Hour 1 of Ottawa Now for Tues. February 25th, 2025
February 25, 2025
We start the show with some municipal politics, as an Ottawa city councillor is encouraging the municipality to abandon 'X' and transfer to a different social media platform. Laura Dudas explains further in Hour 1. Shifting gears to law enforcement, the Ottawa Police plan to staff a new team inside the Parliamentary Precinct. CTV's Josh Pringle delivers the latest developments. Plus, should FIFA athletes and VIPs get priority healthcare access? Kerry Bowman, a Professor of Bioethics and Global Health at the University of Toronto, says it's bad optics. And finally, we have breaking news out of Newfoundland and Labrador, as Premier Andrew Furey has decided to step down. He becomes the second Canadian Premier to resign in less than a week.
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April 21, 2025 - 20:33 | Doug Menary | Ottawa Citizen
A BC Ferries vessel had to be assisted into Horseshoe Bay in North Vancouver by a tugboat after suffering a mechanical failure at the end of the busy holiday weekend.The company says the problem with the Queen of Coquitlam’s pitch control has been repaired and testing was conducted before a possible return to service later Monday afternoon.BC Ferries says passengers and vehicles were off-loaded around 3:30 p.m., and the company hired three water taxis to shuttle travellers who were booked on other sailings.
April 21, 2025 - 19:51 | | The Globe and Mail
A British Columbia city on Vancouver Island that’s hiring doctors as municipal employees is “very close” to hiring two more physicians, and its mayor believes it will eventually exceed its goal of hiring eight in total.Colwood Mayor Doug Kobayashi said Monday that the city-owned clinic currently has one doctor, and employment contracts are soon to be inked with two more, while a fourth is expected to be on board by September.Kobayashi said other cities are continuing to inquire about replicating its model, a first in Canada attempt to attract doctors by signing them on as city employees...
April 21, 2025 - 19:43 | | The Globe and Mail
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