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• Teen who wore anti-gay T-shirt to Saunders Farm gets conditional discharge

  28-05-2018 23:46 via ottawacitizen.com
  A Quebec teen who sparked a social media firestorm after photos were posted of him wearing an anti-gay T-shirt has been handed a conditional discharge.
  Julien Clément pleaded guilty to mischief in “willingly interfering with enjoyment of property” on Monday.
  Under the conditions, he is to undergo a year of probation, he must keep the peace and be of good behaviour and not possess weapons. Although he was found guilty, the court did not enter a formal conviction.
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• NDP Leader Andrea Horwath takes the election fight to PC Leader Doug Ford's back yard. ottawamatters.com/national-news/…

  28-05-2018 23:46 via twitter.com
  NDP Leader Andrea Horwath takes the election fight to PC Leader Doug Ford's back yard. ottawamatters.com/national-news/…
  
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• Folksinger Steve Poltz: 'I have the ultimate job'

  28-05-2018 23:32 via ottawacitizen.com
  NAC Presents
  Steve Poltz
  8:30 p.m. April 29, Fourth Stage, National Arts Centre
  Tickets: $23, plus surcharges, available at nac-cna.ca and ticketmaster.ca
  Steve Poltz is a globe-trotting folksinger on a mission to make people smile. Born in Halifax, he grew up in California, and may be best known as the co-writer behind Jewel’s 1996 hit ballad You Were Meant For Me.Most of his career, however, has been spent under the radar, performing more than 200 shows a year. When he’s not travel
  
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• Phoenix Pay: Auditor General to weigh in (again) on Tuesday

  28-05-2018 23:25 via ottawacitizen.com
  Auditor General Michael Ferguson on Tuesday will dissect the Phoenix Pay debacle for the second time in six months.
  In his first effort, delivered last November, Ferguson pointed out it had taken the bureaucrats in charge of the $310 million project a full year after problems first became evident to come up with a plan to fix the flawed system.
  Just as damning, Ferguson calculated the cost of a repair would likely top $540 million by March 31, 2019.
  Finance Minister Bill Morneau confirmed this a
  
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• Reevely: All parties pledge to build a new Civic — but how they'll do it isn't always clear

  28-05-2018 23:15 via ottawacitizen.com
  Doug Ford and Andrea Horwath would both build a new Civic campus for The Ottawa Hospital, their parties promised Monday, answering a Liberal attack that neither the Progressive Conservatives nor the New Democrats specifically mention the $2-billion project in any of their previous promises.
  Plans for a major new hospital to replace the century-old Civic building have been in the works for a decade. The Ottawa Hospital has leased federal land near Dow’s Lake and begun work on design concept
  
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• Teen charged in killing of librarian appears in court

  28-05-2018 23:02 via ottawacitizen.com
  The teenager charged in the slaying of librarian Elisabeth Salm made his first court appearance Monday by video link as her family watched from the gallery.
  Tyler Hikoalok, 18, is charged with first-degree murder. He mostly looked down at his hands during the brief video appearance as the judge ordered him to remain in custody and not communicate with two people. His next court date is June 5.
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• Night before, teen accused in Christian Science killing seemed 'normal'

  28-05-2018 23:02 via ottawacitizen.com
  Music, it was once written, helped save his life. Violence, it is now alleged, is threatening to ruin it.
  Tyler Hikoalok, who just turned 18, made a first appearance in court Monday and is accused of a horror-filled crime — the daytime slaying of a Christian librarian who volunteered her time to support those looking for healing through the Scriptures. “Sweetness” is how her friends described the nature of Elisabeth Salm, 59.
  Appearing via video-link, Hikoalok mostly looked dow
  
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• Weekend six-hour parking begins on streets without posted limits

  28-05-2018 22:54 via ottawacitizen.com
  Motorists will be treated to more free parking on streets without posted time limits starting this weekend.
  The City of Ottawa will start six-hour parking limits on those streets between 7 a.m. and 7 p.m. on weekends and holidays, increasing the current maximum by three hours.
  The city consulted the public about the parking proposal before bringing it to the transportation committee and council for approval last September. Now it’s time to put the new bylaw into force. The rules go into ef
  
