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• Scheer welcomes former Liberal MP Alleslev to Conservative caucus ottawamatters.com/national-news/…

  19-09-2018 23:30 via twitter.com
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• Updated: Ottawa police officer faces 21 charges, including multiple counts of assault and sex assault

  19-09-2018 23:27 via ottawacitizen.com
  A suspended Ottawa police officer has been charged with a lengthy list of offences against women he met on dating sites, including sexual assault, pointing his police-issued service pistol, uttering threats and harassment.
  Const. Eric Post, 47, was arrested by sexual assault detectives Wednesday morning, with tactical officers standing by at the ready, after a months-long investigation into both his on- and off-duty conduct.
  Post faces a total of 21 charges, the most criminal charges ever faced
  
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• Wesley Clover Parks seeks zoning for major concert event next summer

  19-09-2018 23:26 via ottawacitizen.com
  Live Nation Canada’s Ken Craig says he’s had his eye on Wesley Clover Parks for more than two decades, convinced it has the potential to be one of the best outdoor concert sites in the country.
  “I really believe this site is fabulous,” said Craig, the company’s vice-president of Eastern Canada. “The location is great, and success depends on location. It’s right on the corner of the 416 and the 417. You’re two hours to Montreal, 30 minutes to the Ot
  
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• Pedestrian struck on Woodroffe

  19-09-2018 23:23 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa police are asking drivers to avoid Woodroffe Avenue between Baseline Road and Iris Street after a serious accident.
  A female pedestrian suffered serious injuries, although other details were not yet available.
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• Woman sought in Mohamad Mana homicide investigation

  19-09-2018 23:21 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa police are looking for help in identifying a woman photographed by a security camera.
  Police want to talk to the blonde woman with a ponytail in connection with the Mohamad Mana homicide investigation. Mana was beaten to death in a hotel Saturday night. Anyone with information regarding this investigation is asked to call the major crime section at (613) 236-1222, extension 5493, or its tipline at extension 5477. Anonymous tips can be submitted by calling Crime Stoppers toll-free at
  
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• After a long delay, hockey arena construction starts Friday in Gatineau

  19-09-2018 23:19 via ottawacitizen.com
  After nearly a year’s delay, construction is ready to start on the new Four-Rink Complex in Gatineau. The sod-turning will be at 10 a.m. Friday at 510 Boulevard de la Cité.
  Mayor Maxime Pedneaud-Jobin will be joined by Alain Sanscartier, president of Vision Multisports Outaouais (VMSO), and Martin Lacasse, president of the Gatineau Olympiques.
  The complex, which will cost about $80 million, will be paid for jointly by the city, Quebec and VMSO. It will replace the aging Robert Guert
  
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• Gatineau police charge 20-year-old and teen in 'ritual' animal torture case

  19-09-2018 23:09 via ottawacitizen.com
  A 20-year-old man and a teenager have been charged with animal cruelty after Gatineau police found evidence of “ritual” cruelty to small animals near Buckingham.
  The investigation began in June when a suspicious fire broke out in an abandoned farm building on Lepine Avenue, near the edge of Buckingham.
  Police brought a tracking dog, which followed a scent to a nearby building. In this building, police say they found evidence that someone “was killing or torturing animals as a s
  
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• New York Review of Books editor out after Ghomeshi backlash ottawamatters.com/national-news/…

  19-09-2018 23:00 via twitter.com
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• OC Transpo doesn't know why sales of adult passes aren't meeting expectations

  19-09-2018 22:40 via ottawacitizen.com
  Sales of adult monthly transit passes were below expectations in the first half of 2018 as OC Transpo girds for a projected $4.1-million revenue shortfall for the year, and that’s not even accounting for the LRT delay.
  The transit commission on Wednesday learned that Transpo budgeted to sell 281,847 adult monthly passes between January and June, but it sold 268,986 passes.
  On top of that, single-fare Presto e-purse transactions were about $2.5 million short of what Transpo thought it would
  
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• OSPCA investigating death of horse at hot Gananoque-area fair ottawamatters.com/local-news/osp…

  19-09-2018 22:30 via twitter.com
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• Ottawa-raised author Sarah Weinman dives into harrowing real life Lolita story

