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• Three Ottawa inmates charged with attempted murder

  17-04-2018 23:42 via ottawacitizen.com
  An accused murderer and rapist, a man who allegedly sexually assaulted a woman, and a man police believe tried to rob Bitcoin dealers at gunpoint have all been charged with attempting to kill a fellow inmate in a jailhouse attack last week.
  Homicide detectives have charged Mohamed Barkhadle, 32, Pierre Senatus, 22, and Jimmy St. Hilaire, 19, with attempted murder after the April 11 jailhouse beating that left 36-year-old Marco Michaud with severe head injuries. He remains in hospital in an
  
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• Inquest jury makes 29 recommendations to prevent inmate suicides

  17-04-2018 23:12 via ottawacitizen.com
  A coroner’s inquest looking into the hanging death of accused serial rapist Yousef Hussein at the Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre has made 29 recommendations aimed at preventing inmate suicide.
  Hussein, 27 at the time of his death, was not considered at risk of harming himself when he entered the Ottawa Carleton Detention Centre in May 2014.
  On April 12, 2016, still awaiting trial, Hussein was found hanging by a sheet from the upper bunk railing in his cell shortly after 3 a.m, only 12 ho
  
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• City will count the number of homeless people in Ottawa over 24-hour period

  17-04-2018 22:44 via ottawacitizen.com
  The City of Ottawa’s first “point-in-time” count of homeless people will happen over a 24-hour period this week, involving about 200 city and agency workers administering surveys in shelters, hospitals, correctional centres and on the streets.
  City housing director Shelley VanBuskirk said the project working group hopes to survey about 2,800 people starting Thursday at noon.
  “We’ve marked out walking routes across the city,” VanBuskirk said. “Teams (of t
  
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• Reevely: Tories' minimum-wage plans aren't that different from anybody else's

  17-04-2018 22:27 via ottawacitizen.com
  The difference between Ontario’s Progressive Conservatives and our New Democrats on the minimum wage is $1 an hour, plus a whole lot of yelling.
  All the major parties agree that there’s a price at which working is so exploitive that it must be kept illegal. All of them agree it’s the government’s job to decide where that is. The Tories say it’s $14 an hour; the Liberals say it’s $15 an hour, with exceptions for students working part time and servers who get ti
  
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• SIU closes investigation after police break ribs of Ottawa man

  17-04-2018 21:54 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ontario’s police watchdog has closed an investigation into an incident that left an Ottawa man with broken ribs in 2016.
  According to a report released by the Special Investigations Unit on Tuesday, the man was seen making a U-turn on Feb. 19, 2016 while driving westbound along Queen Mary Street towards the Vanier Parkway around 1 a.m.
  The move caught the attention of police, who said they witnessed the man allegedly drive through a stop sign at a speed of around 25 km/h. He then turned in
  
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• BREAKING: NTSB says at least one person is dead after plane with engine failure makes emergency landing in Philadelphia.

  17-04-2018 21:23 via twitter.com
  BREAKING: NTSB says at least one person is dead after plane with engine failure makes emergency landing in Philadelphia.
  
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• STORY: Innes Road Jail beating leads to attempted murder charges ottawamatters.com/police-beat/in… https://t.co/LdwpAfqbkd

  17-04-2018 21:16 via twitter.com
  
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• Ottawa aiming to make Presto card system more convenient ottawamatters.com/local-news/ott… https://t.co/2AH8nQlplA

  17-04-2018 21:08 via twitter.com
  
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• City to collect homeless numbers, looking to better serve population ottawamatters.com/local-news/cit… https://t.co/m2H3SJYhFP

  17-04-2018 21:06 via twitter.com
  
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• Work continues on Limebank - meaning it will be closed on the afternoon commute. #ottnews #otttraffic twitter.com/hydroottawa/st…

  17-04-2018 20:06 via twitter.com
  Work continues on Limebank - meaning it will be closed on the afternoon commute. #ottnews #otttraffic twitter.com/hydroottawa/st…
  
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• Central library plans move ahead as city releases shortlist of architects and designers. #ottnews… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  17-04-2018 19:54 via twitter.com
  Central library plans move ahead as city releases shortlist of architects and designers. #ottnews… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Five architecture teams invited to compete for super library design contract

