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• #Ottvote 2018: Council races to watch

  27-07-2018 23:34 via ottawacitizen.com
  And they’re off.
  Nominations for mayor, city councillor and school board trustee closed Friday afternoon.
  Seeking his third term as mayor post-amalgamation, Jim Watson’s name will appear alongside the names of 11 other men when Ottawa voters head to the polls in October (Watson previously served one term as mayor in pre-amalgamation Ottawa).
  Among the challengers is Clive Doucet, the former Capital ward councillor who faced off against Watson in the 2010 mayoral election and placed t
  
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• Bad week in social media gets worse; Twitter hammered ottawamatters.com/world-news/bad… https://t.co/0hz7bz8vrT

  27-07-2018 23:30 via twitter.com
  
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• Unions council predicts province could cut more than 700 Ottawa hospital jobs

  27-07-2018 23:10 via ottawacitizen.com
  Between 748 and 1,643 hospital jobs could be cut if Ontario’s new Progressive Conservative government fulfills its campaign promises, according to projections by the hospital division of the Canadian Union of Public Employees.
  According to calculations by the Ontario Council of Hospital Unions, which represents 35,000 provincial health care workers ranging from nurses to maintenance staff, Ottawa also faces losing between 84 and 184 permanent hospital beds, as well as 55 flu seasonal 
  
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• Magee House, currently short one wall, to be partially demolished

  27-07-2018 23:10 via ottawacitizen.com
  The city is moving quickly to deal with the Magee House, which is currently missing the better part of its west-facing wall, by knocking part of the building down.
  Since the wall collapsed Tuesday, engineers have been puzzling about what, exactly, to do with the parts of the building that remain standing. The building has been standing on its own for the time being, but since the precise cause of the collapse hadn’t been determined, the integrity of the building was understandably viewed w
  
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• Feds prepared to work around Queen's Park as Ford plunges Toronto into chaos ottawamatters.com/national-news/… https://t.co/mVxOIxXbwh

  27-07-2018 23:00 via twitter.com
  
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• Police charge former Scout leader with gross indecency following historical investigation

  27-07-2018 22:46 via ottawacitizen.com
  Following a historical investigation, Ottawa police have charged a former Scout leader at a local church with gross indecency involving two alleged victims, and said it’s possible others may also have been victimized.
  The incidents date back to 1977, police said, when the male victims were eight and nine years old, and came into contact with the suspect. He was a Scout leader at the Immaculate Heart of Mary Church on Alta Vista Drive from 1972 to 1977.
  The victims came forward to police 40
  
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• 'Everybody tried to save her': Toronto shooting witness recounts violent night ottawamatters.com/national-news/… https://t.co/AlaQ9N2SDh

  27-07-2018 22:30 via twitter.com
  
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• Police ask for help in search for robbery suspect after two Sparks Street banks hit minutes apart

  27-07-2018 22:20 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa police asked for the public’s help Friday to identify a young male robbery suspect after two Sparks Street banks reported the theft of undisclosed amounts of cash from behind their counters.
  Officers responded to a robbery in progress at 9 a.m. Thursday in the 1-100 block of Sparks. After entering a bank and demanding money, the suspect jumped over the counter and fled with an undisclosed amount of money, police said.
  No injuries were reported.
  Moments later, another bank in the 100
  
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• Reevely: A good fight for mayor is good for Ottawa — and even for Jim Watson

  27-07-2018 22:02 via ottawacitizen.com
  Mayor Jim Watson owes former Capital councillor Clive Doucet a thank-you for registering to run against him this fall.
  The vote is Oct. 22 and when nominations closed Friday afternoon, the eight-year incumbent faced 11 challengers. Only Doucet has held office before. Perhaps the next best-known is Vanier garage operator Bruce McConville, who’s run for council twice and lost.
  Doucet’s got a solid base among urban left-wingers, having served four terms for his downtown ward, but he als
  
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• Ottawa police looking to identify 'person of interest' ottawamatters.com/police-beat/ot… https://t.co/9lwTVi68NZ

  27-07-2018 22:00 via twitter.com
  
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• New policy to put an end to Canadian soldiers buying their own boots

