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• Police investigate bullet holes in commercial building

  27-05-2018 23:50 via ottawacitizen.com
  Police say a commercial building in a south-end industrial park was the target of an overnight shooting.
  Police were called to the building on Jamie Avenue, near West Hunt Club Road, at 9:15 a.m. Sunday responding to reports of bullet holes discovered in the exterior wall.
  Investigators determined the building was targeted, and said they recovered evidence at the scene confirming the shooting.
  Police believe the shooting happened around 4 a.m., when no one was inside the building. No one was inj
  
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• The strange alchemy of Shopify's millennials

  27-05-2018 23:38 via ottawacitizen.com
  In the three years since it issued stock to the public, Ottawa’s electronic commerce star Shopify has shaped thousands of mostly young grads into a sales, support and engineering force recognized globally. Shareholders, who gather for their annual meeting on May 30, can’t help but marvel at the result, and wonder whether the pace can continue.
  The capital region has not seen this for a long, long time. Shopify, born 14 years ago above an Elgin Street coffee shop, is busting out all o
  
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• Dunrobin WI celebrates century mark. #ottnews ottawamatters.com/local-news/dun… https://t.co/NwUF1Ew6OR

  27-05-2018 23:30 via twitter.com
  
  Dunrobin WI celebrates century mark. #ottnewsottawamatters.com/local-news/dun… https://t.co/NwUF1Ew6OR
  
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• Emotional return to church for congregation in mourning after librarian's unsolved killing

  27-05-2018 22:38 via ottawacitizen.com
  It was an emotional Sunday service at the First Church of Christ, Scientist as members returned to the church for the first time since learning a beloved member of their congregation was killed in a brazen attack.
  Elisabeth Salm, 59, a librarian at the Christian Science 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. West around 1 p.m. Thursday.
  Her killing remains unsolved. Homicide detectives said Su
  
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• Edmonton's Benjamin Wheelwright lands 'dream' role in 'Harry Potter' on Broadway. ottawamatters.com/around-ontario… https://t.co/EcGCxq3TDh

  27-05-2018 22:30 via twitter.com
  
  Edmonton's Benjamin Wheelwright lands 'dream' role in 'Harry Potter' on Broadway.ottawamatters.com/around-ontario… https://t.co/EcGCxq3TDh
  
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• Seniors' home evacuated as firefighters battle four-alarm blaze

  27-05-2018 21:59 via ottawacitizen.com
  More than 70 seniors were forced to flee from their residence early Sunday morning after a four-alarm fire broke out in the garage of The Meridian retirement home in Centrepointe.
  Paramedics said they triaged 75 residents, who were taken to the nearby Ben Franklin Place, where the city’s office of emergency management established an information centre for residents and their families.
  Ottawa Fire on scene of a 4-Alarm fire at 3 Meridian Place. Fire is in the roof and attic area of a large
  
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• The myth surrounding Canadian Leopard tanks in Afghanistan – driving away decommissioned tanks used as monuments and shipping them to war never happened

  27-05-2018 21:16 via ottawacitizen.com
  As stories go it’s a pretty good one.
  The Canadian Army was up against a tough enemy – the Taliban – in Afghanistan. Commanders called for Leopard tanks to join the battle but those armored vehicles had been mothballed and made into monuments.
  So the ever resourceful Canadian Army crews jumped in the Leopard tanks mounted on concrete pads outside bases as monuments and drove them off those platforms, making sure they were shipped to their comrades in Afghanistan.
  This myth has
  
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• Ottawa pooches soak up morning sunshine at the ByWard Barket. ottawamatters.com/local-news/ott… https://t.co/bWWNmk1CpS

  27-05-2018 20:35 via twitter.com
  
  Ottawa pooches soak up morning sunshine at the ByWard Barket.ottawamatters.com/local-news/ott… https://t.co/bWWNmk1CpS
  
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• Election primer: Stormont-Dundas-South Glengarry

  27-05-2018 20:31 via ottawacitizen.com
  The riding includes all of the united counties of Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry except for the Township of North Glengarry.
  Covering 2,812 sq. km, this riding is home to 103,320 people.The candidates:
  Liberal – Heather MegillA teacher with the Upper Canada District School Board and a vice-president with the Upper Canada Teacher Local of the Elementary Teachers’ Federation of Ontario. She is a retired Captain in the Canadian Armed Forces Reserve and former member of the Stormont Dund
  
