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• Man in serious condition after motorcycle crash on Industrial Road

  06-06-2018 23:55 via ottawacitizen.com
  A man in his 50s was taken to hospital with head and hand injuries on Wednesday afternoon after a motorcycle crash on Industrial Road near the Ottawa train yards.
  Ottawa paramedics tweeted that, at about 3:40 p.m., the man suffered a “medical incident prior to collision.”
  The man was taken to the trauma centre, where he was listed as in serious, but stable condition.
  No other motorists were involved in the crash, and the scene has been cleared.
  
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• Suncor bosses not swayed by Feds Trans Mountain deal. ottawamatters.com/national-news/…

  06-06-2018 23:43 via twitter.com
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• Quebec ditches breed-specific elements of dog control law. ottawamatters.com/national-news/…

  06-06-2018 23:17 via twitter.com
  Quebec ditches breed-specific elements of dog control law.ottawamatters.com/national-news/…
  
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• Orleans pharmacy robbed for second time in seven weeks ottawamatters.com/police-beat/or… https://t.co/ZoGJIS0YEM

  06-06-2018 23:00 via twitter.com
  
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• 'May his soul rest in peace': Algonquin student, B.C. woman killed in Gatineau Park crash

  06-06-2018 22:52 via ottawacitizen.com
  A “friendly and kind” student from China studying at Algonquin College and a Vancouver-area woman have been identified as the young people killed when their car crashed into trees in Gatineau Park in late May.
  Huarui Zhao, 23, was from Tianjin, China and Hui Ki Wong, known as Krystal, was 19 and from New Westminster, B.C., the RCMP said, as they investigated a separate crash in the park in which four teens were hurt Monday night.
  Zhao, known as Ray, had a flight booked to head home i
  
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• Injection site helps clients vote with its future possibly on the line

  06-06-2018 22:47 via ottawacitizen.com
  The continuation of supervised injection services in Ontario could hinge on Thursday’s provincial election.
  “We have a lot more to lose depending on how the election goes,” said Anne Marie Hopkins, the supervisor of peer outreach services at Ottawa Inner City Health, which runs the supervised injection trailer at Shepherds of Good Hope.
  In a first for this election, health workers are reaching out to users of the supervised injection site to see who wants help voting on Th
  
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• Police release photo of attempted Preston Street sexual assault suspect

  06-06-2018 22:35 via ottawacitizen.com
  Police are hoping a surveillance photo may lead to more information about the suspect in an attempted sexual assault.
  Police released an image of a male suspect near the area of Preston and Young Street. The image was captured “nearby” during the time of an attempted sexual assault, according to police.
  The incident allegedly occurred at 12:45 a.m. Saturday, June 2.
  Anyone with information about the identity of the suspect is asked to contact the police tip line at 613-236-1222 ext.
  
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• Police seek suspect in east-side pharmacy robbery

  06-06-2018 22:34 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa police are searching for a man accused of stealing narcotics from an east-side pharmacy.
  On Wednesday, police released surveillance photos of the suspect, who they say forced his way over the pharmacy counter in the 2900 block of St. Joseph Boulevard, near Place d’Orléans Drive, on May 27 at 9:40 p.m.
  He took an undisclosed amount of narcotics and fled on foot, police said.
  The suspect is described as an unshaven white male between 20 and 30 years old, standing six-feet,
  
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• Mayor still waiting to talk Lebreton Flats with Senators' owner - ottawamatters.com/local-news/may… #ottnews https://t.co/xr63Bl5Vl0

  06-06-2018 22:31 via twitter.com
  
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• The 2018 Ontario provincial election: By the numbers ottawamatters.com/around-ontario… https://t.co/7vhcvJOlLE

  06-06-2018 22:30 via twitter.com
  
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• Dining Out: Delicious dumplings abound in Ottawa

  06-06-2018 22:23 via ottawacitizen.com
  Dumpling? Dumpling!261 Centrepointe Dr., 613-225-3888, dumplingdumpling.caOpen: Daily from 11:30 a.m. to 10 p.m.Prices: $11.50 for 10 dumplings, veg and riceAccess: no steps to door, washrooms
  Dumpling Park536 Rochester St., instagram.com/dumplingparkOpen: Weekdays from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.Prices: $11.99 for 15 dumplingsAccess: outdoor venue, no steps
  Shanghai Wonton Noodle178A Rideau St.Open: Daily from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.Prices: $9.75 for 10 wontons, $11.75 for 10 wontons in soupAccess: step
  
