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• MP Yurdiga, wife, urge support for people with episodic disabilities ottawamatters.com/national-news/…

  29-11-2018 23:00 via twitter.com
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• No end in sight for Magee House as latest engineering review finds no 'emergency'

  29-11-2018 22:45 via ottawacitizen.com
  The rest of Magee House looks like it’s going to fall down any moment, but the city’s engineering intel suggests there’s no emergency, leaving the future of Hintonburg’s crippled heritage building in limbo.
  According to Kitchissippi Coun. Jeff Leiper, the latest expert opinion from John G. Cooke and Associates says the crumpled stone building at 1119 Wellington St. W. isn’t a threat to public safety.
  “At this point, the city has had engineers out to asses
  
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• Trump derides lawyer Michael Cohen as 'weak person' after bombshell guilty plea ottawamatters.com/national-news/…

  29-11-2018 22:30 via twitter.com
  Trump derides lawyer Michael Cohen as 'weak person' after bombshell guilty pleaottawamatters.com/national-news/…
  
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• Ottawa Wine and Food Festival leaves bitter taste with suppliers over unpaid bills

  29-11-2018 22:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  Beside a wall of his Gatineau warehouse, J.R. Chardon keeps more than 9,000 wine glasses.
  Neatly boxed and stacked, the glasses are the property of the Ottawa Wine and Food Festival. But Chardon has had them for more than a year, since the end of the 2017 festival at the EY Centre, where crowds of well-dressed revellers ate, drank and made merry.
  Chardon says that roughly a month before the festival began on Nov. 3 last year, the event contacted his company, Edelweiss Party Rentals, about washin
  
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• #ottnews @BoCMuseum twitter.com/OttawaMatters/…

  29-11-2018 22:25 via twitter.com
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• Paw Patrol: OPP rescues service dog 'Teddy' from Tay River

  29-11-2018 22:13 via ottawacitizen.com
  A pair of OPP officers teamed up to rescue Teddy after the therapy dog fell through the ice of the Tay River in Lanark County Thursday morning.
  One of the officers also took a no-doubt frigid swim, but in the end, he and Teddy were unhurt.
  At 11:04 a.m., the dog’s owner called 911 to report that the animal was in the water, front legs on ice at a spot about 3 km along the Rideau Trail from River Road in Drummond North Elmsley Township.
  First, staff at the OPP’s communications centre
  
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• Super library scored well, thanks in part to RendezVous' vision for LeBreton Flats. Now what?

  29-11-2018 22:05 via ottawacitizen.com
  The city should closely watch what’s happening with the implosion of the RendezVous LeBreton proposal for LeBreton Flats to decide whether it should continue planning a super library in the area, a city councillor says.
  A joint facility for the Ottawa Public Library and Library and Archives Canada will be built on LeBreton Flats at 555 Albert St., a city-owned property just west of Bronson Avenue. The city chose the property after a site-selection study by a consultant, and recently named
  
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• Paw Patrol: OPP rescues 'Teddy' from Tay River

  29-11-2018 21:34 via ottawacitizen.com
  A pair of OPP officers teamed up to rescue Teddy after the therapy dog fell through the ice of the Tay River in Lanark County Thursday morning.
  One of the officers also took a no-doubt frigid swim, but in the end, he and Teddy were unhurt.
  At 11:04 a.m., the dog’s owner called 911 to report that the animal was in the water, front legs on ice at a spot about 3 km along the Rideau Trail from River Road in Drummond North Elmsley Township.
  First, staff at the OPP’s communications centre
  
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• Officials: Woman passes gas, pulls knife on offended man. ottawamatters.com/world-news/off…

  29-11-2018 20:35 via twitter.com
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• City releases call for 2019 street food vendors

  29-11-2018 20:25 via ottawacitizen.com
  The City of Ottawa is asking for street food vendors to apply for one of 22 spots available in the 2019 spring and summer season.
  Ottawa’s bylaw department pushed out the request Thursday afternoon, saying that there are 10 spaces available for food carts and 12 spaces for food trucks.
  The deadline to apply for a space is Friday, Jan. 4 at 4:30 p.m. Successful applicants will be offered spaces in early 2019, with their operations expected to roll out in May 2019.
  Decisions about who will b
  
