Hour 1 of Ottawa Now for Thurs. August 7th, 2025
August 7, 2025
We are in the middle of a trade war with our closest North American neighbour. The economy has exited the COVID era, yet some businesses are surviving on pins and needles. Others have already gone under. And for some employment positions, Artificial Intelligence is lurking in the distance, waiting to take our jobs and hard-earned cash. Do you classify yourself among that crowd? Travis O’Rourke, the President of Calgary-based recruitment firm Hays Canada, says the growing role of A.I. is adding a new layer of complexity to a younger labour market, one that is being shaped by steep budget cuts and immigration-driven competition. He joins Kristy Cameron in Hour 1. Meantime, Kristy’s Summer Hit List has been granted another week-long extension, and just in time for another humid weekend in Canada’s Capital. Joining the show with her list of Summer recommendations is CTV Morning Live show producer and former CFRA contributor Cassie Aylward. But first, we bring you up to speed on today’s top headlines.
Unpublished Newswire
If housing costs too much, there must not be enough supply. That’s Ottawa’s simple take on the affordable housing crisis in Canada. And their simple solution? Impose policy, including the housing accelerator fund, to get rid of zoning prohibitions and accelerate the building of new homes within existing urban footprints.
But, asks Patrick Condon, professor of urban design at the University of British Columbia: What if the feds are wrong?
If increased density delivered affordability, he counters, Vancouver would be cheap by now. And what does the current glut of unsold small condo...
August 10, 2025 - 09:00 | Donna Kennedy-Glans | National Post
Montreal police are investigating after a Jewish father was attacked in the city’s Villeray–Saint-Michel–Parc-Extension borough on Friday afternoon, an act condemned by much of the political class on Saturday.Police say no arrests have been made as the 32-year-old man who was with his three children was struck several times by a suspect around 2:45 p.m.
August 10, 2025 - 08:42 | Sidhartha Banerjee | The Globe and Mail
After the Hamas-led terror attacks of Oct. 7, 2023, Dr. Miri Bar-Halpern, a psychology instructor at Harvard Medical School, wrote on an Israeli Facebook group offering therapy resources to those affected by the attacks.
She was flooded with requests from American Jews and Israeli-Americans. She, and seven colleagues, provided a year’s worth of pro bono support in Massachusetts.
In September, she will lead three talks in Toronto, on the theme of what many Jews have been experiencing since Oct. 7: a second layer of trauma — traumatic invalidation — that comes from their pain being...
August 10, 2025 - 06:00 | Special to National Post | National Post
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