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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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BOGOTA, COLOMBIA – On Saturday afternoon, the southern stretch of Colombia’s sprawling Pan-American highway was packed with vehicles ferrying farmers and Indigenous villagers. But soon after midday, an improvised explosive device tore through over a dozen cars and minibuses trapped in an illegal roadblock. At least 20 people were killed, with another 56 injured, making it one of the deadliest terrorist attacks in Colombia’s recent history. Authorities were quick to identify the culprits: the Central General Staff (known as EMC), an offshoot of the now-defunct Revolutionary Armed...
May 2, 2026 - 08:00 | Special to National Post | National Post
Show #13 St. Patrick’s High School In the Heights Directors: Emily Edwards, Fadi El-Saikali, Christina Sangalli, Pamela Williams, & Caitlin Dubé Théo Djory Dupuy, Critic Sir Wilfrid Laurier Secondary School “Where people come, people go! Let me show all of these people what I know, there’s no place like home.” St. Patrick’s High School delivered […]
May 2, 2026 - 08:00 | Lois Kirkup | Ottawa Citizen
It is the middle of an ordinary weekday in Toronto and Paul Rosen is fieldside, looking on proudly as one of his six grandchildren plays in an inter-school soccer game. Someone asks Rosen about his own playing days, when he starred as a one-legged goaltender with Canada’s gold-medal-winning Paralympic hockey team. And then the conversation shifts to what is perhaps foremost on his mind these days: the rampant rise of antisemitism. Rosen is proudly Jewish, and profoundly worried. He worries that the Canadian government has done little if anything to try to protect Jews from the...
May 2, 2026 - 07:00 | Special to National Post | National Post
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