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• Ottawa man launches $4.5M suit against Scouts Canada over sexual abuse claims

  07-03-2018 23:50 via ottawacitizen.com
  An Ottawa man has launched a $4.5-million negligence suit against Scouts Canada for the sexual abuse that he claims to have suffered at the hands of a notorious scout leader in the late 1970s.
  The civil suit, launched last month by a man identified only as C.M., alleges that he was abused by scout leader John Allan Brown after meeting him in 1977. C.M. was then a 13-year-old boy scout in Brockville, and Brown was a leader with the 8th District Scout Troop.
  According to a statement of claim filed
  
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• Fentanyl-dealing pharmacist sentenced to 14 years behind bars

  07-03-2018 23:12 via ottawacitizen.com
  A fentanyl-dealing pharmacist who faked a robbery at his own drug dispensary to cover up an elaborate million-dollar drug scheme has been sentenced to 14 years behind bars and to pay more than $36,000 in restitution for his fraud.
  It is, to date, the stiffest sentence ever handed down in the country to a pharmacist for fentanyl crimes.
  Waseem Shaheen reported a knifepoint robbery at his Rideau Street I.D.A. pharmacy in October 2014, where he said a masked bandit had made away with more than $25,
  
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• Heritage Ottawa hates the new Château Laurier design

  07-03-2018 23:01 via ottawacitizen.com
  The city’s volunteer advocacy group for heritage protection hates the latest design for the Château Laurier addition, but the planner overseeing the development is confident in the architectural vision.
  “They’re going to put an addition on one of Canada’s foremost buildings. What they’re proposing is completely inappropriate,” Heritage Ottawa co-chair Leslie Maitland said in an interview Wednesday. “It has all the charm of a box store.”
  
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• Deposed Tory candidate in Ottawa West-Nepean will keep fighting, lawyer says

  07-03-2018 22:57 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Ontario Progressive Conservatives might think they’ve got Jeremy Roberts as their candidate in Ottawa West-Nepean, but the candidate they ditched to get him is challenging the legitimacy of the meeting that picked him.
  Karma Macgregor has never been officially informed that she’s out, lawyer Joshua Henderson claims, and the Wednesday night meeting to acclaim Roberts as her replacement in Ottawa West-Nepean is invalid.
  “Not only has my client never received official notifica
  
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• McGuinty: A #MeThree movement, based on truth and reconciliation

  07-03-2018 22:32 via ottawacitizen.com
  A debate has erupted across Canadian society about due process in the era of #MeToo. Is there a way forward that preserves both the dignity of victims and the rights of the accused? Perhaps we can draw on the ethics of truth and reconciliation.
  In the Western legal tradition, the accused are presumed innocent until proven guilty. This puts the burden of proof on the accuser to show that the accused is legally responsible for the alleged act. This protects innocent people who are wrongly accused.
  
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• Dining Out: Sula Wok on Main Street serves fast, tasty Asian fare with a smile

  07-03-2018 21:10 via ottawacitizen.com
  Sula Wok184 Main St., 613-890-7852, sulawok.comOpen: Monday to Saturday 11 a.m. to 9 p.m., Sunday 11:30 a.m. 8 p.m.Prices: All items between $7.50 and $12.95Access: front door is wheelchair-accessible
  Almost a decade ago, the husband-and-wife team of Andrew Lay and Xin-Hui Su were running the Yak Café, a two-storey Tibetan-themed restaurant and handicrafts store in the southern Chinese town of Yangshuo, about 600 km northwest of Hong Kong.
  These days, the couple still
  
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• Going out best bets, March 8 to 15

  07-03-2018 21:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  FolkGenticorum, the folk trio that specializes in traditional Quebecois music, returns to Ottawa this weekend to launch their new album, Avant l’Orage, their first with new member Nicholas Williams. The Ottawa native, who plays accordion and flutes, joins fiddler Pascal Gemme and guitarist Yann Falquet in bringing the tunes of French Canada to audiences around the world. They play Rosemount Hall, 41 Rosemount Ave., at 8 p.m. Saturday, presented by the Old Sod folk music society. Tickets ar
  
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• Reevely: As the PCs' leadership race gets ugly, Mulroney's ideas are worth a look

  07-03-2018 20:23 via ottawacitizen.com
  Caroline Mulroney wants to build more nursing homes, license home-daycare operators, teach guidance counsellors about work in the trades, and help more terminally ill people get palliative care.
  In a Progressive Conservative leadership campaign that’s been mostly about personalities and attitudes, devolving lately into a mudwrestle between Christine Elliott (a secret Liberal!) and Doug Ford (erratic and out of control!). Mulroney has tried to distinguish herself with some actual ideas, rol
  
