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• Ottawa man who prompted police race data project charged with fraud

  23-05-2018 23:51 via ottawacitizen.com
  An Ottawa man who has become the face of the fight against Ottawa police racial profiling has been charged with defrauding his former employer of thousands of dollars in automobile insurance in an alleged rental car scheme involving two others, this newspaper has learned.
  Chad Aiken, who previously worked at Avis car rental, has been charged with fraud, conspiracy to commit fraud and fraudulent concealment.
  Aiken, 31, was just a teenager when he was pulled over in 2005 by Ottawa police in a traf
  
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• Predictions of a nice, hot summer from Environment Canada. ottawamatters.com/local-news/cap…

  23-05-2018 23:48 via twitter.com
  Predictions of a nice, hot summer from Environment Canada.ottawamatters.com/local-news/cap…
  
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• POWER OUTAGE: Manotick south, North Gower, Kars, Osgoode. #ottnews https://t.co/XYHyNYbdJi

  23-05-2018 23:30 via twitter.com
  
  POWER OUTAGE: Manotick south, North Gower, Kars, Osgoode. #ottnews https://t.co/XYHyNYbdJi
  
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• Ottawa man gets longer sentence for extensive child porn collection

  23-05-2018 23:27 via ottawacitizen.com
  An Ottawa IT specialist who amassed one of the “largest and worst” child porn collections police said they’d ever seen will serve even more time behind bars, thanks to a successful appeal by the Crown.
  Mahlon Inksetter, then 51, was sentenced to two years less a day plus three years’ probation in August 2017.
  But in a decision released Wednesday, the Court of Appeal for Ontario instead imposed a three-and-a-half year sentence on charges of possessing child pornograph
  
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• Unique bike offers those in therapy an opportunity to race

  23-05-2018 23:08 via ottawacitizen.com
  Members of the LiquidGym rehab centre never imagined they’d be able to take part in Tamarack Ottawa Race Weekend.
  Many of them have suffered debilitating injuries, or diseases such as Parkinson’s, that have taken away their mobility. 
  But with the help of specialized bright yellow walking bikes — 50 of which will be at the starting line of the 2K race this weekend — moving has become a little easier.
  The bike, called the Alinker, was created by Dutch architect B
  
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• Police following stolen credit card in search for robbery, assault suspects

  23-05-2018 23:07 via ottawacitizen.com
  Police say a credit card stolen during a violent residential robbery was used recently in Brockville, where two people suspected of beating and robbing an Ottawa man were seen on a gas station surveillance camera.
  According to police, one man and one woman allegedly broke into an apartment in the 100 block of Charlotte Street in Lowertown around 7 p.m. on March 31.
  Once inside, they allegedly assaulted a 62-year-old man, who was later taken to hospital with non-life threatening injuries.
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• Ottawa man who survived 'widow-maker' heart attack running in gratitude

  23-05-2018 23:02 via ottawacitizen.com
  Marc Cashman was lying on his bed watching television last May when his chest suddenly felt compressed.
  He began sweating profusely. His breathing became heavy. Then he felt his left arm go numb. 
  “At first I thought I was having a panic attack,” the 51 year old said. “I got up and took a couple of Aspirin. It was just instinct. I (splashed) some water on my face, then I woke my wife up and she said, ‘Oh my God, you’re grey. I’m calling 911.'”
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• Leaseholders at fire-damaged Ashcroft condo will move to units in neighbouring tower

  23-05-2018 22:25 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ashcroft Homes said it will offer accommodations to leaseholders displaced from a highrise that was under construction when it was damaged by fire in April.
  Ashcroft president David Choo said in a statement Wednesday the developer will place those who signed a lease for the Envie Plus condo for the next school year in the neighbouring Envie Student, which the company said is at 98 per cent occupancy.
  Leasing at Envie Plus is expected to resume in May 2019 “to coincide with student schedule
  
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• Police lay charges in Buddha statue vandalism

  23-05-2018 21:53 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa police have charged a man after a Buddha statue was damaged outside of an Ottawa monastery on May 17.
  The damage marked the second time someone had allegedly attempted to vandalize the Buddha statue at the Hilda Jayewardenaramaya Buddhist Monastery, near the intersection of Heron Road and Alta Vista Drive.
  A man was caught on security video around 12:45 am damaging the statue. In the video, a man carrying a piece of lumber in his left hand is seen crossing the road to the temple
  
