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Publication Date: August 13, 2026 - 15:00
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Hour 1 of Ottawa Now for Thurs. August 13th, 2026
August 13, 2026
Another day, another rainstorm battering Canada’s Capital. And for many in the city’s West End, their waking nightmares from the Canada Day floods resurfaced on Wednesday, with water creeping closer and closer to properties yet again. College Ward councillor Laine Johnson joins Kristy Cameron to discuss how her constituents fared. Meantime, the latest storm also knocked out power to thousands of Hydro Ottawa customers. A case of awful luck, or antiquitated infrastructure? We pose that question, and several others, to Hydro Ottawa CEO Bryce Conrad. But first, we bring you up to speed on today’s top headlines.
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Tammy Allarie remembers how confident she felt as a kid on the first day of school when she could blend into the crowd with a new backpack filled with pencils and notebooks. Read More
August 28, 2026 - 04:00 | Olivia Belovich | Ottawa Citizen
Capital Pride takes over downtown Ottawa this weekend, with thousands of people expected for the annual parade, street festival and other Pride events. Read More
August 28, 2026 - 04:00 | Michael McBean | Ottawa Citizen
It's unclear whether Trump can unilaterally rename the lake, whose name predates European colonization of the Americas and has been widely recognized internationally for centuries. But the renaming belies a concerted push by the Trump administration to hold back important U.S.-Canada collaboration on scientific research and restoration work in the Great Lakes.
August 28, 2026 - 04:00 | Inayat Singh | CBC News - Canada
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