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Hour 1 of Ottawa Now for Mon. June 1st, 2026

June 1, 2026

Aging roads and facilities are a key discussion point at City Hall this week, as a new Committee report outlines an infrastructure gap of nearly $230 million. City Staff warn that, without new investment, that number could balloon to $1 billion within the next 10 years. We gather the details from CFRA’s Andrew Pinsent. Meantime, a very important community fundraiser is unfolding this week, culminating into Saturday’s grand finale on CTV Ottawa. Leading up to this year’s CHEO Telethon, we’re speaking with people who work at the children’s hospital to help raise awareness and support for the vital services they provide. Today, we check in with Siobhan Boon-Devlin, who is a Grade 10 student at Canterbury High School. She studies in the Literary Arts Magnet Program, and is also a member of CHEO's Youth Forum. But first, we bring you up to speed on today’s top headlines.



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Recently, the Commonwealth Short Story Prize faced credible allegations that several of its regional winners were AI-generated. Granta, the literary magazine that published the stories, found itself drawn into the controversy. The Commonwealth Short Story Prize matters. It selects five regional winners annually—one each from Africa, Asia, Canada and Europe, the Caribbean, and the Pacific—who then compete for the overall prize. Over the years, it has identified emerging authors whose careers came to justify the prize’s reputation: Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi (overall winner, 2014), for...
June 8, 2026 - 12:37 | D. W. Wilson | Walrus
Tomorrow, June 9, the average Canadian family will have earned enough in 2026 to cover the taxes imposed on it by the three levels of government, according to a new study by the Fraser Institute . The think tank estimates that the average family will earn $166,790 in 2026 and pay an estimated $72,539 in total taxes, representing 43.5 per cent of their annual income. This means that, if Canadian families had to pay their tax bills upfront, they would need to work for more than five months, or 158 days, before they had earned enough to pay off all the taxes imposed by federal,...
June 8, 2026 - 12:29 | Ellie Hutchings | National Post