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• Chelsea doctor accused of sex assaults and voyeurism is suspended by College of Physicians

  23-05-2018 21:35 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Chelsea doctor charged with 94 counts of sexual assault and voyeurism has been suspended from practising medicine.
  Dr. Vincent Nadon was suspended on May 17, according to the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario. The college regulates doctors and investigates complaints against them. It suspended Nadon’s licence to ensure he does not pose any further risk to patients, a college spokesperson said.
  Nadon had already been banned from practising at clinics run by the Universi
  
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• Capital region in for warm, 'classic summer' ottawamatters.com/local-news/cap… https://t.co/KDBQbcAfoU

  23-05-2018 21:04 via twitter.com
  
  Capital region in for warm, 'classic summer'ottawamatters.com/local-news/cap… https://t.co/KDBQbcAfoU
  
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• House Works: Buying supplies online revolutionizes Canadian DIY

  23-05-2018 20:52 via ottawacitizen.com
  Online shopping makes it easier to buy great consumer goods at the lowest possible prices without traveling to a physical store, and online shopping is also changing the way do-it-yourself home improvement happens, too.
  A Canadian outfit called Paint Supplies Direct (www.paintsuppliesdirect.ca) is one case in point that I’ve found. It’s the work of John Burke and his partner James Mumby, a Canadian entrepreneur with a humble beginning in the paint product business 40 years ago.
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• Foreign Cinéma dishes range from interesting, respectable to too salty

  23-05-2018 20:41 via ottawacitizen.com
  Foreign Cinéma121 Clarence St., 613-627-8482, foreigncinema.caOpen: Tuesday and Wednesday 5 p.m. to 2 a.m., Thursday 3 p.m. to 2 a.m., Friday to Sunday 11 a.m. to 2 a.m., closed MondayPrices: most dishes under $20Access: washrooms downstairs
  Last weekend, when I visited Foreign Cinéma, which I should note is a ByWard Market restaurant and not a repertory movie house, its big flat-screen TV was tuned to Netflix and showing White House Down, in black and white and with the sound off.
  
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• Glavin: Why the Israel-Palestine debate makes people lose their minds

  23-05-2018 20:33 via ottawacitizen.com
  There is something about Israel that seems to make people lose their damn minds. It is a disturbing phenomenon. It is by no means confined to that vast and utterly useless constituency that pretends to be pro-Palestinian, and draws liberally from the expansive resources of Western bourgeois activism, and yet has somehow failed to lift so much as an ounce from the crushing weight of suffering that burdens the backs of the desperate masses in Gaza.
  It is a kind of craziness that is ubiquitous, too
  
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• Going out best bets, May 24 to 30: From Israeli films, to Indigenous food, to a last-person-standing Jazz Ramble

  23-05-2018 19:50 via ottawacitizen.com
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  The 15th annual edition of the Israeli Film Festival in Ottawa sees the event move to a new location, Arts Court, where it will present five recent Israeli films with English subtitles, on selected Thursdays and Sundays between May 24 and June 10. Among them are the dramas The Cakemaker (Thursday, May 24, 7 p.m.), Maktub (Sunday, May 27, 7 p.m.), and Scaffolding (June 7, 7 p.m.), the anthology of stories Saving Neta (June 3, 7 p.m.) and the  documentary To Be A Child Again — Isra
  
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• Liberal candidates say they would entertain funding request from city over Prince of Wales Bridge

  23-05-2018 19:35 via ottawacitizen.com
  The provincial Liberals are using the city’s Prince of Wales Bridge as an election pawn.
  However, they aren’t promising money to fix the historic Ottawa River crossing. They’re only offering their ears.
  Local Liberal candidates said Wednesday that they would work with the City of Ottawa on any proposal or funding request to restore the bridge for LRT.
  On the crossing to Lemieux Island with the Prince of Wales Bridge in the distance, Yasir Naqvi, the incumbent MPP for Ottawa Cen
  
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• Man sexually assaults dog owner after grabbing canine's genitals: Police

  23-05-2018 18:59 via ottawacitizen.com
  Kingston police say they’ve nabbed a 36-year-old man who was accused of grabbing a dog’s genitals and squeezing until it yelped with pain then groping its no-doubt horrified owner.
  The victim reported that she was walking her dog in McBurney Park, northwest of downtown, at about 12:30 p.m. Tuesday when the man approached and bent down as if to pet the pooch.
  After hurting her dog, he then made “inappropriate” sexual comments to her and grabbed her buttocks. She fled and c
  
