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• Pierre Poilievre FULL SPEECH at United We Roll Convoy in Ottawa - The Rebel

  19-02-2019 23:57
  Pierre Poilievre FULL SPEECH at United We Roll Convoy in Ottawa  The RebelPierre Poilievre, Conservative MP for Carleton and Finance Critic, speaks to members of the United We Roll Convoy in Ottawa about Conservative Party leader ...
  
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• Speaker apologizes for apparent racial profiling incident on Parliament Hill - Ottawa Citizen

  19-02-2019 23:37
  Speaker apologizes for apparent racial profiling incident on Parliament Hill  Ottawa CitizenOTTAWA — House of Commons Speaker Geoff Regan has apologized for an apparent case of racial profiling on Parliament Hill, saying all who visit the precinct ...
  
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• Retraumatized: Inuit leaders say sex charges stay for priest hurts victims - Ottawa Citizen

  19-02-2019 23:04
  Retraumatized: Inuit leaders say sex charges stay for priest hurts victims  Ottawa CitizenOTTAWA — Canada's decision to stay charges against a priest accused of sexually abusing Inuit children and believed to be in France is traumatizing victims all ...
  
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• Rider Rumblings episode 39: Backup quarterbacking - Ottawa Citizen

  19-02-2019 22:49
  Rider Rumblings episode 39: Backup quarterbacking  Ottawa CitizenRob and Murray discuss the pros and cons of signing a veteran quarterback vs. developing a younger one.
  
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• Blaine Higgs voices support to 'United We Roll' truck convoy in Ottawa | Watch News Videos Online - Globalnews.ca

  19-02-2019 22:49
  Blaine Higgs voices support to 'United We Roll' truck convoy in Ottawa | Watch News Videos Online  Globalnews.caTue, Feb 19: It's a demonstration expected to impact this country's capital city for two days. A pro-pipeline convoy of hundreds of protestors made the trek from ...
  
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• Ottawa fire crews battle blaze at Richmond house

  19-02-2019 22:17 via ottawacitizen.com
  One person was being assessed for possible smoke inhalation Tuesday as firefighters tackled a blaze at a house on McBean Street in Richmond.
  Crews were summoned by a 911 call from a neighbour reporting smoke and flames at 3899 McBean St. at 1:30 p.m.
  The homeowner wasn’t at home so the neighbour, who was being assessed by paramedics, checked on the residence.
  Working fire on McBean Street in Richmond.    Ottawa Fire Services
  Fire crews spotted smoke coming from the single-storey
  
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• Ottawa police need help identifying armed robber at Barrhaven ATM - Ottawa Sun

  19-02-2019 22:07
  Ottawa police need help identifying armed robber at Barrhaven ATM  Ottawa SunCity police are asking the public to help them identify a suspect in an armed robbery at an ATM on Strandherd Drive near Woodroffe Avenue last October.
  
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• Going out best bets, Feb. 21 to 28 - Ottawa Citizen

  19-02-2019 22:05
  Going out best bets, Feb. 21 to 28  Ottawa CitizenArtThis weekend marks your last chance to see the photographs, film installations and augmented reality clips that make up Anthropocene, the latest exhibition ...
  
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• Going out best bets, Feb. 21 to 28

  19-02-2019 22:05 via ottawacitizen.com
  Art
  This weekend marks your last chance to see the photographs, film installations and augmented reality clips that make up Anthropocene, the latest exhibition from the collective of Edward Burtynsky, Jennifer Baichwal and Nicholas de Pencier. The exhibit, which closes Sunday, depicts the striking effects of human activity on the planet. Regular museum admission applies.
  Rock
  Jordan Edward Benjamin, known as Grandson, is a New Jersey-born, Toronto-raised musician who combines hip hop and rock to
  
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• Chase ends in two arrests, recovery of stolen car and loaded handgun

  19-02-2019 22:05 via ottawacitizen.com
  Two teenagers are facing a raft of charges after a car chase last Friday that began on Cobourg Street and ended in Vanier.
  The chase began just after 4 p.m. when Ottawa police spotted a stolen car and tried to stop it. The driver took off, but officers found the still-running car abandoned on Montreal Road, just east of the Cummings Bridge. A loaded handgun was found on the road by the car, police say. The teens were arrested nearby.
  Charges have been laid against Abdulqadir Yussuf, 19, and
  
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• Saxophonists Peter and Will Anderson, two swinging siblings, turn their attention to Gershwin

