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• top issues for student voters in the Ontario Election. ottawamatters.com/around-ontario…

  24-05-2018 23:25 via twitter.com
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• All eyes on Canada ahead of pot legalization, says top cannabis official

  24-05-2018 23:24 via ottawacitizen.com
  TORONTO – Canada’s top cannabis policy bureaucrat says every time he travels outside of Canada, he is reminded anew of just what a novel enterprise this country has embarked upon.
  “Canada is moving into a place that no country — other than Uruguay — has ventured to go,” Eric Costen, director general for the federal government’s cannabis legalization and regulation branch, told a conference Thursday.
  The world is watching Canada’s plan to legalize r
  
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• Inside the mystifying world of marathon cheating — where the system is hard to beat and the deceit hard to explain

  24-05-2018 22:42 via ottawacitizen.com
  Shaving a few kilometres off of a 42.2-kilometre race might seem pretty trivial to you. The difference between running 42 kilometres and, say, 34 kilometres is immaterial, insofar as for the majority of human beings neither is any more achievable than the other.
  But for the type of person for whom the sanctity of marathoning matters, though, shaving a couple kilometres is sacrilegious. For them, each of the marathon’s 42,195 metres is consecrate, venerated. 
  In other words, marathoner
  
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• Cancer battle fought, Mélanie E moves forward with celebratory concert and new music

  24-05-2018 22:41 via ottawacitizen.com
  For Mélanie Hartshorn-Walton, Feb. 8, 2017 was blessed with the best of gigs and fraught with the worst of diagnoses.
  That night, the Barrhaven woman’s francophone jazz project, Mélanie E, had its coming-out concert at the TD Ottawa Winter Jazz Festival. But hours before she and her quartet hit the stage, Hartshorn-Walton learned she had breast cancer.
  “It was very surreal,” she recalls. “Keith, my husband and tuba player in the band, would look at me a
  
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• Tina Boileau is filling her days, and looking ahead honours for her son Jonathan Pitre, and raising awareness for… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  24-05-2018 22:13 via twitter.com
  Tina Boileau is filling her days, and looking ahead honours for her son Jonathan Pitre, and raising awareness for… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Head-on crash near Kingston kills two ottawamatters.com/police-beat/he… https://t.co/9USsOhsf9p

  24-05-2018 21:29 via twitter.com
  
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• Keep up with road closures for Ottawa Race Weekend ottawamatters.com/local-news/kee… https://t.co/KHUe26HcAp

  24-05-2018 21:18 via twitter.com
  
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• NDP, PCs tied in latest election poll ottawamatters.com/local-news/ndp… https://t.co/R0u3DC1gu6

  24-05-2018 21:12 via twitter.com
  
  NDP, PCs tied in latest election pollottawamatters.com/local-news/ndp… https://t.co/R0u3DC1gu6
  
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• Jeff McGregor, on lessons learned from committing Mark Turner's improvising to paper

  24-05-2018 20:50 via ottawacitizen.com
  New York saxophonist, composer and educator Jeff McGregor first discovered the music of Mark Turner through Turner’s collaborations with guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkel, and as he tells it, was “totally hooked” from there on out.
  This interest in Turner’s very personal and deeply influential music eventually led McGregor, a Calgary native, to write his new book entitled Mark Turner: Transcriptions & Essays, a collection of meticulously notated solos paired with a series of
  
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• 10 fun and free things to do in Ottawa

  24-05-2018 20:38 via ottawacitizen.com
  Having a great time in the nation’s capital doesn’t mean having to break the bank.
  There’s a ton of fun – and free – events and activities happening all year.
  Watch the video above to see some of our favourites.
  
