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• 'It's good news:' Nature group tells Canadians not to rake their lawns ottawamatters.com/national-news/…

  31-10-2018 23:30 via twitter.com
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• Ottawa's illegal pot shops step up as Ontario government store struggles to deliver weed

  31-10-2018 23:29 via ottawacitizen.com
  As the Ontario government’s online cannabis store struggles to meet demand and deliver weed on time, illegal operators in town are stepping up.
  Five dispensaries were back in business on Wednesday. How long they will remain open is another question. Ottawa police warn they plan to close them.
  Officers have visited dispensaries to give operators “one last chance to close down,” according to a statement from Ottawa Police Service Const. Amy Gagnon.
  “In the coming weeks
  
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• Federal Liberals aim to add personal leave days as Ontario cuts them back ottawamatters.com/national-news/…

  31-10-2018 23:00 via twitter.com
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• Two teens charged in Stittsville stabbing and robberies. #ottnews ottawamatters.com/police-beat/pa… https://t.co/w0dLzxONy3

  31-10-2018 22:45 via twitter.com
  
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• Canada Border Services Agency told to speed removals of failed refugee claimants ottawamatters.com/national-news/…

  31-10-2018 22:30 via twitter.com
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• Take a break with the rake. ottawamatters.com/national-news/…

  31-10-2018 22:00 via twitter.com
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• Priest charged in abortion bubble-zone flap to mount 'free speech' defence

  31-10-2018 21:55 via ottawacitizen.com
  A Roman Catholic priest charged under Ontario’s new “bubble zone” law protecting abortion clinics is vowing to challenge the accusation as a violation of his constitutional right to freedom of expression.
  Father Anthony Van Hee, 83, a fixture on Parliament Hill for his anti-abortion protests, moved his silent demonstration across the street from the Morgentaler Clinic, on Bank Street near Sparks, on Oct. 24.
  It wasn’t long before two Ottawa police officers came by to remo
  
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• Rising fuel costs pummel Air Canada profits, but revenue is on the rise. ottawamatters.com/national-busin…

  31-10-2018 21:35 via twitter.com
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• In rare move, second woman charged in hotel homicide gets bail

  31-10-2018 21:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  In a rare move, a Crown prosecutor has consented to the release of an accused killer on bail because the proposed conditions she has to follow do away with any “just cause” for detention, an Ottawa court heard Wednesday.
  Tamara Bahlawan, 25, was granted bail Wednesday after the Crown agreed to those proposed conditions and her ultimate release back into the community pending her trial.
  Bahlawan is charged with first-degree murder in the hotel homicide of Mohamad Mana, 30. Mana was bo
  
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• Remote Arctic wildlife area benefits from U.S foundation funding pledge. ottawamatters.com/national-news/…

  31-10-2018 21:05 via twitter.com
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• Military contractor received $1.6 billion to advise Afghans but results unknown

  31-10-2018 21:01 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Afghan mission continues to be a money pit for the U.S. government and a cash cow for private military contractors. On Wednesday, the U.S. government’s Afghan mission watchdog produced a report on the Pentagon program to advise the Afghan Ministry of Defence (MOD) and the Afghan Ministry of the Interior (MOI).
  The U.S. government’s Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) found that since 2010, the U.S. Department of Defense has awarded four cont
  
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• Meet the @OttawaPolice's new victim service dog @K9West3. #ottnews twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…

  31-10-2018 20:58 via twitter.com
  Meet the @OttawaPolice's new victim service dog @K9West3. #ottnews twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…
  
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• Man charged in Algonquin College sexual assault

  31-10-2018 20:53 via ottawacitizen.com
  A 36-year-old man has been charged in relation to a sex assault at Algonquin College two weeks ago.
  Police had earlier released photos of a man they said was a suspect in the incident, which they said involved a woman in her 20s who had been asleep in a college lounge in the early hours of Oct. 14.
  Patrol officers were called to the Woodroffe Avenue campus at 3:40 a.m. Oct. 14. Nine days later, police released images of a man captured on surveillance cameras, walking the hallways of th
  
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• Re-upping for the trick-or-treaters. ottawamatters.com/local-news/hal…

  31-10-2018 20:35 via twitter.com
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• Molson Coors readies to sell cannabis-infused beverages in Canada next year. ottawamatters.com/national-busin…

  31-10-2018 20:05 via twitter.com
  Molson Coors readies to sell cannabis-infused beverages in Canada next year.ottawamatters.com/national-busin…
  
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• Police seize weapons in North Dundas raid

  31-10-2018 19:55 via ottawacitizen.com
  A third person has been arrested after a raid at a North Dundas Township address last week yielded ammunition, crossbows and a handgun-style air pistol, the OPP said Wednesday.
  The force’s community street crime unit, emergency response team and officers from the Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry detachment teamed up to execute a search warrant at a property on Timmins Road in the Winchester area Oct. 25.
  Philip Moyes, 37, of North Dundas was charged with careless use of firearm, weapon,
  
