Hour 1 of Ottawa Now for Fri. July 31st, 2026 | Page 912 | Unpublished
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Hour 1 of Ottawa Now for Fri. July 31st, 2026

July 31, 2026

Last month, Prime Minister Carney announced plans to renovate 24 Sussex Drive. Since then, over 3,000 Canadians have submitted donations to the cause. However, the Rideau Hall Foundation is gunning for a bigger number. How big? How about a whopping $50 million! Kristy Cameron digs deeper with Marc Denhez, a former President of Historic Ottawa Development. He is also a past member of the NCC’s Official Residences Advisory Committee. Meantime, new data from the Traffic Injury Research Foundation says that drug impairment has overtaken the bottle in driving deaths. We check in with Valerie Keyes, the President for the Ottawa Chapter of MADD Canada. But first, we bring you up to speed on today’s top headlines.



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Bill C-59 changed Canada's national security landscape, creating the CSE Act, giving CSIS new powers and creating civilian oversight for the first time.
August 13, 2026 - 05:00 | Alex Boutilier | Global News - Canada
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney’s new sovereign wealth fund is likely to follow in the footsteps of a troubled British fund he had a hand in making, says a new report. The report, released Thursday by think tank the Montreal Economic Institute (MEI), notes that Carney’s Canada Strong Fund echoes the United Kingdom’s National Wealth Fund , and argues that the resemblance should be a red flag for the Canadian prime minister and former Bank of England governor. “Two years before selling this model to Canadians, Mark Carney recommended it to the British, who implemented it,” says...
August 13, 2026 - 04:00 | Rahim Mohamed | National Post
I'm wandering through a dark and misty world, past giant towers that are tearing through clouds, where an evil overlord is sending fire-spitting dragons and creepy skeletons that are three times my size. They're all there to destroy me. Read More
August 13, 2026 - 04:00 | Abyssinia Abebe | Ottawa Citizen