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• Two charged with first-degree murder in death of woman, 81

  13-02-2018 23:11 via ottawacitizen.com
  Two people have been charged with first-degree murder after the death of an elderly woman at a home on Parkrose Private in Orléans.
  Maria Desousa, 81, was brought to the Montfort Hospital around 3:30 p.m. on Saturday. Police said Desousa was already dead when she was taken to the hospital. According to a court document, Desousa was allegedly killed two days before, on Thursday, Feb. 8.
  Police said Desousa, who did not live in Ottawa, was visiting family at a house on Parkro
  
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• Capitalizing on Valentine's Day with half-naked protesters, financial advice and a war on slumlords

  13-02-2018 23:08 via ottawacitizen.com
  Florists and greeting-card vendors aren’t the only ones capitalizing on Valentine’s Day. Every year a wide variety of organizations hitch their causes to the international day for celebrating love, hoping for free publicity. Some favourites this year:
  Love & animals
  Activists from People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals adore protesting while naked or scantily clad. Nubile young things are apparently a sure way to attract attention to the cruelty of eating our furry friends o
  
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• Renovation Transformation: Parisian roots sprout in Glebe home

  13-02-2018 23:02 via ottawacitizen.com
  Andrew Cameron and Susan D’Antoni planned on living in Paris for only two years.
  They packed their belongings, said goodbye to their friends and locked the doors to their Glebe home thinking they would return in short time.
  But two years quickly became two decades.
  The couple, who have now been together for 35 years, fell in love with the Parisian lifestyle. The culture. The art galleries. The opera. In one of their apartments they could peer out of their windows and see Napoleon’s T
  
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• Reevely: City makes plans for new central library, forgets it's also changing the roads around it

  13-02-2018 22:53 via ottawacitizen.com
  A city plan, released Tuesday, for a new central library and the buildings next to it is built on a layout for Slater and Albert streets that’s about to change.
  The two plans for the same land at the southeast corner of LeBreton Flats don’t work together. The city can’t do them both at the same time. Yet officially, that’s what’s going to happen.
  The central library is a major civic investment, meant to bridge downtown and LeBreton Flats for a century. How the piece
  
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• Ottawa's fifth homicide victim a 'happy-go-lucky' man

  13-02-2018 22:52 via ottawacitizen.com
  Friends of Egal Daud, Ottawa’s fifth homicide victim of this year, have expressed surprise and shock at his violent death, saying he was a happy-go-lucky, good-hearted person.
  “He was a kind and gentle soul, and he was funny,” said Crystal Curry, who had known the 30-year-old Daud for four years. “But he didn’t talk much about his personal stuff. I didn’t even know if he had a girlfriend, that’s how much he didn’t talk about his personal life.&rdqu
  
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• How legitimate is grieving a celebrity?

  13-02-2018 22:42 via ottawacitizen.com
  Two months ago, I woke up to the anxious eyes of my husband.
  He rubbed my back gently, then told me.
  Jonghyun, the lead singer of my favourite South Korean pop band, SHINee, had been found unresponsive in a rented studio apartment in Seoul. 
  He killed himself by burning coal briquettes in a frying pan, which produce carbon monoxide. In the smoky apartment, Jonghyun’s body was found lying next to a bed. He was just 27, another member in that awful club that already harbours the likes o
  
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• 'They are stressed out': Long-term care staff fear underfunding could lead to tragedy

  13-02-2018 22:29 via ottawacitizen.com
  Staff working overnight at long-term care homes fear chronic underfunding will lead to tragedy, say members of the union that represents the workers.
  “They are stressed out,” said Louis Rodrigues, first vice-president of the Ontario Council of Hospital Unions.
  “In the nighttime, they are worried that if there was a fire or something, they couldn’t evacuate those patients, given the number of staff.”
  Registered practical nurses and personal support workers, who do th
  
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• Hintonburg community trades extra height for affordable housing

  13-02-2018 22:08 via ottawacitizen.com
  A nine-storey rental building on Wellington Street West would be taller than land-use rules allow, but the councillor for Hintonburg and the community association are willing to make a trade: more height for two affordable units.
  It’s a small number of low-cost homes in the proposed 57-unit rental building at 979 Wellington St. W., but the deal between the community and the developer could inspire other builders and resident groups to negotiate affordable housing in new residential buildin
  