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• City hall blog: RendezVous meeting in mayor's boardroom had city wanting 'evidence of partnership'

  29-11-2018 20:22 via ottawacitizen.com
  Eleven items were on the agenda when Eugene Melnyk and John Ruddy met with Mayor Jim Watson and senior city staff in the mayor’s boardroom last August, including “evidence of partnership” and “plans for Kanata.”
  The RendezVous LeBreton Group partners met with city bigwigs on Aug. 10 and, really, the only thing we know for sure that was discussed was LRT. The city had a big map of the future LRT system displayed in the boardroom when some journalists were allowed in
  
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• Hate crimes targeting blacks, Jews, Muslims on rise, StatCan says. ottawamatters.com/national-news/…

  29-11-2018 20:05 via twitter.com
  Hate crimes targeting blacks, Jews, Muslims on rise, StatCan says.ottawamatters.com/national-news/…
  
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• Toronto boy, 15, nabbed driving stolen car on Hwy 401 near Cornwall

  29-11-2018 19:44 via ottawacitizen.com
  When police responded to a traffic complaint on Highway 401 in South Glengarry Township Monday, they discovered the motorist behind the wheel was a 15-year-old Toronto boy.
  Not to mention that the youth pulled over at about 10 a.m. Monday was driving a vehicle that had been stolen from the city about 440 kilometres away.
  The boy, who can’t be named under youth crime laws, was charged with possession of property obtained by crime over $5,000 and released pending a court appearance in Cornwa
  
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• From basketball to the beat, police volunteer earns berth on force

  29-11-2018 19:41 via ottawacitizen.com
  He said yes!
  When city police offered a berth on the force to Haidar El Badry, a long-time volunteer with the force’s basketball outreach program, the recruiting section’s Sgt. Maria McKeen quipped that it was a “jobposal” instead of the now ubiquitous “promposal.”
  El Badry, a correctional officer and Algonquin College grad, jumped at the chance Wednesday. Clearly emotional in an on-court video McKeen reposted, he tweeted “I can’t even speak. Just
  
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• Canada on track for Friday signing of USMCA once details finalized: Freeland. ottawamatters.com/national-news/…

  29-11-2018 19:35 via twitter.com
  Canada on track for Friday signing of USMCA once details finalized: Freeland.ottawamatters.com/national-news/…
  
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• Ottawa mom warns parents about exploding squeeze toy - CBC.ca

  29-11-2018 19:11
  Ottawa mom warns parents about exploding squeeze toy  CBC.caAn Ottawa mother is warning other parents about a squeeze toy she purchased from a popular arts and crafts chain after the product burst in her daughter's face, ...
  
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• Adam: Debate over 24 Sussex shows how cheap and insecure Canadians are

  29-11-2018 18:39 via ottawacitizen.com
  The debate over what to do with 24 Sussex Drive is becoming tiresome.
  Every now and then, we get ourselves in a tizzy over whether to fix the decrepit home of our prime ministers or raze it and build a new one. A report from the National Capital Commission raises the question of whether we should spend $34.5 million on renovations or $38.5 million to build a new edifice. Should we even be debating this?
  The real question is not whether to renovate or build anew, but rather: Are Canadians so chea
  
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• Coming up at 12:30: @DrRob_Thacker joins @MarkDayNews for his weekly science segment. 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  29-11-2018 18:28 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 12:30: @DrRob_Thacker joins @MarkDayNews for his weekly science segment. 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• The @rick_gibbons Show for Thursday, November 29th: 1:07: @shecanncannabis 1:17: @mspratt 1:30: @write_editrix 1:45… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  29-11-2018 18:13 via twitter.com
  The @rick_gibbons Show for Thursday, November 29th: 1:07: @shecanncannabis 1:17: @mspratt 1:30: @write_editrix 1:45… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Next on Power Lunch: @twitandrewking and @SaraBuchan join @MarkDayNews to discuss today's top news stories. 📻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  29-11-2018 18:02 via twitter.com
  Next on Power Lunch: @twitandrewking and @SaraBuchan join @MarkDayNews to discuss today's top news stories. 📻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• New York jazz pianist Ben Rosenblum brings his prodigious talents to Canada in early December

