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• How a Carleton student is using science to help sledge hockey hopefuls

  06-02-2018 23:44 via ottawacitizen.com
  A friend’s life-altering event proved life-altering for Alicia Gal, too.
  When a close friend of Gal’s broke his neck and was slowly working his way through rehab in North Bay, Gal introduced him to a coach of a local sledge hockey team.
  “I really wanted to show him that there was still something out there. He could still be athletic. He could still play hockey,” Gal said.
  Her friend took up the sport and soon was a top goal-scorer.
  “He’s an inspiration to me,&
  
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• Could suicide risk be ID'd through a blood test? New Ottawa research chair offers hope

  06-02-2018 23:24 via ottawacitizen.com
  The emails started arriving soon after a press release went out heralding the stunning research findings, led by young molecular biologist Zachary Kaminsky.
  “A blood test for suicide?” was the headline on the release issued by Johns Hopkins University’s school of medicine in 2014. It explained that Kaminsky and other researchers at the Baltimore institution had discovered a chemical alteration in a gene called SKA2 linked to stress reduction. That finding could help doctors pre
  
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• Reevely: After years of promises, city blows LRT deadline with a shrug

  06-02-2018 23:21 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa’s light-rail project is six months late and well, what are you gonna do? These things happen.
  The rhetoric has shifted a bit, maybe you’ve noticed, from “On time and on budget!” to “¯\_(ツ)_/¯”.
  The ominous rumbling began almost as soon as city council approved a budget for 2018 that assumed trains would start rolling at the beginning of July, as has been planned and promised for years. The Rideau Street sinkhole and numerous other const
  
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• Maniwaki courthouse may return to having just one special constable, union fears

  06-02-2018 22:58 via ottawacitizen.com
  QUEBEC CITY — The president of the union representing Quebec’s 325 special constables, whose job is to protect the lives and property of everyone at the province’s courthouses, said Tuesday nothing he has heard from government witnesses has convinced him the decision to add a second constable at the Maniwaki courthouse will be permanent.
  Last week an 18-year-old man was shot during an altercation with the lone special constable on duty at the Maniwaki courthouse.
  Three private
  
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• Congratulations to the nominees in the 2018 Juno Awards' jazz categories

  06-02-2018 22:50 via ottawacitizen.com
  As announced earlier today, here’s a list of the fine albums in the running for the jazz-based Juno Awards, which are to be given out March 24 in Vancouver.
  Jazz Album of the Year: Solo
  Rich in Symbols, Chet DoxasContumbao, Hilario DuranRoot Structures, Mike DownesThe Tide Turns, Brad Cheeseman Ralph Bowen, Ralph Bowen 
  Jazz Album of the Year: Group
  Otterville, Andrew Downing’s OttervilleMurphy, Carn Davidson 9The North, David Braid, Mike Murley, Anders Mogensen, Johnny Ama
  
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• City to delay opening of LRT until end of November

  06-02-2018 22:06 via ottawacitizen.com
  Nov. 2 is the new date for the Rideau Transit Group to turn over a completed Confederation Line LRT to the City of Ottawa, but the builder won’t be penalized for missing a May deadline.
  Mayor Jim Watson announced the date on Tuesday during a finance and economic development committee meeting, with city management providing the rationale for delaying the project by more than five months.
  “When this whole process started seven years ago, coming up with a specific date was not exactly a
  
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• City pushed to make new Albert-Slater juncture a landmark

  06-02-2018 21:58 via ottawacitizen.com
  A proposed reconstruction of the western juncture of Albert and Slater streets should have a goal of turning a dead zone into a gateway for the downtown core and a redeveloped LeBreton Flats, city planners have heard.
  The city’s urban design review panel has completed a formal analysis of the city’s plan to change the major east-west streets after the Confederation Line LRT opens this year.
  The independent peer-review panel has experts from outside of Ottawa City Hall, including some
  
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• LRT to open by the end of November 2018 bit.ly/2nGOjkm https://t.co/1tsBWcVWKb

  06-02-2018 21:40 via twitter.com
  
  LRT to open by the end of November 2018 bit.ly/2nGOjkm https://t.co/1tsBWcVWKb
  
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• East end traffic stop leads to multiple gun and drug charges bit.ly/2E83Yjb https://t.co/LtsVoUYdKu

