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• Critics call for cancellation of debate featuring Steve Bannon ottawamatters.com/national-news/…

  30-10-2018 23:35 via twitter.com
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• Indigenous legal fund pitch a 'divide-and-conquer' tactic: Senator ottawamatters.com/national-news/…

  30-10-2018 22:35 via twitter.com
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• Motion seeks end to Calgary's potential hosting bid for 2026 Winter Olympics ottawamatters.com/national-news/…

  30-10-2018 22:05 via twitter.com
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• Researchers say a month of abstaining from cannabis leads to improved memory in adolescents and young adults who ar… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  30-10-2018 21:35 via twitter.com
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• 5 Reasons to see Fleetwood Mac in Ottawa (even without Lindsey Buckingham)

  30-10-2018 21:35 via ottawacitizen.com
  Fleetwood Mac
  When & where: 8 p.m. Nov. 3, Canadian Tire Centre
  Tickets: Start at 69.50, plus fees, available at ticketmaster.ca
  Fleetwood Mac is back on the road, but this time they’re touring without longtime member Lindsey Buckingham. The legendary classic rockers fired him earlier this year, announcing two other musicians to replace him. Buckingham responded with a lawsuit seeking his share of the tour income, estimated at $12 million US. Despite the drama, the show must go on. Her
  
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• Ontario man howls like dog at neighbour’s home to protest excessive dog barking

  30-10-2018 21:27 via ottawacitizen.com
  Police say they had to issue noise warnings after a man went to a nearby home in the middle of the night and howled and barked to protest his neighbour’s barking dogs.
  Ontario Provincial Police say officers went to deal with the dispute at around 8 a.m. on Saturday in Simcoe, in southwestern Ontario.
  OPP say the 41-year-old man went to his neighbour’s home between 2 a.m. and 2:30 a.m. where he barked and howled.
  They say he was fed up with his neighbour’s dogs barking at all ho
  
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• HMCS Toronto headed to Belfast for repairs after electrical problems cause loss of power

  30-10-2018 21:11 via ottawacitizen.com
  HMCS Toronto, which is taking part in NATO operations, has run into some more problems. The frigate was conducting operations at sea off the coast of the United Kingdom when the ship experienced an electrical issue causing a loss of power, Canadian Forces spokesman Maj. Mark Gough said Tuesday. “The ship’s technicians worked continuously on this matter to bring the electrical systems back on line,” added Gough. “The ship has been able to restore electrical power whic
  
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• Federal debate planning to be taken 'out of back rooms,' Liberal minister promises. ottawamatters.com/national-news/…

  30-10-2018 21:05 via twitter.com
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• UPDATE: Police seek to ID woman in relation to Mechanicsville homicide

  30-10-2018 20:44 via ottawacitizen.com
  As police continue to investigate three shooting incidents that happened Monday, they are asking for the public’s help to identify a woman, whose photo they have released.
  Earlier Tuesday, police identified the victim of a Monday morning shooting in Mechanicsville as Guled Ahmed, 23, of Toronto.
  Police said residents will continue to see a police presence Tuesday around Carruthers Avenue while the homicide investigation continues.
  In a media release Tuesday morning, police said the major c
  
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• Jury urged to demand complete overhaul of Ontario's hodgepodge 911 service

  30-10-2018 20:41 via ottawacitizen.com
  Jurors are expected to call for a drastic overhaul of Ontario’s 911 service — everything from the current calltakers’ answer of “police, fire or ambulance?” to the need for overarching legislation to govern the 911 service — as they began deliberating Tuesday after a two-week inquest into the province’s emergency response network.
  The inquest examined four deaths and was held in two parts. Last week, jurors heard in Ottawa about the death of Kathryn Miss
  
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• ICYMI: Tornado recovery slow for some, including Dunrobin Meat and Grocery. ottawamatters.com/local-news/tor…

  30-10-2018 20:35 via twitter.com
  ICYMI: Tornado recovery slow for some, including Dunrobin Meat and Grocery.ottawamatters.com/local-news/tor…
  
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• Police find blocks of cocaine in SUV near border in Cornwall

