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• #NEW Gary Cohn, top economic adviser for U.S. President Donald Trump, is leaving White House after a disagreement… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  06-03-2018 23:50 via twitter.com
  #NEWGary Cohn, top economic adviser for U.S. President Donald Trump, is leaving White House after a disagreement… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Two months before sex assault trial, well-known Ottawa teacher and basketball coach dies

  06-03-2018 23:49 via ottawacitizen.com
  A former Ottawa teacher and basketball coach who was facing a raft of historic sexual assault charges has died at home only two months before he was to stand trial.
  Donald Greenham, 75, died of a heart attack Sunday at his home in Addison, near Brockville, said criminal defence lawyer Sean May.
  “There’s no questions that the stress of this kind of case is difficult on anyone physically,” May said Tuesday. “It’s just a sad, sad thing.”
  May said his client had e
  
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• Reevely: Ontario makes millions auctioning carbon permits but won't say who bought them

  06-03-2018 22:55 via ottawacitizen.com
  The provincial government refuses to say whether Ontario companies were big buyers in the first international auction for carbon permits, sending cash to Quebec or California for the right to emit greenhouse gases.
  Joining up with those two jurisdictions in the “Western Climate Initiative” is the driveshaft of the Liberal government’s climate-change plan. Four times a year, they put millions of tonnes’ worth of “allowances” up for bids, letting certain heavy e
  
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• No arrests, as police investigate latest gun incident in Ottawa: #ottnews twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…

  06-03-2018 22:49 via twitter.com
  No arrests, as police investigate latest gun incident in Ottawa: #ottnews twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…
  
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• Cannabis Culture pot shop on Bank Street loses court bid to have eviction overturned

  06-03-2018 22:49 via ottawacitizen.com
  Cannabis Culture, a former pot shop on Bank Street, has lost a court bid to have its eviction overturned.
  Justice Michelle O’Bonsawin ruled the landlord was justified in terminating the lease because the dispensary was operating in contravention of both its rental lease and federal law.
  The landlord posted an eviction notice on the door of the illegal dispensary in December and called a bailiff to change the locks. Cannabis Culture appealed to the Superior Court of Justice to reinstate the
  
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• ON AIR RIGHT NOW: The Afternoon News with @MarkDayNews and @MelAdams1310 LISTEN LIVE: player.1310news.com… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  06-03-2018 22:29 via twitter.com
  ON AIR RIGHT NOW:The Afternoon News with @MarkDayNews and @MelAdams1310 LISTEN LIVE: player.1310news.com… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Claridge Homes submits plans for next stage of development on LeBreton Flats

  06-03-2018 22:29 via ottawacitizen.com
  A five-tower, 1,950-unit development would be the next phase under Claridge Homes’ blueprint for the east end of LeBreton Flats, according to plans filed at city hall.
  The so-called East Flats project would add 164,500 square metres of floor space along Lett and Booth streets, northeast of the Pimisi LRT station under construction on Booth Street. The proposal includes affordable housing, a food store and other commercial space.
  Claridge’s existing phases of residential development o
  
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• After nearly 50 years since she started her career in municipal politics, Kanata North Ward 4 City Councillor Maria… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  06-03-2018 22:11 via twitter.com
  After nearly 50 years since she started her career in municipal politics, Kanata North Ward 4 City Councillor Maria… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• City maintains confidence that LRT builder will cough up delay costs

  06-03-2018 22:05 via ottawacitizen.com
  Mayor Jim Watson and city management maintained their confidence Tuesday that municipal taxpayers will be insulated from extra costs racked up during the LRT delay.
  Watson and councillors learned the city will miss out on roughly $1.83 million from a planned ridership increase when the Confederation Line was supposed to open around the middle of the year. The handover from Rideau Transit Group (RTG) to OC Transpo was supposed to happen May 24, but the date has been pushed to Nov. 2.
  After a fina
  
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• Ontario passes Rowan's Law designed to protect players, educate coaches bit.ly/2D3Cj1m https://t.co/zVoVSLT7RG

  06-03-2018 21:31 via twitter.com
  
  Ontario passes Rowan's Law designed to protect players, educate coaches bit.ly/2D3Cj1m https://t.co/zVoVSLT7RG
  
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• BREAKING: Reporter Paul Bliss is no longer with CTV following sexual misconduct allegations leveled against him.

