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• Trump calls French president 'good friend' after testy tweet bit.ly/2DxOd8j https://t.co/3jihatAf8a

  10-11-2018 23:10 via twitter.com
  
  Trump calls French president 'good friend' after testy tweet bit.ly/2DxOd8j https://t.co/3jihatAf8a
  
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• Ex-choirmaster gets probation after not challenging 19th sex abuse accusation

  10-11-2018 22:07 via ottawacitizen.com
  KINGSTON — Twenty-eight years after Kingston was rocked by revelations of child molestation by the man whose name was then synonymous with choir at St. George’s Cathedral, a 19th victim has been added to John Austen Gallienne’s account.
  Gallienne, who now lives in Ottawa, appeared last week in Ontario Court of Justice to face two charges of sexual assault and one of gross indecency committed against an accuser between January 1985 and September 1987.
  Now 74, Gallienne stood mut
  
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• 'We have to build some trust here': legalizing cannabis sales on Mohawk territory bit.ly/2DxP3SI

  10-11-2018 22:02 via twitter.com
  'We have to build some trust here': legalizing cannabis sales on Mohawk territory bit.ly/2DxP3SI
  
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• Deer and drivers: What to do when you're about to hit one

  10-11-2018 21:52 via ottawacitizen.com
  “To swerve or not to swerve? That is the question,” according to Leeds County OPP.
  Spoiler: Don’t swerve.
  Officers in the Brockville-area detachment have mopped up a string of recent car versus deer crashes. No humans were hurt, but police still offered some advice for motorists in a release:Be especially on guard from sunset to midnight and around dusk and dawn, the highest risk times for deer-vehicle collisions. Drive with caution in areas with large deer populations and
  
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• Obituary: Chris Bradshaw, 'Car-lite' advocate, co-founded Vrtucar

  10-11-2018 21:40 via ottawacitizen.com
  A celebration of life will be held next May 20, the 75th birthday of cycling, walking and “Car-lite” philosophy advocate, Green Party activist and municipal worker Chris Bradshaw, who died earlier this month.
  Born in Vancouver to a Canadian father and American mother, Bradshaw’s family moved to Dover, Ohio, when he was a child.
  As he writes in an online blog, his first “full-time” year as an adult in his native land was in Centennial year, 1967, the year after his g
  
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• Sports offering chance to reconnect tornado-struck communities

  10-11-2018 21:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  Todd Nicholson and Emily Glossop lost their home in the Dunrobin tornado, but, even as they grappled with insurance and temporary housing, their thoughts kept turning to sports.
  “Sport and recreation were not top of anybody’s priority list,” Emily recalls. “A roof, clothes and food were the priorities.”
  No surprise there. But the couple felt sports could be another element in rebuilding shattered communities.
  “I think it was pretty early on after the tornado t
  
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• ICYMI: Remembrance Day road closures, ceremonies and parades in the capital region bit.ly/2T4GTW6 https://t.co/i5OGWQpP4u

  10-11-2018 20:50 via twitter.com
  
  ICYMI: Remembrance Day road closures, ceremonies and parades in the capital region bit.ly/2T4GTW6 https://t.co/i5OGWQpP4u
  
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• Sports offer chance to reconnect tornado-struck communities

  10-11-2018 20:40 via ottawacitizen.com
  Todd Nicholson and Emily Glossop lost their home in the Dunrobin tornado, but as they grappled with insurance and temporary housing, their thoughts kept turning to sports.
  “Sport and recreation were not top of anybody’s priority list,” Emily recalls. “A roof, clothes and food were the priorities.”
  No surprise there. But the couple felt sports could be another element in rebuilding shattered communities.
  “I think it was pretty early on after the tornado that th
  
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• Obituary: Chris Bradshaw, 'Car-lite' philosophy advocate co-founded Vrtucar

  10-11-2018 20:32 via ottawacitizen.com
  A celebration of life will be held next May 20, the 75th birthday of cycling, walking and “Car-lite” philosophy advocate, Green Party activist and municipal worker Chris Bradshaw, who died earlier this month.
  Born in Vancouver to a Canadian father and American mother, Bradshaw’s family moved to Dover, Ohio when he was a child.
  As he writes in an online blog, his first “full-time” year as an adult in his native land was in Centennial year, 1967, the year after his gr
  
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• Police investigating an attack near Orléans school bit.ly/2yZXJ08 https://t.co/XKorbIwjWR

  10-11-2018 19:35 via twitter.com
  
  Police investigating an attack near Orléans school bit.ly/2yZXJ08 https://t.co/XKorbIwjWR
  
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• Rome mayor found not guilty in case of City Hall appointment bit.ly/2AXxVDj https://t.co/0lWjJqvlB3

  10-11-2018 18:05 via twitter.com
  
  Rome mayor found not guilty in case of City Hall appointment bit.ly/2AXxVDj https://t.co/0lWjJqvlB3
  
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• Trudeau visits Vimy ahead of world leaders gathering for Paris peace forum bit.ly/2T02dfz https://t.co/8WKsYNR33C

