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• Inuit jawbone left in office lobby; who it belonged to will likely remain a mystery

  21-06-2018 23:56 via ottawacitizen.com
  When someone brought a box labelled as artifacts to the office of an Inuit organization on Albert Street, staff were stunned to open it and unwrap a human jawbone.
  An unsigned note said the father of whoever left the box in the lobby of the Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami had collected the jawbone, a piece of carved whalebone and some other pieces of art in Frobisher Bay (now Iqaluit) in the 1950s.
  The note apologized for keeping them for so long. Staff called the police, who investigate found huma
  
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• Project to turn former Grant school into francophone centre delayed

  21-06-2018 23:29 via ottawacitizen.com
  A decade-long plan to turn an old school on Richmond Road into a francophone community service centre has been delayed again, say organizers.
  The target for opening the centre is now the fall of 2019, a year later than estimated, said Linda Savard, the president of the French-language public school board, which is overseeing the project.
  Savard said it took longer than expected to get all of the city approvals for the old Grant Alternative School at 2720 Richmond Rd.
  The province promised $8.95
  
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• New atlas of Indigenous Peoples reveals country 'before the lines were drawn'

  21-06-2018 23:23 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Royal Canadian Geographical Society unveiled its four-volume Indigenous Peoples Atlas of Canada on Thursday, a two-year labour that offers an unprecedented amount of information about Canada’s first peoples, their languages and culture, and a history that is both inspiring and tragic.
  It is a view of Canada “before the lines were drawn,” in the words of RCGS president John Geiger.
  The atlas was created in partnership with the Assembly of First Nations, the Inuit Tapiriit Ka
  
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• Chagall's The Eiffel Tower, rescued from auction, goes on display Saturday at the National Gallery

  21-06-2018 22:54 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Eiffel Tower by Marc Chagall, which the National Gallery of Canada had intended to sell at auction this spring until an 11th-hour reversal of plans, will go on display on Saturday at the gallery.
  The painting by the late and revered French-Russian painter will be on view in the European galleries on the gallery’s second floor, alongside Chagall’s earlier painting Memories of Childhood, a short statement from the gallery said Thursday.
  Both paintings are to remain on vie
  
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• Violent crime, costs of policing up in Ottawa

  21-06-2018 22:53 via ottawacitizen.com
  Violent crime and the cost of policing are up in Ottawa, according to the police service’s annual report for last year.
  The overall crime rate in Ottawa has increased by three per cent — to 3,524 criminal offences per 100,000 residents — and all reported crime is up four per cent to 34,505 offences reported in 2017.
  Police report that the violent crime rate jumped from 541 offences per 100,000 residents in 2016 to 649 offences per 100,000 people in 2017 — an increase
  
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• Pillay: Canada has a duty to act on America's egregious border policies

  21-06-2018 22:19 via ottawacitizen.com
  The separation from their parents and detention of children in “cages” in Texas by U.S. officials was indefensible. It was also something else: torture.
  Torture is described in Article 1 of the UN Convention Against Torture as including psychological torture, “intentionally inflicted” to “punish” an individual for the acts of another (in this case, the parent seeking asylum or crossing the border from Mexico and South America). It is most certainly &ldquo
  
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• Reevely: Ford reaffirms pledge to keep Pickering nuclear station open … for the wrong reasons

  21-06-2018 22:11 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ontario will keep the elderly nuclear plant in Pickering running until 2024, Premier-designate Doug Ford repeated Thursday, for weird and un-conservative reasons.
  “I believe in made-in-Ontario electricity and made-in-Ontario jobs,” Ford said at the plant.
  There is nothing special about made-in-Ontario electricity. The Pickering plant’s energy doesn’t make your lights shine plaid or give off a faint mapley-piney aroma. There’s no difference between a j
  
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• 'I'm going to change my life,' Ethier says in apology to grieving Briere family

  21-06-2018 21:37 via ottawacitizen.com
  No matter what sentence Brandon Ethier receives for the murder of Joshua Briere, no prison term will fill the void Briere’s death has left on his grieving family.
  “The jury gave the right verdict, guilty of murder in the second-degree, yet it still doesn’t bring back our Josh,” said his mother Holly Briere, who attended hearings with her family throughout the four-week trial.
  Superior Court Justice Kevin Phillips will deliver the terms of Ethier’s life sentence Frid
  
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• Six facing charges after police seize guns, drugs in large bust

  21-06-2018 21:27 via ottawacitizen.com
  Six people were arrested and large quantities of drugs seized in a major drug bust in three locations on Wednesday afternoon.
  Warrants were executed at three houses — on Lees Avenue, Burleigh Private and Cummings Avenue — in an operation that included officers from the tactical, K9 and central frontline units.
  The six people arrested face a litany of drug and weapons charges, and were scheduled to appear in court on Thursday. The six facing charges are: Tanner West, 26, of Ottaw
  
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• Annual Ribfest opens on Sparks Street

  21-06-2018 21:06 via ottawacitizen.com
  The 26th annual Ottawa RibFest on Sparks Street Mall kicked off Wednesday and runs until Sunday.
  
