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• Protesters march in London to demand new vote on Brexit bit.ly/2NSCJwL https://t.co/p6O7jecy9U

  20-10-2018 23:57 via twitter.com
  
  Protesters march in London to demand new vote on Brexit bit.ly/2NSCJwL https://t.co/p6O7jecy9U
  
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• Very special to have name up there with Vinatieri, Redblacks' record holder Ward says

  20-10-2018 23:45 via ottawacitizen.com
  Is Lewis Ward the most consistent kicker of all time in professional football?
  Kind of, sort of … well, at least over a short term. And Ward’s name is now in the record book … and on Wikipedia.
  The Ottawa Redblacks kicker, who a couple of weeks ago broke Rene Paredes’ Canadian Football League record of 39 consecutive field goals (accomplished over two seasons), booted a 52-yard field goal during Friday’s 35-31 win over the Hamilton Tiger-Cats to eclipse the profes
  
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• Hintonburg Park lets the dogs out for Halloween

  20-10-2018 23:15 via ottawacitizen.com
  About two dozen (mostly) patient dogs donned trick or treat costumes and took over Hintonburg Park Saturday afternoon for the city’s inaugural Halloween Dog Parade.
  About two dozen doggos, with about three times as many humans watching, seemed to put up with the humiliating garb, which also included a bee suit, a giraffe, and an odd boxer dressed in hair curlers, house coat and duckie slippers.
  The event, which also attracted incumbent area councillor Jeff Leiper, was in support of Do
  
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• Two injured in fiery crash near Gatineau Park

  20-10-2018 23:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  Two people were taken to hospital Friday night after the car they were travelling in was in a fiery crash near Chelsea.
  Officials said the crash occurred just outside of Gatineau Park at about 10:30 p.m.
  The victims in the sports car were semi-conscious when firefighters arrived and were taken to a Gatineau hospital for examination.
  There was no word on their condition.
  
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• How do I vote? Here is a municipal election day primer

  20-10-2018 22:46 via ottawacitizen.com
  You’ve heard the speeches, you’ve read the promises, you’ve made your selections.
  Time to fill out that ballot.
  Here’s a to-do list on what you’ll need on municipal election day, Monday.
  Basic
  There are 350 voting places in Ottawa, open from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. (Voting places in some seniors’ residences and long-term care facilities can have reduced voting hours.)
  Your voting place can be found on your voting notification letter, or can be located at https:
  
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• Carricato: Higher property taxes aren’t the solution in Capital ward

  20-10-2018 22:40 via ottawacitizen.com
  I knocked on 17,000 doors during my campaign to become Capital ward’s next city councillor. One of the top concerns I heard from residents is the affordability of our neighbourhoods.
  As home values rise in central areas at a higher rate than Ottawa at large, property tax increases disproportionately penalize our residents.
  This isn’t just about your money – it’s about maintaining a diverse and lively downtown core.
  High property taxes discourage young families from moving
  
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• Review: Silence explores communication gap between men and women

  20-10-2018 21:35 via ottawacitizen.com
  Silence
  By Trina Davies
  Until Oct. 28, NAC English Theatre
  Tickets and times: nac-cna.ca
  The ups and downs of the relationship between Alexander Graham Bell and his deaf wife, Mabel Hubbard, are explored in the opening play of the National Arts Centre’s English theatre season in an ambitious production from the Grand Theatre in London, Ont.Written by Canadian playwright Trina Davies, the play addresses the challenges of a union between a man (Graham Cuthbertson as Bell) obsessed with his w
  
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• ICYMI: Preventative boil water advisory for Hull sector. #gatnews bit.ly/2CSQZVz https://t.co/msk9l4B7cK

  20-10-2018 21:28 via twitter.com
  
  ICYMI: Preventative boil water advisory for Hull sector. #gatnewsbit.ly/2CSQZVz https://t.co/msk9l4B7cK
  
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• Mega Millions jackpot hits $1.6B, thanks to worsening odds bit.ly/2R3QzhY

  20-10-2018 20:27 via twitter.com
  Mega Millions jackpot hits $1.6B, thanks to worsening odds bit.ly/2R3QzhY
  
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• Ontario does brisk business with 100,000 pot orders in first 24 hours bit.ly/2J7rUGB https://t.co/TxJj4X7FWa

