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• NewsAlert: Toronto Argonauts fire head coach Marc Trestman bit.ly/2Oo0ahY https://t.co/tn6I8UypV6

  03-11-2018 23:49 via twitter.com
  
  NewsAlert: Toronto Argonauts fire head coach Marc Trestman bit.ly/2Oo0ahY https://t.co/tn6I8UypV6
  
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• Never let Roy go — Jazz musicians remember trumpeter Roy Hargrove, gone too soon at age 49

  03-11-2018 23:01 via ottawacitizen.com
  Roy Hargrove, a Grammy-winning trumpeter who flew the flag for mainstream and funky jazz for almost three decades, died Saturday of cardiac arrest, NPR reports. Once a young lion who burst onto the jazz scene in the 1990s in the wake of Wynton Marsalis’s successes, Hargrove was just 49.
  The native of Texas was a larger-than-life, fun-loving figure who pursued both hip-hop-inflected jazz (with his band RH Factor) and timelessly swinging sounds. He was renowned for his love of sitting in at
  
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• Today in the Petfinder: 'Willy' rescued from hot tub hell

  03-11-2018 22:53 via ottawacitizen.com
  This new home came with a jacuzzi … and a cat named Willy who apparently didn’t want to move.
  The Ottawa fire department received a call Friday from a “distraught” pet owner along with the new owner of a west-end home after the animal had been hiding in the tub’s plumbing for two days.
  The owner was in the process of moving out when the new owner spotted Willy while inspecting the plumbing. They tried to lure him out, but he just retreated deeper.
  Enter another Wil
  
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• RIP, Roy Hargrove

  03-11-2018 22:31 via ottawacitizen.com
  Roy Hargrove, a Grammy-winning trumpeter who flew the flag for mainstream and funky jazz for almost three decades, died Saturday of cardiac arrest, NPR reports. Once a young lion who burst onto the jazz scene in the 1990s in the wake of Wynton Marsalis’s successes, Hargrove was just 49.
  The native of Texas was a larger-than-life, fun-loving figure who pursued both hip-hop-inflected jazz (with his band RH Factor) and timelessly swinging sounds. He was renowned for his love of sitting in at
  
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• New Trans Mountain pipeline review doomed to fail: Vancouver mayor-elect bit.ly/2QiAhSf https://t.co/vGjzOpKzw3

  03-11-2018 22:31 via twitter.com
  
  New Trans Mountain pipeline review doomed to fail: Vancouver mayor-elect bit.ly/2QiAhSf https://t.co/vGjzOpKzw3
  
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• Rare disease acromegaly finds an Ottawa champion

  03-11-2018 22:27 via ottawacitizen.com
  Dianne Sauvé sometimes finds herself looking at someone in public — on a bus, say — and thinking, “I believe that person has it, too.”
  The “it” is acromegaly, a rare disease that can result in abnormal growth of the forehead, nose, jaw, hands and feet. Caused by a tumour on the pituitary gland that increases growth hormone, its other symptoms include joint pain, extreme fatigue, excessive skin tags, headaches, enlarged organs, menstrual cycle irregulari
  
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• Pedestrian killed after being struck by train near Smiths Falls on Friday

  03-11-2018 21:59 via ottawacitizen.com
  A Via Rail train traveling from Ottawa to Toronto struck a pedestrian near Smiths Falls Friday causing lengthy delays along the corridor.
  According to a Via spokesperson, train #43 was involved in the collision around 12:30 p.m.
  The train, with some 100 people on board, hit the pedestrian in the Township of Montague on Sturgess Road, about 60 kilometres southwest of Ottawa.
  The pedestrian was pronounced dead at the scene.
  The trip was delayed for several hours, as were a number of subsequent tra
  
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• Missing man, 83, found

  03-11-2018 21:46 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa police say that Sukhbinder Mehta, 83, has been found safe.
   
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• Bargain hunters line up to pick through items found on OC Transpo

  03-11-2018 21:44 via ottawacitizen.com
  The line outside OC Transpo’s lost and found offices stretched around the block by the time the doors opened for the transportation service’s fall lost and found sale on Saturday.
  Hundreds of bargain hunters joined the queue, which stretched through a neighbouring plaza on McArthur Avenue and around the corner onto nearby Moorevale Street, in hopes of getting their hands on various items that have been left on OC Transpo buses by commuters over the past six months.
  The charity runnin
  
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• Crash closes eastbound Hwy 401 near Odessa

