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• 'It was my life or his,' accused killer LeBlanc testifies

  28-09-2018 23:54 via ottawacitizen.com
  Michael LeBlanc testified, “It was my life or his,” when he stabbed Mohammad Ali Hassan to death, telling the jury the two were settling a score over drugs in Lawson Park when a knife fight broke out.
  Wearing a dark blazer and dress shirt, tattoos peaking out from his collar and shirtsleeves and his black hair pulled back, LeBlanc moved from the prisoner’s box to the witness stand on Friday to testify in his own defence at his second-degree murder trial.
  LeBlanc said both men w
  
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• Information sessions for tornado-affected residents ottawamatters.com/local-news/inf…

  28-09-2018 23:49 via twitter.com
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• Jury verdict tossed in 'Stairway to Heaven' copyright suit. ottawamatters.com/world-news/jur…

  28-09-2018 23:30 via twitter.com
  Jury verdict tossed in 'Stairway to Heaven' copyright suit.ottawamatters.com/world-news/jur…
  
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• Winter tires saved youngster in two-storey fall, neighbours say

  28-09-2018 23:11 via ottawacitizen.com
  Neighbours of a four-year-old boy who fell from a second-floor window Wednesday night in the Cummings/Cyrville neighbourhood say a stack of four winter tires immediately below the window may have saved the child’s life.
  Roland Arsenault, who lives two doors down in the Hendon Way row housing, where the incident occurred, said he was smoking a cigarette in his backyard at about 9:30 p.m., moments before the youngster fell.
  “The window was open and he was pushing against the screen,&rd
  
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• Nepean couple taking home $675K in lottery win ottawamatters.com/local-news/nep… https://t.co/dF44rUBPc7

  28-09-2018 22:46 via twitter.com
  
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• Everybody on plane survives crash landing in Pacific lagoon. ottawamatters.com/national-busin…

  28-09-2018 22:30 via twitter.com
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• Mayoral candidate deletes video shot in tornado zone that criticized Watson

  28-09-2018 22:28 via ottawacitizen.com
  A now-deleted YouTube video of mayoral candidate Clive Doucet standing in the middle of the tornado damage on Greenbank Road and criticizing Mayor Jim Watson was posted by mistake, Doucet’s communications director said Friday.
  “That was not an official campaign video and should not have been posted. That was a mistake and that’s why it was taken down,” said Anne-Marie Roy.
  “The video was shot while Clive was feeling particularly emotional looking at the devastation
  
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• SIU charges Ottawa police sergeant with sexual assault

  28-09-2018 21:39 via ottawacitizen.com
  The province’s Special Investigations Unit has charged an Ottawa police sergeant with sexual assault.
  The watchdog announced Friday that it had grounds to believe Sgt. Aasim Ansari sexually assaulted a woman while on duty and committed breach of trust by a public officer.
  The allegations date back to October 2017. Ansari, a west division patrol officer, responded to a 911 call to Larga Baffin on Richmond Road, a residence for people from the Baffin Region and Nunavut who are in Ottawa for
  
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• Tornado aftermath: Senators fundraising campaign tops $340,000

  28-09-2018 21:34 via ottawacitizen.com
  A week after six tornadoes ripped through Eastern Ontario, The Ottawa Senators announced it has raised more than $340,000 through a GoFundMe campaign.
  In a media release Friday, the Ottawa Senators Foundation said it will use these funds to support two critically important aspects of the tornado relief effort: food security and mental health.
  The foundation said itwill direct $200,000 to local food banks and $140,000 (or more) to community resource centres working to provide counselli
  
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• Thousands of travellers affected in Europe by Ryanair strike. ottawamatters.com/world-news/tho…

  28-09-2018 21:30 via twitter.com
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• UPDATE: Power has been restored to more than 5,500 in unexpected Nepean outage

  28-09-2018 21:18 via ottawacitizen.com
  Hydro Ottawa reported that 5,514 customers in the area of Fallowfield and Prince of Wales drives were unexpectedly without power for a couple of hours Friday afteroon.
   
