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• Thousands of police officers expected at regimental funeral in Fredericton. ottawamatters.com/national-news/…

  15-08-2018 23:32 via twitter.com
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• Reward for finding Murphy the boa increases five days after his disappearance

  15-08-2018 23:10 via ottawacitizen.com
  Five days after he went missing, word on the streets of Westboro is that the reward for finding Murphy, the missing boa constrictor, has jumped to $300.
  Twitter user Peter Quevillon said Wednesday that he’d spoken with the snake’s owner, and the reward for his safe return had increased from $200. An attached photo of Murphy’s missing poster showed an “X” through the original reward value, replaced with the heftier sum.
  The 1.5-metre-long grey and brown snake disappe
  
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• CNE 'Wacky Food' reveal day: you're going to need a Zantac just reading about what's on offer. ottawamatters.com/national-news/…

  15-08-2018 23:05 via twitter.com
  CNE 'Wacky Food' reveal day: you're going to need a Zantac just reading about what's on offer.ottawamatters.com/national-news/…
  
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• PCs' cannabis store scheme buys time for city to develop local policy

  15-08-2018 23:04 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Ontario Progressive Conservative government’s cannabis sales scheme has bought time for the City of Ottawa to develop a local policy, but the municipal government still needs to move fast so the next city council can make a decision shortly after taking office in December.
  While the PCs are giving municipalities the choice of not having any pot shops, it’s unlikely that municipal politicians in a major city like Ottawa, sometimes bashed as the “city that fun forgot,”
  
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• The tortuous path to Shopify's anti-gun policy

  15-08-2018 22:57 via ottawacitizen.com
  When Tobi Lütke set out 13 years ago to build an online site for selling snowboarding equipment, he had little idea just how complicated the whole enterprise would become.
  Today he is piloting a $1-billion-a-year corporation whose technology underpins the operations of more than 600,000 online retailers who sell everything from cosmetics to guns.
  That’s still the case despite the revision on Monday of Shopify’s user agreement policy to restrict the sale of particularly lethal we
  
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• Diversity-focused academy program boosts Hollywood dreamers ottawamatters.com/world-news/div…

  15-08-2018 22:30 via twitter.com
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• Time to kick renegade Tory MP Maxime Bernier out of caucus, Liberal MP urges ottawamatters.com/national-news/…

  15-08-2018 22:00 via twitter.com
  Time to kick renegade Tory MP Maxime Bernier out of caucus, Liberal MP urgesottawamatters.com/national-news/…
  
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• Shopify bans gun sales from its platforming, enraging online merchants

  15-08-2018 21:50 via ottawacitizen.com
  In an unexpected move, Shopify late Monday toughened the terms of its service agreement to prohibit the sale of many types of guns and ammunition. In so doing, the Ottawa firm has infuriated online retailers who relied on Shopify’s earlier promises to respect merchants’ freedom to sell legal goods.
  “We spent a lot of time and money over the past year building out our platform with Shopify technology,” said Cole Leleux, the general manager of Spike’s Tactical, a Flor
  
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• Pedestrians suffered minor injuries after Saturday truck incident near Parliament Hill

  15-08-2018 21:12 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa paramedics say a man and a woman were slightly injured Saturday evening during an incident just west of Parliament Hill.
  RCMP are investigating the incident during which a truck jumped onto a crowded sidewalk and suddenly turned into the vehicle screening area just west of Parliament Hill, leaving two people injured and lying on the ground.
  Ottawa paramedics spokesperson Marc-Antione Deschamps said a woman in her 50s was injured when her foot was run over by a truck. A man in his 70s rece
  
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• Coconut Lagoon restaurant to donate lunch-buffet proceeds to disaster relief in flood-stricken Kerala

  15-08-2018 21:09 via ottawacitizen.com
  The award-winning restaurant Coconut Lagoon on St. Laurent Boulevard says it’s donating all of its lunch-buffet revenues from this Thursday through Saturday to assist people suffering from the effects of catastrophic floods in the state of Kerala in southwestern India.
  “It’s never happened (as badly) so far, the mudslides and torrential rains and flooding,” the restaurant’s owner Joe Thottungal, a native of Kerala, said Wednesday.
  Over the last two weeks, floods in
  
