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• Canada still aiming for intensive NAFTA talks, even though Trump's in no rush ottawamatters.com/national-news/… https://t.co/HTR5LUym4W

  03-07-2018 23:05 via twitter.com
  
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• Stunt drivers nabbed on area highways, one going 186 km/hr ottawamatters.com/police-beat/st… https://t.co/uBNy6nZktG

  03-07-2018 22:35 via twitter.com
  
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• 'Unknown number' of animals perish in SPCA fire in Aylmer

  03-07-2018 22:06 via ottawacitizen.com
  Volunteers carried the bodies of dogs shrouded in tarps Tuesday from the pile of rubble that is all that remains of the SPCA shelter in Aylmer. The building was destroyed by fire Monday night, killing an unknown number of animals.
  Gatineau firefighters braved intense flames to rescue a dozen dogs before the building collapsed.
  “To see it like this is just heartbreaking,” said Vanessa Weaver, a shelter employee who was among those who arrived to look at the wreckage and mourn the
  
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• Winning lottery ticket bought in Vankleek Hill ottawamatters.com/local-news/win… https://t.co/X1MwMKYhLO

  03-07-2018 22:05 via twitter.com
  
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• Elderly cyclist hospitalized after collision near Cornwall ottawamatters.com/police-beat/el… https://t.co/cZpuHHQ6Uk

  03-07-2018 21:35 via twitter.com
  
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• GoFundMe campaign launched for woman hit by watercraft

  03-07-2018 20:40 via ottawacitizen.com
  Friends and family have set up a GoFundMe page for a 26-year-old woman who was in serious condition Tuesday after she was hit by a personal watercraft while floating along the Gatineau River on Canada Day.
  The Sûreté du Québec said the woman, Casey Delaney, was floating on a large party raft on the river near l’Île Patry, about 25 kilometres south of Maniwaki, with six other people, when they were struck by a personal watercraft. Police, who are treating the
  
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• Capital Gazette shooting suspect sent letter on the day of the attack saying his aim was to "kill every person pres… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  03-07-2018 20:35 via twitter.com
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• Cyclist in critical condition after being hit by car near Cornwall

  03-07-2018 20:24 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ontario Provincial Police are at the scene of an accident, just east of Cornwall, that has left a 77-year-old cyclist in critical condition.
  According to police, the cyclist was heading along County Road 2, which runs parallel to the St. Lawrence River, when he was struck by a passing car near Rae Road around 12:44 pm.
  The cyclist was rushed to hospital in critical condition.
  The driver of the vehicle was not injured.
  A section of County Road 2, between Rae Road and Purcell Road, in South Glenga
  
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• Search continues for missing swimmer in northern Ontario park. ottawamatters.com/around-ontario…

  03-07-2018 20:04 via twitter.com
  Search continues for missing swimmer in northern Ontario park. ottawamatters.com/around-ontario…
  
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• Editorial: Garbage in, Garbage out - Ottawa Citizen

  03-07-2018 20:00 via ottawacitizen.com
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  Editorial: Garbage in, Garbage out
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  One of the core functions of a city government is ensuring competent garbage pick-up. But it's a file Ottawa fumbles more often than it finesses, with city-run collection services chronically over-budget. The worst part is that city councillors seem ...
  
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• Editorial: Garbage in, Garbage out

  03-07-2018 20:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  One of the core functions of a city government is ensuring competent garbage pick-up. But it’s a file Ottawa fumbles more often than it finesses, with city-run collection services chronically over-budget. The worst part is that city councillors seem not to care. During municipal election season, they might want to revisit their attitude.
  City employees pick up garbage in two of Ottawa’s five collection zones. One city contract was awarded without competition, the other was a bid
  
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• Three people taken to hospital after crash on Highway 17 near Renfrew Tuesday morning

  03-07-2018 19:41 via ottawacitizen.com
  Three people were taken to hospital after a four-car crash Tuesday morning on Hwy. 17 near Renfrew.
  Two people had serious injuries, while a third person was later transported by helicopter to a trauma centre with “serious but not life threatening” injuries, said Renfrew OPP Const. Janice Sawbridge. The fourth person was assessed at the scene with minor injuries but not taken to hospital.
  The highway west of Bruce Street and east of Storyland Road was closed around 6 a.m. a
  