  27-07-2018 21:52 via ottawacitizen.com
  Some Canadian soldiers will no longer have to buy their own boots as a new policy introduced Friday provides them with cash for combat footwear.
  The Canadian military provides boots to its personnel but for at least the last decade there has been a problem with getting enough footwear and some soldiers have been using their own money to buy combat boots, Lt. Col. Robin Chenard, a staff officer working on logistics operations for the Canadian Army, told Postmedia.
  But the military is hoping its n
  
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• E-mail scam seeking Bitcoin hits Ottawa area ottawamatters.com/police-beat/e-… https://t.co/4r4QwlG8UC

  27-07-2018 21:30 via twitter.com
  
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• Devastating Cornwall fire brings out the best in many

  27-07-2018 20:27 via ottawacitizen.com
  CORNWALL — The devastating fire that claimed three buildings in Cornwall Thursday night also brought out the best in some people.
  The fire was called in at about 6:30 p.m., after breaking out in a small apartment building on Montreal Road and spreading to an apartment building on Alice Street and a furniture store.
  Firefighters remained at the scene Friday morning putting out hotspots.
  Don Smith of Cornwall was across town when he noticed the heavy smoke coming from the city’s east e
  
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• Don't respond to email scammers who show user's old login data and demand ransom: Police

  27-07-2018 19:29 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Ottawa Police Service is warning residents not to reply to a scam that sees fraudsters use old Internet login credentials as leverage to collect payment from victims.
  Police said the scam involves a victim receiving an anonymous email from someone saying they have been spying on the victim’s computer. To make matters worse, the fraudster provides the victim with old login credentials. Police believe that the login credentials, which would include a username and password, were taken fro
  
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• How to tell dangerous wild parsnip from other plants

  27-07-2018 19:18 via ottawacitizen.com
  Summer is a time when two common roadside plants are blooming, and people sometimes mix them up. That might not matter with most wild flowers, but one of these can be harmful.
  Wild parsnip and Queen Anne’s lace are both members of the carrot family. Both have clusters of tiny flowers arranged in a circle that is mostly flat on top. And if you just look at photos of them, it can be hard to tell the difference.
  Why does it matter?
  The sap of wild parsnip can cause chemical burns if you are o
  
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• Pearson: On coming out of the closet, Hannah Gadsby and me

  27-07-2018 19:15 via ottawacitizen.com
  “The closet, for me,” admits Australian comedian Hannah Gadsby in her staggering monologue, Nanette, “was no easy thing to come out of.”
  Gadsby and I both turned 40 this year, so even though we grew up thousands of kilometres apart — she in northwestern Tasmania, me in southwestern Ontario — I can relate to the sentiment.
  Hannah Gadbsy.
  Coming out has never been a single act or declaration for me, but rather a life-long series of vignettes.
  Telling my family.
  
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• Police seek to ID of 'person of interest'

  27-07-2018 19:07 via ottawacitizen.com
  West-end detectives are asking the public to help them identify a “person of interest” in an ongoing probe but are staying tight-lipped about why.
  The man, bearded and pictured in what appears to be an orange American Eagle hoodie, is described as Caucasian, 20 to 35 years old, with a medium build and tanned complexion.
  Otherwise, “no information will be released at this time to preserve the integrity of the ongoing investigation,” police said.
  Anyone who knows the man&rs
  
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• #ottvote #ottnews twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…

  27-07-2018 19:03 via twitter.com
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• Former councillor Clive Doucet announces run for mayor

  27-07-2018 18:57 via ottawacitizen.com
  Clive Doucet is running for mayor.
  The former Capital ward councillor and 2010 mayoral candidate arrived at the election office just after noon Friday to register. The deadline to file nomination papers is 2 p.m.
  “I just decided at 7:30 last night. I was ready to go if no one came forward,” Doucet said outside the elections office on Cyrville Road.
  There were actually 11 others on the ballot when he registered, including incumbent Jim Watson.
  Doucet said he expects a “scrap&rdq
  
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• Queensway crash under Harmer pedestrian bridge part of busy afternoon for responders

  27-07-2018 18:55 via ottawacitizen.com
  Paramedics were assessing patients on the scene of a crash on the eastbound Highway 417 near Parkdale Avenue just before noon Friday.
  They were called to a two-vehicle collision at 11:41 a.m. that left one of the vehicles perched on the wall of the median.
  It happened right below the soon-to-be-demolished Harmer Avenue pedestrian bridge and traffic was backed up to almost Preston Street.
  No word on injuries. The incident is now listed as cleared by the city’s traffic centre.
  Meanly, respon
  