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• Election primer: Ottawa West-Nepean

  27-05-2018 20:31 via ottawacitizen.com
  Expected to be a swing riding in the June 7 vote, Ottawa West-Nepean has been Liberal since 2003, coinciding with that party’s tenure in power. In 1999, the riding voted Conservative by an impressive margin, when Garry Guzzo prevailed in a fight against a split opposition comprising New Democratic Party candidate Alex Cullen and Liberal Rick Chiarelli.
  Covering 88 sq. km, this riding is home to 111,835 people.The candidates:
  Liberal – Bob Chiarelli (Current MPP)Born and raised in Ott
  
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• Election primer: Ottawa Vanier

  27-05-2018 20:31 via ottawacitizen.com
  The riding, with a large Franco-Ontarian population has been one of the most solidly Liberal in the country in recent years. It contains the neighbourhoods of Vanier, Lowertown, Overbrook, Sandy Hill and New Endinburgh as well as the tony Rockcliffe Park.
  Covering 45 sq. km, this riding is home to 111,510 people.The candidates:
  Liberal – Nathalie Des Rosiers Current MPP, minister of natural resources and forestry. She holds a law degree from the Université de Montr&ea
  
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• Election primer: Ottawa South

  27-05-2018 20:31 via ottawacitizen.com
  After having been firmly conservative for 60 years, the seat of Ottawa South was held for more than 25 years by two generations of McGuinty’s under the Liberal banner. (**The McGuinty family fief since the 1980s, Liberal MPP John Fraser won the seat after his former boss retired in 2013 — by a narrow margin in a byelection, and then comfortably in 2014. He’s the favourite to be re-elected but, like Lalonde and Naqvi, could be vulnerable if the Liberals’ popularity keeps s
  
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• Election primer: Ottawa Centre

  27-05-2018 20:31 via ottawacitizen.com
  Urban riding in the centre of the capital. The provincial riding has been won by the NDP seven times (1971, 1975, 1977, 1981, 1984 by-election, 1985 and 1990) and by the Liberals eight times (1968, 1987, 1995, 1999, 2003, 2007, 2011, and 2014) and never by the Conservatives or any other party.
  Covering 37 sq. km, this riding is home to 118,040 people.The candidates:
  Liberal – Yasir NaqviA first generation Canadian, he arrived in Canada with his family in 1988 after the Pakistani government
  
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• Election primer: Orléans

  27-05-2018 20:31 via ottawacitizen.com
  For the 2018 election, the former Ottawa-Orléans riding was renamed Orléans, and lost the neighbourhood of Beacon Hill South, but will gain the Cardinal Creek area from Glengarry-Prescott-Russell and the rural area surrounding Carlsbad Spring from parts of Glengarry-Prescott-Russell and Nepean-Carleton. The riding has frequently flipped between Liberal and Conservative representation and results could go either way depending on how well the Doug Ford message resonates in suburban O
  
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• Election primer: Nepean

  27-05-2018 20:31 via ottawacitizen.com
  Newly created riding following the redistribution of boundries, Nepean is mostly comprised of the western portion of the former Nepean-Carleton riding. Popular Tory MPP Lisa MacLeod is running for re-election in Nepean. Liberals showed well here in the last federal election in 2015 (Chandra Arya won), but the forces in that election were very different.
  Covering 173 sq. km, this riding is home to 119,115 people.The candidates:
  Liberal – Lovina SrivastavaHas lived in the riding since 2
  
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• Election primer: Kanata-Carleton

  27-05-2018 20:31 via ottawacitizen.com
  Newly created riding following the redistribution of boundaries, Kanata-Carleton contains almost all of the former Carleton-Mississippi Mills riding, except for the portion south of Highway 7/Highway 417 that transferred to Carleton. A small fraction came from Nepean-Carleton surrounding the Bridlewood neighbourhood. The new riding is much more urban than its main predecessor.
  Covering 806 sq. km, this riding is home to 110,965 people.The candidates:
  Liberal – Stephanie MaghnamEntrepr
  
