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• BREAKING: The Ottawa Senators have suspended Assistant GM Randy Lee, effective immediately. #ottnews https://t.co/2pO5YDBeFH

  15-06-2018 23:59 via twitter.com
  
  BREAKING: The Ottawa Senators have suspended Assistant GM Randy Lee, effective immediately. #ottnews https://t.co/2pO5YDBeFH
  
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• Sheriff: 1 deputy killed, another wounded in Kansas. ottawamatters.com/world-news/she…

  15-06-2018 23:55 via twitter.com
  Sheriff: 1 deputy killed, another wounded in Kansas.ottawamatters.com/world-news/she…
  
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• Searchers looking for kayaker reported missing in southern Georgian Bay: OPP. ottawamatters.com/around-ontario…

  15-06-2018 23:45 via twitter.com
  Searchers looking for kayaker reported missing in southern Georgian Bay: OPP.ottawamatters.com/around-ontario…
  
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• A sneak peek at the relocation of the House of Commons to West Block

  15-06-2018 23:44 via ottawacitizen.com
  While Centre Block undergoes extensive renovations, MPs will move to the West Block in January 2019 to meet in a new interim House of Commons constructed within the rectangular interior courtyard of the edifice. It’s a 19th-century structure that pre-dates Confederation and was built long before modern building codes.
  Video by Wayne Cuddington
  
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• Brain vs. brawn: Einsteins take on dinos to promote upcoming Museum of Nature exhibit

  15-06-2018 23:31 via ottawacitizen.com
  Einsteins take on dinos in a series of challenges to determine if brainpower is mightier than muscles
  Get ready to witness an event for the history books. Team Einstein meets Team T.rex in downtown Ottawa an extraordinary battle of brain vs. brawn. Five Albert Einstein lookalikes will face off against five dinosaurs in a series of fun, competitive stunts organized by the Canadian Museum of Nature.
  Video by Wayne Cuddington.
  
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• Letter containing white powder sent to US ambassador in Ottawa. ottawamatters.com/local-news/let…

  15-06-2018 23:26 via twitter.com
  Letter containing white powder sent to US ambassador in Ottawa. ottawamatters.com/local-news/let…
  
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• Major city contractor should get a timeout over Springhill dump scandal, councillor says

  15-06-2018 23:10 via ottawacitizen.com
  Tomlinson Group shouldn’t get more business from the city until the company owns up to the financial and environmental shame created by the Springhill landfill scandal, a city councillor says.
  “Councillors need to do something about this, and yes, I agree, we should be closing the doors on Tomlinson until they fix this problem or at least sign an agreement with the city that they will take full responsibility for the contamination they create and to open their books to the city,&rdqu
  
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• UPDATED: Hoffman, fiancée deny harassing the Karlssons

  15-06-2018 22:35 via ottawacitizen.com
  Mike Hoffman and Monika Caryk wanted to clear the air Friday.They both deny that either of them had anything to do with the cyberbullying of Melinda Karlsson, wife of Ottawa Senators’ captain Erik Karlsson.Speaking in an exclusive interview from their home in Kitchener Friday afternoon, Hoffman and Caryk, his fiancée, say they’re distraught over what happened to the Karlssons and they want to help find the person responsible.Caryk has hired Toronto lawyer Sheila Block of Torys
  
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• 'A horrendous situation': Broken elevator at Ottawa retirement home leaves residents, families frustrated

  15-06-2018 22:20 via ottawacitizen.com
  Some residents at a Bells Corners retirement home have spent hundreds hiring a private company to carry them up and down the stairs over the past two months, while the building’s only elevator has been under repair.
  The lack of an elevator means many residents of Thorncliffe Place, a three-storey residence, have been unable to leave their floors since April 9, when the elevator repair began, unless either they or the company that operates the building pays a patient transfer service to tra
  
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• Mary O'Flaherty (1926-2018): Unsung heroine handled communications during 1980 'Canadian Caper' in Tehran

  15-06-2018 22:07 via ottawacitizen.com
  Mary O’Flaherty knew every secret of the “Canadian Caper,” the daring, cloak-and-dagger plan to smuggle six U.S. citizens to safety after the 1979 Iranian revolution.
  As the communications officer for Canada’s embassy in Tehran, O’Flaherty was privy to the top secret messages between Ambassador Ken Taylor and the highest levels in Ottawa. She would have known the details of the bold CIA plan to sneak out the Canadians’ “house guests,” which was tol
  
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• Victim's family says no one wins after Ethier found guilty in stabbing death of roommate

