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• Environment Canada forecasts freezing rain for Ottawa dlvr.it/QsbBGb https://t.co/NNJZ3zJwS1

  01-12-2018 23:52 via twitter.com
  
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• Driver collides with police cruiser in Orléans

  01-12-2018 23:39 via ottawacitizen.com
  A driver blew a red light and smashed his vehicle into an Ottawa police cruiser in Orléans early Saturday.
  According to police, the marked cruiser was travelling north on Champlain Street around 1:45 a.m. when it was struck by a vehicle at Jeanne D’Arc Boulevard.
  Police said the officer received minor injuries and was treated in hospital as a precaution.
  Three people fled the crash scene and were arrested by police after a short search, police said.
  The male driver in the other car
  
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• Ottawa return bittersweet for Karlsson as Sharks’ struggles continue - Sportsnet.ca

  01-12-2018 23:34
  Ottawa return bittersweet for Karlsson as Sharks’ struggles continue  Sportsnet.caWhile Erik Karlsson definitely enjoyed his return to the nation's capital, he was left with a bittersweet taste in his mouth as the San Jose Sharks continue to ...
  
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• Montreal researchers say app to support HIV self-testing shows promise bit.ly/2Qsw7ux

  01-12-2018 23:11 via twitter.com
  Montreal researchers say app to support HIV self-testing shows promise bit.ly/2Qsw7ux
  
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• Black bear sighting in Orléans dlvr.it/QsbcPC https://t.co/aU2w52nnP5

  01-12-2018 22:59 via twitter.com
  
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• Algoma Steel exits three years of creditor protection in hiring mode bit.ly/2KJNVvM https://t.co/RulivJLuZn

  01-12-2018 22:18 via twitter.com
  
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• Thousands demonstrate in Ottawa for French-language rights - National Post

  01-12-2018 21:53
  Thousands demonstrate in Ottawa for French-language rights  National PostMany draw a parallel to the 1997 protests that helped save the Montfort Hospital.
  
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• Thousands demonstrate in Ottawa for French-language rights

  01-12-2018 21:53 via ottawacitizen.com
  Thousands of Franco-Ontarians and supporters filled the south lawn of Ottawa City Hall on Saturday, demanding that the provincial Progressive Conservative government protect French-language rights, with many drawing a parallel to the 1997 protests that helped save the Montfort Hospital.
  “It’s an ongoing battle here in Ontario, mostly with the Conservatives, but, still, it’s non-stop,” Sylvain Potvin said as between 2,500 and 3,000 people packed the lawn off Lisgar Street.
  
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• Trudeau avoids confrontation with Saudi crown prince, Putin during G20 summit bit.ly/2DWES9F https://t.co/sfQUYwVwXy

  01-12-2018 21:37 via twitter.com
  
  Trudeau avoids confrontation with Saudi crown prince, Putin during G20 summit bit.ly/2DWES9F https://t.co/sfQUYwVwXy
  
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• Police investigating reported sighting of black bear in Orléans

  01-12-2018 21:31 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Ottawa Police Service was investigating a reported sighting of a black bear in Orléans on Saturday afternoon.
  A media release from police said the bear was sighted in the area near Champlain Street and Terranova Drive.
  “Officers have attended on scene and are continuing their investigation,” the statement said, adding that several walking paths were situated nearby.
  
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• Farewell to the CH-124 Sea King – Canadian Forces fleet has flown more than 550,000 hours

  01-12-2018 21:16 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Canadian Forces held a farewell for the CH-124 Sea King maritime helicopter marking its more than five decades of service, in a parade held Saturday in British Columbia.
  The retirement parade was held at 443 Maritime Helicopter Squadron at Patricia Bay, BC, near Victoria. The Sea King will officially retire from service by December 31 as the RCAF completes its transition to the new CH-148 Cyclone maritime helicopter.
  The CH-124 Sea King is a ship-borne maritime helicopter and, according to t
  
