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• Merivale High School closed Wednesday night for 'maintenance issue'

  11-04-2018 23:22 via ottawacitizen.com
  Merivale High School is closed to all community uses on Wednesday evening because of a “maintenance issue,” the public school board says.
  The Ottawa-Carleton District School Board, which sent out a news release late Wednesday afternoon, didn’t say what the problem is at the high school.
  The school board expects the school to be open on Thursday.
  
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• Cops cuff three during drug bust in Centretown

  11-04-2018 23:18 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa police arrested three people during a drug bust in Centretown on Tuesday.
  According to police, the street crime unit executed a warrant Florence Street between Bank and Kent streets, in response to several complaints about the possibility of drug trafficking at a residence.
  Police seized cash, drug-packing materials and a variety of suspected drugs, including fentanyl, crack cocaine, hydromorphone, heroin and nabilone, a synthetic form of cannabis usually used to treat nausea in canc
  
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• Reevely: City plans to treat payday-loan shops like strip clubs with new rules coming soon

  11-04-2018 23:10 via ottawacitizen.com
  Payday lenders could be treated like strip clubs in Ottawa by the end of the year — restricted to a few parts of the city and gradually squeezed out of downtown.
  “They bring nothing to the streetscape of our communities,” Mayor Jim Watson said in a city council meeting on Wednesday, where councillors voted unanimously to ask city planners to work up new zoning restrictions that would keep new payday lenders from opening.
  It’ll take about nine months, the city’s gene
  
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• NEW: Merivale High School is closed tonight for school and community events due to a maintenance issue. #ottnews

  11-04-2018 23:08 via twitter.com
  NEW: Merivale High School is closed tonight for school and community events due to a maintenance issue. #ottnews
  
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• City looking to stop expansion of payday loan outlets. #ottnews ottawamatters.com/local-news/cit… https://t.co/PJ2r3wzN5R

  11-04-2018 22:57 via twitter.com
  
  City looking to stop expansion of payday loan outlets. #ottnewsottawamatters.com/local-news/cit… https://t.co/PJ2r3wzN5R
  
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• Three charged in Centretown drug bust. #ottnews ottawamatters.com/police-beat/fe…

  11-04-2018 22:32 via twitter.com
  Three charged in Centretown drug bust. #ottnews ottawamatters.com/police-beat/fe…
  
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• Rochester Street's cottonwood was cut down — and unexpectedly healthy

  11-04-2018 22:31 via ottawacitizen.com
  All that’s left of LeBreton’s biggest tree is a stump. But what a stump.
  The cutting of the 110-storey-tall cottonwood on Rochester Street, estimated at 115 years old, began Tuesday. And by Wednesday morning all that was left was the enormous base, and a single massive branch rising from it where there used to be four or five others just like it.
  The chainsaw was working intermittently, as it took time to lower the enormous sections of the branches down to a waiting truck.
  Where the
  
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• Behind the scenes with Ottawa's first first-responders

  11-04-2018 21:47 via ottawacitizen.com
  To get a taste of what paramedic dispatchers and call-takers do, I was given the chance to answer a simulated call at the Ottawa Paramedic Service. When asked what scenario I wanted to try, I opted for “woman giving birth.” 
  Struggling to navigate three computers and the hysterical screams of the pregnant woman (a communications training officer) on the line, I began sweating, stuttering and losing the ability to type properly. The baby was “successfully delivered”.
  
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• Ottawa looks for new deputy police chief

  11-04-2018 21:04 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Ottawa police services board is beginning a national hunt to find the force’s newest deputy chief.
  The position is open to both currently serving members of the force and those who are external to the organization.
  “We recognize the strong caliber (sic) of the current senior leadership team at the OPS however we also know the benefits of casting a wider net as we look to find the best candidate for the job,” board chair Coun. Eli El-Chantiry said in a news release.
  Deputy C
  
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• Dining Out: Satisfaction from Ottawa fast-casual restaurants that specialize in bowl-based dishes