  30-10-2018 20:18 via ottawacitizen.com
  A man has been arrested and charged with drug trafficking after a high-speed chase near the U.S. border in Cornwall earlier this month.
  Police officers patrolling the St Lawrence River near Cornwall watched as occupants of a boat handed over a duffel bag to a man in a black sports utility vehicle (SUV). Police tried to stop the driver of the vehicle, who evaded police and fled the area.
  The SUV was located by police a short time later. In the vehicle, police found 16 bricks of cocaine weighing j
  
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• Police arrest man who allegedly assaulted Ottawa cabbie

  30-10-2018 20:17 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa police have arrested a man who allegedly sucker-punched a cabbie then robbed him of his cash after the ride.
  According to police, the man hailed a cab at around 5:15 a.m. on October 22. He asked the cab to take him from Rideau Street near Chapel Street to Barrette Street in Vanier.
  But after the short ride, he attacked the driver, leaving him with minor injuries, and fled on foot, according to police.
  Police have arrested Brian Michael Colborne, 26, of Ottawa. He has been charged with rob
  
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• Former YMCA-YWCA director pleads guilty to fraud in credit card case

  30-10-2018 20:12 via ottawacitizen.com
  The former director of the Ottawa YM-YWCA, Tanya-Elizabeth Gagnon Dugal-Mendes, 40, has received an 18-month conditional sentence after pleading guilty to fraud after more than $20,000 in fraudulent purchases were racked up on a corporate credit card over four years.
  Police were called in January, 2016, when the YMCA-YWCA of the National Capital Region began to suspect suspicious financial activity involving Gagnon Dugal-Mendes, then-director of employment and newcomer services for the agency.
  A
  
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• Life insurers welcome new rules that limit how much they can accept as deposits. ottawamatters.com/national-busin…

  30-10-2018 20:05 via twitter.com
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• STORY: National Capital Region YMCA-YWCA director pleads guilty to fraud ottawamatters.com/local-news/nat…

  30-10-2018 20:01 via twitter.com
  STORY: National Capital Region YMCA-YWCA director pleads guilty to fraudottawamatters.com/local-news/nat…
  
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• #ottnews @CrimeStoppersOT twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…

  30-10-2018 19:54 via twitter.com
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• Senators top up refinancing with new $30M credit facility

  30-10-2018 19:40 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Ottawa Senators Hockey Club said it has secured a $30 million short-term credit line with BMO Bank of Montreal’s corporate finance division.
  The hockey club said the five-year loan will be used to give the team access to short-term credit as well as allowing the team to buy U.S. dollars when exchange rates are more attractive. American currency is typically used by a hockey franchise to pay its players.
  “We’re delighted with this deal,” said Eugene Melnyk, owner and g
  
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• NYC allocates $1.9 million to Louis Armstrong museum. ottawamatters.com/world-news/nyc…

  30-10-2018 19:35 via twitter.com
  NYC allocates $1.9 million to Louis Armstrong museum.ottawamatters.com/world-news/nyc…
  
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• Putin critic fights to remain in Canada, fears for life if sent back to Russia. ottawamatters.com/national-news/…

  30-10-2018 19:05 via twitter.com
  Putin critic fights to remain in Canada, fears for life if sent back to Russia.ottawamatters.com/national-news/…
  
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• Roddy Ellias's best artistic year ever continues with concerts this weekend with Jean-Michel Pilc

  30-10-2018 18:40 via ottawacitizen.com
  Artistically speaking, veteran Ottawa guitarist and composer Roddy Ellias has been having a banner year.
  During the Music and Beyond festival this summer, he watched the long-awaited premiere of Sleeping Rough, his first opera. As a jazz guitarist, in addition to his regular Friday night duets at the Lord Elgin Hotel, Ellias has been making high-level music with some exceptional and stimulating collaborators, including a dazzling album of chamber-jazz called Sticks and Stones with New York piani
  
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• Children of Canadians need rescue from Syria, group tells federal government. ottawamatters.com/national-news/…

  30-10-2018 18:35 via twitter.com
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• Going out best bets, Nov. 1 to 7