  06-02-2018 21:21 via twitter.com
  
  East end traffic stop leads to multiple gun and drug charges bit.ly/2E83Yjb https://t.co/LtsVoUYdKu
  
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• ICYMI: Environment Canada has issued a Special Weather Statement for Ottawa and its surrounding areas. The weather… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  06-02-2018 21:12 via twitter.com
  ICYMI: Environment Canada has issued a Special Weather Statement for Ottawa and its surrounding areas. The weather… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• STORY: Patrick Brown breaks silence, says 'truth will come out' bit.ly/2nGD4s6 https://t.co/SCNVRNnSF6

  06-02-2018 21:10 via twitter.com
  
  STORY: Patrick Brown breaks silence, says 'truth will come out' bit.ly/2nGD4s6 https://t.co/SCNVRNnSF6
  
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• Ottawa police charge three after handgun, drugs found in traffic stop

  06-02-2018 20:08 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa police officers seized a handgun and a small quantity of illicit drugs during a traffic stop on Tuesday morning.
  According to police, a vehicle was stopped around 1 a.m. on Donald Street near St. Laurent Boulevard. While the officer was talking to the driver of the vehicle he began to suspect the man was under the influence of an illicit substance. He arrested the driver and the two passengers and while searching them and their vehicle he seized a loaded handgun, cash, marijuana and
  
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• Scanlan: Two warriors of the hardwood rebound from cancer and cardiac surgeries

  06-02-2018 19:43 via ottawacitizen.com
  They removed the man’s cancerous bladder and rejigged his insides from the liver on down so he could function somewhat normally.
  For good measure, they hit his cells hard with chemotherapy.
  Not having witnessed these medical procedures for ourselves, it was miracle enough to watch Geoff Gruson move freely around the Jewish Community Centre basketball court recently, using his skill, experience and vision to dish to the open man.
  During what he refers to as the “chemo fog”
  
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• Paramedics pull unconscious LRT worker from tunnel

  06-02-2018 19:36 via ottawacitizen.com
  An LRT construction worker is in stable condition in hospital after losing consciousness in the tunnel due to a medical incident Tuesday.
  Paramedics carried the man, roughly his forties, out by stretcher at Queen and O’Connor streets from what will be the Parliament LRT station, and has been taken to the hospital.
  Paramedics said the medical problem was personal and not work-related.
   
   
  
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• Cohen: Caroline Mulroney lacks the experience for the job she seeks

  06-02-2018 19:01 via ottawacitizen.com
  Caroline Mulroney is 43 years old. She has degrees from Harvard and New York University. She is a lawyer and financier who has worked in New York and Toronto. She co-founded a charity for women.
  She is chic and bilingual. She is the daughter of Brian Mulroney, the former prime minister, and mother of four children. She has never held elective office.
  Now she wants to lead Ontario. No apprenticeship necessary; the premiership is an entry-level position. In March, she will be leader of the Pr
  
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• Today's letters: Raw milk isn't good for you

  06-02-2018 18:46 via ottawacitizen.com
  A reader reacts to our recent story on raw milk, and another takes on the unfairness around harassment allegations – for both the victim and the accused. You can write to us too, at [email protected]
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  Thank you, Louis Pasteur
  Re: Raw milk, raw deal? Farmer fined $1,500, quits milking operation, Jan. 29.
  I was dismayed when I read the article written by Kelly Egan giving publicity to the dangerous practice of selling raw milk. The science on the merits of pasteurization is ro
  
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• MISSING: @OttawaPolice seek 43 y.o. Nicole Lenz, last seen Feb.4 in Carling/Merivale area. #ottnews… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  06-02-2018 18:08 via twitter.com
  MISSING: @OttawaPolice seek 43 y.o. Nicole Lenz, last seen Feb.4 in Carling/Merivale area. #ottnews… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• The @rick_gibbons Show for Tuesday, February 6th: 1:08: @RickChiarelli 1:17: @benkerteisen 1:30: @CanadianVetsAdv… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  06-02-2018 18:04 via twitter.com
  The @rick_gibbons Show for Tuesday, February 6th: 1:08: @RickChiarelli 1:17: @benkerteisen1:30: @CanadianVetsAdv… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Skof: The Ottawa police need to solve staffing issues – now

