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• The owner of an Alberta trucking company involved in the fatal Humboldt Broncos bus crash has been charged. ottawamatters.com/national-news/…

  10-10-2018 23:59 via twitter.com
  The owner of an Alberta trucking company involved in the fatal Humboldt Broncos bus crash has been charged.ottawamatters.com/national-news/…
  
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• UPDATE: Police say that missing 15 y/o Erin Duxbury has been found safe. #ottnews twitter.com/SgtDoubleE/sta…

  10-10-2018 23:54 via twitter.com
  UPDATE: Police say that missing15 y/o Erin Duxbury has been found safe. #ottnews twitter.com/SgtDoubleE/sta…
  
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• Hurricane Michael slams into Florida with 155 mph winds ottawamatters.com/world-news/hur…

  10-10-2018 23:45 via twitter.com
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• Driver's 'cat and mouse game', not police, to blame for crash, SIU rules

  10-10-2018 23:34 via ottawacitizen.com
  There are no grounds for criminal charges against OPP and Smiths Falls Police Service officers in a crash that injured a man who’d led four police vehicles on three chases, the province’s Special Investigations Unit has concluded.
  In fact, director Tony Loparco wrote in a report released Wednesday, it was the driver who was intent on engaging police in a “game of cat and mouse” in the Aug. 27, 2017 incident.
  Each pursuit was called off because of public safety concerns bu
  
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• Three men facing drug charges as police seize over 2kg of crystal meth. ottawamatters.com/police-beat/ot…

  10-10-2018 23:30 via twitter.com
  Three men facing drug charges as police seize over 2kg of crystal meth. ottawamatters.com/police-beat/ot…
  
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• Winnipeg holds conference on preparing for emergencies like Humboldt bus crash ottawamatters.com/national-news/…

  10-10-2018 23:15 via twitter.com
  Winnipeg holds conference on preparing for emergencies like Humboldt bus crashottawamatters.com/national-news/…
  
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• The @REDBLACKS are welcoming Chris Ackie from the @MTLAlouettes after a trade. #ottnews twitter.com/REDBLACKS/stat…

  10-10-2018 22:54 via twitter.com
  The @REDBLACKS are welcoming Chris Ackie from the @MTLAlouettes after a trade. #ottnews twitter.com/REDBLACKS/stat…
  
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• Cannabis forbidden for federal prison guards 24 hours before work ottawamatters.com/national-news/…

  10-10-2018 22:45 via twitter.com
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• Solving Ontario's hospital crowding crisis — without spending huge amounts of money

  10-10-2018 22:37 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ontario hospitals can reduce overcrowding without massive injections of cash, says a leading hospital management expert.
  This comes at a time when some hospitals in the province are already overcapacity before flu season begins and the Progressive Conservative government is calling for efficiencies in health care to end hallway medicine.
  Eugene Litvak, a professor at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and president of the Institute for Healthcare Optimization, has worked with The Otta
  
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• Montreal to let people smoke pot in public, except where tobacco is banned ottawamatters.com/national-news/…

  10-10-2018 22:15 via twitter.com
  Montreal to let people smoke pot in public, except where tobacco is bannedottawamatters.com/national-news/…
  
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• Egan: 621 days later, NCC handed LeBreton developers 48-hour deadline to sign arena deal

  10-10-2018 21:54 via ottawacitizen.com
  There is an unwelcome — indefensible, actually — cone of silence over the progress of planning for LeBreton Flats, possibly the biggest city-building exercise some of us will ever live through.
  (Rivalled only by the communications Kremlin around LRT, or Long Rumoured Train, where the only real news is “not this year, stupid.”)
  So we’ll parse any LeBreton update we can find.
  In a response to a request under access laws, the National Capital Commission has released an
  
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• Reevely: Early donor-list disclosures set a record for transparency in Ottawa's elections

  10-10-2018 21:39 via ottawacitizen.com
  Another city council candidate, College ward’s Emilie Coyle, released her list of campaign donors Wednesday, bringing the number of would-be politicians willing to show voters who’s funding their efforts to six.
  Coyle is looking to unseat longtime councillor Rick Chiarelli in the west-side district. “Voters have a right to know who is financially supporting a candidate before they cast their ballot,” she said.
  Emilie Coyle, candidate for Ward 8 – College
  Most of the
  