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• Jonathan Pitre to undergo gallbladder surgery

  13-02-2018 21:50 via ottawacitizen.com
  Jonathan Pitre will undergo gallbladder surgery Wednesday in an effort to relieve his persistent fevers and debilitating nausea.
  Pitre, 17, will have his gallbladder removed at the University of Minnesota Masonic Children’s Hospital, where he had a stem cell transplant last April to halt the advance of his blistering skin disease, epidermolysis bullosa (EB).
  Pitre’s surgery is also complicated by his EB. 
  Doctors are hoping they’ll be able to use keyhole incisions and lapa
  
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• UPDATED: Two people charged with first degree murder in death of 81 year-old woman bit.ly/2HcfyLT https://t.co/tWkfeuwFA5

  13-02-2018 21:39 via twitter.com
  
  UPDATED: Two people charged with first degree murder in death of 81 year-old woman bit.ly/2HcfyLT https://t.co/tWkfeuwFA5
  
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• BREAKING: Ottawa Police say two people have been charged with first degree murder in the death of 81 year-old Maria… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  13-02-2018 21:35 via twitter.com
  BREAKING: Ottawa Police say two people have been charged with first degree murder in the death of 81 year-old Maria… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• ICYMI: Foo Fighters, Bryan Adams announced for 2018 Bluesfest lineup bit.ly/2Bqr9GF https://t.co/7YmtusguZ4

  13-02-2018 21:30 via twitter.com
  
  ICYMI: Foo Fighters, Bryan Adams announced for 2018 Bluesfest lineup bit.ly/2Bqr9GF https://t.co/7YmtusguZ4
  
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• Feds to table budget Feb. 27 as Canada faces trade, competitiveness uncertainty bit.ly/2F2oTFv https://t.co/OmctLXUgWK

  13-02-2018 21:13 via twitter.com
  
  Feds to table budget Feb. 27 as Canada faces trade, competitiveness uncertainty bit.ly/2F2oTFv https://t.co/OmctLXUgWK
  
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• Ottawa police investigating death of 81-year-old woman as homicide bit.ly/2Enm0lz https://t.co/v6NMtIgMCK

  13-02-2018 21:10 via twitter.com
  
  Ottawa police investigating death of 81-year-old woman as homicide bit.ly/2Enm0lz https://t.co/v6NMtIgMCK
  
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• Southbound Jeanne D'Arc closed at Sapinier due to 3-car crash. #ottnews #otttraffic twitter.com/OttawaPolice/s…

  13-02-2018 20:24 via twitter.com
  Southbound Jeanne D'Arc closed at Sapinier due to 3-car crash. #ottnews #otttraffic twitter.com/OttawaPolice/s…
  
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• What's open and closed on Family Day, Feb. 19

  13-02-2018 19:44 via ottawacitizen.com
  Many stores and services across the city will be closing or modifying their hours on Ontario’s Family Day holiday.
  Here’s a list of things to look out for:
  Most shopping malls will be closed on Family Day: Tanger Outlets, Bayshore, Carlingwood, Lincoln Fields, Westgate, St. Laurent and Place d’Orléans are all shutting their doors, as are the LCBO and Beer Stores.
  However, the Rideau Centre will be open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., as will many shops in the ByWard Market and t
  
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• Burton: Canada must smarten up on its China policy

  13-02-2018 19:32 via ottawacitizen.com
  If you believe the Chinese Xinhua News Agency, Canada is blithely considering a Chinese Communist proposal to sell out the liberal values that define global institutions such as the United Nations and World Trade Organization, in favour of a made-in-China model that will serve Beijing’s authoritarian nationalist aspirations.
  China’s official state news agency said that Song Tao – who heads the Communist Party Central Committee’s International Liaison Department – br
  
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• Coming up at 12:40: Jerry Horwarth will join @_MarkSutcliffe LIVE: Listen: 📻: 1310 💻: bit.ly/1uwtdOs… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  13-02-2018 18:30 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 12:40: Jerry Horwarth will join @_MarkSutcliffe LIVE: Listen:📻: 1310 💻: bit.ly/1uwtdOs… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Cohen: Canadian Jews should ask lobby group some tough questions

