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• Scanlan: Health and fitness coach, a former model, knows demons that may lie within

  02-03-2018 22:48 via ottawacitizen.com
  Clients can relate to a coach or counsellor who has walked a mile in their shoes.
  Wellness coach and fitness instructor Sophie Bélisle has it all going on. She teaches spin classes at Goodlife and works with clients individually for competition training or other personal goals involving physical or mental health.
  Bélisle also knows how it feels to struggle with demons. As a young girl, on into her 20s, she was a successful runway model. It’s a glamorous concept and the dream
  
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• An inside look at the virtual reality gaming experience in Ottawa

  02-03-2018 22:46 via ottawacitizen.com
  I’m at the bottom of a tall coral reef, surrounded by a school of jellyfish. I look up to a turtle floating above me, but he’s just out of my reach. Scanning the area for other sea creatures, I spot a little fish swimming my way.
  I run toward it with my hand out, but instead I collide into a wall.
  “You gotta watch out for that,” says the virtual reality attendant, who noted earlier that the dents in the wall came from unsuspecting gamers such as myself.
  I’m at Colon
  
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• Reevely: Diane Deans's 'gender lens' would help find city hall's many blind spots

  02-03-2018 22:42 via ottawacitizen.com
  Diane Deans has a list of unfair things city hall either did or tried to do, halted only because of a woman’s perspective.
  The Gloucester-Southgate councillor wants city hall to have a small “women’s bureau” to weigh in on how city council decisions might affect women differently from men, and a councillor designated to deal with women’s issues. Or, to be exact about it, she wants city council to take a close look at these ideas when it’s setting up after the
  
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• Police watchdog to be notified of naloxone use — but only if case involves use of force: police chief

  02-03-2018 22:40 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ontario’s police watchdog must be notified of any cases where Ottawa officers administer anti-overdose medication — but only if use of force were involved in the interaction, this newspaper has learned.
  Chief Charles Bordeleau sent an email to all officers Friday morning updating them on what has been a contentious battle between police forces in the province and their oversight agency, the Special Investigations Unit.
  The SIU investigates incidents involving police where there has b
  
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• Updated – Battle over jeans at the Royal Military College results in 1,000 cadets being punished

  02-03-2018 22:39 via ottawacitizen.com
  Almost 1,000 officer cadets are being punished at the Royal Military College because an unknown number of their fellow students have been wearing jeans during their off hours away from the Kingston campus.
  The action is aimed at the entire officer cadet corps at the college even though there are no actual rules allowing group punishment.
  The cadets have been confined to the grounds of the college and are undergoing a series of dress and room inspections as well as cleanup duties around the site
  
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• The National Arts Centre’s new Indigenous Theatre Department is getting $1-million, thanks to The NAC Foundation’s… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  02-03-2018 21:47 via twitter.com
  The National Arts Centre’s new Indigenous Theatre Department is getting $1-million, thanks to The NAC Foundation’s… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Hydro Ottawa members headed to New York to help people reconnect following Nor’easter bit.ly/2HXRIE7 https://t.co/7PA9Y4LgzD

  02-03-2018 21:40 via twitter.com
  
  Hydro Ottawa members headed to New York to help people reconnect following Nor’easter bit.ly/2HXRIE7 https://t.co/7PA9Y4LgzD
  
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• Quebec police target barroom 'intimidation', drug trafficking

  02-03-2018 21:28 via ottawacitizen.com
  Police made the rounds to 75 Quebec bars and taverns last weekend, including ones in the Outaouais, in a bid to end intimidation and improve relations with bar owners and their customers.
  Operation CIBLER — the rough translation is Operation Target or Spotlight — aims to tackle organized crime and drug trafficking province-wide. On Saturday, the Sûreté du Québec partnered with municipal forces to do the drop-ins at bars in 10 regions of the province.
  The purpose w
  
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• OPP in Alexandria arrest nine after major drug bust bit.ly/2FMeEp7 https://t.co/MEa1Gt5PVD

  02-03-2018 21:27 via twitter.com
  
  OPP in Alexandria arrest nine after major drug bust bit.ly/2FMeEp7 https://t.co/MEa1Gt5PVD
  
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• Online voting begins for new Ontario Progressive Conservative leader bit.ly/2H0JWrx https://t.co/9okJJY0usE

  02-03-2018 21:16 via twitter.com
  
  Online voting begins for new Ontario Progressive Conservative leader bit.ly/2H0JWrx https://t.co/9okJJY0usE
  
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• Gatineau police tight-lipped on investigation at residence

