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• As Ontario turned blue, Liberal incumbent John Fraser wasn't watching

  08-06-2018 23:50 via ottawacitizen.com
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• ICYMI: Coast-to-Coast Tour of Duty coming to Ottawa Saturday. #ottnews ottawamatters.com/local-news/coa…

  08-06-2018 23:32 via twitter.com
  ICYMI: Coast-to-Coast Tour of Duty coming to Ottawa Saturday. #ottnews ottawamatters.com/local-news/coa…
  
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• #G7summit #cdnpoli twitter.com/cmaconthehill/…

  08-06-2018 23:21 via twitter.com
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• Police seek suspects in south ends stabbing. ##ottnews ottawamatters.com/police-beat/af…

  08-06-2018 23:00 via twitter.com
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• Flying with Parachute: 42 national sport bodies adopt new concussion protocols

  08-06-2018 22:54 via ottawacitizen.com
  National sport organizations are starting to get their act together on a common set of concussion protocols.
  Kirsty Duncan, minister of science, sport and persons with disabilities, announced Friday in conjunction with Parachute Canada that 42 of the 56 Canadian sport organizations funded by Sport Canada have adopted the new concussion guidelines and policies.
  The announcement was made at the outset of a sport concussion workshop at the Canadian Museum of Nature.
  “Sport is not just about g
  
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• With election defeat, veteran Bob Chiarelli exits political stage

  08-06-2018 22:52 via ottawacitizen.com
  “If you’re not prepared to lose, don’t run,” Bob Chiarelli told his supporters Thursday night, announcing he was done with politics after a nearly unbroken 31-year run in public office.
  Looking tanned and fit, the silver-haired 76-year-old political veteran gave a thank you to his family and supporters, a gracious congratulations to his opponents — the Ottawa West-Nepean contest wouldn’t be decided until, literally, the final polls came in — and exited t
  
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• Time to binge on fringe: Things not to miss at the Ottawa Fringe Festival

  08-06-2018 22:45 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa Fringe Festival
  June 14-24, various downtown locations
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  With 57 shows over 11 days, there’s no better time to binge on theatre than the Ottawa Fringe Festival.“This is the time when everybody sees the most theatre they can,” says Brie McFarlane, an Ottawa writer who founded the website, New Ottawa Critics, as a go-to spot for theatre reviews in the nation’s capital. As editor-in-chief and main contributor to the site, newottawacritics.com, she&rsquo
  
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• Ottawa's Liberal get-along gang broken up after provincial election

  08-06-2018 22:39 via ottawacitizen.com
  The most important politician in Mayor Jim Watson’s professional life is now the veteran Progressive Conservative MPP in suburban Ottawa.
  “I have a good relationship with Lisa MacLeod,” Watson said at city hall Friday, a day after the Tories won a majority government in the provincial election and MacLeod won 45 per cent of the votes in her Nepean riding.
  “I’ve known her for probably 15 or 20 years, and I suspect she will play a senior role in a cabinet and she will
  
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• A rare breed: Fraser returns to Queen's Park, one of just seven Liberals ottawamatters.com/local-news/a-r… #ottnews #onpoli https://t.co/IYmFjwURxC

  08-06-2018 22:14 via twitter.com
  
  A rare breed: Fraser returns to Queen's Park, one of just seven Liberalsottawamatters.com/local-news/a-r…#ottnews #onpoli https://t.co/IYmFjwURxC
  
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• TRAFFIC: @OttFire crews tackling house fire in #Barrhaven (Longfields/Portrush). Yield to emergency vehicles.#ottnews

  08-06-2018 21:55 via twitter.com
  TRAFFIC: @OttFire crews tackling house fire in #Barrhaven (Longfields/Portrush). Yield to emergency vehicles.#ottnews
  
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• Editorial: Make suicide prevention a priority

  08-06-2018 21:43 via ottawacitizen.com
  Two well-loved celebrities died by suicide this week, according to news reports. Kate Spade, the fashion designer, was found dead in New York City on Tuesday. Then, Friday morning, chef Anthony Bourdain was found dead in a French hotel room.
  It’s a reminder of the toll mental illness can take on people – even those with lives many admire, and who have the resources to access good care. In 90 per cent of suicide cases, mental-health issues are present, says the Mental Health Commissio
  
