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• Elder-abuse victim or cold-blooded killer? Fate of 73-year-old murder accused in jury's hands

  11-06-2018 23:46 via ottawacitizen.com
  John Mcrae is either a cold-blooded killer who slit his sleeping son’s throat, or a frail 73-year-old man who, after years of elder abuse, killed his violent and drunk son in self-defence.
  The jury that will decide the fate of the Orléans great-grandfather was offered two wildly different storylines about the evening he killed his son, Michael.
  The defence would have the jury believe the evidence clearly establishes that the elder McCrae had endured years of abuse at the hands of hi
  
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• Hazmat teams respond to 'suspicious substance' at Ottawa jail

  11-06-2018 23:39 via ottawacitizen.com
  Two hazmat teams were dispatched to the Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre following a report of an unnamed “suspicious substance” at the jail on Sunday.
  “Some correctional officers at the Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre reported feeling unwell during a routine search of a unit,” said Andrew Morrison, a spokesman for the Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional Services.
  According to the ministry, four staff members were sent to hospital. However, Ottawa paramedics sa
  
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• China vs. U.S. trade war: Who would win?

  11-06-2018 23:37 via ottawacitizen.com
  With talk of a brewing China US trade war, it may be useful to quickly recap the past 40 years of their economic relationship to help gauge the relative negotiating strength of the two belligerents.
  
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• Pushed out of Tim's — fired for too many sick days

  11-06-2018 23:12 via ottawacitizen.com
  “Precarious” is a fancy word to describe conditions facing low-income workers these days. “Fired” was the translation for Shauntel Snowden one day last month.
  “I went into the office having a job and I walked out of the office with no job. Not even five minutes.”
  Shauntel Snowden, 24, is at home at her kitchen table, holding back the tears. She says she was fired from Tim Hortons on May 29, midway through her shift.
  The reason? She’s taken too many sick
  
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• Man critical after found face down in highrise apartment pool

  11-06-2018 22:38 via ottawacitizen.com
  A man in his 30s was in hospital in critical condition after he was found face down in the pool of a Riverside Drive highrise apartment building Monday.
  Ottawa paramedics said they got the call at 10:10 a.m. to the building near Smyth Road and found the man in cardiac arrest. With the help of firefighters, they launched aggressive attempts to save his life, including inserting a breathing tube, giving him medication to restart his heart, and applying a defibrillator.
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• Inquest in November into 2015 prison death of murderer

  11-06-2018 22:37 via ottawacitizen.com
  There will be an inquest this fall into the death of a convicted murderer from Cornwall who died in prison in 2015.
  Richard Chatelain, 58, a drifter, was being held in the Regional Treatment Centre of the Bath Institution, where he was serving a life sentence for second-degree murder.
  Chatelain was convicted in 2003 of killing Stacey Heil, a sex worker from Ottawa, in October of 2000. Her body was discovered near Larose Forest in the Rockland-Clarence area. Chatelain also pleaded guilt
  
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• STORY: Excitement high, expectations lower on Trump-Kim summit eve ottawamatters.com/world-news/exc… https://t.co/fKgFr6mKcy

  11-06-2018 22:30 via twitter.com
  
  STORY: Excitement high, expectations lower on Trump-Kim summit eveottawamatters.com/world-news/exc… https://t.co/fKgFr6mKcy
  
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• Ottawa Mission hopeful news rules for homeless strategy will mean more housing - ottawamatters.com/local-news/ott… #ottnews https://t.co/0R4MePUJpR

  11-06-2018 22:17 via twitter.com
  
  Ottawa Mission hopeful news rules for homeless strategy will mean more housing - ottawamatters.com/local-news/ott… #ottnews https://t.co/0R4MePUJpR
  
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• Ford meets with transition team as Tories prepare to form Ontario government ottawamatters.com/around-ontario… https://t.co/C5Xz37vtkY

  11-06-2018 22:00 via twitter.com
  
  Ford meets with transition team as Tories prepare to form Ontario governmentottawamatters.com/around-ontario… https://t.co/C5Xz37vtkY
  
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• Reevely: Ford promises to ban Al-Quds Day protests somehow

  11-06-2018 21:43 via ottawacitizen.com
  Doug Ford’s first new position as Ontario’s premier-to-be is that he’ll stop the annual anti-Israel protests called “Al-Quds Day.”
  “Our government will take action to ensure that events like Al-Quds Day, which calls for the killing of an entire civilian population in Israel, are no longer part of the landscape in Ontario,” the Progressive Conservative premier-designate tweeted on Sunday.
  Our government will take action to ensure that events like Al Quds
  
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• Inquest in November into 2015 death of murderer

