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• Light rail plans for Kanata get thumbs up at Transportation Committee. #ottnews ottawamatters.com/local-news/com…

  02-05-2018 23:50 via twitter.com
  Light rail plans for Kanata get thumbs up at Transportation Committee. #ottnews ottawamatters.com/local-news/com…
  
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• Royal Canadian Navy ships return after counter-drug mission

  02-05-2018 23:41 via ottawacitizen.com
  HMCS Edmonton and HMCS Whitehorse will return Thursday to CFB Esquimalt after completing a more than two month deployment in the eastern Pacific Ocean. While on patrol, the crew if HMCS Whitehorse and Edmonton seized and disrupted a total of 2,856kg of illicit drugs, according to the Royal Canadian Navy.
  HMCS Edmonton and Whitehorse were on patrol on Operation CARIBBE, which is Canada’s commitment to Operation
  
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• Reevely: Ontario's next government will have $15B budget hole to fill by 2025, watchdog warns

  02-05-2018 22:23 via ottawacitizen.com
  Younger Ontarians will be stuck paying off much more provincial debt than the Ontario Liberals are letting on, the province’s budget watchdog warned Wednesday, unless whoever wins the June election makes deep service cuts or raises taxes sharply.
  The 2018 budget promises deficits of more than $6 billion for several years to come (or more, if you use different accounting standards demanded by the provincial auditor general, which the Liberals don’t). It also includes forecasts saying
  
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• UPDATE: Section of Carp Rd. will remain closed until 8p. for @ottawapolice investigation into discovery of a body i… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  02-05-2018 22:21 via twitter.com
  UPDATE: Section of Carp Rd. will remain closed until 8p. for @ottawapolice investigation into discovery of a body i… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• 'What a lovely dog': Beagle that survived gunshot finds a new home

  02-05-2018 22:07 via ottawacitizen.com
  Sadie Mae, the beagle that defied the odds by surviving a gunshot wound after she was found suffering on a Carp trail last fall, has found a “forever home.”
  The Ottawa Humane Society shared an update from the 12-year-old dog’s new adoptive family.
  “We are almost a week in. Lil miss is so amazing. She has settled and taken charge. What a lovely dog,” reads the post, shared Wednesday by the OHS, who did not divulge the identity of the family.
  Sadie Mae was found suffe
  
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• Alex Francoeur CD reviewed

  02-05-2018 22:04 via ottawacitizen.com
  Live at Upstairs (Effendi Records)Alex Francoeur Group
  No points for guessing correctly where Montreal saxophonist Alex Francoeur will be tonight when he launches his debut album.
  The recent McGill University grad’s first recording is called Live at Upstairs, and naturally, he’ll be celebrating its release at Upstairs, the veteran Montreal jazz venue where its music was recorded last fall.
  The disc is a quintet album, featuring Francoeur and his burly, advanced tenor joined by four e
  
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• Nightclub manager who sexually assaulted bartender jailed for nine months

  02-05-2018 21:52 via ottawacitizen.com
  A nightclub manager who sexually assaulted a drunk, semi-conscious female employee in a secluded washroom has been sentenced to a nine-month jail term. 
  Mariano De Marinis, 33, will be on probation for 18 months at the end of his imprisonment, and his name will be added to the National Sex Offender Registry. 
  In deciding an appropriate sentence in the case, Justice Calum MacLeod had to consider dramatically different recommendations from the Crown and defence. 
  Crown Attorney Fara
  
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• Community mourning sudden loss of Leeds-Grenville-Thousand Islands MP Gord Brown ottawamatters.com/local-news/com… https://t.co/3lJo0B5pE3

  02-05-2018 21:45 via twitter.com
  
  Community mourning sudden loss of Leeds-Grenville-Thousand Islands MP Gord Brownottawamatters.com/local-news/com… https://t.co/3lJo0B5pE3
  
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• Body found inside burning car near Carp

  02-05-2018 21:25 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa police say a body was found inside a burning car Wednesday afternoon near Carp.
  Ottawa fire spokeswoman Danielle Cardinal said they received a call to the scene on Carp Road at 12:48 p.m., but would not give further information.
  Police said it’s “still far too early to speculate on the details.” They said the body was found after the fire was extinguished.
  Carp Road is closed from Baird Side Road to Thomas A. Dolan Parkway. Police advised drivers to find an alternate rou
  
