Hour 2 of Ottawa Now for Thurs. August 22nd, 2024
August 22, 2024
Later this Fall, Loblaw is opening a brand-new ultra-discount grocery store in Brockville. For now, this is only a pilot launch in Ontario, with St. Catherines and Windsor among the short list of present-day guinea pigs. Is this a move in good faith, or yet another attempt to increase revenue? We explain what these new stores will be providing to today’s customers in Hour 2. Meantime, researchers at the University of Manitoba are trying to develop vegetables with a set of heightened nutritional characteristics. They are hoping that these traits will help fight a handful of health conditions, such as diabetes.
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One man has died in the hospital after he was shot in Alta Vista Thursday evening, according to the Ottawa Paramedic Service.
September 19, 2024 - 22:20 | | CBC News - Ottawa
A foreign student in Canada accused of plotting an Islamic State-inspired attack against Jews living in New York entered this country last year without raising any red flags that triggered additional screening by federal security agencies, according to records tabled Thursday at a parliamentary inquiry.Muhammad Shahzeb Khan, a 20-year-old Pakistani national residing in the Toronto area for the past year, was arrested in Quebec earlier this month. He now faces extradition to the United States on charges that he was lending material support and resources to a designated foreign terrorist...
September 19, 2024 - 21:58 | Colin Freeze | The Globe and Mail
Racing to promote his party’s accomplishments before the B.C. election campaign officially starts Saturday, Premier David Eby unveiled an unconventional new homeownership program, while also saying that the NDP is tackling public disorder, health care, and instituting a change to carbon pricing that will put more of the cost onto businesses.Mr. Eby started Thursday with an announcement that all 2,600 of the homes planned for the Indigenous-owned development site in central Vancouver, called the Heather Lands, will be offered to middle-class families at only 60 per cent of their market...
September 19, 2024 - 21:43 | Frances Bula | The Globe and Mail
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