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• Today on the Power Lunch: Ted Mann from @MannLawyers and @1310NEWS' @SaraBuchan join @_MarkSutcliffe live in stud… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  23-05-2018 17:58 via twitter.com
  Today on the Power Lunch: Ted Mann from @MannLawyers and @1310NEWS' @SaraBuchan join @_MarkSutcliffe live in stud… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• The @rick_gibbons Show for Wednesday, May 23rd: 1:05: @ChrisAylwardVP 1:17: @maddcanada 1:30: @GoodmanSchool 2:05:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  23-05-2018 17:44 via twitter.com
  The @rick_gibbons Show for Wednesday, May 23rd: 1:05: @ChrisAylwardVP 1:17: @maddcanada 1:30: @GoodmanSchool 2:05:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Flaming truck full of pizzas melts eastbound Hwy 401 near Napanee

  23-05-2018 17:43 via ottawacitizen.com
  The eastbound Highway 401 near Napanee was expected to be closed into the evening Wednesday after a tractor-trailer loaded with frozen pizzas burned so hot it melted the roadway.
  The truck crashed east of the Palace Road interchange at 4:30 a.m. caught on fire and “completely burned,” Napanee OPP reported.
  The Loyalist Fire Department put out the flames but by late morning the OPP reported that the eastbound lanes were expected to be closed for at least eight hours because the f
  
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• Reports say F-35 on the chopping block in the UK – more Eurofighter Typhoons to be purchased instead

  23-05-2018 17:39 via ottawacitizen.com
  News media in the United Kingdom are reporting that the government there is considering cutting the number of F-35s it intends to buy so it can save money. The Ministry of Defense in the UK has committed to 48 Lockheed Martin F-35s so far and hopes to buy 138 in total.
  My Defense News colleague Andrew Chuter has reported that there is talk instead of buying the less costly Eurofighter Typhoons and that this is being looked at by the government’s defence review, officially known as the Defe
  
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• Coming up at 11:30: @InklessPW joins @_MarkSutcliffe to discuss provincial politics and the potential rise of the… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  23-05-2018 17:29 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 11:30: @InklessPW joins @_MarkSutcliffe to discuss provincial politics and the potential rise of the… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• TRAFFIC NOTE: eastbound #HWY401 at Palace Rd exit #Napanee -- all lanes closed due to truck fire. Pavement damaged.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  23-05-2018 16:53 via twitter.com
  TRAFFIC NOTE: eastbound #HWY401 at Palace Rd exit #Napanee -- all lanes closed due to truck fire. Pavement damaged.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Coming up at 10:50: Mark Monahan chats with @_MarkSutcliffe about the @CityFolkFest lineup. https://t.co/Ijvuod9SJ1

  23-05-2018 16:46 via twitter.com
  
  Coming up at 10:50:Mark Monahan chats with @_MarkSutcliffe about the @CityFolkFest lineup. https://t.co/Ijvuod9SJ1
  
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• Denley: This election won't solve the power bill problem

  23-05-2018 15:58 via ottawacitizen.com
  This Ontario election is said to be about change, but neither of the other major parties is promising to change the single worst policy instituted by the Kathleen Wynne government.
  Instead, they say they will leave the so-called Fair Hydro Plan in place and double down by reducing power bills even more.
  Ontario voters need to wrap their heads around how much this idiocy is going to cost us and the bogus justification for the plan, which artificially reduces our power bills by 25 per cent and bor
  
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• Coming up on the 10 O'Clock talk: BT Montreal's @DerickFage, @AGMacDougall and @LauraPeck6 join @_MarkSutcliffe… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  23-05-2018 15:58 via twitter.com
  Coming up on the 10 O'Clock talk: BT Montreal's @DerickFage,@AGMacDougall and @LauraPeck6 join @_MarkSutcliffe… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• OPP laid more than 10,600 charges for speeding during six-day Canada Road Safety Week