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• Dining Out: Le Mien in ByWard Market dazzles with fresh hand-pulled noodles in spicy soup

  31-10-2018 19:36 via ottawacitizen.com
  Le Mien43 William St., 613-421-8882, lemiencraftnoodle.comOpen: Weekdays 11 a.m. to 9 p.m., Saturday and Sunday 11:30 a.m. to 9 p.m.Prices: soups $11 to $15Access: No steps to front door or washroom
  In French, “le mien” means mine. But as is immediately apparent at Le Mien Craft Noodle in the ByWard Market, the words signify something completely different in Chinese.
  Allow me to take a liberty or two and translate — Lā in Mandarin means “to pull or stretch.” Mi
  
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• Facebook CEO asked to testify at joint committee formed by Canadian, British MPs ottawamatters.com/national-news/…

  31-10-2018 19:35 via twitter.com
  Facebook CEO asked to testify at joint committee formed by Canadian, British MPsottawamatters.com/national-news/…
  
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• What is the best Halloween candy? We asked the experts

  31-10-2018 19:32 via ottawacitizen.com
  Halloween is all about the tricks and treats. Watch and see what kids think of our treats … and our tricks.Take Our Poll
   
  
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• Listen to Mike Palecek's conversation with @rick_gibbons. #ottnews twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…

  31-10-2018 19:31 via twitter.com
  Listen to Mike Palecek's conversation with @rick_gibbons. #ottnews twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…
  
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• US companies hiring at robust pace, wages rise faster ottawamatters.com/world-news/us-…

  31-10-2018 19:00 via twitter.com
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• Zibi to erect observation deck atop shipping container tower

  31-10-2018 18:54 via ottawacitizen.com
  Officials behind the Zibi development are moving ahead with a seven-storey tall shipping container structure, which will be used as a sales center for the development and contain an observation deck on its roof.
  According to Cédric Tessier, Gatineau city councillor for the Hull-Wright District where Zibi is being built, the construction required special permission from City Hall to allow it to progress.
  Gatineau does not normally allow temporary structures made from the shipping container
  
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• Teen dies of injuries two months after ATV crash

  31-10-2018 18:19 via ottawacitizen.com
  A young woman has died of the injuries she suffered more than two months ago in an Iroquois-area ATV crash that the OPP says it’s still investigating.
  Jasmine Saunders, 18, was pronounced dead Sunday of injuries she suffered in the Aug. 17 crash, Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry OPP said in a media release.
  Saunders was one of three people aboard the eastbound ATV at 12:13 a.m. when it went off Broken Second Road and rolled over into a ditch between Marine Station Road and County R
  
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• Updated: HMCS Toronto headed to Belfast for repairs after electrical problems cause loss of power

  31-10-2018 18:16 via ottawacitizen.com
  HMCS Toronto has run into some 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 which allows them to communicate and navigate safel
  
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• Glavin: Does lack of diversity on city councils threaten legitimacy?

  31-10-2018 17:56 via ottawacitizen.com
  You might think it would be bad enough to show up again this year near the top of Demographia’s listings of cities with the least affordable housing markets in the world, and a rental vacancy rate of less than one per cent, and to have been reduced to ground zero of Canada’s fentanyl crisis, with a worldwide reputation as the epicentre of a global money laundering system run by organized crime networks in China.
  You might also think it is a bit disturbing that Vancouverites are appar
  
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• The @rick_gibbons Show for Wednesday, October 31st: 1:08: @Mike_Palecek 1:17: @Randall_Denley 1:30: @mordenm 1:45:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  31-10-2018 17:14 via twitter.com
  The @rick_gibbons Show for Wednesday, October 31st: 1:08: @Mike_Palecek 1:17: @Randall_Denley 1:30: @mordenm 1:45:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Ottawa-Gatineau bucks national housing slowdown as new home prices continue to rise

  31-10-2018 17:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  The nation’s capital bucked a national housing trend as the Ottawa-Gatineau region saw an uptick in new home prices where other metropolitan areas saw a slowdown, according to the latest Statistics Canada data.
  The agency said in a release Wednesday the countrywide trend of slowing growth in new home prices in many census metropolitan areas (CMAs) was due in part to the introduction of market-cooling policy measures in Ontario and B.C., coinciding with several mortgage rate hikes.
  Mortgage
  