  11-06-2018 21:34 via ottawacitizen.com
  There will be an inquest this fall into the death of a convicted murderer from Cornwall who died in prison in 2015.
  Richard Chatelain, 58, a drifter, was being held in the Regional Treatment Centre of the Bath Institution, where he was serving a life sentence for second-degree murder.
  Chatelain was convicted in 2003 of killing Stacey Heil, a sex worker from Ottawa, in October of 2000. Her body was discovered near Larose Forest in the Rockland-Clarence area. Chatelain also pleaded guilt
  
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• More charges laid against Canadian military’s top judge – case will proceed to court martial

  11-06-2018 21:11 via ottawacitizen.com
  An independent prosecutor has added more charges against the Canadian Forces top judge and has recommended the case proceed to a court martial.
  In January, in an unprecedented situation, Col. Mario Dutil, the Chief Military Judge was charged after an investigation into one of his travel claims and his alleged relationship with a female subordinate.
  At the time, Dutil had been charged with one count of an act of a fraudulent nature under the National Defence Act; one count of wilfully making a fa
  
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• Change of command ceremonies to be held in Ottawa and Edmonton on Wednesday

  11-06-2018 20:32 via ottawacitizen.com
  There will be a change of command ceremony for the Canadian Joint Operations Command on Wednesday. This will be held at the Cartier Drill Hall in Ottawa.
  Lt.-Gen. Michael Rouleau will assume command from Lt.-Gen. Stephen Bowes
  In Edmonton on Wednesday there will be a change of command for the 3rd Battalion Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry. Lt.-Col. A.N. Moore succeeds Lt.-Col. D.D. Prohar as the commanding officer.
   
   
  
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• Gatineau to cut down all its ash trees, sick or not

  11-06-2018 20:22 via ottawacitizen.com
  Gatineau has given up on trying to save its ash trees and has contracted with a private firm to cut them all down, sick or not, in the next three years.
  This will remove another 40,000 trees from the city, in addition to close to 30,000 trees (including some elms) that are already gone.
  The city has concluded there’s just no way to stop the emerald ash borer, an invasive insect with no North American enemies that has eaten its way across the U.S. Midwest, then much of Ontario, and now Gati
  
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• Ministry of Labour investigators headed to the scene of a road construction accident where a worker was run over by… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  11-06-2018 20:08 via twitter.com
  Ministry of Labour investigators headed to the scene of a road construction accident where a worker was run over by… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Man in critical condition after being run over by bulldozer

  11-06-2018 18:15 via ottawacitizen.com
  A man in his 20s is in critical condition after a bulldozer ran over the lower half of his body at a Queensway construction site on Monday morning.
  Ottawa paramedics responded to the scene at a construction site near Maitland Avenue and Highway 417 shortly after 10:30 a.m. The man was working on the expansion of the Queensway.
  “He’s conscious, but he’s still in critical condition at the trauma centre,” said paramedic spokesman Marc-Antoine Deschamps. “We’ll ha
  
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• Police hunt suspect in pizza parlour shooting

  11-06-2018 18:06 via ottawacitizen.com
  Police have issued a surveillance image and description of a suspect in hopes the public will help them track down a man who fired multiple shots inside a south-end pizza parlour Saturday evening.
  It happened at about 8:20 p.m. at the Milano’s location at Bank Street and Hunt Club Road.
  Police said the man walked into the business and fired “several” shots.
  Shots were fired inside the Milano Pizzeria at Hunt Club Road and Bank Street, Saturday night. June 9, 2018.
  No one was hu
  
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• The @rick_gibbons Show for Monday, June 11th: 1:05: @JerryPDias 1:17: @SprottSchool 1:30: @sandsathopkins 1:45:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  11-06-2018 17:55 via twitter.com
  The @rick_gibbons Show for Monday, June 11th: 1:05: @JerryPDias 1:17: @SprottSchool 1:30: @sandsathopkins 1:45:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• NEXT on the Power Lunch: @KatlynHarrison & @EricEdCollard join @_MarkSutcliffe in-studio: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  11-06-2018 17:55 via twitter.com
  NEXT on the Power Lunch: @KatlynHarrison & @EricEdCollard join @_MarkSutcliffe in-studio: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Boeing technical staff to support RCAF Mali deployment

  11-06-2018 17:41 via ottawacitizen.com
  Boeing says it will be sending a technical representative to Mali to support the RCAF when it deploys its Chinook helicopters. So far one specialist is scheduled to go but others could follow.
  The Boeing staff will be at the RCAF base in Mali to consult on issues that arise during the Chinook operations in what is expected to be a deployment that is hard on the helicopters because of the environment.
  On March 19 the Canadian government announced its commitment to deploy a task force made up of m
  
