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• Iconic downtown Westin Hotel hits the market

  30-01-2018 23:40 via ottawacitizen.com
  The owners of the Westin Ottawa have placed the high profile hotel on the market as they continue to sell off several Canadian properties.
  Starwood Capital has retained commercial real estate brokers Cushman & Wakefield to oversee the transaction. The company will also be overseeing the sale of Westin Hotels in Calgary and Edmonton.
  The agent listing the properties refused to estimate the value of the hotels.
  The move follows Starwood’s sale of Westin properties in Toronto and Vancouve
  
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• Axe-wielding motorist damages car in road rage incident

  30-01-2018 23:37 via ottawacitizen.com
  The OPP has requested the public’s help in identifying a motorist who attacked another car with a weapon in the parking lot of a Vars hotel. 
  The police received a 911 call at 5:45 p.m. Monday about an axe-wielding man who had left his vehicle to confront another driver in the parking lot of KC’s Country Inn on Burton Road. 
  The suspect approached the other driver and damaged his vehicle. The victim managed to escape and call 911. He last saw his attacker driving west on Bu
  
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• The tragic death of Ottawa's Cameron Scrim, killed in a hit-and-run

  30-01-2018 23:31 via ottawacitizen.com
  Nobody knew hard work like Cameron Scrim. 
  Dyslexic and funny as hell, he spent his high school nights at the kitchen table with his champion, Janet Scrim. She didn’t want her son to get left behind, so she spent her evenings guiding him through homework. And she rallied his teachers to help him graduate. The day he presented his diploma to his mother was a defining moment in their lives.
  Scrim always had to work harder than most, especially when it came to things some take for grante
  
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• Expensing NHL Classic tickets leads to councillors repaying taxpayers

  30-01-2018 23:28 via ottawacitizen.com
  Some Ottawa councillors who used their tax-funded office budgets to buy tickets for the NHL 100 Classic are paying the money back to the city.
  The outdoor game between the Ottawa Senators and Montreal Canadiens at Lansdowne Park was on Dec. 16.
  For councillors who used their office budgets to buy tickets, the spending showed up on the public disclosure of council office expenses.
  Kanata South Coun. Allan Hubley expensed $355 on tickets but on Tuesday, he said he would reimburse the city, acknowl
  
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• Police obtain warrant for man charged in Adam Perron killing

  30-01-2018 23:10 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa police have obtained a Canada-wide arrest warrant for a man charged in the killing of Adam Perron, the city’s third homicide victim this year.
  Ali Omar Mohamed, 20, has been charged with second-degree murder in the shooting death on Jan. 18 of Perron, 22, in an apartment at 125 McLeod St.
  Mohamed, who goes by the street name “Simba,” is considered by police to be armed and dangerous. Police warn the public not to approach him and to instead call police.
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• How Ontario has toughened careless driving penalties

  30-01-2018 22:57 via ottawacitizen.com
  After a history of emotionally-charged cases, there is finally a recognition in Ontario that a fatality caused by inattentive driving should not be treated like a speeding ticket or fender bender at a stop sign.
  Last September, the Ministry of Transportation announced the Highway Traffic Act would be amended so the careless driving section takes into account death or bodily harm. The maximum possible fine would jump from $2,000 to $50,000 and potential jail terms would increase from six months t
  
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• The advice to Rachel Homan's curling team: It's going to be loud at the Olympic Games

  30-01-2018 22:40 via ottawacitizen.com
  Even world champions feel like they could use some good advice.
  So Rachel Homan and her teammates cast a wide net over the curling community to gather as many tips as possible before entering the five-ring Olympic circus at Pyeongchang in a couple of weeks.
  The foursome based at the Ottawa Curling Club spoke to the Brad Jacobs and Jennifer Jones teams that won men’s and women’s Olympic gold for Canada at Sochi in 2014, as well as to their own alternate, Albertan Cheryl Bernard, who s
  
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• Egan: 'This is an insult,' widower says about guilty plea in wife's death

  30-01-2018 22:27 via ottawacitizen.com
  Robert Cadieux, 51, was never given his day in court, so now his hours bubble with suspicion and anger.
  The day he was denied — Jan. 9 — court accepted a guilty plea by a Quebec motorist who rear-ended the Cadieux vehicle on Highway 401, killing his wife Kristine, 32, and leaving Robert with injuries he has yet to recover from. Her death left him bereft, alone with three kids at home, and a sign-repair business he could no longer run.
  Not only was he mystified how this happened in hi
  
