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• Future NAFTA talks face uphill battle as Mexico, Canada grapple with tariffs. ottawamatters.com/national-news/… https://t.co/l1j5ZlYfkE

  02-06-2018 23:30 via twitter.com
  
  Future NAFTA talks face uphill battle as Mexico, Canada grapple with tariffs.ottawamatters.com/national-news/… https://t.co/l1j5ZlYfkE
  
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• Ottawa man arrested after a lemur, baby gibbon and tortoise were snatched from zoo

  02-06-2018 22:35 via ottawacitizen.com
  Three animals snatched during a zoo caper in central Ontario were still missing Saturday, a day after police collared a 21-year-old Ottawa man in connection with the heist.
  “It’s been absolutely devastating,” said Marina Huygen, the office assistant at the Elmvale Jungle Zoo, about 20 kilometres north of Barrie, Ont.
  JC the lemur, Stanley the tortoise and Agnes the baby Gibbon monkey still hadn’t been found as of mid-afternoon Saturday.
   
  Agnes the baby gibbon was on
  
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• Toronto police release video of getaway car in Yorkville neighbourhood shooting. ottawamatters.com/around-ontario…

  02-06-2018 22:30 via twitter.com
  Toronto police release video of getaway car in Yorkville neighbourhood shooting.ottawamatters.com/around-ontario…
  
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• New transit, water systems to undergo green test in federal funding review. ottawamatters.com/national-news/… https://t.co/O3RxarzXGF

  02-06-2018 21:30 via twitter.com
  
  New transit, water systems to undergo green test in federal funding review.ottawamatters.com/national-news/… https://t.co/O3RxarzXGF
  
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• Ontario NDP has the chops to run a government, party vet says

  02-06-2018 20:58 via ottawacitizen.com
  Veteran New Democrat France Gélinas rolled through Ottawa on Saturday, stopping outside the Ottawa Hospital General campus to warn voters that the Progressive Conservatives would decimate health care, while assuring people her party is ready to govern Ontario.
  “I came to Ottawa because I’m worried,” Gélinas said across the street from the hospital, with Ottawa NDP candidates around her. “I come from 25 years in health care. I’ve been health critic for
  
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• Sworn in as Spain's leader, Sanchez faces Catalan conundrum. ottawamatters.com/national-busin… https://t.co/tEVxw6SXwX

  02-06-2018 20:30 via twitter.com
  
  Sworn in as Spain's leader, Sanchez faces Catalan conundrum.ottawamatters.com/national-busin… https://t.co/tEVxw6SXwX
  
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• Reevely: Ford Nation hits Ottawa, touting 'team of all-stars' before provincial election

  02-06-2018 20:18 via ottawacitizen.com
  Five days before the provincial election, with his most hated rival taking herself out of the race to be premier, Progressive Conservative leader Doug Ford surrounded himself with a “team of all-stars” in Nepean to try to show the Tories are ready to govern Ontario.
  On his first real trip to Ottawa during the whole campaign, Ford brought with him former leadership rivals Christine Elliott and Caroline Mulroney, placing them on each side of him at centre of a table in the Centurion co
  
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• Police investigating early morning shooting Friday in Orléans

  02-06-2018 19:54 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Ottawa police east division crime unit is investigating after reports of half a dozen gunshots in the residential neighbourhood on Belcourt Boulevard in Orléans early Friday morning.
  A bystander described hearing “six or seven shots” shortly before 2:30 a.m., and talked to police at the scene.
  “Over the next hour, I saw dozens of vehicles, marked and unmarked, arrive,” including “tactical officers and canine units,” the bystander wrote in an email.
  
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• Syria FM: Iran has no combat forces, bases in the country. ottawamatters.com/world-news/syr… https://t.co/RPxqV6KR9c

  02-06-2018 19:30 via twitter.com
  
  Syria FM: Iran has no combat forces, bases in the country.ottawamatters.com/world-news/syr… https://t.co/RPxqV6KR9c
  
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• Canadian man, 77, charged with smuggling pot in hockey bags. ottawamatters.com/national-news/…

  02-06-2018 18:30 via twitter.com
  Canadian man, 77, charged with smuggling pot in hockey bags.ottawamatters.com/national-news/…
  
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• Three more alleged 'ungovernables' charged in Hamilton vandalism incident. ottawamatters.com/national-news/…

