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• Search continues for missing #Ottawa man ottawamatters.com/local-news/ott… #ottnews https://t.co/kTQfhR0VaU

  18-05-2018 23:44 via twitter.com
  
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• Drugs, ammunition, and cash seized in raid this morning in Nepean. 21 YO man faces related charges. #ottnews twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…

  18-05-2018 23:25 via twitter.com
  Drugs, ammunition, and cash seized in raid this morning in Nepean. 21 YO man faces related charges. #ottnews twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…
  
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• Heading out on the water? OPP want you to think safety first this holiday weekend. twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…

  18-05-2018 23:15 via twitter.com
  Heading out on the water? OPP want you to think safety first this holiday weekend. twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…
  
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• Man arrested after raid nets drugs, guns, police say

  18-05-2018 23:08 via ottawacitizen.com
  One man was arrested in a Friday morning raid at an Elmira Drive residence where police said they found large quantities of illegal drugs and ammunition.
  The guns and gangs unit, along with the tactical team and the Direct Action Response Team executed the raid in the 2100 block of Elmira on Friday morning.
  Inside the residence, police said they found several bags of 9mm Luger ammunition and one bag of .38 Special hollow point bullets. Police seized two handgun laser sight kits, two high-capacit
  
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• Fewer advance polls, but speedier voting, Elections Ontario promises

  18-05-2018 22:43 via ottawacitizen.com
  Voters will have fewer places to vote in advance polls for Ontario’s 2018 election, but Election Ontario says new technology will speed voting and cut lineups on election day, June 7.
  Some electoral districts will have fewer than half the number of locations for advanced polls, part of a revamping of the election that also added 14 new seats to the Legislature.
  Ottawa Centre, for example, will have four advance poll locations, down from 11 in 2014. Ottawa West-Nepean goes from eight to fou
  
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• Road closures in effect as @OttFire responds. #ottnews twitter.com/OttawaPolice/s…

  18-05-2018 22:42 via twitter.com
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• Reevely: Intrigue consumes Tory campaign in Glengarry-Prescott-Russell

  18-05-2018 22:40 via ottawacitizen.com
  The provincial Liberal candidate in Glengarry-Prescott-Russell is a former Tory who quit the party because of the way Patrick Brown ran it. He’s now being helped by another former Tory who quit the party because of the way Doug Ford is running it.
  Most places, with power in sight, the Progressive Conservatives are putting a really brave face on in the name of party unity. In this riding, not so much.
  Rachel Theriault, a Progressive Conservative volunteer who’d been working for Tory c
  
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• OPP aim to prevent tragedy this long weekend ottawamatters.com/local-news/opp… https://t.co/GB2apUVYls

  18-05-2018 22:29 via twitter.com
  
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• Use of dangerous 'purple heroin' increasing in Ottawa

  18-05-2018 22:28 via ottawacitizen.com
  A powerful opioid mixture, known for its purple colour and Play-Doh-like consistency, is becoming increasingly prevalent in the city’s drug supply.Known as “purple heroin” — more informally by its street name, “purple pebbles” — the substance generally comprises a cocktail of heroin, fentanyl and morphine. In some cases, carfentanil, which is 100 times more powerful than plain fentanyl, is also included in the mix.
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• Ottawa teacher pleads guilty to sexually abusing teen boy

  18-05-2018 21:51 via ottawacitizen.com
  An elementary school teacher who had sexual encounters with a former student in parking lots, sent him sexual pictures on social media and told the boy she wanted to leave her husband for him has pleaded guilty to her crime.
  The years-long ordeal has left the teen, now 19, broken, suicidal and struggling to make sense of sexual abuse he once thought of as a relationship, his family told the court.
  Kyla Cowan-Wilson pleaded guilty Friday to a single count of sexual assault. As a result, charges o
  
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• Prices at the pump headed higher as long weekend brings out Canadian drivers ottawamatters.com/local-news/pri…

