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Federal health and safety cuts could put Canadians at risk: Health and safety inspectors who go into federally regulated workplaces say reductions in the number of workers doing the job could put Canadians at risk. more »

Woman's basement sprayed with raw sewage: An Ottawa homeowner says she got little help after city workers flooded her basement with raw sewage last week. more »
Bob Rae quits as MP in 'very emotional' decision: Bob Rae, who has represented the Toronto Centre riding for the Liberals since 2008, is stepping down as a Member of Parliament to devote more time to his work as a negotiator for First Nations in Northern Ontario. more »
Costume drama film shoots at Upper Canada Village: A period movie about the founding of an evangelical church is shooting at Upper Canada village in Morrisburg, south of Ottawa. more »
Minor hockey players reflect on career-ending concussions: The 2011-12 hockey season was a devastating one for the Ottawa Sting Major AA peewees, with eight of its 17 players suffering concussions. For some, those injuries marked the end of their hockey playing for good. more »

Bob Rae quits as MP in 'very emotional' decision: Bob Rae, who has represented the Toronto Centre riding for the Liberals since 2008, is stepping down as a Member of Parliament to devote more time to his work as a negotiator for First Nations in Northern Ontario. more »

30,000 Canadians are homeless every night: A new national report into homelessness in this country tells a grim story — at least 200,000 Canadians experience homelessness in any given year and least 30,000 Canadians are homeless on any given night. more »
Obesity called a disease by U.S. doctors group: In order to fight what it described as an "obesity epidemic," the American Medical Association voted to recognize obesity as a disease and recommended a number of measures to fight it. more »
Neil Macdonald: Washington's obsession with leakers: Julian Assange and Edward Snowden are just the most prominent targets in an all-out legal and propaganda campaign that America's security apparatus is mounting against leakers everywhere, Neil Macdonald writes. more »
How open is Ottawa's new 'open data' website?: Treasury Board President Tony Clement is touting the federal government's revamped data portal as a "new natural resource." But that online window for previously published data arrives at the same time the government faces controversy over just how open it really is. more »

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