  UPDATE: Crews have found the cause of the outage in #Barrhaven. Working now on restoring power as safely and as quickly as possible. Thanks for your patience. #Ottnews pic.twitter.com/SxsYhki2u3
  — Hydro Ottawa (@hydroottawa) September 28, 2018The #outage is Fallowfield, Prince of Wales area is not a planned outage. Ca
  
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• Power restored in Fallowfield/Prince of Wales #ottnews twitter.com/hydroottawa/st…

  28-09-2018 21:01 via twitter.com
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• Reevely: Ontario's Drive Clean program to die in April as Tories shift focus to heavy trucks' exhaust

  28-09-2018 20:45 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Drive Clean program that has tested Ontario’s cars to make sure they don’t pollute too much has served its purpose and will be cancelled next April, Premier Doug Ford announced Friday, but operators of heavy trucks can expect tougher testing of what comes out of their exhaust pipes.
  This should save $40 million and end an annoyance for people who drive cars that are more than seven years old, who need to get their vehicle emissions tested before they can renew licence stickers.
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• Facebook says 50M user accounts affected by security breach. ottawamatters.com/national-busin…

  28-09-2018 20:30 via twitter.com
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• Deadly wasting disease found in farmed Outaouais deer, hundreds culled

  28-09-2018 20:21 via ottawacitizen.com
  Chronic wasting disease in deer has been confirmed for the first time in Quebec, on a game farm that has led Quebec to cancel the fall deer hunt in the area north of Grenville, opposite Hawkesbury.
  The Ontario Federation of Anglers and Hunters says this is a “huge” threat to both Ontario and Quebec deer and moose, and to hunting.
  However the disease is not believed to be transmissible to humans.
  One sick deer was identified on a deer farm on Sept. 10, leading Quebec officials to kill
  
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• Tornado aftermath: More than $3 million pledged for victims

  28-09-2018 19:59 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Canadian Red Cross has raised $2.73 million to aid the victims of last week’s tornadoes.
  According to an update from the organization at midday Friday, the public appeal raised $1.9 million on the Gatineau side, including a $1-million contribution from the government of Quebec, and roughly $855,000 in the Ottawa area. Donations can be made through a local Red Cross office, online, or by calling 1-800-418-1111.
  Other appeals have also done well. The Ottawa Senators Foundation, through a
  
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• Kurl: Cannabis countdown – a surprising number of people now skeptical

  28-09-2018 19:21 via ottawacitizen.com
  If ever the country was in need of a national mellowing out, it’s arguably now. U.S. President Donald Trump is back to his flame-throwing on NAFTA, the pipeline file remains a twisted pretzel of uncertainty, the Saudis want us to say sorry to them, we want Myanmar’s Aung San Suu Kyi to say sorry to us (or at least, stop willingly presiding over a humanitarian disaster) and our Governor General just doesn’t seem to be that into her job. Too much is happening! No wonder we’
  
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• Streets reopen after Cooper Street gas leak

  28-09-2018 19:17 via ottawacitizen.com
  Police reopened a number of downtown streets after a gas leak on Cooper Street earlier in the day.
  Ottawa Fire Services reported at about 11:15 a.m. that they were on the scene of the leak at 322 Cooper St. and that people were being asked to leave nearby buildings as a precaution.
  Crews determined that a main gas line was breached and Enbridge gas shut service to the area to conduct repairs.
  Hydro service to the area was also shut as a precaution. It was restored at about 1 p.m.
  Police reported
  
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• #otttraffic twitter.com/OttFire/status…

  28-09-2018 18:45 via twitter.com
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• Gordie Howe bridge to cost $5.7 billion; set to open by end of 2024. ottawamatters.com/national-news/…

  28-09-2018 18:45 via twitter.com
  Gordie Howe bridge to cost $5.7 billion; set to open by end of 2024.ottawamatters.com/national-news/…
  
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• MacDougall: In the age of Trump, Scheer needs to go big or go home