  06-03-2018 21:30 via twitter.com
  BREAKING: Reporter Paul Bliss is no longer with CTV following sexual misconduct allegations leveled against him.
  
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• Speeder learns difference between miles per hour and kilometres per hour

  06-03-2018 19:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  A high-miler who blew by a patrolling OPP cruiser at 159 km/h insisted it was impossible he was speeding.
  He was only going 98, the “argumentative” driver maintained when he was pulled over on Highway 401 westbound near Brockville, after he passed the cruiser at about 2:30 a.m. Sunday.
  The officer realized the motorist’s speedometer was reading in miles.
  “Turns out 98 mph = 159 kmh,” Leeds County OPP noted in a release Tuesday.
  There was no word on whether the 40-ye
  
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• #NEW The national inquiry looking into the saga of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls is formally as… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  06-03-2018 19:29 via twitter.com
  #NEW The national inquiry looking into the saga of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls is formally as… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Coming up at 12:40: @DavidEbner joins @_MarkSutcliffe on Roger Bannister --- the first runner to break four-minut… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  06-03-2018 18:32 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 12:40: @DavidEbner joins @_MarkSutcliffe on Roger Bannister --- the first runner to break four-minut… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• New Zealand frigate arrives in Canada for major upgrade

  06-03-2018 18:31 via ottawacitizen.com
  A New Zealand navy frigate has arrived in Canada to be upgraded with a new combat system.
  The Royal New Zealand Navy frigate HMNZS Te Kaha will be modernized in Seaspan’s Victoria, BC shipyard. The frigate will first be stripped of sensitive equipment at CFB Esquimalt before being transferred over to the Seaspan facility.
  “There is a significant program of work to upgrade or replace New Zealand’s defence equipment that aims to maintain the safety of our military personnel and t
  
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• Police probe early-morning gunfire in Bridlewood

  06-03-2018 17:53 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa police found shell casings after reports of “fireworks” in Bridlewood in Kanata early Tuesday morning.
  The gunfire was reported on Farmfield Crescent, near Stonehaven and Terry Fox drives, just before 4 a.m., police said.
  There were no reports of injuries and no suspects were found.
  West-end detectives are investigating.
   
  
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• Coming up at 11:45: @ZaneSchwartz joins @_MarkSutcliffe on how Canadian universities are failing students on sexu… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  06-03-2018 17:39 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 11:45: @ZaneSchwartz joins @_MarkSutcliffe on how Canadian universities are failing students on sexu… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Coming up on the Power Lunch at 12: @Alex_S_Cullen & @ScottMoffatt21 join @_MarkSutcliffe in studio: 📻: 1310 💻… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  06-03-2018 17:35 via twitter.com
  Coming up on the Power Lunch at 12: @Alex_S_Cullen & @ScottMoffatt21 join @_MarkSutcliffein studio: 📻: 1310 💻… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Coming up 11:30: Pollster @niknanos joins @_MarkSutcliffe live: Listen: 📻: 1310 💻: bit.ly/2oQd8u1… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  06-03-2018 17:25 via twitter.com
  Coming up 11:30: Pollster @niknanos joins @_MarkSutcliffe live: Listen:📻: 1310 💻: bit.ly/2oQd8u1… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• The @rick_gibbons Show for Tuesday, March 6th: 1:08: @JennaSudds 1:17: @Archan_Consult 1:30: @GryphonReport 1:45:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  06-03-2018 17:20 via twitter.com
  The @rick_gibbons Show for Tuesday, March 6th: 1:08: @JennaSudds 1:17: @Archan_Consult 1:30: @GryphonReport 1:45:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Carleton strike, Day 2: University admin urges union to return to table

