Hour 4 of Ottawa Now for Thurs. August 28th, 2025
August 29, 2025
A positive news story; ambulance drop-off times is down at a local hospital. CTV's Dylan Dyson has more. We replay an earlier conversation about the rising number of vacant retail spaces. Also, a bottling plant in Amherstburg announces it will close early 2026. Mayor Michael Prue believes the plant moving operations to the U.S. is mainly due to tariffs.
Unpublished Newswire
BRP Inc. DOO-T says its latest quarter delivered results that were better than expected in the current macroeconomic context after the company took a wait-and-see approach to consumer behaviour during the ongoing trade war.The Ski-Doo and Sea-Doo maker says its second-quarter profit amounted to $161 million, or 79 cents per diluted share, for the quarter ended July 31.
August 29, 2025 - 07:54 | | The Globe and Mail
The federal government says it’s “looking into” what appears to be the accidental removal of a privacy provision in its Online Streaming Act.Earlier this week, University of Ottawa law professor Michael Geist outlined in a blog post that a privacy provision in the legislation was removed only two months after the bill became law, through an amendment contained in another bill.
August 29, 2025 - 07:41 | Anja Karadeglija | The Globe and Mail
Statistics Canada is set to release gross domestic product data for the month of June and the second quarter as a whole today. The agency’s early estimates for GDP in the second quarter had been for zero growth as trade uncertainty and tariffs weigh on business and consumer sentiment.
August 29, 2025 - 07:03 | | The Globe and Mail
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