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• Hijab-cutting case highlights ethical issues with putting kids in spotlight:experts

  16-01-2018 23:44 via ottawacitizen.com
  TORONTO The case of an 11-year-old Toronto girl who made headlines when she falsely claimed that a scissors-wielding stranger had cut her hijab highlights the complex ethical issues that arise when a child is thrust into the national spotlight, experts say.
  Police said this week their investigation found the alleged incident didn’t happen, just days after the girl and her family gave a detailed account during a high-profile news conference.
  The allegations captured international attention
  
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• Reevely: Ottawa police disband 'diminished' race-relations committee, promising better replacement

  16-01-2018 23:33 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Ottawa police committee on race relations needs to talk less and do more to fix a crisis in local policing, its civilian co-chair says.
  “I really feel like every officer at this point, there’s a morale issue,” said Ketcia Peters, who represents Haitian-Canadians on the Community and Police Action Committee, or COMPAC. “They don’t feel supported by their executive rank, they don’t feel supported by the community either.”
  The provincial government
  
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• Scanlan: Virtue and Moir make history carrying Canada's flag together into South Korea

  16-01-2018 23:08 via ottawacitizen.com
  Theirs is a sport of grace in motion, and so even a stroll to a podium in the halls of Parliament is a dance of sorts for Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir.
  And dance they did, with light hearts, to accept the honour of being Canada’s first duo flag-bearers for the opening ceremony at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea.
  Some Olympians, from Canada and elsewhere, have viewed the opening flag-bearer duty as a distraction, if not an outright curse for competitors in the five-ring
  
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• 'He should have got more,' says victim's family as Lonnie Leafloor killer sentenced

  16-01-2018 22:46 via ottawacitizen.com
  Lonnie Leafloor’s family said they are “disappointed” his killer, Idris Abdulgani, will be parole-eligible after serving 12 years of a life sentence for the October 2016 drug-fuelled killing.
  Barry Leafloor turned away and bowed his head to the courtroom floor as Abdulgani, 22, apologized to the family from the prisoner’s box Tuesday.
  “We were disappointed in 12 years (parole ineligibility),” the victim’s brother said outside court. “We all thought
  
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• #BREAKING Report of shots fired in Walkley Rd and Baycrest Rd. Police reporting minor injuries. MORE TO COME.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  16-01-2018 22:30 via twitter.com
  #BREAKINGReport of shots fired in Walkley Rd and Baycrest Rd.Police reporting minor injuries. MORE TO COME.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Lac-Megantic jurors say they are at an impasse on Day 6 of deliberations bit.ly/2B6IW1M https://t.co/HX0ZDfMLnV

  16-01-2018 21:42 via twitter.com
  
  Lac-Megantic jurors say they are at an impasse on Day 6 of deliberations bit.ly/2B6IW1M https://t.co/HX0ZDfMLnV
  
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• Man charged in pair of east-side robberies

  16-01-2018 21:24 via ottawacitizen.com
  A 53-year-old man is facing charges in a pair of east-side robberies, police say.
  Paul Doyle faces two counts of robbery, two counts of wearing a disguise and one count of possession of a weapon.
  Already behind bars, he is scheduled to appear in court Friday.
  Police said on Dec. 10, a suspect armed with a knife walked into a corner store on Shakespeare Street near Ste. Anne Avenue in Vanier and fled with an undisclosed sum of cash.
  Two days later, a suspect walked into a bank on nearby Montreal
  
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• No formal policing to keep federal dollars away from predatory journals

  16-01-2018 21:20 via ottawacitizen.com
  The federal agencies that distribute $3 billion a year for university and hospital research are counting on academics to police each other and prevent colleagues from publishing in “predatory” journals that print anything for cash.
  The Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) give research grants to professors and doctors.
  They say they don’t take any
  
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• ICYMI: Ice dancers Virtue and Moir to carry flag at Pyeongchang Olympics bit.ly/2Dc33gS https://t.co/91bNABGD5K

  16-01-2018 21:16 via twitter.com
  
  ICYMI: Ice dancers Virtue and Moir to carry flag at Pyeongchang Olympics bit.ly/2Dc33gS https://t.co/91bNABGD5K
  
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• Ottawa man charged with assault on plane in flight bit.ly/2mBKM5G https://t.co/jObDHVqeWZ

  16-01-2018 21:11 via twitter.com
  
  Ottawa man charged with assault on plane in flight bit.ly/2mBKM5G https://t.co/jObDHVqeWZ
  
