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• Reevely: At Ottawa police's GLBT committee, wounds from Pride battle haven't healed

  23-01-2018 23:38 via ottawacitizen.com
  Nine months after the group that’s supposed to connect Ottawa police to the city’s queer community nearly tore itself apart over Chief Charles Bordeleau’s decision to march in uniform in the city’s gay-pride parade, it’s still in crisis, according to members and its own records.
  “The police report something, we report something, they say they’re going to look into it, we never hear back,” said Jeremy Dias, the director of the Canadian Centre f
  
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  23-01-2018 23:26 via twitter.com
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• Forbes: Here's why we can't buy our warships from foreign companies

  23-01-2018 23:23 via ottawacitizen.com
  It is so simple, according to some: Just go out to your foreign new warship dealer and buy the warship of your dreams for billions less than you can build it is Canada. Take the savings and pay ex-shipyard workers Employment Insurance for 10 years. 
  This would, of course, close every shipyard capable of building large ships in Canada – all three of them. Why did nobody think of it before?
  Well, they have, and for decades the idea has been rejected by every type of government. Because
  
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• Ottawa-area chefs Che Chartrand and Ross Fraser head to Korea to feed Canada's Olympians

  23-01-2018 22:51 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa-area chef Che Chartrand knows that he’ll miss his family terribly when he’s away next month. And he hasn’t forgotten about the geopolitical tensions at play in the part of the world he’ll be visiting.
  “Hopefully things go well with the North (Koreans) so that I get back in one piece,” Chartrand kids. 
  The Wakefield chef will head, at the end of January, for Korea, where he will work as  sous-chef at Canada Olympic House at the 2018 Winter Olym
  
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• Bluesfest looking for ideas for this year's 10-day festival

  23-01-2018 22:27 via ottawacitizen.com
  Do you have a suggestion on how to improve Bluesfest?Organizers of Ottawa’s biggest and most diverse summer music festival are holding a public meeting on Jan. 30 to discuss issues related to the 10-day event, which is scheduled for July 5-15.Bluesfest’s executive director Mark Monahan said the meeting was prompted by a greater-than-usual amount of feedback in the two months following the festival, with comments ranging from security concerns to programming ideas to pedestrian traffi
  
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• Ammonia spill closes Gatineau Olympiques' arena

  23-01-2018 22:13 via ottawacitizen.com
  An ammonia spill shut down the Robert Guertin Centre in Gatineau Tuesday and postponed a Gatineau Olympiques game scheduled for the following day.
  The arena is home to the Olympiques, who were slotted to play the Blainville-Boisbriand Armada.
  Crews were working to clean the mess, and the arena was closed until further notice. An update was expected by noon Wednesday.
   
   
  
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• Cyclone helicopters conduct training with Asterix

  23-01-2018 22:04 via ottawacitizen.com
  Royal Canadian Navy and RCAF personnel are conducting training on MV Asterix, the new supply ship being leased to the government by Federal Fleet Services. Here are photos from Federal Fleet of some of that training:
  
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• Ottawa-area chefs Che Chartrand and Ross Fraser head to Korea to feed Canadian Olympians

  23-01-2018 21:53 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa-area chef Che Chartrand knows that he’ll miss his family terribly when he’s away next month. And he hasn’t forgotten about the geopolitical tensions at play in the part of the world he’ll be visiting.
  “Hopefully things go well with the North (Koreans) so that I get back in one piece,” Chartrand kids. 
  The Wakefield-based chef will head, at the end of January, to Korea, where he will work as the sous-chef at Canada Olympic House at the 2018 Winter O
  
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• UPDATED: 2 dead, 19 injured in Kentucky school shooting bit.ly/2DDpYFq https://t.co/pGIPkbJzJm

  23-01-2018 21:29 via twitter.com
  
  UPDATED: 2 dead, 19 injured in Kentucky school shooting bit.ly/2DDpYFq https://t.co/pGIPkbJzJm
  
