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• Man charged after a sawed-off shotgun pointed at two people, police say

  10-03-2018 23:45 via ottawacitizen.com
  A 23-year-old Ottawa man was charged with numerous firearms-related offences after an incident on the patio of a Montreal Road establishment Friday night.
  An intoxicated male pointed a sawed-off shotgun at two people during a disturbance at about 10:50 p.m. in area near Lafontaine Avenue, Ottawa police said in a news release. Police said they were called after he left the patio, and that patrol officers immediately located him and placed him under arrest without incident. The discarded shotgun w
  
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• LCBO to pay agency $650,000 for branding, marketing of cannabis store, logo

  10-03-2018 23:09 via ottawacitizen.com
  Buying pot logos can be expensive.
  A day after the Liquor Control Board of Ontario revealed the name and logo for stores that will sell marijuana, it confirmed on Saturday that it expected to pay advertising agency Leo Burnett about $650,000 for all brand and marketing related to the Ontario Cannabis Store.
  “The OCRC is in the unique position of having to establish a new brand to serve a completely new regulatory environment where many of the proposed marketing provisions and regulations a
  
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• It's a great day for a St. Patrick's Day parade, a wee week ahead of the 17th

  10-03-2018 22:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Irish, possibly, have long been ahead of their time, but why hold the St. Patrick’s Day parade a week early, when the 17th is a Saturday, too?
  Hold on a wee minute, says the Irish Society of the National Capital Region, which offered this explanation to the timing of Ottawa’s parade.
  “The Irish Society of the National Capital Region always holds their parade on the last Saturday before March 17th. Why? It is a big day for entertainers with a great payoff. Also many people l
  
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• Lawyers reportedly going over the voting results. twitter.com/CityCynthia/st…

  10-03-2018 21:33 via twitter.com
  Lawyers reportedly going over the voting results. twitter.com/CityCynthia/st…
  
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• A delay from the Ontario PC party who told media today that the leader would be announced by 3:30 "at the absolute… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  10-03-2018 21:30 via twitter.com
  A delay from the Ontario PC party who told media today that the leader would be announced by 3:30 "at the absolute… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Adonijah Reid will be joining Ottawa Fury FC on a year-long loan from Major League Soccer's FC Dallas. #ottnews… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  10-03-2018 20:00 via twitter.com
  Adonijah Reid will be joining Ottawa Fury FC on a year-long loan from Major League Soccer's FC Dallas.#ottnews… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• The new leader of the Ontario PC party is set to be announced sometime between 3:00pm and 4:00pm this afternoon. We… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  10-03-2018 19:47 via twitter.com
  The new leader of the Ontario PC party is set to be announced sometime between 3:00pm and 4:00pm this afternoon. We… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Trump has told confidants recently that he wants to be less reliant on his staff, believing they often give bad adv… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  10-03-2018 19:30 via twitter.com
  Trump has told confidants recently that he wants to be less reliant on his staff, believing they often give bad adv… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• REMINDER: OC Transpo will operate on a revised weekday schedule next week, as schools will be closed for March Brea… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  10-03-2018 19:00 via twitter.com
  REMINDER: OC Transpo will operate on a revised weekday schedule next week, as schools will be closed for March Brea… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• The National Rifle Association has given more than $7 million in grants to hundreds of U.S. schools.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  10-03-2018 18:30 via twitter.com
  The National Rifle Association has given more than $7 million in grants to hundreds of U.S. schools.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• The Trump administration is proposing banning bump stocks, which allow guns to mimic fully automatic fire and were… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  10-03-2018 18:00 via twitter.com
  The Trump administration is proposing banning bump stocks, which allow guns to mimic fully automatic fire and were… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Ontario PCs close investigation into claims against Lanark MPP

  10-03-2018 17:16 via ottawacitizen.com
  The provincial Progressive Conservatives have closed their investigation into allegations that Ottawa Valley MPP Randy Hillier physically intimidated would-be legislator Goldie Ghamari at the party convention in 2016.
  “The PC Party has concluded the investigation into allegations between a candidate and sitting caucus member, and determined no further actions are warranted,” Tory communications director Nick Bergamini said in a written statement Friday night.
  Ghamari has since won th
  
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• Missing Chelsea woman found dead in Hull, foul play ruled out

  10-03-2018 17:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  A Chelsea woman missing since Feb. 28 was found dead in a parking lot in the Hull sector on Friday.
  Gatineau police report that Diane Lafontaine, 51, was found in her vehicle Friday evening in an unidentified commercial lot, nine days after she went missing on the way to a Hull hospital.
  Foul play is not suspected and the coroner’s office is now investigating.
  The night she disappeared, her family expressed concern to police about her safety and whereabouts, as she suffered from post-traum
  
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• Police are investigating after a man with serious stab wounds arrived at a Toronto hospital in a taxi this morning. ottawamatters.com/around-ontario…

  10-03-2018 16:59 via twitter.com
  Police are investigating after a man with serious stab wounds arrived at a Toronto hospital in a taxi this morning.ottawamatters.com/around-ontario…
  
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• The Ottawa Police Service continues to search for local woman, who has been missing for nearly five weeks.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  10-03-2018 16:49 via twitter.com
  The Ottawa Police Service continues to search for local woman, who has been missing for nearly five weeks.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• The White House tried to swat away criticism Friday that the U.S. is getting nothing in exchange for agreeing to a… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  10-03-2018 16:30 via twitter.com
  The White House tried to swat away criticism Friday that the U.S. is getting nothing in exchange for agreeing to a… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Three women who work for a program that treats veterans for PTSD were found dead Friday along with the suspect who… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  10-03-2018 16:00 via twitter.com
  Three women who work for a program that treats veterans for PTSD were found dead Friday along with the suspect who… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Saturday weather: Springing forward with clouds, flurries, green hats

