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• Tina Boileau returns to scene of triumph for late son, Jonathan Pitre

  14-11-2018 23:58 via ottawacitizen.com
  Tina Boileau made an emotional return Wednesday to the WE Day stage where her late son, Jonathan Pitre, enjoyed one of his greatest triumphs.
  “Four years ago, my son, Jonathan, stood here on this stage and challenged you to rise in the face of adversity, and to start chasing your dreams,” Boileau said in her WE Day address.
  “Jonathan was only 17 years old when he passed away following a valiant battle with his disease. I’m standing here today to remind you of the legacy h
  
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• Afternoon News with Mark Day and Sara Buchan Listen Live: player.1310news.com

  14-11-2018 23:32 via twitter.com
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• Canada 'deeply concerned' over possible return of Rohingya to Myanmar ottawamatters.com/national-news/…

  14-11-2018 23:30 via twitter.com
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• Police want to speak to this man about Oct. 29 homicide on Carruthers St.

  14-11-2018 23:25 via ottawacitizen.com
  Police are asking the public to help them identify a man they want to talk to about the Oct. 29 homicide of Guled Ahmed on Carruthers Avenue.
  Ahmed, 23, was shot multiple times at close range as he returned to an Airbnb rental after attending a wedding, and fled to a back alley, where he was found dead minutes later.
  It was the 16th homicide of 2018.
  The man in pictures released Wednesday may live in Toronto or in western Canada, possibly Alberta or Saskatchewan, police said Wednesday.
  Anyone wi
  
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• Heron Gate demolition plans still a go, despite looming human rights challenge ottawamatters.com/local-news/her… https://t.co/jFWw2YAKdD

  14-11-2018 23:21 via twitter.com
  
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• Supreme Court hears case on migrant detainees' rights to challenge incarceration. ottawamatters.com/national-news/…

  14-11-2018 23:05 via twitter.com
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• A warm winter or a polar vortex? Two possibilities for Ottawa's chilliest season

  14-11-2018 22:57 via ottawacitizen.com
  In one corner there’s El Niño, a warm area in the Pacific Ocean that could make Ottawa’s coming winter a little milder.
  But El Niño has an opponent this year, a potent weather-changing influence also in the Pacific that scientists simply call The Blob.
  The last time a Blob formed, it gave us the icy winters of 2014 and 2015. Can anyone forget the words “polar vortex”?
  Environment Canada doesn’t issue a formal winter forecast until Dec. 1, but alre
  
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• Experts warn of economic uncertainty until USMCA ratified; Dems cast doubts. ottawamatters.com/national-news/…

  14-11-2018 22:35 via twitter.com
  Experts warn of economic uncertainty until USMCA ratified; Dems cast doubts.ottawamatters.com/national-news/…
  
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• No new end date for LRT, but new video shows testing ottawamatters.com/local-news/no-… #ottnews

  14-11-2018 22:30 via twitter.com
  No new end date for LRT, but new video shows testingottawamatters.com/local-news/no-… #ottnews
  
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• #ottnews #timbercreek #herongate twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…

  14-11-2018 22:20 via twitter.com
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• WANTED: Gatineau police seek to identify suspect in fire investigation

  14-11-2018 22:05 via ottawacitizen.com
  Gatineau police are seeking the public’s help to identify a suspect in connection with a fire investigation.
  On Nov. 4, at around 10:30 p.m., a man was seen travelling behind 25 Laurier Street in the Hull area.
  In a media release on Nov. 14, police released images to the media in an effort to identify him.
  He is described as Caucasian, in his 40s and of average build. He was wearing a loose, black hooded winter coat; a hoodie under his coat; black eyeglasses; black jeans; black and gray sn
  
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• Inquest into jail-hanging death of mentally ill man set for Nov. 26

  14-11-2018 20:55 via ottawacitizen.com
  An inquest has been scheduled to start later this month into the death of a man suffering from schizophrenia who hanged himself last year at the Ottawa Carleton Detention Centre.
  Cleve Gordon Geddes, 30, died in the hospital where he was transferred from jail on Feb. 10, 2017.
  This newspaper reported at the time that it was two days after he hanged himself in his protective custody cell after reportedly being taken off of a suicide watch.
  His grieving sister said that he belonged in a hospital,
  
