Hour 2 of Ottawa Now for Wed. March 13th, 2024
March 13, 2024
Last month, more than a dozen overdoses plagued the City of Belleville in less than an hour. This led to a city-wide State of Emergency, declared by Mayor Neil Ellis. And it’s a problem that other small towns are facing right now. We dig deeper with Dr. Alex Caudarella, who is the CEO of the Canadian Centre on Substance Use and Addiction. Later in Hour 2, we shift gears to Canada’s Online Harms Bill, as a popular Canadian author criticizes the feds’ latest approach to solving this problem. We explain why Margaret Atwood is at odds with some sections of the present-day bill.
Unpublished Newswire
The council said the actions taken were due to Mayor Ron Paull jeopardizing the city’s relationship with Indigenous communities.
May 2, 2024 - 10:58 | Darrian Matassa-Fung | Global News - Canada
A group of students at the University of Toronto say they have started a protest on campus to call on the university to cut its ties with Israel over the ongoing conflict in Gaza.
May 2, 2024 - 10:48 | | Global News - Canada
Halifax Regional Police say they have arrested a man who was the subject of an emergency alert and believed to be armed and dangerous.Forty-nine-year-old David John Campbell was arrested without incident after he turned himself in to police Wednesday in Dartmouth.He is charged with assault, uttering threats to cause bodily harm or death, and failing to comply with the conditions of a bail order.
May 2, 2024 - 10:34 | | The Globe and Mail
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