  18-05-2018 21:40 via twitter.com
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• A bridge too old: Harmer Avenue pedestrian bridge slated for demolition, then replacement

  18-05-2018 21:39 via ottawacitizen.com
  After crossing the Harmer Avenue pedestrian bridge from her home on the south side of the Queensway, Tiana Benoit stops at the north end of the bridge and waits. It’s just before 8:30 on a bright Monday morning, and close to 20 minutes remain before the final morning bell at Fisher Park Public School will call her inside.
  Moments later, Sammy Siscoe comes bounding up the bridge’s decrepit concrete steps from Helena Street and greets Tiana. The two 12-year-olds are best friends and sc
  
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• Fans head to Windsor; Charles to walk Markle down the aisle ottawamatters.com/world-news/fan…

  18-05-2018 21:24 via twitter.com
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• Gunman opens fire in Texas high school, killing 10 ottawamatters.com/world-news/gun…

  18-05-2018 21:08 via twitter.com
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• Editorial: Tied-up paramedics a symptom of a larger problem

  18-05-2018 21:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa paramedics are spending a troubling amount of time waiting for patients to be moved over into the care of local hospitals – and a fix must be found. 
  All told, paramedics spent more than 37,000 hours last year waiting in emergency rooms. The issue is that when paramedics arrive, if there isn’t a nurse or bed available for the patient, paramedics must stay with them until there is.
  It makes sense; a patient who arrives by ambulance requires a certain level of care and can&
  
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• Dawson: Why police concerns about cost of legal pot might be fair

  18-05-2018 20:59 via ottawacitizen.com
  How, exactly, is legalized marijuana going to lead to increased policing costs? It doesn’t make sense. Police police illegal things. So, when a thing is no longer illegal, presumably police can stop policing it, therefore, costs should go down. Right? 
  This week, some Ontario police chiefs complained that there wasn’t going to be enough federal funding available to cover increased policing costs associated with legalization. So far, the federal government has promised nearly $30
  
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• OPP charge two in human trafficking investigation. twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…

  18-05-2018 20:27 via twitter.com
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• NCC's bikedays kicks off this weekend. #ottnews #ottcity #Ottawa ottawamatters.com/local-news/ncc… https://t.co/TP2BM0RDaA

  18-05-2018 20:24 via twitter.com
  
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• Two 18-year-old men face human trafficking charges in Renfrew

  18-05-2018 19:56 via ottawacitizen.com
  A pair of 18-year-old men have been charged with human trafficking, provincial police say.
  The charges follow an investigation that began after a teenaged female victim came forward in March to report attempts were made to lure her into prostitution.
  Liam Coyne, of Renfrew, and Logan O’Brien, of Ottawa, were each charged with attempting to procure a person under the age of 18 to provide sexual services. 
  O’Brien is also charged with one count of breach of a probation order. 
  
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• Fourth inmate charged in Ottawa jailhouse homicide

  18-05-2018 19:44 via ottawacitizen.com
  An inmate who police allege served as lookout during a jailhouse homicide has been charged with murder, this newspaper has learned.
  Yaheya Benamiar, 19, is now the fourth Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre inmate to be charged with first-degree murder for the beating death of accused killer Marco Michaud.
  Michaud, 36, was pronounced dead May 4 after he was taken off life support. He suffered extensive head injuries in the April 11 beating, which left him brain-dead. He was put into an in
  
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• Activist Lynda Kitchikeesic faces uncertain future after emergency surgery

  18-05-2018 19:23 via ottawacitizen.com
  “Please pray for me. I am going through a lot right now. Tonight I am frightened.”
  Lynda Kitchikeesic’s Facebook post last Saturday presaged the emergency medical surgery that the Ottawa activist and volunteer underwent on Wednesday when, near death with her kidney function at just four per cent, a dialysis line was inserted directly into her heart via her neck.
  “I have had no intention of doing dialysis and went away to Florida cheerfully prepared to die,” she wrot
  
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• Today's letters: Solutions hard to find on Israel and Palestine

  18-05-2018 19:20 via ottawacitizen.com
  Extremists prevent lasting peace between Israel, PalestineRe: U.S. embassy move won’t help peace process, May 16
  In my view, both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian long-standing conflict have legitimate grievances and aspirations, and both sides are held hostage by their deeply and rigidly entrenched extremists’ diametrically opposing views.
  The bomb has been ticking louder and louder, at least since Israel’s foundation in 1947. In my view, the respective extremists’ views
  
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• Safe Boating Week kicks off Saturday: Wear a life-jacket!

