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• Scanlan:Ottawa woman wins prestigious Earhart award for aerospace work

  16-05-2018 23:47 via ottawacitizen.com
  The best teachers encourage their students to aim for the moon and stars.
  Emily Gleeson does that every day in her work as a second-year PhD student in aerospace engineering at Ryerson University.
  Gleeson, who grew up in south Ottawa and attended Hillcrest High School, recently learned she has won a 2018 Amelia Earhart Fellowship, part of the Zonta International Foundation advocating for women in science, business and public life.
  The Earhart Fellowship honours up to 30 women around the globe fo
  
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• Ottawa Liberals demand PC Leader Doug Ford replace controversial candidate. #ottnews twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…

  16-05-2018 23:28 via twitter.com
  Ottawa Liberals demand PC Leader Doug Ford replace controversial candidate. #ottnews twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…
  
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• Kanata-Carleton PC candidate an Islamophobe the Tories should ditch, Liberals allege

  16-05-2018 23:24 via ottawacitizen.com
  Kanata-Carleton Progressive Conservative candidate Merrilee Fullerton is an Islamophobe who ought to be dumped from the Tory roster, the Ontario Liberals alleged Wednesday, citing online statements from 2015 criticizing face-coverings some Muslim women wear.
  “Fullerton does not meet the standard to be a candidate for a mainstream political party,” the Liberals said in a news release. “Her Islamophobic comments are unacceptable.”
  They produced as evidence tweets criticizin
  
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• Crews extinguish house blaze on Prince of Wales near Colonnade

  16-05-2018 23:07 via ottawacitizen.com
  No one was injured after the fire department doused a blaze coming from the roof and attic of a house near Prince of Wales Drive and Colonnade Road Wednesday afternoon. 
  They were summoned by reports of heavy black smoke and flames at about 2:45 p.m. Upon arrival, they confirmed a second-alarm fire was burning at the residence in the 1900 block of Prince of Wales Drive, near Fisher Avenue.
  Ottawa fire tweeted at 3:51 p.m. that the fire was under control.
  Occupants and pets were sa
  
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• Scanlan: Chasing a dream and the stars, Ottawa woman wins prestigious Earhart award

  16-05-2018 23:02 via ottawacitizen.com
  The best teachers encourage their students to aim for the moon and stars.
  Emily Gleeson does that every day in her work as a second-year PhD student in aerospace engineering at Ryerson University.
  Gleeson, who grew up in south Ottawa and attended Hillcrest High School, recently learned she has won a 2018 Amelia Earhart Fellowship, part of the Zonta International Foundation advocating for women in science, business and public life.
  The Earhart Fellowship honours up to 30 women around the globe fo
  
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• Police say alcohol a factor in death of woman who car into Upper Rideau Lake

  16-05-2018 23:01 via ottawacitizen.com
  A 57-year-old woman who drove off a dock in Rideau Lakes Township last Friday night has died in hospital, Ontario Provincial Police said Wednesday.
  Wendy Holmes of Rideau Lakes Township was pronounced dead on Tuesday morning.Late on Friday night, police received a call that a car had driven into Upper Rideau Lake, and found Holmes in her car about 50 metres offshore.An officer and a volunteer firefighter got her out of her  submerged vehicle, and were able to revive her and get her to a hos
  
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• Ottawa police moving its autism registry to MedicAlert

  16-05-2018 23:01 via ottawacitizen.com
  A decade after establishing a registry for people with autism, Ottawa police are planning to hand off the job to MedicAlert.
  The voluntary registry is available to officers who might be called to respond to someone with autism, whose behaviour, be it violent or just unusual, can frequently result in a police encounter. The registry gives officers information on the person’s background, likes and dislikes, unusual behaviour as well as suggestions for the best way to calm him or her.
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• Cornwall looks to corral a burgeoning catastrophe

  16-05-2018 22:24 via ottawacitizen.com
  CORNWALL — Herding cats might be easier than getting a proposed cat control bylaw accepted by at least one city councillor.
  But with this city alone accounting for 30 per cent of all strays in the province taken in by the Ontario Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, something has to be done, says Coun. Bernadette Clement.
  “This issue keeps coming back, so clearly the community and the OSPCA wants us to deal with this,” he says. 
  And so city staff have com
  
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• Rideau Lakes Township woman involved in weekend crash died at hospital, OPP say. twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…

  16-05-2018 22:21 via twitter.com
  Rideau Lakes Township woman involved in weekend crash died at hospital, OPP say. twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…
  
