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• Scholarships honour 'big, bright light' and other Broncos players from Alberta ottawamatters.com/national-news/…

  26-10-2018 23:30 via twitter.com
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• Woman who fell from care-home window wasn't found for an hour, son says

  26-10-2018 23:15 via ottawacitizen.com
  Jeannette Fleury lay crumpled on the ground outside Carlingview Manor for an hour last April before officials at the long-term care home found her, according to her son. When found, the 79-year-old woman had no pulse.
  Luc Fleury said Friday he is angry about the death of his mother, who plummeted from her third-floor bedroom window at the Carling Avenue long-term care home on April 17. He said he’s especially angry it took so long for anyone from the home to find her.
  “It is supposed
  
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• City still reviewing planning application for LeBreton Flats redevelopment

  26-10-2018 23:09 via ottawacitizen.com
  The city is still reviewing the planning application for the historic redevelopment of LeBreton Flats after receiving the documents more than a month ago.
  The project is a partnership between the National Capital Commission and the RendezVous LeBreton Group, whose main investors are the Ottawa Senators and Trinity Developments.
  City hall has a huge role to play in the land-use planning approvals for the redevelopment, even if the project is on federal land. Planning approval is the one big power
  
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• Maritime CFL expansion proposes Halifax-area stadium at Shannon Park ottawamatters.com/national-news/…

  26-10-2018 23:00 via twitter.com
  Maritime CFL expansion proposes Halifax-area stadium at Shannon Parkottawamatters.com/national-news/…
  
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• Gatineau taxi driver accused of sex assault on disabled teen

  26-10-2018 22:44 via ottawacitizen.com
  A taxi driver who provided paratransit services is accused of sexually assaulting an adolescent passenger with severe physical and intellectual disabilities.
  Gatineau police said they had “reason to believe” there may have been other victims.
  Michel Vanier, 48, was arrested Monday. A former driver with Taxi Loyal, a sub-contractor of the Société de transport de l’Outaouais, he appeared in court Tuesday on charges of sexual exploitation and committing indecent
  
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• Shots fired on car on Montreal Road early Friday

  26-10-2018 22:35 via ottawacitizen.com
  Police are investigating after “multiple” shots fired from one vehicle hit a second on Montreal Road early Friday.
  They responded after getting a 911 call at 1:50 a.m. from the victims after their car was fired upon just east of Montgomery Street, which is between North River Road and the Vanier Parkway.
  No one was injured in the incident.
  Central district detectives were investigating.
  
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• Trudeau discusses revamped trade pact, tariffs with incoming Mexican president ottawamatters.com/national-news/…

  26-10-2018 22:30 via twitter.com
  Trudeau discusses revamped trade pact, tariffs with incoming Mexican presidentottawamatters.com/national-news/…
  
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• Royal Canadian Legion releases digital version of the Remembrance Day poppy ottawamatters.com/national-news/…

  26-10-2018 22:00 via twitter.com
  Royal Canadian Legion releases digital version of the Remembrance Day poppyottawamatters.com/national-news/…
  
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• Stocks slump again, putting market back into red for year. ottawamatters.com/national-busin…

  26-10-2018 21:35 via twitter.com
  Stocks slump again, putting market back into red for year.ottawamatters.com/national-busin…
  
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• Cocaine, heroin, meth and more, found in Upper Ottawa Valley home ottawamatters.com/police-beat/co…

  26-10-2018 21:24 via twitter.com
  Cocaine, heroin, meth and more, found in Upper Ottawa Valley homeottawamatters.com/police-beat/co…
  
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• Snowy forecast prompts NCC to close Gatineau parkways for season

  26-10-2018 20:20 via ottawacitizen.com
  The possibility of snowfall this weekend has prompted Gatineau Park to close its parkway network to motorists for the season at 6 p.m. Friday.
  “The early closure is a result of the special weather statement issued (Friday) by Environment Canada for a mixture of snow, ice pellets and freezing rain this weekend,” the agency said in a release.
  The parkways (Gatineau, Champlain, Fortune Lake and Philippe Lake) normally close for the seaon on the fourth Sunday of October.
  Due to envi
  
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• Bystanders hailed for saving man who collapsed near Orléans fire hall