  11-04-2018 20:58 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Bowl83 Holland Ave., 613-729-5454, thebowlottawa.caOpen: Monday to Friday 11 a.m. 7 p.m., Saturday noon to 7 p.m., closed Sunday
  Mad Radish859 Bank St. and 116 Albert St., madradish.comOpen: Monday to Saturday 11 a.m. to 9 p.m., Sunday 11 a.m. to 8 p.m. (Bank Street); Monday to Friday 11 a.m. to 8 p.m., closed Saturday and Sunday (Albert Street)
  Paradise Poké134 Bank St., 613-518-4432, paradisepoke.caOpen: Monday to Saturday 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., closed Sunday&nb
  
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• 'Not sufficient evidence' for charges in Papanack Zoo probe, says OSPCA

  11-04-2018 20:33 via ottawacitizen.com
  No charges have been laid in a probe of the treatment of animals at the Papanack Zoo, according to the Ontario Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
  The society confirmed it had launched an investigation last August after Ottawa-based legal advocates Animal Justice released a video that allegedly depicted abuse at the zoo in Wendover, about 50 kilometres east of Ottawa.
  “We reviewed all relevant details and evidence brought forth and exhausted all leads in our attempts to valid
  
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• Going out best bets, April 12 to 18

  11-04-2018 20:25 via ottawacitizen.com
  Dance
  The battle between good and evil continues in the full-length ballet version of Dracula, presented by the Royal Winnipeg Ballet at the National Arts Centre this weekend. Based on the Bram Stoker classic, with choreography by Mark Godden, it’s a contemporary retelling of the bloodthirsty tale that pays tribute to the classical ballet tradition. Rife with drama, it’s also one of the most popular pieces in the Royal Winnipeg’s repertoire, a surefire sellout whenever it&rsquo
  
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• Council briefs: Albert-Slater redesign approved, space granted for new landfill

  11-04-2018 20:14 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa will rebuild Albert and Slater streets after the new light-rail line opens, aiming to make them more pleasant for pedestrians and cyclists after hundreds of buses no longer ply the east-west downtown arteries.
  City council approved detailed plans Wednesday that include bike tracks, wider sidewalks, planters, benches and trees. The work should start in 2019 and will change both streets end to end, from LeBreton Flats to the Mackenzie King Bridge outside the Rideau Centre.
  Transportation ch
  
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• Rink of Dreams calls it a season after 126 days

  11-04-2018 19:16 via ottawacitizen.com
  Calling it “one of our best seasons yet,” the city closed the Rink of Dreams on Wednesday after a 126-day season that saw 30,000 skaters come out.
  The rink, which is located in Marion Dewar Plaza at city hall, is one of the largest outdoor public rinks in Ottawa.
  The 2017-18 season lasted about a week longer and saw more skaters than the previous season, which was on for 120 days and had about 25,000 skaters, Mayor Jim Watson tweeted at the time.
  Other major outdoor rinks in Ottawa h
  
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• Ottawa will find permanent honour for Jonathan Pitre, mayor says

  11-04-2018 19:09 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa will honour the memory of Jonathan Pitre by naming a road, recreation centre or other important city facility after him, Mayor Jim Watson said Wednesday.
  Pitre died last Wednesday at 17 of an infection after a lifelong struggle with epidermolysis bullosa, a genetic disorder that kept the layers of his skin from staying connected. He brought international attention to the rare, painful and currently incurable condition, and his spirit and the devotion of his mother Tina Boileau to his
  
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• Today's letters: Kinder Morgan pipeline pros and cons

  11-04-2018 19:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  Readers are divided on what should happen with the Trans Mountain pipeline, and today they offer their own solutions. You can write to us too, on this or any topic, at [email protected]
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  Canada: Resourceful about what we can’t do
  Re: Oilpatch in ‘crisis mode’ as investment suspended, April 10.
  We cannot get resource projects developed in this country. In any event, we cannot develop the transportation infrastructure such as roads, rail and pipelines that are need
  
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• Glavin: How the West continues to fail the people of Syria

  11-04-2018 18:58 via ottawacitizen.com
  “An individual, a group, a party, or a class that ‘objectively’ picks its nose while it watches men drunk with blood massacring defenceless people is condemned by history to rot and become worm-eaten while it is still alive.”
  When the young war correspondent Lev Davidovich Bronstein wrote those words in 1912, the individual he had in mind was the historian and prominent Russian intellectual Pavel Nikolayevich Miliukov, leader of Russia’s liberal-left Constitutional
  