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• Today's letters: Women in policing, women in the CBC

  07-03-2018 20:12 via ottawacitizen.com
  Today, we feature a view on women in policing, and one on the CBC. You can write to us too, at [email protected]
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  Don’t water down physical testing
  Re: Are police tests inappropriate for women? March 2.
  When a job is as physically demanding as policing, firefighting or being a paramedic, it is of utmost importance that the prospective candidates all participate in the same examinations.
  Why? Police officers, like all first responders, do not choose their clientele.
  
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• McGuinty: A #MeThree movement, based on truth and reconcilation

  07-03-2018 19:50 via ottawacitizen.com
  A debate has erupted across Canadian society about due process in the era of #MeToo. Is there a way forward that preserves both the dignity of victims and the rights of the accused? Perhaps we can draw on the ethics of truth and reconciliation.
  In the Western legal tradition, the accused are presumed innocent until proven guilty. This puts the burden of proof on the accuser to show that the accused is legally responsible for the alleged act. This protects innocent people who are wrongly accused.
  
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• UPDATE: The petition has been removed, and has been replaced with this message: savethemarket.ca #ottnews

  07-03-2018 19:12 via twitter.com
  UPDATE: The petition has been removed, and has been replaced with this message: savethemarket.ca #ottnews
  
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• Tuczynski: Give yourself a pat on the back, ladies

  07-03-2018 19:04 via ottawacitizen.com
  International Women’s Day is an opportunity to celebrate women’s political, economic, social and cultural achievements throughout history and across the globe. It also serves as a day to recognize some of the strong and talented women we have have had the privilege of knowing and are surrounded by in our daily lives: our mothers, siblings, friends, colleagues and educators, to name a few.
  But ladies, on this day, how many of us actually stop to reflect on the woman we once were, the
  
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• Traffic on the 417 and well, everywhere, was an absolute mess this morning

  07-03-2018 18:50 via ottawacitizen.com
  A few flakes and a few of us flake out apparently.
  Police were reminding motorists to clear off their cars – “Clear. All. The. Snow. Off. Your. Vehicle!!!!!,” said one – and drive for conditions amid a string of crashes, rollovers and spinouts.
  Ottawa police reported nine collisions from 5 a.m. to 7:30 a.m. – and they don’t get called to every fender bender or ditched car.
  Most seriously, the OPP reported just before 7 a.m. that Highway 417 westbound was entir
  
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• Adam: Ottawa council doesn't need a women's bureau – but it does need to help women

  07-03-2018 18:48 via ottawacitizen.com
  Coun. Diane Deans is right to demand gender balance in municipal government appointments and decisions. It is indeed a shame that on a 24-member council, only four people are women. Even more lamentable is the lack of women in senior positions in city administration. Three women department heads out of nine is not something to be proud of. And to learn that a panel of 11 people set up to hire a city manager had only two women, is to know that something is not right at city hall.
  There is a need
  
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• Upper Ottawa Valley OPP investigating threats to students @ Fellowes H.S. in #Pembroke. School remains open, no thr… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  07-03-2018 18:36 via twitter.com
  Upper Ottawa Valley OPP investigating threats to students @ Fellowes H.S. in #Pembroke. School remains open, no thr… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Lawyer in Gee-Gees sex assault trial suspended for malpractice

  07-03-2018 18:36 via ottawacitizen.com
  An Ottawa criminal lawyer representing one of the accused in the University of Ottawa sex assault trial in Thunder Bay has been suspended for three months.
  After an investigation, the Law Society of Ontario’s tribunal found Christian Jacques Deslauriers guilty of professional misconduct for incidents between June 2010 and Sept. 2011, where Deslauriers allowed a law student to run his legal aid practice.
  According to a ruling from Feb. 23, Deslauriers contravened the law
  
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• Coming up at 12:30: Leslie Maitland of @HeritageOttawa joins @_MarkSutcliffe on the Chateau Laurier expansion: 📻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  07-03-2018 18:25 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 12:30:Leslie Maitland of @HeritageOttawa joins @_MarkSutcliffe on the Chateau Laurier expansion:📻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• 15th-anniversary edition of Westfest "back on the main drag"

