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• New Karlsson court filings describe relationship of fear, accusations and gossip

  13-09-2018 23:46 via ottawacitizen.com
  Melinda Karlsson genuinely feared what Monika Caryk could be capable of when she sought an order of protection, according to new court filings in the ongoing off-ice and in-court saga of one-time Sens spouses.
  The wife of former team captain Erik Karlsson also considers Caryk’s attempt to procure all evidence against herself as something that’s nothing more than a “frivolous” PR stunt, the documents say.
  In a factum filed with the Ontario Superior Court last week, Ka
  
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• Ottawa researcher highlights role of "natural killer cells" in cancer immunotherapy

  13-09-2018 23:42 via ottawacitizen.com
  An Ottawa scientist has given researchers a new target in their quest to fully unleash the human immune system’s natural ability to destroy cancer cells.
  Dr. Michele Ardolino and his colleagues have discovered that Natural Killer (NK) cells — a type of immune cell — play a crucial role in the success of some of today’s leading immunotherapy drugs, such as Keytruda and Opdivo.
  The finding challenges what scientists thought they knew about what made the drugs effective canc
  
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• Dollarama stock falls to lowest in a year as slower sales growth spooks investors ottawamatters.com/national-busin…

  13-09-2018 23:30 via twitter.com
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• Wind and rain from Florence's leading edge lash Carolinas ottawamatters.com/world-news/win…

  13-09-2018 23:00 via twitter.com
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• Anti-abortion activists set sights on bubble zone legislation

  13-09-2018 22:55 via ottawacitizen.com
  Six months after it was introduced, anti-abortion activists have set their sights on a repeal of Ontario’s “bubble zone” law that creates safe areas around abortion providers.
  Jack Fonseca, of Campaign Life Coalition, said his organization plans to lobby Premier Doug Ford and his government to revoke the Protecting a Woman’s Right to Access Abortion Services Act, which came into effect last February. He said he is optimistic it will do so.
  “(Ford’s) recent uni
  
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• Fair Toronto election 'virtually impossible' amid council-cutting fight: clerk ottawamatters.com/national-news/…

  13-09-2018 22:30 via twitter.com
  Fair Toronto election 'virtually impossible' amid council-cutting fight: clerkottawamatters.com/national-news/…
  
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• Reevely: City says public can't see contractor's plan to get LRT going

  13-09-2018 22:18 via ottawacitizen.com
  The consortium building Ottawa’s $2.1-billion light-rail system won’t let the city release a copy of a work schedule that would supposedly see the system ready to roll by the end of November instead of in the new year.
  The document is pivotal in the argument between city hall and the Rideau Transit Group (RTG) over just how close the 12.5-kilometre line through downtown is to opening. It’s so secret, though, that even the language in the contract between the city and RTG that g
  
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• Gatineau-area man doing well after the first ever Canadian face transplant ottawamatters.com/local-news/gat…

  13-09-2018 22:00 via twitter.com
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• Section of Gatineau shopping centre evacuated

  13-09-2018 21:28 via ottawacitizen.com
  Gatineau police have evacuated part of the food court of Les Promenades de Gatineau after arresting a man for making threats.
  As of 3 p.m. Thursday, they were still investigating at the scene.
  Police said a man came to the mall and started threatening staff in one of the businesses, which police have not identified. Officers arrested the man and at that time noticed he had a package that appeared suspicious. That was when they evacuated the area around the package.
  Gatineau police have also call
  
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• Rona offered to buy Lowe's Canada years before it was acquired, says ex-CEO. ottawamatters.com/national-busin…

  13-09-2018 21:25 via twitter.com
  Rona offered to buy Lowe's Canada years before it was acquired, says ex-CEO.ottawamatters.com/national-busin…
  
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• City doesn't think Somerset House owner will carry through with redevelopment

  13-09-2018 21:12 via ottawacitizen.com
  The city is taking the “most aggressive action” yet on the stagnant renovation to the historic Somerset House in Centretown, the city’s heritage boss says.
  Court Curry, the manager who oversees the city’s heritage program, said on Thursday that based on a meeting with the property owner last week, he doesn’t believe the restoration plan will happen for the property on Somerset and Bank streets. According to Curry, the owner has decided to pursue “other develop
  
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• The hockey world reacts to the Erik Karlsson trade

  13-09-2018 21:06 via ottawacitizen.com
  Erik Karlsson has finally been traded, to the San Jose Sharks.
   
