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• Rural Canada Post carriers could see 25-per-cent pay hike, says spokesman ottawamatters.com/national-news/…

  20-09-2018 23:30 via twitter.com
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• Ottawa singer-songwriters The LYNNeS lead Canadian folk nominations

  20-09-2018 23:27 via ottawacitizen.com
  The LYNNeS, Jack Pine and the Fire, Kristine St. Pierre and Jeremy Fisher are among the singer-songwriters from Ottawa nominated for this year’s batch of Canadian Folk Music Awards.
  As the LYNNeS, Lynne Hanson and Lynn Miles are up for five awards, tied with the legendary Buffy Sainte-Marie for the most nominations. The collaborative effort from Hanson and Miles, Heartbreak Song for the Radio, puts them in the running for the year’s best contemporary album, vocal group, ensemble, Eng
  
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• Woman arrested after stolen delivery van slams into downtown business

  20-09-2018 23:14 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa police took a woman into custody after a stolen truck was driven into The Hardy Arcade on Queen Street on Thursday afternoon.
  The identity of the woman allegedly driving the truck was not released.
  Ottawa police responded to calls of a stolen delivery van, which had slammed into several cars along Queen Street before coming to a rest after hitting the glass of 168 Queen St. around 1 p.m.
  A 70-year-old woman, who was struck while walking on the sidewalk, was taken to Ottawa hospital with m
  
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• 'It’s morally degrading': Crude posters target Shepherds of Good Hope

  20-09-2018 22:58 via ottawacitizen.com
  City bylaw officers have ordered an Ottawa landlord to remove large posters from his Murray Street property, depicting paintings of world leaders sitting on toilets with blunt and crude messages that are aimed at the neighbouring Shepherds of Good Hope.
  The posters show a series of paintings by Italian artist Cristina Guggeri with leaders such as the Dalai Lama, Angela Merkel, Barack Obama and Queen Elizabeth sitting on toilets. On the posters, the words “What I see makes me $#!T” ar
  
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• Reevely: Ontario's Green Energy Act soon to be a goner

  20-09-2018 22:15 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ontario’s Green Energy Act hasn’t been doing much for a while but the Progressive Conservatives will get as much mileage as they can out of burying it.
  Former premier Dalton McGuinty treated the 2009 law as a signature accomplishment, meant to be the legal foundation for a major transformation of Ontario’s economy. It didn’t do that. But it did galvanize opposition to the Liberals especially in rural Ontario, was key to electricity-system reforms that raised prices, and p
  
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• Doucet spreads scorn for developments that don't help communities

  20-09-2018 22:07 via ottawacitizen.com
  Clive Doucet on Thursday unleashed a scattershot heap of scorn for developments that he says eat up greenspace and suck the livability out of communities.
  Doucet, who’s running for mayor in the Oct. 22 municipal election, spoke to reporters outside the fence around the new artificial turf sports field at Immaculata High School off Main Street in Old Ottawa East. He liked seeing students playing on the field, but he was annoyed that the surrounding community has been blocked from using the
  
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• Ottawa police probe alleged racist incident captured in viral video

  20-09-2018 21:08 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa police confirm they’re investigating after a new mom of Chinese descent complained of being struck by a car then subjected to racist tirades delivered while she was out with her baby celebrating her 88-year-old grandmother’s birthday.
  “I still can’t believe that in Ottawa in 2018, racist things like this can happen,” Jenny Dao-D’Angelo said in a post on Facebook accompanying a video capturing what the end of the confrontation that has been watched 155,0
  
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• Wildlife officers round up another bear wandering in Gatineau

  20-09-2018 20:47 via ottawacitizen.com
  Yet another wandering bear was rounded up in Gatineau Thursday, as the city continues to experience a record level of incursions by animals looking for food to fatten up for hibernation.
  The latest collar was near Cholette Arena, near Saint-Raymond and Cité-des-Jeunes boulevards off the east end of Gatineau Park.
  Several residents called the Quebec natural resources department at about 10 a.m. and agents were able to locate and capture the wandering beast quickly.
  It was returned into the
  
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• Woman arrested after slamming stolen delivery van into downtown business

  20-09-2018 20:42 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa police have taken a woman into custody after a stolen truck into The Hardy Arcade on Queen Street Thursday afternoon.
  The identity of the woman allegedly driving the truck was not released.
  Ottawa police responded to calls of a stolen delivery van, which had slammed into several cars along Queen Street before coming to a rest after hitting the glass of 168 Queen St. around 1 p.m.
  A 70-year-old woman, who was struck while walking on the sidewalk, was taken to Ottawa hospital with minor inj
  
