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• Adam Picard, once freed by charter challenge, found guilty of murder

  24-10-2018 23:50 via ottawacitizen.com
  More than six years after Fouad Nayel was lured to a hunting camp and executed, his killer was found guilty Wednesday, ending a spiralling legal drama that tested the limits of Canada’s court system and the patience of a grieving family. 
  A jury of 12 people — three women and nine men — found Adam Picard guilty of first-degree murder at the Ottawa courthouse on Wednesday afternoon. 
  Picard’s winding road through the changing landscape of the Canadian legal
  
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• STORY: Former soldier, Adam Picard, found guilty in 2012 murder of Fouad Nayel. #ottnews ottawamatters.com/local-news/for… https://t.co/0WnNEuGev2

  24-10-2018 23:48 via twitter.com
  
  STORY: Former soldier, Adam Picard, found guilty in 2012 murder of Fouad Nayel. #ottnews ottawamatters.com/local-news/for… https://t.co/0WnNEuGev2
  
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• Reevely: Hating the carbon tax with nothing else to offer doesn't help anyone

  24-10-2018 23:43 via ottawacitizen.com
  The federal Liberals have put up the most conservative climate-change plan Canada has ever seriously considered and Ontario’s conservative government hates it.
  It is, as you know, a tax on carbon-heavy fuels, of $20 for every tonne of carbon dioxide they’ll emit when burned. In the involved provinces, including Ontario, the money will be rebated in equal shares to taxpayers. The tax will rise over time.
  A carbon tax whose proceeds are returned this way — 90 per cent to individu
  
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• Results for municipalities using online voting for elections start to roll in

  24-10-2018 23:24 via ottawacitizen.com
  Municipalities across Eastern Ontario where voting was extended due to technical difficulties have started to share the results from their polls.
  The municipalities nearest to Ottawa that were affected by Monday’s technical snafus included Renfrew, Laurentian Valley Township, Pembroke, Petawawa and the Whitewater Region.
  In Renfrew, Don Eady was elected mayor. Mike Coulas, Andrew Evans, Sandi Heins, Arelene Jamieson and Tom Sidney were elected as councillors.
  In Laurentian Valley, Steve Be
  
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• Cornwall's new mayor says if her election is 'a message to little girls, and little girls of colour … that would be pretty nice'

  24-10-2018 22:59 via ottawacitizen.com
  Three days after she was elected mayor of Cornwall, Bernadette Clément admits she’s still coming to grips with the attention she’s been getting.
  “It feels a bit odd,” she laughs over the phone from the SDG Legal Clinic where she’s organizing her move to city hall.
  “Yes, I’m a woman, a francophone and a woman of colour, but, seriously, my heritage has never been much of an issue here.”
  It has, nonetheless, struck positive chords outside the S
  
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• Woman accused in hotel slaying granted bail on first-degree murder charge

  24-10-2018 22:37 via ottawacitizen.com
  One of two women charged with first-degree murder in the hotel homicide of Mohamad Mana has been granted bail, a rarity on the most serious charge in the Criminal Code.
  Crystal Bastien, 32, an escort who her lawyer claims was in the room in which, Mana, 30, was savagely beaten by a group of as yet unidentified males, for just seconds before she ran out screaming will now await trial while under house arrest and being electronically monitored.
  Lawyer Joseph Addelman previously told this newspaper
  
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• Algonquin College alumna, suffering from PTSD, now an Invictus Games medalist. ottawamatters.com/local-news/alg…

  24-10-2018 22:35 via twitter.com
  Algonquin College alumna, suffering from PTSD, now an Invictus Games medalist.ottawamatters.com/local-news/alg…
  
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• Ruff: Canada bans asbestos but not all Canadians are protected equally

  24-10-2018 22:20 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Canadian government deserves praise for bringing in regulations to ban asbestos. That’s the good news. The bad news is that not all Canadians will be protected equally from asbestos harm.
  After more than 100 years of mining asbestos, Canada has been left with a heritage of asbestos mining wastes that companies left behind. In Quebec, there are more than 800 million tons of asbestos wastes containing up to 40 per cent asbestos, often located near communities, close to schools and homes.
  
