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• Two charged after swapping seats in the middle of driving

  31-01-2018 23:26 via ottawacitizen.com
  An Ottawa police constable couldn’t believe his eyes after a driver and passenger in the same vehicle swapped seats while allegedly speeding at 121 km/h on Limebank Road Wednesday.
  Const. Phil Kane said he was patrolling traffic when he saw a GMC pickup truck speeding northbound on the 80-kilometre per hour stretch of Limebank Road, just south of River Road.
  Kane said it would have been a routine traffic stop — until he saw the driver and a passenger switch spots while allegedly trav
  
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• The CHEO Dream home could (still) be yours

  31-01-2018 23:24 via ottawacitizen.com
  While you may not have won this year’s CHEO Dream home, you can still own it.
  Dan Champagne — vice president, development and corporate relations at CHEO — said the grand prize winner, Sophie Rybak, chose not to live in the house because she needs a home that is accessible for a family member who has mobility issues.
  Champagne said there are a variety of reasons winners choose to not live in CHEO dream homes.
  “We do have some people that move into them and stay there
  
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• Four wards might miss out on $10M 'Christmas miracle'

  31-01-2018 23:07 via ottawacitizen.com
  Four wards might not get a penny from the extra $10 million shovelled into asset maintenance for 2018.
  The list of allocations will be up for approval at a finance and economic development committee meeting on Tuesday. There are some eye-catching numbers in the ward-by-ward breakdown, like the four zeros in a column summarizing the amount divvied up from the $10 million.
  Alta Vista, Rideau-Rockcliffe, Rideau-Vanier and Somerset won’t receive extra asset renewal funding if council approves
  
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• Crime Stoppers offering $2,000 for tips leading to illegal guns

  31-01-2018 23:07 via ottawacitizen.com
  Crime Stoppers says it will pay $2,000 for tips leading to the seizure of illegal guns in response to an increase in the city’s gun violence.
  The $2,000 — the maximum cash reward offered by Crime Stoppers — will be offered between Feb. 1 and April 30.
  ” We have seen an increase in the reckless use of illegal firearms in public areas close to where children play in the daytime,” Richard McMullen, president of the National Capital Area Crime Stoppers, said in a releas
  
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• Court upholds policy that doctors must refer patients for assisted death

  31-01-2018 23:05 via ottawacitizen.com
  In what is being called a “victory for patients’ rights,” an Ontario court has ruled that all doctors — including those who object for religious reasons — must refer patients for medically assisted death.
  The ruling on Wednesday from the Ontario Superior Court was in response to a constitutional challenge led by the Christian Medical and Dental Society and five physicians, including Ottawa’s Dr. Agnes Tanguay. The challengers, who are conscientious objectors t
  
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• Two men charged in swarming, victim stabbed near Tunney's Pasture

  31-01-2018 22:52 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa police have laid charges on two men accused of swarming two victims and stabbing one of them at Tunney’s Pasture Tuesday night.
  At 9:45 p.m., police said a man and woman were walking along a pathway by Tunney’s Pasture when four male suspects swarmed them. One of the suspects, armed with a knife, confronted the woman and took her purse, while the man was pushed to the ground and assaulted after the suspects demanded he give them his bag, police said.
  Police tracked a blood tra
  
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• Red-light camera revenue should go directly to road safety programs, mayor says

  31-01-2018 22:40 via ottawacitizen.com
  Fine revenue generated by Ottawa’s red-light cameras should go directly to police and the city’s road safety program, Mayor Jim Watson said Wednesday in his annual state of the city speech.
  “I will propose that the next council allocate 100 per cent of this revenue to the police service and Safer Roads Ottawa for further enforcement and to strengthen road safety initiatives,” Watson said in his speech, which was at the beginning of the first council meeting of 2018.
  Watso
  
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• Woman dies in hospital week after struck by car in Gatineau

  31-01-2018 22:39 via ottawacitizen.com
  A woman struck by a car last week in Gatineau died in hospital Wednesday, the city’s first traffic fatality of 2018.
  The 59-year-old woman, who died at l’Hôpital de Hull, had suffered head injuries when she was struck at chemin d’Aylmer and chemin Fraser at 4:15 p.m. on Jan. 24, Gatineau police said.
  The driver, a 25-year-old Ottawa man, has not been charged, police said, though an investigation continues.
  
