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• Ontario 'absolutely committed' to full-day learning, minister says - Ottawa Citizen

  01-02-2019 23:46 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ontario 'absolutely committed' to full-day learning, minister says  Ottawa CitizenTORONTO — Ontario's education minister said Friday that a full-day learning program will stay in place for four- and five-year-olds in the province, a commitment ...
  
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• Mandatory student transit passes will be protected from PC's opt-out plan: Fullerton

  01-02-2019 23:45 via ottawacitizen.com
  OC Transpo’s u-pass program looks like it’ll survive the provincial government’s plan to let students opt out of many student fees.
  Ontario Minister of Training, Colleges and Universities Merrilee Fullerton said in a Twitter post Friday that transit passes that are mandatory parts of post-secondary fee schedules at many institutions should stay that way.
  I believe all students should have ready access to college and university campuses. Existing mandatory transit passes will re
  
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• Injured bus passenger who watched friend die sues city, province for more than $6M - Ottawa Citizen

  01-02-2019 23:45 via ottawacitizen.com
  Injured bus passenger who watched friend die sues city, province for more than $6M  Ottawa CitizenA woman whose legs were crushed when a double-decker bus crashed into Westboro Station last month is suing two levels of government for not requiring seat ...
  
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• Injured bus passenger who watched friend die sues city, province for more than $6M

  01-02-2019 23:44 via ottawacitizen.com
  Injured bus passenger who watched friend die sues city and province for not having seat belts on buses
  A woman whose legs were crushed when a double-decker bus crashed into Westboro Station last month is suing two levels of government for not requiring seat belts on public transit.
  Gwen Lambert is the co-plaintiff in a $6.375-million lawsuit filed Thursday against the City of Ottawa, Province of Ontario, OC Transpo and the bus driver, Aissatou Diallo.
  The allegations haven’t been tested in
  
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• Ottawa Police confirm they are investigating an incident in the area around 245 Rideau Street. Police say there is… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  01-02-2019 23:43 via twitter.com
  Ottawa Police confirm they are investigating an incident in the area around 245 Rideau Street. Police say there is… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Hickey On Hockey: Canadiens begin crucial homestand after long layoff - Ottawa Citizen

  01-02-2019 23:37 via ottawacitizen.com
  Hickey On Hockey: Canadiens begin crucial homestand after long layoff  Ottawa CitizenThe Canadiens should be well-rested, but there's also the danger of being rusty.
  
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• Coroner's jury releases recommendations in Carleton student's 2016 suicide

  01-02-2019 23:31 via ottawacitizen.com
  A coroner’s jury released sweeping recommendations Friday following an inquest into the suicide death of Carleton University student Jason Simon.
  The 37 recommendations range from urging national and provincial strategies on suicide, to ensuring that patients receive needed therapy without spending a year or more on a waiting list.
  About 80 people a year die by suicide in the Ottawa region, but only about a quarter of these cases have had interactions with health services.
  Of the approxima
  
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• Alleged killer charged with assaulting girlfriend one week before Kuplu homicide

  01-02-2019 23:31 via ottawacitizen.com
  Nearly a week into the grueling search for the remains of Susan Kuplu, new information has come to light about alleged violence in the relationship between her accused killers.
  On Friday, police were in their seventh consecutive day of searching for the slain Inuk woman’s body amid the snow, rubble and waste at the Trail Road dump.
  Police allege Kuplu, 37, was killed by her daughter Lennese Kublu, 18, and Dwight Brown, 28, her daughter’s boyfriend. The pair allegedly d
  
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• Coroner's jury releases recommendations in Carleton student's 2016 suicide - Ottawa Citizen

  01-02-2019 23:30 via ottawacitizen.com
  Coroner's jury releases recommendations in Carleton student's 2016 suicide  Ottawa CitizenA coroner's jury is expected to release their recommendations Friday following an inquest into the suicide death of Carleton University student Jason Simon.
  
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• Mandatory student transit passes will be protected from PC's opt-out plan: Fullerton - Ottawa Citizen

  01-02-2019 23:28 via ottawacitizen.com
  Mandatory student transit passes will be protected from PC's opt-out plan: Fullerton  Ottawa CitizenThe provincial minister for training, colleges and universities posted Friday that mandatory transit passes should stay that way.
  
