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• Victim in Renfrew crash identified. ottawamatters.com/police-beat/ma…

  03-05-2018 23:55 via twitter.com
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• West End Villa long-term care home named in class action lawsuit

  03-05-2018 23:54 via ottawacitizen.com
  Lioubov (Luba) Ijnatieva was “left to suffer” in an Ottawa long-term care home, according to a proposed class action lawsuit seeking millions in damages from two Ontario-based long-term care providers.
  Statements of claim filed in Ontario Superior Court by Toronto medical malpractice attorney Amani Oakley allege Extendicare Inc., which operates the West End Villa where Ijnatieva was a resident, and Sienna Senior Living Inc. were “systemically negligent” toward residents i
  
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• UPDATE: #Prescott crash #hwy401 - e/b right lane OPEN, left lane CLOSED. w/b lanes remain CLOSED. twitter.com/OPP_COMM_ER/st…

  03-05-2018 23:51 via twitter.com
  UPDATE: #Prescott crash #hwy401 - e/b right lane OPEN, left lane CLOSED. w/b lanes remain CLOSED. twitter.com/OPP_COMM_ER/st…
  
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• Police investigate disbarred lawyer, mystery of missing $2.5 million

  03-05-2018 23:32 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa police have launched a criminal investigation into an Ottawa lawyer who was disbarred last month with $2.5 million missing from his trust account.  
  Paul Thomas McEnery, 69, who suffered a stroke in the summer of 2013, has told the Law Society of Ontario that he doesn’t know what happened to the funds, most of which were being held in trust for estates, investors or home buyers. Forensic investigators from the law society have been unable to track the money, which disappea
  
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• Researchers reveal drug-testing device that can detect harmful substances in seconds

  03-05-2018 23:18 via ottawacitizen.com
  Research partners from Carleton University and the University of Ottawa have unveiled a new drug-testing instrument that can identify harmful substances in drug samples in under 20 seconds. 
  Lynne Leonard, a professor and research scientist in epidemiology at uOttawa, said the device will not only reduce the risk of harm from unknown drug content for drug users, but will also make it easier to release “real-time information about current drug trends,” which could help get public
  
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• Prescott mayor renews calls for #HWY401 expansion in Eastern Ontario following deadly crash. #ottnews twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…

  03-05-2018 23:03 via twitter.com
  Prescott mayor renews calls for #HWY401 expansion in Eastern Ontario following deadly crash. #ottnews twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…
  
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• The grave hunter: Local amateur genealogist takes thousands of photos of graves

  03-05-2018 22:59 via ottawacitizen.com
  Though amateur genealogist Edie Walker spends much of her spare time in cemeteries, she’s not immune to the heebie-jeebies.
  “I don’t like the new graves — those ones actually do creep me out,” she said. “The older, the better for me.”
  Walker, 48, is a volunteer photographer for the website Find A Grave, where users can search through a database of more than 170 million memorials to find graves from around the world.
  Over the past few years, Walker has go
  
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• Ottawa home sales in April: the storm beneath the calm

  03-05-2018 22:39 via ottawacitizen.com
  At first glance Ottawa’s resale housing market seems remarkably calm. But appearances are deceiving.
  The Ottawa Real Estate Board reported Thursday that the average price for residential properties sold in April through the multiple listing service climbed a modest 4.2 per cent year over year to $455,200. The resale market for condominiums was even sleepier: the average price fetched for each sale moved up just 0.3 per cent over the same period to $269,300.
  The relatively small gains for p
  
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• Paramedics highlight bystander CPR and public defibrillators in saving a man's life this morning after he collapsed… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  03-05-2018 21:55 via twitter.com
  Paramedics highlight bystander CPR and public defibrillators in saving a man's life this morning after he collapsed… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Man in cardiac arrest at grocery store revived by bystanders, firefighters

  03-05-2018 21:47 via ottawacitizen.com
  A man in his 50s was revived after suffering a cardiac arrest in a grocery store Thursday.
  The Ottawa Paramedic Service said the a man collapsed at around 10:50 a.m. as he walked out of the Canadian Superstore on Innes Road after feeling dizzy. An off-duty nurse near the cash registers ran to his aid and began CPR, while firefighters — on site for an unrelated matter — located an automated external defibrillator  in the store.
  The firefighters and store staff used the AED to adm
  
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• Trudeau says pot will be legal this summer, despite calls for delay ottawamatters.com/national-news/… https://t.co/cVsBveUKci