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• Military cargo plane crashes in Georgia, killing 5 ottawamatters.com/world-news/mil… https://t.co/oJoX9zdcgR

  02-05-2018 21:17 via twitter.com
  
  Military cargo plane crashes in Georgia, killing 5ottawamatters.com/world-news/mil… https://t.co/oJoX9zdcgR
  
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• STORY: Police investigating after body found in burned car ottawamatters.com/police-beat/po… https://t.co/gnTepePPii

  02-05-2018 21:10 via twitter.com
  
  STORY: Police investigating after body found in burned carottawamatters.com/police-beat/po… https://t.co/gnTepePPii
  
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• Temporary overdose prevention site opens in Chinatown ottawamatters.com/local-news/tem… https://t.co/XQTgJgX6HV

  02-05-2018 21:09 via twitter.com
  
  Temporary overdose prevention site opens in Chinatownottawamatters.com/local-news/tem… https://t.co/XQTgJgX6HV
  
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• UPDATE: Power has been restored. #ottnews #otttraffic twitter.com/1310NEWS/statu…

  02-05-2018 21:05 via twitter.com
  UPDATE: Power has been restored. #ottnews #otttraffic twitter.com/1310NEWS/statu…
  
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• POWER OUTAGE: @hydroottawa is completing emergency repairs affecting nearly 2,400 customers in the Prince of Wales… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  02-05-2018 21:02 via twitter.com
  POWER OUTAGE: @hydroottawa is completing emergency repairs affecting nearly 2,400 customers in thePrince of Wales… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• New research centre a 'game changer' for neuromuscular disease patients

  02-05-2018 20:59 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa neurologist Dr. Jodi Warman Chardon recalls seeing patients with neuromuscular diseases — including muscular dystrophy, ALS and others — getting on the train to Montreal to take part in clinical trials not available in Ottawa. Some had to travel much farther.
  The image has stayed with her.
  “So many people are desperate to participate in clinical trials,” she said. It made her realize more must be done to help make therapies and research available to Ottawa patients
  
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• Dining Out: Mati is tasty and trendy, but lofty prices should buy more finesse too

  02-05-2018 20:54 via ottawacitizen.com
  Mati428 Preston St., 613-680-3860, matiottawa.caOpen:  Monday to Friday 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. and 5 to 11 p.m., Saturday 5 to 11 p.m., Sunday 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. and 5 to 11 p.m.Prices: appetizers $14 to $21, mains $24 to $128Access: no steps to front door, washrooms downstairs
  At our table last weekend at Mati, there were a few causes for celebration.
  Beside me at this almost five-month-old restaurant on Preston Street was someone marking her birthday. Across from us was a couple
  
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• National Gallery of Canada and its director remain tight-lipped about Chagall painting's future

  02-05-2018 20:46 via ottawacitizen.com
  At his first public appearance following the decision by the National Gallery of Canada’s board of trustees not to sell Marc Chagall’s La Tour Eiffel after all, gallery director and CEO Marc Mayer declined Wednesday morning to say much at all about the painting — except that he doesn’t know where it is.
  “When we have a little bit more information, when we find out where we stand, which we don’t know today, then we’ll certainly answer your questions,&rdqu
  
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• Weighty peregrine falcon sculpture vanishes from bridge: Artist

  02-05-2018 20:18 via ottawacitizen.com
  Weighing about 30 kilograms, this peregrine falcon didn’t just fly away.
  Artist Christopher Griffin said Wednesday that one of three concrete sculptures of the regal birds that had been installed on the west side of the Dunbar Bridge on Bronson Avenue had vanished. 
  He discovered it was gone after getting an e-mail from a concerned citizen. Griffin than visited the site to find the stainless steel bracket that had mounted the bird to the bridge snapped off at the weld.
  “Sec
  
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• Transportation committee likes recommended route for Kanata LRT

  02-05-2018 19:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  The transportation committee is recommending council approve the proposed route for a $1.85-billion LRT extension through Kanata.
  During a committee meeting Wednesday, Kanata North Coun. Marianne Wilkinson, who’s retiring after this term of council, called on the city to plug the Kanata LRT plan into the next transportation master plan. An LRT extension to the western suburb “is desperately needed,” she said, adding that an hour-and-a-half is too long for people to take a bus d
  
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• Man with autism missing from Cornwall-area 401 rest stop