  28-09-2018 18:36 via ottawacitizen.com
  With roughly a year to go before the next federal election, Andrew MacDougall is taking a look at what each of the three major party leaders must do in the next 12 months to have a shot at becoming or remaining prime minister. Today: Andrew Scheer.
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  A 10-point lead.
  Despite a horrific summer filled with blocked pipelines, scrambles on the border, NAFTA surprises and a backbench defection, Justin Trudeau cruised into the fall session of Parliament with a 10-point lead in the polls.
  Ten poin
  
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• The @rick_gibbons Show for Friday, Sept. 28th: 1:08: #PierrePoirier 1:17: #JimLowther @vetscanada 1:30:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  28-09-2018 18:34 via twitter.com
  The @rick_gibbons Show for Friday, Sept. 28th: 1:08: #PierrePoirier1:17: #JimLowther @vetscanada 1:30:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• NEXT on the Power Lunch: @Ottawaathomemag & @rick_gibbons join @_MarkSutcliffe in-studio: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  28-09-2018 17:55 via twitter.com
  NEXT on the Power Lunch: @Ottawaathomemag & @rick_gibbons join @_MarkSutcliffe in-studio:📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Coming up at 11:30: @michaeltaube joins @_MarkSutcliffe on the #KavanaghHearings, Trump, Trudeau & more: 📻: 1310… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  28-09-2018 17:25 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 11:30: @michaeltaube joins @_MarkSutcliffe on the #KavanaghHearings, Trump, Trudeau & more:📻: 1310… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• .@OttFire crews dealing with a gas leak downtown. #ottnews twitter.com/OttFire/status…

  28-09-2018 17:19 via twitter.com
  .@OttFire crews dealing with a gas leak downtown. #ottnews twitter.com/OttFire/status…
  
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• On today's the Ethics Lab: - insurance discounts for your health tracker data - posthumous publishing against auth… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  28-09-2018 16:55 via twitter.com
  On today's the Ethics Lab:- insurance discounts for your health tracker data - posthumous publishing against auth… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Municipal Elections 2018: City announces advance voting hours, site

  28-09-2018 16:42 via ottawacitizen.com
  Special advance voting for the upcoming Oct. 22 municipal election will be held from Thursday, Oct. 4 to Sunday, Oct. 7.
  Eligible electors can vote from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. at any of these six locations, no matter which ward they live in:
  · City Hall, 110 Laurier Ave. W.
  · Ben Franklin Place, 101 Centrepointe Dr.
  · François Dupuis Recreation Centre, 2263 Portobello Blvd.
  · Greenboro Community Centre, 363 Lorry Greenberg Dr.
  · Richcraft Recreation Complex &
  
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• SIU charges OPS sergeant with sexual assault

  28-09-2018 16:10 via ottawacitizen.com
  The province’s Special Investigations Unit has charged an Ottawa Police Services sergeant with sexual assault.
  The watchdog announced Friday that it had grounds to believe Sgt. Aasim Ansari sexually assaulted a woman while on duty and committed breach of trust.
  The allegation dates back to October 2017. Ansari, a west division patrol officer, responded to a 911 call on Richmond Road. The SIU alleges that during that call, Ansari sexually assaulted a woman. The woman was not arrested during
  
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• Emma Wiggle's still happy to be wearing the yellow bow after a challenging year

  28-09-2018 16:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Wiggles
  12:30 p.m., 3:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. Oct. 4, Centrepointe Theatre
  Tickets: Sold out.
  The Wiggles have embarked on their most extensive tour of Canada, an 80-show excursion that takes them from St. John’s, N.L., to Vancouver, B.C., over the next few weeks — including three sold-out shows in Ottawa on Thursday.Thanks to last year’s expanded partnership/licensing deal with Canada’s Treehouse channel, The Wiggles TV show airs every weekday morning, providing exposu
  
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• OPP officer jailed for 21 months on theft, drugs, weapons charges

