mud Pond ice

  04-01-2018 23:18 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa firefighters used snowmobiles and a drone to help some ATV riders who went through the ice on a pond west of Shirleys Bay. 
  The snowmobiles were needed to get close to Mud Pond, which is in a wooded area near Cameron Harvey Drive and March Valley Road. 
  Crews responded at 3:45 p.m. after receiving reports that three men on ATVs were in distress after going through ice on the pond, more than one metre deep in places. 
  Firefighters reached the scene and found that everyo
  
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• UPDATE: A missing 13-year-old from west-end #Ottawa has been located. twitter.com/OttawaPolice/s…

  04-01-2018 22:55 via twitter.com
  UPDATE: A missing 13-year-old from west-end #Ottawa has been located. twitter.com/OttawaPolice/s…
  
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• Rideau Canal Skateway to open five-kilometre stretch Friday

  04-01-2018 22:42 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Rideau Canal Skateway will open its 48th season at 8 a.m. Friday.
  The recent cold snap brought with it days of speculation about when the “world’s largest skating rink” would be set to open, with NCC officials pleading with people to remain patient.
  Officials ended that speculation Thursday afternoon, announcing a five-kilometre stretch from the Bronson Avenue rest area to Pretoria Bridge — including all of Dow’s Lake — will open at 8 a.m.
  The skatewa
  
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• 'Very crowded': Demand at Ottawa homeless shelters exceeds capacity during cold snap

  04-01-2018 22:41 via ottawacitizen.com
  The lights are dimmed in a boardroom at Shepherds of Good Hope, where about a dozen mattresses are scattered around the room.
  It’s 9:30 a.m. on Thursday and five women who slept here the night before are still in bed. Others come and go from the washroom down the hall or head outside for a smoke. The room is so muggy that fans have been brought in to help push the dry air around. An artificial Christmas tree stands watch in the corner.
  As many as 20 women have to share this room some night
  
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• New deep freeze warning issued for region by Environment Canada

  04-01-2018 22:41 via ottawacitizen.com
  The reprieve from the deep freeze appears to be a brief one.
  Environment Canada issued a fresh extreme cold alert at 3:15 p.m. Thursday, warning of another extended stretch of frigid temperatures and “very cold wind chills” expected to descend rapidly on the region.
  After two days of temperatures hovering around -10 C, the mercury will plummet overnight Thursday, with overnight lows expected to reach -20 to -25.
  Unlike the recent cold snap, the Arctic blast in the forecast is expecte
  
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• Mud Pond water rescue update: Everyone safe. Firefighters helping one child with limited mobility needing help.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  04-01-2018 22:29 via twitter.com
  Mud Pond water rescue update: Everyone safe. Firefighters helping one child with limited mobility needing help.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• BREAKING:A 5-kilometre section of the Rideau Canal Skateway will open at 8 am tomorrow, January 5, from the Bronson… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  04-01-2018 22:04 via twitter.com
  BREAKING:A 5-kilometre section of the Rideau Canal Skateway will open at 8 am tomorrow, January 5, from the Bronson… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Police locate 13-year-old girl, missing since Wednesday

  04-01-2018 22:01 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa police have located a 13-year-old girl missing from her west end Ottawa residence since Wednesday.
  She was last seen at about 12:30 a.m.
  Police said Thursday she was found safe and sound.
  
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• Fire crews on route to possible water rescue involving ATVs in Ottawa's west-end twitter.com/OttFire/status…

  04-01-2018 21:34 via twitter.com
  Fire crews on route to possible water rescue involving ATVs in Ottawa's west-end twitter.com/OttFire/status…
  
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• UPDATED: Powerful winter storm shuts down schools and businesses in Atlantic Canada bit.ly/2CFlCNG https://t.co/1AMhijlnX4

  04-01-2018 21:16 via twitter.com
  
  UPDATED: Powerful winter storm shuts down schools and businesses in Atlantic Canada bit.ly/2CFlCNG https://t.co/1AMhijlnX4
  
