Hour 1 of Ottawa Now for Mon. July 14th, 2025
July 14, 2025
The heat is on, and so are the hazy wildfire skies. Kristy Cameron brings you up to speed on today’s top headlines, starting with an Air Quality Statement from Environment Canada. Shifting gears to Health news, a new report says obesity rates have increased faster during COVID compared to the previous decade. More specifically, a lot of today’s young adults are facing this grim reality. We dig deeper in Hour 1 with Dr. Paul Roumeliotis, the Medical Officer of Health and CEO of the Eastern Ontario Health Unit. Plus, a section of the Queen Elizabeth Driveway will be closed to motorists over the next 3 months. If you guessed that construction would be the culprit, you are bang-on. CTV’s Austin Lee fills us in.
Unpublished Newswire
A man who’s been on the list of Canada’s top 25 most wanted fugitives for murder and drug trafficking charges in Saskatoon dating back to 2022 has been arrested at the airport in Montreal while police say he was returning to Canada. Quebec provincial police say officers from the Sûreté du Québec Airport Unit, the Mascouche Major Crime Investigation Division and the Canada Border Services Agency arrested Jonathan Ouellet-Gendron on several Canada-wide warrants at Montreal’s Trudeau International Airport on Saturday.A Saskatoon Police Service news release from May 2022 says...
August 9, 2025 - 20:00 | | The Globe and Mail
B.C.’s minister of energy and climate solutions Adrian Dix said Site C won’t be the last major energy project in the province after becoming fully operational ahead of schedule. The dam in northern B.C. is now able to generate 1,100 megawatts of electricity – enough to power half a million homes per year – after the sixth and final power-generating turbine came online. The first of the six turbines started to generate power in October 2024.
August 9, 2025 - 19:43 | Wolfgang Depner | The Globe and Mail
The Ottawa Redblacks rebounded from one of the worst first quarters in franchise history to pull off their biggest victory of the season Saturday afternoon at BMO Field in Toronto. Read More
August 9, 2025 - 18:34 | Don Brennan | Ottawa Citizen
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