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• A Hamilton man has been handed a five-year prison sentence in connection with a massive security breach at Yahoo. ottawamatters.com/national-news/…

  29-05-2018 23:45 via twitter.com
  A Hamilton man has been handed a five-year prison sentence in connection with a massive security breach at Yahoo.ottawamatters.com/national-news/…
  
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• After two days of arguments, bail decision for former hostage Joshua Boyle expected Friday

  29-05-2018 23:43 via ottawacitizen.com
  Former hostage Joshua Boyle will find out whether he will be granted bail Friday after two days of marathon arguments by lawyers involved in the case.
  Ontario Justice Robert Wadden said he will render a decision regarding Boyle on Friday morning. The submissions made by attorneys over the past two days are under a publication ban.
  Boyle was arrested by Ottawa police in December and charged with various offences, including assault, sexual assault, unlawful confinement and causing someone to take
  
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• Ottawa's top cop says the capital is a "relatively" safe city. #ottnews ottawamatters.com/local-news/chi…

  29-05-2018 23:09 via twitter.com
  Ottawa's top cop says the capital is a "relatively" safe city. #ottnews ottawamatters.com/local-news/chi…
  
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• Ottawa teacher reprimanded after putting a plastic bag over student's head

  29-05-2018 22:58 via ottawacitizen.com
  An award-winning Ottawa science teacher has been reprimanded for demonstrations he held in his classroom, including one called “oxygen deprivation,” in which a plastic bag was placed over a student’s head.
  According to a heavily-redacted written decision by a panel of the disciplinary committee of the Ontario College of Teachers, the demonstration was one of a number conducted by teacher David Vesey which “failed to ensure student safety.”
  Vesey began teaching in th
  
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• Meanwhile, back at the department that gave us Phoenix Pay …

  29-05-2018 22:51 via ottawacitizen.com
  There was something rather odd about the sequence of Auditor General Michael Ferguson’s two recent reports on the botched rollout of Phoenix, the federal government’s two-year-old pay system.
  Last November, Ferguson examined how Public Services and Procurement Canada — the department in charge of the Phoenix project — was trying to resolve tens of thousands of pay issues that erupted in 2016. Not well, he concluded.
  With his latest report, published Tuesday, Ferguson and
  
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• Heavy delays on eastbound 417 after multi-vehicle crash

  29-05-2018 22:34 via ottawacitizen.com
  Traffic remains slow on the Queensway, eastbound at Nicholas Street, after a multi-vehicle collision briefly closed the two left lanes on the highway.
  As of 4:20 p.m., the left two lanes had been reopened, but traffic remained backed up as far west as Pinecrest in Nepean, causing delays of up to an hour and a half for those heading east
  The collision happened shortly before 3:30 p.m. on Wednesday, but the OPP were unable to comment as to the number of vehicles involved.
  Emergency services did re
  
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• Renfrew County monument dedicated to the victims of sexual assault damaged by vandals. #ottnews… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  29-05-2018 21:36 via twitter.com
  Renfrew County monument dedicated to the victims of sexual assault damaged by vandals. #ottnews… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Auditor general Michael Ferguson calls decision to launch Phoenix pay system wrong

  29-05-2018 21:26 via ottawacitizen.com
  The launch of the Phoenix pay system and data collection by Indigenous Services Canada are being criticized in the auditor general’s latest report.
  Michael Ferguson urged Ottawa to reflect on what he called incomprehensible failures.
  
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• Robbery Unit investigators looking to identify suspect in liquor store theft. #ottnews twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…

  29-05-2018 21:24 via twitter.com
  Robbery Unit investigators looking to identify suspect in liquor store theft. #ottnews twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…
  
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• Watch: Graphic Content Warning: Assault at Pizza Pizza in downtown Windsor

  29-05-2018 21:01 via ottawacitizen.com
  A video shows an assault incident in downtown Windsor, Ontario at around 2:50 a.m. on May 26, 2018.
  Two male victims were punched into the glass window of the Pizza Pizza at 294 Ouellette Ave.
   