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• "What can Trudeau do about Trump the bully? Absolutely nothing" @LMartinWashDC joins @_MarkSutcliffe at 11:45: 📻… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  11-06-2018 17:40 via twitter.com
  "What can Trudeau do about Trump the bully? Absolutely nothing"@LMartinWashDC joins @_MarkSutcliffe at 11:45: 📻… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Man critical after found face down in high-rise apartment pool

  11-06-2018 17:38 via ottawacitizen.com
  A man in his 30s is in hospital in critical condition after being found face down in the pool of a high-rise Riverside Drive apartment building Monday morning.
  Ottawa paramedics said they got the call at 10:10 a.m. to the building near Smyth Road and found the man in cardiac arrest. With the help of firefighters, they launched aggressive attempts to save his life including inserting a breathing tube, giving him medication to restart his heart and applying a defibrillator.
  He was in the hospital
  
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• Police looking for your help identifying this suspect, who they believe was involved in weekend shooting near Bank/… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  11-06-2018 17:31 via twitter.com
  Police looking for your help identifying this suspect, who they believe was involved in weekend shooting near Bank/… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Coming up at 11: Former Canadian Ambassador to the U.S. Derek Burney joins @_marksutcliffe: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  11-06-2018 16:55 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 11: Former Canadian Ambassador to the U.S. Derek Burney joins @_marksutcliffe: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Coming up on the 10 O'Clock Talk: @anne_kingston, @SyntaxStrategic Jennifer Stewart & @1310Andrew join… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  11-06-2018 16:50 via twitter.com
  Coming up on the 10 O'Clock Talk: @anne_kingston, @SyntaxStrategic Jennifer Stewart & @1310Andrew join… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Bumped? Delayed? Have your say at an air passenger protection consultation in Ottawa

  11-06-2018 15:59 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Canadian Transportation Agency is launching a string of public events this month including an Ottawa session July 4 to hear what protections passengers want when they fly.
  The newly-passed Transportation Modernization Act mandated the agency to come up with regulations on airlines’ obligations when they delay and cancel flights, bump passengers, delay flights on the tarmac, damage or lose baggage, separate kids from parents, move musical instruments and on how they communicate with cus
  
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• Memories and metal: Montebello Rockfest founder Alex Martel reflects on the wild ride it's been

  11-06-2018 15:04 via ottawacitizen.com
  Even a rock festival that draws 200,000 people can have its quiet moments.
  Montebello Rockfest founder Alex Martel recalls one such moment as possibly his favourite memory in the 13 years he’s been putting on his “punk-rock Woodstock” in a small Quebec village an hour east of Ottawa.
  As he tells it, Tim Armstrong of the punk band Rancid had found a spot outside the festival grounds, away from the din and the dirt, and started to play his acoustic guitar.
  “At first, it was
  
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• Police dog in Saskatoon bites girl, 6, while tracking home-invasion suspects: bit.ly/2t4Vd59 https://t.co/OwRauIQajx

  11-06-2018 14:40 via twitter.com
  
  Police dog in Saskatoon bites girl, 6, while tracking home-invasion suspects: bit.ly/2t4Vd59 https://t.co/OwRauIQajx
  
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• Marijuana industry leaders meet to discuss branding issues ahead of legalization: bit.ly/2MgA6pa https://t.co/hJ0hUtT3AB

  11-06-2018 14:30 via twitter.com
  
  Marijuana industry leaders meet to discuss branding issues ahead of legalization: bit.ly/2MgA6pa https://t.co/hJ0hUtT3AB
  
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• Wild Atlantic salmon numbers drop for second year: Atlantic Salmon Federation: bit.ly/2sO6Q0Z https://t.co/ugyr232hC8

  11-06-2018 14:20 via twitter.com
  
  Wild Atlantic salmon numbers drop for second year: Atlantic Salmon Federation: bit.ly/2sO6Q0Z https://t.co/ugyr232hC8
  
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• 'Ocean's 8' opens with franchise-best $41.5M to top weekend: bit.ly/2HDW2XE https://t.co/9EctSRxoYk

  11-06-2018 13:45 via twitter.com
  
  'Ocean's 8' opens with franchise-best $41.5M to top weekend: bit.ly/2HDW2XE https://t.co/9EctSRxoYk
  
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• The total also includes money from fundraising events conducted throughout the year. #ottnews twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…

  11-06-2018 13:40 via twitter.com
  The total also includes money from fundraising events conducted throughout the year. #ottnews twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…
  
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• Merkel: G-7 summit with Trump was a 'sobering' experience: bit.ly/2JsaNCF https://t.co/pNW2CDy7I8

  11-06-2018 13:30 via twitter.com
  
  Merkel: G-7 summit with Trump was a 'sobering' experience: bit.ly/2JsaNCF https://t.co/pNW2CDy7I8
  
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• A sunny Monday followed by a risk of showers Tuesday

