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Ottawa “People actually reached out and hugged it and they told their [stories] about residential school,” master carver Stanley C. Hunt says. Children’s unsmiling faces reflect dark chapter that ‘should never have happened’ Guy Quenneville · CBC News · Posted: Sep 30, 2024 4:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: SeptemberContinue Reading

WARNING: This story contains details of alleged sexual abuse that some readers may find disturbing. A former air cadet captain has denied touching two young boys who slept over at his house regularly and claimed he’d found a USB drive containing thousands of deleted child pornography images lying on the ground.  At the start ofContinue Reading

Ottawa Officer didn’t charge murder accused years prior because victim didn’t want her toAn Ottawa police officer who investigated a report that Hamid Ayoub held a knife to his wife’s neck — eight years before he murdered her and stabbed their daughter — told his murder trial she didn’t chargeContinue Reading

Ottawa The federal telecommunications and broadcasting regulator has been criticized for offering assigned office space as a prize for a charity fundraiser. The Public Service Alliance of Canada says it showed the government is “completely out of touch’” with workers upset over the return-to-office directive. President of PSAC says agency’s offerContinue Reading

Ottawa The province will continue imprisoning foreign nationals held for immigration purposes despite promising to end the practice, Radio-Canada has learned. Province promised to end the controversial practice in July Brigitte Bureau · CBC News · Posted: Sep 27, 2024 4:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 10 hours ago Human rightsContinue Reading

A former Ottawa firefighter has been found not guilty of assaulting and choking a non-binary colleague during a ritualistic scuffle over the dinner dishes at a Barrhaven fire station two years ago. Their captain has been found not guilty of threatening to discipline the alleged victim in an attempt to keep theContinue Reading

Ottawa The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) says 289 of its employees who improperly received the Canada Emergency Response Benefit are no longer employed by the agency. 289 employees now no longer with agency, which has been digging into 600 suspect cases The Canada Revenue Agency says it has also foundContinue Reading

Federal officials focused on public scrutiny, not productivity, when mandating return to office, documents showDocuments prepared by the Treasury Board Secretariat show how little information on productivity officials had when mandating workers back to the office — even as employees reported they felt more productive working from home. Federal officialsContinue Reading

Ottawa The bomb disposal unit of the Ottawa Police Service responded to the Russian Embassy on Friday after someone threw items over a tall fence bordering Charlotte Street, according to police.  Scene cleared just before 2 p.m., no threat to public safety, police say Gabrielle Huston · CBC News · Posted:Continue Reading