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• Outaouais health officials vow to improve high-risk pregnancy procedures following coroner's report

  24-05-2018 20:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Outaouais health council has moved to equip its hospitals with emergency caesarean section kits and implement specialized high-risk pregnancy training following a coroner’s report that said the lack of such items may have contributed to the death of a Quebec woman and her unborn child.
  In a ruling released publicly this week, coroner Pascale Boulay wrote that Marie-Jacque Fortin, 32, collapsed at her home on March 7, 2016, minutes before 9 p.m. Police were at the scene at 9:02 p.m. and
  
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• Ottawa real estate giant Minto files for initial public offering estimated at $200 million on TSX

  24-05-2018 20:14 via ottawacitizen.com
  Minto Group appears set to raise an estimated $200 million through a listing on the TSX.
  The company, one of Ottawa’s largest real estate firms, this week filed to issue investment units to the public through a new entity called Minto Apartment Real Estate Investment Trust. The price for each REIT unit will be set in coming days, thus determining the final value of the offering. (REITs are more like a mutual fund than a public corporation, which issues shares.)
  Creating the REIT is part of
  
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• Two dead in early morning crash west of Kingston

  24-05-2018 20:12 via ottawacitizen.com
  Two people have died following an early morning collision that closed Taylor-Kidd Boulevard in Amherstview, west of Kingston, on Thursday.
  Emergency services were called to a collision between a van and a car on County Road 23 between County Road 6 and Coronation Boulevard (or County Road 24) at about 5:30 a.m.
  Provincial police originally said three people were taken to hospital. Police later confirmed that two people involved in the crash have been pronounced dead. Next of kin are still being
  
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• Today's letters: Pot, assisted suicide, French and Emily Carr

  24-05-2018 19:56 via ottawacitizen.com
  Why the healthy should be allowed assisted suicideRe: Honesty needed in long-term care, May 22
  I live in a retirement home and I, like the majority of the people here, am relatively healthy. We are all deteriorating with age and if we continue to live we will eventually be sentenced to a long-term care home.
  Everybody to whom I have spoken has three things in common. They are practicing Catholics, they enjoy relatively good health and they would prefer to die rather than become ill and
  
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• PC leader Doug Ford dismisses membership sales allegations made by Liberals. ottawamatters.com/national-news/…

  24-05-2018 19:18 via twitter.com
  PC leader Doug Ford dismisses membership sales allegations made by Liberals. ottawamatters.com/national-news/…
  
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• Scholarship a tribute to Swim Ottawa founder Tom Anzai

  24-05-2018 19:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  An anonymous donor is helping Swim Ottawa establish a scholarship in honour of one of the group’s founder who died in an accident last year.
  The $1,000 Tom Anzai Memorial Swimming Scholarship will be awarded each June. It’s for Grade 12 graduates who have been club members for at least three years, represented the club at the regional level or above and show “sportsmanship and leadership” plus a “passion for life-long swimming.”
  That summed up Anzai, who found
  
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• Renovation Transformation: Remake of Manor Park home outshines buying new

  24-05-2018 18:08 via ottawacitizen.com
  A home might be too expensive, too small or too big. Maybe it’s in the right location but outdated or the wrong location but modern and sophisticated.
  There are many reasons why finding a home is stressful and finding the perfect home is nearly impossible. That’s why homeowner Ellis Westwood said no to moving and yes to an exhaustive and transformative renovation.
  BEFORE: The original home was built in 1948 and mirrors many post-war homes found across Ottawa.
  The renovated house no l
  
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• The @rick_gibbons Show for Thursday, May 24th: 1:08: @BourqueC 1:17: @mspratt 1:30: @EUAmbCanada 1:45: @jiwontina 2… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  24-05-2018 18:06 via twitter.com
  The @rick_gibbons Show for Thursday, May 24th: 1:08: @BourqueC 1:17: @mspratt 1:30: @EUAmbCanada 1:45: @jiwontina 2… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Today on the Power Lunch: @Alex_S_Cullen and @JulieBeun join @_MarkSutcliffe live in studio. Listen: 📻: 1310 💻… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  24-05-2018 17:57 via twitter.com
  Today on the Power Lunch: @Alex_S_Cullen and @JulieBeun join @_MarkSutcliffe live in studio. Listen:📻: 1310 💻… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Maple Flag exercise significantly cut back but exact reasons why remain murky