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• China jabs U.S. over tariffs. ottawamatters.com/national-busin…

  21-06-2018 20:20 via twitter.com
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• Changing the Guard Ceremony to start on Parliament Hill on Sunday

  21-06-2018 19:54 via ottawacitizen.com
  The daily Changing the Guard Ceremony on Parliament Hill will start on Sunday, June 24 and end on Aug. 23, the Canadian Forces announced Thursday. In addition to the daily Guard Mount ceremonies on Parliament Hill, the Ceremonial Guard will perform hourly sentry duties every day at Rideau Hall from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., the Canadian Forces said. The Ceremonial Guard is currently training at Carleton University.
   
   
  
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• Truck driver jailed for 2015 fatal crash near Kingston

  21-06-2018 19:29 via ottawacitizen.com
  A commercial truck driver who lost control of his southbound big rig on Perth Road north of Kingston three years ago and crashed into a motorcycle driven 30-year-old Master Cpl. Ryan (Alex) New, killing him, has been sentenced to two years less one day in provincial jail and prohibited for five years from driving in Canada.
  Harjant Singh, 36, was also ordered to perform 200 hours of community service in the first 18 months of a two-year probation following jail. Superior Court Justice Gary Tranm
  
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• Changing of the Guard Ceremony to start on Parliament Hill on Sunday

  21-06-2018 19:27 via ottawacitizen.com
  The daily Changing of the Guard Ceremony on Parliament Hill will start on Sunday, June 24 and end on Aug. 23, the Canadian Forces announced Thursday. In addition to the daily Guard Mount ceremonies on Parliament Hill, the Ceremonial Guard will perform hourly sentry duties every day at Rideau Hall from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., the Canadian Forces said. The Ceremonial Guard is currently training at Carleton University.
   
   
  
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• .@OttawaPolice investigating Wednesday night shooting in Ledbury Ave.neighbourhood. 21 y.o. man suffered minor inju… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  21-06-2018 19:07 via twitter.com
  .@OttawaPolice investigating Wednesday night shooting in Ledbury Ave.neighbourhood. 21 y.o. man suffered minor inju… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• .@PoliceGatineau have an arrest warrant out for Gabriel Labelle-Boisvenue, suspected in a Sunday night home invasio… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  21-06-2018 18:54 via twitter.com
  .@PoliceGatineau have an arrest warrant out for Gabriel Labelle-Boisvenue, suspected in a Sunday night home invasio… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Gatineau police seek suspect in home invasion, stabbing

  21-06-2018 18:54 via ottawacitizen.com
  Gatineau police are seeking public assistance in locating a 22-year-old suspect in a “targeted” home invasion and stabbing June 17 that left the victim with serious injuries.
  Police say the incident occurred at about 11:30 p.m. at an apartment on Charny Street in Gatineau.
  When the victim answered the door, the suspect attacked with a blade of some kind, continuing the attack inside the apartment.
  The victim’s wounds are not considered life-threatening.
  Police have issued
  
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• Whitcomb: Climate change politics are undermining federalism

  21-06-2018 18:35 via ottawacitizen.com
  Canada’s largest province is about to reject the federal climate change policy.  Saskatchewan never accepted it and Alberta could reject it in 2019. Maybe it’s time for reflection.
  The current policy calls for the provinces to implement a federal government plan. That, however, is a contradiction of federalism, a system which reflects the fact that the feds and the provinces have different interests. Policies to deal with pollution in Ontario may be inappropriate for Newfoundlan
  
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• Cirque du Soleil's 'absolutely amazing' Corteo show returns to Ottawa

  21-06-2018 18:26 via ottawacitizen.com
  In late 2015, Marie-Christine Ménard-Bergeron thought her run as a globetrotting acrobat was over.
  After more than four years as a Cirque du Soleil performer in Los Angeles, Germany and then throughout South America, Ménard-Bergeron bid the famed theatrical production company goodbye. Averse to Canadian winters, Ménard-Bergeron, who grew up in Brossard just outside of Montreal, moved to Sydney, Australia.
  “I had a normal life again,” she recalls. “I ha
  
