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Publication Date: June 19, 2026 - 18:02
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Hour 3 of Ottawa Now for Fri. June 19th, 2026
June 19, 2026
Back in April, in what seemed like an honest attempt to right the ship, the City of Ottawa overhauled OC Transpo's network of bus routes. However, a scathing report from Ottawa's Auditor General says the new formula was based around outdated data. Do you trust the statistics and figures that OC Transpo is offering? Kristy Cameron sifts through the CFRA textboard and tackles today's Question of the Day. Plus, it's been almost exactly one week since Ottawa's final supervised consumption sites shuttered their doors, as the Ford government cut off their funding last Saturday. How are things looking in Ottawa's affected neighbourhoods? We check in with Aileen Leo, the Director of Communications for the Ottawa Mission.
Prime Minister Mark Carney is in Halifax on Monday, where he is expected to make a defence-related announcement in the evening, before heading to the NATO summit in Ankara, Turkey.
July 6, 2026 - 11:46 | Uday Rana | Global News - Canada
U.S. Ambassador to Canada Pete Hoekstra has denied that a donation from the billionaire family that owns the Ambassador Bridge is responsible for the delay in opening the new Gordie Howe Bridge. Global News asked Hoekstra whether a million-dollar campaign donation to MAGA Inc. from Matthew Moroun, the head of the family that has owned the bridge since the 1970s, was linked to the hold-up. “Absolutely not,” the outlet reports Hoekstra to have said. “The bridge was not open when it was announced a couple of weeks ago by mutual agreement of the Canadian government and the U.S. government...
July 6, 2026 - 11:36 | Ellie Hutchings | National Post
The federal government says it's simplifying the current Buy Canadian procurement process to make it easier for small and medium-sized businesses.
July 6, 2026 - 11:33 | Ariel Rabinovitch | Global News - Canada





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