  07-03-2018 18:12 via ottawacitizen.com
  Two Indigenous musical acts based in Ottawa — rapper Cody Coyote and electronic artist Bear Witness — share star billing at Westfest with Canada’s power-pop heroes of the ’80s, The Pursuit of Happiness.They’re the headliners of this year’s 15th-anniversary edition of the popular, free neighbourhood festival, which is again moving to a new home. After two years at Laroche Park, this year’s celebrations will happen June 8-10 at the Tom Brown Arena and Park
  
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• US to take 136 F-18s out of service but don't count on any for Canada

  07-03-2018 18:04 via ottawacitizen.com
  The U.S. Navy is removing from service 136 of its older F-18s. That has immediately prompted suggestions in some parts of the Canadian defence community that the aircraft could be used to bolster Canada’s aging CF-18 fleet.
  But don’t count on that happening.
  The USN is hoping to provide the U.S. Marines with the best of the surplus aircraft to bolster the Marines’ fighter capability.  And then it intends to use the others for spare parts for its F-18s still operating. The
  
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• The POWER LUNCH with Mark Sutcliffe is LIVE from 12 - 12:30PM on Ottawa Today! Follow the link to watch a live str… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  07-03-2018 17:55 via twitter.com
  The POWER LUNCH with Mark Sutcliffe is LIVE from 12 - 12:30PM on Ottawa Today!Follow the link to watch a live str… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Coming up on the Power Lunch at 12: @RickChiarelli & @MikeVlasveld join @_MarkSutcliffe in studio: Listen: 📻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  07-03-2018 17:45 via twitter.com
  Coming up on the Power Lunch at 12: @RickChiarelli & @MikeVlasveld join @_MarkSutcliffe in studio: Listen:📻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Coming up at 11:45: @jayme_poisson of @TorontoStar joins @_MarkSutcliffe with the latest on the Bruce McArthur ca… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  07-03-2018 17:39 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 11:45: @jayme_poisson of @TorontoStar joins @_MarkSutcliffe with the latest on the Bruce McArthur ca… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Coming up at 11:30: @MeaganCampbel12of @macleans joins @_MarkSutcliffe to discuss the #MeToo reckoning on Parliame… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  07-03-2018 17:22 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 11:30:@MeaganCampbel12of @macleans joins @_MarkSutcliffe to discuss the #MeToo reckoning on Parliame… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Ottawa Public Health calls for ban on smoking, vaping pot in condos and apartments ottawamatters.com/local-news/ott…… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  07-03-2018 16:02 via twitter.com
  Ottawa Public Health calls for ban on smoking, vaping pot in condos and apartmentsottawamatters.com/local-news/ott…… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• *NEW* You can watch Ottawa Today with @_MarkSutcliffe LIVE through @OttawaMatters! WATCH: bit.ly/2FzHGur https://t.co/HJyxvGNwr5

  07-03-2018 15:39 via twitter.com
  
  *NEW* You can watch Ottawa Today with @_MarkSutcliffe LIVE through @OttawaMatters!WATCH: bit.ly/2FzHGur https://t.co/HJyxvGNwr5
  
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• 'Donald Trump has more in common with Winston Churchill than you think' Brian Bethune of @macleans joins… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  07-03-2018 15:39 via twitter.com
  'Donald Trump has more in common with Winston Churchill than you think'Brian Bethune of @macleans joins… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Hard Rock Casino consultation being held tonight: bit.ly/2FB68fb https://t.co/n7eW5RsRjQ

  07-03-2018 15:14 via twitter.com
  
  Hard Rock Casino consultation being held tonight: bit.ly/2FB68fb https://t.co/n7eW5RsRjQ
  
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• These are some of the most common ways scammers target people in Ottawa

  07-03-2018 15:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  With March designated as Fraud Prevention month, police are warning the public of potential scams and fraudsters who have duped victims out of thousands of dollars.
  In 2016, the Better Business Bureau estimated Canadians lost more than $90 million to scams. Staff Sgt. Stephanie Burns and Sgt. Jamie Ritchie of the Ottawa police fraud unit offer some tips on what to do for those who cross paths with scammers.
  THE CRA SCAM
  The scam: A caller supposedly from Canada Revenue Agency says you are l
  
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• Coming up at 9:15: Ontario PC Party leader candidate @C_Mulroney joins @_MarkSutcliffe: Listen: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  07-03-2018 15:00 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 9:15: Ontario PC Party leader candidate @C_Mulroney joins @_MarkSutcliffe: Listen:📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• We've teamed up with @OttawaMatters to provide more local news - more often! bit.ly/2thfQOH https://t.co/vuI2Dyi9EW