  06-02-2018 17:59 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa’s politicians are once again facing pressures as a result of the startling escalation of gun-related violence in January.
  Civic leaders, including Mayor Jim Watson, Police Services Board Chair Eli El-Chantiry, Chief Charles Bordeleau and others, have made an effort to present a united front against this violence.
  With more show than substance, they rolled out the well-worn script of “police focus and community engagement.” Its purpose was to assuage Ottawa residents&rsqu
  
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• Ottawa police seek assistance locating missing woman, 43

  06-02-2018 17:58 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa police are seeking public assistance in locating a 43-year-old woman who has been missing since Sunday.
  Nicole Lenz is described as Caucasian, five feet six inches (168 cm) tall, with a medium build, long brown hair, and brown eyes.
  She was last seen wearing a yellow jacket with dark blue shoulders and sleeves, as well as black boot covers. She may also be wearing a turquoise Wind River sport jacket.
  Lenz was last seen in the Carling Avenue and Merivale Road area.
  Anyone with in
  
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• House Works: Your questions on water softeners, damaged table, basement condensation

  06-02-2018 17:55 via ottawacitizen.com
  Salt-Free Water Softeners
  Q: What’s your opinion of electronic, salt-free, water softening systems?
  A: I’ve tried electronic salt-free water softeners a couple of times in the past for several months each time and I noticed no difference in the build-up of scale in our kettle, faucets and shower doors.
  We have moderately hard water at my house (about 16 grains of hardness,) and the systems I tried made no difference that I could see.
  The manufacturers of electronic systems don’
  
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• Coming up at 11:45: @SenMarilou joins @_MarkSutcliffe on her offer to pay legal bills for Senate staffers who hav… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  06-02-2018 17:40 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 11:45: @SenMarilou joins @_MarkSutcliffe on her offer to pay legal bills for Senate staffers who hav… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Ottawa man charged with drugged driving on Highway 401

  06-02-2018 17:35 via ottawacitizen.com
  Whether it’s drugged or drunk, impaired driving carries the same penalty, the OPP warned after charging an Ottawa man Monday night.
  The 28-year-old is facing charges of operation of a motor vehicle while impaired by a drug and possession of a small quantity of marijuana after being spotted weaving within his lane and narrowly missing a guardrail on Highway 401. 
  OPP officers were on patrol in Leeds and the Thousand Islands Township when they stopped the eastbound vehicle at 9:20 p.m.
  
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• Coming up on the Power Lunch at 12: @sherrilynne & @jillianclark join @_MarkSutcliffe in studio: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  06-02-2018 17:35 via twitter.com
  Coming up on the Power Lunch at 12: @sherrilynne & @jillianclark join @_MarkSutcliffe in studio: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Coming up at 11: @StephanieCarvin joins @_MarkSutcliffe in studio: 📻: 1310 💻: bit.ly/1uwtdOs 📞: 613… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  06-02-2018 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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• City to open LRT by the end of November

  06-02-2018 16:48 via ottawacitizen.com
  The $2.1-billion first phase of the Confederation Line LRT will open to customers by the end of November, Mayor Jim Watson said Tuesday.
  Watson provided the date during a finance and economic development committee meeting. City management will provide more details.
  I'm excited to announce that our Light Rail Transit (LRT) System will launch in November 2018! #OttLRT #Ottnews/ Fier d'annoncer que nous monterons à bord de notre system de train léger en novembre 2018! #OttTLR pic.twit
  
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• Coming up 10:45: Pollster @niknanos joins @_MarkSutcliffe for weekly segment: 📻: 1310 💻: bit.ly/1uwtdOs… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  06-02-2018 16:39 via twitter.com
  Coming up 10:45:Pollster @niknanos joins @_MarkSutcliffe for weekly segment: 📻: 1310 💻: bit.ly/1uwtdOs… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Update: Rideau Transit Group only owes city $1 million in liquidated damages if Nov. 2 date is missed. twitter.com/1310JasonWhite…

