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• Gatineau issues boil water advisory after broken water main

  27-04-2018 23:07 via ottawacitizen.com
  The City of Gatineau has issued a preventative boil water advisory following a water main break on Friday morning, affecting nearly 12,000 households.
  The advisory was issued for the areas east of Montée Paiement; west of Cheval-Blanc Avenue; south of the La Vérendrye Boulevard; and north of the Ottawa River.
  . #Gatineau is issuing a preventive boil water advisory for 12,000 residences in the Gatineau sector, because of a watermain break on rue Saint-Louis. This advisory is in effe
  
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• 128 new long-term care beds for Francophone seniors in Ottawa ottawamatters.com/local-news/128… https://t.co/BZHxFJ5Bl5

  27-04-2018 22:45 via twitter.com
  
  128 new long-term care beds for Francophone seniors in Ottawaottawamatters.com/local-news/128… https://t.co/BZHxFJ5Bl5
  
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• City of #Gatineau issued a boil water advisory. If you are in the affected areas, you need to boil water before con… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  27-04-2018 22:17 via twitter.com
  City of #Gatineau issued a boil water advisory. If you are in the affected areas, you need to boil water before con… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Trudeau urged to press G7 leaders for $1.3 billion for girls education ottawamatters.com/national-news/… https://t.co/NpcMRaCUUz

  27-04-2018 22:15 via twitter.com
  
  Trudeau urged to press G7 leaders for $1.3 billion for girls educationottawamatters.com/national-news/… https://t.co/NpcMRaCUUz
  
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• STORY: Eight women and two men killed in Toronto van attack: coroner - ottawamatters.com/national-news/… #ottnews https://t.co/vXH14jcyn8

  27-04-2018 21:51 via twitter.com
  
  STORY: Eight women and two men killed in Toronto van attack: coroner - ottawamatters.com/national-news/… #ottnews https://t.co/vXH14jcyn8
  
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• Hard Rock Casino might lure up to $62 million a year away from Casino Lac-Leamy, report claims

  27-04-2018 21:47 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Hard Rock Casino Ottawa at the Rideau Carleton Raceway could siphon off up to $62 million annually from Casino Lac-Leamy, claims an economic impact report commissioned by the casino-raceway partnership that also states the number is not grounded in evidence.
  About $318 million is being spent to renovate and expand the raceway on Albion Road, a project that aims to increase the number of slot machines by 750 and the number of gaming tables by about 35. In 2022, when Hard Rock is scheduled to
  
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• ‘A leader by example': Ottawa fire Chief Gerry Pingitore leaves service a healthier place

  27-04-2018 21:22 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa fire Chief Gerry Pingitore has seen numerous progressive changes to the fire service over the past 40 years. Now, at the end of his career, he’s proud to say he’s helped push many of them forward.
  “There was a time when the fire service looked after its equipment better than they looked after its people,” he said.
  Pingitore, 60, has had a long career, and is praised by many on his staff as a key player in making Ottawa’s fire service healthier to work in
  
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• Gatineau's transit system to increase bus service ottawamatters.com/local-news/gat… https://t.co/VumcSfnNCI

  27-04-2018 21:21 via twitter.com
  
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• Protesters want better community support, not bigger jail

  27-04-2018 21:16 via ottawacitizen.com
  Protesters who don’t want Ontario to build a bigger jail in place of the Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre demonstrated Friday to call for better community support for people charged with crimes.
  A year ago, Ontario announced that Ottawa and Thunder Bay would get bigger jails after years of overcrowding in the current jails.
  The Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services arranged to meet some community groups in Ottawa Friday, but postponed that meeting a few days ago.
  