  15-06-2018 21:51 via ottawacitizen.com
  There were tears on both sides of the courtroom Friday as a jury found Brandon Ethier guilty of second-degree murder in the October 2016 slaying of his friend and roommate Joshua Briere.
  Friends and families of both men wept quietly in court as the jury returned with the verdict Friday morning after three days of deliberations. Justice Kevin Phillips said Ethier will receive a life sentence after considering the jury recommendation for parole ineligibility, to be set between 10 and 25 years.
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• Police ask for help to ID suspects in Westboro mail room break-in

  15-06-2018 21:28 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa police are looking for a young man and woman who allegedly stole a lot of mail by breaking into the mail room at a Scott Street apartment building.
  The crime happened a little before 5 a.m. on May 29 in a building near Scott and Churchill Avenue North in Westboro.
  One suspect is described as a white man in his 20s who is about six feet tall, with short dark hair and a slim build. He was wearing a red T-shirt, grey shorts, black shoes and carrying a black knapsack.
  The woman, also white, i
  
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• Reevely: Ford promises to kill Ontario's carbon market in the most damaging way

  15-06-2018 21:11 via ottawacitizen.com
  As soon as the new Progressive Conservative government is sworn in at the end of the month, it’ll tell Quebec and California that Ontario is bailing out of the carbon-emissions market it joined this year to help fight climate change, Premier-designate Doug Ford said Friday.
  “I made a promise to the people that we would take immediate action to scrap the cap-and-trade carbon tax and bring their gas prices down,” Ford said in a Toronto news conference, where the only purpose was
  
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• Brain vs braun: Einsteins take on dinos to promote upcoming Museum of Nature exhibit

  15-06-2018 21:11 via ottawacitizen.com
  Einsteins take on dinos in a series of challenges to determine if brainpower is mightier than muscles
  Get ready to witness an event for the history books. Team Einstein meets Team T.rex in downtown Ottawa an extraordinary battle of brain vs. brawn. Five Albert Einstein lookalikes will face off against five dinosaurs in a series of fun, competitive stunts organized by the Canadian Museum of Nature.
  Video by Wayne Cuddington.
  
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• Two wanted in Westboro mail room break-in ottawamatters.com/police-beat/tw… https://t.co/FsOL2uK9J2

  15-06-2018 21:06 via twitter.com
  
  Two wanted in Westboro mail room break-inottawamatters.com/police-beat/tw… https://t.co/FsOL2uK9J2
  
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• Take a peek inside West Block's House of Commons, MPs' new home for the next decade

  15-06-2018 19:45 via ottawacitizen.com
  The smell of fresh varnish hung in the air Friday as the government showcased the renovated West Block that will serve as “the heart of Canada’s democratic parliamentary system” for at least the next decade.
  While Centre Block undergoes extensive renovations, MPs will move to the West Block in January 2019 to meet in a new interim House of Commons constructed within the rectangular interior courtyard of the edifice. It’s a 19th-century structure that pre-dates Confederati
  
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• Former CFL player now ex-cop: Const. Jason Mallett pre-emptively resigns from Ottawa police

  15-06-2018 19:43 via ottawacitizen.com
  A former CFL player turned Ottawa police officer has pre-emptively resigned from the force that was after his badge for allegedly having sex with multiple women while on duty, this newspaper has learned.
  According to a “general order” dated June 13 sent by Chief Charles Bordeleau to all Ottawa police officers, Const. Jason Mallett “has resigned from the OPS.” Mallett had been suspended with pay for nearly four years. “Therefore, his suspension is concluded effective
  
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• Police arrest two, seize loaded handgun after robbery, crash

  15-06-2018 19:34 via ottawacitizen.com
  A gunpoint mugging for cash and shoes wound up with the getaway car crashing into other vehicles in a pursuit through Sandy Hill, then two suspects in cuffs after a foot chase.
  It began at about 4:15 p.m. at Rideau Street and King Edward Avenue when a 22-year-old man was approached by a man who produced a gun, police said. He demanded the victim’s money and a pair of newly-purchased shoes before fleeing in a Dodge Charger.
  The victim flagged down a passing patrol officer who spotted the Ch
  
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• Sûreté du Québec investigating death of man, 25, at Rockfest in Montebello

  15-06-2018 18:31 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Sûreté du Québec police are investigating the death of a young man at the Rockfest music show in Montebello on Friday.
  An SQ spokesman said they were called shortly before 8 a.m. to the site for a 25-year-old man who had been found in a tent in the onsite campground.
  “Paramedics attempted to resuscitate the man without success,” the spokesman said.
  The victim was taken to hospital where he was declared deceased.
  The spokesman said there was no indication of cr
  