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• Looking for a royal wedding-watching party in Ottawa? Time is running out

  16-05-2018 22:19 via ottawacitizen.com
  “Never wear your fascinator in public before breakfast,” my grandmother often warned. “It makes you look tawdry, like some early-morning walk of shame after a late night of drinking.”
  This Saturday, however, may prove the exception to granny’s rule, as Ottawa’s royal family-watchers, monarchists and curiosity-seekers will arise — many well before the same sun that once upon a time never set on the British Empire — and tune in to the happy union of
  
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• Ottawa Centre candidates set to square off at community debate

  16-05-2018 22:16 via ottawacitizen.com
  Candidates from the four leading parties — the Liberals, the PCs, the NDP, and the Greens — will appear at a debate on Thursday night at the Glebe Community Centre, where they will tackle a range of topics and field questions from residents of Ottawa Centre. 
  The debate, which was jointly organized by all 11 community associations in the riding (including the Centretown Citizens Community Association and the Hintonburg Community Association), will touch on both local topics &mda
  
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• Fire crews on the scene of a house fire at Prince of Wales Dr. near Colonnade Rd. Yield to emergency vehicles. Avoi… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  16-05-2018 20:51 via twitter.com
  Fire crews on the scene of a house fire at Prince of Wales Dr. near Colonnade Rd. Yield to emergency vehicles. Avoi… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Reevely: Doug Ford's pledge to cut gas taxes the latest in Ontario's climate-change omnishambles

  16-05-2018 20:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  If Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservatives are elected in June, they’ll cut Ontario’s gas taxes 10 cents a litre, he promised Wednesday, because prices don’t matter, the whole discipline of economics is bull and climate change isn’t real.
  They appear to have most people on their side. An Ipsos poll for Global News released this week found that 72 per cent of Ontarians think carbon taxes are just a cash grab and 68 per cent think the effects are just symbolic.
  One conc
  
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• Worker injured at a construction site in Moodie/Carling area. A man in his 40s was hit by a metal plate & sustained… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  16-05-2018 19:52 via twitter.com
  Worker injured at a construction site in Moodie/Carling area. A man in his 40s was hit by a metal plate & sustained… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• New roommate charged in 23-year-old Gatineau man's April killing

  16-05-2018 19:48 via ottawacitizen.com
  A 28-year-old man now accused of second-degree murder was the new roommate of victim Joey Morin, whose body likely lay undiscovered for days after he died.
  Gatineau police revealed Wednesday that Kamy Lafrenière is charged with committing the crime “on or about April 13” and was scheduled to appear in court in Rouyn-Noranda Wednesday afternoon.
  Morin, 23, was discovered dead in his basement apartment at 193 Fernand-Arvisais St. when police were asked to check on him at about 1
  
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• Glavin: A moral dilemma on the Israel-Gaza border

  16-05-2018 19:24 via ottawacitizen.com
  At least 60 Palestinians were killed. Another 2,700 were reportedly injured. Among the dead: a double amputee throwing stones from a wheelchair, a 14-year-old girl – her mother said she had longed for martyrdom – and an eight-month-old infant, dead from inhaling tear gas.
  Among the wounded was a Canadian doctor, Tarek Loubani, shot in the legs.
  What happened on Monday is as appalling and and as horrible as Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland’s office says it was: “
  
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• The Washington State Court of Appeals has ruled that photographs from the scene of Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain's d… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  16-05-2018 19:09 via twitter.com
  The Washington State Court of Appeals has ruled that photographs from the scene of Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain's d… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Coming up at 12:30: Retired Army Colonel Lee Hammond joins @_MarkSutcliffe to discuss the defence fund for Vice A… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  16-05-2018 18:28 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 12:30: Retired Army Colonel Lee Hammond joins @_MarkSutcliffe to discuss the defence fund for Vice A… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Assault charges dropped against Carleton Place councillor

  16-05-2018 18:20 via ottawacitizen.com
  Assault charges against a Carleton Place councillor have been withdrawn after a judicial pre-trial in a Perth provincial court on Tuesday.
  The charges against Coun. Doug Black stemmed from a Feb. 2 incident between Black and Carleton Place Mayor Louis Antonakos. The physical altercation allegedly happened in the town hall’s foyer, with other people present, and followed a sharp, verbal argument between the two men.
  With the withdrawal of the charges, Black admits no guilt in
  