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• Inquest date set in 2016 death of highway worker

  08-06-2018 21:40 via ottawacitizen.com
  The coroner’s office has scheduled a three-day inquest into the death of a highway construction worker more than two years ago.
  Danniel William Milton, 42, was working on a highway project in Renfrew County in April 2016 when he was hit by a vehicle. Under the Coroners Act, an inquest is mandatory.
  Beginning Sept. 17, a jury will hear the circumstances of his death in Renfrew, and will be able to make recommendations to prevent similar incidents in the future. It is expected to hear from a
  
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• Order's Up on ending restaurant sexual harassment in Ottawa

  08-06-2018 21:13 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa restaurants, women’s advocates and unions are cooking up an end to sexual intimidation, harassment and assault in the industry.
  The campaign, dubbed “Order’s Up,” launched this week with public service announcements and a website offering an anonymous reporting tool to gather stories from local survivors.
  “One of the things that we heard in our engagement session with industry workers in March was that they just didn’t know who they can talk to,&rd
  
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• Newcomer Harden says he's ready to work hard for Ottawa Centre

  08-06-2018 21:13 via ottawacitizen.com
  Minutes after he was declared the winner in a race that saw him oust Liberal incumbent Yasir Naqvi, Joel Harden picked up an acoustic guitar emblazoned with stickers and led supporters in a rousing rendition of the tune “Lean On Me.”
  Joel Harden is leading those at his victory party tonight with the song ‘Lean On Me.’ #ONElxn #OntarioVotes2018 pic.twitter.com/k84rCj4O4E
  — Matthew Pearson (@mpearson78) June 8, 2018It was a curious choice for the newly-elected MPP, wh
  
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• Bidding wars and madness: Inside Ottawa's sellers' real-estate market

  08-06-2018 21:12 via ottawacitizen.com
  If you want to understand some of the forces now gripping Ottawa’s real-estate market, take a stroll down Fentiman Avenue in the heart of the leafy district known as Rideau Gardens.
  It’s a quiet stretch of carefully maintained, two-storey homes across the canal from Lansdowne Park. Fentiman Avenue hosts an older neighbourhood, with sidewalks on both sides of the street and garages tucked behind the homes. It is very nearly quaint — and outsiders have been willing to pay a fair
  
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• Naqvi credits Ottawa Centre residents for helping make him 'a better human being'

  08-06-2018 21:11 via ottawacitizen.com
  When Yasir Naqvi learned he would be defeated in Thursday’s provincial election, he kissed and hugged his wife, Christine McMillan, and headed for his campaign party at the Carleton Tavern, where he joked with supporters that his family, which includes their two children, finally have their husband and father back.
  The past four years must have been particularly hectic for the departing Ottawa Centre MPP, heading up ministries with hot files, like the condition of jails and the laws that g
  
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• Operation targeting street-level drug dealing in Vanier & ByWard Market results in 14 arrests. #ottnews twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…

  08-06-2018 21:01 via twitter.com
  Operation targeting street-level drug dealing in Vanier & ByWard Market results in 14 arrests. #ottnews twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…
  
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• Reevely: Doug Ford's first things

  08-06-2018 20:53 via ottawacitizen.com
  Premier-designate Doug Ford’s transition team has some heavy lifting to do before he and his Progressive Conservative cabinet take office on June 29.
  Led by Ottawa lobbyist and former provincial and federal conservative aide Chris Froggatt, the group Ford announced will ease him into power includes former minister John Baird, who has experience in everything from energy to environment policy to shepherding laws through the legislature. That knowledge will be useful as Ford and the Tories w
  
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• Canada's Transportation Minister calls out newly-installed head of International Air Transport Association for comm… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  08-06-2018 20:22 via twitter.com
  Canada's Transportation Minister calls out newly-installed head of International Air Transport Association for comm… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Pace of new home construction slows in May. ottawamatters.com/national-busin…

  08-06-2018 19:43 via twitter.com
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• Ottawa Police on the hunt for convenience store bandit. #ottnews twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…

  08-06-2018 19:23 via twitter.com
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• Kurl: It really is Ford Nation now. But how did it happen?