  02-03-2018 20:29 via ottawacitizen.com
  Gatineau police have been at the scene of a residential home since Thursday night, with their investigation focused inside and outside the home.
  A police spokesperson offered little detail, only that the officers are at a home at Rue de Chazel in Gatineau, at the corner of Rue Lemaire in Gatineau’s Le Baron neighbourhood.
  On Friday afternoon, a number of Gatineau officers, including officers in plain clothes, returned to the site.
  Police cars at an investigation in Gatineau Friday. Julie O
  
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• Ottawa CAS workers vote in favour of strike action as contract talks hit snag

  02-03-2018 20:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  Children’s aid workers in Ottawa have voted 74 per cent in favour of strike action, if necessary, if a contract isn’t reached with their employer, the Children’s Aid Society of Ottawa.
  Local 454 of the Ontario Public Service Employees Union held the strike vote Thursday night.
  The workers have been without a contract since Dec. 31 and talks with the CAS broke off on Feb. 17.
  “We don’t want to go on strike, but we want a good contract,” said Michele Thorn, a ch
  
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• Gatineau's historic Moore Farm to reopen with fresh funding

  02-03-2018 19:56 via ottawacitizen.com
  Months after the rain washed away its income and forced it to close, the Moore Farm in Gatineau is about to reopen thanks to fresh support and better drainage.
  The historic farm is a familiar sight on Tâché Boulevard east of the Champlain Bridge, with a big red-and-white building set back from the road and up a hill.
  It closed several months ago because of a cash shortfall.
  Now Sylvain Bertrand, president of the co-operative that runs the farm, says it should reopen in the next few
  
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• Battle over jeans at the Royal Military College results in 1,000 cadets losing privileges

  02-03-2018 19:29 via ottawacitizen.com
  A war over jeans has erupted at the Royal Military College as some officer cadets there refuse to conform to the institution’s dress rules.
  As many as 1,000 cadets have been confined to the grounds of the military college in Kingston, Ont. and are undergoing a series of dress and room inspections as well as cleanup duties around the site for failing to follow the dress rules while off campus. Those rules prohibit the wearing of jeans during off hours, a regulation a number of officer cadet
  
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• Coming up at 12:30: @TGranicAllen joins @_MarkSutcliffe live: Listen: 📻: 1310 💻: bit.ly/1uwtdOs 📞:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  02-03-2018 18:25 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 12:30:@TGranicAllen joins @_MarkSutcliffe live: Listen:📻: 1310 💻: bit.ly/1uwtdOs 📞:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• The @rick_gibbons Show for Friday, March 2nd: 1:08: @axethecarbontax 1:30: @marianne4kanata 1:45: #IanLee 2:05:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  02-03-2018 18:04 via twitter.com
  The @rick_gibbons Show for Friday, March 2nd: 1:08: @axethecarbontax 1:30: @marianne4kanata 1:45: #IanLee 2:05:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Keith Jarrett / Gary Peacock / Jack DeJohnette CD reviewed

  02-03-2018 17:51 via ottawacitizen.com
  After The Fall (ECM Records)Keith Jarrett / Gary Peacock / Jack DeJohnette 
  The requisite and even familiar components of a performance by Keith Jarrett’s “Standards” trio are all in place on After The Fall, the two-CD album released today. 
  Recorded in Newark, New Jersey, in November 1998, After The Fall offers the same kinds of standard material, and, indeed, signature songs, that Jarrett, bassist Gary Peacock and drummer Jack DeJohnette have recorded in t
  
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• Coming up on the Power Lunch at 12: @JulieBeun & @SaraBuchan join @_MarkSutcliffe: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  02-03-2018 17:45 via twitter.com
  Coming up on the Power Lunch at 12: @JulieBeun & @SaraBuchan join @_MarkSutcliffe: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Nine arrested in Alexandria drug raids

  02-03-2018 17:44 via ottawacitizen.com
  Nine people were arrested and drugs, cash and weapons were seized in a series of early morning raids in Alexandria and North Glengarry Township on Friday.
  Seven men and two women are facing charges after the raids at several homes and one business in the area.
  Police did not release the names of those arrested or the charges they face, but promised more information, including the specific drugs and weapons seized, would be forthcoming.
  The raids were conducted by the Ontario Provincial Police an
  
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• Gee and Kishek: The city of Ottawa needs a women's bureau. Here's why

