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• 'I was ashamed' alleged victim testifies in Jonathan Impey sexual assault trial

  15-11-2018 23:55 via ottawacitizen.com
  The young woman testified she was so ashamed after she was allegedly sexually assaulted, she walked in a daze to a corner store and swallowed half the bottle of pain pills she bought.
  She had only wanted a ride home following a late-night drunken argument with her boyfriend when the 1 a.m. text unexpectedly arrived from Jonathan Impey, his alleged victim testified Thursday at his sexual assault trial.
  Impey pleaded not guilty to sexually assaulting the woman at the opening of his jury trial earl
  
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• Province cuts three offices created to act as watchdogs for the environment, youth and francophone services

  15-11-2018 23:52 via ottawacitizen.com
  The province has announced that it will roll the positions of three independent officers — the environmental commissioner, the child advocate and the French language services commissioner — into the offices of the auditor general and the provincial ombudsman as part of its cost-cutting measures.
  Here’s what these three officers do, and what will be affected:
  Environmental Commissioner of Ontario
  Environmental commissioner Dianne Saxe.
  What the office does: Plays a watchdog role
  
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• Ford government's first fiscal update shows Ontario cut deficit to $14.5 billion ottawamatters.com/national-news/…

  15-11-2018 23:30 via twitter.com
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• Gatineau police investigate 'serious injury' at Saint-Paul Street home. ottawamatters.com/police-beat/ga…

  15-11-2018 23:05 via twitter.com
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• Winchester's Jimmy Wise to stand trial for murder next year

  15-11-2018 22:57 via ottawacitizen.com
  Retired Winchester mechanic Jimmy Wise will stand trial on a charge of first-degree murder next year after waiving his right to a preliminary hearing.
  Wise, 75, appeared Thursday in a Cornwall courtroom where Justice Deborah Kinsella committed him to trial in the death of Raymond Collison, 59, whose decomposed remains were found in a Morewood drainage ditch in April 2014.
  Wise intends to plead not guilty in the case.
  A four-day preliminary hearing was scheduled to begin in January, but
  
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• Diabetic alert dogs meet their owners for the first time, start bonding process. ottawamatters.com/around-ontario…

  15-11-2018 22:35 via twitter.com
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• Kingston police concerned child porn accused had access to kids

  15-11-2018 22:32 via ottawacitizen.com
  Kingston Police are searching for potential victims after laying child pornography charges against a 43-year-old man earlier this week.
  It was one of three recent child-pornography-related arrests by the Eastern Ontario force.
  In a media release Wednesday, police said that on Oct. 27, a woman received a Facebook message from a stranger after she posted a picture of her young child. The poster commented that child was cute. A few days later, she began getting messages that were “inappropria
  
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• Former Gatineau cab driver accused of sexually assaulting disabled passenger faces six new charges

  15-11-2018 22:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  A 48-year-old former taxi driver from Gatineau is facing six new charges related to sexual assaults of people with disabilities.
  Gatineau police revealed the new charges against Michel Vanier, in a media release Thursday.
  Police first arrested and charged Vanier on Oct. 22 in connection with a sexual assault on a teenager while using paratransit services.
  A former driver with Taxi Loyal — which sub-contracts for the Société de transport de l’Outaouais — Vanier was
  
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• Szwarc: LRT project ignores Ottawa's low-income communities

  15-11-2018 22:26 via ottawacitizen.com
  Many Ottawans eagerly await access to the LRT. But for residents of Vanier and other low-income neighbourhoods, that train may never come. By continuing down a path that ignores the needs of the people who require affordable and accessible transit, the City of Ottawa excludes its most vulnerable residents.
  Despite the delays associated with the LRT project – the hope now is that it will be up and running around the end of March, 2019 – it is being celebrated as one of Mayor Jim Watso
  
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• Canadian home sales fell for a second month in a row in October. ottawamatters.com/national-busin…

  15-11-2018 22:05 via twitter.com
  Canadian home sales fell for a second month in a row in October.ottawamatters.com/national-busin…
  
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• IMF executive board will meet in 'coming weeks' on Venezuela. ottawamatters.com/national-busin…

