Hour 2 of Ottawa Now for Thurs. June 26th, 2025
June 26, 2025
When the city’s top politicians are door-knocking for your votes in 2026, Kitchissippi councillor Jeff Leiper will be among the familiar crowd. However, he won’t be asking to keep his riding. Instead, he is gunning for the biggest seat at Ottawa City Council – the Mayor’s Chair. He joins guest host Andrew Pinsent to explain why he is running to be Mayor of Ottawa. Shifting gears to Health news, Canada’s health industry professionals are calling for a massive reform, and urgently. Could a handful of A.I. tools fuel the solution? We expand this conversation in Hour 2 with Jimmy Yang, a Canada Health Practice lead at Accenture Health. Plus, the community of Mississippi Mills is in mourning after an elementary school student was tragically struck and killed by a school bus.
Unpublished Newswire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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