Scholarships and student aid at the University of Ottawa could be reduced if U.S. and Canadian stock markets continue to fall, hammering the institution's endowment fund.
Transit systems across Canada stand to lose tens of thousands of dollars to fare fraud, and access to office buildings could be compromised, after a security flaw in some of their smart-card technology was widely publicized this week.
The federal government's $25-billion takeover of bank-held mortgages to ease a growing credit crunch faced by the country's financial institutions is not a bailout similar to recent moves made in the United States and other Western countries, Stephen Harper said
Canwest News Service is recruiting journalism students from Concordia University to replace workers at the Montreal Gazette in case there is a strike or lockout.
A potentially deadly strain of streptococcal infections that contributed to the deaths of 10 people in northwestern Ontario doesn't pose a widespread threat, the province's chief medical officer of health says.
The City of Ottawa has been sentenced to pay a $562,000 fine for a sewage spill that flushed millions of litres of raw sewage into the Ottawa River in the summer of 2006.
The owner of a Chelsea spa said he's not having any problems with his water supply, even though neighbours who share a local aquifer with his business have reported wells going dry in recent years and worry about their future