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• Here is a list of the victims, from Toronto Police. #ottnews twitter.com/TorontoPolice/…

  27-04-2018 21:16 via twitter.com
  Here is a list of the victims, from Toronto Police. #ottnews twitter.com/TorontoPolice/…
  
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• Reevely: Ottawa's new jail 'an innovation platform' to transform corrections, minister promises

  27-04-2018 21:15 via ottawacitizen.com
  The new jail the province is planning for Ottawa will have different levels of security for different inmates, proper health services and open visiting areas, Correctional Services Minister Marie-France Lalonde says, rather than just being a bigger version of the Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre it’ll replace.
  The new details are in a letter Lalonde sent Thursday to people who’ve participated in the early planning for the replacement, meant to counter criticism that the government is
  
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• BREAKING: The ages of the victims who died in the #Toronto van attack are between 22 and 94. 8 of them were females, 2 foreign nationals.

  27-04-2018 21:13 via twitter.com
  BREAKING: The ages of the victims who died in the #Toronto van attack are between 22 and 94. 8 of them were females, 2 foreign nationals.
  
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• STORY: One year later, Constance Bay still dealing with, learning from historic Ottawa River flood… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  27-04-2018 21:09 via twitter.com
  STORY: One year later, Constance Bay still dealing with, learning from historic Ottawa River flood… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Mississippi Valley flood watch upgraded to warning ottawamatters.com/local-news/mis… https://t.co/A5VQKukrUi

  27-04-2018 21:07 via twitter.com
  
  Mississippi Valley flood watch upgraded to warningottawamatters.com/local-news/mis… https://t.co/A5VQKukrUi
  
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• Editorial: The Chagall fiasco can be reframed

  27-04-2018 20:56 via ottawacitizen.com
  Many art patrons remember the gasps that greeted the National Gallery of Canada’s 1989 purchase of Barnett Newman’s Voice of Fire. Yes, for a cool $1.8 million, the gallery had just acquired a 5.4-metre canvas composed of three vertical stripes.
  Indignation! Shock! Why, a five-year-old could have painted that, blared more than a few dismayed taxpayers. Art cognoscenti sniffed back about metaphysics and colour palettes and the like. The war or words went on for months.
  Yet the co
  
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• Local man charged in 'sexually violent' calls in probe linked to U.S. Capitol

  27-04-2018 20:14 via ottawacitizen.com
  A 26-year-old Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry man is facing a string of charges linked to allegations that “indecent and sexually violent” phone calls were made to victims on both sides of the Canada-U.S. border.
  The OPP reports that it had the help of the RCMP and American officials with the Department of Homeland Security and United States Capitol Police in a nine-month investigation launched after police were notified of “numerous” calls to people and agencies
  
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• Broken water main cuts supply to 2,000 Gatineau households

  27-04-2018 20:04 via ottawacitizen.com
  The City of Gatineau says a water main break late Friday morning has cut the water supply to some 2,000 residences.
  The break occurred already under construction northeast of downtown core, on Saint-Louis Street, between Maloney Boulevard West and Vallières Street.
  Initially, 28,000 households were thought to have been affected by the break, but the city now estimates the number is closer to 2,000.
  [Bris d’aqueduc]
  Près de 28 000 résidences du secteur de #Gatineau pour
  
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• Agency gives city more time to decide on fate of Prince of Wales Bridge

  27-04-2018 19:22 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Canadian Transportation Agency (CTA) has granted the City of Ottawa an extension to decide the fortunes of the Prince of Wales Bridge.
  On Feb. 16, the CTA ordered the city to make a decision by Apr. 30 about whether it would restore the Ottawa River Line — which includes the Prince of Wales Bridge — to functional status within 12 months.
  The city appealed the order to the Federal Court of Appeal.
  On Friday, the CTA granted the city an extension because the appeal hasn’t yet
  
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• Theatre review: GCTC's production of Gracie is thoroughly compelling

  27-04-2018 18:25 via ottawacitizen.com
  A solo show is a tough gig, particularly when the part requires the actor to not only portray a lead character at different stages of life, but also take on the supporting roles in the story.In the case of Gracie, written by B.C. playwright Joan MacLeod, and being staged at the Great Canadian Theatre Company, there’s an added challenge. The script delves into a world so vastly removed from what we perceive as a normal childhood that it’s hard to imagine how a young Canadian theatre p
  
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• Woman, 25, killed in early morning Outaouais crash

  27-04-2018 18:08 via ottawacitizen.com
  A 25-year-old woman from Plaisance, Que., was killed early Friday when her car left the road on a secondary route near the town of St-André-Avellin, north of Montebello.
  Police said conditions were foggy at about 1:30 a.m., when the vehicle went crashing into the heavy bush on Highway 321.
  The victim was without vital signs at the scene of the crash and was declared dead at hospital.
  Her identity was not immediately released.
  The route remains closed as the investigation continues.
   