  18-05-2018 18:44 via ottawacitizen.com
  After a dubious record year of boating fatalities in 2017, Ontario Provincial Police and the Canadian Safe Boating Council are redoubling their calls urging boaters to wear a life-jacket or flotation device.
  Boating-related deaths hit an eight-year high in 2017 with 31 people losing their lives, up from 23 the year before.
  And more than three-quarters of the victims over the two years, 42 out of 54, were not wearing, or not properly wearing a flotation device.
  Simply falling overboard remai
  
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• What's open and what's closed this Victoria Day long weekend

  18-05-2018 18:20 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Canadian way to canonically spend your May long weekend (which celebrates the birthday of Queen Victoria, but unofficially is more about kicking off the summer) is to get out of the city.
  For anyone spending time in town, here’s a rundown of what’s open and what’s closed in Ottawa this weekend.
  Retail, food, and alcohol
  The Rideau Centre will stick to its regular hours on Saturday and Sunday (9:30 a.m. – 9 p.m. and 11 a.m. – 6 p.m., respectively), but
  
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• Ottawa man convicted of biting off drinking buddy's ear loses appeal

  18-05-2018 18:08 via ottawacitizen.com
  Stephen Lawrence woke up one morning and couldn’t remember what happened the night before.
  So he texted the pal he’d been drinking with saying he couldn’t recall coming home and hoped he hadn’t been a “super a–hole last night.”
  His likely former friend texted back that Lawrence had bitten off his ear and he might lose it — which weeks later, he did.
  “O f— me,” Lawrence replied that morning in November 2015.
  The Court of Appeal for
  
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• Coming up on today's Power Lunch: @DannyKingsbury & @MelAdams1310 join @_MarkSutcliffe in studio. Listen: 📻: 13… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  18-05-2018 17:57 via twitter.com
  Coming up on today's Power Lunch: @DannyKingsbury & @MelAdams1310join @_MarkSutcliffe in studio. Listen:📻: 13… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• The @rick_gibbons Show for Friday, May 18th: 1:08: @CityMelanie 1:18: @OttawaChampions 1:45: @RiverWardRiley 2:05:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  18-05-2018 17:44 via twitter.com
  The @rick_gibbons Show for Friday, May 18th: 1:08: @CityMelanie 1:18: @OttawaChampions 1:45: @RiverWardRiley 2:05:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• A bridge too old: Harmer Avenue pedestrian bridge slated for demolition

  18-05-2018 17:33 via ottawacitizen.com
  After crossing the Harmer Avenue pedestrian bridge from her home on the south side of the Queensway, Tiana Benoit stops at the north end of the bridge and waits. It’s just before 8:30 on a bright Monday morning, and close to 20 minutes remain before the final morning bell at Fisher Park Public School will call her inside.
  Moments later, Sammy Siscoe comes bounding up the bridge’s decrepit concrete steps from Helena Street and greets Tiana. The two 12-year-olds are best friends and sc
  
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• Coming up at 11:30: Stroke survivor @TankKerr joins @_MarkSutcliffe to discuss running for @bruyerecare on Ottaw… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  18-05-2018 17:28 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 11:30: Stroke survivor @TankKerr joins@_MarkSutcliffe to discuss running for @bruyerecare on Ottaw… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Ottawa kitchen and bath award winners trend toward modern design