  23-05-2018 15:55 via ottawacitizen.com
  Despite repeated warnings, Ontario drivers continue to be heavy-footed travellers, provincial police report.
  The OPP laid more than 10,600 charges for speeding during the six-day Canada Road Safety Week blitz, 175 of them in the street racing category, (50 km/h or more over the posted speed limit.
  Both totals were increases over the same period of 2017.
  Officers also laid 726 seat belt tickets during the May 15-31 blitz, a 12 per cent increase over the 2017 tally.
  The good news was distract
  
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• Coming up at 9:15: @maddcanada CEO Andrew Murie joins @_MarkSutcliffe to discuss Doug Ford's plans to allow beer… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  23-05-2018 15:13 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 9:15: @maddcanada CEO Andrew Murie joins @_MarkSutcliffe to discuss Doug Ford's plans to allow beer… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Alberta Premier Rachel Notley won't be at today's meeting of the western premiers in Yellowknife, but she made some… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  23-05-2018 14:28 via twitter.com
  Alberta Premier Rachel Notley won't be at today's meeting of the western premiers in Yellowknife, but she made some… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• The Ottawa-Carleton District School Board has announced its director of education is retiring at the end of the yea… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  23-05-2018 13:54 via twitter.com
  The Ottawa-Carleton District School Board has announced its director of education is retiring at the end of the yea… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Weather: Couple of days of summery sunshine, but risk of a rainy weekend

  23-05-2018 13:32 via ottawacitizen.com
  The heat is on with sunshine and summery temperatures rising to 28 C by Friday but clouds and the risk of rain or thunderstorms are expected to return for the weekend.
  For Wednesday, expect mainly-sunny skies, northwest winds at 20 km/h becoming light by evening, a high of 24 C and a low of 9 C.
  Thursday is sunny and 26 C with a low of 9 C.
  For Friday, the forecast is for mixed skies, a 30 per cent chance of showers and that tropical high of 28 C when a more typical temperature for late May is 2
  
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• QUESTION OF THE DAY: Is Doug Ford's promise to allow the sale of wine and beer in corner stores a reckless idea tha… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  23-05-2018 13:18 via twitter.com
  QUESTION OF THE DAY: Is Doug Ford's promise to allow the sale of wine and beer in corner stores a reckless idea tha… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• West Ottawa Board of Trade, Ottawa Chamber of Commerce set to merge ottawamatters.com/local-news/wes… #ottnews https://t.co/U1DVfwBg9R

  23-05-2018 13:14 via twitter.com
  
  West Ottawa Board of Trade, Ottawa Chamber of Commerce set to mergeottawamatters.com/local-news/wes…#ottnews https://t.co/U1DVfwBg9R
  
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• A new report from the Fraser Institute details the dramatic amount that wait times are costing Canadians. #ottnews twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…

  23-05-2018 13:00 via twitter.com
  A new report from the Fraser Institute details the dramatic amount that wait times are costing Canadians. #ottnews twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…
  
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• The Advocacy Centre for Tenants Ontario says nearly half of Ontario renter households spend more than 30 per cent o… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  23-05-2018 12:36 via twitter.com
  The Advocacy Centre for Tenants Ontario says nearly half of Ontario renter households spend more than 30 per cent o… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Woman alleges sexual harassment, racism at Ottawa construction site

  23-05-2018 12:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  She claims the harassment began shortly after she was hired as part of the construction site cleanup crew.
  The only woman on the crew, Belia Mejia says she struggled for six months, “Trying to fit in … trying to be one of the guys.”
  It started with snide comments, Mejia alleges. 
  “They would call me ‘p—y’ all the time. It went too far, and when I told my boss what happened, he said he would talk to them. But nothing ever happened.”
  She a
  
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• Reevely: Following the party line, wherever it takes you

  23-05-2018 12:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ontario’s New Democrats have candidates who represent “bizarre, radical and extreme special interests,” the Progressive Conservatives charged Tuesday, including Eastern Ontario’s Joel Harden and Ramsey Hart.
  The idea is that the New Democrats are secretly a bunch of kooks who would build wind farms in your back yard, add socialism to the elementary-school health curriculum and possibly invade Israel. They aren’t decent folks. You don’t know what they might sta
  
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• OPP investigate after 2 vehicle collision involving a police cruiser sends 2 people to hospital. #ottnews twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…

  23-05-2018 10:54 via twitter.com
  OPP investigate after 2 vehicle collision involving a police cruiser sends 2 people to hospital. #ottnews twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…
  
