Hour 3 of Ottawa Now for Mon. September 29th, 2025
September 29, 2025
Ontario’s minimum wage will be a little bit higher as of Wednesday morning, with the hourly rate set to climb to $17.60. That’s an hourly increase of 40 cents. However, that isn’t high enough for Laura Walton, the President of the Ontario Federation of Labour. She’s been fighting for a $20-per-hour minimum wage for the past 5 years. What should the limit be? Kristy Cameron sifts through the CFRA textboard and tackles today’s Question of the Day. Plus, a new Conservative activist organization is questioning whether Ontario’s Premier is Conservative enough. It’s time to talk politics on this fine Monday afternoon with our Political Heat Panel.
Unpublished Newswire
Conservatives say the contract's cancellation risks making Canada appear as an unreliable ally to Ukraine and undermines commitments to bolstering the domestic defence industry.
October 24, 2025 - 13:00 | Sean Boynton | Global News - Canada
It’s an incident that tells you a lot about John Candy. He was hard at work on Only the Lonely, the 1991 film that would help affirm his credibility as a dramatic actor. But it also marked an occasion when the famously affable Candy lost his cool when he realized that his legendary co-star, Maureen O’Hara, was not receiving the respect she deserved.
His top billing and seven-figure salary ensured luxury treatment for Candy during the shoot. That included the provision of an opulent trailer on location. Such was not the case for O’Hara: despite her status as a reigning queen of...
October 24, 2025 - 12:44 | Jamie Portman | National Post
A Canadian man is one of two hikers who was struck by lightning on Humphreys Peak near the city of Flagstaff, Arizona, reports Northern Arizona radio news network,
Great Circle Media
(GMC).
The...
October 24, 2025 - 12:18 | Stewart Lewis | National Post
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