  10-03-2018 15:02 via ottawacitizen.com
  It’s mostly cloudy and -4 C in Ottawa, expect green-hatted crowds at today’s St. Patrick’s parade. 
  There’s a 60 per cent chance of flurries this afternoon and winds will pick up in late morning, gusting as high as 40 kilometres an hour, says Environment Canada. 
  Sunday is looking cloudy as well with a high of 2 C and a low of -6 C.
  More of the same next week, with forecast highs on Monday and Tuesday just above zero and flurries on Tuesday, says Environmen
  
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• Petr Cancura steps into the spotlight at NAC

  10-03-2018 15:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  When Ottawa music fans in the thousands see Petr Cancura on stage, he’s usually there with a microphone in hand to say a few introductory words and then turn over the music-making in Confederation Park to a TD Ottawa Jazz Festival headliner.
  But Cancura, who since 2011 has been the jazz festival’s highly visible programming manager, has also been plugging away at his own musical projects and working as a sideman, especially since he moved two-and-a-half years ago from Brooklyn back w
  
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• Florida Gov. Rick Scott signed a far-reaching school-safety bill Friday that places new restrictions on guns in the… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  10-03-2018 15:00 via twitter.com
  Florida Gov. Rick Scott signed a far-reaching school-safety bill Friday that places new restrictions on guns in the… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Ontario's PC Party will reveal today who will lead the party through a spring election. #ONPC #onpcldr #onpoli… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  10-03-2018 14:36 via twitter.com
  Ontario's PC Party will reveal today who will lead the party through a spring election.#ONPC #onpcldr #onpoli… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Some road closures today for the St. Patrick's Day Parade. ○ W/B lanes on Laurier Ave. between Nicholas St. and El… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  10-03-2018 14:13 via twitter.com
  Some road closures today for the St. Patrick's Day Parade.○ W/B lanes on Laurier Ave. between Nicholas St. and El… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Murderer's prison death brings no closure for 'torn apart' Renfrew family

  10-03-2018 13:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  It was a shocking murder case from the Ottawa Valley: a son accused of hiring a hitman to brutally kill his wealthy father.
  Now, nearly 20 years after Kenneth Dick was left to die in a Renfrew County field, the final chapter in the story may have been written.
  This week, convicted killer Leroy Baumhour died from natural causes in a Kingston prison, age 66.
  Nonetheless, the crime and the questions that haunted the victim’s family for years remain, mostly because the man accused of plotting
  
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• Egan: Bye bye business after he bought Chevy, taxman drove the levies

  10-03-2018 13:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  The taxman cometh, cometh again, cometh with briefcases and lawyers, emails and reassessments, reviews and appeals — cometh with all the time in the world.
  And James Parsons just can’t take it anymore.
  “It’s crazy,” he said Thursday, seated behind a mound of paper at his home on the shores of the Ottawa River near Arnprior.
  Parsons, 55, is in the process of wrapping up his one-man business, Lawn/Tree Landscape Maintenance Ltd., after an exhausting battle with the C
  
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• A St. Paddy's Day Parade traffic alert

  10-03-2018 05:11 via ottawacitizen.com
  Motorists should avoid parts of downtown Ottawa on Saturday morning because of the St. Patrick’s Day Parade and a two-mile race event. Most of the delays will be felt between 10 a.m. and roughly 1 p.m.
  The parade will start at city hall on Laurier Avenue, travel west on Laurier, turn left on Bank Street and end at Marché Way (Lansdowne Park).
  The following roads will be closed:Westbound lanes on Laurier Avenue between Nicholas Street and Elgin Street (7:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.)
  Laurie
  
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• BREAKING: The injunction application to extend the Ontario PC's leadership race has been rejected by a Toronto judg… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  10-03-2018 01:59 via twitter.com
  BREAKING: The injunction application to extend the Ontario PC's leadership race has been rejected by a Toronto judg… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Region's jobless rate tumbles to nine-year low

  10-03-2018 01:46 via ottawacitizen.com
  The capital region added 2,500 net new jobs in February, helping to push down the local unemployment rate to 5.1 per cent compared to 5.2 per cent in January.
  The labour force, which includes people looking for work, grew a comparatively modest 1,500, Statistics Canada reported Friday. These numbers have been adjusted for seasonal influences, allowing comparisons between the months.
  The region’s unemployment rate remained well below that of the country as a whole. StatCan estimated Canada&
  
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• #Sens host the Calgary Flames minutes from now. Follow along with @Stu_McGinn for updates! twitter.com/Stu_McGinn/sta…

  10-03-2018 01:31 via twitter.com
  #Sens host the Calgary Flames minutes from now. Follow along with @Stu_McGinn for updates! twitter.com/Stu_McGinn/sta…
  
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• Vice Admiral Mark Norman’s lawyer warns about lack of transparency surrounding investigation

  10-03-2018 01:21 via ottawacitizen.com
  Here is the full statement from Vice Admiral Mark Norman’s lawyer, Marie Henein, about the one charge of Breach of Trust laid by the RCMP against the naval officer on Friday:
  “We were advised this morning, only hours before the information was sworn, that Vice-Admiral Norman was to be charged. That lack of transparency has unfortunately been a feature of this investigation for the last year.Vice-Admiral Norman has devoted his entire career to serving Canada and our military. Not once
  
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• Road closures in effect Saturday for St. Patrick's Day parade. twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…

  10-03-2018 01:00 via twitter.com
  Road closures in effect Saturday for St. Patrick's Day parade. twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…
  
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