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• Councillor wins support for looking into licensing home-based businesses

  20-09-2018 20:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  The bylaw department should look into licensing home-based businesses as part of a sweeping municipal regulations review, a committee decided on Thursday.
  Knoxdale-Merivale Coun. Keith Egli won support for his surprise motion at a community and protective services meeting.
  Egli rebuffed a suggestion that he only wants to wrap home-based businesses in red tape.
  “Not at all,” Egli said after the meeting. “The majority of home-based businesses in the city operate legitimately, wel
  
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• Trek to scale Alberta mountain ends in hospital for climbers caught in slide. ottawamatters.com/national-news/…

  20-09-2018 20:20 via twitter.com
  Trek to scale Alberta mountain ends in hospital for climbers caught in slide.ottawamatters.com/national-news/…
  
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• Man arrested after slamming stolen delivery van into downtown business

  20-09-2018 20:02 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa police have taken a man into custody after he crashed a stolen truck into The Harry Arcade on Queen Street Thursday afternoon.
  Ottawa police responded to calls of a stolen delivery van, which had slammed into several cars along Queen Street before coming to a rest after hitting the glass of 168 Queen Street around 1 p.m.
  A 70-year-old woman, who was struck while walking on the sidewalk, was taken to Ottawa hospital with minor injuries.
  Police have arrested the driver of the van. However,
  
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• Following review, military police reopening 23 'unfounded' sexual assault cases. ottawamatters.com/national-news/…

  20-09-2018 19:45 via twitter.com
  Following review, military police reopening 23 'unfounded' sexual assault cases.ottawamatters.com/national-news/…
  
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• .@OttawaPolice continue to investigate this incident. #ottnews twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…

  20-09-2018 19:43 via twitter.com
  .@OttawaPolice continue to investigate this incident. #ottnews twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…
  
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• Hotel murder suspect was in room for 'mere seconds,' lawyer says

  20-09-2018 19:01 via ottawacitizen.com
  Crystal Bastien was in the hotel room where Mohamad Mana was killed for “mere seconds” before she ran out crying, according to her lawyer.
  Bastien, who was wanted for first-degree murder, appeared in court Thursday morning, the day after she turned herself in to police. Wearing a black hoodie, Bastien, 32, was ordered not to communicate with a list of witnesses in the police case against her. She will remain in custody.
  Her next court date is scheduled for Oct. 4.
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• Firefighters control smoky east-end rowhouse blaze

  20-09-2018 18:56 via ottawacitizen.com
  Fire crews tamed a smoky fire Thursday morning in one unit of an eight-unit row in the city’s east end late Thursday morning.
  They were dispatched to 191 Birch Hill Priv. at about 11 a.m. after several 911 calls reported visible flames.
  It was quickly declared a working fire.
  The fire department said in a tweet that the fire started in the garage and extended into the home.
  Crews worked to limit the spread inside the residence, as well as preventing the fire from moving into the conne
  
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• The @rick_gibbons Show for Thursday, September 20th: 1:08: @JLeiper 1:17: @mspratt 1:30: @Citizenkwarren 1:45:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  20-09-2018 18:32 via twitter.com
  The @rick_gibbons Show for Thursday, September 20th: 1:08: @JLeiper 1:17: @mspratt 1:30: @Citizenkwarren 1:45:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Ottawa police officers rescue woman from alleged human trafficking ring

  20-09-2018 18:08 via ottawacitizen.com
  A woman is now in a safe home and attempting to recover after being rescued from an alleged human trafficking ring by Ottawa police officers.
  According to police, in mid-September a call was received from a woman who claimed she was being held captive, was being sold for sex work and was unable to escape her traffickers. Emergency response officers launched an investigation and a police raid was coordinated.
  The woman was rescued by police and has been taken to a safe home outside of the provinc
  
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• Iversen and Holder: Global pledge of gender equality comes up short

  20-09-2018 18:01 via ottawacitizen.com
  Twenty-six out of 195. That is the number of countries with women foreign ministers. This week, as female foreign ministers from around the world convene in Montreal for the first meeting of its kind, 87 per cent of countries didn’t have the option to send a representative.
  The unsavoury numbers come just three years after governments globally made a promise to eradicate gender inequality by 2030 through the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals.
  But if we look
  
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• Adam: Municipal race – Bilingualism may determine winner in Innes ward

