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• Man arrested after car chase turns to foot race

  13-04-2018 23:02 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa police have arrested an unidentified wanted man after a car chase turned into a foot race on Friday afternoon.
  Three others were also arrested.
  At around 1:15 p.m., an officer spotted a man wanted on a warrant, along with three others, inside a vehicle in the parking lot of a strip mall near Fisher Avenue and Baseline Road.
  Ottawa police Const. Chuck Benoit said the suspects tried to flee, but were chased through the lot. There was a collision between the suspects’ vehicle and
  
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• Employees at well-known Ottawa moving company left with questions about firm's future

  13-04-2018 22:50 via ottawacitizen.com
  The owners of Fred Guy Moving and Storage Ltd. held a cryptic meeting with workers on Friday morning suggesting that the company’s future may be in doubt, according to one employee.
  Daniel Babin, who has worked as a mover with the well-known firm for 18 years, said the meeting was short on details but seemed to suggest that new ownership may be announced on Monday morning.
  “No one has actually approached any of us and said, ‘Look, here’s what’s happening,” sai
  
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• Suicides difficult to predict, psychiatrist tells jail hanging death inquest

  13-04-2018 22:47 via ottawacitizen.com
  The suicide of an accused serial rapist at the Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre may have been “impulsive,” a forensic psychiatrist told an inquest looking into the man’s death.
  Yousef Hussein, 27, was found hanging in his cell on April 12, 2016. He was one of three inmates in the jail to kill himself by hanging while in segregation at the jail within a 10-month period. 
  Hussein had been placed on suicide watch in segregation on April 8, 2016. He remained there over the wee
  
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• Reevely: Melnyk's right worry about the LeBreton condos

  13-04-2018 22:47 via ottawacitizen.com
  Eugene Melnyk is fretting publicly about whether his own proposal for LeBreton Flats is any good and he’s not just blowing smoke.
  On his tour of town halls with aggrieved season-ticket holders for his Ottawa Senators, Melnyk started submarining the LeBreton plans. They’re supposed to see the fallow ground in the middle of Ottawa, the scar of a federal mistake in the 1960s, turned into a new residential, culture and entertainment district with a new arena for the Senators.
  The arena,
  
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• Norwegian technology lets seniors exercise while 'visiting' locations around the world

  13-04-2018 22:19 via ottawacitizen.com
  With the launch of Norwegian-designed technology Motiview, the Bruyère Research Institute (BRI) on Friday introduced the new exercise system aimed to simulate real-life bicycling for older adults.
  Seniors, positioned on a stationary bike in front of a television screen, can get their physical activity with foot or hand pedals while the screen simulates real locations from around the world. They can also listen to music while they visit familiar spots or places they’ve only drea
  
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• Gatineau police warn of 'theft by distraction' fraud scheme

  13-04-2018 22:03 via ottawacitizen.com
  Gatineau police are warning of a fraud scheme dubbed “theft by distraction” that has recently gained momentum.
  Police said in a release Friday the scheme can vary in delivery, but it tends to involve several people working in concert to steal items from unsuspecting members of the public. 
  “These thieves are men, women, teenagers, mothers with their babies. They are often friendly and sociable,” says the police news release, translated from French.
  Typically, po
  
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• OPP officer charged with unsafe turn after Leeds crash

  13-04-2018 21:46 via ottawacitizen.com
  A 25-year veteran OPP officer could face two demerit points and a $110 fine after a crash that involved a police cruiser in Leeds.
  Const. Vince Tremblay, 57, was charged with making an unsafe turn under the Highway Traffic Act on Friday, two days after the crash on County Road 29 dealt minor injuries to himself and occupants of another vehicle.
  A charge under the Highway Traffic Act is not criminal, but may carry penalties such as fines, demerit points or licence suspension.
  Police said Tremblay
  
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• UPDATE: @OttawaPolice say Joanne Panipakoocho has been found safe. #ottnews twitter.com/OttawaPolice/s…

  13-04-2018 21:31 via twitter.com
  UPDATE: @OttawaPolice say Joanne Panipakoocho has been found safe. #ottnews twitter.com/OttawaPolice/s…
  
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• STORY: Foot chase ends with one man in custody and one officer injured ottawamatters.com/police-beat/fo… https://t.co/Rsjk9GJv6u