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• NEXT on the Power Lunch: @LauraPeck6 & @Gen_Tellier join @_MarkSutcliffe live in-studio: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  31-10-2018 16:55 via twitter.com
  NEXT on the Power Lunch:@LauraPeck6 & @Gen_Tellier join @_MarkSutcliffe live in-studio:📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Coming up at 11:45: @EricFrancis joins @_marksutcliffe on the #Calgary Olympic bid: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  31-10-2018 16:40 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 11:45: @EricFrancis joins @_marksutcliffe on the #Calgary Olympic bid: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Police seek suspects in case of car break-in, fraud

  31-10-2018 16:29 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa police’s break and enter unit is asking the public to help them identify two suspects in a case in which it’s alleged that credit and debit cards stolen in a car break-in in Carleton Heights were used at Ottawa stores.
  Suspects broke into a vehicle in the area of Senio Avenue near Prince of Wales Drive and Meadowlands Drive East Oct. 7, police said in a release Wednesday. A wallet containing the CIBC credit card and a debit card was stolen and the cards used.
  Police released s
  
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• Woman plans to die on Thursday, saying Ottawa is forcing early death on her #ottnews ottawamatters.com/national-news/… https://t.co/FpKahXloG8

  31-10-2018 15:53 via twitter.com
  
  Woman plans to die on Thursday, saying Ottawa is forcing early death on her #ottnews ottawamatters.com/national-news/… https://t.co/FpKahXloG8
  
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• Coming up at 10:45: @IvisonJ joins @_MarkSutcliffe on the political rhetoric around carbon tax: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  31-10-2018 15:40 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 10:45:@IvisonJ joins @_MarkSutcliffe on the political rhetoric around carbon tax:📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Award-winning chef Briana Kim to close Café My House and open new restaurant in 2019

  31-10-2018 14:54 via ottawacitizen.com
  Chef Briana Kim, who represented Ottawa this year at the Canadian Culinary Championships, said she will close her acclaimed Hintonburg restaurant Café My House in January and open a new restaurant called Alice a few months later.
  Kim, who announced the developments this week on Instagram, is renowned for her innovative plant-based haute cuisine. Café My House serves vegan blind tasting menus at dinner, and Alice, according to its own Instagram account, will offer an eight-course ta
  
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• Statistics Canada reports GDP up 0.1% in August boosted by oil and gas subsector: bit.ly/2Js3lnZ https://t.co/5fJmwtZn51

  31-10-2018 14:32 via twitter.com
  
  Statistics Canada reports GDP up 0.1% in August boosted by oil and gas subsector: bit.ly/2Js3lnZ https://t.co/5fJmwtZn51
  
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• NEXT: @1310JasonWhite joins @_MarkSutcliffe on the rotating postal strike hitting #Ottawa: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  31-10-2018 14:14 via twitter.com
  NEXT:@1310JasonWhite joins @_MarkSutcliffe on the rotating postal strike hitting #Ottawa: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• #ottnews @LaCatrinaCafe twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…

  31-10-2018 14:06 via twitter.com
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• Victims of two Monday morning shootings attended same Sunday evening wedding in Ottawa

  31-10-2018 13:32 via ottawacitizen.com
  The victims of two Monday morning shootings — one before daybreak, the other after — attended the same Sunday evening wedding in Ottawa, this newspaper has learned.
  Homicide victim Guled Ahmed, 23, shot dead in a back alleyway on Carruthers Avenue, and a second man, who showed up at hospital with gunshot wounds after bullets were fired into the front window of a Gilmour Street home, were both staying at Airbnb rentals while they were in Ottawa for the wedding. Both are from Toronto.
  
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• Update from police on Carruthers Avenue homicide investigation. #ottnews twitter.com/OttawaPolice/s…

  31-10-2018 13:19 via twitter.com
  Update from police on Carruthers Avenue homicide investigation.#ottnews twitter.com/OttawaPolice/s…
  
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• Woman who plans to die says the federal gov't is forcing early death on her: bit.ly/2Oha1G7 #cdnpoli https://t.co/7mGQ1cLBw1

  31-10-2018 13:09 via twitter.com
  
  Woman who plans to die says the federal gov't is forcing early death on her:bit.ly/2Oha1G7 #cdnpoli https://t.co/7mGQ1cLBw1
  
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• Motorcyclist killed in North Glengarry crash

  31-10-2018 12:58 via ottawacitizen.com
  A motorcyclist killed in a two-vehicle crash north of Maxville, about 75 kilometres east of Ottawa, Tuesday afternoon.
  First responders were called to the collision at the intersection of county roads 20 and 24 at about 5:13 p.m. Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry OPP said.
  Their preliminary probe suggests that the motorcycle was northbound on County Road 20 when, “for reasons under investigation,“ a southbound passenger vehicle turned towards County Road 24 and struck the bike
  
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• Brockville youth, 15, charged with manslaughter in gang-related death

