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• Toronto woman faces driving, cannabis charges after arrest on Highway 401

  09-11-2018 23:48 via ottawacitizen.com
  A 27-year-old Toronto woman is facing a slew of charges after allegedly fleeing police on Highway 401 near Brockville on Thursday.
  Police said that, at around 11:15 p.m., Leeds and the Thousand Islands OPP received a complaint about an eastbound vehicle on the 401, police said in a release Friday. When officers tried to stop the vehicle, the driver allegedly fled. With the help of other OPP police vehicles, police said, the driver was eventually collared and arrested.
  Laila Bhagwandat, 27, of To
  
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• Wanted: Black vehicle believed linked to about 25 west-end B&Es

  09-11-2018 23:43 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa police continue to be on the lookout for a suspicious vehicle that they believe is connected to a string of daytime break-ins in the city’s west end.
  Police say they are investigating about 25 break-and-enters that happened in October and November, in which suspects have targeted jewelry, cash and small electronics.
  In a media release Friday, police distributed photos of a black, four-door SUV with chrome trim. Although the photo is of a Chevrolet Tahoe, police say it could also be
  
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• Trudeau's trade talk to be tested on 10-day, three country trip. ottawamatters.com/national-news/…

  09-11-2018 23:35 via twitter.com
  Trudeau's trade talk to be tested on 10-day, three country trip.ottawamatters.com/national-news/…
  
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• "I'm grateful that my son is home," says father of Cpl. Robbie Beerenfenger

  09-11-2018 23:25 via ottawacitizen.com
  Cpl. Robbie Beerenfenger’s father, Daniel Roy, visited his son’s grave in the National Military Cemetery this week on an overcast day that turned to rain. It’s a pilgrimage he has made faithfully in the 15 years since Beerenfenger died in Afghanistan.
  On the afternoon of Oct. 2, 2003, a stack of buried mines exploded beneath Beerenfenger’s patrol vehicle outside Kabul.
  “He was a good man. He was my only son,” said Roy, 65, a retired Para Transpo driver in
  
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• Atheist United Church minister keeps her job; 'heresy trial' called off. ottawamatters.com/national-news/…

  09-11-2018 23:05 via twitter.com
  Atheist United Church minister keeps her job; 'heresy trial' called off.ottawamatters.com/national-news/…
  
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• Man who believed he could have sex with wife anytime to have new trial

  09-11-2018 22:42 via ottawacitizen.com
  A new trial has been ordered for an Ottawa man who won acquittal on sex assault charges based on his honest belief that he could have intercourse with his wife anytime.
  The Court of Appeal for Ontario said the judge in the case committed a series of errors.
  Ontario’s highest court said the husband, identified only as Mr. E., should not have been acquitted of sexual assault based on the belief — shared with his wife — that he could have sex with her whenever he wanted. Among oth
  
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• ICYMI: #ottnews ottawamatters.com/police-beat/on…

  09-11-2018 22:35 via twitter.com
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• Russian scientist seeking refugee status in Canada issued deportation ticket for Dec. 3

  09-11-2018 22:33 via ottawacitizen.com
  A Russian scientist seeking asylum in Canada has been scheduled to be deported Dec. 3.
  Elena Musikhina, 54, and her husband Mikhail, 60, fear they will be arrested as soon as they land in Moscow, said their daughter, Olesia Sunatori, who lives in Gatineau.
  “I know for sure once they are in Moscow, I won’t see them again. I am sure they will be handed over to the Russian security when they land,” said Sunatori. “I don’t know why the government doesn’t understan
  
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• Known unto God: How Canadians embraced their Unknown Soldier

  09-11-2018 22:21 via ottawacitizen.com
  The speeches were done, the dignitaries gone. The ranks of soldiers had marched away. Now sculptor Mary-Ann Liu had one final task at Canada’s Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. It was nearly 6 p.m. on Sunday, May 28, 2000, six hours after the solemn ceremony had begun. An enormous crane lifted the granite lid over top the open tomb.
  Liu, the winner of a national competition to design the tomb, and Maurice Joanisse, the Dominion Sculptor who created the granite sarcophagus to Liu’s design,
  
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• Pot-eating Toronto cop pleads guilty to attempt to obstruct justice. ottawamatters.com/around-ontario…

