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• Motorists need to drive more safely, say Ottawa Police. A recent road safety blitz saw 1146 charges laid against Ot… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  25-05-2018 23:54 via twitter.com
  Motorists need to drive more safely, say Ottawa Police. A recent road safety blitz saw 1146 charges laid against Ot… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Family to run on race weekend in memory of daughter who died of cancer

  25-05-2018 23:16 via ottawacitizen.com
  Before her daughter Phoebe got sick, Jenny Doull used to be a runner.
  “Just having a child in the hospital, your health comes last,” Doull said. “So I’m really happy to be back running. And it’s done wonders for my mental health as a bereaved parent. It kind of helps to calm my mind, and I often think about Phoebe on my runs.”
  In 2010, Phoebe was diagnosed with infant leukemia at just nine weeks old. She was given a 15 per cent chance of surviving past age fiv
  
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• Ottawa Police investigate city's 12th murder of 2018. #ottnews ottawamatters.com/police-beat/po…

  25-05-2018 23:10 via twitter.com
  Ottawa Police investigate city's 12th murder of 2018. #ottnewsottawamatters.com/police-beat/po…
  
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• Wynne "not giving up" despite trailing in the polls ahead of June provncial election. ottawamatters.com/around-ontario…

  25-05-2018 22:40 via twitter.com
  Wynne "not giving up" despite trailing in the polls ahead of June provncial election.ottawamatters.com/around-ontario…
  
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• Holy cats! Boxes full of felines turned over to Ottawa Humane Society

  25-05-2018 22:20 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Ottawa Humane Society is awash with cats after 30 young felines were found in two cardboard boxes and two dog crates in the hot sun on the property of a local pest-control company.
  The company’s staff brought the felines to the humane society Thursday. The cats include some kittens as young as three weeks old and juveniles, as well as a lactating female who has been nursing the kittens, much to the relief of humane society staff.
  Most of the cats appear to be in good health and all are
  
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• Boxes full of felines found on property

  25-05-2018 22:18 via ottawacitizen.com
  A local pest control company discovered two boxes filled with cats and kittens and brought them to the Ottawa Humane Society.
   
  
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• Resurfacing projects feature in city road works this summer. #ottnews ottawamatters.com/local-news/con…

  25-05-2018 22:15 via twitter.com
  Resurfacing projects feature in city road works this summer. #ottnews ottawamatters.com/local-news/con…
  
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• BREAKING: @OttawaPolice confirm the victim in Thursday's attack at the Christian Science Reading Room on Laurier Av… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  25-05-2018 21:15 via twitter.com
  BREAKING: @OttawaPolice confirm the victim in Thursday's attack at the Christian Science Reading Room on Laurier Av… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Librarian dies after violent beating, sexual assault in downtown religious building

  25-05-2018 21:06 via ottawacitizen.com
  A librarian has been killed after a violent daytime beating and sexual assault inside the Christian Science Reading Room downtown.
  Elisabeth Salm, 59, who has been a librarian at the reading room since May 2011, was found bloodied, beaten unconscious and half-naked inside the office of the drop-in space at 141C Laurier Ave. W., near Elgin Street, around 1 p.m. Thursday.
  She was taken to hospital with life-threatening injuries where she was on life support. She was pronounced dead Friday. It is t
  
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• Month-long lane closures on Colonel By Drive

  25-05-2018 20:57 via ottawacitizen.com
  Colonel By Drive is going to be squeezed narrower for about a month.
  There will be lane closures in both directions at the University of Ottawa underpass and the Corktown Footbridge from Monday, May 28, to the end of June 2018, as crews build cycling and pedestrian crossings at the intersection.
  The closures will occur in one lane at a time outside of peak hours, between 9:30 a.m. and 3 p.m., weather permitting. Workers with flags will control the flow of traffic.
  Short sections of the entrances
  
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• Downtown murder: Why did such a violent attack occur?

