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• Unclear costs for cancelling green bin contract prompted city to pursue better deal: memo

  20-03-2018 23:46 via ottawacitizen.com
  Severe ambiguity in the green bin contract about how much it would cost taxpayers to cancel the agreement led city staff to recommend a new deal with Orgaworld, a confidential memo suggests.
  The memo, sent to council from the legal department this week and seen by this newspaper, says the city can cancel the contract by giving Orgaworld a one-year notice and making a termination payment, but the amount that would be owed to Orgaworld could vary by tens of millions of dollars, depending how the c
  
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• RCAF Chinooks being prepared for Mali mission – African troops from UN force face casualties from IEDs

  20-03-2018 22:48 via ottawacitizen.com
  Canadian helicopter crews and support personnel are headed to Mali and while there are dangers associated with any operation they have a much better chance of avoiding casualties than do the United Nations soldiers from Africa who are being killed on the ground, says a defence analyst who just finished working with the United Nations.
  Canada announced Monday it would send two RCAF Chinook helicopters from the military base at Petawawa, Ont. as well as four armed Griffon helicopters to act as esc
  
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• With no end in sight, Carleton University students are getting frustrated by support workers' strike

  20-03-2018 22:45 via ottawacitizen.com
  The little frustrations and inconveniences prompted by a Carleton University support workers’ strike are starting to pile up, say students.
  Among the issues: no buses enter the campus because of the picket lines. For those who drive, it takes at least a half-hour wait to get past the lines at both entrances to the university.
  The library, usually open 24 hours a day during the exam period, has reduced hours and services. Equipment can’t be signed out. Science and engineering labs hav
  
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• Doomed voyage of Jewish refugees and the Canada that rejected them subject of museum exhibit

  20-03-2018 22:29 via ottawacitizen.com
  The passengers were mothers, fathers, children, babes-in-arms. In a photo taken on the sunlit deck of the ocean liner St. Louis as it sailed towards Havana and safety, their faces are alive with hope.
  It was May 1939, just months before the outbreak of the Second World War. The 907 Jewish refugees had lost everything – their property, their money, homes and jobs – since the Nazis took power in Germany in 1933. Now they were losing their country as they fled persecution aboard th
  
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• Gatineau Big Brothers Big Sisters endorse embattled executive director

  20-03-2018 22:08 via ottawacitizen.com
  The board of directors of Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Outaouais have voted unanimously to support their embattled executive director, Yvonne Dubé.
  Dubé, who has headed the organization since 2015, was put under the spotlight last week when Radio-Canada revealed she had once been admonished in Ontario for practising law without a licence. When Radio-Canada reporter Antoine Trépanier emailed Dubé about an on-camera interview she had agreed to do and later cance
  
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• Pilot seriously injured in light-plane crash south of Kemptville

  20-03-2018 21:46 via ottawacitizen.com
  A man was taken to hospital by ambulance Tuesday morning after suffering severe injuries in a plane crash east of Prescott.
  Grenville County OPP officers were called around 11:40 a.m. to the scene of the crash at 310 Froom Rd. in Edwardsburgh Township.
  The pilot was the sole occupant of the single-engine plane, according to police. 
  OPP and the a crew from the Joint Rescue Coordination Centre at CFB Trenton remained on the scene.
   
  
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• ICYMI: Gun control debate hits Ottawa ottawamatters.com/local-news/gun… https://t.co/G0BZTXiPcI

  20-03-2018 21:45 via twitter.com
  
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• FYI: CAA's annual worst roads campaign begins ottawamatters.com/local-news/caa… https://t.co/xwQnFNOW7g

  20-03-2018 21:15 via twitter.com
  
  FYI: CAA's annual worst roads campaign beginsottawamatters.com/local-news/caa… https://t.co/xwQnFNOW7g
  
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• Algonquin College students build tradition with new Indigenous drum

