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• Carleton Place mayor faces renewed calls for resignation after new integrity commissioner findings

  01-02-2018 23:15 via ottawacitizen.com
  The mayor of Carleton Place is again facing sanctions following an integrity commissioner ruling into three separate complaints, finding Mayor Louis Antonakos broke council’s code of conduct on all three occasions.
  The Jan. 22 ruling is the third in which the mayor has been reprimanded by the municipal ethics watchdog in the past year.
  “In a previous report on the contravention of the code (in May), Council accepted my recommendation to suspend 90 days’ pay from the mayor and I
  
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• Court guards missed chances to defuse Maniwaki confrontation, expert says

  01-02-2018 23:11 via ottawacitizen.com
  The video of a shooting in a Maniwaki courtroom shows a series of stages where court security could have taken control and avoided a shooting, says a former U.S. police officer who now teaches law.
  But the court guards let those chances go by, and conflict escalated out of control, says Seth Stoughton, who offered his analysis when reached by this newspaper.
  An 18-year-old man, identified as Steven Bertrand by Quebec media, is in the Hôpital de Hull, where Quebec’s police watchd
  
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• Bordeleau: Here's how police are tackling Ottawa's burgeoning gun problem

  01-02-2018 22:58 via ottawacitizen.com
  Like other major cities across Canada, Ottawa has seen a rise in gun violence in recent years. We know how unsettling this is for our communities and want to thank our community leaders and residents for their continued assistance and ideas to combat this and other crimes.
  Gun violence is a top operational priority for our police service and we have a refocused strategy to address it. That strategy includes an organizational-wide focus directly targeted at the activities and people involved in t
  
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• Egan: The crisis of gun violence, locked and loaded

  01-02-2018 22:57 via ottawacitizen.com
  A simplified look at gun violence, in five easy pieces.
  The short-hand, for those in a hurry: carding is now harder, bail is getting easier, the new police “service delivery” is still evolving, the courage of community informants is unreliable or even unwise and the flow of illegal guns is on our doorstep, in ways rarely spoken of or dealt with.
  Now put the pieces together. Have we built a safe haven or a house of horrors? It is difficult to know, but there are hints this dish &mdash
  
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• Tax on internet streaming services such as Netflix still being examined: heritage minister

  01-02-2018 22:47 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Canadian heritage minister said the federal government is still considering how to best tax international streaming services, like Netflix, as part of a broader overhaul of Canada’s Broadcasting Act.
  Speaking at the Prime Time in Ottawa Conference held at the Westin Hotel in downtown Ottawa on Thursday, Mélanie Joly said there has been a lot of confusion about the government’s stance pertaining to online streaming services such as Netflix.
  International streaming services,
  
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• .@OPP_COMM_ER reports Michael Arden has been located. #ottnews #Renfrew twitter.com/OPP_COMM_ER/st…

  01-02-2018 22:46 via twitter.com
  .@OPP_COMM_ER reports Michael Arden has been located. #ottnews #Renfrew twitter.com/OPP_COMM_ER/st…
  
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• Winterlude kicks off 40th year this weekend, here's what you need to know

  01-02-2018 22:29 via ottawacitizen.com
  Winterlude kicks off its 40th year Friday with a few new highlights, along with some small changes, to Ottawa’s beloved winter festival.
  The theme of this year’s event, which runs from Feb. 2 to 19, is “I Love My Winterlude.” The idea is for people to post their favourite Winterlude moments on social media with the hashtag #IloveMYWinterlude
  Here are a few things to know about this year’s festival and perhaps a forecast of the types of things you may end up seeing i
  
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• Province provides $10.5 million to build new French Catholic elementary school in Riverside South

  01-02-2018 22:19 via ottawacitizen.com
  The province will spend $10.5 million for a new French Catholic elementary school in the fast-growing south end of Ottawa.
  The funding announcement made Thursday is great news for parents in Riverside South, Leitrim, Greely, Metcalfe and Blossom Park, said Johanne Lacombe, the chair of the Conseil des écoles catholiques du Centre-Est. The new kindergarten-to-Grade 6 school will take some of the pressure off the board’s Bernard-Grandmaître elementary school, which is full.
  The
  
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• Horse farmer lone naysayer as pot pitch gets committee's OK - CBC.ca