  20-10-2018 19:10 via twitter.com
  
  Ontario does brisk business with 100,000 pot orders in first 24 hours bit.ly/2J7rUGB https://t.co/TxJj4X7FWa
  
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• One person taken to hospital after Gatineau fire, two others escape bit.ly/2AiWsSL

  20-10-2018 17:48 via twitter.com
  One person taken to hospital after Gatineau fire, two others escape bit.ly/2AiWsSL
  
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• No winning ticket in Friday's $60M Lotto Max draw

  20-10-2018 17:42 via ottawacitizen.com
  You can cancel that luxury yacht purchase.
  No winning ticket was sold for Friday night’s $60-million Lotto Max jackpot.
  You should still check your ticket, though, as 23 $1-million Maxmillions prizes were won.
  As for the big price, two ticket holders from Ontario and another from the Maritimes matched six of the seven numbers, plus the bonus, to claim $524,295 each.
  The jackpot for the next Friday’s Lotto Max draw will remain at approximately $60 million, but the number of $1-million
  
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• All you need to know for election day. #ottnews twitter.com/ottawacity/sta…

  20-10-2018 17:34 via twitter.com
  All you need to know for election day.#ottnews twitter.com/ottawacity/sta…
  
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• The @OttawaRedBlacks are in good position to win the East Division. They beat Hamilton 35-31 tonight and need just… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  20-10-2018 16:58 via twitter.com
  The @OttawaRedBlacks are in good position to win the East Division. They beat Hamilton 35-31 tonight and need just… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Quebec pledges $2M more to Red Cross for Gatineau tornado relief

  20-10-2018 16:55 via ottawacitizen.com
  Quebec will give $2 million to the Red Cross which will be added to the funds already collected by the organization to help victims of the Sept. 21 tornado in the Outaouais region last month.
  During a visit to Gatineau to take stock of the help given to people affected by the tornado, Premier François Legault said on Friday afternoon that the additional money will allow the Red Cross to help people who are still staying in hotels, among others.
  “With this, we’ll have money for
  
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• Local winners take a share of the Maxmillions prizes from Friday night's Lotto Max draw but still no jackpot winner… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  20-10-2018 16:44 via twitter.com
  Local winners take a share of the Maxmillions prizes from Friday night's Lotto Max draw but still no jackpot winner… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Voters head to polls for BC municipal elections today bit.ly/2Ajed4D

  20-10-2018 16:37 via twitter.com
  Voters head to polls for BC municipal elections today bit.ly/2Ajed4D
  
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• One dead in multi-vehicle crash near l'Orignal

  20-10-2018 16:37 via ottawacitizen.com
  One person is dead following a collision Friday involving two tractor-trailers and a sedan on County Road 17 near l’Orignal.
  Provincial police said they were called to the scene, about three kilometres east of Blue Corner Road between Alfred and l’Orignal, at about 12:30 p.m.
  The scene on County Road 17 between Cassburn Road and Blue Corners Road was finally reopened at about 3 a.m.
  Police would provide no further details.
   
  
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• Robinson: In Bay ward, independents vs. political (family) rivalries

  20-10-2018 16:32 via ottawacitizen.com
  Time to vote, with few, or many, options to pick from. What type of councillor do you want representing you?  One who will tax and spend, cut and slash, or try to find a respectful balance? Status quo, or something new?
  In 2014, Bay Ward saw six males candidates, three new and three returning (including the incumbent and the previous councillor (an NDP member).
  Jump to 2018: five candidates, two female and three male, one returning and four new. A previous councillor’s wife vying to t
  
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• One man injured in suspicious Gatineau apartment fire

  20-10-2018 15:52 via ottawacitizen.com
  Gatineau police are investigating a suspicious fire at an apartment building early Saturday that left a man slightly injured.
  Passersby alerted firefighters to the fire in the building at 286 Maisonneuve Blvd. in the Hull sector shortly before 1 a.m.
  They found the top floor of the two-storey building fully engaged.
  Two residents had already jumped to safety.
  One of the men was injured and taken to hospital. His condition was not described as serious.
  The fire was under control shortly before 3
  
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• Icelandair flight makes emergency landing in Quebec due to cracked window bit.ly/2CV0pj3

  20-10-2018 15:12 via twitter.com
  Icelandair flight makes emergency landing in Quebec due to cracked window bit.ly/2CV0pj3
  