  07-03-2018 14:47 via twitter.com
  
  We've teamed up with @OttawaMatters to provide more local news - more often!bit.ly/2thfQOH https://t.co/vuI2Dyi9EW
  
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• Traffic on the 417 and well, everywhere, is an absolute mess this morning

  07-03-2018 14:46 via ottawacitizen.com
  A few flakes and a few of us flake out apparently.
  Police were reminding motorists to clear off their cars – “Clear. All. The. Snow. Off. Your. Vehicle!!!!!,” said one – and drive for conditions amid a string of crashes, rollovers and spinouts.
  Ottawa police reported nine collisions from 5 a.m. to 7:30 a.m. – and they don’t get called to every fender bender or ditched car.
  Most seriously, the OPP reported just before 7 a.m. that Highway 417 westbound was entir
  
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• Snow, snow and more snow in the forecast

  07-03-2018 14:46 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa awoke to a blanket of white stuff Wednesday and there’s more on the way.
  Environment Canada is predicting 2 cm to fall before periods of snow end Wednesday morning as easterly winds at 30 km/h gusting to 50 blow it around. The high is 2 C. 
  Another 2 to 4 cm is expected to start falling Wednesday evening with a low of -2 C.
  Thursday’s outlook is more snow – yet another 2 to 4 cm – with a high of 0 C.
  Overnight, there’s a 70 per cent chance of yet more sn
  
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• Inquiry into missing, murdered Indigenous women holds hearings in Labrador: bit.ly/2G5S3Eg https://t.co/ezB6MkVhG6

  07-03-2018 14:41 via twitter.com
  
  Inquiry into missing, murdered Indigenous women holds hearings in Labrador: bit.ly/2G5S3Eg https://t.co/ezB6MkVhG6
  
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• Former boyfriend pleads guilty to 2016 killing of Christina Voelzing

  07-03-2018 13:06 via ottawacitizen.com
  A new romance, a rekindled connection and an ego-driven feud between two men who treated her more like property than a woman they loved claimed Christina Voelzing’s life.
  After the 24-year-old was fatally shot on Easter Sunday 2016, one dragged her body to the living room of her Bells Corners house and hid his gun. The other fled town, on the run for her homicide.
  Behnam Yaali, 25, was originally charged with second-degree murder for shooting his former girlfriend dead, but instead pleaded
  
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• Ottawa nursing home reports reveal fresh cases of abuse, death

  07-03-2018 13:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  Multiple Ottawa long-term care homes have seen fresh cases of abuse and resident death following improper care, an analysis of provincial records published this year reveals. 
  One resident died after being pushed to the ground by another resident, while it’s alleged a resident in a different home was repeatedly sexually abused by another resident.
  Both cases led to citations against the homes by the Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care. 
  City-run nursing homes, which have b
  
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• Asselstine: Here's why long-term care workers are so stressed

  07-03-2018 13:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  Shortly after 6 a.m., the personal support workers (PSWs) are looking for someone to start washing and dressing and assisting into their wheelchair. If you are a “complete care” client, one helper will wash your face while another puts on your socks. They have to work like this because speed is of the essence. A registered nurse may stop by to put your eye drops in. Then your dentures are popped in, there’s a quick shave and you are ready to be swung into your chair by a mechan
  
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• Walsh and Edwards: Alcohol is Ontario's other drug problem

  07-03-2018 12:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  The opioid crisis and the legalization of cannabis are major public health issues and we commend government actions and plans to address them. However, Ontario’s other major drug problem, alcohol, is being overlooked. This drug is more widely used and marketed to ensure greater access, convenience and choice. We need to put the cork back in the bottle.
  Increasing “convenience and choice” has been one of the Ontario government’s most popular measures. Over the last 10 year
  
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• Pardy: Canada-India problem has a long history, but it's worth resolving

  07-03-2018 12:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  Almost fifty years ago, another prime minister Trudeau touched down in India.  For five days in January, 1971, Pierre Elliott Trudeau toured the country, rode a camel, petted a bullock, went up the Ganges and into a locomotive factory, visited the tombs of Indian notables, saw the Taj Mahal and wore a hat that would have made a Rajput proud. He then sat down with the emerging, redoubtable Prime Minister Indira Gandhi to discuss the state of the world and the sorry state of Canada’s ec
  
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• Feds eye tougher screening of gun owners for mental health, violence concerns: bit.ly/2D5TbEN https://t.co/5UqC8ykUMy