  01-02-2018 22:10
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  Horse farmer lone naysayer as pot pitch gets committee's OK
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  An Ottawa horse farmer whose family has owned land in the city's rural south for four generation is voicing his concerns about a proposed marijuana facility that could soon be sprouting up next door. Gary Scharf owns Hollybrook Farm on Ramseyville Road ...and more »
  
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• MISSING: #Renfrew OPP looking for 29 y.o. Michael Arden. Known to drive blue Hyundai Santa Fe with Ontario lic. pla… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  01-02-2018 22:09 via twitter.com
  MISSING: #Renfrew OPP looking for 29 y.o. Michael Arden. Known to drive blue Hyundai Santa Fe with Ontario lic. pla… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Woman found in east-end Gatineau home was homicide victim, police say

  01-02-2018 22:08 via ottawacitizen.com
  A woman whose body was discovered Tuesday is the victim of a homicide, Gatineau police say.
  The case was described at first as a suspicious death, but police made Thursday’s announcement after getting results from an autopsy.
  The woman was discovered in a home at 222 Napoléon-Groulx St., a two-storey home just off Maloney Boulevard. 
  So far, police are not releasing the woman’s name or giving any information about the circumstances of her death. She was about 50 years old
  
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• ICYMI: Environment Canada has issued a Snow Squall Warning for Ottawa and its surrounding areas. The weather agency… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  01-02-2018 21:32 via twitter.com
  ICYMI: Environment Canada has issued a Snow Squall Warning for Ottawa and its surrounding areas. The weather agency… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• BREAKING: Police say Gatineau death now being investigated as homicide bit.ly/2E9AynV https://t.co/8inEeZkMdD

  01-02-2018 21:18 via twitter.com
  
  BREAKING: Police say Gatineau death now being investigated as homicide bit.ly/2E9AynV https://t.co/8inEeZkMdD
  
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• STORY: NDP leader says Regina MP Erin Weir facing allegations of harassment bit.ly/2BLUMil https://t.co/kPMCXLYo7w

  01-02-2018 21:13 via twitter.com
  
  STORY: NDP leader says Regina MP Erin Weir facing allegations of harassment bit.ly/2BLUMil https://t.co/kPMCXLYo7w
  
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• Snow squall warnings ends for Ottawa region - CBC.ca

  01-02-2018 20:50
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  Snow squall warnings ends for Ottawa region
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  Expect an ugly afternoon commute again on Thursday, as Environment Canada has issued a snow squall warning for Ottawa and the surrounding region. February kicks off with mild temperatures, chance of a snow squall. The agency put out a warning to expect ...and more »
  
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• Ottawa to increase funding for First Nations child welfare services - CBC.ca

  01-02-2018 20:47
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  Ottawa to increase funding for First Nations child welfare services
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  Indigenous Services Minister Jane Philpott says her department would immediately move to increase funding for First Nation child welfare services following another compliance order from the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal found Ottawa fails to grasp the ...
  Ottawa commits to new First Nations child welfare fundingToronto Star
  Ottawa to begin fully funding Indigenous child-welfare agenciesThe Globe and Mail
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• Four charged as 'high-risk takedown' nets drugs, loaded handguns

  01-02-2018 20:26 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa police are hailing drug officers who nabbed four men in a “high-risk takedown” Wednesday that didn’t just net narcotics but took two guns off the street.
  One was a loaded semi-automatic handgun; the other handgun was one of several firearms stolen in a Gatineau break-in on Dec. 3.
  It was about 8 p.m. Wednesday when officers spotted alleged drug deals being conducted from a vehicle near Tillbury Avenue and Churchill Avenue North in the city’s west end.
  They moved in
  
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• Today's letters: Tearing down statues and anthem changes

  01-02-2018 20:14 via ottawacitizen.com
  Our letter writers weigh in on history, status and O Canada – plus, Sparks Street. 
  You too can send us your views: [email protected] can’t destroy historyRe: Halifax’s Cornwallis statue removed, Feb. 1
  Edward Cornwallis was an important part of the history of Halifax. You cannot change history, although it seems some Indigenous groups want just that.
  Rather than remove these beautiful bronze statues from our parks, what about installing a bronze plaque on the s
  
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• Weather forecast is for swinging temps, snow squall warning

  01-02-2018 19:49 via ottawacitizen.com
  After Wednesday’s delivery of white stuff, Mother Nature is throwing every kind of weather at us Thursday, capping the good times off with possible snow squalls later this afternoon or evening.
  The Capital awoke to -9 C but the mercury is on the way to a forecast 3 C  with a mix of sun and cloud and a 30 per cent chance of flurries – or rain – around noon.
  Then flurries move in, at times heavy and totalling about 2 cm as southwest winds at 20 km/h gusting to 40 km/h t
  
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• #BREAKING NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh says Saskatchewan MP Erin Weir has been temporarily suspended amid allegations of sexual harassment.