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• Potato shortage looms due to 'harvest from hell' after unseasonable weather bit.ly/2U4d0WM https://t.co/Tra11UOnKt

  01-12-2018 20:45 via twitter.com
  
  Potato shortage looms due to 'harvest from hell' after unseasonable weather bit.ly/2U4d0WM https://t.co/Tra11UOnKt
  
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• Alleged impaired driver collides with police cruiser in Orléans

  01-12-2018 20:39 via ottawacitizen.com
  An alleged drunk driver blew a red light and smashed the vehicle into an Ottawa police cruiser in Orléans early Saturday.
  According to police, the marked cruiser was travelling north on Champlain Street around 1:45 a.m. when it was struck by a vehicle at Jeanne D’Arc Boulevard.
  Police said the officer received minor injuries and was treated in hospital as a precaution.
  Three people fled the crash scene and were arrested by police after a short search, police said.
  The male driver in
  
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• Trump aides caught in web of deception over Russia contacts bit.ly/2AJzBiy https://t.co/3GWWsIphcU

  01-12-2018 20:04 via twitter.com
  
  Trump aides caught in web of deception over Russia contacts bit.ly/2AJzBiy https://t.co/3GWWsIphcU
  
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• Thousands of Franco-Ontarians demonstrate in Ottawa for protection of French-language rights

  01-12-2018 19:54 via ottawacitizen.com
  There were demonstrations organized across the province on Saturday, a response to Premier Doug Ford’s decision to end the role of the French Language Services Commissioner office and cancel plans for a new French-language university.
  In Ottawa, a crowd the police of Franco-Ontarians, estimated by police to be between 2,500 and 3,000 people, called for protection of French-language rights.
  The demonstration took place Saturday afternoon at Ottawa City Hall.
  The Ottawa Police Service issued
  
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• Vehicle collides with police cruiser

  01-12-2018 19:47 via ottawacitizen.com
  An alleged drunk driver blew a red light and smashed the vehicle into an Ottawa police cruiser in Orléans early Saturday.
  According to police, the marked cruiser was travelling north on Champlain Street around 1:45 a.m. when it was struck by a vehicle at Jeanne D’Arc Boulevard.
  Police said the officer received minor injuries and was treated in hospital as a precaution.
  Three people fled the crash scene and were arrested by police after a short search, police said.
  The male driver in
  
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• Redblacks receiver Greg Ellingson charged with failing to provide breath sample

  01-12-2018 19:33 via ottawacitizen.com
  An Ottawa Redblacks wide receiver has been charged with failing to provide a breath sample into a roadside screening device.
  In a media release, the Ottawa Police Service said Greg Ellingson was arrested at 2:37 a.m. Friday in the area of Kirkwood and Carling avenue.In a separate statement on Saturday morning, Ottawa Sports and Entertainment Group said it and the Redblacks would “continue to collect information in this case. In the interim, Ellingson will not be participating in team activ
  
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• May faces more Brexit woes after UK minister quits bit.ly/2zDg6Z1 https://t.co/kWl8ljbOZl

  01-12-2018 19:12 via twitter.com
  
  May faces more Brexit woes after UK minister quits bit.ly/2zDg6Z1 https://t.co/kWl8ljbOZl
  
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• Ottawa synagogue installs panic buttons, keypad for enhanced security - CTV News

  01-12-2018 19:03
  Ottawa synagogue installs panic buttons, keypad for enhanced security  CTV NewsAs members of an Ottawa synagogue prepare to light the first candle to mark the start of Hanukkah this weekend, the group's rabbi says they can find some ...
  
