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• Police warn of panhandling pair being moved along Highway 401

  25-07-2018 23:55 via ottawacitizen.com
  A pair of women claiming to need cash to feed their hungry kids are being moved along the Highway 401 corridor to solicit cash, Prescott OPP warns.
  The women, holding a cardboard sign, appeared near businesses just off the highway on July 15 and 25, and have also turned up in Tillsonburg, Trenton and Gananoque, police said.
  “The females are being transported to numerous locations off the 401 corridor to solicit money,” the Prescott detachment warned.
  “The police would like to r
  
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• Orléans man arrested on a terrorism peace bond

  25-07-2018 23:55 via ottawacitizen.com
  A young Orléans man with a history of schizophrenia was nabbed by the RCMP last month over fears he would engage in terrorism.
  Abdulmuti Elmi’s episodes have landed him in trouble with the law in the past but now he’s landed on the radar of the RCMP’s counter-terrorism unit and in June he was arrested on a terrorism peace bond.
  The Mounties say they feared Elmi was about to commit terrorism. He was planning to leave the country to wage jihad abroad, according to swo
  
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• Trump tells European leaders the U.S. wants a "fair trade deal" with the E.U. ottawamatters.com/national-busin…

  25-07-2018 23:35 via twitter.com
  Trump tells European leaders the U.S. wants a "fair trade deal" with the E.U.ottawamatters.com/national-busin…
  
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• Reevely: Killing Ontario's cap-and-trade system will cost only $5M, environment minister says

  25-07-2018 23:25 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ontario will compensate only a handful of companies that bought carbon-emissions permits in the cap-and-trade system the new Progressive Conservative government is killing, Environment Minister Rod Phillips announced Wednesday.
  The provincial government will keep several billion dollars that it made selling those permits under the previous Liberal government, that means, and not spend it on the environmental programs and projects for which it was intended. They’ll have something like $2 bi
  
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• Senators sign forward Adam Tambellini to a one-year, two-way contract ottawamatters.com/around-ontario…

  25-07-2018 23:00 via twitter.com
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• Virtual reality therapy treats anxiety with a dose of virtual demons

  25-07-2018 22:53 via ottawacitizen.com
  Patients suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder or other anxiety conditions are finding real solutions in a virtual world.
  Stéphane Bouchard, Canada Research Chair in clinical cyberpsychology, demonstrated for a few media visitors Wednesday in Gatineau how a virtual tour of an animated space can help people battle their personal demons.
  Bouchard, a researcher at the University of Quebec in the Outaouais, is also president of private clinic In Virtuo in Gatineau.
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• Areas of the capital region have seen more than 150 mm of rain in the last week. The average rainfall for all of Ju… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  25-07-2018 22:46 via twitter.com
  Areas of the capital region have seen more than 150 mm of rain in the last week. The average rainfall for all of Ju… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Cabinet ministers meet with Mexican president-elect in shadow of trade spat ottawamatters.com/national-news/… https://t.co/eaavFxygF6

  25-07-2018 22:30 via twitter.com
  
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• Where Ottawa's tech industry stacks up in North America: Not quite as robust as advertised

  25-07-2018 22:10 via ottawacitizen.com
  At first glance, a survey published Wednesday of 50 North American cities appears to have astonishingly good news for the capital region’s tech sector.
  CBRE, a commercial real estate firm, concluded that Ottawa ranked first in high-tech employment growth during the past four years. In 2017, we also lived in the most tech-intensive city on the continent — defined as tech employment as a percentage of total workers — ahead of California’s Silicon Valley and miles ahead of B
  
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• A heads up for anyone planning to travel west, past Kingston, tomorrow morning. #ottnews twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…

  25-07-2018 22:06 via twitter.com
  A heads up for anyone planning to travel west, past Kingston, tomorrow morning. #ottnews twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…
  
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• Abdi family lawsuit aiming to address 'systematic problems within OPS' ottawamatters.com/local-news/abd… https://t.co/uzQYKfxepS

  25-07-2018 22:00 via twitter.com
  
  Abdi family lawsuit aiming to address 'systematic problems within OPS'ottawamatters.com/local-news/abd… https://t.co/uzQYKfxepS
  
