Hour 2 of Ottawa Now for Fri. July 25th, 2025
July 25, 2025
Have you ever heard of ‘wild parsnip’ before? Do you know what it looks like? For starters, it’s an invasive plant species, and its toxic sap can cause severe skin reactions. It can even cause temporary blindness. It is also spreading across Canada – specifically in PEI, BC, and right here in Ontario. Joining us in Hour 2 is Marc Cadotte, a Professor in Biological Sciences at the University of Toronto. He studies wild parsnip warnings, as well as the latest infestation upticks. In local news, residents on Fernbank Road are expressing their frustrations over an uptick in truck traffic. Following a recent news report by CTV’s Dylan Dyson, more residents have chimed in through our email inbox. Karen, who has spent multiple decades living near the area, pays us a visit.
Unpublished Newswire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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