  26-10-2018 20:16 via ottawacitizen.com
  When a man collapsed while jogging on a Charlemagne Boulevard sidewalk Monday, bystanders swung into action.
  One pulled over his car to start performing CPR. Another called 911 and ran to the nearby Fire Station 53 to alert firefighters, who arrived to deliver shocks with a portable defibrillator.
  Thanks to those unidentified bystanders, the 59-year-old man was revived on the scene, said the fire department said, hailing their “lifesaving intervention.” Paramedics confirmed that
  
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• Passenger says bus driver lost for hours during trip to NYC. ottawamatters.com/world-news/pas…

  26-10-2018 19:35 via twitter.com
  Passenger says bus driver lost for hours during trip to NYC.ottawamatters.com/world-news/pas…
  
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• Experts say parents are first line of defence in preventing sexual abuse in sports. ottawamatters.com/national-news/…

  26-10-2018 19:05 via twitter.com
  Experts say parents are first line of defence in preventing sexual abuse in sports.ottawamatters.com/national-news/…
  
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• Gatineau taxi driver accused of sex assault on severely disabled teen

  26-10-2018 18:44 via ottawacitizen.com
  A taxi driver who provided paratransit services is accused of sexually assaulting an adolescent passenger with severe physical and intellectual disabilities.
  Gatineau police “have reason to believe” there may have other victims.
  Michel Vanier, 48, was arrested Monday. A former driver with Taxi Loyal, a sub-contractor of the Société de transport de l’Outaouais, he appeared in court Tuesday on charges of sexual exploitation and committing indecent acts. He was
  
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• Prelude to a disaster: Book from Monty Python's Michael Palin recalls early success of Franklin expedition ships

  26-10-2018 18:36 via ottawacitizen.com
  On a June evening, 300 guests in fancy dress boarded a Royal Navy ship in Australia to dine on chicken, pies, pastries and jellies, washed down with wine, port, sherry and champagne.
  The captain’s cabin and gunroom were decorated and filled with mirrors and bottles of eau de cologne, to serve as “ladies’ dressing rooms.”
  Then the jovial company crossed the gangway to a second Navy ship and danced on the deck until 6 a.m. A sergeant of marines noted in his diary the follow
  
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• The @rick_gibbons Show for Friday, October 26th: 1:08: @erogclark 1:17: #EdNordskog 1:30: @SaraBuchan 1:45:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  26-10-2018 18:12 via twitter.com
  The @rick_gibbons Show for Friday, October 26th: 1:08: @erogclark 1:17: #EdNordskog 1:30: @SaraBuchan 1:45:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Ontario firm agrees to pay more than $4 million for selling defective equipment to U.S. Navy

  26-10-2018 17:58 via ottawacitizen.com
  Indal Technologies Inc. has agreed to pay $3.5 million (U.S.) to resolve allegations it knowingly sold defective helicopter landing systems designed for U.S. Navy destroyers, the U.S. Justice Department has announced.  Indal, whose facility is in Mississauga, is a division within Curtiss-Wright Corporation of Charlotte, North Carolina.
  Since the 1970s, Indal has produced the Recovery, Assist, Secure, and Traverse (RAST) system attached to U.S. Navy’s Arleigh-Burke class destroyers.&nb
  
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• NEXT on today's Power Lunch: @SamLapradeCFRE & @awudrick join @_MarkSutcliffe in-studio: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  26-10-2018 17:55 via twitter.com
  NEXT on today's Power Lunch:@SamLapradeCFRE & @awudrick join @_MarkSutcliffe in-studio:📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Coming up 11:45: @BarryDavis_ joins @_MarkSutcliffe live 📻: 1310 💻: bit.ly/2oQd8u1 📞: 613-75… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  26-10-2018 17:40 via twitter.com
  Coming up 11:45:@BarryDavis_ joins @_MarkSutcliffe live📻: 1310 💻: bit.ly/2oQd8u1 📞: 613-75… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Coming up at 11:30: @OttawaHospital Dr. Bill Stanford with @_MarkSutcliffe on the 'Chrétien Researcher of the Year… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  26-10-2018 17:25 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 11:30:@OttawaHospital Dr. Bill Stanford with @_MarkSutcliffe on the 'Chrétien Researcher of the Year… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Seven people, and pet dog, displaced in three area fires Thursday