  08-06-2018 17:59 via ottawacitizen.com
  Despite Doug Ford’s highly unfavourable ratings, despite a lawsuit from his sister-in-law, despite an uncosted, vague platform, nothing shook Ontario voters from the change they sought.
  But why Ford? Why not Andrea Horwarth, who, like the Las Vegas Golden Knights, outperformed expectations only to fall short in the final round?
  Indeed, Ford, who emerged the winner of a hasty, messy Progressive Conservative leadership race following Patrick Brown’s even messier ouster in January,
  
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• The @rick_gibbons Show for Friday, June 8th: 1:05: @cmaconthehill 1:17: @MikeSchreiner 1:24: @MaddieDiMuccio 1:30:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  08-06-2018 17:55 via twitter.com
  The @rick_gibbons Show for Friday, June 8th: 1:05: @cmaconthehill 1:17: @MikeSchreiner 1:24: @MaddieDiMuccio 1:30:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Next on the Power Lunch: @sherrilynne & @peter_tilley join @_MarkSutcliffe in-studio: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  08-06-2018 17:55 via twitter.com
  Next on the Power Lunch: @sherrilynne & @peter_tilley join @_MarkSutcliffe in-studio: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Dawson: Why the Senate was right to push back on pot legalization

  08-06-2018 17:55 via ottawacitizen.com
  It’s hard to gauge just how much marijuana legalization is going to change Canada. Some cities have already acquired a uniquely pungent perfume, and pot is remarkably easy to get, though edibles – rather appealing for those less keen on sucking flaming leaves into their lungs – will remain illegal at first.
  What’s clear is that this whole kerfuffle has been the sort of overcomplicated big-government hullaballoo that would’ve made fine satire.
  But progress: On T
  
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• Coming up at 11:30: @JR_Ottawa joins @_MarkSutcliffe live on his win in Ottawa-West Nepean: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  08-06-2018 17:25 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 11:30: @JR_Ottawa joins @_MarkSutcliffe live on his win in Ottawa-West Nepean: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Gen. Vance to grieving families – boards of inquiries aren’t about you

  08-06-2018 17:09 via ottawacitizen.com
  Chief of the Defence Staff Gen. Jon Vance has a message for the grieving families, who hope to get closure from military boards of inquiry established to look into the deaths of their loved ones.
  It’s not about you, the general says.
  “Boards of inquiry are designed to inform the chief of defence staff and the Armed Forces about what changes need to be made, what went wrong, does anybody need to be held accountable, and so on,” Vance told journalists on Thursday. “And so,
  
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• Arboretum exec apologizes for 'emotional harm' to women, resigns after 'bad date' poster controversy

  08-06-2018 17:03 via ottawacitizen.com
  Rolf Klausener, the creative director of Arboretum Festival, has apologized for “emotional hurt” to women and is resigning, a week after anonymous posters labelling him a “bad date” appeared around downtown Ottawa.
  In a post on his Facebook page Friday morning, Klausener addressed the accusations directly, acknowledging that he’s been “the worst version of myself for a long time.”
  “To the women I have affected, I am sorry for the emotional hur
  
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• Coming up on the Ethics Lab at -Dealing with political outcomes you don’t like. -Plus: who bears responsibilit… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  08-06-2018 16:57 via twitter.com
  Coming up on the Ethics Lab at-Dealing with political outcomes you don’t like. -Plus: who bears responsibilit… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Capital unemployment remains at lowest level in more than three decades

  08-06-2018 16:43 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Capital Region’s jobless rate remained at a historically low 4.4 per cent in May, the same as in April, Statistics Canada reported Friday.
  It’s the lowest unemployment rate in at least 31 years. Data compiled prior to 1987 reflects different metropolitan boundaries and isn’t comparable, the federal agency says. Data for metropolitan areas is adjusted for seasonal influences but based on the average of the three most recent monthly samples.
  This we do know: It’s the fi
  
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• On today's Power Lunch: @sherrilynne & @peter_tilley join @_marksutcliffe in-studio: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  08-06-2018 16:41 via twitter.com
  On today's Power Lunch: @sherrilynne & @peter_tilley join @_marksutcliffe in-studio: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• The tributes to Brian Browne keep rolling in

