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Publication Date: October 8, 2025 - 18:35
Ottawa Now - Should cars adopt built-in technology that prevents drunk driving?
October 8, 2025
Safety standards in the vehicles we drive have evolved over the years. But if automakers want to be in the running for the industry’s most coveted safety awards, their brand-new inventions will have to start incorporating a new range of features. That’s according to driving columnist Lorraine Sommerfeld, as she explains in one of her latest articles. The most prominent idea, in her view, is a form of technology that can determine if a driver is under the influence. Sommerfeld joins Kristy Cameron on today's Ottawa Now.
Unassuming in size, with modest grandstands and a simple pit lane, the Saratoga Speedway transforms over the course of a few short laps into a place filled with thunderous noise, clouds of tire smoke and a few thousand racing fans enjoying the spectacle of the last motorsport track on Vancouver Island. As developers buy up land, neighbourhoods encroach on old tracks, and noise complaints rise, old tracks around the West Coast have been shut down and converted to cul-de-sacs and residential homes. The oldest track in Western Canada, Westshore Motorsports Park in Langford, B.C.,...
November 1, 2025 - 10:00 | Visuals and story by James MacDonald | The Globe and Mail
More recalls have been issued for pistachio products due to possible salmonella contamination, according to the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA). The recalled items were sold online and in stores in Ottawa and Edmonton.
November 1, 2025 - 08:57 | | CBC News - Ottawa
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
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