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• Canadian government to lease two emergency towing vessels

  09-08-2018 23:59 via ottawacitizen.com
  Atlantic Towing Limited of Saint John, New Brunswick, has been awarded a three-year contract worth $67 million for the lease of two emergency offshore towing vessels that will operate in the waters off the coast of British Columbia.
  The vessels are capable of towing large commercial ships in distress, such as tankers and container ships, before they get too close to shore, according to the federal government. As part of the contract, Atlantic Towing Limited will also provide training in offshore
  
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• Heavy police presence as Hells Angels hold national gathering near Montreal. ottawamatters.com/national-news/…

  09-08-2018 23:35 via twitter.com
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• HMCS Vancouver returns from RIMPAC on Friday

  09-08-2018 23:29 via ottawacitizen.com
  HMCS Vancouver will return Friday from a four-month deployment to the Asia-Pacific region on Operation Projection. While deployed the crew worked alongside partner navies to strengthen international partnerships and regional stability, according to the Royal Canadian Navy. HMCS Vancouver also participated in Exercise Rim of the Pacific, the world’s largest maritime military exercise.
   
  
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• Victims of theft in Pembroke asked to claim property ottawamatters.com/police-beat/vi… https://t.co/jcKfKFRfu9

  09-08-2018 23:00 via twitter.com
  
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• Innes candidates out to prove they can stickhandle hot planning files with councillor on leave

  09-08-2018 22:49 via ottawacitizen.com
  Municipal election candidates in an east-end ward are trying to show their planning chops on an application that proposes to change a community design plan while the local councillor is on leave from city hall.
  The east urban community design plan calls for a low-density residential development on the forested land at 2983 Navan Rd. Taggart Realty Management wants the city to reclassify the land as commercial to allow a retail centre, which would have a grocery store, two restaurants, a drive-th
  
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• No Ottawa eateries make it onto enRoute's long list of best new Canadian restaurants

  09-08-2018 22:47 via ottawacitizen.com
  Air Canada enRoute magazine’s eagerly anticipated long list of best new Canadian restaurants for 2018 is filled with honourees from Toronto, Montreal, Edmonton, Calgary and even Prince Edward County. But the list, released Thursday, lacks any Ottawa-area eateries.
  Here, in alphabetical order, are the long list’s 30 picks:
  1909 Kitchen, Tofino, B.C.; Aloette, Toronto; Atlas, Toronto; Avenue Restaurant, Regina; Bar Kismet, Halifax; Biera, Edmonton; Bistro Rosie, Montreal; Bread and Cir
  
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• Mayor Watson scheduled to meet with Melnyk, Ruddy at city hall on Friday

  09-08-2018 22:44 via ottawacitizen.com
  Mayor Jim Watson will meet with two of the main players in the LeBreton Flats redevelopment on Friday.
  Ottawa Senators owner Eugene Melnyk and Trinity executive chairman John Ruddy are scheduled to be at city hall in the morning.
  The Senators and Trinity are the major partners in RendezVous LeBreton Group, which has the negotiating rights with the National Capital Commission to redevelop the Flats.
  RendezVous wants to build an NHL arena, Sensplex, residential towers and other amenities.
  The city
  
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• Acclaimed young chef to close her restaurant, the Beechwood Gastropub, at the end of August

  09-08-2018 22:42 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Beechwood Gastropub in Vanier is to close at the end of August, with its much-respected young chef-owner Harriet Clunie citing insufficient revenue and her exhaustion as two of several reasons for the closure.
  “I’m at a level of burnout that’s unlike anything else I’ve ever experienced,” Clunie, 33, said in an interview this week, explaining that her business, which she has owned for a little more than a year-and-a-half, had “perpetually been short-staffed
  
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• Doucet rails against Timbercreek demolition in Heron Gate

  09-08-2018 22:33 via ottawacitizen.com
  Mayoral candidate Clive Doucet says he wouldn’t let a landlord gentrify a piece of Heron Gate with tall towers to replace affordable housing.
  “I would not be creating a system where you’re actually advantaging the mismanagement of property and rewarding that mismanagement with an upzoning,” Doucet said Thursday. “I think that’s unconscionable.”
  Timbercreek Communities is evicting 105 households from its Heron Gate properties because the company says the
  