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• Diver dies during recovery effort of downed plane in Ottawa River

  28-05-2018 22:34 via ottawacitizen.com
  A diver who worked to recover a small plane that plunged into the Ottawa River on Saturday morning died during the recovery effort, police said Monday.
  John Beevis, 56, of Laurentian Valley Township became entangled in a rope attached to the plane — which made a forced landing near Balmer Bay on the Ottawa River in the town of Laurentian Hills on Friday. The 49-year-old pilot, who had departed from the Deep River airport, suffered minor injuries when he set the plane down in the river
  
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• Suspect identified in south end shooting that left man dead, woman injured

  28-05-2018 22:22 via ottawacitizen.com
  Police are hunting for a 34-year-old man after a shooting on Sunday evening left a father of two dead and a woman injured.
  On Monday afternoon Ottawa police said they’d obtained a Canada-wide warrant for Tristan Campbell, whom police described as armed and dangerous.
  The night before, dozens of police vehicles descended on a townhouse on Patola Private after police reported an “active shooting” around 7:30 p.m.
  Police snipers were lying flat on the street, shielded by parked ca
  
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• Man injured in 'car surfing' incident in Kingston. Police seek witnesses. ottawamatters.com/around-ontario…

  28-05-2018 22:22 via twitter.com
  Man injured in 'car surfing' incident in Kingston. Police seek witnesses.ottawamatters.com/around-ontario…
  
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• UPDATE: Shooting suspect is wanted on charges of second degree murder, and two counts of attempted murder. #ottnews. twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…

  28-05-2018 22:21 via twitter.com
  UPDATE: Shooting suspect is wanted on charges of second degree murder, and two counts of attempted murder. #ottnews. twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…
  
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• Warrant issued for suspect in deadly South Keys shooting. #ottnews ottawamatters.com/police-beat/su…

  28-05-2018 22:11 via twitter.com
  Warrant issued for suspect in deadly South Keys shooting. #ottnews ottawamatters.com/police-beat/su…
  
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• Damage from fire at seniors' residence set at $1M

  28-05-2018 22:11 via ottawacitizen.com
  A fire that forced more than 70 senior residents to flee their residence early Sunday morning caused more than $1-million damage to the 66 unit retirement home in Centrepointe.
  Fire officials said the four-alarm fire started around 3 a.m. on the roof and attic of a parking structure, at The Meridian retirement home near Algonquin College. Firefighters were able to contain the flames to the common area that links 1 and 3 Meridian Place. Officials said about 60 of the 66 units were affected by smo
  
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• Purple putty-like substance contained heroin and fentanyl, police say

  28-05-2018 22:07 via ottawacitizen.com
  A purple putty-like substance seized from a Vanier home early this month has been confirmed as a powerful opioid mixture, known as purple heroin.
  On Monday, the Ottawa police drug unit received the results of the analysis by Health Canada confirming that the substance seized on May 9 contained heroin and fentanyl, as well as other non-controlled substances.
  City officials say the substance — known by its street name “purple pebbles” — is becoming more prevalent in the cit
  
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• Scanlan: Alfredsson speaks out on the worst kept secret in town

  28-05-2018 21:47 via ottawacitizen.com
  Daniel Alfredsson could read pages from the phone book and the good people of Ottawa would gather to hear it.
  When Alfie speaks, the community listens, whether the topic is mental health, the state of the Ottawa Senators, or life as a hockey dad and minor league coach, away from the fray.
  What he reportedly said on Sunday was slightly more provocative than the usual musings of a retired hockey star.
  At what was expected to be the rather innocuous launch of Mayor Jim Watson’s re-election ca
  
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• Changes to city parking regulations come into effect Friday ottawamatters.com/local-news/cha… https://t.co/0HPm0jWHmW

  28-05-2018 21:35 via twitter.com
  
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• City of Ottawa seeing spike in graffiti complaints so far this year ottawamatters.com/local-news/cit… https://t.co/HpePFvOB2w

  28-05-2018 21:04 via twitter.com
  
  City of Ottawa seeing spike in graffiti complaints so far this yearottawamatters.com/local-news/cit… https://t.co/HpePFvOB2w
  