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• 'A beautiful soul': Greg Ritchie, killed outside Elmvale mall, remembered

  01-02-2019 23:24 via ottawacitizen.com
  A photographer for the daily newspaper in Kitchener-Waterloo was walking along the Grand River back in 2009, when he ran into a young man with one feather in his hair.
  Mathew McCarthy of the Record was doing a photo essay of the river through the seasons. He wrote that the man asked him: “Wanna take a picture of a native North American?”
  He introduced himself as Greg Ritchie, 20 years old at the time. He had moved from the Saugeen First Nation land, on Lake Huron, to Waterloo Re
  
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• Alleged killer charged with assaulting girlfriend one week before Kuplu homicide - Ottawa Citizen

  01-02-2019 23:12 via ottawacitizen.com
  Alleged killer charged with assaulting girlfriend one week before Kuplu homicide  Ottawa CitizenNearly a week into the grueling search for the remains of Susan Kuplu, new information has come to light about alleged violence in the relationship between her ...
  
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• Cat recovering after Rideau River rescue; donations sought

  01-02-2019 22:49 via ottawacitizen.com
  A stray cat now has the moniker “River” after being found “clinging to life” on the middle of the Rideau River.
  The year-old animal had wounds to his face, tail and paws when he was rescued by city firefighters, the Ottawa Humane Society said Thursday.
  About one-third of his tail had to be amputated due to frostbite.
  Vets who stitched up his face and treated his hypothermia predict he’ll need weeks to recover, according to the society which issued a plea for do
  
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• UPDATE: Mitch Owens has reopened after a serious crash. 2 people taken to hospital in stable condition. #ottnews… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  01-02-2019 22:40 via twitter.com
  UPDATE: Mitch Owens has reopened after a serious crash. 2 people taken to hospital in stable condition. #ottnews… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Exxon, Chevron gain on results, Amazon falls on forecast - Ottawa Citizen

  01-02-2019 22:31 via ottawacitizen.com
  Exxon, Chevron gain on results, Amazon falls on forecast  Ottawa CitizenNEW YORK — Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily on Friday:Amazon.com Inc., down $92.50 to $1626.23The e-commerce giant gave a weak ...
  
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• Two-vehicle collision closes Mitch Owens, several injured - Ottawa Citizen

  01-02-2019 22:15 via ottawacitizen.com
  Two-vehicle collision closes Mitch Owens, several injured  Ottawa CitizenSeveral people were injured and a section of Mitch Owens Road in south Ottawa was closed Friday afternoon following a two-vehicle collision, according to ...
  
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• Lima Group meeting in Ottawa to find new ways to support Maduro opponent - Global News

  01-02-2019 22:05 via globalnews.ca
  Lima Group meeting in Ottawa to find new ways to support Maduro opponent  Global NewsSources said Monday's meeting will include looking at new political and financial ways to support the politician they see as the country's true interim president: ...
  
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• Officer involved in Elmvale mall fatal shooting previously charged by SIU - Ottawa Citizen

  01-02-2019 21:55 via ottawacitizen.com
  Officer involved in Elmvale mall fatal shooting previously charged by SIU  Ottawa CitizenOne of the officers involved in the shooting death of an axe-wielding man at Elmvale mall Thursday morning has faced the scrutiny of police oversight before.
  
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• Trade tribunal tosses U.S. firm's complaint about warship-design competition - Ottawa Citizen

  01-02-2019 21:23 via ottawacitizen.com
  Trade tribunal tosses U.S. firm's complaint about warship-design competition  Ottawa CitizenOTTAWA — A federal trade tribunal has dismissed a challenge to the federal government's handling of a high-stakes competition to design the navy's new ...
  
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• Game 51 Preview: Ottawa Senators @ Pittsburgh Penguins - Silver Seven

  01-02-2019 21:00 via silversevensens.com
  Game 51 Preview: Ottawa Senators @ Pittsburgh Penguins  Silver SevenIt's been awhile since we've had a game to talk about! The Senators return to the ice after the All-Star and bye week with a visit to Pittsburgh. The Sens have won ...
  