  02-06-2018 17:55 via twitter.com
  Three more alleged 'ungovernables' charged in Hamilton vandalism incident.ottawamatters.com/national-news/…
  
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• Breaking news from the campaign trail. Liberal Premier Kathleen Wynne admits she won't win next week's Ontario elec… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  02-06-2018 17:50 via twitter.com
  Breaking news from the campaign trail. Liberal Premier Kathleen Wynne admits she won't win next week's Ontario elec… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• 'She was completely lifeless': Owner performs mouth-to-mouth to revive his dead turtle

  02-06-2018 17:42 via ottawacitizen.com
  When you come back to reality after a vacation, there’s stuff to do. Sometimes your lawn is overgrown, or the gutters need to be cleared or the plants watered. Other times you have to give CPR to a baby turtle that is, by all outward appearances, quite dead.
  Pavel Lubanski, a 30-year-old Shopify employee, expected the former but, in one of life’s great twists, ended up doing the latter.
  On May 19, after a week on a Caribbean cruise, Lubanski came home to find Bowser, his 10-mont
  
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• Final weekend of campaigning gets underway ahead of Ontario election. #ottnews #ONpoli #OntarioElection2018 ottawamatters.com/around-ontario…

  02-06-2018 17:25 via twitter.com
  Final weekend of campaigning gets underway ahead of Ontario election. #ottnews #ONpoli #OntarioElection2018ottawamatters.com/around-ontario…
  
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• ICYMI: Death of Elisabeth Salm sparks rally in battle against gender-based violence. #ottnews #gbv… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  02-06-2018 16:55 via twitter.com
  ICYMI: Death of Elisabeth Salm sparks rally in battle against gender-based violence. #ottnews #gbv… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• More than 80,000 expected to take part in Doors Open Ottawa. #ottnews #DoorsOpenOttawa2018 #DoorsOpenOttawa #Ottawa… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  02-06-2018 16:30 via twitter.com
  More than 80,000 expected to take part in Doors Open Ottawa. #ottnews #DoorsOpenOttawa2018 #DoorsOpenOttawa #Ottawa… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Distraught man in tree rescued by Edmonton emergency responders

  02-06-2018 15:46 via ottawacitizen.com
  It’s a classic story — firefighters are called to perform a rescue from a tree.
  Only in this case police and emergency medical services were also called. And instead of a feline, a fully-grown man was in distress.
  
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• The Motorcycle Ride for Dad begins at the aviation - running westbound on the Sir George Etienne-Cartier Parkway t… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  02-06-2018 15:42 via twitter.com
  The Motorcycle Ride for Dad begins at the aviation- running westbound on the Sir George Etienne-Cartier Parkway t… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Ottawa NDP candidate on life openly trans, one-time homelessness: 'People should have role models'. #ottnews… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  02-06-2018 14:58 via twitter.com
  Ottawa NDP candidate on life openly trans, one-time homelessness: 'People should have role models'. #ottnews… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• More than a century later, Almonte hero George Eccles finally has a headstone

  02-06-2018 14:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  A monument to George Eccles, who helped save more than 200 lives during a shipwreck in 1909, will be unveiled at the St. Paul’s Anglican Church cemetery on Wolf Grove Road.
  The Almonte native was the first radio telegrapher to die at sea — bravely sticking to his post, summoning help — after the SS Ohio, a 340-foot steamer, struck a rock off the coast of British Columbia in the dead of an August night.
  208 lives were saved.
  
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• Former Afghanistan hostage Joshua Boyle granted bail with conditions. Boyle will live with his parents, Patrick and… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  02-06-2018 14:25 via twitter.com
  Former Afghanistan hostage Joshua Boyle granted bail with conditions. Boyle will live with his parents, Patrick and… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Today's letters: Assisted suicide, Phoenix and 24 Sussex

  02-06-2018 14:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  Every day is a blessing – we should remember itRe: Letter: Broaden the use of assisted suicide, May 26
  I will be 80 years old in three months and have the aches and pains to prove it. I have suffered tragedies, as have countless others my age who are still around. It’s all part of living.
  I don’t know if I’ll end up in one of these care homes that everyone dreads but I don’t waste any time dwelling on this. I’ve got more things to learn, more travelling to do
  
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• Finance Minister Bill Morneau says he's hopeful the threat of retaliation against U.S. trade measures will convince… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  02-06-2018 13:55 via twitter.com
  Finance Minister Bill Morneau says he's hopeful the threat of retaliation against U.S. trade measures will convince… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• A beautiful sunny day for Doors Open, chance of rain Sunday