  13-04-2018 21:08 via twitter.com
  
  STORY: Foot chase ends with one man in custody and one officer injuredottawamatters.com/police-beat/fo… https://t.co/Rsjk9GJv6u
  
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• Officer charged in crash ottawamatters.com/police-beat/of… https://t.co/7jJjf0WZd6

  13-04-2018 21:03 via twitter.com
  
  Officer charged in crashottawamatters.com/police-beat/of… https://t.co/7jJjf0WZd6
  
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• BREAKING: Police arrest wanted man near strip mall on Baseline and Fisher. Officer suffered minor ankle injury during foot pursuit. #ottnews

  13-04-2018 20:48 via twitter.com
  BREAKING: Police arrest wanted man near strip mall on Baseline and Fisher. Officer suffered minor ankle injury during foot pursuit. #ottnews
  
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• An artist from Saskatchewan sent us this tribute to Jonathan Pitre and the victims of the Humboldt bus crash

  13-04-2018 20:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  Peter Chau, an artist from Regina, sent us this beautiful artwork honouring Jonathan Pitre and the victims of the terrible Humboldt bus crash.
  Jonathan passed away on April 4, after a lifetime battle with epidermolysis bullosa.
  He was 17. 
  The Humboldt Broncos bus crash has now claimed the lives of 16 people.
  Millions of people around the world have been expressing their sympathy and grief in many different ways.
  Some are placing hockey sticks outside of their front doors; others are w
  
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• Science busking in the ByWard Market this Saturday

  13-04-2018 20:05 via ottawacitizen.com
  An annual spring march to Parliament Hill by scientists is taking a sharp turn this year, as some of them will head for the ByWard Market to tell strangers what they do.
  The scientists call it storytelling, but it owes something to market busking as well.
  “This part is new. When we started thinking about doing another March for Science, we really wanted to do something different … breaking down barriers between scientists and the public,” said Katie Gibbs. She is executive dir
  
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• Erik Karlsson just posted the most heartbreaking #HumboldtStrong tribute on Instagram

  13-04-2018 20:02 via ottawacitizen.com
  On Friday, Erik Karlsson joined the millions of voices from around the world paying tribute to the victims of the Humboldt bus crash.
  Karlsson’s Instagram post carried particular emotional weight. Karlsson and his wife, Melinda, recently lost their son, Axel.
  The couple revealed the sad news with an Instagram post in March: “We feel very lucky to be Axel’s parents. Even though he was stillborn, we know we will hold him again one day under different circumstances and the joy he
  
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• Fogel: Global community must recognize Hamas tactics in Gaza

  13-04-2018 19:05 via ottawacitizen.com
  If a protest is worth 1,000 words, then a glance at two very distinct protests is worth an entire thesis on why Israeli-Palestinian peace remains elusive.
  As in any democracy, countless non-violent demonstrations take place in Israel and the West Bank in which no one is harmed. For Israeli security forces, even raucous protests are nothing new. However, far from holding peaceful protests on the Gaza border over the past two weekends, Hamas orchestrated violent clashes aimed at escalating the con
  
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• Theatre review: The Lamentable Tragedy of Sal Capone a passionate and compelling tale

  13-04-2018 18:58 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Lamentable Tragedy of Sal CaponeWritten by Omari Newton, directed by Diane RobertsA BoldSkool/Holding Space production, presented by NAC English TheatreWhere: NAC’s Azrieli Studio until April 21Tickets and times: nac-cna.ca 
   
  The Lamentable Tragedy of Sal Capone, the first play by Montreal-born Omari Newton, reminds me of a musician’s debut album. As they say in the music industry, you have your whole life to make your first record; as a result, it’s often an epi
  
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• Up a creek, with a paddle: A journey in Ottawa's newest film festival

  13-04-2018 18:19 via ottawacitizen.com
  When this relentless winter weather finally abates, thoughts will turn to open water and the great outdoors.
  The Paddling Film Festival at the Bytowne Cinema April 19 transforms those thoughts into gorgeous images via a spate of short films, 10 in all, including the award-winning best-canoeing film, Connected by Canoe, a Canada 150 project of the Canadian Canoe Museum in Peterborough and the Community Foundations of Canada.
  James Raffan, the museum’s executive director, helped lead a dispa
  
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• NRC advertises the job of president