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• Driver charged in Highway 401 bus crash that killed three Chinese tourists

  01-02-2019 20:38 via ottawacitizen.com
  A 31-year-old man has been charged after a tour bus he was driving on Highway 401 near Prescott last June slammed into a rocky embankment, killing three Chinese passengers and injuring 34 others.
  Ontario Provincial Police said Friday that the driver Jia Qi, previously an employee of Union Tour Express, has been charged with careless driving under the province’s Highway Traffic Act.
  Qi, who is from Flushing, N.Y., is scheduled to appear in Brockville court on Feb. 28.
  Police said infor
  
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• Tim Hortons co-founder Ron Joyce dies at age 88 - Ottawa Business Journal

  01-02-2019 20:12 via obj.ca
  Tim Hortons co-founder Ron Joyce dies at age 88  Ottawa Business JournalRon Joyce, who rose from a childhood marked by the Great Depression to co-found the Tim Hortons doughnut chain, has died at the age of 88.
  
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• Complaint about Canada's warship procurement dismissed

  01-02-2019 20:11 via ottawacitizen.com
  The awarding of a contract for a new warship fleet moved one step closer to reality after a trade tribunal rejected a complaint from one of the bidders that the process was flawed.
  The Canadian government hopes to award the contract to Lockheed Martin Canada in the coming months for the Canadian Surface Combatant. That $60 billion project will see the construction of 15 warships in the largest single government purchase in Canadian history.
  Lockheed is offering Canada the Type 26 warship designe
  
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• REDBLACKS re-sign Lauzon-Séguin, Ellis - Ottawa REDBLACKS

  01-02-2019 20:00 via ottawaredblacks.com
  REDBLACKS re-sign Lauzon-Séguin, Ellis  Ottawa REDBLACKSREDBLACKS have re-signed Canadian offensive lineman Jason Lauzon-Seguin and American defensive lineman Avery Ellis to contract extensions.
  
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• Stretch of Colonel By closed by water main break

  01-02-2019 19:33 via ottawacitizen.com
  Colonel By Drive is closed from Clegg Street to Hawthorne Avenue due to a broken water main.
  The city’s traffic centre is advising motorists to avoid the area.
  The same section was closed by a broken water main Jan. 28.
  Traffic Update:
  Please be advised that Colonel By has been closed in each direction between Clegg and Hawthorne due to a broken watermain. Impact to traffic is moderate to high. Duration is unknown. Updates to follow.
  — Capital Ward (@CapitalWard) February 1, 2019Colo
  
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• Can Ottawa save the Canadian cereal bar? - Ottawa Business Journal

  01-02-2019 19:23 via obj.ca
  Can Ottawa save the Canadian cereal bar?  Ottawa Business JournalTwo young Ottawans are using nostalgia and a sense of community to make cereal into a serious business, but it's a venture struggling to find traction elsewhere ...
  
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• Anders Nilsson will have a new look Friday night - Ottawa Sun

  01-02-2019 19:20 via ottawasun.com
  Anders Nilsson will have a new look Friday night  Ottawa SunAnders Nilsson will be in the Ottawa Senators' colours from head-to-toe Friday night against the Pittsburgh Penguins.
  
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• Stretch of Colonel By closed by water main break - Ottawa Citizen

  01-02-2019 19:03 via ottawacitizen.com
  Stretch of Colonel By closed by water main break  Ottawa CitizenThe city's traffic centre is advising motorists to avoid the area.
  
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• Manitoba stalls on signing Ottawa health deal - Winnipeg Free Press

  01-02-2019 19:03 via winnipegfreepress.com
  Manitoba stalls on signing Ottawa health deal  Winnipeg Free PressOTTAWA — The Pallister government still hasn't signed Ottawa's health-funding agreement, more than a year after ending a long standoff with the federal ...
  
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• The @rick_gibbons Show for Friday, February 1st: 1:07: @MellieBro 1:17: @FionaHTA 1:30: @Infoway 1:45:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  01-02-2019 18:04 via twitter.com
  The @rick_gibbons Show for Friday, February 1st: 1:07: @MellieBro 1:17: @FionaHTA 1:30: @Infoway 1:45:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Suspects sought in Bayshore Drive robbery

  01-02-2019 17:47 via ottawacitizen.com
  The city police robbery unit is asking the public to help them identify two suspects after a store security guard was injured by a shoplifter brandishing a knife on Bayshore Drive.
  Police say that two men were spotted shoplifting after entering the unnamed store at about 7:25 p.m. on Dec. 12.
  When the security guard confronted them, one of the suspects pulled a knife and assaulted the guard, who suffered minor injuries.
  Both men appear to be in their early 20s, police said. One is described as l
  
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• Suspects sought in Bayshore Drive robbery - Ottawa Citizen

  01-02-2019 17:40 via ottawacitizen.com
  Suspects sought in Bayshore Drive robbery  Ottawa CitizenThe city police robbery unit is asking the public to help them identify two suspects after a store security guard was injured by a shoplifter brandishing a knife on ...
  