  01-02-2018 19:11 via twitter.com
  #BREAKINGNDP Leader Jagmeet Singh says Saskatchewan MP Erin Weir has been temporarily suspended amid allegations of sexual harassment.
  
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• Two new marijuana operations proposed for rural areas southeast of city core

  01-02-2018 19:10 via ottawacitizen.com
  An old Nestlé factory in Chesterville and a vegetable greenhouse operation near Greely could soon be converted into marijuana grow ops.
  They are the latest entrants in the green rush as Canada moves toward legalizing recreational pot this summer.
  Both proposals are backed by millions of dollars in financing, have ambitious expansion plans, and promise to create jobs in rural areas southeast of the city core. The companies have applied for licences from Health Canada; the Greely project al
  
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• .@OttawaPolice seize guns, arrest 4 in west end "high risk take-down." #ottnews twitter.com/OttawaPolice/s…

  01-02-2018 19:08 via twitter.com
  .@OttawaPolice seize guns, arrest 4 in west end "high risk take-down." #ottnews twitter.com/OttawaPolice/s…
  
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• #RightNow twitter.com/cmaconthehill/…

  01-02-2018 19:01 via twitter.com
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• Man shot in head in Maniwaki courthouse in stable condition, police watchdog group says

  01-02-2018 18:56 via ottawacitizen.com
  Quebec’s police watchdog continues its investigation after an incident Wednesday at the Maniwaki courthouse in which authorities say a special constable shot a man in the head during a scuffle. 
  An 18-year-old man was in stable condition in the Hôpital de Hull Thursday after he was shot in the head following an altercation with a special constable at the courthouse in Maniwaki, about 135 kilometres north of Ottawa.
  A spokesperson for Quebec’s Bureau des enquêtes
  
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• Sajjan, not Vance, should answer questions about new Iraq mission, say Conservatives

  01-02-2018 18:20 via ottawacitizen.com
  Efforts by the Conservatives to get answers on Canada’s Iraq mission on Thursday were unsuccessful.
  Conservative defence critic James Bezan put forward this motion at the House of Commons defence committee: “That the committee invite the Minister of National Defence to appear before the committee in order to update Canadians on the current status of Operation IMPACT and elaborate further on his comments regarding the future of Operation IMPACT and the supplying of weapons to the Kurd
  
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• The @rick_gibbons Show for Thursday, February 1st: 1:15: @mspratt 1:30: @Shawn_Jeffords 1:45: @OttawaHospital 2:05:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  01-02-2018 18:09 via twitter.com
  The @rick_gibbons Show for Thursday, February 1st: 1:15: @mspratt 1:30: @Shawn_Jeffords 1:45: @OttawaHospital 2:05:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Shook: Trudeau government should re-think how it pays prisoners

  01-02-2018 17:40 via ottawacitizen.com
  The federal government should reconsider a decision, made in 2013, that imposed a 30 per cent pay cut on prisoners’ wages, for the work they do that contributes to the operation and maintenance of the prison. 
  The justification for the clawback was to account for the cost of food and accommodation. The then-Conservative government also cut the $2.20 per hour payment prisoners received  for their productive labour at CORCAN, the correctional service’s “training centre.
  