  06-03-2018 17:17 via ottawacitizen.com
  As striking Carleton University support staff picketed for the second day, university administration urged the union to return to the bargaining table.
  CUPE 2424, the union representing about 850 campus administrative, library and support staff, failed to reach an agreement after last-minute contract negotiations broke down in the early hours of Monday morning, sending hundreds of members to the picket lines, where they remained Tuesday.
  Union president Jerrett Clark said a dispute over language
  
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• House Works: Gas water heaters an ideal solution for Canadian space heating

  06-03-2018 17:14 via ottawacitizen.com
  Hot water heating is getting more popular in this country and for good reason. I’ve never met anyone who didn’t like the quiet, even, fan-free heat delivered by hydronic infloor heating or hot water radiators.
  What fewer people realize is how well a gas-fired tank-style hot water heater works as a source of heat for hot water space heating.
  You can either install one as part of a heating system upgrade, or tap into an existing water heater if it’s up to the job. I’m insta
  
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• #ottnews twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…

  06-03-2018 17:13 via twitter.com
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• Coming up at 11: @StephanieCarvin joins @_MarkSutcliffe studio: 📻: 1310 💻: bit.ly/2oQd8u1 📞: 613… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  06-03-2018 16:50 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 11: @StephanieCarvin joins @_MarkSutcliffe studio:📻: 1310 💻: bit.ly/2oQd8u1📞: 613… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Cohen: Netanyahu and Trump, twins of political disaster

  06-03-2018 16:46 via ottawacitizen.com
  An empty limousine pulled up to the White House on Monday and Benjamin Netanyahu got out – a hollow man, defensive and diminished amid his ebbing authority.
  He was there, of course, to meet Donald Trump, his co-religionist in the high church of defiance. To their reunion, Netanyahu brought the flattery of a courtier and the loyalty of a lapdog.
  They had come together for the fifth time since Trump became president. As two fugitives from the future, only steps ahead of the law, they underst
  
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  06-03-2018 16:34 via twitter.com
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• Letters: Defence spending – do we have the priorities right?

  06-03-2018 16:33 via ottawacitizen.com
  Readers write today about defence spending, the PM’s India trip and tourism in Ottawa. You can write to us too, at: [email protected]
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  A very foolish flight
  Re: Gen. Vance’s staff planned taxpayer-funded airborne party, Feb. 24.
  When I read this article about the tax-funded flight which had, among other things, free alcohol and an actual live band, just to boost morale, I was quite livid. This is not what we pay taxes for.
  It’s things like these that make me worr
  
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• Suspects sought in armed pot shop heist that left victim needing surgery

  06-03-2018 16:02 via ottawacitizen.com
  Police are trying to nab robbers who allegedly fired a handgun, then used it to beat an employee into surgery during a heist at a Vanier marijuana dispensary last month.
  Three disguised suspects walked into 613 Medicinals on Montreal Road at Lajoie Street around 12:50 p.m. on Feb. 17.
  One jumped a counter to access the back of the store, then opened the door for another suspect, police said. They allegedly demanded cash and “related products” and a struggle broke out betwee
  
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• City hall blog: Wilkinson announces her retirement from municipal politics

  06-03-2018 15:52 via ottawacitizen.com
  Marianne Wilkinson, the Kanata North councillor and the first mayor of Kanata, says she’s retiring from municipal politics.
  Wilkinson made it official Tuesday morning during her International Women’s Day breakfast, confirming she won’t seek re-election in October.
  Thank you for all of your support over the years. This will be my final #IWD2018 as I will be retiring this year. pic.twitter.com/iKkW45scFV
  — Marianne Wilkinson (@marianne4kanata) March 6, 2018She currently sit
  
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• Dutch jazz artists Ineke Vandoorn and Marc van Vugt touch down for a 10,000-km Canadian tour