  26-10-2018 17:18 via ottawacitizen.com
  Four people and a pet dog have been displaced as Ottawa Fire Services spent a busy Thursday evening with three small house fires.
  Residents at 2835 Ashton Station Rd., in the rural Beckwith area, called 911 at about 8 p.m. to report a chimney fire.
  When firefighters arrived they found the fire had extended from the chimney to a exterior wall and into the attic of the two-storey home.
  A woman, a child and a pet dog were in the residence at the time of the fire.
  After a 90-minute battle, fire
  
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• .@PoliceGatineau have arrested a taxi driver, accused of attacking a young person w/severe physical & intellectual… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  26-10-2018 17:18 via twitter.com
  .@PoliceGatineau have arrested a taxi driver, accused of attacking a young person w/severe physical & intellectual… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Biker doing wheelie among speeders caught by OPP air surveillance

  26-10-2018 17:14 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Ontario Provincial Police used an airplane to monitor Highway 417 for speeders between August and October, laying a total of 32 charges.
  Using the plane they were able to catch 12 motorcyclists traveling in excess of 150 km/h.
  One motorcyclist was seen performing a wheelie, where only his rear wheel was on the ground, while passing other cars near the Nicholas Avenue exit.
  A total of 20 car drivers were also caught traveling in excess of 150 km/h.
  All offenders were charged with stunt drivin
  
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• Paris: Historic portage on Ottawa River needs recognition, not neglect

  26-10-2018 16:36 via ottawacitizen.com
  Along the Quebec shore of the Ottawa River, partly concealed by tangled brush and strewn with garbage, lies a remarkable and neglected piece of Canadian history: a 5,000-year-old portage that served as a highway and campsite for Indigenous Peoples and European explorers until the mid-19th century.
  The path skirts the Little Chaudière Rapids between Brébeuf Park and (the unfortunately named) Squaw Bay. It is one of the few remaining original portages of the historic Ottawa River can
  
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• Diab's appeal unexpectedly delayed for new handwriting analysis

  26-10-2018 16:35 via ottawacitizen.com
  Appeal judges in France have refused to close the book on Hassan Diab’s 10-year battle against terrorism allegations.
  In an unexpected decision Friday, the appeal judges ordered an expert review of controversial handwriting evidence that was key to Diab’s extradition to France in 2014.
  In Friday’s decision, the French appeal court judges said the expert review of the handwriting evidence should be completed by next February.
  They had originally set Friday as the day they would
  
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• Ottawa's Live 88.5, New Hot 89.9 part of $506M takeover by Stingray Digital

  26-10-2018 16:14 via ottawacitizen.com
  Montreal-based Stingray Digital Group Inc. has purchased all of Newfoundland Capital Corp. Ltd.’s 101 radio stations across Canada in a deal valued at around $506 million.
  The deal, which includes Ottawa FM radio stations ‘Live 88.5’ and ‘The New Hot 89.9,’ will also see 800 employees transferred from Newfoundland Capital to Stingray, bringing the company’s head count to around 1,200.
  The acquisition marks the company’s first real foray into traditional
  
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• Ontario cannabis store apologizes for delays, blames Canada Post

  26-10-2018 16:04 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Ontario Cannabis Store is blaming early order delays on labour action at Canada Post, which shut down the key Toronto mail processing facilities just as the province was preparing to ship out its first wave of orders.
  And OCS warned that the cannabis delivery delays may not be solved yet.
  The provincial retailer of cannabis and cannabis products said it has received more than 150,000 orders for cannabis since the product was legalized on Wednesday Oct. 17. According to the store, Ontario rec
  
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• Country star Dierks Bentley in town Jan. 18

  26-10-2018 15:47 via ottawacitizen.com
  Country star Dierks Bentley is bringing his Burning Man Tour 2019 to the Canadian Tire Centre Jan. 18.
  Along for the ride are Jon Pardi, Tenille Townes and Hot Country Knights, Bentley’s ’90s country cover band.
  The capital stop is the singer-songwriter’s second date of the tour’s Canadian leg, which starts in Hamilton and includes dates in Oshawa, Winnipeg and Saskatoon before swerving south to Nashville to begin the U.S. leg.
  Tickets are available Friday, Nov. 2, a
  
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• Queen's U grad student admits poisoning fellow researcher

  26-10-2018 15:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  A 26-year-old graduate student, who until late January was working as a researcher in Queen’s University’s chemistry department, admitted in court Thursday to dosing a fellow researcher with a dangerous chemical.
  Ziejie Wang pleaded guilty in Kingston‘s Ontario Court of Justice to administering a noxious substance to a post-doctoral fellow with intent to endanger his life or cause bodily harm and to committing an aggravated assault on the same man by endangering his life b
  