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• Ottawa's council won't be shrunk like Toronto's because Ottawa's smaller, Doug Ford says

  27-07-2018 18:51 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa’s council doesn’t need shrinking because it’s either not as big a city as Toronto is or because it’s a much more complicated one, depending whom you ask in the provincial government.
  Premier Doug Ford made the first argument at a Friday-morning news conference where he revealed his plans to cut the number of Toronto city councillors from a planned 47 to 25 in this fall’s election, by drawing new wards that line up with provincial and federal riding boundaries
  
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• Eastbound Queensway snarled by crash under Harmer pedestrian bridge

  27-07-2018 18:32 via ottawacitizen.com
  Paramedics were assessing patients on the scene of a crash on the eastbound Highway 417 near Parkdale Avenue just before noon Friday.
  They were called to a two-vehicle collision at 11:41 a.m. that left one of the vehicles perched on the wall of the median.
  It happened right below the soon-to-be-demolished Harmer Avenue pedestrian bridge and traffic was backed up to almost Preston Street.
  No word on injuries. The incident is now listed as cleared by the city’s traffic centre.
   
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• Kurl: The window slowly closes on carbon-pricing harmony

  27-07-2018 18:28 via ottawacitizen.com
  Those were the days: that heady spring of 2015 when a majority of Canadians didn’t need (not-yet-legal) marijuana to feel the pleasant warmth and euphoria associated with majority support for national carbon pricing. Such a good idea it seemed at the time, the federal Liberals incorporated it into their ultimately successful campaign platform.
  Now, six months before Justin Trudeau’s government is set to implement a national plan to set a price on carbon emissions in provinces that do
  
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• #ottnews #ottvote twitter.com/StaySaif/statu…

  27-07-2018 18:20 via twitter.com
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• Coming up at 11:30: 1310 film critic @thordiakow joins @markdaynews with a look at the weekend box office: 📻: 1… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  27-07-2018 17:25 via twitter.com
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• Today's topics: 1. Replacing employee performance reviews with customer ratings. 2. Facial recognition in shopping… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  27-07-2018 16:56 via twitter.com
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• Coming up at 11: The Ethics Lab with @dk_munro & @MarkDayNews: 📻: 1310 💻: bit.ly/2oQd8u1 📞: 613-7… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  27-07-2018 16:55 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 11: The Ethics Lab with @dk_munro & @MarkDayNews: 📻: 1310 💻: bit.ly/2oQd8u1📞: 613-7… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Two beaches reopen on good-looking Friday, but things could turn soggy

  27-07-2018 16:48 via ottawacitizen.com
  Two city beaches reopened Friday morning, as the day dawned clear and bright.
  Britannia and Westboro beaches were back in operation after being closed for the usual E. coli concerns following heavy rainstorms. Unfortunately, Mooney’s Bay and the two Petrie Island beaches remain closed.
  In Gatineau, Lac-Beauchamp beach was back in operation, but Aylmer’s Parc des Cèdres Beach requires a bit more time to clear up.
  Friday is expected to be mainly sunny with increasing cloudiness
  
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• Coming up at 10:45: @anima_tk joins @MarkDayNews on how Canada is using ancestry DNA websites to help it deport p… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  27-07-2018 16:40 via twitter.com
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• OC Transpo passenger makes own stop by jumping out window

  27-07-2018 16:27 via ottawacitizen.com
  An OC Transpo passenger went full-on Dukes of Hazzard in front of Parliament Hill, leaping out of a stopped bus through the window.
  A fellow passenger posted a video on Reddit Thursday of the grey-haired man’s athletic feat.
  Denied the usual exit between stops, according to the poster, the man clambers onto a seat, opens the emergency exit window and drops to the pavement then sprints off heading west on Wellington Street.
  “That was excellent use, looks like the guy has pulled that s
  
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• Coming up at 10:30: Queen's Park reporter @Shawn_Jeffords joins @MarkDayNews live: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  27-07-2018 16:25 via twitter.com
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• Three-vehicle crash closes lane of Strandherd Drive