  18-05-2018 16:57 via ottawacitizen.com
  There was a refreshing variety and return of colour at this year’s Ottawa kitchen and bath awards.
  From robin’s egg blue to wood-grain cabinets, creative tile choices and statement pendants, Ottawa homeowners took some chances and expressed their personality in the entries vying for trophies at the Design Excellence Awards gala held by the Ottawa Chapter of the National Kitchen and Bathroom Association (NKBA) May 5.
  Two-toned cabinetry is still big and white kitchens haven’t go
  
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• Coming up at 10:45: @JSportsnet joins @_MarkSutcliffe to talk playoff hockey. Listen: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  18-05-2018 16:43 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 10:45: @JSportsnet joins @_MarkSutcliffe to talk playoff hockey.Listen:📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Coming up on the 10 O'Clock talk: @jonathanmcleod, @erin_gee and @1310Andrew join @_MarkSutcliffe live: 📻: 1310… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  18-05-2018 15:57 via twitter.com
  Coming up on the 10 O'Clock talk: @jonathanmcleod, @erin_gee and @1310Andrew join @_MarkSutcliffe live: 📻: 1310… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Gormley: Why the symbolism of the royals matters for liberalism

  18-05-2018 15:53 via ottawacitizen.com
  The more things change in Canada, the more Canada’s feelings about the monarchy stay the same.
  Canadians love the monarchy. Canadians hate the monarchy. Canadians feel these feelings at the same time, and over time, these feelings are felt in the same way. Certainly neither feeling goes away. They, much like the monarchy, are just there.
  It is not that we all have a love-hate relationship with the royals – it is that roughly an equal number of us love them as hate them. For many year
  
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• Coming up at 9:45: Royal Watcher @PatriciaTreble joins @_MarkSutcliffe to discuss the royal wedding. Listen: 📻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  18-05-2018 15:43 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 9:45:Royal Watcher @PatriciaTreble joins @_MarkSutcliffe to discuss the royal wedding.Listen:📻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Coming up at 9:30: Political feature writer for The Globe and Mail @aradwanski joins @_MarkSutcliffe for an Ontar… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  18-05-2018 15:28 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 9:30: Political feature writer for The Globe and Mail @aradwanski joins @_MarkSutcliffe for an Ontar… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Indigenous architects take world stage for Canada in 'amazing step' toward reconciliation

  18-05-2018 15:17 via ottawacitizen.com
  A showcase of Indigenous architecture that will represent Canada on the world stage is being hailed as an “amazing step” toward reconciliation by the man leading the talented team.
  Eminent Canadian architect Douglas Cardinal, who’s best known for designing the Canadian Museum of History in Gatineau and the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian in Washington D.C., is leading the team of 17 architects from across North America, otherwise known as Turtle Islan
  
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• Coming up at 9:15: Professor @rastokke joins @_MarkSutcliffe to explain discovery math. Listen: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  18-05-2018 15:12 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 9:15: Professor @rastokke joins @_MarkSutcliffe to explain discovery math.Listen:📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Rideau Canal reopens Friday for the 2018 season

  18-05-2018 14:29 via ottawacitizen.com
  In a surefire sign of summer, the Rideau Canal’s 2018 season launches Friday.
  Local MP Catherine McKenna, the minister of environment and climate change responsible for Parks Canada, was set to kick it off at 10 a.m. by arriving at the Ottawa Lockstation by voyageur canoe with local paddlers.
  The navigation season on the canal, which allows boaters and paddlers to travel the 202 km from the banks of the Ottawa River to Lake Ontario at Kingston, runs from the Victoria Day weekend to Th
  
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• Today's letters: Governments must value nature, and be safe out there

  18-05-2018 14:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  Governments should heed nature’s value Re: We need nature for our own good health, May 10
  Kudos to Sherry Nigro for her timely article, outlining why everyone benefits from nature.
  The Ottawa-Carleton Wildlife Centre has been active for the past 30 years in connecting people to the natural world, providing a better understanding and appreciation for local wildlife and encouraging co-existence. A decade ago, people would call us, upset about a wildlife or green space issue, expect
  