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• On the ropes, Liberal John Fraser turns to black and yellow anti-Ford signs

  06-06-2018 22:01 via ottawacitizen.com
  John Fraser was out of the red and into the black Wednesday.
  The Liberal incumbent in Ottawa South rolled out simple black and yellow campaign signs bearing no resemblance to Liberal election material. The new signs say, “Stop Doug Ford Vote John Fraser.” There’s no Liberal logo and not a splash of Liberal red.
  Fraser scoffed at the notion that he’s turning his back on his party.
  “I have thousands of red signs out there with Liberal, and my name and my face all over
  
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• Green Party leader calls for Canada to give asylum to Russian scientist living in Gatineau

  06-06-2018 22:01 via ottawacitizen.com
  Federal Green Party Leader Elizabeth May has joined the campaign on behalf of a Russian scientist living in Gatineau who says she will be persecuted or killed if sent back home.
  May appealed to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to offer asylum to Elena Musikhina. The Canadian government has the power to allow her to stay on humanitarian grounds, May said at a press conference Wednesday.
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  'Too many accidents': Russian scientist says she faces grave danger if Canada denies refugee bid
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• Kudlow describes U.S. trade dispute with Canada as 'family quarrel' ottawamatters.com/national-news/… https://t.co/bc4Ijzfohn

  06-06-2018 22:00 via twitter.com
  
  Kudlow describes U.S. trade dispute with Canada as 'family quarrel'ottawamatters.com/national-news/… https://t.co/bc4Ijzfohn
  
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• Canadian Forces withholding information from grieving parents prompts cover-up concerns

  06-06-2018 21:43 via ottawacitizen.com
  Grieving parents trying to get answers from the Canadian Forces, only to be stonewalled or treated poorly, is a story that has continued to emerge over the years.
  My colleague Lee Berthiaume of the Canadian Press reports on yet another such case with his recent article chronicling how the mothers of three Royal Military College students who died two years were trying – unsuccessfully – to get answers from the Canadian Forces. The mothers  say they are angry and frustrated that t
  
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• One in hospital after stabbing at Cornwall bar ottawamatters.com/police-beat/on… https://t.co/1drw6GvKTN

  06-06-2018 21:30 via twitter.com
  
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• Ottawa's Martello Technologies raises $7.5 million in private placement

  06-06-2018 21:12 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa’s Martello Technologies has raised $7.5 million through a private placement of shares as the firm readies to list its stock on the small market TSX Venture exchange.
  The firm, which employs 63 and makes technology to help companies optimize computer traffic over their networks, plans to list its shares publicly on the venture exchange at some point in the coming months.
  The placement is aimed at helping the company expand as more companies adopt cloud-based services to bolster their
  
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• Rough waters ahead for the G7 in Charlevoix, Quebec. ottawamatters.com/national-news/…

  06-06-2018 20:14 via twitter.com
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• Glavin: Why the West must remember the Tiananmen massacre

  06-06-2018 19:53 via ottawacitizen.com
  The anniversary of the 1989 Tiananmen massacre came and went this week, barely noticed, unmentioned in official circles in Canada, legally unmentionable in China and expunged by algorithm, in advance, from Sina Weibo’s millions of overseas social media accounts. It is as though the event never even happened. And in a way, it never did.
  When it is remembered at all, the event is commonly understood to have been a riot in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square that was brutally put down. A journal
  
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• OPP Repeat Offender squad looking for inmate who may be in the Ottawa region. #ottnews twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…

  06-06-2018 19:46 via twitter.com
  OPP Repeat Offender squad looking for inmate who may be in the Ottawa region. #ottnews twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…
  
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• Pianist Brian Browne — the dean of Ottawa's jazz scene — has died

  06-06-2018 18:53 via ottawacitizen.com
  Pianist Brian Browne, the dean of Ottawa’s jazz scene, died Tuesday in hospice care at the age of 81.
  A fabulous natural musician with a lovable rascal’s personality and the gift of gab, Browne for decades inspired peers and fans with his personal and artistic honesty and deep blues feeling. He scaled the jazz heights in Toronto in the 1960s, lived a more obscure life marred by drugs and alcohol for years after that, but remade himself as a clean, sober person and profound artist in
  
