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• Mayor tests real estate firms new virtual reality service

  06-07-2018 23:53 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa mayor Jim Watson dropped into an Ottawa real estate firm Wednesday morning to get a glimpse of the industry’s new virtual reality technology that is allowing potential buyers to “explore” available properties without leaving their home.
  Watson told reporters he typically visits local business once every couple of weeks to “see new technology and new ideas that are helping to reinvent our city.”
  On this day he was at Umber Realty Inc. and Brokerage, a boutique
  
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• Ottawa real estate market healthy, Ottawa Real Estate Board says. #OTTNews ottawamatters.com/local-news/ott… https://t.co/hXH5gqRJyN

  06-07-2018 23:45 via twitter.com
  
  Ottawa real estate market healthy, Ottawa Real Estate Board says. #OTTNewsottawamatters.com/local-news/ott… https://t.co/hXH5gqRJyN
  
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• Body found in the river off Lowertown park

  06-07-2018 23:42 via ottawacitizen.com
  City police are investigating after a body was found in the Rideau River off Bordeleau Park in Lowertown Friday morning.
  The fire department reported at about 8:40 a.m. that water rescue crews were en route to the eastern edge of the park in the Forsey and Bruyere streets area after a person was seen in the water.
  Shortly after, they confirmed it was “not a rescue” and that Ottawa police would be taking over.
  Bordeleau Park is just east of the confluence of the Rideau and Ottawa
  
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• Erik Karlsson's still with the Ottawa Senators … for now - Ottawa Sun

  06-07-2018 23:39 via ottawasun.com
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  Erik Karlsson's still with the Ottawa Senators … for now
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  Erik Karlsson hasn't bolted for the Tampa Bay Lightning or anywhere else for that matter. While there was speculation Thursday night that Karlsson had been dealt to the Lightning, the 28-year-old remained the captain of the Ottawa Senators on Friday, ...
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• The energy and telecoms sectors helped Canada's main stock index close higher Friday, while the loonie climbed on e… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  06-07-2018 23:23 via twitter.com
  The energy and telecoms sectors helped Canada's main stock index close higher Friday, while the loonie climbed on e… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Order of Canada for Ottawa's go-to snake and frog expert

  06-07-2018 23:01 via ottawacitizen.com
  A guy walked into Francis Cook’s office some years back carrying a big box. Said he had caught a live rattlesnake.
  Cook, the Canadian Museum of Nature’s curator of herpetology (reptiles and amphibians), had assured the man there are no rattlers in our region, but the guy took issue with this and brought along his evidence.
  The snake was very much alive, and not happy. Sure enough, the man’s box was going thumpity-thump, but Cook opened it up and found only a milk snake ins
  
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• Ottawa city shelters feel pressure from asylum seekers, mayor asks province, feds for financial help

  06-07-2018 22:57 via ottawacitizen.com
  Local families who become homeless are competing with asylum seekers for emergency shelter spots as Mayor Jim Watson appeals to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Premier Doug Ford for funding to handle the influx of newcomers to Ottawa.
  Watson wasted no time after Ford won the Ontario election in asking for provincial funding as the City of Ottawa continues to handle hundreds of asylum seekers entering Canada from the United States.
  Watson’s first wrote to Ford on June 15 and re-sent the l
  
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• A judge has found that an attorney who had obtained an elder-abuse restraining order on behalf of Stan Lee does not… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  06-07-2018 22:50 via twitter.com
  A judge has found that an attorney who had obtained an elder-abuse restraining order on behalf of Stan Lee does not… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Know what to do when you go to the hospital: How to get the health care you need

  06-07-2018 22:31 via ottawacitizen.com
  It is a nightmare scenario. A loved one goes to the hospital, only to be sent home without appropriate treatment or care, leading to an urgent, even deadly, medical crisis.
  That was the case with a young Ottawa woman who died of meningitis last week after being sent home from Queensway Carleton Hospital with a prescription for penicillin and an uncertain diagnosis. Twenty three-year-old Lily Mueller was brought back to the hospital later in the day after her condition worsened. In a matter of ho
  