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• .@OttawaPolice seek 20 y.o. on 2nd degree murder charge. Warrant issued for Ali Omar Mohamed in Jan.18 shooting of… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  30-01-2018 22:18 via twitter.com
  .@OttawaPolice seek 20 y.o. on 2nd degree murder charge. Warrant issued for Ali Omar Mohamed in Jan.18 shooting of… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Feds should tell people how to grow pot safely in their homes, health unit says

  30-01-2018 21:52 via ottawacitizen.com
  If the federal government will let people grow pot in their homes, Health Canada better explain how to do it safely.
  That’s one of the pieces of advice from Ottawa Public Health, months before marijuana hits the legal retail market and the federal government relaxes cannabis laws across the country.
  The feds will allow adults to grow up to four marijuana plants in their homes for personal use.
  Vera Etches, the acting medical officer of health at OPH, wrote to Health Canada earlier this mon
  
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• BREAKING: In a statement posted to Twitter, Nepean-Carleton MPP Lisa MacLeod says she will not run for the leader of the Ontario PC Party.

  30-01-2018 21:44 via twitter.com
  BREAKING: In a statement posted to Twitter, Nepean-Carleton MPP Lisa MacLeod says she will not run for the leader of the Ontario PC Party.
  
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• ICYMI: Mosque vandalized with white supremacy posters in Bells Corners bit.ly/2rPR9IB https://t.co/6wOtbqWfTX

  30-01-2018 21:29 via twitter.com
  
  ICYMI: Mosque vandalized with white supremacy posters in Bells Corners bit.ly/2rPR9IB https://t.co/6wOtbqWfTX
  
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• Police say teen arrested for Orléans high school threat was 'swatting' victim

  30-01-2018 21:21 via ottawacitizen.com
  A 19-year-old who was arrested Monday after someone threatened an armed attack on Garneau High School in Orléans has been released unconditionally after an investigation showed his email account was hacked.
  Parents were sent a message early Monday morning asking them to keep their children at home because the safety of staff and students could be at stake. Buses were cancelled for the French-language Catholic school on rue Carrière in Orléans.
  Police say the young man, who w
  
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• JUST IN: Ottawa Public Health has issued a Frostbite Advisory. Temperatures are expected to dip to -26 on Wednesday. https://t.co/K3U4Hi4XTT

  30-01-2018 21:21 via twitter.com
  
  JUST IN: Ottawa Public Health has issued a Frostbite Advisory. Temperatures are expected to dip to -26 on Wednesday. https://t.co/K3U4Hi4XTT
  
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• Hôpital de Hull taking extra steps to control spread of flu following outbreak bit.ly/2Ep8kTX https://t.co/dWuh6VCV4N

  30-01-2018 21:18 via twitter.com
  
  Hôpital de Hull taking extra steps to control spread of flu following outbreak bit.ly/2Ep8kTX https://t.co/dWuh6VCV4N
  
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• STORY: Vic Fedeli says he won't run for leadership of the Ontario Progressive Conservatives bit.ly/2nn06Eo https://t.co/5FJi6CxXa9

  30-01-2018 21:13 via twitter.com
  
  STORY: Vic Fedeli says he won't run for leadership of the Ontario Progressive Conservatives bit.ly/2nn06Eo https://t.co/5FJi6CxXa9
  
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• Police search for suspect in alleged Kanata ATM theft

  30-01-2018 21:13 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa police are looking for a male suspect who allegedly stole from a Kanata senior at an ATM in October.
  Police said a man in his 80s had his bank card allegedly stolen at an ATM after the suspect looked over his shoulder while the victim typed in his PIN.
  After distracting the man and taking his card, police said the suspect convinced the man his card was seized by the ATM, then withdrew a large sum from the victim’s account at an adjacent machine.
  The suspect was captured on the ATM c
  
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• Denley: PC infighting is getting worse and worse

  30-01-2018 21:04 via ottawacitizen.com
  In less than a week, the Ontario Progressive Conservatives have gone from a credible alternative government to a second-rate circus with a surplus of clowns.
  After the sudden and shocking departure of leader Patrick Brown, the PCs had one credible path to victory. That was backing respected veteran MPP Vic Fedeli, who was caucus’s choice to carry the party through the election. Fedeli had vowed to stick with the platform the party had already released.
  Instead, the party executive decided
  
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• Reevely: Vic Fedeli bows out of PC leadership race — and that's the right move