  
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• Coming up on the Power Lunch at noon: @RiverWardRiley & @cooperbrosband Dick Cooper join @_marksutcliffe in studio… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  27-04-2018 17:45 via twitter.com
  Coming up on the Power Lunch at noon:@RiverWardRiley & @cooperbrosband Dick Cooper join @_marksutcliffe in studio… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Man critically injured in house fire near Bonnechere Valley

  27-04-2018 17:37 via ottawacitizen.com
  The cause of a fire on Hwy. 41 that sent a man to the hospital by helicopter in critical condition Friday morning remains under investigation, Killaloe OPP said.
  First responders were called to a home on Highway 41 in the Township of Bonnechere Valley at about 6:49 a.m.
  The OPP reported that their probe was still in its earliest stages but that the Office of the Fire Marshal had been called in to investigate.
  Bonnechere Valley is about 150 kilometres west of Ottawa.
  Just after dawn this mor
  
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• Water levels in the area could remain high for the next week. twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…

  27-04-2018 17:30 via twitter.com
  Water levels in the area could remain high for the next week. twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…
  
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• The @rick_gibbons Show for Friday, April 27th: 1:08: #AndreSchmid 1:17: @jimbrainard 1:30: @KellyEganColumn 1:45:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  27-04-2018 17:30 via twitter.com
  The @rick_gibbons Show for Friday, April 27th: 1:08: #AndreSchmid 1:17: @jimbrainard 1:30: @KellyEganColumn 1:45:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Le Germain Hotel opens its doors next month

  27-04-2018 17:28 via ottawacitizen.com
  Later this spring, Ottawa will welcome a new stylish boutique hotel to the city, one that whether you’re local or not, is worth checking out.Le Germain Hotel Ottawa is part of the 23-storey tower being built as part of the Arts Court redevelopment project. The hotel occupies the bottom 14 floors — with 115 guest rooms — and the upper nine floors will be private condo residences known as ArtHaus by DevMcGill. The redevelopment project will also see a revitalized Ottawa Art
  
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• Was the Toronto van attack an act of terrorism? @vanessaiafolla joins @_MarkSutcliffe coming up at 11:30: 📻: 131… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  27-04-2018 17:25 via twitter.com
  Was the Toronto van attack an act of terrorism?@vanessaiafolla joins @_MarkSutcliffe coming up at 11:30: 📻: 131… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• More support for paramedics dealing with PTSD. #ottnews ottawamatters.com/local-news/new…

  27-04-2018 17:25 via twitter.com
  More support for paramedics dealing with PTSD. #ottnewsottawamatters.com/local-news/new…
  
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• Investigators are hoping someone will step forward with information which could lead to the identification of a sus… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  27-04-2018 17:19 via twitter.com
  Investigators are hoping someone will step forward with information which could lead to the identification of a sus… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• True crime stories: 900-volume comic collection stolen in south-end burglary

  27-04-2018 17:17 via ottawacitizen.com
  City police are seeking public assistance in solving the theft of a collection of about 900 comic books in a break-and-enter last month.
  The rural south end home – police say they’re holding back the precise location for investigative reasons – was burglarized sometime between Tuesday, Feb. 6 and Thursday, Feb. 8.
  Police did not mention specific titles, nor was there any estimated value on the stolen collection.
  Anyone with information is asked to call the break and enter
  
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• ABBA says it records 2 songs, first new material in 35 years: bit.ly/2HVD2YJ https://t.co/fMJDOwnOCp

  27-04-2018 17:00 via twitter.com
  
  ABBA says it records 2 songs, first new material in 35 years: bit.ly/2HVD2YJ https://t.co/fMJDOwnOCp
  