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• Police identify suspect in Algonquin College sex assault

  24-10-2018 22:11 via ottawacitizen.com
  Police say a “tremendous” response from the public helped them quickly identify a man whose picture was released Tuesday as a suspect in a sexual assault at Algonquin College.
  But police were saying little about their investigation into the assault on a woman in her 20s who had been asleep in a college lounge in the early hours of Oct. 14.
  “The investigation is ongoing right now,” Const. Amy Gagnon said Wednesday, adding that “when charges are laid, or if charg
  
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• Ottawa police bring more human trafficking victims to safety through Ontario-wide operation, 'Northern Spotlight.' ottawamatters.com/police-beat/ot…

  24-10-2018 22:05 via twitter.com
  Ottawa police bring more human trafficking victims to safety through Ontario-wide operation, 'Northern Spotlight.'ottawamatters.com/police-beat/ot…
  
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• How many snowsuits does $1 million buy? Ask the Snowsuit Fund

  24-10-2018 21:46 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Snowsuit Fund has been around for 37 years in Ottawa, but ultimately their mission has remained the same: to keep kids warm
  
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• May faces critics amid warnings of 'no deal' Brexit chaos. ottawamatters.com/national-busin…

  24-10-2018 21:35 via twitter.com
  May faces critics amid warnings of 'no deal' Brexit chaos.ottawamatters.com/national-busin…
  
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• Man who posed as Uber driver sentenced four years for 'abhorrent, predatory' sexual assaults

  24-10-2018 21:22 via ottawacitizen.com
  Sami Khreis approached his first victim as the young woman walked alone from a ByWard Market bar in the early hours of Oct. 18, 2017.
  “I’m a nice guy, let me help you,” he told her as they walked to a nearby parking garage, where she met her friends and retrieved her car keys and bank card.
  Her next memory is awakening in the man’s bed, still clothed with Khreis telling her to “shut up b—-” as he raped her.
  He kept her bank card after she fled and emptie
  
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• Turkey keeps pressure as Saudi prince addresses forum. ottawamatters.com/world-news/tur…

  24-10-2018 21:05 via twitter.com
  Turkey keeps pressure as Saudi prince addresses forum.ottawamatters.com/world-news/tur…
  
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• Military complaints program cozy with leadership, lacking safeguards for confidential information,  warns Ombudsman

  24-10-2018 21:02 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Canadian Forces ombudsman won’t refer soldiers to a military program that is designed to resolve complaints at a local level after concerns were raised about the organization’s close relationship with senior officers as well as a lack of safeguards surrounding the confidential information provided by military personnel.
  The Integrated Complaint and Conflict Management or IC2M program is billed by the Canadian Forces as a one-stop process to handle complaints at the local level. T
  
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• Rallies against PC's repeal of Bill 148 begin

  24-10-2018 20:53 via ottawacitizen.com
  About 50 people gathered in front of the downtown offices of the Ottawa Board of Trade over the noonhour Wednesday to rally against the province’s repeal of parts of Fair Workplaces, Better Jobs Act.
  The group was primarily comprised of activists and union representatives from various labour units, including the Canadian Union of Postal Workers, the Public Service Alliance of Canada, Unifor and the United Steelworkers, among others.
  They carried signs demanding “$15 an hour now, no m
  
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• Ontario government broke promise to fund post-secondary campuses: NDP. ottawamatters.com/around-ontario…

  24-10-2018 20:35 via twitter.com
  Ontario government broke promise to fund post-secondary campuses: NDP.ottawamatters.com/around-ontario…
  
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• Algonquin College sex assault suspect ID'd: Police

  24-10-2018 20:27 via ottawacitizen.com
  Police say that a “tremendous” response from the public have helped them quickly identify a man whose picture was released as a suspect in a sexual assault at Algonquin College.
  But police are saying little about the investigation into the assault on a woman in her 20s who had been asleep in a college lounge early on a Sunday morning.
  “The investigation is ongoing right now,” Const. Amy Gagnon said Wednesday, adding that “when charges are laid, or if charges ar
  
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• EI fraud hits a new high for Liberals as feds chalk it up to better detection ottawamatters.com/national-news/…

  24-10-2018 20:05 via twitter.com
  EI fraud hits a new high for Liberals as feds chalk it up to better detectionottawamatters.com/national-news/…
  
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• Glavin: Canada can't dodge action against the world's war criminals