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• Officer involved in Elmvale Mall fatal shooting previously charged by SIU

  01-02-2019 17:40 via ottawacitizen.com
  One of the officers involved in the shooting death of an axe-wielding man at Elmvale mall Thursday morning has faced the scrutiny of police oversight before, the other is a junior officer who was hired in 2016, this newspaper has learned.
  Ottawa police responded to a report of a man, dressed all in black, wearing a hat with the word “Dope” written on it, carrying a weapon at the Elmvale Acres Shopping Centre at 1922 St. Laurent Blvd. just before 8 a.m. Thursday.
  Constables Thanh Tran
  
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• Slight increase of insurgent control over territory in Afghanistan, U.S. bombing significantly up – new report

  01-02-2019 17:12 via ottawacitizen.com
  The U.S. government’s Special Inspector General for Afghanistan released his quarterly report to Congress on Thursday. The report comes as U.S. President Donald Trump contemplates pulling out U.S. troops from Afghanistan and a peace deal with the Taliban could be soon finalized.
  Here are the key points from the report:— The Afghan government’s control or influence over the population declined this quarter. According to RS, as of October 31, 2018, 63.5% of the population lived i
  
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• Coroner's jury to release recommendations in Carleton student's 2016 suicide

  01-02-2019 17:07 via ottawacitizen.com
  A coroner’s jury is expected to release their recommendations Friday following an inquest into the suicide death of Carleton University student Jason Simon.
  Simon, a criminology student and army reservist, was 20 years old when he hanged himself on Feb. 15, 2016.
  In the weeks just before his death, Simon sought help from a number of places, including a military hotline and walk-in clinic, health care providers at Carleton University and three hospitals, the Kingston General Hospital, The O
  
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• Update: It's not yet known when all the streets will reopen. twitter.com/OttawaPolice/s…

  01-02-2019 16:52 via twitter.com
  Update: It's not yet known when all the streets will reopen. twitter.com/OttawaPolice/s…
  
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• Kurl: On China, there's no politically right solution for Canada

  01-02-2019 16:38 via ottawacitizen.com
  Remember when our biggest foreign policy problem was navigating the choppy waters of NAFTA renegotiations? Those seemed like simpler times. The government knew what (or more accurately who) it was dealing with. And Canadians were largely in agreement about what was at stake.
  By contrast, the snarled mess that represents our recent dealings with China is better described as a very bad time for this country. From the December arrest of Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou to the detentions of Canadians in Chin
  
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• Pilieci: Here's what the numbers say about 'screwed' millennials

  01-02-2019 16:31 via ottawacitizen.com
  Has the millennial generation really been “screwed”?
  Take a quick survey of friends and you’ll get answers from “yes,” to “no,” to eye rolls and groans at the mere mention of “millennials,” likely divided along lines of age.
  Even the millennials themselves aren’t completely sold on the oft-floated notion that life is harder for them than it has been for previous generations.
  “It’s hard to judge. You can’t compare your
  
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• AccelerateOTT moving downtown to National Arts Centre in 2019 - Ottawa Business Journal

  01-02-2019 16:28 via obj.ca
  AccelerateOTT moving downtown to National Arts Centre in 2019  Ottawa Business JournalAccelerateOTT will shift farther downtown from its traditional home at Lansdowne Park's Horticulture Building to the National Arts Centre on Elgin Street when ...
  
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• When Montreal bassist Rémi-Jean Leblanc takes the lead, jazz, rock and funk meet in a compelling blend

  01-02-2019 16:26 via ottawacitizen.com
  When Rémi-Jean Leblanc started playing electric bass, the ’90s teenager gravitated to the low-frequency-heavy rock of the day — Nirvana, Red Hot Chili Peppers and even Primus.
  Then, he was bitten by the jazz bug. In his hometown of Moncton, N.B., Leblanc was recruited by trumpet player Roland Bourgeois, a musical mentor who had played with jazz greats in Toronto in the 1970s and ’80s. Bourgeois made Leblanc cassette tapes of essential jazz listening and every week, young
  
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• Kurl: On China, there's no politically right solution for Canada - Ottawa Citizen

  01-02-2019 16:23 via ottawacitizen.com
  Kurl: On China, there's no politically right solution for Canada  Ottawa CitizenRemember when our biggest foreign policy problem was navigating the choppy waters of NAFTA renegotiations? Those seemed like simpler times.
  