  08-06-2018 16:28 via ottawacitizen.com
  I’ve culled the four tributes below to the late Ottawa pianist Brian Browne, who died this week, from Facebook. I’m sure there are many, many others.
  Catherine O’Grady, executive producer of the TD Ottawa Jazz Festival
  Brian Browne was a wonderful human. He was, as everyone knows, a fabulous pianist. He was also one of the funniest people I’ve ever met. He was quick with a joke, quick with a smile, and always ALWAYS great to be around. The many times he played at the jazz
  
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• Coming up at 10:30: @cmaconthehill joins @_marksutcliffe from the G7 summit in Quebec: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  08-06-2018 16:24 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 10:30: @cmaconthehill joins @_marksutcliffe from the G7 summit in Quebec: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Coming up at 10:45: @MacLeodLisa joins @_MarkSutcliffe live: 📻: 1310 💻: bit.ly/2oQd8u1 📞:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  08-06-2018 16:15 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 10:45: @MacLeodLisa joins @_MarkSutcliffe live: 📻: 1310 💻: bit.ly/2oQd8u1 📞:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• NEXT on the 10 O'Clock Talk: @erin_gee, @jonathanmcleod & @1310Andrew join @_MarkSutcliffe live: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  08-06-2018 15:58 via twitter.com
  NEXT on the 10 O'Clock Talk: @erin_gee, @jonathanmcleod & @1310Andrew join @_MarkSutcliffe live: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Reevely: Ottawa moves from big player to bit player at Ontario's cabinet table

  08-06-2018 15:48 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Progressive Conservatives romped to a big win across Ontario on Thursday, no thanks to Ottawa.
  The national capital’s Liberals and New Democrats showed stronger than most people expected. Half the rump Liberal caucus is from this city now, along with the first New Democrat elected here since 1990.
  The vaunted “Team Ottawa” for the Liberals is still mostly intact in Marie-France Lalonde, John Fraser and Nathalie Des Rosiers, but its influence on government is gone.
  Last time
  
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• Gormley: When Trump jokes about war, he whets the appetite for other battles

  08-06-2018 15:42 via ottawacitizen.com
  Donald Trump doesn’t tell jokes. He does talk quite a lot about war. But when Trump invoked a war from long ago as justification for a trade war now, some of us laughed at what Prime Minister Justin Trudeau called the “quip.”
  Hahaha. A famous paranoiac controls the White House and alludes to his closest neighbour and ally being a target and a threat immediately prior to its hosting of a critical international summit, get it?
  Well, maybe it is something like hilarious to suggest
  
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• Antiques: A decade later, we revisit standout pieces that were worth the investment

  08-06-2018 15:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  This is another occasional feature on This Old Thing where we revisit items submitted for appraisal some years ago, and see how their values have changed. This week we look at a paperweight, a vase and a stove, comparing their current values with those of nine and a half years ago.
   
  Q: My late grandmother used this glass paperweight as a bathroom doorstop for over 50 years. We know it’s a Baccarat carpet ground millefiori paperweight made in France in 1848. It has a diameter of about
  
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• Coming up at 9:30: @mclomedia of @Trans4mLeaders joins @_MarkSutcliffe live with Ontario election reaction: : 131… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  08-06-2018 15:25 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 9:30:@mclomedia of @Trans4mLeaders joins @_MarkSutcliffe live with Ontario election reaction:: 131… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Cornwall, striking CUPE unions announce tentative deals

  08-06-2018 15:19 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Canadian Union of Public Employees announced Friday morning that it has reached tentative agreements with the City of Cornwall for each of the four striking groups of city workers.
  “Bargaining committees representing library workers, paramedics, outside and inside workers will be recommending the settlements to their memberships for ratification,” said Andrea Addario, union spokesperson in a statement.
  What is in these agreements will not be shared publicly until after union memb
  
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• Bright sunshine greets new Ontario government

  08-06-2018 15:17 via ottawacitizen.com
  Election weary Capital residents were greeted with bright sunny skies Friday.
  And the clear weather is expected to last through the weekend, albeit slight on the cool side.
  Friday’s high is expected to be a cool 22 C, with a very high UV index of 8.
  The low should drop to a bracing 10 C.
  Saturday looks sunny, with a few clouds, and a high of 23 C, dropping to a low of 9 C overnight.
  The appropriately named Sunday is expected to be just-so, bright and clear with a high of 22 C,
  Sunday night
  
