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After a season of progress and promise, the joyride has ended for this year’s Ottawa Senators. They fell 4-2 to the Toronto Maple Leafs at the Canadian Tire Centre on Thursday night, dropping the best-of-seven series in 6 games. Despite a tearful ending to their first playoff appearance since 2017, fans cheered in unison and waved their towels with pride, as the focus shifts to October. TSN 1200’s Dean Brown joins Kristy Cameron in Hour 2. Shifting gears to public transit, OC Transpo has recently rolled out its ‘New Ways To Bus’ network, an overhaul of the transit...
May 2, 2025 - 18:01 | | CFRA - 580 - Ottawa
Can technological advancements help cure the loneliness epidemic? Facebook founder and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is doing his part to help crack the code, believing that the creation of A.I. friends is the magical elixir that humanity needs. During a recent appearance on Dwarkesh Patel’s podcast, Zuckerberg says the average American has fewer than 3 people they would consider friends. Kristy Cameron digs deeper with Steve Joordens, a Professor of Psychology at the University of Toronto in Scarborough. Shifting gears to Canadian politics, newly-elected Prime Minister Mark Carney has...
May 2, 2025 - 18:00 | | CFRA - 580 - Ottawa
OTTAWA — Liberals are back to 168 seats and the Bloc Québécois to 23, after the Bloc took back the Montreal-area riding of Terrebonne according to revised election results.
Elections Canada published their validated riding results on Thursday, which show that Bloc incumbent Nathalie Sinclair-Desgagné won 23,340 votes — 44 votes ahead of Liberal challenger Tatiana Auguste who got 23,296 votes.
Preliminary numbers finalized on Tuesday showed that...
May 1, 2025 - 16:46 | Catherine Lévesque | National Post
OTTAWA — Ontario Premier Doug Ford and Nova Scotia Premier Tim Houston defended their respective decisions to not to help Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives during the federal election, arguing that Poilievre’s team had previously pushed them away.
Speaking in Halifax on Wednesday, Houston confirmed
prior reports that he had voluntarily decided to steer clear...
April 30, 2025 - 15:12 | Catherine Lévesque | National Post
OTTAWA — While Conservatives weren’t quite able to beat the Liberals in Monday’s federal election, they can take some solace in the fact that grade school students brought it home for Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre in the 2025 Student Vote.
The students’ votes led to a Conservative minority government, with Pierre Poilievre’s party earning a hypothetical 165 seats from 36.4 per cent of the vote. This is a major jump from the 2021 Student Vote results, where the Conservatives placed third. The Liberals earned the second most seats among students this time around, securing 145....
April 29, 2025 - 16:58 | National Post | National Post
OTTAWA — Liberals managed to increase their number of seats, but not quite enough to get to their coveted majority.
Liberals picked up a seat in the Montreal-area riding of Terrebonne in Quebec. Liberal challenger Tatiana Auguste won by 35 votes ahead of Bloc Québécois incumbent Nathalie Sinclair-Desgagné, but the close result will likely lead to an automatic judicial recount.
Liberals also won the riding of Terra Nova—The Peninsulas in Newfoundland and Labrador with a squeaker. Liberal candidate Anthony Germain managed to hold onto the seat with 12 votes more than his Conservative...
April 29, 2025 - 14:30 | Catherine Lévesque | National Post
