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ever put on it, but they have things like... We have a paper dress part of the 1968 campaign for pierre elliott trudeau. >> Reporter: those artifacts just a few of the tens of millions carefully catalogued and stored by library and archives canada. That may be on display this weekend when the public gets a rare look inside. >> I think we all know there isn't one history of canada. There are many histories of canada and at library and archives canada we want to reflect everyone's stories. >> The original is... >> Reporter: the precious collection largely housed in gatineau contains 425,000 works of art, 22 million books, the two original constitutions. >> A photo album from 1879. 1880. >> Reporter: and millions of photographs, films and government records. Many of the items stored inside their brand new net zero facility are digitally catalogued and accessible by robots that move around seven storey vaults. Each vault is temperature and humidity controlled. It's also fireproof and designed to keep a single piece of paper in perfect condition for up to 500 years. >> This is audabon. >> Reporter: a state of the art facility housing items whose access is usually tightly controlled. This friday and saturday, though, they'll be open to the public. >> So they're going to get a chance to see some of the treasures in our collections because we do have the fifth largest collections in the world. >> Reporter: a collection built by canadians for canadians. Annie bergeron-oliver, ctv news, gatineau. >> Todd: great stuff. And that's it for us tonight. I'm todd van der hayden. For omar sachedina and all of us here at "ctv national news," thank you for watching and have a great rest of your night. [ ] [ ]

Rock94 brings you Rock Logger Beer. Find Rock Logger at Sleeping Giant Brewing Company. 50 cents from every can goes to local charities. Drink responsibly... and Rock Logger on, dude! . >> Good evening and thank you for joining us. A design standard recommendation for a proposed indoor turf facility will be presented to thunder bay city council on monday night after years of back and forth. The final report in with a mandatory bid cap for forty two point seven million. The hope is to show city officials that the build can be done for less money, which in turn means the project may finally get approved. >> Josh maranhao is following the story. In the proposal, administration laid out three options for councillors regarding the price . Option one is estimated at over forty one million option to closer to forty eight while option three which staff are recommending sits at over forty two point seven. That's the energy efficiency model cutting back on certain unnecessary components on the built president of soccer nw michael vanesa ali says the purpose of the new report is to show city councillors that in fact the facility can be built cheaper but feels is heading in the right direction. >> I am feeling very positive about it in saying that we've been very, very close to this before and it hasn't got across the finish line so it is just part of the process and it is a step in the right direction but it's still just a step when this goes to the developers and they get to come back with their own designs of what the facility will layout like what it will look like on the exterior and they come back with that final tally then we'll know but adds some of those discretionary items include an emergency generator ,additional parking and relocating the baseball diamond which can be addressed later and would cost around a million dollars. Mckeller ward councillor brian hamilton says the project would be welcomed by many in the community. >> The site has been selected finally and the scope of the project the parameters have been set by city council. So what we're looking at is very much in line with I think the the expectations of the community as well as city council. This is a legacy project and ultimately it's here and I anticipate it's going to get past five point five million of the capped bids forty two point seven million price tag will be allocated for preparing the site which is located next to the community auditorium. >> Josh maranhao tv news. It's been six years since the lakehead psychiatric hospital shut its doors and officials with infrastructure ontario still aren't ready to put the property up for sale. Questions about the future of the were heightened last week after a fire broke out inside the massive building apparently caused by trespassers. City council members say they want an update from the province. >> Jonathan wilson reports. Bay fire crews were called to a blaze inside the former lakehead psychiatric hospital on may 13th. Witnesses reported smoke coming from the building and firefighters were able to quickly extinguish a small fire that was presumed to be started by trespassers. There was minimal damage to the ceiling and some content damage inside the building which have been closed since twenty eighteen is located in andrew foulds ward and he's been looking for answers for years about the province's plans for the property. >> The province made the decision to close it and you know, as a result it's it's actually just stood there and not really been functional and you know, recently we've seen, you know, some not so great things happen there, some nefarious things and you know, there was I believe a fire there are a couple of weeks ago and certainly, you know, as I drive by they're fairly regularly you know, it is becoming a bit derelict. >> A spokesperson for infrastructure ontario issued a statement this week saying the property is not currently for sale. We've been undertaking various due diligence activities towards identifying potential future uses for the site. Infrastructure minister kinga surma and her staff have toured the 500000 square foot building. City officials spoke to her about it at the roma conference in january but there are still no clear plan for the building. One person who was recently allowed access inside found graffiti in some of the rooms and paint peeling off the walls the has been declared surplus which means it would first have to be offered to other levels of government school boards or agencies before it's put up for sale. >> Mackenzie ashcroft says he wants the province to demolish it so that the majority of the property can be redeveloped for the benefit of the city. >> We're on the province to do something with it as soon as possible and almost every month or so someone comes with another proposal to my office of mixed housing recreation those kinds of things. And of course we would always keep, you know, the trail system in the lake as is. But there's no doubt that it's