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• Hockey coach convicted of sex offence against teen girl

  11-04-2018 18:41 via ottawacitizen.com
  A Gatineau hockey coach has been sentenced to 90 days in jail after pleading guilty to a sex offence involving a 13-year-old girl.
  Cody Lagacé, 30, admitted Tuesday to sending sexually explicit material to the girl for the purpose of preparing to have sex with her later. He must also do 50 hours of community service.
  Two other charges — one of luring and one of sexual touching — were dropped.
  Lagacé was a hockey coach for the Intrépides, the team at Nicolas-Gatin
  
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• Police have not revealed the nature of the threats, but said charges could be filed. twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…

  11-04-2018 17:55 via twitter.com
  Police have not revealed the nature of the threats, but said charges could be filed. twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…
  
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• The @rick_gibbons Show for Wednesday, April 11th: 1:07: @Stu_McGinn 1:18: @SunDoniB 1:30: @ottawahealth 1:45:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  11-04-2018 17:54 via twitter.com
  The @rick_gibbons Show for Wednesday, April 11th: 1:07: @Stu_McGinn 1:18: @SunDoniB 1:30: @ottawahealth 1:45:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Police remain at Gatineau high school after threat

  11-04-2018 17:50 via ottawacitizen.com
  Police say they have concluded there is no danger at a Gatineau high school after investigating a witness’ report of threats to the institution.
  Officers remained on the scene Wednesday morning and said charges may be laid.
  Gatineau police would say little about the nature of the threat that drew them to l’école polyvalente de l’Érablière on Rue de Cannes near Boulevard La Vérendrye Ouest before school began, other than the threat was reported by a t
  
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• Coming up on the Power Lunch at noon: @sherrilynne & @RadioNewsGuy join @_MarkSutcliffe in studio: Listen: 📻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  11-04-2018 17:45 via twitter.com
  Coming up on the Power Lunch at noon: @sherrilynne & @RadioNewsGuy join @_MarkSutcliffe in studio: Listen:📻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Coming up at 11:45 @JeffMarek joins @_MarkSutcliffe with your #NHLPlayoffs2018 preview: Listen: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  11-04-2018 17:40 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 11:45@JeffMarek joins @_MarkSutcliffe with your #NHLPlayoffs2018 preview: Listen:📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Syria calls US threats to attack it 'reckless' https://t.co/28V2COynST

  11-04-2018 17:35 via twitter.com
  
  Syria calls US threats to attack it 'reckless' https://t.co/28V2COynST
  
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• ICYMI: Tom Cochrane reworks "Big League" lyrics to honour Humboldt Broncos: bit.ly/2GPnjL7 https://t.co/itmUMA0tqk

  11-04-2018 17:28 via twitter.com
  
  ICYMI: Tom Cochrane reworks "Big League" lyrics to honour Humboldt Broncos: bit.ly/2GPnjL7 https://t.co/itmUMA0tqk
  
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• Ex-Ontario political aide David Livingston gets jail time for deleted gas plants emails.

  11-04-2018 17:11 via twitter.com
  Ex-Ontario political aide David Livingston gets jail time for deleted gas plants emails.
  
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• Follow @StaySaif for updates from Ottawa City Council: twitter.com/StaySaif/statu…

  11-04-2018 16:55 via twitter.com
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• Chagall sale mystery may have been solved

  11-04-2018 16:51 via ottawacitizen.com
  Has the mystery acquisition tied to the National Gallery’s planned sale of a Chagall painting been solved?
  Quebec newspapers are speculating that the gallery is selling Chagall’s The Eiffel Tower at auction next month to finance the purchase of Jerome Heard the Trumpets of the Last Judgment, a 18th-century painting by the French painter Jacques-Louis David owned by the Notre-Dame de Québec parish in Quebec City. 
  “There is no formal agreement (to acquire the paintin
  
