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• Basic income pilot end date coming soon, minister says ottawamatters.com/around-ontario…

  08-08-2018 23:30 via twitter.com
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• Lloyd Maxwell died alone but not unnoticed

  08-08-2018 23:06 via ottawacitizen.com
  Lloyd Maxwell’s noon-hour funeral service on Wednesday at Beechwood Cemetery took less than seven minutes, his flag-draped coffin lowered into the ground shortly after Father Jeffrey King sprinkled holy water and poured sand on the casket in the shape of a cross.
  “May his soul and the souls of all the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace,” King said. “Amen.”
  In the distance, under steel-grey skies, a bugle played The Last Post. It would be nice
  
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• ICYMI: Local brewer responds with its own buck-a-beer plan ottawamatters.com/local-news/loc… https://t.co/6LXx3tdCDj

  08-08-2018 23:00 via twitter.com
  
  ICYMI: Local brewer responds with its own buck-a-beer planottawamatters.com/local-news/loc… https://t.co/6LXx3tdCDj
  
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• Gatineau man, 89, dies after being struck by car

  08-08-2018 22:52 via ottawacitizen.com
  An 89-year-old man has died of injuries suffered when he was struck by a car Tuesday on Aylmer Road in Gatineau.
  Police say the man was struck in front of 203 Aylmer Rd., near the Galeries d’Aylmer shopping centre, at about 11:30 a.m.
  He was taken to l’Hôpital de Hull, then transferred to the Civic campus of The Ottawa Hospital for more specialized treatment.
  The treatment was unsuccessful and he was declared dead.
  Police said an investigation into the collision was contin
  
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• Severe thunderstorm watch issued for Ottawa area

  08-08-2018 22:35 via ottawacitizen.com
  A severe thunderstorm, which was dumping heavy rain on parts of eastern Ontario on Wednesday, is heading Ottawa’s way, prompting Environment Canada to issue a severe thunderstorm watch for the area.
  The weather agency said the storm was moving slowly eastward, but was expected to hit the Ottawa region late Wednesday afternoon and carry on through the evening.
  The rainfall was expected to be significant in the area, with up to 50 millimeters of rain being possible.
  Environment Canada warned
  
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• Close call for two men in flooded elevator during heavy rain in Toronto ottawamatters.com/national-news/… https://t.co/7ZzPC6tlXi

  08-08-2018 22:30 via twitter.com
  
  Close call for two men in flooded elevator during heavy rain in Torontoottawamatters.com/national-news/… https://t.co/7ZzPC6tlXi
  
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• Gatineau man, 89, dies after struck by a car

  08-08-2018 22:11 via ottawacitizen.com
  An 89-year-old man has died of injuries suffered when he was struck by a car Tuesday on Aylmer Road in Gatineau.
  Police say the man was struck in front of 203 Aylmer Rd., near the Galeries d’Aylmer shopping centre, at about 11:30 a.m.
  He was taken to l’Hôpital de Hull, then transferred to the Civic campus of The Ottawa Hospital for more specialized treatment.
  The treatment was unsuccessful and he was declared dead.
  Police said an investigation into the collision was contin
  
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• Giving hope: Paul Dewar enrols in local drug trial for brain cancer patients

  08-08-2018 22:08 via ottawacitizen.com
  It is too soon for even preliminary results, but a Gatineau drug trial is offering a rare bit of hope for patients with glioblastoma, the deadly brain cancer that struck both late musician Gord Downie and former MP Paul Dewar.
  Dewar, who was diagnosed in February, said he enrolled in the trial that involves an experimental immunotherapy drug after a network of friends and family began looking around the world for any drug trials he could participate in. He was surprised to learn there was one in
  
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• Former diplomat urges Canada to stop conducting diplomacy via social media ottawamatters.com/national-news/… https://t.co/p6nt1L065P

  08-08-2018 22:00 via twitter.com
  
  Former diplomat urges Canada to stop conducting diplomacy via social mediaottawamatters.com/national-news/… https://t.co/p6nt1L065P
  
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• 'What happened?': Ottawa mother grieves son found dead after Montreal festival