  11-06-2018 13:29 via ottawacitizen.com
  Summery temperatures are sticking around.
  Monday’s forecast of a sunny 23 C is the coolest it will get with some humidity and the risk of showers on the horizon before the mercury hits 28 C by the weekend. The low is a comfortable 10 C.
  Wear your sunblock – the UV index is 8 or very high Monday and Tuesday.
  Tuesday is mainly sunny with southwesterly winds at 20 km/h gusting to 40 in the late morning and a high of 26 C that will feel like 28.
  Overnight, expect a low of 19 C with
  
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• POLL: Are you satisfied with the way Justin Trudeau is handling his relationship with Donald Trump?… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  11-06-2018 13:27 via twitter.com
  POLL: Are you satisfied with the way Justin Trudeau is handling his relationship with Donald Trump?… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Trump attacks put fresh focus on Canada's supply-managed dairy system: bit.ly/2LBBykA https://t.co/l6eGUxnR1J

  11-06-2018 13:17 via twitter.com
  
  Trump attacks put fresh focus on Canada's supply-managed dairy system: bit.ly/2LBBykA https://t.co/l6eGUxnR1J
  
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• Suspicious death at nursing home ruled natural: New details in the death of Violet Lucas

  11-06-2018 13:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  Staff at the nursing home where Violet Lucas was found dead, with her head wedged between her mattress and a guardrail, moved her body before the coroner arrived.
  The investigating coroner could not view Lucas’s body as it was found at Extendicare Laurier Manor on Montreal Road and could not rely on photographs, either, because the staff didn’t take any before moving her body. 
  The coroner has ruled that Lucas died a natural death after suffering cardiac arrest. Althou
  
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• Stop playing the anthem at pro sports games

  11-06-2018 13:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  One of the more depressing consequences of the increasing polarization of our political and social landscape is the way this polarization is seeping out of the realms of partisan politics, and more and more into our daily lives.
  There’s no better example of this than the controversy around anthem protests in the NFL.
  In 2016, then-San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick, in a protest against racial injustice, refused to stand during the pre-game national anthem. Other players joi
  
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• Denley: Five things Doug Ford needs to do – and fast

  11-06-2018 13:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  Although Ontario’s madcap election might not have seemed like the easy part, for incoming premier Doug Ford, it was. Election promises, especially vague ones, are easy to make. Real decisions are tough and Ford must address some big ones right away.
  Here are the top five things he needs to do:
  Create a realistic deficit-elimination plan
  Ford managed to skate through the election without really having to get specific about what his platform will mean to the big picture on revenue, spending
  
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• Pope begins purge in Chile church over sex abuse scandal: bit.ly/2LDDysO https://t.co/aS7BaZwyJy

  11-06-2018 12:56 via twitter.com
  
  Pope begins purge in Chile church over sex abuse scandal: bit.ly/2LDDysO https://t.co/aS7BaZwyJy
  
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• Today's letters: Defence spending, influencing Trump, rules for Highway 401 truckers

  11-06-2018 12:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  Defence spending incompetent
  Re: CF-18 radar support in state of disrepair, June 6.
  The incompetence displayed by the federal government on defence spending and procurement boggles the mind. Just last week, the defence minister admitted that in 2017 his department had spent only 60 per cent of its budget for the year, i.e. no less than $2.3 billion remained unspent.
  Now we learn that the ground radars needed in support of the CF-18 fighter fleet are in a parlous state but replacements are y
  
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• Adam: Château Laurier extension – Can we please just get on with it?

  11-06-2018 12:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  Enough already. Let’s just get on with building the new wing at the Château Laurier Hotel.
  With hyperbolic flourish, Heritage Ottawa has called the latest proposal for am addition “the most disgraceful act of vandalism of our generation.” It adds: “The revised design fails to resolve – or even address – the underlying flaw that impaired all of the previous attempts.”
  But the group cannot hold the redevelopment of the venerable hotel hostage. If aft
  
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• 'She really killed it': Ottawa mother, daughter to graduate from university together - CTV News

  11-06-2018 02:34 via ctvnews.ca
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  'She really killed it': Ottawa mother, daughter to graduate from university together
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  A mother and daughter in Ottawa say they're proud of each other as they prepare to graduate from the same university program on Wednesday. Suzanne Gahagan says she broke the news to her daughter “gently” that she would be going back to school and ...
  
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• CHEO Telethon raises record $10.6M

  11-06-2018 01:49 via ottawacitizen.com
  The annual telethon for the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario raised a whopping $10.6 million, setting a record, the hospital announced Sunday evening.
  The two-week online campaign that culminated in the telethon broadcast on CTV raised brought in $10,648,449, proving once again, according to the CHEO Foundation, “that the health of our children and youth is a top priority for the people in the National Capital Region and beyond.”
  “This massive outpouring of support
  
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