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• 'Lucky' pilot escapes after flipping float plane in Thousand Islands

  15-08-2018 20:45 via ottawacitizen.com
  A pilot was lucky to escape serious injury late Wednesday morning when his float plane crashed on the St. Lawrence River, landing top down in water with only the pontoons visible.
  The pilot, identified only as a 68-year-old California resident, landed between Mink and Hambly islands at 11:38 a.m., Leeds and Thousand Islands Fire Chief Rick Lawson said.
  He’d landed on the water and was reportedly trying to take off again.
  Nearby residents picked him up at the crash scene and sheltered him w
  
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• Dining Out: Table Sodam scores with Korean fried chicken and other savoury specialties

  15-08-2018 20:37 via ottawacitizen.com
  Table Sodam1200 Bank St., 343-488-8036, table-sodam.business.siteOpen: Tuesday to Sunday 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m., 5 to 10 p.m., closed MondayPrices: Most items $18 and under, Korean-style chicken $33Access: Two steps to front door, washrooms downstairs
  Table 85610 Bronson Ave., 613-788-2112Open: Tuesday to Friday noon to 9 p.m., Saturday noon to 4 p.m., closed Sunday and MondayPrices: Most dishes under $16, Korean-style chicken $31Access: Stairs to front door, restaurant is downstairs
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• Glavin: Removing Macdonald statue doesn't exactly fix deeper problems

  15-08-2018 19:46 via ottawacitizen.com
  Another statue, another city, another “healing journey,” and another familiar public ritual resumes, along with all the dramatic performances we’ve come to expect from these affairs, with all the loud ceremonial incantations that derive as they always do from the same irreconcilably opposing liturgies. It’s political correctness gone mad. It’s confronting our history as a racist colonial settler state. And on and on and on.
  This time around, it’s a statue of S
  
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• Woman defamed former employer with protests accusing agency of 'racism,' judge rules

  15-08-2018 19:13 via ottawacitizen.com
  An Ottawa woman has been fined $6,000 after she accused her ex-employer of “racism” in an extended protest — including a Twitter torrent and an email campaign — against her firing, a judge has ruled.
  According to a judgment from Judge Robert N. Beaudoin of Ontario’s Superior Court of Justice, the story began in March 2015 when Marlene Casimir was fired — following an unspecified incident — by l’Association pour l’intégration
  
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• House Works: Finish on an outdoor staircase, fix a loose tub surround

  15-08-2018 18:52 via ottawacitizen.com
  Conflicting advice on outdoor wood finishing
  Q: What should I do about conflicting advice I’m getting about deck finishing? I just built a new staircase out of cedar and the measured moisture content of the wood is less than 10 per cent.  Some brands of deck stain recommend letting new wood weather 4-12 months, then use a cleaner and brightener before applying a finish. Other brands say it’s okay to sand and apply stain whenever the wood is below 17 per cent moisture content. On
  
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• Remembering an iconic Ottawa creation, the Contempra phone

  15-08-2018 18:36 via ottawacitizen.com
  When he was six years old, John Tyson won a sand castle-building contest at McNabb Park.
  In retrospect, the other youngsters probably never had a chance. Tyson, who now resides in Barrhaven, went on to become an industrial designer best known for creating one of Canada’s most iconic and elegant products — the Contempra phone.
  You can be forgiven if you’re too young to remember it by name — its decade-long heyday began half a century ago, after all. But for a time, the sle
  
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• Coming up at 12:30: @AdnanRafiqKhan joins @_MarkSutcliffe on how the world sees Saudi Arabia: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  15-08-2018 18:25 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 12:30: @AdnanRafiqKhan joins @_MarkSutcliffe on how the world sees Saudi Arabia: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• The @rick_gibbons Show for Wednesday, August 15th w/ @SamLapradeCFRE: 1:08: @RabbiBulka 1:17: #SteveCripps 1:30:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  15-08-2018 18:10 via twitter.com
  The @rick_gibbons Show for Wednesday, August 15th w/ @SamLapradeCFRE: 1:08: @RabbiBulka 1:17: #SteveCripps 1:30:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• NEXT on the Power Lunch: @wickdchiq & @SprottSchool Ian Lee joins @_MarkSutcliffe in-studio: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  15-08-2018 17:55 via twitter.com
  NEXT on the Power Lunch: @wickdchiq & @SprottSchool Ian Lee joins @_MarkSutcliffe in-studio: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• National Holocaust Monument fashion shoot a 'desecration of a sacred site': Jewish leaders