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• LRT delays prompt new changes to bus routes

  10-10-2018 21:06 via ottawacitizen.com
  The news that the long-awaited LRT’s new Confederation line won’t be ready until sometime in 2019 has prompted OC Transpo to adjust a number of bus route changes that were announced this summer.
  The main changes involve routes 11 and 12.
  The downtown loop of Route 11 will be “adjusted to improve connections to Route 12 and to rapid and frequent routes on Albert and Slater streets,” Transpo said in a release.
  Eastbound routes will operate on a regular route along Bank Stre
  
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• Accused in deadly construction site mishap released

  10-10-2018 20:32 via ottawacitizen.com
  John Wells, the 19-year-old charged in the “death by misadventure” of a friend at a Barrhaven construction site, was released on bail Wednesday.
  Wells, who appeared in court by video link Wednesday afternoon, faces five charges in the death of a 17-year-old boy at a building site on Thanksgiving Monday.
  Wells is charged with criminal negligence causing death, impaired driving causing death, dangerous driving causing death, driving with a blood alcohol level over 80 mg per 100 millili
  
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• Record-breaking heat wave in Ottawa is 'summer's last hurrah'

  10-10-2018 20:29 via ottawacitizen.com
  The heat wave that set a record Wednesday is a distant relative of Hurricane Michael coming ashore in Florida — not caused by the hurricane, but related in the sense that the same flow of hot, southern air is driving both events.
  Our muggy air is not home-cooked. Ottawa sunshine is not powerful enough to produce mid-20s heat in October.
  Instead, Environment Canada’s David Phillips explains that this week’s warm air has been pre-heated in the south and central United States and
  
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• Nakayla Baskin, missing since Sept. 24, has been found safe

  10-10-2018 20:29 via ottawacitizen.com
  Nakayla Baskin, who had been missing since Sept. 24, has been found safe, police announced Wednesday.
  The 11-year-old girl has been the subject of a massive search effort by Ottawa police, and a video appeal for help from her family.
  Police said they received a tip from the public about Nakayla’s disappearance, and at 11:35 a.m. Wednesday, officers visited a Vanier apartment where they found the missing girl. She has since been reunited with her family.
  Police said the major crime unit is
  
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• OPP hunt stiletto-heeled jack o' lantern thief caught in viral video

  10-10-2018 20:20 via ottawacitizen.com
  Russell County OPP are on the hunt for a stiletto-heeled woman whose alleged jacking of Embrun jack o’ lanterns on the weekend has resulted in a video that’s gone viral.
  The first incident happened at about 11 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 7 when the woman got out of a white, newer two-door vehicle and took a pumpkin from the front of a home on Ménard Street in Embrun, police reported in a release issued Wednesday.
  Just after midnight, the same woman was spotted stealing pumpkins from
  
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• Fire crews douse flames in Vanier basement

  10-10-2018 20:11 via ottawacitizen.com
  Fire crews were able to quickly douse a fire in the basement of an unoccupied bungalow in Vanier Wednesday afternoon.
  A 911 caller reported smoke coming from the lower level of 100 Jolliet Ave. at 1:27 p.m.
  Once on the scene, fire crews immediately confirmed the smoke and declared a working fire. The fire was under control and then out by 1:45 p.m.
  A fire investigator was dispatched to the scene to determine the cause of the fire.
   
   
  Ottawa Fire on scene of a Working Fire at 100 Jolli
  
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• Ottawa Fire crews battling blaze in the basement of a Vanier home. #ottnews twitter.com/OFSFirePhoto/s…

  10-10-2018 19:46 via twitter.com
  Ottawa Fire crews battling blaze in the basement of a Vanier home. #ottnews twitter.com/OFSFirePhoto/s…
  
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• NCC invites naming suggestions for new riverside park along SJAM Parkway

  10-10-2018 19:38 via ottawacitizen.com
  The National Capital Commission’s brand-new Ottawa River South Shore Riverfront Park needs a new, and hopefully more elegant, name and you can help.
  The NCC is inviting suggestions from the public to name the sweeping nine-kilometre-long green space that follows the river along the Sir John A. Macdonald Parkway.
  According to the NCC guidelines, the park can be named after one of three things:a person of national stature who has made a substantial contribution to the building of Canada and
  