  02-03-2018 17:34 via ottawacitizen.com
  Earlier this week, Gloucester-Southgate city councillor Dian Deans said she would be lobbying her city council colleagues, including Mayor Jim Watson, to support the creation of a women’s bureau (and a women’s liaison position) at city hall. Deans is one of just four women councillors in Ottawa out of 24 – which, at 18 per cent of council positions, is roughly 10 percentage points lower than the national and Ontario averages for city councils.
  Watson, however, doesn’
  
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• Spotlight: 'My guidance counsellor said "You should focus on other things"'

  02-03-2018 17:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  Spotlight is a weekly look at some of the people who are part of the Ottawa area’s arts community. This week Bruce Deachman talks with video game developer Derek Ledoux. In 2010, Ledoux co-founded the design collective Dirty Rectangles.
  “Coming from my background in theatre, I think the theatre side and video games go hand in hand amazingly well. Theatre is all about the black box where anything can happen, and in games you have that same thing, too — you have this black box an
  
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• Cutting Ice examines life and work of Annie Pootoogook

  02-03-2018 17:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  A red bra, a pair of scissors and a set of bagpipes are some of the unexpected images included in Cutting Ice, the new book on the life and work of the late Inuit artist Annie Pootoogook.Each item is meticulously rendered in coloured pencil and ink: The red bra hints at romance, the scissor blades are poised for use and the pipes make a delightful study of curved form and playful detail.They’re among the objects that caught Pootoogook’s eye during a career that brought her from her h
  
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• KNOCK, KNOCK: SD&G @OPP_ER arrest 9, in 6AM search warrants at homes & businesses in #Alexandria, seizing drugs, weapons, and cash. #ottnews

  02-03-2018 17:15 via twitter.com
  KNOCK, KNOCK: SD&G @OPP_ER arrest 9, in 6AM search warrants at homes & businesses in #Alexandria, seizing drugs, weapons, and cash. #ottnews
  
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• A better life? Play explores what really happens when Mom leaves to work in another country

  02-03-2018 17:11 via ottawacitizen.com
  How Black Mothers Say I Love You, the new play that opens at the Great Canadian Theatre Company next week, was inspired by an exchange between playwright Trey Anthony and her cancer-stricken 80-year-old grandmother.In her playwright’s message, Anthony writes about asking her grandmother if there was anything she regretted.The answer: “My biggest regret was leaving my children … Sometimes as a mother you have to do what is best for your children. But they will never understand.
  
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• Gormley: How to tackle the New Cold War's cyber threats

  02-03-2018 16:56 via ottawacitizen.com
  The New Cold War is neither all that new nor all that cold.
  Its main combatants are still the United States and Russia. Both are still brandishing nuclear weapons. 
  And one of these is doing rather more than merely contributing to “frosty relations,” as this sort of thing is usually described. That one is a flamethrower. The other is led by a man happy to be the kindling.
  Russia has successfully sabotaged the democratic process in the United States. We don’t know precisely
  
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• Coming up on the ethics Lab with @dk_munro & @_MarkSutcliffe: -NRA Boycott -pet cloning Tune in at 11: 📻: 1310… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  02-03-2018 16:50 via twitter.com
  Coming up on the ethics Lab with @dk_munro & @_MarkSutcliffe: -NRA Boycott -pet cloningTune in at 11:📻: 1310… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Coming up at 12:30 today: @TGranicAllen joins @_MarkSutcliffe live: Listen: 📻: 1310 💻: bit.ly/1uwtdOs… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  02-03-2018 16:44 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 12:30 today: @TGranicAllen joins @_MarkSutcliffe live: Listen:📻: 1310 💻: bit.ly/1uwtdOs… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• There is magic in the air and on the ice for the Ice Chips

  02-03-2018 16:43 via ottawacitizen.com
  Back when they were glorious, the Montreal Canadiens celebrated the passing of the torch from one legendary captain to the next.
  Here’s another hockey-related hand-off, but in the literary arena — a passing of the torch of a beloved children’s book series. Roy MacGregor, poet laureate of Canadiana themes ranging from the Tom Thomson mystery to frozen shinny ponds as well as NHL hockey, delivered a publishing bonanza with his Screech Owl series for young readers.
  Nearly two mill
  
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• Coming up at 10:45: @Scott_Gilmore joins @_MarkSutcliffe to discuss men & feminism, Trump as the Magic 8-Ball pre… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  02-03-2018 16:38 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 10:45: @Scott_Gilmore joins @_MarkSutcliffe to discuss men & feminism, Trump as the Magic 8-Ball pre… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Coming up at 10:30: @cmaconthehill joins @_marksutcliffe with a look back at the week in Canadian politics: 📻: 1… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  02-03-2018 16:25 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 10:30: @cmaconthehill joins @_marksutcliffe with a look back at the week in Canadian politics:📻: 1… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Military promotions and retirements: RCAF commander Lt.-Gen. Hood leaving