  Sources say the #Sens have dealt Erik Karlsson to the Sharks in exchange for Chris Tierney, Dylan DeMelo, Josh Norris, Rudolfs Balcers, 2020 1st, 2019 2nd and two conditional picks.
  — Bruce Garrioch (@SunGarrioch) September 13, 2018Very sad to see @ErikKarlsson65 leave our City. He was always a tremendous leader on and off the ice. He and @MelindaCurrey will be very much missed. We thank him for 9 great seasons with the
  
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• The @SanJoseSharks announce their acquisition of @ErikKarlsson65 #ottnews #sens #senstrade twitter.com/SanJoseSharks/…

  13-09-2018 20:52 via twitter.com
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• US, Cuba to meet on mysterious 'health attacks' in Havana. ottawamatters.com/world-news/us-…

  13-09-2018 20:50 via twitter.com
  US, Cuba to meet on mysterious 'health attacks' in Havana.ottawamatters.com/world-news/us-…
  
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• BREAKING: Erik Karlsson has been traded to San Jose. sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/ott… https://t.co/CqOyMIaRxh

  13-09-2018 20:37 via twitter.com
  
  BREAKING: Erik Karlsson has been traded to San Jose.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/ott… https://t.co/CqOyMIaRxh
  
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• Tysen's Mission to a Million closes in on $1M target

  13-09-2018 20:31 via ottawacitizen.com
  With just 47 days and more than $200,000 left to go in his five-year drive to raise $1 million for Make-A-Wish Eastern Ontario, Tysen Lefebvre is characteristically undaunted.
  “Dream big or go home,” said the teen who was just 13 when he kicked off his campaign to grant 100 other kids’ wishes months after getting his own — flying to California to meet comedian Adam Sandler.
  With $786,190.57 raised and 71 wishes adopted, the Stittsville teen is now pulling out all the
  
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• Petawawa raid yields drugs, weapons

  13-09-2018 20:12 via ottawacitizen.com
  Two people are under arrest following an Ontario Provincial Police raid Thursday in Petawawa.
  According to police, warrants were executed at a residence and in a vehicle on Gerald Avenue in Petawawa, leading to the seizure of firearms including a pistol and long guns, various types of drugs, drug paraphernalia and ammunition.
  Police listed the drugs seized as cocaine, methamphetamine and marijuana, but did not specify amounts.
  Police arrested Tyler Gates, 33, and Felicia Valiquette, 30. They fac
  
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• Kingston woman bites police officer

  13-09-2018 20:04 via ottawacitizen.com
  A local police officer was treated for minor injuries after being bitten by a woman he had arrested for theft.
  On Wednesday afternoon, an Avenue Road resident returned home for lunch and saw a suspicious woman leaving his building.
  The woman raised the man’s suspicions and he took a cellphone picture of her. He later learned that the woman had stolen some clothing from an apartment in the building.
  He sent the photo to police.
  About eight hours later, police were called to a city mote
  
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• Street dogs from remote Quebec community looking for Ottawa 'forever homes'

  13-09-2018 19:18 via ottawacitizen.com
  Twenty of about 150 stray dogs rescued from the overrun streets of a northern Quebec First Nation will arrive in Ottawa Monday on their way to loving “forever” homes.
  “Dogs that have not been properly cared for will find families who will love them for their entire lives,” said Ewa Demianowicz of Humane Society International/Canada.
  On Saturday, the society will team up with charity Chiots Nordiques to take volunteers, including veterinarians, to Obedjiwan, 12 hours north
  
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• Coyle: Why Ottawa needs to take green space seriously

  13-09-2018 18:35 via ottawacitizen.com
  Neighbourhood green space in Ottawa is precious – and disappearing, so it’s no surprise that residents get angry when they do not receive support from the city to help them safeguard these invaluable places to gather and enjoy recreational activities or leisure time.
  Whether in an established community such as College Ward or a new one like the proposed development at LeBreton Flats, residents have a right to expect basic guiding principles are not just in place,
  