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• Coming up at 11: The Ethics Lab with @dk_munro & @_MarkSutcliffe: 📻: 1310 💻: bit.ly/2oQd8u1… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  27-04-2018 16:54 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 11: The Ethics Lab with @dk_munro & @_MarkSutcliffe: 📻: 1310 💻: bit.ly/2oQd8u1… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Coming up at 10:45: @UAlberta John England joins @_MarkSutcliffe on Suzuki honorary degree: Listen: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  27-04-2018 16:39 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 10:45: @UAlberta John England joins @_MarkSutcliffe on Suzuki honorary degree: Listen:📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Spotlight: Musical theatre is just the gateway drug. Opera is the real thing

  27-04-2018 15:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  Spotlight is a weekly look at some of the people who are part of the Ottawa area’s arts community. This week, Bruce Deachman talks with soprano opera singer Jeanine Williams, who recently won the Nicole Senécal Emerging Artist Award, which recognizes an exceptional student graduating from University of Ottawa’s School of Music. She’ll be performing with the Nepean Choir on May 4 at Woodroffe United Church. Visit nepeanchoir.ca or jeaninewilliamssoprano.weebly.com.
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• Caivan Communities' Fox Run launches in Richmond (with no vinyl siding)

  27-04-2018 15:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  The latest player on the Ottawa home building field may be a new name to buyers, but it comes with a lengthy pedigree in the industry and some fresh ideas for its first Ottawa community, which launches Saturday in Richmond.
  The builder is Caivan Communities, a land developer for more than a decade in Ottawa, Toronto and Florida and a collaborator with other builders in the region on projects such as the recently completed Monahan Landing in Kanata. Founders Frank Cairo and Tony van Haastrecht ar
  
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• POLL: Do you think the city should add bike lanes to Montreal Road?

  27-04-2018 14:44 via twitter.com
  POLL: Do you think the city should add bike lanes to Montreal Road?
  
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• POLL: Are you changing your driving habits due to rising gas prices? @_MarkSutcliffe #QuestionOfTheDay twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…

  27-04-2018 14:26 via twitter.com
  POLL: Are you changing your driving habits due to rising gas prices?@_MarkSutcliffe#QuestionOfTheDay twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…
  
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• The Latest: Japan expects concrete action by North Korea: bit.ly/2Hw9eTr https://t.co/LhfdHCOkKp

  27-04-2018 13:56 via twitter.com
  
  The Latest: Japan expects concrete action by North Korea: bit.ly/2Hw9eTr https://t.co/LhfdHCOkKp
  
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• Adrean Farrugia/Joel Frahm CD reviewed

  27-04-2018 13:53 via ottawacitizen.com
  Blued Dharma (self-released) Adrean Farrugia/Joel Frahm
  New York tenor saxophonist Joel Frahm is widely known in the jazz world for his effusive creativity,  rollicking positive spirit, technical fluency and versatility.
  Hamilton pianist Adrean Farrugia’s formidable playing is less well-known. But on Blued Dharma, a new album of duo exploits, Farrugia proves himself to be Frahm’s match.
  Not that there was anything competitive going on in the studio when the two of them met in Ne
  
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• The Royal Canadian Mint says 2kg of gold has gone missing. RCMP investigating and one person has been fired.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  27-04-2018 13:44 via twitter.com
  The Royal Canadian Mint says 2kg of gold has gone missing. RCMP investigating and one person has been fired.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Showers Saturday but summer-like days are on the way. Seriously

  27-04-2018 13:40 via ottawacitizen.com
  The good news is that the word “flurries” has disappeared from the local forecast and we’re now in for a plain-old rainy Saturday.
  Up first for Friday, which is a PA day for kids in Ottawa’s biggest school board, features mixed skies, a high of 15 C and a low of 8 C, Environment Canada predicts.
  Showers begin overnight then Saturday’s high is a forecast 12 C. There’s a 40 per cent chance of more rain overnight – it had been a risk of flurries in earlier
  
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• Woman in her 20s killed in early morning Outaouais crash

  27-04-2018 13:22 via ottawacitizen.com
  A woman in her 20s was killed early Friday when her car left the road on a secondary route near the town of St-André-Avellin, north of Montebello.
  Police said conditions were foggy at about 1:30 a.m., when the vehicle went crashing into the heavy bush on Highway 321.
  The route remains closed as the investigation continues.
   
