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Publication Date: April 27, 2026 - 16:00
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Hour 1 of Ottawa Now for Mon. April 27th, 2026
April 27, 2026
Ottawa’s tourism organizations want to see high-speed rail bring passengers to a station in the city’s Downtown Core, arguing that it ‘deserves to arrive in the heart of Ottawa’. The Crown corporation Alto has been tasked with building high-speed rail between Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal, and Quebec City. Public consultations for Phase 1 of the project wrapped up on Saturday. Kristy Cameron digs deeper with Sueling Ching, the President and CEO of the Ottawa Board of Trade. Meantime, Ottawa's controversial Bubble Bylaw is expected to come into force this August after it passed at City Council last week. CFRA’s Andrew Pinsent delivers the details in Hour 1. But first, we bring you up to speed on today’s top headlines.
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To Davis Schneider, his older brother Steven was "kind of like a Superman."
April 29, 2026 - 07:22 | Globalnews Digital | Global News - Ottawa
A Yellowknife judge has insisted a man who claimed to be Caucasian get a report meant for Indigenous offenders before he sentences him for breaking into a hotel. Jeremy Kuneyuna — who already has 90 convictions — appeared in the Territorial Court of the Northwest Territories recently to be sentenced for breaking into a hotel. “Mr. Kuneyuna states that he is ‘Caucasian’ and on that basis has provided no information relating to case specific factors relating to his background as an indigenous offender,” Judge Robert David Gorin wrote in an April 22 decision. “When I asked him about why...
April 29, 2026 - 07:00 | Chris Lambie | National Post
On March 17, 2021, Parliament passed Bill C-7, which repealed the “reasonable foreseeability of natural death” criterion to allow medical assistance in dying (MAID) for people who might otherwise live naturally, if intolerably, for decades. The bill also excluded from eligibility people with mental illness as their sole underlying medical condition. The exclusion was to be repealed automatically two years later but was deferred by Parliament to 2024 and subsequently deferred again to March 17, 2027.
Mohamad Elfakhani is the chief of psychiatry at the London Health Sciences Centre,...
April 29, 2026 - 06:30 | Kevin Andrew Heslop | Walrus
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