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• Police hunt for suspect in deadly shooting Sunday evening in South Keys. twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…

  28-05-2018 21:01 via twitter.com
  Police hunt for suspect in deadly shooting Sunday evening in South Keys. twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…
  
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• Shirleys Bay being considered as location of new DND operational headquarters

  28-05-2018 19:39 via ottawacitizen.com
  Shirleys Bay is emerging as the preferred location for the new Department of National Defence operational headquarters expected to cost taxpayers around $1.1 billion.
  Planning recently started for what will be called the National Defence Operational Headquarters, a facility that will be home to 4,500 civilian and military personnel. The headquarters will be in addition to the new DND headquarters at the former Nortel campus on Carling Avenue which, when fully occupied, will house almost 9,000 em
  
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• New measures intended to protect Rockcliffe Park 'jewel'

  28-05-2018 19:37 via ottawacitizen.com
  New measures are in place to protect the “jewel” of Rockcliffe Park — the neighbourhood’s famed swimming hole.
  A former gravel and sand quarry, the Pond is an inviting place to take a dip in the summertime. Over the past decade, declining water levels have created more space along the shoreline, which — on warm weekends, especially — often attracts families and sunbathers alike.
  New posts and ropes have now been installed on either side of the rocks at the pon
  
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• Teen charged with librarian's murder appears in court

  28-05-2018 19:24 via ottawacitizen.com
  The teenager charged in the murder of librarian Elisabeth Salm made his first court appearance Monday by video link as her family watched from the gallery.
  Tyler Hikoalok, 18, is charged with first-degree murder. He mostly looked down at his hands during the brief video appearance as the judge ordered him to remain in custody and not communicate with two people. His next court date is June 5.
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• Police arrest three, seize $1M in tobacco after truck crash

  28-05-2018 18:34 via ottawacitizen.com
  Police seized more than $1 million worth of tobacco along Highway 401 in South Dundas after the driver of a rented truck was involved in a single vehicle collision.
  Last Thursday around 7:11 a.m., police said a commercial rental truck was travelling eastbound on Highway 401 when, for reasons under investigation, it drove off the road and came to rest in the centre median near the Church Road overpass.
  A lone male driver of the rental truck was uninjured.
  During the investigation, an officer foun
  
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• Coming up at 12:30: Associate Professor @padams29 joins @_MarkSutcliffe on State of the Media: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  28-05-2018 18:25 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 12:30: Associate Professor@padams29 joins @_MarkSutcliffe on State of the Media: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Coming up at 11:45: @nadinehp4 joins @_MarkSutcliffe with your summer outlook: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  28-05-2018 17:40 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 11:45: @nadinehp4 joins @_MarkSutcliffe with your summer outlook: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Vice-chair of task force on legalizing pot takes lead research post with Canopy Growth

  28-05-2018 17:38 via ottawacitizen.com
  McGill University professor Dr. Mark Ware, one of Canada’s leading cannabis researchers, is taking a leave from university life to work for Canopy Growth Corp. in Smiths Falls.
  Canopy announced Monday that Ware would become its chief medical officer.
  Ware was the vice-chair of a federal task force that studied the legalization of marijuana in Canada. The task force report has been the blueprint for legislation now before the Senate that would legalize recreational marijuana across the coun
  
