Hour 3 of Ottawa Now for Mon. September 29th, 2025
September 29, 2025
Ontario’s minimum wage will be a little bit higher as of Wednesday morning, with the hourly rate set to climb to $17.60. That’s an hourly increase of 40 cents. However, that isn’t high enough for Laura Walton, the President of the Ontario Federation of Labour. She’s been fighting for a $20-per-hour minimum wage for the past 5 years. What should the limit be? Kristy Cameron sifts through the CFRA textboard and tackles today’s Question of the Day. Plus, a new Conservative activist organization is questioning whether Ontario’s Premier is Conservative enough. It’s time to talk politics on this fine Monday afternoon with our Political Heat Panel.
Unpublished Newswire
Former Bloc Quebecois MP Nathalie Sinclair-Desgagnes is challenging the federal election results in the Terrebonne riding where she lost by a single vote.
October 20, 2025 - 16:00 | Globalnews Digital | Global News - Canada
It's do or die for the Toronto Blue Jays tonight as they try to clinch a spot in the World Series, and with a home game advantage fans are heading to Rogers Centre in hopes of witnessing history.
October 20, 2025 - 15:58 | Globalnews Digital | Global News - Ottawa
OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney promised months ago that his government would double Canada’s current rate of residential construction to reach 500,000 homes per year, but that target is “ambitious” according to Housing Minister Gregor Robertson.
At the House of Commons committee on finance on Monday, Robertson was being grilled on his government’s commitment by Conservative finance critic Jasraj Singh Hallan when he said that ramping up construction up to that level would not happen overnight.
“Canada is not building at that scale. That is a longer-term goal over a decade,”...
October 20, 2025 - 15:48 | Catherine Lévesque | National Post
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