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• Conference in Vancouver today aimed at cooling tensions on Korean Peninusla bit.ly/2mEqfNJ https://t.co/tVOCp4YMiE

  16-01-2018 21:06 via twitter.com
  
  Conference in Vancouver today aimed at cooling tensions on Korean Peninusla bit.ly/2mEqfNJ https://t.co/tVOCp4YMiE
  
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• House Works: Your questions on drying logs, wood siding, cracked windowsills

  16-01-2018 20:46 via ottawacitizen.com
  Drying logs for turning
  Q: What’s the best way to store and season round, fresh oak logs 12″ to 18″ long for wood turning on a lathe later?
   This dried, quarter section of log is being refined so it can be glued with other wood for use later.
  A: It’s pretty much impossible to stop round logs from cracking in at least one place as they dry unless you do one of two things.
  If you split the wood into quarter-sections of logs, then you can store them under cover and they
  
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• Want to buy a surplus Canadian Forces Lee Enfield rifle? Hold on

  16-01-2018 18:56 via ottawacitizen.com
  Defence Watch continues to receive email from readers inquiring about the status of the program to replace the Lee Enfield rifles being used by the Canadian Rangers.
  A number of readers hope to eventually purchase one of the rifles if they are to be made surplus.
  That won’t be happening for a while, if that option does emerge at all.
  The timing of the disposal of any surplus Lee Enfield rifles will depend on the project to provide the Rangers with new rifles.
  What is the status of that?
  A
  
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• Today's letters: Vice-Admiral Mark Norman, pay raises for educators

  16-01-2018 18:43 via ottawacitizen.com
  Today, readers weighed in on the investigation at DND, pay hikes for education executives and the state of our buses. Want to send us a letter on this or any other issue? We’re at: [email protected]
  Our guidelines can be found here. 
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  Norman case sounds like a witch hunt
  Re: Man overboard, Jan. 13.
  I am horrified at the treatment of Vice-Admiral Mark Norman. Is this how we treat an honourable member of our Armed Forces? Is this how we treat any citizen of our country? N
  
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• There has never been a better time for the Ottawa Senators to retool - the latest piece from @Stu_McGinn below.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  16-01-2018 18:26 via twitter.com
  There has never been a better time for the Ottawa Senators to retool - the latest piece from @Stu_McGinn below.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Ottawa academic Hassan Diab is back home, free for the first time in a decade

  16-01-2018 18:14 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa academic Hassan Diab is back home with his family and a free man for the first time in a decade.
  The 64-year-old former University of Ottawa and Carleton University professor walked out of a Paris maximum security prison on Friday shortly after France dropped terrorism charges against him but his departure from France, coordinated with Global Affairs in Ottawa and Paris, was far more rapid than expected.
  Diab, who is on a no-fly list, flew back home via Iceland on a temporary, one-journey
  
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• Cohen: Donald Trump, a deranged parrot in a gilded cage

  16-01-2018 17:52 via ottawacitizen.com
  In the Age of Trump, American democracy is under siege. The president’s attack on the judiciary, the media and the electoral process are among the existential threats to the United States.
  David Frum makes this case in his important new book, Trumpocracy: The Corruption of the American Republic. His call is clear and urgent, like a fire-bell in the night. He joins a legion of honest liberals and conservatives who worry about the erosion of institutions through greed, malfeasance, apathy, i
  
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• Hijabs and hate crimes – lessons from the 'hijab-cutting' story

  16-01-2018 17:48 via ottawacitizen.com
  Just as the villagers feel cheated when the boy cries wolf over and over, so, too, might some people feel frustrated at the statement from Toronto Police that an alleged incident in which an 11-year-old girl had her hijab cut on her way to school turned out not to have taken place at all. I personally felt slightly relieved.
  Last year, one of my own students, who was in Grade 8 at the time, was approached by a hateful man on her way to school. She was with her older brother, who was in Grade 10.
  
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• Scott Moir & Tessa Virtue will be #TeamCanada flag-bearers for the Opening Ceremonies at #PyongchangOlympics2018… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  16-01-2018 17:47 via twitter.com
  Scott Moir & Tessa Virtue will be #TeamCanada flag-bearers for the Opening Ceremonies at #PyongchangOlympics2018… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Coming up at 11:45: @Scott_Gilmore joins @_MarkSutcliffe to discuss David Letterman's new one-on-one show/ Donald… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  16-01-2018 17:40 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 11:45: @Scott_Gilmore joins @_MarkSutcliffe to discuss David Letterman's new one-on-one show/ Donald… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• The @rick_gibbons Show for Tuesday, January 16th: 1:08: @Timdim1 1:15: @AlisonLMcMahon 1:30: @GryphonReport 1:45:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  16-01-2018 17:33 via twitter.com
  The @rick_gibbons Show for Tuesday, January 16th: 1:08: @Timdim1 1:15: @AlisonLMcMahon 1:30: @GryphonReport 1:45:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Bluesfest announces Dave Matthews Band to play July 11