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• The @rick_gibbons Show for Wednesday, May 16th: 1:08: @awudrick 1:17: @SimonPalamar 1:30: @UMNSLHS 2:05:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  16-05-2018 18:13 via twitter.com
  The @rick_gibbons Show for Wednesday, May 16th: 1:08: @awudrick 1:17: @SimonPalamar 1:30: @UMNSLHS 2:05:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• SkyHawks parachute team releases its 2018 schedule

  16-05-2018 18:07 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Canadian Armed Forces Parachute Team, the SkyHawks, will officially launch its 2018 performance season at the Victoria Day SpeedFest at Canadian Tire Motorsport Park in Bowmanville, Ontario, on Sunday, May 20.
  As Canada’s only military parachute demonstration team, the SkyHawks team is comprised of Regular and Reserve Force members. The team will perform at air shows, sporting events, and festivals across Canada between May and September.
  The SkyHawks team was established in 1971.
  
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• National Arts Centre welcomes 'the now and the next generation of Canadian artists' for upcoming NAC Presents season

  16-05-2018 18:01 via ottawacitizen.com
  Singer-songwriters Patrick Watson, Johnny Reid, Lynn Miles and Tom Wilson, and the Montreal band Stars, will perform with the National Arts Centre Orchestra under a new collaboration that’s part of the gender-balanced and genre-blurring 2018-19 season of the NAC Presents concert series.The four songwriter-meets-orchestra concerts, entitled Sessions, are among the highlights of the NAC Presents’ fall and winter season. More than 50 performances were announced as part of Wednesday&rsqu
  
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• Stash of allegedly stolen election signs turns up in Constance Bay

  16-05-2018 17:57 via ottawacitizen.com
  “It takes a million guts to put your name on a sign but none to steal one.”
  Nepean Progressive Conservative incumbent Lisa MacLeod’s quip was perhaps the pithiest response to the discovery of a stash of stolen law signs that turned up in Constance Bay ahead of the June 7 provincial election.
  Jack MacLaren, the Trillium Party of Ontario candidate in Kanata-Carleton, tweeted his thanks Tuesday to a friend who MacLaren said had found the pilfered signs on Whistler Road. There were
  
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• Coming up on today's Power Lunch: @rick_gibbons & @caitlinkealey join @_MarkSutcliffe in studio. Listen: 📻: 131… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  16-05-2018 17:56 via twitter.com
  Coming up on today's Power Lunch: @rick_gibbons & @caitlinkealeyjoin @_MarkSutcliffe in studio. Listen:📻: 131… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Coming up at 11:30: @TrixieFilms joins @_MarkSutcliffe to discuss her @macleans article "The misunderstood histor… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  16-05-2018 17:28 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 11:30: @TrixieFilms joins @_MarkSutcliffe to discuss her @macleans article "The misunderstood histor… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Transit commission approves $14-million budget increase due to LRT delay

  16-05-2018 17:24 via ottawacitizen.com
  The transit commission has approved a $14-million increase to OC Transpo’s 2018 operating expenses due to the delayed opening of the Confederation LRT Line, but the transit agency says the extra funds can be covered by savings in the LRT contract.
  According to Transpo, $10.8 million in extra costs for running bus detours until the end of November — an amount plugged into the capital budget — will be offset by the “payments made by RTG under the project agreement.”
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• OPP reins in owner, 70, after horses run wild in township

  16-05-2018 17:03 via ottawacitizen.com
  After weeks and months of “numerous” complaints about horses running loose in Tyendinaga Township, police said they’ve charged the owner of the horses with mischief but were still warning motorists to watch for errant equines.
  The OPP concluded that the horses were wandering in the area of Blessington and Weese roads because of inadequate fencing.
  Callers were also concerned about the animals’ health and welfare.
  Police executed a search warrant on the property Tuesd
  
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• NAC Presents announces 2018-19 season

  16-05-2018 16:06 via ottawacitizen.com
  Singer-songwriters Patrick Watson, Johnny Reid, Lynn Miles and Tom Wilson, and the Montreal band Stars, will perform with the National Arts Centre Orchestra under a new collaboration that’s part of the gender-balanced and genre-blurring 2018-19 season of the NAC Presents concert series.The four songwriter-meets-orchestra concerts, entitled Sessions, are among the highlights of the NAC Presents’ fall and winter season. More than 50 performances were announced as part of Wednesday&rsqu
  