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• Dining Out: Urban Indian Cafe pleasantly surprises with range of breads and lesser-known dishes

  14-11-2018 20:49 via ottawacitizen.com
  Urban Indian Cafe1910 St. Laurent Blvd. (in the Elmvale Acres Shopping Centre’s parking lot), 613-247-1010, urbanindiancafe.caOpen: Tuesday to Friday 7 a.m. to 9:30 p.m., Saturday and Sunday noon to 9 p.m., closed MondayPrices: most main dishes under $15Access: no steps to front door or washrooms
  Ah, the Taj Mahal. “It is truly, stunningly beautiful. The amount of detail on that marble!” said my friend, who has visited the architectural masterpiece in Agra.
  We were both moved t
  
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• Canopy Growth's pre-legalization spending spree produces $330.6M net loss

  14-11-2018 20:33 via ottawacitizen.com
  If investors were hoping to gain significant insight into the rollout of the recreational marijuana market in the financial results of the country’s three largest cannabis companies, they came away disappointed.
  What they did see was an industry spending massively to prepare for the last month’s legalization.
  Smiths Falls-based Canopy Growth on Wednesday was the third cannabis player to give us a recent snapshot, and CEO Bruce Linton served up a stunner: His company, the largest when
  
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• Possible snowfall of 10-15 cm Thursday night, Friday morning, weather office says

  14-11-2018 20:27 via ottawacitizen.com
  Cold enough for you?
  Wait, there’s more!
  Environment Canada has issued a “special weather statement” for the area, with ominous allusions to “significant snowfall” beginning Thursday night and ending Friday morning.
  “A developing low pressure system will track northward along the Eastern Seaboard Thursday and Friday. Snow associated with this low will affect Eastern Ontario beginning Thursday evening. Snow will continue Thursday night and end Friday morning,&r
  
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• Chalk River picket may cause traffic delays: OPP

  14-11-2018 19:51 via ottawacitizen.com
  The OPP is warning motorists that an information picket at the Canadian Nuclear Laboratories Monday could cause traffic backups from the Plant Road facility to Highway 17.
  The information picket by the Chalk River Professional Employees Group is scheduled from 6 a.m. to noon, police said in a release Wednesday.
  They asked motorists to “exercise caution and patience” should delays happen.ALSO IN THE NEWS:
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• Canadian naval officer charged with sex assault and assault

  14-11-2018 19:40 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Canadian Forces National Investigation Service has charged a female naval officer with multiple sexual assault-related offences.
  The charges, announced Wednesday, relate to alleged incidents during fall and winter 2017 involving other members of the Canadian Forces on board HMCS Charlottetown.
  Navy Sub-Lieutenant Aidan Louise Brownlee, a regular force member of HMCS Toronto, faces three counts of sexual assault, one count of assault, and three counts of “behaving in disgraceful ma
  
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• Today's letters: More questions on the LRT

  14-11-2018 19:28 via ottawacitizen.com
  Five other questions on the LRT
  Re: Waiting on a train, Nov. 14.
  As mentioned in the article, the taxpayer is constantly told that the LRT delay is related to the sinkhole and two missing computer modules. Yet a trip down Scott Street or Lees Avenue shows the stations themselves are clearly nowhere near completion, and who knows what is really going on below Rideau Street?
  Loosely based on the five questions put forth by reporter Jon Willing, may I suggest five questions that the mayor may not h
  
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• Gatineau firefighters battle severe windchill in blaze at historic home

  14-11-2018 19:27 via ottawacitizen.com
  Gatineau firefighters worked for several hours under winter-like conditions Wednesday to control a stubborn fire in an historic building in the city’s Aylmer district.
  Responders were called just before 5 a.m. after flames were seen at the “Conroy-McDonald House” at 47 Symmes St.
  Ten trucks and about three dozen firefighters responded to the call.
  Firefighters were hampered by strong winds and temperatures that felt as cold as -30 with the wind chill on the Quebec side of the O
  
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• Owners of injured young Rottweiler mix located

