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• Ottawa 'disappointed' with Ontario's decision to invoke the notwithstanding clause, Trudeau says - Toronto Star

  11-09-2018 23:52 via thestar.com
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  Ottawa 'disappointed' with Ontario's decision to invoke the notwithstanding clause, Trudeau says
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  OTTAWA—Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says it's “disappointing” that Ontario Premier Doug Ford has invoked the “notwithstanding” clause of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms to push ahead with his plan to shrink Toronto council but suggests that Ottawa ...
  
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• Five days of headaches ahead for Preston Street commuters beginning Saturday

  11-09-2018 23:49 via ottawacitizen.com
  Beginning Saturday, Preston Street will be closed in both directions at Carling Avenue for five days for road excavation alongside the Claridge Icon tower under construction.
  The shutdown for the block between Carling and Sidney Street is to allow crews from a private company to hook up underground services to the highrise.
  “Significant traffic impacts are expected,” the city said in a media release Tuesday afternoon. The road will reopen on Thursday, Sept. 20.
  The city will maintain
  
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• Pushing LRT to 2019 introduces a new challenge: opening in the middle of an Ottawa winter

  11-09-2018 23:41 via ottawacitizen.com
  OC Transpo faces the possibility of launching a new multibillion-dollar transit technology in the dead of an Ottawa winter, now that the city is pushing the launch of the $2.1-billion LRT line to sometime between January and March 2019.
  Coun. Stephen Blais, chair of the transit commission, knows it’s not the best time to open the Confederation Line.
  “This is a big change for customers. A lot of people today get one bus and take it directly downtown,” Blais said on Tue
  
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• City proposes to give low-income seniors and people with disabilities ability to defer water bills

  11-09-2018 23:32 via ottawacitizen.com
  Low-income seniors and low-income residents with disabilities could ask for permission to defer their water bill payments until they sell their properties if city council approves a new program proposed by staff.
  The proposal unveiled on Tuesday in a report by the city’s finance department would replicate an existing property tax deferral program, which has been running for about 11 years.
  Water and sewer bills have some of the highest year-over-year increases in the broader list of user f
  
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• Slumping Ottawa Redblacks aim to keep quarterbacks on their feet - National Post

  11-09-2018 22:46 via nationalpost.com
  Slumping Ottawa Redblacks aim to keep quarterbacks on their feet
  National Post
  OTTAWA — When a team gives up six sacks in a game, it's natural to blame the offensive line. Last Friday in a 26-14 loss to the B.C. Lions in Vancouver, Ottawa Redblacks starting quarterback Trevor Harris and backup Dominique Davis had little time to ...and more »
  
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• Ottawa police seek public's help to identify Rideau robbery suspect - Globalnews.ca

  11-09-2018 22:45 via globalnews.ca
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  Ottawa police seek public's help to identify Rideau robbery suspect
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  Ottawa police are asking for the public's help in identifying a female suspect involved in an alleged robbery incident that occurred downtown. READ MORE: Ontario government, city of Ottawa announce collaboration on SNAP program. Police say that on Aug.
  Music store thief wanted by Ottawa policeOttawaMatters.com
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• President Donald Trump's planned November visit to Ireland has been postponed. ottawamatters.com/world-news/tru…

  11-09-2018 22:30 via twitter.com
  President Donald Trump's planned November visit to Ireland has been postponed.ottawamatters.com/world-news/tru…
  
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• Quebec election campaign halfway done as 1st debate looms large. ottawamatters.com/national-news/…

  11-09-2018 22:00 via twitter.com
  Quebec election campaign halfway done as 1st debate looms large.ottawamatters.com/national-news/…
  
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• Canada-U.S. trade tiff 'not who we are,' American envoy tells Gander 9/11 service. ottawamatters.com/national-news/…

  11-09-2018 21:30 via twitter.com
  Canada-U.S. trade tiff 'not who we are,' American envoy tells Gander 9/11 service.ottawamatters.com/national-news/…
  
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• Police seek public's assistance to identify suspect in robbery