  09-11-2018 22:05 via twitter.com
  Pot-eating Toronto cop pleads guilty to attempt to obstruct justice.ottawamatters.com/around-ontario…
  
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• The @HockeyHallFame class of 2018 are the owners of some new hardware. NHL commissioner Gary Bettman, goalie Martin… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  09-11-2018 21:38 via twitter.com
  The @HockeyHallFame class of 2018 are the owners of some new hardware. NHL commissioner Gary Bettman, goalie Martin… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Boy hospitalized, video surfaces after beating near Orléans school

  09-11-2018 21:12 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa police are investigating an incident in which a teen was beaten by multiple assailants until he’s left apparently unconscious and twitching after receiving a kick to the head.
  The beating, which happened in Orléans on Thursday, was captured on cellphone video and has since been shared extensively over social media.
  One parent of a student at St. Peter High School in Orléans wrote about the incident on Facebook. By early Friday afternoon, that post had been shared
  
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• 3 car bombs explode in front of hotel in Somalia's capital. ottawamatters.com/world-news/3-c…

  09-11-2018 21:05 via twitter.com
  3 car bombs explode in front of hotel in Somalia's capital.ottawamatters.com/world-news/3-c…
  
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• Wanted: Black vehicle believed linked to about 25 west-end B&Es in October, November

  09-11-2018 20:53 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa police continue to be on the lookout for a suspicious vehicle that they believe is connected to a string of daytime break-ins in the city’s west end.
  Police say they are investigating about 25 break-and-enters that happened in October and November, in which suspects have targeted jewelry, cash and small electronics.
  In a media release Friday, police distributed photos of a black, four-door SUV with chrome trim. Although the photo is of a Chevrolet Tahoe, police say it could also be
  
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• CRTC seeks public comments on creation of internet code of conduct. ottawamatters.com/national-busin…

  09-11-2018 20:35 via twitter.com
  CRTC seeks public comments on creation of internet code of conduct.ottawamatters.com/national-busin…
  
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• Theatre Preview: Jacob Sampson play tells story of N.S. boxing legend Sam Langford

  09-11-2018 20:29 via ottawacitizen.com
  Chasing Champions: The Sam Langford Story
  Written by Jacob Sampson, directed by Ron Jenkins
  A Ship’s Company (Parrsboro, N.S.) Production in association with Eastern Front Theatre (Halifax)
  NAC English Theatre presentation, Nov. 13-24, Azrieli Studio, National Arts Centre.
  Tickets and times: nac-cna.ca
  Nova Scotia actor/playwright Jacob Sampson wrote, and stars in, an award-winning play about the life and times of the under-recognized Nova Scotia boxer Sam Langford.
  Q: I imagine I’m
  
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• Northern California wildfire nearly quadruples in size. ottawamatters.com/world-news/nor…

  09-11-2018 20:05 via twitter.com
  Northern California wildfire nearly quadruples in size.ottawamatters.com/world-news/nor…
  
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• Ontario Cannabis Store blames growers' label snafu for new delivery delays. ottawamatters.com/around-ontario…

  09-11-2018 19:35 via twitter.com
  Ontario Cannabis Store blames growers' label snafu for new delivery delays.ottawamatters.com/around-ontario…
  
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• Wounded man faces charges in Overbrook shooting

  09-11-2018 19:10 via ottawacitizen.com
  Police investigating a daylight shooting in the Overbrook district Thursday have laid a string of firearms charges against a 24-year-old man who turned up at the hospital with gunshot wounds.
  His injuries aren’t considered life-threatening.
  Patrol officers were called to Queen Mary Street near Overbrook Park at about 4:04 p.m. by reports of a shooting and gathered descriptions of the people and vehicles involved.
  Nearby, they arrested one man who remained in police custody for “inves
  
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• Plan to create a national securities regulator is constitutional: Supreme Court. ottawamatters.com/national-news/…

  09-11-2018 19:05 via twitter.com
  Plan to create a national securities regulator is constitutional: Supreme Court.ottawamatters.com/national-news/…
  
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• Citizen to produce its annual 'We are the Dead' feature, and you can help

