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Publication Date: August 20, 2026 - 18:01
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Hour 2 of Ottawa Now for Thurs. August 20th, 2026
August 20, 2026
Boasting previous experience as a public sector economist, Ottawa mayoral candidate Neil Saravanamutoo has campaigned on removing developer money from city politics, believing that the current culture at City Hall is one of complacency. Furthermore, he argues that City Hall budget reviews promised by present-day Mayor Mark Sutcliffe in 2022 were not substantial. He joins Kristy Cameron in Hour 2, as we get to know the candidates who are running for Ottawa’s biggest pressure-cooker. Sticking with October’s Voting Day, candidates have until 2 o’clock Friday afternoon to either file or withdraw, with certification coming next Monday. How many city councillors do you think will be appraised? We dig deeper with our Reality Check Panel.
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August 26, 2026 - 20:58 | | The Globe and Mail
Council today received an update on actions taken since the 2024 Rural Summit to improve services and quality of life in rural Ottawa.
The update reflects priorities identified through the summit, six community workshops attended by 450 residents, and a survey that collected more than 1,200 responses. Since the summit, the City has advanced work across six key areas:
Investing in infrastructure and roads and protecting the environment: The City has doubled annual ditch maintenance funding to $3.6 million and completed more than 86 kilometres of ditch maintenance since...
August 26, 2026 - 20:33 | City of Ottawa - Media Relations / Ville d'Ottawa - Relations avec les médias | City of Ottawa News Releases
With the 25th anniversary of 9/11 on the horizon, the CBC has circulated a memo to reporters and editors across all its news platforms reminding them not to refer to the attacks that claimed 3,000 lives and changed the modern world as “terrorist attacks.” The missive from the broadcaster’s journalistic standards and practices office, a copy of which was obtained by National Post, includes a section of the “longstanding language guidance” on the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks carried out by the Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda. “Do not refer to the Sept. 11 attacks as terrorist attacks,” it...
August 26, 2026 - 20:16 | Kenn Oliver | National Post
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