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• The latest efforts to disrupt the U.S. midterm elections through Facebook manipulation seem to be following a persu… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  14-08-2018 23:35 via twitter.com
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• RCMP rule out terrorism after truck injures pedestrians near Hill screening facility

  14-08-2018 23:13 via ottawacitizen.com
  An Ottawa man says he and his girlfriend watched in horror Saturday night as a truck jumped onto a sidewalk on the west side of Parliament Hill, driving into pedestrians and leaving two people on the ground injured.
  “We just yelled, ‘Oh my god’,” said Moze Elfarra. “We were in shock.”
  RCMP say the incident that happened at Vittoria and Bank streets near the vehicle screening facility on Parliament Hill on Saturday night was not terrorism-related.
  “At no
  
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• Italy's PM: Death toll in Genoa bridge collapse may rise ottawamatters.com/world-news/new…

  14-08-2018 23:00 via twitter.com
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• Council candidates need to be creative if they campaign against rising transit fares

  14-08-2018 22:56 via ottawacitizen.com
  There’s probably a reason why only a handful of municipal election candidates address transit affordability in their campaign platforms posted online.
  It’s not easy to stop annual fare and transit tax increases. Freezing fares would require more government money to run OC Transpo, and more government money could result in higher taxes or cuts in other services.
  Transit fares might be a campaign issue in the Oct. 22 municipal election, but candidates will have to be creative if they p
  
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• Federal legislation needed to declare housing a 'right,' says coalition. ottawamatters.com/national-news/…

  14-08-2018 22:34 via twitter.com
  Federal legislation needed to declare housing a 'right,' says coalition.ottawamatters.com/national-news/…
  
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• Morneau launches consultations on safeguards to prevent steel flooding ottawamatters.com/national-news/… https://t.co/glunTqoneq

  14-08-2018 22:30 via twitter.com
  
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• FBI warns banks about looming cyber attacks

  14-08-2018 22:21 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Federal Bureau of Investigation in the United States has issued a warning to major financial institutions suggesting that hackers are planning a serious global attack as soon as this weekend.
  The U.S. federal investigator said hackers will target automated teller machines (ATM) with the attack, attempting to steal millions of dollars in a small window of time, likely after-hours when the banks are closed.
  According to Theresa Payton, chief executive of cyber security firm Fortilace Solutions
  
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• NCC reveals $55M repair list as new minister leaves decisions on 24 Sussex up to agency

  14-08-2018 22:20 via ottawacitizen.com
  The National Capital Commission on Tuesday revealed its spending plan for the $55 million in repair funds earmarked in the last federal budget, but the agency could probably use a lot more to fix one of its most important assets at 24 Sussex Drive.
  Pablo Rodriguez became heritage minister in the July cabinet shuffle, succeeding Mélanie Joly. The job comes with the responsibility for the NCC. Rodriguez said he still has to discuss priorities with the agency, but he’s letting the NCC
  
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• No one on earth owns more bobbleheads than this Richmond collector

  14-08-2018 21:57 via ottawacitizen.com
  It started, as these things usually do, innocently enough — a promotional giveaway at a Senators’ game at the Corel Centre, with the club handing out thousands of its first-ever bobblehead doll, a likeness of right-winger Marian Hossa, to ticket-holders at its Dec. 15, 2001 match against the New Jersey Devils.
  The Devils took the game 2-0, but Phil Darling went home a winner, the nodding Hossa under one arm. Little did he know the obsession in him that was waiting to be unleashed.
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• Hydro power storage project to be built near retired open pit coal mine. ottawamatters.com/national-busin…

  14-08-2018 21:35 via twitter.com
  Hydro power storage project to be built near retired open pit coal mine.ottawamatters.com/national-busin…
  
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• A fund dedicated to aiding victims of sexual harassment and assault is giving $750,000 in grants to local organizat… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  14-08-2018 21:05 via twitter.com
  A fund dedicated to aiding victims of sexual harassment and assault is giving $750,000 in grants to local organizat… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Losses will be small when Ontario switches to private pot stores, says Ontario Cannabis Store

