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• U.S. Embassy invites public to sign book of condolences for John McCain

  29-08-2018 23:53 via ottawacitizen.com
  The United States Embassy plans to make a book of condolences available to the public to honour the late Sen. John McCain.
  Signatures and notes from Canadians and diplomats will be collected at the embassy before they will be sent to the McCain family.
  The embassy said the book will be available to be signed at the Mack‎enzie Avenue entrance on Thursday and Friday between the hours of 1 p.m. and 3.
  McCain was an American politician and military officer who represented Arizona in the United S
  
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• Warmer-than-normal September to follow summer defined by humidity ottawamatters.com/local-news/war…

  29-08-2018 23:45 via twitter.com
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• Mayor wants to see a pot plan for the City of Ottawa ottawamatters.com/local-news/may…

  29-08-2018 23:15 via twitter.com
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• City names new fire chief ottawamatters.com/local-news/cit…

  29-08-2018 22:45 via twitter.com
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• Healing burn victim Engel poised to join hockey partner in Czech Republic

  29-08-2018 22:34 via ottawacitizen.com
  Less than four months after the accidental fire that nearly killed her, Hana Engel is piecing her life back together.
  A positive attitude has taken Engel places, including to a state of mind she didn’t think she could have this soon, and now it is about to accompany her overseas.
  On Labour Day, Engel’s partner, Jake Cardwell, whose quick actions saved Engel’s life, is flying to the Czech Republic to resume his pro hockey career with HC Dynamo Pardubice.
  Engel expects to follow
  
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• Worker suffers electric shock at site on Cyrville Road ottawamatters.com/local-news/wor…

  29-08-2018 22:15 via twitter.com
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• Surveillance video from @BarriePolice shows a Tesla catching some serious air. Authorities say luckily no one was h… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  29-08-2018 22:12 via twitter.com
  Surveillance video from @BarriePolice shows a Tesla catching some serious air. Authorities say luckily no one was h… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Man electrocuted, but fast action by co-workers saves him

  29-08-2018 21:55 via ottawacitizen.com
  A man’s heart is beating again because his co-workers knew what to do in an emergency.
  Ottawa paramedics say the man, in his 50s, was electrocuted while he was working on underground fuel pumping equipment on Cyrville Road, north of Innes Road.
  He went into cardiac arrest, but his co-workers managed to turn off the current and bring him up to the surface. They immediately started doing CPR until firefighters arrived, and paramedics arrived two minutes later to do defibrillation.
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• Developer takes patient stance after $400-million condo project gets spiked

  29-08-2018 21:55 via ottawacitizen.com
  Brigil Construction’s plans for a $400-million highrise complex across the street from the Canadian Museum of History in Gatineau was dealt a seemingly fatal blow, but a Brigil spokesman on Wednesday said the company is a very patient one, seeming to hint that it may simply wait for more favourable political winds before developing land on rue Laurier.
  “We’re sad,” said Yves Ducharme, special adviser to Brigil president Gilles Desjardins, regarding Gatineau city council&r
  
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• Reevely: Ontario students' math scores keep slipping but new government is changing little

  29-08-2018 21:49 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ontario’s elementary students still aren’t as good at math as we’d like them to be, according to fresh data from the province’s testing agency, though the most worrying new information is about literacy among some higher-risk students.
  Only 39 per cent of Grade 10 students in the applied high-school stream (as opposed to the more challenging academic one) met the provincial standard for literacy in the Education Quality and Accountability Office’s tests last school
  
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• Community reform group making demands in Ottawa housing affordability report ottawamatters.com/local-news/com…

  29-08-2018 21:45 via twitter.com
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• What happened at Ottawa city council: 'Gateway' speed limit signs get green light

  29-08-2018 21:38 via ottawacitizen.com
  Council approves neighbourhood ‘gateway’ speed limit signs
  Blanket speed limits of 30 or 40 km/h may be coming soon to some neighbourhoods now that council has signed off on a new policy for speed limit signs at community entry points.
  Council on Wednesday approved a plan to have “gateway” speed limit signs now that the province allows municipalities to create speed limits lower than 50 km/h and post the speed limits at entry and exit points of neighbourhoods.
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• Frontenac paramedics, responding to a call, greeted by man with a knife