  07-03-2018 11:41 via twitter.com
  
  Feds eye tougher screening of gun owners for mental health, violence concerns: bit.ly/2D5TbEN https://t.co/5UqC8ykUMy
  
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• Woman arrested after rally against controversial professor Jordan Peterson: bit.ly/2Fl7Yxi https://t.co/LEqsDzTpOW

  07-03-2018 11:32 via twitter.com
  
  Woman arrested after rally against controversial professor Jordan Peterson: bit.ly/2Fl7Yxi https://t.co/LEqsDzTpOW
  
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• Man treated for hypothermia after car crashes through ice of Ottawa River: bit.ly/2oWehjB https://t.co/rjU4jFodhC

  07-03-2018 11:24 via twitter.com
  
  Man treated for hypothermia after car crashes through ice of Ottawa River: bit.ly/2oWehjB https://t.co/rjU4jFodhC
  
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• Top Trump economic adviser Gary Cohn is leaving the White House after breaking with President Donald Trump on trade… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  07-03-2018 08:09 via twitter.com
  Top Trump economic adviser Gary Cohn is leaving the White House after breaking with President Donald Trump on trade… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Answers on light rail construction and potential RTG penalty ottawamatters.com/local-news/ans… #ottnews #ottawamatters… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  07-03-2018 05:05 via twitter.com
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• Questions remain about party flight but Canadian Forces declines to provide answers

  07-03-2018 05:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  News about the Canadian Forces Team Canada morale tour to Greece and Latvia appears to have died down and some at National Defence headquarters are happy about that.
  Chief of the Defence Staff Gen. Jon Vance has portrayed the partying on a taxpayer-funded military tour, which included free-flowing booze, a band set up at the back of the plane, and people dancing in the aisles, as a one-time incident. But photos have surfaced from a 2010 military morale tour to Afghanistan showing similar behavio
  
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• 400 radio stations including @1310NEWS on one handy app! Download the @RadioplayerCa app at… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  07-03-2018 04:24 via twitter.com
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• Crews rescue occupant of vehicle that broke through ice on Ottawa River

  07-03-2018 04:09 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa Fire Services rescued the occupant of a car that had broken through the ice on the Ottawa River on Tuesday evening.
  The car had entered the river from a street in Gatineau and the initial tip came from a 911 call placed on the Quebec side of the river, across from Constance Bay, but Ottawa crews performed the rescue.
  After making their way across the ice to the submerged vehicle, fire service crew members discovered a person in the water and transported the individual back to shore a
  
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• Troubled inquiry into missing, murdered Indigenous women seeks two more years ottawamatters.com/around-ontario…

  07-03-2018 03:11 via twitter.com
  Troubled inquiry into missing, murdered Indigenous women seeks two more years ottawamatters.com/around-ontario…
  
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• 'Uniting' Conservatives the goal of acclaimed Ottawa West-Nepean candidate Jeremy Roberts

  07-03-2018 03:09 via ottawacitizen.com
  After this winter’s weirdness,  the Ontario progressive conservative party would like nothing better than to return to a semblance of normality.
  Events surrounding the riding of Ottawa West-Nepean suggest the party may be moving in this direction. On Wednesday, the Conservatives’ current standard bearer, Jeremy Roberts, intends to kick off his campaign to take the riding currently represented by Bob Chiarelli, a Liberal.
  Roberts secured the PC nomination on Saturday night, when
  
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• Survey shows many Ottawa restaurant owners worried about survival ottawamatters.com/local-news/sur… #ottnews #ottawamatters https://t.co/5GUw7xM4d0

  07-03-2018 02:03 via twitter.com
  
  Survey shows many Ottawa restaurant owners worried about survivalottawamatters.com/local-news/sur… #ottnews #ottawamatters https://t.co/5GUw7xM4d0
  
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• Mayor Watson appeals to federal cabinet to reverse Prince of Wales Bridge order

  07-03-2018 01:37 via ottawacitizen.com
  The federal Liberal cabinet should quash a decision by a regulator compelling the City of Ottawa to fix the Prince of Wales Bridge, Mayor Jim Watson says.
  The city is taking a double-barrelled approach in its fight against a Canadian Transportation Agency (CTA) order. On top of asking for help from cabinet, the city is also asking the Federal Court of Appeal to consider hearing an appeal.
  The CTA order, sent to the city last month, orders the city to restore the rail line north of Bayview statio
  
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