  30-10-2018 18:25 via ottawacitizen.com
  Classical
  Music director Alain Trudel and the Ottawa Symphony Orchestra launch their season with a ground-breaking concert at Ottawa City Hall on Sunday. The 3D String Experience consists of two programs, starting with a free 11:30 a.m. concert featuring chamber ensembles playing Bach on 3D-printed instruments. The second program, from 12:30-2 p.m., requires a ticket ($22 and up, on sale at ottawasymphony.com), and will highlight music by Jean Féry Rebel, Jeffrey Ryan, Frank Zappa and Edg
  
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• Gatineau residents a happy lot, except for snow removal issues, poll shows

  30-10-2018 18:12 via ottawacitizen.com
  Apart from complaints about street maintenance and snow removal, Gatineau residents are a happy lot, a city commissioned study shows.
  A whopping 91 per cent of respondents to the Léger Inc. poll conducted this spring indicated they enjoyed a “good quality” of life in the West Quebec centre.
  And 73 per cent said they were happy overall with the services offered in the city.
  But the results take a downturn when street services are mentioned. Just 49 per cent of respondents said
  
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• Government review of funding for teachers' math qualification raises concerns. ottawamatters.com/around-ontario…

  30-10-2018 18:05 via twitter.com
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• Guest column: We dare not let murderers define who we are

  30-10-2018 17:26 via ottawacitizen.com
  The world of caring, sensitive people was once again jostled just a short while ago by the horrific murder of 11 Jews who were attending a sacred covenantal baby ceremony in a Pittsburgh synagogue.
  It is a tragedy of enormous proportions. Our thoughts are with the grieving families as they confront this unspeakable loss.
  There are hardly any words that can offer comfort in the intensity of the grief. But there can be little doubt that the outpouring of genuine outrage, condemnation, and expressi
  
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• Not your grandmother's commercials: 'Kidvertising' in the digital age

  30-10-2018 16:38 via ottawacitizen.com
  Advertising to kids on television is so old school. A new study of by University of Ottawa researchers found that 72 per cent of children and youth were exposed to food marketing through social media in a single 10-minute window.
  “The numbers are shocking,” said lead researcher Monique Potvin Kent, an assistant professor in the university’s School of Epidemiology and Public Health.
  “These are not your grandmother’s commercials. Food and beverage manufacturers have n
  
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• Kingston pair charged in alleged attempt to import banned weapons via mail

  30-10-2018 16:37 via ottawacitizen.com
  Officers with the Canada Border Services Agency, assisted by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, have charged two Kingston residents following an alleged attempt to import prohibited handguns into Canada.
  On Oct. 18, border service officers at the Toronto international mail processing centre discovered two 9 mm pistols which were being shipped via Canada Post. The discovery led to a police investigation.
  Police said that the guns, which were originally designed to be movie props, are prohibited i
  
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• Cohen: Tree of Life synagogue shooting affects Jews everywhere

  30-10-2018 16:31 via ottawacitizen.com
  WASHINGTON — Spend a few years in the United States of Anxiety and after awhile the violence, both subtle and stark, becomes part of everyday life.
  There is violence in language — harsh, loud and bristling with easy expletives. There is violence in football, a carnage of bloody noses, broken bones and deadly concussions. There is violence on the roads, where impatience brings cursing, taunting, honking, racing and tailgating.
  America was born in blood and has been bleeding every sinc
  
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• Mechanicsville homicide victim identified as Toronto man, 23

  30-10-2018 16:29 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa homicide detectives are now investigating two separate shootings that happened near Airbnb units on Monday.
  Police said in a media release Tuesday that the major crime squad had taken carriage of a shooting investigation at Gilmour and Percy streets that saw a victim show up later at hospital with gunshot wounds. The wounds were not deemed life-threatening.
  Earlier Tuesday, police identified the victim of a Monday morning shooting in Mechanicsville as Guled Ahmed, 23, of Toronto.
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• House Works: Your questions on well depth, cold room moisture, basement mould

  30-10-2018 16:08 via ottawacitizen.com
  Measuring water well depth
  Q: How can I figure out how deep my water well is? I have to get a new water pump but the supplier wants to know how far down below ground level the water is.
  Remove the cover off a well like this and there are two ways to measure how far down the water is. Drop down a weight tied to a string, or use a laser distance measuring tool.
  A: When it comes to water wells, there are two important dimensions involved.
  One is the total depth of the drilled or dug hole in the gro
  