  15-11-2018 21:35 via twitter.com
  IMF executive board will meet in 'coming weeks' on Venezuela.ottawamatters.com/national-busin…
  
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• WANTED: OPP seek to identify suspect in 2008 death

  15-11-2018 21:17 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ontario Provincial Police are asking for the public’s help to identify a suspect who may have been involved in a shooting 10 years ago.
  Police said, Derrick (Roy) Thompson, 42, left his Tyendinaga Township residence on Nov. 14, 2008, between 6 a.m. and 6:30 a.m. to go hunting in a nearby area.
  Thompson failed to return home by dinner time, sparking a search by his friends and family. His body was located at 10 p.m. in the woods near Blessington Road and Shannonville Road. It was determined
  
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• Migrants fill Tijuana shelters, more on way to US border. ottawamatters.com/world-news/mig…

  15-11-2018 21:05 via twitter.com
  Migrants fill Tijuana shelters, more on way to US border.ottawamatters.com/world-news/mig…
  
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• Three displaced, cats rescued in Argyle Avenue fire

  15-11-2018 20:56 via ottawacitizen.com
  Three residents will have to move to another unit in their building after a fire on Argyle Avenue Thursday afternoon.
  A passerby noticed grey smoke coming from a third-floor balcony of the unit in the building just east of Bank Street at 1:44 p.m as building security reported an alarm triggering.
  Firefighters were able to douse flames in the kitchen using dry chemical extinguishers and rescued the residents’ four cats.
  They had wrapped up their work by 2:15 p.m.
  “When you hear alarms
  
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• One person slightly hurt in six-car crash on Bronson

  15-11-2018 20:23 via ottawacitizen.com
  A six-vehicle collision shut down Bronson Avenue for about an hour Thursday afternoon, leaving a mess of fluids and debris but only one person with minor injuries.
  Police first told motorists to avoid the area after the crash.
  It came in at 1:09 p.m. and closed all lanes in both directions between Arlington and Gladstone avenues.
  As of 2 p.m., only one lane was closed for police to investigate the crash.
  Collision involving 6 vehicles, closing Bronson Ave in both directions from Arlington to Gla
  
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• City announces preferred architects for super library on LeBreton Flats

  15-11-2018 19:36 via ottawacitizen.com
  Diamond Schmitt Architects of Toronto and KWC Architects of Ottawa have won a competition to design a $192.9-million super library operated by the Ottawa Public Library and Library and Archives Canada.
  The City of Ottawa announced Thursday that the firms, which formed a joint venture for the library procurement, are the preferred proponent to design the facility. Thirty-three submissions were narrowed to five in a request for proposal process, leading an evaluation committee to recommend enterin
  
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• Magee House owner prepared for court fight if city orders demolition

  15-11-2018 19:04 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ovidio Sbrissa is prepared to fight city hall if Ottawa’s chief building official orders the total destruction of his Magee House in Hintonburg.
  “That building is not going to go down,” Sbrissa said in a phone interview Thursday. “It deserves to be saved. It’s probably one of the greatest monuments in Ottawa for the old masons and their craft. It’s unique.”
  Earlier in the day, the city’s built-heritage subcommittee heard during a meeting that
  
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• Ottawa man, 32, charged in pair of Merivale Road robberies

  15-11-2018 18:35 via ottawacitizen.com
  A 32-year-old Ottawa man was to appear in show cause court Thursday in connection with two robberies on Merivale Road earlier this month.
  Police said in a release that Jason Dooley has been charged with robbery, robbery and assault with intent and two counts possession of a weapon for committing an offence, as well as breaches of recognisance and probation.
  The release said only that the offences occurred Nov. 5 and Nov. 6 “in the 900 and 1000 block of Merivale Road.”ALSO IN THE NEWS
  
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• Brown's comments against MPP Lisa MacLeod outrage mental health advocates

  15-11-2018 18:20 via ottawacitizen.com
  Passages in a book by former Progressive Conservative leader Patrick Brown about local MPP Lisa MacLeod have outraged many at a time when there is a focus on ending stigma around mental illness.
  Brown, who was forced out as leader by sexual misconduct allegations (which he denies), released a tell-all book Wednesday that takes swipes at many of his former Progressive Conservative colleagues.
  He took particular aim at MacLeod, writing, among other things, that party organizers in Eastern Ontario
  