  03-05-2018 21:45 via twitter.com
  
  Trudeau says pot will be legal this summer, despite calls for delayottawamatters.com/national-news/… https://t.co/cVsBveUKci
  
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• Man charged in harassment targeting female real estate agents: OPP

  03-05-2018 21:27 via ottawacitizen.com
  A Toronto man is facing charges after Ontario Provincial Police investigated “numerous” complaints from female real estate agents who reported getting “inappropriate and unwanted” texts and calls over the past three months.
  Detectives from Peterborough County crime unit made an arrest in Toronto on Wednesday and police say it appears victims were targeted in other parts of the province, too.
  Mario Nelson Diniz, 54, is charged with seven counts of harassing communications
  
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• Report: Local small businesses say they suffer during construction ottawamatters.com/local-news/rep… https://t.co/t7eGsgWkKV

  03-05-2018 21:10 via twitter.com
  
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• OPP have shut down 401 in both directions between Prescott and Maitland. Collision involving 2 transports and 1 tan… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  03-05-2018 20:46 via twitter.com
  OPP have shut down 401 in both directions between Prescott and Maitland. Collision involving 2 transports and 1 tan… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• One dead in crash near Prescott, Highway 401 closed

  03-05-2018 20:43 via ottawacitizen.com
  One person is dead following a collision between a number of heavy trucks on Highway 401 between the towns of Maitland and Prescott early Thursday afternoon.
  Provincial police said Highway 401 is closed in both directions after the collision involving two tractor trailers and a a tanker truck carrying petroleum.
  The petroleum leaked onto the highway following the crash.
  The creash happened at about 1 p.m. on the westbound lanes between County Road 15 and Edward Street exits.
  ROAD CLOSURE: #Hwy40
  
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• A section of Hwy 401 closed. #ottnews twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…

  03-05-2018 20:28 via twitter.com
  A section of Hwy 401 closed. #ottnews twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…
  
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• Heads up, residents of #SmithsFalls trying to reach town offices. twitter.com/townsmithsfall…

  03-05-2018 20:22 via twitter.com
  Heads up, residents of #SmithsFalls trying to reach town offices. twitter.com/townsmithsfall…
  
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• TRAFFIC: Collision is in westbound lanes of #Hwy401 near #Prescott. Highway is CLOSED in both directions. #ottnews… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  03-05-2018 19:48 via twitter.com
  TRAFFIC: Collision is in westbound lanes of #Hwy401 near #Prescott. Highway is CLOSED in both directions. #ottnews… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Police hunt 'opportunist' in string of thefts, frauds

  03-05-2018 19:19 via ottawacitizen.com
  Police are hunting for a suspect they believe is lifting purses and wallets from unsuspecting victims at universities, stores and coffee shops then using their pilfered credit cards.
  The man is suspected in more than 20 incidents across the city since February, police allege.
  “The suspect appears to be an opportunist where he steals purses, wallets or any other valuables which have been left unattended by their owners,” police said in a release. “He then uses the stolen cr
  
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• Ottawa Library launches musical instrument donation drive

  03-05-2018 18:55 via ottawacitizen.com
  Do you have a djembe collecting dust or an acoustic guitar looking for a player.
  The Ottawa Public Library is looking for new or gently used instruments to add to its musical instrument lending library.
  The library has launched a drive from May 4-31 at the main branch, 120 Metcalfe St., or the Nepean Centrepointe branch, 101 Centrepointe Dr. and is looking for:Guitars: acoustic bass, acoustic guitars (nylon or steel strings), mandolins, ukuleles, banjos, electric guitars and amp;
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• Rocksino expansion receives OK from rural planning committee

  03-05-2018 18:42 via ottawacitizen.com
  Hard Rock Casino Ottawa has buy-in from council’s rural planning committee to add more gambling tables and build a bigger entertainment facility.
  The committee on Thursday voted 5-0 in favour of the rezoning that would allow Hard Rock to go ahead with a $318-million expansion at the Rideau Carleton Raceway.
  Hard Rock is asking the city for permission to add 20 more gaming tables, for a total of 55 tables. The company’s application also calls for a 2,500-seat theatre and a 200-room, n
  
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• Aircraft flypast to mark RCAF change of command – Lt.-Gen. Meinzinger assumes command Friday

  03-05-2018 17:52 via ottawacitizen.com
  Lieutenant-General Al Meinzinger will assume command of the Royal Canadian Air Force on Friday. Lieutenant-General Mike Hood will pass command to Meinzinger at a ceremony to be held at the Canada Aviation and Space Museum in Ottawa.
  To mark the change of command, two CH-146 Griffon helicopters, two CF-18 Hornets and one CC-130J Hercules aircraft will fly over the Canadian Aviation and Space Museum between 10:00 and 11:30 a.m. on Friday.
   