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• Election primer: Glengarry-Prescott-Russell  

  27-05-2018 20:31 via ottawacitizen.com
  A francophone-majority riding that includes the municipalities of Clarence-Rockland, Township of Russell, Alfred and Plantagenet, the Nation, Casselman, Hawkesbury, Champlain, North Glengarry plus that part of Ottawa located in the former municipality of Cumberland.
  Covering 2,979 sq. km, this riding is home to 109,980 people.The candidates:                                          
  
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• Election primer: Carleton

  27-05-2018 20:31 via ottawacitizen.com
  A new riding created out of the redistribution and redrawing of boundries, it comprises parts of the former Nepean-Carleton riding as well as Carleton-Mississippi Mills and Ottawa South. It also contains many of the fastest growing neighbourhoods in the southern part of the capital. Largely considered to be a conservative riding, both provincially and federally.
  Covering 1,187 sq. km, this riding is home to 102,915 people.The candidates: 
  Liberal – Theresa QadriBorn in Ottawa, sh
  
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• Record broken at Ottawa Race Weekend. #ottnews ottawamatters.com/local-news/rec… https://t.co/1DgPu5f6pc

  27-05-2018 19:45 via twitter.com
  
  Record broken at Ottawa Race Weekend. #ottnews ottawamatters.com/local-news/rec… https://t.co/1DgPu5f6pc
  
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• UPDATE: All residents of the 66-unit condo building at 3 Meridian Place, which is mostly inhabited by seniors, are… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  27-05-2018 17:09 via twitter.com
  UPDATE: All residents of the 66-unit condo building at 3 Meridian Place, which is mostly inhabited by seniors, are… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Thousands enjoy Great Glebe Garage Sale despite weather. #Ottnews ottawamatters.com/local-news/gre… https://t.co/5TUge0YjvU

  27-05-2018 16:36 via twitter.com
  
  Thousands enjoy Great Glebe Garage Sale despite weather. #Ottnewsottawamatters.com/local-news/gre… https://t.co/5TUge0YjvU
  
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• UPDATE: Deputy Fire Chief Paul Hutt tells 1310NEWS close to 75 seniors remain displaced as fire services investigat… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  27-05-2018 14:46 via twitter.com
  UPDATE: Deputy Fire Chief Paul Hutt tells 1310NEWS close to 75 seniors remain displaced as fire services investigat… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Where the leaders of Ontario's main political parties are campaigning on Sunday, May 27: ottawamatters.com/around-ontario…

  27-05-2018 14:44 via twitter.com
  Where the leaders of Ontario's main political parties are campaigning on Sunday, May 27: ottawamatters.com/around-ontario…
  
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• Wilson: Mentally ill people should be allowed assisted death

  27-05-2018 13:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  It isn’t fair and it shouldn’t be legal to sentence people to a life of agony.
  If medical treatments can’t make life bearable, then people should have access to a medically assisted death. This includes those suffering from mental illness, provided they meet the criteria set out by the Supreme Court based on our Constitution. Those with mental illness should have the same rights as the rest of us and they should have the accommodations to enable them to exercise those rights.
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• Firefighters evacuate nursing home following major blaze. 80 units affected, one person injured. #Ottnews… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  27-05-2018 12:33 via twitter.com
  Firefighters evacuate nursing home following major blaze. 80 units affected, one person injured.#Ottnews… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Tina runs for EB days before Jonathan would have turned 18

  27-05-2018 05:44 via ottawacitizen.com
  Tina Boileau’s run was an exercise in optimism and boundless energy throughout Saturday’s five-kilometre event on Tamarack Ottawa Race Weekend.
  Fittingly, the sunshine peeked through the clouds as she made her way back and forth through the crowds that were expressing endless support for her and her late son, Jonathan Pitre, as a source of inspiration and motivation.
  For all that, Boileau was holding back tears as she crossed the finish line, acknowledging a whirlwind of “bitte
  
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• Tina runs for EB days before Jonathan Pitre would have turned 18