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• Local musician/ Sens fan @TariqAnwar00 was at the Senators town hall last night He joins @_MarkSutcliffe at 10:45:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  11-04-2018 16:40 via twitter.com
  Local musician/ Sens fan @TariqAnwar00 was at the Senators town hall last nightHe joins @_MarkSutcliffe at 10:45:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Bruce McArthur now charged with seven counts of first-degree murder: bit.ly/2Hh0xvg https://t.co/LiiBNXgmhT

  11-04-2018 16:31 via twitter.com
  
  Bruce McArthur now charged with seven counts of first-degree murder: bit.ly/2Hh0xvg https://t.co/LiiBNXgmhT
  
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• Coming up at 10:30: @RCRumbolt joins @_MarkSutcliffe with details on the truck driver in #Humboldt crash: Liste… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  11-04-2018 16:25 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 10:30: @RCRumbolt joins @_MarkSutcliffe with details on the truck driver in #Humboldt crash: Liste… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Coming up at 9:45: @Citizenkwarren joins @_MarkSutcliffe on last night's town hall with Eugene Melnyk & Pierre Do… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  11-04-2018 15:40 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 9:45: @Citizenkwarren joins @_MarkSutcliffe on last night's town hall with Eugene Melnyk & Pierre Do… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Denley: Ontario school repair bill has tripled under the Liberals

  11-04-2018 15:31 via ottawacitizen.com
  Please write this number down and stick it to your fridge, so you can refer to it every time a provincial politician promises a new program that costs hundreds of millions of dollars.
  The repair backlog for the province’s schools is $16 billion. Yes, billion. That’s triple what it was 15 years ago, when the Liberal government took over.
  Before we reach for the next bright, shiny thing, shouldn’t the provincial government start doing the basic job one would have thought our tax
  
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• A Gatineau hockey coach has been sentenced to 90 days in jail for sex offences. twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…

  11-04-2018 15:20 via twitter.com
  A Gatineau hockey coach has been sentenced to 90 days in jail for sex offences. twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…
  
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• Will Trump fire Rosenstein or Mueller? @Alex_Panetta joins @_MarkSutcliffe coming up at 9:15: Listen: 📻: 1310… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  11-04-2018 15:10 via twitter.com
  Will Trump fire Rosenstein or Mueller? @Alex_Panetta joins @_MarkSutcliffe coming up at 9:15: Listen:📻: 1310… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Tiny home festival goes big in Perth

  11-04-2018 14:53 via ottawacitizen.com
  Imagine living in house measured around 100 to 400 square feet. Your kitchen, bedroom, bathroom and living area all fit into this small, confined area — by choice.
  Having a hard time picturing it?
  This is the reality for those who chose to live in a tiny house. And if you’re still having trouble getting your head around it, you’re invited to come see what it’s all about at the annual Century 21 Perth Tiny House & Green Home Festival on April 21.
  Ann Haggerty, shown he
  
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• Singer Johnny Reid comfortable bending genres

  11-04-2018 14:42 via ottawacitizen.com
  CALGARY — There’s a story Johnny Reid likes to tell when the topic of genre comes up.
  The Scottish-born musician has always tended to blur lines: He’s the country gentleman with rock and roll leanings who can belt out soul and R&B tunes with the best of them.
  But it was super-producer Bob Ezrin who put some perspective on the question of genre when it comes to Reid. While they were in the studio recording 2015’s What Love Is All About, a friend of Ezrin asked him
  
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• 'Major ice storm' may hit parts of Eastern Ontario this weekend

  11-04-2018 14:36 via ottawacitizen.com
  Weather watchers say that it’s looking increasingly likely that a  “major ice storm” will strike southerly parts of the province this weekend.
  It would make travel hazardous while accumulations of up to 20 millimetres of ice combined with gusty winds to 60 km/h may cause widespread power outages due to fallen tree limbs and power lines, Environment Canada warns.
  It’s not yet clear which areas will be most affected but the agency’s special weather statement incl
  
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• Phoenix causing 'great hardship' for 1 in 5, PSAC survey shows

