Hour 4 of Ottawa Now for Tues. May 6th, 2025
May 6, 2025
On Monday, the town of Smiths Falls did a vibe check on backyard chickens. As part of a one-year pilot project, residents were allowed to house backyard chickens on their properties, mainly for the purpose of producing fresh eggs. The latest motion successfully passed after Mayor Shawn Pankow delivered the final thumbs-up. Under what is called the Backyard Hen Pilot Program, residents can keep up to 6 backyard hens at either a residential property or a property used primarily for residence. All hen coops must be draft-proof, dry, and insulated from the public. But as we saw from the razor-thin vote at City Hall, not everyone is on board with this idea. In fact, some say it’s flawed. Kristy Cameron digs deeper with Liz Wheeler, the co-founder of Secondhand Stories Chicken Sanctuary. Plus, we deliver the latest breaking news headlines as they happen, right here on CFRA’s Ottawa Now.
Unpublished Newswire
The Maple Leafs have gone from the driver's seat to the brink of elimination.
May 14, 2025 - 22:39 | | CBC News - Canada
The Maple Leafs have gone from the driver's seat to the brink of elimination.
May 14, 2025 - 22:09 | Globalnews Digital | Global News - Ottawa
British Columbia’s director of police services is investigating whether a law enforcement officer was responsible for leaking government presentation slides that revealed a “significant” portion of safer-supply opioids is being diverted and trafficked, a disclosure that prompted swift policy change. The documents were obtained by opposition B.C. Conservative MLA Elenore Sturko, who provided them to journalists and introduced them in the legislature in February. The revelation undermined the government‘s longstanding public assurances that diversion of opioids that are part of the...
May 14, 2025 - 21:58 | Andrea Woo | The Globe and Mail
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