  24-05-2018 17:15 via ottawacitizen.com
  This year’s Maple Flag exercise will run for only 12 days, less than half of time usually earmarked for the RCAF’s annual premier training event.
  Exercise Maple Flag will take place at Cold Lake, Alberta from June 11 to June 22, with more than 1,500 Canadian military personnel and hundreds of military staff from other nations, according to the RCAF.
  But previous Maple Flag exercises have run more than twice as long. Last year Maple Flag ran from May 29 to June 23 (26 days). It involv
  
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• Canopy Growth kicks off first day on the New York Stock Exchange

  24-05-2018 17:15 via ottawacitizen.com
  Smiths Falls’ Canopy Growth Corp. has opened its shares to interested American investors by kicking off its first day of trading on the New York Stock Exchange Thursday.
  The medical marijuana company, which has been trading on the Toronto Stock Exchange since July 2016, now has its shares available on the American stock exchange under the symbol “CGC,” which differs from its well-known Canadian ticker symbol “WEED.”
  Canopy’s shares opened at $30.85 US on the N
  
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• Coming up at 11:00: Ottawa-Centre Liberal candidate @Yasir_Naqvi joins @_MarkSutcliffe to discuss his party's pla… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  24-05-2018 16:58 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 11:00: Ottawa-Centre Liberal candidate @Yasir_Naqvi joins @_MarkSutcliffe to discuss his party's pla… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Coming up at 10:45: @BoileauTina joins @_MarkSutcliffe to talk about her plans to run for @DEBRACanada at… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  24-05-2018 16:43 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 10:45: @BoileauTina joins @_MarkSutcliffe to talk about her plans to run for @DEBRACanada at… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Coming up at 10:30: @powerstim of @abacusdataca joins @_MarkSutcliffe for his weekly politics segment : 📻: 1310… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  24-05-2018 16:28 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 10:30: @powerstim of @abacusdataca joins @_MarkSutcliffe for his weekly politics segment : 📻: 1310… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Coming up on the 10 O'Clock talk: @LMartinWashDC, @1310glennis and @David_Moscrop join @_MarkSutcliffe live: 📻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  24-05-2018 15:58 via twitter.com
  Coming up on the 10 O'Clock talk: @LMartinWashDC, @1310glennis and @David_Moscrop join @_MarkSutcliffe live: 📻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Coming up at 9:45: @jimestill, CEO of Danby Appliances speaks with @_MarkSutcliffe about sponsoring 61 refugee fa… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  24-05-2018 15:44 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 9:45: @jimestill, CEO of Danby Appliances speaks with @_MarkSutcliffe about sponsoring 61 refugee fa… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Renovation Transformation: Remake of Manor Park home upstages buying new

  24-05-2018 15:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  A home might be too expensive, too small or too big. Maybe it’s in the right location but outdated or the wrong location but modern and sophisticated.
  There are many reasons why finding a home is stressful and finding the perfect home is nearly impossible. That’s why homeowner Ellis Westwood said no to moving and yes to an exhaustive and transformative renovation.
  BEFORE: The original home was built in 1948 and mirrors many of wartime homes found across Ottawa.
  The renovated house no
  
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• Coming up at 9:15: @Pollara President @craigworden joins @_MarkSutcliffe to discuss the latest poll numbers from… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  24-05-2018 15:14 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 9:15: @Pollara President @craigworden joins @_MarkSutcliffe to discuss the latest poll numbers from… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Cormorant search and rescue helicopters to be modernized – Italian firm to get sole-source contract

  24-05-2018 15:11 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Canadian military is moving ahead with plans to upgrade its Cormorant search-and-rescue helicopter fleet and will also examine whether to buy or lease more of the same aircraft.
  The federal government notified industry Thursday morning of the sole source deal to modernize the 14 helicopters. There was no cost attached to the plan but a previous estimate on the upgrade put the price-tag anywhere between $500 million to $1.5 billion.
  The deal is with Leonardo, the Italian aerospace firm whose
  
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• Release the swans! Royal swans make a splash in Rideau River

  24-05-2018 14:50 via ottawacitizen.com
  Diane Deans — who serves as chair of the community and protective services committee — was joined by fellow Ottawa councillors David Chernushenko, Riley Brockington, Mark Taylor and Mathieu Fleury at Brewer Park to officially release the last pair of Royal Swans onto the Rideau River on Wednesday, May 23, 2018. 
  The other swans were released earlier in the day.
  The last pair of Royal Swans released into the Rideau River on Wednesday, May 23, 2018.
   