  30-01-2018 20:13 via ottawacitizen.com
  Interim Progressive Conservative leader Vic Fedeli bailed out of his campaign to be the Ontario Tories’ permanent leader on Tuesday, less than a week after it started.
  “It has been a chaotic time for our party, and a steady hand is needed at the helm,” Fedeli said in a news conference. “We have learned our party is in much worse shape than we knew. Fixing this will be a massive undertaking. But it is essential, if we are to win the next election.”
  The party’s
  
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• Kingston man accused of poisoning fellow Queen's grad student

  30-01-2018 20:09 via ottawacitizen.com
  KINGSTON — Police in Kingston say a man is facing charges after allegedly poisoning his fellow graduate student.
  Police say they were called to Queen’s University on Monday after one graduate student was accused of poisoning another.
  Police say the alleged victim reported that the food he brought to work over the past few weeks had a bitter taste, and was making him feel ill.
  They say that the man reported the water he would take with him when he drove home to see his family on Frida
  
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• Ottawa-area restaurants that cracked list of Canada's most romantic

  30-01-2018 19:58 via ottawacitizen.com
  Everyone knows that restaurant business booms on Valentine’s Day. Less well-known, however, is the answer to the question: What are Canada’s most romantic restaurants?
  OpenTable, the online restaurant reservations service, has taken another stab at compiling just such a list of 100 restaurants ripe for lovers.
  “From coast to coast, Canada has endless romantic dining options,” said Caroline Potter, Chief Dining Officer, OpenTable. “This year’s list is the ideal
  
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• Cotton and Kitts: A new hospital in Ottawa – let's get underway

  30-01-2018 19:55 via ottawacitizen.com
  The opportunity to build a new health campus is rare and exciting. It’s our chance to shape our region’s health care for generations to come, and to strengthen Ottawa as a world leader in health research, innovation and care.
  On Wednesday at Lansdowne’s Horticulture Building, we will take an important step towards realizing that goal by sharing an initial concept for the new campus of The Ottawa Hospital, to replace the almost-100-year-old Civic Campus. This initial concept, ba
  
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• Hôpital de Hull enacts measures to combat flu outbreak

  30-01-2018 19:41 via ottawacitizen.com
  A flu outbreak at the Hôpital de Hull has prompted Outaoauis health authorities to implement additional safety measures.
  To prevent the flu’s spread, patients will be limited to one visitor at a time.
  Visitors must also wear a mask and wash their hands beforehand, and any visitors with a fever or respiratory problems are asked to postpone their visit.
  These rules currently apply only to the Hôpital de Hull and its clinics inside, but may be enforced later at other hospitals pen
  
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• Crews battle powerful house fire in Orléans

  30-01-2018 19:37 via ottawacitizen.com
  A fire over the noon-hour in Orléans was so powerful that, at one point, responders had to get out for safety reasons during a search for occupants.
  Ultimately, Ottawa Fire Services found no one was at home and no injuries were reported.
  Crews were called to 834 Vinette Cres. in Queenswood Village at 11:46 a.m. by a 911 call from a passerby who reported heavy smoke coming from the chimney and vents.
  Firefighters spotted a dog barking at the window but there was no immediate word on t
  
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• Former Ottawa gymnastics coach charged with sexually assaulting Toronto-area teen

  30-01-2018 19:36 via ottawacitizen.com
  A Toronto-area gymnastics coach who once worked in Ottawa is facing several sex-related offences after a teenaged girl he was coaching came forward with allegations of sexual assault.
  Earlier this year, investigators from the Peel Regional Police special victims unit were contacted by a 15-year-old girl from the Region of Peel. The girl reported several sex-related incidents that allegedly occurred between her and her gymnastics coach over a four-year period.
  On Jan. 26, a Canada-wide arrest war
  
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• The @rick_gibbons Show for Tuesday, January 30th: 1:08: @astroeducator 1:15: @dennis_dawson 1:30: @GryphonReport 1:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  30-01-2018 18:20 via twitter.com
  The @rick_gibbons Show for Tuesday, January 30th: 1:08: @astroeducator 1:15: @dennis_dawson 1:30: @GryphonReport 1:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Coming up at 12:30: @GabyDabrowski joins @_MarkSutcliffe on her Australian Open mixed doubles win: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  30-01-2018 18:15 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 12:30: @GabyDabrowski joins @_MarkSutcliffe on her Australian Open mixed doubles win: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Public to get first glimpse at architectural concept of new hospital

  30-01-2018 17:52 via ottawacitizen.com
  Residents will get a first glimpse this week of how a new Ottawa Hospital Civic campus might be situated on the eastern edge of the Central Experimental Farm.
  The new $2-billion-plus hospital, replacing the current Civic campus at Carling and Parkdale avenues, is not expected to be complete until 2026, but public engagement and planning are both underway.
  A draft architectural concept of the new hospital will be part of an update on planning for the hospital, which will take place at the Horticu
  