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• JUST IN: An ammonia leak has temporarily closed Robert-Guertin Arena in Gatineau. As a result, the Gatineau Olympiq… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  23-01-2018 21:24 via twitter.com
  JUST IN: An ammonia leak has temporarily closed Robert-Guertin Arena in Gatineau. As a result, the Gatineau Olympiq… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Gatineau police nab accused coke smuggler wanted since 1999

  23-01-2018 21:22 via ottawacitizen.com
  When Gatineau police officers got a routine call to check out a suspicious person Monday night they ended up with an unexpected collar – a man who’s been in the lam for nearly two decades in connection with a massive money-laundering scheme that included the shipment of hundreds of kilograms of cocaine for organized crime.
  Officers were called by an alert citizen to an area near the intersection of Saint-Raymond and Cité-des-Jeunes boulevards.
  They spotted a man who matched th
  
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• Bell Canada alerts customers who may be affected by data breach bit.ly/2n8K3Kv https://t.co/9ONzxYwH9o

  23-01-2018 21:22 via twitter.com
  
  Bell Canada alerts customers who may be affected by data breach bit.ly/2n8K3Kv https://t.co/9ONzxYwH9o
  
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• Man who police say has mob connections arrested on drug charges in Gatineau bit.ly/2G8v5Md https://t.co/8dpdmBz93U

  23-01-2018 21:15 via twitter.com
  
  Man who police say has mob connections arrested on drug charges in Gatineau bit.ly/2G8v5Md https://t.co/8dpdmBz93U
  
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• ICYMI: Freezing rain warning ended but roads still slippery & wet around Ottawa bit.ly/2DBPwDB https://t.co/VRwlML2cib

  23-01-2018 21:08 via twitter.com
  
  ICYMI: Freezing rain warning ended but roads still slippery & wet around Ottawa bit.ly/2DBPwDB https://t.co/VRwlML2cib
  
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• One person arrested, search continues for two others in Nepean armed robbery

  23-01-2018 21:03 via ottawacitizen.com
  The search continues for two of three suspects following an armed robbery Tuesday morning at a business on the 100 block of Concourse Gate, near Colonnade Road and Prince of Wales Drive.
  Police say one suspect has been arrested in connection with the robbery, which happened at around 11 a.m.
  Additional patrol units and search dogs remain on the scene continuing the search.
  Police would not identify the business and did not report any injuries in the case.
  People in the area who see any susp
  
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• Today's letters: Cameras and care, road fees and free trade

  23-01-2018 19:40 via ottawacitizen.com
  Today, you wrote to us about elder care, NAFTA, fees for using the roads and politics for the rest of us. We’re happy to get letters, at [email protected]
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  Put more cameras in care homes
  Re: Letter, Regulate personal support workers, Jan. 20.
  The idea that regulating personal support workers will solve the problem about the abuse of elderly patients at long-term care homes by PSWs is misguided. The government will not solve the problem, and regulation will only make it more
  
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• City planning committee approves new Rochester Field deal with NCC

  23-01-2018 19:28 via ottawacitizen.com
  City council’s  planning committee on Tuesday accepted a controversial new deal Ottawa bureaucrats have struck with the National Capital Commission over future development in Rochester Field.
  Several residents who live near the Westboro greenspace told the committee that the city shouldn’t allow development along the edge of Richmond Road, blocking the view across the field. They called for more consultation.
  Gary Luddington, the chair of the Westboro Community Association, said
  
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• Photos: Goodbye Sea Kings

  23-01-2018 19:11 via ottawacitizen.com
  The RCAF sent these photos to Defence Watch from the Friday flypast in Halifax to mark the end of Sea King operations at Shearwater. Sea Kings will still be on board RCN ships but they will be from the west coast squadron, the Department of National Defence says. Here is the photo caption to go along with these pics:
  “CH-124 Sea King helicopters from 12 Wing Shearwater-based 423 Squadron practice for a flypast to mark the final operation flight of Sea Kings by their Squadron, which is sche
  
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• Cohen: Trump, Trudeau both personify ageist views

