Hour 1 of Ottawa Now for Thurs. September 4th, 2025
September 4, 2025
A new report from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives is examining how much someone would need to earn on an hourly basis in order to rent an apartment. 62 cities were the focus of this study, with Toronto and Vancouver topping the crowd when it comes to unaffordable housing. So where does Canada’s Capital rank? For Q1 of 2025, the average asking rent for vacant rental units was $2,010 for a 1-bedroom apartment. If you’re looking for a 2-bedroom unit, the average was $2,490 back then. Kristy Cameron digs through the data with Dean Tester in Hour 1. He is an advocate for Make Housing Affordable, a non-profit organization. Switching gears to something entirely different, a brand-new NFL season starts tonight, and the league is looking for a Super Bowl Halftime performer. In light of Taylor Swift’s recent engagement to football star Travis Kelce, do we already have a winner? Music expert Eric Alper outlines who should be the top-tier candidates for the Winter spectacle. But first, we bring you up to speed on today’s top headlines.
Unpublished Newswire
Paul Henderson, the Maple Leafs Hockey Hall of Famer, initially knew Ken Dryden only as the opposing goaltender for the Montreal Canadiens.“When I played against him, I hated that sucker,” Mr. Henderson said Sunday, two days after Mr. Dryden’s death at the age of 78.
September 7, 2025 - 21:31 | Marty Klinkenberg | The Globe and Mail
Politicians typically do most of their running on campaign trails, but Prime Minister Mark Carney surprised many people when he competed in a long-distance trail run in southern Ontario on the weekend.Carney was entered in the 26-kilometre event in the Haliburton Forest Trail Race, an annual event held about 160 kilometres north of Toronto, which also has longer distance categories, with the longest being 100 miles (160 kilometres).
September 7, 2025 - 21:05 | Rob Drinkwater | The Globe and Mail
The owners of nearly 400 ostriches on a British Columbia farm are hoping the federal Minister of Agriculture will step in and save the birds from an execution order after reviewing fresh evidence of the ostriches’ good health. Umar Sheikh, a lawyer for Universal Ostrich Farms, said he planned to send a package of evidence Sunday night to the Canadian Food Inspection Agency and Agriculture Minister Heath MacDonald in a bid for ministerial reconsideration, one of the last remaining avenues to preserve a doomed flock whose fate has become an international cause célèbre.
September 7, 2025 - 21:03 | Kelly Grant | The Globe and Mail
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