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• Conservatives' autism funding plan short-sighted, parents say

  06-02-2019 23:51 via ottawacitizen.com
  Cutting wait list times for autism services is great. But what then?
  That’s the question parents of children on the autism spectrum who spoke to this paper had after the provincial government announced its new autism strategy on Wednesday.
  “It will address bringing down the wait list numbers, but I think it’s short-sighted,” said Scott Corbett, a Barrhaven parent with two boys on the spectrum.
  The lifetime funding caps of $140,000 for a child entering the system at age tw
  
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• Ontario to clear waiting lists, give money to parents for autism services

  06-02-2019 23:49 via ottawacitizen.com
  Three-year-old Mats Moffatt has spent half his life on a waiting list for autism services, a distinction he shares with 23,000 children around Ontario.
  His family has no idea when that wait for publicly funded treatment might end. So, like many other families around the province, they are paying out-of-pocket for therapy that can cost between $60,000 and $80,000 a year.
  “When your child gets diagnosed you are told over and over again that early intervention is the key and then you get stuc
  
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• Expect some scoring punch up front for Ottawa Fury FC this season - Ottawa Sun

  06-02-2019 23:38
  Expect some scoring punch up front for Ottawa Fury FC this season  Ottawa SunFollowing an off-season that had a big bump in the road, Ottawa Fury FC coach Nikola Popovic isn't so worried about what's behind his team, he's more focused ...
  
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  06-02-2019 23:32 via twitter.com
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• Royal Canadian Mint cuts 45 jobs in Ottawa - CBC News

  06-02-2019 23:14
  Royal Canadian Mint cuts 45 jobs in Ottawa  CBC NewsThe Royal Canadian Mint is cutting 45 jobs in its Ottawa shop due to lack of collectable coin projects, the Crown corporation says.
  
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• 35 Royal Canadian Mint employees laid off in Ottawa - CBC News

  06-02-2019 23:14
  35 Royal Canadian Mint employees laid off in Ottawa  CBC NewsThirty-five employees have been laid off at the Royal Canadian Mint in Ottawa due to what the Crown corporation says is a lack of collectable coin projects in the ...
  
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• Greater Vancouver's real estate board calls on Ottawa to 'tweak' mortgage stress test - Global News

  06-02-2019 23:11
  Greater Vancouver's real estate board calls on Ottawa to 'tweak' mortgage stress test  Global NewsThe board's president Phil Moore questions whether the mortgage stress test introduced last year is still needed.
  
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• New Ottawa program aims to help people live well at the end of their lives

  06-02-2019 23:09 via ottawacitizen.com
  Although she cared for her sick husband for three years, Claudia Chowaniec admits she was in a “state of denial” that his death was imminent until the last few weeks of his life.
  When he told her he wanted to die at home, she was wary. “I was afraid and exhausted. Time was short. I needed a crash course.”
  Determined to grant his wish, she made arrangements for him to come home from the hospital. Once she did, everything changed, she said Wednesday at the launch of a progr
  
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• 'I deserve more,' says cadet awarded $310,000 in deadly '74 grenade blast

  06-02-2019 22:56 via ottawacitizen.com
  An Ottawa man has been awarded $310,000 for the life-altering damage caused when a grenade exploded in a deadly accident at a cadet camp in CFB Valcartier in 1974.
  Randall Brooks, 59, received a cheque for $268,000 last week, the second instalment in a special program announced in 2017 to compensate about 150 teenagers who were inside barracks at a summer camp when the live grenade exploded during a demonstration on munitions.
  Only 14 at the time and standing about an arm’s length from the
  
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• Should Ottawa help mosques, synagogues and religious schools prepare for attacks? - Toronto Star

  06-02-2019 22:55
  Should Ottawa help mosques, synagogues and religious schools prepare for attacks?  Toronto StarLast year's attack at a Pittsburgh synagogue and the 2017 shooting at a Quebec City mosque that killed six has awakened many to the potential threat that exists ...
  
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• Ottawa 67's Michael DiPietro soaking in unexpected NHL experience - OttawaMatters.com

  06-02-2019 22:33
  Ottawa 67's Michael DiPietro soaking in unexpected NHL experience  OttawaMatters.com"It's definitely intimidating when you walk in and hang around these guys," DiPietro said after backing up Vancouver's Jacob Markstrom in Tuesday's 3-2 loss to ...
  