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• Does the rising price of gas cause you to change your travelling behaviour? ottawamatters.com/local-news/pri…

  18-05-2018 14:00 via twitter.com
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• Two adults, baby lose home in two-alarm west end fire early Friday

  18-05-2018 13:53 via ottawacitizen.com
  Two adults and a seven-month-old baby were displaced by fire that broke out in the early hours of Friday morning in the city’s west end.
  The fire department received a number of 911 calls at 1:33 a.m. reporting flames at 2670 Stone Cres., near Morrison Drive.
  The roof was on fire as crews arrived minutes later and they declared a second alarm at 1:44 a.m. to summon more resources to the ranch-style bungalow.
  The fire, which began in the back of the house and spread through the walls, was u
  
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• Councillor pushes for ride-sharing vehicles to be marked - ottawamatters.com/local-news/cou… #ottnews https://t.co/pmXoMaMzZP

  18-05-2018 13:33 via twitter.com
  
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• Victoria Day weekend: Sunny today, risk of showers, then dry Monday

  18-05-2018 13:31 via ottawacitizen.com
  The kick off to the first weekend of summer started a chilly 4 C but Friday features the sunniest forecast of the long weekend for those getting an early start on celebrating.
  The rest of the weekend forecast features cloudy skies and the risk of showers until Monday dawns dry.
  Friday’s forecast is for mainly sunny skies and a high of 18 C with easterly winds at 20 km/h and a UV index of 8 or very high. A few clouds are to roll in Friday night and get thick after midnight with a low of 7 C
  
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• Police continue road safety blitz through long weekend - ottawamatters.com/local-news/pol… #ottnews https://t.co/Rj6ndEFj80

  18-05-2018 13:15 via twitter.com
  
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• Police seek assistance finding missing man, 21

  18-05-2018 13:14 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa police are seeking public assistance to locate Ben Wiffen, 21, last seen just after midnight in the area of Merivale Road and Viewmount Drive.
  He is described as Caucasian five feet 11 inches tall with a heavy build and clean shaven.
  It is not yet known what he was wearing when he disappeared.
  He was riding a black mountain bike with several reflectors.
  Anyone who sees Wiffen or knows where he is is asked to call Ottawa police at 613-236-1222.
  
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• Former DJ for A Tribe Called Red enjoying his new life on the farm

  18-05-2018 13:08 via ottawacitizen.com
  Seven months ago, Ian Campeau quit the musical group he co-founded just as it was gaining considerable acclaim, and headed back to his farm near Perth.
  Today the musician known as DJ NDN is growing vegetables, learning Ojibwe, diving more fully into advocacy work, giving motivational speeches, and promoting a cannabis company.
  And, at this moment, he is cuddling his youngest child, baby Nenookaase, who has just woken up from her nap and is nuzzling her head in his chest. The school bus will deli
  
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• Spotlight: Local author reimagines life of J.R. Booth

  18-05-2018 13:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  Spotlight is a weekly look at some of the people who are part of the Ottawa-area arts community. This week, Bruce Deachman talks with author Jean Van Loon, whose recently released first book of poetry, Building on River, is based on the life of lumber baron J.R. Booth. Visit cormorantbooks.com for more information.
  “I always wrote, but I didn’t write literary material until shortly before I retired in 2000. I wrote briefings, memoranda, cabinet documents, position papers, speeches; a
  
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• Prince Charles will walk Meghan Markle down the aisle at the royal wedding — stepping in after the father of the br… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  18-05-2018 12:52 via twitter.com
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• Rain in the long weekend forecast - ottawamatters.com/local-news/rai… #ottnews https://t.co/ytpjsCPXfe

  18-05-2018 12:28 via twitter.com
  
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• A family has been displaced after an early morning fire in the city's west end. #ottnews twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…

  18-05-2018 12:09 via twitter.com
  A family has been displaced after an early morning fire in the city's west end. #ottnews twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…
  
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