  
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• Scorching UV levels Thursday, muggy Friday, possible thunderstorms on race weekend

  24-05-2018 14:46 via ottawacitizen.com
  Thursday is looking sunny — and don’t forget your sunscreen — but the risk of rain rolls in Friday and hangs around all weekend.
  The UV index is expected to be 8 or very high for Thursday with sunny skies, southwesterly winds at 20 km/h, a high of 25 C and a low of 14 C.
  Friday’s forecast features mainly cloudy skies with a 60 per cent chance of afternoon showers, southwest winds at 20 km/h gusting to 40 and a high of 25 C that will feel more like 30. There’s a 40 p
  
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• Bibs for Ottawa Race Weekend - made right here in #Ottawa by @BibNumbers #ottnews ottawamatters.com/local-news/rac… https://t.co/9CyHNtrGN6

  24-05-2018 14:41 via twitter.com
  
  Bibs for Ottawa Race Weekend - made right here in #Ottawa by @BibNumbers #ottnewsottawamatters.com/local-news/rac… https://t.co/9CyHNtrGN6
  
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• Three major party leaders in southern Ont. today, 2 weeks from voting day. #onpoli #onelxn bit.ly/2x7InIu

  24-05-2018 14:25 via twitter.com
  Three major party leaders in southern Ont. today, 2 weeks from voting day. #onpoli #onelxnbit.ly/2x7InIu
  
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• Third victim linked to fake Uber driver: Police

  24-05-2018 14:17 via ottawacitizen.com
  A man accused of sexually assaulting women while posing as an Uber driver is facing charges in connection with a third victim, police said Thursday.
  And investigators are concerned there still may be others.
  Hissan Hamad, 37, faces an an additional charge of sexual assault after investigators linked him to a report filed by a woman about an April 2017 incident in downtown Ottawa
  Hamad was scheduled to appear in court for a bail hearing Thursday.
  Detectives with the city’s sexual assau
  
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• Cappies review: Almonte and District High School presents The 39 Steps

  24-05-2018 14:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  Show #23: The 39 Steps
  Where: Almonte and District High School
  Director: Jenny Sheffield
  Jagnoor Saran, Lead CriticElmwood School
  Picture this: you’re a mundane man living a mundane life. Stuck in the monotonous routine that is your existence, you begin to ponder more and more frequently just how pointless you really are. But then … BANG! A woman is murdered in your lap, and suddenly your days are anything but simple. In its hysterical rendition of The 39 Steps, Almonte and District
  
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• Kanata man who died on Irish mountain remembered for his compassion, sensitivity

  24-05-2018 13:58 via ottawacitizen.com
  The day before he died on a mountain range in Ireland, Simon Paquette told his family that he and his fiancée had just completed the most beautiful hike of their lives.
  The 32-year-old Ottawa native was vacationing last week after achieving a long-standing goal – opening his own psychology practice.
  Both passionate travellers and lovers of outdoor adventure, Paquette’s father Frank said the couple were in their element in Ireland, and likely at their happiest together. Th
  
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• False Uber driver faces more charges. #ottnews twitter.com/OttawaPolice/s…

  24-05-2018 13:50 via twitter.com
  False Uber driver faces more charges.#ottnews twitter.com/OttawaPolice/s…
  
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• QUESTION OF THE DAY: Should #Ottawa follow other cities in banning plastic straws?

  24-05-2018 13:44 via twitter.com
  QUESTION OF THE DAY: Should #Ottawa follow other cities in banning plastic straws?
  