  14-11-2018 19:26 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Ottawa Humane Society is thanking the community for helping them connect with the owners of the young Rottweiler-mix dog that was rescued by a Good Samaritan after being hit by a car in the Mooney’s Bay area.
  “We couldn’t be happier that the owners of this sweet dog have been found,” OHS CEO Bruce Roney said in a release. “We are very grateful to everyone who got the word out.”
  The animal was found on Heron Road Friday and taken to an animal hospital for t
  
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• Missing man found driving wrong way on Ontario highway. ottawamatters.com/around-ontario…

  14-11-2018 19:05 via twitter.com
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• #ottnews @ottawahumane twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…

  14-11-2018 18:49 via twitter.com
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• UPDATE: @ottawahumane says pupper's owners have been found & she's being transferred to an emerg. vet clinic for ca… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  14-11-2018 18:37 via twitter.com
  UPDATE: @ottawahumane says pupper's owners have been found & she's being transferred to an emerg. vet clinic for ca… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Glavin: Terrorism prevention ideas good in theory, tricky in practice

  14-11-2018 18:37 via ottawacitizen.com
  Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale’s five-year, $35-million effort to detect, quarantine and eradicate the incubation of terrorism in Canada is slowly and tentatively rolling out in consultations, research initiatives and funded projects, and so far, so good.
  It’s fairly uncharted territory. There is no example to follow in the United States. The Obama administration had funded a paltry $10 million for local efforts to prevent and counter violent extremism, but the Trump presidency
  
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• Coming up at 12:30: @StephenBlais joins @_MarkSutcliffe to give an update on the LRT. 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  14-11-2018 18:27 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 12:30: @StephenBlais joins @_MarkSutcliffe to give an update on the LRT. 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• The @rick_gibbons Show for Wednesday, November 14th: 1:07: @davekorzinski 1:15: @JimWatsonOttawa 1:30:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  14-11-2018 17:57 via twitter.com
  The @rick_gibbons Show for Wednesday, November 14th: 1:07: @davekorzinski 1:15: @JimWatsonOttawa 1:30:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• NEXT on the Power Lunch: @Alex_S_Cullen and @FredLitwin join @_MarkSutcliffe live in-studio: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  14-11-2018 17:57 via twitter.com
  NEXT on the Power Lunch:@Alex_S_Cullen and @FredLitwin join @_MarkSutcliffe live in-studio:📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Police want to speak to this man about Oct. 29 murder

  14-11-2018 17:56 via ottawacitizen.com
  Police are asking the public to help them identify a man they want to talk to about the Oct. 29 murder of Guled Ahmed on Carruthers Avenue.
  Ahmed, 23, was shot multiple times at close range as he returned to an Airbnb rental after attending a wedding, and fled to a back alley, where he was found dead minutes later.
  It was the 16th homicide of 2018.
  The man in pictures released Wednesday may live in Toronto or in western Canada, possibly Alberta or Saskatchewan, police said Wednesday.
  Anyone with
  
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• Corrections Canada wants you to be on the lookout for drones near Kingston pen

  14-11-2018 17:56 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Correctional Service of Canada is asking people to keep an eye out for strange flying objects near Collins Bay Institution or other such institutions in the Kingston area.
  According to two tweets released by the federal overseer of penitentiaries on Tuesday, the government is particularly concerned with “suspicious UAV activities such as late night operations, hovering over a particular location for a period of time, or carrying packages.”
  A UAV is an unmanned aerial vehicle like
  
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• Gatineau police charge second suspect in Buckingham home invasion

  14-11-2018 17:50 via ottawacitizen.com
  A second suspect has been arrested in connection with a violent home invasion Oct. 29 in Gatineau’s Buckingham district, police say.
  Jason Stuart, 28, of Gatineau was arrested Monday afternoon.
  He appeared in Quebec court Tuesday afternoon on a host of charges ranging from armed assault to extortion and kidnapped.
  Stuart remains in custody and is expected to appear in court again in the “next few days,” police said in a release.
  A 42-year-old Thurso woman was arrested last
  
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• Still no launch date for LRT but signs of progress

  14-11-2018 17:48 via ottawacitizen.com
  The city still doesn’t have an exact launch date for the Confederation Line LRT, sticking with the estimate that the $2.1-billion rail line will open sometime in the first three months of 2019.
  Transportation general manager John Manconi told the finance and economic development committee on Wednesday that Rideau Transit Group has been achieving milestones and wants to do a full practice plan this month.
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  Big LRT update Wednesday could provide another launch date. At least they've f
  