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• Montsion trial adjourns as SIU investigators disclose new potential evidence to Crown and defence

  06-02-2019 22:25 via ottawacitizen.com
  The manslaughter trial of Const. Daniel Montsion has adjourned as new potential evidence continues to be disclosed in the wake of a “Sunday bombshell” that alleged a second, digitally altered version of CCTV video showing the fatal arrest of Abdirahman Abdi was used by SIU investigators and only disclosed to the Crown and defence on the eve of trial.
  Justice Robert Kelly granted the adjournment until Feb. 25 after the defence team of Michael Edelson and Solomon Friedman alleged the s
  
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• New Ottawa program aims to help people live well at the end of their lives - Ottawa Citizen

  06-02-2019 22:21
  New Ottawa program aims to help people live well at the end of their lives  Ottawa CitizenAlthough she cared for her sick husband for three years, Claudia Chowaniec admits she was in a “state of denial” that his death was imminent until the last few ...
  
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• Sask. rejected Ottawa's offer to cost-share subsidized bus routes once operated by Greyhound - CBC.ca

  06-02-2019 22:19
  Sask. rejected Ottawa's offer to cost-share subsidized bus routes once operated by Greyhound  CBC.caThe Saskatchewan government snubbed a 50-50 partnership offer from the federal government to subsidize the bus routes formerly operated by Greyhound ...
  
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• Local man organizing for United We Roll convoy to Ottawa - My Lloydminster Now

  06-02-2019 22:15
  Local man organizing for United We Roll convoy to Ottawa  My Lloydminster NowThe United We Roll! Convoy for Canada is set to leave on the Trans-Canada this month, with some help from Lloydminster. A local activist is organizing ...
  
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• Lockheed Martin's Ottawa-made tech tapped for navy's joint support ships - Ottawa Business Journal

  06-02-2019 22:05
  Lockheed Martin's Ottawa-made tech tapped for navy's joint support ships  Ottawa Business JournalThe Vancouver-based shipbuilder tasked with providing Canada's navy with a new fleet of support ships is turning to a defence giant's local operations to power ...
  
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• No charges in Quinte collision that killed pedestrian

  06-02-2019 22:02 via ottawacitizen.com
  Prosecutors and police have determined that charges will not be laid in a collision that killed a 31-year-old Quinte West woman in December.
  Candice Canning was struck by a vehicle on Bellevue Drive at about 5:30 p.m. on Dec. 12.
  She was rushed to the hospital but succumbed to her injuries.
  A second pedestrian, a 39-year-old man, suffered minor injuries in the crash.
  “The investigation has been concluded,” Quinte West OPP said in a statement Wednesday. “Following consultation w
  
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• Ottawa team first board-certified tactical paramedics in Canada

  06-02-2019 22:01 via ottawacitizen.com
  The Ottawa Paramedic Service is hailing the members of its tactical unit for becoming the first board-certified tactical paramedic team in the country.
  “The certification process is focused on the knowledge level of accomplished tactical paramedics that work in hostile and austere environments,” the service said in a news release Wednesday.
  The International Board of Specialty Certification includes exams covering advanced cardiac life support, international and pre-hospital tra
  
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• Ottawa's January home sales hit best number in more than a decade - OttawaMatters.com

  06-02-2019 21:46
  Ottawa's January home sales hit best number in more than a decade  OttawaMatters.comThe Ottawa Real Estate Board's president says January can often be a slow month for home sales, but so far, 2019 is off to a hot start. Dwight Delahunt told 1310 ...
  
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• Representatives send message to Ottawa about need for Quebec-Labrador highway completion - The Western Star

  06-02-2019 21:11
  Representatives send message to Ottawa about need for Quebec-Labrador highway completion  The Western StarA plan to complete the highway across a southern section of southern Quebec and Labrador is gaining steam. In late January, members of the combined ...
  
