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• Neighbours push back on proposal for francophone community centre

  14-02-2018 23:57 via ottawacitizen.com
  Some neighbours of the former Grant school on Richmond Road say they will continue their fight against a proposed francophone community centre on the site, even as plans for the development have been posted for public comment.
  The plans call for the old school to be renovated and two additions added, one for a gym and the other for a day-care centre and medical clinic.
  The complex will house offices for francophone community groups as well as classrooms for the French public school board and La
  
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• Canada's Olympic athletes' garb gets NRC wind tunnel testing

  14-02-2018 23:54 via ottawacitizen.com
  Some of the most important high-speed training for our Olympic athletes takes them inside a tunnel, where they stand very still.
  There’s a wind tunnel at the National Research Council — not the big one near the airport but a smaller tunnel on Montreal Road — where air blows fast over and around their suits in a never-ending contest against drag.
  Bodies moving fast through air create drag. Drag kills speed. But the right suit can minimize drag.
  Annick D’Auteuil calls air &
  
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• Mayor to ask province for more money to battle opioid crisis

  14-02-2018 23:48 via ottawacitizen.com
  Mayor Jim Watson will appeal to the Ontario government for more funding the city “desperately” needs to deal with the opioid crisis.
  During a council meeting Wednesday, Watson said he will formally ask Eric Hoskins, the minister of Health and Long-Term Care, for additional investments into mental health and addiction treatment services for the city.
  Watson said he’ll also meet with Premier Kathleen Wynne at the end of the month to discuss funding options for addiction trea
  
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• OC Transpo wants to allow small pets on buses and trains

  14-02-2018 23:39 via ottawacitizen.com
  OC Transpo is finally ready to welcome your pets on the transit system.
  A report published Wednesday ahead of a the transit commission meeting next week recommends allowing small pets on buses and trains, as long as the animals are in a carrier or crate that can sit on the customer’s lap.
  “This recommendation is consistent with most other major public transit agencies in North America and is supported by Ottawa Public Health staff,” the report says.
  According to the report, OPH
  
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• Police charge man in Billings Bridge mall shooting

  14-02-2018 23:14 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa police have charged a 21-year-old man after a shot was fired during a fight at the Billings Bridge Shopping Centre in October.
  Houssine Ali, 21, has been charged with possession of an unauthorized firearm, careless use of a firearm and possession of a weapon for a dangerous purpose.
  Panicked customers at Billings Bridge fled or hid in stores after the shot was fired.
  A witness told this newspaper she was with her husband and sister in the Rogers store when they heard the fight break out a
  
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• Council softens order to limit shelter beds in Salvation Army complex

  14-02-2018 23:04 via ottawacitizen.com
  Council just wants the Salvation Army’s word that the organization will have a maximum of 140 beds in a new emergency shelter, rather than writing the measure into the land-use bylaw for the Vanier property.
  The softer motion, unanimously endorsed by council, replaced a proposal by Rideau-Vanier Coun. Mathieu Fleury to write into a bylaw the maximum number of shelter beds in the Salvation Army’s complex planned for 333 Montreal Rd.
  Drew Dobson, who heads up SOS Vanier.
  Mayor Jim Wats
  
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• Rideau Canal Skateway temporarily closing Wednesday at 10 p.m.

  14-02-2018 22:34 via ottawacitizen.com
  The entire 7.8-kilometre Rideau Canal Skateway is temporarily closing Wednesday at 10 p.m. to preserve the ice’s condition, said the National Capital Commission. 
  The NCC said the balmy weather is eroding the quality of the ice surface, creating hazardous conditions for skaters and the public. The week’s forecast suggests the closures may last through the weekend. 
  Crews are hoping to open the skateway as quickly as possible, weather permitting.
  The NCC urges the public to
  
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• UPDATE: Multiple wounded in Florida school shooting, but no official word on their conditions. twitter.com/browardsheriff…

  14-02-2018 22:28 via twitter.com
  UPDATE: Multiple wounded in Florida school shooting, but no official word on their conditions. twitter.com/browardsheriff…
  
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• Going out best bets, Feb. 15 to 21

  14-02-2018 22:26 via ottawacitizen.com
  Classical
  Ottawa sisters Yolanda and Carmen Bruno, a violinist and cellist, respectively, team up Saturday night to perform in the pastoral West Quebec setting of Venturing Hills Farm in Luskville, about 15 minutes north of Aylmer, as part of its Festival Pontiac Enchanté series. The duo recital will feature music by Zoltán Kodály and Maurice Ravel, both of which rely on the drive and rhythms of Hungarian folk music, among others. The music starts at 7:30 p.m. and ticke
  