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• .@environmentca has ended the captial region's rainfall warning. #ottnews ottawamatters.com/local-news/rai… https://t.co/OdFIZ92woc

  25-07-2018 21:30 via twitter.com
  
  .@environmentca has ended the captial region's rainfall warning. #ottnews ottawamatters.com/local-news/rai… https://t.co/OdFIZ92woc
  
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• Wet Wednesday smashes local rainfall record

  25-07-2018 21:26 via ottawacitizen.com
  Environment Canada ended its rainfall warning Wednesday afternoon, but not before a deluge soaked the city and smashed a local record in the process.
  Amounts of 50 to 85 mm had already been reported across parts of Eastern Ontario including the Ottawa area Wednsday morning.
  The downpour shattered Environment Canada’s local rainfall record for July 25 of 41.1 mm, set in 1969.
  By 2 p.m., a total of 69.4 mm had fallen at the Ottawa airport and a whopping 91.5 mm at the Central Experimental Fa
  
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• Navan woman who inspired a region succumbs to cancer

  25-07-2018 21:13 via ottawacitizen.com
  Heaven could not wait.
  Sarah Taylor-Haddad, who warmed and inspired hearts with her enduring grace in a determined battle against cancer, died on Monday, the same day she was scheduled to fly to Germany for further regional chemotherapy treatments.
  Taylor, 30, the subject of a highly successful GoFundMe campaign this summer, was set back last week when a seizure led to cancer being discovered in the fluid of her skull. She received radiation treatments at The Ottawa Hospital but then suffered mo
  
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• Adam: Doug Ford needs to wind down cap-and-trade in an orderly way

  25-07-2018 20:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  Wherever you stand on Rob Ford’s decision to kill Ontario’s cap-and-trade program, the cancellation of the green renovation rebates is causing such consternation among small businesses and homeowners that the premier must rethink the implementation.
  At the very least, Ford has to extend the Oct. 31 deadline the government has set for all work associated with the rebates to completed. Window manufacturers and installers in Ottawa and across the province fear that the cancellation of t
  
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• Youth loses backpack after swarming by masked men in Kanata, police say

  25-07-2018 19:50 via ottawacitizen.com
  Police are asking the public to help them nab four masked suspects riding in an unplated silver Acura who swarmed and robbed a youth near the Kanata Centrum July 15.
  Six teens were walking on Earl Grey Drive near the intersection of Kanata Avenue and Campeau Drive at 9:20 p.m. when the four-door vehicle pulled up.
  Four males, their faces covered with disguises including bandanas and balaclavas, got out.
  They attacked one of the youths leaving him with minor injuries to his arms, back and legs an
  
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• Ontario's fiscal watchdog is warning that restraining wage growth in the public sector will be a challenge for the… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  25-07-2018 19:40 via twitter.com
  Ontario's fiscal watchdog is warning that restraining wage growth in the public sector will be a challenge for the… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• McCandless: Canada should share the wealth for research more widely

  25-07-2018 19:34 via ottawacitizen.com
  As Canadians, we rightly pride ourselves on being a nation of innovation and scientific inquiry, and have benefited from the national prosperity and well-being that these attributes have traditionally afforded us.
  At a time when scientific efforts are being underfunded, maligned and even discredited across the globe, investment in the sciences is always welcome. As Finance Minister Bill Morneau’s budget revealed a few months ago,
  
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• OC Transpo reduces planned layoffs to 345 when LRT starts

  25-07-2018 19:14 via ottawacitizen.com
  OC Transpo has managed to cut down the number of planned layoffs, but the top boss says the transit agency is still hitting its worker reduction targets ahead of launching the $2.1-billion LRT system.
  “We haven’t upsized the organization,” said John Manconi, general manager of transportation, on Wednesday.
  Transpo is cutting 345 staff starting Dec. 1. Layoff notices went out this week. The transit service has roughly 2,400 unionized workers.
  It has always been Transpo&rsqu
  
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• Glavin: Spare some compassion for Toronto shooter's parents