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• Ottawa Police have confirmed Ellingson was arrested at 2:37 a.m Friday morning near Kirkwood and Carling during a R… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  01-12-2018 18:51 via twitter.com
  Ottawa Police have confirmed Ellingson was arrested at 2:37 a.m Friday morning near Kirkwood and Carling during a R… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• 'Reckless': Judge fines Lake Louise ski resort $2M for cutting endangered trees bit.ly/2KJxNKK https://t.co/YhfDcOY3cz

  01-12-2018 18:34 via twitter.com
  
  'Reckless': Judge fines Lake Louise ski resort $2M for cutting endangered trees bit.ly/2KJxNKK https://t.co/YhfDcOY3cz
  
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• Grewal rethinking decision to resign as MP, says he has repaid gambling debts bit.ly/2QwcyS1

  01-12-2018 17:47 via twitter.com
  Grewal rethinking decision to resign as MP, says he has repaid gambling debts bit.ly/2QwcyS1
  
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• Union and SAQ have reached an agreement in principle #ottnews bit.ly/2AFBHjb https://t.co/BlU7qmvln7

  01-12-2018 17:37 via twitter.com
  
  Union and SAQ have reached an agreement in principle #ottnews bit.ly/2AFBHjb https://t.co/BlU7qmvln7
  
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• No winning ticket for Friday night's $60 million Lotto Max jackpot bit.ly/2rhu3Ye https://t.co/nKNuCVcMCq

  01-12-2018 17:00 via twitter.com
  
  No winning ticket for Friday night's $60 million Lotto Max jackpot bit.ly/2rhu3Ye https://t.co/nKNuCVcMCq
  
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• Ottawa Redblack Greg Ellingson charged with failing to provide a breath sample #ottnews bit.ly/2BJhpXM https://t.co/MAiWP5Rd69

  01-12-2018 16:52 via twitter.com
  
  Ottawa Redblack Greg Ellingson charged with failing to provide a breath sample #ottnews bit.ly/2BJhpXM https://t.co/MAiWP5Rd69
  
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• Redblacks receiver Ellingson charged with failing to provide breath sample, team says

  01-12-2018 16:44 via ottawacitizen.com
  An Ottawa Redblacks wide receiver has been charged with failing to provide a breath sample into a roadside screening device, the football club said.
  According to the club, Greg Ellingson was charged Friday morning. The club released a statement about the charge Saturday morning.
  “The Ottawa Sports and Entertainment Group and the Redblacks will continue to collect information in this case. In the interim, Ellingson will not be participating in team activities,” the club said.
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• Milnes: George H.W. Bush – a friendship born of fishing

  01-12-2018 16:42 via ottawacitizen.com
  With the loss of George H.W. Bush, the 41st president of the United States, at age 94, so many will – rightly – be commenting on the historical and political legacy of this giant of 20th-century American and world politics.
  Canadians in particular should take pause and recall the death of a very special friend of our nation. Not since Franklin Roosevelt in the 1930s and 1940s have citizens of our country see an American president devote such much time and positive attention to the na
  
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• Orléans road closures after vehicle collides with police cruiser

  01-12-2018 16:18 via ottawacitizen.com
  An alleged drunk driver blew a red light and smashed the vehicle into an Ottawa police cruiser in Orléans early Saturday.
  According to police, the marked cruiser was travelling north on Champlain Street around 1:45 a.m. when it was struck by a vehicle at Jeanne D’Arc Boulevard.
  Police said the officer received minor injuries and was treated in hospital as a precaution.
  Three people fled the crash scene and were arrested by police after a short search, police said.
  The male driver in
  
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• Padolsky: A century later, what has come of the promise of Bauhaus and its 'New Architecture'?

  01-12-2018 16:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  On April 1, 2019, it will be exactly 100 years since the founding of the iconic Bauhaus School of Design in Weimar, Germany.
  Born out of the ruins of the First World War, the Bauhaus is considered to be “one of the most important and momentous cultural manifestations of the 20th century.”
  Led by its founder, architect Walter Gropius, and his successors, Hannes Mayer, and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, the Bauhaus pioneered and taught a “New Architecture” that explored space an
  
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• Trudeau and other Canadians offer condolences to family of George H.W. Bush bit.ly/2rehixo

  01-12-2018 15:39 via twitter.com
  Trudeau and other Canadians offer condolences to family of George H.W. Bush bit.ly/2rehixo
  
