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Author: Robert Cross
Publication Date: March 18, 2026 - 16:53
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March 18, 2026
It’s Wednesday, March 18. Here are the top stories the Ottawa Citizen newsroom is following today. DEACHMAN: AFTER FATAL OTTAWA FIRE, IS IT TIME TO REGULATE E-SCOOTER BATTERIES IN APARTMENTS? Fire investigators looking into the cause of the March 14 blaze that claimed three lives identified a lithium-ion battery-powered e-scooter as a possible culprit. Read the story NEW ROCKET […]
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When Hamas terrorists invaded southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, Ran Gvili, a 24-year-old Israeli police officer on medical leave with a broken shoulder, nonetheless rushed to help. He helped evacuate Nova festival survivors, then fought at Kibbutz Alumim, near the Gaza border, where he fell in battle.
His body was taken into Gaza, one of 251 hostages, living and dead. Getting all the hostages back became an obsession for Israelis in the months and years that followed.
By this January, Gvili’s body was the final hostage.
“There was a lot of pressure to find him in Gaza. We worked,...
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A majority of Canadians believe Israelis are more likely to face prejudice as a result of the Iran war, according to a new survey.
The
survey
is looking at “the impact of the War with Iran on Canadians’ views about groups that might associated with it — in the context of the wider middle...
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Over 3 million years, humans progressed from stone tools to the digital age. We have built, and destroyed, civilizations. Today, we can conjure up a video conversation with people from around the globe in the palm of our hand and chat with humans in outer space. Our mobile phones hold many times more information than what was contained in the Great Library of Alexandria. That same device is tens of millions of times faster than the computers that landed Apollo on the moon. As science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke predicted, our technology would appear like magic to generations past....
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