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• U.S. saxist Darius Jones, vocalist Emilie Lesbros fuse unfettered jazz with French avant-gardism

  13-09-2018 17:55 via ottawacitizen.com
  Darius Jones, the bracing and celebrated American alto saxophonist and composer, admits that his knowledge of French is “non-existent.”
  Still, Jones was not deterred from initiating and plunging into an album-length collaboration with French vocalist Emilie Lesbros that set her evocative mother-tongue lyrics to his rugged and at times incendiary music, layering intrigue upon intrigue.
  “One of the things that I love about music is that we don’t know what the language is,&r
  
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• Mott: Sending students to court for rowdy street parties is unfair

  13-09-2018 17:52 via ottawacitizen.com
  A joint pilot project launched by Queen’s University, Kingston police and the City of Kingston to quell the infamous annual chaos of Queen’s University parties can be aptly summarized as: Empty the streets by filling the courtrooms.
  The solution of what’s called the “University District Safety Initiative” is to issue summonses to appear in court, instead of tickets wherein the fine is payable by phone or online, to partygoers revelling in the mass turmoil that is Ki
  
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• On today's Power Lunch: @johnsonthree & @TerryLake16 join @_MarkSutcliffe live in-studio: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  13-09-2018 16:29 via twitter.com
  On today's Power Lunch:@johnsonthree & @TerryLake16 join @_MarkSutcliffe live in-studio: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Battle of Britain anniversary ceremony set for Sunday in Gatineau with fly-past and march

  13-09-2018 16:17 via ottawacitizen.com
  Members of the public are invited to attend the ceremony marking the 78th anniversary of the Battle of Britain at the Gatineau-Ottawa Executive Airport from 10 a.m. to noon on Sunday.Royal Canadian Air Force personnel and veterans will march alongside Royal Canadian Air Cadets, the Canadian Forces noted. Weather permitting, the ceremony will feature a fly-past of vintage aircraft as well as current Royal Canadian Air Force aircraft.
  From July to October 1940, the Battle of Britain was the R
  
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• Adam: Want some say over city of Ottawa issues? Then vote

  13-09-2018 15:58 via ottawacitizen.com
  Now that the holidays are over, Labour Day behind us and the kids back in school, there is no excuse for not paying attention to the municipal election campaign. For an election that initially looked like a dud, the Oct. 22 campaign has turned into a big deal with a lot at stake.
  From Bay to Orléans to Vanier, significant issues are emerging, and it is everybody’s duty to participate, assess the candidates and vote for the one who represents your values.
  For years, people have compl
  
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• Coming up on the 10 O'Clock Talk: @David_Moscrop, @LMartinWashDC and @1310glennis join @_MarkSutcliffe: 📻: 1310… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  13-09-2018 15:55 via twitter.com
  Coming up on the 10 O'Clock Talk: @David_Moscrop, @LMartinWashDC and @1310glennis join @_MarkSutcliffe:📻: 1310… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Coming up at 9:45: @DownGoesBrown joins @_MarkSutcliffe with your Sens season preview 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  13-09-2018 15:40 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 9:45:@DownGoesBrown joins @_MarkSutcliffe with your Sens season preview📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Coming up at 9:30 @Geddes28 joins @_MarkSutcliffe for their weekly @macleans on the Hill segment: Listen: : 1310… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  13-09-2018 15:25 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 9:30@Geddes28 joins @_MarkSutcliffe for their weekly @macleans on the Hill segment:Listen:: 1310… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Calgary man, 83, dies after canoe tips north of Algonquin Park

  13-09-2018 15:09 via ottawacitizen.com
  An 83-year-old Calgary is dead after his canoe tipped Wednesday and he fell into the water in Little Lake, north of Algonquin Park.
  Ontario Provincial Police said the victim, identified as Merlin Bergeron, was canoeing with a friend and a dog in the area near Head, Clara and Maria Township at around 12:30 p.m. when the canoe tipped and began to take on water.
  A 56-year-old man from Ottawa and the dog made it to shore safely.
  Bergeron’s body was recovered by first responders.
  The occupants
  
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• POLL: Who do you support in the dispute between the provincial government and the city of Toronto?

