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• A movement is afoot to change the name of a holiday recognizing Europeans' so-called "discovery" of Newfoundland an… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  24-07-2018 23:55 via twitter.com
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• Family angry top general rejected stigma as factor in RMC student's suicide. ottawamatters.com/national-news/…

  24-07-2018 23:21 via twitter.com
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• Severe thunderstorm watch issued for Ottawa region

  24-07-2018 23:05 via ottawacitizen.com
  Environment Canada issued a severe thunderstorm watch for the Ottawa area on Tuesday, as the city braces for another heavy storm.
  “Conditions are favourable for the development of dangerous thunderstorms that may be capable of producing torrential rain,” said Environment Canada in a statement, adding that “conditions will be favourable for severe thunderstorms into this evening as a warm and humid tropical air mass remains over Eastern Ontario.”
  Environment Canada said th
  
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• Reevely: Ontario's refugee-claimant bill hits $200M, MacLeod testifies on the Hill

  24-07-2018 22:56 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ontario’s bill for refugee claimants is up to $200 million, the province’s social-services minister, Lisa MacLeod, said Tuesday, in a testy Parliament Hill committee hearing that spent much of its time in an argument over whether it’s OK to describe some crossings of the Canadian border as “illegal.”
  The Ontario government is continuing to crunch numbers, finding new expenses to attribute to asylum claimants who come into Canada between official “points of ent
  
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• Chamberfest preview: Violin virtuoso Roby Lakatos brings 'unorthodox Gypsy fusion music' to Ottawa

  24-07-2018 22:48 via ottawacitizen.com
  It’s a good thing that Roby Lakatos persevered.
  Growing up in the late 1960s in Budapest, Lakatos was the latest addition to a musical family thick with Romani violinists. Generations back, one of his ancestors was János Bihari, a composer who influenced Brahms and Liszt. There was no question that young Roby would pick up a child-sized violin as soon as he was able, imitate the sounds he heard in the house, and eventually go to music school.
  “It was a pain, you know? I d
  
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• Man in Hill incident sought for alleged assault the day before

  24-07-2018 22:46 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa police say no charges will be laid against a 24-year-old man in relation to an incident involving a Ceremonial Guard on Parliament Hill on Monday — but he does face charges relating to an attack on another man in the south end on Sunday.
  Police had originally stated that Jesse Mooney was arrested and charged with assault and breach of probation following an incident that took place Monday morning on the lawn of Parliament Hill during the Changing of the Guard parade, a popular touri
  
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• Pre-Confederation lighthouse near Brockville destroyed by fire after lightning strike

  24-07-2018 22:41 via ottawacitizen.com
  A longstanding piece of Canadiana was forever lost on Monday evening when the Cole Shoal lighthouse, just west of Brockville in the Thousand Islands, burned to the ground after presumably being struck by lightning. It was the last remaining of nine Canadian lighthouses built in the Thousand Islands in 1856.
  “It was no longer a navigation aid, but it’s certainly a piece of history,” says conservation biologist and historian Mary Alice Snetsinger, who has extensively researched a
  
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• One man charged in Pembroke stabbing ottawamatters.com/police-beat/on… https://t.co/BeGLGfMRQ0

  24-07-2018 22:30 via twitter.com
  
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• #otttraffic Bit of a traffic headache in #Greely. Dump truck hauling gravel is in the ditch @ Parkway Rd./Old Presc… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  24-07-2018 22:00 via twitter.com
  #otttraffic Bit of a traffic headache in #Greely. Dump truck hauling gravel is in the ditch @ Parkway Rd./Old Presc… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Ivanka Trump's clothing company shutting down ottawamatters.com/national-busin… https://t.co/xtKa2GB5th

  24-07-2018 22:00 via twitter.com
  
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• Ottawa Police have dropped the charges of assault and breach of probation laid against 24-year-old Jesse Mooney, in… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  24-07-2018 21:58 via twitter.com
  Ottawa Police have dropped the charges of assault and breach of probation laid against 24-year-old Jesse Mooney, in… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Museum of Nature sees brief evacuation for refrigerant leak

  24-07-2018 21:38 via ottawacitizen.com
  A small refrigerant leak at the Museum of Nature forced a brief evacuation of the popular tourist attraction in Centretown on Tuesday afternoon.
  According to police, the leak was detected around 3 p.m. The building was evacuated while HAZMAT was sent in to investigate.
  Officials quickly determined the leak was minor in nature and people were allowed back in the building by 3:30 p.m.
  
