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• Mother whose daughter died of meningitis warns others to get vaccinated

  16-07-2018 23:41 via ottawacitizen.com
  Three weeks after her daughter died of meningitis, an Ottawa mother is warning people to check their health records to ensure they have been vaccinated.
  Roxsanna Mueller’s daughter Lily, 23, died at Queensway Carleton Hospital on June 27, less than 24 hours after first being sent home from the hospital’s emergency department with a prescription for penicillin.
  Mueller said she had not met with officials at the hospital to discuss events around her daughter’s death because she w
  
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• Prime time: A day of deals at Amazon, and at its rivals ottawamatters.com/world-news/pri… https://t.co/tZUfV5SznG

  16-07-2018 23:30 via twitter.com
  
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• Police searching for suspect after woman left unconscious in gas station parking lot ottawamatters.com/police-beat/po… https://t.co/hx8xFSoycM

  16-07-2018 23:00 via twitter.com
  
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• Science of summer: Snowy owls come south … in July

  16-07-2018 22:42 via ottawacitizen.com
  Postmedia’s popular Science of Summer series is back, in its usual on-again, off-again way. Today Tom Spears looks at an oddity: Birders have found at least two dozen snowy owls summering in Southern and Eastern Ontario. It’s unprecedented and no one knows why they are here.
  Snowy owls should be a long way north today, scattered from Nunavut to Alaska to northern Greenland, coming only as far south as the northern edges of Labrador and Manitoba.
  Yet Bruce Di Labio recently saw one in
  
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• Fortissimo 2018 to start Thursday on Parliament Hill

  16-07-2018 22:41 via ottawacitizen.com
  Fortissimo 2018 will be performed by the Ceremonial Guard on Parliament Hill, from July 19 to July 21. This year’s event will include performances from the Ceremonial Guard, the massed pipes and drums of the Canadian Armed Forces, the US Army Old Guard Fife and Drum Corps, the Dominion Carilloneur’s Dr. Andrea McCrady (the Peace Tower Carilloneur), the Royal Hamilton Light Infantry (Wentworth Regiment), and the Guns of the 30th Field Regiment Royal Canadian Artillery, according to th
  
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• Lawmakers call Trump's performance 'bizarre,' 'shameful' ottawamatters.com/world-news/law… https://t.co/mFvUrktksc

  16-07-2018 22:30 via twitter.com
  
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• Reevely: Ontario's game of chicken forces feds to pay directly for refugee claimants' housing

  16-07-2018 22:22 via ottawacitizen.com
  The federal government is sending $11 million directly to Toronto to help house refugee claimants, Immigration Minister Ahmed Hussen announced Monday, three days after his Ontario counterpart Lisa MacLeod started a game of chicken to get him to do exactly that.
  The provincial capital, where many refugee claimants go, is temporarily housing some refugee claimants in college dorms, which can’t last more than a few more weeks because students will be coming back. It sent letters to other
  
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• Police hunt for suspect after woman assaulted near Nepean gas station

  16-07-2018 22:18 via ottawacitizen.com
  Police are looking for a male suspect after a 20-year-old woman was seriously assaulted near a gas station in Nepean over the weekend.
  Ottawa police said the incident took place either late Saturday evening or early Sunday morning when the woman was attacked and left unconscious on the ground in a gas station parking lot on the 1500 block of Woodroffe Avenue.
  She was taken to hospital and later released.
  The suspect is described as a Caucasian male in his mid 20s, with a medium build and no
  
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• Keshia Chante posts emotional Instagram tribute to former fiancé Ray Emery

  16-07-2018 22:14 via ottawacitizen.com
  Canadian pop singer Keshia Chante pushed out a heart-felt tribute to former Ottawa Senators goalkeeper Ray Emery on Monday.
  Chante, who grew up in Ottawa and dated Emery from June 2010 through to 2017, called off a wedding to the National Hockey League player after allegations of domestic abuse.
  On Monday, she took to Instagram and shared a picture of the two of them during happier times and expressed her disbelief at the netminder’s death.
  “My heart is heavy. i (sic) am at a loss. d
  
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• Public's help needed to identify dead man found in Rideau River ottawamatters.com/police-beat/pu… https://t.co/dhVaPbDBRR

  16-07-2018 22:00 via twitter.com
  
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• Residents assaulted in home invasion, suspects arrested

