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• Witness testifies victim was 'going to collect a debt' when he met LeBlanc

  26-09-2018 23:21 via ottawacitizen.com
  Mohammad Ali Hassan told his driver he was “going to collect a debt,” a jury heard, when he met Michael LeBlanc outside a Donald Street convenience store on the night he was killed.
  Anthony Larmond testified Wednesday that Hassan would pay him to act as his driver, and he dropped Hassan off that night at a pay phone outside the Quickie store where he met with LeBlanc.
  Hassan, the 19-year-old known by the street name “Flex,” was stabbed 23 times in Overbrook’s Lawson
  
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• Ontario lays out details for private cannabis retail marketplace. ottawamatters.com/national-news/…

  26-09-2018 23:20 via twitter.com
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• Police hunt suspect in bank holdup south of Ottawa

  26-09-2018 23:19 via ottawacitizen.com
  Area schools were put on “hold and secure” status Wednesday in Elgin, Ont., as the small town about 120 kilometres south of Ottawa was the scene of a bank holdup.
  Provincial police were called to the Bank of Montreal branch on Main Street at about 1:30 p.m.
  The call brought members of a number of squads, including K-9 units and emergency response team officers.
  As a precaution, the area schools initiated hold-and-secure procedures. That has been lifted.
  Police continue to seek a susp
  
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• Reevely: Employers to pay less for workers' comp in Ontario, Tories announce, but won't quite admit why

  26-09-2018 22:47 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ontario employers will pay a lot less for injured workers’ compensation starting next year, provincial Labour Minister Laurie Scott announced Wednesday, now that the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board has enough money stashed to pay the claims it expects to get.
  This is good news six years in the making. Scott happily accepted a present left for her by the Liberals, the worst government in the history of governing.
  “(Employers) can now use these savings to invest into the
  
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• Egan: How to help tornado victims with cash, food, furniture and willing hands

  26-09-2018 22:47 via ottawacitizen.com
  Help is pouring in for the victims of last week’s tornadoes.
  While the Ottawa Senators have yet to win a pre-season game, their foundation is piling up amazing numbers off the ice. An initial target of $25,000 for the victims of last week’s tornadoes was doubled to $50,000, then again to $100,000 in funds to be matched from the public.
  Team troubles aside, there is evidently plenty of goodwill in Sens Nation. The GoFundMe campaign on Wednesday afternoon had hit $110,643 in four days,
  
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• How your house can resist tornadoes the Three Little Pigs way

  26-09-2018 22:39 via ottawacitizen.com
  Engineers at Western University who practise blowing the roof off a house say there are simple, cheap and effective ways to keep a house intact in high winds.
  The biggest goal is to keep the roof from flying away, said Gregory Kopp, a wind engineering expert and acting dean of engineering at Western.
  He works with the Insurance Research Lab for Better Homes, better known as the Three Little Pigs house: A lab where they huff and they puff and they design a house to survive.
  The main lesson from t
  
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• Perth, Smiths Falls real estate broker charged with fraud

  26-09-2018 22:32 via ottawacitizen.com
  A 57-year-old Smiths Falls real estate broker is facing charges after a two-month fraud probe, Lanark OPP said Wednesday.
  The investigation by uniformed officers and detectives from the crime unit began with a walk-in complaint at the Perth detachment June 8.
  Mark Lee of Smiths Falls is charged with one count of fraud over $5,000, two counts of using a forged document and one count of personation with intent to gain an advantage.
  Lee told the Kingston Whig-Standard he will plead not guilty to th
  
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• Tornado aftermath: Demolition toll rises, kids caught with stolen TV in Gatineau

  26-09-2018 22:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  The demolition toll continues to rise from Friday’s massive tornado storm.
  At Ottawa City Hall, Mayor Jim Watson told council the latest assessments indicate 30 homes will have to be demolished in hard-hit Dunrobin, while 55 are still deemed unsafe in areas of Nepean/Ottawa South.
  About 100 familes are without homes, the mayor said.
  The mayor described the “heartbreaking devastation,” but expressed relief there were no fatalities.
  He also expressed solidarity with victims in Ga
  
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• More than a game: Ravens honour memory of former Gee-Gee Loïc Kayembe on Panda trophy

  26-09-2018 22:02 via ottawacitizen.com
  Loïc Kayembe never grasped Pedro the Panda as a member of the winning team, but he’ll forever be part of Panda Game history.
  The Ottawa Gee-Gees defensive lineman who died six days before last year’s contest has been honoured in the traditional champions’ engraving on the trophy by the Carleton Ravens team that did win.
  “#49 More Than A Game” appears on the statuesque panda’s chest, atop a list featuring one slogan per year since the concurrent reviv
  