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• Senior Ottawa police officer cleared of sexual assault allegation

  21-06-2018 18:24 via ottawacitizen.com
  A senior Ottawa police officer who was alleged to have sexually assaulted his former spouse has been cleared of any criminal wrongdoing.
  In a report to the police board that is set to be received Monday, the police force acknowledges that the civilian watchdog cleared the officer of any criminal wrongdoing and decided not to lay any charges in January of this year.
  This newspaper first reported on the Special Investigations Unit’s probe of the allegations in March 2017. The actual allegati
  
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• One man wounded in Ledbury Avenue shooting

  21-06-2018 18:07 via ottawacitizen.com
  East-end detectives are investigating after a wounded 21-year-old man turned up the hospital after gunfire was reported on Ledbury Avenue late Wednesday night.
  His injuries were minor and no one else was hurt.
  Gunfire was heard on Ledbury Avenue west of Ledbury Park, south of Bank Street and Walkley Road, and called into police at 11:45 p.m.
  Shortly after midnight, police were alerted that the young man was at the hospital, where he’d been transported by a friend.
  
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• Blood donors are urgently needed

  21-06-2018 18:01 via ottawacitizen.com
  Canadian Blood Services has made an urgent plea for blood — 23,000 donors are needed across the country by Canada Day.
  In Ottawa, there are more than 370 appointments available at the permanent blood donor centre at 1575 Carling Ave.
  The clinics run Monday and Friday from 8:30 am until 12:30 p.m., Tuesday and Wednesday from 3:30 pm until 7:30 pm, Thursday from 10 am until 4 pm and Saturday from 9 am until 1 pm.
  For more information go blood.ca. To book an appointment call 1-888-236-6283.
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• The @rick_gibbons Show for Thursday, June 21st: 1:08: @tobywhitfield 1:17: @mspratt 1:30: @TimCBaines 1:45:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  21-06-2018 17:56 via twitter.com
  The @rick_gibbons Show for Thursday, June 21st: 1:08: @tobywhitfield 1:17: @mspratt 1:30: @TimCBaines 1:45:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• NEXT on the Power Lunch: @CouncillorMcRae & @cooperbrosband Dick Cooper join @_MarkSutcliffe in-studiio: 📻: 131… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  21-06-2018 17:55 via twitter.com
  NEXT on the Power Lunch: @CouncillorMcRae & @cooperbrosband Dick Cooper join @_MarkSutcliffe in-studiio: 📻: 131… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Coming up at 11:45: @GregFergus joins @_MarkSutcliffe on Gatineau's $2.1B LRT plan: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  21-06-2018 17:40 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 11:45:@GregFergus joins @_MarkSutcliffe on Gatineau's $2.1B LRT plan: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• HEADS UP OTTAWA! If you're in the area around Confederation Park...@CFSnowbirds are coming your way! #ottnews twitter.com/CFSnowbirds/st…

  21-06-2018 17:28 via twitter.com
  HEADS UP OTTAWA! If you're in the area around Confederation Park...@CFSnowbirdsare coming your way! #ottnews twitter.com/CFSnowbirds/st…
  
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• .@PoliceGatineau worried about #Missing 22-year old Hull man. Have you seen Jacob Desormeaux? #ottnews #Gatineau ottawamatters.com/police-beat/po…

  21-06-2018 17:13 via twitter.com
  .@PoliceGatineau worried about #Missing 22-year old Hull man. Have you seen Jacob Desormeaux? #ottnews #Gatineauottawamatters.com/police-beat/po…
  
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• Coming up at 11:15: @CHEOhospital Dr. Hazen Gandy joins @_MarkSutcliffe on video game addiction: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  21-06-2018 17:10 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 11:15: @CHEOhospital Dr. Hazen Gandy joins @_MarkSutcliffe on video game addiction: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Coming up at 11: @MacLeodLisa joins @_MarkSutcliffe live: 📻: 1310 💻: bit.ly/2oQd8u1 📞: 613… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  21-06-2018 16:55 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 11:@MacLeodLisa joins @_MarkSutcliffe live: 📻: 1310 💻: bit.ly/2oQd8u1📞: 613… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Coming up at 10:45: Leader of the @OntarioGreens a @MikeSchreiner joins @_MarkSutcliffe live: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  21-06-2018 16:40 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 10:45: Leader of the @OntarioGreens a @MikeSchreiner joins @_MarkSutcliffe live:📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Adam: Municipal race – so far, we're in for more of the same