  25-05-2018 20:54 via ottawacitizen.com
  UPDATE: A librarian has been killed after a violent daytime beating and sexual assault inside the Christian Science Reading Room downtown.
  “Investigators are following up on all information and there is no suspect in custody at this time,” Ottawa police Insp. Jamie Dunlop said in a news release Friday.
  Watch the video to find out more.
  FULL STORY: Librarian dies after violent beating, sexual assault in downtown religious building
  
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• OPP charge retirement home head with sex assault, exploitation

  25-05-2018 20:29 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Ontario Provincial Police have charged the owner-operator of a retirement home in Augusta with sexual assault and sexual exploitation against two alleged victims, including a resident of the home.
  The Prescott detachment of the OPP, along with the Grenville County crime unit, said the charges relate to an ongoing sexual assault investigation at the Green Acres Retirement Home, reported to police on March 27.
  Police said two alleged victims have been identified, one of whom was a re
  
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• Dawson: Your money is subsidizing a luxury yacht company

  25-05-2018 20:28 via ottawacitizen.com
  The lifestyles of the rich and famous, man.
  While the rest of us walk our dogs along the canal or maybe hop in a canoe or onto a paddleboard, a swanky European company is set to charge the willing and able thousands of dollars to cruise on luxury yachts as they go up and down the waterway. The first boats started cruising the canal last weekend — and Le Boat says it’s more than 70 per cent sold out for the season.
  Sounds nice, doesn’t it?
  Except that Le Boat&rsqu
  
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• Three officer cadets to be booted from Canadian Forces after desecrating Qur'an

  25-05-2018 20:13 via ottawacitizen.com
  Three officer cadets will be kicked out of the Canadian Forces after they were involved in the desecration of a Qur’an with bacon and bodily fluids.
  Four cadets from the Royal Military College in Saint-Jean, Que., were involved in the incident that took place March 31.
  The incident involving the Islamic sacred book took place off campus.
  It was reported to Royal Military College Saint-Jean authorities on April 10 and an investigation was initiated the same day, the Canadian Forces said in
  
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• Missing woman's body found in river, no foul play suspected

  25-05-2018 20:09 via ottawacitizen.com
  Police say a body found in the Ottawa River on Monday has been identified as a 43-year-old woman who was missing since February.
  Police said Friday the woman’s body was found in the water, near the Portage Bridge, around 9 p.m. She was identified following forensic analysis.
  No foul play is suspected, said police.
  
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• Librarian, 59, on life support after violent assault in downtown religious building

  25-05-2018 19:23 via ottawacitizen.com
  A librarian remains on life support in hospital after a violent daytime beating and sexual assault inside the Christian Science Reading Room downtown. The case has been transferred to homicide detectives.
  The woman, 59, who has been a librarian at the reading room since May 2011, was found bloodied, beaten unconscious and half-naked inside the office of the drop-in space at 141C Laurier Ave. W., near Elgin Street, around 1 p.m. Thursday.
  She was taken to hospital with life-threatening injuries.
  
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• Fairness Monitor reports on Canadian Surface Combatant remain secret

  25-05-2018 19:10 via ottawacitizen.com
  Public Services and Procurement Canada has highlighted its hiring of a Fairness Monitor as a way to ensure “fairness, openness and transparency of the competitive procurement process” on the Canadian Surface Combatant program.
  The program, expected to cost taxpayers as much as $60 billion, will see the construction of 15 warships.
  But in its response to a Parliamentary question submitted by the Conservatives, Public Services and Procurement Canada acknowledged it already has interim
  
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• Why did Kathleen Wynne get into politics?

  25-05-2018 18:44 via ottawacitizen.com
  “There was a fundamental undermining of the public institutions.”
  Listen to Kathleen Wynne explain why she decided to make the leap into provincial politics.
   
  
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• Editorial: Sober second thought on impaired driving bill

  25-05-2018 17:53 via ottawacitizen.com
  When the federal Liberals unveiled its overhaul of impaired driving legislation in April 2017, alongside its trademark cannabis legalization bill, one of the most immediately surprising changes was that it was to allow police to request breath samples from drivers whenever they wanted – officers didn’t need to suspect the driver was impaired.
  Other nations, such as Australia and Ireland, say these powers to randomly breathalyze drivers dramatically reduce impaired driving. That&rsquo
  
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• The @rick_gibbons Show for Friday, May 25th: 1:08: @ForumPoll 1:17: @RossMcleanSec 1:30: @HalvorsenJohn 1:45:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  25-05-2018 17:41 via twitter.com
  The @rick_gibbons Show for Friday, May 25th: 1:08: @ForumPoll 1:17: @RossMcleanSec 1:30: @HalvorsenJohn 1:45:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Coming up 11:45: @BarryDavis_ joins @_MarkSutcliffe to talk @BlueJays: 📻: 1310 💻: bit.ly/2oQd8u1… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  25-05-2018 17:40 via twitter.com
  Coming up 11:45:@BarryDavis_ joins @_MarkSutcliffe to talk @BlueJays:📻: 1310 💻: bit.ly/2oQd8u1… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Police release photos of Orléans pharmacy robbery suspect