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• High-profile Liberal incumbent Naqvi gets rolled by NDP's Harden in Ottawa Centre

  08-06-2018 15:16 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ontario Attorney General Yasir Naqvi got served in his home riding of Ottawa Centre in Thursday’s provincial election as voters ousted the Liberal incumbent and gave the NDP a shot at representing the national capital’s core at Queen’s Park.
  The NDP’s Joel Harden cruised to victory, taking 46 per cent of the vote with late polls still to report on Thursday.
  A jubilant Harden arrived to a City Centre warehouse space soon after polls closed and was immediately enveloped in
  
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• Coming up at 9:15 @Shawn_Jeffords joins @_marksutcliffe on Doug Ford winning a majority government: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  08-06-2018 15:09 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 9:15@Shawn_Jeffords joins @_marksutcliffe on Doug Ford winning a majority government: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Federal, tech jobs up slightly as capital unemployment steady at 4.4 per cent in May

  08-06-2018 14:54 via ottawacitizen.com
  The National Capital Region jobless rate was 4.4 per cent in May, the same as in April.
  Employment in federal government and high-tech sectors edged up marginally from April to 127,900 and 48,600 respectively.
  Overall, the local economy added 1,200 net jobs while the labour force increased by 1,300.
  Nationally, Statistics Canada says the unemployment rate stood unchanged at 5.8 per cent in May, although the country lost about 7,500 jobs.
  More to come
   
  
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• Ottawa Explosion Weekend's homecoming queen: Allie Hanlon returns with Peach Kelli Pop

  08-06-2018 14:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  Peach Kelli Pop
  All-ages show with Dusk, BBQT and Tough Age, 7-11 p.m. June 15, Clocktower Pub parking lot, 575 Bank St.
  19+ show with The Creeps and The White Wires, midnight June 15, 27 Club, 27 York St.
  Admission to each show is $15 or free with OXW pass
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  California has been good to Ottawa’s Allie Hanlon.Like so many hopeful musicians before her, the former drummer for local punk stalwarts the White Wires moved from her hometown to the Golden State about six years ago to pursue he
  
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• MacDougall: Dear Conservatives, it’s time to hug some reporters

  08-06-2018 14:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  A sparse public schedule. Terse media availabilities. A dearth of interviews. Rallies limited to supporters. For a man purporting to do it “for the people,” Doug Ford didn’t bother doing it for too many people during his campaign.
  Were Ford’s tactics that of the classic front-runner, or signs of a tour trying to manage its biggest liability? It doesn’t much matter now that the result is secured.
  Irrespective of intent or outcome, there are lessons to be drawn for Co
  
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• Report: Anthony Bourdain dead at age 61

  08-06-2018 13:42 via ottawacitizen.com
  CNN is reporting that chef and broadcaster Anthony Bourdain has been found dead in a hotel room in France.
  He is said to have committed suicide.
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  Report: Anthony Bourdain dead at age 61
   
   
  
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• Bill to legalize recreational marijuana passes Senate with controversial amendments

  08-06-2018 13:20 via ottawacitizen.com
  The bill that would make Canada the first major country in the world to legalize recreational marijuana has sailed through the Senate.
  Still, some political gamesmanship remains before Canadians can shop at legal pot stores.
  The Senate approved the Cannabis Act, Bill C-45, on Thursday night with more than 45 amendments. Many are technical in nature, but several others would make substantial and controversial changes.
  If the House of Commons accepts the amendments, the bill could become law quick
  
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• Liberals lose official party status after getting only seven seats: bit.ly/2Jo91SU #onpoli https://t.co/knGV8iCHnn

  08-06-2018 12:15 via twitter.com
  
  Liberals lose official party status after getting only seven seats: bit.ly/2Jo91SU#onpoli https://t.co/knGV8iCHnn
  
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• The victory marks the first title for the Capitals in their 43-year history, and also the first for captain Alex Ov… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  08-06-2018 12:05 via twitter.com
  The victory marks the first title for the Capitals in their 43-year history, and also the first for captain Alex Ov… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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