  02-06-2018 13:53 via ottawacitizen.com
  The humidity from earlier in the week has broken, and we’re set for a beautiful Saturday.
  Environment Canada is predicting a high of 24 C with winds out of the north at 20 km/hour, gusting to 40.
  The UV index will be 9 or very high.
  Overnight temperatures should see 11 C.
  Tomorrow is looking less nice with increasing cloudiness and a 60 per cent chance of showers late in the afternoon.
  Today will be a great day to check out Doors Open, your once-a-year chance to see behind the scenes at ma
  
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• Editorial: Progressive Conservatives should form next government

  02-06-2018 13:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  If anything has become clear over the past several weeks, it’s that Ontario voters are fed up with the status quo. Big government, big spending, big deficits. After 15 years of Liberals, most people want a true shift in approach at Queen’s Park.
  They won’t get that by voting NDP. Andrea Horwath’s team offers ideas drearily similar to those of the woebegone Grits: more spending, more social programs, more government in our lives. While Horwath is less personally disli
  
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• Where the leaders of Ontario's main political parties are campaigning on Saturday, June 2:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  02-06-2018 13:27 via twitter.com
  Where the leaders of Ontario's main political parties are campaigning on Saturday, June 2:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Carleton rescinds disgraced fertility doctor's honorary degree

  02-06-2018 13:04 via ottawacitizen.com
  Carleton University has rescinded the honorary degree it awarded in 2009 to disgraced Ottawa fertility specialist Dr. Norman Barwin.
  The university’s senate, according to a statement from Carleton, decided on Friday to take back the prestigious honour effective immediately “on the basis of incontrovertible evidence of malpractice.”
  It is yet another blemish on a career and professional reputation reduced to ruins.
  Carleton’s decision comes five years after Barwin admitted
  
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• Canada's strategy: giving Trump a way to win while he also backs down. ottawamatters.com/national-news/… https://t.co/2ErVVHW627

  02-06-2018 05:58 via twitter.com
  
  Canada's strategy: giving Trump a way to win while he also backs down.ottawamatters.com/national-news/… https://t.co/2ErVVHW627
  
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• ICYMI: A rally to further the battle against gender-based violence was held at the Canadian Tribute to Human Rights… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  02-06-2018 05:30 via twitter.com
  ICYMI: A rally to further the battle against gender-based violence was held at the Canadian Tribute to Human Rights… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Senators exec accused of touching, lewd comments to driver. ottawamatters.com/national-news/… https://t.co/A5iadOjHEl

  02-06-2018 04:55 via twitter.com
  
  Senators exec accused of touching, lewd comments to driver.ottawamatters.com/national-news/… https://t.co/A5iadOjHEl
  
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• Police investigating early morning shooting Tuesday in Orléans

  02-06-2018 04:54 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Ottawa police east division crime unit is investigating after reports of half a dozen gunshots in the residential neighbourhood on Belcourt Boulevard in Orléans early Tuesday morning.
  A bystander described hearing “six or seven shots” shortly before 2:30 a.m., and talked to police at the scene.
  “Over the next hour, I saw dozens of vehicles, marked and unmarked, arrive,” including “tactical officers and canine units,” the bystander wrote in an email.
  
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• 'She was completely lifeless': Owner performs CPR to revive his dead turtle

  02-06-2018 04:46 via ottawacitizen.com
  When you come back to reality after a vacation, there’s stuff to do. Sometimes your lawn is overgrown, or the gutters need to be cleared or the plants watered. Other times you have to give CPR to a baby turtle that is, by all outward appearances, quite dead.
  Pavel Lubanski, a 30-year-old Shopify employee, expected the former but, in one of life’s great twists, ended up doing the latter.
  On May 19, after a week on a Caribbean cruise, Lubanski came home to find Bowser, his 10-mont
  
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• More than 80,000 expected to take part in Doors Open Ottawa. #DoorsOpenOttawa #ottnews #Ottawa… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  02-06-2018 04:35 via twitter.com
  More than 80,000 expected to take part in Doors Open Ottawa. #DoorsOpenOttawa #ottnews #Ottawa… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Another $2 million from Ottawa for Cape Breton's luxurious Cabot Links. ottawamatters.com/national-news/… https://t.co/dq602dclL6