  13-04-2018 18:06 via ottawacitizen.com
  The National Research Council is looking for a president, though this doesn’t automatically mean a new president.
  Incumbent Iain Stewart was appointed by the cabinet in the summer of 2016 for a two-year term, which is now winding down. While the job is now being advertised, he is free to apply for re-appointment.
  For anyone interested, there are some details available on the website for Governor in Council appointments. For instance:
  • The salary range is $259,900 to $305,700.&nb
  
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• Cornwall military exercise that shook up residents involved Canadian special forces

  13-04-2018 17:58 via ottawacitizen.com
  There has been a number of news reports about a Tuesday night military training exercise that shook up residents in the Cornwall area. The Canadian Forces has apologized for the disturbance.
  Canadian Special Operations Forces Command has confirmed that special forces members, supported by CH-147F Chinook and CH-146 Griffon helicopters, were involved in the training that night.
  Department of National Defence spokeswoman Jessica Lamirande said the members of the Canadian Forces were in the Cornwal
  
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• Coming up on the Power Lunch at noon: @stephegan613 & @peter_tilley join @_marksutcliffe in studio: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  13-04-2018 17:45 via twitter.com
  Coming up on the Power Lunch at noon: @stephegan613 & @peter_tilley join @_marksutcliffe in studio: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Coming up just after 11:45: @barrydavis_ joins @_MarkSutcliffe live to talk Blue Jays: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  13-04-2018 17:40 via twitter.com
  Coming up just after 11:45: @barrydavis_ joins @_MarkSutcliffe live to talk Blue Jays:📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• The @rick_gibbons Show for Friday, April 13th: 1:08: #JohnWilson 1:17: @HockeyScanner 1:30: @CPnewsboy 1:38:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  13-04-2018 17:28 via twitter.com
  The @rick_gibbons Show for Friday, April 13th: 1:08: #JohnWilson 1:17: @HockeyScanner 1:30: @CPnewsboy 1:38:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Coming up at 11:30: @EricFrancis joins @_MarkSutcliffe on the Humboldt bus crash: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  13-04-2018 17:25 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 11:30: @EricFrancis joins @_MarkSutcliffe on the Humboldt bus crash: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Gormley: Insulting a monarch can still get you into a royal mess

  13-04-2018 16:57 via ottawacitizen.com
  In the event that you occasionally entertain notions of giving obscure European royals a piece of your mind, you might take pause to consider this: In the Netherlands, to insult the king is now to commit a crime punishable by up to four months in prison. This change in law, passed in the lower house last week, might embolden rather than deter you, however, as it is more rather than less lenient. Insulting a Dutch monarch was previously punishable by up to five years.
  Yes, fine, long live the kin
  
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• On the Ethics Lab: -Robot friends. -Fake followers on social media. @dk_munro joins @_MarkSutcliffe coming up at… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  13-04-2018 16:55 via twitter.com
  On the Ethics Lab:-Robot friends. -Fake followers on social media. @dk_munro joins @_MarkSutcliffe coming up at… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Two Quebec museums open to teaming up with the National Gallery to buy prized French painting

  13-04-2018 16:52 via ottawacitizen.com
  The directors of Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and the Musée de la civilisation à Québec said Thursday that they hope they can join forces with the National Gallery of Canada to acquire Jacques-Louis David’s prized painting of Saint Jerome. 
  The neoclassical masterpiece by David, an 18th century French painter, is currently owned by the Notre-Dame de Quebec parish, the seat of the Catholic Archdiocese of Quebec, which wishes to sell it to raise funds for its o
  
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• How the National Gallery of Canada acquires and sells off its artworks

  13-04-2018 16:47 via ottawacitizen.com
  The National Gallery of Canada’s decision to sell off a multi-million dollar Chagall painting next month at a New York auction in order to buy a “national treasure” that it refuses to identify has prompted a lot of second-guessing from armchair art critics. Here are the policies and processes that the Gallery abides by when it acquires and, much more infrequently, sells works of art. 
  ACQUISITIONS
  1. The Gallery may acquire works by purchase, gift, behest, exchange, transf
  
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• Has BlackBerry become a 'patent troll'? Not quite, says Ottawa researcher

  13-04-2018 16:46 via ottawacitizen.com
  Tech companies will be closely monitoring the results of BlackBerry’s patent infringement lawsuits against Facebook and Snapchat, which could have a lasting impact on the tech sector and beyond, an Ottawa legal researcher says.
  The Waterloo-based software company and former smartphone maker recently made headlines after announcing separate suits in U.S. court against Facebook Inc. and Snap Inc. (which makes Snapchat) over alleged patent infringements related to instant messaging systems.
  B
  