  27-07-2018 15:42 via ottawacitizen.com
  Eastbound Strandherd Drive was reduced to one lane by a three-vehicle crash during the Friday morning commute.
  Paramedics assessed several people at the scene near 3201 Strandherd Dr., just west of Woodroffe Avenue, after the 8:51 a.m. crash.
  Coun. Jan Harder tweeted at Barrhaven residents that the lane closure on Strandherd Drive between Beatrice Drive and Woodroffe Avenue was having a “moderate to high” impact on traffic.
  Strandherd E/B reduced to 1 lane from Beatrice to Woodroffe
  
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• Coming up at 9:45: @SandraKiss1053 of @kissottawa joins @MarkDayNews in studio with the latest entertainment news… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  27-07-2018 15:40 via twitter.com
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• Gord Edgar Downie Pier centrepiece of renovated Kingston waterfront

  27-07-2018 15:32 via ottawacitizen.com
  KINGSTON — The jewel in Kingston’s waterfront park system is shining bright again.
  Breakwater Park officially reopened Thursday after being closed for almost two years for a $6.6-million renovation.
  The renovated park includes a pedestrian bridge connecting the mainland to the newly named Gord Edgar Downie Pier. There’s also a new sand beach, a pebble wading beach and a multiuse pathway.
  “This waterfront was our front yard, it was our playground and our sanctuary,&rd
  
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• Going to town: Growing popularity of townhomes has builders struggling to keep pace with demand

  27-07-2018 15:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  Townhomes have grown up, so to speak. Once considered a stepping stone to single-family home ownership, today’s towns are more popular than ever and are often the goal rather than the starting point.
  There are many reasons for this trend, from affordability to availability to lifestyle choices, and it means builders are now having trouble keeping up with demand.
  “Townhomes are flying off the shelf; builders can’t release them fast enough,” noted Cheryl Rice, Ottawa presid
  
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• Lightning strike ignites fire at Dunrobin home

  27-07-2018 15:29 via ottawacitizen.com
  A lightning strike ignited a fire at a Dunrobin home Thursday night but fire crews made quick work of the flames.
  Firefighters were already responding to an alarm at 114 Blackberry Way when they got a 911 call at 10:32 p.m. from the homeowner who’d safely escaped to a neighbour’s house to report his house had been struck and was on fire.
  Minutes later, they declared a working fire.
  It was under control just before 11 p.m. and crews cleared the scene just after 1 p.m.
  An estimate
  
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• Will China soon rule the world? @srdjanvucetic joins @MarkDayNews at 9:30: 📻: 1310 💻: bit.ly/2oQd8u1… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  27-07-2018 15:25 via twitter.com
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• On today's Power Lunch: @rick_gibbons & @MikeVlasveld join @MarkDayNews in-studio: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  27-07-2018 15:11 via twitter.com
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• A thundering truth: Indigenous war hero's story told anew in music and verse

  27-07-2018 15:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  Chamberfest preview
  Sounding Thunder: The Song of Francis Pegahmagabow
  When & where: 7 p.m. Tuesday, July 31, De La Salle High School, 501 Old St Patrick St.
  Tickets: $35, available at chamberfest.com
   
  With 378 confirmed kills, Indigenous-Canadian soldier Francis Pegahmagabow was the deadliest sniper of the First World War. Now a new musical production pays tribute to his life before, during and after the war.
  Commissioned by clarinetist James Campbell, artistic director
  
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• Water main break partially closes Pretoria Bridge to vehicles

  27-07-2018 14:31 via ottawacitizen.com
  A water main break shut down the Pretoria Bridge and is affecting surrounding intersections during the Friday morning commute.
  The city’s traffic centre reported that Hawthorne Avenue was closed from Main Street to Queen Elizabeth Drive after the break.
  Due to required repairs, the Pretoria Bridge was at first closed to vehicles in both directions. By about 8:30 a.m., it was improved to lane closures.
  Pedestrians can still cross but motorists were asked to avoid the area with traffic being
  
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• Serious injuries in head-on Sheffield Road crash

  27-07-2018 14:24 via ottawacitizen.com
  One motorist suffered serious injuries but was in stable condition en route to the hospital Friday morning after a head-on crash on Sheffield Road in the city’s east end.
  A second motorist suffered less serious injuries in the crash, which happened early in the morning commute between Bantree Street and Humber Place.
  Roads had reopened by shortly after 8 a.m.
   