  16-07-2018 21:52 via ottawacitizen.com
  A man and woman have been charged after a home invasion and assault in the Rideau Lakes over the weekend.
  According to OPP, a man and a woman entered a home Blacksmith Road in Rideau Lakes Township on Saturday at 12:45 a.m. and assaulted the occupants.
  On Sunday, two suspects were located in Smiths Falls and arrested.
  Hannah Watson, 27, of Smiths Falls, faces charges of break and enter, assault, mischief, and two counts of uttering threats. Brody Rodford, 26, of Smiths Falls, faces charges of br
  
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• Pembroke man charged after 911 calls report man beating dog

  16-07-2018 21:47 via ottawacitizen.com
  A Pembroke man has been charged with cruelty to animals after several 911 calls to OPP early Sunday morning.
  Around 2 a.m. Sunday, members of the Upper Ottawa Valley detachment responded to calls reporting that a man on Christie Street in Pembroke was physically abusing a dog.
  The dog did not require veterinary treatment at the time. It has been removed from the care of the accused.
  Noah Richard Neuman, 22, of Pembroke has been charged with cruelty to animals and failing to comply wth probation.
  
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• Police seek public's help to identify deceased man found floating in the Rideau River

  16-07-2018 21:37 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Ottawa Police Service is asking for the public’s assistance to identify a deceased man who was found by someone walking near the Rideau River near Bordeleau Park around 8:40 a.m. on Friday, July 6.
  According to police, a post-mortem examination of the man’s body found no reason to suspect his death was a result of foul play. However, it is believed that the man may have been in the water for around 24 hours.
  The man did not have any identification on his person when he was found.
  
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• No financial or health info exposed in Algonquin College cyber attack ottawamatters.com/local-news/no-… https://t.co/qvcelcvpOf

  16-07-2018 21:30 via twitter.com
  
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• Former City Councillor Steve Desroches confirms on @rick_gibbons Show that he plans to seek Conservative nomination… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  16-07-2018 20:59 via twitter.com
  Former City Councillor Steve Desroches confirms on @rick_gibbons Show that he plans to seek Conservative nomination… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Keshia Chante posts emotional Instagram tribute to former fiancee Ray Emery

  16-07-2018 20:32 via ottawacitizen.com
  Canadian pop singer Keshia Chante pushed out a heart-felt tribute to former Ottawa Senators goalkeeper Ray Emery on Monday.
  Chante, who dated Emery from June 2010 through to 2017, called off a wedding to the NHL player after allegations of domestic abuse.
  On Monday, she took to Instagram and shared a picture of the two of them during happier times and expressed her disbelief at the netminder’s death.
  “My heart is heavy. i (sic) am at a loss. distraught (sic). obliterated (sic),&rdquo
  
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• Shalaby: Broncos tragedy – more than 3 months later, roads no safer

  16-07-2018 20:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  With the conclusion of the RCMP investigation into the Humboldt Broncos bus crash, and the commencement of court action against truck driver Jaskirat Sidhu, many unanswered questions remain. Chief among them is if rural roads are any safer today than before the crash.
  The RCMP aimed to find out: “Why was the truck in the intersection at the time of the crash?” Their reconstruction of the crash led to 29 charges against Sidhu, but little else is known.
  Experts pointed to the two-way s
  
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• Police charge three after Sunday morning break-in

  16-07-2018 19:50 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa police officers have laid charges against an Ottawa man after an early-morning break and enter on Sunday.
  According to police, a break-in was reported at a store near the St. Laurent Shopping Centre at 4 a.m. When police arrived, the suspect had fled the scene.
  Police employed K9 as well as frontline officers in an attempt to locate the suspect. The investigation identified a man fleeing the scene on a motorcycle, which was recognized by police. Police attended an address near Richelieu A
  
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• McGuinty: In an era of assisted death, we need more palliative care

  16-07-2018 19:47 via ottawacitizen.com
  The new reality in which we are living reminds me of the following tale. There once was a frail elderly man who lived with his son, daughter-in-law and four-year-old grandson.
  One day, the son became impatient with his elderly father, because in his old age he caused a mess at every meal. So every night the son made his father sit alone in a room with a wooden bowl to eat by himself, so that the rest of the family would not be bothered.
  One day, the son came home from the fields to find his four
  
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• Police chase on Sunday morning ends in charges for Toronto area man