  02-05-2018 19:16 via ottawacitizen.com
  Police are asking the public to help them find a Scarborough man with autism who went missing from a rest stop on the westbound Highway 401 at Bainsville.
  Duane Montague, a 31-year-old man police describe as non-verbal, was missing from the Enroute in South Glengarry Township about 35 km east of Cornwall at about 8 a.m.
  Montague is described as black, five feet six inches tall and 150 pounds. He was wearing a blue jacket, white hat and white running shoes. 
  He is said to respond to the
  
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• Goose nests in a 'tricky' spot on Queensway

  02-05-2018 18:40 via ottawacitizen.com
  A Canada goose has picked an unlikely, and potentially dangerous, spot to nest: A grassy strip next to screaming Queensway traffic.
  The mother was sitting atop a nest of eggs next to the eastbound lanes just before the Woodroffe Avenue exit during Wednesday’s morning commute when a Citizen intern snapped this picture.
  Safe Wings Ottawa has been fielding concerned calls about the animal, volunteer Anouk Hoedeman said. Some callers have reported seeing both the male and the female
  
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• Canadian soldiers in Germany for U.S.-led computer-aided exercise

  02-05-2018 18:25 via ottawacitizen.com
  Approximately 200 Canadian Army members from 1 Canadian Mechanized Brigade (1 CMBG) are in Grafenwöhr, Germany participating in the U.S. Army’s multinational Joint Warfighting Assessment (JWA) exercise. That exercise started May 2 and runs to May 9, the Canadian Army says.
  The Canadian soldiers are from Edmonton, Alberta and Shilo, Manitoba.
  Joint Warfighting Assessment 18.1 is primarily conducted via computer-aided exercise simulation at United States Army Garrison (USAG) Bavaria in
  
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• There's singing, kidding and storytelling during Lunch At Allen's

  02-05-2018 18:12 via ottawacitizen.com
  OWEN SOUND — For 15 years, Ian Thomas and friends Murray McLauchlan, Cindy Church and Marc Jordan have played each others songs together, kidded around, told stories and included audiences in the fun.
  They call themselves “Lunch At Allen’s,” named for a favourite watering hole and restaurant of McLauchlan’s, on the Danforth in Toronto, where the friends would meet.
  McLauchlan put this group of influential Canadian musicians together, with Church, a country
  
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• Glavin: Remembering the journalists who've died for the free press

  02-05-2018 18:04 via ottawacitizen.com
  It was the saddest way to begin the week in the lead-up to World Press Freedom Day. Ten Afghan journalists murdered on Monday, all in their 20s, all deliberately targeted. The least we might do is say their names.
  Yar Mohammad Tokhi, camera operator, Tolo News. Ebadollah Hananzi, Sabvon Kakeker and Maharam Darani worked for Radio Azadai. Ghazi Rasoli and Norozali Rajabi, camera operators, TV1. Shah Marai Fezi, photographer, Agence France Presse. Salim Talash, reporter, Mashal TV. Ali Salimi, cam
  
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• #BREAKING: Leeds-Grenville MP Gord Brown has died. @cmaconthehill has confirmed. Brown was 57. #ottnews

  02-05-2018 17:49 via twitter.com
  #BREAKING: Leeds-Grenville MP Gord Brown has died. @cmaconthehill has confirmed.Brown was 57. #ottnews
  
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• Coming up on the Power Lunch: @cwaddell27 & @ottawamission Aileen Leo join @_MarkSutcliffe in studio: Listen:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  02-05-2018 17:45 via twitter.com
  Coming up on the Power Lunch: @cwaddell27 & @ottawamission Aileen Leo join @_MarkSutcliffe in studio: Listen:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Trudeau won't say whether Liberals will delay cannabis legalization: bit.ly/2HHr2uF https://t.co/rMC4SEX15m

  02-05-2018 17:41 via twitter.com
  
  Trudeau won't say whether Liberals will delay cannabis legalization: bit.ly/2HHr2uF https://t.co/rMC4SEX15m
  
