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• Montreal Road pot shop part of police sweep that charges four people with trafficking cannabis, MDM, magic mushrooms

  25-04-2018 23:58 via ottawacitizen.com
  Police raided five locations in Ottawa and Gatineau on Tuesday, including an illegal marijuana dispensary on Montreal Road, seizing drugs and replica handguns, and charging four people.
  It’s the first time a marijuana dispensary in Ottawa has been connected to seizures of drugs other than cannabis.
  Ottawa police have conducted about 20 raids on pot shops in the past 18 months, seizing bags of dried weed, cannabis cookies, pop, candy and concentrates like shatter. However, police have never
  
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• Death of Ottawa roofer who fell four stories ruled accidental: inquest

  25-04-2018 23:38 via ottawacitizen.com
  An Ottawa roofer who had drugs in his system when he plummeted four stories to his death could have been saved by a simple clip or harness, an inquest heard Wednesday, before the workplace fatality was ruled an accident. 
  A five-person jury concluded the two-day inquest into the 2015 death of Robert Cyr, 47, by making recommendations to prevent future workplace falls.
  According to witness testimony, Cyr was not clipped into any kind of anchor on the 2540 Innes Rd. rooftop when he
  
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• Judge authorizes Phoenix class-action suit

  25-04-2018 23:35 via ottawacitizen.com
  A Quebec judge has given the green light to a potentially costly class-action lawsuit launched by disgruntled public servants whose lives have been turned upside down by the faulty Phoenix pay system. 
  In a judgment released earlier this month, Quebec Superior Court Justice Jean-Francois Emond authorized the class action to proceed to trial. 
  Court documents suggest between 40,000 to 70,000 occasional and casual federal employees from across Canada could be eligible to join the suit, m
  
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• Egan: $275K-plus to fight bad review from the Better Business Bureau

  25-04-2018 23:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Better Business Bureau keeps an eye on companies for consumers. But who keeps an eye on the Better Business Bureau?
  A small Ottawa shop has just concluded a long, costly lawsuit against the BBB of Ottawa-Hull for defamation after the firm was graded a D minus for not responding to a complaint from a customer in 2007.
  It did not sit well with Barry Walsh, the operator of two heating and air-conditioning outfits. Two appeals and some 10 years later, he’s still not vindicated and finds hi
  
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• Cirque du Soleil's Alegría to hit Gatineau'a Zibi on 25th anniversary tour

  25-04-2018 23:16 via ottawacitizen.com
  Gatineau will be a stop for a 25th anniversary tour next year of Cirque du Soleil’s ground-breaking show, Alegría.
  The Montreal-based producer and Gatineau city hall announced Alegría will be staged Aug. 1-11, 2019, under the troupe’s iconic blue-and-yellow big top at the Place des Festivals site in the Zibi development.
  Last summer, the Cirque’s Volta show staged 32 performances at the same site, drawing more than 75,000 people.
  Gatineau officials said at th
  
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• Saskatchewan asks court if Ottawa's carbon tax is unconstitutional - CBC.ca

  25-04-2018 23:00 via cbc.ca
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  Saskatchewan asks court if Ottawa's carbon tax is unconstitutional
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  Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe and Canada's Minister of Environment and Climate Change Catherine McKenna have been locked in a stalemate over Saskatchewan's refusal to sign onto the country's climate change plan and to implement carbon pricing. (CBC ...and more »
  
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• Man, 47, charged after commercial B&E in Pembroke

  25-04-2018 22:54 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ontario Provincial Police have charged a man after a commercial break and enter in April at Cassidy’s Transfer and Storage in Pembroke.
  On April 12, police said they obtained a search warrant for a residence on Pembroke Street West, where they seized drugs and stolen property from an alleged break and enter at Cassidy’s.
  Police said they arrested a man who was found at a residence on Lea Street on Tuesday, and then obtained a search warrant the following day for that same residence,
  
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• Hop aboard Ottawa's new light rail train - CBC.ca

  25-04-2018 22:52 via cbc.ca
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  This on-board video of Wednesday's light rail ride-along offers a glimpse into the future of public transit in Ottawa. Media invited aboard test run from Tremblay to uOttawa stations Wednesday. Giacomo Panico · Posted: Apr 25, 2018 4:52 PM ET | Last ...
  