  28-09-2018 15:15 via ottawacitizen.com
  A veteran OPP officer, who was nabbed in an undercover police sting, was sentenced Thursday to 21 months in jail on theft, breach of trust, drug and firearms charges.
  Justice Kimberly Moore of the Ontario Court of Justice recommended that George Duke, 55, serve his time in the St. Lawrence Valley Correctional and Treatment Centre in Brockville, where he could be treated for depression and post traumatic stress disorder.
  Duke pleaded guilty to the six charges earlier this year. He stole $11,500 f
  
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• Cohen: Kavanaugh V. Blasey Ford – a terrifying look at what the U.S. Supreme Court could become

  28-09-2018 15:01 via ottawacitizen.com
  On Sept. 23, 1952, Sen. Richard Nixon went on national television to save his career. Gen. Dwight Eisenhower had made him his vice-presidential running mate but six weeks before the general election, he was under pressure to drop Nixon.
  In response, Nixon offered a fierce defence against accusations that he had diverted campaign funds for his personal use. He spoke of growing up poor, his war service, and his loyal wife who did not have “a mink coat but a respectable Republican cloth coat.
  
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• Heading west: Launch of Westwood in Stittsville is the latest signal of Ottawa’s booming west end

  28-09-2018 14:34 via ottawacitizen.com
  Westwood is a new west-end development that’s all about location, location, location — and timing, timing, timing.
  About halfway between Terry Fox Drive in Kanata and Stittsville Main Street in Stittsville, and tucked in behind the hustle and bustle of Hazeldean Road, Westwood benefits from a great location that’s both quiet and close to everything.
  It abuts the Trans Canada Trail (popular for walking, hiking and biking); it’s just down the road from the Goulbourn Recreat
  
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• STILL MISSING: Police say Nakayla Baskin, 11, could be in the Russell Rd area & she is also known to frequent the S… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  28-09-2018 14:07 via twitter.com
  STILL MISSING: Police say Nakayla Baskin, 11, could be in the Russell Rd area & she is also known to frequent the S… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• RECALL: Vegetable products recalled over plastic packaging concerns: bit.ly/2R9gW6O https://t.co/i76d2f3gnD

  28-09-2018 13:47 via twitter.com
  
  RECALL: Vegetable products recalled over plastic packaging concerns: bit.ly/2R9gW6O https://t.co/i76d2f3gnD
  
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• Police seek help finding elderly man feared 'at risk'

  28-09-2018 13:46 via ottawacitizen.com
  Police are appealing to the public for help finding a missing elderly man who was last seen in the in the Dunrobin area Thursday afternoon.
  He was still missing Friday morning, police said, and is feared to be at “high-risk.”
  The last sighting of Jose Rey, and 85-year-old with medical needs, was in the area of 936 Vances Side Rd. between Dunrobin and Greenland roads.
  Rey is described as of Hispanic descent, five feet four inches tall and 170 pounds. He is balding with short, gre
  
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• Everybody on plane survives crash landing in Pacific lagoon: bit.ly/2xUUrK7 https://t.co/mrUd160oXV

  28-09-2018 13:41 via twitter.com
  
  Everybody on plane survives crash landing in Pacific lagoon: bit.ly/2xUUrK7 https://t.co/mrUd160oXV
  
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• Some sun, 21 C Friday but showers by evening

  28-09-2018 13:31 via ottawacitizen.com
  Seize the day Friday to get outside for a bit of sun and a forecast high of 21 C because showers and then cooler temperatures are on the way.
  The  forecast features mixed skies, southwesterly winds at 20 km/h gusting to 40 by afternoon and a UV index of 4 or moderate. Showers are expected begin in the evening and end before morning. The low should be 7 C.
  Skies clear Saturday morning and westerly winds drop off near noon on the way to a high of 16 C. The overnight low is 3 C under clear ski
  
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• QUESTION: Whose testimony at the Kavanaugh hearings was more credible? twitter.com/1310NEWS/statu…

  28-09-2018 13:24 via twitter.com
  QUESTION: Whose testimony at the Kavanaugh hearings was more credible? twitter.com/1310NEWS/statu…
  
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• Local country artist pokes fun at tornado damage to his property: bit.ly/2zCCwtI #ottnews https://t.co/dh0n29l4f4