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• One vehicle ran a red light and struck a police cruiser at about 1:45 a.m. The driver was arrested after a short se… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  01-12-2018 15:13 via twitter.com
  One vehicle ran a red light and struck a police cruiser at about 1:45 a.m. The driver was arrested after a short se… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Q is for quarry: Forgotten, overgrown quarry provided the building blocks of Ottawa

  01-12-2018 14:45 via ottawacitizen.com
  The return journey was only slightly more than 30 kilometres, but the roads were terrible and the loads heavy, and each team of horses could only manage one trip a day.
  When the Centre Block of the Parliament Buildings underwent reconstruction following the Great Fire of 1916, the demand for Nepean sandstone — the same stone used in its original construction — was overwhelming. Quarryman Archie Campbell recalled, “Our first order came from Peter Lyall Construction Company for 1
  
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• Police are investigating a two-vehicle crash in Orléans bit.ly/2E7YOXZ #ottnews https://t.co/Qs2lQgzi7N

  01-12-2018 14:43 via twitter.com
  
  Police are investigating a two-vehicle crash in Orléans bit.ly/2E7YOXZ #ottnews https://t.co/Qs2lQgzi7N
  
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• Sorry to report, it's going to get messy out there

  01-12-2018 13:59 via ottawacitizen.com
  The good news is that Saturday will start out well, weather-wise, with a mix of sun and cloud and a high of 3 C.
  However, Environment Canada has got out their red bars for their weather screen, with a freezing rain warning for the region, starting later tonight.
  They’re blaming it on a ‘Colorado low’ that will track through Southern Ontario this weekend.
  Precipitation may begin as freezing rain or snow before changing to freezing rain.
  Several hours of freezing rain are po
  
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• Ottawa Police have confirmed a two vehicle crash in Orleans. The intersection of Jeanne D'Arc and Champlain Street… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  01-12-2018 13:27 via twitter.com
  Ottawa Police have confirmed a two vehicle crash in Orleans. The intersection of Jeanne D'Arc and Champlain Street… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Ottawa police warn of Orléans road closures after collision

  01-12-2018 13:26 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa Police Services reported Saturday morning in a  news release that they are on the scene of  a motor vehicle collision in the area of Jeanne D’Arc and Champlain Street.
  Motorists are asked to avoid the area as both Jeanne D’Arc and Champlain St will be closed  until the investigation is concluded.
  
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• Former President George H.W. Bush dies at age 94 bit.ly/2DTKOQA https://t.co/ZQeN5RPbvK

  01-12-2018 13:08 via twitter.com
  
  Former President George H.W. Bush dies at age 94 bit.ly/2DTKOQA https://t.co/ZQeN5RPbvK
  
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• Today's letters: Harsh facts about LeBreton Flats

  01-12-2018 13:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  Just the facts on the Flats, please
  Re: LeBreton Flats plan in jeopardy after ‘unresolved issues’ between Melnyk and Ruddy, Nov. 23.
  In the never-ending saga of LeBreton Flats and the Ottawa Senators, people are ignoring several realities.
  First, LeBreton Flats is not a “downtown” area; few if any people from the downtown would ever walk to the area, and its real accessibility lies in the presence of two LRT stations.
  Second, the current facility in Kanata is one of the b
  
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• Editorial: Ontario francophones deserve better

  01-12-2018 12:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  There’s every reason to think Doug Ford now realizes the mistake he made in deciding to reduce some key Ontario language services. Just days after announcing that the French-language services commissioner would be downgraded, and that there would be no new French-language university, the premier retracted parts of the plan. 
  But the damage is done, the half-retreat unsatisfying. Many Ontario francophones and their supporters are upset, and Progressive Conservative MPP Amanda Simard, r
  
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• Éditorial: Les Franco-Ontariens méritent mieux