  
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• Cappies review: St. Joseph's presents heart-wrenching, humorous take on classic tale

  03-05-2018 16:52 via ottawacitizen.com
  Show #17: The Hunchback of Notre Dame
  Where: St. Joseph High School
  Director: Kate Turnbull
  Leonora Shiell, Lead CriticGlebe Collegiate Institute
  Some stories are good. Some stories are great. And some stories lodge themselves in the cultural consciousness. St. Joseph High School proved why The Hunchback of Notre Dame is one of the latter in a production that resonated like the bells of the titular cathedral.
  Quasimodo had been told all his life by his guardian, the Archdeacon Frollo, that all t
  
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• Open-air fire ban still in effect despite wet weather

  03-05-2018 16:50 via ottawacitizen.com
  An open-air fire ban remains in effect despite the rainy weather.
  Ottawa Fire Services issued a reminder Thursday morning that while the ban was still in place, conditions are improving rapidly and officials hope to lift it shortly.
  Sign up to get an alert when it’s lifted here: http://ow.ly/Y4mM30jOEhs
  The bans are imposed to prevent fast-spreading grass and brush fires and stay in place until fresh, green growth starts to replace tall, dead grass.
   
  RAINY DAY UPDATE: OPEN AIR F
  
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• Coming up at 10:30: @powerstim of @abacusdataca joins @_MarkSutcliffe on the Patrick Brown scandal: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  03-05-2018 16:25 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 10:30: @powerstim of @abacusdataca joins @_MarkSutcliffe on the Patrick Brown scandal: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• POLL: Should the federal government delay legalizing marijuana?

  03-05-2018 16:05 via twitter.com
  POLL: Should the federal government delay legalizing marijuana?
  
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• SQ hands allegedly impaired driver $1,523 ticket for travelling twice the posted speed limit

  03-05-2018 16:03 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Sûreté du Québec’s highway patrol had a busy overnight shift, including pulling a driver who wasn’t just going more than double the posted 70 km/h limit, he was impaired.
  Police made the collar just before 1 a.m. Thursday in the first kilometre stretch of northbound Highway 5 in Gatineau. The driver, a 28-year-old Gatineau man, was going more than 150 km/h in a 70 km/h zone. His license was also suspended on the spot for 90 days and he got a $1,523 t
  
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• Fire crews responding to smell of gas in the Carling/Kirkwood area. #ottnews twitter.com/OttFire/status…

  03-05-2018 16:03 via twitter.com
  Fire crews responding to smell of gas in the Carling/Kirkwood area.#ottnews twitter.com/OttFire/status…
  
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• N.B. flooding hits record levels -- with more rain in the forecast: bit.ly/2rfoRo8 https://t.co/w650zGgQvl

  03-05-2018 16:02 via twitter.com
  
  N.B. flooding hits record levels -- with more rain in the forecast: bit.ly/2rfoRo8 https://t.co/w650zGgQvl
  
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• National Gallery of Canada displays photos collected over 50 years

  03-05-2018 16:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  The National Gallery of Canada has been collecting photographs for half a century, relying on the discerning eye and expert knowledge of curator Ann Thomas for most of that time.As she nears the end of a 39-year career in collecting, curating and writing about photographic images, Thomas this week unveiled her swan song: A comprehensive exhibition that spans 180 years of photography, with an emphasis on the impact that photographic images have had on society.The Extended Moment: Fifty Years of C
  
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• Coming up at 9:45: @etuckerAP joins @_marksutcliffe on the ongoing Donald Trump/Stormy Daniels drama: Listen:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  03-05-2018 15:40 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 9:45: @etuckerAP joins @_marksutcliffe on the ongoing Donald Trump/Stormy Daniels drama: Listen:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Highway 132 has been closed in both directions between Whalen Road and Ferguslea Road. twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…

  03-05-2018 15:38 via twitter.com
  Highway 132 has been closed in both directions between Whalen Road and Ferguslea Road. twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…
  
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• La Machine beasts, Canada 150 help boost Ottawa tourism by 8.8% in 2017