  16-01-2018 17:33 via ottawacitizen.com
  Even though the full lineup won’t be announced just yet, Ottawa’s RBC Bluesfest tossed eager fans a bone early Tuesday with the news that Dave Matthews Band would be headlining on July 11.
  Bluesfest officials made the announcement about the American rock band on Twitter and said a more complete lineup would be publicized in the weeks ahead.
  The annual music bash, which is held near the War Museum at Lebreton Flats, is a major attraction in the nation’s capital that goes on for
  
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• Kids chained in Calif. house of horrors; parents arrested: bit.ly/2B5j1HZ https://t.co/tEkT5uBoYA

  16-01-2018 17:17 via twitter.com
  
  Kids chained in Calif. house of horrors; parents arrested: bit.ly/2B5j1HZ https://t.co/tEkT5uBoYA
  
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• Good Samaritan rescues elderly woman with hypothermia

  16-01-2018 16:54 via ottawacitizen.com
  A woman who opened the door to an elderly woman wandering in the Hunt Club area without winter clothing during a frostbite advisory early Tuesday morning may have saved her from serious injury or even death, paramedics said.
  The Good Samaritan saw the woman walking on Uplands Drive near Paul Anka Drive at 6:15 a.m. She took the octogenarian into her home, provided her with warm clothes and called 911. 
  Responding paramedics found she’d suffered minor frostbite and mild hypothermia. Th
  
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• Coming up at 11: @StephanieCarvin joins @_MarkSutcliffe in studio for weekly International Affairs segment: 📻: 1… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  16-01-2018 16:40 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 11: @StephanieCarvin joins @_MarkSutcliffe in studio for weekly International Affairs segment:📻: 1… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Coming up at 10:45: Weekly guest @michaeltaube joins @_MarkSutcliffe live: 📻: 1310 💻: bit.ly/1uwtdOs… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  16-01-2018 16:39 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 10:45:Weekly guest @michaeltaube joins @_MarkSutcliffe live:📻: 1310 💻: bit.ly/1uwtdOs… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Coming up NEXT @Kyle_Duggan of @ipoliticsca joins @_MarkSutcliffe LIVE: 📻: 1310 💻: bit.ly/1uwtdOs 📞:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  16-01-2018 16:29 via twitter.com
  Coming up NEXT @Kyle_Duggan of @ipoliticsca joins @_MarkSutcliffe LIVE: 📻: 1310 💻: bit.ly/1uwtdOs 📞:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Survey finds 1/3 of Canadians can't pay monthly bills as rates set to rise: bit.ly/2mBKP1v https://t.co/luPFAQqAm3

  16-01-2018 15:59 via twitter.com
  
  Survey finds 1/3 of Canadians can't pay monthly bills as rates set to rise: bit.ly/2mBKP1v https://t.co/luPFAQqAm3
  
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• Can Canada broker peace with North Korea? @IvisonJ joins @_MarkSutcliffe live at 9:15: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  16-01-2018 15:05 via twitter.com
  Can Canada broker peace with North Korea?@IvisonJ joins @_MarkSutcliffe live at 9:15:📻: 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 1310 NEWS & @rogersottawa22: 📻: 131… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  16-01-2018 14:55 via twitter.com
  On Air: 9 a.m to 1 p.m. Ottawa Today live with your host @_MarkSutcliffe on 1310 NEWS & @rogersottawa22: 📻: 131… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• POLL: Should the city invest more in social services to prevent gun violence? Story: bit.ly/2FHOund

  16-01-2018 14:48 via twitter.com
  POLL: Should the city invest more in social services to prevent gun violence?Story: bit.ly/2FHOund
  
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• Power Outage: @HydroOttawa is says power is out for 1279 customers in the Dwyer Hill Rd, Fallowfield Rd, Munster… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  16-01-2018 14:23 via twitter.com
  Power Outage: @HydroOttawa is says power is out for 1279 customers in the Dwyer Hill Rd, Fallowfield Rd, Munster… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• City bylaw considering adding resources as calls for service spike: bit.ly/2reBeTw https://t.co/mXinbpf2p1