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• Supreme Court to scrutinize media source protection in Quebec case ottawamatters.com/national-news/… https://t.co/4DW1cvGTAe

  09-08-2018 22:30 via twitter.com
  
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• Stop the Bleed: teaching citizens how to react in event of mass shooting

  09-08-2018 22:13 via ottawacitizen.com
  A public health initiative that grew out of one of the worst mass shootings in U.S. history could help save lives in Ottawa starting this fall.
  The program called Stop the Bleed, which was begun in the U.S. after the Sandy Hook school shooting, is being compared to CPR training but for traumatic injuries involving bleeding. The Ottawa Hospital is expecting to launch the program in Ottawa next month, with courses for the public starting soon after.
  Making sure bystanders know how to help when som
  
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• Credit card firms to trim merchant fees, but retailers group 'underwhelmed' ottawamatters.com/national-news/… https://t.co/mjH9fZtMUq

  09-08-2018 22:00 via twitter.com
  
  Credit card firms to trim merchant fees, but retailers group 'underwhelmed'ottawamatters.com/national-news/… https://t.co/mjH9fZtMUq
  
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• Adam: Time to consider electing councillors-at-large

  09-08-2018 21:57 via ottawacitizen.com
  Mayor Jim Watson may have changed his mind about shrinking council, but that should not stop the city from a serious debate this election cycle on what Ottawa really needs: councillors-at-large.
  The trouble is, 18 years after amalgamation, we have city councillors only in name. Many, if not most of our city politicians are really ward councillors whose main focus is their small enclaves. The interests of the larger city are often secondary.
  Most of the 23 councillors represent rural and suburban
  
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• Police warn about jewelry thieves prowling Ottawa

  09-08-2018 21:16 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa police are warning capital area residents about a group of scam artists that are targeting people and stealing their jewelry and other valuables.
  According to police, the suspects have been approaching potential victims on the side of the road, in parking lots, or outside their homes. They then ask the victims for assistance, sometimes asking for directions or other help.
  The suspects then distract or scam victims, for example offering to trade pieces of jewelry, or forcefully remove
  
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• One person was freed from the crash around 1:43 p.m. There has been no word on the patient's condition. #ottnews twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…

  09-08-2018 20:52 via twitter.com
  One person was freed from the crash around 1:43 p.m. There has been no word on the patient's condition. #ottnews twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…
  
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• Severe thunderstorm watch issued, but a glorious weekend ahead

  09-08-2018 20:07 via ottawacitizen.com
  Stop us if you’ve heard this before: Environment Canada has issued a severe thunderstorm watch for the capital region.
  The agency had issued a forecast for a mix of sun and cloud with a 40 per cent chance of showers and the risk of a thunderstorm in the late afternoon or evening, Environment Canada reports. The high was expected to be 27 C with a humidex of 32. The UV index is 7 or high.
  But, seriously, Friday looks fabulous — mainly sunny and 25 C with a smidge of humidity that will
  
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• Firefighters slice open car roof to free crash victim

  09-08-2018 20:06 via ottawacitizen.com
  Firefighters had to slice the roof off a crashed vehicle to free a trapped occupant after a two-vehicle crash at the intersection of Walkley and Harding roads Thursday afternoon.
  One car landed on its side in the crash and fire crews stabilized the vehicle before using cutters and spreaders to cut their way in.
  As of 1:45 p.m., two patients were taken to hospital with minor injuries, paramedics said.
  Motorists were asked to find an alternate route as first responders tackled the task and cleanup
  
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• .@OttFire crews working to free person from a car involved in a crash on Walkley Rd near Harding Rd (east of Conroy… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  09-08-2018 19:45 via twitter.com
  .@OttFire crews working to free person from a car involved in a crash on Walkley Rd near Harding Rd (east of Conroy… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Six die in deadly long weekend on Ontario roads, OPP says