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• Mayor Watson sticks with plan on gun violence rather than asking province for backup

  31-01-2018 22:33 via ottawacitizen.com
  Mayor Jim Watson is sticking with a plan drawn up by Ottawa police brass in response to gun violence, rather than asking Queen’s Park to provide backup.
  Responding to an opinion piece in the Ottawa Sun co-authored by Senator Vern White, Watson was cool to the former police chief’s idea of asking the province to send money for more police resources.
  “If we’re going after the province, every other municipality is going to want money, too,” Watson said Wednesday at cit
  
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• JUST IN: Ottawa Fire says crews are on the way to a reported multi-vehicle crash on WB HWY 417 near Carp Road.

  31-01-2018 21:29 via twitter.com
  JUST IN: Ottawa Fire says crews are on the way to a reported multi-vehicle crash on WB HWY 417 near Carp Road.
  
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• Former Senator Mike Fisher coming out of retirement, will re-join Preds bit.ly/2DRua5m https://t.co/kHPKlTfcu3

  31-01-2018 21:26 via twitter.com
  
  Former Senator Mike Fisher coming out of retirement, will re-join Preds bit.ly/2DRua5m https://t.co/kHPKlTfcu3
  
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• ICYMI: Former police chief says Ottawa needs help fighting gun problem bit.ly/2E4H6Ek https://t.co/vQ9SHONoms

  31-01-2018 21:14 via twitter.com
  
  ICYMI: Former police chief says Ottawa needs help fighting gun problem bit.ly/2E4H6Ek https://t.co/vQ9SHONoms
  
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• Two injured in fight at Maniwaki courthouse

  31-01-2018 21:13 via ottawacitizen.com
  There was a major police operation in central Maniwaki Wednesday afternoon after a fight at the town’s courthouse, where some witnesses reported hearing a gunshot.
  The Sûreté du Québec have not confirmed whether a shot was fired, but said two people were taken to Maniwaki’s hospital with serious injuries.
  Preliminary information is that one of the injured people was a man facing charges, and the other was a member of the court staff. Neither has been identified.
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• STORY: Bakers, grocers met to reach deals on bread prices, competition watchdog alleges bit.ly/2nvLaD9 https://t.co/InkfMawKLf

  31-01-2018 21:10 via twitter.com
  
  STORY: Bakers, grocers met to reach deals on bread prices, competition watchdog alleges bit.ly/2nvLaD9 https://t.co/InkfMawKLf
  
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• BREAKING: Liberal senator Colin Kenny resigning months before December retirement date bit.ly/2nueBXh https://t.co/UCwgPWRJjv

  31-01-2018 21:05 via twitter.com
  
  BREAKING: Liberal senator Colin Kenny resigning months before December retirement date bit.ly/2nueBXh https://t.co/UCwgPWRJjv
  
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• Going out best bets Feb. 1 to 7

  31-01-2018 21:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  The seventh annual Gatineau Winter Beerfest returns Friday and Saturday to the Canadian Museum of History, from 5 p.m. to 1 a.m. nightly. In addition to sampling Quebec and Ontario craft beers in the museum’s grand hall, visitors to the popular event will also be able to try beers from Vermont. Food including sausages, poutine, oysters and more will also be available. Outside the museum, the event, open to ages 18 and older, will stage activities including musical entertainment, a taffy pu
  
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• Heads up #Ottawa. Overnight parking ban in effect 1a-7a. No on-street parking - permit holders exempt. #ottnews twitter.com/ottawacity/sta…

  31-01-2018 20:40 via twitter.com
  Heads up #Ottawa. Overnight parking ban in effect 1a-7a. No on-street parking- permit holders exempt. #ottnews twitter.com/ottawacity/sta…
  
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• Today's letters: The wonders of Gatineau Park

  31-01-2018 20:11 via ottawacitizen.com
  Readers are impressed with the lushness of Gatineau Park, and the efforts that have been made to catalogue its flora. You can write to us on this  or other topics, at [email protected]
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  Let’s share information on Gatineau Park’s flora
  Re: (Flower) Power Couple, Jan. 27. 
  My friend and colleague, Dr. John M. (Jack) Gillett, might have cried seeing the recent article by Tom Spears on the efforts of amateur botanists Tom Delsey and Gwynneth Evans to document the
  
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• Canada's old Leopard 1 tanks for sale but no firm buyers at this point