  29-11-2018 17:51 via ottawacitizen.com
  New York-based jazz pianist Ben Rosenblum has packed an awful lot of music, achievements and travels into his 25 years.
  The New York City native’s strikingly mature and well-honed abilities have earned him performance opportunities from Yokohama to Delhi, from Perugia in Italy to Lincoln Center and the famed Blue Note jazz club in his hometown.
  In the next week, Rosenblum’s touring will bring him to the Quebec City – Toronto corridor for a road trip that includes a half-dozen g
  
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• ICYMI: Eight tahini products recalled due to possible salmonella contamination: CFIA bit.ly/2SlCxZO https://t.co/oXw56FhjIw

  29-11-2018 17:46 via twitter.com
  
  ICYMI: Eight tahini products recalled due to possible salmonella contamination: CFIAbit.ly/2SlCxZO https://t.co/oXw56FhjIw
  
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• Coming up at 11:30: @Spencerpress of @OttawaCitizen joins @MarkDayNews for her weekly segment 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  29-11-2018 17:33 via twitter.com
  Coming up at 11:30: @Spencerpress of @OttawaCitizen joins @MarkDayNews for her weekly segment 📻: 1310 💻:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Ottawa on pace to spend more than $1-billion over three years on unauthorized border crossings: watchdog - The Globe and Mail

  29-11-2018 17:20
  Ottawa on pace to spend more than $1-billion over three years on unauthorized border crossings: watchdog  The Globe and MailManaging the influx of asylum seekers at unauthorized points along Canada's border with the United States is on pace to cost Ottawa more than $1-billion over ...
  
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• Antiques: Plate could have royal roots

  29-11-2018 17:17 via ottawacitizen.com
  Q: This historical note was written by my grandfather about this plate always known as The Empress Eugenie Plate. 
  “This plate was given to me in 1906 by the late Samuel Philips of Weymouth England with the following history. As a commercial traveller, he was in Paris at the time of the Commune; on returning to his Inn, he saw a carriage in the yard. The landlord told him that it had just returned from taking the Empress Eugenie out of Paris on her escape from the Tuileriers. On
  
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• Now on Ottawa Today: Dr. Jay Johnson, kinesiology professor at U of Manitoba joins @MarkDayNews to discuss hazing… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  29-11-2018 17:10 via twitter.com
  Now on Ottawa Today: Dr. Jay Johnson, kinesiology professor at U of Manitoba joins @MarkDayNews to discuss hazing… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Kichesippi craft brewery moving to Bells Corners

  29-11-2018 16:31 via ottawacitizen.com
  One of the city’s oldest craft breweries is on the move.
  Kichesippi Beer Co. is leaving its well-known location on Campbell Avenue near Carling Avenue, on the southern edge of Kitchissippi Ward, for a much larger space in an old car sales lot on Richmond Road in Bells Corners.
  In a statement posted to the company said the move to 2265 Robertson Rd., is necessary to allow it to expand and offer customers more space and better access to its products.
  The new location will have a tap room, a
  
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• Thieves steal electronics from Prescott school

  29-11-2018 16:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  The OPP has called in forensic officers to help find the thief who broke into a portable classroom at a Prescott elementary school to steal laptops and iPads.
  Grenville OPP was notified of the break-in at the Boundary Road school and the loss of equipment which is valued at $3,500 but will cost much more to replace.
  “As always, our students’ safety is our primary concern,” Wellington Elementary School said in a statement alerting parents Wednesday and asking anyone with informa
  
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• Two charged after cocaine, meth, pellet gun seized in Petawawa raid

  29-11-2018 15:27 via ottawacitizen.com
  Two people were arrested In Petawawa after police allege they turned up cocaine, methamphetamines, a pellet gun and cash in a raid Wednesday.
  The home Gerald Avenue was searched by the OPP’s crime unit, tactical and street crime units and emergency response team, the OPP said in a release Thursday.
  Tyler Gates, 33, and Felicia Valiquette, 30, both of Petawawa, appeared in court in Pembroke Wednesday charged with possession of cocaine for the purpose of trafficking and possession of me
  
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• Transpo routes affected by LRT work return to Queen Street Monday