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• Ethier found guilty in stabbing death of roommate

  15-06-2018 18:02 via ottawacitizen.com
  An Ottawa jury has found Brandon Ethier guilty of second-degree murder in the Oct. 22, 2016 stabbing death of his roommate Joshua Briere.
  For the jury to reach the verdict on Friday, Justice Kevin Phillips said, the Crown must have proven beyond a reasonable doubt that Ethier, 29, caused Briere’s death, that he did so unlawfully, and, crucially, that he had “the state of mind required for murder.”
  Phillips said it was “plain to see” that Ethier, whether it was
  
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• NEXT on the Power Lunch: @MeehanCarolAnne & @UW_Michael join @_MarkSutcliffe in-studio: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  15-06-2018 17:55 via twitter.com
  NEXT on the Power Lunch: @MeehanCarolAnne & @UW_Michael join @_MarkSutcliffe in-studio: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• The @rick_gibbons Show for Friday, June 15th: 1:08: @SNFaizalKhamisa 1:17: @joe_warmington 1:30: @ppppolls 1:37:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  15-06-2018 17:48 via twitter.com
  The @rick_gibbons Show for Friday, June 15th: 1:08: @SNFaizalKhamisa 1:17: @joe_warmington 1:30: @ppppolls 1:37:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Coming up at 11:30: @JillMSkinner joins @_MarkSutcliffe to discuss her retirement from @OttawaPolice: 📻: 1310 💻… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  15-06-2018 17:25 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 11:30: @JillMSkinner joins @_MarkSutcliffe to discuss her retirement from @OttawaPolice: 📻: 1310 💻… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Tiny Ottawa business school takes down much of its website

  15-06-2018 17:23 via ottawacitizen.com
  The online business college that operates from a Dymon Storage mailbox in Ottawa has taken down much of its website following publication of a story in this newspaper on Friday.
  The Ottawa School of Business and Economics, run by founder and president Massoud Khazabi, removed large sections of its website identifying staff and faculty.
  There is now no reference to Khazabi, whose full-time job is as an economic advisor at Transport Canada. He has also taught part-time at the University of Ottawa,
  
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• Sûreté du Québec investigating death of young man at Rockfest in Montebello

  15-06-2018 17:10 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Sûreté du Québec police are investigating the death of a young man in his 20s at the Rockfest music show in Montebello.
  Regional paramedics confirmed they were called to the scene shortly before 8 a.m. Friday for a victim with an apparent heart problem.
  The victim was declared dead on site.
  Officials said they would not speculate on the cause of the medical emergency.
  Last year, Brockville music fan Hugh Hart, 60, was found dead of a heart attack in the town of Montebello
  
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• Gormley: Canada, stop locking up migrant kids

  15-06-2018 17:01 via ottawacitizen.com
  It is nice at least that we can still be shocked by things in the United States. This is the sole positive observation that can be made about the grotesqueness of little migrant kids being put in cages.
  What is odd, and not so positive, is that the imprisonment of migrant children in Canada does not spark much widespread indignation here. I don’t mean to suggest that because we lock some kids up too we are as bad as the United States. I only mean to say that because we think of ourselves a
  
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• On today's Ethics Lab: -unpaid internships -ethics of obituaries -why Looney Toons’ “Hyde and Hare” might be bette… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  15-06-2018 16:55 via twitter.com
  On today's Ethics Lab:-unpaid internships -ethics of obituaries -why Looney Toons’ “Hyde and Hare” might be bette… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• It's make or break time for Canadian Surface Combatant bidders

  15-06-2018 16:50 via ottawacitizen.com
  The companies bidding on the Canadian Surface Combatant program will provide Irving Shipbuilding with their “cured” bids by July 21.
  Earlier this year, Postmedia reported that all three bidders in the competition failed to meet some of the federal government’s requirements.
  The problems centre around technical issues. Some are minor but in other cases there is a view among defence industry officials that Canada is asking for too much in some areas such as radar, which may be ca
  
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• Coming up at 10:45: @Sportsnet chief soccer reporter @JohnMolinaro joins @_marksutcliffe with your World Cup prev… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  15-06-2018 16:40 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 10:45: @Sportsnet chief soccer reporter @JohnMolinaro joins @_marksutcliffe with your World Cup prev… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Hyder: Why Doug Ford should go to Washington