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• Virginia AG says he wore blackface at college party. ottawamatters.com/world-news/vir…

  06-02-2019 21:05 via twitter.com
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• Suncor cites crude-by-rail woes as it calls for early end to Alberta oil cuts. ottawamatters.com/national-busin…

  06-02-2019 20:35 via twitter.com
  Suncor cites crude-by-rail woes as it calls for early end to Alberta oil cuts.ottawamatters.com/national-busin…
  
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• Van Dusen: Trump’s real State of the Union message – I'm still here, suckers

  06-02-2019 20:18 via ottawacitizen.com
  The astonishing thing about Donald Trump’s State of the Union address Tuesday night was not that Donald Trump was delivering the State of the Union at all. It was that Donald Trump was delivering the State of the Union for the second time.
  Because aside from all the other, smaller, more incremental metrics by which Trump’s disruptive presidency can be measured, it has, above all, been a triumph of normalization. From the moment the former game show host, real estate huckster and &mda
  
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• Ottawa police budget proposes $18-million increase — with some creative accounting

  06-02-2019 20:11 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa police are proposing an $18-million budget increase that would meet the three per cent cap on tax increases laid out for all city departments by city council — but not without some creative accounting.
  The force would see a gross operating budget of $349.5 million, with 82 per cent of costs going towards $286 million in salaries. The budget would ask taxpayers to foot the bill — the average homeowner would pay $18 more to the police over last year. The total police cost f
  
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• EU nixes deal to create rail giant able to stand up to China. ottawamatters.com/national-busin…

  06-02-2019 20:05 via twitter.com
  EU nixes deal to create rail giant able to stand up to China.ottawamatters.com/national-busin…
  
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• Provincial police seek missing boy, 14

  06-02-2019 20:02 via ottawacitizen.com
  North Dundas provincial police are asking for public assistance in locating a 14-year-old boy.
  Hayvin Pos, of North Grenville, has been missing since Feb. 3.
  Police don’t know what the boy was wearing when he was last seen, but say he could be headed to the Cornwall area.
  Anyone with information is asked to call SD&G OPP at 1-888-310-1122, or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477.ALSO IN THE NEWS:
  Taxes, user fees, water bills would go up under proposed 2019 municipal budget
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• Power outage after east-end hydro line fire

  06-02-2019 19:49 via ottawacitizen.com
  Power was out in the area as first responders tackle a power line fire at St. Laurent Boulevard and Innes Road Wednesday morning.
  Hydro Ottawa first said that 3,112 customers were affected in the Russell, Walkley, Innes, St. Laurent and Sheffield Road areas and that its crews are on the scene assessing the damage.
  By about 1:45 p.m., the utility said that all but 31 customers had power again. Power was expected to restored to them by 4 p.m.
  Police issued a traffic alert advising motorists t
  
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• Police break up brawl at Rideau Lakes long-term care home. ottawamatters.com/police-beat/po…

  06-02-2019 19:35 via twitter.com
  Police break up brawl at Rideau Lakes long-term care home.ottawamatters.com/police-beat/po…
  
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• Hwy. 417 reopens after multi-vehicle crash at Moodie - Ottawa Citizen

  06-02-2019 19:34
  Hwy. 417 reopens after multi-vehicle crash at Moodie  Ottawa CitizenA crash involving multiple vehicles closed down all the eastbound lanes of Highway 417 at Moodie Drive over the lunch hour Wednesday but luckily none of the ...
  
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• Hwy. 417 reopens after multi-vehicle crash at Moodie

  06-02-2019 19:32 via ottawacitizen.com
  A crash involving multiple vehicles closed down all the eastbound lanes of Highway 417 at Moodie Drive over the lunch hour Wednesday but luckily none of the four patients being treated by paramedics suffered serious injuries.
  A first report was that “at least” seven vehicles were involved.
  Paramedics got the call at 12:23 p.m. and as of about 1 p.m. had taken one person to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries while paramedics assessed three others at the scene.
  An off-duty
  
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• Paramedics report minor injuries in crash on #HWY417 #ottnews #otttraffic twitter.com/OttawaParamedi…

  06-02-2019 19:31 via twitter.com
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• Glavin: China's harsh actions hold lessons in effective foreign policy

  06-02-2019 19:24 via ottawacitizen.com
  In the ongoing tumult arising from the December arrest of Huawei’s Meng Wanzhou, a kind of consensus has emerged in foreign-policy circles that unites both the greasy business-class wiseguys whose years of disastrous counsel left Canada so dangerously exposed to Beijing’s bullying in the first place, and the more steely eyed China observers whose warnings, for at least as many years, have gone unheeded.
  The sum of the agreement goes something like this. With the possible excepti
  