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• Cohen: Stephen Harper will never change – even in Washington

  03-07-2018 19:14 via ottawacitizen.com
  PORTLAND, Maine – The only man named Harper who counts in Washington these days plays right field for the Nationals, hit 29 home runs last year and is soon to become a ridiculously rich free agent. On this Fourth of July – Donald Trump’s travelling carnival of atrocities notwithstanding – the big existential questions in the capital of this feverish country revolve around Bryce Harper.
  Will he move to first base? Will he hit more home runs than last year? (He has 21 so fa
  
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• Ford government announces intention to wind down programs funded through cap-and-trade. ottawamatters.com/national-news/…

  03-07-2018 18:55 via twitter.com
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• Barrhaven's Canada Day party disrupted by teenage 'losers,' says ward councillor

  03-07-2018 18:49 via ottawacitizen.com
  Barrhaven’s 35-year tradition of celebrating Canada Day with an outdoor community party was threatened by teenagers who disrupted the event this year, says the city councillor for the area.
  Coun. Jan Harder tweeted a message calling the teenagers who threw firecrackers into the crowd “a bunch of irresponsible losers.”
  The Canada Day celebration in Barrhaven ended with police pepper spraying a large group of rowdy teenagers who were attacking them and subduing a 15-year-old with
  
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• UPDATE: @OttawaPolice report Nathan Kitchen's been located safe. #ottnews twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…

  03-07-2018 18:41 via twitter.com
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• Underpass ethics: To walk your bike or not at popular UOttawa cycling, pedestrian connection

  03-07-2018 18:36 via ottawacitizen.com
  Temporary signs erected on either end of a popular underpass connecting Sandy Hill and the University of Ottawa with Centretown and other points west of the Rideau Canal have created confusion and frustration among some cyclists and pedestrians.
  The signs suggest cyclists dismount and walk their bicycles through the area, which they share with pedestrians and construction workers busily trying to complete the new uOttawa light-rail station.
  But is it against the law to disregard the signs, as hu
  
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• Coming up at 12:30: @JSportsnet joins @_MarkSutcliffe on Sens/Karlsson: 📻: 1310 💻: bit.ly/2oQd8u1… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  03-07-2018 18:25 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 12:30: @JSportsnet joins @_MarkSutcliffe on Sens/Karlsson:📻: 1310 💻: bit.ly/2oQd8u1… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• The @rick_gibbons Show for Tuesday, July 3rd w/ @cmaconthehill: 1:08: @IpsosCanada 1:17: @lukefoxjukebox 1:30:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  03-07-2018 18:12 via twitter.com
  The @rick_gibbons Show for Tuesday, July 3rd w/ @cmaconthehill: 1:08: @IpsosCanada 1:17: @lukefoxjukebox 1:30:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Rideau station becomes critical measuring stick in predicting November LRT readiness

  03-07-2018 18:01 via ottawacitizen.com
  The City of Ottawa and OC Transpo are entering a critical period in the run-up to the launch of the Confederation Line, with the head of transportation still not making any promises about whether the $2.1-billion LRT line will make the November handover deadline.
  It’s likely that under the schedule first contemplated by the city, the LRT line would have opened by now, or at some point shortly after Canada Day, if the May 24 handover happened as initially planned.
  John Manconi, the city&rsq
  
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• Passengers spend four hours on Ottawa airport tarmac during heat wave

  03-07-2018 17:48 via ottawacitizen.com
  Dual calamities — one meteorological and one mechanical — grounded an Air Canada flight from Ottawa to Toronto on Monday afternoon, leaving passengers waiting on the Ottawa airport tarmac for more than four hours as a heat wave outside kept temperatures feeling close to 40 degrees.
  According to Air Canada spokesman Peter Fitzpatrick, the flight — which was initially scheduled to leave at 3 p.m. — was first delayed an hour by the thunderstorm that rolled through Monday aft
  
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• Delayed flight's passengers spend four hours on Ottawa airport tarmac during heat wave - Ottawa Citizen

  03-07-2018 17:41 via ottawacitizen.com
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  Delayed flight's passengers spend four hours on Ottawa airport tarmac during heat wave
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  Dual calamities — one meteorological and one mechanical — grounded an Air Canada flight from Ottawa to Toronto on Monday afternoon, leaving passengers waiting on the Ottawa airport tarmac for more than four hours as a heat wave outside kept ...
  