  24-10-2018 19:58 via ottawacitizen.com
  “I dream about one day bringing all the militants to justice, not just the leaders like Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi but all the guards and slave owners, every man who pulled a trigger and pushed my brothers’ bodies into their mass grave, every fighter who tried to brainwash young boys into hating their mothers for being Yazidi … They should all be put on trial before the entire world, like the Nazi leaders after World War II, and not given the chance to hide.”
  Those are the wor
  
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• Going out best bets, Oct. 25 to 31

  24-10-2018 19:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  Books
  The Ottawa International Writers Festival kicks off Thursday with a slate of events covering non-fiction, fiction, poetry and even music. Chief among them is the 6:30 p.m. discussion at Christ Church Cathedral (414 Sparks St.) of Trust: Twenty Ways to Build a Better Country, the new book by Canada’s former governor general, David Johnston. Tickets are $20 writersfestival.org or $25 at the door. The festival is to present between four and eight events each day until next Tuesday, and
  
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• John McDermott Trio plays Ottawa at Centrepointe Theatre, Oct. 25 on multi-city tour

  24-10-2018 17:48 via ottawacitizen.com
  The John McDermott Trio performs in Ottawa on Thursday, October 25 at Centrepointe theatre at 7:30 p.m. Ticket details here. 
  They play Cornwall on Oct. 26.
  Although the trio has been in Cornwall a number of times, The John McDermott Trio never fails to draw a crowd.
  This year the trio will be here to celebrate 25 years, performing to residents of a city that make him feel so welcome.
  “I think we pretty much, every two or three years we come to Cornwall,” said McDermott. “
  
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• Coming up at 11:30: Author/journalist Ron Corbett joins @_marksutcliffe in-studio on his new book 'Cape Diamond'… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  24-10-2018 17:25 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 11:30:Author/journalist Ron Corbett joins @_marksutcliffe in-studio on his new book 'Cape Diamond'… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Provincewide blitz leads to 45 charges, including human trafficking, against 15 people

  24-10-2018 17:07 via ottawacitizen.com
  A coordinated blitz on human trafficking operations across the province has led to 45 charges being laid against 15 people and the recovery of seven people who were believed to be victims of human trafficking, according to police.
  Three of those victims were recovered by Ottawa Police, two by Peel police, one by Niagara police and one by Waterloo police, OPP said in a news release sent out Wednesday morning. Of the seven, two were under the age of 18.
  The operation, dubbed “Northern Spotli
  
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• Coming up at 11: Professor Elliot Tepper joins @_MarkSutcliffe live to discuss international affairs: 📻: 1310 💻… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  24-10-2018 16:55 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 11: Professor Elliot Tepper joins @_MarkSutcliffe live to discuss international affairs: 📻: 1310 💻… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Dining Out: Rangoon's Burmese dishes impress with deep and surprising flavours

  24-10-2018 16:47 via ottawacitizen.com
  Rangoon Restaurant634 Somerset St. W., 613-680-8821, rangoonrestaurant.caOpen: Monday to Thursday 11:30 a.m. to 9 p.m., Friday and Saturday 11:30 a.m. to 10 p.m., Sunday 5 to 10 p.m.Prices: Most sharable salads $10.95, most sharable dishes under $20Access: steps to front door, washrooms upstairs
  A few years ago, I had a casual, off-duty meal of fish noodle soup and coconut chicken curry at Rangoon Restaurant. My lunch was tasty and even intriguing, and I resolved to return to give the family-run
  
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• Coming up at 10:45: @smccarthy55 joins @_MarkSutcliffe on #carbonTAX: 📻: 1310 💻: bit.ly/2oQd8u1… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  24-10-2018 16:40 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 10:45: @smccarthy55 joins @_MarkSutcliffe on #carbonTAX: 📻: 1310 💻: bit.ly/2oQd8u1… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Results for municipalities using online voting for elections, now starting to roll in

  24-10-2018 16:36 via ottawacitizen.com
  Municipalities across Eastern Ontario where voting was extended due to technical difficulties, have started to share the results from their polls.
  The cities nearest to Ottawa that were affected by Monday’s technical snafus included Renfrew, Laurentian Valley Township, Pembroke, Petawawa and the Whitewater Region.
  In Renfrew, Don Eady has been elected as mayor. Mike Coulas, Andrew Evans, Sandi Heins, Arelene Jamieson and Tom Sidney have all been elected as councillors.
  In Laurentian Valley
  