  11-09-2018 21:21 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Ottawa police are asking for the public’s help to identify a woman they believe was involved in a robbery on Monday, Aug. 6 in a store on Rideau Street.
  According to police, a woman between the ages of 40 and 50 years old entered a music store around 12:30 p.m. near the CF Rideau Centre. It is alleged that she then selected a number of items and placed them in her bag. When she was confronted by store staff, who observed the incident, she became aggressive to staff and fled with t
  
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• Tesla is dropping two of the seven colours it had offered to customers as it tries to streamline production. ottawamatters.com/national-busin…

  11-09-2018 21:00 via twitter.com
  Tesla is dropping two of the seven colours it had offered to customers as it tries to streamline production.ottawamatters.com/national-busin…
  
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• Ontario Helping At-Risk Children and Families in Ottawa - Government of Ontario News

  11-09-2018 20:56 via news.ontario.ca
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  Ontario Helping At-Risk Children and Families in Ottawa
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  Ontario's Government for the People is funding new programs in the Ottawa area to help children with behavioural challenges learn new skills at an early age and support parents with practical and effective tips and ideas. Today, Lisa MacLeod, Minister ...
  Province funds SNAP program aimed at 'at-risk' youth in OttawaOttawa Citizen
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• Reevely: Doug Ford listens to 'the people' in Toronto, but not in Ottawa

  11-09-2018 20:55 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawans who want a smaller city council won’t get it from the province, despite the “endless” calls they’ve made to Premier Doug Ford, senior cabinet minister Lisa MacLeod said Tuesday.
  Ford is recalling the legislature to pass a bill cutting the number of Toronto city councillors from 47 to 25 with an election fewer than two months away. Monday, a judge struck down a law the legislature passed to do it earlier this summer; the new version, the premier promises, will use
  
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• Ottawa jazzmen Mark Ferguson and Mike Tremblay team up this weekend with big musical guns from Toronto - Ottawa Citizen

  11-09-2018 20:53 via ottawacitizen.com
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  Ottawa jazzmen Mark Ferguson and Mike Tremblay team up this weekend with big musical guns from Toronto
  Ottawa Citizen
  Ferguson Tremblay Young Clarke may sound like a law firm, but in fact it's a team-up this weekend featuring two of Ottawa's best jazz players with two of Canada's finest. Representing Ottawa are the longstanding collaborators pianist-trombonist Mark ...and more »
  
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• Ottawa jazzmen Mark Ferguson and Mike Tremblay team up this weekend with big musical guns from Toronto

  11-09-2018 20:52 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ferguson Tremblay Young Clarke may sound like a law firm, but in fact it’s a team-up this weekend featuring two of Ottawa’s best jazz players with two of Canada’s finest.
  Representing Ottawa are the longstanding collaborators pianist-trombonist Mark Ferguson and saxophonist Mike Tremblay. Joining them at GigSpace on Friday and Saturday nights for concerts that are already sold out are bassist Dave Young, who has famously played with Lenny Breau and Oscar Peterson, among many o
  
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• Cadbury owner Mondelez stockpiling chocolate ahead of Brexit. ottawamatters.com/world-news/cad…

  11-09-2018 20:30 via twitter.com
  Cadbury owner Mondelez stockpiling chocolate ahead of Brexit.ottawamatters.com/world-news/cad…
  
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• Federal Court confirms legal fees in '60s Scoop class-action lawsuit. ottawamatters.com/national-news/…

  11-09-2018 20:00 via twitter.com
  Federal Court confirms legal fees in '60s Scoop class-action lawsuit.ottawamatters.com/national-news/…
  
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• OPP rescue man who scootered onto Queensway by accident

  11-09-2018 19:34 via ottawacitizen.com
  An OPP officer offered an escort to safety instead of a ticket to a man who accidentally found himself driving his mobility scooter onto the Queensway at about noon Tuesday.
  The man, who didn’t want to identify himself, got confused while heading west on Carling Avenue and found himself on the on-ramp near Carling and Kirkwood avenues, then on the eastbound highway. Embarrassed by his mistake, he was thankful for the officer’s help.
  Police fielded multiple calls about the scooter fro
  
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• Bear sightings in capital region on the rise, but that should be no surprise