  13-02-2018 18:23 via ottawacitizen.com
  Every week or so an invitation, announcement or appeal arrives in my inbox heralding the work of the Centre for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA), Canada’s leading Jewish lobby.
  The message is often under the name of Martin Sampson, its director of communication and marketing. But it might also come from one of the self-described legion of “analysts, public affairs specialists, web and social-media practitioners, relationship-builders and media-relations experts” in CIJA’s
  
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• The @rick_gibbons Show for February 13th: 1:08: @ottawabluesfest 1:17: #TrevorSanderson 1:30: @GryphonReport 1:45:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  13-02-2018 18:10 via twitter.com
  The @rick_gibbons Show for February 13th: 1:08: @ottawabluesfest 1:17: #TrevorSanderson 1:30: @GryphonReport 1:45:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Submit a news tip to the Ottawa Citizen

  13-02-2018 18:07 via ottawacitizen.com
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• Ottawa police blameless in 2017 drug overdose death, SIU says

  13-02-2018 18:02 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Special Investigations Unit has terminated its investigation into the death of a 21-year-old man who was found without vital signs in an Ottawa apartment on March 7, 2017.
   
  In a report, the SIU said a member of the victim’s family contacted Ottawa police to report that the man had sent a message indicating he intended to take his life. Police were dispatched to check on the man’s well-being. The family member then also contacted 911, prompting the emergency dispatch of para
  
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• Coming up on the Power Lunch at 12: @davidgourlay & @SaraBuchan join @_MarkSutcliffe in studio: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  13-02-2018 17:40 via twitter.com
  Coming up on the Power Lunch at 12:@davidgourlay & @SaraBuchan join @_MarkSutcliffe in studio: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Coming up at 11:45: @HockeyScanner joins @_MarkSutcliffe on what's wrong with the Ottawa Senators? 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  13-02-2018 17:40 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 11:45: @HockeyScanner joins @_MarkSutcliffe on what's wrong with the Ottawa Senators?📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Coming up 11:30: Pollster @niknanos joins @_MarkSutcliffe live: Listen: 📻: 1310 💻: bit.ly/1uwtdOs… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  13-02-2018 17:25 via twitter.com
  Coming up 11:30: Pollster @niknanos joins @_MarkSutcliffe live: Listen:📻: 1310 💻: bit.ly/1uwtdOs… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Consultant envisions three high-rise buildings in new library district

  13-02-2018 17:11 via ottawacitizen.com
  A consultant’s preliminary vision for a future central library district calls for a group of buildings up to 25 storeys tall on National Capital Commission land at the corner of Albert and Booth streets.
  The planning rationale, created by FoTenn and filed at city hall this week, calls for the structures just to the west of a future four-storey central library at city-owned 557 Wellington St., which is at the intersection of Albert and Commissioner streets.
  The rough concept plan considers
  
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• Olympic medal count for Pyeongchang Winter Games: bit.ly/2EmjwQc

  13-02-2018 17:09 via twitter.com
  Olympic medal count for Pyeongchang Winter Games: bit.ly/2EmjwQc
  
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• Coming up at 11: @StephanieCarvin joins @_MarkSutcliffe studio: 📻: 1310 💻: bit.ly/1uwtdOs 📞: 613-7… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  13-02-2018 16:55 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 11: @StephanieCarvin joins @_MarkSutcliffe studio:📻: 1310 💻: bit.ly/1uwtdOs📞: 613-7… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Bomb it and rebuild it -Cost to rebuild Iraq more than $88 billion this time around

  13-02-2018 16:54 via ottawacitizen.com
  In 2013 a U.S. government special auditor who was tasked to look into how that country’s tax dollars were spent rebuilding Iraq issued its last report.  The Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction concluded that at least $8 billion of the $60 billion the U.S. spent had been wasted.
  By then there was a realization among at least some Americans that the 2003 invasion of Iraq had turned into a fiasco. Saddam Hussein didn’t have any weapons of mass destruction, despite the
  
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• Coming up at 10:45: Mark Monahan of @ottawabluesfest joins @_MarkSutcliffe with 2018 lineup details: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  13-02-2018 16:39 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 10:45: Mark Monahan of @ottawabluesfest joins @_MarkSutcliffe with 2018 lineup details:📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Coming up 10:30: @Kyle_Duggan of @ipoliticsca joins @_MarkSutcliffe LIVE: Listen: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  13-02-2018 16:25 via twitter.com
  Coming up 10:30:@Kyle_Duggan of @ipoliticscajoins @_MarkSutcliffe LIVE: Listen:📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Police treating weekend death of woman, 81, as a homicide