  20-09-2018 18:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  If there is a ward in the municipal election where the candidates are so closely matched it is virtually impossible to determine a front-runner, let alone a winner, it is Innes in Ottawa’s east end. The problem is not just how closely matched the four candidates are, but how the ability to speak French – or not – could be a deal-breaker. About one-third of the population in Innes ward is francophone and French is essential.
  The candidates are vying to replace Coun. Jody Mitic,
  
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• NEXT on the Power Lunch: @liannelaing & @Baileymariereid join @_MarkSutcliffe live in-studio: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  20-09-2018 17:55 via twitter.com
  NEXT on the Power Lunch:@liannelaing & @Baileymariereid join @_MarkSutcliffe live in-studio: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• OPP repeat call for help from public after fatal e-bike crash

  20-09-2018 17:49 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ontario Provincial Police have repeated a call for assistance from the public in hopes of finding new information on a fatal collision last week between a truck and an electric bicycle.
  The collision occurred at about 4:15 Sept. 15 on County Road 8 near County Road 25 in Prince Edward County when an eastbound truck collided with a westbound e-bike.
  Ralph Chantrill, 78, from Athol, near Picton, was pronounced dead at the scene.
  Quaw Sheng Zhang, 50, of Belleville was arrested and charged with dan
  
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• Firefighters battle east-end rowhouse blaze

  20-09-2018 17:47 via ottawacitizen.com
  Fire crews were battling a fire in one unit of an eight-unit row in the city’s east end late Thursday morning.
  They were dispatched to 191 Birch Hill Priv. at about 11 a.m. after several 911 calls reported visible flames.
  It was quickly declared a working fire.
  The fire department said in a tweet that the fire started in the garage and extended into the home.
  The fire department asked motorists to move over for emergency vehicles as they respond to the fire near Montreal Road and Bath
  
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• Should there be a ban on marketing food to children? @SenNGreeneRaine joins @_MarkSutcliffe at 11:45: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  20-09-2018 17:40 via twitter.com
  Should there be a ban on marketing food to children?@SenNGreeneRaine joins @_MarkSutcliffe at 11:45: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• The strongest music achieves unity with its listeners, vibraphonist Stefan Bauer says

  20-09-2018 17:24 via ottawacitizen.com
  At the best of times, playing the vibraphone can be the musical equivalent of gymnastics. Four mallets, a pair gripped in each hand, fly across the instrument’s aluminum bars in a whirling display of precision and power.Now imagine trying to play your vibraphone when you’ve broken your collarbone. That’s Stefan Bauer’s dilemma.
  The Brooklyn-based musician brings his group to Toronto, Ottawa and Waterloo during a short tour that starts today with three nights at Toronto&rs
  
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• Humane society seeks help giving 'Northern beauties' a second chance in Ottawa

  20-09-2018 17:09 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Ottawa Humane Society is appealing to animal lovers to help them give 22 “northern beauties” rescued from the streets of a remote northern community the second chance they deserve.
  OHS volunteers and staff welcomed five kittens, eight cats, seven dogs and two puppies Monday from Obedjiwan, a First Nation in northern Quebec.
  “Although tired from their journey, the dogs greeted us with wagging tails and the cats with loud purrs,” humane society president and CEO Bruce R
  
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• Police probe alleged racist incident video viewed 150,000 times

  20-09-2018 16:54 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa police confirm they’re investigating after a woman of Chinese descent complained of a racist tirade delivered while she held her baby and was with her 88-year-old grandmother.
  “I still can’t believe that in Ottawa in 2018, racist things like this can happen,” Jenny Dao-D’Angelo said in a post on Facebook Tuesday accompanying a video capturing what she said was the tale end of the confrontation that has been watched 155,000 times.
  “As a Canadia
  
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• Canada’s new fixed wing search and rescue aircraft takes shape – first delivery expected next year

  20-09-2018 16:22 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Department of National Defence has released this photo above of the first C-295W in the process of being built by Airbus for the RCAF. The first aircraft is scheduled to be delivered next year. The RCAF will receive 16 such aircraft for search and rescue missions.
   