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• Cappies play synopses and critic schedule for 2018-19

  15-11-2018 18:16 via ottawacitizen.com
  The dates listed are the dates the Cappies critics will review the play. Check with each school for the dates their play will be presented.
  November 28, 2018
  St. Pius X High School
  1984
  George Orwell’s 1984 tells the story of Winston – a man in search of something more. Under the watchful eye of the Thought Police in dystopian Oceania, Winston tries his best to be a good party member. In his heart of hearts however, Winston questions his surroundings and yearns for a better life &nda
  
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• The @rick_gibbons Show for Thursday, November 15th: 1:45: @GoodLifeFitness 2:05: @CPnewsboy 2:15: @UofT_PolSci 2:30… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  15-11-2018 18:04 via twitter.com
  The @rick_gibbons Show for Thursday, November 15th: 1:45: @GoodLifeFitness 2:05: @CPnewsboy 2:15: @UofT_PolSci 2:30… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• On today's Power Lunch: @LauraPeck6 and David Thompson join @_MarkSutcliffe in-studio: 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  15-11-2018 17:56 via twitter.com
  On today's Power Lunch: @LauraPeck6 and David Thompson join @_MarkSutcliffe in-studio:📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Statement from Sajjan’s office on alleged rape shows little respect for the victim

  15-11-2018 17:29 via ottawacitizen.com
  Federal departments and the offices of ministers often use standard statements to deal with serious issues. Staff cut and paste these pre-approved messages and email those off to journalists so it appears like the department or minister in question is taking action.
  One of these statements is “We take all allegations of sexual misconduct very seriously” or a variation of that. The Canadian Forces/Department of National Defence has been sending out this statement or something similar
  
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• Former Hawkesbury high school teacher, 79, accused of sexual assault

  15-11-2018 17:23 via ottawacitizen.com
  A former teacher has been charged in connection with sexual abuse that is alleged to have happened in the 1980s when he taught at a local high school, Hawkesbury OPP reports.
  Adrien Asselin, 79, of Hawkesbury is charged under the Criminal Code of Canada’s 1983 definitions of indecent assault on a male victim, acts of gross indecency and sexual assault.
  Police said that Asselin was arrested and charged Wednesday following an investigation by the detachment’s crime unit that
  
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• Entrepreneurs looking for places to open pot shops in Ottawa now have some rules

  15-11-2018 16:58 via ottawacitizen.com
  Entrepreneurs scouting locations to open cannabis stores in Ottawa now have a better idea of where they can be located — if the city agrees to allow the shops at all.
  The province announced Wednesday that stores can’t be within 150 metres of public or private schools. There was no mention of distance requirements from other businesses frequented by children, such as daycare centres, parks or community centres.
  There was also no mention of requiring stores to maintain a distance from
  
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• Entrepreneurs looking for places to open pot shops in Ottawa now have some rules - Ottawa Citizen

  15-11-2018 16:57
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  Entrepreneurs looking for places to open pot shops in Ottawa now have some rules
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  If the City of Ottawa decides to allow cannabis stores within its boundaries, there will be no shortage of applicants, from large corporations to mom-and-pop entrepreneurs. The rules are now clearer after the province released regulations Thursday with ...
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• Gatineau police probe apparent assault after man found seriously injured

  15-11-2018 16:53 via ottawacitizen.com
  Gatineau police continue their investigation into an apparent assault Thursday morning that left a man with serious injuries.
  Police were called to a home on St. Paul Street in the Gatineau district at about 9 a.m. and found the victim, whose identity was not released.
  He was taken to hospital.
  Police have cordoned off the area and brought in support, including K9 units units, for further investigation.
  They would not release further details.ALSO IN THE NEWS:
  Entrepreneurs looking for places to
  
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• 2018 Heritage Perth Christmas House Tour offers up eight local homes, old and new