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• UPDATE: CNN reporting a suspicious package to the White House has also been intercepted & CNN says its offices in N… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  24-10-2018 16:30 via twitter.com
  UPDATE: CNN reporting a suspicious package to the White House has also been intercepted & CNN says its offices in N… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• On today's Power Lunch: @ChelbyDaigle & @Ottawaathomemag join @_marksutcliffe in-studio: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  24-10-2018 16:30 via twitter.com
  On today's Power Lunch: @ChelbyDaigle & @Ottawaathomemag join @_marksutcliffe in-studio:📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Coming up at 10:30: Wendy Muckle from #Ottawa Inner City Health joins @_MarkSutcliffe on supervised injection sit… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  24-10-2018 16:25 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 10:30: Wendy Muckle from #Ottawa Inner City Health joins @_MarkSutcliffe on supervised injection sit… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• STORY: Bank of Canada raises key interest rate target to 1.75 per cent: bit.ly/2yZF2sG https://t.co/DewPSxZa0F

  24-10-2018 16:12 via twitter.com
  
  STORY: Bank of Canada raises key interest rate target to 1.75 per cent: bit.ly/2yZF2sG https://t.co/DewPSxZa0F
  
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• JUST IN: Bank of Canada raises key interest rate target to 1.75 per cent

  24-10-2018 16:05 via twitter.com
  JUST IN: Bank of Canada raises key interest rate target to 1.75 per cent
  
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• Coming up at 9:45: @CanWarMuseum historian Tim Cook in-studio with @_MarkSutcliffe on his new book "The Secret Hi… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  24-10-2018 15:40 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 9:45: @CanWarMuseum historian Tim Cook in-studio with @_MarkSutcliffe on his new book "The Secret Hi… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Guitarist Harley Card strives to make music that's honest, organic and fun

  24-10-2018 15:23 via ottawacitizen.com
  Jazz guitarist Harley Card, who grew up in Ottawa’s west end, has been pursuing music patiently in Toronto since the early 2000s.
  The 38-year-old has been putting out albums as a leader at a measured pace since 2008 — the same year he was a semi-finalist in the Montreux Jazz Festival Guitar Competition in Switzerland.
  He makes a rare hometown appearance this Friday when he plays GigSpace with his quintet, which brought some vivid, ambitious original compositions to life on his Januar
  
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• Workshop in Embrun on fatal deer disease

  24-10-2018 14:59 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ontario government officials and the Ontario Federation of Anglers and Hunters are offering a two-hour workshop on chronic wasting disease, which was recently found in Quebec.
  The disease is fatal to deer. It is highly infectious and animals that catch it are declared unfit to eat, though there is a lack of evidence about whether it can be passed on to humans.
  It was identified in one sick animal on a deer farm north of Montebello, but so far it has not been found in wild deer.
  Quebec has ordere
  
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• Gatineau police hunt suspected arsonist in three Hull sector fires

  24-10-2018 14:31 via ottawacitizen.com
  Gatineau police are asking for the public’s help to identify suspects behind a string of recent suspected arsons in the Hull area over the last five days.
  The first fire was last Friday, Oct. 19, at around 4 a.m. officers were called to respond to a fire at a store located at 15 Fournier Blvd.
  The next day, police were called to investigate after a fire at 286 Maisonneuve Blvd. around 1 a.m.A third fire, at about 12:45 a.m. Sunday, at 344 Champlain St. raised suspicions further.
  
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• Preview: Supertramp's Roger Hodgson unlocks the secret to happiness: 'I think music is a service'

  24-10-2018 13:58 via ottawacitizen.com
  Roger Hodgson
  8 p.m. Oct. 27, TD Place arena, Lansdowne Park
  Tickets: $59.50-$99.50, plus surcharges, available at tdplace.ca
  Roger Hodgson doesn’t consider himself a rock star. The 68-year-old Englishman, whose soaring voice and soul-stirring songs helped make Supertramp into one of the world’s most popular bands, believes that playing music is an occupation that belongs in the service industry. A year before the anniversary of the band’s biggest album, he shares that unconven
  
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• West Quebec woman, 49, missing since Sunday

  24-10-2018 13:40 via ottawacitizen.com
  Quebec provincial police are asking the public to help them find a 49-year-old woman who was last seen leaving her home Sunday in Saint-André-Avellin, about 60 km northeast of Gatineau.
  Marie-France Paquin’s family has “reason to fear for her health and safety,” police said.
  She is described as five-feet, two-inches (1.57m) tall and weighing 130 pounds (59 kg) with brown hair and hazel eyes.
  She was last seen wearing an ankle-length leather coat with a fur collar.
  A
  
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• ICYMI: Boil water advisory lifted for Hull sector: bit.ly/2CE1uLw https://t.co/lyLQcczfsl

  24-10-2018 12:40 via twitter.com
  
  ICYMI: Boil water advisory lifted for Hull sector: bit.ly/2CE1uLw https://t.co/lyLQcczfsl
  
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• Today's letters: Why did so few people vote in the municipal election?