  16-07-2018 19:15 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ontario Provincial Police officers were involved in a high speed chased along Highway’s 401 and 416 early Sunday morning.
  According to police, officers were dispatched to an ONRoute service centre on HIghway 401 near Mallorytown around 7:30 am on Sunday after reports of a gas theft. An investigation into the theft found that the vehicle in question had been reported stolen earlier that morning by an Uber driver in Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry Township.
  The vehicle was located on Hig
  
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• Coming up at 12:30: Another Bluesfest is in the books! @ottawabluesfest's Joe Reilly joins @cmaconthehill live: 📻… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  16-07-2018 18:20 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 12:30:Another Bluesfest is in the books! @ottawabluesfest's Joe Reilly joins @cmaconthehill live:📻… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• The @rick_gibbons Show for Monday, July 16th: 1:08: @OPSDAoust 1:30: #JohnColarusso 1:45: @HeartInstitute 2:05:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  16-07-2018 18:01 via twitter.com
  The @rick_gibbons Show for Monday, July 16th: 1:08: @OPSDAoust 1:30: #JohnColarusso 1:45: @HeartInstitute 2:05:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Paramedics advise hydration after treating weary bird

  16-07-2018 18:01 via ottawacitizen.com
  While the Ottawa Paramedic Services hasn’t received many heat-related calls, they did come across a weary bird Monday morning.
  Two paramedics discovered the bird on the ground at their Kanata base, tweeting photos of their new feathered friend taking water from their gloved hands.
  “They gave the bird some water and then they contacted Safe Wings Ottawa, so they came and picked it up to bring it to a bird sanctuary where they can take injured birds,” paramedic spokesperson,
  
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• On today's 1310 NEWS Power Lunch: @NotInMyColour founder Erica Ifill and @KurtStoodley join fill-in host… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  16-07-2018 17:55 via twitter.com
  On today's 1310 NEWS Power Lunch: @NotInMyColour founder Erica Ifill and @KurtStoodley join fill-in host… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• At 11:45: If Canada wants national pharmacare, taxes will have to go up; former parliamentary budget officer Kevi… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  16-07-2018 17:40 via twitter.com
  At 11:45: If Canada wants national pharmacare, taxes will have to go up; former parliamentary budget officer Kevi… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Coming up at 11:30: @michaeltaube joins @cmaconthehill live: 📻: 1310 💻: bit.ly/2oQd8u1 📞:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  16-07-2018 17:25 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 11:30: @michaeltaube joins @cmaconthehill live: 📻: 1310 💻: bit.ly/2oQd8u1 📞:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• At 11:15: @Colettod joins @cmaconthehill to talk #onpoli: 📻: 1310 💻: bit.ly/2oQd8u1 📞: 61… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  16-07-2018 17:10 via twitter.com
  At 11:15:@Colettod joins @cmaconthehill to talk #onpoli: 📻: 1310 💻: bit.ly/2oQd8u1 📞: 61… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Coming up at 11: @smsaideman joins @cmaconthehill to talk about the Trump-Putin summit in Helsinki: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  16-07-2018 16:55 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 11:@smsaideman joins @cmaconthehill to talk about the Trump-Putin summit in Helsinki: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Coming up at 10:45: @MavenOfMayhem talks with @cmaconthehill about the Ontario PC government's rollback of the se… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  16-07-2018 16:40 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 10:45: @MavenOfMayhem talks with @cmaconthehill about the Ontario PC government's rollback of the se… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• At 10:30: @Sportsnet's @DownGoesBrown joins @cmaconthehill with a look back at the life and career of former… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  16-07-2018 16:25 via twitter.com
  At 10:30:@Sportsnet's @DownGoesBrown joins @cmaconthehill with a look back at the life and career of former… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Obituary: Former art teacher Eugène Bellemare became respected four-term Liberal backbencher

  16-07-2018 16:14 via ottawacitizen.com
  BORN APRIL 6, 1932
  Eugène Bellemare used to sit at his drawing table long after midnight to pen caricatures from the House of Commons, where he sat as Carleton-Gloucester’s MP.
  “After the news at 11:30, I just sit and I draw,” he said in a 1997 interview. “I go to bed extremely late, at 1:30 or so. I can’t sleep before that. So this is my fun, late at night.”
  Bellemare, who was elected as Liberal MP in four elections in Carleton-Gloucester, died Ju
  
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• 'Why did they do this to mommy?': Ottawa urged to reunite Edmonton family after mom's deportation - CBC.ca

  16-07-2018 15:46 via cbc.ca
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  'Why did they do this to mommy?': Ottawa urged to reunite Edmonton family after mom's deportation
  CBC.ca
  In the past six months, Yasmina has learned to style her own braids, to pick out her own clothes. She has lost her appetite and now attends counselling. Each night, she has to sleep at a neighbour's house, where she often wakes up crying. Yasmina is ...
  
