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• Scanlan: A five-point plan out of Dysfunction Junction for the Senators

  12-02-2018 23:35 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Senators need to do something bold to win back their infuriated fan base.
  Something profoundly local in nature.
  For starters: get down on bended knee and beg Cyril Leeder to come back as president and chief executive of the franchise, promising to let him do his job. Under the right circumstances, I believe Leeder, a Senators co-founder, tireless worker and immensely popular figure in the community, would return if owner Eugene Melnyk granted him the parameters to do his job.
  On Monday, Meln
  
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• Salvation army not keen on 140-bed cap for future Vanier shelter

  12-02-2018 23:27 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Salvation Army isn’t keen on the idea of the city’s regulating the number of shelter beds in a social services complex the organization plans to construct in Vanier.
  Glenn van Gulik, spokesman for the Salvation Army, said the organization believes council has already addressed the planning questions through the November 2017 vote approving the necessary land-use changes for 333 Montreal Rd.
  “We’ve already been down this path,” van Gulik said. “City co
  
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• 'De-policing' a matter of 'self-survival', police union president says

  12-02-2018 23:13 via ottawacitizen.com
  “De-policing” — when officers avoid unnecessary interactions with the public for fear of being scrutinized — is a simple survival tactic, says the president of Ottawa Police Association.
  “What you were trained to do is no longer acceptable. What is the immediate reaction? Cease any activities that would be conducive to exposing yourself,” Matt Skof said Monday. “It’s simple self-survival. You don’t expose yourself to liability, so you return
  
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• Poor weather dampens Mosaïvernales early attendance

  12-02-2018 23:04 via ottawacitizen.com
  Organizers of Mosaïvernales are trying to put their opening two weekends in perspective and cross their fingers that Mother Nature will be kinder over the next three weeks.
  The display of more than two dozen illuminated snow sculptures in Gatineau’s Jacques-Cartier Park — essentially the wintertime version of the popular MosaïCanada150 display that attracted 1.3 million visitors last year — suffered unseasonably high temperatures when it opened on the last weekend in
  
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• Police identify Ottawa's fifth homicide victim of 2018

  12-02-2018 22:47 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa police have identified the homicide victim whose body was found Sunday in the City View district but have released few other details.
  Police said Egal Daud, 30, had been shot. His body was found at about 10 a.m. in a car in the parking lot of an apartment complex at 32-50 Northview Rd., which is southeast of the intersection of Merivale and Baseline roads.
  On Sunday afternoon officers in two SUVs sat parked alongside the white, snow-covered Honda Civic in which the body was found. 
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• Wabano's volunteer coordinator receives provincial honour

  12-02-2018 22:44 via ottawacitizen.com
  She has drawn dozens of volunteers to the Wabano Centre for Aboriginal Health since taking over as volunteer coordinator four years ago and helped launch a thriving chocolate-based social enterprise.
  Now, Pierrette Vezina has been recognized for her contributions.
  Vezina, 57, received the Ontario Medal for Good Citizenship last month from Ontario Lt.-Gov. Elizabeth Dowdeswell. The medal, Ontario’s second-highest civilian honour, recognizes individuals for their outstanding contributio
  
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• Snapshots and quick reviews from the 2018 TD Ottawa Winter Jazz Festival

  12-02-2018 22:26 via ottawacitizen.com
  Last weekend, I took in as much as of the 2018 TD Ottawa Winter Jazz Festival as my schedule would allow, which turned out to be four set-long concerts on Friday and then four more on Saturday night. Here’s a rundown of what I heard, with copious photos by Dan Nawrocki. 
  Hilario Duran at the 2018 TD Ottawa Winter Jazz Festival by Dan Nawrocki
  The first concert Friday night at La Nouvelle Scene was one that would have delighted Jacques Emond, the Ottawa Jazz Festival’s late progr
  
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• Salvation Army not keen on bed restriction in future Vanier shelter

  12-02-2018 22:16 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Salvation Army isn’t keen on the idea of the city regulating the number of shelter beds in a social services complex the organization plans to construct in Vanier.
  Glenn van Gulik, spokesman for the Salvation Army, said the organization believes council has already addressed the planning questions through the November 2017 vote approving the necessary land-use changes for 333 Montreal Rd.
  “We’ve already been down this path,” van Gulik said. 
  “City council h
  
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• Reevely: Tories' fiasco in Ottawa West-Nepean is how you lose a winnable seat

