Hour 3 of Ottawa Now for Wed. July 9th, 2025
July 9, 2025
If you’re under the weather, and you can’t afford to stand in line waiting for answers, who ya gonna call? Probably not The Ghostbusters, but perhaps the World Wide Web. How often do you use DIY medicine these days? What about getting medical advice from someone, or something, who isn’t a medical professional? Kristy Cameron tackles online remedies, and your feedback, during today’s Question of the Day. Meantime, the RCMP is warning Canadians about the looming dangers of online radicalization. This comes after 4 people were arrested near Quebec City for allegedly trying to start an anti-government militia. The bigger headline is that two of the Quebecers who were snagged trying to seize Canadian land are active members of the Canadian Armed Forces. Joining us in Hour 3 is Walter Callaghan, a PhD candidate who is studying Anthropology at the University of Toronto. He was also a Health Administration Officer in the Canadian Armed Forces from 2001 to 2010.
Unpublished Newswire
The affordable housing complex Mike Tiller is hoping for is unlike anything else in his community.The sleek, modular buildings with sloping roofs and wide windows pose a sharp contrast to the brightly-coloured clapboard houses dotting the shores in New-Wes-Valley, a small fishing community along the northern end of Newfoundland’s Bonavista Bay.
July 31, 2025 - 07:43 | Sarah Smellie | The Globe and Mail
Toronto has moved to ban motorized watercraft from one of its busiest beaches by next year due to concerns over unsafe operators and illegal rentals, but one rental company says the city should instead focus on regulations that weed out “bad actors” in the industry.City council passed a motion last week requesting that PortsToronto ban boats and personal watercrafts such as Jet Skis within at least 150 metres of the shoreline at Woodbine Beach in the city’s east end by June 2026.
July 31, 2025 - 07:28 | Vanessa Tiberio | The Globe and Mail
OTTAWA — While the federal Liberal government has signalled plans to make good on its campaign promise to give raises to military members, it is keeping tight-lipped about whether it intends to do the same for RCMP recruits.
During this spring’s federal election campaign, Prime Minister Mark Carney
pledged to bolster the national police force by hiring another 1,000 members...
July 31, 2025 - 07:27 | Stephanie Taylor | National Post
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