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• As the Baskin search ends, another one begins. @OttawaPolice are searching for Erin Duxbury, 15, last seen in Dunro… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  10-10-2018 18:52 via twitter.com
  As the Baskin search ends, another one begins. @OttawaPolice are searching for Erin Duxbury, 15, last seen in Dunro… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• STORY: 11 y/o Nakayla Baskin found safe. #ottnews ottawamatters.com/police-beat/na… https://t.co/6rXphifCvd

  10-10-2018 18:44 via twitter.com
  
  STORY: 11 y/o Nakayla Baskin found safe. #ottnewsottawamatters.com/police-beat/na… https://t.co/6rXphifCvd
  
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• One dead in head-on Highway 401 crash with tractor-trailer near Morrisburg

  10-10-2018 18:38 via ottawacitizen.com
  One man is dead after his eastbound vehicle collided head-on with a tractor-trailer in the westbound lanes of Highway 401 in South Dundas Township Wednesday morning.
  It happened between Upper Canada Road and County Road 31 at about 9:37 a.m.
  The OPP reports that a preliminary investigation suggests that the truck was heading west when, “for reasons under investigation,” the passenger vehicle got on the highway heading east in the westbound lanes and collided with the larger vehicle.
  
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• #BREAKING: Missing 11-year-old girl Nakayla Baskin has been found safe. #ottnews #ottawa twitter.com/OttawaPolice/s…

  10-10-2018 18:37 via twitter.com
  #BREAKING: Missing 11-year-old girl Nakayla Baskin has been found safe. #ottnews #ottawa twitter.com/OttawaPolice/s…
  
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• St. Lawrence College goes smoke-free, including cannabis, at three campuses

  10-10-2018 18:35 via ottawacitizen.com
  It’s going to be 100 per cent smoke-free for St. Lawrence College campuses in Kingston, Brockville and Cornwall, starting next Monday.
  “This is an important decision,” said Glenn Vollebregt, president and CEO of St. Lawrence College. “The risks and negative health impacts of second-hand smoke are well known. We are excited to unite as a college in having a healthy environment where we all learn, work, and connect.”
  The new policy applies to all indoor and outdoor ar
  
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• Petawawa bear cub impedes kids' recess but 'heck of a mascot'

  10-10-2018 18:35 via ottawacitizen.com
  A young black bear at play on the grounds at Valour School in Petawawa has meant indoor recess for cubs of the human variety.
  The Renfrew County District School Board took to social media Tuesday to warn about the bear in the tree on the school property and the precaution of putting a “shelter in place. That means that staff and students can move around the school but stay inside because of an external threat.
  Police and the Ministry of Natural Resources had been notified but the school wa
  
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• Ottawa to permit murals in residential areas, Watson promises

  10-10-2018 18:33 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa should encourage murals in residential neighbourhoods, Mayor Jim Watson said Wednesday, after city council retroactively approved one in Hintonburg that a bylaw officer had ordered painted over.
  The artwork on a house at Stirling Avenue and Armstrong Street depicts a bulldog with flowers and a view of the sun behind clouds through an ornate window. It was illegal under a bylaw that almost completely forbids murals on private homes.
  “I think what we’ve really tried to do over t
  
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• UOttawa undergrads launch bid to replace embattled student federation

  10-10-2018 18:31 via ottawacitizen.com
  A group of University of Ottawa students says it has plans for a new student union after the university administration severed its relationship with the existing Student Federation of the University of Ottawa.
  In September, the university put the SFUO on notice that it was cancelling its agreements with the federation effective Dec. 24 in the wake of a flurry of allegations of financial mismanagement. In August, the SFUO’s board of administrators voted to call in forensic auditors, as requ
  
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• Ottawa Votes: What you need to know about the candidates in Rideau-Vanier

  10-10-2018 18:09 via ottawacitizen.com
  In the lead-up to Ottawa’s municipal election, this newspaper surveyed every candidate, providing them with a list of questions. It’s an exercise that’s meant to help residents get to know the candidates better and to get a firm sense of where they stand on important issues facing our city.
  Our survey was broken into three parts: City issues, ward-specific questions, and an ‘about you’ section. Candidates appear in alphabetical order and surveys were completed and r
  