  19-02-2019 21:37 via ottawacitizen.com
  The New York-based identical twins and jazz reedmen Peter and Will Anderson both took up the clarinet when they were nine years old, thanks to a near-random inspiration some months earlier.
  “The jazz bug bit us very early on,” says Will. “We were in the third grade watching TV together, and a commercial came on for Chips Ahoy cookies. The soundtrack was Benny Goodman playing Sing, Sing, Sing. We were hooked.”In the two decades since then, the brothers have devoted themsel
  
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• Months after losing Bachman, Canucks finally find his NHL veteran replacement in Leighton - Ottawa Citizen

  19-02-2019 21:26
  Months after losing Bachman, Canucks finally find his NHL veteran replacement in Leighton  Ottawa CitizenThe Vancouver Canucks announced Tuesday morning they had signed the 37-year-old goaltender to an NHL deal and placed him on waivers with the intention ...
  
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• Ottawa fire crews battle blaze at Richmond house - Ottawa Citizen

  19-02-2019 21:10
  Ottawa fire crews battle blaze at Richmond house  Ottawa CitizenOne person was being assessed for possible smoke inhalation Tuesday as firefighters tackled a blaze at a house on McBean Street in Richmond.
  
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• Remains of Inuk woman discovered in Ottawa landfill - APTN News

  19-02-2019 21:00
  Remains of Inuk woman discovered in Ottawa landfill  APTN NewsAPTN News Ottawa police say they have discovered the remains of a murdered Inuk woman after searching for her body in the city's landfill. Police tweeted ...
  
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• Pro-pipeline convoy arrives at Parliament Hill in Ottawa - The Globe and Mail

  19-02-2019 20:31
  Pro-pipeline convoy arrives at Parliament Hill in Ottawa  The Globe and MailA pro-pipeline convoy making its way across the country arrived in Ottawa on Tuesday morning. Both proponents and protesters met in front of Parliament Hill as ...
  
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• Ottawa's snow mountain just keeps piling up - Yahoo News Canada

  19-02-2019 20:09
  Ottawa's snow mountain just keeps piling up  Yahoo News CanadaStanding more than 50 metres tall and covering the area of several football fields, the snow storage facility on Clyde Avenue is Ottawa's largest, a towering ...
  
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• Ottawa's snow mountain just keeps piling up - CBC.ca

  19-02-2019 20:09
  Ottawa's snow mountain just keeps piling up  CBC.caStanding more than 50 metres tall and covering the area of several football fields, the snow storage facility on Clyde Avenue is Ottawa's largest, a towering ...
  
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• United We Roll protest: Truck convoy ends Hill rally, gears up for Day 2

  19-02-2019 20:04 via ottawacitizen.com
  Several hundred people, about half of them garbed in yellow vests, rallied on Parliament Hill for the United We Roll protest after a late start Tuesday spared Ottawa commuters expecting traffic snarls.
  United We Roll left Red Deer, Alta., on Valentine’s Day, intent on bringing a message to the federal Liberal government that “Pipelines need to be built. Bill C-69 and 48 are obviously a problem. And (so is), the carbon tax,” said one of the organizers, Jason Corbeil, referencing
  
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• Pro-pipeline convoy rallies in Ottawa to protest federal oil policies | Watch News Videos Online - Globalnews.ca

  19-02-2019 20:00
  Pro-pipeline convoy rallies in Ottawa to protest federal oil policies | Watch News Videos Online  Globalnews.caA pro-pipeline convoy arrived at Parliament Hill Tuesday. Kendra Slugoski and Mike Le Couteur have more on the issues the protesters from across Canada ...
  
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• Alberta retailer plans to open cannabis store in Ottawa - Global News

  19-02-2019 19:56
  Alberta retailer plans to open cannabis store in Ottawa  Global NewsAlberta cannabis retailer Fire & Flower plans to open the store on York Street in Ottawa's Byward Market.
  
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• Adam: Amber Alerts are essential. Get over yourselves, complainers

  19-02-2019 19:50 via ottawacitizen.com
  “I can’t even begin to describe how disappointing and upsetting it is to read the comments, emails and calls to our communications bureau complaining.”
  That was Peel Regional Police spokesperson Akhil Mooken writing in disgust after a torrent of public complaints following the late-night Thursday Amber Alert issued after Riya Rajkumar went missing; she was found dead.
  The alert went out after the mother of the 11-year-old told police that the father, Roopesh Rajkumar, who had t
  
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• Adam: Amber Alerts exist for a reason. Get over yourselves, complainers - Ottawa Citizen

  19-02-2019 19:40
  Adam: Amber Alerts exist for a reason. Get over yourselves, complainers  Ottawa CitizenI can't even begin to describe how disappointing and upsetting it is to read the comments, emails and calls to our communications bureau complaining.
  