  29-08-2018 21:25 via ottawacitizen.com
  Kingston police arrested a man on Tuesday after he allegedly pulled a knife on two paramedics while they were responding to a call.
  According to police, the 51-year-old man was holding a knife while he approached two Frontenac paramedics in the hallway of an apartment building while they were responding to a call around 9 p.m. in Kingston’s west end. The paramedics fled the building and, when police showed up, they arrested the man on the second floor and found the switchblade he had used.
  
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• 'His face was covered in blood': Dog killed after attacking two men

  29-08-2018 20:37 via ottawacitizen.com
  Staring at a pit bull that had just mauled two men, Marcel Lamoureux decided to try and calm the animal down — using some banter and some roast beef.
  It was Tuesday evening. Lamoureux had heard yelling across the road from his home on Highway 148 just west of Aylmer and at first thought it was a loud argument. Then he figured it might be a fire, and went to check.
  He found two badly injured men and the dog, described by police as a “pitbull type,” standing defiantly betwee
  
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• Mayor directs city officials to plan ahead for pot shops

  29-08-2018 20:36 via ottawacitizen.com
  Mayor Jim Watson directed city officials on Wednesday to compile as much information as they can on the province’s new pot store scheme in hopes of providing the next council with the crucial answers it will need to make decisions on cannabis stores, including where in the city they’d be allowed to operate.
  The marijuana file is moving at a smoking-fast pace for Ontario municipalities — it becomes legal in Canada on Oct. 17 and, in this province, privately-run shops will be all
  
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• Tornado, T-storm warnings over, back to muggy outlook

  29-08-2018 20:04 via ottawacitizen.com
  As you were, everyone.
  After a severe thunderstorm warning, then a tornado warning, Environment Canada now says the forecast has returned to muggy, showery conditions.
  Environment Canada said shortly after 1 p.m. that it was tracking a severe thunderstorm that could be producing a tornado.
  The agency said that radar showed a tornado possibly forming about 10 kilometres north of Smith Falls moving eastwards at 40 kilometres per hour.
  The formation eventually dissipated.
  Environment Canada co
  
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• BREAKING: The tornado warning has ended. #ottnews twitter.com/jilltaylor680/…

  29-08-2018 19:51 via twitter.com
  BREAKING: The tornado warning has ended. #ottnews twitter.com/jilltaylor680/…
  
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• UPDATE: Power restored in Barrhaven. #ottnews #ottstorm #ottwx twitter.com/hydroottawa/st…

  29-08-2018 19:46 via twitter.com
  UPDATE: Power restored in Barrhaven. #ottnews #ottstorm #ottwx twitter.com/hydroottawa/st…
  
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• UPDATE: Tornado warning ended for #SmithsFalls area, moving east to #Winchester #Newington Remains in effect for… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  29-08-2018 19:31 via twitter.com
  UPDATE: Tornado warning ended for #SmithsFalls area, moving east to #Winchester#Newington Remains in effect for… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Police searching for 'known suspect' after man stabbed on Cumberland

  29-08-2018 19:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  Police are investigating after a man believed to be in his 70s was stabbed on Cumberland Street on Wednesday.
  The incident took place shortly before 11:45 a.m. on Wednesday, according to the Ottawa Paramedic Service, near the intersection of Daly Avenue, two blocks south of Rideau Street.
  Paramedics say the man was taken to the Ottawa Hospital’s trauma centre and is in serious, but stable, condition.
  Const. Amy Gagnon with the Ottawa police said that there was no further threat to the publ
  
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• The tornado warning has been expanded to include Ottawa South, Richmond, and Metcalfe. More details:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  29-08-2018 19:17 via twitter.com
  The tornado warning has been expanded to include Ottawa South, Richmond, and Metcalfe. More details:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• BREAKING: Environment Canada has now issued a tornado warning for Smiths Falls, Lanark County, and Sharbot Lake. #ottnews

