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Ottawa’s Road Safety Action Plan addresses the most common cause of fatal or major injury collisions during the month of August – accidents involving aggressive drivers and distracted drivers.
Feature Story
The City of Ottawa’s Road Safety...
August 5, 2025 - 08:56 | City of Ottawa - Media Relations / Ville d'Ottawa - Relations avec les médias | City of Ottawa News Releases
Air Canada flight attendants are entering the final day of voting on whether to give a strike mandate to their union.The vote, which began July 28 and closes today, comes after the Air Canada component of the Canadian Union of Public Employees concluded the conciliation process with no deal reached.The union represents more than 10,000 flight attendants who have been in contract talks since the start of the year.
August 5, 2025 - 08:41 | | The Globe and Mail
Stripping a deck finish Q What’s the best way to remove an old elastomeric coating from a wooden deck? My pressure washer won’t touch it. I’ve had enough of finishing wooden decks and I’ll be using that one-time Eco Wood Treatment you’ve written about once I get back to bare wood. A As powerful as […]
August 5, 2025 - 08:40 | Paul Welch | Ottawa Citizen
A stretch of southern Ontario remains under a special air quality statement today amid smoke from wildfires burning in parts of the country.Environment Canada says smoke from forest fires can cause reduced air quality and visibility that can fluctuate throughout the day.
August 5, 2025 - 08:12 | | The Globe and Mail
In the latest study to question the usefulness of the body mass index, researchers have found that the percentage of one’s body fat is a better predictor of future death than BMI.
“Body mass index has no statistically significant relationship with all-cause mortality,” the University of Florida team reports in the July edition of the journal
Annals of Family Medicine.
Instead, the researchers found that adults with a high body-fat...
August 5, 2025 - 07:17 | Sharon Kirkey | National Post
Some 68.5 per cent of urban mail carriers who voted were against the deal, while their rural and suburban colleagues were 69.4 per cent against.
August 5, 2025 - 07:01 | Globalnews Digital | Global News - Canada
