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Publication Date: June 25, 2026 - 18:00
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Hour 1 of Ottawa Now for Thurs. June 25th, 2026
June 25, 2026
The opening of a new Chick-Fil-A location in Orleans is causing worries about potential drive-thru disruptions. Ottawa city councillor Catherine Kitts is among the concerned crowd, and she is calling on the municipality to take a broader examination of today’s drive-thrus and the traffic chaos they could cause. The voice for Orléans South-Navan joins Kristy Cameron in Hour 1. Meantime, getting tested for HIV and other STI’s in Ontario just got a lot easier. And you don’t even need to visit a clinic. Dr. Patrick O’Byrne, a Nurse Practitioner at Ottawa Public Health and a UOttawa Professor, pays us a visit ahead of National HIV Testing Day. But first, we bring you up to speed on today’s top headlines.
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A Quebec judge has sentenced an Inuk man to 33 months in prison for nearly beating his uncle to death last summer with a metal bar while he was under a court order to stay away from the man. Timothy Assapa, 34, who “describes violence as ‘thrilling,'” pleaded guilty to assault with a weapon and aggravated assault for attacks on his uncle, Sajuilie Assapa, on Jan. 4, 2025, and June 28, 2025. The first one involved striking his uncle on the head with a pair of scissors after they argued about alcohol, causing a cut above the hairline. In the June attack, Assapa beat his uncle to...
July 5, 2026 - 09:21 | Brandon Rudick | National Post
Gail Asper tells me quietly but firmly: “My trust has been absolutely broken.” She is energized and resolute, but notably not angry. The 66-year-old daughter of the late Israel (Izzy) Asper — the media titan and Jewish philanthropist who envisioned and heavily funded the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg — has watched with deepening dismay as the institution she helped build appears to sideline the very community that made it possible. One week ago, “Palestine Uprooted: Nakba Past and Present” opened at this national, federally funded human rights museum. It shares...
July 5, 2026 - 08:42 | Donna Kennedy-Glans | National Post
July 5, 2026 - 08:24 | | The Globe and Mail
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