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• Russia: Syria chemical attack 'fabrication' by foreign power: bit.ly/2qtOe5c https://t.co/2riNzLsIiv

  13-04-2018 16:44 via twitter.com
  
  Russia: Syria chemical attack 'fabrication' by foreign power: bit.ly/2qtOe5c https://t.co/2riNzLsIiv
  
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• Coming up at 10:30: @cmaconthehill joins @_MarkSutcliffe on NAFTA/ Trans Mountain Pipeline: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  13-04-2018 16:25 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 10:30: @cmaconthehill joins @_MarkSutcliffe on NAFTA/ Trans Mountain Pipeline: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Comey compares Trump to mob boss, Trump cries "slime ball" bit.ly/2qtP01Q https://t.co/aDaUovuEYC

  13-04-2018 16:00 via twitter.com
  
  Comey compares Trump to mob boss, Trump cries "slime ball"bit.ly/2qtP01Q https://t.co/aDaUovuEYC
  
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• Ottawa Police say officers had to tase the man in order to remove him from the burning building. #ottnews twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…

  13-04-2018 15:42 via twitter.com
  Ottawa Police say officers had to tase the man in order to remove him from the burning building. #ottnews twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…
  
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• Coming up NEXT @SusanDelacourt joins @_marksutcliffe to discuss Facebook & politicians: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  13-04-2018 15:30 via twitter.com
  Coming up NEXT@SusanDelacourt joins @_marksutcliffe to discuss Facebook & politicians: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Coming up at 9:15: @Shawn_Jeffords joins @_marksutcliffe on the provincial election: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  13-04-2018 15:10 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 9:15: @Shawn_Jeffords joins @_marksutcliffe on the provincial election: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• POLL: Should a cannabis store be located within one kilometre of a school in Toronto? dlvr.it/QPPXFf

  13-04-2018 15:08 via twitter.com
  POLL: Should a cannabis store be located within one kilometre of a school in Toronto? dlvr.it/QPPXFf
  
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• Trump plans to talk to allies before Syria strike decision: bit.ly/2EJ8iol https://t.co/mhNoUBLVD9

  13-04-2018 14:46 via twitter.com
  
  Trump plans to talk to allies before Syria strike decision: bit.ly/2EJ8iol https://t.co/mhNoUBLVD9
  
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• Rain, up to 12 cm of snow and freezing rain coming in 'high impact storm'

  13-04-2018 14:45 via ottawacitizen.com
  As much as 12 cm of snow and ice pellets with a freezing rain chaser is the latest weekend weather forecast for Ottawa from Environment Canada.
  The special weather statement for the capital region remained unchanged Friday with a warning of a “messy mix” into Monday.
  Friday’s rain will switch to snow overnight, at times mixed with ice pellets that will persist into Saturday.
  A total of 2 cm is expected Friday night and 5 to 10 cm Saturday.
  After a Saturday night “lull,&rd
  
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• Pedestrian killed in 401 hit-and-run near Kingston

  13-04-2018 14:35 via ottawacitizen.com
  Westbound traffic on Highway 401 was detoured at Gardiners Road Friday morning as the OPP investigated an overnight hit-and-run that left a pedestrian dead.
  Frontenac OPP officers were called the scene at about 1 a.m. They found a man who was pronounced dead at the scene.
  The driver of the vehicle believed to have struck him had fled.
  The detour was expected to be in effect until about 10 a.m. as officers examine the scene with the help of the force’s technical collision investigators.
  The
  
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• Police use Taser on man who won't flee apartment fire

  13-04-2018 14:32 via ottawacitizen.com
  Police report that they had to use a Taser on a man who refused to leave his Somerset Street West apartment, which was full of smoke from a small fire Friday morning.
  The man – and several police officers – were treated for smoke inhalation in what police are treating as a mental-health call.
  First responders were called at 4:29 a.m. to the first-floor apartment in a building near the intersection of Metcalfe Street.
  Some cardboard was on fire but the unit was full of smoke but the m
  
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• Buying big: Taking a gamble with Rockcliffe Park real estate