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• Coming up at 11:30: @michaeltaube joins @_MarkSutcliffe live: 📻: 1310 💻: bit.ly/2oQd8u1 📞:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  28-05-2018 17:25 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 11:30:@michaeltaube joins @_MarkSutcliffe live: 📻: 1310 💻: bit.ly/2oQd8u1 📞:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Coming up at 11:15 @Colettod of @abacusdataca joins @_MarkSutcliffe live: 📻: 1310 💻: bit.ly/2oQd8u1… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  28-05-2018 17:10 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 11:15@Colettod of @abacusdataca joins @_MarkSutcliffe live: 📻: 1310 💻: bit.ly/2oQd8u1… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Does Daniel Alfredsson hope Eugene Melnyk sells the Sens? @HockeyScanner joins @_MarkSutcliffe at 11: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  28-05-2018 16:56 via twitter.com
  Does Daniel Alfredsson hope Eugene Melnyk sells the Sens?@HockeyScanner joins @_MarkSutcliffe at 11: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Update: Father dead, woman injured in south end shooting; suspect remains at large - ottawamatters.com/local-news/one…… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  28-05-2018 16:41 via twitter.com
  Update: Father dead, woman injured in south end shooting; suspect remains at large - ottawamatters.com/local-news/one…… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Who won last night's Ontario election debate? @mclomedia joins @_MarkSutcliffe at 10:45: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  28-05-2018 16:40 via twitter.com
  Who won last night's Ontario election debate?@mclomedia joins @_MarkSutcliffe at 10:45: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• BREAKING: A friend of the victim of Sunday night's shooting in South Keys has identified him as Abdifatah Osman. Mo… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  28-05-2018 16:36 via twitter.com
  BREAKING: A friend of the victim of Sunday night's shooting in South Keys has identified him as Abdifatah Osman. Mo… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Carleton University, professors reach tentative deal

  28-05-2018 15:57 via ottawacitizen.com
  Carleton University and CUASA, the association representing more than 900 professors, instructors and librarians, reached a tentative collective agreement on Sunday night.
  The details of the agreement were expected to be released following a ratification vote by the university’s board of governors and members of the bargaining unit. According to CUASA president Root Gorelick on Monday, a date for the association’s ratification vote had not yet been set.
  The university had asked
  
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• Today's letters: Happy to pay Canadian beer prices

  28-05-2018 15:37 via ottawacitizen.com
  Pricey beer is worth the costRe: Letter: Prices driving Canadians to U.S, May 25; Letter: Ontario’s health care is just fine, May 25
  After spending three months in Myrtle Beach this past winter I’m still getting used to the shock of prices of gas and other commodities in Canada as compared to the U.S.
  Filling my gas tank in Myrtle Beach cost me $25 US as compared to almost $60 CAD in Ottawa. The price of a glass of draft beer at a local pub in Ottawa $7.21 CAD as opposed to $2.50 US
  
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• Hot, humid weather will make it feel like 36

  28-05-2018 13:39 via ottawacitizen.com
  If you don’t breath or blink or think you might get through today without sweating.
  It’s going to be hot.
  It’s going to humid.
  It’s going to be sweaty.
  Environment Canada is forecasting a high of 31 C but it could feel as warm as 36 with the humidex.
  The average temperature for this time of year is 21.5 C.
  We won’t be far off from the record high for this day, which was recorded in 1978 when the mercury hit 32.6 C.
  Today’s UV index – don’t let the
  
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• Canadian employers content to avoid costs and headaches of providing childcare: bit.ly/2kufe0R https://t.co/NHLPW1o0n3

  28-05-2018 12:37 via twitter.com
  
  Canadian employers content to avoid costs and headaches of providing childcare: bit.ly/2kufe0R https://t.co/NHLPW1o0n3
  
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• There was no one inside the building at the time. #ottnews twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…

  28-05-2018 12:16 via twitter.com
  There was no one inside the building at the time. #ottnews twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…
  
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• Ramos and Aiken: How artificial intelligence can improve health care

  28-05-2018 12:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  Policy debates over how to solve problems around access to family doctors, wait times for  elective surgery, home care, transfer to long-term care, tracking the over-prescription of opioids and many other serious health dilemmas facing Canadians rarely consider the role artificial intelligence (AI) can and will play in offering solutions.
  But the potential to realize the benefits of AI requires a proactive policy strategy that is geared to the future rather than a reactive approach, constan
  
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• Baylis: Why paying for sperm won't solve our problems

  28-05-2018 12:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  Much confusion has resulted from a recent proposal to amend the Assisted Human Reproduction Act.
  Liberal member of Parliament Anthony Housefather decries the fact that, in Canada, it is illegal to pay for surrogacy, arranging the services of a surrogate, eggs and sperm.
  Currently, only reimbursement for expenditures is legally permitted. Housefather wants to remove the prohibition on payment for reproductive services and reproductive materials.
  The ethics of paying for bodily tissues (not just e
  
