Hour 1 of Ottawa Now for Thurs. August 21st, 2025
August 21, 2025
Andrew Pinsent is filling in for the vacationing Kristy Cameron today. She’ll be back in the big chair on Monday. Last year, Ottawa City Council passed a municipal budget that held the city’s property tax increase to 3.9 percent, while also coming up with enough extra cash for food banks and city parks. Mayor Mark Sutcliffe said the gameplan for 2025, which passed 22 to 3, balanced affordability with investment. Today, he is holding a press conference at City Hall, looking ahead to 2026 and the financial directions our city should consider. We take you live to that announcement in Hour 1. Then, we gather instant reaction from Beacon Hill-Cyrville councillor Tim Tierney.
Unpublished Newswire
Ottawa music impresario Harvey Glatt, who died on Aug. 21, at age 91, played an oversized role in turning the country’s sleepy capital city from a cultural desert into a musically vibrant place.He was the son of scrap metal merchants and a music fanatic who began reading music trade journals as a 13-year-old. In 1957, he co-founded the Treble Clef record store, a retail outlet devoted solely to music at a time when vinyl was typically sold in department stores or distributed by mail through record clubs. The initial shop grew to a chain of 15 locations, earning Mr. Glatt the unofficial...
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