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• The @rick_gibbons Show for Wednesday, October 10th: 1:08: @psacnat 1:17: @gghamari 1:30: @fatimabsyed 1:45:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  10-10-2018 18:01 via twitter.com
  The @rick_gibbons Show for Wednesday, October 10th: 1:08: @psacnat 1:17: @gghamari 1:30: @fatimabsyed 1:45:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Five-day preventive boil water advisory coming up for Hull area

  10-10-2018 17:58 via ottawacitizen.com
  A preventive boil water advisory will begin for about 70,000 residents in Gatineau’s Hull district Saturday, Oct. 20, as the city begins the latest stage of its $68-million water system upgrade.
  The advisory will last a minimum of five days, the city said in a news release. Hull’s Plateau district will be unaffected.
  Residents are asked to boil their water for one minute before consuming it. Affected residents are also being asked asked to reduce water use while the work is unde
  
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• NEXT on the Power Lunch: @CouncillorMcRae & Lawyer Michael Polowin join guest host @MarkDayNews live in-studio: 📻… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  10-10-2018 17:55 via twitter.com
  NEXT on the Power Lunch:@CouncillorMcRae & Lawyer Michael Polowin join guest host @MarkDayNews live in-studio:📻… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Coming up at 11:45: @conorwild joins @MarkDayNews to discuss the world’s largest sleep study that shows too much… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  10-10-2018 17:40 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 11:45: @conorwild joins @MarkDayNews to discuss the world’s largest sleep study that shows too much… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Hwy 401 WB is closed between Upper Canada Road and County Road 31, as OPP continue to investigate. #ottnews twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…

  10-10-2018 17:38 via twitter.com
  Hwy 401 WB is closed between Upper Canada Road and County Road 31, as OPP continue to investigate. #ottnews twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…
  
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• Police seek help in locating girl, 15, missing from Dunrobin

  10-10-2018 17:35 via ottawacitizen.com
  Police are asking the public to help them find a 15-year-old girl who was last seen in Dunrobin Tuesday evening.
  Erin Duxbury went missing from the Berry Side Road.
  “Her family is concerned for her well-being,” police said.
  Erin is described as white, five-foot, one-inch tall with a slim build, medium-length “dirty blond” hair and waring a black t-shirt and white pants with a black print.
  Anyone who knows her current whereabouts is asked to call police dispatch at 61
  
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• Hintonburg's Magee House ready for the wrecking ball in mid-November

  10-10-2018 17:29 via ottawacitizen.com
  The 135-year-old Magee House in Hintonburg is due to be demolished by mid-November, now that city council has given final approval.
  In July, a wall on the heritage building collapsed after years of water seepage wore away the mortar. An engineer’s report prepared for the city concluded that trying to repair it would be too dangerous because removing the old stones now in a heap at the base of the building could make the rest of the building collapse suddenly. Though it’s relatively s
  
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• Coming up at 11:30: @TristinHopper joins @MarkDayNews to discuss some of the brutal murderers that the Canadian j… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  10-10-2018 17:25 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 11:30: @TristinHopper joins @MarkDayNews to discuss some of the brutal murderers that the Canadian j… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Coming up at 11: The World with Professor Elliot Tepper joins @MarkDayNews 📻: 1310 💻: bit.ly/2oQd8u1… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  10-10-2018 16:54 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 11:The World with Professor Elliot Tepper joins @MarkDayNews📻: 1310 💻: bit.ly/2oQd8u1… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Coming up at 9:15: @JacquieAMiller joins @markdaynews on where you'll be able to smoke marijuana in Ottawa: 📻: 1… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  10-10-2018 15:10 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 9:15: @JacquieAMiller joins @markdaynews on where you'll be able to smoke marijuana in Ottawa:📻: 1… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• POLL: Should condo boards set out rules around cannabis before recreational pot is legalized?

  10-10-2018 14:52 via twitter.com
  POLL: Should condo boards set out rules around cannabis before recreational pot is legalized?
  