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• Ontario premier Kathleen Wynne accuses Tim Hortons' founders' children of bullying employees bit.ly/2CoSRRR https://t.co/tgg8MVC6G3

  04-01-2018 21:10 via twitter.com
  
  Ontario premier Kathleen Wynne accuses Tim Hortons' founders' children of bullying employees bit.ly/2CoSRRR https://t.co/tgg8MVC6G3
  
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• 2017 In Stories: Probing at least five linked, unsolved murders in the Ottawa Valley

  04-01-2018 20:36 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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• The winter storm in #Halifax is so bad, transit service has been cancelled for the late afternoon and evening.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  04-01-2018 20:14 via twitter.com
  The winter storm in #Halifax is so bad, transit service has been cancelled for the late afternoon and evening.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Police seek tractor-trailer in hit-and-run involving second big rig

  04-01-2018 20:08 via ottawacitizen.com
  Provincial police are on the lookout for a runaway tractor-trailer involved in a hit-and-run incident on another big rig on Highway 401 Wednesday night.
  The crash occurred at about 8:30 p.m. at the westbound 401 service centre in Front of Yonge Township, west of Brockville.
  A white tractor trailer with “All Routes” written on the side smashed into a second rig in the parking lanes before proceeding back onto the highway.
  Police described the damage to the struck vehicle as &ldqu
  
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• Activist sues Air Transat, CTA over incident stranding passengers in Ottawa

  04-01-2018 20:07 via ottawacitizen.com
  An airline passengers rights advocate wants a court to force Air Transat to pay millions of dollars in fines related to two incidents where passengers had to spend hours parked on an Ottawa tarmac.
  Two Air Transat flights were forced to detour to Ottawa by bad weather last July. The 590 passengers spent about five hours sitting in the parked aircraft and were not allowed to get out.
  The Canadian Transportation Agency found that Air Transat had committed 590 violations of airline regulations
  
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• ALERT: A Frostbite Warning has been issued by @ottawahealth, in addition to Environment Canada's extreme cold warni… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  04-01-2018 19:39 via twitter.com
  ALERT: A Frostbite Warning has been issued by @ottawahealth, in addition to Environment Canada's extreme cold warni… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Police seek help finding girl, 13, missing since Wednesday

  04-01-2018 19:38 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa police are asking for public assistance in finding Lilly Duff (Gordon), 13, missing from her west end Ottawa residence Wednesday.
  She was last seen at about 12:30 a.m.
  She is described as Caucasian, five feet two inches (1.57 m) tall, weighing 100 pounds (45kg) with a thin build.
  She has long brown hair and was last seen wearing a grey Guess sweater, blue jeans, and a grey winter jacket.
  Anyone with information regarding Lilly’s whereabouts is asked to call Ottawa police missin
  
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• MISSING: Lilly Duff (Gordon), 13, hasn't been seen since 12:30 a.m. today (Jan. 4), 1310news.com/2018/01/04/gir… https://t.co/2hrfcNfjQP

  04-01-2018 19:34 via twitter.com
  
  MISSING: Lilly Duff (Gordon), 13, hasn't been seen since 12:30 a.m. today (Jan. 4), 1310news.com/2018/01/04/gir… https://t.co/2hrfcNfjQP
  
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• 2017 In Stories: 'Death row': Probing at least five linked, unsolved murders in the Ottawa Valley

  04-01-2018 19:30 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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• The @rick_gibbons Show for Thursday, January 4th: 1:10: @ForumPoll 1:15: @mspratt 1:30: @sunnyviewpet 1:45:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  04-01-2018 18:31 via twitter.com
  The @rick_gibbons Show for Thursday, January 4th: 1:10: @ForumPoll 1:15: @mspratt 1:30: @sunnyviewpet 1:45:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Read your jazz: Swinging books on Fred Hersch, Dave Frishberg, Claude Ranger, the Vanguard Orchestra