  11-09-2018 19:19 via ottawacitizen.com
  It’s bear season in town, the annual period when bears on the hunt for calories are poking noses into garbage cans and climbing backyard apple trees, not causing much harm but scaring the daylights out of people.
  Richard Moore has been dealing with them for 33 years as a conservation officer with the National Capital Commission.
  These days he is receiving a couple of reports of bears every day, and sometimes three or four.
  “The last couple of years we’re getting a lot of sighti
  
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• Going out best bets, Sept. 13 to 19

  11-09-2018 18:43 via ottawacitizen.com
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  New Zealand-born country superstar Keith Urban returns to Ottawa on Friday, this time hosting his end-of-summer party at Canadian Tire Centre. The show kicks off the Canadian leg of Urban’s Graffiti U world tour to promote his 11th studio album, the most pop-influenced of his long career. You can expect a string of hits, including You Look Good In My Shirt, Long Hot Summer and Somebody Like You, delivered on a stage resplendent with LED lighting and multi-screen video design. Ticke
  
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• The @rick_gibbons Show for Tuesday, September 11th: 1:07: @howardanglin 1:17: @JohnFraserOS 1:30: @SamLapradeCFRE… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  11-09-2018 18:00 via twitter.com
  The @rick_gibbons Show for Tuesday, September 11th: 1:07: @howardanglin1:17: @JohnFraserOS 1:30: @SamLapradeCFRE… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Coming up at 11:45: Younger brother of Terry Fox @dbacfox joins @_MarkSutcliffe live: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  11-09-2018 17:40 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 11:45: Younger brother of Terry Fox@dbacfox joins @_MarkSutcliffe live: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Why the latest delay makes LRT an Ottawa election issue - CBC.ca

  11-09-2018 17:03 via cbc.ca
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  Why the latest delay makes LRT an Ottawa election issue
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  Thinking back to the quasi-disaster known as the Rideau sinkhole, no one is that surprised by Monday's news that Rideau Transit Group (RTG) will miss its Nov. 2 deadline to deliver the Confederation Line to the city. What people will question is why ...and more »
  
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• Coming up at 11: @JLeiper joins @_MarkSutcliffe on the delay of LRT: 📻: 1310 💻: bit.ly/2oQd8u1… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  11-09-2018 16:55 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 11: @JLeiper joins @_MarkSutcliffe on the delay of LRT: 📻: 1310 💻: bit.ly/2oQd8u1… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Coming up at 10:45: @Citizenkwarren joins @_MarkSutcliffe with your Ottawa Senators update: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  11-09-2018 16:40 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 10:45: @Citizenkwarrenjoins @_MarkSutcliffe with your Ottawa Senators update: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Coming up at 10:30: @Shawn_Jeffords joins @_MarkSutcliffe to explain the #NotWithstandingClause: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  11-09-2018 16:25 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 10:30:@Shawn_Jeffords joins @_MarkSutcliffe to explain the #NotWithstandingClause:📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• On today's Power Lunch: @LauraPeck6 & @UW_Michael join @_MarkSutcliffe live in-studio: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  11-09-2018 16:15 via twitter.com
  On today's Power Lunch: @LauraPeck6 & @UW_Michael join @_MarkSutcliffe live in-studio:📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Coming up on the 10 O'Clock Talk: @KimothyWalker, @Justin_Ling & @SusanSherring join @_marksutcliffe live: 📻: 1… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  11-09-2018 15:55 via twitter.com
  Coming up on the 10 O'Clock Talk: @KimothyWalker, @Justin_Ling & @SusanSherring join @_marksutcliffe live: 📻: 1… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Celebrated play The Virgin Trial stages tale of Elizabeth I as modern crime drama at GCTC

  11-09-2018 14:41 via ottawacitizen.com
  A little less than a week before opening night, the actors in their street clothes filed into the Great Canadian Theatre Company’s darkened theatre.
  It was finally time to move from reciting lines from their scripts to getting a feel for the physical aspects and moody grey stage of The Virgin Trial, the celebrated and edgy play that launches the GCTC’s 2018-19 season when it begins its run Tuesday.
  “We’ll start at the top and work through the play,” said Eric Coates
  
