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• School boards, teachers still in the dark on sex ed, math changes

  13-07-2018 23:37 via ottawacitizen.com
  It’s one thing for the provincial government to announce a U-turn on sex education and “discovery” math, but quite another to figure out how to make this happen in the classroom.
  So don’t expect changes in curriculum when school starts in September.
  Calls to school boards and one teachers’ union have produced the same response, best summarized as: “What new curriculum?”
  So far, there isn’t one — only a promise in the Throne Speech to return t
  
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• Health Canada is prepared to crack down on licensed medical marijuana producers who are sponsoring music festivals… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  13-07-2018 23:35 via twitter.com
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• City asks feds to wait on Prince of Wales Bridge appeal while repair order challenged in court

  13-07-2018 23:17 via ottawacitizen.com
  The City of Ottawa has asked the federal Liberal government to hold off on considering an appeal over the Prince of Wales Bridge, believing it has a good shot at overturning a repair order in court.
  The Canadian Transportation Agency last February ordered the city to either discontinue the rail line and bridge or make them ready to use within 12 months of receiving notice.
  The city thinks the order is baloney.
  In documents filed in the Federal Court of Appeal on June 29, the city says the CTA do
  
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• More than a dozen people lose their homes in devastating Barrhaven blaze

  13-07-2018 23:01 via ottawacitizen.com
  Neighbours and homeowners stood stunned on a quiet residential street in Barrhaven after a massive fire that destroyed three homes, damaged several others and left three families with nowhere to live.
  Fire investigators were still unsure of the precise cause of the fire, which started around 4:45 p.m. on Thursday. Nancy Melki, who lived with her partner and four children in the first home to catch fire, said the fire started on the back deck and, fuelled by dry grass, wood and vinyl siding, quic
  
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• The Canadian Anti-Hate Network is raising concerns about a rally being held on Parliament Hill this weekend. ottawamatters.com/local-news/con…

  13-07-2018 23:00 via twitter.com
  The Canadian Anti-Hate Network is raising concerns about a rally being held on Parliament Hill this weekend. ottawamatters.com/local-news/con…
  
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• Music drives noise complaints in Ottawa - Ottawa Citizen

  13-07-2018 22:56 via ottawacitizen.com
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  Music drives noise complaints in Ottawa
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  Annoyed Ottawa residents — especially those in the Rideau-Vanier ward — are most peeved when it comes to others' music. The 2017 log of complaints for city hall's 311 service shows that of the 10,376 noise complaints filed over the year, the most ...
  
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• Music drives noise complaints in Ottawa

  13-07-2018 22:56 via ottawacitizen.com
  Annoyed Ottawa residents — especially those in the Rideau-Vanier ward — are most peeved when it comes to others’ music.
  The 2017 log of complaints for city hall’s 311 service shows that of the 10,376 noise complaints filed over the year, the most frequent beef was related to music.
  More than 5,000 times, the call centre received information from people so annoyed by music, they felt compelled to make a fuss.
  If it wasn’t music, it was the sound of construction that
  
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• 12 Russians accused of hacking Democrats in 2016 US election ottawamatters.com/world-news/12-… https://t.co/qjzj3ApiIF

  13-07-2018 22:30 via twitter.com
  
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• Reevely: Hydro One boss is out but departure deal will keep much else from changing

  13-07-2018 22:20 via ottawacitizen.com
  The deal that sent Hydro One chief executive Mayo Schmidt out the door changes almost nothing about the semi-private company other than the names on the stationery.
  Schmidt, Premier Doug Ford’s scapegoat for everything that’s wrong in Ontario’s electricity system, retired this week rather than spend the summer as the premier’s punching bag. The terms of his departure are neither as good as Ford says they are, nor as bad as the opposition New Democrats say.
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• Supreme Court affirms privacy protections in tobacco health data case ottawamatters.com/national-news/… https://t.co/YGynP09NV2

  13-07-2018 22:00 via twitter.com
  
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• Five takeaways from Stampeders win in Ottawa - Calgary Sun

