Unpublished Newswire
As residents were examining the 2026 Draft Budget on Wednesday, a crowd of people noticed a curious-looking information box on the city’s website. It’s called the City of Ottawa Contribution Program, which can be found on the draft budget’s Information page. It allows residents to make a personal or corporate contribution – anywhere between $5 and $25,000 – to support city programs and services. This follows a December 2024 motion from Alta Vista councillor Marty Carr, which was unanimously carried. However, her original intention was to raise funds for...
November 13, 2025 - 18:25 | | CFRA - 580 - Ottawa
Palestinians in Gaza who applied to join relatives in Canada two years ago under Ottawa’s crisis immigration policy but haven’t received travel visas lost their lawsuits trying to force officials to act despite security problems in the war-torn region.
Four similar court actions asked the Federal Court to order officials with Immigration, Refugees, and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) to process their temporary resident visa applications.
Justice Henry S. Brown said the stories of applicants in Gaza were “heartbreaking” but he could not issue the orders they sought.
The court cases stem...
November 13, 2025 - 18:23 | Adrian Humphreys | National Post
Ottawa Police have issued a warning to the general public that a high-risk offender is currently living in the Rideau-Vanier area. Christopher Watts was previously convicted of manslaughter, sexual assault, and sexual interference in the death of a Southern Ontario teenager. He has been labeled as a high-risk offender since 2015, 12 years after he was convicted of those crimes. We get the latest from CTV's Katie Griffin. Then, we check in with Sylvie Bigras, who is the President of the Lowertown Community Association.
November 13, 2025 - 18:20 | | CFRA - 580 - Ottawa
If you didn’t hear Kristy’s lengthy conversation with Ontario’s Education Minister, we are replaying every single second to kick off Hour 4. Then, we head down to the Canadian Tire Centre, as CTV’s Jackie Perez gets ready for the Senators’ Hockey Fights Cancer Night.
November 13, 2025 - 18:03 | | CFRA - 580 - Ottawa
More than two years after separating from Justin Trudeau, Sophie Grégoire Trudeau seems to coping with her ex’s public romance with singer Katy Perry. Moreover, she credits him with stepping up to joint parent their three children.
“I’m definitely not a single mom. I have a partnership with a father who has such deep love and availability to his children,” she said when she sat down recently with Canadian businesswoman Arlene Dickinson for a YouTube episode of...
November 13, 2025 - 18:02 | Stewart Lewis | National Post
A curious-looking information box on the city’s website has generated plenty of conversation this week. It allows residents to make a personal or corporate contribution if they so choose, with city programs and services benefiting from these cash injections. Alta Vista councillor Marty Carr introduced this idea to City Hall last December, and people liked it. However, her intentions for raising extra cash were focused towards ‘irregular things’, and not direct matters. Would you donate to this cause? Kristy Cameron sifts through the CFRA textboard and tackles today...
November 13, 2025 - 18:02 | | CFRA - 580 - Ottawa