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• Adam: On LRT, Doucet shouldn't do anything to mess up funding

  11-09-2018 14:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  There is considerable frustration in the city at news that commuters won’t be riding the Confederation Line LRT in November because of construction delays. The city says the builder, Rideau Transit Group, will now complete construction by Nov. 30, and because of required safety tests of vehicles, tracks, computers and such, the trains won’t be running until some time in the new year. Ottawa residents are right to be disappointed because this latest setback follows an earlier six-mont
  
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• Soggy, sticky and then sunny days in the forecast

  11-09-2018 13:33 via ottawacitizen.com
  Tuesday is soggy and Wednesday sticky but Thursday is sunny with a high of 27 C and starts a string of summery days that should stretch through the weekend.
  Up first is fog patches, a few showers and periods of drizzle ending this morning, then there’s a 30 per cent chance of more showers and a high of 20 C that will feel like 25 C, Environment Canada predicts. Expect mainly-cloudy skies, fog patches and a low of 13 C overnight.
  Wednesday is mainly cloudy with a high of 24 C that will feel
  
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• Wudrick: Why the sun needs to set on this taxpayer-funded think-tank

  11-09-2018 13:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  If you’re like most Canadians, you’ve probably never heard of Policy Horizons Canada. It’s a taxpayer-funded government think-tank made up of 30 or so ostensibly smart people tasked with deeply pondering the future and proposing cutting-edge, outside-the-box public policy ideas.
  Unlike most government departments, which beaver away at implementing real government programs, Policy Horizons is a $3-million blue-sky, anything-goes outfit. It’s all about conducting “str
  
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• Holder: Golf a game with one goal, and many languages

  11-09-2018 13:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  Atthaya Thitikul and Kultida Pramphun assure us that golf in the Thai language sounds a lot like English: A putter is still a putter and a green is still a green.
  “Bunker,” however, is something else.
  To begin with, the Thai equivalent for “bunker” comprises a series of symbols unlike anything contained in this newspaper’s software programs. Upon hearing Thitikul and Pramphun say it, the word also sounds more like “sigh,” which at least approximates
  
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• Facts on the World Junior Girls Golf Championship

  11-09-2018 13:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  The fifth annual World Junior Girls Golf Championship runs from Tuesday through Friday in Ottawa.
  Where: Camelot Golf and Country Club, 906 Quigley Hill Rd. in Cumberland
  When: One round daily. Tee times are scheduled from 8 a.m. to 9:30 a.m.
  Format: Three golfers per team, no older than 18, competing in team and individual stroke-play competition. Team standings are based on the best two of three scores each day.
  Participating countries and athletes: Canada (Céleste Dao, Ellie Szeryk and
  
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• ARMCHAIR MAYOR: It's time Ottawa and Gatineau truly teamed up - Ottawa Citizen

  11-09-2018 12:31 via ottawacitizen.com
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  ARMCHAIR MAYOR: It's time Ottawa and Gatineau truly teamed up
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  This fall, Ottawa elects 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. Perhaps, suggests Mischa Kaplan, we should unite with the city across the river ...
  
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• Stow: Why Donald Trump shouldn't get us down

  11-09-2018 12:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  As an aging white guy, I have never felt more optimistic about the future than with Donald Trump as president of the United States.
  Perhaps I should qualify that statement?
  Every workday, I cross through the University of Ottawa, traverse the Corktown Bridge, and cut through the courtyard at Lisgar Collegiate School.  Along the way, I watch the students: cosmopolitan young people, sometimes buried in their smartphones, but more often engaged in camaraderie and conversation. Fragments of lan
  
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• Fry: Will Trump succeed in replacing NAFTA with 'hub and spoke' trade?

