Hour 1 of Ottawa Now for Fri. August 8th, 2025
August 8, 2025
Today’s QOTD discussion stems from a news item that we first addressed on Thursday. And just to confirm for the final time, this is not a headline from The Onion. This is very real, and totally not satire. The NCC is thinking of installing a floating sauna at the NCC River House, which can be found at Ottawa’s East End. The proposed sauna must accommodate a minimum of 15 people, and as many as 25 people. It would operate 7 days a week, and throughout the year. Yes, even during January’s frigid temperatures. We set the stage in Hour 1 with CTV’s Kimberley Johnson. Meantime, Kristy’s Summer Hit List keeps on trucking for another full week, as a crowd of Bell Media personalities deliver their smoking-hot ways to soak in the Summer fun. Ottawa Now show producer Dani Dube, who just returned from an East Coast vacation, chimes in with some of her fresh ideas! But first, we bring you up to speed on today’s top headlines.
Unpublished Newswire
When Obesity Canada first released its treatment guidelines in 2020, the chapter on medications included three drugs and six recommendations for their use.On Monday, the health charity published its latest chapter update in the Canadian Medical Association Journal – and the number of drug options and recommendations have both doubled.
August 11, 2025 - 00:01 | Jennifer Yang | The Globe and Mail
An out-of-control fire outside of Kelowna with a listed size of 1.5 hectares as of 4 p.m. Sunday has led to tactical evacuations, but a local emergency group says some residents might be able to return home as early as tonight. The so-called Daves Creek fire is currently burning 15 kilometres east of Kelowna near Highway 33, which officials have closed between Goudie Road and Cardinal Creek.
August 10, 2025 - 22:33 | Wolfgang Depner | The Globe and Mail
When her neighbours came knocking at her door last Monday afternoon telling her to evacuate, Barbara Watson was calm. Too calm. From her church-conversion house in Small Point-Adam’s Cove-Blackhead-Broad Cove, N.L., she could see smoke in the distance, yes, but assumed it was a little fire in the woods that would be easy to extinguish. She grabbed her small cross-body bag, some freshly washed laundry and her asthma inhaler and headed to a friend’s place in Western Bay, a 10-minute drive away, assuming the evacuation order would be lifted in a day or two.
August 10, 2025 - 21:48 | Dakshana Bascaramurty | The Globe and Mail
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