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• Probe after man found dead in Hull apartment

  06-07-2018 21:59 via ottawacitizen.com
  A man found dead Thursday in a Hull apartment had been dead for some time, police said.
  Gatineau police were summoned by a 911 call to a unit at 7 Montpetit St. at about 3:20 p.m.
  They notified the coroner’s office and launched a routine investigation with the coroner to determine the cause and circumstances of the death.
  The man’s age was not released.
  
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• #BEL to meet #FRA in the #WorldCup semi-final after both teams won today. The French took down Uruguay 2-0 this mor… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  06-07-2018 21:57 via twitter.com
  #BEL to meet #FRA in the #WorldCup semi-final after both teams won today. The French took down Uruguay 2-0 this mor… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Power outages in Carlington as falling tree downs power lines

  06-07-2018 21:54 via ottawacitizen.com
  Traffic was blocked along Trenton Avenue Friday morning as hydro crews worked to clean up the mess caused when a large tree fell onto power lines.
  The incident occurred shortly after 10 a.m. between Prince and Silver streets,
  The downed lines resulted in power outages in several sectors of the Carlington neighbourhood.
  Hydro Ottawa reported power was back before 11 a.m.
  No estimate was providing for completion of repairs.
   
  
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• BREAKING: RCMP confirms 29 year-old driver of tractor-trailer involved in the Humboldt Broncos bus crash has been a… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  06-07-2018 21:05 via twitter.com
  BREAKING: RCMP confirms 29 year-old driver of tractor-trailer involved in the Humboldt Broncos bus crash has been a… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Six arrested in Lanark County raids that net drugs, guns

  06-07-2018 21:04 via ottawacitizen.com
  Six people were arrested as OPP officers seized drugs, cash and an Audi in a string of raids in Carleton Place, Perth and Lanark Highlands township Thursday.
  Explosives experts had to be called in from Canadian Forces Base Petawawa to safely tackle unspecified explosives found at one location, Lanark OPP said.
  Officers from squads including tactics and rescue, organized crime and the surveillance unit teamed up to execute search warrants at two homes and a vehicle in Carleton Place, a home in Pe
  
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• Scanlan: The night a woman burst into flames in Cody Ceci's backyard — and her long road to recovery

  06-07-2018 20:38 via ottawacitizen.com
  The evening could not have been less foreboding.
  Three professional hockey players and their partners gathered for a quiet dinner party in Stittsville early in their off-season. A bottle of wine sat on the table but this Wednesday in May was not a night for excess. A half-hour past the late-spring sunset, at about 9 p.m., the rectangular table-top fire pit was glowing, albeit dimmer at one end as fuel ran low on one of the cylinders.
  At that point, something terrible occurred. A gas lamp bottle
  
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• SIU seeks witnesses to injured man's 'interaction' with Ottawa police

  06-07-2018 20:34 via ottawacitizen.com
  The province’s civilian police watchdog is appealing for witnesses as they investigate the “serious” injury sustained by a 32-year-old man near King Edward Avenue and Murray Street a week ago.
  The Special Investigations Unit says that a preliminary investigation shows that Ottawa Police Services officers went to the area at about 2:40 p.m. on Friday, June 29.
  “There was an interaction involving the man and OPS officers,” the SIU said in a release Friday. “The
  
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• Longtime OHL billet gets bail ahead of appeal on sex crimes convictions

  06-07-2018 20:14 via ottawacitizen.com
  Neil Joynt, a long-serving OHL billet with links to NHL stars, has won a bail extension while he awaits his appeal on convictions for sex crimes against children.
  Joynt, a once-prominent figure in the junior hockey world, is required to live with his wife, a well-known physician, at their Kingston apartment.
  The disgraced gym teacher is prohibited from being around children under 16 unless in the presence of their parent, according to his bail conditions. (Also, the parent must be aware of Joynt
  