  19-09-2018 22:24 via ottawacitizen.com
  Growing up in Ottawa in the early 1990s, Sarah Weinman read about the killings here of Melinda Sheppit and Sophie Filion and their grisly details stuck with her.
  Sheppit, just 16 when she was strangled in late 1990 and left in a ByWard Market dumpster, was scarcely older than Weinman was at the time. A few years later, Filion’s body was abandoned in a garbage bag found in Westboro, about a kilometre from Weinman’s high school.
  “I was always fascinated by crime,” recalls W
  
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• Police say crash on Woodroffe @ Algonquin College is serious. Female pedestrian stuck suffering serious injuries.… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  19-09-2018 22:17 via twitter.com
  Police say crash on Woodroffe @ Algonquin College is serious. Female pedestrian stuck suffering serious injuries.… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• "Don't be intimidated — it's just music," say organizers of IMOO Fest 2018

  19-09-2018 21:48 via ottawacitizen.com
  “If you build it, they will come” applies not just to baseball fields, but also, in the Ottawa area, to festivals of improvised music.
  In 2012, fans and practitioners of more exploratory jazz-based music launched IMOO Fest — the acronym stands for Improvising Musicians of Ottawa/Outaouais. Thereafter, annual sequels and a slate of weekly concerts were part of the IMOO regimen, attracting provocative, outward-bound musicians from Toronto, Montreal and beyond. Then, after a few y
  
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• Transpo won't fully reverse recent bus route changes, preferring to make 'tweaks'

  19-09-2018 21:38 via ottawacitizen.com
  OC Transpo will “tweak” some of the bus routes recently changed in preparation for LRT, but customers who voiced concerns about the alterations shouldn’t expect a full reversal.
  John Manconi, the city’s general manager of transportation, used the word tweak several times during a transit commission meeting on Wednesday as a way to manage the expectations of commissioners and the fare-paying public. Reversing all of the route changes — some contentious — from e
  
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• Piché: Premier's support for new Ottawa jail costly, ineffective

  19-09-2018 21:20 via ottawacitizen.com
  During the 2018 provincial election campaign, then-Progressive Conservative candidate for premier Doug Ford promised to “find efficiencies” to reduce the cost of government in Ontario. When asked how, he answered, “We’re going to find four cents on the dollar.”
  In a province where approximately seven out of 10 prisoners are legally innocent and awaiting their day in court, more often than not as a result of being charged with non-violent offences, even greater savin
  
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• Lawsuit over solitary confinement in Ontario jails certified as class action. ottawamatters.com/national-news/…

  19-09-2018 20:35 via twitter.com
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• Reevely: With LeBreton Flats, as with the Ottawa Senators, patience is a virtue

  19-09-2018 20:28 via ottawacitizen.com
  The National Capital Commission can’t let public impatience to redevelop LeBreton Flats stampede it into making a bad deal.
  The commission’s chief executive Mark Kristmanson says pivotal decisions are coming up later this fall, as we close in on an agreement with the RendezVous LeBreton group on selling the prized federal land just off Parliament Hill for development, including a hockey arena. The NCC and the group led by the Ottawa Senators have been negotiating for more than two ye
  
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• Alleged drunk driver in Kingston wrecks car, flees on bike, fights police

  19-09-2018 20:03 via ottawacitizen.com
  Even shearing off a wheel or two couldn’t stop a drunk driver in Kingston early Wednesday morning, police report.
  A motorist was westbound on Concession Street when he struck a light post at Leroy Grant Drive, “ripping off” one of his passenger side wheels.
  Witnesses who heard the crash called police and soon after local paramedics spotted the broken-down car at Johnson Street and Sir John A Macdonald Boulevard where it had by then lost another wheel.
  Witnesses at that spot saw
  
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• A heads up for those in Old Ottawa South. #ottnews twitter.com/OttFire/status…

  19-09-2018 19:43 via twitter.com
  A heads up for those in Old Ottawa South. #ottnews twitter.com/OttFire/status…
  
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• Military small arms competition underway at Connaught Ranges

  19-09-2018 19:31 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Canadian Armed Forces Small Arms Concentration (CAFSAC) is underway at the Connaught Ranges and Primary Training Centre in Ottawa.
  The event started Sept. 10 and runs until Sept. 22.
  Approximately 300 sharpshooters from the Canadian military, Australia, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and the United States are participating in this year’s event.
  Held annually, the event is an international high-profile professional marksmanship event organized by the Canadian Army.
  The aim of the C
  
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• Ottawa police officer faces 21 charges, including multiple counts of assault and sex assault