  24-10-2018 12:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  Voter apathy is downright depressing
  Fewer than half of the eligible voters in Ottawa decided it was worth their valuable time to vote for the people who will very materially affect their lives for the next four years. I do not understand this at all.
  In my riding of Kanata North, there was no incumbent running, so there was not an argument from those who chose not to vote that they were happy with the incumbent, or that the incumbent would win again, so why bother leaving home to vote.
  Assuming
  
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• Man seriously hurt in 174 rollover: bit.ly/2PMPrPn #ottnews https://t.co/eMF9lnXTeh

  24-10-2018 12:25 via twitter.com
  
  Man seriously hurt in 174 rollover: bit.ly/2PMPrPn #ottnews https://t.co/eMF9lnXTeh
  
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• Snowsuit Fund kicks off 37th annual campaign: bit.ly/2yyJTl5 #Ottnews @SnowsuitFund https://t.co/IXeTirdgff

  24-10-2018 12:16 via twitter.com
  
  Snowsuit Fund kicks off 37th annual campaign: bit.ly/2yyJTl5 #Ottnews @SnowsuitFund https://t.co/IXeTirdgff
  
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• Federal carbon tax rebates will exceed the cost for most people affected: bit.ly/2SeyNdd #cdnpoli https://t.co/puL1ZStgSV

  24-10-2018 12:00 via twitter.com
  
  Federal carbon tax rebates will exceed the cost for most people affected: bit.ly/2SeyNdd #cdnpoli https://t.co/puL1ZStgSV
  
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• Police looking for suspect in Algonquin College sex assault: bit.ly/2RdO0dn https://t.co/JIFMJrvwFT

  24-10-2018 11:42 via twitter.com
  
  Police looking for suspect in Algonquin College sex assault: bit.ly/2RdO0dn https://t.co/JIFMJrvwFT
  
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• Bank of Canada expected to raise interest rate as some trade uncertainty recedes: bit.ly/2SevUZV https://t.co/miKaHGheQr

  24-10-2018 11:34 via twitter.com
  
  Bank of Canada expected to raise interest rate as some trade uncertainty recedes: bit.ly/2SevUZV https://t.co/miKaHGheQr
  
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• Ottawa police seek assistance in locating missing 75-year-old man

  24-10-2018 05:50 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Ottawa Police Service issued a call on Tuesday night for public assistance in locating a 75-year-old man who had been missing since earlier in the day.
  Song Hoon was described as being of Korean descent, standing five feet five inches tall with a medium build and grey hair.
  He was last seen wearing a dark blue suit jacket with dark grey pants and no outer coat, a police media release said. He may also be wearing small black glasses.
  Police said he was last seen leaving 130 Albert St. at
  
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• “Personalities" block new policies to help troops, says Canadian Forces Ombudsman

  24-10-2018 05:22 via ottawacitizen.com
  As Canada’s news media industry continues to be hit by layoffs and buyouts there are fewer journalists left to report on issues. That means that important stories sometimes go under-reported or not reported at all, much to the delight of politicians in power, bureaucrats, and government public relations staff.
  A good example is the final appearance before Parliament of Canadian Forces Ombudsman Gary Walbourne. Walbourne, who retires Oct. 31, appeared on Oct. 16. I could find no media cover
  
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• ICYMI: Police looking for suspect in Algonquin College sex assault. #ottnews ottawamatters.com/local-news/pol…

  24-10-2018 05:05 via twitter.com
  ICYMI: Police looking for suspect in Algonquin College sex assault. #ottnews ottawamatters.com/local-news/pol…
  
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• Canadian troops, families take shelter in hotel after Florida hurricane. ottawamatters.com/national-news/…

  24-10-2018 04:30 via twitter.com
  Canadian troops, families take shelter in hotel after Florida hurricane.ottawamatters.com/national-news/…
  
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