  28-09-2018 13:19 via twitter.com
  
  Local country artist pokes fun at tornado damage to his property: bit.ly/2zCCwtI #ottnews https://t.co/dh0n29l4f4
  
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• After the #OttawaTornado, the United Way says co-ordination is needed to make sure everyone who needs help gets ass… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  28-09-2018 13:08 via twitter.com
  After the #OttawaTornado, the United Way says co-ordination is needed to make sure everyone who needs help gets ass… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Tear down the rest of the crumbling Magee House, city recommends

  28-09-2018 13:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  The rest of the crumbled Magee House in Hintonburg should be torn down, the city has determined.
  The built-heritage subcommittee next week will consider a recommendation to demolish what’s left of the heritage building at 1119 Wellington St. W. Staff say the building should come down before the winter. The city has a proposed a teardown deadline of Nov. 15.
  The city’s heritage department agrees with the proposed demolition, which was outlined in a report published Thursday.
  “In
  
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• Auto tariffs would put central bank 'between a rock and a hard place': Poloz: bit.ly/2NJIOAC https://t.co/00DZdLcfUA

  28-09-2018 12:44 via twitter.com
  
  Auto tariffs would put central bank 'between a rock and a hard place': Poloz: bit.ly/2NJIOAC https://t.co/00DZdLcfUA
  
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• More than half of fatal overdoses involved people who were mentally ill: coroner: bit.ly/2Oiodmd https://t.co/tJn6aCOHgZ

  28-09-2018 12:25 via twitter.com
  
  More than half of fatal overdoses involved people who were mentally ill: coroner: bit.ly/2Oiodmd https://t.co/tJn6aCOHgZ
  
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• Canada Post, union to hold weekend meeting aimed at breaking up contract dispute: bit.ly/2OWToAW https://t.co/Tm8OxHtkWH

  28-09-2018 12:10 via twitter.com
  
  Canada Post, union to hold weekend meeting aimed at breaking up contract dispute: bit.ly/2OWToAW https://t.co/Tm8OxHtkWH
  
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• YouTubers on the steady pressure to keep viewers happy, rack up the views. ottawamatters.com/around-ontario…

  28-09-2018 05:30 via twitter.com
  YouTubers on the steady pressure to keep viewers happy, rack up the views.ottawamatters.com/around-ontario…
  
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• Natural gas bills will go down about $29 a year, Enbridge says. ottawamatters.com/national-busin…

  28-09-2018 04:30 via twitter.com
  Natural gas bills will go down about $29 a year, Enbridge says.ottawamatters.com/national-busin…
  
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• SEC seeks to oust Tesla CEO Elon Musk over go-private tweet. ottawamatters.com/national-busin…

  28-09-2018 03:30 via twitter.com
  SEC seeks to oust Tesla CEO Elon Musk over go-private tweet.ottawamatters.com/national-busin…
  
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• Melinda Karlsson will not be forced to turn cyberbullying evidence to Monika Caryk

  28-09-2018 02:41 via ottawacitizen.com
  An Ontario judge will not force Melinda Karlsson to turn over any evidence that led her to believe that Monika Caryk anonymously harassed her online for months when she applied for a protection order against her fellow Ottawa Senators spouse, deciding that the “interests of justice would not be well served” by such a ruling.
  The ruling, handed down Thursday, punctuates a legal saga that began at the end of the 2017-2018 NHL season when both women were the spouses of Ottawa Senators.
  
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• Feds try to pull cloak of secrecy over court case on pipeline spy allegations. ottawamatters.com/national-news/…

  28-09-2018 02:30 via twitter.com
  Feds try to pull cloak of secrecy over court case on pipeline spy allegations.ottawamatters.com/national-news/…
  
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• Mayor, others push back on proposed robot brothel in Houston. ottawamatters.com/national-busin…

  28-09-2018 01:45 via twitter.com
  Mayor, others push back on proposed robot brothel in Houston.ottawamatters.com/national-busin…
  
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