Hour 1 of Ottawa Now for Tues. June 24th, 2025
June 24, 2025
According to a new Public Service Employee survey, released by the Treasury Board Secretariat, today’s public servants are experiencing increased levels of stress. As a result, their mental health is worsening. This data is conducted every 2 years, and this batch of data dates back to 2024. Close to 1-in-4 employees are facing this reality, marking the worst levels we have seen since 2019. What is your stress level in your workplace? Has it gotten better or worse in recent years? CFRA’s Chris Holski kicks off today’s debate. On a lighter note, we are celebrating all the things that make Canada great, as our Proudly Canadian segment continues. And if you are a Canadian, chances are you’ve feasted on a Beavertail at least once in your life. Kristy Cameron speaks to the co-founder of this Canadian staple in Hour 1. But first, we bring you up to speed on today’s top headlines.
Unpublished Newswire
A new study in the New England Journal of Medicine has found that ivermectin,
an antiparasitic drug
used to treat tropical diseases such as river blindness, can also fight the spread of malaria. It does so in a way that seems oddly (and satisfyingly) like revenge against the mosquitos that...
July 29, 2025 - 10:56 | Chris Knight | National Post
Residents and businesses in Bowmanville, Ont., in Durham Region were told to discontinue all non-essential indoor and outdoor water use as of Sunday.
July 29, 2025 - 10:24 | Gabby Rodrigues | Global News - Canada
Twenty-month-old Amelia liked to play with zippers.
One February morning in 2019, the toddler woke when her mother returned to the bed the two had been sharing in a rented room in a Kitchener, Ont. home. Amelia didn’t have her own crib.
It was around 10 a.m. Her mother had just used drugs in the bathroom, and then slipped a baggie with what was left of the blue-coloured substance inside a zipper pocket on the front of her sweater. She thought the opioid in her possession was fentanyl. Later testing determined it was, in fact, carfentanil, a fentanyl cousin 100 times more potent than...
July 29, 2025 - 09:55 | Sharon Kirkey | National Post
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