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• Kanata LRT extension would cost $1.85B to build … someday

  25-04-2018 22:48 via ottawacitizen.com
  An 11-kilometre light-rail extension through Kanata, from Moodie Drive to Hazeldean Road, would cost $1.85 billion, a new report says.
  The report published Wednesday reveals the results of the Kanata LRT environmental assessment. It confirms that the preferred route would see westbound trains leaving Moodie station travelling on tracks on the north side of Highway 417, crossing the highway to the Canadian Tire Centre and continuing south to a terminus at Hazeldean Road. It means LRT could serve
  
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• The @OttawaPolice Guns & Gangs Unit is looking for Phillippe Mallet. The 24 y.o. is wanted on a string of weapons c… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  25-04-2018 22:47 via twitter.com
  The @OttawaPolice Guns & Gangs Unit is looking for Phillippe Mallet. The 24 y.o. is wanted on a string of weapons c… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Fixing Phoenix pay system is priority No. 1, says Canada's top public servant

  25-04-2018 22:35 via ottawacitizen.com
  Fixing the troubled Phoenix pay system is his top priority, says the chief of Canada’s public service.
  The pay “challenges” that persist with the government’s payroll system are unacceptable, said Michael Wernick, the Clerk of the Privy Council, in his annual report to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
  Wernick said the government will continue to “work hard to make progress on the pay system and to ensure that our employees are paid accurately and on time,” but g
  
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• OC Transpo: Police lay 29 more counts of sex assault against Ottawa man

  25-04-2018 22:33 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa police have laid 29 more charges of sexual assault against a 37-year-old man alleged to have sexually touched women on city buses after more complainants have come forward.
  In March, central criminal investigations detectives released a photo of a man they suspected of having touched women’s legs, thighs or feet multiple times over the course of the last year. 
  A day after releasing the man’s picture, police identified him and laid four charges of sexual assault against h
  
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• UPDATE: @OttawaPolice report Maranda Lynn George-Morrisson has been found safe. #ottnews twitter.com/OttawaPolice/s…

  25-04-2018 22:20 via twitter.com
  UPDATE: @OttawaPolice report Maranda Lynn George-Morrisson has been found safe. #ottnews twitter.com/OttawaPolice/s…
  
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• OC Transpo: Police lay 29 more counts of sex assault against ... - Ottawa Citizen

  25-04-2018 22:19 via ottawacitizen.com
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  Ottawa police have laid 29 more charges of sexual assault against a 37-year-old man alleged to have sexually touched women on city buses after more complainants have come forward.and more »
  
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• Iconic Cirque du Soleil show coming to Gatineau ottawamatters.com/local-news/ico… https://t.co/iEW02aSxLR

  25-04-2018 21:34 via twitter.com
  
  Iconic Cirque du Soleil show coming to Gatineauottawamatters.com/local-news/ico… https://t.co/iEW02aSxLR
  
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• Ontario government understates deficit by billions: auditor general ottawamatters.com/national-news/… https://t.co/IC8UoW6voX

  25-04-2018 21:22 via twitter.com
  
  Ontario government understates deficit by billions: auditor generalottawamatters.com/national-news/… https://t.co/IC8UoW6voX
  
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• Cirque du Soleil's Alegría to hit Gatineau on 25th anniversary tour

  25-04-2018 21:16 via ottawacitizen.com
  Gatineau will be a stop for a 25th anniversary tour next year of Cirque du Soleil’s ground-breaking show, Alegría.
  The Montreal-based producer and Gatineau city hall announced Alegría will be staged Aug. 1-11, 2019, under the troupe’s iconic blue-and-yellow big top at the Place des Festivals site in the Zibi development.
  Last summer, the Cirque’s Volta show staged 32 performances at the same site, drawing more than 75,000 people.
  Gatineau officials said at th
  
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• More charges handed down in transit sexual assault case ottawamatters.com/police-beat/mo… https://t.co/taaYr7gdbz

  25-04-2018 21:12 via twitter.com
  
  More charges handed down in transit sexual assault caseottawamatters.com/police-beat/mo… https://t.co/taaYr7gdbz
  
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• Reevely: Ontario's government can't keep up a permanent war with its auditor

  25-04-2018 21:08 via ottawacitizen.com
  The numbers the Ontario Liberals are using in their financial projections ahead of the June election are “not reasonable,” auditor general Bonnie Lysyk reported Wednesday.
  They insist that their multibillion-dollar borrowing to temporarily cut consumer power bills comes without costs to the provincial treasury and that surpluses in pension funds they can’t touch belong on the books, she said in her “Review of the 2018 Pre-Election Report on Ontario’s Finances”
  
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• New Ottawa Art Gallery opens this weekend: 'It's going to look amazing'