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• How to get 10 million video views on YouTube

  03-07-2018 16:54 via ottawacitizen.com
  Spoiler alert, it’s not quick and easy.
  The first Ottawa Citizen YouTube video was uploaded Oct. 25, 2007, only two years behind the first YouTube upload ever.
  11 years and 13,452 video uploads later, it happened: 10 million views. While that might sound somewhat less impressive, it’s still a milestone to be proud of. In the past decade, the digital media landscape has changed rapidly, with the rise and fall of mega-platforms (hello IGTV, RIP Vine) and the continued shifting of
  
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• Sam Giannetti (1950-2018): 'A strong thread has been broken' with death of Preston Hardware co-founder

  03-07-2018 16:33 via ottawacitizen.com
  Sandro “Sam” Giannetti was known as the quiet brother, the one who presided over Little Italy’s Preston Hardware with a smile and a ready contribution for any good cause.
  “He could never say ‘no’ to anyone, if a teen came for a sponsorship or a charity came calling,” said Lori Mellor, executive director of the Preston Street BIA. “He was always the big, soft heart of Preston Hardware.”
  Giannetti, along with his brother Mario and best fri
  
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• Coming up at 10:30: @CharliePinkerto joins @_MarkSutcliffe live: 📻: 1310 💻: bit.ly/2oQd8u1 📞: 613… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  03-07-2018 16:25 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 10:30:@CharliePinkerto joins @_MarkSutcliffe live: 📻: 1310 💻: bit.ly/2oQd8u1 📞: 613… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Coming up on the 10 O'Clock Talk: @Justin_Ling, @SusanSherring & @1310Andrew join @_marksutcilffe live: 📻: 1310… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  03-07-2018 15:55 via twitter.com
  Coming up on the 10 O'Clock Talk: @Justin_Ling, @SusanSherring & @1310Andrew join @_marksutcilffe live: 📻: 1310… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Fast motorcycle, short chase, lots of charges in Gatineau for Ottawa man

  03-07-2018 15:50 via ottawacitizen.com
  He raced the law and the law won.
  A 30-year-old Ottawa man on a motorcycle was cruising along Highway 50 in Gatineau on Sunday afternoon when a couple of Sûreté du Québec officers tried to pull him over.
  The biker had other ideas.
  He took off west, and tried to lose the police by doing a U-turn into the highway’s eastbound lanes.
  Then he lost control of the bike in the interchange with Highway 5. That’s where police caught up with him.
  For starters, he faces
  
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• Coming up at 9:45: Macleans' @David_Moscrop updates @_MarkSutcliffe on his World Cup watching vacation. 📻: 1310… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  03-07-2018 15:40 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 9:45: Macleans' @David_Moscrop updates @_MarkSutcliffe on his World Cup watching vacation. 📻: 1310… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• POLL: Should Justin Trudeau more fully address the allegations against him made 18 years ago?

  03-07-2018 15:24 via twitter.com
  POLL: Should Justin Trudeau more fully address the allegations against him made 18 years ago?
  
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• Coming up at 9:15: Former Canadian Ambassador to the U.S. Derek Burney joins @_marksutcliffe on Stephen Harper's W… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  03-07-2018 15:10 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 9:15:Former Canadian Ambassador to the U.S. Derek Burney joins @_marksutcliffe on Stephen Harper's W… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Missing youth last seen in east end

  03-07-2018 15:06 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa police are looking for an 18-year-old youth who was last seen Monday evening.
  Nathan Kitchen is Indigenous, 18 years of age, with a blond Mohawk hair style. He is six feet tall with a thin build and was last seen about 6:15 p.m. Monday in the area of Montreal Road and the Aviation Parkway. He was wearing a red-orange shirt and beige shorts, and he has a lip piercing.
  Anyone with information as to his whereabouts is asked to contact the police east division at (613) 236-1222 extension
  
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• The story of Bluesfest: How a little Ottawa music show became a juggernaut

