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Mike Carroccetto

@wildfiremike

📸 Journalist. News + Photos, Features + Sponsored Content. I ❤️ #newspapers. NNA Winner 2005! | 2015! | 2025 ✖️

 Ottawa + Ontario + west Quebec
Joined May 2009
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Four of my fireworks photos from the 2024 @GrandsFeux presented by Casino Lac Leamy (which finished on the weekend). I shot from 6 different locations — attempting to bring a fresh perspective to our great city. Reply — and me know your favourite. #ottcity #Ottawa #ottnews
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Elderly woman struck and killed by vehicle while walking home on Viewmount Drive The woman's death was the 33rd fatality on #Ottawa's streets this year, and the 12th pedestrian. ottawacitizen.com/news/elder… #ottnews via @ottawacitizen #ottcity
Elderly woman struck and killed by vehicle while walking home on Viewmount Drive

Elderly woman struck and killed by vehicle while walking home on Viewmount Drive

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CTV Ottawa@ctvottawaNov 10
Arena in Perth, Ont. closed after ice resurfacing machine crashes into rink boards ctvnews.ca/ottawa/article/ar…
Arena in Perth, Ont. closed after ice resurfacing machine crashes into rink boards

Arena in Perth, Ont. closed after ice resurfacing machine crashes into rink boards

Hockey games are cancelled at the Perth and District Community Centre after an ice resurfacing machine damaged the arena boards last weekend.

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US about to lose its measles elimination status. @nytimes nytimes.com/2026/11/10/healt…
The U.S. Has Lost Its Measles-Elimination Status, Data Suggests

The U.S. Has Lost Its Measles-Elimination Status, Data Suggests

An international panel of scientific experts will convene on Tuesday to evaluate the status, but genetic data already shows the virus is once again entrenched in the United States.

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Does anyone know where Minnesota’s offence Wentz? #Vikings #Skol #BillsMafia #BUFvsMIN
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Bills will take over after the turnover on downs BUFvsMIN on ESPN
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Bills continue to ‘pound the ground!’ #BillsMafia #MNFxESPN
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Tight window for Josh Allen. Tough catch for Keon Coleman. BUFvsMIN on ESPN
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Great tackle by Geno Smith
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Beautiful punch out by Nick Bolton 👊 NYJvsKC on CBS/Paramount+ Stream on @NFLPlus
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Deachman says he is in the garage, waiting for answers. #Ontario needs to come clean on ballooning #Ottawa hospital price tag | read more via Ottawa Sun ottawasun.com/news/local-new… #ottcity #ONpoli #ottnews @Deachman #ottpoli
Province needs to come clean on ballooning hospital costs | Deachman

Province needs to come clean on ballooning hospital costs | Deachman

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Tonight’s #NHL game in EDM started at 9pm. Which is just one byproduct of the move to year-around daylight saving time. Also — OUCH — EDM had a 8:45am sunrise. Around Xmas, that 🌅 will be at 9:50am. 🤬 • the | #CFL Western Final at Commonwealth Stadium Edmonton was 5:30pm MDT
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Congrats to Casselman’s Sam Wathier on notching his first OHL point 🍏 at TD Place Arena in Ottawa, his hometown. #OHL #Spitfires
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That’s an 🍏 for Philip Tomasino ➡️ 4 points in 4GP for #Sens No. 62 since his call-up from @BellevilleSens. 1-0 @Senators. #UTAvsOTT #ottsports #NHL
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OPP opt not to lay murder charges against Cornwall-area home invasion victim. Toronto Sun's @joe_warmington says things are changing in #Ontario – even Doug Ford has called for stand-your-ground castle doctrine laws: torontosun.com/news/local-ne… #Toronto #ottnews
WARMINGTON: OPP not laying murder charges against home invasion victim a wake-up call for criminal...

WARMINGTON: OPP not laying murder charges against home invasion victim a wake-up call for criminal...

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RIP Maria 🙏
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The Ottawa Police Service (OPS) requested assistance to locate a missing 45-year-old woman on November 4, 2026. Sadly, she has been located deceased. There is no foul play or suspicious circumstances suspected. We wish to extend our condolences to her family and friends. We thank the public and the media for their assistance. ~ Le Service de police d’Ottawa (SPO) a demandé de l'aide du public le 4 novembre 2026 afin de retrouver une femme de 45 ans portée disparue. Malheureusement, elle a été retrouvée décédée. Aucun acte criminel ou circonstance suspecte n'est soupçonné. Nous offrons nos condoléances à sa famille et ses amis. Nous remercions le public et les médias pour leur aide.
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Every team in the Atlantic division is .500 or above. In fact, only 8 of NHL’s 32 teams are below .500. #parity #Sens #Leafs #Habs
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Immaculate vibes at the Richmond @TimHortons tonight with Pinto, Spence, Neiler, and Sparty showing up to meet and greet with fans 🙌 #GoSensGo
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Reasons: 1/ Iran war 2/ tariffs tariffs tariffs 3/ inflation 4/ gas prices+economy out of control 5/ ICE ICE baby! 5/ irrational, illogical leader Maybe it was fentanyl or maybe it was measles. MAYBE it’s all of the above!! #USpoli The best President in history! 🤡
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Waymo car spotted in #Toronto, sparking concerns Driverless taxi service plans full rollout in Toronto by 2028. torontosun.com/news/local-ne… @TheTorontoSun
Waymo car spotted in Toronto, sparking concerns

Waymo car spotted in Toronto, sparking concerns

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Linus Ullmark's absence exposed Ottawa Senators biggest off-season gamble, writes @SunGarrioch: ottawasun.com/ottawa-senator… via @ottawasuncom #Sens #NHL #ottsports
How Linus Ullmark's absence exposed Ottawa Senators' biggest off-season gamble

How Linus Ullmark's absence exposed Ottawa Senators' biggest off-season gamble

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@joe_warmingtonNov 3
Replying to @PeelPolice
@PeelPolice Const. Tyler Bell-Morena reminds that “Canadians have to write the film police officers, but that right ends” when it comes to putting their lives at risk by revealing their in real time tactics and locations in a live gun call.
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BREAKING: Spanish football club CD Tenerife confirms that forward Jesus de Miguel has died after a hard tackle by FC Andorra’s goalkeeper during yesterday’s match
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Liam Maguire@Liams_HockeyNov 3
End of an era. Liam Maguire's restaurant in Ottawa changes names. A nearly 24 year run has finished. No regrets, just great memories! linkedin.com/pulse/end-era-l… via @LinkedIn
End of an era. Liam Maguire's restaurant in Ottawa changes names. A nearly 24 year run has finish...

End of an era. Liam Maguire's restaurant in Ottawa changes names. A nearly 24 year run has finish...

LIAM MAGUIRE'S CHANGES NAMES. AN ERA ENDS EVERYTHING CHANGES.

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