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• Chinese tour bus crash victims remain critical in hospitals

  06-06-2018 18:52 via ottawacitizen.com
  At least four Chinese tourists remained in Eastern Ontario hospitals in critical condition Wednesday, two days after their tour bus crashed into a rock cut on Highway 401 near Prescott.
  Three patients remained at the Kingston Health Sciences Centre’s in critical condition and one patient remained at Brockville General Hospital in critical condition with life-threatening injuries, according to hospital officials.
  The Union Tour Express bus with 37 people on board went off the road and
  
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• Convicted bank robber sought for parole breach could be in Capital area: OPP

  06-06-2018 18:42 via ottawacitizen.com
  Provincial police are seeking public assistance in tracking down Benjamin Lietdke, 41, who is sought on a Canada-wide warrant for breach of parole.
  Lietdke had been servicing a 11-year sentence on several bank robbery related charges including using a firearm while committing an offence, possession of a weapon and others.
  At sentencing at his trial in 2008 on a number of bank robbery charges, the Crown called Lietdke “a pretty scary guy” who committed a string of bank jobs between 20
  
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• 'It was just like an earthquake. It just suddenly happened': Survivors recount Highway 401 bus crash

  06-06-2018 18:34 via ottawacitizen.com
  It happened in a matter of seconds: All was normal, and then it was “like an earthquake.”
  Survivors of Monday’s bus crash near Prescott could not explain what went wrong as they struggled to piece together what happened, in a mere moment, that afternoon.
  Ontario Provincial Police said a Union Tour Express bus crashed into a rocky embankment on the side of the westbound Highway 401 at 2:30 p.m. Monday, just west of Prescott. The bus was carrying 37 tourists, all from China.
  The
  
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• Coming up at 12:30: @EarnscliffeCDA @MaryAnne_Carter joins @_MarkSutcliffe on the Ontario election: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  06-06-2018 18:25 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 12:30: @EarnscliffeCDA @MaryAnne_Carter joins @_MarkSutcliffe on the Ontario election: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• NEXT on the POWER LUNCH: @liannelaing & @TerryLake16 join @_MarkSutcliffe in-studio: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  06-06-2018 17:55 via twitter.com
  NEXT on the POWER LUNCH: @liannelaing & @TerryLake16 join @_MarkSutcliffe in-studio: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• The @rick_gibbons Show for Wednesday, June 6th: 1:08: @quito_maggi 1:17: @BobWolfeSPS 1:30: @CPnewsboy 1:45:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  06-06-2018 17:47 via twitter.com
  The @rick_gibbons Show for Wednesday, June 6th: 1:08: @quito_maggi 1:17: @BobWolfeSPS 1:30: @CPnewsboy1:45:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Cooking, travel in Vietnam led chef to write sumptuous vegetarian cookbook

  06-06-2018 17:42 via ottawacitizen.com
  For chef and Canadian expat Cameron Stauch, the best part of writing his first cookbook was the research.
  While he and his wife Ayesha Rekhi, a Canadian diplomat, were based a few years ago in Hanoi in northern Vietnam, Stauch, always a curious traveler, made several trips to central and southern Vietnam, toting a camera and notepad to delve into the unheralded vegetarian cuisine that flourished in those regions.
  “I love meeting new people, connecting through food, learning more about thei
  
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• Coming up at 11:45: Postdoc at @Carleton_U @pejthomas joins @_MarkSutcliffe on the Ontario election: 📻: 1310 💻… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  06-06-2018 17:40 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 11:45: Postdoc at @Carleton_U @pejthomas joins @_MarkSutcliffeon the Ontario election: 📻: 1310 💻… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• POWER OUTAGE: @hydroottawa says the outage is in the Carling-Churchill-Boyd-Golden-Roosevelt area. ETA for lights b… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  06-06-2018 17:39 via twitter.com
  POWER OUTAGE: @hydroottawa says the outage is in the Carling-Churchill-Boyd-Golden-Roosevelt area. ETA for lights b… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Election day: what you need to know ottawamatters.com/local-news/ele… #ONelxn #onpoli https://t.co/hpmmRBr7XP

