Hour 1 of Ottawa Now for Wed. March 19th, 2025
March 19, 2025
You smell that? It’s the long-awaited scent of Spring! You hear that? It might be an e-scooter passing by. That season is slated to begin on the last day of April, as the City of Ottawa examines a potential expansion of this program into newer neighbourhoods. And in some areas, e-scooters could be available for rent 24 hours a day. Of course, nothing has been made official, but City Hall is certainly ready to have this debate. Beacon Hill-Cyrville councillor Tim Tierney joins the program in Hour 1. Meantime, new statistics from the OPP shows that impaired driving in Eastern Ontario doesn’t appear to be declining. We try to understand what is fueling this concerning trend.
Unpublished Newswire
In the race to mitigate the damage from future wildfires, stewards of Alberta's parks have turned to loggers to create fire guards
May 19, 2025 - 09:37 | Globalnews Digital | Global News - Canada
Last fall, as archeologist Yves Chrétien was supervising a team digging at the site of a future hockey rink northeast of Montreal, a mini excavator unearthed pieces of cut stone.Formed under an ancient sea, the stones bore marks made by Indigenous people somewhere between 6,150 and 8,200 years ago. The discovery, found below the site of a former Shell distribution centre and 18th and 19th century farms, could help shed light on the region’s little-known prehistoric period.
May 19, 2025 - 09:28 | Morgan Lowrie | The Globe and Mail
Nova Scotia RCMP say the results of a renewed search for two children who went missing earlier this month “will be carefully reviewed.”
May 19, 2025 - 09:23 | Aaron D’Andrea | Global News - Canada
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