  27-05-2018 05:44 via ottawacitizen.com
  Tina Boileau’s run was an exercise in optimism and boundless energy throughout Saturday’s five-kilometre event on Tamarack Ottawa Race Weekend.
  Fittingly, the sunshine peeked through the clouds as she made her way back and forth through the crowds that were expressing endless support for her and her late son, Jonathan Pitre, as a source of inspiration and motivation.
  For all that, Boileau was holding back tears as she crossed the finish line, acknowledging a whirlwind of “bitte
  
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• No major health issues for runners during Day 1 of race weekend, paramedics say

  27-05-2018 05:07 via ottawacitizen.com
  All runners got through Day 1 of the Tamarack Ottawa Race Weekend safely, the Ottawa Paramedic Service tweeted on Saturday night.
  The two-, five- and 10-kilometre events were held Saturday, and that night at 10 the paramedics reported that they had responded to just six on-course calls, all during the 10K run.
  Three patients were moved to The Ottawa Hospital field hospital, with two of those, along with another patient, taken to a local emergency. All were in stable condition and none of the inc
  
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• Woman suffers serious injuries after ATV tips over near Metcalfe

  27-05-2018 05:03 via ottawacitizen.com
  A woman was taken to the trauma centre in serious but stable condition on Saturday night after suffering head and shoulder injuries after an ATV tipped over, the Ottawa Paramedic Service said.
  Another person received minor injuries, a paramedic spokesman said.
  The incident took place near Metcalfe in the area of Bank Street and Mitch Owens Road.
  No other details were available.
  
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• On the wings of a Butterfly: Tina runs for EB days before Jonathan would have turned 18

  27-05-2018 04:16 via ottawacitizen.com
  Tina Boileau’s run was an exercise in optimism and boundless energy throughout Saturday’s five-kilometre event on Tamarack Ottawa Race Weekend.
  Fittingly, the sunshine peeked through the clouds as she made her way back and forth through the crowds that were expressing endless support for her and her late son, Jonathan Pitre, as a source of inspiration and motivation.
  For all that, Boileau was holding back tears as she crossed the finish line, acknowledging a whirlwind of “bitte
  
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• PC candidate's election signs burned in Bancroft

  27-05-2018 04:13 via ottawacitizen.com
  It appears Daryl Kramp doesn’t have unanimous support in Bancroft.
  The Ontario Provincial Police are investigating after three of the Hastings-Lennox Addington Progressive Conservative candidate’s Election Canada signs were torched.
  The police responded to a property on Maxwell Settlement Road on Thursday afternoon after it was reported that someone had set fire to the signs.
  Police said the incident took place sometime between 9 p.m. Wednesday and 6 a.m. Thursday.
  The burning of the
  
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• Eight people taken to hospital after 'signficant collision' on Highway 416 near Brophy

  27-05-2018 03:39 via ottawacitizen.com
  Eight people were taken to hospital after a “significant collision” on Highway 416 near Brophy Drive on Saturday night.
  The Ontario Provincial Police tweeted at 8:16 p.m. that Highway 416 had been closed in both directions between Roger Stevens Drive and Brophy Drive due to a multi-vehicle collision.
  The Ottawa Paramedic Service later said that three people had been taken to the trauma centre in serious but stable condition, while five others had been take to hospital with minor
  
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• Highway 416 closed in both directions due to 'signficant collision' near Brophy

  27-05-2018 02:36 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Ontario Provincial Police tweeted at 8:16 p.m. Saturday that Highway 416 was closed in both directions between Roger Stevens Drive and Brophy Drive due to a multi-vehicle collision.
  The Ottawa Paramedic Service reported minutes later that it was on the scene of a “significant collision” with up to seven patients at 416 and Brophy.
  No other details were immediately available.
  
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• A long run to the start line: Doctor with brain cancer finally gets the chance to race

  27-05-2018 00:59 via ottawacitizen.com
  Dr. Gillian Presner set her personal best just by stepping up to the starting line of Saturday’s 10-kilometre run on the opening day of Tamarack Ottawa Race Weekend.
  “I can safely say that no one in that race has gone through the same journey I have,” said Presner of a run eight years in the making.
  Presner’s journey began in 2010 when she took a beginner’s course at her local gym.
  “I absolutely fell in love with running,” said Presner, 38, a CHEO emerge
  
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