  15-11-2018 16:22 via ottawacitizen.com
  Prepare to join in a weekend celebrating beautiful architecture, historic buildings, restoration, lovely home décor and seasonal decorating, as the Canadian Federation of University Women (CFUW) Perth & District celebrates its 13th Heritage Perth Christmas House Tour on the weekend of December 1 and 2.
  This year’s event, featuring eight local homes,  runs from 10:00 a.m. – 3:30 p.m. each day. 
  The 2018 house tour promises to reach the high standards set by p
  
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• Canada wants answers from Saudi Arabia in Khashoggi killing. ottawamatters.com/national-news/… https://t.co/A0zQMzajdJ

  15-11-2018 16:15 via twitter.com
  
  Canada wants answers from Saudi Arabia in Khashoggi killing. ottawamatters.com/national-news/… https://t.co/A0zQMzajdJ
  
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• Welcome to Ottawa, here's your tuque

  15-11-2018 16:02 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Ottawa airport reports it had a “warm welcome” to the chilly capital when marketing folks for airports across the continent turned up for a conference this week.
  Literally.
  As Ottawa shivered under windchill conditions as low of -19, Mark Laroche, president and CEO of the Ottawa Macdonald-Cartier Airport Authority, donned a parka and tuque of his own and slung a snow scraper over his shoulder for his opening address to “YOW18 Marcom,” the Airports Council Interna
  
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• Next on the 10 O'Clock Talk: @LMartinWashDC, @MikeVlasveld & @David_Moscrop join @_MarkSutcliffe live: 📻: 1310… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  15-11-2018 15:56 via twitter.com
  Next on the 10 O'Clock Talk: @LMartinWashDC,@MikeVlasveld & @David_Moscrop join @_MarkSutcliffe live: 📻: 1310… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Coming up at 9:15: @patrickbrownont joins @_MarkSutcliffe to discuss his new book - Takedown. 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  15-11-2018 15:11 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 9:15: @patrickbrownont joins @_MarkSutcliffe to discuss his new book - Takedown.📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Santa taking it to the street on Saturday

  15-11-2018 15:06 via ottawacitizen.com
  Well, Ho! Ho! Ho!
  It would seem that this week’s nasty weather is bringing a pleasant bonus: A chubby, bearded guy in a red suit on a sled.
  Yep, Santa Claus hits the capital roads for the 49th time Saturday in the Ottawa Professional Firefighters’ Association Help Santa Parade.
  He’s bringing festive floats, music and road closures. As usual, toys will be collected along the way, destined for kids in need this holiday season.
  Santa’s Tour d’Ottawa kicks off at 1
  
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• Canadian police have not seen a spike in cannabis-impaired driving one month since legalization #ottnews… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  15-11-2018 14:55 via twitter.com
  Canadian police have not seen a spike in cannabis-impaired driving one month since legalization #ottnews… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Heron Gate demolition on track despite a human rights challenge being mounted against Timbercreek. #ottnews… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  15-11-2018 14:25 via twitter.com
  Heron Gate demolition on track despite a human rights challenge being mounted against Timbercreek. #ottnews… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• 1310 NEWS Question of the Day: Do you believe that Patrick Brown was the victim of a political takedown, as he su… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  15-11-2018 14:17 via twitter.com
  1310 NEWS Question of the Day: Do you believe that Patrick Brown was the victim of a political takedown, as he su… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Get ready for the snow! Environment Canada calling for up to 15cm of snow starting late tonight into tomorrow.… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  15-11-2018 13:55 via twitter.com
  Get ready for the snow! Environment Canada calling for up to 15cm of snow starting late tonight into tomorrow.… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Big snow on the horizon starting tonight, weather office says

  15-11-2018 13:40 via ottawacitizen.com
  Got your winter tires and boots ready to go?
  We’ll likely be needing them with Environment Canada warning that 10 to 15 cm of snow is forecast to start falling Thursday evening.
  While there’s still some uncertainty about the track of a deepening low-pressure system heading along the Eastern Seabord and how much snow it will dump, get ready for “poor winter driving conditions” for the Friday morning commute.
  (Pity the walkers and bus-riders, too.)
  Thursday’s forecast
  
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• Province expected to announce tax exemption for low-income workers during today's fiscal update. #ottnews #onpoli ottawamatters.com/around-ontario…