  03-05-2018 15:35 via ottawacitizen.com
  It’s probably no surprise, but Canada 150 brought the greatest number of tourists to Ottawa on record — more than 11 million of them.
  That’s an increase of 8.8 per cent over the previous year.
  The visitors left more than $2.3 billion behind them when they went home, an increase of about 10 per cent.
  Increases were strong among Canadians (who are the biggest group of visitors each year), Americans, and overseas visitors.
  Facebook and Twitter traffic were also up.
  While Canada Da
  
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• Renfrew-area highway closed after fatal crash

  03-05-2018 15:31 via ottawacitizen.com
  Highway 132 was closed Thursday morning as police investigated a two-vehicle crash that left one person dead and at least one other injured.
  The crash happened at about 8 a.m. in Admaston Bromley Township, southwest of Renfrew.
  The roadway was closed between Whalen Road and Ferguslea Road in Admaston Bromley Township and a detour was being set up, Renfrew OPP reported.
  There was no estimate of when the road would reopen.
  The area is about 100 km west of Ottawa.
  
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• Antiques: Excellent timing and high value for old clock with Chinese decoration

  03-05-2018 15:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  Q: I recently acquired this clock that apparently came from England nearly 100 years ago. I know that during the 1700s and early 1800s England traded extensively with the Orient. One result was that things Chinese were popular in England, and even English manufacturers copied Chinese imports. This tall case clock is 240 cm high (95 inches) and painted red with Chinese scenes and designs done in enamel and gilt. The brass arch top dial has the name JOHN SAUNDERS, LONDON inscribed. There is a stri
  
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• Coming up at 9:30 @Geddes28 joins @_MarkSutcliffe for their weekly @macleans on the Hill segment: Listen: 📻: 131… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  03-05-2018 15:23 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 9:30@Geddes28 joins @_MarkSutcliffe for their weekly @macleans on the Hill segment:Listen:📻: 131… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Coming up at 9:15: Leeds-Grenville MPP @SteveClarkPC joins @_MarkSutcliffe on the passing of Gord Brown: 📻: 13… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  03-05-2018 15:10 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 9:15: Leeds-Grenville MPP @SteveClarkPC joins @_MarkSutcliffe on the passing of Gord Brown:📻: 13… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Indigenous woman who led Manitoba march begs Jane Philpott for help: bit.ly/2w7XNvL https://t.co/J3onVti4VU

  03-05-2018 15:00 via twitter.com
  
  Indigenous woman who led Manitoba march begs Jane Philpott for help: bit.ly/2w7XNvL https://t.co/J3onVti4VU
  
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• Crashes near Brockville, Cornwall leave one Hwy. 401 lane closed

  03-05-2018 14:13 via ottawacitizen.com
  Highway 401 was down to one lane in two spots in Eastern Ontario Thursday after separate collisions.
  Detours were in place overnight but one lane reopened Thursday morning eastbound at the Maitland Road exit  between Brockville and Prescott and westbound between Brookdale Avenue and Moulinette Road near Cornwall.
  In the Cornwall-area crash, a tractor trailer went into the median and lanes were closed while equipment was brought in to clear the scene.
  In both cases, the OPP’s communica
  
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• Timeline: A look at the story of Dr. Norman Barwin

  03-05-2018 14:07 via ottawacitizen.com
  1973
  Hired by The Ottawa General Hospital (now the General campus of The Ottawa Hospital) to run its high-risk pregnancy unit and co-direct the fertility clinic. He established a sperm bank at the clinic, and also set up the first sexual health clinics in Ottawa’s public high schools.
  1984
  Barwin leaves the hospital. He had never passed the exam to be certified as a gynecologist by the Ontario College of Physicians and Surgeons as physicians coming from overseas are required to do. He sets
  
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• 'Multibillion-dollar industry with almost no oversight': Tougher fertility regulations on the way

  03-05-2018 14:06 via ottawacitizen.com
  Could tougher regulations around the use and handling of donor sperm have prevented the fallout devastating former clients of Dr. Norman Barwin’s Broadview Fertility Clinic?
  It is difficult to say, but at the very least tighter rules might have limited the damage. And they are badly needed in Canada, experts in the field argue.
  In fact, a series of standards developed by the Canadian Standards Association, which would tighten rules around sperm and egg banks, have been accepted by the Onta
  
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• On gratitude, thinking too much and Dylan: Carleton's new president takes our personality quiz