  25-05-2018 17:25 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa police have released two photos and are asking for the public’s help in identifying a suspect in an Orléans pharmacy robbery.
  Police say a man wearing a mask approached the counter of a pharmacy on the 2900 block of St. Joseph Boulevard, near Place d’Orléans Drive, on April 9 at about 9:30 p.m.
  The man walked behind the counter and allegedly demanded fentanyl and other narcotics from the pharmacist. He took narcotics and other medication and left the buildin
  
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• 'Doug Ford hasn’t earned the benefit of the doubt on his nomination scandal' @stphnmaher joins @_MarkSutcliffe at… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  25-05-2018 17:25 via twitter.com
  'Doug Ford hasn’t earned the benefit of the doubt on his nomination scandal'@stphnmaher joins @_MarkSutcliffe at… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Gormley: Free expression isn't at odds with public safety

  25-05-2018 17:14 via ottawacitizen.com
  One year ago, the Court of Appeal for Ontario deftly summarized an error committed by both those who oppose and support the protection of journalists’ sources. It summarized the error by making it.
  “A free and vigorous press is essential to the proper functioning of a democracy,” it said. True enough.
  “The protection of society from serious criminal activity is equally important to the maintenance of a functioning democracy,” it said. Right again.
  But then this: &ld
  
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• On the Ethics Lab with @dk_munro & @_MarkSutcliffe: -Amazon's facial recognition service -liberating...err, steali… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  25-05-2018 16:54 via twitter.com
  On the Ethics Lab with @dk_munro & @_MarkSutcliffe:-Amazon's facial recognition service -liberating...err, steali… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Coming up at 10:45: Peggy Hickman joins @_MarkSutcliffe on Ottawa Race weekend and fundraising for the… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  25-05-2018 16:40 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 10:45: Peggy Hickman joins @_MarkSutcliffe on Ottawa Race weekend and fundraising for the… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Coming up at 10:30: @thatkatetaylor joins @_marksutcliffe on the latest Star wars film Sol: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  25-05-2018 16:25 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 10:30:@thatkatetaylor joins @_marksutcliffe on the latest Star wars film Sol: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Ottawa’s power trio: Meet three women who are working to improve the local music scene

  25-05-2018 16:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  For decades, playing music has been considered a diversion, something fun to do until one is forced to follow that eternal parental advice espoused by George Thorogood, and “get a real job.”
  Well, that attitude is changing fast, thanks to a number of studies conducted in recent years that show the importance of music to the general economy. Live music, for example, contributes a whopping $1.2 billion to Ontario’s economy, according to a 2015 Music Canada-commissioned report on
  
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• Coming up on the Power Lunch today: @Baileymariereid & @rick_gibbons join @_MarkSutcliffe in studio: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  25-05-2018 16:00 via twitter.com
  Coming up on the Power Lunch today: @Baileymariereid & @rick_gibbons join @_MarkSutcliffe in studio: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Coming up on the 10 O'Clock Talk: @jonathanmcleod, @WendyBoomer & @erin_gee join @_MarkSutcliffe live: Listen:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  25-05-2018 15:50 via twitter.com
  Coming up on the 10 O'Clock Talk:@jonathanmcleod, @WendyBoomer & @erin_geejoin @_MarkSutcliffe live:Listen:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Today's letters: Election season!

  25-05-2018 15:41 via ottawacitizen.com
  Should I even bother voting this time?
  In the many, many years since I became an adult with the right to vote in federal and provincial elections, I have taken pride in always casting a vote.
  I am non-partisan, so I have voted Conservative, Liberal and NDP at one time or another, either to offer support to a party I believe is best for that particular time, or to get rid of someone like Stephen Harper.
  But June 7, what to do? Is it best to go with the devil you know (Kathleen Wynne) or the great
  
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• Road closures: What to know for Ottawa Race Weekend