  06-03-2018 15:26 via ottawacitizen.com
  In a few days, Dutch jazz singer Ineke Vandoorn and guitarist Marc van Vugt begin a grand five-week Canadian tour that will cover most of the country except for the Maritimes, logging about 10,000 kilometres when all the traveling’s done. 
  On March 8, they’ll begin in Toronto and on April 8, they’ll end in Montreal. But in between those dates, their itinerary includes stops in Waterloo, Ottawa, Saskatoon, Edmonton, Medicine Hat, Revelstoke, Vernon, Kaslo, Vancouver, a
  
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• Wait, there's a chance it could actually snow again?

  06-03-2018 14:47 via ottawacitizen.com
  Winter’s warming up for a return.
  Temperatures are staying relatively mild but there’s a risk of flurries – and a night of full-on snow – on the way.
  Tuesday’s outlook is for more grey skies, a 30 per cent chance of morning flurries and a high of 2 C.
  Overnight, expect periods of snow totalling 2 cm and a low of -2 C.
  Another 2 cm snow is expected to fall before the flakes taper off Wednesday morning then it’s cloudy skies, a 60 per cent chance of showers
  
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• Liberal MPP proposes that Ontario lower its voting age: bit.ly/2D3KGd2 https://t.co/ETU3tUAIZO

  06-03-2018 13:15 via twitter.com
  
  Liberal MPP proposes that Ontario lower its voting age: bit.ly/2D3KGd2 https://t.co/ETU3tUAIZO
  
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• City councillors get update on LRT construction: bit.ly/2oOrMmg https://t.co/GnKFQFBXfs

  06-03-2018 13:05 via twitter.com
  
  City councillors get update on LRT construction: bit.ly/2oOrMmg https://t.co/GnKFQFBXfs
  
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• Today's letters: Making Question Period work, arguing over recreational trails

  06-03-2018 13:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  Question period: The Speaker must take a stand
  Re: A new futility on the Hill; PM making a mockery of question period, March 2.
  Friday’s Citizen informed us that when the Conservatives asked our Prime Minister a question related to his recent India trip he took the opportunity to tout the recent budget and completely avoided answering the question. Predictably, the Conservatives were howling mad and demanded that the Speaker enforce an imaginary relevancy rule to force the prime
  
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• Day two at the picket lines for Carleton University support staff: bit.ly/2FwYmTz https://t.co/dK0JFEABQ0

  06-03-2018 12:58 via twitter.com
  
  Day two at the picket lines for Carleton University support staff: bit.ly/2FwYmTz https://t.co/dK0JFEABQ0
  
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• Shoppers Drug Mart locations to offer Presto card service: bit.ly/2FiAhMx https://t.co/LRzIfQUisQ

  06-03-2018 12:30 via twitter.com
  
  Shoppers Drug Mart locations to offer Presto card service: bit.ly/2FiAhMx https://t.co/LRzIfQUisQ
  
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• Gee Gees volunteer pleads guilty in child luring case: bit.ly/2dYQIl2 https://t.co/XyP0N4i0et

  06-03-2018 12:21 via twitter.com
  
  Gee Gees volunteer pleads guilty in child luring case: bit.ly/2dYQIl2 https://t.co/XyP0N4i0et
  
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• Then flurries the rest of the week! -- Tomorrow: Morning flurries (1 or 2cm) high 2 Thurs: Flurries. (2cm) high… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  06-03-2018 12:12 via twitter.com
  Then flurries the rest of the week! -- Tomorrow: Morning flurries (1 or 2cm) high 2 Thurs: Flurries. (2cm) high… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• PM and Trump talk: U.S. in hurry for NAFTA deal, using tariff threat as leverage: bit.ly/2I7Sui2 https://t.co/JRrqaqm9yz

  06-03-2018 11:45 via twitter.com
  
  PM and Trump talk: U.S. in hurry for NAFTA deal, using tariff threat as leverage: bit.ly/2I7Sui2 https://t.co/JRrqaqm9yz
  