  11-04-2018 14:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  More than 80 per cent of federal workers say they’ve been affected by Phoenix pay issues and nearly 20 per cent say it’s caused them “great hardship”, according to a poll commissioned by the Public Service Alliance of Canada.
  The survey, released Wednesday, also showed that PSAC members had avoided asking for leave, delayed transferring positions or turned down a chance for an acting assignment because they feared the troubled, two-year-old pay system would mess up their
  
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• The Latest: Military plane crashes in Algeria, 257 dead: bit.ly/2HskH32 https://t.co/8YWKaTQVZv

  11-04-2018 13:41 via twitter.com
  
  The Latest: Military plane crashes in Algeria, 257 dead: bit.ly/2HskH32 https://t.co/8YWKaTQVZv
  
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• 10-25 cm of snow? Weekend weather could bring a winter wallop

  11-04-2018 13:41 via ottawacitizen.com
  Are we skipping spring this year?
  Environment Canada’s forecast is for some decidedly April-like showers to wind down the week and a wintry weekend snowstorm.
  It’s still days away, but the rival Weather Network is predicting Ottawa will need umbrellas for 10 to 15 mm of rain Thursday and 5 to 10 mm Friday.
  Then, the broadcaster warns, it’s  back to shoveling Saturday with 10 to 15 cm of snow. In their outlook, Sunday is even messier with about 10 cm of snow and 10 to 15 mm
  
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• After Russia warned the United States against military strikes in Syria, President Donald Trump says missiles ``will be coming.''

  11-04-2018 13:35 via twitter.com
  After Russia warned the United States against military strikes in Syria, President Donald Trump says missiles ``will be coming.''
  
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• POLL: Are food and parking discounts enough for you to go to more Senators games next season? @_MarkSutcliffe… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  11-04-2018 13:30 via twitter.com
  POLL: Are food and parking discounts enough for you to go to more Senators games next season?@_MarkSutcliffe… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Special weather statement in effect for areas including Brockville, Kingston, Belleville -- calling for significant… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  11-04-2018 13:21 via twitter.com
  Special weather statement in effect for areas including Brockville, Kingston, Belleville -- calling for significant… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Portman: Try again on Château Laurier design

  11-04-2018 13:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  The owners of the Fairmont Château Laurier should pay a visit to Niagara-on-the-Lake. It might deter them from the folly of their proposed addition to a legendary Ottawa landmark.
  One of the many pleasures of this exquisite 19th-century town comes when you arrive at Picton Street. On one side you encounter the magic and beauty of historic Simcoe Park. And opposite, extending well along this flower-bedecked stretch, you find the Victorian charm of the Prince of Wales Hotel.
  The hotel’
  
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• Hardly 'friends': Zuckerberg fends off senators on privacy: bit.ly/2ED0oNh https://t.co/HWPwPl0WiF

  11-04-2018 12:59 via twitter.com
  
  Hardly 'friends': Zuckerberg fends off senators on privacy: bit.ly/2ED0oNh https://t.co/HWPwPl0WiF
  
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• Former PM Harper raised eyebrows when he publicly offered his congratulations to Viktor Orban, after the controvers… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  11-04-2018 12:50 via twitter.com
  Former PM Harper raised eyebrows when he publicly offered his congratulations to Viktor Orban, after the controvers… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Algerian military plane crashes, killing at least 100 people: bit.ly/2qnZZKm

  11-04-2018 12:44 via twitter.com
  Algerian military plane crashes, killing at least 100 people: bit.ly/2qnZZKm
  
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• Today's letters: More tributes to Jonathan Pitre

  11-04-2018 12:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  Readers continue to express appreciation for Jonathan Pitre. You can write to us too, about Jonathan, or any other topic, at: [email protected]
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  Jonathan Pitre’s message for youth
  Re: Thousands of dollars in donations pour in for Jonathan Pitre,  April 9.
  On April 4, the world lost a beautiful soul named Jonathan Pitre. Although diagnosed with a rare and painful skin disease, Ottawa’s “butterfly child” still managed to live with a smile on his fac
  
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• Periods of snow for both Saturday and Sunday: 5-10 cm forecast for both days. twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…

  11-04-2018 12:30 via twitter.com
  Periods of snow for both Saturday and Sunday:5-10 cm forecast for both days. twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…
  
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