Hour 1 of Ottawa Now for Thurs. June 26th, 2025
June 26, 2025
Some Canadians are looking to make some extra cash, but would you be willing to rent out your clothes to random strangers? What about your camping equipment, or perhaps the car that you drive? Heck, if you have a backyard pool, maybe you rent it out just to make a few extra twenties. Guest host Andrew Pinsent chats with sharing economy expert Chris Gibbs in Hour 1. He is the Chair for the School of Creative Industries at Toronto Metropolitan University. Plus, we continue our ‘Proudly Canadian’ series with an award-winning nature and wildlife photographer. Michelle Valberg’s career spans 4 decades and includes an induction to the Order of Canada. And if there’s a corner of this country with breathtaking scenes, she has probably seen it with her own two eyes.
Unpublished Newswire
Twenty-month-old Amelia liked to play with zippers.
One February morning in 2019, the toddler woke when her mother returned to the bed the two had been sharing in a rented room in a Kitchener, Ont. home. Amelia didn’t have her own crib.
It was around 10 a.m. Her mother had just used drugs in the bathroom, and then slipped a baggie with what was left of the blue-coloured substance inside a zipper pocket on the front of her sweater. She thought the opioid in her possession was fentanyl. Later testing determined it was, in fact, carfentanil, a fentanyl cousin 100 times more potent than...
July 29, 2025 - 09:55 | Sharon Kirkey | National Post
If you found a home heating discount of 60 per cent each winter for special customers, would you go for it? You probably would, and this is what ductless mini-split HVAC systems offer, in addition to very effective cooling in the summer. It’s amazing how much this technology has progressed, but it still doesn’t make […]
July 29, 2025 - 08:41 | Paul Welch | Ottawa Citizen
Retailer Bath & Body Works is refuting a lawsuit filed by a woman who says she was severely burned by an exploding candle manufactured at a Canadian facility.
Renita Francois says she was lighting the candle from Bath & Body Works, with a scent called Sweater Weather, on Jan. 19, 2023 in her home on Long Island, New York. She leaned in to smell the candle when “a sudden explosion erupted from the glass container, propelling molten wax and flames outward in every direction,” according to the lawsuit obtained by National Post. The explosion occurred “within moments” of lighting...
July 29, 2025 - 08:00 | Courtney Greenberg | National Post
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