  
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• POLL: Do you think the city should add bike lanes to Montreal Road? @_MarkSutcliffe #QuestionOfTheDay twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…

  27-04-2018 13:22 via twitter.com
  POLL: Do you think the city should add bike lanes to Montreal Road?@_MarkSutcliffe#QuestionOfTheDay twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…
  
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• Broncos tribute concert expected to attract over 30 current and former NHLers: bit.ly/2HUwUQv https://t.co/PiA3ISsVpV

  27-04-2018 13:10 via twitter.com
  
  Broncos tribute concert expected to attract over 30 current and former NHLers: bit.ly/2HUwUQv https://t.co/PiA3ISsVpV
  
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• MacDougall: Trudeau's partisan pitch revealing for all the things he didn't say

  27-04-2018 13:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  Leave it to the former drama teacher to “give the people what they want.”
  Justin Trudeau’s address to the Liberal convention followed the old showbiz maxim to the letter, with the prime minister digging up Stephen Harper’s political corpse and beating it with great affection. “It may be Andrew Scheer’s smile,” Trudeau scoffed. “But it’s still Stephen Harper’s party.”
  The crowd loved it, but it was an oddly conservative speech for
  
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• Harmful intent: What Ottawa can do to prevent hostile vehicle attacks

  27-04-2018 13:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  Back in February 1997, new measures were announced aimed at keeping tourists and other people who had no business being on Parliament Hill from parking near the Centre Block.
  A week earlier, a Jeep had crashed right into the doors of the House of Commons. The plans were aimed not only at making Parliament Hill a more pleasant place for pedestrians, but also at reducing the chances of a terrorist attack. In the words of Robert Marleau, then the clerk of the House of Commons, the safety measures w
  
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• Dawson: Minassian was taken alive – but others haven't been so lucky

  27-04-2018 13:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  Canadians have been seized by the video of a Toronto police officer facing down Alek Minassian, the suspect in Monday’s van rampage, and peaceably arresting him without a shot fired.
  “He’s a hero,” declared Mike McCormack, the Toronto police union boss. “Not just a Toronto hero, but a national hero.”
  On Tuesday, Minassian appeared in court, facing 10 murder charges and a further 13 counts of attempted murder. Without the restraint of Const. Ken Lam, the o
  
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• Boyle faces 19 charges including nine counts of assault, as well as charges of sexual assault and forcible confinem… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  27-04-2018 12:36 via twitter.com
  Boyle faces 19 charges including nine counts of assault, as well as charges of sexual assault and forcible confinem… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Today's letters: Phoenix, LRT, seniors' housing

  27-04-2018 12:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  Serve taxpayers, not bureaucrats
  Re: Fixing Phoenix pay system is priority #1, says Canada’s top public servant, April 25.
  What a relief it is to know that the Clerk of the Privy Council’s top priority is ensuring that a couple of hundred thousand federal government bureaucrats are paid properly. Heaven forbid that the first priority would be providing services to taxpayers. Then again, if cutting a cheque is too complex, one’s expectations should be correspondingly adjusted.&n
  
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• Evacuations under way in Kashechewan due to flooding risk: bit.ly/2vTgJhC

  27-04-2018 12:30 via twitter.com
  Evacuations under way in Kashechewan due to flooding risk: bit.ly/2vTgJhC
  
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• 'The real Bill Cosby': Comedian convicted of sexual assault: bit.ly/2HA0BmO https://t.co/anzzYuJjFs

  27-04-2018 12:23 via twitter.com
  
  'The real Bill Cosby': Comedian convicted of sexual assault: bit.ly/2HA0BmO https://t.co/anzzYuJjFs
  
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