Hour 1 of Ottawa Now for Thurs. July 24th, 2025
July 24, 2025
Chris Holski is filling in for Kristy Cameron this week, as she enjoys a relaxing vacation without a single worry of any traffic nightmares. Perhaps the rest of us haven’t been as lucky over the past 7 days. And as we move deeper into the 2020s and well beyond that, maybe we need to reinvent Highway 417. Would you support turning portions of it into a boulevard? What about underground transit commutes that don’t involve the O-Train? We dig deeper with Martin Tite, who is an architect with Ottawa-based Provencher Roy. But first, we bring you up to speed on today’s top headlines, which includes the death of a famous and revolutionary wrestler.
Unpublished Newswire
BRP Inc. DOO-T says its latest quarter delivered results that were better than expected in the current macroeconomic context after the company took a wait-and-see approach to consumer behaviour during the ongoing trade war.The Ski-Doo and Sea-Doo maker says its second-quarter profit amounted to $161 million, or 79 cents per diluted share, for the quarter ended July 31.
August 29, 2025 - 07:54 | | The Globe and Mail
The federal government says it’s “looking into” what appears to be the accidental removal of a privacy provision in its Online Streaming Act.Earlier this week, University of Ottawa law professor Michael Geist outlined in a blog post that a privacy provision in the legislation was removed only two months after the bill became law, through an amendment contained in another bill.
August 29, 2025 - 07:41 | Anja Karadeglija | The Globe and Mail
Statistics Canada is set to release gross domestic product data for the month of June and the second quarter as a whole today. The agency’s early estimates for GDP in the second quarter had been for zero growth as trade uncertainty and tariffs weigh on business and consumer sentiment.
August 29, 2025 - 07:03 | | The Globe and Mail
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