  10-11-2018 17:13 via twitter.com
  
  Trudeau visits Vimy ahead of world leaders gathering for Paris peace forum bit.ly/2T02dfz https://t.co/8WKsYNR33C
  
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• No winner for Friday night's $50 million Lotto Max Jackpot bit.ly/2PUaX8c https://t.co/sNpbeOLXfT

  10-11-2018 16:19 via twitter.com
  
  No winner for Friday night's $50 million Lotto Max Jackpot bit.ly/2PUaX8c https://t.co/sNpbeOLXfT
  
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• Police investigate stabbing in ByWard Market

  10-11-2018 15:55 via ottawacitizen.com
  Central division detectives continue to investigate after a man was stabbed early Saturday in front of a popular ByWard Market pub.
  Police were called to an altercation at the intersection of Clarence and Parent streets, in front of the Heart and Crown pub, at about 3 a.m.
  The victim was taken to hospital. Police would not say how seriously he was injured but that the wounds were not considered life-threatening.
  Police would not release further information.ALSO IN THE NEWS:
  Man who believed he c
  
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• Police investigating early morning stabbing in ByWard market bit.ly/2z0zhfe #ottnews https://t.co/OV7EUvVF5j

  10-11-2018 14:26 via twitter.com
  
  Police investigating early morning stabbing in ByWard market bit.ly/2z0zhfe #ottnews https://t.co/OV7EUvVF5j
  
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• Just say NOvember: Flurries, gusty winds for Saturday

  10-11-2018 14:19 via ottawacitizen.com
  Winter has delivered a warning shot with Friday’s snow and continuing flurries this weekend. Thank you November.
  For the record, 4.4 cm of snow was measured Friday, and the sun sets at 4:39 p.m. today.
  Environment Canada is predicting a mainly cloudy Saturday with a few flurries beginning this morning and ending this afternoon.
  Winds will be from the southwest at 20 km/h increasing to 40,  gusting to 60 this morning and a high of 0 C.
  Skies should clear near midnight with winds from t
  
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• Social Scene, Sponsored by Star Motors of Ottawa: OAG Art Auction, LE PARTY

  10-11-2018 13:32 via ottawacitizen.com
  The OAG Art Auction, LE PARTY, was held Thursday, Nov. 8, at the beautiful new Ottawa Art Gallery. LE PARTY is a silent art auction featuring works by over 65 regional artists, ranging from emerging to internationally renowned. Funds raised at the event go towards supporting the gallery’s overall operations of educational and exhibition programming.
  Alexandra Badzak, OAG director and Chief Executive Officer, with 2018 Critics Choice winner Anna Williams in front of her piece.
  Lilly Koltun
  
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• 'When I went to lift him, there was only half of him there': Veteran Sam Jamieson remembers Korean War nightmare

  10-11-2018 13:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  During his second war, Ordinary Seaman Sanford (Sam) Jamieson was on board HMCS Iroquois when it came under enemy bombardment during an operation on the east coast of North Korea.
  Jamieson, a veteran of the Second World War, had re-enlisted in the Royal Canadian Navy soon after the Korean War erupted in June 1950.
  “I figured it was the best place for me,” says Jamieson, now 93 and a resident at Ottawa’s Perley and Rideau Veteran’s Health Centre.
  Sam Jamieson as a young ma
  
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• Editorial: What we wrote on Nov. 11, 1918 – 'THE WORLD SET FREE'

  10-11-2018 13:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  On Nov. 11, 1918, the Ottawa Citizen’s editorial page overflowed with jubilation at the defeat of Kaiser Wilhelm. Under the title “The world set free,” writers waxed at length about the end of the “dark forces of evil.” Here is an excerpt from the main editorial:
  Kaiser Wilhelm II, German emperor and King of Prussia, has been stripped of the trappings of superstition and barbarism. As William Hohenzollern, he has no more divine right than any other man. It is a fit
  
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• Winkelaar: Nine who died – the First World War heroes of one Ottawa church

  10-11-2018 12:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  Eighty-nine members of Ottawa’s Knox Presbyterian Church in volunteered to serve King and Country in the Great War of 1914 to 1918. Nine of them died. A brass plaque on the wall of the sanctuary commemorates them, but reading the names doesn’t help us to know them. Philip Winkelaar decided to bring those nine men down off the wall and make them real, by recounting their lives and experiences at home and in the service of their country in his new book, Going Down of the Sun. Each chap
  
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• Today's letters: A toast to our protectors, and more on the WW1 medical ship

  10-11-2018 12:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  Forever grateful to our protectors
  In November, we display our tremendous gratitude for those who have protected and continue to protect us. This year we also commemorate 100 years of the signing of the Armistice and the courageous people who fought in the First World War. Defending a country brings out many heroes; some have been written in history, others have quietly continued to protect our country.
  My father, a retired DND pilot who rarely described his duties, made many sacrifices during h
  
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• Simoneau: 'If people knew' – lessons from a Remembrance Day mass

