Hour 3 of Ottawa Now for Thurs. April 24th, 2025
April 24, 2025
The Ford government is planning to crack down on financial mismanagement at a handful of provincial school boards. Two of them are based in Toronto. Another is Ottawa’s largest. And if the results don’t go well, the province could seize control. Is this the right move from the Ministry of Education? Kristy Cameron sifts through the textboard and tackles today’s Question of the Day. Meantime, patio season is finally starting to warm up, but some of the city’s restaurant owners don’t consider it as good news for their bottom line. That’s because the City of Ottawa is raising patio fees by 40 percent, turning the clock back to pre-pandemic levels. John Borsten joins the program to outline his concerns in Hour 3. He runs a handful of Ottawa’s best-known eateries, including The Grand Pizzeria and Starling Restaurant. Plus, businesses along Dalhousie Street are hopping mad after catching wind of an incoming parking inconvenience. In the near future, on-street parking spots in the area could be removed so that OC Transpo bus drivers can park their buses. CTV’s Natalie Van Rooy has more on that.
Unpublished Newswire
The Edmonton Oilers took a commanding 3-1 lead in the Western Conference final series with a 4-1 victory over the Dallas Stars.
May 27, 2025 - 23:01 | | CBC News - Canada
Air Line Pilots Association Canada president Tim Perry outlines where the industry is at today and what progress he hopes to see as the country faces an air traffic controller shortage, which an Air Canada pilot called out during a recent flight.
May 27, 2025 - 21:48 | | CBC News - Canada
This visit by King Charles III and Queen Camilla, which culminated in him opening the 45th Parliament and delivering the government’s Throne Speech, was put together at the last minute, fit into a busy section of the royal calendar, and was over 24 hours after it began. It may have come as a response to serious political and economic threats from the United States, but the King’s first visit as Canada’s monarch displays notable symmetry with a more long-planned visit 68 years ago, when Queen Elizabeth II’s first visit to Canada as monarch was also a brief stop in Ottawa to open...
May 27, 2025 - 21:28 | Patricia Treble | The Globe and Mail
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