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• On today's Power Lunch: @Alex_S_Cullen & @markblevis join @_MarkSutcliffe in-studio: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  30-10-2018 14:45 via twitter.com
  On today's Power Lunch:@Alex_S_Cullen & @markblevis join @_MarkSutcliffe in-studio:📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Coming up at 9:45: Secretary of West Carleton Disaster relief, Len Russell joins @_MarkSutcliffe: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  30-10-2018 14:40 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 9:45: Secretary of West Carleton Disaster relief, Len Russell joins @_MarkSutcliffe: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Gatineau police handing out light collars to make trick-or-treaters visible

  30-10-2018 14:35 via ottawacitizen.com
  Gatineau police will once again be handing out safety lights on the street and in some city parks to make Halloween safer for trick-or-treaters.
  The collar device, sporting the police logo, slips on and off easily (but not too easily).
  Parents can keep the device for future night outings with the kids.
  The device will be available from patrol cars. Parents are cautioned to wait until the squad cars are stopped, and not run into the road to chase the patrollers.
  They are also available between 5:
  
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• Coming up at 9:15: @SusanDelacourt joins @_MarkSutcliffe on carbon pricing, by-election & more: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  30-10-2018 14:01 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 9:15: @SusanDelacourt joins @_MarkSutcliffe on carbon pricing, by-election & more: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Denley: Ottawa, there might be a better way to choose city councillors

  30-10-2018 14:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  A new and potentially better way to elect city councillors is on the radar in several Canadian cities. It’s time to ask if it would benefit us in Ottawa.
  A ranked ballot system, where voters choose their three top preferences, was used in London, Ont., in this year’s municipal election. Voters in Kingston and Cambridge also supported it in a referendum, although that result is not binding. It will likely be under consideration in Toronto, as well.
  There are advantages to a ranked bal
  
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• POLL: Is Justin Trudeau disrespecting voters by leaving three federal ridings vacant?

  30-10-2018 13:52 via twitter.com
  POLL: Is Justin Trudeau disrespecting voters by leaving three federal ridings vacant?
  
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• 3 Asian nations warn citizens not to use marijuana in Canada: bit.ly/2DcMiWO https://t.co/p8EWiB79fW

  30-10-2018 13:40 via twitter.com
  
  3 Asian nations warn citizens not to use marijuana in Canada: bit.ly/2DcMiWO https://t.co/p8EWiB79fW
  
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• Global wildlife populations dropped by 60 per cent in 40 years: WWF: bit.ly/2OdBvMT https://t.co/dxZo7gNc4L

  30-10-2018 13:32 via twitter.com
  
  Global wildlife populations dropped by 60 per cent in 40 years: WWF: bit.ly/2OdBvMT https://t.co/dxZo7gNc4L
  
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• Update: Police identify Mechanicsville homicide victim as Toronto man, 23

  30-10-2018 13:08 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa police have identified the victim of a Mechanicsville shooting death Monday morning as Guled Ahmed, 23, of Toronto.
  Officials said residents will continue to see a police presence Tuesday around Carruthers Avenue while the homicide investigation continues.
  It was one of a pair of Monday morning shootings near Airbnb rentals in the capital: The targeted homicide that left a young man dead in a dark alleyway, the other a sunrise shooting with a missing victim who later turned up at hospital
  
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• Two drunk drivers arrested in same car in Brockville

  30-10-2018 12:54 via ottawacitizen.com
  Brockville police stopped the same vehicle twice in a matter of hours early Sunday, and charged two different men with driving it with the lights out, while drunk.
  Officers were on patrol just after midnight and came across a vehicle being driven without lights.
  An onsite interview detected an odour of alcohol on the driver’s breath, and a roadside screening device resulted in a warning alert.
  It was the 39-year-old man’s second warning alert, resulting in an automatic suspension of
  
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• Two wounded late Monday in day's third shooting