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• Coming up on the Power Lunch at 12: @MannLawyers Ted Mann & @JulieBeun join @_MarkSutcliffe in studio: 📻: 1310… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  30-01-2018 17:40 via twitter.com
  Coming up on the Power Lunch at 12: @MannLawyers Ted Mann & @JulieBeun join @_MarkSutcliffe in studio: 📻: 1310… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Residents applaud $1.4M bike path linking Chelsea to Hull

  30-01-2018 17:36 via ottawacitizen.com
  Residents have reacted positively to news of a four-kilometre bike path that will connect from Old Chelsea to the north end of Hull.
  The path, which will follow Mine, Notch and Kingsmere roads, will cost $1.4 million to build, split evenly between the federal, provincial and municipal governments, Liberal MP Will Amos announced this week.
  “The bike path project in Chelsea will create safe connections among our communities and offer residents of all ages of adopting an active mode of transp
  
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• Police say teen arrested for Orléans high school threat was hacking victim

  30-01-2018 17:36 via ottawacitizen.com
  A 19-year-old who was arrested Monday after someone threatened an armed attack on Garneau High School in Orléans has been released unconditionally after an investigation showed his email account was hacked.
  Parents were sent a message early Monday morning asking them to keep their children at home because the safety of staff and students could be at stake. Buses were cancelled for the French-language Catholic school on rue Carrière in Orléans.
  Police say the young man, who w
  
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• Which Ottawa restaurant's special poutine looks most edible to you?

  30-01-2018 17:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  Look out, arteries. La Poutine Week in Ottawa approaches.
  Five restaurants in the Ottawa area will be serving specially designed fries-and-curds creations from Feb. 1 to 7 as part of a national campaign involving 240 restaurants in Montreal, Quebec City, Toronto, Ottawa, Winnipeg, Vancouver, Edmonton, and Regina.
  Poutine-aholics are invited to vote for their favourites at lapoutineweek.com and a Best Poutine Award will be given out. As well, each city will have winners named in two cat
  
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• Denley: Here's why a PC leadership race would be a huge mistake

  30-01-2018 17:29 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Ontario Progressive Conservative Party has reached a decision point that will determine its future and shape politics in this province for many years to come.
  There are two clear choices.
  Members can support the approach taken by their elected representatives in caucus or they can back a do-over of leadership and even of the party platform just four months from the provincial election.
  The caucus, to its credit, has reacted swiftly and logically to former leader Patrick Brown’s shockin
  
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• Here are the seven Ottawa-area restaurants that cracked OpenTable's list of Canada's top 100 most romantic restaurants

  30-01-2018 17:24 via ottawacitizen.com
  Everyone knows that restaurant business booms on Valentine’s Day. Less well-known, however, is the answer to the question: What are Canada’s most romantic restaurants?
  OpenTable, the online restaurant reservations service, has taken another stab at compiling just such a list of 100 restaurants ripe for lovers.
  “From coast to coast, Canada has endless romantic dining options,” said Caroline Potter, Chief Dining Officer, OpenTable. “This year’s list is the ideal
  
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• Coming up at 11:30: @OPA_President joins @_MarkSutcliffe on street checks/gun violence in Ottawa: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  30-01-2018 17:22 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 11:30: @OPA_President joins @_MarkSutcliffe on street checks/gun violence in Ottawa:📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Cohen: Patrick Brown affair unveils a world of metaphorical mob rule

  30-01-2018 17:21 via ottawacitizen.com
  In 2016, over a class dinner on an out-of-town class field trip, one of my students was recalling her experience with Patrick Brown, until recently leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario.
  She had met him on a flight to Toronto, she told the group. She described Brown as a roué, I recall, a seducer who had texted her, invited her to a bar and, over time, “hit” on her. She would later come to work in his constituency office.
  There was no discernible anger or hur
  
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• Coming up at 11: @StephanieCarvin joins @_MarkSutcliffe in studio: 📻: 1310 💻: bit.ly/1uwtdOs 📞: 613-… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  30-01-2018 16:55 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 11: @StephanieCarvin joins @_MarkSutcliffe in studio: 📻: 1310 💻: bit.ly/1uwtdOs 📞: 613-… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Pentagon accused of censoring unclassified Afghan information as Taliban make gains