  31-01-2018 19:58 via ottawacitizen.com
  Captain Scott Franklin, with the office of the Director Land Requirements, pointed out in a Jan. 23 article on the Army’s website that with the delivery of the new Leopard 2 Tank Mobility Implements in the fall of 2017, the last of the Army’s Leopard 1 tanks have been parked for good.
  So what happens with those tanks?
  Department of National Defence spokesman Daniel Le Bouthillier explained to Defence Watch what might happen with the surplus Leopard 1s:
  “The Department of Nation
  
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• Glavin: State of the union leaves Trump's global intentions muddy

  31-01-2018 18:44 via ottawacitizen.com
  In U.S. President Donald Trump’s 5,146-word state of the union address Tuesday, a mere 700 words or so were devoted to America’s role in the world, and it’s probably just as well. Owing to a series of baffling foreign-policy contradictions and conflicting positions that have pitted the White House against the Pentagon and the State Department in recent weeks, there would have been no way of knowing what to believe anyway.
  Still, it’s hard to account for Trump’s tota
  
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• Should Canada abandon its military altogether? @Scott_Gilmore joins @_MarkSutcliffe coming up at 12:30: 📻: 1310… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  31-01-2018 18:22 via twitter.com
  Should Canada abandon its military altogether? @Scott_Gilmore joins @_MarkSutcliffe coming up at 12:30:📻: 1310… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Dining Out: At Brothers Beer Bistro, chef Steve Mitton packs meaty treats onto small plates

  31-01-2018 18:10 via ottawacitizen.com
  Brothers Beer Bistro366 Dalhousie St., 613-695-6300, brothersbeerbistro.caOpen: Monday 3 to 10 p.m., Tuesday to Friday noon to midnight, Saturday 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 a.m., Sunday 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Prices: small plates $9 to $17Access: Steps to front door
  Bellies, legs, wings, ears, cheeks, tongues, hearts and marrow — all go down easily and tastily at Brothers Beer Bistro.
  The Dalhousie Street restaurant, which opened in 2012, has recently arrived chef Steve Mitton to thank
  
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• The @rick_gibbons Show for Wednesday, January 31st: 1:08: @sunseditor 1:17: @ottawahealth 1:30: @POLI_LSU 1:45:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  31-01-2018 17:49 via twitter.com
  The @rick_gibbons Show for Wednesday, January 31st: 1:08: @sunseditor 1:17: @ottawahealth 1:30: @POLI_LSU 1:45:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Cohen: Donald Trump's blustering state of the union

  31-01-2018 17:45 via ottawacitizen.com
  Only on the eve of a super blue blood moon, promising a fleeting circumference of eerie, molten light, could a president of the United States deliver the state of union address that he did on Tuesday. A super blue blood moon, rarer than a blue moon, is otherworldly.
  So was this speech.
  Then again, creating an alternate universe is as natural as a lunar eclipse for Donald Trump. His presidency went through the looking glass on its first day. It lives in another dimension, immune to norms and narr
  
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• Coming up at 11:45: Former Canadian Olympic figure skater @MikeSlipchuk joins @_MarkSutcliffe 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  31-01-2018 17:38 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 11:45: Former Canadian Olympic figure skater @MikeSlipchuk joins @_MarkSutcliffe 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Follow @MikeVlasveld for the latest from Ottawa City Council today: twitter.com/MikeVlasveld/s…

  31-01-2018 17:35 via twitter.com
  Follow @MikeVlasveld for the latest from Ottawa City Council today: twitter.com/MikeVlasveld/s…
  
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• Coming up on the Power Lunch at 12: @Alex_S_Cullen & @cooperbrosband Dick Cooper join @_marksutcliffe in studio:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  31-01-2018 17:35 via twitter.com
  Coming up on the Power Lunch at 12:@Alex_S_Cullen & @cooperbrosband Dick Cooper join @_marksutcliffe in studio:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Coming up at 11:30: @Andrew_Z_Cohen joins @_MarkSutcliffe on what we've learned from the Patrick Brown scandal:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  31-01-2018 17:20 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 11:30: @Andrew_Z_Cohen joins @_MarkSutcliffe on what we've learned from the Patrick Brown scandal:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Canadian skier Erik Guay to miss the Winter Olympics due to back pain https://t.co/Qiwi55bMrm