  06-02-2018 16:35 via twitter.com
  Update: Rideau Transit Group only owes city $1 million in liquidated damages ifNov. 2 date is missed. twitter.com/1310JasonWhite…
  
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• OPP officer accused of off-duty domestic assault with a weapon

  06-02-2018 16:09 via ottawacitizen.com
  A 44-year-old OPP officer has been reassigned to desk duties after being charged with a number of offences, including two counts of assault with a weapon, in what investigators say was an off-duty domestic incident.
  Grenville County OPP reported that the 13-year member of the force was charged after officers responded to a Jan. 20 incident in Augusta Township. 
  The officer was scheduled to appear in a Brockville court Friday charged with assault, two counts of assault with a weapon, mischie
  
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• Driver lands in hot water after car lands in Upper Rideau Lake

  06-02-2018 16:08 via ottawacitizen.com
  This driver landed first in icy water and then in hot, the OPP report.
  Police were called to a vehicle in the water off Westport, about 100 km southwest of Ottawa, at about 6:30 p.m. Saturday.
  After an investigation, they say a northbound vehicle failed to stop at a stop sign on Bedford Street then collided with an eastbound vehicle on Main Street before continuing north over a dock and into Upper Rideau Lake.
  It came to rest “almost fully submerged.”
  The 19-year-old driver
  
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• BREAKING: twitter.com/1310JasonWhite…

  06-02-2018 15:48 via twitter.com
  BREAKING: twitter.com/1310JasonWhite…
  
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• Coming up at 9:45: @aradwanski joins @_MarkSutcliffe on the stakes of Caroline Mulroney's candidacy: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  06-02-2018 15:39 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 9:45: @aradwanski joins @_MarkSutcliffe on the stakes of Caroline Mulroney's candidacy: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• The City will soon learn the date that the LRT handover will take place. Announcement expected at FEDCO meeting thi… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  06-02-2018 15:37 via twitter.com
  The City will soon learn the date that the LRT handover will take place. Announcement expected at FEDCO meeting thi… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Coming up at 9:30 @RandallMoore26 of @1061CHEZ joins @_MarkSutcliffe live in-studio: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  06-02-2018 15:25 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 9:30@RandallMoore26 of @1061CHEZ joins @_MarkSutcliffe live in-studio:📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• A 19-year-old is facing three charges, including impaired driving, after a car was found submerged in water about a… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  06-02-2018 15:25 via twitter.com
  A 19-year-old is facing three charges, including impaired driving, after a car was found submerged in water about a… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• POLL: Are you confident the Confederation Line will open before the end of 2018?

  06-02-2018 15:15 via twitter.com
  POLL: Are you confident the Confederation Line will open before the end of 2018?
  
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• Bibeau to announce funds to combat female genital mutilation in West Africa: bit.ly/2BcbzOR https://t.co/oTQmLtxnmI

  06-02-2018 15:08 via twitter.com
  
  Bibeau to announce funds to combat female genital mutilation in West Africa: bit.ly/2BcbzOR https://t.co/oTQmLtxnmI
  
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• Coming up at 9:15: @MacLeodLisa joins @_MarkSutcliffe live on Bells Corners Neighbourhood Watch: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  06-02-2018 15:05 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 9:15: @MacLeodLisa joins @_MarkSutcliffe live on Bells Corners Neighbourhood Watch: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Weather: Early flurries make streets greasy, more snow expected Wednesday

  06-02-2018 14:34 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa’s winter has been snowy and it’s getting snowier with a risk of flurries every day this week and 5 to 10 cm of white stuff Wednesday.
  Flurries began early Tuesday and Environment Canada is predicting clouds, a 60 per cent chance of continued flurries, with winds becoming westerly at 20 km/h near noon and a high of -6 C.
  The snow was just heavy enough to make things slipper during the morning commute.
  No injuries after collision involving a car and a bus at Innes and Bantr
  
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• Shot beagle Sadie Mae 'happy, loving' despite more medical hurdles

  06-02-2018 14:23 via ottawacitizen.com
  Sadie Mae, the “sweet” beagle that arrived at the Ottawa Humane Society after being shot and abandoned on a Carp trail last fall, has now had to undergo yet more surgery Monday, this time to remove her spleen after vets found a tumour.
  The spleen removal was done at “a sophisticated veterinary clinic that specializes in complicated surgeries,” that can also provide round-the-clock recovery, the OHS reported.
  She’s faced more setbacks including the discovery of a min
  
