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Publication Date: May 1, 2026 - 18:02
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Hour 3 of Ottawa Now for Fri. May 1st, 2026
May 1, 2026
Ottawa’s municipal election campaigns are officially underway! So as the candidates knock on your door and ask for your vote, what are your municipal priorities for 2026? Kristy Cameron sifts through the CFRA textboard and tackles today’s Question of the Day. Meantime, starting today, the Ottawa Police Service is implementing Phase 2 of its Downtown Strategy. They are focusing on an increased, targeted police presence in the following areas: Centretown, Chinatown, and the ByWard Market. Ottawa Police Chief Eric Stubbs pays us a visit in Hour 3. Plus, CFRA’s Andrew Pinsent delivers a jam-packed preview of CFRA Weekends, highlighted by an in-depth conversation with Alto President Martin Imbleau.
Unpublished Newswire
Six weeks ago, it would have seemed like the birding adventure of everyone’s dreams. The Dutch cruise ship MV Hondius left Ushuaia, Argentina, on April 1, 2026, with roughly 150 people on board, bound for the islands of the South Atlantic. Among them was couple Leo Schilperood and Mirjam Schilperood-Huisman, seventy- and sixty-nine-year-old Netherlanders who had been travelling for around three months in Chile, Uruguay, and Argentina. The pair were amateur ornithologists; they had published a paper together in 1984 about pink-footed geese. In 2013, they reportedly spotted the Serendib...
May 26, 2026 - 06:30 | Kevin Patterson | Walrus
Good morning. After years of lobbying Ottawa for more foreign workers, Tim Hortons now plans to ramp up its local hires – more on that below, along with Pope Leo’s AI fight and FIFA’s softened World Cup demands. But first:
May 26, 2026 - 06:20 | Danielle Groen | The Globe and Mail
The Ottawa Senators have made their initial list for next month's National Hockey League draft. Read More
May 26, 2026 - 06:00 | Bruce Garrioch | Ottawa Citizen
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