  29-11-2018 14:25 via ottawacitizen.com
  Bus riders can get back to their old habits Monday, Dec. 3 when Queen Street reopens downtown after extensive work related to the LRT.
  Most OC Transpo routes had be rerouted to Wellington Street during the disruption.
  As of Monday, routes 6, 7, 10, 16, 17 and 18, and some trips on route 12, return to their previous paths.
  Visit OCTranspo.ca for full details.
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• Weather: Snow likely Friday, sunny Saturday

  29-11-2018 13:42 via ottawacitizen.com
  It’s finally going to feel more like November than January in the capital, with forecast temperatures above zero through the weekend.
  Thursday’s forecast is for clouds and a 30 per cent chance of morning flurries as winds become light. The high is 2 C and the low -4 C.
  Friday’s outlook is for cloud, with a 70 per cent chance of late-afternoon snow and a high of 1 C. There’s a 30 per cent chance of overnight flurries and a low of -6 C.
  Typical temperatures for the end of N
  
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• McLauchlin: If you support English in Quebec, back French in Ontario

  29-11-2018 13:32 via ottawacitizen.com
  Two weeks ago, the Doug Ford government announced major cuts to Ontario’s Francophone institutions. Queen’s Park planned to axe the planned Université de l’Ontario français and fold up the office of the French Language Services Commissioner. Seven days of backlash — from Franco-Ontarians, French- and some English-language press, and his own MPP, Amanda Simard — pushed Ford back partway. But the cuts to the Université project remain. In any case,
  
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• Egan: Wong's Palace, Carling landmark for 40 years, takes last order

  29-11-2018 13:24 via ottawacitizen.com
  Wayner Wong left an orphanage in China in 1953 and, without a word of English, arrived in Canada with a tag around his neck — name and destination included — like an airmailed parcel in need of sorting.
  That was his introduction to Winnipeg, where his adoptive father worked in a laundry and toted sacks around “just like Santa Claus”; washing, ironing and delivering shirts for a nickel each.
  Though he was a teenager, Wong says teachers stuck him in Grade 4. “The
  
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• Today's letters: On the GM closing in Oshawa

  29-11-2018 12:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  Oshawa should get guaranteed-income payment
  Re: Canada’s auto industry at risk if GM closes Oshawa plant, union president says, Nov. 27.
  If any time was the right time to create a Guaranteed Living Income for every Canadian citizen over 18, now is the time
  Start with this one city. Rather than just keeping EI for all those workers, (if the plant cannot be retrofitted to build electric vehicles, perhaps with the workers taking over ownership of the plant), then at least have the federal and
  
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• Senators chief operating officer Nicolas Ruszkowski said Watson’s comments were "disappointing and inaccurate."… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  29-11-2018 10:37 via twitter.com
  Senators chief operating officer Nicolas Ruszkowski said Watson’s comments were "disappointing and inaccurate."… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• The Elgin Street redevelopment is slated to start in January, it is a complete re-think of the street that could fu… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  29-11-2018 10:22 via twitter.com
  The Elgin Street redevelopment is slated to start in January, it is a complete re-think of the street that could fu… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Why can't Ottawa get military procurement right? - CBC.ca

  29-11-2018 10:00
  Why can't Ottawa get military procurement right?  CBC.caThe last couple of weeks may go down in the Trudeau government's public record as the point when the desires of deliverology met the drawbacks of defence ...
  
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• Sea King retirement ceremony to be held Dec. 1

  29-11-2018 05:43 via ottawacitizen.com
  Royal Canadian Air Force personnel will hold at the Sea King retirement parade at 443 Maritime Helicopter Squadron in British Columbia on Saturday.
  12 Wing Commanding Officer Colonel Sid Connor will host various dignitaries and Lieutenant-General Al Meinzinger, commander of the Royal Canadian Air Force, will be the reviewing officer for the parade.
  The event will take place at 443 Maritime Helicopter Squadron, in Patricia Bay, BC, near Victoria.
  The Sea King has operated for 55 years in Canadian
  
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• ICYMI: NCC and Graham Bird still hopeful about future of LeBreton Flats development ottawamatters.com/local-news/ncc…

