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Publication Date: August 6, 2026 - 18:01
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Hour 2 of Ottawa Now for Thurs. August 6th, 2026
August 6, 2026
The Canada Day flooding that hammered Ottawa’s West End could lead to a partial opening of the Western LRT Extension, as opposed to the planned full opening. That’s according to a transit executive. Kristy Cameron gathers reaction from Barrhaven East councillor Wilson Lo in Hour 2. He is a member of Ottawa’s Transit Committee and he is also a former OC Transpo employee. Then, we welcome our Reality Check panelists to the party! They talk about municipal term limits, the latest LRT setback, and the idea of an inter-city bus station for Downtown Ottawa.
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A U.S. withdrawal from the Canada-United-States-Mexico trade agreement (CUSMA) would have a “severe but not cataclysmic impact on Canada’s overall economy, although perhaps cataclysmic for some sectors,” according to a new report released this week by Deloitte Canada. The report is titled “Tariffs: A rough road leads to new destinations,” and imagines two broad scenarios in the near future. In the first, the “CUSMA Withdrawal Scenario,” the U.S. opts out of CUSMA entirely. “Trade resets at Most-Favoured-Nation rates that apply to member countries in the World Trade Organization,” the...
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