  14-08-2018 20:59 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ontario won’t lose much money by shelving plans to create government-run cannabis stores, according to the subsidiary of the LCBO that was set up to operate the brick-and-mortar locations.
  The new Conservative government in Ontario has changed course and decided the stores will be run by private businesses instead.
  The Ontario Cannabis Store (OCS) agency had already leased space for four government-run stores in Toronto, Thunder Bay, Guelph and Kingston, hired some store managers and begun
  
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• Man exposes himself, hurls puppy in Kingston

  14-08-2018 20:55 via ottawacitizen.com
  Talk about a sick puppy.
  A dog was thankfully only slightly hurt Monday but a 37-year-old Kingston man is facing charges including committing an indecent act, assault, willfully causing pain to an animal and cause a disturbance after a weird incident in Kingston Monday.
  Police report that a man was walking along a north-end sidewalk while “holding his genitals and yelling at citizens.”
  When one told him to leave, the man picked up a puppy that was outside and threw it through an
  
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• Trudeau to hold retreat with newly shuffled cabinet in Nanaimo, B.C. ottawamatters.com/national-news/…

  14-08-2018 20:35 via twitter.com
  Trudeau to hold retreat with newly shuffled cabinet in Nanaimo, B.C.ottawamatters.com/national-news/…
  
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• Police 'Hoopstar' runs and guns with kids in street basketball showdown

  14-08-2018 20:24 via ottawacitizen.com
  Getting challenged by a youngster to a quick pickup game of hoops is all in a day’s work for officers like Const. Kevin Graham.
  The Ottawa Police Hoopstars tweeted a video Monday of the team member playing the impromptu game with kids while out on patrol.
  In boots and a bulletproof vest, he captures the ball from one boy after a one-on-one then shows some smooth moves to dribble around another tyke before handing over the ball.
  “Someone call a cop … that kid just got rob
  
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• Richmond collector just bob bob bobbleheadin' along

  14-08-2018 20:08 via ottawacitizen.com
  It started, as these things usually do, innocently enough — a promotional giveaway at a Senators’ game at the Corel Centre, with the club handing out thousands of its first-ever bobblehead doll, a likeness of right-winger Marian Hossa, to ticket-holders at its Dec. 15, 2001 match against the New Jersey Devils.
  The Devils took the game 2-0, but Phil Darling went home a winner, the nodding Hossa under one arm. Little did he know the obsession in him that was waiting to be unleashed.
  No
  
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• Tug carrying 22,000 litres of diesel capsizes in Fraser River off Vancouver. ottawamatters.com/national-news/…

  14-08-2018 20:05 via twitter.com
  Tug carrying 22,000 litres of diesel capsizes in Fraser River off Vancouver.ottawamatters.com/national-news/…
  
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• Three Canadian cities among top 10 most livable globally in EIU ranking. ottawamatters.com/national-news/…

  14-08-2018 19:35 via twitter.com
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• TV company offers $500 reward for town crier's stolen talking stick

  14-08-2018 18:37 via ottawacitizen.com
  A TV production company is betting $500 will get tongues wagging about a local town crier’s stolen talking stick.
  The producers of Mix Métiers on TFO have issued a reward to recover Daniel Richer’s prized possession which disappeared from Majors Hill Park after they shot a segment with him Aug. 7, Richer said Tuesday.
  The six-and-a-half-foot stick, carved like a totem pole, was a gift to Richer from the West Coast Salish First Nations people. It’s invaluable to
  
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• Battle lines drawn in Heron Gate, where an evicted community doesn't plan on leaving

  14-08-2018 18:21 via ottawacitizen.com
  Though visually imperceptible, a front line has been drawn along Heron Road, Baycrest Drive and Sandalwood Drive in Ottawa’s Heron Gate rental community.
  It runs across the neighbourhood’s overgrown lawns and overflowing garbage bins, in front of aging townhouses from which tenants have emerged to form a coalition that proclaims “#DefendHeronGate.”
  “We are now being told, for the second time in two years, that our community will be destroyed and we have no say in th
  
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• Solby: Ontario is making the right move with private cannabis sales