  19-09-2018 19:29 via ottawacitizen.com
  An Ottawa police officer has been charged with 21 criminal offences, including sexual assault, pointing a firearm and five counts of assault.
  Const. Eric Post, 47, was arrested Wednesday morning by investigators with the sexual assault unit.
  Post faces a raft of charges, including two counts of sexual assault, pointing a firearm, careless storage of a firearm, possession of a dangerous weapon, harassment, uttering threats, assault, intimidation, forcible entry and forcible confinement.
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• Provincial SPCA probes death of draft horse at weekend fair

  19-09-2018 19:24 via ottawacitizen.com
  LYNDHURST — The Ontario SPCA is investigating after a draft horse pulling a wagonload of fairgoers collapsed and died Saturday afternoon at the Lyndhurst Turkey Fair.
  The popular Percheron horse, Mack, part of team owned by Marwin and Kathy Antoine, was on a regular run, pulling the fairgoers up the hill towards Christ Church, when he suddenly collapsed.
  The horses had been on a 30-minute rest with plenty of water, said Kathy Antoine.
  The Antoines are experienced horse owners and have been
  
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• STORY: Constable Eric Post facing sex assault charges. #ottnews ottawamatters.com/police-beat/ot… https://t.co/v2yLw1GkTW

  19-09-2018 19:23 via twitter.com
  
  STORY: Constable Eric Post facing sex assault charges. #ottnewsottawamatters.com/police-beat/ot… https://t.co/v2yLw1GkTW
  
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• BREAKING: Ottawa Police have charged an officer with sexual assault. Const. Eric Post, 47, is also facing charges o… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  19-09-2018 19:15 via twitter.com
  BREAKING: Ottawa Police have charged an officer with sexual assault. Const. Eric Post, 47, is also facing charges o… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Gatineau's incoming fire chief led flood response in Montreal

  19-09-2018 19:09 via ottawacitizen.com
  Gatineau’s next fire chief is a veteran whose résumé that includes leading Montreal’s response to major spring flooding in 2017 and negotiating Gatineau’s new collective agreement with firefighters.
  Newly-appointed director of the fire service Denis Doucet, who started his career in Montreal more than 30 years ago and was a frontline firefighter for 13 years, joined the Gatineau fire department in May 2017 and headed up labor relations and administrative support.
  
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• Four kids, driver hurt after tractor trailer rear-ends school bus near Hawkesbury

  19-09-2018 18:53 via ottawacitizen.com
  Four children were taken to hospital in Hawkesbury with injuries after their school bus was involved in a four-vehicle collision involving a tractor-trailer on Highway 34 Wednesday morning.
  The bus driver was also airlifted to hospital in Ottawa.
  None of the injuries are life-threatening, Hawkesbury OPP reported.
  About 20 other children on the bus were also taken to the hospital by ambulance as a precaution. The occupants of the other vehicles were unhurt.
  First responders were called to the cra
  
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• Three Kingston residents accused of trafficking opioids to northern communities

  19-09-2018 18:51 via ottawacitizen.com
  Three Kingston residents were collared this week, accused of supplying prescription opioids to remote northern Ontario communities, the RCMP reports.
  The force’s serious and organized crime team made the arrests Sept. 17 and 18, the RCMP said.
  Joshua Burtch, 31, and Pearl Friday, 40, are charged with trafficking, conspiracy to traffic and possession of the proceeds of crime. Michael Eric Loone, 48, who also goes by the name Ashamok, was charged with possession of a substance 
  
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• Meerveld: A neighbourhood party Dr. Seuss would have liked

  19-09-2018 18:40 via ottawacitizen.com
  Approaching the eve of his passing, Theodor Geisel sat down at his desk with the same stoic meticulousness that had brought him to that place every day for the previous three-quarters of a century. Having sold 600 million books over an illustrious career, the man they called Dr. Seuss put pen to paper one last time with “Oh, the Places You’ll Go.” The book would explore the wonder of the unknown that awaited those who were open to living life’s fullest. Seuss, a literary
  
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• The @rick_gibbons Show for Wednesday, September 19th: 1:08: @curb1961 1:17: @dmclarty1 1:37: @Momin680NEWS 1:45:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  19-09-2018 18:04 via twitter.com
  The @rick_gibbons Show for Wednesday, September 19th: 1:08: @curb1961 1:17: @dmclarty1 1:37: @Momin680NEWS 1:45:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• NEXT on the Power Lunch: @karinottawa & @EricEdCollard join @_MarkSutcliffe in-studio: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  19-09-2018 17:55 via twitter.com
  NEXT on the Power Lunch: @karinottawa & @EricEdCollard join @_MarkSutcliffe in-studio:📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Sweltering students at summer day programs should have air conditioning, trustees recommend