  09-11-2018 18:40 via ottawacitizen.com
  This Remembrance Day, the newspaper will again ask readers for help in honouring one of Canada’s war dead.
  In each of the past seven years, the Citizen has assembled a one-day biography of the Canadian Forces member whose name is published on Remembrance Day at 11:11 a.m.
  The name of that soldier will be randomly issued this Sunday at 11:11 a.m. by an online memorial: a Twitter account, @WeAreTheDead.
  The automated account publishes 24 names each day from the list of 119,531 uniformed Cana
  
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• TransCanada says it is committed to Keystone XL pipeline after judge orders halt. ottawamatters.com/national-news/…

  09-11-2018 18:35 via twitter.com
  TransCanada says it is committed to Keystone XL pipeline after judge orders halt.ottawamatters.com/national-news/…
  
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• The @rick_gibbons Show for Friday, November 9th: 1:07: @KellyEganColumn 1:17: @vimyfoundation 1:30: #RobertLewis 1:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  09-11-2018 18:02 via twitter.com
  The @rick_gibbons Show for Friday, November 9th: 1:07: @KellyEganColumn 1:17: @vimyfoundation 1:30: #RobertLewis 1:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• NEXT on the Power Lunch: Councillor @ScottMoffatt21 & @sherrilynne join @_MarkSutcliffe in-studio: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  09-11-2018 17:57 via twitter.com
  NEXT on the Power Lunch: Councillor @ScottMoffatt21 & @sherrilynne join @_MarkSutcliffe in-studio:📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• .@_MarkSutcliffe talks to Kerry Nevin about a court decision to find Deinsberg St. Hilaire guilty of obstruction of… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  09-11-2018 17:53 via twitter.com
  .@_MarkSutcliffe talks to Kerry Nevin about a court decision to find Deinsberg St. Hilaire guilty of obstruction of… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• New Facebook Dating feature launches in Canada amid privacy concerns

  09-11-2018 17:49 via ottawacitizen.com
  TORONTO — Mark Zuckerberg is ready to play matchmaker for Canadians.
  His company Facebook Inc. will aim to make its social media platform’s users more than just friends with a new dating feature that will mark its North American launch in Canada on Thursday.
  Facebook Dating, which was previously piloted in Colombia, operates with users creating profiles that are separate from their Facebook ones and kept out of sight of friends.
  The company will recommend matches that users aren&rsqu
  
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• Coming up at 11:45: Host of Outta The Park Podcast @BarryDavis_ joins @_MarkSutcliffe 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  09-11-2018 17:43 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 11:45: Host of Outta The Park Podcast @BarryDavis_ joins @_MarkSutcliffe📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Timeline: Memorial to the Victims of Communism

  09-11-2018 17:40 via ottawacitizen.com
  2007
  Jason Kenney, then minister of state for multiculturalism, and Pavel Vosalik, then the Czech ambassador to Canada, conceive the idea of an Ottawa memorial to victims of Communism.
  2008
  Kenney publicly pledges support for the memorial and two separate groups —the Open Book Group and, seven months later, Tribute to Liberty—form to promote the idea and raise funds.
  2009
  January: Tribute to Liberty and the Open Book Group submit competing proposals for a&nbs
  
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• Coming up at 11:30: Music Director of Canada's NAC Orchestra @ShelleyConduct joins @_MarkSutcliffe to discuss ton… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  09-11-2018 17:28 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 11:30: Music Director of Canada's NAC Orchestra @ShelleyConduct joins @_MarkSutcliffe to discuss ton… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• EdenWylde offers adult-lifestyle bungalows and so much more in Stittsville

  09-11-2018 17:18 via ottawacitizen.com
  Sandy Sanderson is the first to admit that she’s picky. Very picky, actually. When someone comes to the door with something to sell, she says, her next-door neighbour will tell them: “If you can talk the people next door into getting it, we’ll get it, too.
  “My husband and I do exhaustive research; all our friends laugh at us,” she says. So the fact that Sanderson and her husband, Randy, quickly signed on for an adult-lifestyle semi-detached bungalow by Tamarack Home
  
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• Coming up on the Ethics Lab @ 11 with @dk_munro & @_MarkSutcliffe: -The ethics of sleep and "reno-victions." 📻: 1… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  09-11-2018 16:56 via twitter.com
  Coming up on the Ethics Lab @ 11 with @dk_munro & @_MarkSutcliffe:-The ethics of sleep and "reno-victions."📻: 1… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Coming up at 10:30: Environment Minister @cathmckenna joins @_MarkSutcliffe 📻: 1310 💻: bit.ly/2oQd8u1… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  09-11-2018 16:28 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 10:30: Environment Minister @cathmckenna joins @_MarkSutcliffe 📻: 1310 💻: bit.ly/2oQd8u1… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Dancing Fleetwood Mac fan bruised, blames police

