Source Feed: CFRA - 580 - Ottawa
Publication Date: April 2, 2026 - 18:00
Stay informed
Hour 1 of Ottawa Now for Thurs. April 2nd, 2026
April 2, 2026
An Ottawa city councillor is calling for a private bus service in rural sections of Canada’s Capital. In his neck of the woods, David Brown says transit service is spotty, and he wants to examine transit options beyond OC Transpo. On Thursday, he put forward a motion that asks City Hall to look into private mass transit providers to supplement rural service. Kristy Cameron chats with the voice of Rideau-Jock Ward in Hour 1. Later in the show, we check in with Noah Vineberg, the President of Amalgamated Transit Union 279. But first, we bring you up to speed on today’s top headlines.
Unpublished Newswire
Humans learn by reading, studying, and practising. But these are recent inventions on the scale of evolutionary history. Long before classrooms existed, our ancestors acquired new skills and knowledge by adapting to their surroundings—turning wilderness into shelter, chaos into order. Their physical environment was the classroom, and dealing with new challenges in it was the curriculum.
This primal way of learning hasn’t lost its power. Pre-schoolers discover how to set personal boundaries by sharing a playroom with their peers. A small-town kid gains quiet confidence from learning his...
May 2, 2026 - 06:30 | Leidy Klotz | Walrus
A failed refugee claimant convicted in the United States in 2006 and 2009 of identity theft and forgery has won a stay of the order issued by Canadian authorities last November to deport him to Honduras. The man, identified only by the initials FGH in a recent Federal Court decision, “acted as an informant against the MS-13 gang in exchange for deferral of his removal from the United States.” The refugee “served as an informant for approximately three months until members of MS-13 allegedly became aware of his cooperation with law enforcement. When he declined to continue acting as an...
May 2, 2026 - 06:00 | Chris Lambie | National Post
A new Leger poll has uncovered a three-way split among Canadians on the question of whether hockey commentator Don Cherry deserves the Order of Canada: Those who think he does, those who think he doesn’t, and those who have never heard of him. The latest poll is titled Federal Government Satisfaction: Survey of Canadians, and asks about voting intentions, government performance and use of the notwithstanding clause, among other topics. But tucked away in its pages is this query: “There is currently a petition to have Don Cherry named to the Order of Canada. Do you feel Don Cherry should...
May 2, 2026 - 06:00 | Chris Knight | National Post
Comments
Be the first to comment