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• City bylaw officers say fake disabled parking permits on the rise

  06-07-2018 19:51 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa Bylaw Services tweeted a warning Friday to anyone trying to take advantage of reserved parking spaces for disabled people without an official permit.
  The department, which deals with everything from calls about animal licensing to noise complaints, said it has noticed an increase in the number of fake disabled permits on vehicles in and around Ottawa.
  Bylaw officers have seized several of the fake permits from people trying to snag parking spaces a little closer to the front door of the e
  
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• Gormley: How we treat animals shows what it means to be human

  06-07-2018 19:41 via ottawacitizen.com
  Before one embarks on a discussion about the ethical treatment of animals and prepares to take the controversial anti-cruelty side of the debate, it is customary to establish one’s credentials as a non animal-fanatic. I am not sure why this is so. I can only observe tradition, and tell you that the one thing on this earth I am fanatical about is bacon.
  Perhaps you, too, feel obliged to state that you are not an animal fanatic. Yet I suspect you are opposed to animal cruelty.
  We need not be
  
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• Gatineau's deputy mayor tired of excuses for dangerous dogs

  06-07-2018 18:45 via ottawacitizen.com
  Gatineau’s deputy mayor says she’s fed up with owners of pit bulls and other “potentially dangerous dogs” who say they don’t know the rules governing their pets.
  After a young boy was bitten by a pit bull two weeks ago, Louise Boudrias is reminding them.
  “In this issue, which we are still dealing with, year after year, I think the least I could do was share this information so that everyone knows that a pit bull is not a little dog to take lightly,”
  
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• Police identify 'armed and dangerous' suspect in east-end stabbing

  06-07-2018 18:38 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa police are seeking a 25-year-old on a charge of attempted murder in connection with a stabbing Friday morning that left a 35-year-old man with life-threatening wounds.
  Police identified the suspect as Brian Barnabas. He is described as being of Aboriginal heritage, five-feet-eight-inches (173cm) tall weighing 146 pounds (66kg).
  He is described as armed and dangerous and police say if you see him, do not approach, just call 911.
  The stabbing occurred at about 1:30 a.m. in the 200
  
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• Ottawa Police seeking a suspect in a stabbing this morning near Beechwood Cemetery. #ottnews twitter.com/OttawaPolice/s…

  06-07-2018 18:26 via twitter.com
  Ottawa Police seeking a suspect in a stabbing this morning near Beechwood Cemetery. #ottnews twitter.com/OttawaPolice/s…
  
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• BREAKING: Health officials in Quebec believe at least 50 people have died in that province due to heat related complications.

  06-07-2018 18:15 via twitter.com
  BREAKING: Health officials in Quebec believe at least 50 people have died in that province due to heat related complications.
  
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• Backyard raccoon is not an emergency, OPP sternly advises

  06-07-2018 18:10 via ottawacitizen.com
  Oh, the tales 911 dispatchers could tell …
  It was Grenville County OPP’s turn Friday to remind the public what an emergency really is after a 24-hour period in which they got five 911 pocket dials and a sixth from a citizen reporting she had a raccoon in her backyard.
  See when police get a 911 call, they have to respond and two officers will attend the location.
  “This places a strain on police resources and may place others, with real emergencies, at risk,” police e
  
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• Senators assistant GM Randy Lee pleads not guilty to second harassment charge

  06-07-2018 18:09 via ottawacitizen.com
  BUFFALO, N.Y. — The lawyer representing Ottawa Senators assistant general manager Randy Lee said he plans to file a motion to dismiss “inappropriate, unsubstantiated” harassment charges against his client following Lee’s appearance Friday in Buffalo city court.
  “There’s no offense or violation of the law,” attorney Paul Cambria said. “These are low-level accusations. He has denied them completely.”
  Lee entered a not guilty plea to a seco
  