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• Ottawa establishment fined $76,250 for hookah use

  19-02-2019 19:28 via ottawacitizen.com
  Ottawa bylaw officers have laid 32 charges against a single establishment for violations of the bylaw banning the use of water pipes in public places and workplaces.
  Fines against the business, which the department didn’t identify, total $76,250.
  The City of Ottawa’s “Water Pipes in Public Places and Work Places” bylaw, which prohibits the use of water pipes, better known as hookahs, in enclosed public places, enclosed workplaces, and outdoor restaurant and bar patios, ca
  
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• Ottawa establishment fined $76,250 for hookah use - Ottawa Citizen

  19-02-2019 19:26
  Ottawa establishment fined $76,250 for hookah use  Ottawa CitizenOttawa bylaw officers have laid 32 charges against a single establishment for violations of the bylaw banning the use of water pipes in public places and ...
  
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• Police seek gun-wielding robber at Barrhaven ATM

  19-02-2019 19:04 via ottawacitizen.com
  City police are asking the public to help them identify a suspect in an armed robbery at an ATM on Strandherd Drive near Woodroffe Avenue last October.
  The robbery unit reports that the victim was taking out money at about 9:30 p.m. on Oct 5 when the suspect approached from behind, pointed a handgun and demanded cash. The suspect fled with an undisclosed sum in a silver Volkswagen sedan.
  The suspect is described as black, about five foot, three inches tall with short, curly black hair and a bear
  
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• Snow clearing disputes among feuding neighbours lead to fisticuffs

  19-02-2019 18:54 via ottawacitizen.com
  Big snowfalls apparently make for bad neighbours.
  Police in the Wakefield area report that they broke up not one but two fights that erupted between neighbours over snow clearing between Feb. 13 and 15.
  Punches were exchanged in both incidents with both assaults “directly related to the snow accumulations left by the last storm,” MRC des Collines-del’Outaouais police said in a release Tuesday.
  The snow was the “straw that broke the camel’s back” between neighb
  
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• Legal pot shop proposed for York Street in the ByWard Market

  19-02-2019 18:51 via ottawacitizen.com
  Fire & Flower, an Alberta-based chain of marijuana stores, plans to open a shop on York Street in the ByWard Market this spring.
  The chain has reached a deal with two of the Ontario pot-shop lottery winners to open stores in Eastern Ontario, said Fire & Flower CEO Trevor Fencott. The other proposed Fire & Flower is on Brock Street in downtown Kingston, he said.
  Notices allowing for 15 days of public comment are expected to be posted on both storefronts and the website of the Alcohol
  
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• Police seek gun-wielding robber at Barrhaven ATM - Ottawa Citizen

  19-02-2019 18:50
  Police seek gun-wielding robber at Barrhaven ATM  Ottawa CitizenCity police are asking the public to help them identify a suspect in an armed robbery at an ATM on Strandherd Drive near Woodroffe Avenue last October.
  
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• Marilyn Manson, Rob Zombie in Ottawa in August

  19-02-2019 18:43 via ottawacitizen.com
  The “Twins of Evil” will be in Ottawa this summer.
  The Canadian Tire Centre announced Tuesday that Marilyn Manson and Rob Zombie are heading to town for a show on Friday, Aug. 16.
  Presales start Wednesday. Tickets are available Feb. 22 at 10 a.m.
  The pair’s Hell Never Dies Tour 2019 kicks off July 9 in Baltimore.
  JUST ANNOUNCED: Twins of Evil: @RobZombie & @marilynmanson's Hell Never Dies Tour 2019 at #RichcraftLive at @CdnTireCtr on Friday, Aug. 16!
  Presales start Wednesda
  
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• Vanier snow artist turns eternal winter into art

  19-02-2019 18:41 via ottawacitizen.com
  Call them Banksy.
  In an act of Ottawa-style street art, an anonymous snow artist (or artists) has moulded towering snow banks into sculptures — including a dinosaur and a car — on the streets of Vanier.
  Twitter user @AmberJanine shared the pictures taken by Guy Dagenais after spotting the art on her way to work Tuesday.
  “My neighbours got creative with all the snow left on the roads in #OttCity,” tweeted Laura Shantz. “Snow croc will devour your dropped mittens and
  
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• Marilyn Manson, Rob Zombie in Ottawa in August - Ottawa Citizen

  19-02-2019 18:36
  Marilyn Manson, Rob Zombie in Ottawa in August  Ottawa CitizenThe “Twins of Evil” will be in Ottawa this summer.The Canadian Tire Centre announced Tuesday that Marilyn Manson and Rob Zombie are heading to town for a ...
  
