Hour 3 of Ottawa Now for Thurs. July 17th, 2025
July 17, 2025
Over the past few years, Ottawa has dealt with some nasty Summer storms. Do you find these storms fascinating or scary to watch? Guest host Chris Holski sifts through the textboard and tackles today's Question of the Day. Meantime, it's a Thursday afternoon, which means your gardening questions are fair game for gardening expert Carson Arthur. Plus, the Westgate Barber Shop is putting away the scissors after 57 years. CTV's Tyler Fleming talks to some of the shop's longtime customers.
Unpublished Newswire
It’s unnerving to read a government document describing how to properly cut a cow’s throat. But in order to understand the lawsuit between the producers of kosher meat, kosher certification agencies, and the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA), which regulates the health of food, animals, and plants, one has to face certain realities.
Since 2010, the CFIA’s guidelines for ritual slaughter—the act of killing an animal to fulfill specific religious or cultural laws—have described in detail the method of using a knife “at least twice as long as the animal’s neck width and...
August 26, 2025 - 06:30 | Corey Mintz | Walrus
When the federal government ordered striking—and locked-out—flight attendants back to work on August 16, it was simultaneously attacking the constitutionally protected right to strike. Labour Minister Patty Hajdu waited a mere twelve hours after the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), the union which represents Air Canada flight attendants, announced the strike to use a section of the Labour Code to order workers back on the job and into binding arbitration, citing the risk of economic harm and travel disruptions. It’s a move the Liberals have been all too keen to pull...
August 26, 2025 - 06:29 | David Moscrop | Walrus
Good morning. Prime Minister Mark Carney’s trip to Europe has moved to Germany today and will see a final stop tomorrow in Latvia. Keep reading to catch up on the trip so far, plus more on updated smoking guidelines and meeting the keepers of the coast. But first:Today’s headlinesIsrael bombed Gaza’s Nasser Hospital twice, killing 20, including journalists and rescue workersTrade Minister Dominic LeBlanc will meet with U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick in Washington this weekTreasure hunters in Cape Breton see therapy as the real prize, not lost pirate gold. Still, they hope for...
August 26, 2025 - 06:29 | Bill Curry | The Globe and Mail
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