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• STORY: Multiple injuries reported in Florida high school shooting bit.ly/2F38UHh https://t.co/LsgbbW8gNG

  14-02-2018 21:33 via twitter.com
  
  STORY: Multiple injuries reported in Florida high school shooting bit.ly/2F38UHh https://t.co/LsgbbW8gNG
  
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• Vanier fire leaves four people displaced bit.ly/2HcIzHk https://t.co/btBPoyxXDz

  14-02-2018 21:17 via twitter.com
  
  Vanier fire leaves four people displaced bit.ly/2HcIzHk https://t.co/btBPoyxXDz
  
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• Happy Birthday to Ottawa curler Emma Miskew!

  14-02-2018 21:17 via ottawacitizen.com
  Wednesday was Emma Miskew’s birthday.
  Based on photos posted online, the now 29-year-old curler from Ottawa spent at least parts of the day celebrating with family and friends.
  However, it’s a better than safe bet that Miskew spent another chunk of birthday hours on the ice, joining teammates Rachel Homan, Joanne Courtney and Lisa Weagle in preparing for the start of their Olympic women’s curling competition.
  Birthday dinner with the birthday girl @emmamiskew tonight!#pyeongcha
  
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• STORY: Junos cancel Hedley performance in wake of sexual misconduct claims bit.ly/2F4HCjL https://t.co/hQZx1wRDDX

  14-02-2018 21:09 via twitter.com
  
  STORY: Junos cancel Hedley performance in wake of sexual misconduct claims bit.ly/2F4HCjL https://t.co/hQZx1wRDDX
  
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• Dining Out: Hot-pot experience hits the spot at Morals Village

  14-02-2018 21:04 via ottawacitizen.com
  Morals Village3987 Riverside Dr., 613-736-6503, cqdz.caOpen: daily from 11:30 a.m. to 11 p.m.Prices: soup bases $2.50 to $8, weekdays all-you-can-eat $25.99, $19.95 for seniors over 65, $13.95 for children under 13, weekends add $2Access: no steps to front door or washroom
  In the south-western Chinese megacity of Chongqing, there are reportedly more than 50,000 hot-pot restaurants — or roughly one for every 600 people within its population of 30 million, in case you’re coun
  
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• JUST IN: JUNO Awards announce that Hedley will not perform at their 2018 awards amid allegations of sexual misconduct.

  14-02-2018 21:03 via twitter.com
  JUST IN: JUNO Awards announce that Hedley will not perform at their 2018 awards amid allegations of sexual misconduct.
  
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• Glowing salamanders shed light on evolution

  14-02-2018 21:02 via ottawacitizen.com
  Hillary Maddin wanted to look inside the heads of animals as they grow to adulthood, so she found a unique method: Grafting glow-in-the-dark pieces into them when they are young.
  Maddin is a paleontologist at Carleton University who was testing whether salamanders are primitive creatures similar to animal life many millions of years ago. (Short answer: No. More on that in a minute.)
  She bought them from a breeder in Kentucky. 
  The species is called a Mexican axolotl, and it’s normally
  
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• BREAKING: Multiple officers are responding to reports of a shooting at Stoneman Douglas High School in Broward County, Florida

  14-02-2018 21:02 via twitter.com
  BREAKING: Multiple officers are responding to reports of a shooting at Stoneman Douglas High School in Broward County, Florida
  
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• The Conservatives wished everyone a Happy Valentine's Day… while also taking a shot at Justin Trudeau

  14-02-2018 20:40 via ottawacitizen.com
  Valentine’s Day is a celebration of love.
  All kinds of love.
  Romantic love, familial love, brotherly love and… what’s the opposite of brotherly love?
  The Conservative Party of Canada tweeted this out on Wednesday morning:
  Happy Valentine's Day, everyone! #cdnpoli #ValentinesDay pic.twitter.com/VwctkPzyTW
  — Conservative Party (@CPC_HQ) February 14, 2018Maybe the term is political love.
  ALSO: Love amid the bureaucracy at the city hall chapel
  The NDP was the only
  
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• Reevely: Toronto's economy roars while the rest of Ontario hollows out

  14-02-2018 20:34 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ontario’s economy is ticking over nicely, the province’s financial accountability office says, but most of the benefits are going to Toronto.
  Last year, Greater Toronto added 69,700 jobs and central Ontario (which includes the tech powerhouse of Waterloo) added 57,200, according to the independent budget watchdog at Queen’s Park. But everywhere else — eastern, northern and southwestern Ontario, combined — added just 1,600 jobs.
  This is a bad, bad, bad bit of news in
  