  23-01-2018 18:43 via ottawacitizen.com
  Say what you will about Donald Trump, he’s giving old age new life. Seniors everywhere should rejoice.
  Trump will be 72 in June. He is the oldest elected president in the history of the United States. (By contrast, Ronald Reagan was a stripling of 69 when he took office in 1981.)
  Trump, in fact, represents the opposite of a youth movement; in a manner of speaking, his presidency is a senior moment. But age is not his claim alone. In 2018, age defines America’s political class, and do
  
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• Charlebois: The Tim Hortons brand is in trouble

  23-01-2018 18:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  Destroying Canadian icons seems to be a trend. In 2017, it was Sears.
  Now, as minimum wage policies are slowly shifting countrywide, and not just in Ontario, Alberta and British Columbia, Tim Hortons, or perhaps Restaurant Brands International (RBI), is displaying what many would consider unwise resistance.
  Several Canadian retail icons have crumbled due to weak managerial strategies. This was the case with Eaton’s and most recently, Sears. Most closures, though, have been self-inflicted.
  
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• Coming up at 12:30: @obj_news @CarolinePhil joins @_marksutcliffe with your Ottawa social calendar: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  23-01-2018 18:25 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 12:30: @obj_news @CarolinePhil joins @_marksutcliffe with your Ottawa social calendar: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Weather: Freezing rain warning ends after school buses cancelled, thunder, lightning

  23-01-2018 18:17 via ottawacitizen.com
  Rise and shine to cancelled flights and school buses, power outages and reports of thunder, lightning, heavy rain and ice pellets.
  The freezing rain warning for the capital region ended at about 10:10 a.m., although forecasters cautioned there might still be the occasional freezing drizzle through the rest of the morning and early afternoon.
  Residents awoke Tuesday to snow glazed with a thick layer of ice, and conditions kept getting more treacherous through the early commute. 
  Thunder, lig
  
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• The @rick_gibbons Show for Tuesday, January 23rd: 1:08: @ottawacity 1:22: @gtaweather1 1:30: @GryphonReport 1:45:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  23-01-2018 18:12 via twitter.com
  The @rick_gibbons Show for Tuesday, January 23rd: 1:08: @ottawacity 1:22: @gtaweather1 1:30: @GryphonReport 1:45:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Kaasalainen and Sussman: Let's discuss end-of-life issues – now

  23-01-2018 17:55 via ottawacitizen.com
  Many people have been faced with critical decisions for family and friends who are at the end of their lives. This can stress and burden family members trying to navigate the social and health care systems even as they face impending loss and grief.
  A large proportion of these struggles occur in long-term care homes, where almost one-third of residents die every year. To compound the issue, families often face making decisions for loved ones who have lost cognitive capacity, leaving families and
  
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• Sens-Ottawa love affair is a two-way street: @dale_l_sheehan joins @_MarkSutcliffe coming up at 11:45: 📻: 1310… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  23-01-2018 17:38 via twitter.com
  Sens-Ottawa love affair is a two-way street: @dale_l_sheehan joins @_MarkSutcliffe coming up at 11:45: 📻: 1310… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Coming up on the Power Lunch at 12 p.m. @awudrick & Ottawa Lawyer John MacDonell join @_MarkSutcliffe in studio:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  23-01-2018 17:35 via twitter.com
  Coming up on the Power Lunch at 12 p.m.@awudrick & Ottawa Lawyer John MacDonell join @_MarkSutcliffe in studio:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Coming up at 11:30: Chair of Nanos Research and Author of ‘Age of Voter Rage’ @niknanos joins @_MarkSutcliffe liv… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  23-01-2018 17:25 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 11:30: Chair of Nanos Research and Author of ‘Age of Voter Rage’ @niknanos joins @_MarkSutcliffe liv… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Coming up at 11: @StephanieCarvin in studio with @_MarkSutcliffe for weekly International Affairs segment 📻: 131… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  23-01-2018 16:50 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 11: @StephanieCarvin in studio with @_MarkSutcliffe for weekly International Affairs segment📻: 131… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Weather: Freezing rain warning ends after school buses cancellations, thunder, lightning