  17-04-2018 19:48 via ottawacitizen.com
  There’s heavy Canadian content in the five-team shortlist that will compete for a contract to design the $168-million super library on LeBreton Flats.
  The city announced the teams Tuesday after a nearly year-long process to accept and scrutinize entries. The city received 33 submissions after releasing a request for qualifications. The shortlisted teams will be the only ones invited to answer the city’s request for proposals.
  The teams competing for the contract are:Bing Thom Archite
  
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• Steve Martin and Martin Short to hit the stage at TD Place in October

  17-04-2018 19:27 via ottawacitizen.com
  By Maggie Parkhill
  Hollywood’s two favourite Martins are coming to Ottawa.
  Comedians Steve Martin and Martin Short are set to perform at TD Place on Oct. 20, Live Nation announced Tuesday.
  The show is called “An Evening You Will Forget for the Rest of Your Life” (not a typo).
  Martin and Short, who worked together on the films Three Amigos and Father of the Bride, plan to perform new comedic material and musical sketches. They’ll also discuss their careers and lives i
  
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• Leroux: How long-term care became an uplifting experience

  17-04-2018 19:14 via ottawacitizen.com
  In early October 2017, I ceased to be able to stand and walk. I required a mechanical lift for twice-daily transfers between my bed and a wheelchair. After two months at The Ottawa Hospital, I was placed at Extendicare Medex, a long-term care facility on Baseline Road. I saw the move as a step toward irreversible decline, and faced an uncertain future.
  Little did I know that my best days lay, not behind, but ahead of me. I was about to embark on an incredible journey of personal growth and spiri
  
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• Health board voices opposition to increased gaming, approves plan to combat problem gambling

  17-04-2018 18:59 via ottawacitizen.com
  Most members on Ottawa’s board of health want the city to know they’re against giving people more access to gambling, weeks before councillors are scheduled to decide if Hard Rock Casino Ottawa should be allowed to expand at the Rideau Carleton Raceway.
  The board on Monday night unanimously approved a four-point plan devised by staff in response to the growth of gambling options in Ottawa. Hard Rock is planning a major expansion at the horse track on Albion Road. Ottawa residents con
  
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• NAC names Annabelle Cloutier new executive director of communications

  17-04-2018 18:01 via ottawacitizen.com
  The National Arts Centre has appointed a new executive director of communications and public affairs, filling a vacancy created recently when Rosemary Thompson left to take a position at the Banff Centre in Alberta.
  Annabelle Cloutier will take the NAC position on May 7. She is currently the director of communications and public affairs with the office of the secretary to the governor general. 
  “As the National Arts Centre prepares to celebrate its 50th anniversary next year and prese
  
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• Pardy: 'Peacekeeping' in Mali is but a mirage for Canada

  17-04-2018 17:55 via ottawacitizen.com
  There is a sharp bit of historical cynicism that generals always prepare to fight the last war. In today’s world, it’s politicians who want to ignore the lessons of the past and fight the war again. 
  Case in point: the decision to deploy the Canadian military as part of the United Nations “peacekeeping” force in Mali. Mali, which, just last week, suffered another attack on peacekeepers on its soil – one Blue Helmet was killed, and 14 French troops and UN peacek
  
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• The @rick_gibbons Show for Tuesday, April 17th: 1:08: @Colettod 1:17: @daveko12 1:30: @GryphonReport 1:45:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  17-04-2018 17:36 via twitter.com
  The @rick_gibbons Show for Tuesday, April 17th: 1:08: @Colettod 1:17: @daveko12 1:30: @GryphonReport 1:45:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Cohen: Killing the Iran nuclear deal would be the worst mistake of Trump’s presidency

  17-04-2018 17:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  U.S. President Donald Trump is threatening to withdraw next month from the landmark international agreement that has prevented Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. It would be the worst mistake of his presidency.
  Under the agreement, the United States, France, Britain, China, Russia and Germany in 2015 agreed to lift their severe sanctions on Iran in exchange for restricting Iran’s nuclear program. The deal took years of hard, fitful negotiations. 
  For Iran, it meant new access to tra
  
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• Coming up at 11:30: Pollster @niknanos joins @_MarkSutcliffe live: 📻: 1310 💻: bit.ly/2oQd8u1… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  17-04-2018 17:25 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 11:30: Pollster @niknanos joins @_MarkSutcliffe live: 📻: 1310 💻: bit.ly/2oQd8u1… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Canadian special forces from Petawawa in Africa to train troops