  31-10-2018 12:55 via ottawacitizen.com
  A 15-year-old Brockville youth has been charged in the death of Damian Sobieraj, 33, in the city’s Hardy Park six weeks ago.
  The youth, who can’t be named under the Youth Criminal Justice Act, faces charges of manslaughter, criminal negligence causing death, obstructing police and assault.
  Brockville police arrested the youth Tuesday morning and they appeared in bail court later in the day.
  Police refused to say whether the teen was a boy or girl.
  Staff-Sgt. Tom Fournier would not sa
  
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• Ottawa hit by postal workers 24-hour walkout

  31-10-2018 12:36 via ottawacitizen.com
  There’ll be no more delivery or pickup Wednesday Ottawa, Arnprior and Renfrew are the latest sites of the postal workers’ rotating series of 24-hour walkouts.
  Workers walked off the job in the capital at 6 a.m., along with Charlottetown and Summerside, PEI.
  The Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) began the rotating strikes Oct. 22 to increase pressure on Canada Post in contract talks.
  Among the contract items in dispute are job security, forced overtime, and health and safet
  
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• Windy, chance of freezing rain, fog patches: Scary!

  31-10-2018 12:32 via ottawacitizen.com
  How’s this for Halloween?
  The day opens with the risk of icy showers and throws in some atmospheric fog patches by afternoon for trick-or-treaters.
  The winds should be blustery, at about 20 km/h and, oh, and there’s a 30 per cent chance of showers tonight, along with lingering fog patches.
  Scary stuff indeed.
  The is is expected to be 5 C, the low 1 C.
  Mixed skies become cloudy Thursday afternoon with a high of 7 C, a low of 2 C and a 60 per cent chance of nighttime showers.
  Friday lo
  
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• #Halloween: Safety tips for trick-or-treaters: bit.ly/2RnLzos https://t.co/mue6RijZFW

  31-10-2018 12:29 via twitter.com
  
  #Halloween: Safety tips for trick-or-treaters: bit.ly/2RnLzos https://t.co/mue6RijZFW
  
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• Carol Anne Meehan has had a very bad day — but she vows to do better

  31-10-2018 12:18 via ottawacitizen.com
  Councillor-elect Carol Anne Meehan needs to grow a thicker skin. And she knows it.
  There’s still a little over a month before Meehan will be sworn in as the new councillor for Gloucester-South Nepean, and already the veteran broadcaster is in the midst of her first social media firestorm.
  This week, Meehan was accused of making a threat in an online squabble with a resident on a Facebook page over transit issues. The contretemps turned personal and the resident said Meehan didn’t tak
  
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• Frustration with Red Cross tornado relief ottawamatters.com/local-news/fru… #ottnews #dunrobin #ottawa https://t.co/IV57Lg9AlI

  31-10-2018 12:04 via twitter.com
  
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• Legendary ballerina Evelyn Hart on a 'beautiful role,' challenges of dancing at 62 years old

  31-10-2018 12:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  Vespers
  Royal Winnipeg Ballet
  When and where: 8 p.m. Nov. 1-3, Southam Hall, National Arts Centre
  Tickets: $29-$111, plus surcharges, available at NAC box office, by phone at 1-888-991-2787 and online at nac-cna.ca and ticketmaster.ca
  Canada’s legendary prima ballerina, Evelyn Hart, returns to the stage with the Royal Winnipeg Ballet in a role created just for her by choreographer James Kudelka. The 62-year-old plays the intuitive and influential Everywoman in a mythological tale that
  
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• Igor Gouzenko papers: Tense tale of Russian defector in Ottawa retold in documents from CSIS

  31-10-2018 12:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  It was 1945 in Ottawa and a young Soviet embassy employee had just walked out with secret papers revealing his country’s espionage secrets. Now a man was knocking on his apartment door on Somerset Street West.
  Igor Gouzenko waited breathlessly inside with his wife, Svetlana, and their baby son. They didn’t answer the door, and when their visitor called out, they recognized the voice of a chauffeur working for the military attaché.
  After a few minutes, the chauffeur left. The G
  
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• Today's letters: The synagogue attack, cannabis smoke and greenhouse gases

  31-10-2018 11:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  Mourn and respect synagogue victims
  I am of joint East India (Hindu) and Slovak (Christian) identity, married to a Jew, and we have an adopted Inuit daughter. The Pittsburgh mass murder of Jews strikes at our Jewish heritage. And more than that, we’re sensitive to racial and cultural discrimination including our Indigenous roots.
  Here in the national capital, we should turn to organizations such as the Capital Region Interfaith Council, a well established interfaith group that steadily enh
  
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• Renfrew fire under investigation; evacuation order lifted: bit.ly/2zi7aY3 https://t.co/QpVsEAGHRm

  31-10-2018 11:00 via twitter.com
  
  Renfrew fire under investigation; evacuation order lifted: bit.ly/2zi7aY3 https://t.co/QpVsEAGHRm
  
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