  23-01-2018 16:34 via ottawacitizen.com
  Rise and shine to cancelled flights and school buses, power outages and reports of thunder, lightning, heavy rain and ice pellets.
  The freezing rain warning for the capital region ended at about 10:10 a.m., although forecasters cautioned there might still be the occasional freezing drizzle through the rest of the morning and early afternoon.
  Residents awoke Tuesday to snow glazed with a thick layer of ice, and conditions kept getting more treacherous through the early commute. 
  Thunder, lig
  
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• The freezing rain warning for the Ottawa-Gatineau region has ended. #ottnews

  23-01-2018 16:12 via twitter.com
  The freezing rain warning for the Ottawa-Gatineau region has ended. #ottnews
  
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• Fewer than half of Canadians hold optimistic, open view of the world: poll: bit.ly/2DDXyew https://t.co/0aAyQngVHG

  23-01-2018 15:55 via twitter.com
  
  Fewer than half of Canadians hold optimistic, open view of the world: poll: bit.ly/2DDXyew https://t.co/0aAyQngVHG
  
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• Veteran Leeds OPP officer pleads guilty to theft, drugs, weapons charges

  23-01-2018 15:51 via ottawacitizen.com
  A Leeds County OPP officer has pleaded guilty to theft, drug and firearms charges, including theft of more than $5,000 from the provincial police.
  George Duke, a 20-year veteran of the force, pleaded guilty to the six charges in the Ontario Court of Justice in Brockville this week. The charges included the theft of more than $5,000, which was the property of the OPP, and one charge of breach of trust in connection with the theft. He also pleaded guilty to the careless storage of a .22-
  
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• Coming up on the 10 O'Clock Talk: @KimothyWalker, @SusanSherring & @Justin_Ling join @_MarkSutcliffe live: 📻: 1… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  23-01-2018 15:45 via twitter.com
  Coming up on the 10 O'Clock Talk: @KimothyWalker, @SusanSherring & @Justin_Ling join @_MarkSutcliffe live: 📻: 1… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• "Tonya Harding is having her moment of redemption. Now Nancy Kerrigan deserves hers" @AliYarrow joins… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  23-01-2018 15:40 via twitter.com
  "Tonya Harding is having her moment of redemption. Now Nancy Kerrigan deserves hers"@AliYarrow joins… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• #BREAKING Twitter's Chief Operating Officer Anthony Noto has resigned. https://t.co/oEt0N7N4JT

  23-01-2018 15:28 via twitter.com
  
  #BREAKING Twitter's Chief Operating Officer Anthony Noto has resigned. https://t.co/oEt0N7N4JT
  
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• Police say missing man, 62, found safe and sound

  23-01-2018 14:18 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa police say Robert O’Gorman, 62, reported missing in Ottawa’s west end Monday, has been found safe and sound.
   
  
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• Weather: School buses cancelled in face of thunder, lightning, ice pellets, freezing rain

  23-01-2018 13:53 via ottawacitizen.com
  Rise and shine to cancelled flights and school buses, power outages and reports of thunder, lightning, heavy rain and ice pellets.
  A freezing rain warning remained in in effect and after waking to snow glazed with a thick layer of ice, Tuesday morning just kept getting more treacherous. 
  Thunder, lightning, ice pellets and freezing rain are tracking West to East across Ottawa with temperatures a few degrees below zero. #OttWx pic.twitter.com/fw8Ur4cqRY
  — YOW Weather Records (@YOW_Weat
  
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• Prescott Ultramar sorry for accidental diesel dump into regular tanks

  23-01-2018 13:29 via ottawacitizen.com
  Customers who filled up at the Ultramar station in Prescott last week are facing hundreds of dollars in repair bills after pumping diesel into their vehicles instead of regular gas.
  Ultramar says it will compensate its customers for the damage to their vehicles, according to Ultramar spokesman Pierre Tessier. He didn’t know how many vehicles were affected. 
  The problem occurred after an Ultramar delivery tanker mistakenly filled regular unleaded tanks with diesel on the evening of Jan
  