  
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• Editorial: Public service under fire for Phoenix mess

  29-05-2018 20:27 via ottawacitizen.com
  The mind reels, every time there’s a new revelation about the Phoenix pay system. What’s interesting about Tuesday’s auditor general report is that Michael Ferguson re-treads some familiar ground, while also laying out some stern words for the federal public service itself.
  “The building and implementation of Phoenix was an incomprehensible failure of project management and oversight,” says the report. It’s Michael Ferguson’s second look at Phoenix in ha
  
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• Opioid-related deaths up in 2017 - including in Ottawa. Advocates call for more treatment spaces. twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…

  29-05-2018 19:29 via twitter.com
  Opioid-related deaths up in 2017 - including in Ottawa. Advocates call for more treatment spaces. twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…
  
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• Richardson: Reflections on spring, love and loss

  29-05-2018 19:18 via ottawacitizen.com
  I took two days off work recently to return to England for the wedding of my niece, Anna, in Winchester, a beautiful old cathedral town near the south coast.
  Impatient for spring to arrive in Ottawa, I was delighted to find the daffodils and tulips already in full bloom, the cherry blossom trees a riot of colour.
  Shortly before the ceremony, my brother told me that our mother had died.Although mum had been sick for years, the end came quickly. Last summer she could still make it out of the house
  
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• Use carbon-market money to make a dedicated cycling budget for Ontario, Naqvi says

  29-05-2018 19:02 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ontario’s transportation budget should have money dedicated to bike path and lanes every year, Ottawa Centre Liberal candidate Yasir Naqvi said Tuesday, the way it does for roads.
  Naqvi is fighting to keep his seat in Ottawa Centre and held a short press conference at the construction site for a new footbridge across the Rideau Canal between Fifth Avenue and Clegg Street, a $20-million project to which the provincial government under the Liberals contributed $5 million.
  The government&rsqu
  
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• Coming up at 12:35: @ChelbyDaigle joins @_MarkSutcliffe to discuss the OC Transpo driver who helped a woman in niq… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  29-05-2018 18:30 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 12:35:@ChelbyDaigle joins @_MarkSutcliffe to discuss the OC Transpo driver who helped a woman in niq… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• The @rick_gibbons Show for Tuesday, May 29th: 1:08: @quito_maggi 1:17: @Debi_Daviau 1:25: @OAG_BVG 1:30:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  29-05-2018 18:00 via twitter.com
  The @rick_gibbons Show for Tuesday, May 29th: 1:08: @quito_maggi 1:17: @Debi_Daviau 1:25: @OAG_BVG 1:30:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Does Mayor Watson think Melnyk should sell the Sens? 'That's up to Mr. Melnyk'

  29-05-2018 18:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  Mayor Jim Watson doesn’t have an opinion — not publicly, anyway — about whether or not Eugene Melnyk should sell the Ottawa Senators.
  Former Senators captain and key-to-the-city recipient Daniel Alfredsson has reportedly talked with Watson about how much a new owner is needed for the hockey club.
  Alfredsson, who made a big endorsement for Watson during the mayor’s re-election campaign kickoff event Sunday, made those comments to blogger and former Ottawa Sun columnis
  
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• Project to build Phoenix Pay was 'an incomprehensible failure,' says searing auditor general report

  29-05-2018 17:59 via ottawacitizen.com
  Auditor general’s take on Phoenix Pay: Five things you should know
  * The audit determined that Phoenix Pay was launched in 2016 without proper testing or a contingency plan. The system lacked many pay processing functions, had significant security weaknesses and there was no plan to upgrade the underlying software.
  * The project was built on a false economy: rather than seek more money to do the job properly, Public Services and Procurement Canada cut project staff and reduced the number o
  
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• Coming up NEXT: @hollyanndoan & @SprottSchool Ian Lee join @_MarkSutcliffe in-studio: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  29-05-2018 17:55 via twitter.com
  Coming up NEXT:@hollyanndoan & @SprottSchool Ian Lee join @_MarkSutcliffe in-studio: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Coming up at 11:45: @michaelgrange joins @_MarkSutcliffe on the NBA finals / Lebron James: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  29-05-2018 17:40 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 11:45: @michaelgrange joins @_MarkSutcliffe on the NBA finals / Lebron James: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Cohen: Mississippi cannot escape its past

  29-05-2018 17:31 via ottawacitizen.com
  JACKSON, Mississippi – The highest point in the State of Mississippi is Woodall Mountain in the northeast. It is 806 feet above sea level.
  Mississippi is unfailingly flat. Much of it lies on the Gulf of Mexico. The Mississippi Delta, which extends some 325 kilometres between the Mississippi and Yazoo Rivers, is like a vast tabletop. Its dark, loamy soil falls to the horizon; imagine the Prairies with buzzing crop dusters and endless fields of cotton.
  The Delta has flooded catastrophically
  
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• Coming up at 11:30: Pollster @niknanos joins @_MarkSutcliffe live: 📻: 1310 💻: bit.ly/2oQd8u1… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  29-05-2018 17:25 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 11:30: Pollster @niknanos joins @_MarkSutcliffe live: 📻: 1310 💻: bit.ly/2oQd8u1… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Kinder Morgan Canada shares tick higher after deal to sell Trans Mountain: bit.ly/2xroEDO

  29-05-2018 17:17 via twitter.com
  Kinder Morgan Canada shares tick higher after deal to sell Trans Mountain: bit.ly/2xroEDO
  