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• The @CityFolkFest lineup is here and it includes - David Byrne, Michael McDonald, The Decemberists and Hozier.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  23-05-2018 09:58 via twitter.com
  The @CityFolkFest lineup is here and it includes - David Byrne, Michael McDonald, The Decemberists and Hozier.… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• David Byrne, Steve Earle, Hozier, Tedeschi Trucks Band and more coming to Ottawa's CityFolk

  23-05-2018 06:01 via ottawacitizen.com
  Talking Heads visionary David Byrne, soulful boogie-blues masters Tedeschi Trucks Band, folk legend Janis Ian and Take Me To Church singer Hozier are among the gems of a CityFolk lineup that’s stacked with critically acclaimed artists.The 2018 edition of CityFolk returns to Lansdowne Park Sept. 12-16 for the fourth year at the Glebe facility, and will include a 25th anniversary celebration of its previous incarnation as the Ottawa Folk Festival. Details on that, and the local music celebra
  
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• Will the Liberal government’s Defence Investment plan be released at CANSEC?

  23-05-2018 05:52 via ottawacitizen.com
  There has been a lot of talk in Ottawa these days about the expected release of the Liberal government’s Defence Investment plan.
  This is considered the second phase of the government’s defence policy. The plan is supposed to provide details on the investments the Liberals will make in equipment for the Canadian Forces, reportedly over the next five years.
  Christyn Cianfarani, president of the Canadian Association of Defence and Security Industries, which organizes the annual CANSEC
  
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• Ottawa public school board's director to leave by end of the year

  23-05-2018 03:25 via ottawacitizen.com
  The director of Ottawa’s largest school board is leaving, and a search has begun for her replacement.
  Jennifer Adams, director of education at the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board, will retire by the end of December, board chair Shirley Seward announced at Tuesday night’s meeting. She called it a great loss for the board.
  “Jennifer is a leader in K-12 education provincially and internationally,” said Seward in a statement. “Her leadership will be missed around
  
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• Canadian who says he was unfairly imprisoned in Ethiopia for more than a decade seeks independent review. ottawamatters.com/national-news/…

  23-05-2018 02:59 via twitter.com
  Canadian who says he was unfairly imprisoned in Ethiopia for more than a decade seeks independent review.ottawamatters.com/national-news/…
  
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• Civic Hospital site should be turned into a seniors housing village, says MPP Yasir Naqvi

  23-05-2018 02:57 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Ottawa Hospital’s Civic  site should be used for seniors’ housing when the health-care facility moves to its new location in the Experimental Farm, suggests Ottawa Centre MPP Yasir Naqvi.
  He raised the idea during a candidates’ debate about seniors issues on Tuesday at the Glebe Centre, a long-term care home.
  Naqvi said a “seniors’ village” on the Carling Avenue hospital site could include a range of housing, from units for people who want to live ind
  
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• ICYMI: Police seek suspects in Monday evening stabbing in Bayshore Park. #ottnews ottawamatters.com/police-beat/te…

  23-05-2018 02:41 via twitter.com
  ICYMI: Police seek suspects in Monday evening stabbing in Bayshore Park. #ottnewsottawamatters.com/police-beat/te…
  
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• Police seek info on "person of interest" and a vehicle in murder investigation. twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…

  23-05-2018 02:06 via twitter.com
  Police seek info on "person of interest" and a vehicle in murder investigation. twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…
  
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• ICYMI: Ottawa-area family copes with wedding day tragedy. twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…

  23-05-2018 01:08 via twitter.com
  ICYMI: Ottawa-area family copes with wedding day tragedy. twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…
  
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• Tina Boileau will run for her son, Jonathan, on Race Weekend

  23-05-2018 00:29 via ottawacitizen.com
  In a more just world, Jonathan Pitre would be alongside his mother for this Saturday’s 5K event on Tamarack Ottawa Race Weekend. 
  This was the weekend they had circled on their calendar during Jonathan’s long and arduous medical journey in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It was to be their first big event upon returning home to Russell after two years and two stem cell transplants.
  “That was our plan,” said Jonathan’s mother, Tina Boileau. “We had talked about it
  
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• The view from @redblacks camp. ottawamatters.com/around-ontario…

  23-05-2018 00:17 via twitter.com
  The view from @redblacks camp.ottawamatters.com/around-ontario…
  
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