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• No winning ticket for Friday night's $60 million Lotto Max jackpot bit.ly/2OAVGJS https://t.co/1MQn69tm5Z

  20-10-2018 14:10 via twitter.com
  
  No winning ticket for Friday night's $60 million Lotto Max jackpot bit.ly/2OAVGJS https://t.co/1MQn69tm5Z
  
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• Kennery: In College ward, I'll bring new energy to address road safety

  20-10-2018 14:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  After knocking on more than 20,000 doors in this campaign, I have heard from residents constantly that road safety is affecting the liveability of our community.
  A new analysis by Carleton University’s Capital Current has confirmed these concerns, showing that College Ward is seeing more collisions involving pedestrians than any other ward.
  Neighbours are concerned about missing sidewalks and poorly thought-out intersections. This is made worse because many of our streets are used as cut-t
  
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• McKenney: How we can bring more affordable housing to our city

  20-10-2018 13:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  Most agree that everyone should be able to afford to live somewhere safe and affordable. But what we are not hearing enough of in this municipal campaign is details on how we are going to get there from here. How we are going to ensure that thousands of new units are built that are deeply affordable to those living in the lowest incomes.
  Last year, the province gave municipalities the power to establish “inclusionary zoning” policies. If the city adopts this (and if the provincial go
  
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• MacKay: A charitable appeal to the good causes that want my money

  20-10-2018 13:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  And so it begins: The cheery package from a charity arrives in the mail, informing me that “Your Holiday Cards are enclosed.” Christmas cards already? C’mon guys.
  Here’s some breaking news: I don’t send Christmas cards, other than those via email. Haven’t for years.
  Of course, the next postal arrival will be from another charity, kindly providing Holiday-themed return address labels to put on the cards I don’t send. Those labels will be placed on the pil
  
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• Editorial: Watson for mayor – but a more diverse, independent council

  20-10-2018 12:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  Conventional wisdom suggests the political lifespan of public-office holders is about a decade. In running for a third term as mayor, after eight consecutive years in the job, Jim Watson is edging close to the abyss.
  With stronger competition, he might have toppled into it. But there wasn’t stronger competition. No other mayoral candidate – not even the lively and creative Clive Doucet – measures up to Watson. So let’s re-elect him Monday.
  This doesn’t mean the man
  
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• More posthumous honours for Jonathan Pitre

  20-10-2018 05:54 via ottawacitizen.com
  Jonathan Pitre’s legacy continues to grow as two Ottawa organizations have announced they’ll be honouring the late Russell teenager with awards that carry his name.
  Pitre died April 4 at the age of the age of 17 due to medical complications following a stem cell transplant he had hoped would halt the advance of his painful skin disease, epidermolysis bullosa (EB). Pitre suffered an aggressive and fatal form of the rare disease.
  Kevin Keohane, president and CEO of the CHEO Foundation,
  
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• Reevely: Watson's pledge on seniors and transit makes little sense

  20-10-2018 05:50 via ottawacitizen.com
  If tech magnate Terry Matthews cared to hop the No. 64 bus from his Brookstreet Hotel to his Wesley Clover stables, he’d pay less for the OC Transpo trip than a part-time Walmart clerk does to get to and from work.
  The fact he’s 75 matters more than his billions, a loopy situation that Jim Watson proposes to worsen with more free transit for senior citizens.
  The pledge is just tossed into Watson’s latest (and probably last) set of election promises: “Provide no-charge tra
  
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• Multiple human trafficking charges laid against Ottawa man

  20-10-2018 04:39 via ottawacitizen.com
  A 27-year-old Ottawa man has been charged with a slew of human trafficking-related charges after a woman in her 20s complained to police earlier this month.
  At the beginning of October, a woman contacted the Ottawa Police Human Trafficking Unit, which began an investigation.
  In a media release Friday, police said they “strongly believe” there are more victims.
  Marco Clayton, 27, of Ottawa is charged with:Trafficking in persons by recruiting, etc.
  Trafficking in persons by exercising
  
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• NCC cancels shuttle to lookout spots in Gatineau Park

  20-10-2018 04:35 via ottawacitizen.com
  Bad news for leaf spottersThe free National Capital Commission shuttle between Camp Fortune and Champlain Lookout in Gatineau Park is cancelled for Saturday because of expected inclement weather.The good news is the shuttle between Ottawa/Gatineau and the rest of the Park is expected to run as planned.No word yet on Sunday operations.It’s the last weekend of the season for the shuttles. For more information, visit the NCC’s Fall Rhapsody page at http://ncc-ccn.gc.ca/places-to-vi
  
