Hour 2 of Ottawa Now for Mon. June 9th, 2025
June 9, 2025
As we head closer and closer to the June scorchers, are we ready for the next heatwave? According to the City of Ottawa’s Climate Resiliency Strategy, more than 1-in-3 residents lack the means to stay cool when we get hit with one. As a result, health-related risks for those residents go up. Here in Canada’s Capital, landlords are required by law to ensure that indoor temperatures stay above a minimum Celsius reading in the Winter months. Today, health advocates say we need to implement a similar approach during those humid Summer months, and prevent apartment rooms from turning into saunas. Kristy Cameron chats with Robb Barnes, a Climate Program Director at the Canadian Association of Physicians for the Environment. Shifting gears to our city’s trash, the Trail Road Landfill is expected to reach capacity within the next 10 to 15 years. So, once again, what do we do with Ottawa’s unwanted garbage? In the latest gameplan, City Council has five options on the table. We rekindle the debate with Waste Watch Ottawa co-founder Duncan Bury.
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Experts say the bill, which cuts billions of tax credits for clean energy and electric vehicles, end a brief era where the U.S. and Canada were moving in the same direction.
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I t’s the morning of August 22, 2019, and I’m in a Zodiac bouncing along the waters of the St. Lawrence River. It can hold six divers and all their gear, but this morning, there are only six of us—no gear. Far from being divers, we are curiosity seekers from New York, Vancouver, London, and Montreal, all obsessed with the sinking of the Empress of Ireland, which claimed 1,014 lives in 1914.
Until a few years ago, I had never heard of the Empress and its disastrous end. And that’s staggering, because the loss of passenger life (836) outnumbered that of the Titanic (832).
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July 5, 2025 - 06:30 | Eve Lazarus | Walrus
Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow says she’s confident that $30-million in federal housing funding is not at risk despite council’s refusal to permit sixplexes across the entirety of the city − a condition of its agreement with Ottawa.“Look at me. Do I look worried?” Ms. Chow told The Globe and Mail on Friday at a meeting with its editorial board.
July 5, 2025 - 06:30 | Sophia Coppolino | The Globe and Mail
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