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• Canadian military eases restrictions on beards in uniform. ottawamatters.com/national-news/…

  26-09-2018 22:00 via twitter.com
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  26-09-2018 21:58 via twitter.com
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• Paving way for cannabis-based drinks, Canopy Growth shareholders approve massive $5B deal with Constellation Brands

  26-09-2018 21:46 via ottawacitizen.com
  No one doubted this deal would be approved. Canopy Growth, the Smiths Falls marijuana products company, confirmed Wednesday that shareholders representing more than 95 per cent of the company’s shares have approved a deal that will see Constellation Brands invest $5 billion.
  “This sounds like a big number,” Canopy Growth CEO Bruce Linton told shareholders, “but we already know how to spend it and are figuring out priorities.”
  Constellation Brands, a U.S. beer, wine
  
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• UPDATE: Lockdown at Elgin, ON school has been lifted. #ottnews twitter.com/OPP_ER/status/…

  26-09-2018 21:44 via twitter.com
  UPDATE: Lockdown at Elgin, ON school has been lifted. #ottnews twitter.com/OPP_ER/status/…
  
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• Air Canada pilots say near collision should prompt Ottawa to address pilot fatigue. ottawamatters.com/national-news/…

  26-09-2018 21:15 via twitter.com
  Air Canada pilots say near collision should prompt Ottawa to address pilot fatigue.ottawamatters.com/national-news/…
  
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• Tactical rifle seized at Nepean shatter lab: Police

  26-09-2018 21:10 via ottawacitizen.com
  Police seized a tactical rifle, ammunition and a host of cannabis products in raids of a pair of Nepean addresses Friday.
  One was operating as a butane extraction lab producing “shatter,” a cannabis concentrate, police said in a release Wednesday.
  Four people were arrested and charged.
  Along with 28.9 kg of pot, police seized 2.6 kg of hash, 649.2 grams of shatter and a variety of other products containing THC, the main psychoactive compound in cannabis. They included 5.75
  
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• HAPPENING NOW: OPP in Elgin, ON have placed at least one school on lockdown as they investigate an 'ongoing inciden… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  26-09-2018 20:51 via twitter.com
  HAPPENING NOW: OPP in Elgin, ON have placed at least one school on lockdown as they investigate an 'ongoing inciden… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Trudeau: MPs could debate whether to revoke Suu Kyi's honorary citizenship. ottawamatters.com/national-news/…

  26-09-2018 20:35 via twitter.com
  Trudeau: MPs could debate whether to revoke Suu Kyi's honorary citizenship.ottawamatters.com/national-news/…
  
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• Tornado aftermath: Demolition toll rises, weather office now says six tornadoes ravaged region

  26-09-2018 19:55 via ottawacitizen.com
  The demolition toll continues to rise from Friday’s massive tornado storm.
  At Ottawa City Hall, Mayor Jim Watson told council the latest assessments indicate 30 homes will have to be demolished in hard-hit Dunrobin, while 55 are still deemed unsafe in areas of Nepean/Ottawa South.
  About 100 familes are without homes, the mayor said.
  The mayor described the “heartbreaking devastation,” but expressed relief there were no fatalities.
  He also expressed solidarity with victims in Ga
  
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• Tornado aftermath: Council waives building fees as city manager calls for heightened effort helping storm-affected residents

  26-09-2018 19:54 via ottawacitizen.com
  The City of Ottawa’s top bureaucrat said municipal bosses “are not taking our foot off the gas” in the tornado and storm recovery, which entered its fifth day on Wednesday.
  Steve Kanellakos said the reality of what happened is starting to hit residents who have lost their homes and those who are trying to rebuild. This moment is the hardest part, he said.
  “The thing that really struck me that someone reminded me is, Thanksgiving is less than two weeks away and it’s
  
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• Review: Talented kids carry the show in School of Rock musical

  26-09-2018 19:37 via ottawacitizen.com
  School of Rock: The Musical
  Presented by Broadway Across Canada
  Southam Hall, National Arts Centre, to Sunday
  Reviewed Tuesday
  Tickets and times: nac-cna.ca and ticketmaster.ca
  If you’re familiar with the 2003 Jack Black comedy, School of Rock, you’ll know what to expect from the musical version that’s now playing at the National Arts Centre until Sunday.The first production in this season’s popular Broadway Across Canada series is a feel-good, family-friendly tale about
  
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• Tornado aftermath: Huge donation of pet food headed to hard-hit areas