  13-07-2018 21:45 via calgarysun.com
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  Five takeaways from Stampeders win in Ottawa
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  OTTAWA – As of Friday morning, the Calgary Stampeders are not only the last remaining undefeated team in the CFL, they're also the only team that's better than .500. Not bad for a group that many were warning in the pre-season would take some time to ...
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• 'I'm not being greedy.' Aunt says nephew doesn't deserve half of lottery jackpot ottawamatters.com/national-news/… https://t.co/jTpV3RWlva

  13-07-2018 21:30 via twitter.com
  
  'I'm not being greedy.' Aunt says nephew doesn't deserve half of lottery jackpotottawamatters.com/national-news/… https://t.co/jTpV3RWlva
  
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• Police charge Ottawa man and woman in human trafficking investigation - Globalnews.ca

  13-07-2018 21:25 via globalnews.ca
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  Police charge Ottawa man and woman in human trafficking investigation
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  An Ottawa man and woman, both in their 20s, are facing criminal charges of human trafficking after being arrested by local police on Friday. Police executed a search warrant in the 2800 block of Baycrest Drive earlier in the day, according to an Ottawa ...
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• Ottawa family goes backstage with The Rolling Stones in Warsaw

  13-07-2018 21:25 via ottawacitizen.com
  When an Ottawa family decided to fly to Warsaw for what might be their last chance to see The Rolling Stones in concert, they never imagined they’d be plucked from the crowd for a VIP rock ’n’ roll experience.
  It was all thanks to a chance encounter with “Dave,” one of the band’s managers, a still-pumped David Lapenat said Friday from his home in Wellington Village.
  “It is too surreal to comprehend,” he said. “In a stadium with 70,000 people
  
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• Ottawa family goes backstage with The Rolling Stones in Warsaw - Ottawa Citizen

  13-07-2018 21:23 via ottawacitizen.com
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  Ottawa family goes backstage with The Rolling Stones in Warsaw
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  David Lapenat of Ottawa recently had a great experience while attending a Rolling Stones concert in Warsaw with his daughters, Chloe, left and Georgia. PHOTO courtesy of David Lapenat Anna Glieca / OTTwp. Share Adjust Comment Print. When an Ottawa ...
  
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• McDougall: Premier, it's too late to try shutting down Indigenous studies

  13-07-2018 21:23 via ottawacitizen.com
  The new Ontario government has cancelled its curriculum-writing sessions that would have updated the Ontario Ministry of Education’s “Native Studies” curriculum documents, which were first introduced in 1999.
  The original documents were developed in partnership with members of the First Nations, Mé​tis and Inuit communities, including leaders, elders and language experts from across the province. The revised documents were to be developed in the same way. However,
  
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• Johnstone: Here's why attacking the sex-ed curriculum is so misguided

  13-07-2018 21:18 via ottawacitizen.com
  Twenty years ago, gay marriage was illegal and Snapchat did not exist. Despite radical changes in societal views on sexuality, Ontario’s minister of education announced Wednesday that students will now be taught sex-ed using the 1998 curriculum instead of the curriculum updated by the Liberal government in 2015. This means that Ontario’s children and youth heading to school this September will be getting their sex education from a curriculum two decades out of date. Our government is
  
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• Two arrests after complaint of human trafficking - Ottawa Citizen

  13-07-2018 21:09 via ottawacitizen.com
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  Two arrests after complaint of human trafficking
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  Ottawa police said on Friday the arrests relate to allegations about events last summer and fall. Edmund Assante, 26, and Kiana Norman, 22, face a variety of charges including human trafficking, assault, making death threats, and profiting from sexual ...
  
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• Two arrests after complaint of human trafficking

  13-07-2018 21:09 via ottawacitizen.com
  A man and woman in their 20s are facing a total of 11 charges related to human trafficking.
  Ottawa police said on Friday the arrests relate to allegations about events last summer and fall.
  Edmund Assante, 26, and Kiana Norman, 22, face a variety of charges including human trafficking, assault, making death threats, and profiting from sexual services.
  Police said the investigation continues and that there may be other alleged victims.
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• UK police confirm source of Novichok poisoning. ottawamatters.com/world-news/uk-…

  13-07-2018 20:40 via twitter.com
  UK police confirm source of Novichok poisoning.ottawamatters.com/world-news/uk-…
  