  13-04-2018 14:19 via ottawacitizen.com
  It’s not often a piece of real estate in Ottawa’s exclusive Rockcliffe neighbourhood is up for sale. So when 580 Mariposa Ave. hit the market at about $1 million, two local builders jumped at the opportunity.
  It was a gamble, they’ll admit, but it has good odds.
  Daniel Ladouceur and Michael DePalo are co-owners of Novera Homes, a high-end custom homebuilder. They boast more than 30 years experience in building, but agree that working in an established neighbourhood like Rockcli
  
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• NRC vice-president's private French language training (in Alberta) now at two years, $90,000 – and counting

  13-04-2018 13:59 via ottawacitizen.com
  The National Research Council is keeping one of its vice-presidents on full salary for nearly two years of French language training in Alberta, while covering his private lessons at a cost of $90,000 and counting.
  Ian Potter has been vice-president of engineering at the NRC since 2011. He was brought in by then-president John McDougall, a Conservative appointee who left the job suddenly in 2016. The two men had been executives together at  Alberta’s publicly-funded R&D corpor
  
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• Today's letters: Vimy's role, justice denied, the pipeline

  13-04-2018 13:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  Heroism extended beyond Vimy
  Re: Vimy advertisement, April 9.
  The full-page Vimy Ridge advertisement in Monday’s Citizen by the Vimy Foundation, commemorating the 101st anniversary of the battle and proclaiming April 9 as ‘The Day Canada Became a Nation,” appears to be part of a steady campaign to ingrain that tagline within our society. 
  Sadly John McCrae, the lieutenant colonel who wrote “In Flanders Fields,” – the poem which our remembrance ceremony is
  
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• MacDougall: Trudeau's in trouble on the pipeline battle

  13-04-2018 13:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  “The Trans Mountain expansion will be built.”
  With the nation mourning Humboldt’s loss, pecking out an obstinate tweet about an oil pipeline buried in political grief wasn’t at the top of Justin Trudeau’s to-do list, yet out the above twittered ahead of the prime minister joining members of the shattered prairie community for last Sunday’s vigil.
  Canada is a country of the rule of law, and the federal government will act in the national interest. Access to wor
  
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• Cass: Why is the CBSA deporting Lucy Granados?

  13-04-2018 13:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) likes to refer to people in its custody as “clients.”
  On March 20, CBSA agents arrested a “client” at her home. The woman is Lucy Francineth Granados, a single mother who lives in Montreal. She was detained not because she had committed a crime, but because she is “undocumented” in Canada (that is, living here without immigration status).
  Lucy came to Canada in 2009 after fleeing gang-related violence in Guatemala. Her
  
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• Adam: Here's why rank-and-file police should be heard

  13-04-2018 13:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  For some time now, Mayor Jim Watson has engaged in a war of words with rank-and-file Ottawa police officers over their dissatisfaction with Chief Charles Bordeleau’s leadership, basically telling them to take a hike.
  The latest, as reported by the Citizen’s David Reevely, has Watson telling off an anonymous police officer who criticized the mayor for tweeting about a meeting he had on public safety with Bordeleau.
  “This is what, your 3rd highly publicized meeting in as many yea
  
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• ICYMI twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…

  13-04-2018 12:56 via twitter.com
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• B.C. mom backs MP's calls for criminal probe of opioid manufacturers: bit.ly/2vdpzXi https://t.co/ml7z3tw0B2

  13-04-2018 12:48 via twitter.com
  
  B.C. mom backs MP's calls for criminal probe of opioid manufacturers: bit.ly/2vdpzXi https://t.co/ml7z3tw0B2
  
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• Showers this afternoon and a high around 7 degrees, then things get ugly. twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…

  13-04-2018 12:37 via twitter.com
  Showers this afternoon and a high around 7 degrees, then things get ugly. twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…
  
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• Feds probing Tim Hortons franchisee claims RBI failing to honour commitments: bit.ly/2IPakpm https://t.co/zI9bMlcIcQ

  13-04-2018 12:32 via twitter.com
  
  Feds probing Tim Hortons franchisee claims RBI failing to honour commitments: bit.ly/2IPakpm https://t.co/zI9bMlcIcQ
  
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• Canadian Blood Services says donations spiked after Humboldt Broncos bus crash: bit.ly/2GXQTKC https://t.co/CQRPzHn567

  13-04-2018 12:13 via twitter.com
  
  Canadian Blood Services says donations spiked after Humboldt Broncos bus crash: bit.ly/2GXQTKC https://t.co/CQRPzHn567
  
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