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• What you should know about buying a condo in Ottawa

  08-05-2018 23:59 via ottawacitizen.com
  After recent stories of condo woes in the National Capital Region, including large, unexpected fees and move-in delays, potential buyers may be wondering how they can protect themselves from similar situations.
  This newspaper reached out to experts for advice on what to look out for before signing on the dotted line.
  Q: Who should I consult with when I want to purchase a condo?
  The Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, the government’s national housing agency, suggests in its condominiu
  
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• Reevely: Ford promises grievance-based education policy for Ontario

  08-05-2018 23:40 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Ontario Progressive Conservatives would bring back a 20-year-old health curriculum for elementary schools, police free speech on university campuses and somehow fix math instruction, leader Doug Ford announced in one big go on Tuesday morning.
  “I want an education system that respects parents and focuses on the fundamentals,” Ford said. “Unfortunately, under Kathleen Wynne, our schools have been turned into social laboratories and our kids into test subjects for whatever sp
  
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• Dramatic emergency test deemed a success at Ottawa airport

  08-05-2018 22:57 via ottawacitizen.com
  A dramatic emergency exercise held Monday night to test the Ottawa airport’s emergency response plan has been deemed “a success.”
  The airport authority said Tuesday the exercise scenario involved a vehicle attack and perpetrator running through the terminal with a weapon causing multiple casualties, and culminated with the assailant threatening to detonate an explosive device.
  The scenario took six months to develop and was led by the airport authority’s security and emer
  
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• HEADS UP: Leamy Lake Parkway closes @ 8pm this evening due ot high water levels. #ottnews #otttraffic #gatineau twitter.com/NCC_CCN/status…

  08-05-2018 22:47 via twitter.com
  HEADS UP: Leamy Lake Parkway closes @ 8pm this evening due ot high water levels. #ottnews #otttraffic #gatineau twitter.com/NCC_CCN/status…
  
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• Some young drivers in Quebec to face curfews. ottawamatters.com/national-news/…

  08-05-2018 22:33 via twitter.com
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• What's new for Ontario's 2018 election

  08-05-2018 22:06 via ottawacitizen.com
  Regardless of how Ottawa voters cast their ballots on June 7, there is guaranteed to be at least one new area MPP at Queen’s Park.
  That politician will represent a new riding, Nepean, hived off as part of a redrawing of Ontario’s electoral boundaries that adds 17 new seats to the legislature. Most of the new ridings are in urban areas, mainly around Toronto, but two are in Northern Ontario. The new ridings mean Ontarians will elect 124 MPPs, up from 107 in the past session.
  The split
  
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• Thyme and Again opens 2nd location

  08-05-2018 21:49 via ottawacitizen.com
  On the opening day for Thyme & Again’s second location, owner Sheila Whyte looked at one of the building’s exterior walls and disclosed what was missing — hops. 
  Whyte’s not sure what her long-established catering and take-home food company will do with the quick-growing plants that will soon scale the wall, but she does know that they’re a must. “We want to pay homage,” she says.
  Left unsaid, but understood, is the fact that the second Thyme &a
  
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• Police service under the gun to hire ottawamatters.com/police-beat/po… https://t.co/iQdmUtHO1E

  08-05-2018 21:40 via twitter.com
  
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• #ottnews twitter.com/JennnPritchard…

  08-05-2018 21:33 via twitter.com
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• Two daring duos (Frank Carlberg/Noah Preminger, Anat Cohen/Fred Hersch CDs reviewed)

  08-05-2018 21:26 via ottawacitizen.com
  Whispers and Cries (Red Piano Records) Frank Carlberg and Noah Preminger
  Live in Healdsburg (Anzic Records) Anat Cohen and Fred Hersch
  If you want to hear brilliant cases for staying focused on the basics of jazz, then you could not do any better than listen to the above two albums.
  The duet records, which respectively feature pianist Frank Carlberg with tenor saxophonist Noah Preminger and clarinetist Anat Cohen with pianist Fred Hersch, are glowing examples of remarkably personal musicians exh
  