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• At NeXT, celebrity chefs Lynn Crawford, Michael Blackie, Lora Kirk served waves of sumptuous food

  13-07-2018 20:26 via ottawacitizen.com
  That Wednesday night in June, all that was missing at NeXT was the TV cameras.
  At the restaurant and event centre in Stittsville, the tables in the dining room had been removed so the space could be packed with 150 guests, temporarily satiated with cocktails, shrimp sandwiches, chicken liver parfait and eggs topped with XO sauce.
  All eyes were fixed on the three chefs who ran the kitchen at NeXT’s most recent “3 Chefs 1 Dinner” event. They included Michael Blackie, NeXT’s
  
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• Schools boards, teachers still in the dark on sex ed, math changes

  13-07-2018 20:20 via ottawacitizen.com
  It’s one thing for the provincial government to announce a U-turn on sex education and “discovery” math, but quite another to figure out how to make this happen in the classroom.
  So don’t expect changes in curriculum when school starts in September.
  Calls to school boards and one teachers’ union have produced the same response, best summarized as: “What new curriculum?”
  So far, there isn’t one — only a promise in the Throne Speech to return t
  
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• Actual price the federal government will pay for Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain pipeline system & expansion project… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  13-07-2018 20:10 via twitter.com
  Actual price the federal government will pay for Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain pipeline system & expansion project… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Poll results: Doug Ford's Progressive Conservative government leaves readers divided

  13-07-2018 19:58 via ottawacitizen.com
  After Thursday’s thrown speech promised sweeping changes meant to restore public trust in the province, we posted a survey.
  We wanted to know whether readers agree with the decisions made by the Progressive Conservative government since they took power — Ford has already ushered in change at Hydro One and rolled back the sex-ed curriculum. More changes, including on taxes and government waste, have been promised.
  The survey is now closed and we have the results.
  They show t
  
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• Abraham: On Doug Ford, let's stick to the facts

  13-07-2018 19:53 via ottawacitizen.com
  The U.S. president’s chief spokesperson gets kicked out of a Virginia restaurant because she is seen as aiding and abetting a serial dissembler. America finds itself divided into two polarized camps that talk past each other. Civility all but disappears.
  The American media’s treatment of this recent story involving Sarah Huckabee Sanders was the latest example of a race to the bottom that began as soon as Donald Trump announced his presidential bid. From the point of view of his supp
  
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• SCoC rules BC does not have to give a tobacco company access to detailed provincial health databases. ottawamatters.com/national-news/…

  13-07-2018 19:35 via twitter.com
  SCoC rules BC does not have to give a tobacco company access to detailed provincial health databases.ottawamatters.com/national-news/…
  
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• Editorial: Ford's focus, for now

  13-07-2018 19:32 via ottawacitizen.com
  By their nature, throne speeches are broad documents, not detailed recipe books. So it’s no surprise that the Ontario Progressive Conservative throne speech, delivered Thursday, isn’t a study in legislative minutiae.
  It is, however, a clear glimpse at the worldview of Premier Doug Ford’s team: “Your new government believes that no dollar is better spent than the dollar that is left in the pockets of the taxpayer.” Contrast that with the last throne speech, delivered
  
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• NDP Leader Andrea Horwath says Doug Ford is repealing Ontario's modernized sex-education curriculum to please socia… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  13-07-2018 19:04 via twitter.com
  NDP Leader Andrea Horwath says Doug Ford is repealing Ontario's modernized sex-education curriculum to please socia… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• ICYMI: OPP say they've investigated more than 3,600 transport truck-related collisions. ottawamatters.com/local-news/opp…

  13-07-2018 18:30 via twitter.com
  ICYMI: OPPsay they've investigated more than 3,600 transport truck-related collisions.ottawamatters.com/local-news/opp…
  