  08-08-2018 21:52 via ottawacitizen.com
  A heartbroken Ottawa mother can’t understand how her only child ended up dead in the St. Lawrence River days after he vanished from a Montreal music festival.
  “I miss my boy,” Georgina Mensa Boboe said through tears from a friend’s home in Montreal, where she’d arrived to join the search for her son, Collins Obiagboso, that ended in tragedy.
  “Collins wouldn’t go near the water because he doesn’t know how to swim. I wish I was there to hel
  
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• Boy, 15, stabbed at Bridlewood house party

  08-08-2018 21:11 via ottawacitizen.com
  Police are looking for four suspects after a 15-year-old boy was stabbed during an attempted robbery at a large house party on Cedar Valley Drive in Kanata Tuesday night.
  It happened at about 9 p.m. as police were called to a disturbance after the party spilled onto the Bridlewood-area street.
  Patrol officers found the boy with injuries that are described as minor, but he was treated by paramedics and taken to the hospital.
  They dispersed the youthful crowd without incident.
  Police issued descri
  
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• Three tips for a better tennis serve

  08-08-2018 20:09 via ottawacitizen.com
  Has the Rogers Cup tennis tournament got you hankering to hit the courts Tennis pro Ravi Mehta breaks down a potentially intimidating part of the game — the serve — and highlights three core areas to focus on.
  
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• Kitty crisis: Nearly 500 cats awaiting homes at the Ottawa Humane Society

  08-08-2018 19:59 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Ottawa Humane Society says its feline population has reached a critical level, and that it’s in urgent need of families to adopt homeless cats and kittens.
  “We are in full on kitty crisis mode,” Bruce Roney, OHS president and CEO, said in a press release. “We need to find homes.”
  The shelter is housing a combined total of nearly 500 cats and kittens.
  “The cats need your help,” Roney said. “We have 122 adult cats and 35 kittens ready to be adopt
  
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• Gatineau man, 89, dies after struck by a car Tuesday

  08-08-2018 19:53 via ottawacitizen.com
  An 89-year-old man has died of injuries sustained when he was struck by a car on Aylmer Road in Gatineau Tuesday.
  Police say the man was struck in front of 203 Aylmer Rd., near the Galeries d’Aylmer shopping centre, at about 11:30 a.m.
  He was taken to l’Hôpital de Hull, but was later transferred to the Civic campus of the Ottawa Hospital for more specialized treatment.
  The treatment was unsuccessful and he was declared deceased at the Ottawa Hospital.
  Police said an invest
  
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• Paralyzed Humboldt survivor is back on the hockey rink

  08-08-2018 19:34 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ryan Straschnitzki says theres nothing to worry about when he’s on the ice. The teen who was paralyzed from the chest down in the bus crash involving the Humboldt Broncos junior hockey team is learning how to play sledge hockey.
  
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• Police dog tracks down suspect in Civic campus-area car break-ins

  08-08-2018 19:26 via ottawacitizen.com
  City police credit a citizen’s 911 call reporting a crime in progress for their collar of a suspect in car break-ins near the Civic campus of the Ottawa Hospital early Monday.
  The call came in at about 4 a.m. reporting a man was breaking into vehicles in the area of Old Irving Place, police said in a release Wednesday.
  The suspect fled on foot by the time they arrived but a police dog was called in to track him and a suspect was located and arrested.
  “This is a great example of makin
  
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• 'The Grippler' grasping for world arm wrestling title in LA

  08-08-2018 18:56 via ottawacitizen.com
  PEMBROKE — Ian Carnegie believes he can go “over the top” when it comes to the World Armwrestling League.
  On Thursday, The Grippler (Carnegie’s arm wrestling nickname) hopes to add to the ‘Ws’ in his 15-6 record when he competes at the league’s next showcase event in the “Supermatch Showdown Series” at The NOVO in Los Angeles.
  Standing 6’1” and weighing in at 350 lbs., Carnegie armwrestles in the super heavyweight division, c
  
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• Glavin: Saudi hullabaloo has nothing at all to do with 'Canadian values'