  09-08-2018 19:43 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Ontario Provincial Police says it was a deadly long weekend on Ontario roads, with six fatalities, the highest number since 2011.
  Only one of the fatalities was in Eastern Ontario. A 52-year-old man was killed when the motorcycle he was driving lost control near Killaloe.
  In a release, the force listed the other deaths as:
  A three-year-old girl died after being struck by a pick-up truck in Lambton County.
  A six-year-old girl was killed after the passenger vehicle in which she was travel
  
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• Supreme Court refuses to hear bid to halt murder trial of former solider over delays. ottawamatters.com/national-news/…

  09-08-2018 19:40 via twitter.com
  Supreme Court refuses to hear bid to halt murder trial of former solider over delays.ottawamatters.com/national-news/…
  
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• Police aim to ID suspect in west-end burglary

  09-08-2018 19:25 via ottawacitizen.com
  After exhausting all their leads, police are turning to the public to help them identify a suspect in a February burglary.
  It happened on Feb. 17 in the city’s west end, police said.
  Detectives report they’re looking for a man in his 20s with light brown skin who at the time was wearing a red hoodie, beige jacket and blue jeans.
  “All investigative avenues have been pursued and police are now asking for the public’s help in identifying the suspect,” police said.
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• A vigil is being held downtown tonight, on the eve of Prisoners' Justice Day. #ottnews twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…

  09-08-2018 19:21 via twitter.com
  A vigil is being held downtown tonight, on the eve of Prisoners' Justice Day. #ottnews twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…
  
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• Accusations against two senior Gatineau police officers unfounded, probe finds

  09-08-2018 19:12 via ottawacitizen.com
  A seven-month investigation has found that allegations of unauthorized computer use against two senior Gatineau police officers are unfounded.
  The complaints against the officers were lodged in January in connection with incidents that allegedly occurred about five years ago.
  The Gatineau police internal affairs division was tasked with the investigation. The officers, who were not named publicly, remained on duty during the investigation.
  The internal affairs division found no basis for the com
  
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• #ottnews #otttraffic Progress in clearing that crash on Hwy 417 westbound near Parkdale. Significant traffic back u… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  09-08-2018 18:24 via twitter.com
  #ottnews #otttraffic Progress in clearing that crash on Hwy 417 westbound near Parkdale. Significant traffic back u… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• The @rick_gibbons Show for Thursday, August 9th: 1:08: @BunchFamily 1:17: @CFIBeconomics 1:30: @gghamari 1:45:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  09-08-2018 17:59 via twitter.com
  The @rick_gibbons Show for Thursday, August 9th: 1:08: @BunchFamily 1:17: @CFIBeconomics 1:30: @gghamari 1:45:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• NEXT on the Power Lunch: @MannLawyers Ted Mann & @LauraPeck6 join fill-in host @MarkDayNews in studio: 📻: 1310… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  09-08-2018 17:55 via twitter.com
  NEXT on the Power Lunch: @MannLawyers Ted Mann & @LauraPeck6 join fill-in host @MarkDayNews in studio: 📻: 1310… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Coming up at 11:45: @DamoSpin joins @markdaynews to talk #RogersCup: 📻: 1310 💻: bit.ly/2oQd8u1… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  09-08-2018 17:40 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 11:45: @DamoSpin joins @markdaynews to talk #RogersCup: 📻: 1310 💻: bit.ly/2oQd8u1… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Coming up at 11:30: Associate Professor in Criminology @uOttawa @tpcpcanada joins @markdaynews on Prisoners' Just… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  09-08-2018 17:25 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 11:30: Associate Professor in Criminology @uOttawa @tpcpcanada joins @markdaynews on Prisoners' Just… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• No kidding! Wandering Ottawa billy goat reunited with his family

  09-08-2018 17:12 via ottawacitizen.com
  They got their goat!
  “The billy goat has been reunited with his family!” the Ottawa’s bylaw department tweeted Thursday morning.
  Two hours earlier, the department had appealed for help to find the owner of a “friendly guy” found wandering near Woodlawn in the city’s rural west end Wednesday.
  “We’d love to reunite him with his owners,” the department tweeted, adding a goat emoji (who knew?) and tagging the volunteers at the Ottawa and Valley L
  