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• Brain-injured cyclist Robert Wein counts his blessings

  29-05-2018 17:09 via ottawacitizen.com
  Nine years after suffering a near-fatal brain injury, Robert Wein continues to find new reasons to be thankful.
  Wein was the most desperately injured among the five cyclists who were mowed down on March Road by a sleepy van driver on the morning of July 19, 2009. He suffered a collapsed lung, broken ribs and a brain injury that was so severe doctors were unsure if he’d ever regain consciousness.
  Wein, 48, a former computer specialist and triathlete, is now an advocate for the 1.5 million C
  
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• Auditor general says unleashed bureaucrats bungled Phoenix, costing millions: bit.ly/2JbYdGO https://t.co/XZyOZIeIl6

  29-05-2018 17:00 via twitter.com
  
  Auditor general says unleashed bureaucrats bungled Phoenix, costing millions: bit.ly/2JbYdGO https://t.co/XZyOZIeIl6
  
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• Coming up at 11: Former Governor General David Johnston joins @_MarkSutcliffe on Canadian Innovation Week,… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  29-05-2018 16:55 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 11: Former Governor General David Johnston joins @_MarkSutcliffe on Canadian Innovation Week,… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Tanker runs aground in St. Lawrence at Morrisburg

  29-05-2018 16:39 via ottawacitizen.com
  A 145-metre tanker ship ran aground early Tuesday morning on the St. Lawrence Seaway, but there was no spill and traffic continued on the busy shipping channel.
  The Prescott Anchor was the first to report that the Chem Norma, an oil/chemical tanker flagged by the Marshall Islands and bound for Sarnia, was grounded west of Morrisburg Beach, about 80 kilometres south of Ottawa.
  A spokesman for the St. Lawrence Seaway Management Corp. said the ship ran aground at 4:05 a.m. due to steering problems
  
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• Coming up on today's Power Lunch: @hollyanndoan & @SprottSchool Ian Lee join @_marksutcliffe in-studio: 📻: 1310… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  29-05-2018 16:38 via twitter.com
  Coming up on today's Power Lunch: @hollyanndoan & @SprottSchool Ian Lee join @_marksutcliffe in-studio: 📻: 1310… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Coming up at 10:30 @jiwontina joins @_marksutcliffe to discuss @realDonaldTrump #DPRK #nukes 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  29-05-2018 16:25 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 10:30@jiwontina joins @_marksutcliffe to discuss @realDonaldTrump #DPRK #nukes 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Coming up on the 10 O'Clock Talk: @KimothyWalker, @SusanSherring and @Justin_Ling join @_MarkSutcliffe live. Lis… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  29-05-2018 15:50 via twitter.com
  Coming up on the 10 O'Clock Talk:@KimothyWalker, @SusanSherring and @Justin_Ling join @_MarkSutcliffe live. Lis… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Story: Federal government spending $4.5B to buy Trans Mountain pipeline, B.C. terminal: bit.ly/2GYDL7h https://t.co/evrS4vPOBJ

  29-05-2018 15:48 via twitter.com
  
  Story: Federal government spending $4.5B to buy Trans Mountain pipeline, B.C. terminal: bit.ly/2GYDL7h https://t.co/evrS4vPOBJ
  
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• Coming up at 9:45: NDP candidate for Ottawa Centre @JoelHardenONDP joins @_marksutcliffe live: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  29-05-2018 15:40 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 9:45: NDP candidate for Ottawa Centre @JoelHardenONDP joins @_marksutcliffe live: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Coming up at 9:30 @RandallMoore26 of @1061CHEZ joins @_MarkSutcliffe in studio: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  29-05-2018 15:25 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 9:30@RandallMoore26 of @1061CHEZ joins @_MarkSutcliffe in studio:📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• POLL: Is it acceptable for some residents who are unhappy with all the options in the Ontario election to choose not to vote?

  29-05-2018 15:14 via twitter.com
  POLL: Is it acceptable for some residents who are unhappy with all the options in the Ontario election to choose not to vote?
  