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• MacDougall: We need to get off the treadmill of instant opinion

  26-10-2018 15:22 via ottawacitizen.com
  Did you hear the one about Andrew Scheer refusing to instantly commit to keeping Justin Trudeau’s freshly legalized pot in perpetuity?
  Scheer’s token resistance to Trudeau’s most significant policy achievement in government was certainly the joint being passed around my Twitter feed in the days after the announcement. And, believe me, no Liberal supporter was bogarting their scorn.
  What kind of moron, the chatter went, wouldn’t commit to keeping such a visionary and momen
  
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• One arrested after man, 23, wounded in Carlington stabbing

  26-10-2018 15:07 via ottawacitizen.com
  One person was arrested after a 23-year-old man was stabbing in Carlington Thursday afternoon.
  His injuries are not considered life-threatening, police said Friday morning.
  Patrol officers were called to Morisset Avenue at about 5 p.m.
  West end detectives are investigating.
  
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• JUST IN: Reports of 2 more suspicious packages: CNN reports one in NYC at West 52nd b/w 8th and 9th (6 blocks sout… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  26-10-2018 14:53 via twitter.com
  JUST IN: Reports of 2 more suspicious packages: CNN reports one in NYC at West 52ndb/w 8th and 9th (6 blocks sout… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• POLL: Should all aspiring teachers be required to pass a math test before receiving their licence to teach?

  26-10-2018 14:47 via twitter.com
  POLL: Should all aspiring teachers be required to pass a math test before receiving their licence to teach?
  
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• A special weather statement from @environmentca, as roads could get a bit messy in areas. #ottnews twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…

  26-10-2018 14:44 via twitter.com
  A special weather statement from @environmentca, as roads could get a bit messy in areas. #ottnews twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…
  
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• Death toll in Jordan flood rises to 20, mostly children: bit.ly/2CGRsZL https://t.co/S9U8nEXih3

  26-10-2018 14:15 via twitter.com
  
  Death toll in Jordan flood rises to 20, mostly children: bit.ly/2CGRsZL https://t.co/S9U8nEXih3
  
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• Diab's French appeal delayed again for new handwriting analysis

  26-10-2018 14:05 via ottawacitizen.com
  French appeal judges have refused to close the book on Hassan Diab’s 10-year battle against terrorism allegations.
  In an unexpected decision Friday morning in Paris, the judges ordered an expert review of controversial handwriting evidence that was key to Diab’s extradition to France in 2014.
  In Friday’s decision, the French judges said the review of the evidence should be completed by February.
  Friday had originally been set as the day they would rule on a prosecution appeal a
  
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• Ottawa comic-book retailer to bring comiccon back to its roots

  26-10-2018 13:56 via ottawacitizen.com
  Capital Comic Book Convention
  11 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday, Ottawa Marriott Hotel, 100 Kent St.
  Admission: $5 adults, $2 children
  Don’t expect to find any Hollywood celebrities signing autographs or hosting photo ops at Sunday’s inaugural Capital Comic Book Convention. Also missing from the action will be board-game tournaments, film screenings and comedy shows.Instead, this comiccon is all about comic books, from the classics of the 50s and 60s to brand-new releases.The grassroots event is
  
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• Should all aspiring teachers be required to pass a math test before receiving their licence to teach? #onpoli twitter.com/1310NEWS/statu…

  26-10-2018 13:44 via twitter.com
  Should all aspiring teachers be required to pass a math test before receiving their licence to teach? #onpoli twitter.com/1310NEWS/statu…
  
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• No injuries in Vanier drive-by shooting: bit.ly/2PVJcZH #ottnews https://t.co/479oJPEuvD

  26-10-2018 13:40 via twitter.com
  
  No injuries in Vanier drive-by shooting: bit.ly/2PVJcZH #ottnews https://t.co/479oJPEuvD
  
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• It's here! (maybe): 'First measurable snowfall' in the weekend forecast

  26-10-2018 13:37 via ottawacitizen.com
  Forget about Halloween, it might look like Christmas out there this weekend with up to 5 cm of snow threatening.
  Environment Canada issued a special weather statement Friday morning warning that a low-pressure system approaching from the south could bring the “first measurable snowfall event of the season” late on Saturday and into Sunday morning.
  It might miss us but we could be in for 2 to 5 cm of snow with higher amounts on higher terrain and ice pellets along the American bo
  