a huge property that could house many the lands with the house many thousands of people city council put community land use designation on the northern portion of the property in order to protect green spaces and natural heritage features. The spokesperson from infrastructure ontario declined to provide any timelines for the disposition of the building and property. Jonathan wilson tv news mercury contamination near dried and grassy narrows is still being made worse by runoff from the dryden mill. That's according to new research released today. It shows industrial waste water from the mill is increasing the rate that existing mercury contaminates fish and impacts human health. >> Leigh noonan has the details. High levels of methyl mercury found in fish have taken a severe toll on the health of people. Grassy narrows first nation since the 60s and 70s when mercury was dumped into the english wabigon river system by the pulp and paper mill in dryden. New research shows that the effluent from the mill today is still exacerbating the issue. >> The chemistry of water that's being discharged from the mill and dryden today is amplifying the mercury problem above what we would expect to be if that discharge were not occurring. >> Grassy narrows chief rudy turtle wants to see the mill take immediate action to address the problem. >> I hope that they would support clean up and also that they would look at making sure that they are having safer practise or just shut it down period. The mill's new owners, dryden fibre canada said they care deeply but won't comment until they've had time to review the report. According to brand rajan it's well known that sulphates and organic matter are needed to convert mercury to the methylmercury that accumulates in the food chain both are naturally occurring in the river but his study not only found sulphate levels 30 to 100 times higher downstream from the mill but also found high levels of organic matter that compound the problem even more than they expected. >> So about ten times more sulphate resulted in about two times more ethylmercury and so that's that's a significant amount because if you reduce the amount of methylmercury in the environment by half then ultimately you would reduce the amount of ethylmercury in fish by half. >> Turtle says he's disappointed but not surprised by the results and holds both ottawa and queen's park responsible for the ones that put the regulations on and and they're the ones that look after the practises so they should have done a better job. And again, it's disappointing to see this happening in this age. >> A spokesperson for ontario's ministry of environment conservation said the report is being reviewed by technical experts and a meeting is planned with branfman and indigenous communities next week. Meanwhile, branfman says this doesn't have to be bad news as it would be much faster and easier to stop adding the sulphates and organic matter to the river. >> Then it will be to remove the mercury every yeah every moment that we continue to these compounds to the river that we're still producing more methylmercury that's entering the food chain. >> The federal ministry of environment did not respond to our requests for comment before this story went to air. >> Leigh noonan, who's a health technology company specialising in medication delivery software, has completed its first successful drone test flight. Critical medication was delivered to a patient located 30 kilometres away in a remote area in about half an hour. Officials say this might just be the future of pharmaceutical delivery. >> Jane belic tells us more about script runner is the company responsible for this canadian first the firm partnered with oc medical arts pharmacy to utilise a high powered drone to deliver meds to hard to access areas. >> A shipment of insulin was successfully delivered to an elderly woman living alone on trout lake, co-founder of script runner adam plummer speaks more about their efforts as a company. >> We believe that everybody deserves to have a great quality of life and that's why we kind of do it in the form of medication delivery, right? So I think that if these populations are in areas that are hard to get to again this is the drone is definitely a versatile equipment. That's one of the many things to be use for last mile to get them their medication. So I definitely do think it could really help out with that . >> The drone use for the demonstration is the dji fly kart thirty a large 65 kg wind resistant machine capable of carrying a payload of up to 40 kilos. This trial run could potentially revolutionise the country's evolving health care landscape. The executive director of oak medical arts, robin desplaines says drones could provide crucial solutions in transporting medications to those in desperate need and also reduce busy pharmacy workflow. >> It's been absolutely exciting to be a part of scriptwriter's first drone

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