  03-11-2018 21:33 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ontario Provincial Police have closed all eastbound lanes of Highway 401, and one westbound lane of the highway, near Odessa after a crash.
  Loyalist fire department’s Odessa station reported via Twitter that the incident, about 200 kilometres southwest of Ottawa near Kingston, incolved at least one car and a tractor trailer. The trailer had apparently flipped.
  Long lines of people are stuck in their cars while a police investigation into the incident continues. By about 4:30 p.m., official
  
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• Defence, Crown propose 4- to 7-year sentence in Queen's poisoning case

  03-11-2018 21:23 via ottawacitizen.com
  KINGSTON — A researcher in Queen’s University’s chemistry department, who admitting dosing a fellow grad student with a chemical used to induce cancer in lab animals, should be jailed for four to seven years, the defence and the Crown proposed Friday.
  Zijie Wang, 26, pleaded guilty in Kingston’s Ontario Court of Justice on Oct. 25 to administering a noxious substance between Jan. 8 and Jan. 29 to a post-doctoral fellow in the same lab with intent to endanger the man&rsquo
  
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• 12 charged after protest of debate featuring ex-Trump aide Steve Bannon bit.ly/2P7nrtO

  03-11-2018 21:09 via twitter.com
  12 charged after protest of debate featuring ex-Trump aide Steve Bannon bit.ly/2P7nrtO
  
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• Bargain hunters line up around the block to pick through lost OC Transpo items

  03-11-2018 20:15 via ottawacitizen.com
  The line outside OC Transpo’s lost and found offices stretched around the block by the time the doors opened for the transportation service’s fall lost and found sale.
  Hundreds of bargain hunters joined the queue, which stretched through a neighbouring plaza on McArthur Avenue and around the corner on nearby Moorevale Street, in hopes of getting their hands on various items that have been left on OC Transpo buses by commuters over the past six months.
  The charity running the sale, He
  
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• Pedestrian killed after struck by train near Smiths Falls Friday

  03-11-2018 20:14 via ottawacitizen.com
  A Via Rail train traveling from Ottawa to Toronto struck a pedestrian near Smiths Falls Friday causing lengthy delays along the corridor.
  According to a Via spokesperson, train #43 was involved in the collision around 12:30 p.m.
  The train, with some 100 people on board, hit the pedestrian in the Township of Montague on Sturgess Road, about 60 kilometres southwest of Ottawa.
  The pedestrian was pronounced dead at the scene.
  The trip was delayed for several hours, as were a number of subsequent tra
  
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• ICYMI: Daylight Saving Time ends this weekend; get an extra hour of sleep bit.ly/2QeG7nN https://t.co/foGjySkwcx

  03-11-2018 20:04 via twitter.com
  
  ICYMI: Daylight Saving Time ends this weekend; get an extra hour of sleep bit.ly/2QeG7nN https://t.co/foGjySkwcx
  
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• Police seek help finding missing man, 83

  03-11-2018 19:12 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa police are seeking public assistance in locating an 83-year-old man missing since 8 a.m.
  Sukhbinder Mehta was last seen in the area of Hummingbird Crescent in Barrhaven.
  The man is believed to be driving a grey 2014 Toyota Corolla with Ontario licence plate BTNC049.
  Anyone with information is asked to call Ottawa police west division staff sergeant’s desk at 613-236-1222, ext. 2912.ALSO IN THE NEWS:
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• Trudeau apologizes to Tsilhqot'in community members for 1864 hanging of chiefs bit.ly/2Rwo1Oo https://t.co/X4rNA0hXhw

  03-11-2018 18:38 via twitter.com
  
  Trudeau apologizes to Tsilhqot'in community members for 1864 hanging of chiefs bit.ly/2Rwo1Oo https://t.co/X4rNA0hXhw
  
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• Navy looking for clues on fires – fires broke out in same locations on two frigates

  03-11-2018 17:41 via ottawacitizen.com
  Fires recently broke out on two Royal Canadian Navy frigates within days of each other. Both fires started in the starboard gas turbine enclosure in the forward engine room of the Halifax-class frigates.
  One fire was on HMCS Toronto, the other on HMCS Halifax. There were no injuries and both fires were extinguished.
  The RCN hasn’t reported any concerns yet on whether there is an issue with particular equipment. But engineers are currently examining the issue and any similarities in the inc
  
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• Parkland survivors vote for 1st time, months after massacre bit.ly/2qz23it https://t.co/kuyxgC5Eiz

  03-11-2018 17:26 via twitter.com
  
  Parkland survivors vote for 1st time, months after massacre bit.ly/2qz23it https://t.co/kuyxgC5Eiz
  
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• Defence, Crown propose terms of four to seven years in Queen's U poisoning case

