Hour 2 of Ottawa Now for Tues. October 7th, 2025
October 7, 2025
Should the Ontario government take over responsibility of the city’s O-Train system? That’s what City Council will be voting on during Wednesday’s pivotal meeting. Laura Shantz, a member of Ottawa Transit Riders, drops by with her two cents. In other local news, less waste ended up in Ottawa’s landfill during Year 1 of a new three-item garbage pickup limit for city-wide households. CTV’s Austin Lee delivers the data in Hour 2. Plus, Ottawa Police has been performing a series of raids on magic mushroom shops. We get the latest developments from CFRA’s Chris Holski.
Unpublished Newswire
In the late 1960s, the urbanist Jane Jacobs bought a cavernous rooming house on Toronto’s Albany Avenue. She and her husband – a freelance writer and a young architect – moved their family into the Bohemian Annex.Forty years later, the house sold for $850,000 and got renovated. It’s now worth millions, and sports an Audi SUV in the driveway. The building remains; everything else has changed.
November 1, 2025 - 08:30 | Alex Bozikovic | The Globe and Mail
A new court ruling combines sociological analysis and the facts of a minor crime to create a new genre of narrative that could be called Rural Ontario Gothic. Here is that ruling, in the case of His Majesty the King and Neil Valliant, handed down October 21, 2025, in Pembroke, Ont., by Justice J.R. Richardson, who compellingly tells the story of a shooting that injured no one but revealed a great deal:
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November 1, 2025 - 08:00 | Special to National Post | National Post
At 2 a.m. on Sunday Nov. 2, daylight saving time (DST) will end and clocks will “fall back” one hour for most Canadians, forcing people to adjust their sleep schedules.
In Canada, DST always starts on the second Sunday in March and ends on the first Sunday in November.
DST is practiced in over 70 countries and by an estimated one billion people globally, but how did Canada come to participate in this peculiar routine, and why do some provinces just not bother? What are the potential benefits and downsides? Here’s everything you need to know about daylight saving time ahead of...
November 1, 2025 - 08:00 | National Post | National Post
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