  25-07-2018 19:13 via ottawacitizen.com
  To try to look on the bright side, maybe the reason Sunday’s Danforth shooting rampage has pushed some people into an abyss of hysteria is that Toronto truly is one of the world’s great peaceable cities, and the horror of what happened has been just too much of a shock. Maybe it’s got something to do with the ubiquity of rancid disinformation and malicious pseudo-news these days that a meanness and heartlessness so quickly intruded into what was, in the early goings, a moment o
  
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• Parents warned that Cake app isn't for kids due to high sexual content. ottawamatters.com/national-news/…

  25-07-2018 19:05 via twitter.com
  Parents warned that Cake app isn't for kids due to high sexual content.ottawamatters.com/national-news/…
  
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• Police ID man found deceased in Rideau River

  25-07-2018 19:03 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa police say they have identified the man whose body was found in the Rideau River near Bordeleau Park on July 6.
  In a release the force said notification of next of kin is underway, but said that the 44-year-old man’s name will not be released because the death is not considered suspicious.
   
  
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• Police say they have identified a man whose body was found in the Rideau River near Bordeleau Park on July 6th. The… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  25-07-2018 18:53 via twitter.com
  Police say they have identified a man whose body was found in the Rideau River near Bordeleau Park on July 6th. The… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Former foreign correspondent Frank Koller returns to his first love, music

  25-07-2018 18:36 via ottawacitizen.com
  Before Frank Koller, a former CBC radio foreign correspondent, was reporting from the Tiananmen Square protests in the late 1980s or from Lower Manhattan in September 2001, he was a thriving musician in Ottawa.
  Those with sufficiently long memories may recall Koller as a guitarist who worked four decades ago at the National Arts Centre and the Central Canada Exhibition, who put out the pop-jazz record Single Malt and who was the musical director for the July 1 show on Parliament Hill.
  Now 6
  
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• The @Senators sign forward Adam Tambellini to a 1 year, 2-way contract. ottawamatters.com/around-ontario…

  25-07-2018 18:35 via twitter.com
  The @Senators sign forward Adam Tambellini to a 1 year, 2-way contract.ottawamatters.com/around-ontario…
  
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• Police warn of panhandling pair being moved along Hwy 401

  25-07-2018 17:57 via ottawacitizen.com
  A pair of women claiming to need cash to feed their hungry kids are being moved along the Highway 401 corridor to solicit cash, Prescott OPP warns.
  The women, holding a cardboard sign, appeared near businesses just off the highway on July 15 and 25 and have also turned up in Tilsonburg, Trenton and Gananoque, police said.
  “The females are being transported to numerous locations off the 401 corridor to solicit money,” the Prescott detachment warned.
  “The police would like to rem
  
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• The @rick_gibbons Show for Wednesday, July 25th: 1:08: @gtaweather1 1:17: @rboyd6 1:30: @Randall_Denley 1:45:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  25-07-2018 17:55 via twitter.com
  The @rick_gibbons Show for Wednesday, July 25th: 1:08: @gtaweather1 1:17: @rboyd6 1:30: @Randall_Denley 1:45:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• NEXT on the Power Lunch: @hobbs_katherine & @karinottawa join fill-in host @MarkDayNews in-studio: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  25-07-2018 17:55 via twitter.com
  NEXT on the Power Lunch: @hobbs_katherine & @karinottawa join fill-in host @MarkDayNews in-studio: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• 'Unsafe' truck was hauling tobacco worth $5M in unpaid taxes: OPP

  25-07-2018 17:52 via ottawacitizen.com
  When OPP and Ministry of Transportation officers pulled an “unsafe” tractor-trailer off the road July 19 they found an unexpected payload.
  They seized more than 33,000 pounds of contraband tobacco which represents tax evasion worth $5 million.
  Police and MTO had teamed up to enforce commercial motor vehicle laws on Highway 401 in the Brockville area. They pulled over the eastbound truck at about 4 p.m.
  “Further investigation” turned up the tobacco.
  Inderjeet Singh Pabla,
  
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• Algonquin College back on grid as source of outage ID'ed

  25-07-2018 17:07 via ottawacitizen.com
  Algonquin College’s city campus has been hooked back up to the city’s power grid after workers discovered that the cause of outages that started Friday wasn’t aging infrastructure but a quick-to-replace part at the power plant.
  That meant that the fix wasn’t “major and prolonged work” as feared but instead immediate work to replace a  failed component in the main high-voltage switch gear in the central plant, college president Cheryl Jensen said in a stat
  