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• The new date to give a deadline date is January 2. #ottnews twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…

  14-11-2018 17:46 via twitter.com
  The new date to give a deadline date is January 2. #ottnews twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…
  
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• Police in Rockland looking for people who were driving around shooting an air pistol at young joggers. #ottnews… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  14-11-2018 17:45 via twitter.com
  Police in Rockland looking for people who were driving around shooting an air pistol at young joggers. #ottnews… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• MacKenzie and McEachern: Changes are needed to protect Ottawa’s heritage districts

  14-11-2018 17:29 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa has 20 heritage conservation districts, ranging in size from the enclave of 23 modernist houses in Briarcliffe and small parts of Sandy Hill, to Rockcliffe Park and Centretown, with 600 to 700 properties each. Community associations representing these heritage districts ask Mayor Jim Watson and members of the new city council whether they will work with us to put an end to the steady erosion of the character that defines our designated heritage communities.
  This erosion is occurring despi
  
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• Coming up at 11:30: @_Ezelidon joins @_MarkSutcliffe to give an update on the California wildfires. 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  14-11-2018 17:26 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 11:30: @_Ezelidon joins @_MarkSutcliffe to give an update on the California wildfires. 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• More than 640,000 people visit new Science and Tech. museum in its first year

  14-11-2018 16:58 via ottawacitizen.com
  More than 640,000 have people visited the new Canada Science and Technology Museum since it reopened in November 2017.
  The museum, which underwent a three-year, $80 million renovation, reopened to the public on Nov. 17 last year. To celebrate its one-year anniversary, the facility plans to offer free access to the first 100 people who walk through the museum’s doors on Saturday.
  Since reopening the museum has hosted exhibits such as the critically acclaimed The Art of the Brick, which show
  
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• Antiques: Provenance of 'Nisbet' sofa up for debate

  14-11-2018 16:54 via ottawacitizen.com
  Q:  This sofa was sold to us in 2000 as an 1830 Thomas Nisbet sofa by a dealer in a Niagara Peninsula antique centre for $3000. However, there is no label. How can one be sure?
  Michael, Waterloo
   
  A: There was a fine exhibition of Nisbet’s furniture held at the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph, Ontario in 2012 (now the Art Gallery of Guelph).
  A catalogue of this show titled ‘The Art of Thomas Nisbet: Master Cabinetmaker’ curated by David Nasby shows a good ra
  
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• Rockland joggers targeted by suspects with air pistols, police say

  14-11-2018 16:50 via ottawacitizen.com
  Police are looking for a blue Chrysler that was spotted driving along Caron Street in Rockland firing an air pistol “randomly” at young people out jogging Monday afternoon.
  The victims were unhurt.
  Officers with the OPP’s Rockland detachment got the call at about 2 p.m. complaining of the southbound vehicle, which may have had four occupants.
  Anyone with information is asked to call Russell County OPP at 1-888-310-1122. Anonymous tips can be submitted to Crime Stoppers at
  
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• Police choir hails Stan Lee, late chronicler of crime fighters

  14-11-2018 15:52 via ottawacitizen.com
  “In the chill of the night, at the scene of a crime, like a streak of light, he arrives just in time!”
  The Ottawa Police Chorus wasn’t hailing colleagues on the beat Tuesday night but the late chronicler of crime fighters, Stan Lee.
  The group, which celebrated 45 years of song last year, launched into a cover of the Spider-Man theme to salute Lee.
  While not as heavy as the famed cover by the Ramones, nor as swinging as Michael Bublé’s (yes!) take around 2010, the O
  
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• Two charged in St. Laurent Blvd. mugging

  14-11-2018 15:22 via ottawacitizen.com
  A pair of 18-year-olds are charged with robbing a young victim on St. Laurent Boulevard Sunday evening.
  The victim, described as a young male, was assaulted at a bus shelter near Lemieux Street just north of the Queensway who then robbed him, police said in a release Wednesday.
  He suffered minor injuries.
  Two suspects were arrested nearby.
  Devontae Spencer-Long is charged with robbery and possession of property obtained by crime. He appears in court Nov. 29.
  Joshua Acettuno-Bonilla is charged wi
  