  20-03-2018 20:46 via ottawacitizen.com
  With few Indigenous traditions at Algonquin College, students created their own on Monday by constructing a large traditional drum to use in ceremonies and gatherings.
  The drum was made as part of a college project that saw one crafted at each of its three campuses, as a way to instil Indigenous traditions into the college’s culture and reinforce its commitment to truth and reconciliation. The college’s satellite campus in Perth has already made its drum and the Pembroke campus
  
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• Five kids charged in school threat probes as cops report spike in online threats ottawamatters.com/around-ontario… https://t.co/ZQjRLDcOHI

  20-03-2018 20:45 via twitter.com
  
  Five kids charged in school threat probes as cops report spike in online threatsottawamatters.com/around-ontario… https://t.co/ZQjRLDcOHI
  
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• Feds urged to hold giants like Facebook more accountable for misuse of data ottawamatters.com/around-ontario… https://t.co/XT2c8SPJXr

  20-03-2018 20:15 via twitter.com
  
  Feds urged to hold giants like Facebook more accountable for misuse of dataottawamatters.com/around-ontario… https://t.co/XT2c8SPJXr
  
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• Concert preview: Tom Cochrane and this long, wild highway of life

  20-03-2018 20:10 via ottawacitizen.com
  In an age of playlists, Tom Cochrane is riding up and down the highway in honour of something that seems almost quaint: A rock album, put together 27 years ago, that made Canadian music history.
  Cochrane, with band Red Rider, will pull into Centrepointe Theatre on Thursday night for a second Ottawa stop on their extended anniversary tour for the album Mad, Mad World.
  That’s the 1991 solo album (CD or cassette tape, at the time, if we’re being honest) that shot Cochrane to Canadian ro
  
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• Today's letters: Parenting, picketing and priorities

  20-03-2018 18:41 via ottawacitizen.com
  Let’s teach parenting skills at an early age
  Re: Sick leave skyrockets among teachers, March 12.
  I propose mandatory parenting courses for all students from grades 3 to 12.
  I have heard from political leaders, educational gurus, university researchers, psychologists, psychiatrists and many other professionals that “our most important job in life is to raise children to be free thinking, independent, self-regulating individuals.” These words are stated – then completely ig
  
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• HMCS Chicoutimi returns Wednesday after longest deployment of Victoria-class sub

  20-03-2018 18:14 via ottawacitizen.com
  HMCS Chicoutimi returns to CFB Esquimalt, BC after completing a 197-day deployment in the Asia-Pacific. This is the longest deployment of a Victoria-class submarine to date, according to the Royal Canadian Navy.
  HMCS Chicoutimi was on patrol on Pacific Deployment 17-03, a routine Royal Canadian Navy deployment to help signal the strategic importance of the Asia-Pacific region to Canada, the RCN noted.
   
  
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• Coming up at 12:30 @mikearntfield joins @_MarkSutcliffe on how alleged serial killer Bruce McArthur hid in plain s… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  20-03-2018 17:25 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 12:30@mikearntfield joins @_MarkSutcliffe on how alleged serial killer Bruce McArthur hid in plain s… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• SIU rules no police culpability in case of woman who jumped from rooftop

  20-03-2018 17:08 via ottawacitizen.com
  The province’s Special Investigations Unit has ruled there was no police culpability in a February incident that saw an Ottawa woman jump from a rooftop and fracture her ankle.
  According to police, officers were called to a restaurant on Somerset Street West on Feb. 21 at around 7:45 am.
  When they arrived they found a woman on the roof.
  Police officers climbed onto the roof to engage with the woman, but she ran and attempted to leap to a lower roof below. Firefighters on the scene, who als
  
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• Hydropothecary Corp. chooses Shopify to sell cannabis online

  20-03-2018 17:03 via ottawacitizen.com
  Gatineau cannabis grower Hydropothecary Corp. has chosen Ottawa’s Shopify to help it sell cannabis over the Internet to patients with a prescription.
  The bilingual website will serve Hydropothecary’s medical customers, provide information for discerning recreational consumers and support engagement with provincial and territorial cannabis retailers, Hydropothecary said in a release.
  The company said the website would also help to streamline the ordering process by verifying a pa
  
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• Hydropothecary Corp. chooses Shopify for online cannabis sales