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• Ohio State Fair butter sculpture honours 'A Christmas Story.' ottawamatters.com/world-news/ohi…

  24-07-2018 20:35 via twitter.com
  Ohio State Fair butter sculpture honours 'A Christmas Story.'ottawamatters.com/world-news/ohi…
  
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• Chamberfest preview: Z.E.N. and the art of forming a supergroup trio

  24-07-2018 20:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  The talent scouts at BBC Radio 3 were onto something a few years ago when they came up with the bright idea that pianist Zhang Zuo, violinist Esther Yoo and cellist Narek Hakhnazaryan should join forces.
  Chosen as “New Generation Artists” by the classical radio station, the prodigious young musicians were enrolled in a two-year program that gave them opportunities to perform and record. Most pivotal among them was the suggestion that the three team up to record Brahms’ Pia
  
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• Suspect arrested in Hill incident was already sought for alleged assault the day before

  24-07-2018 20:06 via ottawacitizen.com
  A 24-year-old Ottawa man has been accused of taking an unprovoked swing at a man he knew on Bridle Path Drive the day before he was charged in an incident involving the Ceremonial Guard, city police said Tuesday.
  Police had already been looking for Jesse Mooney, 24, when he was arrested and later charged with assault and breach of probation in what Ottawa police say was an “isolated incident” on Parliament Hill Monday morning.
  On Tuesday, police said that Mooney was charged with
  
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• Flooding from Laos hydroelectric dam leaves hundreds missing. ottawamatters.com/national-busin…

  24-07-2018 20:00 via twitter.com
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• Bystander's photo leads to burglary suspect: Police

  24-07-2018 19:34 via ottawacitizen.com
  Police report they’ve made a collar after a string of nighttime burglaries in Gloucester, Pleasant Park and Mooney’s Bay, often while the residents slept.
  Patrol officers responded to attempted and completed break and enters in the east end at about 1 a.m. Saturday, police said in a release Tuesday.
  A suspect was arrested after a short foot pursuit thanks to a bystander who took a picture of a suspicious vehicle spotted in the area and gave it to police, investigators reported.
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• The Rolling Barber parks in a different location each Sunday, and is staffed by volunteers. #ottnews twitter.com/1310JasonWhite…

  24-07-2018 19:03 via twitter.com
  The Rolling Barber parks in a different location each Sunday, and is staffed by volunteers.#ottnews twitter.com/1310JasonWhite…
  
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• Cohen: Celebrating the rhythms of a Canadian summer

  24-07-2018 18:59 via ottawacitizen.com
  LAKE TEMAGAMI, Ontario – For days, the fires of Temagami flared. On the evening we arrived, under a slanting, molten sun, the place was otherworldly.
  It had not rained hard for weeks. The forest was a tinderbox. There was a smell of smoke in the air and a curtain of haze but no flames, which were far away.
  That was Tuesday. On Sunday, just two days before, our neighbours on Outlet Bay reported that the smoke and ash was too hard on the eyes and lungs; at 8 p.m., they fled.
  Another friend,
  
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• Cohen: Celebrating the rhythmns of a Canadian summer

  24-07-2018 18:59 via ottawacitizen.com
  LAKE TEMAGAMI, Ontario – For days, the fires of Temagami flared. On the evening we arrived, under a slanting, molten sun, the place was otherworldly.
  It had not rained hard for weeks. The forest was a tinderbox. There was a smell of smoke in the air and a curtain of haze but no flames, which were far away.
  That was Tuesday. On Sunday, just two days before, our neighbours on Outlet Bay reported that the smoke and ash was too hard on the eyes and lungs; at 8 p.m., they fled.
  Another friend,
  
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• Denley: It's time we allowed municipal political parties

