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The federal Department of Public Works will convert the former Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography on Wellington Street into committee rooms for MPs, allowing them to proceed with a major renovation of the West Block in 2010 – four years earlier than planned.
The City of Ottawa is set to upgrade a sewer chamber in its wastewater system located at a key Centretown juncture.
Take a look around the modern-day home. If a fire breaks out, those laminate floors and shellacked coffee tables could stimulate flames and cut escape time substantially, says Duncan McNaughton, a fire protection engineer for Ottawa Fire Services. 
Max McBride Peterson, Centretown NewsDuncan McNaughton is pushing for a bylaw to make sprinkler systems mandatory in new homes.
Government should invest in programs aimed at getting more homeless people off the streets and into subsidized homes, such as those in a 60-unit Centretown project run by Options Bytown, supportive housing advocates say.