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• Vanier snow artist turns eternal winter into art - Ottawa Citizen

  19-02-2019 18:35
  Vanier snow artist turns eternal winter into art  Ottawa CitizenCall them Banksy.In an act of Ottawa-style street art, an anonymous snow artist (or artists) has moulded towering snow banks into sculptures — including a ...
  
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• Cohen: When U.S. presidents lie, the damage can be devastating

  19-02-2019 18:22 via ottawacitizen.com
  WASHINGTON – Walter B. Jones was a 12-term Republican congressman from North Carolina. He was so enthusiastic about the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003 – and so angry with France for opposing it – that he wanted to rename French fries “Freedom Frees.”
  But not long into the war, Jones began to question it. He came to recognize that the assumptions that had led to the war – that Iraq was linked to al-Qaeda, that it had weapons of mass destruction – were fabr
  
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• Egan: License a snowblower? City nails one operator, lays 100 other charges - Ottawa Citizen

  19-02-2019 18:12
  Egan: License a snowblower? City nails one operator, lays 100 other charges  Ottawa CitizenIn the early hours of Wednesday morning, while the city was under siege from a winter storm, a bylaw officer pulled over on Holland Avenue to inspect a ...
  
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• United We Roll protest: Truck convoy arrives at Parliament Hill after delay

  19-02-2019 17:45 via ottawacitizen.com
  The United We Roll protest has hit Parliament Hill after a late start spared Ottawa commuters expecting traffic snarls.
  The convoy of about 200 trucks was on the outskirts of Ottawa around 9:20 a.m. and Ottawa police Sgt. Mark Gatien, who’d been with the convoy, confirmed its arrival at 9:40 a.m.
  The protest on Parliament Hill was expected to start around 11 a.m. and is expected to jam up traffic downtown for two days.
  The city’s traffic centre reported that Kent Street, which the co
  
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• Caldwell: A few suggestions for the United We Roll Convoy

  19-02-2019 17:42 via ottawacitizen.com
  As I write this, news coverage of the “United We Roll Convoy for Canada,” carrying in equal measure the hopes of Alberta oil workers and the dread of environmentalists, culminates in local stories warning Ottawa residents to be prepared for significant delays and snarled traffic. For me, a longtime environmental and social advocate, the convoy brings a snarl of conflicting issues into my hometown, which happens to be Canada’s political centre.
  Many of the issues that play out i
  
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• Richez, Major and Pandya: Indigenous Languages Act needs more teeth

  19-02-2019 17:15 via ottawacitizen.com
  The government recently tabled Bill C-91, “An Act Respecting Indigenous Languages,” in the House of Commons. This long-awaited and overdue piece of legislation is a step forward in revitalizing and promoting Indigenous languages, which have suffered greatly due to centuries of colonization and cultural genocide. Bill C-91 establishes an Office of Commissioner of Indigenous Languages that will be responsible for conducting research on the use and vitality of Indigenous languages, fund
  
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• Convoy members rally in Ottawa against federal government | Watch News Videos Online - Globalnews.ca

  19-02-2019 16:55
  Convoy members rally in Ottawa against federal government | Watch News Videos Online  Globalnews.caMembers of a convoy, which brought hundreds of trucks to Ottawa, rallied against the federal government on Tuesday in protest of its oil policies and the carbon ...
  
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• Court Challenges Program officially reopened at the University of Ottawa - Canadian Lawyer Magazine

  19-02-2019 16:33
  Court Challenges Program officially reopened at the University of Ottawa  Canadian Lawyer MagazineAs the first applications for the newly reinstated Court Challenges Program are filed, debate remains among lawyers on whether the program will properly attend ...
  
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• Police ask for public's help to find Petawawa teen last seen Feb. 12

  19-02-2019 16:26 via ottawacitizen.com
  Petawawa OPP and the military police at Garrison Petawawa are again asking the public to help them find a teen who’s been missing for almost a week.
  Trinity Poil, 16, is believed to have left her home on Cleve Street between 10 p.m. Feb. 12 and 4:20 a.m. on Feb. 13.
  She is described as 6 foot, 1 inch tall and about 240 pounds and was last seen wearing a black jacket with a purple lining, a black toque with cat ears and grey boots with fur trim.
  “Her family is very concerned about her
  
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• OPL's Most Wanted books: Here's why you wait for months

