Hour 1 of Ottawa Now for Thurs. July 24th, 2025
July 24, 2025
Chris Holski is filling in for Kristy Cameron this week, as she enjoys a relaxing vacation without a single worry of any traffic nightmares. Perhaps the rest of us haven’t been as lucky over the past 7 days. And as we move deeper into the 2020s and well beyond that, maybe we need to reinvent Highway 417. Would you support turning portions of it into a boulevard? What about underground transit commutes that don’t involve the O-Train? We dig deeper with Martin Tite, who is an architect with Ottawa-based Provencher Roy. But first, we bring you up to speed on today’s top headlines, which includes the death of a famous and revolutionary wrestler.
Unpublished Newswire
The Halifax, N.S., gravesite of the British general who burned down the White House 211 years ago this week was a busy place Monday.
Larry and Connie Tremain, of Arizona, had just disembarked from their cruise ship when they visited the city’s Old Burying Ground, at the corner of Spring Garden Road and Barrington Street. The national historic site is the final resting place of British Major General Robert Ross, who led his troops to burn the White House and other public buildings in Washington, D.C., on Aug. 24, 1814, during the War of 1812, in retaliation for the American attack on...
August 25, 2025 - 17:22 | Chris Lambie | National Post
Ottawa Mayor Mark Sutcliffe defended efforts to improve conditions in the ByWard Market after Ontario Premier Doug Ford labelled the area "a disaster" following a recent visit to the capital. Read More
August 25, 2025 - 17:13 | Aedan Helmer | Ottawa Citizen
Carney is moving to align Canada more closely with Europe as U.S. President Donald Trump upends global trade, and Russia's ongoing war in Ukraine heightens global security risks.
August 25, 2025 - 17:09 | Globalnews Digital | Global News - Canada
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