  15-06-2018 16:17 via ottawacitizen.com
  Given their close personal relationship with Kathleen Wynne and her provincial Liberal Party, I suspect Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his senior staff aren’t thrilled that Doug Ford is now the premier-designate of Ontario – but they should be. He’s going to help save NAFTA.
  Over the course of the past year, the Trudeau government has done an admirable job defending Canadian interests in what has become an increasingly acrimonious trade dispute with the United States. Foreig
  
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• On today's Power Lunch: @MeehanCarolAnne & @UW_Michael join @_marksutcliffe in-studio: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  15-06-2018 16:13 via twitter.com
  On today's Power Lunch: @MeehanCarolAnne & @UW_Michael join @_marksutcliffe in-studio: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• McDonald's to switch to paper straws in U.K., Ireland: bit.ly/2JFkFJz https://t.co/woe44r25s6

  15-06-2018 16:10 via twitter.com
  
  McDonald's to switch to paper straws in U.K., Ireland: bit.ly/2JFkFJz https://t.co/woe44r25s6
  
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• Spotlight: Choreographer Anik Bouvrette talks about turning 'ideas into movement'

  15-06-2018 16:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  Spotlight is a weekly look at some of the people who are part of the Ottawa area’s arts community. This week, Bruce Deachman talks with choreographer and Tara Luz Danse artistic director and founder, Anik Bouvrette. Visit taraluzdanse.ca for more information.
  “When I create now, the pieces are about imagination and creativity, and the audience has to make associations with what they see — their own personal associations. So when you come and see a show, you’re not going t
  
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• BREAKING: Law societies can deny accreditation to Christian university. twitter.com/cmaconthehill/…

  15-06-2018 15:58 via twitter.com
  BREAKING: Law societies can deny accreditation to Christian university. twitter.com/cmaconthehill/…
  
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• NEXT on the 10 O'Clock Talk: @erin_gee, @david_moscrop & @1310JasonWhite join @_marksutcliffe live: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  15-06-2018 15:57 via twitter.com
  NEXT on the 10 O'Clock Talk: @erin_gee, @david_moscrop & @1310JasonWhite join @_marksutcliffe live:📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Riders plunge 34 feet, 6 injured in roller coaster derail: bit.ly/2JE49JQ https://t.co/haEw3Vn1ns

  15-06-2018 15:50 via twitter.com
  
  Riders plunge 34 feet, 6 injured in roller coaster derail: bit.ly/2JE49JQ https://t.co/haEw3Vn1ns
  
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• Retired Conservative Sen. Marjory Lebreton is appalled her former colleagues passed a gutted version of an impaired… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  15-06-2018 15:40 via twitter.com
  Retired Conservative Sen. Marjory Lebreton is appalled her former colleagues passed a gutted version of an impaired… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Compact quarters: An architect's family of four embraces small-scale living in Vanier

  15-06-2018 15:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  When Erin Duncan purchased a small bungalow in Vanier she moved in with her dog and was enjoying the single life. She never imagined at the time that within a few years it would grow into a home for a family of four.
  “We’ve learned to adapt and to embrace the tiny house movement,” laughs Duncan, an Ottawa architect. “Having a smaller footprint is better for the environment. As our children get older, we’ll have to be more creative with space and storage.”
  Dunc
  
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• Messages of support flood in after adult shaming of autistic child

  15-06-2018 15:25 via ottawacitizen.com
  BELLEVILLE — What began with public shaming has turned into a tide of support for a Belleville woman and her autistic son.
  Ashley Wright and children Logan, 13, and Brinlee,11, were at Peterborough’s Riverview Park and Zoo June 10. During their time there, a stranger reacted rudely to Logan’s agitation.
  That evening, Wright said, she wrote an open Facebook letter to the man, explaining Logan’s behaviour and the hurt the man’s reaction had caused.
  The message caught
  
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• Ottawa opens ALS centre amid 'massive' advance in basic research

  15-06-2018 14:34 via ottawacitizen.com
  The treatment of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis has not advanced much since baseball great Lou Gehrig died of the disease in 1941, a story that transcended the Yankees and sport in general.
  But hope is building, with more progress in the past 10 years than in the previous 60. Ottawa is onboard, with the opening in May of a neuromuscular research centre, based at the Civic campus at The Ottawa Hospital, where muscular dystrophy and ALS will get special attention.
  Experts say the exact cause o
  
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• 'My dad’s been my biggest hero my whole life'

  15-06-2018 14:32 via ottawacitizen.com
  The first time we met Carol Skinner in 2015, she was so relentlessly positive, so often smiling in the face of approaching death, the pair of us (writer, photographer) left the apartment holding back tears.
  (Strange. Was she not the ailing one?) Three years later, she’s very much alive — surprise, surprise — and still fighting the good fight against ALS.
  “I was living as though I was dying,” she said of the early months with the terminal illness. “I got my aff
  
