Hour 3 of Ottawa Now for Wed. July 29th, 2026

Not long after the feds ruled out a potential expansion of Billy Bishop Airport, the Ford government announced that it’s rethinking a previously-given thumbs-up for Canada’s high-speed rail network. Some say that this change-in-tone from Queen’s Park is a tit-for-tat measure. Whose side are you on? Kristy Cameron sifts through the CFRA textboard and tackles today’s Question of the Day. Meantime, a new city-commissioned study says Ottawa will need to accommodate more than 257,000 new households by 2051 to keep up with the municipality’s expected population growth. CTV’s Katelyn Wilson delivers the data in Hour 3.