  15-08-2018 17:48 via ottawacitizen.com
  A weekend fashion photo shoot at the National Holocaust Monument was an inappropriate use of the site, which Jewish leaders say should be a place for reflection and learning, not levity.
  “It’s not a place for fashion shoot,” said Mina Cohn, director of the Centre for Holocaust Education and Scholarship at Carleton University’s Max and Tessie Zelikovitz Centre for Jewish Studies. “You wouldn’t do a fashion shoot at the National War Memorial downtown. That is no
  
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• Coming up at 11:30: @jana_pruden joins @_MarkSutcliffe to tell her story -- the day she met a serial killer: 📻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  15-08-2018 17:25 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 11:30:@jana_pruden joins @_MarkSutcliffe to tell her story -- the day she met a serial killer: 📻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Coming up at 11: The World with Professor Elliot Tepper joins @_MarkSutcliffe in-studio: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  15-08-2018 16:55 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 11:The World with Professor Elliot Tepper joins @_MarkSutcliffe in-studio:📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• "Is it time to abolish provinces?" @Scott_Gilmore joins @_MarkSutcliffe at 10:45: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  15-08-2018 16:40 via twitter.com
  "Is it time to abolish provinces?"@Scott_Gilmore joins @_MarkSutcliffe at 10:45: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Man slightly hurt in Pinecrest-area car fire

  15-08-2018 16:37 via ottawacitizen.com
  A man suffered what paramedics said were minor burns to his arm after a car fire in parking lot at city police’s west-end service centre.
  Firefighters were called to 2670 Queensview Dr., near Pinecrest Road, at 9:27 a.m. The flames were out by 9:46 a.m.
  Paramedics were still on the scene as of 10:15 a.m.
  No word yet on the cause of the blaze but Ottawa Fire Services warned the public to give car fires a wide berth of at least 100 metres and to never get back in a vehicle that’s on fi
  
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• Wednesday wet weather: Severe thunderstorm watch in effect

  15-08-2018 16:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  Environment Canada has issued a severe thunderstorm watch for the capital region as we head into a string of days with at least the risk of showers.
  The next day with sunny skies and no chance of rain in the forecast is Sunday.
  For Wednesday, in addition to keeping an eye open for T-storms, expect a mix of sun and cloud, a 60 per cent chance of showers this afternoon and evening and an extra-humid high of 29 C that will feel like 37.
  The bright spot is a comfortably seasonal low of 15 C.
  Just in
  
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• On today's Power Lunch: @wickdchiq & @SprottSchool Ian Lee joins @_MarkSutcliffe in-studio: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  15-08-2018 16:15 via twitter.com
  On today's Power Lunch: @wickdchiq & @SprottSchool Ian Lee joins @_MarkSutcliffe in-studio: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Ottawa is under an extreme thunderstorm watch: bit.ly/2ML6Syn #ottnews

  15-08-2018 16:11 via twitter.com
  Ottawa is under an extreme thunderstorm watch: bit.ly/2ML6Syn#ottnews
  
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• Coming up on the 10 O'Clock Talk: @DerickFage, @AGMacDougall & @sophienadeau: 📻: 1310 💻: bit.ly/2oQd8u1… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  15-08-2018 15:55 via twitter.com
  Coming up on the 10 O'Clock Talk:@DerickFage, @AGMacDougall & @sophienadeau: 📻: 1310 💻: bit.ly/2oQd8u1… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• "The Saudis may be in, but what’s in it for Tesla and Musk?" @MotorMouthNP joins @_MarkSutcliffe at 9:45: 📻: 13… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  15-08-2018 15:40 via twitter.com
  "The Saudis may be in, but what’s in it for Tesla and Musk?"@MotorMouthNPjoins @_MarkSutcliffe at 9:45: 📻: 13… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Coming up at 9:15: @TarekFatah joins @_MarkSutcliffe on Maxime Bernier criticizing Trudeau’s ‘extreme multicultura… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  15-08-2018 15:09 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 9:15:@TarekFatah joins @_MarkSutcliffe on Maxime Bernier criticizing Trudeau’s ‘extreme multicultura… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Police hunt men seen fleeing flaming Jeep in Hunt Club area