  10-11-2018 12:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  I don’t know her name but I often think about her when I line up at Tim Hortons.
  It was some time ago in a Canadian city.
  My mother and I attend Remembrance Day mass. The church is small and discreet. There isn’t a lot of parking. I back my car into the only spot left, alongside a big red truck. Mom and I start to walk from the parking lot to the church, a few metres away.
  A woman walks past us to the truck – hers, I now realize. I smile and she does the same. She’s rough
  
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• What's open and closed this Remembrance Day weekend in Ottawa - Ottawa Citizen

  10-11-2018 09:00
  What's open and closed this Remembrance Day weekend in Ottawa  Ottawa CitizenWith Remembrance Day falling on a Sunday this year, the city will observe the holiday on Monday, impacting some city services with schedule changes and ...
  
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• One injured in two-vehicle collision in south end

  10-11-2018 04:13 via ottawacitizen.com
  One person was injured in a collision between two vehicles at the intersection of Spratt Road and Earl Armstrong Road on Friday evening, Ottawa Fire Services said.
  The unidentified individual was trapped in one of the vehicles and required extrication before being transferred into the care of paramedics. Further details on their condition were unavailable.
  The collision occurred not far from Ottawa Fire Station 37, east of Claudette Cain Park in Gloucester.
  
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• Bid officials say Olympics would mean big revamp to Calgary's aging football stadium. ottawamatters.com/national-news/…

  10-11-2018 04:05 via twitter.com
  Bid officials say Olympics would mean big revamp to Calgary's aging football stadium.ottawamatters.com/national-news/…
  
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• Pot-eating Toronto cop a 'complete idiot,' judge says after guilty plea. ottawamatters.com/around-ontario…

  10-11-2018 03:05 via twitter.com
  Pot-eating Toronto cop a 'complete idiot,' judge says after guilty plea.ottawamatters.com/around-ontario…
  
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• Two Ottawa 'gateway' speed limit zones now in effect. ottawamatters.com/police-beat/tw…

  10-11-2018 02:05 via twitter.com
  Two Ottawa 'gateway' speed limit zones now in effect.ottawamatters.com/police-beat/tw…
  
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• Toronto stock market ends a volatile week down on lower oil prices. ottawamatters.com/national-busin…

  10-11-2018 01:35 via twitter.com
  Toronto stock market ends a volatile week down on lower oil prices.ottawamatters.com/national-busin…
  
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• Man who believed he could have sex with wife any time to have new trial

  10-11-2018 01:14 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 any time.
  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 ot
  
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• WTI drops for a 10th straight day, dipping below US$60 to a near nine-month low. ottawamatters.com/national-busin…

  10-11-2018 01:05 via twitter.com
  WTI drops for a 10th straight day, dipping below US$60 to a near nine-month low.ottawamatters.com/national-busin…
  
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• What's open and closed this Remembrance Day weekend in Ottawa

  10-11-2018 00:37 via ottawacitizen.com
  With Remembrance Day falling on a Sunday this year, the city will observe the holiday on Monday, impacting some city services with schedule changes and road closures.
  City hall and all seven of its service centres will be closed, and provincial offences court at Constellation Crescent will be closed Monday. Business will resume as usual on Tuesday, Nov. 13, city officials said, and the city’s 311 line will be open for urgent matters.
  In accordance with city bylaws, most retail businesses a
  
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• Attempt to appeal '60s Scoop settlement tossed for 'extreme' lack of evidence. ottawamatters.com/national-news/…

  10-11-2018 00:35 via twitter.com
  Attempt to appeal '60s Scoop settlement tossed for 'extreme' lack of evidence.ottawamatters.com/national-news/…
  
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• Remembrance Day parade street closures

  10-11-2018 00:24 via ottawacitizen.com
  Motorists can expect some hangups on highways and downtown streets in the national capital region through the weekend and during Monday’s observation of Remembrance Day.
  Remembrance Day parades will be held Sunday between 7 a.m. and 2 p.m. in several neighbourhoods, including: Stittsville, Metcalfe, Carp, Navan, Constance Bay, Richmond, Orléans, Kanata, Nepean, Manotick, Westboro and Vanier.
  Visit the City of Ottawa’s online traffic report for details on parade road closures a
  
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• Public library considers closing book on trailblazing vending machines

  10-11-2018 00:09 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Ottawa Public Library could eventually pull the plug on its first-of-their-kind vending machines at the Hunt Club-Riverside Park Community Centre.
  A report scheduled for consideration by the library board on Tuesday recommends operating the kiosk only until the end of the machine lifecycle, expected in 2022. The library also plans to stop using lockers for people to pick up held books at the community centre, potentially when the locker lifecycle is up in 2020.
  After reviewing the only kiosk
  
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• Provincial police seek break in 40-year-old homicide, offer $50K reward ottawamatters.com/around-ontario…

  10-11-2018 00:05 via twitter.com
  Provincial police seek break in 40-year-old homicide, offer $50K rewardottawamatters.com/around-ontario…
  
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