  17-04-2018 17:21 via ottawacitizen.com
  Canadian special forces from Petawawa are in Africa training troops as part of a U.S. exercise.
  A team of around 20 individuals are involved with Exercise Flintlock 2018, which runs until April 20, said Capt. Sally-Ann Cyr, a spokeswoman for the Canadian Special Operations Regiment, or CSOR.
  The exercise started April 1 and involves 1,500 military personnel from 20 African and western nations. Training is being conducted in Niger, Burkina Faso, and Senegal.
  CSOR is working with soldiers from les
  
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• As spring stays away, will Ottawa sports fields open on time?

  17-04-2018 17:05 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa golf course owner Gib Patterson hesitated to use the word “delay” when discussing when his greens will open this spring, in the midst of some unpredictable weather.
  To him, there’s no delay. They’ll open when they open.
  “Honest to God, you’ll have weather every day of the year,” Patterson said. “You learn very soon to never worry about the things you have no control over.”
  Patterson, who owns Anderson Links, Emerald Links and Clov
  
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• Coming up at 11: @StephanieCarvin joins @_MarkSutcliffe in studio: 📻: 1310 💻: bit.ly/2oQd8u1… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  17-04-2018 16:55 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 11: @StephanieCarvin joins @_MarkSutcliffe in studio:📻: 1310 💻: bit.ly/2oQd8u1… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Budget watchdog says a national basic income would cost $76 billion: bit.ly/2ETXq77 https://t.co/e4OQ5OJ1iZ

  17-04-2018 16:36 via twitter.com
  
  Budget watchdog says a national basic income would cost $76 billion: bit.ly/2ETXq77 https://t.co/e4OQ5OJ1iZ
  
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• Coming up at 10:30: @Kyle_Duggan of @ipoliticsca joins @_MarkSutcliffe LIVE: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  17-04-2018 16:25 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 10:30:@Kyle_Duggan of @ipoliticsca joins @_MarkSutcliffe LIVE: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• House Works: Cordless tools reach new heights

  17-04-2018 16:02 via ottawacitizen.com
  Power tool technology is the same as every other kind of advancement in the world. New stuff is expensive and exclusive at first, then it gets cheaper and more widely available in time. So what kind of new and interesting pro-grade tools show the future of tools for mainstream do-it-yourselfers? The newest wave of innovation happening out there now involves cordless power tools that used to have a cord, and one of the most recent and impressive is a compressor.
  It’s surprising how much han
  
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• Canadian manufacturing sales up 1.9 per cent to $55.8 billion in February: bit.ly/2H5s5QU https://t.co/5hYsBdT2lR

  17-04-2018 15:45 via twitter.com
  
  Canadian manufacturing sales up 1.9 per cent to $55.8 billion in February: bit.ly/2H5s5QU https://t.co/5hYsBdT2lR
  
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• Coming up at 9:45: @roslynfranken joins @_MarkSutcliffe on how she took her message of perseverance to Parkland s… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  17-04-2018 15:40 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 9:45: @roslynfranken joins @_MarkSutcliffe on how she took her message of perseverance to Parkland s… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Coming up at 9:30 @RandallMoore26 of @1061CHEZ joins @_MarkSutcliffe in studio: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  17-04-2018 15:25 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 9:30@RandallMoore26 of @1061CHEZ joins @_MarkSutcliffe in studio:📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Government launches training to help civil servants 'understand' Phoenix

  17-04-2018 15:14 via ottawacitizen.com
  The federal government is now offering civil servants training to help them “understand how to use” the disastrous Phoenix pay system.
  The new training is now available online, the official page for Public Services and Procurement Canada tweeted Tuesday.
  Developed by the Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat, it explains how data flows between human resources systems and Phoenix, PSPC said.
  Launched in February 2016, the new pay system has affected 300,000 civil servants. Th
  
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• Petrie Island owlets rescued from ice storm peril after mother injured

  17-04-2018 14:55 via ottawacitizen.com
  Arborist Trevor Miazga had just got home from one emergency callout due to Monday’s ice storm, when he answered the call for another.
  Two baby great-horned owls had spent hours alone in their Petrie Island willow tree nest after their mother had been critically injured earlier in the day, likely by a falling chunk of ice.
  “We love nature, so when we heard about a couple of baby owls, we headed out to help,” Miazga said Monday night.
  Safe Wings Ottawa had issued the despera
  