  04-01-2018 18:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  If, for you, the next best thing after listening to jazz is reading about jazz, here are five swinging books that came out in 2017. 
  Good Things Happen Slowly (Crown Archetype) Fred Hersch
  This extraordinarily candid memoir delves not simply into the artistic development and musical triumphs of the great and supremely lyrical New York pianist, who headlines the TD Ottawa Winter Jazz Fest with his Feb. 10 concert. Hersch, 62, is the first openly gay, HIV-positive jazz player, and for more th
  
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• Coming up at 12:30: Our weather specialist John Wilson joins @MarkDayNews on extreme cold in Ottawa/ Atlantic Can… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  04-01-2018 18:30 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 12:30: Our weather specialist John Wilson joins @MarkDayNews on extreme cold in Ottawa/ Atlantic Can… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Have you seen Louisa Neill? 34 y.o. woman missing since Sunday. #ottnews 1310news.com/2018/01/04/wom… https://t.co/62xt3fHXfD

  04-01-2018 18:27 via twitter.com
  
  Have you seen Louisa Neill? 34 y.o. woman missing since Sunday. #ottnews 1310news.com/2018/01/04/wom… https://t.co/62xt3fHXfD
  
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• Police seek help locating woman missing since Dec. 31

  04-01-2018 18:14 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa police are seeking public assistance in locating Louisa Neill, 34, who has been missing since Dec. 31.
  Neill is new to Ottawa and her family is concerned for her safety.
  She was last seen in the Montreal Road area. 
  She is described as of Inuit descent, five feet three inches (160 cm) tall, weighing 115 pounds (52 kg), with a very thin build. She has a tanned complexion, dark brown shoulder length hair (usually kept in a pony tail), dark brown eyes, yellowing teeth, with a
  
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• Wilson: In health care, we can create a digital dialogue between citizens and government

  04-01-2018 17:48 via ottawacitizen.com
  There are two things that bind all Canadians: Hockey – and not knowing where their immunization records are.
  In 2011, I was having a conversation in a park with a tech-savvy mother who complained to me about the use of paper records to track immunization status. If she could do her banking on her phone, why couldn’t she have a digital record of her immunization record on her phone?
  I presented this idea to a first-year engineering student, who developed an Ontario prototype. This led
  
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• Coming up at 11:45: @Randall_Denley: Here's how 2018 could end Jim Watson's iron grip on city council: 📻: 1310… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  04-01-2018 17:38 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 11:45: @Randall_Denley: Here's how 2018 could end Jim Watson's iron grip on city council: 📻: 1310… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• OPP seeks driver who struck officer with car while fleeing arrest

  04-01-2018 17:20 via ottawacitizen.com
  Provincial police are looking for the driver of a vehicle that struck an officer and led police on a chase on a snowy road in heavy traffic Wednesday before the car was found abandoned on Highway 401.
  Officers in Quinte West, west of Belleville, were called to reports of a dangerous driver at about 5:25 p.m.
  They found the black Pontiac G5 with Ontario plates BYYJ 064 soon after.
  But as officers got out of their cruiser, it sped away, striking one officer, who was later treated for minor le
  
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• We can create a digital dialogue between citizens and government

  04-01-2018 17:10 via ottawacitizen.com
  There are two things that bind all Canadians: Hockey – and not knowing where their immunization records are.
  In 2011, I was having a conversation in a park with a tech-savvy mother who complained to me about the use of paper records to track immunization status. If she could do her banking on her phone, why couldn’t she have a digital record of her immunization record on her phone?
  I presented this idea to a first-year engineering student, who developed an Ontario prototype. This led
  
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• Coming up at 11:15: @picardonhealth joins @MarkDayNews on what Canada can learn from California on the legalizati… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  04-01-2018 17:05 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 11:15: @picardonhealth joins @MarkDayNews on what Canada can learn from California on the legalizati… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Shake it up: Calabogie's new nitro stout "goes against everything we're taught about beer"