  31-01-2018 17:16 via twitter.com
  
  Canadian skier Erik Guay to miss the Winter Olympics due to back pain https://t.co/Qiwi55bMrm
  
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• CFB Rockcliffe site: New chance for builders to bid in Wateridge 'village within a city'

  31-01-2018 16:52 via ottawacitizen.com
  A year after sales launched at Wateridge Village, the former Canadian Forces Base Rockcliffe is starting to look like home.  Residents are moving in, two new parks are already complete and even OC Transpo bus service is in place.
  Meanwhile, the Canada Lands Company has issued a new invitation to bid on the remaining parcels of land in the project’s first phase before turning its sights to the next phase, senior director of real estate Jean Lachance said.
  Details were unveiled Jan. 29
  
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• Coming up at 10:45: Retired army colonel Lee Hammond joins @_MarkSutcliffe on a Go Fund Me campaign for fired Vice… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  31-01-2018 16:40 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 10:45:Retired army colonel Lee Hammond joins @_MarkSutcliffe on a Go Fund Me campaign for fired Vice… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Daytime is now an hour longer than when winter began

  31-01-2018 15:49 via ottawacitizen.com
  Wednesday marks the day when Ottawa has gained a full hour of daylight since winter began.
  At the start of winter we were getting eight hours, 42 minutes of daylight. Wednesday brings nine hours and 43 minutes. And we are gaining more than two and a half minutes a day.
  It’s higher in the sky, too, rising 27 degrees above the horizon at noon compared to 21 degrees in December. Overall we are getting as much sunshine at this time of years as we had back on Nov. 10. 
  On the first day of
  
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• Suspicious death investigated in east-end Gatineau

  31-01-2018 15:12 via ottawacitizen.com
  Gatineau police are investigating a suspicious death in a home near the east end of Kettle Island.
  They arrived at 222 rue Napoléon-Groulx about 5:30 p.m. Tuesday and have been on location ever since, with barriers set up around the property. They expect to remain there all day Wednesday.
  Police are refusing to say anything about the victim, or the circumstances of the death.
  The building is a two-storey structure next door to a park, and the ground floor and second floor have separate en
  
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• Coming up at 9:15: Sen. Vern White joins @_MarkSutcliffe to discuss what he thinks needs to be done about gun vio… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  31-01-2018 15:05 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 9:15: Sen. Vern White joins @_MarkSutcliffe to discuss what he thinks needs to be done about gun vio… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Police probe Heatherington Road shooting

  31-01-2018 14:55 via ottawacitizen.com
  Police say they’re probing the 13th shooting of 2018 after “multiple” gunshots were heard on Heatherington Road Tuesday afternoon.
  They were called to an address in the 1700 block south of Walkley Road, at 4:50 p.m. 
  Investigators found spent shells but there were no reported injuries.
  No arrests have been made.
  
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• Parents of man charged in Quebec City mosque shooting make 1st public statement: bit.ly/2Eucr12 https://t.co/1Rurc4JVVy

  31-01-2018 14:50 via twitter.com
  
  Parents of man charged in Quebec City mosque shooting make 1st public statement: bit.ly/2Eucr12 https://t.co/1Rurc4JVVy
  
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• POLL: Is Justin Trudeau properly handling allegations of sexual misconduct by former cabinet minister Kent Hehr?

  31-01-2018 14:44 via twitter.com
  POLL: Is Justin Trudeau properly handling allegations of sexual misconduct by former cabinet minister Kent Hehr?
  
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• Five arrested in swarming, victim stabbed: Police

  31-01-2018 14:41 via ottawacitizen.com
  Police say that five people were arrested in Hintonburg after two victims were “swarmed” – and one suffered a stab wound – at Tunney’s Pasture Tuesday night.
  The man and woman were robbed in the 100 block of Tunney’s Pasture Driveway at about 9:50 p.m.
  The victim with what police said was a minor stab wound was taken to the hospital. 
  Patrol officers and a sniffer dog tracked five suspects – three men and two women, all in their late teens&ndas
  
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• Lunar showstopper: 1st super blue blood moon in 35 years: bit.ly/2nshiaM https://t.co/b07p5kEyST

  31-01-2018 14:35 via twitter.com
  
  Lunar showstopper: 1st super blue blood moon in 35 years: bit.ly/2nshiaM https://t.co/b07p5kEyST
  
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• Weather: Frostbite advisory but snow and warmer temps in the forecast

