Source Feed: CFRA - 580 - Ottawa
Publication Date: April 2, 2026 - 18:00
Stay informed
Unpublished Opinions
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.
April 25, 2026 - 07:30 | Dave McGinn | The Globe and Mail
An Ontario judge whittled 13 months off a 14-year sentence for a man who shot two people due to the Muslim shooter’s youth, racial discrimination he experienced growing up in Toronto, and harsh pretrial jail conditions.
A jury in Ontario’s Superior Court of Justice convicted Yousaf Bilal Sheikh, 24, on two counts of attempted murder for shooting Mallory Walia and Ameen Jazei inside a white Porsche while he was in the front passenger seat on the evening of Nov. 29, 2022.
“It is implicit in the jury’s verdict that Mr. Sheikh intended to kill two people, Mr. Jazei and Ms. Walia. The...
April 25, 2026 - 07:00 | Chris Lambie | National Post
In 2000, David Napier, a freelance journalist then based in Toronto, produced a long story about Indigenous residential schools. It appeared in the Anglican Journal, an “independent” newspaper of the Anglican Church with a large circulation (now about 38,000). The Journal’s editor, David Harris, recruited Napier at the suggestion of former Saturday Night magazine editor John Fraser to spend a year criss-crossing the country to find out what had transpired in residential schools and tell the stories of any survivors and staff who would speak with him.
Napier’s groundbreaking story...
April 25, 2026 - 06:30 | Elaine Dewar | Walrus



Comments
Be the first to comment