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• Woman intervenes to end drunk man's harassment on bus

  16-07-2018 15:23 via ottawacitizen.com
  An Ottawa mother who confronted a young man berating and harassing a woman on an OC Transpo bus after Bluesfest says she wishes more people would stand up to such behaviour.
  “A silent bystander when someone is being harmed shows people that that behaviour is appropriate,” Melissa Gervais said in a text exchange with this newspaper.
  “People have this assumption that, if you speak up, you’re a rat or a snitch. When someone is being targeted and harmed in some manner, standi
  
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• Country music star Tim Hicks to play Ottawa in November

  16-07-2018 15:17 via ottawacitizen.com
  Multi-platinum country music star Tim Hicks has added Ottawa to his Get Loud Tour.
  The country singer will be stopping in the nation’s capital on Nov. 8 to play a show at TD Place in Lansdowne Park.
  The announcement was made by Hicks on Monday morning while breaking news about a number of Canadian stops for the tour.  He will also stop in Toronto, Montreal, Guelph and Orillia, among other Canadian cities.
  Pre-sale tickets for the show will go on sale Tuesday and Wednesday.
  Ticket pric
  
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• Another scorching Monday, but Tuesday will bring some relief as temperatures dip overnight

  16-07-2018 15:17 via ottawacitizen.com
  Expect more scorching weather Monday with a heat warning remaining in effect as the humidex climbs into the high 30s.
  Some relief should arrive Tuesday, though when Environment Canada promises a “cold front” will blanket the region. The term is used rather loosely, though. The forecast high is 28 C during the day, which is still well above the average temperature of 26.7 C for this time of year. However, Tuesday night should dip down to 12 degrees, which is below normal. The average
  
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• EARLY EDITION: How a Citizen photographer shot the 1981 royal wedding, on deadline

  16-07-2018 15:01 via ottawacitizen.com
  Step behind the scenes as we tell you about memorable news stories and how Citizen journalists covered them in an era before the Internet, digital cameras or social media. Photographer Lynn Ball worked for the newspaper from the early 1970s until 2003, travelling the world for award-winning pictures. One of his assignments was the wedding of Charles and Diana.
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  I heard on the car radio that Prince Charles was getting on married July 29, 1981 to Lady Diana Spencer. The next day, I suggeste
  
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• Woman calls out Ottawa police for celebrating murder verdict - CBC.ca

  16-07-2018 14:26 via cbc.ca
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  Woman calls out Ottawa police for celebrating murder verdict
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  Terri McRae wants Ottawa police held accountable for celebrating in the courtroom after her elderly father was sentenced to life in prison for murdering her brother. John McRae found guilty in son's killing · Father charged with 2nd-degree murder in ...
  
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• Heat warning continues for Ottawa Monday - OttawaMatters.com

  16-07-2018 14:01 via ottawamatters.com
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  Heat warning continues for Ottawa Monday
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  Another scorcher of a day is in store for the capital on Monday, and it looks like it has the potential to be record-breaking. The hottest July 16 recorded so far at the Ottawa Airport was 33.9 degrees, in 1968. 1310 NEWS Meteorologist Jill Taylor's ...
  
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• Trump arrives to go 1-on-1 with Putin at Helsinki summit. bit.ly/2NhHd08 https://t.co/XJ8Prr5rh8

  16-07-2018 13:48 via twitter.com
  
  Trump arrives to go 1-on-1 with Putin at Helsinki summit.bit.ly/2NhHd08 https://t.co/XJ8Prr5rh8
  
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• Heat warning continues for Ottawa Monday - ottawamatters.com/local-news/hea… #ottnews https://t.co/LD9zpt9g20

  16-07-2018 13:48 via twitter.com
  
  Heat warning continues for Ottawa Monday - ottawamatters.com/local-news/hea… #ottnews https://t.co/LD9zpt9g20
  
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• From the Archives (2005): The apprenticeship of Ray Emery