  
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• OHS welcomes animals from Northern Quebec reserve; donations needed: bit.ly/2QRjeaS #ottnews https://t.co/gpKJU0p1Bw

  20-09-2018 16:04 via twitter.com
  
  OHS welcomes animals from Northern Quebec reserve; donations needed: bit.ly/2QRjeaS #ottnews https://t.co/gpKJU0p1Bw
  
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• Coming up at 10 O'Clock Talk: @1310glennis, @David_Moscrop & @sprottschool Ian Lee join @_marksutcliffe live: 📻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  20-09-2018 15:54 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 10 O'Clock Talk:@1310glennis, @David_Moscrop & @sprottschool Ian Lee join @_marksutcliffe live: 📻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Woman in security video sought in Mohamad Mana homicide investigation

  20-09-2018 15:52 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 1-
  
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• Coming up at 9:45: @emacsays joins @_marksutcliffe to explain why the Senators need to re-energize fans: 📻: 131… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  20-09-2018 15:40 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 9:45: @emacsays joins @_marksutcliffe to explain why the Senators need to re-energize fans: 📻: 131… 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: 📻: 131… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  20-09-2018 15:25 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 9:30@Geddes28 joins @_MarkSutcliffe for their weekly @macleans on the Hill segment:Listen:📻: 131… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Coming up at 9:15: @LMartinWashDC joins @_MarkSutcliffe on Doug Ford's trip to Washington/ NAFTA: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  20-09-2018 15:10 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 9:15:@LMartinWashDC joins @_MarkSutcliffe on Doug Ford's trip to Washington/ NAFTA: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Antiques: Scent bottle is a real catch

  20-09-2018 15:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  Q:  My great uncle, born in 1874 was the keeper of this bottle which he kept in a curio cabinet in my childhood. It might have belonged to another relative who worked in the china department of Woolworths from 1910-1930. Is it possible that such an item would be sold at Woolworths? My uncle also inherited items from a friend who was a scholar at the University of Leipzig circa 1898. My wife and I would be interested in learning anything you can tell us about this attractive object.
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• Toronto trucker charged in Hawkesbury-area school bus crash

  20-09-2018 13:48 via ottawacitizen.com
  The driver of a tractor-trailer is facing a careless driving charge under the Highway Traffic Act after his rig rear-ended a school bus on Highway 34 east of Ottawa Wednesday morning.
  The OPP did not identify the 51-year-old Toronto man in a release issued Thursday morning.
  Four children were hurt in what turned into a four-vehicle collision at about 9 a.m. south of Pleasant Corner Road between Vankleek Hill and Hawkesbury
  The bus driver was airlifted to hospital in Ottawa but none of the injuri
  
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• Wanted murder suspect turns herself in to police

  20-09-2018 13:23 via ottawacitizen.com
  A woman wanted for first-degree murder in the hotel homicide of Mohamad Mana has turned herself in to police, this newspaper has learned.
  Crystal Bastien, 32, was wanted for what detectives believe was her role in the killing of Mana, found bound and beaten to death Saturday night at the Residence Inn by Marriott hotel on Walkley Road. Bastien, an escort believed to have booked the room in which Mana was found dead, turned herself in to detectives at police headquarters on Elgin Street on Wednes
  
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• Risk of showers Thursday, sticky Friday, but cooler, sunnier weekend

  20-09-2018 13:20 via ottawacitizen.com
  The forecast features the risk of rain and one more sticky day before a cool, dry weekend with some sunshine.
  Thursday’s outlook is for mixed skies, a 40 per cent chance of morning showers, high of 19 C and UV index of 6 or high, Environment Canada predicts.
  More clouds should roll in Thursday evening, bringing a 60 per cent chance of overnight showers and the risk of a thunderstorm with a low of 14 C.
  Friday looks mainly cloudy with a 60 per cent chance of morning and early afternoon show
  
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• From the Archives: Jennifer Teague —There will never be closure' until the truth is known, father says

  20-09-2018 13:13 via ottawacitizen.com
  Originally published January 26, 2008
  Jean and Ed Teague went to court yesterday hoping to find out why Kevin Davis killed their daughter. They didn’t get an answer.
  “He gave no kind of reason — nothing,” Mrs. Teague said minutes after Mr. Davis was sent to prison for life for strangling 18-year-old Jennifer Teague in September 2005. “It was senseless. Totally senseless.”
  What Mr. and Mrs. Teague did hear for the first time, however, were the chillin
  
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• Why sex ed plays a role in the fight against sexual violence

  20-09-2018 13:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  This is the third article in a three-part series looking at sexual violence on university and college campuses.
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  Sexual education for students has become a political flashpoint in Ontario.
  The Ford government’s decision to repeal more progressive Wynne-era school curriculum has resulted in the omission of subjects such as gender identity, tech safety and consent.
  It’s a move that has polarized Ontarians. As the province moves ahead with consultations on what kind of curric
  