  15-11-2018 13:28 via twitter.com
  Province expected to announce tax exemption for low-income workers during today's fiscal update. #ottnews #onpoli ottawamatters.com/around-ontario…
  
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• Good Morning #Ottawa! @DeniseWeatherTO's forecast for today - Sun and cloud most of the day. High minus 3 Snow be… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  15-11-2018 13:12 via twitter.com
  Good Morning #Ottawa!@DeniseWeatherTO's forecast for today -Sun and cloud most of the day. High minus 3 Snow be… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• National Gallery offered to sell Chagall after Canadian Heritage wouldn't discuss money

  15-11-2018 13:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  The National Gallery of Canada moved forward with the sale of a Marc Chagall painting to purchase another artwork only after appealing to the federal government for financial help two years ago, and getting no response, access documents reveal.
  After writing to then Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly in 2016, the gallery’s director says, he didn’t even get an answer to the letter.
  At the time, the gallery was trying to buy a major painting in Quebec, called Saint Jerome Hears
  
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• Egan: Giving 2.0: Shopify boss donates $500K to create synagogue in Sandy Hill

  15-11-2018 13:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  Harley Finkelstein is part of a new generation of philanthropists in town.
  The kind who wears a black T-shirt to work, or commutes on a motorized skateboard, or rolls in a Mercedes-Benz ragtop coupe; the kind who ditches law to join a startup in 2010 in little offices over a restaurant and, eight years later, is chief operating officer when the company goes gonzo-global with 3,000 employees.
  The kind who does it all before age 35. Yeah, that kind.
  So now it’s time to give back, two-point-o
  
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• Burtch: A time to remember the Canadian dead of the Korean War

  15-11-2018 12:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  On the Mackenzie King bridge, near Confederation Park, there is a bronze statue of an unarmed Canadian soldier standing with two Korean children. The Monument to Canadian Fallen, designed by Vincent Courtenay, a Canadian veteran of the Korean War, and made by Korean artist Young Mun Yoo in 2002, is inscribed with the names of 516 Canadians who died in the Korean War. Many pass by the monument every day.
  Most have no idea that an identical monument stands nearly 11,000 kilometres away, in the Uni
  
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• Police are searching for Alexander Okonski, 27, last seen on Tuesday. His kayak was found near the Deschenes Rapids… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  15-11-2018 12:21 via twitter.com
  Police are searching for Alexander Okonski, 27, last seen on Tuesday. His kayak was found near the Deschenes Rapids… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Threat of extremism posed by proportional representation overstated: academics ottawamatters.com/national-news/…

  15-11-2018 05:00 via twitter.com
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• Police seek help finding missing kayaker

  15-11-2018 04:40 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Ottawa Police Service is asking for help in locating a man whose kayak was found Wednesday morning near the Britannia water purification plant.
  Alexander Okonski, last seen on Tuesday, is a white male with an athletic build, and was last seen wearing a camouflage jacket and black pants.
  Anyone with information is asked to call the Ottawa Police Service’s West Investigations Section at 613-236-1222, ext. 2666. Anonymous tips can be submitted by calling Crime Stoppers toll-free at 1-800-
  
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• Canada's cannabis product shortage, by the numbers ottawamatters.com/national-news/…

  15-11-2018 04:30 via twitter.com
  Canada's cannabis product shortage, by the numbersottawamatters.com/national-news/…
  
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• Macy's charges into the holiday shopping season like a boss ottawamatters.com/national-busin…

  15-11-2018 04:00 via twitter.com
  Macy's charges into the holiday shopping season like a bossottawamatters.com/national-busin…
  
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• Ottawa police looking for man in relation to Mechanicsville murder ottawamatters.com/police-beat/ot…

  15-11-2018 03:30 via twitter.com
  Ottawa police looking for man in relation to Mechanicsville murderottawamatters.com/police-beat/ot…
  
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• List: At least 80 people still missing after deadly wildfire ottawamatters.com/world-news/lis…

  15-11-2018 03:00 via twitter.com
  List: At least 80 people still missing after deadly wildfireottawamatters.com/world-news/lis…
  
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