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• The @rick_gibbons Show for Friday, July 13th w/ @cmaconthehill: 1:08: @ottawabluesfest 1:17: @ebalgord 1:30:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  13-07-2018 18:00 via twitter.com
  The @rick_gibbons Show for Friday, July 13th w/ @cmaconthehill: 1:08: @ottawabluesfest 1:17: @ebalgord 1:30:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• NEXT on the Power Lunch: @caitlinkealey & @LauraPeck6 joins @_MarkSutcliffe in studio: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  13-07-2018 17:55 via twitter.com
  NEXT on the Power Lunch: @caitlinkealey & @LauraPeck6 joins @_MarkSutcliffe in studio: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Coming up at 11:30: @cmaconthehill joins @_marksutcliffe with a look back at the week in Canadian politics: 📻: 1… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  13-07-2018 17:25 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 11:30: @cmaconthehill joins @_marksutcliffe with a look back at the week in Canadian politics:📻: 1… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Pair in their 60s suspected in 'numerous' Quinte burglaries

  13-07-2018 17:14 via ottawacitizen.com
  The OPP arrested a man and a woman in their 60s after a daylight break-and-enter in Picton earlier this week and now say they suspect the pair of Polish origin is behind a number burglaries throughout Quinte and surrounding areas.
  Prince Edward County OPP were called to a break-in on Prospect Avenue Monday.
  “Further investigation … revealed that the two suspects may have been involved in numerous break and enters throughout Quinte and surrounding areas,” the OPP said in a
  
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• Coming up at 11 on the Ethics Lab: @dk_munro & @_MarkSutcliffe discuss the ethics of @elonmusk's efforts in the Th… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  13-07-2018 16:55 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 11 on the Ethics Lab:@dk_munro & @_MarkSutcliffe discuss the ethics of @elonmusk's efforts in the Th… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Russell Peters getting 'Deported' to Ottawa

  13-07-2018 16:47 via ottawacitizen.com
  Canadian comic Russell Peters is bringing his Deported world tour to Ottawa Nov. 18.
  Peters, who says he’s “thrilled to announce his return to his home and native land,” will be at Canadian Tire Centre to wind up an 11-city cruise across Canada that starts in Vancouver Nov. 1.
  Peters, the “sometimes controversial” Emmy, Gemini and Peabody award-winning comic, promises all-new material and plenty of his signature audience interactions as he returns to touring li
  
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• Stranger turns up at couple's kitchen table

  13-07-2018 16:43 via ottawacitizen.com
  A Kingston couple had an unwelcome houseguest who first turned up sitting at their kitchen table then grabbed a chair to sit on their front porch.
  The residences heard a noise in their kitchen at about 4:45 p.m. Wednesday and went to investigate, police said.
  They discovered the unknown – and uninvited – man, who “appeared to be under the influence of alcohol and/or drugs,” sitting there. Then he got up and started rifling through their drawers.
  One resident grabbed
  
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• Coming up at 10:45: Former Sen Luke Richardson joins @_MarkSutcliffe to discuss joining the Habs coaching staff:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  13-07-2018 16:40 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 10:45: Former Sen Luke Richardson joins @_MarkSutcliffe to discuss joining the Habs coaching staff:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Hungry Bluesnest killdeer chick 'thriving' at wild bird care centre

  13-07-2018 16:39 via ottawacitizen.com
  It’s not Bluesnest but one of the baby killdeer whose threw a wrinkle into Bluesfest planning is “thriving” at the local wild bird centre.
  He’s a big eater though.
  “Help keep him in crickets so he continues to learn hunting and foraging,” the Ottawa Valley Wild Bird Care Centre tweeted Thursday with a video of the youngster pecking busily and cheeping.
  Late last month, a pair of killdeer and their nest with four eggs turned up smack in the middle of the festiv
  
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• Cornwall cordons off area under falcon 'attacks'

  13-07-2018 16:27 via ottawacitizen.com
  A pair of nesting Merlin falcons defending their four fledgelings has so terrorized people around a Cornwall intersection that the city has cordoned off the area and posted warning signs.
  They’ve been dive-bombing people at the busy intersection of McConnell and Ninth streets, a few kilometres from downtown, for weeks and attacking staff of the Cornwall Community Hospital as they took breaks outside the building to the point they were afraid to go outside, the Cornwall Standard-Freeholder
  
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• Monocle Westboro condos: A boutique brand with a master plan