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• Review: Les Misérables offers spectacles, songs to make jaws drop

  14-02-2018 20:17 via ottawacitizen.com
  Les MisérablesBroadway Across CanadaNational Arts Centre, until Feb. 18Reviewed Feb. 13
  For a show about injustice, misery and unrequited love, the new production of Les Misérables that opened at the National Arts Centre on Tuesday may be a little too grand and glorious, infused with a sense of triumph that tends to overshadow its doomed characters.But that’s what makes it a truly jaw-dropping spectacle, and as one of the world’s most popular musicals, it has to be big
  
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• Break-in suspect flees clothing store in stolen bus

  14-02-2018 20:17 via ottawacitizen.com
  A man used a small stolen bus as a getaway vehicle following a break-in at a clothing store in the east end on Jan. 13.
  Police said the break-in occurred shortly before 6 a.m. at a clothing store in the 1500 block of Innes Road, near Blair Road.
  The suspect arrived in a bus used to transport children with disabilities, later determined to be stolen, and forced his way through the front door. Once inside, police said he stole an undisclosed number of men’s winter coats.
  The stolen bus
  
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• Woman who accused Patrick Brown of sexual misconduct now says she wasn't underage 1310news.com/2018/02/14/wom… #onpoli https://t.co/f5C3u9LHxy

  14-02-2018 20:13 via twitter.com
  
  Woman who accused Patrick Brown of sexual misconduct now says she wasn't underage 1310news.com/2018/02/14/wom… #onpoli https://t.co/f5C3u9LHxy
  
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• NRC tweaks slick outfits so events aren't a drag for Olympic speedsters

  14-02-2018 19:37 via ottawacitizen.com
  Some of the most important high-speed training for our Olympic athletes takes them inside a tunnel, where they stand very still.
  There’s a wind tunnel at the National Research Council — not the big one near the airport but a smaller tunnel on Montreal Road — where air blows fast over and around their suits in a never-ending contest against drag.
  Bodies moving fast through air create drag. Drag kills speed. But the right suit can minimize drag.
  Annick D’Auteuil calls air &
  
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• Dawson: Here's why we should bulldoze where Lester B. Pearson lived

  14-02-2018 18:57 via ottawacitizen.com
  The home where Lester B. Pearson lived for a few years is not worthy of heritage protection or status. Knock the bloody thing down and let the Uganda High Commission rebuild; its plans for the new building look pretty nice, to be honest.
  We’re not talking about some stunning period home in this case: Pearson’s onetime home is a squat, red-brick building on Ottawa’s Cobourg Street that looks like pretty much any other squat, red-brick building that could be in any other city in
  
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• "Stoking fiery division over the Boushie verdict doesn't show you care" @thejohnrobson joins @_MarkSutcliffe comin… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  14-02-2018 18:25 via twitter.com
  "Stoking fiery division over the Boushie verdict doesn't show you care"@thejohnrobson joins @_MarkSutcliffe comin… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• The @rick_gibbons Show for Wednesday, February 14th: 1:08: @TheCuddlery 1:17: @StephenBlais 1:30: @MeehanCarolAnne… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  14-02-2018 17:58 via twitter.com
  The @rick_gibbons Show for Wednesday, February 14th: 1:08: @TheCuddlery 1:17: @StephenBlais 1:30: @MeehanCarolAnne… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Firefighters handle Vanier apartment fire

  14-02-2018 17:56 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa firefighters made quick work of a smoky blaze at 269 Lalemant St. in Vanier Wednesday morning.
  Responders were called to the three-unit detached structure near Montreal Road at about 11:20 a.m.
  They began an aggressive attack on the fire, which reportedly began in a basement apartment unit. 
  The fire was declared under control at 11:41 a.m. There were no reported injuries.
  No estimate of the cost of damages was immediately available.
   