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• Utility work to slow traffic on Elgin Street: bit.ly/2FkiPHR https://t.co/vIW9S20JYf

  06-03-2018 11:35 via twitter.com
  
  Utility work to slow traffic on Elgin Street: bit.ly/2FkiPHR https://t.co/vIW9S20JYf
  
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• Fleury on SaveTheMarket.ca: 'Not an open and productive conversation' bit.ly/2HaEa6K https://t.co/KtPBDuD4gC

  06-03-2018 11:25 via twitter.com
  
  Fleury on SaveTheMarket.ca: 'Not an open and productive conversation'bit.ly/2HaEa6K https://t.co/KtPBDuD4gC
  
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• Ontario to bring in 'pay transparency' bill aimed at closing gender wage gap: bit.ly/2Fh1vYe https://t.co/GeWJ5X53Ke

  06-03-2018 11:17 via twitter.com
  
  Ontario to bring in 'pay transparency' bill aimed at closing gender wage gap: bit.ly/2Fh1vYe https://t.co/GeWJ5X53Ke
  
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• Attempt to improve Cyclone helicopter caused problems related to sonar equipment

  06-03-2018 05:31 via ottawacitizen.com
  Back in December the Canadian Press news agency had a story revealing a new series of problems affecting the RCAF’s new maritime helicopter, the CH-148 Cyclone, and its sonar system. The article outlined how the sonar system used by some CH-148 Cyclones must be removed before the helicopters are allowed to land on ships.
  The RCAF has provided additional information to Defence Watch about what caused the problems and what is being done about those issues:
   What is the issue with the so
  
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• Phoenix pay adds another error: pensions and taxes

  06-03-2018 03:17 via ottawacitizen.com
  The errors are compounding in the Phoenix pay system that rolled out two years ago for nearly 300,000 federal government employees.
  Public Services and Procurement Canada on Monday sent workers an email warning the that government may have delivered T4 documents containing incorrect information.
  This is no small admission because the T4 tax document is a summary of each employee’s salary, benefits and deductions for the tax year. The email from PSPC noted that employees who had received a
  
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• Phoenix leads to pay woes and sleepless nights for 'detail-oriented' fisheries officer

  06-03-2018 03:16 via ottawacitizen.com
  She didn’t lose her house and she never missed a paycheque, but for Johanna Jenkins, Phoenix has been the never-ending itch that can’t be scratched.
  Meticulous, detail-oriented and, by her own admission, “a bit high strung,” the west coast fisheries officer has endured fouled-up pay and inaccurate T4 slips for nearly two years without relief.
  “I’m detail-oriented, but that’s part of my job,” Jenkins said from Nanaimo, B.C. “You have to be. We
  
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• Reevely: Ottawa Hospital looks for ways to salvage heritage at Sir John Carling site

  06-03-2018 00:24 via ottawacitizen.com
  Unless The Ottawa Hospital can build a new Civic campus around the old cafeteria at the Sir John Carling Building, the historic structure the government saved when it dynamited the rest of the old office tower is doomed, under the terms of the hospital’s new lease.
  The federal government is letting the hospital use the property that used to hold Agriculture Canada’s headquarters, just northwest of Dow’s Lake, to build a new hospital and replace the century-old Civic building a
  
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• Accused in fatal stabbing is son of woman killed in Barrhaven bus-Via Rail crash

  06-03-2018 00:13 via ottawacitizen.com
  A man whose mother was killed in the 2013 fatal bus-train collision in Barrhaven has been charged with murder after a man was stabbed to death in a Walmart parking lot, this newspaper has learned.
  Miles Krzyzewski, 25, appeared in court Monday afternoon via video and was formally charged with second-degree murder.
  Police took Krzyzewski into custody Sunday night after receiving a 911 call around 10 p.m. to attend the Walmart at Billings Bridge Shopping Mall. Police believe Krzyzewski was inside
  
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