  06-06-2018 17:34 via twitter.com
  
  Election day: what you need to knowottawamatters.com/local-news/ele…#ONelxn #onpoli https://t.co/hpmmRBr7XP
  
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• Coming up at 11:30: @VoiceOfFranky joins @_MarkSutcliffe on the Ontario election: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  06-06-2018 17:25 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 11:30: @VoiceOfFranky joins @_MarkSutcliffe on the Ontario election: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Ottawa's Martello Networks raises $7.5 million in private placement

  06-06-2018 16:58 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa’s Martello Networks has raised $7.4 million through a private placement of shares as the firm readies to list its stock on the small market TSX Venture exchange.
  The firm, which employs 63 and makes technology to help companies optimize computer traffic over their networks, plans to list its shares publicly on the venture exchange at some point in the coming months.
  The placement is aimed at helping the company expand as more companies adopt cloud-based services to bolster their com
  
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• House Works: Three prepping tips for proper exterior painting

  06-06-2018 16:51 via ottawacitizen.com
  Will you be painting outdoor wood this summer? We’ve all heard that the key to painting success is proper surface prep, but how do you make this happen? Try these three outdoor paint preparation tricks and you’ll get the best possible results in the least time.
   
  Tip #1: Sharpen Scrapers Often
  Start working with a brand new paint scraper of any kind and it’ll remove flaking paint well. An hour later, not so well. A day later and you’ve probably lost 50 per cent of yo
  
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• Man with service dog victim of unprovoked attack: Police

  06-06-2018 16:43 via ottawacitizen.com
  Police are looking for a suspect accused of sucker-punching a man who was waiting for food in a Bells Corners restaurant with his service dog.
  Investigators say the May 26 assault on Robertson Road was “unprovoked.”
  When the victim turned around at about 9:30 p.m., the suspect punched him in the face then fled on foot, police allege.
  The suspect is described as a white man, 20 to 30 years old and five feet nine inches tall with an athletic build and dark brown hair in a buzz cut.
  He
  
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• "Can you hear the joy?" A 2003 long-read profile of Ottawa jazz pianist Brian Browne

  06-06-2018 16:01 via ottawacitizen.com
  Brian Browne, the dean of Ottawa’s jazz scene, died Tuesday. He was 81, and in recent years he battled lung cancer and tracheal cancer, although he continued gigging until the end and gave a moving private performance for friends in March, around the time of his birthday.
  Here is Browne, the consummate ballad player, playing some months ago at Lauzon Music, one of his haunts in Ottawa.An obituary is in the works, but until then, here is my lengthy 2003 profile of Browne.
  Can you hear the j
  
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• Jazz pianist Gentiane Michaud-Gagnon coming to Ottawa's GigSpace

  06-06-2018 16:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  Gentiane Michaud-Gagnon was deeply immersed in classical piano while she was growing up in Quebec’s Saguenay region. But a decade ago, the jazz bug bit, and with her studies at McGill University behind her, the 25-year-old has been racking up achievements and accolades.
  Recently named Radio-Canada’s jazz discovery for 2018, Michaud-Gagnon discussed her striking progress as a pianist and artist, in advance of her trio’s concert Friday at GigSpace.
  Q: When did you begin pian
  
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• Boyd: Why the G7 must take bold action on plastic pollution

  06-06-2018 15:48 via ottawacitizen.com
  Canada, led by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Environment Minister Catherine McKenna, deserves credit for prioritizing plastic pollution in the lead-up to the G7 summit.
  It is likely that the leaders’ declaration will embrace a long-term vision for zero plastic waste.
  However, a leaders’ statement is only a first step. The G7 meeting offers Canada a platform to demonstrate genuine leadership by boldly advocating for a new global plastics treaty. Without a comprehensive and enforce
  
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• Cats survive after 22 days in vehicle

  06-06-2018 15:42 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Edmonton Humane Society has adopted new procedures after three cats were left inside a vehicle for 22 days.
  
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• Scheer slams Liberals over speed of retaliatory tariffs on U.S.

  06-06-2018 15:40 via ottawacitizen.com
  Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer is questioning why Ottawas retaliatory tariffs on the U.S. dont take effect until July 1. Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale implied Scheer was putting partisanship before Canadian workers.
  