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• Trump says he's withdrawing US for Iran nuclear accord ottawamatters.com/world-news/tru… https://t.co/4gWDvf1YHA

  08-05-2018 21:18 via twitter.com
  
  Trump says he's withdrawing US for Iran nuclear accordottawamatters.com/world-news/tru… https://t.co/4gWDvf1YHA
  
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• Fire ban reinstated across Ottawa ottawamatters.com/local-news/fir… https://t.co/a5ltl4qs5o

  08-05-2018 21:12 via twitter.com
  
  Fire ban reinstated across Ottawaottawamatters.com/local-news/fir… https://t.co/a5ltl4qs5o
  
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• The Blue Jays issue a statement regarding Roberto Osuna. twitter.com/BlueJays/statu…

  08-05-2018 20:40 via twitter.com
  The Blue Jays issue a statement regarding Roberto Osuna. twitter.com/BlueJays/statu…
  
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• City reinstates burning ban after several grass fires break out across region

  08-05-2018 20:33 via ottawacitizen.com
  The city’s ban on open air fires is back after Ottawa firefighters battled several grass fires across the area on Tuesday.
  At least four grassfires have been reported just one day after the city’s ban was lifted lifted.
  The new ban includes open fires with permits and campfires. Ottawa Fire Services is asking the public to extinguish all fires at this time, and said in a statement that there will be zero tolerance enforcement during the ban.
  OFS spokesperson Danielle Cardinal says th
  
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• BREAKING: Major League Baseball has placed Toronto Blue Jays closer Roberto Osuna on administrative leave after he… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  08-05-2018 20:32 via twitter.com
  BREAKING: Major League Baseball has placed Toronto Blue Jays closer Roberto Osuna on administrative leave after he… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Open Air fire ban reinstated for #ottcity #ottnews twitter.com/OttFire/status…

  08-05-2018 20:00 via twitter.com
  Open Air fire ban reinstated for #ottcity #ottnews twitter.com/OttFire/status…
  
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• Landlord demolishing more homes in Heron Gate, displacing 105 residents

  08-05-2018 19:47 via ottawacitizen.com
  More residents in the Heron Gate community are being forced to move because the landlord is demolishing their aging rental homes.
  Timbercreek Communities has notified 105 residents that they must move by Sept. 30 because the company will demolish 150 units in the area of Heron Road, Baycrest Drive and Sandalwood Drive. The wooden units are at the end of their lifecycle and need to be torn down, the company says. The company says 25 per cent of the homes are “no longer viable,” but be
  
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• #canpoli twitter.com/cmaconthehill/…

  08-05-2018 19:44 via twitter.com
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• Domestic cases main cause for one per cent crime hike in 2017, Gatineau police say

  08-05-2018 19:40 via ottawacitizen.com
  Quick and efficient response to domestic abuse cases will be a priority for Gatineau police in 2108, Chief Mario Harel said Tuesday in presenting the department’s 2017 statistics to council.
  The Outaouais centre reported a one per cent increase in overall calls in 2017, which included a 12 per cent hike in calls for crimes against people. Crimes against property dropped by one per cent.
  Domestic situations represented about 60 per cent of the 3,184 crimes against people, the chief tol
  
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• New Canadian Ranger rifle being put through its paces

  08-05-2018 19:29 via ottawacitizen.com
  These photos provided to Defence Watch by the Canadian Army show members of the Terra Nova Patrol, 5th Canadian Ranger Patrol Group conducting live-fire range training with the new C-19 rifle in Clarenville, Newfoundland and Labrador on May 6th. The C-19s will be distributed to the Canadian Rangers over the next year and a half.The .308 calibre C19 replaces the Lee-Enfield .303 rifle which the Canadian Rangers have used since 1947. The C19 is lighter, shorter and more precise, according to the C
  
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• The @rick_gibbons Show for Tuesday, May 8th w/@MarkDayNews: 1:08: @Shawn_Jeffords 1:17: @DougMaclean 1:30:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  08-05-2018 18:07 via twitter.com
  The @rick_gibbons Show for Tuesday, May 8th w/@MarkDayNews: 1:08: @Shawn_Jeffords 1:17: @DougMaclean 1:30:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Increased police presence 'only an exercise,' OPP tells Rideau Lakes Twp residents