  13-09-2018 15:01 via twitter.com
  POLL: Who do you support in the dispute between the provincial government and the city of Toronto?
  
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• Coming up at 9:15: @AndreaHorwath joins @_MarkSutcliffe to discuss @fordnation / #NotwithstandingClause: 📻: 1310… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  13-09-2018 15:00 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 9:15: @AndreaHorwath joins @_MarkSutcliffe to discuss @fordnation / #NotwithstandingClause:📻: 1310… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Ottawa CityFolk: Ani DiFranco gets 'back on my folksinger horse'

  13-09-2018 14:48 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ani DiFranco at CityFolk
  7:30 p.m. Friday, City Stage, Lansdowne Park
  Also performing: David Byrne, Trampled By Turtles, Andy Shauf and more
  Tickets & info: cityfolkfestival.com
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  Singer-songwriter-activist Ani DiFranco has been busy writing a memoir, to be titled No Walls and the Recurring Dream, that’s expected next May. It’s given her a brief respite from writing songs, but now she’s back on the road with her band, and the politically charged songs from he
  
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• Who do you support in the dispute between the provincial government and the city of Toronto? twitter.com/1310NEWS/statu…

  13-09-2018 14:20 via twitter.com
  Who do you support in the dispute between the provincial government and the city of Toronto? twitter.com/1310NEWS/statu…
  
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• Ottawa woman, 21, falls two storeys after balcony railing collapses

  13-09-2018 13:50 via ottawacitizen.com
  A 21-year-old Ottawa woman fell two storeys when a balcony railing collapsed at an apartment block in Sandy Hill.
  Ottawa paramedics responded to an emergency call at 10:18 p.m., near Nelson Street and Laurier Avenue East, and found the woman with head and neck injuries.
  Paramedics said they were informed the victim had been leaning against the railing when it broke free.
  She was taken to the trauma centre at the The Ottawa Hospital Civic campus in serious but stable condition.
   
   
  
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• Summer's last gasp? Weekend highs look to hit high 20s

  13-09-2018 13:32 via ottawacitizen.com
  Break out the fans and flipflops – summer’s back for a grand finale.
  After the fog burns off, Thursday should be mainly sunny with a high of 25 C that will feel like 31 and a UV index of 7 or high, Environment Canada predicts.
  The low Thursday night is expected to drop to 15 C.
  Friday’s forecast is even hotter with a high of 27 C that will feel like 34 and overnight low of 17 C, which is within spitting distance of the typical high of 20 C for mid-September.
  A mix of sun and cl
  
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• Suleiman: Tax agency's targeting of my mosque just doesn't make sense

  13-09-2018 12:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  On Aug. 22, Muslims around the globe observed Eid Al-Adha, one of two major festivals celebrated each year by people of the Islamic faith. As has been the tradition, the South East Ottawa community congregated at the Ottawa Islamic Centre and Assalam Mosque to commemorate this important annual ritual.
  However, something was eerily different this year: Politicians from all three levels of government who represent the sizeable Muslim community of South East Ottawa stayed away and decided not to sh
  
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• Got $1,100? Apple shows off its most expensive iPhone yet: bit.ly/2xaGI2g https://t.co/f0KCcVhmu8

  13-09-2018 12:24 via twitter.com
  
  Got $1,100? Apple shows off its most expensive iPhone yet: bit.ly/2xaGI2g https://t.co/f0KCcVhmu8
  
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• Woman suffers head and neck injuries in balcony fall: bit.ly/2xfesvJ #ottnews https://t.co/M0j0pcRRZ0

  13-09-2018 12:01 via twitter.com
  
  Woman suffers head and neck injuries in balcony fall: bit.ly/2xfesvJ #ottnews https://t.co/M0j0pcRRZ0
  
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• Glavin: Canada should break silence on Beijing's treatment of Uighurs

  13-09-2018 12:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  It will come as news to nobody that the Communist regime in Beijing lies through its teeth about the state of human rights in China, but nothing comes close to the lies Beijing tells to cover up its mounting persecution of Muslims. Those lies have been getting harder to tell, ever since Xi Jinping’s police state embarked upon measures so extreme and tyrannical that it’s become harder for the regime to keep the truth from getting to the outside world.
  An in-depth Human Rights Watch in
  