  02-03-2018 16:08 via ottawacitizen.com
  A CANFORGEN has now gone out outlining the latest promotions and retirements from the Canadian Forces. Here it is:
  PROMOTIONS AND APPOINTMENTS, RESULTING FROM RETIREMENTS, ARE AS FOLLOWS:LIEUTENANT-GENERAL J.A.J. PARENT WILL RETIRE FROM SERVICE RESULTING IN THE FOLLOWING PROMOTIONS AND APPOINTMENTS: (1) LIEUTENANT-GENERAL P.F. WYNNYK WILL BE APPOINTED ACTING VICE CHIEF OF THE DEFENCE STAFF, AT NDHQ, IN OTTAWA ON, REPLACING LIEUTENANT-GENERAL J.A.J. PARENT 
  (2) MAJOR-GENERAL J.M. LANTHI
  
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• Canada's GDP rises at 1.7 per cent annualized rate in fourth quarter: bit.ly/2HWPEMw https://t.co/ZrQpqSE6iy

  02-03-2018 16:01 via twitter.com
  
  Canada's GDP rises at 1.7 per cent annualized rate in fourth quarter: bit.ly/2HWPEMw https://t.co/ZrQpqSE6iy
  
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• Coming up on the 10 O'Clock Talk: @jonathanmcleod, @WendyBoomer & @erin_gee join @_MarkSutcliffe live: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  02-03-2018 15:48 via twitter.com
  Coming up on the 10 O'Clock Talk:@jonathanmcleod, @WendyBoomer & @erin_gee join @_MarkSutcliffe live:📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Renovation Transformation: Unappealing indoor pool becomes family room with home library

  02-03-2018 15:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  One family’s dream pool became another family’s nightmare.
  For thirty years the moisture from a large indoor pool infiltrated the walls of a home located in Ottawa’s west end community of Qualicum-Redwood. Improper ventilation caused wooden structures to rot and mould to accumulate.
  Caroline Dubé and her family moved in eleven years ago and from the beginning, she wasn’t fond of the swimming area. Her antipathy grew when she found out the pool had a major leak whic
  
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• Highchair recalled over potential fall hazard: bit.ly/2GXEENE https://t.co/tWoYPUVWVQ

  02-03-2018 15:30 via twitter.com
  
  Highchair recalled over potential fall hazard: bit.ly/2GXEENE https://t.co/tWoYPUVWVQ
  
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• "A truly pro-woman budget wouldn't try to tell me how to live my life" @mrozekandrea joins @_MarkSutcliffe at 9:30… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  02-03-2018 15:25 via twitter.com
  "A truly pro-woman budget wouldn't try to tell me how to live my life"@mrozekandrea joins @_MarkSutcliffe at 9:30… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Coming up at 915: @AdrianMorrow joins @_MarkSutcliffe on Trump's promises of big tariffs on steel, aluminum: Li… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  02-03-2018 15:08 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 915: @AdrianMorrow joins @_MarkSutcliffe on Trump's promises of big tariffs on steel, aluminum: Li… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Team effort saves air traveller in cardiac arrest: Paramedics

  02-03-2018 14:56 via ottawacitizen.com
  Paramedics are crediting witnesses who started CPR and then a team effort of airline and airport personnel and first responders armed with a public-access defibrillator with saving a traveler’s life this week.
  It happened at about 8:16 p.m. Tuesday when paramedics were called to the airport to help a 68-year-old man who collapsed as he got off a plane.
  Witnesses started CPR and were joined by staff from American Airlines and the airport authority, Ottawa police and Canada Border Services a
  
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• Forget the groundhogs, this spotted salamander thinks it's already spring

  02-03-2018 14:31 via ottawacitizen.com
  Spring has sprung according to at least one yellow-spotted salamander.
  While there’s some light snow and bluster in Friday’s forecast, we can expect sunshine and 5 C by Sunday in a return to unseasonably glorious weather.
  Patrick Scott of the Fresh Air Experience in Wellington West spotted the amphibian on video while skiing on the Fortune Lake Parkway near Fortune Lake earlier this week.“Our Instagram followers have deduced that it is likely a yellow-spotted salamander that en
  
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• Three displaced after car fire in Gatineau garage spreads to home