  03-05-2018 14:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  Carleton University’s new president, Benoit-Antoine Bacon, has a PhD in psychology and has spent his career studying the mysteries of cognitive neuroscience.
  He’s also a good sport. Bacon, who will leave his job as vice-principal and provost at Queen’s University to take the top job at Carleton, agreed to take a quiz designed to reveal a person’s true nature. The questions were originally popularized by French novelist Marcel Proust.
  Here are Bacon’s answers:
  Q. Wha
  
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• Journalist charged in criminal, civil courts wins press freedom prize

  03-05-2018 14:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  The first Canadian journalist to face both criminal and civil charges for his reporting has won a press freedom award.
  Justin Brake, an APTN reporter, followed Indigenous protesters into Muskrat Falls, a controversial hydroelectric project being constructed in Labrador that has made some worried about its potential effects on the Innu and Inuit peoples who live downstream.
  The award was announced Thursday by the Canadian Committee for World Press Freedom.
  At the time, in October 2016, Brake
  
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• Get ready for a very wet couple of days

  03-05-2018 13:55 via ottawacitizen.com
  As much as 30 mm of rain is forecast to end the week but the light at the end of the dismal tunnel is a sunny Saturday.
  Thursday’s outlook is for cloudy skies, early morning showers then a 30 per cent chance of more wet stuff in the late morning and afternoon and a high of 23 C. Then showers “at times heavy” end near midnight. About five mm of rain is expected plus there’s a risk of an evening thunderstorm.  Fog patches will develop overnight.
  For Friday, expect main
  
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• Barwin's babies: The remarkable story of a disgraced Ottawa fertility doctor and those who say they are his children

  03-05-2018 13:37 via ottawacitizen.com
  Kat Palmer always knew she was a Barwin baby.
  It was a matter of pride in her family that Dr. Norman Barwin, Ottawa’s renowned fertility doctor and baby whisperer, had helped her parents conceive after years of trying.
  As members of Ottawa’s tight-knit Jewish community, they sometimes ran into the doctor at events while she was growing up.
  “My parents were so grateful to this man. My dad would bring me over and say: ‘We are so thankful to him because he gave us you.&rsquo
  
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• 'It felt like something had been taken from me': Family copes with fallout from Barwin clinic bombshell

  03-05-2018 13:36 via ottawacitizen.com
  Lisa Yull and her ex-husband had tried to get pregnant for five years before meeting someone who helped them get in to see Dr. Norman Barwin.
  “We were pretty excited, because he is the baby god. If anyone could get you pregnant, he was the one who did it.”
  After several tries in which Yull was given drugs to encourage ovulation before her husband’s sperm was injected, they succeeded.
  “We were over the moon.”
  That was in 1998. Their healthy blond baby girl, Taylor Pa
  
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• Missing man with autism found safe

  03-05-2018 13:11 via ottawacitizen.com
  A Scarborough man with autism who went missing from a Cornwall-area rest stop on the westbound Highway 401 jas fbeen foiund safe.
  OPP says Duane (“Omar”) Montague, 31, was found Wednesday afternoon in Quebec.
   
  
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• Adams: Press freedom, like liberal democracy, is struggling

  03-05-2018 12:54 via ottawacitizen.com
  As of last December, there were 262 journalists in prison for their journalistic work, according to the Committee for the Protection of Journalists. Looking at the previous week on the CPJ website as I write, I see the following news alerts:
  • Four journalists jailed in Sudan: two for “false news” and two for defamation;
  • Egyptian authorities lash out at the media, block websites, and threaten retaliation, in part over stories of electoral irregularities;
  • 10 Palesti
  
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• Pens for press freedom

  03-05-2018 12:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  Today – May 3 – is World Press Freedom Day, and 417 entries were received from 49 countries for this year’s annual editorial cartoon competition. The contest is sponsored by the Canadian Committee for World Press Freedom and the Canadian Commission for UNESCO. ShareWorld Press Freedom Day 2018Tumblr Pinterest Google Plus Reddit LinkedInEmail GALLERY:World Press Freedom Day 2018Grand prize:Steven Degryse, Belgium  /OTTwpSecond prize: Emad Salehi, Azerbaijan  
  
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• Passengers heard window popping on Southwest plane: bit.ly/2I6x2wu https://t.co/W54JDJdquy

  03-05-2018 12:04 via twitter.com
  
  Passengers heard window popping on Southwest plane: bit.ly/2I6x2wu https://t.co/W54JDJdquy
  
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