  26-09-2018 19:21 via ottawacitizen.com
  It wasn’t as dramatic as transport planes dumping supplies by parachute, but the effect was the same for the region’s cats and dogs.
  Ottawa Humane Society volunteers were on the roads Wednesday delivering an emergency supply of pet food, two huge transport pallets worth to feed pets in families in regions most affected by Friday’s tornadoes.
  The food, donated by Hill’s Pet Nutrition Canada, was en route to the Dunrobin Veterinary Clinic, the March Road Veterinar
  
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• Today's letters: Power outage? Think solar

  26-09-2018 19:02 via ottawacitizen.com
  A better way to face power outages
  Many people who suffered during the recent power outages may be considering the purchase of a generator. For about $800, it produces enough electricity to keep the fridge, freezer, lights and furnace-fan working, with some to spare for heating up meals and coffee. But it uses so much gasoline that it cannot compete with Hydro Ottawa’s price of electricity after the power is restored. We end up with an $800 machine doing nothing except waiting for the next
  
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• Glavin: At the UN, Trudeau stands tall for style over substance

  26-09-2018 18:37 via ottawacitizen.com
  It would appear, if we rely on the Canadian Press news agency, the Financial Post, the Ottawa Citizen, the St. Catherine’s Standard, CTV News and so on, that Prime Minister Justin Trudeau spent a great deal of his time at the United Nations in New York this week resuming, or mounting, or restarting, or waging something called a “charm offensive.”
  It would also appear, from the admittedly imprecise and potentially misleading results of a Google news search, that it is quite comm
  
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• Master photog Edward Burtynsky shows us the lay of the land in new National Gallery exhibit

  26-09-2018 18:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  Master photographer Edward Burtynsky has dedicated much of his life to documenting the impact of humans on earth through dramatic, large-format photographs of industrial landscapes around the world.
  The St. Catharines-born artist has won numerous awards for his work, and his striking photos are included in the collections of some of the world’s most prestigious institutions, including New York’s Museum of Modern Art and the Guggenheim Museum, as well as the Tate Modern in London.
  Now
  
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• Kopytko: A day without power, but at least we had cabbage

  26-09-2018 17:45 via ottawacitizen.com
  “No power, no problem; at least we have cabbage!”
  Timing is everything. My elderly Aunt Irene, hailing from Alonsa, Man., arrived for a visit last Thursday, and we lost power on Friday afternoon. Irene had left her farm to visit Ottawa, her  first trip “out east,” and she was a bit nervous as she had only been on a plane twice before.
  However, there was a 40th wedding anniversary to attend and she would spend a few days. Plus, two of her sisters offered to accompany
  
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• Dining Out: Attractive dishes at Norca Restaurant & Bar can wow or disappoint

  26-09-2018 16:33 via ottawacitizen.com
  Norca Restaurant & Bar30 Daly Ave., on the second floor of Le Germain Hotel Ottawa, 613-691-3218, norcarestaurant.caOpen: for lunch Monday to Friday 11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., for dinner Monday to Saturday 5:30 to 10 p.m.Prices: small plates $14 to $21, larger plates $25 to $44Access: elevator to second floor
  At Norca Restaurant & Bar, the sleek new restaurant on the second floor of the Le Germain Hotel Ottawa in Sandy Hill, “Northern cuisine, Canadian ingredients” is both the
  
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• Tornado aftermath: City warns of ice surface closures as workers race to restore services

  26-09-2018 16:26 via ottawacitizen.com
  City of Ottawa crews are working around the clock to restore ice surfaces at several facilities that lost power over the weekend, which led to rink surfaces deteriorating.
  The city said, due to the blackout, ice surfaces at the Walter Baker Sports Centre and Minto Recreation Complex in Barrhaven, the Tom Brown Arena on Bayview Road, the Nepean Sportsplex on Woodroofe Avenue, the Pinecrest Recreation Complex in Nepean and the Richmond Arena, are all closed for the time being.
  The closures have ha
  
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• Coming up at 10:30: President of the Dunrobin Community Association, Greg Patacairk, joins @_MarkSutcliffe on the… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  26-09-2018 16:25 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 10:30: President of the Dunrobin Community Association, Greg Patacairk, joins @_MarkSutcliffe on the… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• On today's Power Lunch: @TerryLake16 & @SyntaxStrategic Jennifer Stewart join @_MarkSutcliffe in-studio: 📻: 131… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  26-09-2018 16:17 via twitter.com
  On today's Power Lunch: @TerryLake16 & @SyntaxStrategic Jennifer Stewart join @_MarkSutcliffe in-studio: 📻: 131… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Man in his 20s injured in south-end gunfire

