Unpublished Newswire
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
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
For the first time on the Canadian Prairies, researchers with Assiniboine Park Zoo and the Canadian Wildlife Service in Winnipeg are attaching tiny radio transmitters on endangered monarch butterflies to track their perilous migration from Manitoba to Mexico.
August 26, 2026 - 20:05 | | CBC News - Canada
Investigators say they believe there may be additional victims and have released a photograph of the accused on the Durham Regional Police website.
August 26, 2026 - 20:05 | Alessia Simona Maratta | Global News - Ottawa
One of the most picturesque sights in British Columbia is changing — as Mount Robson's Berg Glacier has retreated so far back that it no longer touches the water of Berg Lake.
August 26, 2026 - 20:00 | | CBC News - Canada