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• Coming up at 11:45: @JSportsnet joins @_MarkSutcliffe on Guy Boucher/ NHL playoffs: Listen: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  02-05-2018 17:40 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 11:45:@JSportsnet joins @_MarkSutcliffe on Guy Boucher/ NHL playoffs: Listen:📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• The @rick_gibbons Show for Wednesday, May 2nd: 1:07: @InfoFAO 1:17: @MikeSchreiner 1:30: @GoodmanSchool 1:45:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  02-05-2018 17:26 via twitter.com
  The @rick_gibbons Show for Wednesday, May 2nd: 1:07: @InfoFAO 1:17: @MikeSchreiner 1:30: @GoodmanSchool 1:45:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• "We must kill plastic to save ourselves" @rjcsmith joins @_MarkSutcliffe coming up at 11:30: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  02-05-2018 17:25 via twitter.com
  "We must kill plastic to save ourselves"@rjcsmith joins @_MarkSutcliffe coming up at 11:30:📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Sandbags are being provided to more than two dozen homes most at-risk from floodwaters. twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…

  02-05-2018 17:11 via twitter.com
  Sandbags are being provided to more than two dozen homes most at-risk from floodwaters. twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…
  
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• Denley: Fixing long-term care – without hurling money at it

  02-05-2018 17:07 via ottawacitizen.com
  It’s great to see Ontario political parties finally focusing on the health and housing needs of seniors.
  The problem is the parties’ bidding war over who can build the most long-term care beds is a slow and expensive partial solution that won’t benefit most seniors.
  Ontario does need more long-term beds, and the big payback will be clearing hospital beds that are occupied by people waiting for long-term care. That will make our hospitals and emergency rooms run more efficiently
  
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• The Power Lunch with @_MarkSutcliffe: Monday-Friday 12 p.m. - 12:30 p.m. on 1310 NEWS. 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  02-05-2018 17:04 via twitter.com
  The Power Lunch with @_MarkSutcliffe: Monday-Friday 12 p.m. - 12:30 p.m. on 1310 NEWS. 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• MISSING: SD&G OPP need your help locating missing man. 31 y.o. Duane Montague went missing from the #HWY401 w/b Bai… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  02-05-2018 16:44 via twitter.com
  MISSING: SD&G OPP need your help locating missing man. 31 y.o. Duane Montague went missing from the #HWY401 w/b Bai… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Historic Victoria Cross of Lt.-Col. David Currie to stay in Canada

  02-05-2018 15:48 via ottawacitizen.com
  One of the most significant Victoria Crosses in Canadian military history will stay in Canada.
  The medal, the Commonwealth’s highest honour for valour in the face of the enemy, was awarded to Lt.-Col. David Vivian Currie for his role in the bloody fighting in the Falaise Pocket in the months after D-Day.
  A foreign collector bought Currie’s VC at a private auction in London, England, last September for $660,000, including a $110,000 auction house fee.
  But because the medal was conside
  
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• Worker critically injured after two-storey fall in Barrhaven

  02-05-2018 15:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  A construction worker was rushed to the local trauma centre in critical condition Wednesday morning after falling two stories from a house under construction in Barrhaven.
  The man in his 30s had serious head injuries.
  Paramedics report they were called to a construction site in the area of Cambrian Road and Greenbank Road at 7:47 a.m.
  They called on firefighters to help remove the patient from the construction scene. Ottawa police said that they were assisting at the scene on Logperch Circle and
  
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• House Works: Your questions on eavestrough, winter-proofing piping, HRVs

  02-05-2018 15:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  Anchoring eavestroughs
  Q: What’s the best way to install aluminum eavestrough? All I’ve ever seen is a flimsy spike system. It leaves the eavestrough weak and easily damaged. Is there something better?
  The T-Rex eavestrough anchoring system is one of the strongest options available. The perforated top also keeps out leaves and debris.
  A: There’s not a whole lot of options for anchoring standard eavestrough, but there is one I really like. My favourite, by far, is something call
  
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• Gatineau hands out sandbags to Aylmer residents as river rises

  02-05-2018 14:31 via ottawacitizen.com
  With the Ottawa River rising, officials in Gatineau started handing out sandbags Tuesday to Aylmer residents affected by what was expected to be minor flooding compared to last spring’s deluge.
  But the Ottawa River Regulating Committee warned Wednesday that level and flows on the Ottawa River are expected to increase significantly this week due to rising temperatures and rain.
  As of Wednesday morning, the City of Gatineau reported that the water level in the Aylmer sector was 59.
  