  15-08-2018 14:50 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa police arson unit detectives are hunting for two men spotted fleeing after a black Jeep Cherokee became engulfed in flames early Sunday morning.
  It happened in a parking lot at 2900 Gibford Dr. off Hunt Club Drive just west of Uplands Drive.
  Anyone with information is asked to call the arson unit at 613-236-1222, ext. 3770 or 3771.
  Busy week for vehicle fires….two males observed running from a Black Jeep Cherokee(1st photo) as it became engulfed with fire. Parking lot of 2900
  
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• New stat holiday would mark the legacy of residential schools: bit.ly/2w6bM1X https://t.co/LPJMMLT7mR

  15-08-2018 14:46 via twitter.com
  
  New stat holiday would mark the legacy of residential schools: bit.ly/2w6bM1X https://t.co/LPJMMLT7mR
  
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• Police appeal for tips in two arsons at Meadowlands home

  15-08-2018 14:39 via ottawacitizen.com
  Detectives with the Ottawa police arson unit are appealing for leads in two fires set at the same Meadowlands Drive row house in just over a month.
  The first left a family of eight homeless and both fires could have had tragic outcomes — they happened in the morning as residents and their neighbours slept, police said Wednesday.
  On July 8 just after 3 a.m., crews were called to 1149 A Meadowlands Dr. E. after black smoke was spotted coming from a fire in the basement. It was knocked d
  
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• POLL: Should there be a statutory holiday to mark the legacy of residential schools in the country?

  15-08-2018 14:01 via twitter.com
  POLL: Should there be a statutory holiday to mark the legacy of residential schools in the country?
  
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• Murphy the snake still on the lam: bit.ly/2vJh0kQ #ottnews https://t.co/2EeJpDw3hF

  15-08-2018 13:57 via twitter.com
  
  Murphy the snake still on the lam: bit.ly/2vJh0kQ #ottnews https://t.co/2EeJpDw3hF
  
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• Wednesday wet weather watch: Showers likely, risk of T-storm

  15-08-2018 13:29 via ottawacitizen.com
  Watch for wet weather Wednesday to start a string of days with at least the risk of showers.
  The next day with sunny skies and no chance of rain in the forecast is Sunday.
  For Wednesday, expect a mix of sun and cloud, a 60 per cent chance of showers this afternoon and evening with the risk of a thunderstorm and an extra-humid  high of 29 C that will feel like 37.
  The bright spot is a comfortably seasonal low of 15 C.
  The risk of rain rises to 70 per cent Thursday with mixed skies, a high of
  
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• Women-owned businesses generate $68,000 less revenue than men's: survey: bit.ly/2MPOnsS https://t.co/6XeMWJKjgb

  15-08-2018 13:28 via twitter.com
  
  Women-owned businesses generate $68,000 less revenue than men's: survey: bit.ly/2MPOnsS https://t.co/6XeMWJKjgb
  
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• NEW Constellation Brands spending $5 billion to increase stake in Canopy Growth

  15-08-2018 13:05 via twitter.com
  NEW Constellation Brands spending $5 billion to increase stake in Canopy Growth
  
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• Dancehall duo Bonjay returns to hometown Ottawa for Bon-Fire

  15-08-2018 13:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  Bonjay
  When: 7:30 p.m. Saturday
  Bon-Fire 2018: Aug. 17-18, Rideau Pines Farm, 5714 Fourth Line Rd., North Gower
  Also performing: Wolf Parade, Casper Skulls, Jennifer Castle, Ansley Simpson, Shadowhand and more.
  Passes: $59.99 general admission, $49.99 for youths age 25 and under, includes free shuttle bus from Ottawa. Children 10 and under free.
  Schedule information and ticket purchases: arboretumfestival.com.
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  It’s a commonly accepted nugget of dance-floor etiquette that you d
  