  11-09-2018 12:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  Two years ago, Donald Trump was excoriating U.S. trade accords but few expected him to win the 2016 presidential election. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau enjoyed good relations with Barack Obama and Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto. NAFTA was on firm footing and all three nations were moving to modernize it through the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).
  Today, the legacy of the original TPP, Shamrock Summit and Three Amigos is dead.
  When negotiations for the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreem
  
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• ARMCHAIR MAYOR: It's time Ottawa and Gatineau truly teamed up

  11-09-2018 12:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  This fall, Ottawa elects 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. Perhaps, suggests Mischa Kaplan, we should unite with the city across the river.
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  To many observers (myself included), Ottawa is experiencing a “moment,” caught somewhere between our reputation as a sleepy government town and our more recent emergence as a dynamic, mid-sized global city. Whether one considers the
  
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• Senators owner Melnyk pens letter to fans, vows team will stay in Ottawa

  11-09-2018 12:28 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa Senators owner Eugene Melnyk has vowed that his hockey team will not be leaving the city.
  In an open letter to fans published in the Ottawa Citizen and Ottawa Sun on Tuesday, Melnyk said the team’s focus is on delivering a better hockey experience next season and beyond. “Our Senators are in Ottawa to stay,” he wrote.
  Melnyk said the team will announce a multi-year plan to build a better team, improve the fan experience, grow revenues and deepen the team’s eng
  
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• Live from 5-9 a.m. Ottawa's breaking news, traffic & weather with @1310Alexblack & @1310Andrew: : 1310 :… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  11-09-2018 10:56 via twitter.com
  Live from 5-9 a.m.Ottawa's breaking news, traffic & weather with @1310Alexblack & @1310Andrew:: 1310 :… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Review finds some public servants fear reprisal in reporting harassment. ottawamatters.com/national-news/…

  11-09-2018 04:00 via twitter.com
  Review finds some public servants fear reprisal in reporting harassment.ottawamatters.com/national-news/…
  
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• Mail disruptions possible Sept,26 pending outcome of Canada Post employees vote on job action. ottawamatters.com/national-news/…

  11-09-2018 03:30 via twitter.com
  Mail disruptions possible Sept,26 pending outcome of Canada Post employees vote on job action.ottawamatters.com/national-news/…
  
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• Ford suggests Ottawans want smaller city council

  11-09-2018 03:03 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ontario Premier Doug Ford has suggested that Ottawa city council might soon come under the same kind of scrutiny as Toronto’s.
  In an interview with Global News Radio 640 Toronto, Ford was asked if he intends to shrink other city councils in the province in the same way he’s cutting Toronto’s almost in half.
  “Right now, we said we’re going to focus on this. But I’ve had numerous calls from Ottawa. I tell you, I don’t know what’s going on out in Otta
  
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• Monday Markets close on a down note. ottawamatters.com/national-busin…

  11-09-2018 03:00 via twitter.com
  Monday Markets close on a down note.ottawamatters.com/national-busin…
  
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• California has set a goal of phasing out electricity produced by fossil fuels by 2045. ottawamatters.com/world-news/cal…

  11-09-2018 03:00 via twitter.com
  California has set a goal of phasing out electricity produced by fossil fuels by 2045.ottawamatters.com/world-news/cal…
  
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• A 'notwithstanding' explainer. ottawamatters.com/national-news/…

  11-09-2018 02:30 via twitter.com
  A 'notwithstanding' explainer.ottawamatters.com/national-news/…
  
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• Trade between @redblacks & @BCLions voided after a player fails a medical. ottawamatters.com/around-ontario…

  11-09-2018 01:50 via twitter.com
  Trade between @redblacks & @BCLions voided after a player fails a medical. ottawamatters.com/around-ontario…
  
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• Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says movements such as Me Too play a role in changing a workplace culture that often… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  11-09-2018 01:15 via twitter.com
  Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says movements such as Me Too play a role in changing a workplace culture that often… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Freeland to resume NAFTA negotiations with Lighthizer Tuesday in Washington. ottawamatters.com/national-news/…

  11-09-2018 00:45 via twitter.com
  Freeland to resume NAFTA negotiations with Lighthizer Tuesday in Washington.ottawamatters.com/national-news/…
  
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• Ford fights back against ruling striking down council-cutting plan. #onpoli ottawamatters.com/national-news/…

  11-09-2018 00:15 via twitter.com
  Ford fights back against ruling striking down council-cutting plan. #onpoli ottawamatters.com/national-news/…
  
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