  02-03-2018 13:55 via ottawacitizen.com
  Three people were displaced early Friday when a car fire in a Gatineau garage spread to an adjacent home.
  Gatineau fire reported that responders arrived at a residence at 44 Richmond St. at about 9:20 p.m. to find the car engulfed in flames that were spreading to the home’s walls and roof.
  Some 25 firefighters went to work to try to contain the fire and prevent it from spreading to other nearby homes.
  The fire was under control about 70 minutes later. There were no serious injuries re
  
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• Weather: Spotted salamander sighting is latest sign of early spring

  02-03-2018 13:49 via ottawacitizen.com
  Spring has sprung according to at least one yellow-spotted salamander.
  While there’s some light snow and bluster in Friday’s forecast, we can expect sunshine and 5 C by Sunday in a return to unseasonably glorious weather.
  Patrick Scott of the Fresh Air Experience in Wellington West spotted the amphibian on video while skiing on the Fortune Lake Parkway near Fortune Lake earlier this week.“Our Instagram followers have deduced that it is likely a yellow-spotted salamander that en
  
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• MacDougall: Trudeau is politicizing the public service to protect himself

  02-03-2018 13:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  It should be taken as read that a prime minister doesn’t want his National Security Adviser to be the star of a farce. It’s a job where credibility is everything.
  Why, then, is Justin Trudeau continuing to endorse his adviser’s now discredited tales of rogue Indian government factions being the ones behind Jaspal Atwal’s invitations, while simultaneously assigning blame to a backbench MP for the same? The obvious explanation — that it was a desperate prime minister
  
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• 'I was completely boggled that this was still happening'

  02-03-2018 13:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  All this to say, Mr. Trudeau, I know that Phoenix was a bag of dog poop that the former government left on your doorstep, and I know that a number of high ranking bureaucrats recommended going ahead and implementing the system, lighting that damn bag on fire. And in trying to put the fire out, well, the poop went everywhere. But you need to clean it up. I’m never getting that time back. My finances are in the toilet. Now fix it. Last year, all I asked for for Christmas was to be paid. That
  
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• And mild to start next week! Monday: Sunny high 6 Tuesday: Mostly sunny high 5 twitter.com/1310Alexblack/…

  02-03-2018 12:14 via twitter.com
  And mild to start next week!Monday: Sunny high 6 Tuesday: Mostly sunny high 5 twitter.com/1310Alexblack/…
  
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• Our @_MarkSutcliffe was one of the speakers at last night's @TEDxKanata at the @BrookstreetOtt: twitter.com/karenmccrimmon…

  02-03-2018 12:11 via twitter.com
  Our @_MarkSutcliffe was one of the speakers at last night's @TEDxKanata at the @BrookstreetOtt: twitter.com/karenmccrimmon…
  
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• Councillor pushes women's bureau in open letter 1310news.com/2018/03/02/cou… #ottnews https://t.co/zEWTVpyE5b

  02-03-2018 11:56 via twitter.com
  
  Councillor pushes women's bureau in open letter1310news.com/2018/03/02/cou…#ottnews https://t.co/zEWTVpyE5b
  
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• Online voting begins today for new Ontario Progressive Conservative leader: bit.ly/2Fixqqj https://t.co/7BF5XhgT0h

  02-03-2018 11:36 via twitter.com
  
  Online voting begins today for new Ontario Progressive Conservative leader: bit.ly/2Fixqqj https://t.co/7BF5XhgT0h
  
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• No injuries after car fire in Gatineau: bit.ly/2oK9H8b https://t.co/f0ppXHz1pi

  02-03-2018 11:27 via twitter.com
  
  No injuries after car fire in Gatineau: bit.ly/2oK9H8b https://t.co/f0ppXHz1pi
  
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• RECALL: Loblaw recalling cooked shrimp; packages may also contain raw shrimp: bit.ly/2CSBuZ7 https://t.co/3J7wmc2Rqu

  02-03-2018 11:19 via twitter.com
  
  RECALL: Loblaw recalling cooked shrimp; packages may also contain raw shrimp: bit.ly/2CSBuZ7 https://t.co/3J7wmc2Rqu
  
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• Quebec police ask for help locating missing Chelsea woman

  02-03-2018 04:24 via ottawacitizen.com
  Police in Chelsea, Que., were seeking the public’s help Thursday night in locating a missing woman who was headed to Hull Hospital on Wednesday evening, but never arrived.
  The police department of the MRC des Collines-de-l’Outaouais say Diane Lafontaine, 51, who suffers from PTSD, left her Chelsea residence Wednesday night, headed for the hospital. Her family is concerned for her safety, police said.
  She has brown hair and a scar near her mouth and on her right shoulder. Lafontaine d
  
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