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• New teachers in Ontario will be made to take math test before getting licence: bit.ly/2yIttH9 #onpoli https://t.co/S8b5ZoXhb9

  26-10-2018 13:14 via twitter.com
  
  New teachers in Ontario will be made to take math test before getting licence: bit.ly/2yIttH9#onpoli https://t.co/S8b5ZoXhb9
  
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• Egan: Fake Christian landlord creates devilish dilemma in Ottawa rental scam

  26-10-2018 13:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  When Marc Dionne and his wife saw the ad for the four-bedroom townhouse in south Ottawa — gleaming with wall-to-wall renovations — at $1,200 a month, it looked too good to be true.
  It was, in ways they never imagined.
  Dionne, 65, called this week to remind the public about one of the most common and nefarious scams on the internet: the “poseur” landlord.
  The online ad on Craigslist described a home for rent in the Bank Street and Albion Road area: four bedrooms, two baths
  
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• Investigators dig for bomb motive, warn more could be found: bit.ly/2PYLSpp https://t.co/Es9WnuRsTD

  26-10-2018 12:58 via twitter.com
  
  Investigators dig for bomb motive, warn more could be found: bit.ly/2PYLSpp https://t.co/Es9WnuRsTD
  
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• Today's letters: Demand openness about Canada's arms deal with Saudis

  26-10-2018 12:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  Demand transparency on Saudi and other arms deals
  Re: Penalty for cancelling Saudi arms contract ‘in the billions’: Trudeau, Oct. 25.
  For many years, Canada (that means Canadian citizens) has distanced itself from the shameful sales of military goods by wrapping them under the cloak of the Canadian Commercial Corporation (CCC), a Crown Corporation with one shareholder: Canada.
  On an ever-expanding basis, CCC has been waving our Canadian flag plus the benefits of a “sovereign gu
  
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• Modern farming: How Ottawa Valley agriculture is evolving to grow and prosper

  26-10-2018 12:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  Eleven years ago Terryland became the first Ontario farm to sell electricity converted from cow manure to the grid, and has since expanded to generating more power — and additional income — from solar panels. Julie Oliver/Postmedia
  The modern face of farming in this region is changing. In the first of a multi-part series, this paper looks at the evolution underway in agriculture and how it’s changing our rural and urban communities. On Saturday: Urban farmers.
  When the federal
  
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• Seven people, and pet dog, displaced after three area fires Thursday

  26-10-2018 05:54 via ottawacitizen.com
  Five people and a pet dog have been displaced after Ottawa Fire Services spent a busy Thursday with three house fires.
  Residents at 2835 Ashton Station Rd., in the rural Beckwith area, called 911 at about 8 p.m. to report a chimney fire.
  When firefighters arrived they found the fire had extended from the chimney to a exterior wall and into the attic of the two-storey home.
  A woman, a child and a pet dog were in the residence at the time of the fire.
  After a 90-minute battle, firefighters we
  
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• Five displaced after chimney fire on Ashton Station Road

  26-10-2018 05:54 via ottawacitizen.com
  Five people were temporarily displaced after a chimney fire at 2835 Ashton Station Rd. on Thursday evening.
  A 911 call came from the home at 8:03 p.m., and when Ottawa firefighters arrived at the single detached two-storey house they declared a working fire. The blaze, which stretched from the chimney to an exterior wall and into the attic, was declared under control by 9:52.
  A woman, a child and a dog were at home at the time the fire broke out, but there were no reported injuries.
  Firefighters
  
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• Rubin: Ottawa's LRT — the secrecy continues

  26-10-2018 04:45 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ironically, it was on municipal election day – when the public gets to exercise its democratic rights directly ­– that a City of Ottawa official confirmed to me there are yet more secret LRT records.
  This time, it’s some 100,000 pages or reports since 2014 from Ottawa’s Transportation Services Directorate detailing its observations, including photos, of the delayed, multi-billion-dollar LRT project.
  I found that these records existed when I recently pressed the city t
  
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• Delays in Ontario cannabis delivery could push consumers back to black market: critics ottawamatters.com/national-news/…

  26-10-2018 03:00 via twitter.com
  Delays in Ontario cannabis delivery could push consumers back to black market: criticsottawamatters.com/national-news/…
  
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