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• O'Connor, Nepean still closed after watermain break

  06-06-2018 14:08 via ottawacitizen.com
  Repairs on damages caused by a downtown watermain break on Tuesday are expected to drag into late Wednesday afternoon, the City of Ottawa says.
  Commuters are reminded O’Connor Street is closed between Laurier Avenue and Lisgar Street, Nepean Street is closed at O’Connor Street and converted to two-way traffic between Bank and O’Connor streets, and O’Connor and Metcalfe streets. There are lane reductions on Slater Street between O’Connor and Elgin streets.
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• Westfest Preview: The Pursuit of Happiness celebrates 30 years of Love Junk

  06-06-2018 14:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  “I’ve got the problems of an adultOn my head and on my shouldersI’m an adult now.” — I’m an Adult Now, The Pursuit of Happiness (1986)
  The Pursuit of Happiness
  8:30 p.m. Saturday, Westfest, Tom Brown Arena grounds.
  Free admission
  The Pursuit of Happiness is back in the spotlight this year, celebrating the 30th anniversary of their debut album, Love Junk. Produced by Todd Rundgren, it came out after the Toronto-based band notched a hit with the catchy pop
  
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• Westfest celebrates 15 years

  06-06-2018 14:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  Westfest celebrates its 15th anniversary in another new location: the Tom Brown Arena at 141 Bayview Rd.
  It’s the sixth move in 15 years for the free, community arts festival, and producer Elaina Martin hopes it’s the last one. “We’re going to see how it goes, but if it goes the way I think it will, I think we’ll stay there,” she says. After two years at Laroche Park, the festival moved to make way for a city plan to renew the park. 
  Martin is excited abo
  
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• Weather: Cool (not the good kind) and showers, but sun back for weekend

  06-06-2018 13:41 via ottawacitizen.com
  Hang in there, after all these grey skies we’ve got a glorious weekend on the way.
  Wednesday’s forecast from Environment Canada is for clouds, a 40 per cent chance of showers, a high of 17 C and a low of 12 C.
  Thursday should be mainly cloudy — again — with a 30 per cent chance of showers in the morning, early afternoon and overnight.
  The high should creep up to 21 C and low 13 C.
  Friday looks sunny with a high of 23 C, which happens to be precisely the seasonal average f
  
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• The watermain has been repaired, but the road repairs are continuing on O'Connor Street. #otttraffic @1310traffic twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…

  06-06-2018 13:26 via twitter.com
  The watermain has been repaired, but the road repairs are continuing on O'Connor Street. #otttraffic@1310traffic twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…
  
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• Today's letters: One day until the election!

  06-06-2018 13:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  Wynne is likely to continue as premierRe: Ontario prepares to vote for least worst option, June 2
  Recently, I bet a colleague of mine (we share space at a senior’s residence) 50 cents that this time next week Kathleen Wynne would still be premier of this province.
  She may have given up running to be the new premier, but she will still be a member of the provincial Liberal party, she probably will be re-elected, will still be the leader of these Liberals, and hence their leader, or premier.
  
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• Humboldt Broncos defenceman Bryce Fiske joins Ontario university's hockey team: bit.ly/2LsLJb5 https://t.co/u3XZwOAxiQ

  06-06-2018 13:00 via twitter.com
  
  Humboldt Broncos defenceman Bryce Fiske joins Ontario university's hockey team: bit.ly/2LsLJb5 https://t.co/u3XZwOAxiQ
  
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• Spade remembered as vibrant and colorful, like her creations: bit.ly/2HnRnJi https://t.co/YL9b9PgKhw

  06-06-2018 12:48 via twitter.com
  
  Spade remembered as vibrant and colorful, like her creations: bit.ly/2HnRnJi https://t.co/YL9b9PgKhw
  
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• All proceeds from coffee sales go to the Tim Hortons Children’s Foundation. #CampDay twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…

  06-06-2018 12:39 via twitter.com
  All proceeds from coffee sales go to the Tim Hortons Children’s Foundation. #CampDay twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…
  
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• Youths sharing a joint with minors shouldn't be free of legal consequence: Senate: bit.ly/2kSM7EC https://t.co/7Z6BoHh4yI

  06-06-2018 12:01 via twitter.com
  
  Youths sharing a joint with minors shouldn't be free of legal consequence: Senate: bit.ly/2kSM7EC https://t.co/7Z6BoHh4yI
  
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