  14-08-2018 18:20 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Ontario government’s decision to take a step back and rework the cannabis retail plan toward private retail next April is a refreshing splash of common sense in the overheated cannabis world. The previous Liberal plan was by far the highest-cost solution, with a dedicated retail channel staffed by gold-plated wages.
  The use of private retail will benefit cannabis consumers, government policy and taxpayers by offering three things that a public-sector solution cannot: scale, speed and s
  
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• Cohen: Saudis and Canadians are equal in hypocrisy

  14-08-2018 18:15 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ten days after Canada’s grievous insult to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, there is enough hypocrisy and ineptitude on both sides to write another volume of Arabian Nights.
  Begin with Saudi Arabia. Determined to make an example of Canada, the world’s boy scout, the Crown Prince lost it. Instead of retaliating with amputation, he chose beheading, in which his country has great expertise.
  When Canada called for the release of Saudi dissidents, he could have expressed his displeasure by re
  
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• Matt Duchene double-doubles fan's day in Timmy's drive-thru

  14-08-2018 18:05 via ottawacitizen.com
  An Ottawa Senators fan left an Orillia Tim Horton’s drive-thru with more than a bite for the ride home last weekend thanks to centre Matt Duchene.
  “I honestly can’t make this up it I tried,” said the anonymous fan who tweets as @SensHky.
  He, his girlfriend and a buddy in a Sens hat were in line when a “buddy in a lifted white truck” noticed the hat, got out and came over.
  He said he “couldn’t help but notice the hat, thanks for the support guy
  
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• Ottawa police arrest robbery suspect after pursuit on Highway 417

  14-08-2018 18:04 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa police have arrested a man following a brief pursuit on Highway 417 Monday.
  At about 2:20 p.m. a patrol officer identified a vehicle matching the description of a automobile that was reportedly used in a number of commercial robberies. The officer also recognized the male driver as someone who resembled the suspect from those robberies.
  The officer requested backup from other officers, who joined the pursuit.
  Police officers used their vehicles to box in the suspect’s automobil
  
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• The @rick_gibbons Show for Tuesday, August 14th w/ @SamLapradeCFRE: 1:08: #AlexanderNewcombe 1:17: @trevorhache 1:3… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  14-08-2018 18:02 via twitter.com
  The @rick_gibbons Show for Tuesday, August 14th w/ @SamLapradeCFRE: 1:08: #AlexanderNewcombe 1:17: @trevorhache 1:3… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• NEXT on the Power Lunch: @JulieBeun & @Alex_S_Cullen @_MarkSutcliffe in-studio: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  14-08-2018 17:55 via twitter.com
  NEXT on the Power Lunch: @JulieBeun & @Alex_S_Cullen @_MarkSutcliffe in-studio: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Coming up at 11:45: @ReporterTeresa joins @_MarkSutcliffe on Maxime Bernier criticizing Trudeau’s ‘extreme multicu… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  14-08-2018 17:40 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 11:45:@ReporterTeresa joins @_MarkSutcliffe on Maxime Bernier criticizing Trudeau’s ‘extreme multicu… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Coming up at 11: @StephanieCarvin joins @_MarkSutcliffe: 📻: 1310 💻: bit.ly/2oQd8u1 📞: 613-750… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  14-08-2018 16:54 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 11: @StephanieCarvin joins @_MarkSutcliffe:📻: 1310 💻: bit.ly/2oQd8u1 📞: 613-750… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Coming up at 10:45: @JamesRHutt joins @_MarkSutcliffe on the provincial government's decision to halt overdose pr… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  14-08-2018 16:40 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 10:45: @JamesRHutt joins @_MarkSutcliffe on the provincial government's decision to halt overdose pr… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• On today's Power Lunch: @JulieBeun & @Alex_S_Cullen @_MarkSutcliffe in-studio: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  14-08-2018 16:15 via twitter.com
  On today's Power Lunch: @JulieBeun & @Alex_S_Cullen @_MarkSutcliffe in-studio: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Coming up on the 10 O'Clock Talk: @Justin_Ling, @SusanSherring & @KimothyWalker join @_MarkSutcliffe live: 📻: 1… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  14-08-2018 15:55 via twitter.com
  Coming up on the 10 O'Clock Talk: @Justin_Ling, @SusanSherring & @KimothyWalker join @_MarkSutcliffe live: 📻: 1… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Italian transport official: 22 dead, 8 injured in the Genoa highway bridge collapse: bit.ly/2P7VBtK https://t.co/nwedqi7IJ8