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• Gateway speed zones have launched in Ottawa. #ottnews ottawamatters.com/local-news/new… https://t.co/G9A0pi2dl2

  14-11-2018 14:35 via twitter.com
  
  Gateway speed zones have launched in Ottawa. #ottnews ottawamatters.com/local-news/new… https://t.co/G9A0pi2dl2
  
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• Suspect arrested in series of break-ins. #ottnews twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…

  14-11-2018 14:32 via twitter.com
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• Charges laid in string of burglaries, one targeting guns

  14-11-2018 14:23 via ottawacitizen.com
  A 30-year-old Ottawa man is charged in five daytime burglaries in the Navan, North Gower, Richmond and Leitrim areas this fall, including an incident in which guns were allegedly targeted and trafficked.
  Joshua Wales-Saunders is to appear in court Thursday by video link, police said in release Wednesday.
  He’s charged with theft under $5,000 and failure to comply with a probation order in the first incident Sept. 12  on Boundary Road near Mitch Owens Road.
  In the second burglary,
  
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• 1310 NEWS question of the day: Have the rotating postal strikes had any impact on you? ottawamatters.com/national-news/…

  14-11-2018 14:19 via twitter.com
  1310 NEWS question of the day: Have the rotating postal strikes had any impact on you?ottawamatters.com/national-news/…
  
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• Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is telling a bloc of 10 Asian nations that Canada wants to launch full-fledged talks… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  14-11-2018 14:05 via twitter.com
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• Taxpayers subsidize pay-for-cops program used by festivals, businesses

  14-11-2018 14:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  City taxpayers have been subsidizing the paid-duty policing program used by festivals and businesses when those organizations need officers to provide security and traffic detours, according to the numbers crunched by the Ottawa Police Service.
  The police force’s financial analysis suggests it’s a myth that the service is rolling in money from sales generated by its paid-duty police menu, which offers constables for $84.90 an hour, sergeants for $96.30 an hour and staff sergeants for
  
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• Shocking -19 windchill wakeup call, snow returns later this week

  14-11-2018 13:48 via ottawacitizen.com
  Brrr!
  Ottawa awoke to -10 Wednesday morning with a bracing windchill of -19 as measured at the airport.
  Things were even brisker on the Quebec side of the river, where windchill levels dropped to -30 levels overnight and were between -20- and -25 early on.
  The forecast is for a few flurries to end in the morning then clearing skies with northwesterly winds at 20 km/h gusting to 40 and a high of -5 C that will feel like -12.
  Overnight, expect clear skies, winds becoming light and a low of -12 C a
  
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• Water main break closes Beechwood Avenue west of cemetery

  14-11-2018 13:44 via ottawacitizen.com
  A stretch of Beechwood Avenue is closed due to a water main break between Ste. Cécile Street and Marquette Avenue, police said Wednesday morning.
  The duration of the road closure, which is west of Beechwood Cemetery, isn’t known.
  Beechwood Ave is closed due to a watermain break between St-Cecile St and Marquette Ave.
  Duration unknown. #otttraffic
  — Ottawa Police (@OttawaPolice) November 14, 2018
  
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• An update on the LRT is expected this morning. #ottnews ottawamatters.com/local-news/cit… https://t.co/BLPANm0THu

  14-11-2018 13:36 via twitter.com
  
  An update on the LRT is expected this morning. #ottnews ottawamatters.com/local-news/cit… https://t.co/BLPANm0THu
  
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• Egan: How tricky infill blew up an old family home and messed with David Chernushenko

  14-11-2018 13:08 via ottawacitizen.com
  About 10 years ago, 26 Aylmer Ave. in Old Ottawa South was a fine brick house with plenty of breathing room on all sides — setting off its traditional porch and attic dormer, its old-bones feel — in a mature neighbourhood.
  Then a portion of the lot on the Bank Street side was severed, and a tall, narrow house went up, making things tighter, if not a little visually jarring. And in 2016, a big addition was added to the rear of the brick house, a pale-sided box with nine windows on one
  
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