Hour 1 of Ottawa Now for Tues. August 19th, 2025
August 19, 2025
Andrew Pinsent is filling in for the vacationing Kristy Cameron this week. U.S. President Donald Trump has kickstarted arrangements for a face-to-face meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. The endgame for this discussion: A clear pathway to end Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Over the past week, Trump has held separate meetings with both parties, which included Zelenskyy’s return to the Oval Office on Monday. Arne Kislenko, a Professor of History at Toronto Metropolitan University, pays us a visit in Hour 1. But first, we bring you up to speed on today’s top headlines, starting with the Air Canada flight attendants’ strike. It might be over, but the ripple effects are only just beginning.
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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...
September 3, 2025 - 16:57 | Brad Wheeler | The Globe and Mail
After nearly 30 years in business, the family-run ByWard Market restaurant Shafali closed on Aug. 31, in a reckoning with ongoing financial struggles that its owner called "devastating." Read More
September 3, 2025 - 16:41 | Peter Hum | Ottawa Citizen
A suspected arson at a home in Richmond Hill, Ont., that left an 11-year-old girl dead and four others critically injured is now being investigated as a homicide, York Region police said Wednesday. Police said they were called to the scene on Skywood Drive just before 3 a.m. on Monday after a report of a house fire. Four unconscious residents were found inside the home while a fifth was found outside, and all of them were taken to hospital in critical condition.
September 3, 2025 - 16:31 | Rianna Lim | The Globe and Mail
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