  25-04-2018 20:54 via ottawacitizen.com
  With every A.Y. Jackson sketch mounted for display, Ottawa Art Gallery senior curator Rebecca Sinclair takes a step back.“Every moment we realize a little bit of finished product, it’s like a breath,” she said, looking up from the work that she and a cluster of other curators were scrambling to finish one day last week. “It’s beautiful. It’s going to look amazing. You have these moments and realize it’s finally happening.”
  What’s happening is
  
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• Police in #Ottawa and #Gatineau arrest & charge four in a series of raids. #ottnews twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…

  25-04-2018 20:53 via twitter.com
  Police in #Ottawa and #Gatineau arrest & charge four in a series of raids. #ottnews twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…
  
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• Ottawa's first household hazardous waste depot of 2018 set for Sunday

  25-04-2018 20:14 via ottawacitizen.com
  For one day only this weekend, Ottawa residents can dump their stockpiles of used batteries, broken cellphones, and aerosol cans at the city’s first household hazard waste depot of the year.
  The depot will be held on April 29 from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the OC Transpo Park and Ride at 1201 Trim Rd.
  Approved items include pool chemicals, fire extinguishers, pharmaceuticals, syringes, paint containers and other items. Residential electronic waste, like computers, televisions and cameras will al
  
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• New Ottawa Art Gallery opens this weekend: 'It's going to look amazing' - Ottawa Citizen

  25-04-2018 19:25 via ottawacitizen.com
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  New Ottawa Art Gallery opens this weekend: 'It's going to look amazing'
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  With every A.Y. Jackson sketch mounted for display, Ottawa Art Gallery senior curator Rebecca Sinclair takes a step back. “Every moment we realize a little bit of finished product, it's like a breath,” she said, looking up from the work that she and a ...
  
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• Going out best bets, April 26 to May 2

  25-04-2018 18:55 via ottawacitizen.com
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  Thirty years after they started, the beloved Cape Breton band Rawlins Cross, featuring the songwriting Panting brothers, Dave (guitar and mandolin) and Geoff (keyboards and accordion), has been revitalized, as demonstrated on their latest foot-stomper of an EP, Rock Steady. Bassist Brian Bourne, drummer Howie Southwood and singer Joey Kitson round out the lineup, bringing a wealth of experience that translates to a crowd-pleasing show wherever they go. Their spring tou
  
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• Montreal Dining Diary III: At Maison Boulud, a meeting of Italian star chefs during Montréal En Lumière

  25-04-2018 18:51 via ottawacitizen.com
  Earlier this year, when Maison Boulud took part in the Montréal En Lumière gastronomic and cultural festival, the highly esteemed restaurant in the Ritz-Carlton hotel departed somewhat from its focus on contemporary French fine dining.
  That night, its guest chef was Gaetano Trovato, whose home base is the kitchen of Arnolfo, a two-Michelin-starred Tuscan restaurant about an hour’s drive south of Florence. Utlimately, it wasn’t that grave of a detour for Trovato to steer
  
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• Stalled Somerset House reno a 'disgrace,' Mayor Watson says

  25-04-2018 18:35 via ottawacitizen.com
  The questionable stability of a stone wall in the historic Somerset House is the latest redevelopment challenge at the beat-up downtown building as Mayor Jim Watson stews over the lack of progress.
  “I’ve certainly let (the owner) know my displeasure that it’s basically a dump right now. You’ve got the excavation at the back and the windows are shattered on the front and there’s posters put up on the wood casings,” Watson said Wednesday at city hall, answering
  
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• Glavin: How 'toxic masculinity' links proponents of violence

  25-04-2018 18:34 via ottawacitizen.com
  As we all strive and struggle to sort out what rational sense might be divined from Monday’s mass murder in the vicinity of Yonge and Finch in Toronto, the likely motive that has emerged, while still necessarily a matter of speculation, involves a dark and horrible thing that the overwhelming majority of us, it seems safe to say, have never even heard of before.
  What is the proper word for this thing? Is it a psychopathology? Some sort of sociopathology? Is it even possible to reduce this
  
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• Dining Out: Between Flora Hall Brewing, Elgin Beer Project and Beerocracy, one Centretown pub's food prevails

  25-04-2018 18:03 via ottawacitizen.com
  Flora Hall Brewing37 Flora St., 613-695-2339‍, florahallbrewing.caOpen: Monday to Thursday 3 p.m. to midnight, Friday and Saturday noon to 2 a.m., Sunday noon to midnightPrices: $8 to $18 for dishesAccess: fully accessible (automated accessible entrance, accessible washroom downstairs)
  Elgin Beer Project399 Elgin St., 613-656-6600, elginbeerproject.comOpen: daily from 3 p.m. to 2 a.m. Prices: small plates $5 to $15Access: no steps to front door, washrooms
  Beerocracy340 So
  
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• Are 2 RCAF Chinooks enough for the Mali mission?

