Hour 4 of Ottawa Now for Tues. August 5th, 2025
August 5, 2025
Looking to get rid of your empties? We'll replay our earlier interview with John Heckbert, executive director of Operation Come Home, about how they're looking to come TO YOU to pick up your empty cans and bottles. CTV Ottawa's Austin Lee talks about the smoky air that's befallen Ottawa.
Unpublished Newswire
Standing along the rocky shores of Cape Breton Island, Jonathan Kanary is trying not to feel completely defeated. The manager and backcountry guide of a Nova Scotia adventure-tourism company, Live Life InTents, has been turning away customer after customer, many of whom drove across the country or flew overseas to be there. Nearby, atop the Mabou Highlands walled by the Atlantic Ocean, Capes 100, a world-renowned trail race, has been cancelled this weekend – with organizers issuing deferrals and partial refunds for dozens of participants, while mile-marker signage is being haphazardly...
August 7, 2025 - 23:13 | Temur Durrani | The Globe and Mail
Canadian officials say it is not possible for wildfire fighters to lessen the impact of smoke drifting across vast swathes of the country and blanketing some American states, after several U.S. lawmakers complained that Canada is not doing enough to combat the smokey conditions.Officials with the Canadian Interagency Forest Fire Centre – a non-profit broker of staff and equipment owned and operated by federal, provincial and territorial wildland fire management agencies – held a briefing Thursday, which was attended by multiple American news outlets.
August 7, 2025 - 21:50 | Mike Hager | The Globe and Mail
A pro-Palestinian demonstration outside the home of Industry Minister Mélanie Joly has sparked calls for the government to consider security measures to protect politicians from protests at their residences. A group of up to 60 protesters chanted slogans, rang bells, banged pots and projected messages onto Ms. Joly’s house in Montreal on Wednesday evening, in an escalation of protest activity over the situation in Gaza.
August 7, 2025 - 21:40 | Marie Woolf, Claire McFarlane | The Globe and Mail
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