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• On air 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. Ottawa Today live with your host @_MarkSutcliffe on 1310 NEWS & @rogersottawa22: 📻: 1310… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  29-05-2018 14:55 via twitter.com
  On air 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. Ottawa Today live with your host @_MarkSutcliffe on 1310 NEWS & @rogersottawa22: 📻: 1310… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Hot, sunny days ahead with high hitting 30 C by Wednesday (let's not talk about the weekend)

  29-05-2018 13:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  The next few days are full-on summer with sunny skies and soon-to-be scorching highs but we may be in for some wet weekend weather.
  Tuesday’s forecast is for sunshine, a high of 26 C with a UV index of 8 or very high and a low of 11 C.
  Wednesday is sunny with a high of 30 C that will feel more like 36, a UV index of 9 and a low of 17 C.
  A few clouds creep in for Thursday with mixed skies, a high of 28 C and a low of 18 C.
  Being jet-lagged has its advantages. Bon matin #Ottawa! #beautiful p
  
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• Ottawa police will spend $2.2 million to buy 800 Tasers

  29-05-2018 13:17 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa police will spend $2.2 million to buy 800 Tasers over the next five years in a massive expansion of its conducted energy weapons program that will more than double the force’s stock.The city’s police services board approved the purchasing plan under which two waves of 400 conducted energy weapons, or CEWs, will be introduced to the force through a three-year phase-in plan, starting with front-line officers and working up the chief. The eventual goal, according to the OPS, is f
  
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• Another busy day for Ontario's main party leaders as election draws closer: bit.ly/2sgGdkW https://t.co/UknZ2rRaSV

  29-05-2018 11:34 via twitter.com
  
  Another busy day for Ontario's main party leaders as election draws closer: bit.ly/2sgGdkW https://t.co/UknZ2rRaSV
  
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• Ottawa West-Nepean candidates and residents gathered at Ben Franklin Place on Monday night for a wide-ranging discu… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  29-05-2018 11:33 via twitter.com
  Ottawa West-Nepean candidates and residents gathered at Ben Franklin Place on Monday night for a wide-ranging discu… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• The court proceedings, likely to conclude today, are subject to a publication ban. #ottnews twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…

  29-05-2018 11:25 via twitter.com
  The court proceedings, likely to conclude today, are subject to a publication ban. #ottnews twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…
  
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• Police say the man is in intensive care in a Kingston hospital. twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…

  29-05-2018 11:12 via twitter.com
  Police say the man is in intensive care in a Kingston hospital. twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…
  
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• Police board approves expansion of Taser program

  29-05-2018 03:04 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa police will spend $2.2 million to buy 800 Tasers over the next five years in a massive expansion of its conducted energy weapons program that will more than double the force’s stock.The city’s police services board approved the purchasing plan under which two waves of 400 conducted energy weapons, or CEWs, will be introduced to the force through a three-year phase-in plan, starting with front-line officers and working up the chief. The eventual goal, according to the OPS, is f
  
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• Escalation of a neighbour dispute ends in death of one man, charges for another. ottawamatters.com/police-beat/su…

  29-05-2018 02:55 via twitter.com
  Escalation of a neighbour dispute ends in death of one man, charges for another.ottawamatters.com/police-beat/su…
  
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• Montrealers face extradition in US fraud case. ottawamatters.com/national-news/…

  29-05-2018 02:37 via twitter.com
  Montrealers face extradition in US fraud case.ottawamatters.com/national-news/…
  
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• 'He always put other people first': Homicide victim remembered as caring father, friend

  29-05-2018 02:32 via ottawacitizen.com
  Abdifatah Osman loved his family and his two children. And to some of his friends, he was like family. They called him “Upti.”
  Somali for uncle.
  Those same friends, reflecting on the life of Osman on Monday, one day after he was shot and killed in his Greenboro-area neighbourhood, spoke of his kindness.
  “He always put other people first and always looked out for the people around him. He loved his kids the most and all kids in general,” his longtime friend Moham
  
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• Sajjan to make defence policy announcement Wednesday at CANSEC

  29-05-2018 02:19 via ottawacitizen.com
  Defence Minister Harjit Sajjan’s office says the minister will “advance defence policy” when he appears at CANSEC 2018 on Wednesday morning. Sajjan is speaking at 8:25 a.m. and will then talk to journalists at 9 a.m. His announcement is related to the Liberal government’s Defence Policy, Strong, Secure, Engaged, according to his office.
  On May 22, Defence Watch reported that industry representatives are expecting Ssajjan to release the defence investment plan at CANS
  
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• Ottawa police chief says Ottawa still a safe city

  29-05-2018 02:14 via ottawacitizen.com
  Despite a tragic weekend that culminated in Ottawa’s 14th homicide of the year, Ottawa Police Chief Charles Bordeleau insists Ottawa is still a “relatively” safe city in comparison to other big centres.
  “The number of shootings is a concern,” said Bordeleau, acknowledging after a Police Service Board meeting on Monday the increase in homicides from 14 in 2017 to 13 already in 2018. “It has become more violent than in other years.”
  Police are hunting for
  
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• US-North Korea summit seems more likely. ottawamatters.com/world-news/us-…

  29-05-2018 02:10 via twitter.com
  US-North Korea summit seems more likely.ottawamatters.com/world-news/us-…
  
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