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• Town hall on curriculum overhaul tilts towards sex education

  20-10-2018 03:35 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ontario’s evolving sex education curriculum is still a hotly divisive issue, it was apparent at an otherwise low-key town hall meeting Friday evening.
  Ottawa West-Nepean MPP Jeremy Roberts scheduled the meeting at 6 p.m. on a Friday, with predictable results: As the proceedings began, there were 22 people in a theatre with capacity for about 150 at Ben Franklin Place in Centrepointe. And the format only served to strangle any passionate exchange of views.
  Ottawa West-Nepean MPP Jeremy Robe
  
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• Train mows down crowd at India festival, at least 50 dead ottawamatters.com/world-news/tra…

  20-10-2018 03:00 via twitter.com
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• Britney Spears returns to Vegas with new residency in 2019 ottawamatters.com/world-news/bri…

  20-10-2018 02:30 via twitter.com
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• Turkey questions Saudi Consulate staff in Khashoggi case ottawamatters.com/world-news/tur…

  20-10-2018 02:00 via twitter.com
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• Egan: A tornado hit, a roof peeled, and Leo Muldoon fell from the sky

  20-10-2018 01:58 via ottawacitizen.com
  Leo Muldoon, now 78 and gone grey, grew up on the farm where he nearly died Sept. 21, one of 12 kids raised in an old brick homestead with no running water, set deep on a fertile plain around Dunrobin.
  He was born with straw in his boots, as they say, a farmer before the boy became a man, quitting school after Grade 8 to work with his father on the 100 acres, hauling everything with horses, heating the house with wood, getting used to the new-fangled electric that arrived in 1948.
  A bear of a ma
  
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• Picard defence, prosecutors make final arguments in murder trial

  20-10-2018 01:34 via ottawacitizen.com
  Investigators had “tunnel vision” when they zeroed in on Adam Picard as their prime suspect in the killing of Fouad Nayel, Picard’s defence team argued in their final plea to the jury.
  “On the investigation side, their minds had already been made up,” Michael Crystal said as the defence made its closing arguments Thursday.
  Crown prosecutor Dallas Mack countered Friday, detailing evidence that led investigators to Picard, who was arrested and charged with first-degre
  
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• Russian woman charged with US election interference ottawamatters.com/world-news/rus…

  20-10-2018 01:30 via twitter.com
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• Boil water advisory in place for thousands in Hull this weekend. #ottnews ottawamatters.com/local-news/pre…

  20-10-2018 01:15 via twitter.com
  Boil water advisory in place for thousands in Hull this weekend. #ottnews ottawamatters.com/local-news/pre…
  
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• Feds: Child exploitation focus of Pennsylvania church probe ottawamatters.com/world-news/fed…

  20-10-2018 01:00 via twitter.com
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• Motorcyclist killed in accident on Highway 105 at La Pêche

  20-10-2018 00:57 via ottawacitizen.com
  A motorcyclist was dead following an accident involving two other vehicles on Highway 105 near La Pêche on Friday, MRC des Collines police said.
  The 30-year-old man was transported to hospital in Wakefield following the collision near Woods Road, but was declared upon arrival at the hospital, a police media release added.
  There were no other injuries from the collision, police said.
  MRC des Collines police officers remained on the scene of the accident on Highway 105, which remained blocke
  
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• Colourfully named cannabis products appeal to youth, Tory health critic says ottawamatters.com/national-news/…

  20-10-2018 00:30 via twitter.com
  Colourfully named cannabis products appeal to youth, Tory health critic saysottawamatters.com/national-news/…
  
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• Doucet shocked by Watson's latest campaign announcement bit.ly/2OxNf1Z https://t.co/DEHEz9PnKs

  20-10-2018 00:11 via twitter.com
  
  Doucet shocked by Watson's latest campaign announcement bit.ly/2OxNf1Z https://t.co/DEHEz9PnKs
  
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• Canadian moose hunter accused of illegally entering the United States ottawamatters.com/national-news/…

  20-10-2018 00:00 via twitter.com
  Canadian moose hunter accused of illegally entering the United Statesottawamatters.com/national-news/…
  
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