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• Snow, rain, flurries, freezing drizzle, fog for ice storm clean-up

  17-04-2018 14:20 via ottawacitizen.com
  The good news: Mother Nature is about to hit the spring switch. Seriously.
  Saturday’s forecast of mixed skies and 11 C is just a warm up. Sunday and Monday’s outlook is for pure sunshine and highs of 14 C and 15 C.
  The bad news is Tuesday’s forecast, as the city recovers from Monday’s ice storm.
  There isn’t a watch or warning in sight — for once — but it includes fog, periods of snow mixed with rain in the morning with the risk of freezing drizzle, south
  
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• More messy weather ahead, power still out for some after ice storm

  17-04-2018 14:20 via ottawacitizen.com
  More messy weather may be on the way even as the region cleans up the downed tree branches and power lines left by the ice storm.
  No alerts were in effect but Tuesday’s forecast includes fog, periods of snow mixed with rain in the morning with the risk of freezing drizzle, southwest winds at 20 km/h gusting to 40 and a high of just 4 C.
  For Tuesday evening, there’s a 60 per cent chance of rain or flurries switching to a 40 per cent chance of flurries and a low of 0 C.
  Hydro Ottawa, w
  
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• POLL: Do you support eliminating income taxes for people earning minimum wage? @_MarkSutcliffe #QuestionOfTheDay… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  17-04-2018 13:47 via twitter.com
  POLL: Do you support eliminating income taxes for people earning minimum wage?@_MarkSutcliffe#QuestionOfTheDay… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Times, New Yorker win Pulitzer for Weinstein scandal: bit.ly/2H9BRWo https://t.co/jTiWetx6vA

  17-04-2018 13:31 via twitter.com
  
  Times, New Yorker win Pulitzer for Weinstein scandal: bit.ly/2H9BRWo https://t.co/jTiWetx6vA
  
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• Son of former Oilers player one of 4 Broncos to be mourned at Edmonton memorial: bit.ly/2HvVwPx https://t.co/1IvoXTES5J

  17-04-2018 13:26 via twitter.com
  
  Son of former Oilers player one of 4 Broncos to be mourned at Edmonton memorial: bit.ly/2HvVwPx https://t.co/1IvoXTES5J
  
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• Officers seized a flip knife, a can of pepper spray, and used syringes in his pockets. twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…

  17-04-2018 13:14 via twitter.com
  Officers seized a flip knife, a can of pepper spray, and used syringes in his pockets. twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…
  
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• 'What the f— do you think I am?': Ex-Ottawa jail nurse faces disciplinary hearing over conduct

  17-04-2018 13:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  It’s either the story of a nightmare nurse making dangerous mistakes at the Innes Road jail — or it’s the story of a “toxic” workplace that was understaffed and pushed someone to the breaking point.
  It just depends whom you ask.
  Next month, a former nurse at the Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre will face a disciplinary hearing over allegations she overdosed patients with methadone, withheld medication from others, and complained to her manager “what
  
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• Munson: Here's what a national autism strategy can do

  17-04-2018 13:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  “We’re living a nightmare,” says the mother of a boy with autism. The mother is Carly Sutherland. The Bedford, Nova Scotia mom is not alone in dealing with a violent child.
  It’s a desperate cry for help and more resources for families in crisis.
  Elderly parents of autistic adults in a rural community in western Ontario are living with deep anxiety and worry at what will happen to their adult children when they are too old to care for them or when they’re g
  
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• 'A clear message:' Alberta proposes legislation to limit oil shipments: bit.ly/2qCCU6z https://t.co/jG1hrRiLVB

  17-04-2018 12:49 via twitter.com
  
  'A clear message:' Alberta proposes legislation to limit oil shipments: bit.ly/2qCCU6z https://t.co/jG1hrRiLVB
  
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• Trudeau to end French visit with National Assembly speech, then heads to U.K. bit.ly/2qCfqh6 https://t.co/PP6E74tjrE

  17-04-2018 12:36 via twitter.com
  
  Trudeau to end French visit with National Assembly speech, then heads to U.K. bit.ly/2qCfqh6 https://t.co/PP6E74tjrE
  
