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Publication Date: July 7, 2026 - 19:33

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'Don't take that. It's contaminated,' post-storm scavengers warned

July 7, 2026

People whose Ottawa homes flooded during last week's intense Canada Day storm are dealing with cleanup, insurance headaches — and strangers making off with discarded but contaminated possessions put out to the curb.



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In his 40 years as a lobster fisherman, Robert Wagner had never seen a critter like it: a half-blue, half-orange lobster, split down the middle from head to tail. "I said, 'Wow! I've never seen that like that in my life,'" said Wagner. Oscar is now calling the Beaty Centre for Marine Biodiversity in Halifax home.
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