  08-08-2018 18:52 via ottawacitizen.com
  Full marks must go to Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland in her insistence that Canada will not back down in the face of the diplomatic temper tantrum that erupted last weekend within the greasy Saud family oligarchy in Riyadh. There are some critical points that have been overlooked in the drama, however, the main point being that the hullabaloo has absolutely nothing to do with the “Canadian values” we keep hearing about.
  Firstly, it wasn’t so much anything Freeland s
  
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• The @rick_gibbons Show for Wednesday, August 8th: 1:08: @SteamWhistle 1:17: @K_Muldoon 1:30: #AhmedBouragba 1:45:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  08-08-2018 17:57 via twitter.com
  The @rick_gibbons Show for Wednesday, August 8th: 1:08: @SteamWhistle 1:17: @K_Muldoon 1:30: #AhmedBouragba 1:45:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• NEXT on Power Lunch: @SaraBuchan & Alex Lewis join fill-in host @MarkDayNews in-studio: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  08-08-2018 17:55 via twitter.com
  NEXT on Power Lunch:@SaraBuchan & Alex Lewis join fill-in host @MarkDayNews in-studio: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Residents require assistance following Baseline-area rowhouse fire

  08-08-2018 17:37 via ottawacitizen.com
  Baseline Road was closed between Clyde Avenue and Pender Street so firefighters can access water to fight a fire in nearby rowhouse.
  Firefighters were called to the middle unit in a three-unit row on St. Helen’s Place at about 10:30 a.m.
  The occupants called for help after spotting flames in a bedroom and everyone in all three units was safely evacuated.
  Victim assistance services were requested for five residents of two of the units.
  The fire was under control by about 11 a.m. with no sec
  
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• Royal Canadian Navy ships leave Halifax to take part in Arctic exercise

  08-08-2018 17:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  Her Majesty’s Canadian Ships Charlottetown and Kingston have departed from their home port of Halifax, N.S., to participate in this year’s Operation NANOOK, the Canadian government’s annual northern sovereignty operation.
  During Operation NANOOK 2018, HMCS Charlottetown and Kingston will work with the Canadian Army, the Royal Canadian Air Force, other government of Canada agencies, northern community leadership, a
  
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• Carrie Underwood to play Ottawa during upcoming tour

  08-08-2018 17:18 via ottawacitizen.com
  Grammy award-winning singer Carrie Underwood will be making a pit stop at the Canadian Tire Centre next June as part of the country artist’s new arena tour, The Cry Pretty Tour 360.
  Underwood will kick off the tour on May 1, 2019, in Greensboro, N.C., and will perform in 55 arenas across the United States and Canada, with a stop in Ottawa on June 10. Underwood — who will be joined on tour by special guests Maddie & Tae and Runaway June — made the announcement Wednesday morn
  
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• CORRECTION: Baseline closure is between Clyde & Pender due to fire response at St. Helen's Place. Avoid the area.… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  08-08-2018 16:57 via twitter.com
  CORRECTION: Baseline closure is between Clyde & Pender due to fire response at St. Helen's Place. Avoid the area.… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Coming up at 11: Professor Elliot Tepper joins @MarkDayNews live in-studio: Listen: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  08-08-2018 16:55 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 11: Professor Elliot Tepper joins @MarkDayNews live in-studio:Listen:📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• TRAFFIC NOTE: Baseline between Merivale & Navaho CLOSED for fire response. #ottnews #otttraffic twitter.com/OttFire/status…

  08-08-2018 16:54 via twitter.com
  TRAFFIC NOTE: Baseline between Merivale & Navaho CLOSED for fire response. #ottnews #otttraffic twitter.com/OttFire/status…
  
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• Coming up at 10:45: @Misener680NEWS joins @MarkDayNews on the 2 men rescued from flooded elevator in Toronto: 📻… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  08-08-2018 16:40 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 10:45: @Misener680NEWS joins @MarkDayNews on the 2 men rescued from flooded elevator in Toronto: 📻… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Coming up at 10:30: @dominioncitybc Josh McJannett joins @MarkDayNews on buck-a-beer: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  08-08-2018 16:25 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 10:30: @dominioncitybc Josh McJannett joins @MarkDayNews on buck-a-beer: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Ottawa brewery proposes its own Buck-a-Beer challenge