  02-06-2018 04:10 via twitter.com
  
  Another $2 million from Ottawa for Cape Breton's luxurious Cabot Links.ottawamatters.com/national-news/… https://t.co/dq602dclL6
  
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• Canadian Premier League grants Vancouver Island conditional entry. ottawamatters.com/around-ontario…

  02-06-2018 03:42 via twitter.com
  Canadian Premier League grants Vancouver Island conditional entry.ottawamatters.com/around-ontario…
  
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• Slumping Toronto FC knows time is now, but schedule doesn't make it easy. ottawamatters.com/around-ontario… https://t.co/CI7UNunGgb

  02-06-2018 03:10 via twitter.com
  
  Slumping Toronto FC knows time is now, but schedule doesn't make it easy.ottawamatters.com/around-ontario… https://t.co/CI7UNunGgb
  
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• Ontario gallery's high-tech study uncovers layers behind Picasso paintings. ottawamatters.com/around-ontario… https://t.co/6q2VtnVoQW

  02-06-2018 02:40 via twitter.com
  
  Ontario gallery's high-tech study uncovers layers behind Picasso paintings.ottawamatters.com/around-ontario… https://t.co/6q2VtnVoQW
  
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• Canada Post and its biggest union must settle urban-rural pay dispute by the end of August. ottawamatters.com/national-news/… https://t.co/4FyOoSXfdk

  02-06-2018 02:22 via twitter.com
  
  Canada Post and its biggest union must settle urban-rural pay dispute by the end of August.ottawamatters.com/national-news/… https://t.co/4FyOoSXfdk
  
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• Spotify is backpedaling on its recently announced anti-hate policy after some music industry players criticized it.… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  02-06-2018 01:50 via twitter.com
  Spotify is backpedaling on its recently announced anti-hate policy after some music industry players criticized it.… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Zero tolerance for disorder in ByWard Market, Montreal Road areas, police warn

  02-06-2018 01:44 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa police say they will continue their crackdown on disorderly behaviour in the ByWard Market, Rideau Street and Montreal Road corridors this weekend, warning the public that crime, aggressive panhandling and Liquor Licence Act offences will not be tolerated.
  “We have heard the concerns of both businesses and residents,” Supt. Mark Ford said in a news release Friday. “We are actively working to maintain the safety and security of community members and visitor
  
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• The summit's back on: Trump welcomes North Korean to White House. ottawamatters.com/world-news/the… https://t.co/ff3XCOFoEI

  02-06-2018 01:25 via twitter.com
  
  The summit's back on: Trump welcomes North Korean to White House.ottawamatters.com/world-news/the… https://t.co/ff3XCOFoEI
  
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• Canada hoping its own tariff threat will prompt U.S. climbdown: Morneau. ottawamatters.com/national-news/… https://t.co/lbduZiyN2e

  02-06-2018 01:10 via twitter.com
  
  Canada hoping its own tariff threat will prompt U.S. climbdown: Morneau.ottawamatters.com/national-news/… https://t.co/lbduZiyN2e
  
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• ICYMI: Getting ready to roll in the "Ride For Dad." ottawamatters.com/local-news/mot…

  02-06-2018 01:00 via twitter.com
  ICYMI: Getting ready to roll in the "Ride For Dad."ottawamatters.com/local-news/mot…
  
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• Tariffs, trade war fears dominate G7 Finance Ministers meetings in Whistler, B.C. ottawamatters.com/national-news/…

  02-06-2018 00:25 via twitter.com
  Tariffs, trade war fears dominate G7 Finance Ministers meetings in Whistler, B.C.ottawamatters.com/national-news/…
  
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• 'Little stealer of hearts': Slain librarian remembered as kind, giving, warm

  02-06-2018 00:14 via ottawacitizen.com
  A Christian librarian killed in a downtown attack last week has “metaphorically and literally given her life to God and the community,” said her grieving family, as both a public memorial and a celebration of her life were held Friday in the city.
  Rather than focusing on the brutal sexual assault and beating that led to her death, Elisabeth Salm’s family promised they’d celebrate and be inspired by how she lived.
  “The core values of service, radical inclusiveness, c
  
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• Green light once again for Singapore Summit. ottawamatters.com/world-news/the…

  02-06-2018 00:10 via twitter.com
  Green light once again for Singapore Summit. ottawamatters.com/world-news/the…
  
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