  03-11-2018 17:21 via ottawacitizen.com
  KINGSTON — A researcher in Queen’s University’s chemistry department, who admitting dosing a fellow grad student with a chemical used to induce cancer in lab animals, should be jailed for four to seven years, the defence and the Crown proposed Friday.
  Zijie Wang, 26, pleaded guilty in Kingston’s Ontario Court of Justice on Oct. 25 to administering a noxious substance between Jan. 8 and Jan. 29 to a post-doctoral fellow in the same lab with intent to endanger the man&rsquo
  
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• Ottawa REDBLACKS defeat Toronto 24-9 in final regular season game bit.ly/2AINWwO https://t.co/llsMhEIXTn

  03-11-2018 16:17 via twitter.com
  
  Ottawa REDBLACKS defeat Toronto 24-9 in final regular season game bit.ly/2AINWwO https://t.co/llsMhEIXTn
  
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• Deceased Quebec worker still trapped in buried excavator

  03-11-2018 15:11 via ottawacitizen.com
  FARRELLTON, Que. — Rescuers were still working Friday on a plan to safely free the body of a man who died when his high hoe was buried by a landslide at a West Quebec sandpit more than 24 hours earlier.
  First responders had mere minutes to confirm that the unidentified man was dead when they were called to the scene near Farrellton on Thursday morning.
  Police said Friday afternoon that the body might not be recovered before the beginning of next week. The responsibility for that rests with
  
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• Alec Baldwin charged with assault in alleged parking dispute bit.ly/2znjMxh https://t.co/vikJRyk41V

  03-11-2018 14:34 via twitter.com
  
  Alec Baldwin charged with assault in alleged parking dispute bit.ly/2znjMxh https://t.co/vikJRyk41V
  
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• Lightfoot, Trudeau Sr. and Prince Philip: The male muses of Canada’s First Lady of Guitar

  03-11-2018 14:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  Liona Boyd with Andrew Dolson
  Nov. 4, 7:30 p.m., Meridian Theatre @ Centrepointe
  Tickets: $49.50 plus surcharges, available at meridiancentrepointe.com
  In 2016, Liona Boyd was at her winter home in Florida working on a song in honour of Gordon Lightfoot when she popped out to the garage for a moment, only to slip on a piece of cardboard.“Down I went, and with a sickening crash I heard my right shoulder and knee smash on the concrete,” she writes in her latest memoir. “The pain
  
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• Report: Spice Girls to reunite for tour, but without Beckham bit.ly/2AJYGuJ https://t.co/ECC88yPj3q

  03-11-2018 13:52 via twitter.com
  
  Report: Spice Girls to reunite for tour, but without Beckham bit.ly/2AJYGuJ https://t.co/ECC88yPj3q
  
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• Firefighters quickly extinguish kitchen fire

  03-11-2018 13:52 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa firefighters were called to a south Ottawa home just past midnight.
  Ottawa Fire Services received a 911 call reporting smoke in the area, the caller called back to advise them it was coming from 1729 Queensdale Ave.
  When firefighters arrived they declared a working fire in the kitchen.
  The fire was under control by about 12:42 a.m.
  No injuries were reported.
  An Ottawa fire investigator was dispatched to determine the cause of the blaze.ALSO IN THE NEWS:
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• CFL wives and partners bond in online 'sisterhood' support network

  03-11-2018 13:14 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ashley Fulton has moved three times between September 2016 and July 2018.
  That might seem unusual, but Ashley’s husband, Xavier, was an offensive lineman through seven Canadian Football League seasons, so his twists and turns through the world of professional sports were matched by hers.
  They moved from a three-bedroom house in Regina to rented accommodations in Hamilton and then to another new place in Montreal. Since the Alouettes released Xavier in July, he and Ashley have been in
  
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• The Johnson Family Game plan: Let her do her own thing and do it well

  03-11-2018 13:04 via ottawacitizen.com
  Jovon Johnson has played for four different Canadian Football League teams over a dozen seasons since 2007.
  That means Johnson is also a veteran of being apart from his wife, Yodanna Kativska Johnson, and their son Julian during football season.
  “You kind of get comfortable being away from home,” Jovon Johnson said via telephone from Regina, where the now 35-year-old defensive back/linebacker is in his second go-around with the Roughriders, who brought him to the CFL originally, foll
  
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• Pricing 10 of the priceless: Here are some of the National Gallery of Canada's most expensive artworks (we think)

  03-11-2018 13:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  There are hundreds of world-class artworks at the National Gallery of Canada, the country’s premier destination for lovers of oil-on-canvas ingenuity, sculptural prowess and other forms of eye-catching, mind-altering inventiveness.
  But there’s one painting among the multitude of masterpieces that stands out starkly today, not only because it sparked an international uproar this year when the gallery took steps to sell it at a New York art auction, but because we now know what curator
  