  04-01-2018 16:39 via ottawacitizen.com
  Calabogie Brewing Company this week unveiled a nitrogen-infused version of its popular Brown Cow Milk Stout, which may be the first nitro stout in a can by an Ottawa-area craft brewery.The nitrogen carbonation process lends an extra creaminess to the beer that makes it more like a draft poured in a pub. “It gives it a lot more body, a lot more velvety smoothness,” said Calabogie sales rep Danny McCallum, who showed how to pour the dark, chocolate-coloured brew at the launch party, he
  
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• Police seek suspect in Montreal Road bank robbery

  04-01-2018 16:34 via ottawacitizen.com
  Police are hoping someone will recognize the suspect in an unsolved bank robbery on Montreal Road last month.
  The man – he’s 40 to 50 years old, about five feet eight inches tall and wore a moustache and glasses – walked into the Vanier bank at about 2:15 p.m. on Dec. 12.
  He handed over a note demanding cash then fled with an undisclosed sum.
  Tipsters are asked to call the robbery unit at 613-236-1222, ext. 5116. Anonymous tips can be made to Crime Stoppers toll-free at 1-
  
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• Humble La Pêche firefighter 'just showed up' in dramatic rescue of mother and child

  04-01-2018 16:16 via ottawacitizen.com
  Étienne Langevin-Robertson, a carpenter and part-time firefighter, had been looking forward to a day off Tuesday. The temperature outside his house just east of Wakefield was forecast to dip below -33 pre-dawn. It was a good morning to sleep in.
  It was also not to be. Shortly after 7:15, Langevin-Robertson was jolted by a text notification, the same one that reached other members of La Pêche’s fire services team in nearby Wakefield.
  Fire had broken out at 140 Chemin Townline,
  
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• Ottawa Police are asking for your help in identifying this bank robber. The incident happened at a bank on Montreal… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  04-01-2018 15:45 via twitter.com
  Ottawa Police are asking for your help in identifying this bank robber. The incident happened at a bank on Montreal… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• POLL: Are you sick of the extreme cold?

  04-01-2018 15:38 via twitter.com
  POLL: Are you sick of the extreme cold?
  
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• Coming up at 9:45: @StCollinson joins @MarkDayNews on Trump 'Nuclear Button' tweet, Steve Bannon, Russia investi… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  04-01-2018 15:38 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 9:45: @StCollinsonjoins @MarkDayNews on Trump 'Nuclear Button' tweet, Steve Bannon, Russia investi… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Coming up at 9:30: @Geddes28 joins @markdaynews for weekly @macleans on the Hill segment: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  04-01-2018 15:23 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 9:30: @Geddes28 joins @markdaynews for weekly @macleans on the Hill segment:📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Have you or someone you know had the flu this season?

  04-01-2018 15:19 via twitter.com
  Have you or someone you know had the flu this season?
  
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• Coming up at 9:15: Gabor Lukacs of @AirPassRightsCA joins @MarkDayNews on his lawsuit against Air Transat & CTA:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  04-01-2018 15:05 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 9:15: Gabor Lukacs of @AirPassRightsCA joins @MarkDayNews on his lawsuit against Air Transat & CTA:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• POLL: Are you sick of the extreme cold? twitter.com/1310NEWS/statu…

  04-01-2018 14:54 via twitter.com
  POLL: Are you sick of the extreme cold? twitter.com/1310NEWS/statu…
  
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• Ottawa heads back into the deep freeze: bit.ly/2CQmnko https://t.co/SdvCo99HBM

  04-01-2018 14:38 via twitter.com
  
  Ottawa heads back into the deep freeze: bit.ly/2CQmnko https://t.co/SdvCo99HBM
  
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• Schools, businesses shuttered as Atlantic Canada braces for powerful storm: bit.ly/2CCkw5b https://t.co/IUQSzrkJgY