  20-03-2018 17:03 via ottawacitizen.com
  Gatineau cannabis grower Hydropothecary Corp. has chosen Ottawa’s Shopify to help it sell cannabis over the Internet to patients with a prescription.
  The bilingual website will serve Hydropothecary’s medical customers, provide information for discerning recreational consumers and support engagement with provincial and territorial cannabis retailers, Hydropothecary said in a release.
  The company said the website would also help to streamline the ordering process by verifying a pa
  
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• The @rick_gibbons Show for 3/20/2018: 1:05: @qaqishmichael 1:17: @TWilsonOttawa 1:30: @GryphonReport 1:45:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  20-03-2018 16:48 via twitter.com
  The @rick_gibbons Show for 3/20/2018: 1:05: @qaqishmichael 1:17: @TWilsonOttawa 1:30: @GryphonReport 1:45:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Coming up on the Power Lunch at 12pm: @MikeVlasveld & Ottawa Lawyer John MacDonell join @_MarkSutcliffe in studio… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  20-03-2018 16:45 via twitter.com
  Coming up on the Power Lunch at 12pm: @MikeVlasveld & Ottawa Lawyer John MacDonell join @_MarkSutcliffe in studio… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Coming up at 11:45: @BrandonAmbro joins @_MarkSutcliffe to discuss the connection between our memories and smartp… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  20-03-2018 16:40 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 11:45: @BrandonAmbro joins @_MarkSutcliffe to discuss the connection between our memories and smartp… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Cohen: Here's what could happen if Donald Trump fires Robert Mueller

  20-03-2018 16:06 via ottawacitizen.com
  Is Donald Trump preparing to fire Robert Mueller? Is Trump ready to go nuclear on the special counsel, triggering what a senior Republican warns would be “the beginning of the end of his presidency?”
  The question is real. Trump has been replacing people and issuing warnings that suggest he is deciding, after months of impatience, to trust himself, dismiss Mueller and shut down the advancing inquiry.
  Trump continues to purge his circle. Rex Tillerson yields to Mike Pompeo as secretary
  
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• Coming up at 11: @StephanieCarvin joins @_MarkSutcliffe: 📻: 1310 💻: bit.ly/1uwtdOs 📞: 613-750-1310 https://t.co/ar9K1DDPDd

  20-03-2018 15:55 via twitter.com
  
  Coming up at 11: @StephanieCarvin joins @_MarkSutcliffe:📻: 1310 💻: bit.ly/1uwtdOs 📞: 613-750-1310 https://t.co/ar9K1DDPDd
  
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• House Works: Canadian work glove icon celebrates a century in business

  20-03-2018 15:42 via ottawacitizen.com
  I’ve used work gloves every week for more than 30 years, so I was surprised to find that it took me until late 2017 to discover the story of Canada’s largest, longest running and most interesting work glove company. One hundred years ago next month, John Watson and Wayne Stanley teamed up to start Watson Gloves in a small shop on 2nd Avenue in Vancouver. The company has been making and selling gloves ever since.
  Today, Watson is Canada’s largest source of work gloves, but it&rs
  
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• Coming up at 10:45: @CukierWendy joins @_MarkSutcliffe on gun legislation expected from Trudeau gov't: 📻: 1310… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  20-03-2018 15:40 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 10:45: @CukierWendy joins @_MarkSutcliffe on gun legislation expected from Trudeau gov't: 📻: 1310… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Coming up on the 10 O'Clock Talk: @KimothyWalker, @Justin_Ling & @SusanSherring join @_MarkSutcliffe live: 📻: 1… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  20-03-2018 14:52 via twitter.com
  Coming up on the 10 O'Clock Talk: @KimothyWalker, @Justin_Ling & @SusanSherring join @_MarkSutcliffe live: 📻: 1… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• UPDATE: Sheriff's spokeswoman says there are injuries but she didn't know how many or the severity of the injuries. twitter.com/1310NEWS/statu…

  20-03-2018 14:46 via twitter.com
  UPDATE: Sheriff's spokeswoman says there are injuries but she didn't know how many or the severity of the injuries. twitter.com/1310NEWS/statu…
  