  08-08-2018 15:59 via ottawacitizen.com
  An Ottawa brewery is taking up its own “Buck-a-Beer” challenge, this one specifically designed to benefit charity.
  Dominion City Brewing is jumping on the fallout of Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s announcement Tuesday, asking the province’s breweries to drop their beer prices to $1 a bottle. The request from Ford, which comes with no financial incentives, is being widely panned by Ontario brewers who argue that selling beer for at 2008 prices of $1 a bottle can’t be do
  
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• Coming up on the 10 O'Clock Talk: @DerickFage, @1310Andrew & @JLMadigan join @MarkDayNews live: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  08-08-2018 15:55 via twitter.com
  Coming up on the 10 O'Clock Talk: @DerickFage, @1310Andrew & @JLMadigan join @MarkDayNews live: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Body of Nepean teen missing from Montreal festival found in river

  08-08-2018 15:41 via ottawacitizen.com
  The body of a young man from Ottawa who had been missing from Montreal’s Osheaga music festival since Friday was found in the St. Lawrence River on Monday.
  On Wednesday, Montreal police would only confirm that Collins Obiagboso, 18, of Nepean was reported missing from the festival on Friday. His disappearance was not reported to police until Sunday.
  People fishing on the St. Lawrence River spotted his body around 1:30 p.m. Monday, on the eastern side of Île Ste-Hélène.
  
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• Vandals set fire to Kanata monument: bit.ly/2Mpl8g6 https://t.co/hhe7rlNqsP

  08-08-2018 14:18 via twitter.com
  
  Vandals set fire to Kanata monument: bit.ly/2Mpl8g6 https://t.co/hhe7rlNqsP
  
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• Twitter CEO defends decision not to ban Alex Jones, Infowars: bit.ly/2OieuJc https://t.co/kGyin2O0yZ

  08-08-2018 13:44 via twitter.com
  
  Twitter CEO defends decision not to ban Alex Jones, Infowars: bit.ly/2OieuJc https://t.co/kGyin2O0yZ
  
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• Risk of rain, T-storms lingers, but promises of a sunnier weekend

  08-08-2018 13:44 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa’s bucking its usual trend with showers in the forecast through the week with the reward of a dry and sunnier summer weekend ahead.
  Then it’s back to the risk of showers Monday.
  In the meantime, Wednesday’s forecast is for fog patches to burn off in the morning then mainly-cloudy skies with a 60 per cent chance of late-afternoon and nighttime showers and the risk of a thunderstorm.
  It’s a foggy morning. #ShareYourWeather#ottweather pic.twitter.com/H6uAHOTrBb
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• POLL: Do you agree with how Canada is handling the ongoing diplomatic spat with Saudi Arabia?

  08-08-2018 13:34 via twitter.com
  POLL: Do you agree with how Canada is handling the ongoing diplomatic spat with Saudi Arabia?
  
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• Indonesia quake deaths top 130, aid effort intensifies: bit.ly/2vrHB5T https://t.co/CHLjOOtmZN

  08-08-2018 13:31 via twitter.com
  
  Indonesia quake deaths top 130, aid effort intensifies: bit.ly/2vrHB5T https://t.co/CHLjOOtmZN
  
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• Smoke alarms warn Aylmer family of garage fire

  08-08-2018 13:26 via ottawacitizen.com
  Firefighters in Gatineau are crediting working smoke alarms for alerting an Aylmer family to a fast burning fire in a garage Tuesday night.
  First responders were called to the single-family home at 39 de Silky St. at about 10:30 p.m. They found a fire fully engaged in the home’s garage.
  Firefighters were able to quickly direct their attack to keep the flames away from the residence, but there was still some smoke and fire damage.
  Two adults and a child are temporarily displaced. There were
  
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• Canada's Auger-Aliassime stuns Pouille to advance to 2nd round at Rogers Cup: bit.ly/2M6h5sl https://t.co/Z6c4rbxsdM

  08-08-2018 12:56 via twitter.com
  
  Canada's Auger-Aliassime stuns Pouille to advance to 2nd round at Rogers Cup: bit.ly/2M6h5sl https://t.co/Z6c4rbxsdM
  
