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Publication Date: April 2, 2026 - 18:00
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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.
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You can think of democracy in many ways. It is a word that stands in for a set of interconnected, abstract concepts—like freedom, equality, the right to vote in fair elections, government for the people, not the few.
But boiled down, democracy, or a democracy, is a list. The list of electors comprises the full, legal names of people who have the right to vote in an election, their addresses, unique voter identification numbers, and the polling stations they can be expected to show up at in each riding on election day.
The list of electors is sacrosanct because it constitutes the...
May 4, 2026 - 11:00 | Patrick Lennox | Walrus
The federal government announced on Monday another package to prop up the hard-hit steel, aluminum and copper sectors after U.S. President Donald Trump tightened his tariff regime to apply to more products, hammering Canadian industry.
May 4, 2026 - 10:41 | | CBC News - Ottawa
Monday’s relief package will be broken up into two parts, the first one being $1 billion in loans by the Business Development Bank of Canada.
May 4, 2026 - 10:40 | Uday Rana | Global News - Canada
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