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• 'Drive with empathy' – or else – as kids return to school

  20-03-2018 14:23 via ottawacitizen.com
  Call it mindful motoring.
  As kids and parents get back into their regular routines after March break, one local traffic officer took a new tack for safer roads.
  “Drive with empathy,” tweeted Const. Jon Hall, who’s better known by his “nom de Twitter”: @TheBeardedCop. “How would you want people to drive in your community?”
  Traffic officers’ collective patience was quickly tested Monday.
  Sgt. Mark Gatien tweeted that the back-to-school enforcement bl
  
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• Actors portraying Luke Cage and Iron Fist coming to Ottawa Comiccon

  20-03-2018 13:35 via ottawacitizen.com
  Finn Jones and Mike Colter have been added to the celebrity guest list of this year’s Ottawa Comiccon.
  Both star in their own TV series, portraying the Marvel comic book heroes Iron Fist (Jones) and Luke Cage (Colter). They also appear together in the Netflix series The Defenders.
  Throughout Marvel’s comics history, Luke Cage and Iron Fist have appeared side by side forming the popular team Heroes for Hire. The pair made their debut together in 1978 and the characters have been nearl
  
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• Someone forgot to tell winter that it's time to go

  20-03-2018 13:25 via ottawacitizen.com
  Spring sprang with a whinge as Ottawa awoke to a windchill of -18 Tuesday morning.
  But warmer days are on the way.
  By Tuesday afternoon, expect sunshine, a high of 0 C and a UV index – remember those? – of 3, or moderate.
  The spring equinox – “equal night” – is when most of the world gets about 12 hours of day and night. Environment Canada explains that the equinox, which is at 12:15 p.m.Tuesday  in Ottawa, is the moment when the sun p
  
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• Weather: Spring arrives, but warmer temps delayed en route

  20-03-2018 13:05 via ottawacitizen.com
  Spring sprang with a whinge as Ottawa awoke to a windchill of -18 Tuesday morning.
  But warmer days are on the way.
  By Tuesday afternoon, expect sunshine, a high of 0 C and a UV index – remember those? – of 3, or moderate.
  The spring equinox – “equal night” – is when most of the world gets about 12 hours of day and night. Environment Canada explains that the equinox, which is at 12:15 p.m.Tuesday  in Ottawa, is the moment when the sun p
  
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• World's last male northern white rhino, Sudan, dies: bit.ly/2pqVf6d https://t.co/69MhnPnE1m

  20-03-2018 12:27 via twitter.com
  
  World's last male northern white rhino, Sudan, dies: bit.ly/2pqVf6d https://t.co/69MhnPnE1m
  
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• City to consider expanded green bin program: bit.ly/2FUcEdO https://t.co/XhaVFSM1Ny

  20-03-2018 12:21 via twitter.com
  
  City to consider expanded green bin program: bit.ly/2FUcEdO https://t.co/XhaVFSM1Ny
  
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• Doug Ford tells supporters he can 'take back' province from the Liberals: bit.ly/2FUO0JU https://t.co/crEESOdUi0

  20-03-2018 11:50 via twitter.com
  
  Doug Ford tells supporters he can 'take back' province from the Liberals: bit.ly/2FUO0JU https://t.co/crEESOdUi0
  
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• Police divers to resume river search for missing Montreal boy: bit.ly/2ppQKsp https://t.co/cojnlpwkYU

  20-03-2018 11:42 via twitter.com
  
  Police divers to resume river search for missing Montreal boy: bit.ly/2ppQKsp https://t.co/cojnlpwkYU
  
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• Liberals to propose law enhancing background checks on some gun buyers: bit.ly/2IFosSP https://t.co/Eef4JQGuxX

  20-03-2018 11:30 via twitter.com
  
  Liberals to propose law enhancing background checks on some gun buyers: bit.ly/2IFosSP https://t.co/Eef4JQGuxX
  