  
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• Online dating has become the new norm

  14-02-2018 17:48 via ottawacitizen.com
  This may already be common knowledge for those in the dating scene, but websites, apps and matchmaking services have become the way that couples are meeting. 
  According to dating experts, anyone still on the fence about whether to use the new high-tech dating services available today needs to get over their fear and jump in. Use of the internet enabled services are not limited to any single demographic. It seems young and old alike are using technology to find a match. 
  “Nowadays
  
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• Technology has changed the way people fall in love – and created new hurdles for future generations

  14-02-2018 17:46 via ottawacitizen.com
  From apps to websites and matchmaking services, it’s never been easier to find a date.
  It’s been predicted that by the year 2025, a majority of couples will have met through some sort of online dating site or app.
  Most Internet-based dating sites and apps use extremely rudimentary screening criteria to help filter out possible love interests. While the exact elements used in the secret formulas that powers online matchmaking at dating sites are kept closely guarded, experts offered a
  
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• Coming up at 11:45: Peter Shawn Taylor of @macleans joins @_MarkSutcliffe to discuss our increasing obsession wi… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  14-02-2018 17:39 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 11:45: Peter Shawn Taylor of @macleans joins @_MarkSutcliffe to discuss ourincreasing obsession wi… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Police seek help locating clothing store break-in suspect

  14-02-2018 17:37 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa police are seeking public assistance to locate a suspect in a commercial break-and-enter Saturday in the east end.
  Police said the break-in occurred shortly before 6 a.m. at a clothing store in the 1500 block of Innes Road, near Blair Road.
  The suspect arrived in a small bus-type van, later determined to be stolen, and forced his way through the front door. Once inside, he stole an undisclosed number of men’s jackets.
  The stolen vehicle was later recovered nearby in the City Pa
  
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• Coming up at 11:30: @HowardLevittLaw joins @_MarkSutcliffe on 3rd-party investigations into sexual harassment all… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  14-02-2018 17:25 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 11:30: @HowardLevittLaw joins @_MarkSutcliffe on 3rd-party investigations into sexual harassment all… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Egan: What love endures — the widower as pilgrim, coming on 300 Sundays

  14-02-2018 17:19 via ottawacitizen.com
  Every Sunday, Mike Patafie visits his wife, Jocelyn, in her quiet, polished surroundings.
  He takes the black Buick, parks it under the overhang near the door, and patters across the long corridors, looking for the moveable steps that will guide the quiet ascension.
  And there she is, in the corner by the big window, third one up, cradled by yellow sunflowers and the gaze of Mary and Jesus. He bows his head near the black granite, without needing to read the words: Patafie, Jocelyn, Dec. 26, 1936,
  
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• Coming up on the Power Lunch at 12: @stephegan613 & @rick_gibbons join @_marksutcliffe in studio: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  14-02-2018 17:15 via twitter.com
  Coming up on the Power Lunch at 12:@stephegan613 & @rick_gibbons join @_marksutcliffe in studio: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Marijuana producer Canopy Growth earnings drop as it plays the long game

  14-02-2018 17:03 via ottawacitizen.com
  Shares in Smiths Falls-based marijuana producer Canopy Growth climbed five per cent in early trading Wednesday despite missing analysts’ projections on third-quarter revenues and earnings.
  Part of the momentum was provided by a same-day announcement by the Société des alcools du Québec. SAQ said it had signed letters of intent to purchase significant quantities of marijuana from key producers.
  Canopy Growth will supply 12,000 kilograms per year, the same amount as Onta
  
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• 'Love opens your eyes' – Valentine's Day is more than hearts and flowers for Jessie and Jeremy

  14-02-2018 16:57 via ottawacitizen.com
  Jeremy Abramson doesn’t just remember the day he and his fiancée, Jessie Huggett, became more than just friends.
  He remembers the hour and the minute.
  It was 11:46 a.m. on Valentine’s Day of 2011, the year after the couple — who didn’t remember meeting at a playgroup as babies, although their moms did — reconnected at an employment program.
  They were in the boot room, Jessie recounted, when she nervously told him how she’d been feeling. She didn’t
  
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• Love amid the bureaucracy at the city hall chapel

  14-02-2018 16:53 via ottawacitizen.com
  Marisa Anne Clark and David Berube have each written their own vows to supplement the ones that Ontario law makes them say.
  They’re getting married at city hall at 2 o’clock on Feb. 1, which is their three-year anniversary as a couple, and comes after a seven-month engagement. Marisa is 33, David is 36 and they both work in retail. “We tried to plan a bigger wedding and we just couldn’t make it work,” Marisa says. “We had looked at some rustic settings, maybe
  
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• Coming up at 10:45: @JSportsnet joins @_MarkSutcliffe on the Dion Phaneuf trade: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  14-02-2018 16:40 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 10:45: @JSportsnet joins @_MarkSutcliffe on the Dion Phaneuf trade: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Coming up at 10:30: @kellygrant1 joins @_marksutcliffe on how Influenza is taking a heavy toll on children in Ca… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  14-02-2018 16:25 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 10:30: @kellygrant1 joins @_marksutcliffeon how Influenza is taking a heavy toll on children in Ca… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Here's what kills the mood in Ottawa on Valentine's Day