  12-02-2018 21:46 via ottawacitizen.com
  Three days after the Ontario Progressive Conservatives booted Ottawa West-Nepean candidate Karma Macgregor out of her nomination, the would-be MPP kept turtling Monday.
  Macgregor was one of two casualties in a purge by the Tories’ central nominations committee, which re-examined controversies over some candidates chosen when Patrick Brown was the party leader.
  Since then, she’s tweeted nothing, posted nothing to her campaign Facebook page. She didn’t return calls to her ca
  
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• Car and transport truck collide on Queensway

  12-02-2018 21:39 via ottawacitizen.com
  The driver of a small car suffered minor injuries from an air bag after his car and a transport truck collided Monday.
  Ottawa paramedics said the collision happened around 2:45 p.m. in the westbound lanes near Bayshore.
  Two lanes were temporarily closed while a crew cleaned up spilled diesel oil.
  The car driver didn’t need to go to hospital. The trucker was not injured.
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• 'Canada does not treat us right' says Trump, as he threatens new global tax bit.ly/2o4B2Bs https://t.co/g3NJN0kGee

  12-02-2018 21:35 via twitter.com
  
  'Canada does not treat us right' says Trump, as he threatens new global tax bit.ly/2o4B2Bs https://t.co/g3NJN0kGee
  
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• UPDATED: OPH officials tell 1310 NEWS that there are now 18 confirmed deaths due to the flu in Ottawa… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  12-02-2018 21:24 via twitter.com
  UPDATED: OPH officials tell 1310 NEWS that there are now 18 confirmed deaths due to the flu in Ottawa… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Orr: Here's how the Olympics obsess over women's bodies

  12-02-2018 21:21 via ottawacitizen.com
  I am struck by the difference between Winter and Summer Olympics media coverage and commentary. During the former, there is an utter lack of concern that women athletes are “masquerading” as men or have intersex variations, traits that, according to dominant interphobic logic, supposedly discount them as “real” women.
  During the Summer Olympics, there are countless articles scrutinizing women athletes’ bodies, particularly women of colour from the Global South who r
  
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• STORY: Boushie's family meets federal ministers after acquittal in murder trial bit.ly/2o10RTi https://t.co/MSUtBtAj37

  12-02-2018 21:19 via twitter.com
  
  STORY: Boushie's family meets federal ministers after acquittal in murder trial bit.ly/2o10RTi https://t.co/MSUtBtAj37
  
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• ICYMI: Ottawa Public Health has issued a Frostbite Advisory for tonight and Tuesday morning. The temperature is exp… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  12-02-2018 21:15 via twitter.com
  ICYMI: Ottawa Public Health has issued a Frostbite Advisory for tonight and Tuesday morning. The temperature is exp… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• 38 year-old charged in Gatineau's first murder of 2018 bit.ly/2CgBqSu https://t.co/r8GzXoKQ33

  12-02-2018 21:12 via twitter.com
  
  38 year-old charged in Gatineau's first murder of 2018 bit.ly/2CgBqSu https://t.co/r8GzXoKQ33
  
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• Canada's future role in Iraq still unclear as Sajjan heads to Europe for meetings

  12-02-2018 21:06 via ottawacitizen.com
  Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan will travel to Rome and Brussels from February 13-15 to participate in a meeting of defence ministers from the main force contributors in the war against the Islamic State. Sajjan will also participate in a meeting of NATO defence ministers.
  His trip comes as the Liberal government has yet to decide what comes next for Canadian military personnel involved in the war against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant.
  Training by Canadian special forces for Kurdi
  
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• Editorial: If police aren't policing – this is a problem

  12-02-2018 20:26 via ottawacitizen.com
  If Ottawa police officers are avoiding certain types of police work because they believe taking action could land them in hot water, we have a problem. Chief Charles Bordeleau and the Police Services Board must find out if it’s true and if so, why.
  In brief, research from Greg Brown, a Carleton doctoral researcher and former police officer, finds officers are fearful of being watched, judged and condemned for their actions in dicey situations, so they opt to practise “F.I.D.O. &ndash
  
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• Anderson: Why the federal NDP needs to tack left

  12-02-2018 20:21 via ottawacitizen.com
  As the federal NDP approaches its Ottawa convention Feb. 16-18 with new leader Jagmeet Singh, its path forward is not clear. Faced with a Liberal government verbally tacking to the left – if ultimately not delivering the goods on issues such as the environment, tax reform, foreign aid and proportional representation – the NDP hovers around 17.5 per cent in recent polls. Those are the kind of results it used to have before the 2011 Orange Wave.
  The NDP lost the last election in Canada
  