  29-08-2018 19:12 via twitter.com
  BREAKING: Environment Canada has now issued a tornado warning for Smiths Falls, Lanark County, and Sharbot Lake. #ottnews
  
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• Kim Ayotte named Ottawa's new fire chief

  29-08-2018 18:41 via ottawacitizen.com
  A familiar face has been tapped to be Ottawa’s new fire chief.
  After a nationwide search for a leader to replace Chief Gerry Pingitore, who retired in April, the city settled on a candidate close to home in Kim Ayotte, Mayor Jim Watson announced at Wednesday’s council meeting.
  Pleased to announce that Deputy @ChiefAyotte was selected as our new Fire Chief at @OttFire! His strong leadership skills & 29 years of professional fire service experience are an asset to @ottawacity and t
  
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• Have you seen this woman, wanted by Napanee OPP

  29-08-2018 18:17 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Ontario Provincial Police in Napanee are asking for the public’s help in identifying a woman who allegedly bought things with a stolen credit card.
  According to Const. Shannon Cork of the Napanee OPP, two females used the card to make purchases at an LCBO on July 11, shortly after 2 p.m. After the owner noticed that the card was gone — and that it had been used — they reported it to police on July 13.
  Police were not able to put a dollar figure on the purchases when contact
  
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• Glavin: Britain's Labour Party rotting under Jeremy Corbyn

  29-08-2018 17:40 via ottawacitizen.com
  If it’s hard to get your head around just how far the rot has spread in the three years since Jeremy Corbyn won the leadership of Britain’s Labour Party, this should give you an idea.
  In just the past week, Corbyn has been complimented by David Duke, a former grand dragon of the Ku Klux Klan, applauded by Nick Griffin, the former leader of the neo-fascist British National Party, and condemned by ranking Labour MP Mike Gapes, former chair of the Commons foreign affairs committee.
  
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• Greenbelt farm may become sound stage for film and TV

  29-08-2018 17:02 via ottawacitizen.com
  The last farm scientists were laid off 20 years ago and their equipment sold at auction. Now artists may move into a former Agriculture Canada lab in the Greenbelt to build a “creative hub.”
  The National Capital Commission wants to turn an abandoned building across from the Nepean Sportsplex into a sound stage where television or film crews could shoot indoor scenes. There’s outdoor space available, too — a total of 9.6 hectares in the sprawling former research farm (822
  
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• Glebe restaurant Pomeroy House shuts doors after three years

  29-08-2018 16:43 via ottawacitizen.com
  A Glebe restaurant that drew raves when it opened three years ago has closed, saying it couldn’t attract enough diners to stay in business.
  The Pomeroy House was at 749 Bank Street near First Avenue.
  “We all tried so hard, and yet we were not able to fill the needs of this wonderful community,” it says an announcement on the restaurant’s website.
  “Exactly three years ago we opened this beautiful restaurant. We had some successes, cherished guests, delightful pa
  
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• Police cruiser involved in two-vehicle crash on Metcalfe Street

  29-08-2018 16:37 via ottawacitizen.com
  An Ottawa police cruiser was involved in a two-vehicle crash that closed part of Metcalfe Street in Centretown on Tuesday night.
  The crash happened around at 4:59 p.m., at the corner of Metcalfe and Nepean streets, both one-way streets in Ottawa’s downtown core. Police say the SUV cruiser was heading to a call with its lights and sirens on when it collided with another vehicle at the intersection.
  The officer sustained “minor injuries,” said Cst. Amy Gagnon with the Ottawa poli
  
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• Severe thunderstorm watch issued for capital region

  29-08-2018 16:31 via ottawacitizen.com
  A severe thunderstorm watch has been issued for the capital region.
  Environment Canada says the storms may develop near noon or early this afternoon and rapidly intensify.
  “Very strong wind gusts can damage buildings, down trees and blow large vehicles off the road. Remember, severe thunderstorms can produce tornadoes. Heavy downpours can cause flash floods and water pooling on roads,” the agency said in an alert.
  Severe thunderstorm watches are issued when atmospheric conditions are
  