  03-07-2018 15:04 via ottawacitizen.com
  It was the very first edition of the Ottawa Blues Festival, and things were not looking good.
  After a day of rain, and shortly before showtime on Friday, July 8, 1994, there was a disappointing 60 or 70 ticketholders at the venue, Major’s Hill Park.
  Some had bought the $4 advance one-day tickets, others waited until the last minute and paid the $5 premium price at the gate.
  They were there for headliners Clarence Clemons, Buckwheat Zydeco and Randy Bachman.
  The organizing committee, all vo
  
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• 'Unknown number' of animals perish in SPCA fire in Gatineau

  03-07-2018 15:02 via ottawacitizen.com
  Firefighters braved intense flames to rescue a dozen dogs from a fire that destroyed the SPCA of Western Quebec Sunday night but an unknown number of animals perished.
  Crews ultimately had to flee the building as the two-storey structure 659 Auguste Mondoux Street collapsed. It’s near the intersection of Chemin Pink and Chemin Vanier.
  Firefighters had been summoned at 10:48 p.m. when several passersby spotted flames and called 911. SharePhotos: Fire destroys SPCA of Western QuebecTumblr Pi
  
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• The story of Bluesfest: How a little Ottawa music show became a juggernaut - Ottawa Citizen

  03-07-2018 14:56 via ottawacitizen.com
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  The story of Bluesfest: How a little Ottawa music show became a juggernaut
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  It was typical, in that first three-day festival, and for subsequent early Bluesfest versions, for a portion of the artist fees to be paid from the beer money, with runs to the foreign exchange outlet at the Ottawa Airport for U.S. dollars in which ...
  
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• Highway 17 near Renfrew closed for a several hours after collision Tuesday morning

  03-07-2018 14:56 via ottawacitizen.com
  Hwy. 17 just north of Renfrew was closed Tuesday morning after a crash involving three vehicles.
  The highway west of Bruce Street and east of Storyland Road was reopened before 8 a.m., said Renfrew OPP Const. Janice Sawbridge.
  At least one person was hurt and taken to hospital by ambulance, she said. The accident included a head-on collision, said Sawbridge, who was awaiting further details.
  The highway was closed for more than an hour.
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• Doubts on North Korean denuclearization shadow Pompeo visit: bit.ly/2KIFYtc https://t.co/HxJdN7sXjO

  03-07-2018 14:48 via twitter.com
  
  Doubts on North Korean denuclearization shadow Pompeo visit: bit.ly/2KIFYtc https://t.co/HxJdN7sXjO
  
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• Porta potties and police part of extra measures for this year's Ottawa Bluesfest - Ottawa Citizen

  03-07-2018 14:45 via ottawacitizen.com
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  The crowd on closing night at RBC Bluesfest Sunday July 16, 2017. Ashley Fraser/Postmedia Ashley Fraser / Postmedia. Share Adjust Comment Print. The behaviour of some festival goers who took to urinating on private lawns after leaving Bluesfest last ...
  
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• A serious highway crash has injured four people just west of Renfrew. twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…

  03-07-2018 14:42 via twitter.com
  A serious highway crash has injured four people just west of Renfrew. twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…
  
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• Worried about going to a music festival this summer? Here are some tips to stay safe

  03-07-2018 14:37 via ottawacitizen.com
  Security service TOERSA exec Mark Williams was working an event when he saw something that made him smile.“A group of young women came in and one of them stopped and did a head count,” he said. “I loved to see that.”
  Sticking with your friends is one piece of advice the experts have for people attending big events. In case you do get separated, it’s recommended to arrange a meeting spot, such as the information tent or merch booth, in advance. If you don’t kno
  
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• Porta potties and police part of extra measures for this year's Ottawa Bluesfest

  03-07-2018 14:36 via ottawacitizen.com
  The behaviour of some festival goers who took to urinating on private lawns after leaving Bluesfest last year has led to extra efforts to, well, relieve some of the pressure this year.
  Porta potties will be set up outside the main gate, and in the Albert and Booth area.
  Meanwhile. for the first time in the 24-year history of Bluesfest, police officers on bicycle will be patrolling the nearby neighbourhoods looking for trouble makers.
  “We will have officers on bicycles that will be able to
  
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• POLL: Should Justin Trudeau more fully address the allegations against him made 18 years ago? @_MarkSutcliffe… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  03-07-2018 14:30 via twitter.com
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• Music and the fear of mayhem: How Bluesfest is doing security in the wake of Las Vegas and other nightmare scenarios