  25-05-2018 15:38 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Tamarack Ottawa Race Weekend is a major annual event in the city’s core. And while thousands will enjoy both participating in a variety of runs and cheering on the competitors, there will be road closures to consider.
  Here is what you need to know.
  Saturday, May 26
  See road closures on an interactive map.Laurier Avenue between Metcalfe and Nicholas – 1 to 9 p.m.
  Elgin Street between Cooper and Wellington – 1 to 7:30 p.m.
  Elgin Street between Cooper and Frank – 2:30 to
  
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• Ottawa Race Weekend organizers plan for stormy skies

  25-05-2018 15:31 via ottawacitizen.com
  With stormy skies ahead for Saturday and Sunday, Tamarack Ottawa Race Weekend organizers say runners should be prepared for potential delays and seek shelter if conditions get rough.
  If thunder or lightning crash the party before a race begins, organizers said they will delay its start until the storm passes. This could impact the start times of races that follow, spokeswoman Annie Boucher said.
  Three races are scheduled for Saturday — the Ottawa 2K, HTG Sports Ottawa 5K and Ottawa 10K &md
  
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• It's back: Black is the new, well, black

  25-05-2018 15:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  Like the ubiquitous little black dress, using black in home décor has always been a timeless classic. But this staple of design, often used sparingly as a subtle accent, has recently ramped up to take centre stage, showing how black is back – big time.
  From cabinets to fixtures, window trim, doors, appliances, floors and whole rooms, black is everywhere. It has even been deemed the colour of the year for 2018 by no less than three paint makers, and figures to feature prominently in
  
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• Gabriela Dabrowski loves life as a tennis pro, but she misses the family cats … a lot

  25-05-2018 14:44 via ottawacitizen.com
  Gabriela Dabrowski professes much love for her hometown.
  Ottawa is not conducive to year-round outdoor preparation for world-class tennis, though, so the 26-year-old has made Tampa, Fla., her training base and home away from home.
  Saddlebrook resort coaches are supportive, plus she knows the fitness trainers well. People she stays with when the Women’s Tennis Association Tour schedule doesn’t have her flying around the world are tennis-loving friends.
  “I don’t get to see
  
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• Finding lightning in a bottle: The chemistry between tennis doubles players

  25-05-2018 14:44 via ottawacitizen.com
  Finding a doubles partner for Grand Slam tennis requires connections, patience, persistence and a good smartphone data plan.
  Ottawa’s Gabriela Dabrowski won a French Open mixed doubles championship with India’s Rohan Bopanna last June, and they played together at Wimbledon in July and the U.S. Open in September, losing in the quarter-finals both times.
  Little wonder, then, that Dabrowski was blindsided when she learned Bopanna had decided to play in the Australian Open in January wit
  
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• Meet Gabriela Dabrowski: Ottawa's overnight tennis success, 19 years in the making

  25-05-2018 14:34 via ottawacitizen.com
  Only four Canadians have reached the pinnacle of tennis in the modern era.
  They have achieved success at the highest level, winning one or more of the sport’s four “Grand Slam” tournaments: Wimbledon, the U.S. Open, the French Open or the Australian Open.
  The first was Montreal’s Sébastien Lareau, a U.S. Open men’s doubles winner with American Alex O’Brien in 1999. Toronto’s Daniel Nestor became a national hero with a dozen titles between 200
  
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• Opinion: How America and Canada are diverging on the sad legacy of torture

  25-05-2018 14:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  Canada recently apologized and gave $10 million to a Canadian tortured by Americans. Meanwhile, the United States just promoted someone who oversaw torture to the post of CIA director.
  The political contrast between the Canadian and American approaches is jarring. The differences owe a lot to stronger protections in Canadian law.
  In 2002, Gina Haspel ran a CIA black site in Thailand where at least one detainee was tortured with waterboarding, which is a way to make someone feel like they are dro
  
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• Kathleen Wynne responds to Doug Ford's plan to cut 6 billion dollars from the budget

  25-05-2018 13:59 via ottawacitizen.com
  “I think the campaign has to be about shining a light on what’s really being said and what the real impact will be.”
  Doug Ford has made several big campaign promises that Kathleen Wynne thinks just won’t work.
  Watch the video to see what she thinks about his financial plan.
  