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• The @rick_gibbons Show for Friday, July 6th w/ @cmaconthehill: 1:08: @EugeneHaslam 1:17: @ErinOTooleMP 1:30:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  06-07-2018 18:04 via twitter.com
  The @rick_gibbons Show for Friday, July 6th w/ @cmaconthehill: 1:08: @EugeneHaslam 1:17: @ErinOTooleMP 1:30:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Three charged in car-surfing wipeout that left 23-year-old badly hurt

  06-07-2018 18:01 via ottawacitizen.com
  Three men face charges after a more than month-long investigation in Kingston into a car-surfing stunt that went badly awry leaving a 23-year-old with “serious and ongoing injuries.”
  It began on the evening of May 27 when a group of employees of a downtown restaurant were drinking and socializing at their workplace, police said.
  A few hours later, at about 2:45 a.m., a 22-year-old man was driving a vehicle on Brock Street towards Division Street that was pulling an 18-year-old man ab
  
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• A no-swimming advisory is issued for Westboro and Petrie River Beaches today. #ottnews twitter.com/ottawahealth/s…

  06-07-2018 17:56 via twitter.com
  A no-swimming advisory is issued for Westboro and Petrie River Beaches today. #ottnews twitter.com/ottawahealth/s…
  
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• NEXT on the Power Lunch: @liannelaing & @RadioNewsGuy join @_MarkSutcliffe in-studio: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  06-07-2018 17:54 via twitter.com
  NEXT on the Power Lunch: @liannelaing & @RadioNewsGuy join @_MarkSutcliffe in-studio:📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Sens Assistant GM Randy Lee pleads not guilty to harassment in Buffalo court. #ottnews twitter.com/john_wawrow/st…

  06-07-2018 17:27 via twitter.com
  Sens Assistant GM Randy Lee pleads not guilty to harassment in Buffalo court. #ottnews twitter.com/john_wawrow/st…
  
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• Bluesfest Review: Bryan Adams provides heartfelt performance in return to old stomping grounds

  06-07-2018 17:27 via ottawacitizen.com
  RBC Ottawa BluesfestThursday, July 5Bryan Adams
  Bryan Adams proved you can always go home again, delivering a string of smash hits in a raucous opening night set that had the packed all-ages Bluesfest crowd up and on their feet.
  With his Ultimate tour rolling through the capital he once called home, the 58-year-old Kingston-born, Ottawa-raised Adams took time out to tell a few tall tales about his time in the city.
  “Every time I come back to Ottawa I’m always reminded by somebody I w
  
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• LISTEN: @_MarkSutcliffe talks to @ottawabluesfest's Joe Reilly about security line-ups and the acts to come this we… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  06-07-2018 17:25 via twitter.com
  LISTEN: @_MarkSutcliffe talks to @ottawabluesfest's Joe Reilly about security line-ups and the acts to come this we… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Coming up at 11:30: @CPAcanada Jessica Gunson joins @_MarkSutcliffe on the amount of fraud in Ottawa last month:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  06-07-2018 17:25 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 11:30:@CPAcanada Jessica Gunson joins @_MarkSutcliffe on the amount of fraud in Ottawa last month:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Capital's jobless rate stuck in a good place in June

  06-07-2018 17:16 via ottawacitizen.com
  The capital region’s jobless rate has been a steady 4.4 per cent for three straight months, Statistics Canada reported Friday.
  The federal agency said this was despite a net drop of 1,200 jobs from May to June. The region’s labour force, which includes those looking for work, shrank enough to nearly offset the lost jobs.
  However, these estimates, which were adjusted for seasonal influences, likely understated the health of the capital’s job market.
  Statcan also calculated (on a
  
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• Two detained after shots fired in Greenboro area late Thursday