  13-02-2018 15:59 via ottawacitizen.com
  Police are now investigating the death of an elderly woman who was already dead when she was taken to the hospital Saturday as a homicide.
  Maria Desousa, 81, was brought to an unidentified Ottawa hospital at about 3:30 p.m. on Feb. 10.
  Patrol officers responded to what was originally deemed a suspicious death but police said Tuesday morning that the major crime section had taken over the investigation.
  Police said later that the death occurred at a residence on Parkrose Private in Orl&eacut
  
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• Suspect sought in apparent crime-of-opportunity ATM theft

  13-02-2018 15:32 via ottawacitizen.com
  Upper Ottawa Valley OPP report that they’re investigating the theft of cash from a victim who inadvertently left their bank card in a Pembroke ATM.
  It happened just before 11 a.m. on Jan.22 when the man who went to the ATM next continued the transaction and withdrew a “significant” sum from the victims’ account, police allege.
  The suspect is described as a Caucasian man with a receding hairline, brown hair and a short, brown beard. He wore a black winter jacket with white
  
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• ON AIR NOW: Canadian snowboarder and Olympic silver medalist @LaurieBlouin with @_MarkSutcliffe: Listen: 📻: 13… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  13-02-2018 15:23 via twitter.com
  ON AIR NOW: Canadian snowboarder and Olympic silver medalist @LaurieBlouin with @_MarkSutcliffe: Listen:📻: 13… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• ON AIR NOW: Ottawa Today live with your host @_MarkSutcliffe on 1310 NEWS & @rogersottawa22: Listen: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  13-02-2018 15:21 via twitter.com
  ON AIR NOW:Ottawa Today live with your host @_MarkSutcliffe on 1310 NEWS & @rogersottawa22: Listen:📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• We're back in the building after an evacuation due to a suspected gas leak. Stay tuned for #OttawaToday with… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  13-02-2018 15:20 via twitter.com
  We're back in the building after an evacuation due to a suspected gas leak. Stay tuned for #OttawaToday with… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• #BREAKING: Voice of the Blue Jays Jerry Howarth has announced his retirement. https://t.co/1JpsWL2cxM

  13-02-2018 15:11 via twitter.com
  
  #BREAKING: Voice of the Blue Jays Jerry Howarth has announced his retirement. https://t.co/1JpsWL2cxM
  
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• UPDATE: @Enbridge has just arrived but the building is still evacuated. 1310 NEWS staff are safe and staying warm. twitter.com/1310NEWS/statu…

  13-02-2018 15:08 via twitter.com
  UPDATE: @Enbridge has just arrived but the building is still evacuated. 1310 NEWS staff are safe and staying warm. twitter.com/1310NEWS/statu…
  
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• ALERT: 1310 NEWS is simulcasting our Toronto station, @680NEWS, due to an evacuation of our building. We hope to be… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  13-02-2018 14:56 via twitter.com
  ALERT: 1310 NEWS is simulcasting our Toronto station, @680NEWS, due to an evacuation of our building. We hope to be… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Are you ready for above freezing temps? They're coming

  13-02-2018 14:46 via ottawacitizen.com
  It’s looking like a brisk but beautiful day for a skate, but it wouldn’t be Winterlude without some weather concerns.
  Following an early morning deep chill, Tuesday’s looking like a day full of sunshine, with moderate winds and a high of -5 C.
  Tuesday night’s expected to be mixed skies with a low of -10 C.
  The sunny weather didn’t make things any more pleasant on the eastbound Sir John A. Macdonald Parkway Tuesday when a two-car crash near Woodroffe caused major del
  
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• PROGRAMMING ALERT: 1310 NEWS is currently simulcasting our Toronto station, @680NEWS.

  13-02-2018 14:30 via twitter.com
  PROGRAMMING ALERT: 1310 NEWS is currently simulcasting our Toronto station, @680NEWS.
  
