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Hour 1 of Ottawa Now for Fri. May 29th, 2026
May 29, 2026
An Ottawa city councillor is raising concerns about the Department of National Defense exploring the use of sports fields for parking lots, a move largely seen as an attempt to ease parking congestion at the DND’s Carling Avenue campus. Guest host Chris Holski checks in with Theresa Kavanagh, the voice of Bay Ward, in Hour 1. Later in the program, we reel in CFRA’s Andrew Pinsent for a couple of minutes, as he runs through a few alterations to the CFRA Weekends layout. But first, we bring you up to speed on today’s top headlines.
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The Detroit-based trucking family that has owned and operated the Ambassador Bridge between Detroit and Windsor since the 1970s appears to have found powerful backing for their business interests. The billionaire head of that family is Matthew Moroun. He made a million-dollar campaign donation to MAGA Inc. back in January, according to campaign finance reports. In early February, Trump pushed back on the opening of the bridge, saying on Feb. 9 that he would block it. The $6.4 billion, Canadian-taxpayer funded Gordie Howe bridge could be seen as a threat to Maroun’s bottom line. The...
June 27, 2026 - 07:00 | Stewart Lewis | National Post
On September 16, 2007, Nelly Arcan appeared on Tout le monde en parle, a popular weekly panel show in Quebec with a viewership of 2 million people. The thirty-four-year-old writer was promoting her third book, Breakneck. Arcan had shot out of left field six years prior, when—in a turn of events every writer dreams about—the major French publisher Editions du Seuil read the manuscript she had mailed across the Atlantic in a brown paper envelope.
Her debut, Whore, published in 2001, is a furious, stream-of-consciousness, autofictional rendering of Arcan’s experiences as an escort. It...
June 27, 2026 - 06:30 | Myra Bloom | Walrus
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June 27, 2026 - 06:00 | Ketsia Beboua | Walrus
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