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• Egan: As ALS steals his daughter, a father helplessly watches on

  15-06-2018 14:31 via ottawacitizen.com
  ALS kills 80 per cent of sufferers within two to five years, a terrifying statistic for Carol Skinner, on the eve of her fifth anniversary.
  Today she uses a walker inside her small apartment — a wheelchair everywhere else — and doesn’t drive or work anymore, or even cut her own food, or wash her own hair. On a good day, she can write her name. On a bad day, there are things she can hardly speak of: “I’m scared to death.”
  Peter Sharman would trade places with h
  
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• Akwesasne Mohawk council agrees to $45M settlement for seaway flooding

  15-06-2018 14:26 via ottawacitizen.com
  AKWESASNE — Just in time for the 60th anniversary of the flooding of their land to help create the St. Lawrence Seaway, the Mohawk Council of Akwesasne has approved a $45-million settlement offer from the federal government in compensation for the damages caused by the project.
  The agreement now goes to a community-wide referendum later this year.
  Besides the money, the federal government is also giving back ownership of expropriated lands back to Mohawk Council control. The properties are
  
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• Spencer: Don't boycott the Americans, engage them

  15-06-2018 14:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  It’s a sign of Canadians’ evolving good global sense that many who vehemently opposed free trade with the United States 30 years ago are today insulted by Donald Trump’s crude protectionism. We recognize that we’re a trading nation – in fact, if Trump and company are to be believed, we’re downright diabolical about it. Our prime minister is “dishonest” and a negotiating backstabber, we’re told. It gets our normally cool Canadian blood boiling
  
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• NCC, Ottawa beaches open just in time for warmer temperatures

  15-06-2018 13:40 via ottawacitizen.com
  Friday dawned cool and foggy but skies are set to clear up on the way to a high of 25, just in time for the official opening of the National Capital Commissions seven beaches.
  Ottawa has disappeared this am.. #ottawa #ottweather @BlacksWeather pic.twitter.com/ZQT2R95sqJ
  — Laura (@FALauraC) June 15, 2018But wear your sunblock, the UV index is expected to hit 8, or very high.
  Friday night’s low should drop to 12 C.
  Lifeguards will be on duty at the Ottawa beaches for the first time on
  
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• 'It's definitely spiking now': More people in Ottawa getting targeted by gold scam

  15-06-2018 13:26 via ottawacitizen.com
  When it comes to things you probably shouldn’t purchase on the street, precious gold jewelry places pretty high on the list.
  And yet, some gold buyers say there’s been an uptick in the number of Ottawans targeted by scammers selling fake gold for a quick buck.
  “It’s definitely spiking now,” said Erik Ramsey, owner of the Swap N’ Shop pawnshop on Merivale Road. “I’ve been seeing it come through the store for the past year or two — but nothing
  
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• 'We will always be grateful': American saved by 1980 'Canadian Caper' says thank you to Canada

  15-06-2018 13:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  Kathleen Stafford has watched with a heavy heart the chill in Canada-U.S. relations after President Donald Trump’s acerbic, post-G7 tweet storm. Nearly 40 years ago, a small team of Canadians risked everything to save Stafford and five other Americans fleeing for their lives during the Iranian revolution.
  “No other country or people would have ‘unreservedly’ stepped up to protect us like your people, embassy and government did,” Stafford said in telephone and email
  
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• In a brief statement, Fraser acknowledged there will be years of rebuilding ahead for the party, but promised to wo… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  15-06-2018 11:48 via twitter.com
  In a brief statement, Fraser acknowledged there will be years of rebuilding ahead for the party, but promised to wo… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Americans reach across the border, urge Canadians to ignore Trump: bit.ly/2lb9nht https://t.co/IN1d0szVgd

  15-06-2018 11:19 via twitter.com
  
  Americans reach across the border, urge Canadians to ignore Trump: bit.ly/2lb9nht https://t.co/IN1d0szVgd
  
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• Orléans grandfather awaits sentencing for killing sleeping son

  15-06-2018 03:21 via ottawacitizen.com
  John Mcrae spent his last weekend as a free man with his grandchildren at a barbecue in the backyard of his Orléans home.
  He wanted to spend as much time with them because a jury was days away from deliberating the killer’s fate.
  John Mcrae, 73, slit his son’s throat as he slept off a day of drinking on the living room couch on July 7, 2015. He was fed up with his angry, always-drunk son and figured he’d be better off dead. Even told the neighbour his son deserved it.
  He
  
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