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• Fire forces 125 to evacuate daycare centre

  12-02-2018 20:06 via ottawacitizen.com
  Fire officials say an electrical panel caught fire in a daycare centre on St. Raymond Boulevard in Gatineau on Monday, briefly forcing 125 children and staff out of the building.
  Firefighters were able to put it out before the fire spread and said damage was minor.
  The fire at Au Pays de Cornemuse began around 9:45 a.m. and Gatineau sent eight trucks and 25 firefighters. They had the fire out within 20 minutes, and opened up the building to clear away the smoke.
  The reason for the fire is s
  
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• Today's letters: The state of policing, Colten Boushie, the Olympic spirit

  12-02-2018 20:04 via ottawacitizen.com
  Readers are speaking up about policing, the emotional trial outcome in Saskatchewan, and the Olympics. You can write to us on these or any topics, at [email protected]
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  Stop bashing the police
  Re: The ‘de-policing’ of Ottawa? Feb. 12.
  This is a natural result of everybody jumping on the police-bashing bandwagon every time somebody gets hurt. It’s time we took a hard look at what we expect from police and how we treat them in return.
  The first priority is the safe
  
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• Wrong-way driver on Highway 5 faces impaired driving charge

  12-02-2018 18:34 via ottawacitizen.com
  A man driving south in the northbound lanes of Highway 5 in Gatineau somehow avoided hitting anyone, but ended up under arrest anyway.
  It happened a little before 2 a.m. on Friday. An RCMP officer had stopped by the side of the northbound lanes of the autoroute to help with a broken-down car.
  Then he saw a car coming southbound toward him, on the wrong side of the highway — which has a concrete median. It nearly hit him.
  The Mountie set off after the wrong-way driver, while Gatineau office
  
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• The @rick_gibbons Show for Monday, February 12th: 1:08: @ottawahealth 1:17: @Zifkin 1:30: @HockeyScanner 1:45:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  12-02-2018 18:07 via twitter.com
  The @rick_gibbons Show for Monday, February 12th: 1:08: @ottawahealth 1:17: @Zifkin 1:30: @HockeyScanner 1:45:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• At least the Winter Olympics aren't focused on women's sexual identity

  12-02-2018 17:51 via ottawacitizen.com
  I am struck by the difference between Winter and Summer Olympics media coverage and commentary. During the former, there is an utter lack of concern that women athletes are “masquerading” as men or have intersex variations, traits that, according to dominant interphobic logic, supposedly discount them as “real” women.
  During the Summer Olympics, there are countless articles scrutinizing women athletes’ bodies, particularly women of colour from the Global South who r
  
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• Coming up on the Power Lunch at 12: @hobbs_katherine & @RiverWardRiley join @_MarkSutcliffe in studio: Listen:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  12-02-2018 17:40 via twitter.com
  Coming up on the Power Lunch at 12:@hobbs_katherine & @RiverWardRiley join @_MarkSutcliffe in studio: Listen:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Coming up 11:45: @smccarthy55 joins @_MarkSutcliffe on the long road ahead for the electric-vehicle revolution: L… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  12-02-2018 17:39 via twitter.com
  Coming up 11:45:@smccarthy55 joins @_MarkSutcliffe on the long road ahead for the electric-vehicle revolution:L… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Jonathan and Gibson: A boy and his dog

  12-02-2018 17:26 via ottawacitizen.com
  Eighteen months after leaving for Minnesota, Jonathan Pitre continues to wait for medical clearance to return home to Russell and to his beloved dog, Gibson.
  Pitre, 17, has suffered through two stem cell transplants, two rounds of chemotherapy and radiation, and a host of life-threatening complications. He’s still dealing with fevers and nausea — problems that may be linked to his gallbladder. 
  Through it all, Pitre has been sustained by his steadfast mother, Tina Boileau,
  
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• Coming up at 11:30: @michaeltaube joins @_MarkSutcliffe to talk politics: 📻: 1310 💻: bit.ly/1uwtdOs… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  12-02-2018 17:25 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 11:30:@michaeltaube joins @_MarkSutcliffe to talk politics:📻: 1310 💻: bit.ly/1uwtdOs… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Son charged with murder in mother's death in Gatineau