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• Uber self-driving SUV saw pedestrian, did not brake: bit.ly/2J26kpg https://t.co/4EBHACmngR

  25-05-2018 13:00 via twitter.com
  
  Uber self-driving SUV saw pedestrian, did not brake: bit.ly/2J26kpg https://t.co/4EBHACmngR
  
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• Timeless tips for runners as the big race approaches

  25-05-2018 13:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  Paying attention to a few details can take the stress out of race day, whether you are a seasoned runner or preparing for your first race.
  With the Tamarack Ottawa Race Weekend about to seize the city with three races Saturday and three on Sunday, this newspaper asked John Halvorsen to provide some tips for runners before and after their big day.
  Best known today as race director for the weekend events, Halvorsen was a brilliant runner in his day. Named the 1989 Runner’s World racer of the
  
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• Spotlight: Ottawa artist captures texture of Chinatown with storefront illustrations

  25-05-2018 13:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  Spotlight is a weekly look at some of the people who are part of the Ottawa area’s arts community. This week, Bruce Deachman talks with artist Colin White, who has been documenting numerous storefronts in his Chinatown neighbourhood. Visit colinwhite.ca or patreon.com/ColinWhite for more information.
  One of artist Colin White’s illustrations of storefronts in Chinatown.
  “Art was something I was good at as a kid. I was always drawing and cartooning and doing creative stuff in ge
  
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• MacDougall: It’s time for Trudeau to show some substance on something … anything, really

  25-05-2018 13:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  One of the burdens of being prime minister is that it affords the occupant of the office scant room to hide. Not that Justin Trudeau isn’t trying.
  The prime minister returned from his trip to New York and Boston with sweet Fanny Adams on borders or trade, i.e. the two major irritants in Canada’s relationship with The Massive Irritant fronting the Gazebo of Crazy™ formerly known as the presidency.
  Not that you’d know Canada was much bothered — on either front —
  
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• Rain, thunderstorms expected over next few days

  25-05-2018 12:58 via ottawacitizen.com
  Remind us: Is anything happening in Ottawa this weekend?
  Anything at all that you might want to stay dry for?
  Oh, there’s the Great Glebe Garage Sale and it’s also Ottawa Race Weekend?
  Well, that makes this forecast even worse.
  Environment Canada is predicting rain and thunderstorms over the next three days.
  Friday starts off with some clouds and some rain in the morning.
  The high is pegged near 25 C but will feel closer to 30 with the humidity.
  The skies might clear up for a bi
  
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• Lava from Hawaii volcano enters ocean from 3 flows: bit.ly/2scwVW5 https://t.co/mVgpODc4d3

  25-05-2018 12:51 via twitter.com
  
  Lava from Hawaii volcano enters ocean from 3 flows: bit.ly/2scwVW5 https://t.co/mVgpODc4d3
  
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• Officials: Weinstein to surrender in sexual misconduct probe: bit.ly/2ktD5Ot https://t.co/DjOgzMEnZS

  25-05-2018 12:12 via twitter.com
  
  Officials: Weinstein to surrender in sexual misconduct probe: bit.ly/2ktD5Ot https://t.co/DjOgzMEnZS
  
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• Trudeau accepts award for LGBTQ advocacy, says more work to be done: bit.ly/2s5VRiU https://t.co/joEQQuVOz4

  25-05-2018 12:00 via twitter.com
  
  Trudeau accepts award for LGBTQ advocacy, says more work to be done: bit.ly/2s5VRiU https://t.co/joEQQuVOz4
  
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• Reevely: Newly vulnerable Ford campaign will force Ontario's parties to focus on Toronto

  25-05-2018 12:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  The wheels aren’t off the Doug Ford campaign to be premier of Ontario, but they’re wobbling something fierce.
  The Progressive Conservatives and New Democrats are neck-and-neck, according to three separate recent polls. The Tories are destroying the Liberals, which was what Ford was put into his party’s leadership to do. But they’re now having to resist attacks from an unexpected direction.
  On Thursday, the still-kicking Liberals shared detailed allegations that Ford himse
  
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• Six races hit the streets of Ottawa and Gatineau this weekend. Road closures start today. #otttraffic twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…

  25-05-2018 11:46 via twitter.com
  Six races hit the streets of Ottawa and Gatineau this weekend. Road closures start today. #otttraffic twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…
  
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• Netherlands, Australia hold Russia liable for downing MH17: bit.ly/2IIMlwx https://t.co/yTMK0Nosvc

  25-05-2018 11:35 via twitter.com
  
  Netherlands, Australia hold Russia liable for downing MH17: bit.ly/2IIMlwx https://t.co/yTMK0Nosvc
  
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