Hour 1 of Ottawa Now for Thurs. July 24th, 2025

Chris Holski is filling in for Kristy Cameron this week, as she enjoys a relaxing vacation without a single worry of any traffic nightmares. Perhaps the rest of us haven’t been as lucky over the past 7 days. And as we move deeper into the 2020s and well beyond that, maybe we need to reinvent Highway 417. Would you support turning portions of it into a boulevard? What about underground transit commutes that don’t involve the O-Train? We dig deeper with Martin Tite, who is an architect with Ottawa-based Provencher Roy. But first, we bring you up to speed on today’s top headlines, which includes the death of a famous and revolutionary wrestler.