  Serious Collision on Sheffield Rd closing both directions of Sheffieldfrom Humber (Leeds) to Bantree. Please avoid area. #ott
  
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• Good-looking Friday could turn soggy, risk of rain through next week

  27-07-2018 13:54 via ottawacitizen.com
  We’ve gone from doing a rain dance to crying uncle.
  After a wet week, the risk of rain returns every single day through next week according to Environment Canada’s forecast.
  Friday is expected to be mainly sunny with increasing cloudiness near noon then a 60 per cent chance of showers and the risk of a thunderstorm in the afternoon or early evening.
  The high is forecast at 25 C but it will feel like 31 with the humidity and the UV index is 8 or very high. The low Friday night is expe
  
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• Dramatic fire destroys several buildings in Cornwall

  27-07-2018 13:34 via ottawacitizen.com
  The provincial fire marshall is to investigate a multi-alarm blaze in Cornwall Thursday evening destroyed a number of buildings at the intersection of Alice Street and Montreal Road.
  Flames were spotted at about 6:30 p.m., and fire responders immediately called for backup.
  The fire apparently began in a small apartment building on Montreal Road and spread to an apartment building on Alice Street and a furniture store.
  A thick cloud of smoke blanketed the east end area.
  Firefighters remained at t
  
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• Truck collision on eastbound Queensway causes traffic chaos on Thursday

  27-07-2018 13:09 via ottawacitizen.com
  Traffic along the eastbound Queensway was a mess Thursday afternoon after a heavy truck was in a collision between O’Connor and Metcalfe streets.
  According to the OPP, a tractor-trailer went out of control at about 12:41 p.m. The trailer detached and lost its load.
  The trailer flipped on its side and skidded some distance, causing “significant” damage to the roadway.
  Debris was thrown over the side onto the Queen Elizabeth Driveway below.
  EB 417 parked due to #Truck #rollover a
  
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• 'I had no idea a mosquito could change my life': Ottawa woman still feeling after effects of West Nile

  27-07-2018 13:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  Mary Sharina says she was enjoying a glass of wine with a friend in her garden in 2012 when everything changed.
  At first, she didn’t think much of it, just a mosquito bite that itched and left a small red welt on her ankle. But, over the days that followed, she began to experience more ominous signs that something was wrong.
  Mosquitoes can carry the West Nile virus, an infection that, in severe cases, can cause encephalitis, meningitis, other long-term health problems or even death. (And s
  
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• Rescue crews help stranded kayaker near Britannia Beach: bit.ly/2vbDeL0 #ottnews https://t.co/cUvVNOWzBD

  27-07-2018 12:30 via twitter.com
  
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• Adam: No, we don't need political parties in civic elections

  27-07-2018 12:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  It is too bad that columnist Randall Denley, who wrote on the topic in Wednesday’s Citizen, has changed his mind and is now supporting political parties in municipal government – all because the city can’t find a credible candidate to challenge Mayor Jim Watson.
  That’s not a good enough reason to tear down a municipal election system that has served Ottawa residents well for more than 150 years. Party politics, whether based on civic engagement or national/provincial affi
  
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• Today's letters: How TV abets 'fake news'

  27-07-2018 12:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  TV sometimes aids and abets fake news
  Re: Truth Dies, Trump Rises, July 19.
  As Terry Glavin points out, the foundations of fake news have been with us for many years. The focus of debate is often the divisive nature of social media but he mentioned one that is with us everyday and that maybe we can do something about: “the fusion of news and entertainment” on TV.
  TV news programs seem to be in a race to the bottom, desperately trivializing the news in order to attract and keep our ev
  
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• Canadians cut back spending on extras, essentials amid rising interest rates: poll: bit.ly/2LsyBXZ https://t.co/XBteXTT5sq

  27-07-2018 11:56 via twitter.com
  
  Canadians cut back spending on extras, essentials amid rising interest rates: poll: bit.ly/2LsyBXZ https://t.co/XBteXTT5sq
  
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• No injuries in east end attic fire: bit.ly/2v8Fzqk #ottnews https://t.co/pobmPi9Tu6

  27-07-2018 11:48 via twitter.com
  
  No injuries in east end attic fire: bit.ly/2v8Fzqk #ottnews https://t.co/pobmPi9Tu6
  
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