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• Theft of wigs for kids who have cancer is 'heartbreaking:' shop manager: bit.ly/2x9AW05 https://t.co/1GIeq7SNsb

  13-09-2018 11:55 via twitter.com
  
  Theft of wigs for kids who have cancer is 'heartbreaking:' shop manager: bit.ly/2x9AW05 https://t.co/1GIeq7SNsb
  
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• Threat of job loss a factor, as newspaper workers vote to avoid strike: bit.ly/2NcHDth https://t.co/4XOr9OjLeC

  13-09-2018 11:25 via twitter.com
  
  Threat of job loss a factor, as newspaper workers vote to avoid strike: bit.ly/2NcHDth https://t.co/4XOr9OjLeC
  
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• Hydro Ottawa heading south of the border in anticipation of Hurricane Florence: bit.ly/2N8hSdr https://t.co/33njL5lLym

  13-09-2018 11:18 via twitter.com
  
  Hydro Ottawa heading south of the border in anticipation of Hurricane Florence: bit.ly/2N8hSdr https://t.co/33njL5lLym
  
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• UPDATE: Suzanne Lavoie has been found safe. #ottnews twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…

  13-09-2018 11:05 via twitter.com
  UPDATE: Suzanne Lavoie has been found safe. #ottnews twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…
  
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• Landowners oppose oil pipeline before Iowa Supreme Court. ottawamatters.com/national-busin…

  13-09-2018 06:35 via twitter.com
  Landowners oppose oil pipeline before Iowa Supreme Court.ottawamatters.com/national-busin…
  
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• Vatican probing alleged funds misuse by Sistine Choir heads. ottawamatters.com/world-news/vat…

  13-09-2018 05:35 via twitter.com
  Vatican probing alleged funds misuse by Sistine Choir heads.ottawamatters.com/world-news/vat…
  
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• Ottawa woman falls two storeys after balcony railing collapses

  13-09-2018 05:02 via ottawacitizen.com
  An Ottawa woman fell two storeys when a balcony railing collapsed at an apartment block in Sandy Hill.
  Ottawa paramedics responded to an emergency call at 10:18 p.m., near Nelson Street and Laurier Avenue East, and found the woman with head and neck injuries.
  She was taken to the Civic campus of The Ottawa Hospital in serious but stable condition.
   
   
  
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• Hydro Ottawa crew leaves for U.S. to assist with post-hurricane repairs

  13-09-2018 04:52 via ottawacitizen.com
  A Hydro Ottawa crew is en route to North Carolina so they can be in position to help restore power after Hurricane Florence batters the Eastern Seaboard of the United States.
  Fourteen workers from Ottawa have answered a request for assistance from Duke Energy, a U.S. utility company.
  Extensive power outages are anticipated once Florence, a Category 3 hurricane, comes ashore. Florence was expected to pack winds of up to 185 kilometres an hour and to dump heavy rain for an extended period over Nor
  
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• CFL fines Ottawa defensive lineman Tavai for hit on Lions' quarterback Lulay. ottawamatters.com/around-ontario…

  13-09-2018 04:36 via twitter.com
  CFL fines Ottawa defensive lineman Tavai for hit on Lions' quarterback Lulay.ottawamatters.com/around-ontario…
  
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• CityFolk Day 1: Clear skies and '80s nostalgia

  13-09-2018 04:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  The 25th anniversary edition of the Ottawa Folk Festival, currently known as CityFolk, opened Wednesday at Lansdowne Park under clear skies and a blast of memories from the ’80s, thanks to Steve Earle celebrating a milestone of his own.
  The American roots-rocker and his band, The Dukes, are touring to mark the 30th anniversary of the seminal 1988 album Copperhead Road. In front of an Ottawa crowd that looked to be composed mostly of people who came of age in the ’80s and probably saw
  
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• Jagmeet Singh: First-past-the-post enables 'fringe' candidates like Doug Ford. ottawamatters.com/national-news/…

  13-09-2018 03:35 via twitter.com
  Jagmeet Singh: First-past-the-post enables 'fringe' candidates like Doug Ford.ottawamatters.com/national-news/…
  
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