  13-07-2018 15:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  The birds chirped on cue and dog owners strolled down a tree-lined path in late June as Derek Nzeribe explained the peaceful allure of new luxury condos coming to a quiet corner of Westboro.
  “This is a location you can’t reproduce,” says Nzeribe, who is regional director for the Milborne Group. “You’re in the middle of Westboro, in the middle of one of the most vibrant communities in Ottawa, shops, dining, everything at your doorstep; yet you have such a suburban fe
  
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• CFL Game Time: Ottawa Edition x2! - CFL.ca

  13-07-2018 15:27 via cfl.ca
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  CFL Game Time: Ottawa Edition x2!
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  It's week 5 of CFL football and this week our team was back in the beautiful Ottawa! There are only two cities that host Thursday Night Football twice this summer, Hamilton (see you bahds next week) and Ottawa. On our second trip to town we arrived on ...
  
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• Coming up at 9:30: @AndreaHorwath joins @_MarkSutcliffe with reaction to yesterday’s throne speech: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  13-07-2018 15:25 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 9:30: @AndreaHorwath joins @_MarkSutcliffe with reaction to yesterday’s throne speech: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Police seek federal parole offender possibly in Ottawa area - Ottawa Citizen

  13-07-2018 15:22 via ottawacitizen.com
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  Police seek federal parole offender possibly in Ottawa area
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  Police are seeking parole offender Stuart Gatt, 52. He may be in the Ottawa area. Provincial police handout. Share Adjust Comment Print. Provincial police are on the hunt for a federal inmate who has breached his parole and may be in the Ottawa area.
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• Police seek federal parole offender possibly in Ottawa area

  13-07-2018 15:21 via ottawacitizen.com
  Provincial police are on the hunt for a federal inmate who has breached his parole and may be in the Ottawa area.
  A Canada-wise warrant has been issued for Stuart Gatt, 52, described as Caucasian, 188 cm (six feet two inches) tall, weighing 77 kg, with brown hair, blues eyes and a grey goatee.
  Gatt was serving a three year, three month sentence for armed robbery and related offences.
  He is also known to frequent the Colbourne, Ont. area.  
  Anyone with information is asked to call provi
  
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• Second group of RCAF helicopters in Iraq to operate from Taji Military Complex

  13-07-2018 15:10 via ottawacitizen.com
  A few more details are emerging about the Canadian military’s new mission in Iraq.
  Canada’s ongoing Iraq mission has a maximum cap of around 850 personnel, according to Department of National Defence officials. There are only around 500 to 600 assigned to the mission currently. So the commitment announced this week by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of 250 personnel will be new personnel heading from Canada to Iraq.
  The new mission will need up to four Griffon helicopters. That will be
  
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• Coming up at 9:15: Leader of the @OntarioGreens a @MikeSchreiner joins @_MarkSutcliffe with reaction to yesterday… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  13-07-2018 15:10 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 9:15: Leader of the @OntarioGreens a @MikeSchreiner joins @_MarkSutcliffe with reaction to yesterday… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Thieves don't make the cut in attempted chainsaw grab

  13-07-2018 15:03 via ottawacitizen.com
  A couple of out-of-towners didn’t make the cut this week when they tried to sneak a stolen chainsaw past alert employees at a Kingston hardware store.
  At about 2:15 p.m. Wednesday, hawk-eyed personnel spotted a man and woman on surveillance cameras making off with the saw and an accessory part from a Bath Road store.
  Police answering the call reviewed the video and, with other info from store staff, tracked the man and woman down nearby.
  Officers then found their vehicle parked at the
  
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• GoFundMe campaign set up for family who lost everything in Barrhaven fire: bit.ly/2ujX4En #ottnews https://t.co/811Z1vcklG

  13-07-2018 14:52 via twitter.com
  
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• Kingston family charged after woman held captive for 11 months

  13-07-2018 14:45 via ottawacitizen.com
  Three members of a Kingston family have been charged by police after an investigation revealed that a woman underwent 11 months of beatings and confinement.
  Police said in a release Thursday that in 2017 a woman moved to Canada from the United States to marry a local man. After the wedding she moved into a home with him, his parents and his brother.
  The family took the woman’s citizenship papers and her jewelry to ensure she had no financial security. Over the next 11 months the woman was
  
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