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• Pellegrini Opera: High culture on a shoestring budget

  20-09-2018 13:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  Madama Butterfly
  Presented by Pellegrini Opera
  7:30 p.m. Saturday, Ukrainian Banquet Hall, 1000 Byron Ave. Doors open at 6 p.m.
  Tickets: $50 general or $40 for students and seniors, available in person at The Leading Note, Books on Beechwood and Librairie du Soleil, and online at http://www.pellegriniopera.org  
  Vincent Thomas has deep roots in the opera community. The only son of the renowned Ottawa-based soprano, Maria Pellegrini, and stage director Steven Thomas, he practically
  
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• Lombardi: AI thinkers mustn't duck ethics debate on autonomous weapons

  20-09-2018 12:45 via ottawacitizen.com
  Earlier this summer, Yoshua Bengio, the McGill-based Artificial Intelligence pioneer and one of the world’s leading authorities on neural networks and machine-learning, added his name to a growing global list of experts and laboratories in the field that are pledging to have no role in the creation of what are called “lethal autonomous weapons” (LAWs). The signatories’ premise is as benign as it is unsound: that machines must never be given the authority to decide when to
  
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• Today's letters: A winning election platform

  20-09-2018 12:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  Here’s how to win my vote in municipal election
  Public consultation is mandated in municipal decision-making processes, but unfortunately there is no legal definition for “consultation” in this country. As a result, public notification and meetings are often conducted after everything has already been decided, and people’s input and objections are disregarded. This has been characterized as “listen intently but ignore completely.”
  The United Kingdom has addres
  
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• Best: Why we aren’t ready for the next financial crisis

  20-09-2018 12:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ten years ago, as the global economy slipped ever closer to a total meltdown, regulators were slow to recognize the severity of the problem because they were looking in the wrong direction.
  Transcripts from the U.S. Federal Reserve’s policymaking committee meeting that took place on Sept. 16, just as the financial giant Lehman Brothers was allowed to fail, include 129 mentions of “inflation,” and just five of “recession.” Not surprisingly, given their narrow focus o
  
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• This week at Ottawa City Hall: Ford government, OC Transpo and LeBreton Flats

  20-09-2018 06:56 via ottawacitizen.com
  What’s going on in Toronto and is the Ontario government likely to take an axe to Ottawa’s City Hall as well?
  Is the LRT ever going to open? Is route 11 returning? Will the long-discussed LeBreton Flats project get a green light? Click play for these answers and more.
  This is the first in a new weekly video series, looping you into the inside goings on at Ottawa City Hall, with City Hall reporter Jon Willing and Postmedia political columnist David Reevely.
  Do you have an issue y
  
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• ICYMI: Suspended Ottawa Police constable faces criminal charges in assault & sex assault investigation involving fo… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  20-09-2018 05:00 via twitter.com
  ICYMI: Suspended Ottawa Police constable faces criminal charges in assault & sex assault investigation involving fo… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Wanted murder suspect turns self into police

  20-09-2018 04:59 via ottawacitizen.com
  A woman wanted for first-degree murder in the hotel homicide of Mohamad Mana has turned herself in to police, this newspaper has learned.
  Crystal Bastien, 32, was wanted for what detectives believe was her role in the killing of Mana, found bound and beaten to death Saturday night at the Residence Inn by Marriott hotel on Walkley Road. Bastien, an escort believed to have booked the room in which Mana was found dead, turned herself in to detectives at police headquarters on Elgin Street on Wednes
  
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• SUV slides over Champlain Bridge following head-on crash injuring six

  20-09-2018 04:51 via ottawacitizen.com
  Five people were taken to hospital and the Champlain Bridge was closed in both directions Wednesday night after a head-on collision.
  Several of the victims were trapped and had to be extricated from the two vehicles.
  A spokesman for the Ottawa Paramedic Service said the head-on collision happened about 8:43 p.m. at the exit to Bate Island, which is part-way across the bridge.
  One vehicle involved, an SUV, slid over the edge of the pavement and onto the embankment, about 15 metres from the water.
  
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• ICYMI: ottawamatters.com/local-news/25-…

  20-09-2018 04:00 via twitter.com
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• Quincy Jones opens up about quitting alcohol in Netflix doc: 'I don't miss it at all'. ottawamatters.com/around-ontario…

  20-09-2018 03:05 via twitter.com
  Quincy Jones opens up about quitting alcohol in Netflix doc: 'I don't miss it at all'.ottawamatters.com/around-ontario…
  
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