  09-11-2018 16:27 via ottawacitizen.com
  A woman who was forcibly removed from the Fleetwood Mac concert at the Canadian Tire Centre last Saturday — for dancing, she says — says she was injured in the incident and is consulting a lawyer.
  Annie Phaneuf has posted photos of her bruised face and arms on Facebook. And a spectator from a few seats behind her added video that has been viewed 16,000 times as of Thursday noon, appearing to show two police officers struggling with her.
  Phaneuf says that until she talks to a lawyer,
  
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• Fire crews make quick work of Kanata garage fire

  09-11-2018 16:19 via ottawacitizen.com
  When a neighbour called 911 reporting grey smoke in the area of Banning Road and Bradley Farm Court Friday morning, fire crews were able to track it to a fire in a nearby attached garage and put out the flames before it spread to a home.
  The lone occupant of the home got out safely.
  The 9:16 a.m. call led firefighters to a working fire at a home on Banning Road which was extinguished before it was escalated to a second alarm. It was under control at 9:34 a.m. and firefighters made sure there was
  
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• OSPCA seeks newborn puppies allegedly sold online by woman accused of cruelty

  09-11-2018 16:16 via ottawacitizen.com
  Fearing for their safety, the Ontario SPCA is seeking four boxer-mix puppies that were allegedly sold online by a Cornwall woman while they were just days old.
  Four other puppies from the same litter have been found and the society asks that anyone with information to come forward immediately, noting “we are very concerned for the welfare of these puppies.”
  “If you purchased one of these puppies, we’d like to hear from you so we can ensure all of the puppies have been acc
  
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• Backstreet Boys are Back (at Bluesfest), alright

  09-11-2018 16:10 via ottawacitizen.com
  Backstreet Boys are back in Ottawa, with a date at Bluesfest July 14.
  About a quarter-century after the band broke out of Orlando, Fla., they’re embarking on their “biggest stadium tour in 18 years” in support of a new album, DNA.
  The Bluesfest date falls right in the middle.
  All in their 40s except for Nick (The Baby) Carter, who’s 38, the quintet has largely maintained a strong presence on the music scene. Most recently, they had a 14-month residency in Las Vegas, which
  
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• Paul Klee exhibition at the National Gallery of Canada is 'for all ages'

  09-11-2018 16:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  The great 20th century artist Paul Klee had a deep admiration for the spontaneity and directness of children’s art. What better way, then, to conclude the National Gallery of Canada’s upcoming Klee exhibit than with a room in which children can create Klee-inspired art?
  Opening Nov. 16 and running until March 17 next year, Paul Klee: The Berggruen Collection from the Metropolitan Museum of Art fills room after room in the gallery with 75 drawings, watercolours and paintings by t
  
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• Coming up at 9:30: Tim Cook, a Historian with the @CanWarMuseum to discuss #RemembranceDay2018 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  09-11-2018 15:27 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 9:30: Tim Cook, a Historian with the @CanWarMuseum to discuss #RemembranceDay2018📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Should Statistics Canada have access to some personal banking information in order to analyze the Canadian economy? ottawamatters.com/national-news/…

  09-11-2018 14:19 via twitter.com
  Should Statistics Canada have access to some personal banking information in order to analyze the Canadian economy?ottawamatters.com/national-news/…
  
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• Rotating strikes back in Eastern Ontario #ottnews twitter.com/cupw/status/10…

  09-11-2018 14:04 via twitter.com
  Rotating strikes back in Eastern Ontario #ottnews twitter.com/cupw/status/10…
  
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• Queen Elizabeth Driveway closed Friday morning for Skateway installation

  09-11-2018 13:53 via ottawacitizen.com
  More Skateway prep Friday, as National Capital Commission continues to install the changing shacks and other installations onto the world’s largest skating rink.
  A section of the Queen Elizabeth Driveway will be closed most of the morning between the Bank Street bridge and Fifth Avenue for installation of change rooms and washrooms.
  Work starts at about 9 a.m. and they hope to be finished by 11:30 a.m.
  The NCC says sections of the Rideau Canal Western Pathway may also be close during the w
  