  12-02-2018 16:56 via ottawacitizen.com
  Gatineau police have laid a second-degree murder charge against the son of a woman who was found dead in an east-end home two weeks ago.
  Claire Hébert, 58, was found in her apartment on Napoléon Groulx Street in Gatineau on Jan. 30.
  On Monday, police announced they have charged her son, Denis Junior Dompierre, 38, with murder.
  An autopsy showed that the victim died of head trauma on Jan. 28, police said.
  Dompierre had been living with his mother for several months and the two
  
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• Coming up next: Gold medallist @Pchiddy joins @_MarkSutcliffe from #PyeongChang2018: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  12-02-2018 16:55 via twitter.com
  Coming up next:Gold medallist @Pchiddy joins @_MarkSutcliffe from #PyeongChang2018: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Police arrest man and seize loaded gun near apartment on St. Laurent Boulevard

  12-02-2018 16:48 via ottawacitizen.com
  Police arrested a man and seized a loaded handgun after they investigated an assault Saturday night at an apartment building on St. Laurent Boulevard.
  As part of the investigation, the guns and gangs unit executed a search warrant at an apartment in the 500 block of St. Laurent Boulevard and seized 185 grams of marijuana. They also located the victim of the assault, who sustained injuries.
  Officers searched the area for a suspect and arrested a man after a brief foot chase. The man had a loaded&
  
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• Coming up at 10:45: Criminal lawyer David Butt joins @_MarkSutcliffe to discuss the the Gerald Stanley verdict:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  12-02-2018 16:40 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 10:45: Criminal lawyer David Butt joins @_MarkSutcliffe to discuss the the Gerald Stanley verdict:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Revamped Les Misérables returns to NAC

  12-02-2018 16:01 via ottawacitizen.com
  To the barricades! The student protests are coming back!
  I’m referring, of course, to the ones in Les Misérables, Victor Hugo’s great slab of a historical novel set against the background of youth-driven armed insurrection on the streets of 19th-century Paris.
  This week Broadway Across Canada, in association with Evenko, is bringing the show’s latest incarnation to the National Arts Centre, where it plays Tuesday to Sunday. This “definitive” touring version,
  
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• COMING UP AT 11: Gold medallist @Pchiddy joins @_MarkSutcliffe from #PyeongChang2018: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  12-02-2018 15:49 via twitter.com
  COMING UP AT 11:Gold medallist @Pchiddy joins @_MarkSutcliffe from #PyeongChang2018: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Coming up on the 10 O'Clock Talk: @anne_kingston, @janicedickson & @Stu_McGinn join @_MarkSutcliffe live: 📻: 13… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  12-02-2018 15:45 via twitter.com
  Coming up on the 10 O'Clock Talk: @anne_kingston, @janicedickson & @Stu_McGinn join @_MarkSutcliffe live: 📻: 13… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Coming up at 9:45: @tobi_nussbaum joins @_MarkSutcliffe on the democratic challenges connected to LRT delays: 📻… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  12-02-2018 15:40 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 9:45: @tobi_nussbaum joins @_MarkSutcliffe on the democratic challenges connected to LRT delays: 📻… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• POLL: Has the prevalence of cameras improved or harmed police interaction with the public?

  12-02-2018 15:34 via twitter.com
  POLL: Has the prevalence of cameras improved or harmed police interaction with the public?
  
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• Coming up 9:30: @YoniFreedhoff joins @_MarkSutcliffe with the latest health news: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  12-02-2018 15:22 via twitter.com
  Coming up 9:30:@YoniFreedhoff joins @_MarkSutcliffe with the latest health news:📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Sunshine and -4 C but it's getting really cold tonight

  12-02-2018 15:07 via ottawacitizen.com
  Walk and drive with care this Monday morning, folks.
  And motorists, leave plenty of time to chip your car out of that block of ice.
  But the forecast definitely looks brighter with mainly sunny skies and a high of -4 C before it’s back in the deep-freeze overnight with a low of -21 C.
  For Tuesday it’s sunny again but the high of -6 C will feel like a brisk -25, Environment Canada reports.
  Today is definitely a day to do the #PenguinWalk.#OTTweather #freezingrain pic.twitter.com/kmBMN1
  
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• Ottawa cop turned researcher finds decline in proactive policing