  21-06-2018 16:26 via ottawacitizen.com
  Now that the provincial election is behind us, we can turn our attention to the Oct. 22 municipal election, but what a forgettable one it is shaping up to be. The candidates will make a big deal of it, but there’s little to tickle the imagination. To think we’ll have to endure this campaign for four months.
  Start at the top of the ticket and you’ll catch my drift. Mayor Jim Watson, to no one’s surprise, is running again, but consider his challengers so far: Bernard Couchm
  
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• Chris Botti coming to Ottawa Jazz Festival: 'We might give them a jolt'

  21-06-2018 16:21 via ottawacitizen.com
  Chris Botti
  8:30 p.m., Top Shelf main stage, TD Ottawa Jazz Festival, Marion Dewar Plaza, Ottawa City Hall
  Passes and info: ottawajazzfestival.com
  Trumpeter Chris Botti is billed as the most popular American instrumentalist in the world, with a reputation for crowd-pleasing shows, as Ottawa music fans have witnessed during past appearances at the TD Ottawa Jazz Festival. But the same showmanship that endears him to audiences of all ages tends to foster disdain among jazz purists. In an interview
  
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• On today's Power Lunch: @CouncillorMcRae & @cooperbrosband Dick Cooper join @_MarkSutcliffe in-studiio: 📻: 1310… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  21-06-2018 16:10 via twitter.com
  On today's Power Lunch: @CouncillorMcRae & @cooperbrosband Dick Cooper join @_MarkSutcliffe in-studiio: 📻: 1310… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• 'My heart is hurting' – gravestones toppled, smashed at historic Picton cemetery

  21-06-2018 16:06 via ottawacitizen.com
  The OPP is hunting for the vandals who toppled tombstones, smashing some of them, and threw pieces into a marsh at Picton’s historic Glenwood Cemetery.
  Between 3 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, “numerous” gravestones and monuments around sections “H” and “F” of the cemetery were damaged. The extent of the damage wasn’t yet known but is estimated to be in the thousands of dollars.
  John Thompson, vice-chair of the cemetery’s board of directo
  
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• Police blame the spike on more cases of uttering threats, harassing communications, assaults and sexual violations… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  21-06-2018 16:00 via twitter.com
  Police blame the spike on more cases of uttering threats, harassing communications, assaults and sexual violations… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Orléans high school closed on last day of classes after email threat

  21-06-2018 15:59 via ottawacitizen.com
  Students and staff of an Orléans high school moved to neighbouring schools Thursday morning after the school was the target of an e-mailed threat for a second time within months.
  This time it’s on what was supposed to be the last day of classes.
  The Conseil des écoles catholiques du Centre-Est board board said that a threat to École secondaire catholique Béatrice-Desloges was received and as a precautionary step staff and students who had already arrived at
  
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• Fears for 'health and safety' of missing Gatineau man

  21-06-2018 15:37 via ottawacitizen.com
  Gatineau police are seeking possible assistance in the search for a 22-year-old man who disappeared early Wednesday.
  They say there are “reasons to fear for the health and safety” of Jacob Desormeaux.
  He was last seen at his home in the Hull sector about 9 a.m. Wednesday.
  He is five-feet-five-inches tall, weighs about 130 pounds, and was last seen carrying a backpack with the name Viking on it. He was wearing black Adidas pants and a pale blue T-shirt.
  Anyone with information is aske
  
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• Renovation Transformation: Cottage-like redo at The Cameron restaurant nods to the past

  21-06-2018 15:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  The opening of Ottawa’s new restaurant The Cameron was less of a grand unveiling and more like a welcome home.
  As doors opened for the season at The Ottawa Tennis and Lawn Bowling Club (OTLBC) so did those of the restaurant nestled in its upstairs dining hall. The space has changed hands over many years but never has it seen as dramatic a transformation as it did this summer.
  The Cameron updated the almost century-old space into a modern, yet cozy mess hall reflecting the rich history atta
  
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• 'Apologetic' driver charged after truck runs red light, strikes motorcycle officer

  21-06-2018 14:26 via ottawacitizen.com
  A Kingston police officer riding a motorcycle suffered a minor knee injury after being hit by a pickup truck that was driven through a red light Tuesday morning.
  Const. Pete Lafontaine was riding his Kingston police motorcycle north on Division Street at about 10:30 a.m. when he went through a green light at Elliott Avenue. As he did he saw an eastbound truck on Elliott Avenue travel through a red light at about 50 km/h, police said in a news release.
  The officer was able to slow down but hit th
  
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• Police watchdog probes death of man killed when struck by car in Gatineau footchase