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• School bus cancellations for Tuesday morning

  23-01-2018 13:17 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa and area school buses are cancelled Tuesday morning due to freezing rain. However, all schools remain open.
  School bus service for the following have been cancelled:
  Ottawa District School BoardCatholic District School Board of Eastern OntarioRenfrew County Catholic District School BoardRenfrew County District School BoardUpper Canada District School Board
  All sporting events for the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board and Upper Canada District School Board have been cancelled.
  
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• POWER OUTAGE: Nearly 5,400 homes and businesses are without power in #Renfrew County. Hydro One hopes to have power… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  23-01-2018 12:49 via twitter.com
  POWER OUTAGE: Nearly 5,400 homes and businesses are without power in #Renfrew County. Hydro One hopes to have power… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Here's the latest school bus information from the 1310 NEWS Extreme Weather Centre: (The full list is at… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  23-01-2018 12:43 via twitter.com
  Here's the latest school bus information from the 1310 NEWS Extreme Weather Centre:(The full list is at… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• The roads are slippery. @OttawaPolice say, if you are travelling, drive according to the road conditions and leav… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  23-01-2018 12:28 via twitter.com
  The roads are slippery. @OttawaPolice say, if you are travelling, drive according to the road conditions and leav… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Live updates from the 1310 NEWS Extreme Weather Centre have all your cancellations and delays. Listen: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  23-01-2018 12:21 via twitter.com
  Live updates from the 1310 NEWS Extreme Weather Centre have all your cancellations and delays.Listen:📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• ALERT: Redeemer Christian High School on Colonnade Road is closed today. Exams will be written tomorrow.

  23-01-2018 12:01 via twitter.com
  ALERT: Redeemer Christian High School on Colonnade Road isclosed today. Exams will be written tomorrow.
  
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• Canadian holiday spending inches upward, according to Moneris

  23-01-2018 12:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  Consumers lightly stretched their wallets during the Christmas season, according to a Canadian payment processing firm.
  Moneris, one of the largest payment processing companies in North America, tracked spending at more than 350,000 merchants across Canada throughout the busy holiday shopping season.
  According to the company, Canadians spent on average around 4.26 per cent more in the final three months of 2017 than they did during the same time period one year earlier. The company said the slig
  
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• Trudeau arrives at Davos to pitch investment opportunities in Canada: bit.ly/2Dx3W86 https://t.co/1ziU9acsS1

  23-01-2018 11:55 via twitter.com
  
  Trudeau arrives at Davos to pitch investment opportunities in Canada: bit.ly/2Dx3W86 https://t.co/1ziU9acsS1
  
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• STORY: Magnitude 8.2 triggers tsunami warning in B.C. and Alaska: bit.ly/2n53FhE https://t.co/t4j22yBlmr

  23-01-2018 11:46 via twitter.com
  
  STORY: Magnitude 8.2 triggers tsunami warning in B.C. and Alaska: bit.ly/2n53FhE https://t.co/t4j22yBlmr
  
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• And @jilltaylor680 says, as of 2 a.m., we've had: -about 8 cm of snow & ice pellets -about 1 or 2 mm of ice accret… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  23-01-2018 11:21 via twitter.com
  And @jilltaylor680 says, as of 2 a.m., we've had:-about 8 cm of snow & ice pellets -about 1 or 2 mm of ice accret… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• BREAKING: All school buses for the Upper Canada District School Board and Catholic District School Board of Eastern… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  23-01-2018 11:15 via twitter.com
  BREAKING: All school buses for the Upper Canada District School Board and Catholic District School Board of Eastern… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• BREAKING: A tsunami warning has been posted for the coasts of British Columbia and Alaska following a powerful 8.2… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  23-01-2018 11:11 via twitter.com
  BREAKING: A tsunami warning has been posted for the coasts of British Columbia and Alaska following a powerful 8.2… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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