  24-07-2018 18:25 via ottawacitizen.com
  Congratulations to Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson on his re-election to another four-year term. Nominations don’t close until Friday, but no significant challenger is going to come forward, so Watson is as good as in.
  What will the re-elected mayor offer in his third term? We don’t know yet, but it really doesn’t matter, because we have already chosen him by default.
  It’s a pretty sad situation when the province’s second-largest city has no serious race for mayor. That&rsq
  
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• The @rick_gibbons Show for Tuesday, July 24th: 1:08: @WLFelepchuk 1:17: @InfoFAO 1:30: @SamLapradeCFRE 1:45:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  24-07-2018 18:06 via twitter.com
  The @rick_gibbons Show for Tuesday, July 24th: 1:08: @WLFelepchuk 1:17: @InfoFAO 1:30: @SamLapradeCFRE 1:45:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• An update on a good news story we first told you about back in March. #ottnews twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…

  24-07-2018 18:06 via twitter.com
  An update on a good news story we first told you about back in March. #ottnews twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…
  
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• Labaky: If police are to succeed, community must play an active role

  24-07-2018 17:57 via ottawacitizen.com
  Sir Robert Peel served twice as prime minister of the United Kingdom and in 1829 he established the first Metropolitan Police Force for London at Scotland Yard. However, we remember him today as the father of modern policing through “Peel’s Principles of Policing.”
  The Seventh Principle remains the one most frequently quoted: “Police, at all times, should maintain a relationship with the public that gives reality to the historic tradition that the police are the public an
  
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• NEXT on the Power Lunch: @ShelleyMcLean_ & @catherinejclark join fill-in host @markdaynews in-studio: 📻: 1310 💻… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  24-07-2018 17:55 via twitter.com
  NEXT on the Power Lunch: @ShelleyMcLean_ & @catherinejclark join fill-in host @markdaynews in-studio: 📻: 1310 💻… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• "Banishing straws from $5 iced coffees isn't going to save the oceans" @TristinHopper joins @markdaynews at 11:45:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  24-07-2018 17:40 via twitter.com
  "Banishing straws from $5 iced coffees isn't going to save the oceans"@TristinHopper joins @markdaynews at 11:45:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Missing dementia patient, 81, who drove off from home Monday found safe

  24-07-2018 17:37 via ottawacitizen.com
  An 81-year-old dementia patient who disappeared Monday night after unexpectedly finding his car keys and driving off has been found safe and sound, Gatineau police say.
  Police say Clayton Laflamme left from his Notre Dame Street home at about 6:30 p.m. in a dark blue 2005 Toyota Matrix, with Quebec license plates 937 YTH.
  Police did not say where Laflamme was located.
   
  
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• Gatineau police seek dementia patient, 81, who drove off from home Monday

  24-07-2018 17:37 via ottawacitizen.com
  Gatineau police are seeking public assistance in locating an 81-year-old dementia patient who disappeared Monday night after unexpectedly finding his car keys and driving off.
  Police say Clayton Laflamme left from his Notre Dame Street home at about 6:30 p.m. in a dark blue 2005 Toyota Matrix, with Quebec license plates 937 YTH.
  He is described as 1.73 m (about five feet eight inches) tall, weighing 93 kg (205 pounds). He has “age spots” on his face and wears glasses.
  When last
  
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• Rain raises no-swim advisory at all beaches, severe T-storm watch for region

  24-07-2018 17:36 via ottawacitizen.com
  Make that two reasons not to take a dip.
  Public health officials have issued no-swim advisories at all city beaches because E. coli levels are likely to exceed provincially established standards due to heavy rain.
  Water tests take at least 18 hours to process in the lab so no-swim advisories are issued based on water sample results from the previous day and the likely impact of rainfall and bird activity.
  “Swim at your own risk,” they say of the waters at Mooney’s Bay, Bri
  
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• Investigation continues into car vs tractor-trailer crash on Hwy 148 Monday

  24-07-2018 17:02 via ottawacitizen.com
  MRC des Collines-de-l’Outaouais police continue to investigate a major collision near Luskville on Monday.
  According to police the crash, which occurred near 3:55 p.m. on Highway 148, saw a vehicle collide head-on with a tractor-trailer. A third vehicle also became involved in the wreckage.
  Extrication equipment was needed to remove some of the passengers involved in the crash.
  A total of five people were examined by emergency responders at the scene, four were sent to area hospitals for f
  