  26-09-2018 16:01 via ottawacitizen.com
  A man in his 20s suffered minor injuries Tuesday night when he was shot in the Hunt Club area.
  Police were summoned to Jessica Private by reports of shots fired just after 9 p.m.
  They found one person with non-life-threatening injuries and recovered multiple casings at the scene near the intersection of Hunt Club and Hawthorne roads.
  Paramedics, who were called to the scene at 9:10 p.m., said the victim was taken to hospital in stable condition.
  Anyone with information is asked to call city
  
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• Tornado aftermath: Provincial disaster relief program opens for people in Dunrobin, south Ottawa

  26-09-2018 15:56 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ontario has begun offering emergency financial assistance to homeowners, tenants, small businesses, farmers and not-for-profit groups affected by the tornados in Dunrobin and south Ottawa.
  Applications are now open for The Disaster Recovery Assistance for Ontarians program.
  The program helps with expenses not covered by insurance that are caused by natural disasters. That could include anything from putting dogs in a kennel to cleaning up dead branches and house repairs.
  Maps showing the two are
  
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• Coming up on the 10 O'Clock Talk: @1310Andrew, @AGMacDougall & @JLMadigan join @_MarkSutcliffe live to discuss the… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  26-09-2018 15:55 via twitter.com
  Coming up on the 10 O'Clock Talk:@1310Andrew, @AGMacDougall & @JLMadigan join @_MarkSutcliffe live to discuss the… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Suspect in custody after man stabbed at George Street shelter

  26-09-2018 15:52 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa police say they have a suspect in custody, after a man in his 30s was stabbed at a ByWard Market homeless shelter Wednesday morning.
  Paramedics reported they were called to the George Street shelter at 7:54 a.m., stabilized the man and took him to the regional trauma centre.
  The victim was described as being in serious but stable condition.
  7:54, we responded to a homeless shelter on Georges St for a male in his 30s with injuries attributed to a stabbing.Pt stabilized by paramedics and ta
  
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• Coming up at 9:45: @REDBLACKS @kyhebert joins @_MarkSutcliffe on the #KyCares foundation: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  26-09-2018 15:40 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 9:45: @REDBLACKS @kyhebert joins @_MarkSutcliffe on the #KyCares foundation: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Downtown businesses hit with power failure

  26-09-2018 15:36 via ottawacitizen.com
  Traffic and business were tied up in the area of Laurier, Elgin, Somerset areas Wednesday morning due to a power outage.
  Hydro Ottawa said some 204 customers, mostly businesses with some high-rise office buildings, were affected.
  Traffic was backed up at several intersections.
  No estimate was given for a return of electricity.
   
   
  
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• .@hydroottawa reporting an outage downtonw, affecting more than 200 customers. It's expected to be fixed by 11 a.m.… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  26-09-2018 15:29 via twitter.com
  .@hydroottawa reporting an outage downtonw, affecting more than 200 customers. It's expected to be fixed by 11 a.m.… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Concussion awareness events mark first Rowan's Law Day

  26-09-2018 15:28 via ottawacitizen.com
  The first-ever Rowan’s Law Day will be marked Wednesday with a free information session led by the parents of the Ottawa teen rugby player whose death from complications of multiple concussions led to new awareness.
  Gordon and Kathleen Stringer and CHEO pediatric neurosurgeon Dr. Michael Vassilyadi with lead the session at Sir Robert Borden High School, 121 Greenbank Road, from 7-9 p.m.
  No registration is required and everyone is welcome. Free parking is available behind the school but ple
  
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• Sticky, showers and the risk of a thunderstorm

  26-09-2018 13:35 via ottawacitizen.com
  Wednesday’s weather will be wet and sticky, but there’s nary a weather warning in sight as the clean up continues in the capital.
  It’s the east coast that’s expected to be hammered with wind and heavy rain from a storm approaching from the Great Lakes.
  For Ottawa, expect showers and the risk of a thunderstorm then clearing in the afternoon. The high is 20 C, but it will feel like 27 C.
  Overnight, expect a low of 5 C under clearing skies and fog patches that will ling
  
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• Ottawa builders and renovators take top honours at OHBA awards gala

  26-09-2018 11:32 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa housing industry companies dominated with their home renovation and architectural design prowess at the 2018 Ontario Home Builders’ Association Awards of Distinction Tuesday night.
  In addition to capturing an impressive six awards at the annual gala, held this year in the downtown Ottawa Shaw Centre, locals also swept the list of finalists for the prestigious Ontario Renovator of the Year category.
  Ottawa design-builder OakWood beat out fellow local finalists Amsted Design-Build and
  
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• ICYMI: @OttawaPolice seek to ID & "speak to" three men in Sept.15 murder investigation. #ottnews ottawamatters.com/local-news/pol…