  14-02-2018 16:04 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawans have no love for noise or animals – or noisy animals – on Valentine’s Day, judging by the bylaw request logs kept at city hall.
  Take 2013 as an example.
  That Feb. 14, the first bylaw complaint came in through the call centre by phone, two minutes and 23 second after midnight. There was something happening in Stittsville, something so irritating, that the caller had to alert city hall about the noise. 
  About six minutes later, the call centre’s phone line lit
  
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• Important Valentine's Day news: A peach or a raspberry is a rose

  14-02-2018 15:57 via ottawacitizen.com
  The real rose family is one of the weirdest groups in nature — not a garden of long-stemmed flowers but more than 4,000 species of trees, fruits, thorny shrubs and oddball hybrids that surround us every day.
  Some of them don’t even need a partner to reproduce, which should raise some questions about choosing them on Feb. 14.
  And most of the big, messy rose family doesn’t even look like our usual vision of a rose. It is far more interesting.
  Seen an almond lately? It’s in
  
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• Coming up at 9:30 @mclomedia of @Trans4mLeaders joins @_MarkSutcliffe live: Listen: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  14-02-2018 15:25 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 9:30@mclomedia of @Trans4mLeaders joins @_MarkSutcliffe live:Listen:📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• POLL: Do you think there is systemic racism within the Canadian justice system? bit.ly/2EFKWUt @_MarkSutcliffe #QuestionOfTheDay

  14-02-2018 15:13 via twitter.com
  POLL: Do you think there is systemic racism within the Canadian justice system? bit.ly/2EFKWUt@_MarkSutcliffe#QuestionOfTheDay
  
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• Coming up at 9:15: @KrRutherford of @Sportsnet joins @_MarkSutcliffe with a Winter Olympics update: Listen: 📻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  14-02-2018 15:06 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 9:15: @KrRutherford of @Sportsnet joins @_MarkSutcliffe with a Winter Olympics update: Listen:📻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• On air 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. Ottawa Today live with your host @_MarkSutcliffe on 1310 NEWS & @rogersottawa22: Listen:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  14-02-2018 14:51 via twitter.com
  On air 9 a.m. - 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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• Government threatens to cut off Senate debate on pot as July deadline looms: bit.ly/2C2x3iq https://t.co/Axg3nAsYSF

  14-02-2018 14:48 via twitter.com
  
  Government threatens to cut off Senate debate on pot as July deadline looms: bit.ly/2C2x3iq https://t.co/Axg3nAsYSF
  
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• Marijuana producer Canopy Growth revenues up 123%, but miss analysts' estimates

  14-02-2018 14:39 via ottawacitizen.com
  Smiths Falls marijuana producer Canopy Growth Corp. said Wednesday its third-quarter revenues jumped 123 per cent year over year to $21.7 million.
  That was below the consensus estimate of analysts who had been expecting revenues of $24.2 million according to a Thomson Reuters survey.  
  The company also recorded a sharper-than-expected drop in earnings as its third-quarter adjusted net loss expanded to $7.1 million compared to a loss of $1.4 million during the same period a year earlier
  
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• Orléans couple charged with first-degree murder after 81-year-old's death ruled a homicide

  14-02-2018 14:37 via ottawacitizen.com
  When Maria Desousa, 81, was brought to the Montfort Hospital on Saturday afternoon, she was already dead.
  It didn’t take long for the coroner to conclude that her fatal injuries were extremely inconsistent with a simple fall. The coroner figured Desousa’s death was anything but accidental and ruled it a homicide. 
  Ottawa homicide detectives were called in and, on Tuesday afternoon, Desousa’s son and his girlfriend were charged with first-degree murder.
  Paulo Deso
  
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• Love on the rocks: Penguins celebrating Valentine's Day: bit.ly/2Bu24e3 https://t.co/RPXSIX0QUw

  14-02-2018 14:26 via twitter.com
  
  Love on the rocks: Penguins celebrating Valentine's Day: bit.ly/2Bu24e3 https://t.co/RPXSIX0QUw
  
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• Manucha: Alberta and B.C. have a means to resolve the pipeline dispute

  14-02-2018 14:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  Recently, the British Columbia government refused to allow increased shipments of bitumen from the Alberta oilsands to B.C. ports. In response, the Alberta government has blocked all imports of B.C. wine, and has threatened to expand the scope of its retaliatory measures.
  This ongoing trade war between Alberta and B.C. doesn’t look all that different from the trade disputes that regularly take place between countries. But whereas international trade disputes have the World Trade Organizati
  
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