Hour 2 of Ottawa Now for Mon. April 21st, 2025
April 21, 2025
If he becomes Prime Minister on April 28th, Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre vows to review Canada’s single-use plastic ban. During his Sunday pitstop in Montreal, he claimed that this ban is driving up food prices, and is becoming economically destructive. Should we bring back the plastic straw? Kristy Cameron chats with Cal Lakhan in Hour 2. He is the Director of the Circular Innovation Hub at York University, the largest research initiative that is dedicated to waste across Canada. Meantime, world leaders are paying tribute to Pope Francis, who passed away at the age of 88 earlier this morning. We examine his legacy with Michael W. Higgins, a Vatican Affairs analyst and the author of ‘The Jesuit Disruptor’.
Unpublished Newswire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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