  14-08-2018 15:48 via twitter.com
  
  Italian transport official: 22 dead, 8 injured in the Genoa highway bridge collapse: bit.ly/2P7VBtK https://t.co/nwedqi7IJ8
  
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• Are NCC demands costing taxpayers? @ArchitectsDCA joins @_MarkSutcliffe at 9:45: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  14-08-2018 15:40 via twitter.com
  Are NCC demands costing taxpayers?@ArchitectsDCA joins @_MarkSutcliffe at 9:45: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Missing boa turns up, but only on Twitter as 'Murphy Westboa'

  14-08-2018 15:19 via ottawacitizen.com
  Sssssmooth!
  On Monday morning, news broke that Murphy, a 1.5 m dwarf Nicaraguan boa, had slithered out of his owner’s Westboro home over the weekend.
  By Monday afternoon, @ottawasnake (his handle is Murphy Westboa, of course) was tweeting his alliterative adventures.
  Now he’s a media celebrity — at least by Ottawa standards — with perks like promised VIP seating at Westboro’s Fuse Festival Aug. 18-19.
  “You’re all the talk of the neighbourhood today!&rdqu
  
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• Charity needs help to send 822 children back to school with much-needed supplies

  14-08-2018 15:08 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Caring and Sharing Exchange is asking for help from Ottawa-area residents to outfit students who are in need of backpacks and school supplies.
  The organization, which provides assistance to families and individuals in need during the Christmas and back-to-school seasons, has a wait list of 822 children who are in need of backpacks and school supplies this year.
  The organization said, while it was prepared for an increase in students in need of back-to-school supplies, demand has jumped by mo
  
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• Firefighters extinguish townhouse kitchen blaze on St. Laurent

  14-08-2018 14:51 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa firefighters rushed to extinguish a two-alarm fire in an east-side townhouse Monday night after multiple 911 callers reported smoke and flames coming from the building.
  The calls came in shortly before 7 p.m. according to Ottawa Fire Services. When firefighters arrived at 1991 St. Laurent Blvd., near Dwellingham Private, they found the fire fully engaged in the kitchen.
  The fire was under control by about 7:20 p.m.
  No injuries were reported. While the Canadian Red Cross and the Salvation
  
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• Cornwall designated as backup centre for potential refugee influx

  14-08-2018 14:21 via ottawacitizen.com
  The federal government says that the city of Cornwall has been designated a backup centre for any potential influx of asylum seekers, a senior federal official said Monday night.
  Louis Dumas, director general of Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada’s domestic network, Louis Dumas, told Cornwall council the city’s well-prepared Nav Centre facility is the only city in Canada being kept on standby in this way.
  Dumas said that so far this summer, other housing facilities in Quebe
  
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• BREAKING: Dozens feared dead after highway bridge collapses in Italy bit.ly/2w88M4X https://t.co/kFZfUD5oqX

  14-08-2018 13:56 via twitter.com
  
  BREAKING: Dozens feared dead after highway bridge collapses in Italy bit.ly/2w88M4X https://t.co/kFZfUD5oqX
  
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• Ontario elementary teachers to protest sex-ed rollback at Queen's Park: bit.ly/2nDKts8 https://t.co/PZVcnWP7Qq

  14-08-2018 13:47 via twitter.com
  
  Ontario elementary teachers to protest sex-ed rollback at Queen's Park: bit.ly/2nDKts8 https://t.co/PZVcnWP7Qq
  
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• Fredericton police return apartments where shootings occurred to owners:bit.ly/2w2M8es https://t.co/V05tzUmnU4

  14-08-2018 13:33 via twitter.com
  
  Fredericton police return apartments where shootings occurred to owners:bit.ly/2w2M8es https://t.co/V05tzUmnU4
  