  08-05-2018 17:50 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Ontario Provincial Police is telling residents in the Rideau Lakes Township area not to be alarmed if they see an increased police presence over the next few days.
  “THIS IS ONLY AN EXERCISE,” police tweeted in capital letters.
  A spokesperson confirmed officers will be conducting a “multi-jurisdictional operational exercise” between May 8-10 in the area of the Rideau Lakes Township.
  The “realistic” exercise will involve “tactical units, materials, res
  
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• Cohen: John McCain, honest, heroic, patriotic

  08-05-2018 17:27 via ottawacitizen.com
  WASHINGTON – John McCain is dying. He is slipping away, slowly, with clarity and courage. In his long, feverish life nothing has become him, as Shakespeare said, like the leaving it.
  This is not yet a deathwatch. Those who have seen him recently at his ranch in Sedona, Arizona are measured in their words. In discussing his condition, they speak cheerfully. They treat his last passage with respect.
  All we know is that he has stage-four brain cancer, he has had surgery and treatment, and he
  
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• Ottawa Fire crews dealing with THREE fires right now - one vehicle fire and two outdoor fires - in the brush.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  08-05-2018 17:04 via twitter.com
  Ottawa Fire crews dealing with THREE fires right now -one vehicle fire and two outdoor fires - in the brush.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Coming up at 11: Professor Elliot Tepper joins @_MarkSutcliffe live on Trump/Iran decision: Listen: 📻: 1310 💻… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  08-05-2018 16:55 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 11:Professor Elliot Tepper joins @_MarkSutcliffe live on Trump/Iran decision: Listen:📻: 1310 💻… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Two days of perfect weather followed by dropping temps and rain

  08-05-2018 16:44 via ottawacitizen.com
  Break out the sunblock, we’ve got a few more gorgeous, summer-like days before the rain returns, ushering in a more seasonal spell.
  Tuesday’s forecast is for pure sunshine, a high of 22 C and a UV index of 7 or high. Even the low is in the double-digits at 11 C.
  Wednesday is even more summery with sunny skies, a high of 25 C and an actual humidex of 26. The low is 15 C.
  Thursday should be wet but stays warm with showers and a high of 22 C.
  Then, the temperature plunges to 3 C ov
  
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• Who won last night's Ontario leaders debate? @davidreevely joins @_MarkSutcliffe coming up at 10:45: Listen: 📻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  08-05-2018 16:40 via twitter.com
  Who won last night's Ontario leaders debate?@davidreevely joins @_MarkSutcliffe coming up at 10:45: Listen:📻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Coming up on today's Power Lunch: @hobbs_katherine & @_ECinc join @_MarkSutcliffe in studio: Listen: 📻: 1310 💻… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  08-05-2018 16:14 via twitter.com
  Coming up on today's Power Lunch: @hobbs_katherine & @_ECinc join @_MarkSutcliffe in studio: Listen:📻: 1310 💻… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Denley: The real losers in the debate: Ontarians

  08-05-2018 15:53 via ottawacitizen.com
  Well, that was depressing. The Ontario election’s first leadership debate was more like an episode of the Jerry Springer show than a serious political discussion.
  Doug Ford, Kathleen Wynne and Andrea Horwath spent much of the evening talking over each other, exaggerating their opponents’ defects and making dubious assertions, and yet, in just over a month one of them will be our premier.
  Partisans of all three parties will claim their leader won the debate, as they always do, but it&
  
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• The suspect said he was armed, and got away with lottery tickets and cigarettes. twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…

  08-05-2018 15:50 via twitter.com
  The suspect said he was armed, and got away with lottery tickets and cigarettes. twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…
  
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• Police seek public's help to identify suspect in store robbery

  08-05-2018 15:48 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa police are seeking the public’s assistance to identify a man wanted in connection with a convenience store robbery in April.
  According to police, the robbery occurred at a convenience store on April 7 at around 3:30 a.m. near the intersection of Innes Road and Glen Park Drive in Blackburn Hamlet. A man entered the store, claimed that he was armed, and demanded lottery tickets and cigarettes from the cashier. He then fled.
  There were no injuries as a result of the robbery.
  
