Hour 4 of Ottawa Now for Thurs. July 24th, 2025
July 24, 2025
Canada’s Capital is in the middle of Summer’s peak, and Ottawa Fire Service is hoping to educate residents on the importance of water safety. In order to do that, some of CTV Ottawa’s finest put the OFS Water Rescue crews to the test. Spoiler alert: This was all planned, and everyone survived. CTV’s Katie Griffin explains how it all went in Hour 4. Plus, if news breaks, you’ll hear it live on CFRA’s Ottawa Now.
Unpublished Newswire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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