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• Coming up at 11:15: NDP Health Critic @DonDavies joins @markdaynews on the EpiPen shortage: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  09-08-2018 17:10 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 11:15: NDP Health Critic @DonDavies joins @markdaynews on the EpiPen shortage: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Backed up Hwy 417 w/b due to crash @ Parkdale. #ottnews #otttraffic https://t.co/rKSpRDlQUD

  09-08-2018 17:10 via twitter.com
  
  Backed up Hwy 417 w/b due to crash @ Parkdale. #ottnews #otttraffic https://t.co/rKSpRDlQUD
  
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• Coming up at 11: @scharleb joins @MarkDayNews on the messy business of meal kits: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  09-08-2018 16:55 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 11: @scharleb joins @MarkDayNews on the messy business of meal kits: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Kindergarten teacher struck by PWC recovering after second extensive head surgery

  09-08-2018 16:42 via ottawacitizen.com
  Casey Delaney was on the mend in intensive care Thursday after a second hours-long surgery to her skull since she was struck by a personal watercraft on the Gatineau River.
  The Canada Day hit-and-run left the 26-year-old kindergarten teacher in a medically-induced coma but after her family waited on pins and needles all day Wednesday and into the night, sister Kristin said that Casey is on the mend.
  “I am so happy to say that Casey’s surgery was a success and she is recovering well,&
  
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• Coming up at 10:45: Blair Feltmate of @ICCA_Canada joins @markdaynews on the long-term toll forest fires can have… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  09-08-2018 16:40 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 10:45: Blair Feltmate of @ICCA_Canada joins @markdaynews on the long-term toll forest fires can have… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Coming up at 10:30: @DocSchmadia joins @markdaynews to discuss Canadian teaching hospitals facing withdrawal as Sa… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  09-08-2018 16:25 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 10:30:@DocSchmadia joins @markdaynews to discuss Canadian teaching hospitals facing withdrawal as Sa… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• On today's Power Lunch: @MannLawyers Ted Mann & @LauraPeck6 join fill-in host @MarkDayNews in studio: 📻: 1310 💻… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  09-08-2018 16:15 via twitter.com
  On today's Power Lunch: @MannLawyers Ted Mann & @LauraPeck6 join fill-in host @MarkDayNews in studio: 📻: 1310 💻… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Antiques: Dollar paid for lacrosse book buys rare piece of Canadian history

  09-08-2018 15:48 via ottawacitizen.com
  Q: I picked up a great little book at an estate sale for $1. I was told its quite rare and that I should look into it. It is hard cover, approximately 15 x 10 cm (6 x 4 inches), 256 pages and titled ‘Lacrosse — The National Game of Canada,’ published by Dawson Brothers, Montreal, 1869 authored by W.G. Beers. It does have one page of pictures missing at the front. Is it valuable?
  Austin, Ottawa
   
  A:  You were given good advice. This is a very rare book. The p
  
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• One more risk-of-rain day, then a glorious weekend ahead

  09-08-2018 13:40 via ottawacitizen.com
  One more sleep and then a string of dry and sunnier days arrives just in time for the weekend.
  For Thursday, the forecast is for a mix of sun and cloud with a 40 per cent chance of showers and the risk of a thunderstorm in the late afternoon or evening, Environment Canada reports. The high is 27 C with a humidex of 32. The UV index is 7 or high.
  But Friday looks fabulous — mainly sunny and 25 C with a smidge of humidity that will make it feel like 28 and a UV index of 8 or very high. Then
  
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• Do you agree with the choice to remove a statue of John A. Macdonald, Canada’s first prime minister, from the front… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  09-08-2018 13:35 via twitter.com
  Do you agree with the choice to remove a statue of John A. Macdonald, Canada’s first prime minister, from the front… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Trillium LRT line shuts next week for maintenance