  03-07-2018 14:23 via ottawacitizen.com
  This season of music festivals begins with a cloud over it, forever changed by last fall’s tragedy in Las Vegas, when a lone gunman opened fire on the Route 91 Harvest festival.Country singer Jason Aldean was on stage and more than 20,000 fans were in the crowd when the bullets started. Fifty-nine people died and hundreds more were injured, making it the deadliest mass shooting by an individual in American history.Other high-profile incidents have also shaken the concert industry in recent
  
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• In their own words: Ottawa security guards' tales of the weird and wild

  03-07-2018 14:19 via ottawacitizen.com
  Security guards are often witness to the crafty and scheming side of humanity. Here are some of the most memorable things that two veterans of the Ottawa security scene told this newspaper they’ve had to deal with at various events around the city, in their own words:
  1) “A woman tried to sneak a non-service animal cat onto Parliament Hill twice in the same day. First time in a baby stroller, the second time under her jacket.
  2) “We caught a couple of people with those bra
  
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• Scanlan: A young married couple's mad dash for cancer treatment — and the community that rallied behind them

  03-07-2018 14:03 via ottawacitizen.com
  Young marrieds shouldn’t have such grave concerns.
  In a perfect world they would be debating house paint colours, not a desperate, last-minute flight overseas to save a bride’s life.
  Sarah and Matt Haddad grew up together in Orléans, proverbial childhood sweethearts, and had only been married for eight months when Sarah, then 26, was diagnosed with breast cancer. She was a rising fashion designer with a new job in Montreal; he, a builder. They had just bought a house in Montre
  
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• EARLY EDITION: All that glitters is not gold

  03-07-2018 12:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  This summer, take a step back in time each week as we highlight some of the more memorable moments in the Ottawa Citizen’s storied past. Russell Mills joined the Citizen in 1971 and became editor of the newspaper in 1976 and publisher in 1986. Today, he recounts how a “golden opportunity” to market the newspaper didn’t turn out quite as anticipated.
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  Stealing a good idea is sometimes a bad plan.
  In 1979, British children’s author Kit Williams cause
  
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• Most of the damage was in the Outaouais region near Ottawa, and the Laurentian and the Lanaudiere regions north and… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  03-07-2018 11:00 via twitter.com
  Most of the damage was in the Outaouais region near Ottawa, and the Laurentian and the Lanaudiere regions north and… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Host Russia extends World Cup party by eliminating Spain. ottawamatters.com/world-news/hos… https://t.co/lt5Oi9k1Bw

  03-07-2018 05:04 via twitter.com
  
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• Lighting strike causes attic fire in Gatineau

  03-07-2018 04:06 via ottawacitizen.com
  One person fled a home in Gatineau after it caught fire when it was struck by lightning on Monday afternoon.
  Around 3:30 p.m., firefighters responded to a call to find a fire in the attic of a home on rue des Noyers. According to the Service de sécurité incendie de Gatineau (SSIG), there was only one person in the home.
  The cause of the fire, said the SSIG, was a lightning strike.
  Firefighters say they brought the fire under control within an hour and will not be sending a fire inv
  
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• High winds damage secure records storage building

  03-07-2018 02:28 via ottawacitizen.com
  A large section of metal siding was torn off of the Iron Mountain Records Management centre on Monday, exposing hundreds of boxes of records and documents to the elements.
  The boxes remained exposed as several construction workers, along with employees of Iron Mountain, were on site assessing the damage on Monday evening.
  “Earlier today a section of the exterior wall of our Kenaston Street facility in Ottawa was damaged due to high winds,” said an Iron Mountain spokesperson, in a sta
  
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• As Ottawa sweats, it's not the heat, it's the humidity (seriously)

  03-07-2018 01:15 via ottawacitizen.com
  Here’s something that you might not believe, at first: summer days aren’t getting any hotter in Ottawa.
  “Summer highs are actually less extreme than they were 70 years ago” said Rolf Campbell, a local weather expert, who has for years been tracking and analyzing Ottawa weather statistics and runs the @YOW_Weather account on Twitter.
  “Speaking from a purely statistical point of view, there’s no obvious gain (in temperatures), and if you want to be technical abo
  
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