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• No winner for Friday night's $42 million Lotto Max Jackpot bit.ly/2P5H0m1 https://t.co/A8DNULfKWu

  03-11-2018 12:51 via twitter.com
  
  No winner for Friday night's $42 million Lotto Max Jackpot bit.ly/2P5H0m1 https://t.co/A8DNULfKWu
  
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• Wind, rain and a lot of miserableness in the forecast for Saturday

  03-11-2018 12:35 via ottawacitizen.com
  Hello darkness my old friend.
  Ok, I think most of us are done with this rainy darkness we’ve been experiencing the last week or so. I already have the winter blues and November has just started.
  But, if we can get through today, and if Sunday’s forecast is correct, the sun will come out AND with the switch back to Standard Time, we get an extra hour of sleep tonight. Except of course we loose an hour of daylight. UGH….
  Saturday the forecast calls for mainly cloudy skies, with
  
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• Today's letters: Former governor general Adrienne Clarkson should stop double-dipping

  03-11-2018 11:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  Former GG is double-dipping
  Re: Former governor general Adrienne Clarkson still bills more than $100,000 a year in expenses, Oct. 30.
  It is very upsetting to see this former governor general still taking taxpayer dollars to augment her career. Adrienne Clarkson leads a life of entitlement that far too few Canadians could ever imagine.
  It is high time for this profligate spender to be cut off, and for the rules regarding spending (for retired officials) to be changed. She is double-dipping at our
  
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• Editorial: Former governors general must account for public spending

  03-11-2018 11:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  Canada’s governors general have sometimes been selected for reasons of crass political positioning, rather than for their profound understanding of the core responsibilities of the office. So it should not really surprise us if they sometimes stumble into controversy – either on the job or later.
  Current Governor General Julie Payette, for instance, has groped her way through her first year at Rideau Hall, criticized for her low profile, neglect of charitable groups, staff problems a
  
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• Veteran OPP officer charged after alleged domestic incident

  03-11-2018 02:37 via ottawacitizen.com
  The OPP say one of their own has been charged with a firearms offence after police investigated a “domestic incident” last week.
  According to police, officers were called to an Eastern Ontario home on Oct. 26 to investigate the alleged incident. Police didn’t say where the home was located.
  The OPP professional standards bureau announced Friday that it had charged the off-duty officer with pointing a firearm. He was released from custody following a court appearance, a media re
  
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• Ontario 'open for business' signs cost over $106,000, government says #onpoli ottawamatters.com/around-ontario… https://t.co/EB8KEdVpZ0

  03-11-2018 02:05 via twitter.com
  
  Ontario 'open for business' signs cost over $106,000, government says #onpoli ottawamatters.com/around-ontario… https://t.co/EB8KEdVpZ0
  
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• Hometown Hockey's Tara Slone brings rock-star resumé, role-model status to Ottawa

  03-11-2018 01:43 via ottawacitizen.com
  Tara Slone can accept, slowly and with a bit of prompting, that some kids probably see her as a role model.
  Even if she didn’t, a quick glance at her resumé would give it away.
  Slone has been a rock star, an actress and, for the past four years, a hockey broadcaster, hosting Rogers Hometown Hockey alongside Ron MacLean.
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  “It certainly wasn’t the traditional route,” she says with
  
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• Alec Baldwin has been arrested after allegedly punching someone in the face. ottawamatters.com/world-news/ale…

  03-11-2018 01:35 via twitter.com
  Alec Baldwin has been arrested after allegedly punching someone in the face. ottawamatters.com/world-news/ale…
  
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• Remains of some of Bruce McArthur's alleged victims released to families: police ottawamatters.com/around-ontario…

  03-11-2018 01:05 via twitter.com
  Remains of some of Bruce McArthur's alleged victims released to families: policeottawamatters.com/around-ontario…
  
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• LISTEN: Ottawa movie enthusiast Keith Whittier gives his picks for this weekend. #ottnews ottawamatters.com/local-news/is-… https://t.co/gwbZ6tzAIP

  03-11-2018 00:35 via twitter.com
  
  LISTEN: Ottawa movie enthusiast Keith Whittier gives his picks for this weekend. #ottnews ottawamatters.com/local-news/is-… https://t.co/gwbZ6tzAIP
  
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• The Sens foundation is defending itself after report that not all donated money goes to supported causes #ottnews ottawamatters.com/local-news/sen…

  03-11-2018 00:05 via twitter.com
  The Sens foundation is defending itself after report that not all donated money goes to supported causes #ottnews ottawamatters.com/local-news/sen…
  
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