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• Kassam: Canadian Medical Association shouldn't cold-shoulder cannabis

  15-08-2018 12:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Canadian Medical Association (CMA) recently announced that it supports the elimination of the current medical cannabis system  once federal legalization is implemented in October. The rationale is “the lack of evidence, the lack of scientific studies showing it actually works, the lack of knowledge around dosing and interactions with other medications.”
  The CMA’s reservation with cannabis as a safe and effective therapeutic option mirrors concerns within the medical co
  
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• Shopify abandons neutrality, bans guns from its platform

  15-08-2018 11:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  In an unexpected move, Shopify late Monday toughened the terms of its service agreement to prohibit the sale of many types of guns and ammunition. In so doing, the Ottawa firm has infuriated online retailers who relied on Shopify’s earlier promises to respect merchants’ freedom to sell legal goods.
  “We spent a lot of time and money over the past year building out our platform with Shopify technology,” said Cole Leleux, the general manager of Spike’s Tactical, a Flor
  
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• Work begins on two years of federally-funded capital region projects: bit.ly/2OGiqDV https://t.co/xW0Usj4I60

  15-08-2018 11:05 via twitter.com
  
  Work begins on two years of federally-funded capital region projects: bit.ly/2OGiqDV https://t.co/xW0Usj4I60
  
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• Toronto stocks higher, while U.S. markets also gain; Loonie moves up. ottawamatters.com/national-busin…

  15-08-2018 03:40 via twitter.com
  Toronto stocks higher, while U.S. markets also gain; Loonie moves up.ottawamatters.com/national-busin…
  
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• Uncertainty looms over Canada's cannabis tourism, but ambitions are high. ottawamatters.com/national-busin…

  15-08-2018 03:10 via twitter.com
  Uncertainty looms over Canada's cannabis tourism, but ambitions are high.ottawamatters.com/national-busin…
  
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• Jordanian immigrant gets death for Houston 'honour killings'. ottawamatters.com/world-news/jor…

  15-08-2018 02:35 via twitter.com
  Jordanian immigrant gets death for Houston 'honour killings'.ottawamatters.com/world-news/jor…
  
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• Memories of alleged N.B. shooter range from unpleasant loner to happy co-worker. ottawamatters.com/national-news/…

  15-08-2018 02:10 via twitter.com
  Memories of alleged N.B. shooter range from unpleasant loner to happy co-worker.ottawamatters.com/national-news/…
  
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• Real estate race begins for Ontario pot shop locations

  15-08-2018 01:55 via ottawacitizen.com
  With the move to allow private businesses to operate cannabis stores in Ontario, the race is on to secure storefronts.
  Actually, it began before the Conservative government announced Monday that it was abandoning plans to sell pot at stores run by a subsidiary of the LCBO.
  Officials at four major cannabis companies contacted by this newspaper say they anticipated the possibility of a policy shift to privately run pot shops and had already begun scouting locations. The companies are now building
  
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• Pesticides linked to bee deaths will be phased out in Canada. ottawamatters.com/national-news/…

  15-08-2018 01:40 via twitter.com
  Pesticides linked to bee deaths will be phased out in Canada.ottawamatters.com/national-news/…
  
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• Producers says heat waves won't affect strawberry and blueberry prices. ottawamatters.com/national-news/…

  15-08-2018 01:05 via twitter.com
  Producers says heat waves won't affect strawberry and blueberry prices.ottawamatters.com/national-news/…
  
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• ICYMI: Ottawa Police nab suspect in a string of robberies in a rolling road stop Monday afternoon on Highway 417. ottawamatters.com/police-beat/ar…

  15-08-2018 00:35 via twitter.com
  ICYMI: Ottawa Police nab suspect in a string of robberies in a rolling road stop Monday afternoon on Highway 417. ottawamatters.com/police-beat/ar…
  
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