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• Canadian Forces dealing with 17 streptococcal infection cases at recruit school in Quebec

  29-08-2018 15:51 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Canadian military is dealing with 17 cases of streptococcal infection at its recruit facilities in Saint-Jean, Quebec, the second such outbreak in less than a year.
  The cases of Group A Streptococcus bacterial infection, also called GAS, were identified among the roughly 1,500 recruits at Canadian Forces Leadership and Recruit School. The Canadian Forces Health Services is monitoring the increase in cases of GAS pharyngitis, also known as strep throat, Canadian Forces spokesman Maj
  
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• Coming up at 9:45: Emma Francis of @CityFolkFest Marvest joins @_MarkSutcliffe with details of this year's editio… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  29-08-2018 15:39 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 9:45: Emma Francis of @CityFolkFest Marvest joins @_MarkSutcliffe with details of this year's editio… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• "NAFTA not likely to be a happy ending for Canada" @IvisonJ joins @_MarkSutcliffe at 9:15: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  29-08-2018 15:10 via twitter.com
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• Quinte West man dies of injuries sustained in fire

  29-08-2018 14:42 via ottawacitizen.com
  A 24-year-old man has died after being injured in a Trenton fire last week.
  Quinte West OPP said on Wednesday that Raven Dagnall died Sunday in hospital as a result of injuries sustained in the fire Aug. 23.
  Dagnall had been pulled by firefighters from the house fire last Thursday and was airlifted to Sunnybrook Hospital in Toronto for his injuries.
  Firefighters said they had to knock down the front door of an apartment inside an older house to remove Dagnall.
  Firefighters and the OPP continue t
  
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• POLL: Should the federal government ban handguns and assault weapons?

  29-08-2018 14:25 via twitter.com
  POLL: Should the federal government ban handguns and assault weapons?
  
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• Dog killed after attacking and injuring two men

  29-08-2018 14:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  Police in Quebec had to shoot and kill a dog in Pontiac on Tuesday night after it attacked its 40-year-old owner and a 69-year-old member of his family.
  MRC des Collines police said in a release they were called to the man’s property, about 40 kilometres west of Ottawa, at around 8:30 p.m.
  The dog had attacked its owner as well as another man, who police say was attacked when he tried to help the original victim.
  According to police, both men suffered “serious injuries” bu
  
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• Man who killed off-duty cop receiving PTSD treatment funded by Veterans Affairs: bit.ly/2PcotQH https://t.co/EzSWnxXbP2

  29-08-2018 13:52 via twitter.com
  
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• One more day of muggy, rainy discomfort before sunny, cooler weekend

  29-08-2018 13:42 via ottawacitizen.com
  Capital residents should only have to endure one more muggy, rainy day before things take a turn for the much better, the weather office says.
  Wednesday is forecast to see another humid, rainy afternoon — there is a chance of thunderstorms and rain this afternoon, along with a high of 29 C that will feel hotter than that, with a humidex of 38.
  The outlook is for the heat to break tonight, though, following the rain, and the weather is hopefully going to continue to improve after that.
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• Denley: Teachers must do the job they are directed to do

  29-08-2018 12:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ontario teachers’ unions and the provincial government are at war, again. That’s something we have seen far too often over the past 20-plus years.
  This time, the fight is ostensibly over the elementary school sex-education curriculum. Teachers’ union leaders are outraged over the temporary reversion to a curriculum last taught in 2014. They are doubly outraged by Premier Doug Ford’s announcement that parents can complain by phone to the Ontario College of Teachers if teac
  
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• 'We know the problem exists': Ottawa Food Bank grapples with accessibility issue in east end

  29-08-2018 12:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  When Sara Woodill went to the food bank for the first time, this past April, she assumed it would be an easy enough experience. The food bank at the Orléans-Cumberland Community Resource Centre is a 20-minute walk her Des Forets Avenue home. She said if she strolls to the end of her street, she can almost see the food bank itself.
  Instead, Woodill — a 27-year-old multimedia artist who had to drop out of Algonquin College’s game design program for financial reasons — was
  
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• Today's letters: Is it time for a national capital district?