  30-10-2018 12:22 via ottawacitizen.com
  Two men were wounded late Monday night in the Britannia Park neighbourhood.
  It was the third shooting case on Monday, including a homicide.
  Police were called to the area of Carling Avenue and Ritchie Street at about 11:15 p.m., where they found two men, aged 23 and 24.
  They had suffered from non-life-threatening wounds and were taken to hospital.
  No one had been arrested as of Tuesday morning.
  West division detectives continue their investigation.
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  Police probe homicide after man's body
  
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• Tuesday looking pretty fair, but rest of week all wet

  30-10-2018 12:10 via ottawacitizen.com
  Looks like a decent day ahead in the capital, with skies clearing Tuesday morning en route to an expected high of 7 C.
  But clouds should roll back in Tuesday night with a 40 per cent chance of showers and the temps are expected to drop to 0.
  Perhaps you should skip this paragraph. The rain should continue into Wednesday with a “risk” of freezing rain early in the morning. Sorry.
  There could also be fog patches developing in the afternoon, so best to slow everything down on the r
  
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• 'These are not your grandmother's commercials': Kidvertising in the digital age

  30-10-2018 12:01 via ottawacitizen.com
  Advertising to kids on television is so old school. A new study of by University of Ottawa researchers found that 72 per cent of children and youth were exposed to food marketing through social media in a single 10-minute window.
  “The numbers are shocking,” said lead researcher Monique Potvin Kent, an assistant professor in the university’s School of Epidemiology and Public Health.
  “These are not your grandmother’s commercials. Food and beverage manufacturers have n
  
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• Drugs in jails: Ministry says it doesn't keep track of overdoses and naloxone use

  30-10-2018 12:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ontario’s corrections ministry says it does not track the number of opioid overdoses in its jails, even though prisoners have died and staff are routinely treating inmates for overdoses.
  That has observers of the jail system wondering how the province expects to combat a major health crisis and keep people safe without a full statistical picture of the drug overdose problem.
  Last May, this newspaper sent a freedom-of-information request to the Ministry of Community Safety and Correctional
  
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• Today's letters: Why we must tackle the carbon problem

  30-10-2018 11:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  Atmosphere needs to stay in balance
  Re: Letters – Stop staring at my soft drink, and carbon dioxide is not pollution, Oct. 27.
  Letter-writers Colin Alexander and David Wieland asked why carbon dioxide is treated as a pollutant in the fight to protect against extreme climate change.
  CO2, water vapor, nitrogen and oxygen are all part of the atmosphere and necessary for life as we know it. But none of us would survive in a room full of CO2, just as we would drown in a room full of water or ri
  
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• 'Woman of action': New councillor Laura Dudas sees so much to do in so little time

  30-10-2018 11:14 via ottawacitizen.com
  Seven new faces were elected to Ottawa city council in the recent municipal election. We’re profiling each of those new councillors as they prepare to take on their new duties. On Tuesday, Tom Spears talks to Laura Dudas.
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  On a Thursday afternoon, three days after winning the Innes Ward council seat, Laura Dudas was at Tim Hortons letting a medium coffee go very cold.
  Not drinking the coffee was probably a good idea. She had barely slept since her win.
  “Maybe an hour, mayb
  
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• #Montreal hit with rotating #CanadaPost strike; 6,000 workers walk off job: bit.ly/2PwTmD8 https://t.co/QDzvwrzi4t

  30-10-2018 10:35 via twitter.com
  
  #Montreal hit with rotating #CanadaPost strike; 6,000 workers walk off job: bit.ly/2PwTmD8 https://t.co/QDzvwrzi4t
  
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• Shooting reshapes Liberals' apology for 1939 refusal of ship of Jewish refugees: bit.ly/2Jq7IzD https://t.co/Km19dow50C

  30-10-2018 10:26 via twitter.com
  
  Shooting reshapes Liberals' apology for 1939 refusal of ship of Jewish refugees: bit.ly/2Jq7IzD https://t.co/Km19dow50C
  
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• #Ottawa survey finds high numbers of LGBTQ youth, Indigenous and veterans in homeless population:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  30-10-2018 10:15 via twitter.com
  #Ottawa survey finds high numbers of LGBTQ youth, Indigenous and veterans in homeless population:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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