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• Canadian weapons destined for Kurds should go to Ukraine instead: Conservatives: bit.ly/2kvrHBl https://t.co/zn4IJCCThZ

  28-05-2018 11:40 via twitter.com
  
  Canadian weapons destined for Kurds should go to Ukraine instead: Conservatives: bit.ly/2kvrHBl https://t.co/zn4IJCCThZ
  
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• PC Leader Ford's lack of platform attacked at debate by NDP and Liberal leaders: bit.ly/2GWtw3g https://t.co/IX9StQRbcP

  28-05-2018 11:25 via twitter.com
  
  PC Leader Ford's lack of platform attacked at debate by NDP and Liberal leaders: bit.ly/2GWtw3g https://t.co/IX9StQRbcP
  
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• The road has since reopened and the all-clear has been given to residents. The suspect remains at large. #ottnews twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…

  28-05-2018 11:17 via twitter.com
  The road has since reopened and the all-clear has been given to residents. The suspect remains at large. #ottnews twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…
  
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• Live from 5-9 a.m. Ottawa's breaking news, traffic & weather with @1310Alexblack & @1310Andrew: Listen: 📻: 131… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  28-05-2018 10:55 via twitter.com
  Live from 5-9 a.m.Ottawa's breaking news, traffic & weather with @1310Alexblack & @1310Andrew: Listen: 📻: 131… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Man dead, woman injured in south-end shooting

  28-05-2018 05:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  A double shooting Sunday evening left a man dead and a woman injured in the city’s south end, police said.
  Dozens of police vehicles descended on the townhouse at 5 Patola Pvt. after police reported an “active shooting” around 7:30 p.m. Sunday.,
  There was no immediate word on the identities of the victims or the search for a suspect.
  Other neighbours said the shooter remained barricaded inside a residence. Police snipers were lying flat on the street, shielded by parked cars wi
  
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• Reevely: Horwath pushes herself to the forefront in last Ontario leaders' debate

  28-05-2018 04:12 via ottawacitizen.com
  In their last big chance to make their case to Ontario’s voters before next month’s election, in Sunday night’s provincial leaders’ debate, Kathleen Wynne was cerebral, Doug Ford was all gut, and Andrea Horwath pounded them both from an unaccustomed position as the frontrunner.
  Less than two weeks out, polls show Horwath and her New Democrats way ahead of Wynne and her Liberals and surging to tie or surpass Ford’s Progressive Conservatives. In three campaigns, she&r
  
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• Ontario election debate: Horwath, Wynne and Ford – the final countdown

  28-05-2018 03:10 via ottawacitizen.com
  Leaders of the three main political parties in Ontario held their final debate Sunday night. Who won? Who lost? Who surprised? The Citizen asked some local political observers to answer these questions for us.
  They are: Mischa Kaplan, economic development advocate and chair of the West Ottawa Board of Trade; Brigitte Pellerin, a writer/commentator, mother, competitive martial artist, runner and photographer; Kathy Brock, a professor in the School of Policy Studies, Queen’s University; Erin
  
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• Group of cyclists struck by car west of Kingston

  28-05-2018 03:10 via ottawacitizen.com
  Several cyclists were injured, some critically, Sunday west of Kingston when a car struck the stationary group on Bath Road near Jim Snow Road in Loyalist Township.
  Provincial police from the Napanee detachment closed Bath Road between County Road 6 and Jim Snow Road shortly after the collision around 3:30 p.m. while investigators processed the scene.
  Further information on the condition of the cyclists was not immediately available.
   
  
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• The myth surrounding Canadian Leopard tanks in Afghanistan

  28-05-2018 02:41 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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• Homeless man in custody three days after brazen downtown attack that left librarian dead

  28-05-2018 01:59 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa police have arrested a homeless man who is believed to have known his alleged victim in the fatal daytime attack against Christian Science librarian Elisabeth Salm.
  Tyler Hikoalok was arrested by police Sunday afternoon. He was expected to appear in court Monday where he will be formally charged with murder for the brutal slaying and sexual assault that put the downtown core and community on edge just days ago.
  Salm, 59, a librarian at the Christian Science Reading Room, was found bloodie
  
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