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• Today's letters: Phoenix and pensions, selling a Chagall, payday loans

  17-04-2018 12:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  Why doesn’t the National Gallery have more money to buy significant art, one reader wonders. Another has a few choice words over Phoenix. You can write to us on these or other topics, at [email protected]
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  National Gallery shouldn’t have to beg for funds
  Re: Gallery mystery solved, April 12.
  The real mystery as to why the National Gallery is flogging an impressive painting by Marc Chagall to free up funds for a work by Jacques-Louis David is not the identity of the wor
  
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• 'Night Court' star Harry Anderson, 65, found dead in home: bit.ly/2JSBdKC https://t.co/WoAy6YZP3S

  17-04-2018 12:25 via twitter.com
  
  'Night Court' star Harry Anderson, 65, found dead in home: bit.ly/2JSBdKC https://t.co/WoAy6YZP3S
  
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• Let's skip ahead to the weekend! Saturday: Sun & cloud, high 8 Sunday: Mainly sunny, high 10 twitter.com/1310Alexblack/…

  17-04-2018 12:25 via twitter.com
  Let's skip ahead to the weekend!Saturday: Sun & cloud, high 8 Sunday: Mainly sunny, high 10 twitter.com/1310Alexblack/…
  
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• When crews arrived, smoke could be seen coming from the roof. twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…

  17-04-2018 12:18 via twitter.com
  When crews arrived, smoke could be seen coming from the roof. twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…
  
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• Hundreds brave ice storm to attend Doug Ford rallies in Ottawa

  17-04-2018 05:17 via ottawacitizen.com
  Doug Ford rolled into Ottawa on Monday, hammering away on some traditional Conservative targets — Hydro One and Liberal spending, for example — and unveiling a new campaign pledge: eliminating provincial taxes for workers earning minimum wage.
  “My heart breaks for people on minimum wage,” the Ontario Conservative leader told a rally Monday night at the Nepean Sportsplex. “The Liberals decided to put (minimum wage) up to $14, but what people don’t realize is th
  
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• Second man in Voelzing feud also charged by police

  17-04-2018 04:51 via ottawacitizen.com
  There were two men involved in the feud that claimed Christina Voelzing’s life in 2016.
  Behnam Yaali has pleaded guilty to manslaughter and is awaiting sentencing. But the man Yaali’s defence argues was the intended victim of the shooting, was also charged in connection to the shooting.
  At the time of her death, Voelzing was dating Hassan Khalid, now 32.
  Yaali’s defence lawyer, Neil Weinstein, argued Monday at his client’s sentencing hearing that it was Khalid who was the
  
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• From ice storm to rain storm: Spring misery will end — eventually

  17-04-2018 04:34 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa’s miserable spring of 2018 outdid itself on Monday, caking the city in a rime that knocked out power, turned roads and sidewalks into skating rinks and probably made the robins rethink their decision to come north this year.
  But that, as they say, is yesterday’s news.
  Scrape the ice off your windows and you’ll see better times ahead. Sunny times. Balmy times. Maybe even for the weekend, when Environment Canada predicts sunshine and high of 11. If it comes to pass, it wil
  
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• Firefighters plunge through floor of Stittsville home while battling blaze

  17-04-2018 02:58 via ottawacitizen.com
  Two Ottawa volunteer firefighters plunged through the floor of a Stittsville house on Monday while battling a massive blaze that erupted in a basement electrical panel, prompting an emergency rescue operation.
  The two were helping to rescue a resident at 24 Snowberry Way when they fell. The resident, a man whose name was not released, was treated at the scene for smoke inhalation.
  Fire Chief Gerry Pingitore said the two firefighters, whose names he did not disclose, were making their way to the
  
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• City says three LTC homes flagged by province are now 'in compliance'

  17-04-2018 01:25 via ottawacitizen.com
  After three of the four city-run long-term care homes were flagged by provincial inspectors for non-compliance violations, city officials say each of the homes was “placed back in compliance” as of January.
  Provincial inspectors found issues at 10 of the 26 total long-term care facilities in Ottawa, including violations at three of the four long-term care homes operated by the city. Public reports on each home, included and linked in the provincial database, detail issues of resident
  
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