  31-01-2018 13:49 via ottawacitizen.com
  Brrr!
  Ottawa Public Health was warning commuters to remember their layers and toques Wednesday morning with a wake-up temperature of -20 C and a frostbite advisory in effect.
  But temperatures will warm up fast with a forecast high of -7 C and snow expected to total 2 cm starting near noon.
  Hey it’s a #BlueMoon ?No, it’s a #SuperMoon ?Wait! It’s a #SuperBlueBloodMoon !
  Hang on… It's a #FrostbiteAdvisory #OttawaBe prepared for a cold Wednesday morningGloves, mittens,
  
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• STORY: Suspicious death at Gatineau home: bit.ly/2GxJtxD https://t.co/COS7ETUKS4

  31-01-2018 13:43 via twitter.com
  
  STORY: Suspicious death at Gatineau home: bit.ly/2GxJtxD https://t.co/COS7ETUKS4
  
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• POLL: Is Justin Trudeau properly handling allegations of sexual misconduct by former cabinet minister Kent Hehr?… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  31-01-2018 13:32 via twitter.com
  POLL: Is Justin Trudeau properly handling allegations of sexual misconduct by former cabinet minister Kent Hehr?… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• #BREAKING: Suspicious death at home in #Gatineau; police expected to be on-scene at 222 rue Napoléon-Groulx through… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  31-01-2018 13:26 via twitter.com
  #BREAKING: Suspicious death at home in #Gatineau; police expected to be on-scene at 222 rue Napoléon-Groulx through… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Trudeau admits he has no magic fix for misconduct within his party: bit.ly/2Eq8kTw https://t.co/e8tFIDLVC4

  31-01-2018 13:09 via twitter.com
  
  Trudeau admits he has no magic fix for misconduct within his party: bit.ly/2Eq8kTw https://t.co/e8tFIDLVC4
  
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• Babak Saidi was dropped off at OPP detachment for routine probation check-in — minutes later he was shot dead

  31-01-2018 13:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  Two days before Christmas, Babak Saidi’s father dropped off his schizophrenic son outside the Morrisburg OPP detachment for a routine probation check-in. Minutes later, the 43-year-old was shot and killed by an OPP officer. 
  The details of his killing have gone largely unexplained as the province’s police watchdog investigates the case. 
  And while Saidi’s family waits for answers, they’re calling for better training for officers who deal with the menta
  
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• Hookworm-related skin infection a risk with travel to tropics: expert: bit.ly/2E2O8cs https://t.co/ZwuBxdAUiP

  31-01-2018 12:55 via twitter.com
  
  Hookworm-related skin infection a risk with travel to tropics: expert: bit.ly/2E2O8cs https://t.co/ZwuBxdAUiP
  
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• Mental health: It's time we did more than just talk about it

  31-01-2018 12:44 via ottawacitizen.com
  Today is Bell Let’s Talk day. Since 2010, Bell has been hosting one day a year when it donates five cents for every social interaction facilitated by its network to a mental health initiative in Canada. The campaign is meant both to raise money and to spark the conversation about mental health in general.
  There is a lot more talk about mental health than there used to be. There is even a clothing line called “Wear Your Label,” based out of Fredericton, that features clothing wi
  
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• Johnstone and Parriag: Here's how to make mental health mainstream

  31-01-2018 12:43 via ottawacitizen.com
  If 2017 was the year women marched against misogyny in U.S. politics, tweeted their sexual abuse and trauma with #MeToo, and issued a stern warning with #TimesUp, then 2018 should be the year we translate that anger into meaningful, structural change.
  In Ottawa and beyond, women took part in in the Women’s March earlier this month, less against any individual politician and more against the systemic issues that continue to be part of women’s lives.
  Now is the moment to confront the s
  
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• ICYMI: Canada-wide warrant issued for Ottawa murder suspect: bit.ly/2GwDmKh https://t.co/KyVAbSibYu

  31-01-2018 11:21 via twitter.com
  
  ICYMI: Canada-wide warrant issued for Ottawa murder suspect: bit.ly/2GwDmKh https://t.co/KyVAbSibYu
  
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• Several people taken into custody after robbery in Tunney's Pasture area late last night: bit.ly/2DZtxG1… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  31-01-2018 11:12 via twitter.com
  Several people taken into custody after robbery in Tunney's Pasture area late last night: bit.ly/2DZtxG1… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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