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• Coming up at 11:45: @Baileymariereid joins @_MarkSutcliffe Sexual Assault Awareness Week: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  01-02-2018 17:40 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 11:45: @Baileymariereid joins @_MarkSutcliffe Sexual Assault Awareness Week: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Coming up on the Power Lunch at 12: @ShelleyMcLean_ @ @DannyKingsbury join @_marksutcliffe in studio: 📻: 1310 💻… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  01-02-2018 17:35 via twitter.com
  Coming up on the Power Lunch at 12: @ShelleyMcLean_ @ @DannyKingsbury join @_marksutcliffe in studio: 📻: 1310 💻… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Coming up at 11:30: @ShachiKurl joins @_MarkSutcliffe on the Ontario PC leadership race: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  01-02-2018 17:25 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 11:30: @ShachiKurl joins @_MarkSutcliffe on the Ontario PC leadership race:📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Coming up at 11:30: @GtlGiant joins @_MarkSutcliffe on winning the Spirit of Sport Award at the Ottawa Sports Awa… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  01-02-2018 17:25 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 11:30: @GtlGiant joins @_MarkSutcliffe on winning the Spirit of Sport Award at the Ottawa Sports Awa… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Police say missing Alexandria girl, 15, has been located

  01-02-2018 17:01 via ottawacitizen.com
  A 15-year-old girl missing from Alexandria has been located, provincial police report.
   
  
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• Emma Frank strives to make songs that offer companionship and wisdom

  01-02-2018 15:54 via ottawacitizen.com
  At McGill University, Emma Frank studied literature. “I didn’t love it at all,” she says.
  But the New York-based singer-songwriter, 30, now knows her studies ultimately fed into her art. “A lot of my degree was lying in bed and considering a poem, and giving it as much time and quiet as I needed to come up with something interesting.
  “My songwriting process is very similar,” she says. “It involves sitting with lyrics for a long time, maybe sitting with a
  
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• Sketching the troops, from Iraq to Ukraine

  01-02-2018 15:52 via ottawacitizen.com
  When illustrator Richard Johnson went to the Ukraine with the Canadian military in 2015, he declined the VIP accommodations, asking instead to bunk with the soldiers.“I like to get close to the grunts,” said the artist-journalist in an interview, “so I ended up in this huge, creaky, damp dorm building in what was a Soviet military base. The bunks were three high and we were jammed into this space. It was damp and gray and miserable and rainy. It really felt very Soviet.”J
  
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• Sketching soldiers from Iraq to Ukraine

  01-02-2018 14:49 via ottawacitizen.com
  When illustrator Richard Johnson went to the Ukraine with the Canadian military in 2015, he declined the VIP accommodations, asking instead to bunk with the soldiers.“I like to get close to the grunts,” said the artist-journalist in an interview, “so I ended up in this huge, creaky, damp dorm building in what was a Soviet military base. The bunks were three high and we were jammed into this space. It was damp and gray and miserable and rainy. It really felt very Soviet.”J
  
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• Report: Women unnecessarily suffering from heart disease due to lack of research: bit.ly/2rVCFa1 https://t.co/XiMwDaDE8e

  01-02-2018 14:11 via twitter.com
  
  Report: Women unnecessarily suffering from heart disease due to lack of research: bit.ly/2rVCFa1 https://t.co/XiMwDaDE8e
  
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• Today at 9:15 a.m. @fordnation will join @_MarkSutcliffe live to discuss his Ont. PC Party leadership bid: 📻: 13… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  01-02-2018 13:41 via twitter.com
  Today at 9:15 a.m. @fordnation will join @_MarkSutcliffe live to discuss his Ont. PC Party leadership bid:📻: 13… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Weather forecast is for swinging temps, snow squall watch

  01-02-2018 13:37 via ottawacitizen.com
  After Wednesday’s delivery of white stuff, Mother Nature is throwing every kind of weather at us Thursday, capping the good times off with possible snow squalls later this afternoon or evening.
  The Capital awoke to -9 C but the mercury is on the way to a forecast 3 C  with a mix of sun and cloud and a 30 per cent chance of flurries – or rain – around noon.
  Then flurries move in, at times heavy and totalling about 2 cm as southwest winds at 20 km/h gusting to 40 km/h t
  
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• POLL: Would you consider voting for the Progressive Conservatives if they were led by Doug Ford? @_MarkSutcliffe… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  01-02-2018 13:11 via twitter.com
  POLL: Would you consider voting for the Progressive Conservatives if they were led by Doug Ford?@_MarkSutcliffe… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Tories to launch independent investigation of Dykstra controversy: Scheer: bit.ly/2BJTaFE https://t.co/21NIKDrd9s

