Hour 4 of Ottawa Now for Fri. June 27th, 2025
June 27, 2025
Some of Canada’s oldest rocks, according to scientists, might be the oldest on Planet Earth. Guest host Andrew Pinsent picks the brain of Jonathan O’Neill, who is a Professor of Earth Sciences at the University of Ottawa. Plus, while Lone Star Texas Grill might sound like an American brand, it is definitely Canadian-owned. CTV’s Peter Szperling highlights their 40-year journey in this hour’s ‘Proudly Canadian’ feature.
Unpublished Newswire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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