  16-01-2018 14:17 via twitter.com
  
  City bylaw considering adding resources as calls for service spike: bit.ly/2reBeTw https://t.co/mXinbpf2p1
  
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• It's going to be cold and snowy but there's a silver lining

  16-01-2018 14:11 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa is finally coming out of the deep freeze.
  There’s nary a special weather statement or frostbite warning in sight and watch for above-zero temperatures by the weekend.
  Tuesday’s forecast is for a high of -12 C and periods of light snow totaling 2 cm, a 40 per cent chance of evening flurries and a low of -15 C.
  Looking good!pic.twitter.com/cTcA40mu8N
  — RideauCanalSkateway (@NCC_Skateway) January 15, 2018First impressions of Ottawa: it is really friggin’ col
  
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• Yellow Pages Ltd. cutting 18 per cent of employees, roughly 500 jobs: bit.ly/2B3xjZI https://t.co/Z06HzzUmyB

  16-01-2018 13:55 via twitter.com
  
  Yellow Pages Ltd. cutting 18 per cent of employees, roughly 500 jobs: bit.ly/2B3xjZI https://t.co/Z06HzzUmyB
  
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• POLL: Do you think China and Russia should have been invited to a North Korea summit being held in Vancouver?… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  16-01-2018 13:46 via twitter.com
  POLL: Do you think China and Russia should have been invited to a North Korea summit being held in Vancouver?… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Trudeau defends North Korea meeting in the face of Russian, Chinese criticism: bit.ly/2ELbrV2 https://t.co/4R4jYv6dhh

  16-01-2018 13:44 via twitter.com
  
  Trudeau defends North Korea meeting in the face of Russian, Chinese criticism: bit.ly/2ELbrV2 https://t.co/4R4jYv6dhh
  
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• Tragic start to 2018 on Ontario's highways, 26 people killed: bit.ly/2mAy2fw https://t.co/e3W0v39GPB

  16-01-2018 13:23 via twitter.com
  
  Tragic start to 2018 on Ontario's highways, 26 people killed: bit.ly/2mAy2fw https://t.co/e3W0v39GPB
  
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• UK police say death of Dolores O'Riordan not suspicious: bit.ly/2Dnah5c https://t.co/RGjbeITPnM

  16-01-2018 13:02 via twitter.com
  
  UK police say death of Dolores O'Riordan not suspicious: bit.ly/2Dnah5c https://t.co/RGjbeITPnM
  
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• Egan: Pastor says abortion clause means he can't apply for federal job funding

  16-01-2018 13:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  Rev. Tim Moyle looks after three small Catholic parishes in the Upper Ottawa Valley — hustling between churches on Saturday evening and Sunday morning.
  One priest, one secretary and a whack of territory around Allumettes Island, on the Quebec side of the river across from Pembroke, all working in mysterious ways.
  This summer, as in others, Rev. Moyle hoped to hire three summer students — two to help with lawns and yard work, another to do office work, including digitizing baptismal r
  
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• Editorial: Reveal the case against Vice-Admiral Mark Norman

  16-01-2018 13:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  A little more than a year ago, the second in command of the Canadian Forces, Vice-Admiral Mark Norman, was removed from his job by Chief of Defence Staff Gen. Jon Vance. The reasons were kept secret, even as the RCMP was removing laptops, phones and records – including many of his wife’s personal files – from his home.
  Today, while a few details of the investigation have leaked out, Norman still has not been charged, and has never had an opportunity to defend himself in any off
  
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• Science of Winter: Bears sleep through winter — but not as deeply as you'd think

  16-01-2018 01:28 via ottawacitizen.com
  Today we continue our annual look at what makes this season special, a time when nature is doing much more than just turning dormant for three months. Welcome to the Science of Winter.
  There’s hibernating and there’s hibernating among winter animals. In the cold season, black bears go to sleep, but not as deeply as you might think.
  Here’s a hint. Mid-winter is not a safe time to decide the bear is asleep so you can poke it with a stick. It might wake up and object.
  Now, there&r
  
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• Black war hero honoured posthumously as Martin Luther King 'Dreamkeeper'

  16-01-2018 01:26 via ottawacitizen.com
  Pvt. Lloyd States never saw himself as a pioneer in the civil rights movement.
  He was a soldier, and like many veterans of battle, he came home to New Glasgow, N.S., after the Second World War a broken man.
  “Horrible things happened at night. He was in combat mode and we were the enemy,” his daughter, Margaret States, said Monday after she accepted the 2018 Ottawa DreamKeepers’ Jean Augustine Life Achievement Award on behalf of her father, who died in 1996. The award was given
  
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