  06-07-2018 17:10 via ottawacitizen.com
  Police are investigating after gunfire was heard in the Greenboro area late Thursday night.
  They were called to Zaidan Drive and Lorry Greenberg Drive at about 11:30 p.m. and confirmed shots were fired with shell casings found nearby.
  Two men were arrested in the area on Thursday night but no charges had been laid against them Friday morning, police said.
  It was the 51st incidence of shots fired in 2018.
  Police said Friday morning that they were also investigating after a resident on&n
  
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• Inspired by ancient Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu, Ottawa's Wayne Ng pens first novel

  06-07-2018 17:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  An Ottawa social worker by day, Wayne Ng took 13 years to write his first novel, which he is launching Tuesday at Octopus Books in the Glebe.
  Below, the Toronto-born Nepean resident, 55, who has also penned several award-winning short stories, discusses his latest milestone as a writer, Finding The Way: A Novel Of Lao Tzu.
  Q: When did writing become a serious pursuit for you, and why?
  A: I’ve always enjoyed putting pen to paper. As a child, I dreamed of being a journalist. My dream job is
  
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• Pulling on heart strings: Puppet opera delves into plight of homeless

  06-07-2018 16:50 via ottawacitizen.com
  When Ottawa guitarist Roddy Ellias was studying classical composition at the University of Ottawa’s music department in the 1980s, he moved into an apartment across the street from the Ottawa Mission in Sandy Hill.
  “I got to know them,” Ellias says of the homeless men who were his neighbours. “I saw that some had regular, average lives at some point. … Sometimes something went wrong.”
  Around the same time, Ellias was struck by a topic that had come up in his
  
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• New burn ban adds campfires due to 'high risk' conditions

  06-07-2018 16:48 via ottawacitizen.com
  The fire department’s burn ban now nixes campfires to prevent grass and other fires during what it deems as “high risk” dry conditions.
  All open-air fires are prohibited — even for properties that have permits — including agricultural and brush pile burns.
  “There will be zero tolerance enforcement during the fire ban,” Ottawa Fire Services warned.
  The service asked that citizens who spot someone burning during the ban to call their open-air fire lin
  
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• All Ottawa's beaches open for swimming Friday

  06-07-2018 16:42 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa Public Health has announced that all of the city’s public beaches are now open for swimming.
  The news comes just as Environment Canada has ended an extended heat warning in the nation’s capital.
  Temperatures on Friday are expected to hit a high of 23 degrees Celsius with mainly sunny skies. Temperatures are expected to rise to 27 degrees C on Saturday.
  Public health officials regularly test the water at Ottawa’s beaches for E. coli bacteria. On Wednesday, two beaches wer
  
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• Jain: Mexico's turn to populism could spell trouble for Canada

  06-07-2018 16:38 via ottawacitizen.com
  Andrés Manuel López Obrador won the Presidency of Mexico by a landslide on July 1. Known as AMLO by his supporters and opponents alike, the leftist former mayor of Mexico City ran for president in 2006 and 2012, losing both times. Claiming to speak for Mexico’s underclass, his protectionist, nationalist and isolationist agenda could cause problems for Canada, and for the entire Western Hemisphere.
  AMLO was popular during his tenure as Mexico City’s mayor from 2000 to 20
  
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• Barnes: To help save the climate, elect a greener Ottawa City Council

  06-07-2018 16:31 via ottawacitizen.com
  The irony was unmistakable. Just two days after a sweltering Canada Day, reported by the Ottawa Citizen as having the highest humidex level ever recorded in Ottawa, Doug Ford pulled the plug on cap-and-trade, a critical component of the province’s plan to take action on climate change.
  The province’s move caps off a brutal month for climate action in Ottawa.
  On June 19, Ottawans woke up to some bad news. Ford had just gutted the GreenON program, the province’s program for helpi
  
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• Ottawa artist on that hat: 'The spirit of Michael Jackson visited me himself'