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• Crash on EB #417 @ Moodie cleared. #ottnews #otttraffic twitter.com/511Ontario/sta…

  06-02-2019 19:23 via twitter.com
  Crash on EB #417 @ Moodie cleared. #ottnews #otttraffic twitter.com/511Ontario/sta…
  
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• Woman suffers smoke inhalation in Hampton Park house fire

  06-02-2019 19:20 via ottawacitizen.com
  Paramedics transported a woman with smoke inhalation to the hospital in serious but stable condition Wednesday as a two-alarm fire damaged a home in the Hampton Park neighbourhood.
  The fire department responded to a 911 call at 266-266A Iona St. at 9:17 a.m.
  Personnel arriving at the scene called in a second alarm, summoning more personnel and equipment to battle the blaze, which appeared to be centred on the upper floors of the building.
  The fire was deemed under control at 10:06 a.m.
  Damages w
  
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• Ottawa firefighters knock down Kirkwood Ave. fire - Ottawa Sun

  06-02-2019 19:20
  Ottawa firefighters knock down Kirkwood Ave. fire  Ottawa SunLanes were closed on a Hampton Park-area stretch of Kirkwood Avenue was closed Wednesday morning as fire crews tackled a working fire, police said.
  
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  06-02-2019 19:18 via twitter.com
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• Once a youthful powerhouse, jazz pianist Joey Calderazzo has broadened and deepened his art

  06-02-2019 19:09 via ottawacitizen.com
  It’s a good thing the formidable jazz pianist Joey Calderazzo outgrew his first motivation for excelling at music — “kicking ass.”
  “I grew up in a very, very competitive house,” says the plain-spoken 53-year-old American, whose trio headlines the TD Ottawa Winter Jazz Festival on Saturday.
  “I had a real competitive drive — in a lot of ways an unhealthy one as well, because it transferred into music.
  “Where it helped me was in my recitals,&rdq
  
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• Expanded taser and opioid crisis programming headline Ottawa police draft budget. #ottnews ottawamatters.com/police-beat/ex…

  06-02-2019 19:05 via twitter.com
  Expanded taser and opioid crisis programming headline Ottawa police draft budget. #ottnewsottawamatters.com/police-beat/ex…
  
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• The @rick_gibbons Show for Wednesday, February 6th: 1:07: @ChiefBordeleau 1:17: @SusanSherring 1:30: @jpitney 1:44:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

  06-02-2019 18:12 via twitter.com
  The @rick_gibbons Show for Wednesday, February 6th: 1:07: @ChiefBordeleau 1:17: @SusanSherring 1:30: @jpitney 1:44:… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
  
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• Bingo brawl breaks out at seniors' home - CTV News

  06-02-2019 17:54
  Bingo brawl breaks out at seniors' home  CTV NewsPolice were called to a seniors' home in Rideau Lakes Township on Tuesday after a brawl broke out over a seating disagreement at afternoon Bingo.
  
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• Toronto real estate board calls on Ottawa to revisit mortgage stress test - CityNews

  06-02-2019 17:31
  Toronto real estate board calls on Ottawa to revisit mortgage stress test  CityNewsCanada's largest real estate board is calling on Ottawa to revisit whether a stricter mortgage stress test introduced last year is still needed, arguing that the policy ...
  
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• Determined Kingston K9 cop catches rail signal wire thieves - Ottawa Citizen

  06-02-2019 17:29
  Determined Kingston K9 cop catches rail signal wire thieves  Ottawa CitizenPolice in Kingston report that a canine cop made quick work of suspects accused of stealing wire from CN Rail signals, a theft that could have tragic ...
  