  26-09-2018 05:00 via twitter.com
  ICYMI: @OttawaPolice seek to ID & "speak to" three men in Sept.15 murder investigation. #ottnewsottawamatters.com/local-news/pol…
  
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• University of Ottawa terminates agreement with student federation. ottawamatters.com/local-news/uni…

  26-09-2018 04:32 via twitter.com
  University of Ottawa terminates agreement with student federation.ottawamatters.com/local-news/uni…
  
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• Tornado aftermath: Storm system approaching Eastern Ontario on Wednesday

  26-09-2018 04:25 via ottawacitizen.com
  The risk is being called slight, but a complex weather picture developing for Eastern Ontario and Quebec on Wednesday will be a little too close for comfort for those who lived through — and are still cleaning up from — multiple tornadoes less than a week ago.
  The fall storm, developing over the Great Lakes, is expected to bring with it rain, strong wind gusts and thunderstorms, all of which will get in the way of clean up from the destruction caused by six tornadoes that swept throu
  
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• Fall storm system approaching Eastern Ontario on Wednesday

  26-09-2018 04:07 via ottawacitizen.com
  The risk is being called slight, but a complex weather picture developing for Eastern Ontario and Quebec on Wednesday will be a little too close for comfort for those who lived through — and are still cleaning up from — multiple tornadoes less than a week ago.
  The fall storm, developing over the Great Lakes, is expected to bring with it rain, strong wind gusts and thunderstorms, all of which will get in the way of clean up from the destruction caused by six tornadoes that swept throu
  
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• Shareholder critical of DavidsTea co-founder unloads most of its shares. ottawamatters.com/national-busin…

  26-09-2018 04:00 via twitter.com
  Shareholder critical of DavidsTea co-founder unloads most of its shares.ottawamatters.com/national-busin…
  
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• Tornado aftermath: Why we only heard belatedly about Ottawa's third tornado

  26-09-2018 03:50 via ottawacitizen.com
  Environment Canada didn’t announce there was a tornado in Calabogie and White Lake until late Monday because it needed satellite images of the area to confirm it was really a tornado.
  Department spokesman Peter Kimbell said Tuesday the three tornadoes in our region didn’t all announce their presence in the same way.
  He said some are more obvious than others: “If we were suspecting a tornado and had a warning out, and we see video or photograph in real time or shortly thereafter
  
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• Chinese citizen accused of allegedly spying on US engineers. ottawamatters.com/world-news/chi…

  26-09-2018 03:30 via twitter.com
  Chinese citizen accused of allegedly spying on US engineers.ottawamatters.com/world-news/chi…
  
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• Does Ottawa's mayoral race need a Jim Watson-Clive Doucet debate showdown?

  26-09-2018 03:11 via ottawacitizen.com
  To the two frontrunners in Ottawa’s mayoral race, the stage at Tuesday’s night’s leadership debate seemed a little too crowded.
  Mayor Jim Watson and rival Clive Doucet both expressed frustration with mass candidate debates, and Doucet said he’d be game to debate Watson one-on-one.
  “I’d just love it, one-on-one,” Doucet said after the event at Carleton University.
  “Imagine an hour of us together? Then you’d have a real sense of who knew their
  
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• Veterans Affairs ordered to take second look before supporting vets' relatives. ottawamatters.com/national-news/…

  26-09-2018 02:50 via twitter.com
  Veterans Affairs ordered to take second look before supporting vets' relatives.ottawamatters.com/national-news/…
  
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• Police seek help finding missing 11-year-old girl

  26-09-2018 02:31 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa Police are asking for help locating a missing 11-year-old girl whose family is concerned for her.
  Nakayla Baskin of Ottawa is described as a white female who is 5 feet 4 inches (162 cm) tall and weighs about 150 pounds (68 kg). She has grey eyes and shoulder length blondish brown hair, usually worn in a messy bun. She looks older than she is and could be mistaken for 16, police say.
  She may be in the Russell Road area.
  Anyone with information about Nakayla Baskin is asked to contact the m
  
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• 'It saved lives': Emergency alert officials say system worked before tornadoes hit

  26-09-2018 02:29 via ottawacitizen.com
  Officials in charge of Canada’s emergency alert system were scheduled to report to the Senate committee on national security and defence Monday about how it is working, now that mobile phones have been added to the network.
  Three days before that meeting, they got their answer in dramati
  c fashion when six tornadoes left a trail of destruction across Eastern Ontario, Ottawa and West Quebec.
  Before the storms hit, warnings could be heard coming from mobile phones, radios and televisions acr
  
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