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• Men wounded in Vanier stabbing incident refuse to talk to police

  13-02-2018 14:28 via ottawacitizen.com
  A 22-year-old man suffered what paramedics said was a superficial stab wound to the chest early Tuesday, but he and a second injured man refused to talk to police.
  Officers were called just after midnight to a disturbance on Mayfield Street near McArthur Avenue.
  They found two men with wounds from an “edged weapon.” The wounds were not considered life-threatening.
  They were taken to the hospital but both were “uncooperative with the police and refused to provide any s
  
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• Gatineau girl dies of injuries after being struck by pickup truck

  13-02-2018 14:28 via ottawacitizen.com
  Gatineau police say a six-year-old girl has died in hospital of injuries she received when she was run over by a pickup truck late Monday afternoon.
  First responders were called to the scene at about 4:15 p.m. Monday in response to calls that a pickup truck that was turning at the corner of Gouin and Migneault streets had run over a girl.
  Paramedics managed to resuscitate the child before taking her to hospital in critical condition, said Lt. Éric Simard of the Gatineau police.
  However, t
  
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• STORY: Alex Gough claims Canada's first-ever Olympic medal in luge: bit.ly/2Cj9m0P https://t.co/u1otScUKSX

  13-02-2018 14:17 via twitter.com
  
  STORY: Alex Gough claims Canada's first-ever Olympic medal in luge: bit.ly/2Cj9m0P https://t.co/u1otScUKSX
  
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• Reading, writing and romance: Teaching kids how to handle their emotions could give them a chance at better relationships

  13-02-2018 12:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  Managing emotions as a young person can be a struggle — whether it’s dealing with the loss of a friendship, clashing with parents and teachers or, as teens, taking those first steps into the world of romance.
  That’s why the province’s elementary and high schools now weave Social Emotional Learning (SEL) techniques into the classroom, along with courses in science and math. 
  “Research has been quite clear to show that (EQ) does impact academic achievement,&rdquo
  
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• Two men injured in Vanier stabbing: bit.ly/2EiFWSn https://t.co/prLbDBht0f

  13-02-2018 11:15 via twitter.com
  
  Two men injured in Vanier stabbing: bit.ly/2EiFWSn https://t.co/prLbDBht0f
  
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• Canada’s fighter jet competition – Is Boeing in or out?

  13-02-2018 07:09 via ottawacitizen.com
  Last Friday was the deadline for companies to apply to the Canadian government to be on the supplier’s list for the new program to provide a fleet of fighter jets.
  Boeing spokesman Scott Day had earlier noted that  the company would evaluate its participation in Canada’s Future Fighter Capability Project “ after the Government of Canada outlined the FFCP procurement approach, requirements and evaluation criteria.”
  Boeing’s vice president for defence sales, Gene
  
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• Foo Fighters, Beck, Bryan Adams headed to Bluesfest

  13-02-2018 06:01 via ottawacitizen.com
  Foo Fighters, Beck, Bryan Adams, Shawn Mendes, Shaggy and Jethro Tull are confirmed for headlining slots at this year’s edition of RBC Bluesfest, evidence of another wildly diverse year for Ottawa’s biggest summer music festival in an increasingly competitive market.The event runs from July 5-15 at LeBreton Flats Park on the grounds of the Canadian War Museum.Like Tom Petty last year, Foo Fighters have long been a sought-after act on the Bluesfest wish list. “We’ve tried
  
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• Gatineau girl in critical condition after being struck by pickup truck

  13-02-2018 05:10 via ottawacitizen.com
  A six-year-old girl was in critical condition in Gatineau Hospital on Monday night after a pickup truck ran over her late Monday afternoon.
  Emergency workers were called to the scene at about 4:15 p.m. Monday in response to calls that a pickup truck that was turning at the corner of rue Gouin and rue Migneault had struck and run over a girl.
  Paramedics resuscitated the child before taking her to hospital in critical condition, said Lt. Eric Simard of the Gatineau police.
  Police have interviewed
  
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• Man beaten, pepper-sprayed during Gatineau home invasion

  13-02-2018 05:09 via ottawacitizen.com
  A 35-year-old Gatineau man was assaulted and pepper-sprayed during a home invasion Monday afternoon.
  Gatineau Police say three men forced their way into an apartment at 277 rue Saint-André at about 4:15. Once inside, they assaulted the occupant and doused him with pepper spray before fleeing.
  The man, who was taken to hospital to be treated for bruising, told police the men did not take anything. 
  He did not give a detailed description of this three assailants. They were described as
  
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