Hour 3 of Ottawa Now for Fri. August 8th, 2025
August 8, 2025
The idea of a floating sauna might seem obscure, but it’s not a brand-new thought. Montreal has one. So does Tofino and Victoria – a pair of well-known cities in British Columbia. And here in Ottawa, the NCC might be getting in on the action, as they ponder a potential addition to the River House. Are you on board? Kristy Cameron sifts through the CFRA textboard and tackles today’s Question of the Day. Meantime, an economic think-tank is calling on the Carney Liberals to slash 64,000 public service jobs. The Montreal Economic Institute is urging the feds to take inspiration from former Prime Minister Jean Chretien, who also represented the Liberals in Canada’s biggest role. His administration reduced the size of the public service by 17 percent over a 5-year period. Joining the show in Hour 3 to explain further is Renaud Brossard, the MEI’s Vice-President of Communications.
Unpublished Newswire
Ottawa music impresario Harvey Glatt, who died on Aug. 21, at age 91, played an oversized role in turning the country’s sleepy capital city from a cultural desert into a musically vibrant place.He was the son of scrap metal merchants and a music fanatic who began reading music trade journals as a 13-year-old. In 1957, he co-founded the Treble Clef record store, a retail outlet devoted solely to music at a time when vinyl was typically sold in department stores or distributed by mail through record clubs. The initial shop grew to a chain of 15 locations, earning Mr. Glatt the unofficial...
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