Hour 4 of Ottawa Now for Fri. September 5th, 2025
September 5, 2025
Ottawa’s recent job numbers have been unveiled by Statistics Canada. Spoiler alert: They do not look pretty. Over the course of the last 5 months, the local economy lost 20,000 jobs, with a whopping 5,400 job losses accounting for the entire month of August. CTV’s Dylan Dyson sifts through the data in Hour 4. Then, we preview tonight’s CTV Ottawa supper-hour newscast with Stefan Keyes and Jacie Perez. But first, who is craving a road trip to the nearest cinema? If you raised your hand in excitement, Matt Demers has got you covered with his Weekly Movie Picks!
Unpublished Newswire
All 144 Conservative MPs have signed an open letter condemning antisemitism in Canada, an apparent response to a similar letter signed by less than a fifth of the Liberal caucus.
The letter came late this week after a targeted attack at a kosher grocery store in Ottawa on Aug. 27, when
an elderly woman was stabbed...
September 6, 2025 - 08:00 | Courtney Greenberg | National Post
For decades, candidates for civic elections in British Columbia have held off campaigning until a couple of months before the traditional fall vote. But this year, with more than 400 days before the scheduled Oct. 27, 2026, municipal elections, Surrey Councillor Linda Annis splashed out Wednesday with a news conference in a major hotel ballroom to announce she would be challenging Mayor Brenda Locke for her job.
September 6, 2025 - 08:00 | Frances Bula | The Globe and Mail
T he telegram on January 24, 1965, time-stamped 3:49 p.m., extended a formal invitation to an ailing, largely forgotten ninety-three-year-old British army general in Canada to attend the funeral of a famous ninety-year-old statesman in England: “Please cable if you can or cannot accept invitation to state funeral of Sir Winston Churchill St. Paul’s Cathedral London Saturday 30th January 1965 Stop.”
The invitation was delivered to a name and an address in a distant place, St. John’s, Newfoundland, the recipient presumably unfamiliar and irrelevant to the organizers of an event of global...
September 6, 2025 - 06:30 | Linden MacIntyre | Walrus
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