  29-08-2018 12:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  Time for national capital district
  Re: Hull tower project’s fate hinges on heritage vote (Aug 27).
  Declaring the area near the Canadian Museum of History a heritage district is a smart move, which will discourage turning the area into a future developer’s ghetto. An important museum like the Canadian Museum of History shouldn’t have to be over shadowed. It’s probably time to declare Western Quebec and Ottawa a national capital district, akin to Washington, D.C., so t
  
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• Cohen: Sen. John McCain stood out by standing up to Trump

  29-08-2018 12:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  In 1956, John F. Kennedy published a study of character in the United States Senate. Reviewing the giants of the institution, he celebrated eight who put the country’s interest over their own, for whom principle mattered more than politics.
  Profiles in Courage won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography in 1957. When he ran for the presidency in 1960, the book gave Kennedy the intellectual heft to silence critics who said he was too young and too inexperienced for the office.
  To JFK, courage was
  
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• Canada, U.S. see common ground on autos as three-way NAFTA talks resume: bit.ly/2Pc6euH https://t.co/FYquaTMHy8

  29-08-2018 11:41 via twitter.com
  
  Canada, U.S. see common ground on autos as three-way NAFTA talks resume: bit.ly/2Pc6euH https://t.co/FYquaTMHy8
  
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• Significant court decision could determine Trans Mountain's fate: experts: bit.ly/2LBPTNx https://t.co/LPehDANhVn

  29-08-2018 11:10 via twitter.com
  
  Significant court decision could determine Trans Mountain's fate: experts: bit.ly/2LBPTNx https://t.co/LPehDANhVn
  
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• CityFolk announces Marvest lineup: 'More music is better'

  29-08-2018 06:01 via ottawacitizen.com
  CityFolk is marking the 25th anniversary of the Ottawa Folk Festival with an expanded edition of Marvest and a concert series that draws two Bank Street churches into the area’s hotbed of live music.Marvest is a free festival, an offshoot of CityFolk, designed to showcase Ottawa-area talent in non-traditional venues in Bank Street’s Glebe neighbourhood, most within walking distance of the main CityFolk site at Lansdowne Park. The word itself is a mash-up of “music” and &l
  
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• Gatineau council votes down $400M development with heritage designation for Museum District

  29-08-2018 05:41 via ottawacitizen.com
  In front of a room packed to the brim with members of the public, Gatineau city council passed a heritage designation for the city’s downtown Museum District late Tuesday night and in so doing blocked the development of controversial highrise complex proposed for the area.
  The 12-7 vote concluded months of uncertainty regarding the future of a historical neighbourhood near the Canadian Museum of History between Laurier and Victoria streets and Maisonneuve and Des Allumettiè
  
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• Abby Huntsman joining 'The View' in season 22 as a co-host - ottawamatters.com/world-news/abb… https://t.co/66vsEtCGBp

  29-08-2018 05:15 via twitter.com
  
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• Trudeau says he's encouraged by what he calls NAFTA progress - ottawamatters.com/national-news/… https://t.co/3LVZYYJwbR

  29-08-2018 04:45 via twitter.com
  
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• More than 60 Senators' players and alumni ready for Fan Fest - ottawamatters.com/local-sports/m… #ottnews https://t.co/jUcAIT0I60

  29-08-2018 04:15 via twitter.com
  
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• Saudi Arabian medical residents can stay in Canada for now: hospital organization - ottawamatters.com/national-news/…

  29-08-2018 03:45 via twitter.com
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• Bill Blair asked to lead talks on Safe Third Country Agreement with the U.S. - ottawamatters.com/national-news/… https://t.co/4jLvk6ksc1

  29-08-2018 03:15 via twitter.com
  
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