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• Global stock markets tumble after Wall Street battering: bit.ly/2GRmyxB https://t.co/gBDlvI26AT

  06-02-2018 11:58 via twitter.com
  
  Global stock markets tumble after Wall Street battering: bit.ly/2GRmyxB https://t.co/gBDlvI26AT
  
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• Heads up! A good dump of snow is on the way for Ottawa: twitter.com/1310Alexblack/…

  06-02-2018 11:46 via twitter.com
  Heads up!A good dump of snow is on the way for Ottawa: twitter.com/1310Alexblack/…
  
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• Off-duty OPP officer charged with domestic assault, assault with a weapon: bit.ly/2BH0dDr https://t.co/qMyABNENMn

  06-02-2018 11:33 via twitter.com
  
  Off-duty OPP officer charged with domestic assault, assault with a weapon: bit.ly/2BH0dDr https://t.co/qMyABNENMn
  
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• UPDATE: A missing woman has been located safe. twitter.com/DutyInspector/…

  06-02-2018 11:11 via twitter.com
  UPDATE: A missing woman has been located safe. twitter.com/DutyInspector/…
  
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• Crews tackle log home fire in Kinburn: bit.ly/2GTFOdK https://t.co/F6E87ih8Ai

  06-02-2018 11:10 via twitter.com
  
  Crews tackle log home fire in Kinburn: bit.ly/2GTFOdK https://t.co/F6E87ih8Ai
  
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• Jason Momoa to headline seventh edition of Ottawa Comiccon

  06-02-2018 06:01 via ottawacitizen.com
  Jason Momoa, the actor who plays the King of the Seas, is coming to the nation’s capital as a celebrity guest at Ottawa Comiccon in May, according to the event’s organizers.
  Momoa, who is best known for his roles as Aquaman in the recent Justice League film and the warlord Khal Drogo in the Game of Thrones TV series, is the biggest name so far on the event’s list of star guests. The actor was preparing to film the standalone Aquaman movie for a December 2018 release, which will
  
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• Fire hits log house near Kinburn

  06-02-2018 05:09 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa firefighters were called to a blaze in a log home outside Kinburn just before 7 p.m. Monday.
  The fire began in the chimney but spread to the rear wall of the house on Diamondview Road, about five kilometres east of the village.
  When crews arrived, smoke was visible from the front door and a working fire was declared.
  Firefighters brought the blaze under control about 2 1/2 hours later. One person was displaced.
  No injuries are reported.
   
   
   
  
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• Bells Corners turns to Neighbourhood Watch to calm crime jitters

  06-02-2018 03:52 via ottawacitizen.com
  Bells Corners signalled its desire to restore order to its neighbourhoods at a spirited meeting Monday about community safety.
  Only weeks after a bizarre car-ramming fatality, a pair of shootings and an apparent hate crime, about 150 residents turned out to lay the groundwork for a Neighbourhood Watch program that would encompass the whole west-end community.
  Though technically a meeting about the eyes-and-ears program, worried residents used the opportunity to ask Ottawa police about the loss o
  
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• France joins Canada and other nations in intelligence sharing group

  06-02-2018 03:51 via ottawacitizen.com
  It’s often referred to as the “Five Eyes.” That group involves the long-time traditional allies – the U.S., Canada, Britain, Australia and New Zealand – who share intelligence information.
  Now, it is being dubbed as the “Five Eyes plus France.”
  French defence journalists were told Monday that France has now been brought in to the fold, attending meetings in Washington to share information with the Five Eyes intelligence agencies.
  “There was a reali
  
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• January house prices jumped fastest in western, wealthiest districts

  06-02-2018 01:28 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa’s real-estate market split in two in January as the number of residential properties sold actually slipped year over year while there was a surge in the sale of condominiums.
  Perhaps not surprisingly, prices in the two sectors diverged. The average price for residential properties jumped 8.8 per cent year over year to $427,500 in January. In sharp contrast, the average price for a condominium in Ottawa slipped 8.6 per cent to $263,750, according to estimates published Monday by the
  
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