  25-04-2018 17:55 via ottawacitizen.com
  Melissa Kent, the CBC correspondent at the United Nations, has raised some interesting points in her article today about Canada’s contribution to the Mali mission.
  Talks will take place today between UN and Canadian officials about the contribution.
  Canada will supply two Chinook helicopters and four CH-146 Griffon helicopters to the UN mission to Mali. The UN, meanwhile, is expecting that two Chinooks will be available at any given time — which means Canada would
  
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• The @rick_gibbons Show for Wednesday, April 25th: 1:08: @rogerfpetersen 1:17: #JamesEllis 1:30: @theyoungjoo 1:45:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  25-04-2018 17:53 via twitter.com
  The @rick_gibbons Show for Wednesday, April 25th: 1:08: @rogerfpetersen 1:17: #JamesEllis1:30: @theyoungjoo 1:45:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Coming up on the Power Lunch at noon: @TerryLake16 & @rick_gibbons join @_MarkSutcliffe in studio: Listen: 📻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  25-04-2018 17:45 via twitter.com
  Coming up on the Power Lunch at noon: @TerryLake16 & @rick_gibbons join @_MarkSutcliffe in studio: Listen:📻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• OPP clocks 16-year-old motorcyclist at 192 km/h

  25-04-2018 17:40 via ottawacitizen.com
  A 16-year-old Brockville boy won himself a trip to court after a patrolling OPP officer clocked his eastbound motorcycle at nearly double the speed limit Monday afternoon.
  The youth was going 192 km/h when he was pulled over at about 3:15 p.m. and had accelerated to that speed in the less than two km between the city’s two exits, Leeds County OPP reports.
  Along with appearing in court on a stunt driving charge, the teen’s motorcycle was towed away to be impounded for a week.
  
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• Coming up at 11:45: Crime policy researcher Christian Leuprecht joins @_marksutcliffe on the Toronto police offic… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  25-04-2018 17:40 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 11:45: Crime policy researcher Christian Leuprecht joins @_marksutcliffe on the Toronto police offic… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Ottawa set to appoint first female medical chief - CBC.ca

  25-04-2018 17:37 via cbc.ca
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  Ottawa set to appoint first female medical chief
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  Dr. Vera Etches is poised to become Ottawa's first female chief medical officer of health. Ottawa city council voted Wednesday to nominate Etches, who has been the interim chief medical officer of health since mid-November. Her appointment has to be ...
  
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• Coming up at 11:30: @Brendan_LyonsTU joins @_MarkSutcliffe on the alleged ‘sex cult’ NXIVM: Listen: 📻: 1310 💻… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  25-04-2018 17:25 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 11:30:@Brendan_LyonsTU joins @_MarkSutcliffe on the alleged ‘sex cult’ NXIVM:Listen: 📻: 1310 💻… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Will the Maple Leafs win Game 7 tonight? @JSportsnet joins @_MarkSutcliffe live at 10:45: Listen: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  25-04-2018 16:40 via twitter.com
  Will the Maple Leafs win Game 7 tonight?@JSportsnet joins @_MarkSutcliffe live at 10:45: Listen:📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• No way to account for billions of dollars of aid funding sent to Afghanistan, warns audit

  25-04-2018 16:39 via ottawacitizen.com
  The latest report from the U.S. government’s Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) outlines more problems with accountability for the billions of dollars being spent in that country. SIGAR released its audit of the World Bank-administered Afghanistan Reconstruction Trust Fund (ARTF), one of the largest sources of funding to Afghan government operations outside the security sector.
  Key findings:
  — Billions of dollars of donor funds contributed to the ARTF ar
  
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• What is 'incel'? @btaplatt joins @_marksutcliffe coming up at 10:30: 📻: 1310 💻: bit.ly/2oQd8u1… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  25-04-2018 16:25 via twitter.com
  What is 'incel'?@btaplatt joins @_marksutcliffe coming up at 10:30: 📻: 1310 💻: bit.ly/2oQd8u1… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• House Works: Insulating a 1950s Bungalow

  25-04-2018 16:06 via ottawacitizen.com
  Q: What’s the best way to insulate the brick walls of my small bungalow built in 1952? There’s just plaster against the inside layer of brick with no insulation. I’m having insulation blown into the attic and I’m considering doing the same thing with wall cavities.
  A: Your plan for attic insulation is great, but the walls pose more of a challenge. I’ve seen a number of small brick bungalows built in Canada in the early 1950s, and none offered enough open air space b
  
