Unpublished Newswire
Excitement is building all across North America, as NASA’s first crewed Moon launch in over 50 years gets underway. And one of the places you can witness every single second of history is the National Arts Centre. Kristy Cameron checks in with Carl Martin, a Spokesperson and Senior Advisor with the NAC. Meantime, Ottawa's Auditor General has tabled a variety of reports at City Hall. One of them raised questions surrounding OC Transpo’s hiring practices at the management level. CFRA’s Andrew Pinsent delivers the details in Hour 1. But first, we bring you up to speed on...
April 1, 2026 - 18:00 | | CFRA - 580 - Ottawa
Finding a place to live isn’t easy, and a lot of people can relate to the struggle of scouring online marketplaces to find an acceptable rental space. What makes it borderline unbearable for students is the high cost of living, online marketplace scams, and a full school workload. Oh, and you might be stuck with an unpleasant roommate. Aidan Fitzmaurice, a UOttawa student and the founder of Next Room Incorporated, is on a mission to change that. He runs a student-led platform where students can find housing listings, not to mention their own roommates. Fitzmaurice joins Kristy...
March 31, 2026 - 18:25 | | CFRA - 580 - Ottawa
A Canadian tourist died on Sunday while attempting to climb the steep summit at Krabi’s Tiger Cave Temple, one of Thailand’s best-known religious landmarks. Krabi is a province in southern Thailand. The man collapsed near the 1,100th step of the temple’s 1,260-step staircase as he and his wife were making their way to the mountaintop shrine, reports Thai news outlet The Nation. It was the second fatal incident on the staircase in three days. Rescuers from the Krabi Pitak Pracha Foundation rushed to the scene and found the man unconscious, reports Thai news outlet Khaosod English....
March 31, 2026 - 15:52 | National Post Staff | National Post
After countless years of heartbreak and punishment, Mr. Hollywood finally pushed all the right buttons in 2026, winning his first-ever Oscars bet against Kristy Cameron. And on Friday's edition of Ottawa Now, he savoured every second of it!
March 27, 2026 - 18:20 | | CFRA - 580 - Ottawa
A transgender inmate serving time for violent sexual assaults against women is pushing to switch to a female facility.
Amanda Joy Cooper has been incarcerated since 2001 and holds a dangerous offender designation, Correctional Service Canada confirmed to National Post. Cooper recently had gender surgery and wants to transfer from a men’s maximum security facility in Ontario to a women’s prison,
CBC News reported...
February 22, 2026 - 08:00 | Courtney Greenberg | National Post
Vancouver city councillor Sean Orr introduced a motion to council recently that he admits is “a little personal.”
“My mom absolutely hates these (head)lights,” he said in council chambers late January, “and from what I’ve been hearing, a lot of people do as well.”
Advancements in North American headlight technology over the last decade or so have undoubtedly made the roads safer for drivers. The trade-off, unfortunately, is that many drivers on the receiving end of increasingly bright low-beam lamps have never felt less safe.
That’s “100 per cent” how Orr feels when he encounters...
February 8, 2026 - 06:00 | Kenn Oliver | National Post