  01-12-2018 12:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  Doug Ford est sans doute conscient d’avoir commis une erreur en décidant de couper dans les services aux francophones. Il n’a mis que quelques jours à revenir partiellement sur ses pas après avoir annoncé la rétrogradation du poste de commissaire aux services en français et l’annulation de l’Université de l’Ontario français.
  Trop peu, trop tard. Le mal est fait et les concessions sont insuffisantes. Un grand no
  
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• The Conservancy: New releases near Barrhaven greenspace selling fast

  01-12-2018 12:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  The latest project launch by newcomer Caivan Communities has proven so successful that the builder sold out of its first release just a few hours into opening day.
  Called The Conservancy in Barrhaven, the 52 single-family homes initially available were snapped up within about four hours of the doors opening Oct. 20.
  “It was a very successful launch and the reaction was great by our customers,” says director of sales and marketing Jonathan Wiseman. “We knew that there was great
  
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• Plans for Ottawa film hub rolling along - CBC.ca

  01-12-2018 10:00
  Plans for Ottawa film hub rolling along  CBC.caOttawa's film commissioner says things are moving quickly in the effort to turn a quiet piece of the Greenbelt into a sound stage for big TV and film productions.
  
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• French-language rights rally in Ottawa draws thousands - Toronto Sun

  01-12-2018 09:00
  French-language rights rally in Ottawa draws thousands  Toronto SunThousands of Franco-Ontarians and supporters filled the south lawn of Ottawa City Hall on Saturday, demanding that the provincial Progressive Conservative ...
  
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• One dead following parking lot collision in Hawkesbury

  01-12-2018 04:34 via ottawacitizen.com
  One person is dead after a passenger van collided with two other vehicles in a parking lot in Hawkesbury on Friday morning.
  The Ontario Provincial Police Hawkesbury detachment said a passenger van collided with two unoccupied vehicles in a public parking lot just east of Cartier Boulevard.
  There were no other injuries.
  The incident was under investigation with assistance from OPP Technical Collision Investigators.
  The age and gender of the individual killed in the incident were not released.
  
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• Cardiac arrest survivor installs external defibrillator outside his house

  01-12-2018 03:50 via ottawacitizen.com
  Chris Troughton believes that defibrillators save lives. They’ve saved his four times.
  Troughton was thinking about getting an automated external defibrillator (AED) for his own home, but then he met Action First Aid’s Roger Hennig, who converted Troughton to the idea that an AED could be shared with an entire neighbourhood by placing it in a weatherproof cabinet in front of his house.
  “It makes sense because it’s available to more people. We have all kinds of people in t
  
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• Mueller considers new charges for ex-Trump campaign chairman ottawamatters.com/world-news/mue…

  01-12-2018 03:37 via twitter.com
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• OC Transpo and Loblaws combine for the 34th annual Christmas Food Drive ottawamatters.com/local-news/oc-…

  01-12-2018 03:00 via twitter.com
  OC Transpo and Loblaws combine for the 34th annual Christmas Food Driveottawamatters.com/local-news/oc-…
  
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• Ottawa man pleads guilty to multiple child sex crimes, faces total of 82 charges with numerous victims

  01-12-2018 02:45 via ottawacitizen.com
  Warning, this story contains graphic content. 
  Children knew Karl Njolstad as the neighbour who would eagerly invite them over to make movies in his rowhouse basement, filming the kids in front of a green screen as they pretended to fly or swim.
  But that’s not why Njolstad invited the children over — it was how he lured them into his home. Details emerged in court this week of a horrific sex crimes case, one involving numerous young victims, thousands of images of child pornogra
  
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• Ontario sees dramatic increase in hate crime during 2017 ottawamatters.com/local-news/ont…

  01-12-2018 02:30 via twitter.com
  Ontario sees dramatic increase in hate crime during 2017ottawamatters.com/local-news/ont…
  
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• Alleged serial killer Bruce McArthur to stand trial in January 2020 ottawamatters.com/national-news/…

  01-12-2018 02:00 via twitter.com
  Alleged serial killer Bruce McArthur to stand trial in January 2020ottawamatters.com/national-news/…
  
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