  16-07-2018 13:24 via ottawacitizen.com
   
  Originally published December 11, 2005
  When he was in the minors, ‘Razor’ Emery was the bad boy of the Ottawa Senators organization, getting into too many on-ice fights. Now the team’s No. 2 goalie, he still has the attitude, but he’s also out to prove he has much more than that.
  Ray Emery cuts a striking figure as he steps into the Ottawa Senators dressing room from the inner sanctum of the training tables in the back.
  Emery is wearing a shockingly bright white tr
  
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• POLL: Are you willing to pay higher taxes for a National Pharmacare Program? @cmaconthehill #QuestionOfTheDay… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  16-07-2018 12:55 via twitter.com
  POLL:Are you willing to pay higher taxes for a National Pharmacare Program?@cmaconthehill#QuestionOfTheDay… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Kilgour: Trump must push Putin toward a more secure world

  16-07-2018 12:48 via ottawacitizen.com
  U.S. President Donald Trump meets Russian President Vladimir Putin today in Helsinki, Finland, a venue famed for hosting Cold War summits in 1975 (Leonid Brezhnev-Gerald Ford), 1990 (Mikhail Gorbachev-George H. W. Bush), and 1997 (Boris Yeltsin-Bill Clinton).
  It is their third meeting and follows Trump’s recent meeting with leaders of 28 NATO member states in Brussels, and then a visit to the United Kingdom, whose soft Brexit plans, he cautioned, could scuttle a U.S.-U.K. free trade deal a
  
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• Navan barn fire injures a teen and two cows Sunday afternoon. #ottnews twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…

  16-07-2018 12:44 via twitter.com
  Navan barn fire injures a teen and two cows Sunday afternoon. #ottnews twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…
  
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• Good morning, Ottawa! - OttawaMatters.com

  16-07-2018 12:12 via ottawamatters.com
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  Good morning, Ottawa!
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  Today we will see a mix of sun and cloud with 30 per cent chance of showers late in the afternoon and risk of a thunderstorm. Wind is southwest at 20 km/h near noon. Daytime temperatures reach a high of 32C the humidex factor is 38C and the UV index 9 ...and more »
  
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• Nine years after Nortel's epic fail, 1,000 addresses for claimants owed $8.5M still missing

  16-07-2018 12:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  In the end, exhaustion. And, one likes to believe, some shame on the part of the professionals who fed for so long off Nortel’s estate.
  Ernst & Young, the consultants in charge of Nortel’s nine-year long bankruptcy proceedings, began distributing cheques to approved creditors a year ago this month. Since then, according to a recent E&Y update, cheques totalling $4.1 billion have gone to more than 15,000 creditors representing former Nortel employees, suppliers, lenders, pensi
  
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• iPolitics AM: Official Ottawa agog as rumours swirl over looming cabinet shuffle - iPolitics.ca

  16-07-2018 11:54 via ipolitics.ca
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  iPolitics AM: Official Ottawa agog as rumours swirl over looming cabinet shuffle
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  With Prime Minister Justin Trudeau reportedly poised to rearrange his government's front-bench roster later this week, Official Ottawa is set to spend the time between now and the issuing of an official summons to Rideau Hall — which, according to the ...
  
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• How hot is it? Possibly record-breaking, today. Jill's Guaranteed High is 34. #ottawa #ottwx #ottweather twitter.com/jilltaylor680/…

  16-07-2018 11:49 via twitter.com
  How hot is it? Possibly record-breaking, today. Jill's Guaranteed High is 34. #ottawa #ottwx #ottweather twitter.com/jilltaylor680/…
  
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• Good weather and better crowds; Bluesfest celebrates another great year - ottawamatters.com/local-news/goo… #ottnews https://t.co/CKBE2SORoZ

  16-07-2018 11:46 via twitter.com
  
  Good weather and better crowds; Bluesfest celebrates another great year - ottawamatters.com/local-news/goo… #ottnews https://t.co/CKBE2SORoZ
  
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• Cannabis producers sound warning on Ottawa's new tax plan - The Globe and Mail

  16-07-2018 11:36 via theglobeandmail.com
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  Cannabis producers sound warning on Ottawa's new tax plan
  The Globe and Mail
  Marijuana firms are warning that Ottawa's move to impose an additional $100-million in taxes ostensibly to recoup regulatory costs – on top of hundreds of millions in government revenue expected from excise taxes − will hurt their ability to undercut ...and more »
  
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