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• VIDEO: With snow in the forecast it may be time to start getting ready for winter. @CAANEO has some tips for driver… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  09-11-2018 13:48 via twitter.com
  VIDEO: With snow in the forecast it may be time to start getting ready for winter. @CAANEO has some tips for driver… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Up to six cm of snow in the forecast, before turning to rain

  09-11-2018 13:43 via ottawacitizen.com
  Snow starting near noon Friday is expected to sprinkle two cm of snow during the day with another two to four cm in the evening before turning rain near midnight.
  Friday’s forecast also features easterly winds at 20 km gusting to 40, a high of 1 C and a low of -1 C that will feel like -7.
  Saturday looks mainly cloudy with flurries beginning in the late morning as southwesterly winds at 20 km/h increase to 40 gusting to 60. The high should be 1 and the low -8 C.
  Sunday looks sunny but brisk
  
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• #BREAKING: Fly Jamaica flight headed to Toronto crash lands in Guyana, all passengers survive.

  09-11-2018 13:35 via twitter.com
  #BREAKING: Fly Jamaica flight headed to Toronto crash lands in Guyana, all passengers survive.
  
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• The world remembers: 16,000 First World War dead memorialized through display, free NAC concert

  09-11-2018 13:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  If R.H. Thomson had his way, we’d have two hours of silence to honour the fallen on Remembrance Day.“Two minutes is just not sufficient,” said the Toronto-based actor/producer in an interview. “If we stood there for two hours in silence, I think we would start to understand what happened.”His feeling that we should do more to remember was shaped while growing up, beginning with an old collection of family letters. Five of his great-uncles who fought in the First Wor
  
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• MacDougall: Donald Trump is awful, and Canadian conservatives will gain nothing by supporting him

  09-11-2018 13:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  Donald Trump is a disgusting human being, a stain on conservatism and a blight on the body politic. So why are so many Canadian conservatives Trump supporters?
  A recent survey found that 25 per cent of Canadians expressed “confidence” in the U.S. president. And while the survey didn’t disclose the domestic preference of those giving thumbs up to Trump, it’s a safe bet they don’t dig Justin Trudeau (or Jagmeet Singh, if they’ve heard of him).
  Which would put th
  
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• Tornadoes add to rental market woes in Gatineau, and probably in Ottawa, too

  09-11-2018 12:53 via ottawacitizen.com
  Almost a hundred Gatineau families are still homeless in the wake of a tornado that ripped through the Mont-Bleu neighbourhood on Sept. 21 — and a tightening rental market and higher prices is making it harder for them to find new apartments.
  More than 215 buildings suffered damage or were destroyed in the tornado, affecting 1,686 housing units. In total, 2,112 people registered with the Quebec branch of the Canadian Red Cross and 250 families asked for help from Office habitation de l&rsq
  
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• Neighbours of Ian David Long described the man who shot and killed 12 people at a country music bar as distant in p… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  09-11-2018 12:47 via twitter.com
  Neighbours of Ian David Long described the man who shot and killed 12 people at a country music bar as distant in p… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Today's letters: Tony Clement, long-term care, and an elevator pitch

  09-11-2018 12:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  Clement should have avoided this trap
  Re: Conservative MP Tony Clement resigns Commons duties after sharing explicit sexual video of himself, Nov. 7.
  It is mind-boggling that a veteran politician such as Tony Clement would succumb to a classic “honey trap.” It’s a good thing the Russians did not pull the same stunt while he was a powerful minister in Stephen Harper’s cabinet. Or did they?
  Milan Stolarik, Ottawa
  A stupid, irresponsible move
  I don’t know what is more
  
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• Shannon: Here's why we teach To Kill a Mockingbird

  09-11-2018 12:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Peel District School board has recommended that its teachers not teach To Kill A Mockingbird. Although the board argues that is not a ban of the book, teachers are reacting. As a retired educator with 30 years of experience as an English teacher, at both the school and district level, I have many concerns with the recommendation and with the process, as it undermines the professionalism of teachers and ignores the purpose of teaching literature.
  To Kill A Mockingbird is about discrimination
  
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