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• Coming up on the 10 O'Clock Talk: @MikeVlasveld, @1310glennis and @AGMacDougall join @_MarkSutcliffe live: 📻: 1… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  16-05-2018 15:57 via twitter.com
  Coming up on the 10 O'Clock Talk:@MikeVlasveld, @1310glennis and @AGMacDougalljoin @_MarkSutcliffe live: 📻: 1… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Denley: No Ontario party has credible spending plans

  16-05-2018 15:54 via ottawacitizen.com
  Voter alert: All three major political parties are trying to sell us a vision of the future that is so disconnected from the province’s scary fiscal situation that it would be laughable if we weren’t the ones facing the consequences.
  Detailed, authoritative analyses from Ontario’s two leading public spending experts, the auditor general and the financial accountability office, show that Ontario is on the brink of sinking into a quagmire of debt and overspending that will lead i
  
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• House Works: Your questions on composite decks, the best roofing, drywall cracks

  16-05-2018 15:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  Composite deck materials
  Q: Is composite deck lumber really better than wood? I know that keeping a wood deck looking good involves a lot of work, but I’ve heard about problems with composite materials, too. Besides, I hear composites can be much more expensive than wood.
  Composite deck lumber like these Trex boards is a blend of reclaimed plastic and recycled wood fibers. There’s no need for finishing composites. Just keep them clean.
  A: I’ve lived with a wooden deck and compo
  
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• A 58-year-old man has been charged with six counts of aggravated assault, after his wife was stabbed in their Navan… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  16-05-2018 15:15 via twitter.com
  A 58-year-old man has been charged with six counts of aggravated assault, after his wife was stabbed in their Navan… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Coming up at 9:15: @CdnPress reporter @Shawn_Jeffords joins @_MarkSutcliffe to talk Hydro raises. Listen: 📻: 131… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  16-05-2018 15:13 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 9:15: @CdnPress reporter @Shawn_Jeffords joins @_MarkSutcliffe to talk Hydro raises.Listen: 📻: 131… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Cornwall councillors cool to early version of proposed cat control bylaw

  16-05-2018 14:53 via ottawacitizen.com
  Cornwall city councillors have voiced some early misgivings about some of the policies proposed for the new cat control bylaw the city is working on.
  Ideas such as having all pet cats kept inside and only allowed outside when on a leash or tether, as well a proposed rule that would turn anyone who feeds feral cats into their legal owner were greeted with hesitance.
  “My neighbour feeds some feral cats, but they are not his responsibility, and I don’t think its right that he would be r
  
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• Stash of allegedly stolen election signs turn up in Constance Bay

  16-05-2018 14:49 via ottawacitizen.com
  “It takes a million guts to put your name on a sign but none to steal one.”
  Nepean Progressive Conservative incumbent Lisa MacLeod’s quip was perhaps the pithiest response to the discovery of a stash of stolen law signs that turned up in Constance Bay ahead of the June 7 provincial election.
  Jack MacLaren, the Trillium Party of Ontario candidate in Kanata-Carleton, tweeted his thanks Tuesday to a friend who MacLaren said had found the pilfered signs on Whistler Road. There were
  
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• Ottawa police moving its autism registry to Medic Alert

  16-05-2018 14:47 via ottawacitizen.com
  A decade after establishing a registry for people with autism, Ottawa police are planning to hand off the job to Medic Alert.
  The voluntary registry is available to officers who might be called to respond to someone with autism, whose behaviour, be it violent or just unusual, can frequently result in a police encounter. The registry gives officers information on the person’s background, likes and dislikes, unusual behaviour as well as suggestions for the best way to calm him or her.
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• North Korea on Wednesday threatened to scrap a historic summit next month between its leader, Kim Jong Un, and U.S.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  16-05-2018 14:47 via twitter.com
  North Korea on Wednesday threatened to scrap a historic summit next month between its leader, Kim Jong Un, and U.S.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• 'Meet Kiara': Stittsville mom 'goes public' about daughter's special needs

  16-05-2018 14:46 via ottawacitizen.com
  When police brought home her daughter, Kiara, after they found her perched barefoot on the railing of a small bridge on Hazeldean Road, Stittsville’s Shannon Whitney took an extraordinary step.
  She went public, “outing” Kiara (with Kiara’s permission) to the Stittsville Neighbours Facebook page.
  “I’d like to introduce you to my daughter, Kiara,” Whitney wrote in the post last month. “Kiara is a loving, caring, content teenager who strongly val
  
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• QUESTION OF THE DAY: Should the pay increases for Hydro One board members be reversed?