  19-02-2019 15:32 via ottawacitizen.com
  If you decided you wanted to get your hands on an Ottawa Public Library hard copy of the Michelle Obama memoir Becoming in January, your hold joined more than 1,400 others on a four-month wait-list.
  “We had a good indication that this was going to be very popular, we had pre-ordered a lot of copies,” said Ann Archer, OPL manager of content services. But they hadn’t anticipated just how ferocious the demand for the title would become.“It is the publishing phenome
  
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• Raw: Convoy of hundreds of trucks rolls into Ottawa to protest federal oil policies | Watch News Videos Online - Globalnews.ca

  19-02-2019 15:30
  Raw: Convoy of hundreds of trucks rolls into Ottawa to protest federal oil policies | Watch News Videos Online  Globalnews.caWatch Raw: Convoy of hundreds of trucks rolls into Ottawa to protest federal oil policies Video Online, on GlobalNews.ca.
  
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• Convoy of hundreds of trucks rolls into Ottawa to protest federal oil policies | Watch News Videos Online - Globalnews.ca

  19-02-2019 15:30
  Convoy of hundreds of trucks rolls into Ottawa to protest federal oil policies | Watch News Videos Online  Globalnews.caWatch Convoy of hundreds of trucks rolls into Ottawa to protest federal oil policies Video Online, on GlobalNews.ca.
  
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• 'We believe in you,' Scheer tells controversial pro-pipeline movement - CBC Sports

  19-02-2019 15:26
  'We believe in you,' Scheer tells controversial pro-pipeline movement  CBC SportsA convoy of hundreds of pro-pipeline supporters has started the final leg of its destination for a mass protest in Ottawa later today against the Liberal ...
  
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• 'We believe in you,' Scheer tells controversial pro-pipeline movement - CBC News

  19-02-2019 15:26
  'We believe in you,' Scheer tells controversial pro-pipeline movement  CBC NewsA convoy of hundreds of pro-pipeline supporters has started the final leg of its destination for a mass protest in Ottawa later today against the Liberal ...
  
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• United We Roll protest: Delay of truck convoy to Parliament Hill spares Tuesday morning commuters

  19-02-2019 15:23 via ottawacitizen.com
  A Parliament Hill-bound protest convoy known as United We Roll was behind schedule Tuesday morning, which was good news for morning rush-hour commuters.
  The convoy of about 200 trucks was on the outskirts of Ottawa around 9:20 a.m. The protest on Parliament Hill was expected to start around 11 a.m. and is expected to jam up traffic downtown for two days.
  The convoy was delayed Tuesday morning leaving the Antrim Truck Stop and departed at around 8:40 a.m., said Ottawa Police Services Sgt. Mark Ga
  
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• Sunny Tuesday, snow Wednesday, risk of freezing rain Thursday

  19-02-2019 14:22 via ottawacitizen.com
  Every kind of winter weather is in the forecast.
  Tuesday is crisp and sunny, snow arrives Wednesday night and Environment Canada has issued a special weather statement warning of the risk of freezing rain Thursday.
  The icy deluge may affect the Ottawa Valey as another large low-pressure system “brewing” over the Southern Plains south of the border head towards the region, weather watchers reported.
  Snow will arrive Wednesday night then may switch to ice pellets then freezing rain Thu
  
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• Sunny Tuesday, snow Wednesday, risk of freezing rain Thursday - Ottawa Citizen

  19-02-2019 13:55
  Sunny Tuesday, snow Wednesday, risk of freezing rain Thursday  Ottawa CitizenTuesday is crisp and sunny, snow arrives Wednesday night and Environment Canada has issued a special weather statement warning of the risk of freezing rain ...
  
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• Kilgour: Canada should have independent probe of SNC-Lavalin crisis

  19-02-2019 13:10 via ottawacitizen.com
  The arrest of Huawei’s Meng Wanzhou in Vancouver under Canada’s extradition treaty with the United States has unleashed much discussion about the nature and scope of the rule of law in Canada and its complete absence in China.
  Overwhelmingly, responsible Canadians have indicated that our federal justice department had, when requested, no choice under the treaty but to arrest Meng. This applied despite President Donald Trump’s ill-considered comment that he might withdraw the se
  
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• Fyfe: For government to stay relevant, it must prepare for the future

  19-02-2019 13:00 via ottawacitizen.com
  It is not fashionable to praise leaders in government. In fact, it is not fashionable to praise government itself. The current narrative, exemplified by President Donald Trump in his State of the Union address, which referred to government “coercion, domination and control,” is that government is a burden. It does not provide value, is slow, wasteful and costly, and its leaders, rather than doing important and difficult jobs, are overpaid and have a sense of entitlement.
  Most public
  
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