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• Sticky Tuesday with more wet weather on the way

  14-08-2018 13:23 via ottawacitizen.com
  Here’s a Summer 2018 shocker: Tuesday’s going to be a muggy day.
  The forecast is for mixed skies with a high of 28 C and humidex of 34, a 40 per cent chance of daytime showers and the risk of an afternoon thunderstorm.
  There’s a 30 per cent chance of showers in the early evening and the risk of a thunderstorm as the mercury drops to 17 C.
  Typical temperatures for mid-August are highs of 25 C and lows of 15 C.
  Wednesday’s forecast is for mixed but dry skies, a high of 27 C
  
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• Today's letters: City of Ottawa shouldn't ticket these out-of-towners

  14-08-2018 13:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ticketing visitors isn’t sporting, Ottawa
  This past weekend, hundreds of families converged on the soccer park off Bearbrook Road in Blackburn Hamlet to watch and cheer on teams of young women playing in an annual soccer tournament.  Families travelled from all over Ontario and Quebec to support these amazing girls playing a sport they love. Over two days, supporting families pumped a significant amount of money back into the local community.
  How does the city of Ottawa respond to thi
  
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• Bagnall: Grinding through Phoenix Pay backlog could take 2.5 more years, latest data suggests

  14-08-2018 13:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  If you throw enough money and people at a problem, sometimes you make a little progress. This is the central message in the latest data published by the federal government’s Phoenix Pay system.
  As of July 25, there were 316,000 transactions in line for processing at the government’s main pay center in Miramichi, N.B., according to Public Services and Procurement Canada, the department in charge of fixing the mess. Not only was this a net decline of 18,000 from June 27, the end of the
  
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• Maxime Bernier criticizes Justin Trudeau for promoting 'ever more' diversity: bit.ly/2P5nrGR https://t.co/VyVPIiugwI

  14-08-2018 12:58 via twitter.com
  
  Maxime Bernier criticizes Justin Trudeau for promoting 'ever more' diversity: bit.ly/2P5nrGR https://t.co/VyVPIiugwI
  
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• Police officer charged with refusing blood sample after off-duty crash

  14-08-2018 12:49 via ottawacitizen.com
  An Ottawa police officer has been charged with refusing to provide a blood sample after a crash in Smiths Falls over the long weekend.
  Const. John Dorsch was off duty at the time of the two-vehicle crash at about 1:15 a.m. on Aug. 6 in the town about 70 km southwest of the capital.
  Leeds County OPP charged with him under Section 254 of the Criminal Code of Canada.
  The Ottawa Police Service’s professional standards section is also investigating, but no decision had been taken whether he&rsq
  
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• Ontario to sell pot online in fall, in private stores next year: bit.ly/2nCrpKN https://t.co/iJm2xacvep

  14-08-2018 12:45 via twitter.com
  
  Ontario to sell pot online in fall, in private stores next year: bit.ly/2nCrpKN https://t.co/iJm2xacvep
  
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• ARMCHAIR MAYOR: 'Pop-up' city hall would serve everyone

  14-08-2018 12:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  This fall, citizens of Ottawa elect a new city council. To help local candidates as they campaign, the Citizen asked people for ONE idea that would make the city a better place – without necessarily breaking the bank. Today, Erin Gee suggests it’s not all about urban preoccupations.
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  Thanks to the 2001 amalgamation of Ottawa and 10 nearby communities, Ottawa is a sprawling city. As a result, Ottawa and its city council are confronted with a unique tension: a massive urban-rura
  
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• Weed's want ads longer, marijuana job searches up as industry grows: study: bit.ly/2w5qo1u https://t.co/z0lT25yJ0p

  14-08-2018 12:24 via twitter.com
  
  Weed's want ads longer, marijuana job searches up as industry grows: study: bit.ly/2w5qo1u https://t.co/z0lT25yJ0p
  
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• The city's latest quarterly update on LRT progress says stations on the eastern end of the line are nearing complet… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  14-08-2018 12:18 via twitter.com
  The city's latest quarterly update on LRT progress says stations on the eastern end of the line are nearing complet… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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