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• Coming up on the 10 O'Clock Talk: @KimothyWalker, @Stall680news & @SusanSherring join @_MarkSutcliffe live: List… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  08-05-2018 15:48 via twitter.com
  Coming up on the 10 O'Clock Talk: @KimothyWalker, @Stall680news & @SusanSherring join @_MarkSutcliffe live:List… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Coming up at 9:45: @MacLeodLisa joins @_MarkSutcliffe live: 📻: 1310 💻: bit.ly/1uwtdOs 📞: 6… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  08-05-2018 15:31 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 9:45: @MacLeodLisa joins@_MarkSutcliffe live: 📻: 1310 💻: bit.ly/1uwtdOs📞: 6… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• House Works: How to paint masonry

  08-05-2018 15:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  If you’re thinking of painting some of the bricks and masonry in your life, there’s more to a good job than just sloshing on some colour. You probably won’t need to paint masonry often, but when you do you need to get it right.
  Brick is one of the most porous masonry surfaces you’ll paint and this affects the way you prepare brick and coat it. On the one hand, the porous surface of brick is good because it gives paint something to grab onto. On the downside this same poro
  
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• POLL: After the first televised debate, who are you most likely to vote for in the provincial election? @_MarkSutcliffe #QuestionOfTheDay

  08-05-2018 15:19 via twitter.com
  POLL: After the first televised debate, who are you most likely to vote for in the provincial election?@_MarkSutcliffe#QuestionOfTheDay
  
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• Who won last night's Ontario leaders debate? @aradwanski joins @_MarkSutcliffe coming up NEXT: Listen: 📻: 1310… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  08-05-2018 15:15 via twitter.com
  Who won last night's Ontario leaders debate?@aradwanski joins @_MarkSutcliffe coming up NEXT: Listen:📻: 1310… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Apparently sick raccoon disappears after day on Nepean roof but questions remain

  08-05-2018 14:41 via ottawacitizen.com
  After a day of worry, an apparently ill raccoon left the roof of a Nepean home overnight, leaving in its wake a number of questions about the handling of distressed animals.
  Eric Stephen woke up Monday morning to find a sick-looking raccoon lying on the roof of his Nepean house. Stephen said a neighbour brought the animal to his attention at about 7:30. 
  Stephen, 67,  said the raccoon looked “confused, disoriented, slow,” and was “very aggressive” when approache
  
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• Kingston inmate dies of apparent fentanyl overdose

  08-05-2018 14:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  An inmate at Collins Bay Institution, found unresponsive in his cell last Thursday, died later in an outside hospital as a result of an apparent fentanyl drug overdose, the Kingston Whig-Standard has learned.
  Kyle Lawlor, media relations and outreach adviser, communications and executive services for Correctional Service Canada, would not say officially Monday that the inmate died of an overdose. But he did say that after Jeffrey Glen Kellar, 50, was found unresponsive in his cell, naloxone was
  
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• Seriously hurt man extricated from vehicle after rollover near North Gower

  08-05-2018 13:51 via ottawacitizen.com
  A man in his 20s was rushed to the local trauma centre after suffering “multiple fractures” when his vehicle flipped early Tuesday morning.
  Fire crews were called by police to the rollover at Fourth Line Rd and Pollock Rd at 5:34 a.m.
  Responders found the man conscious and alert and started extrication efforts, the fire department said. 
  Paramedics, who started treating the patient even as firefighters worked to free him, hailed the “great team work” with their
  
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• Sunshine sticks around ahead of rain and then cooler days

  08-05-2018 13:33 via ottawacitizen.com
  Break out the sunblock, we’ve got a few more gorgeous, summer-like days before the rain returns, ushering in a more seasonal spell.
  Tuesday’s forecast is for pure sunshine, a high of 22 C and a UV index of 7 or high. Even the low is in the double-digits at 11 C.
  Wednesday is even more summery with sunny skies, a high of 25 C and an actual humidex of 26. The low is 15 C.
  Thursday should be wet but stays warm with showers and a high of 22 C.
  Then, the temperature plunges to 3 C ov
  
