Hour 3 of Ottawa Now for Thurs. May 29th, 2025
May 29, 2025
As Canadians prepare to celebrate the country's 158th birthday, the official July 1st lineup has been unveiled by Canadian Heritage. It features names like Sarah McLachlan, Tom Cochrane, and Randy Bachman from BTO. And as Parliament Hill continues its overdue facelift, LeBreton Flats will once again be the flagship location for this year's festivities. In your view, what is the biggest draw for this year's party? What is the 2025 lineup lacking? That's up for debate in Hour 3, as we tackle today's Question of the Day. Plus, it’s time to dig out those green thumbs and send your gardening-related inquiries to gardening expert Carson Arthur! He joins the program for his weekly visit just after the 4:30 newscast.
Unpublished Newswire
A teenage boy has been charged with first-degree murder after a woman was fatally stabbed in Pickering, Ont.
Police received a call to a residential area of the Southern Ontario city around 3 p.m. on Thursday, Durham Regional Police said in
a news release
. A passerby had noticed an elderly woman lying on the ground outside of a home near Lynn Heights Drive and Fairport Road. The victim was brought to a Toronto-area trauma centre where she was pronounced...
May 30, 2025 - 15:52 | Courtney Greenberg | National Post
Wildland firefighters battling the worst fire season in British Columbia’s history told internal investigators they’ve become so overwhelmed in recent years they worry fireline deaths are becoming “inevitable,” documents obtained by The Globe and Mail show. Three documents, called Facilitated Learning Analyses (FLAs), examined the 2023 entrapment of five Brazilian firefighters as well as the deaths that year of two young firefighters during B.C.’s fire season, which burned 28,000 square kilometres, forced 48,000 people to evacuate, and killed six firefighters. Most of the contents of the...
May 30, 2025 - 15:32 | Jesse Winter | The Globe and Mail
Nova Scotia’s Opposition NDP called on Premier Tim Houston’s government Friday to release a report about the province’s long history of environmental racism, saying it’s a matter of accountability.An eight-member panel was expected to submit its report to Houston’s government in December 2023.
May 30, 2025 - 15:21 | Keith Doucette | The Globe and Mail
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