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• Feared funnel cloud just a rain shaft, experts conclude

  24-07-2018 16:57 via ottawacitizen.com
  During Monday night’s deluge, Ottawa weather-watchers spotted what looked like a funnel cloud, which can become a tornado.
  Thankfully it was likely just what’s known as a “rain shaft” – a common phenomenon but one that we rarely get to see from just the right perspective.
  Gerald Cheng, acting warning preparedness meteorologist at Environment and Climate Change Canada, looked at a local video shared on social media and had some experienced forecasters watch it,
  
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• Cat-infested house from Tragically Hip video up for sale in Kingston

  24-07-2018 16:29 via ottawacitizen.com
  For diehard fans of The Tragically Hip, no price is too steep for memorabilia — but 689 cats might come close.
  Priced at $700,000, dedicated fans can now purchase the location for the band’s “Poets” music video, which memorably features the late Gord Downie weaving between dozens of cats crawling over an Elm Street home’s floors and counters while the Hip perform as “The Rodents.”
  The house held a Guinness World Record for keeping nearly 700 cats inside.
  
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• On today's Power Lunch: @ShelleyMcLean_ & @catherinejclark join fill-in host @markdaynews in-studio: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  24-07-2018 16:15 via twitter.com
  On today's Power Lunch: @ShelleyMcLean_ & @catherinejclark join fill-in host @markdaynews in-studio: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Coming up on the 10 O'Clock Talk: @Justin_Ling, @SusanSherring & @KimothyWalker join @MarkDayNews live: 📻: 1310… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  24-07-2018 15:55 via twitter.com
  Coming up on the 10 O'Clock Talk: @Justin_Ling, @SusanSherring & @KimothyWalker join @MarkDayNews live: 📻: 1310… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Coming up at 9:45: Anne Donovan of the Rolling Barber joins @MarkDayNews with more on the local initiative: 📻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  24-07-2018 15:40 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 9:45: Anne Donovan of the Rolling Barber joins @MarkDayNews with more on the local initiative: 📻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Cross-town pursuit of stolen car on weekend turns up robbery suspect

  24-07-2018 15:39 via ottawacitizen.com
  An RCMP officer spotted a suspicious vehicle and pursued it across town over the weekend, netting a stolen vehicle and a robbery suspect who was finally collared after a police dog sniffed him out in the woods.
  It was at 1 a.m. Saturday at Montreal Road and the Vanier Parkway that the Mountie noticed the vehicle which a computer search revealed was stolen and was linked to a number of robberies. The officer started a traffic stop but the vehicle took off.
  What Ottawa police described in a Tuesda
  
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• Coming up at 9:30 @RandallMoore26 of @1061CHEZ joins @MarkDayNews in studio: 📻: 1310 💻: bit.ly/1uwtdOs… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  24-07-2018 15:25 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 9:30@RandallMoore26 of @1061CHEZ joins @MarkDayNews in studio:📻: 1310 💻: bit.ly/1uwtdOs… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Coming up at 9:15: @borealissaves joins @MarkDayNews on the mass shooting in Toronto/ potential attacker with a k… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  24-07-2018 15:10 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 9:15: @borealissaves joins @MarkDayNews on the mass shooting in Toronto/ potential attacker with a k… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• POLL: Are you afraid to travel to Toronto in light a rising gun violence?

  24-07-2018 15:01 via twitter.com
  POLL: Are you afraid to travel to Toronto in light a rising gun violence?
  