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• Woodfinden: Members of Parliament deserve more independence

  08-05-2018 13:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  Recently, Conservative member of Parliament Maxime Bernier released a chapter from his now-defunct book, in which he blamed “fake conservatives” for his loss to Andrew Scheer, and reiterated his opposition to Canada’s dairy cartel.
  Criticism was visceral, and after a caucus meeting, Bernier announced that, “for the sake of maintaining harmony within our party,” he was pulling the book from publication.
  Academics and activists alike have long observed the extreme pow
  
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• 'Too many accidents': Russian scientist says she faces grave danger if Canada denies refugee bid

  08-05-2018 13:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  This is a story about a Russian scientist and vocal critic of the Putin government who collected evidence of environmental disaster in Siberia and is now seeking asylum in Canada. 
  It’s a convoluted tale that sounds like something out of a Cold War novel. The veracity of some of the events in question are impossible to independently confirm. The story involves sensitive information about military installations and industrial polluters, the mysterious deaths of a half dozen other peopl
  
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• The prison housed some of Canada's most notorious killers until it closed the doors in September 2013 twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…

  08-05-2018 12:30 via twitter.com
  The prison housed some of Canada's most notorious killers until it closed the doors in September 2013 twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…
  
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• Samulack: How we can do more to support bereaved parents

  08-05-2018 12:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  In March, Ottawa Senators’ captain Erik Karlsson and his wife, Melinda, experienced the stillbirth of their son, Axel. Melinda described her experience recently on Instagram: “Grief is the price we pay for caring, for loving. I experienced a love so strong that it made the incredibly impossible task of saying hello and goodbye in the same day worth it.”
  Unfortunately, pregnancy and infant loss is something that the Karlssons, my family and countless other Canadians have experie
  
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• Happening now: One man being extricated by fire crews following rollover in North Gower -- at Fourth Line Road & Po… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  08-05-2018 12:23 via twitter.com
  Happening now: One man being extricated by fire crews following rollover in North Gower -- at Fourth Line Road & Po… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Almost 100,000 registered to donate organs after Humboldt Broncos crash: bit.ly/2FTWHU8 https://t.co/Ua52abVcfI

  08-05-2018 11:50 via twitter.com
  
  Almost 100,000 registered to donate organs after Humboldt Broncos crash: bit.ly/2FTWHU8 https://t.co/Ua52abVcfI
  
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• Around 1:30 a.m. Monday, emergency crews responded to a six-apartment house at 80-82 Victoria Avenue. twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…

  08-05-2018 11:40 via twitter.com
  Around 1:30 a.m. Monday, emergency crews responded to a six-apartment house at 80-82 Victoria Avenue. twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…
  
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• The @CAA is asking drivers to try a new technique when opening their car doors, in an effort to eliminate the numbe… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  08-05-2018 11:28 via twitter.com
  The @CAA is asking drivers to try a new technique when opening their car doors, in an effort to eliminate the numbe… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Wynne, Horwath take aim at Ford in first debate ahead of Ont. election: bit.ly/2rtMsjV https://t.co/pfyTz1YLUg

  08-05-2018 11:12 via twitter.com
  
  Wynne, Horwath take aim at Ford in first debate ahead of Ont. election: bit.ly/2rtMsjV https://t.co/pfyTz1YLUg
  
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• More RCAF helicopters for Mali being considered

  08-05-2018 05:12 via ottawacitizen.com
  The number of helicopters the RCAF will eventually send to Mali continues to be uncertain.
  In mid-March Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan announced that Canada would send to the United Nations mission in Mali two Chinook helicopters and four armed Griffon helicopters to escort them. A few minutes later at the same news conference Chief of the Defence Staff Gen. Jon Vance said the number of helicopters being assigned to the Mali mission have still not been determined as a reconnaissance had to be ca
  
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