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• Brrrrrr -- and still cold overnight with a low -13 Wed: Sun & cloud high 1 Thurs: Sun & cloud high 3 Fri: Sun & c… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  20-03-2018 11:23 via twitter.com
  Brrrrrr -- and still cold overnight with a low -13Wed: Sun & cloud high 1 Thurs: Sun & cloud high 3Fri: Sun & c… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Police identify man turned in on sexual assault charge: bit.ly/2FXjjUk https://t.co/4OIfhvaxGs

  20-03-2018 10:50 via twitter.com
  
  Police identify man turned in on sexual assault charge: bit.ly/2FXjjUk https://t.co/4OIfhvaxGs
  
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• Ontario budget to include major investments in health care: throne speech: bit.ly/2G82Qjq https://t.co/P4OYDNV5t5

  20-03-2018 10:33 via twitter.com
  
  Ontario budget to include major investments in health care: throne speech: bit.ly/2G82Qjq https://t.co/P4OYDNV5t5
  
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• 2018 Mali mission is the same one UN tried to convince Trudeau on back in 2016

  20-03-2018 04:51 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Mali mission that the Canadian government announced Monday had a familiar ring to it. Canada will contribute two Chinook helicopters, four armed Griffons and an air support contingent.
  Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland pointed out that the contribution meets the government’s pledge to return Canada to peacekeeping and peace operations. 
  During the 2015 federal election campaign, then Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau promised that his government would “renew Canada&rsqu
  
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• Strike continues for Carleton University support staff ottawamatters.com/local-news/str…

  20-03-2018 04:48 via twitter.com
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• Woman stable after falling through ice of Ottawa River ottawamatters.com/local-news/wom…

  20-03-2018 04:28 via twitter.com
  Woman stable after falling through ice of Ottawa Riverottawamatters.com/local-news/wom…
  
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• Ontario NDP platform to include pharmacare, dental benefits for all workers ottawamatters.com/around-ontario…

  20-03-2018 03:52 via twitter.com
  Ontario NDP platform to include pharmacare, dental benefits for all workersottawamatters.com/around-ontario…
  
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• Uber suspends self-driving car tests in Toronto, other centres, after fatality ottawamatters.com/world-news/ube…

  20-03-2018 03:37 via twitter.com
  Uber suspends self-driving car tests in Toronto, other centres, after fatalityottawamatters.com/world-news/ube…
  
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• Proposed contract changes would allow dog waste, plastic bags in green bin

  20-03-2018 03:27 via ottawacitizen.com
  Dog waste and plastic bags would be allowed in green bins by mid-2019 under a proposed alteration to city’s contract with Orgaworld, while stopping taxpayer money from being thrown away under the deal.
  The city reveals the proposal in a lengthy report to council published Monday night, raising the possibility of finally ending years of disputes with the company and potentially making the green bin a more popular choice for families who have turned their noses to recycling organic waste.
  &l
  
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• Charles Manson's remains cremated following court battle ottawamatters.com/world-news/cha…

  20-03-2018 03:18 via twitter.com
  Charles Manson's remains cremated following court battleottawamatters.com/world-news/cha…
  
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• Health Canada to meet provinces to discuss sale of sugary, high-alcohol drinks ottawamatters.com/national-news/…

  20-03-2018 02:55 via twitter.com
  Health Canada to meet provinces to discuss sale of sugary, high-alcohol drinksottawamatters.com/national-news/…
  
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• Liberals poised to tighten controls on sale, licensing of firearms ottawamatters.com/national-news/…

  20-03-2018 02:36 via twitter.com
  Liberals poised to tighten controls on sale, licensing of firearmsottawamatters.com/national-news/…
  
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• Tempers flaring at Carleton picket line ottawamatters.com/local-news/tem…

  20-03-2018 02:10 via twitter.com
  Tempers flaring at Carleton picket line ottawamatters.com/local-news/tem…
  
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• Via Rail to launch process to buy new trains with federal funding announcement ottawamatters.com/local-news/via…

  20-03-2018 01:45 via twitter.com
  Via Rail to launch process to buy new trains with federal funding announcementottawamatters.com/local-news/via…
  
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