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• City, unions set to return to negotiating table in Cornwall municipal strike

  24-05-2018 13:26 via ottawacitizen.com
  Striking Cornwall municipal workers and city negotiators were to return to the bargaining table Thursday, after Cornwall inside workers joined their counterparts on the picket lines on Wednesday morning.
  The city issued a press release after the rally responding to a request from CUPE to return to the bargaining table.
  “The city has always been ready and willing to participate fully in the bargaining process and has accepted CUPE’s invitation to meet (Thursday) at 9 a.m. to
  
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• Adam: Doug Ford needs a platform – now

  24-05-2018 13:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  The pollsters still say that despite the NDP’s recent surge, the odds still favour Doug Ford as the next premier of Ontario. That being so, time is running out on Ford to lay out in clear detail where he wants to take Ontario, and how he intends to get there.
  He promised from day one and hasn’t delivered – and he promised once again Wednesday – to unveil a costed platform. He must release one now because we can’t have someone for premier who won’t tell us what
  
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• #Ottawa city staff will research ways to reduce plastic waste, but a council motion did not include a ban on single… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  24-05-2018 12:28 via twitter.com
  #Ottawa city staff will research ways to reduce plastic waste, but a council motion did not include a ban on single… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Police are searching for two robbery suspects wanted in connection to a violent robbery in Lowertown. They believe… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  24-05-2018 12:27 via twitter.com
  Police are searching for two robbery suspects wanted in connection to a violent robbery in Lowertown. They believe… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Ottawa fire crews battled a blaze in the Carlingwood area Wednesday night. No injuries reported but three people we… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…

  24-05-2018 11:16 via twitter.com
  Ottawa fire crews battled a blaze in the Carlingwood area Wednesday night. No injuries reported but three people we… twitter.com/i/web/status/9…
  
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• Three residents displaced after house fire in Carlingwood

  24-05-2018 04:05 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa firefighters made quick work of a house fire early Wednesday evening.
  A 911 call reported heavy black smoke from the second floor of the home at 737 Manitou Dr., in the Carlingwood district. Crews arrived to find a working fire on the first floor and brought it under control shortly before 8 p.m.
  The residents, a woman and two elderly occupants, were not at home. Victim services has been called in to assist them.
  The cause of the fire was under investigation, the Ottawa Fire Service said
  
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• ICYMI: This summer's going to be hotter and drier, according to Environment Canada. ottawamatters.com/local-news/cap…

  24-05-2018 03:50 via twitter.com
  ICYMI: This summer's going to be hotter and drier, according to Environment Canada.ottawamatters.com/local-news/cap…
  
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• PC, Liberal candidates slug it out in Carleton riding debate

  24-05-2018 03:47 via ottawacitizen.com
  Provincewide issues like energy, climate change and health care wait times, rather than local issue, dominated the all-candidates’ debate Wednesday night in the newly created Carleton riding. 
  The debate at the Greely Community Centre was the third of four that the six-member slate of candidates will take part in. The one-candidate, one-question format did not allow candidates to rebut each other for the most part, leaving them instead to sell their parties’ visions of what are
  
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• CN Rail to buy hundreds of grain hopper cars to get shipments rolling. ottawamatters.com/national-news/…

  24-05-2018 03:10 via twitter.com
  CN Rail to buy hundreds of grain hopper cars to get shipments rolling.ottawamatters.com/national-news/…
  
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• "Keep you knees together" judge practicing law again in Alberta. ottawamatters.com/national-news/…

  24-05-2018 02:46 via twitter.com
  "Keep you knees together" judge practicing law again in Alberta.ottawamatters.com/national-news/…
  
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• Guide for lawyers to understand Indigenous rights, culture. ottawamatters.com/around-ontario…

  24-05-2018 02:06 via twitter.com
  Guide for lawyers to understand Indigenous rights, culture.ottawamatters.com/around-ontario…
  
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• ICYMI: CityFolk lineup features Steve Earle, Skydiggers, David Byrne. ottawamatters.com/local-news/25t…

  24-05-2018 01:28 via twitter.com
  ICYMI: CityFolk lineup features Steve Earle, Skydiggers, David Byrne. ottawamatters.com/local-news/25t…
  
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