  30-01-2018 16:53 via ottawacitizen.com
  The U.S. government’s Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction has issued a new report for Congress. SIGAR, as the inspector is known, keeps an eye on how the billions of U.S. tax dollars are spent in Afghanistan.
  But things don’t appear to be going so well in Afghanistan and the Taliban and other insurgents have significantly ramped up their attacks. There have also been reports about the Taliban gaining control over increased amounts of territory.
  In his latest repo
  
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• Seoul: North Korea cancels pre-Olympic joint cultural event: bit.ly/2Gsm5ln https://t.co/TW3Nvb3WOs

  30-01-2018 16:30 via twitter.com
  
  Seoul: North Korea cancels pre-Olympic joint cultural event: bit.ly/2Gsm5ln https://t.co/TW3Nvb3WOs
  
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• Coming up 10:30: @Kyle_Duggan of @ipoliticscajoins @_MarkSutcliffe LIVE: 📻: 1310 💻: bit.ly/1uwtdOs… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  30-01-2018 16:25 via twitter.com
  Coming up 10:30:@Kyle_Duggan of @ipoliticscajoins @_MarkSutcliffe LIVE:📻: 1310 💻: bit.ly/1uwtdOs… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Police probe hate posters on Bells Corners mosque

  30-01-2018 15:49 via ottawacitizen.com
  City police say that they were called in at about 7 a.m. Tuesday to investigate “white power” posters discovered at an Old Richmond Road mosque.
  Witnesses described the posters as containing racist slogans and portraits of Adolf Hitler.
  The mosque is near the intersection of Seyton Drive, near the spot where 17-year-old Nick Hickey was struck and killed two weeks ago.
  A week later, shots were fired a block away.
  The incident follows a weekend of national memorials commemorating the o
  
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• BREAKING: @MacLeodLisa has been named the Finance Critic for the Ontario PC Party. #ottnews

  30-01-2018 15:48 via twitter.com
  BREAKING: @MacLeodLisa has been named the Finance Critic for the Ontario PC Party. #ottnews
  
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• POLL: Was it the right choice for the Cleveland Indians to drop the Wahoo logo from uniforms?

  30-01-2018 15:45 via twitter.com
  POLL: Was it the right choice for the Cleveland Indians to drop the Wahoo logo from uniforms?
  
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• House Works: Celebrating the revival of Harrowsmith, a Canadian rural-living icon

  30-01-2018 15:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  It always surprises me how many Canadians feel an attraction for rural life, even if they live in the city or suburbs.
  This national tendency isn’t universal, of course, but it is noticeably different than what I find in places like Europe, for instance.
  Maybe our attraction to gardening, preserving food, fixing up cottages or summer homes and connecting with the land comes from the fact that many of us Canadians are closer to our pioneer roots than other nations.
  Some of us only need to g
  
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• Coming up at 9:15: @1310JasonWhite joins @_MarkSutcliffe live from the scene: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  30-01-2018 15:10 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 9:15: @1310JasonWhite joins @_MarkSutcliffe live from the scene: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• STORY: Mosque vandalized with white supremacy posters in Bells Corners: bit.ly/2rPR9IB https://t.co/SI8IP4KtDQ

  30-01-2018 15:09 via twitter.com
  
  STORY: Mosque vandalized with white supremacy posters in Bells Corners: bit.ly/2rPR9IB https://t.co/SI8IP4KtDQ
  
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• The latest from a mosque in Bells Corners where police are investigating hate messages posted on the building.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  30-01-2018 14:58 via twitter.com
  The latest from a mosque in Bells Corners where police are investigating hate messages posted on the building.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Sajjan called out for not helping DND employees affected by Phoenix pay debacle

  30-01-2018 14:57 via ottawacitizen.com
  The NDP’s Randall Garrison isn’t too happy about how Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan is dealing with Phoenix pay problems affecting Department of National Defence employees. Garrison told the House of Commons Monday during Question Period that in November during a committee meeting, Sajjan had promised to look into Phoenix pay issues from three DND employees in Garrison’s riding. That riding includes CFB Esquimalt in BC.
  Sajjan apparently promised to fix those problems before Ch
  
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• POLL: Should the Ottawa Public Health supervised injection site on Clarence Street be made permanent?

  30-01-2018 14:43 via twitter.com
  POLL: Should the Ottawa Public Health supervised injection site on Clarence Street be made permanent?
  
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• Green party leader Elizabeth May asks lawyer to investigate bullying claims: bit.ly/2nqTkgd https://t.co/QD6IX8wMhP

  30-01-2018 14:38 via twitter.com
  
  Green party leader Elizabeth May asks lawyer to investigate bullying claims: bit.ly/2nqTkgd https://t.co/QD6IX8wMhP
  
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