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• Family of four homeless after overnight fire in South Keys

  02-05-2018 13:41 via ottawacitizen.com
  A family of four has been displaced following an overnight fire in a semi-detached home in the South Keys area.
  Firefighters were called to the residence at 1321 Fontenay Cres. just before midnight.
  Responders saw that the the fire had spread to the rear of the split-level home and extended to the attic. An adjoining residence also suffered exposure damage.
  A nrighbouring property on Fontenay Crescent was damaged in an overnight fire.
  The fire was brought under control at about midnight.
  Tw
  
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• Boswell: Loss of John A. Macdonald's possible birthplace is a scandal

  02-05-2018 13:34 via ottawacitizen.com
  A long-vacant building in downtown Glasgow has been demolished to make way for a major commercial-residential development described as key to revitalizing the heart of the Scottish city.
  The removal of the derelict structure — once the home of the popular Mitre bar, the Fox and Hound pub and an upstairs massage parlour — would be unremarkable except for one thing: It may have been the place where John A. Macdonald was born.
  It’s a shame the place has been levelled, worse that i
  
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• Warm Wednesday, but the humidex is back and there could be T-storms

  02-05-2018 13:24 via ottawacitizen.com
  May showers are in the forecast but you might be enjoying flowers soon with dry, sunny days in the weekend forecast.
  For Wednesday, Environment Canada is predicting increasing cloudiness, a 70 per cent chance of afternoon showers with the risk of a thunderstorm and southwest winds at 30 km/h gusting to 50.
  The high is 22 C but will feel more like 25 with the humidity.
  Opening Day @RoyalOttawaGC …enjoy!#Ottawa #Golf pic.twitter.com/DRqaFDBc7W
  — Don O'Connor, CSA (@DonnyoSpeaks) May 2
  
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• Today's letters: Helping seniors, keeping Chagall

  02-05-2018 13:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  This bill would help our seniors
  On March 22, I introduced a Private Member’s Bill at Queen’s Park entitled the Insurance Amendment Act 2018 (Bill 20). This Act would amend the Ontario Insurance Act to allow the owner of a life insurance policy to use his or her life insurance policy as collateral for a loan. This legislation would let life insurance policy owners use their life insurance policies in the same way as they can use any other property they might own. I am hoping that oth
  
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• Funeral to be held today for one of the victims of Toronto van attack: bit.ly/2jrlbvf

  02-05-2018 12:54 via twitter.com
  Funeral to be held today for one of the victims of Toronto van attack: bit.ly/2jrlbvf
  
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• Final section of LRT track to be laid this week ottawamatters.com/local-news/fin… #ottnews https://t.co/lrLQdZFf1y

  02-05-2018 12:12 via twitter.com
  
  Final section of LRT track to be laid this weekottawamatters.com/local-news/fin…#ottnews https://t.co/lrLQdZFf1y
  
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• "I've always said that people either run from their record or run on their record and I'm very proud of our record." twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…

  02-05-2018 12:08 via twitter.com
  "I've always said that people either run from their record or run on their record and I'm very proud of our record." twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…
  
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• A family of four escaped the fire uninjured. twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…

  02-05-2018 11:50 via twitter.com
  A family of four escaped the fire uninjured. twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…
  
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• West's wild words stir again: Kanye calls slavery a 'choice' bit.ly/2FzS1m1 https://t.co/BHZZLaNJiO

  02-05-2018 11:40 via twitter.com
  
  West's wild words stir again: Kanye calls slavery a 'choice' bit.ly/2FzS1m1 https://t.co/BHZZLaNJiO
  
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• Ordeal for grieving parents once threatened with legal action by Canadian Forces now over

  02-05-2018 05:58 via ottawacitizen.com
  In October 2014, the Ottawa Citizen published an article about how the Canadian military threatened the grieving parents of a soldier who committed suicide. The parents faced legal sanctions if they did not turn over documents they had collected in their attempts to get to the bottom of their daughter’s death.
  Both Rick and Ellen Rogers received a summons in July 2013 to testify at the military board of inquiry into the death of their daughter, Lt. Shawna Rogers, who had been statione
  
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• Jim Watson puts his name on the mayoral ballot ottawamatters.com/local-news/jim…

  02-05-2018 05:43 via twitter.com
  Jim Watson puts his name on the mayoral ballotottawamatters.com/local-news/jim…
  
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• Poloz says Canadians owe $2 trillion as central bank mulls next rate hike ottawamatters.com/national-news/…

  02-05-2018 05:00 via twitter.com
  Poloz says Canadians owe $2 trillion as central bank mulls next rate hikeottawamatters.com/national-news/…
  
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