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• Sticky spell follows Monday's record rain, fire ban remains in effect

  24-07-2018 14:41 via ottawacitizen.com
  After a muggy Monday with record-setting rainfall, more showers or thunderstorms loom Tuesday and the forecast high will feel like 36.
  A total of 43 mm of rain fell at the Ottawa airport Monday as the mercury nudged 32 C, Environment Canada reports. The previous record for rain was 35.2 mm set in 1994. Beating the July 24 record doesn’t seem likely: 59 mm fell in 1987.
  There will be no hot tubbing for a while at this home, after Monday’s high winds sent massive branches crashing
  
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• Thailand's soccer boys prepare to ordain as Buddhist novices: bit.ly/2mCLLD3 https://t.co/FhDb7CWO0u

  24-07-2018 14:40 via twitter.com
  
  Thailand's soccer boys prepare to ordain as Buddhist novices: bit.ly/2mCLLD3 https://t.co/FhDb7CWO0u
  
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• Greek wildfires kill 50; hugging bodies found near beach: bit.ly/2v0x4xn https://t.co/NzvNBAgXTf

  24-07-2018 14:36 via twitter.com
  
  Greek wildfires kill 50; hugging bodies found near beach: bit.ly/2v0x4xn https://t.co/NzvNBAgXTf
  
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• B.C.'s North Shore Search and Rescue concerned with commercial guided weed hikes: bit.ly/2uLmf32 https://t.co/rqd8DJAADa

  24-07-2018 14:31 via twitter.com
  
  B.C.'s North Shore Search and Rescue concerned with commercial guided weed hikes: bit.ly/2uLmf32 https://t.co/rqd8DJAADa
  
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• Kingston man charged with attempted murder of brother with a pickaxe

  24-07-2018 14:20 via ottawacitizen.com
  Kingston police have charged a 27-year-old local man with attempting to murder his brother with a pickaxe.
  Police said a couple was awakened Sunday at about 3 a.m. up by their son’s screaming.
  Going to him, they discovered that he had been stabbed with a pickaxe by his brother.
  The suspect then fled on foot.
  Police and Frontenac Paramedic Services responded to the home and the victim was taken to hospital in critical, but stable condition.
  At about 8 a.m. the same day officers found the br
  
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• Charity opens new Ottawa home for human-trafficking survivors

  24-07-2018 13:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  On the wall of a cozy room in the basement of a unique new transition home for women fleeing the cruel grip of human traffickers is a handmade sign that reads “Behind every successful woman is herself.”
  It’s the kind of message the young women who pass through this place of refuge will need to hear as they rebuild their lives after the trauma of being forced to work in the sex trade.
  “I believe we’re changing lives here,” said Wendy Gee, executive director of
  
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• ARMCHAIR MAYOR: It's time to waive the flags

  24-07-2018 12:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  This fall, citizens of Ottawa elect a new city council. To help local candidates as they campaign, the Citizen asked people for ONE idea that would make the city a better place – without necessarily breaking the bank. Today, Paul Gregory Leroux flags one area for improvement.
  —
  In 1992, I argued before Mayor Jim Durrell and municipal councillors that Pride Day should officially be proclaimed, and the rainbow flag flown outside City Hall. Now fast-forward a quarter of a century. In Ma
  
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• ICYMI: More mice scurry into Ottawa homes for relief from a hot, dry summer: bit.ly/2NGhQpb https://t.co/3DI3Tj4lve

  24-07-2018 11:51 via twitter.com
  
  ICYMI: More mice scurry into Ottawa homes for relief from a hot, dry summer: bit.ly/2NGhQpb https://t.co/3DI3Tj4lve
  
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• Illegal guns sourced in Canada surge compared to those smuggled from U.S. bit.ly/2Lzjb3v https://t.co/ixO2EBTaxj

  24-07-2018 11:45 via twitter.com
  
  Illegal guns sourced in Canada surge compared to those smuggled from U.S. bit.ly/2Lzjb3v https://t.co/ixO2EBTaxj
  
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• RECALL: Salmonella contamination prompts recall of goldfish crackers: bit.ly/2mCnTiV https://t.co/1DJlvCZYio

  24-07-2018 11:40 via twitter.com
  
  RECALL: Salmonella contamination prompts recall of goldfish crackers: bit.ly/2mCnTiV https://t.co/1DJlvCZYio
  
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• Ottawa receives record rainfall to start the week: bit.ly/2v1qer #ottnews https://t.co/gpYL3Dqtmy

  24-07-2018 11:21 via twitter.com
  
  Ottawa receives record rainfall to start the week: bit.ly/2v1qer #ottnews https://t.co/gpYL3Dqtmy
  
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