  19-09-2018 17:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  Summer daycare programs for students at Ottawa’s English public schools should have air conditioning, trustees have recommended.
  They heard Tuesday from several parents who said their children were sweltering last summer at the extended-day program at Robert Hopkins Public School.
  It’s a health and safety issue, said trustee Sandra Schwartz, who proposed the motion.
  With climate change, we can expect more heat waves, she said.
  Trustees recommended that all summer extended day program
  
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• On today's Power Lunch: @karinottawa & @EricEdCollard join @_MarkSutcliffe in-studio: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  19-09-2018 16:31 via twitter.com
  On today's Power Lunch: @karinottawa & @EricEdCollard join @_MarkSutcliffe in-studio:📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• MRC des Collines police use defibrillator to help save senior, child

  19-09-2018 16:29 via ottawacitizen.com
  Police in west Quebec helped save a 68-year-old man in cardiac arrest Saturday, a month after reviving a lifeless toddler.
  At about 6 p.m. on Sept. 15, officers responded to a call on l’If Road in La Pêche where a 68-year-old man was in cardio-respiratory arrest.
  Taking over from a neighbour, a nurse who had started CPR, police used the defibrillator to revived the man. Moments later, paramedics arrived to take the man to the hospital in Wakefield.
  “Hats off to the respond
  
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• Coming up at 10:30: @JeffHuntOT joins @_MarkSutcliffe on the kickoff of the @Ottawa67sHockey season: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  19-09-2018 16:25 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 10:30:@JeffHuntOT joins @_MarkSutcliffeon the kickoff of the @Ottawa67sHockey season:📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Dining Out: Antonyme's creative kitchen loads up ever-changing tapas with flavour and flair

  19-09-2018 16:05 via ottawacitizen.com
  Antonyme150 rue Principale, Gatineau (Aylmer sector), 819-557-0523, restaurant-antonyme.caOpen: Tuesday and Saturday 5 to 10 p.m., Wednesday to Friday 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. and 5 to 10 p.m., Sunday 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and 5 to 10 p.m., closed MondaysPrices: tapas $6, small plates around $15, tasting menus $35 and $45 per personAccess: steps to front door, washrooms upstairs
  When we first popped into Antonyme last month, we were a batch of folks who were hungry to the point of impatience, confronted by
  
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• BREAKING #onpoli news: twitter.com/Momin680NEWS/s…

  19-09-2018 16:04 via twitter.com
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• Coming up on the 10 O'Clock Talk: @DerickFage, @AGMacDougall & @JLMadigan join @_MarkSutcliffe live to discuss the… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  19-09-2018 15:55 via twitter.com
  Coming up on the 10 O'Clock Talk:@DerickFage, @AGMacDougall & @JLMadigan join @_MarkSutcliffe live to discuss the… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Tractor trailer breaks sound barrier in three-truck collision near Brockville

  19-09-2018 15:45 via ottawacitizen.com
  A transport truck went through a sound barrier wall near Brockville’s North Augusta Road exit on Highway 401 early Wednesday morning.
  No one was injured in the collision, but the damage appeared extensive.
  Three tractor-trailers were involved in the incident, which happened around 4 a.m. and ended with a section of the concrete barrier off Waverly Drive destroyed.
  Ontario Provincial Police Const. Sandra Barr said one of the drivers involved has been charged with careless driving under the
  
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• Coming up at 9:45: Paul Lacerte of ⁦@MooseHide_BC⁩ joins @_MarkSutcliffe on the campaign that sees men speaking o… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  19-09-2018 15:40 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 9:45: Paul Lacerte of ⁦@MooseHide_BC⁩ joins @_MarkSutcliffe on the campaign that sees men speaking o… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Police seek suspect in cat shootings in Cantley

  19-09-2018 15:01 via ottawacitizen.com
  Police in west Quebec are appealing to help them nab the person or persons who fired an air gun to injure or kill cats in Cantley last month.
  Three cats were shot in the incidents on Aug. 11 and 12 in the vicinity of Taché Street and de Maricourt Road, MRC des Collines-de-l’Outaouais police said in a release Tuesday.
  Two of the animals needed major surgery.
  Anyone with information is asked to call the police service’s confidential phone line at 1-844-477-2529.
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• Coming up at 9:15: PPC leader @MaximeBernier joins @_marksutcliffe live: 📻: 1310 💻: bit.ly/2oQd8u1… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  19-09-2018 15:00 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 9:15: PPC leader @MaximeBernier joins @_marksutcliffe live: 📻: 1310 💻: bit.ly/2oQd8u1… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Police seek suspect shooting cats in Cantley