  04-01-2018 14:28 via twitter.com
  
  Schools, businesses shuttered as Atlantic Canada braces for powerful storm: bit.ly/2CCkw5b https://t.co/IUQSzrkJgY
  
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• 'Bitterly cold' weather is on the way back

  04-01-2018 14:19 via ottawacitizen.com
  Another day, another “special weather statement.”
  Environment Canada predicts another cold snap will arrive Thursday as a “bitterly cold” northwesterly flow forms over southern Ontario, sending wind chills below -30.
  A southwesterly flow is expected to sweep away the cold by Sunday. Fingers crossed.
  Bundle up.
  Thursday’s forecast is for periods of light snow and northwest winds at 20 km/h gusting to 40 as the temperature holds steady at -11 C.
  Thursday night, the pe
  
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• Ottawa heading back into the deep freeze! Details: bit.ly/2CQmnko twitter.com/1310Alexblack/…

  04-01-2018 12:21 via twitter.com
  Ottawa heading back into the deep freeze! Details: bit.ly/2CQmnko twitter.com/1310Alexblack/…
  
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• Peak flu season is here -- 76 local cases confirmed: bit.ly/2CFVljb @MikeVlasveld https://t.co/CmrMunhfD9

  04-01-2018 12:13 via twitter.com
  
  Peak flu season is here -- 76 local cases confirmed: bit.ly/2CFVljb @MikeVlasveld https://t.co/CmrMunhfD9
  
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• Live 5-9 a.m. Ottawa's breaking news, traffic & weather with @Stu_McGinn & @1310Alexblack Listen: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  04-01-2018 10:54 via twitter.com
  Live 5-9 a.m.Ottawa's breaking news, traffic & weather with @Stu_McGinn & @1310Alexblack Listen:📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• National Shipbuilding Strategy has accomplishments worth highlighting – opinion piece

  04-01-2018 06:16 via ottawacitizen.com
  By Howie Smith
  Defence Watch Guest Writer
  The recent Ottawa Citizen article citing the release of the University of British Columbia (UBC) report entitled ‘ONTO the Rocks (14 December 2017)’, forms part of a continuing narrative that advances the thesis that Canada’s National Shipbuilding Strategy (NSS) is broken and destined to fail. Several defence experts and industrial players have focused on the challenges within individual NSS projects, while often failing to recognize th
  
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• Police investigate shots fired on Halifax Drive

  04-01-2018 05:56 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa police are investigating the first shooting of 2018.
  Police were called to the 2200 block of Halifax Drive at around 10:45 p.m. for a report of shots fired. Bullet casings were found at the scene, but there were no reports of injuries. Officers were combing the area Wednesday night, with the help of a police K9 unit.
  Ottawa police investigated more than 70 cases of shots fired in 2017.
  Anyone with information about the incident is asked to call police at 613-236-1222 ext. 5050 or Crime St
  
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• 'I want to live': Doctors amputate all woman's limbs after car crash, electric shock

  04-01-2018 02:19 via ottawacitizen.com
  Sabryna Mongeon woke up last week in a Montreal hospital bed.
  Then, doctors asked her if she wanted to live.
  She was supposed to be home in Gatineau, celebrating Christmas with friends. Instead, she had been brought out of an induced coma to face a choice: undergo surgeries to amputate all four of her limbs, or reject that treatment and eventually end her life.
  “And she said clearly, ‘Yes I want to live. I don’t want to die. I’m OK with the operation,'” recounted Sa
  
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• Updated: Joshua Boyle's journey from Afghanistan hostage to accused sex criminal

  04-01-2018 02:04 via ottawacitizen.com
  Joshua Boyle’s long trip through the criminal justice system began Wednesday in a small Ottawa courtroom in a disturbing sex-crimes case that has drawn worldwide attention.
  The case against Boyle is still in its early stages, but Ottawa police have charged him with 15 offences — ranging from assault to sex assault to forcible confinement — against two alleged victims.
  The identities of the victims — both living in Ottawa — are shielded by law.
  Boyle, 34, was he
  
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