Unpublished Newswire
May 30, 2025 - 06:38 | | CBC News - Canada
During today's Question of the Day, we asked for your feedback on the 2025 Canada Day lineup. What do you like about it? What is it lacking? In Hour 4, we pose those questions to CTV Ottawa newsanchor Stefan Keyes. Over in the Prairies, the July 1st celebrations are the least of their concerns right now, as Manitoba and Saskatchewan try to fend off a flurry of wildfires. We deliver the latest breaking news as it happens, right here on CFRA’s Ottawa Now.
May 29, 2025 - 18:03 | | CFRA - 580 - Ottawa
As Canadians prepare to celebrate the country's 158th birthday, the official July 1st lineup has been unveiled by Canadian Heritage. It features names like Sarah McLachlan, Tom Cochrane, and Randy Bachman from BTO. And as Parliament Hill continues its overdue facelift, LeBreton Flats will once again be the flagship location for this year's festivities. In your view, what is the biggest draw for this year's party? What is the 2025 lineup lacking? That's up for debate in Hour 3, as we tackle today's Question of the Day. Plus, it’s time to dig out those green thumbs and send your...
May 29, 2025 - 18:02 | | CFRA - 580 - Ottawa
Ontario is preparing to equip its Education Minister with additional powers, making it easier to put the province’s school boards under supervision if required. With this increased muscle, more school boards will also be required to staff police officers within their schools. These new measures were introduced by Paul Calandra earlier today. Kristy Cameron gathers instant reaction from Lyra Evans, the Chair of the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board. In recent months, the school board’s financial troubles have drawn Calandra’s frustration, and he is promising to take...
May 29, 2025 - 18:01 | | CFRA - 580 - Ottawa
If you head down George Street, and pass by the Salvation Army, you’ll notice a cluster of tents set up in front of the shelter. It’s an ever-growing encampment that has been set up by unhoused people. And for the past several months, Rideau-Vanier councillor Stéphanie Plante has been tirelessly trying to find a solution, only to be met with what she calls a ‘lack of action’ from the City of Ottawa. Plante joins Kristy Cameron to vent her frustrations. On the lighter side of the news cycle, Canadian Heritage has unveiled the Canada Day itinerary for 2025....
May 29, 2025 - 18:00 | | CFRA - 580 - Ottawa
In case you haven’t noticed, fewer Canadians are travelling to the United States in 2025. It probably has something to do with a testy trade war between the two North American neighbours. And for a small town in Maine, this harsh reality is particularly concerning. We explain further in Hour 4. Plus, as Kristy Cameron prepares for her return to the studio tomorrow, she wants to hear your gardening questions for gardening expert Carson Arthur. If you have one, or a few, send them into the CFRA textboard and we’ll read them live during Thursday’s broadcast! And finally,...
May 28, 2025 - 18:03 | | CFRA - 580 - Ottawa