  19-09-2018 14:49 via ottawacitizen.com
  Police in west Quebec are appealing for help them nab the person or persons who fired an air gun to injure or kill cats in Cantley last month.
  Three cats were shot in the incidents Aug. 11 and 12 in the vicinity of Taché Street and de Maricourt Road, MRC des Collines-de-l’Outaouais police said in a release Tuesday.
  Two of the animals needed major surgery.
  Anyone with information is asked to call the police service’s confidential phone line at 1-844-477-2529.
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• POLL: Can Eugene Melnyk restore the confidence of Senators fans?

  19-09-2018 14:43 via twitter.com
  POLL: Can Eugene Melnyk restore the confidence of Senators fans?
  
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• Adams calls for copyright changes to help artists

  19-09-2018 14:29 via ottawacitizen.com
  Canadian musician Bryan Adams told a House of Commons committee on Tuesday that copyright laws need to change to give more control to artists. Adams noted artists currently cant recover ownership of their work until after they die.
  
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• B.C. firefighter captures video of fire whirl

  19-09-2018 14:27 via ottawacitizen.com
  B.C. Wildfire Service information officer Kevin Skrepnek says a fire whirl caught on camera by firefighter Mary Schidlowsky is uncommonly large and lengthy in duration.
  
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• Lane reductions near Munster after car carrier fire

  19-09-2018 14:03 via ottawacitizen.com
  Police warned commuters of lane reductions around the scene of a car carrier that caught fire at Fallowfield and Munster roads Wednesday morning.
  Firefighters were called to the scene just before 6 a.m. and found the carrier and cargo fully engulfed in flames.
  Fallowfield Road was closed at Munster Road as firefighters called in a remediation company to tackle a damaged fuel tank on the car carrier.
  Fire Chief Todd Horricks reported that the driver was able to escape safely.
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• Youths seen leaving park after man's 'suspicious' drowning, Brockville police say

  19-09-2018 13:59 via ottawacitizen.com
  A group of youths was spotted leaving Hardy Park shortly after a man went missing on Thursday evening, Brockville police say.
  Officers saw the youths while responding to a 911 call for assistance at the park between 10:30 p.m. and 11 p.m., according the Staff-Sgt. Andrew Harvie.
  The 911 call was made by Damian Sobieraj, 33, whose body was recovered from the St. Lawrence River off of Hardy Park on Friday, Harvie said.
  Harvie would not say whether or not police suspect the youths of being involved
  
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• Cooler days, then a warm and wet start to the weekend

  19-09-2018 13:29 via ottawacitizen.com
  A few more seasonal days are in the forecast before a warm and wet start to a cooler weekend.
  For Wednesday, expect mixed skies, a high of 22 C with just a smidge of humidity making it feel like 25 and a UV index of 5 or moderate, according to Environment Canada. The overnight low is 8 C.
  Mixed skies and a high of 21 C are forecast for Thursday with showers beginning overnight and a balmy low of 15 C.
  Friday’s forecast features showers and a high of 26 C. There’s a 60 per cent chance
  
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• Father Joe, convicted of theft and fraud, returns to serve Catholic faithful in Ottawa

  19-09-2018 13:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  Rev. Joseph LeClair — Father Joe to his legion of supporters — has made his return to the Archdiocese of Ottawa four years after being convicted of stealing from the coffers of Blessed Sacrament Parish.
  Archbishop Terrence Prendergast announced LeClair’s return to active ministry in a letter issued last week to priests in the diocese.
  “As you can imagine,” Prendergast wrote in the letter, obtained by this newspaper, “this is a challenging transition and we wou
  
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• Graham and Legendre: Let's set the bar higher for municipal candidates

  19-09-2018 12:45 via ottawacitizen.com
  What is happening in Orléans Ward? A slipshod democratic process is undermining democracy.  With 17 candidates, it is impossible for communities to organize debates and discussion forums to usefully assist residents in making a choice on election day. Even the mayoralty contest (12 candidates) makes things unwieldy for a proper vetting of issues and ideas for the future of Ottawa. Choices are important and in Orléans, considered choices will be hard to make.
  We are fortunate t
  
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