  16-05-2018 13:45 via twitter.com
  QUESTION OF THE DAY: Should the pay increases for Hydro One board members be reversed?
  
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• Trillium Party candidate Jack MacLaren says in total there were 17 of his signs, along with four PC and two NDP sig… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  16-05-2018 13:40 via twitter.com
  Trillium Party candidate Jack MacLaren says in total there were 17 of his signs, along with four PC and two NDP sig… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Mah: Why you shouldn’t assume I speak Chinese

  16-05-2018 13:39 via ottawacitizen.com
  As an Asian-looking woman, Alison Mah experiences implicit racism on a frequent basis: in the grocery store, in cabs, when meeting new people. In this personal and illuminating video essay, Mah explains the uniquely bizarre and ugly experience of being congratulated on your grasp of the English language — when it’s your native tongue.
  
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• Sun, sun, sun here it comes, at least until Saturday

  16-05-2018 13:34 via ottawacitizen.com
  Sunny, mainly sunny and sunny.
  That’s the glorious forecast for the next few days starting with a warm, if breezy, Wednesday. Watch for a high of 23 C — and a UV index (remember those?) of 7 or high — with southwest winds at 20 km/h gusting to 40 by afternoon. Winds drop off to light overnight with a low of 12 C.
  For Thursday, Environment CAnada predicts mainly–sunny skies with a high of 20 C and a low of 6 C.
  Friday is sunny but cooler with a forecast high of 17 C and a
  
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• Tenor reimagines Indigenous songs rescued from a museum's basement

  16-05-2018 13:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  Jeremy Dutcher
  with Cedric Noel
  When & where: 7:30 p.m. May 25, First Baptist Church, 140 Laurier Ave. W. Doors open at 7 p.m. All-ages.
  Tickets: $17 advance, plus surcharges, available at Vertigo Records, Compact Music locations and www.spectrasonic.com.
  One of the most unique albums of the year thus far has to be Wolastoqiyik Lintuwakonawa, the debut recording by Jeremy Dutcher. The 27-year-old operatic tenor reimagines the traditional melodies of his Indigenous ancesto
  
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• Police arrest one man in connection to Gatineau's second homicide of 2018. #gatineau twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…

  16-05-2018 10:49 via twitter.com
  Police arrest one man in connection to Gatineau's second homicide of 2018. #gatineau twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…
  
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• Asterix refuels U.S. Navy ships

  16-05-2018 06:10 via ottawacitizen.com
  MV Asterix, accompanying Royal Canadian Navy ships, replenished two US Navy vessels at the same time in the North Atlantic this week. The USN ships are USS Bainbridge and USS Mitscher. Davie, the shipyard that converted the Asterix into a resupply vessel, released photos of the event. See photo below:The refueling operation comes the same week Vice Admiral Mark Norman’s case is back in court. Norman is charged by the RCMP with one count of breach of trust. The police force alleges Norman r
  
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• ICYMI: Expect a hike at the pumps ahead of the May long weekend. ottawamatters.com/local-news/gas…

  16-05-2018 04:17 via twitter.com
  ICYMI: Expect a hike at the pumps ahead of the May long weekend.ottawamatters.com/local-news/gas…
  
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• ICYMI: Police looking to talk to witnesses in now-fatal crash. ottawamatters.com/police-beat/wi…

  16-05-2018 03:37 via twitter.com
  ICYMI: Police looking to talk to witnesses in now-fatal crash. ottawamatters.com/police-beat/wi…
  
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• ICYMI: ottawamatters.com/police-beat/su…

  16-05-2018 02:04 via twitter.com
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• 'I just stabbed Mike. Call 911,' roommate recalls in Mcrae murder trial

  16-05-2018 01:43 via ottawacitizen.com
  Alain Chaput was lying in bed watching a game show when his friend and roommate John Mcrae knocked on the bedroom door and told him he had just stabbed his own son.
  “Call 911,” Chaput recalled Mcrae saying, as he testified Tuesday in Mcrae’s second-degree murder trial. “I just stabbed Mike.”
  It was around 6:30 p.m. on July 7, 2015. Chaput and Mcrae, now 73, had been drinking at a neighbourhood pub before they returned to the apartment they shared with Mcrae’s
  
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• Double-double legal trouble. ottawamatters.com/national-news/…

  16-05-2018 01:26 via twitter.com
  Double-double legal trouble. ottawamatters.com/national-news/…
  
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