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• Determined Kingston K9 cop catches rail signal wire thieves

  06-02-2019 17:29 via ottawacitizen.com
  Police in Kingston report that a canine cop made quick work of suspects accused of stealing wire from CN Rail signals, a theft that could have tragic consequences.
  A CN employee was dispatched to the lines east of Findlay Station Road Tuesday where train service had been disrupted by problems with the signals.
  The worker discovered that several sections had been cut and taken, spotted an apparently-abandoned vehicle nearby and called police.
  At 12:30 p.m., the K9 unit came in and conducted a tra
  
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• Taxes, user fees, water bills would go up under proposed 2019 municipal budget

  06-02-2019 17:28 via ottawacitizen.com
  Mayor Jim Watson and city management on Wednesday tabled their proposed 2019 municipal budget, recommending that the average urban homeowner pay $113 more in property taxes this year, with Watson warning that the city doesn’t know how decisions by the Ontario Progressive Conservative government could impact the municipal coffers.
  “This provincial budget will most certainly bring change, as we have already heard messages of fiscal restraint from the province,” Watson said in his
  
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• HMCS Regina and Asterix supply ship leave for deployment to Asia-Pacific and Middle East

  06-02-2019 17:21 via ottawacitizen.com
  Her Majesty’s Canadian Ship Regina, accompanied by Naval Replenishment Unit Asterix, left its homeport of Esquimalt Wednesday for a deployment to the Asia-Pacific and Middle East regions. The ships will initially support Operation PROJECTION working with other navies to enhance military cooperation and partnerships in support of Canada’s diplomatic efforts in the Asia-Pacific region, according to the Royal Canadian Navy.
  In March 2019, the ships will transition to Oper
  
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• Fire at Hampton Park home under control

  06-02-2019 17:21 via ottawacitizen.com
  One person was treated by paramedics in connection with a two-alarm fire in a home in the Hampton Park neighbourhood Wednesday morning.
  The fire department responded to a 911 call at 266-266A Iona St. at 9:17 a.m.
  Personnel arriving at the scene called in a second alarm, summoning more personnel and equipment to battle the blaze, which appeared to be centred on the upper floors of the building.
  The fire was deemed under control at 10:06 a.m.
  There was no immediate word on the condition of the pe
  
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• Dining Out: Queen St. Fare — Ottawa's first food hall — satisfies but doesn't yet thrill

  06-02-2019 17:20 via ottawacitizen.com
  Queen St. Fare170 Queen St., queenstfare.caOpen: Monday to Thursday 10:30 a.m. to 9 p.m., Friday 10:30 a.m. to 10 p.m., Saturday 10 a.m. to 10 p.m., Sunday 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
  The last few times I’ve played tourist in New York, I’ve alternated meals at acclaimed and even Michelin-starred restaurants with visits to some of the city’s food halls. Sometimes it was hard to say which experiences delighted me more.
  Certainly the food-hall eats were easier on my budget. And am
  
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• Canal closure prompts Riverkeeper to postpone bristle cleanup plan

  06-02-2019 17:07 via ottawacitizen.com
  The closure of the Rideau Canal Skateway for weather reasons has prompted the Ottawa Riverkeeper to postpone its planned cleanup of blue plastic bristles left behind by NCC ice cleaning machines.
  The event was supposed to take place on Thursday.
  However, Riverkeeper noted the skateway will likely remain closed through Thursday following Wednesday’s warm snap.
  The event, which will see volunteers walk or skate the length of the canal and pick up any plastic bristles that may have broke off,
  
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• Province sticking to April 1 opening for first 25 pot shops, posts locations of some stores

  06-02-2019 17:03 via ottawacitizen.com
  The locations of the first three bricks-and-mortar pot shops in Ontario have been posted for public comment.
  The stores are the Ganjika House in Brampton, The Niagara Herbalist in St. Catharines and Ameri in Toronto.
  The shops will be operated by winners of a lottery held nearly a month ago to select 25 lucky people who were given the right to apply for a licence.
  The province is temporarily limiting the number of stores because of a shortage of marijuana for the recreational market.
  The shop na
  
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• Ameliasburgh man accused of drugging second female victim

  06-02-2019 17:03 via ottawacitizen.com
  Police say that their investigation has brought forward a second female victim who was allegedly drugged by a 64-year-old Ameliasburgh man.
  Thomas McDowell is facing new charges of sexual assault, overcoming resistance, administering a noxious thing with intent, criminal harassment, trafficking in a controlled substance and possession of a controlled substance for the purpose of trafficking, Prince Edward County OPP said in a news release Wednesday.
  They are in relation to a complainant who came
  
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