  09-08-2018 13:32 via ottawacitizen.com
  Users of OC Transpo’s Trillium LRT line will be back on the buses next week as Line 2 shuts down from Sunday, Aug. 12 to Sunday Aug. 19 for maintenance.
  As usual in such cases, Route 1087 buses will travel between Bayview and South Keys every 15 minutes. There are stops along the route close to LRT stations.
  The maintenance work takes place in summer when ridership — such as the usual high number of Carleton University students — is lower.
  For more on schedules and travel
  
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• Ontario earmarks additional $100M to battle forest fires across province: bit.ly/2KDEZXn https://t.co/ZTrroG6Tv6

  09-08-2018 12:59 via twitter.com
  
  Ontario earmarks additional $100M to battle forest fires across province: bit.ly/2KDEZXn https://t.co/ZTrroG6Tv6
  
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• A statue of John A. Macdonald will be removed from the front entrance of Victoria City Hall as a gesture of reconci… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  09-08-2018 12:30 via twitter.com
  A statue of John A. Macdonald will be removed from the front entrance of Victoria City Hall as a gesture of reconci… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Citizen letters: Whose rights are worthy of taking a stand?

  09-08-2018 12:25 via ottawacitizen.com
  Standing up for human rights never wrong
  Shocking that the Citizen would challenge Canada’s “diplomacy” over human rights. And then not back off when the Kingdom tries to bully us. The Saudis picked on a woman, Freeland, who had the audacity to say what is painfully obvious. Being proactive on human rights and wrongful imprisonment with lives associated with Canada is never wrong, however blunt, and if democratic countries like America don’t stand with us then they are ab
  
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• Miracle Treat Day in support of @CHEOhospital: bit.ly/2nq04LG #ottnews https://t.co/zFEWQogaFh

  09-08-2018 12:20 via twitter.com
  
  Miracle Treat Day in support of @CHEOhospital: bit.ly/2nq04LG #ottnews https://t.co/zFEWQogaFh
  
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• Pot-based medical pet products closer to fruition as research grows: bit.ly/2MdZr5O https://t.co/kYEJU3nLC4

  09-08-2018 12:10 via twitter.com
  
  Pot-based medical pet products closer to fruition as research grows: bit.ly/2MdZr5O https://t.co/kYEJU3nLC4
  
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• The remarkably unremarkable 'Gee-Gees case' and what it means

  09-08-2018 12:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  It was a cause célèbre that not only focused attention of the issue of sexual assault and violence, but also on the behaviour and treatment of star student athletes at the University of Ottawa, the largest post-secondary institution in Canada’s capital.
  But in the wake of the judge’s not-guilty verdict — and the Crown’s decision not to appeal — the “Gee-Gees case” has fuelled questions about the complex nature of prosecuting sexual ass
  
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• Logging company employee dies working on Vancouver Island wildfire: bit.ly/2M80Ong https://t.co/v7SMwYfEnL

  09-08-2018 12:00 via twitter.com
  
  Logging company employee dies working on Vancouver Island wildfire: bit.ly/2M80Ong https://t.co/v7SMwYfEnL
  
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• Four suspects wanted in Kanata house party stabbing: bit.ly/2Mumk1D #ottnews https://t.co/rntFU5hN15

  09-08-2018 11:48 via twitter.com
  
  Four suspects wanted in Kanata house party stabbing: bit.ly/2Mumk1D #ottnews https://t.co/rntFU5hN15
  
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• Maples in Old Ottawa East saved from the chop: bit.ly/2OV4MgQ #ottnews https://t.co/46sA6nVbB4

  09-08-2018 11:37 via twitter.com
  
  Maples in Old Ottawa East saved from the chop: bit.ly/2OV4MgQ #ottnews https://t.co/46sA6nVbB4
  
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• Kindergarten teacher struck by PWC awakens from coma, undergoes surgery

  09-08-2018 04:17 via ottawacitizen.com
  The family of Casey Delaney waited on pins and needles all day Wednesday and into the night as their beloved daughter and sister underwent a second surgery to her skull more than a month after she was hit by a personal watercraft while floating on the Gatineau River.
  The 26-year-old kindergarten teacher and avid athlete has been recovering at The Ottawa Hospital’s Civic Campus since the hit and run on July 1. Her sister, Kristin, 24, confirmed she was placed in a medically induced coma for
  
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