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• Ontario parolee arrested after hours-long standoff in Gatineau

  25-07-2018 16:29 via ottawacitizen.com
  Three people were arrested Tuesday after an hours-long standoff as Gatineau police helped the OPP arrest a man accused of breaching parole.
  Gatineau police were called in to help at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday.
  They put up a security perimeter around a Mondoux Street address that completely closed a portion of the street.
  The occupants refused to come out but eventually surrendered just before 7 p.m.
  One of the arrestees, a man, was handed over to the OPP. Two others, a man and a woman, were released with
  
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• Coming up at 10:30: @citytammie joins @MarkDayNews with an update on the Danforth shooting: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  25-07-2018 16:25 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 10:30: @citytammie joins @MarkDayNews with an update on the Danforth shooting: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Police seek suspect in two Carling Avenue bank heists in same day

  25-07-2018 16:12 via ottawacitizen.com
  Police are asking the public to help them identify a man suspected of robbing two Carling Avenue banks in quick succession last Friday.
  He first walked into a bank near the intersection of Merivale Road at 12:10 p.m., handed the teller a note demanding cash and fled with an undisclosed sum.
  A short time later, he entered a bank down the street near Kirkwood Avenue, handed a teller the same note demanding money and left with cash.
  Patrol officers responded to both robberies but couldn’t fin
  
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• Coming up on the 10 O'Clock Talk: @AGMacDougall, @sophienadeau & @DerickFage join @MarkDayNews live: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  25-07-2018 15:55 via twitter.com
  Coming up on the 10 O'Clock Talk:@AGMacDougall, @sophienadeau & @DerickFage join @MarkDayNews live: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Coming up at 9:45: @mclomedia of @Trans4mLeaders joins @MarkDayNews live: Listen: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  25-07-2018 15:40 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 9:45:@mclomedia of @Trans4mLeaders joins @MarkDayNews live:Listen:📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Industry concerns about Cormorant modernization pushed aside – project to proceed

  25-07-2018 15:38 via ottawacitizen.com
  In May, the federal government announced that it had decided on modernizing the RCAF’s search and rescue helicopters rather than take another route, such as purchasing new aircraft. Leonardo was selected to upgrade its Cormorant search-and-rescue helicopters and provide seven additional aircraft.
  The government doesn’t have full details on what this will cost taxpayers as various options have to be sorted out. But it gave an estimate of the project as between $1 billion and $5 billio
  
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• House Works: Make friends with your cottage's water system

  25-07-2018 15:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  Dealing with a seasonal water system is the least enjoyable part of owning a lakeside home or rural getaway, but it doesn’t have to be this way.
  The frustration and uncertainty endured draining water pipes in the fall and filling them again each spring is something that Canadian plumber Brian Feeney set out to change. He lives and works in Ontario’s cottage country, and six years ago he got fed up watching property owners struggle (and sometimes fail) with seasonal water systems.
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• Coming up at 9:30: @meekwire joins @MarkDayNews on Joshua Boyle's wife, Caitlan Coleman leaving Canada with her ch… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  25-07-2018 15:25 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 9:30:@meekwire joins @MarkDayNews on Joshua Boyle's wife, Caitlan Coleman leaving Canada with her ch… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Greely-area electrical fire results in $500,000 damage, family escapes uninjured

  25-07-2018 15:21 via ottawacitizen.com
  A detached two-storey home resulted in damage estimated at $500,00 as a result of a dangerous electrical fire on Tuesday night.A 911 call just before 8 p.m. reporting of wires arcing and a tree on fire in the back yard of the home at 1013 Sale Barn Road resulted in fire fighters evaluating that a fence was energized and that hydro needed to be shut off.The electrical hazard extended into the attic of the home and a working fire was declared before eventually being brought under control at 9:45 p
  