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• Careless smoker's match sparks 'out-of-control' grass fire: OPP

  25-04-2018 15:52 via ottawacitizen.com
  Police are are appealing for caution after a smoker’s match, tossed into the bush as he worked on a vehicle roadside, sparked an “out-of-control” grass fire in Rideau Lakes Township over the weekend.
  It happened Sunday afternoon on Mother Barnes Road, Leeds County OPP reported after investigating the incident.
  ‘The ground may still be wet underneath but the debris on top is dry providing fuel for fire,” Staff-Sgt. Josh Kingsley warned. “A careless act by one p
  
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• Coming up on the 10 O'Clock Talk: @AGMacDougall, @sophienadeau & @1310JasonWhite join @_MarkSutcliffe live: Lis… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  25-04-2018 15:50 via twitter.com
  Coming up on the 10 O'Clock Talk: @AGMacDougall, @sophienadeau & @1310JasonWhite join @_MarkSutcliffe live: Lis… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Watch this cowboy calmly disarm a would-be robber in Mexico

  25-04-2018 15:48 via ottawacitizen.com
  Don’t turn your back on a cowboy.
  If there isn’t already a saying, there should be now.
  A customer wearing a cowboy hat at a butcher shop in Mexico didn’t hesitate to act when an armed robber entered the store.
  In the video, posted by the store Carnes Cares on Facebook, you see an armed man enter the store while a customer waits by the cash register.
  The robbery suspect waves his gun around and even points it directly at the customer.
  The “Mexican cowboy” calmy remo
  
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• Small aircraft short on fuel touches down on Calgary street: bit.ly/2FdhgdD https://t.co/1fK1rQZmim

  25-04-2018 15:45 via twitter.com
  
  Small aircraft short on fuel touches down on Calgary street: bit.ly/2FdhgdD https://t.co/1fK1rQZmim
  
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• Denley: How the Liberals are playing right into Doug Ford's hands

  25-04-2018 15:42 via ottawacitizen.com
  We are at about the half-way point in Doug Ford’s mad dash from an unlikely Progressive Conservative leadership win to a likely provincial election victory. Give credit to Ford and his team for managing their campaign skilfully, but equal credit needs to go to Kathleen Wynne and the Liberals. They have played right into Ford’s hands.
  First Ford vowed to fire the head of Hydro One, as if this were a solution to high power bills. The experts quickly dismissed this as foolishness. Of co
  
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• Coming up at 9:45: @Ginella_M joins @_MarkSutcliffe on the Toronto van attack: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  25-04-2018 15:40 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 9:45: @Ginella_M joins @_MarkSutcliffe on the Toronto van attack: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• New Zealand warship to be turned over to Lockheed Martin Canada for refit

  25-04-2018 15:31 via ottawacitizen.com
  Her Majesty’s New Zealand Ship TE KAHA will be officially transferred into the care and custody of Lockheed Martin Canada and Seaspan Victoria Shipyards Co. Ltd in Victoria, BC, on Thursday as the two firms are to begin a refit of the vessel. HMNZS TE KAHA arrived in Canada on March 6, where it proceeded to the Royal Canadian Navy’s Fleet Maintenance Facility Cape Breton for de-storing of equipment and preservation of ship systems in preparation for the handover and start of the indu
  
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• POLL: How should the federal government respond to people seeking asylum at the US border? -Police the border effe… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  25-04-2018 15:21 via twitter.com
  POLL: How should the federal government respond to people seeking asylum at the US border?-Police the border effe… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Fleetwood Mac is back in Ottawa Nov. 3 with new lineup

  25-04-2018 15:14 via ottawacitizen.com
  Classic rockers Fleetwood Mac will be bringing their new lineup to Canadian Tire Centre Nov. 3 as part of a 50-city North American tour.
  Running through the spring of 2019, it features the newly announced lineup of Mick Fleetwood, John McVie, Stevie Nicks and Christine McVie along with newcomers Mike Campbell, long-time guitarist with Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, and singer Neil Finn, formerly of Crowded House.
  The band announced in earlier this month that former frontman Lindsay Buckin
  
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• Coming up at 9:15: @borealissaves joins @_MarkSutcliffe on why it's important to reserve judgment on the Toronto… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  25-04-2018 15:10 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 9:15: @borealissaves joins @_MarkSutcliffe on why it's important to reserve judgment on the Toronto… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Some fresh faces in the mayor's office and it has nothing to do with the election. @JimWatsonOttawa twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…

  25-04-2018 15:00 via twitter.com
  Some fresh faces in the mayor's office and it has nothing to do with the election. @JimWatsonOttawa twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…
  
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