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• Pilieci: Here's what the numbers say about 'screwed' millennials - Ottawa Citizen

  01-02-2019 16:07 via ottawacitizen.com
  Pilieci: Here's what the numbers say about 'screwed' millennials  Ottawa CitizenHas the millennial generation really been “screwed”?Take a quick survey of friends and you'll get answers from “yes,” to “no,” to eye rolls and groans at the mere ...
  
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• #BREAKING: Former House of Commons sergeant-at-arms Kevin Vickers is retiring next month as Canada's ambassador to… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  01-02-2019 15:30 via twitter.com
  #BREAKING: Former House of Commons sergeant-at-arms Kevin Vickers is retiring next month as Canada's ambassador to… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Weekend Unlimited Inc. wins lottery for POT stock symbol. Leaves YOLO up for grabs. ottawamatters.com/national-busin… via @ottawamatters

  01-02-2019 15:20 via twitter.com
  Weekend Unlimited Inc. wins lottery for POT stock symbol. Leaves YOLO up for grabs.ottawamatters.com/national-busin… via @ottawamatters
  
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• Cat recovering after Rideau River rescue; donations sought - Ottawa Citizen

  01-02-2019 15:17 via ottawacitizen.com
  Cat recovering after Rideau River rescue; donations sought  Ottawa CitizenThe year-old animal had wounds to his face, tail and paws when he was rescued by city firefighters, the Ottawa Humane Society said.
  
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• From Prince to Barenaked Ladies: Susan Rogers studies your brain on music

  01-02-2019 14:45 via ottawacitizen.com
  Dr. Susan Rogers in conversation with Vish Khanna
  3-4 p.m. Feb. 8, Dominion-Chalmers United Church, 355 Cooper St.
  Megaphono, Feb. 7-9, various locations.
  Details at megaphono.ca
  Among Prince fans, Susan Rogers is renowned for her studio work with the late, great Purple One during his heyday. But it was Canada’s Barenaked Ladies that helped her follow her dreams.Now a professor at the Berklee College of Music, Rogers is the director of the prestigious Boston school’s Music Perception
  
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• Chamberfest stars Gryphon Trio tapped for artistic direction at Banff Centre

  01-02-2019 14:42 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Gryphon Trio, whose members have provided artistic direction at the Ottawa Chamberfest for a decade, will next year add the Banff Centre to their list of responsibilities.The acclaimed Toronto-based trio of cellist Roman Borys, violinist Annalee Patipatanakoon and pianist Jamie Parker will be named designate artistic directors of the venerable Canadian arts institution’s summer classical-music program. The appointment is to be announced at the trio’s concert in Ottawa Friday, whi
  
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• QUESTION OF THE DAY: Should the prime minister comment on possible education cuts in Ontario? ottawamatters.com/around-ontario…

  01-02-2019 14:24 via twitter.com
  QUESTION OF THE DAY: Should the prime minister comment on possible education cuts in Ontario?ottawamatters.com/around-ontario…
  
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• Arson squad looking into 'suspicious' fire in vacant Vanier house

  01-02-2019 14:02 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa police arson squad is looking into a suspicious fire in a vacant Vanier home Friday morning.
  However, the unit has not yet taken over the investigation, an Ottawa police spokesman said.
  Ottawa Fire Services has assigned an investigator to the case.
  Roads are closed for the morning commute and buses rerouted in an area of North Vanier Friday morning as firefighters continue to work on a stubborn blaze in an empty house under construction in Vanier.
  The Ottawa fire department received a num
  
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• Arson squad looking into 'suspicious' fire in vacant Vanier house - Ottawa Citizen

  01-02-2019 14:01 via ottawacitizen.com
  Arson squad looking into 'suspicious' fire in vacant Vanier house  Ottawa CitizenExtreme weather conditions, with temperatures at about -20 C, complicated their efforts.
  
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