Hour 4 of Ottawa Now for Thurs. May 22nd, 2025
May 22, 2025
As participants gear up for another installment of Ottawa Race Weekend, the annual marathon is receiving praise for its economical impact within Canada’s Capital. Mike Vieira, an Executive Director of Run Ottawa, joins the program in Hour 4. Plus, Canadians are urgently watching the national newscast for an update on the Canada Post labour negotiations, and whether we are destined for another battle at the picket lines on Friday. We deliver the latest breaking news as it happens, right here on CFRA’s Ottawa Now.
Unpublished Newswire
The rise in nationalist sentiment since Donald Trump’s second inauguration has been extraordinary. Flags fly higher. Political speeches lean harder into “Canadian values.”
Nationalism is inherently interesting. There are varieties: left, right, civic, ethnic. There are different, competing definitions. There are benign, if cloying, manifestations and malignant ones. As a sentiment and a commitment, it’s important to examine and understand nationalism since it’s also a kind of currency that can be spent, or a force that can be mobilized, and not necessarily for good. Indeed, nationalism...
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July 1, 2025 - 04:00 | Bruce Deachman | Ottawa Citizen
OTTAWA — Two architects of Alberta NDP Leader Naheed Nenshi’s surprise victory in the 2010 Calgary mayor’s race say they’re feeling déjà vu after seeing another thirty-something Shia Muslim — with family ties to East Africa and Gujarat, India — upend the politics of a major North American city.
Stephen Carter, now
president of Decide Campaigns...
July 1, 2025 - 04:00 | Rahim Mohamed | National Post
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