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• Saudi students given four weeks to leave Canada, even if studies not completed: bit.ly/2AThM3P https://t.co/PmxziESK14

  08-08-2018 12:47 via twitter.com
  
  Saudi students given four weeks to leave Canada, even if studies not completed: bit.ly/2AThM3P https://t.co/PmxziESK14
  
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• Denley: Don't let politicians spin tall tales about Ottawa's growth

  08-08-2018 12:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  There are four big, city-wide issues in this year’s election. Roads, taxes and garbage collection are the nitty-gritty of city services, but planning is the most important in the long run. Mistakes in the other three areas can be corrected, but the effects of bad planning last a lifetime.
  Where new development goes, what it looks like, and how tall it is are all legitimate issues on which the public should have a meaningful say. And yet, for years, communities have been surprised when city
  
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• Ontario to offer incentives to brewers in buck-a-beer plan: bit.ly/2ARszez #ONpoli https://t.co/Itht4aenD3

  08-08-2018 12:23 via twitter.com
  
  Ontario to offer incentives to brewers in buck-a-beer plan: bit.ly/2ARszez #ONpoli https://t.co/Itht4aenD3
  
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• Police in Kingston investigate pool vandalism incident over long weekend: bit.ly/2McKPUn https://t.co/jdVoLcSqFN

  08-08-2018 12:15 via twitter.com
  
  Police in Kingston investigate pool vandalism incident over long weekend: bit.ly/2McKPUn https://t.co/jdVoLcSqFN
  
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• Despite incentives, buck-a-beer not going to be viable for most Ontario brewers: bit.ly/2KzscF7 https://t.co/IstFFsNuSZ

  08-08-2018 11:25 via twitter.com
  
  Despite incentives, buck-a-beer not going to be viable for most Ontario brewers: bit.ly/2KzscF7 https://t.co/IstFFsNuSZ
  
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• Close call for two men in flooded elevator during heavy rain in Toronto: bit.ly/2vMq7jN https://t.co/CZ6cpfXwVb

  08-08-2018 11:16 via twitter.com
  
  Close call for two men in flooded elevator during heavy rain in Toronto: bit.ly/2vMq7jN https://t.co/CZ6cpfXwVb
  
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• Welcome to Ottawa's summer of the chipmunk

  08-08-2018 04:43 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa’s cutest wild animal is having a population explosion. Lock up your vegetable patch.
  The eastern chipmunk is everywhere this summer, a phenomenon that affects the region of Eastern Ontario, West Quebec and Northeastern U.S. states.
  One likely reason is that trees are providing extra food. There is a “bumper (chipmunk) crop because of the massive seed crop last year,” says Mike Runtz, who teaches biology at Carleton University.
  This has led to higher survival of the strip
  
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• Trump going ahead with taxes on $16B in Chinese imports. ottawamatters.com/world-news/tru…

  08-08-2018 04:00 via twitter.com
  Trump going ahead with taxes on $16B in Chinese imports.ottawamatters.com/world-news/tru…
  
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• Bank Of Montreal replaces plaques commemorating killing of Iroquois chief. ottawamatters.com/national-news/…

  08-08-2018 03:10 via twitter.com
  Bank Of Montreal replaces plaques commemorating killing of Iroquois chief.ottawamatters.com/national-news/…
  
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• Child's remains found in New Mexico compound. ottawamatters.com/world-news/rem…

  08-08-2018 02:15 via twitter.com
  Child's remains found in New Mexico compound.ottawamatters.com/world-news/rem…
  
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• Cost to twin Trans Mountain pipeline could be $1.9B higher, Kinder Morgan says. ottawamatters.com/national-news/…

  08-08-2018 01:45 via twitter.com
  Cost to twin Trans Mountain pipeline could be $1.9B higher, Kinder Morgan says.ottawamatters.com/national-news/…
  
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• Frustration after emergency alerts not received before deadly Manitoba tornado. ottawamatters.com/national-news/…

  08-08-2018 01:10 via twitter.com
  Frustration after emergency alerts not received before deadly Manitoba tornado.ottawamatters.com/national-news/…
  
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