Hour 4 of Ottawa Now for Tues. June 10th, 2025
June 10, 2025
The report into the infamous ArriveCan app wasn’t the only breakdown we got from Canada’s Auditor General today. In a separate release, it says the feds have been slow in their efforts to reduce office space. Since 2019, Public Services and Procurement Canada had plans to reduce its office footprint. It’s now 2025, a whopping 6 years later, and there has only been a 2 percent reduction. That’s because full-scale implementation only began last year, a reality that was fueled by a lack of funding. CTV’s Austin Lee has more on that story in Hour 4. Plus, we deliver the latest breaking news as it happens, right here on CFRA’s Ottawa Now.
Unpublished Newswire
One day when he was a kid, Bruce McKean heard a noise coming from a rooming house near his home in Victoria. He went inside and found that the wood stacked beside the furnace was in flames. He yelled “fire.” The firemen came and extinguished it. Young Bruce had saved the day.But instead of thanking him, the people who ran the rooming house chewed him out. They didn’t want a spotlight shone on their dubious establishment.
June 14, 2025 - 07:30 | Marcus Gee | The Globe and Mail
I ’d known Abby for over twenty years. We always had a lot to talk about, with overlapping interests and a similar world view. She had a soothing energy and a keen sense of humour. Over the years, the occasional comment or dark joke made me wonder if we shared the same kind of damage, but I never probed.
One day, we sat across from each other in a pub booth in Paddington, a suburb of Sydney, Australia. She ordered a glass of champagne for us both and we picked at some food. After some small talk, she asked me, “How are you?”
There was something about her tone, the genuine concern in...
June 14, 2025 - 06:30 | Rebecca Huntley | Walrus
Rachel Smith is expecting to give birth any day in the epicentre of Canada’s worst measles outbreak in nearly 30 years. However, the Aylmer, Ont., mother is not worried about her health or the health of her baby because she’s fully vaccinated against the virus. Her cousin, Esther Wiebe, is not worried either, but for a different reason – she and her three unvaccinated children have already recovered from measles and are now immune.
June 14, 2025 - 06:30 | Kelly Grant | The Globe and Mail
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