  01-02-2018 13:02 via twitter.com
  
  Tories to launch independent investigation of Dykstra controversy: Scheer: bit.ly/2BJTaFE https://t.co/21NIKDrd9s
  
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• Crabtree and Beaudan: Lessons Ottawa can learn from the Amazon HQ2 bid

  01-02-2018 13:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa put its heart and soul into the recent bid to host Amazon’s HQ2, regrettably not making the shortlist. While this is disappointing, there is a bright side that shouldn’t be overlooked.
  Our bid is an important reminder that the National Capital Region has an amazing story to tell. But we do need to get better at talking about it – and louder too. We must also acknowledge that what got us here might not be enough for the next step – to build the next generation of gl
  
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• Senate approves gender neutral wording for Canada's national anthem: bit.ly/2DTcR41 https://t.co/gA9CPTE4df

  01-02-2018 12:40 via twitter.com
  
  Senate approves gender neutral wording for Canada's national anthem: bit.ly/2DTcR41 https://t.co/gA9CPTE4df
  
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• Man shot in head in #Maniwaki courthouse altercation 1310news.com/2018/02/01/man… #ottnews https://t.co/pHOIrGmgh3

  01-02-2018 12:35 via twitter.com
  
  Man shot in head in #Maniwaki courthouse altercation 1310news.com/2018/02/01/man… #ottnews https://t.co/pHOIrGmgh3
  
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• Ontario PCs will select a new leader on March 10: bit.ly/2DSqR9Q https://t.co/juC6tUN7WR

  01-02-2018 12:12 via twitter.com
  
  Ontario PCs will select a new leader on March 10: bit.ly/2DSqR9Q https://t.co/juC6tUN7WR
  
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• Definitely want to enjoy the day -- @jilltaylor680 says it will continue cold tomorrow at -14/-24 twitter.com/1310Alexblack/…

  01-02-2018 11:55 via twitter.com
  Definitely want to enjoy the day-- @jilltaylor680 says it will continue cold tomorrow at -14/-24 twitter.com/1310Alexblack/…
  
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• Crime Stoppers offering cash rewards for gun tips: bit.ly/2noLmVF https://t.co/H6lpfU2id6

  01-02-2018 11:40 via twitter.com
  
  Crime Stoppers offering cash rewards for gun tips: bit.ly/2noLmVF https://t.co/H6lpfU2id6
  
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• Regulators urged to include so-called grey market in marijuana legalization: bit.ly/2ny1Yt5 https://t.co/8sFvd5mZ8E

  01-02-2018 11:31 via twitter.com
  
  Regulators urged to include so-called grey market in marijuana legalization: bit.ly/2ny1Yt5 https://t.co/8sFvd5mZ8E
  
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• Arnprior man dies after single-vehicle crash near Renfrew

  01-02-2018 05:16 via ottawacitizen.com
  Renfrew OPP are investigating a single car crash on Highway 17 that killed a 63-year-old man. 
  Donald Dykens, 63, of Arnprior died in hospital after his pick-up truck left the road at high speed and travelled about 200 metres off the highway, through a ditch and into a tree. The accident occurred Monday at 12:07 p.m. just east of Gillan Road in Renfrew. 
  Initial reports indicated the driver suffered only minor injuries but his condition deteriorated quickly and he was transferred
  
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• Young swimmer saved by lifeguards, paramedics at Carleton

  01-02-2018 05:12 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa paramedics helped revive a 12-year-old swimmer who went into cardiac arrest Wednesday at the Carleton University pool. 
  Firefighters and paramedics responded to an emergency call at 7 p.m. at the university and arrived to find lifeguards conducting CPR after applying a defibrillator. The paramedics deployed intravenous adrenalin — an advanced life support measure — and the young swimmer’s heart rhythm was restored. 
  It’s not clear what caused the cardiac
  
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• The Ottawa Hospital unveils plans for $2B Civic campus

  01-02-2018 05:10 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Ottawa Hospital’s preliminary plan for a $2-billion Civic campus envisions an oval-shaped hospital that preserves the site’s mature trees and maintains generous open spaces. 
  The city’s first super hospital, to be built on a split-level site on the eastern edge of the Central Experimental Farm, will also feature underground parking, single-patient rooms and an underground emergency department entrance, according to concept drawings made public Wednesday night. 
  Th
  
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