  12-02-2018 15:06 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa police officers are “de-policing” — or avoiding proactive policing — out of fear of being scrutinized by the public, according to the groundbreaking study of an Ottawa police officer turned doctoral researcher.
  It is the first study of its kind in Canada that measures what has largely been anecdotal among officers who describe the F.I.D.O mentality of “F**k it, drive on,” when confronted with what many police see as un-winnable situations that will only
  
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• Coming up at 9:15: @ShiDavidi joins @_MarkSutcliffe with your Winter Olympics update: Listen: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  12-02-2018 15:05 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 9:15:@ShiDavidi joins @_MarkSutcliffe with your Winter Olympics update: Listen:📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Ottawa police investigating homicide of Egal Daud, 30, found in a car on Northview Road

  12-02-2018 15:02 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Ottawa police major crime unit is investigating a homicide after the body of a man was found in a car on Northview Road on Sunday morning. 
  Egal Daud, 30, was found at approximately 10 a.m., according to a release from Ottawa Police Service. 
  Police have released few details about the death, but on Sunday afternoon officers in two police SUVs sat parked alongside the white Honda Civic in which the body was found. The snow-covered car was parked in a small lot at the rear of the apa
  
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• On Air: 9 a.m to 1 p.m. Ottawa Today live with your host @_MarkSutcliffe on 1310 NEWS & @rogersottawa22: Listen… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  12-02-2018 14:55 via twitter.com
  On Air: 9 a.m to 1 p.m. Ottawa Today live with your host @_MarkSutcliffe on 1310 NEWS & @rogersottawa22: Listen… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• UPDATE: Police have identified the victim as Egal Daud, 30. twitter.com/1310NEWS/statu…

  12-02-2018 14:48 via twitter.com
  UPDATE: Police have identified the victim as Egal Daud, 30. twitter.com/1310NEWS/statu…
  
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• Old rules but new pollutants: scientists ask for changes in Canada's pollution laws

  12-02-2018 14:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  Pollution has a new face, nothing like the traditional image of a giant smokestack or a factory pouring smelly goop into a river.
  Modern pollution — at least the toxic chemical kind — is smaller, more personal, from 35 million Canadians who are all individual sources of toxic bits that add up in the environment. 
  These come from personal products that we all use in our cellphones, furniture, televisions or bathrooms, chemicals that travel down the drain and into lakes and rivers
  
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• After the (freezing) rain, sunshine and -4 C (but it's getting really cold tonight)

  12-02-2018 13:39 via ottawacitizen.com
  Walk and drive with care this Monday morning, folks.
  And motorists, leave plenty of time to chip your car out of that block of ice.
  But the forecast definitely looks brighter with mainly sunny skies and a high of -4 C before it’s back in the deep-freeze overnight with a low of -21 C.
  For Tuesday it’s sunny again but the high of -6 C will feel like a brisk -25, Environment Canada reports.
  Today is definitely a day to do the #PenguinWalk.#OTTweather #freezingrain pic.twitter.com/kmBMN1
  
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• Flu results in at least 15 Ottawa deaths so far: bit.ly/2H8VpGL https://t.co/4iiHNdoUZr

  12-02-2018 13:28 via twitter.com
  
  Flu results in at least 15 Ottawa deaths so far: bit.ly/2H8VpGL https://t.co/4iiHNdoUZr
  
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• 'To swerve and neglect': Ottawa cop turned researcher finds decline in proactive policing

  12-02-2018 13:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa police officers are “de-policing” — or avoiding proactive policing — out of fear of being scrutinized by the public, according to the groundbreaking study of an Ottawa police officer turned doctoral researcher.
  It is the first study of its kind in Canada that measures what has largely been anecdotal among officers who describe the F.I.D.O mentality of “F**k it, drive on,” when confronted with what many police see as un-winnable situations that will only
  
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• Study finds police officers reluctant to engage, fear embarrassment 1310news.com/2018/02/12/stu… #ottnews https://t.co/BJbCAaK22N

  12-02-2018 12:50 via twitter.com
  
  Study finds police officers reluctant to engage, fear embarrassment 1310news.com/2018/02/12/stu… #ottnews https://t.co/BJbCAaK22N
  
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• Lyft ride service set to launch in Ottawa: bit.ly/2EDauC0 https://t.co/q5KXCFaX2D

  12-02-2018 12:49 via twitter.com
  
  Lyft ride service set to launch in Ottawa: bit.ly/2EDauC0 https://t.co/q5KXCFaX2D
  
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