  06-07-2018 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 visual artist Christina Lovisa. Visit christinalovisa.com for more information.
  “Art was probably a lifelong passion for me, but squashed in high school by my guidance counsellor, who said ‘You’re never going to make any money as an artist.’ I was in Deep River, which is where the scientists who work at the nuclear plant in Chalk Ri
  
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• Gormley: Our treatment of animals reveals uncomfortable truths about what it means to be human

  06-07-2018 15:52 via ottawacitizen.com
  Before one embarks on a discussion about the ethical treatment of animals and prepares to take the controversial anti-cruelty side of the debate, it is customary to establish one’s credentials as a non animal-fanatic. I am not sure why this is so. I can only observe tradition, and tell you that the one thing on this earth I am fanatical about is bacon.
  Perhaps you, too, feel obliged to state that you are not an animal fanatic. Yet I suspect you are opposed to animal cruelty.
  We need not be
  
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• Bluesfest review: Nick Lowe, Passenger prove the power of a good song

  06-07-2018 15:48 via ottawacitizen.com
  In their Mexican wrestling masks, the members of Los Straitjackets looked ready for battle as they entered the ring to match wits with veteran British singer-songwriter Nick Lowe.
  But instead of a fight, the concert on RBC Bluesfest’s Claridge Homes stage, now located in a huge tent, was more of a display of mutual admiration, with Lowe singing the Straitjackets’ praises, and the Straitjackets treating Lowe like the leader of their odd-looking cult. SharePhotos: Bluesfest, Opening Ni
  
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• BREAKING: Economy adds 31,800 jobs in June, unemployment rate rises to 6%

  06-07-2018 14:37 via twitter.com
  BREAKING: Economy adds 31,800 jobs in June, unemployment rate rises to 6%
  
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• POLL: Do you accept long lineups at music festivals like Bluesfest as a necessary consequence of the need for more… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  06-07-2018 14:19 via twitter.com
  POLL: Do you accept long lineups at music festivals like Bluesfest as a necessary consequence of the need for more… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Multiple gunshots were fired on Lorry Greenberg Drive, near Zaidan Drive, last night. ottawamatters.com/local-news/sho…… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  06-07-2018 14:13 via twitter.com
  Multiple gunshots were fired on Lorry Greenberg Drive, near Zaidan Drive, last night. ottawamatters.com/local-news/sho…… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Body of Orléans man, 62, found in Whiskey Lake near Sudbury

  06-07-2018 14:08 via ottawacitizen.com
  An autopsy was scheduled to be performed Friday on a 62-year-old Orléans man who was pulled from Whiskey Lake in the Sudbury area.
  John Meilleur’s body was discovered by a canoeist near an abandoned boat on the lake about 50 km north of Massey, Ontario, which is about 500 km northwest of Ottawa.
  Officers with the OPP’s East Algoma and Manitoulin-Espanola detachments were called in and recovered the body with the help of one of the force’s helicopters.
  They’re inves
  
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• Man in critical condition after stabbing in east end overnight

  06-07-2018 14:04 via ottawacitizen.com
  A 35-year-old man suffered life-threatening injuries in an overnight stabbing in the city’s east end.
  First responders were called to a home on Coleford Place just east of St. Laurent Boulevard by someone who came to the victim’s aid in the aftermath of the stabbing.
  No arrest has been made.
  Anyone with information is asked to call east-end detectives at 613-236-1222 ext. 3566.
  
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• Ottawa man faces child porn charges following RCMP internet sting

  06-07-2018 13:59 via ottawacitizen.com
  A 59-year-old Ottawa man faces a number of charges related to child pornography after being identified through an RCMP undercover operation.
  Ottawa police said they were notfiied by the RCMP in May, 2018, that it had honed in on a suspect in a luring investigation.
  RCMP said several communications were exchanged where the man was involved in requests to have sexual relations with a child.
  Furtehr investigation uncovered the identity and address of the offender and on Thursday, Ottawa police raid
  
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