The government department in charge of managing labour relations with federal public servants is no longer keeping track of how many employees across 75 institutions are taking time off work under a special paid leave provision made widespread during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Internal emails obtained by CBC News show intense objections from doctors at Queensway Carleton Hospital about keeping the ER open during a planned IT "downtime" last fall, with one saying patient harm had occurred during a previous IT outage.

According to internal records obtained by CBC News, more than 30 computer systems were impacted at The Ottawa Hospital during a 12-hour network failure last summer that halted surgeries and medical appointments.

Emergency room doctors, nurses and other health-care professionals who worked through the night during a major, hospital-wide computer and phone outage at the Queensway Carleton Hospital were sticking their necks out in an exceptionally unsafe environment, according to documents obtained by CBC.

Years before an industrial explosion killed six workers at Eastway Tank Pump and Meter, a former employee had accused the Ottawa company of pressuring him to return to work before he had the chance to recover from injuries sustained from a fuel tank blast, CBC News has learned.

Dozens of academics from across North America have signed an open letter calling on Queen's University in Kingston, Ont., to retract its statement defending faculty and staff members who were accused of falsely claiming Indigenous identity inan anonymous dossier.