  29-11-2018 04:00 via twitter.com
  ICYMI: NCC and Graham Bird still hopeful about future of LeBreton Flats developmentottawamatters.com/local-news/ncc…
  
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• Ford shuffling workers to increase production of big SUVs ottawamatters.com/national-busin…

  29-11-2018 03:30 via twitter.com
  Ford shuffling workers to increase production of big SUVsottawamatters.com/national-busin…
  
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• WADA visits Moscow lab seeking key doping data ottawamatters.com/world-news/wad…

  29-11-2018 03:00 via twitter.com
  WADA visits Moscow lab seeking key doping dataottawamatters.com/world-news/wad…
  
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• New developments put Manafort back in Russia probe spotlight ottawamatters.com/world-news/new…

  29-11-2018 02:30 via twitter.com
  New developments put Manafort back in Russia probe spotlightottawamatters.com/world-news/new…
  
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• A failed coverup by two Ottawa officers, drunk driving and a missing gun: How a weekend in Kingston went awry

  29-11-2018 02:14 via ottawacitizen.com
  Const. Christian Nungisa woke up on a May 2016 morning, disoriented, resting outside against a fence in Kingston. He didn’t know how he got there. He had blacked out after a night of heavy drinking.
  Where was his gun?
  He was off-duty and in Kingston for the weekend to party with friends, but had tossed his Glock in the back of his trunk.
  Where was his car?
  His actions that morning would start a chain reaction that would lead to two Ottawa police officers’ conspiring to lie to their s
  
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• Star Trek's interracial kiss 50 years ago heralded change ottawamatters.com/world-news/sta…

  29-11-2018 02:00 via twitter.com
  Star Trek's interracial kiss 50 years ago heralded changeottawamatters.com/world-news/sta…
  
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• Putin blames Ukraine for standoff, boosts defences in Crimea ottawamatters.com/world-news/put…

  29-11-2018 01:30 via twitter.com
  Putin blames Ukraine for standoff, boosts defences in Crimeaottawamatters.com/world-news/put…
  
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• South Keys homicide victim 'was loyal to a fault'

  29-11-2018 01:02 via ottawacitizen.com
  The man shot dead in a Black Friday killing at a South Keys parking lot “took care of his family and was loyal to a fault,” according to a loved one.
  Yonis “Yoshi” Barkhadle, 27, was shot multiple times, in what police are probing as a targeted attack, around 6:20 p.m. Friday in a packed South Keys Shopping Centre parking lot, bustling with shoppers as bullets were fired. He was found with multiple gunshot wounds in a lot on the north side of the mall. The
  
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• Suddenly, luxury stores miss free-spending Chinese tourists ottawamatters.com/world-news/sud…

  29-11-2018 01:00 via twitter.com
  Suddenly, luxury stores miss free-spending Chinese touristsottawamatters.com/world-news/sud…
  
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• Witness testifies alleged killer stabbed student from behind with no warning, then attacked him

  29-11-2018 00:49 via ottawacitizen.com
  Garworh Myers still carries the physical scars from the broken bottle that slashed across his face, but the emotional scars of helplessly watching his friend die cut deeper, he testified at Joe-Bryan Ndikuriyo’s murder trial.
  Ndikuriyo has pleaded not guilty to second-degree murder after Solomon Odekunle, a 21-year-old university student from Nigeria, was stabbed once in the neck with the jagged edge of a beer bottle as a late-night argument erupted on Nov. 6, 2016 outside Piper’s Ba
  
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• PM calls meeting with opposition party leaders to discuss 'Francophonie' issues ottawamatters.com/national-news/…

  29-11-2018 00:30 via twitter.com
  PM calls meeting with opposition party leaders to discuss 'Francophonie' issuesottawamatters.com/national-news/…
  
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• 'Ecological grief' among mental health effects of climate change in Canada: report

  29-11-2018 00:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  Canadians are increasingly showing symptoms of anxiety, “ecological grief” and even post-traumatic stress related to the effects of climate change, according to a new report.
  The impact of climate change on mental health is something researchers have only recently begun to study and evidence is beginning to mount. It is part of understanding a changing climate as a looming public health crisis.
  “Food insecurity, post-traumatic stress disorder, population displacement, trauma, c
  
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