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• Potential for record-breaking #autumn temperatures in #Ottawa: bit.ly/2NyNq7R #ottnews https://t.co/ufvmJpBhgo

  10-10-2018 14:51 via twitter.com
  
  Potential for record-breaking #autumn temperatures in #Ottawa: bit.ly/2NyNq7R#ottnews https://t.co/ufvmJpBhgo
  
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• On air 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. Ottawa Today live with your GUEST host @MarkDayNews on 1310 NEWS & @rogersottawa22: 📻: 1… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  10-10-2018 14:44 via twitter.com
  On air 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. Ottawa Today live with your GUEST host @MarkDayNews on 1310 NEWS & @rogersottawa22: 📻: 1… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Canada's goals well below what's needed to stop catastrophic climate change: UN: bit.ly/2A237R6 https://t.co/jGrnnnptcL

  10-10-2018 14:41 via twitter.com
  
  Canada's goals well below what's needed to stop catastrophic climate change: UN: bit.ly/2A237R6 https://t.co/jGrnnnptcL
  
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• Practice search turns real for Kingston responders

  10-10-2018 14:31 via ottawacitizen.com
  Kingston Police on Tuesday morning summoned some emergency response team members, about a dozen police community volunteers and brought in their incident command centre vehicle to conduct a search at Belle Park as part of an exercise.
  The scenario was to try to find a missing person in the dense woods of the former municipal golf course.
  The dummy placed in the woods was easily found by the searchers within a short period of time.
  But when that exercise ended late Tuesday morning, police and vol
  
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• Three-vehicle crash slows traffic near Rockdale and Hwy 417

  10-10-2018 14:26 via ottawacitizen.com
  One person suffered minor injuries Wednesday morning in a crash at Rockdale Road and the westbound Highway 417 but police were asking people to avoid the heavily-congested area.
  First responders were called to the three-vehicle collision at 7:22 a.m.
  One person had to be extricated from a vehicle by firefighters who asked people to slow down and move over as they worked.
  Paramedics reported that one person was taken to the hospital with minor injuries while a second was treated at the scene and
  
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• Rates of burnout, depression reported by doctors, residents concerning: report: bit.ly/2QEQHUK https://t.co/JxovIF6nkJ

  10-10-2018 14:20 via twitter.com
  
  Rates of burnout, depression reported by doctors, residents concerning: report: bit.ly/2QEQHUK https://t.co/JxovIF6nkJ
  
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• Pedestrian struck and killed on Montreal Road: bit.ly/2RGf9Xt #ottnews https://t.co/g3T5YU6EgY

  10-10-2018 14:11 via twitter.com
  
  Pedestrian struck and killed on Montreal Road: bit.ly/2RGf9Xt #ottnews https://t.co/g3T5YU6EgY
  
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• Pedestrian killed in Montreal Road collision

  10-10-2018 14:04 via ottawacitizen.com
  A 61-year-old man died of his injuries in the hospital Tuesday evening after being struck by a vehicle while on foot on Montreal Road.
  Police were called to the crash at Elwood Street east of Blair Road at 7:15 p.m.
  The 31-year-old woman driving the vehicle was unhurt.
  Police released few details citing an ongoing investigation by the collision unit.
  No charges have yet been laid.
  
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• Ottawa Votes: What you need to know about the candidates in West Carleton-March

  10-10-2018 14:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  In the lead-up to Ottawa’s municipal election, this newspaper surveyed every candidate, providing them with a list of questions. It’s an exercise that’s meant to help residents get to know the candidates better and to get a firm sense of where they stand on important issues facing our city.
  Our survey was broken into three parts: City issues, ward-specific questions, and an ‘about you’ section. Candidates appear in alphabetical order and surveys were completed and r
  
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• (Wacky) Weather: From summery to the risk of flurries

  10-10-2018 13:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  Welcome to October in Ottawa.
  Wednesday and Thursday are looking unseasonably warm and sticky but we’ll be watching for the risk of flurries by Friday.
  For Wednesday, Environment Canada predicts a mix of sun and cloud with 40 per cent chance of showers day and night and the risk of a morning thunderstorm.
  The forecast high is 21 with a humidex of 28 and UV index of 5, or moderate. The low is 13 C.
  For Thursday, the showers should end by late afternoon then expect a mix of sun and cloud wit
  
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