Hour 2 of Ottawa Now for Mon. September 8th, 2025
September 8, 2025
Andrew Pinsent is filling in for Kristy Cameron, who is probably at the cottage right now. We cannot confirm or deny if it's raining outside her porch. For a few weeks in August, it was sheer chaos on the Air Canada tarmac, as a flight attendant strike left countless passengers in limbo. Then, after a testy back-and-forth through the media lens, a tentative agreement was reached between the two sides. That has since been voted on by union members, and a whopping 99 percent of them have declined it. And now, they will head to mediation to work things out. Joining the show with his reaction is Rafael Gomez, the Director for the Centre of Industrial Relations and Human Resources at the University of Toronto. Plus, a handful of recent fires is causing a wave of concern around Canada’s Capital. Are they linked? CFRA’s Chris Holski has the latest developments.
Unpublished Newswire
Blue Jays general manager Ross Atkins said Wednesday that shortstop Bo Bichette is making progress on a daily basis, but there's no firm date for his return to the lineup.
October 1, 2025 - 12:51 | Globalnews Digital | Global News - Ottawa
The U.S. government shutdown could be a “headache” for Canadian travellers leaving the country or returning home if it drags on, says a political science expert.
Departments are
firing employees en masse
while some continue to operate by relying on unpaid workers. There are roughly 550,000...
October 1, 2025 - 12:39 | National Post Staff | National Post
Armed U.S. border patrol agents in tactical gear briefly chased a cyclist who’d been repeatedly taunting them about his lack of U.S. citizenship as they patrolled downtown Chicago on Sunday in the latest immigration enforcement operation in a major city.
In an extended clip of the tense exchange filmed by independent journalist Christopher Sweat and shared by ABC7 in Chicago, the camera follows a group of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents as they march through a downtown area.
In the background, a voice can be heard repeatedly telling them, “I’m not a U.S. citizen.”...
October 1, 2025 - 12:24 | National Post Staff | National Post
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