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• On today's Power Lunch: @hobbs_katherine & @karinottawa join fill-in host @markdaynews in-studio: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  25-07-2018 15:15 via twitter.com
  On today's Power Lunch: @hobbs_katherine & @karinottawa join fill-in host @markdaynews in-studio: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Coming up at 9:15: Lawyer Lawrence Greenspon joins @markdaynews on the suit filed against Ottawa Police in death… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  25-07-2018 15:09 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 9:15: Lawyer Lawrence Greenspon joins @markdaynews on the suit filed against Ottawa Police in death… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Wet Wednesday with rainfall warning of up to 100 mm

  25-07-2018 15:08 via ottawacitizen.com
  No kidding.
  After an overnight deluge, Environment Canada issued a rainfall warning Wednesday morning advising that “rain, at times heavy, is expected.”
  The weather agency said that heavy rain will taper off by late morning when as much as 100 mm of rain may have fallen in some areas. Rainfall amounts of 50 to 85 mm have already been reported across parts of Eastern Ontario including the Ottawa area this morning.
  Forget #OCTranspo! I am calling Noah for a ride into work! pic.twitter.
  
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• Weekend drowning of Jamaican boy, 7, at Sandbanks 'preventable,' critic says

  25-07-2018 15:02 via ottawacitizen.com
  When John Watts heard seven-year-old Javaughn Black drowned at Sandbanks Provincial Park on Saturday, he had one reaction: “This was preventable.”
  The life of the boy, visiting Canada with his family, could have been saved if the park had kept its lifeguards, according to Watts.
  A former lifeguard, Watts worked at Sandbacks, about 290 kilometres south of Ottawa, and other regional beaches before their lifeguarding programs were cancelled. He’s been advocating for their return e
  
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• OC Transpo job cut notifications to begin: bit.ly/2v2A0JN #ottnews https://t.co/xYGFS4jTn8

  25-07-2018 14:32 via twitter.com
  
  OC Transpo job cut notifications to begin: bit.ly/2v2A0JN #ottnews https://t.co/xYGFS4jTn8
  
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• Wet Wednesday with rainfall warning of up to 75 mm

  25-07-2018 14:14 via ottawacitizen.com
  No kidding.
  After an overnight deluge, Environment Canada issued a rainfall warning Wednesday morning advising that “rain, at times heavy, is expected.”
  The weather agency said that heavy rain will taper off by late morning when as much as 75 mm of rain may have fallen. Rainfall amounts of 40 to 50 mm have already been reported in the Ottawa area this morning.
  Forget #OCTranspo! I am calling Noah for a ride into work! pic.twitter.com/kFIkzFG4ZU
  — Laura Storrie (@l_storrie) July
  
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• POLL: Should the federal government tighten handgun laws as a way to stem violence? bit.ly/2LCPqPa

  25-07-2018 14:11 via twitter.com
  POLL: Should the federal government tighten handgun laws as a way to stem violence?bit.ly/2LCPqPa
  
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• Today's letters: Toronto shooting, healthy lifestyles

  25-07-2018 12:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  Two urgent lessons from Toronto’s shooting
  Re: He was trying to kill people, July 24.
  Stripping away all of the political posturing that follows such incidents, this case identifies two related issues that require immediate attention: the mental health system and the registration of weapons by mentally disabled persons.
  The mental health system failed Faisal Hussain and the gun registration system (assuming the gun was registered) just plain failed. These are issues that governments have k
  
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• Toronto police identify 10-year-old girl killed in mass shooting: bit.ly/2uNPUIU https://t.co/JTs2r3WD1p

  25-07-2018 12:20 via twitter.com
  
  Toronto police identify 10-year-old girl killed in mass shooting: bit.ly/2uNPUIU https://t.co/JTs2r3WD1p
  
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• Syrian media: Suicide bombings kill 38 in southern province: bit.ly/2NLqjrd https://t.co/3M0575cSes

  25-07-2018 12:15 via twitter.com
  
  Syrian media: Suicide bombings kill 38 in southern province: bit.ly/2NLqjrd https://t.co/3M0575cSes
  
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• Heritage building partially collapses in Hintonburg; road closure in place: bit.ly/2Lp3BZf #ottnews… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  25-07-2018 12:01 via twitter.com
  Heritage building partially collapses in Hintonburg; road closure in place: bit.ly/2Lp3BZf#ottnews… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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