  21-06-2018 13:26 via ottawacitizen.com
  Quebec’s police watchdog has opened an investigation into the death of a 28-year-old man early Thursday who died of injuries sustained when he was struck by a car while being chased by Gatineau police/
  The Bureau des enquêtes indépendantes said in a release that preliminary information indicates police were called to the Casino de Lac-Leamy at about 1:20 a.m. where a man was allegedly attempting to break into and steal parked vehicles.
  An officer arriving at the scene quickly
  
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• Meet the father of 911 in Ottawa

  21-06-2018 13:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  The 911 emergency call service has been around so long that it’s difficult to remember a time when it wasn’t. But Dr. Justin Maloney certainly can — he was one of its first proponents in Ottawa, and, with a handful of others, fought for years to get it here.
  Maloney was, and still is, an emergency doctor at The Ottawa Hospital — then the General — in the early 1980s. He was interested in improving Ottawa’s pre-hospital care, which he says wasn’t good the
  
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• 911 turns 30 in Ottawa: From Parliament Hill shooting to OC Transpo crash, operators have heard it all

  21-06-2018 13:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  The caller’s voice sounded muffled over the phone.
  Did he have something tied over his mouth? Was he the victim of a robbery?
  From her desk inside the 911 emergency call centre at the Elgin Street police station, Carole Lachance could tell the call had come through the switchboard of the Governor General’s residence. Beyond that, she couldn’t identify the man’s location.
  She kept him on the line for 30 minutes, though, devising a crude communication system — one &ld
  
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• Today's letters: Château Laurier extension – no easy answers

  21-06-2018 12:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  Don’t put a box on back of the Château Laurier
  Re: Heritage subcommittee wants council to send Château Laurier back to the drawing boar, June 18.
  Thank you to the city councillors who rejected the recommendation of city staff to approve the latest plan for the Château Laurier addition. This is why you are elected. It would be good if you did this more often.
  As to the design itself, the reason Ottawa citizens do not like the proposal is that it does not fit with the
  
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• Bills for Trudeau's nine-day trip to India now top $1.5 million, documents show: bit.ly/2K5xWqW https://t.co/Ktcw5vPhcf

  21-06-2018 12:01 via twitter.com
  
  Bills for Trudeau's nine-day trip to India now top $1.5 million, documents show: bit.ly/2K5xWqW https://t.co/Ktcw5vPhcf
  
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• According to police, items that were kept outside of a home had been intentionally set on fire. #ottnews twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…

  21-06-2018 11:35 via twitter.com
  According to police, items that were kept outside of a home had been intentionally set on fire. #ottnews twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…
  
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• Canada PM can't imagine Trump damaging US with auto tariffs: bit.ly/2K8Yhri https://t.co/VGjxy6bqBm

  21-06-2018 11:25 via twitter.com
  
  Canada PM can't imagine Trump damaging US with auto tariffs: bit.ly/2K8Yhri https://t.co/VGjxy6bqBm
  
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• What makes a beer a beer? Feds brew changes to national beer standards: bit.ly/2JUEnRw https://t.co/GA669GeAwe

  21-06-2018 11:15 via twitter.com
  
  What makes a beer a beer? Feds brew changes to national beer standards: bit.ly/2JUEnRw https://t.co/GA669GeAwe
  
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• Security Analyst and former cop, Ross McLean said new precautions must be taken to ensure public safety. #ottnews twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…

  21-06-2018 11:05 via twitter.com
  Security Analyst and former cop, Ross McLean said new precautions must be taken to ensure public safety. #ottnews twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…
  
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• Man hit by OC Transpo bus faces slow recovery; driver on 'investigatory leave'

  21-06-2018 05:16 via ottawacitizen.com
  An OC Transpo driver is on “investigatory leave” following a June 8 incident near Britannia Beach that sent a young man to hospital with critical injuries to his pelvis and lower abdomen.
  Evean Larabie, 23, was a passenger on a Route 16 bus when, according to Ottawa police, he was either removed from or asked to leave the bus. A friend who had been with Larabie at the beach earlier that Friday afternoon said he had been drinking.
  What exactly transpired next — and why — r
  
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• Police lay impaired driving charges in Leeds and Grenville

  21-06-2018 04:50 via ottawacitizen.com
  Police laid a handful of impaired driving charges in the United Counties of Leeds and Grenville over the past week.
  On June 14, OPP officers were called to a business on Fairfax Road in Leeds and the Thousand Islands Township at about 9 a.m. Fifty-three-year-old Glenda Froggatt of Brockville was charged with impaired driving and driving with more than 80 mg of alcohol in 100 ml of blood.
  Police arrested a 59-year-old man in Leeds and the Thousand Islands Township on June 16 after witnessing
  
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