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One evening this past August, Marc Bourgeois and his daughter Justine were among the lucky participants of a very delicate undertaking.  Starting last year, a handful of volunteers and scientists began a yearly ritual of collecting turtle eggs on Petrie Island, a conservation area off the shore of Orléans, a suburban neighbourhood in east Ottawa.Continue Reading

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Ottawa Suspended Ottawa lawyer James Bowie has been ordered to pay a former client — and plaintiff in a civil case against him — $235,000 after proposing she pay for his legal services with oral sex and disclosing personal details about her online after her allegations garnered media coverage. Superior Court judge says James Bowie’s actions anContinue Reading

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Ottawa It was haunting, at the end of the trial that found her murderer Hamid Ayoub guilty, to hear a message Hanadi Mohamed wrote to her tormentor of many years — the abusive husband she had finally left — nine months before he stabbed her dozens of times, taking her life. ‘Misogynist, controlling’ HamidContinue Reading

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Public service integrity watchdog overwhelmed by tips of wrongdoingThe office of the federal integrity commissioner is asking for a funding increase in the face of a backlog of complaints in the public sector, leaving whistleblowers potentially waiting up to three years for investigations to begin. Canada’s public service integrity watchdogContinue Reading