Hour 4 of Ottawa Now for Thurs. October 16th, 2025
October 16, 2025
Family members and close friends are mourning the loss of a 5-year-old boy tonight, who was struck and killed by a dump truck while riding his bike on Wednesday. CTV’s Natalie Van Rooy just came back from the Overbrook neighbourhood. She joins us with the latest developments in Hour 4. Then, we preview tonight’s CTV Ottawa supper-hour newscast with Jackie Perez. And finally, if news breaks in real time, you’ll hear it live on CFRA’s Ottawa Now. One thing we can tell you before the final signoff is that Sens captain Brady Tkachuk has undergone surgery on his right thumb, and will be sidelined for the next 6 to 8 weeks.
Unpublished Newswire
The B.C. government is set to introduce legislation Monday to fast-track construction of a multibillion-dollar power transmission line to the north coast.It’s British Columbia’s big bet: The publicly funded infrastructure project is meant to secure new private-sector investments, including a string of critical-mineral mines, for the sparsely developed northwest corner of the province.
October 20, 2025 - 05:00 | Justine Hunter | The Globe and Mail
Prime Minister Mark Carney's coming cuts to the federal public service are expected to disproportionately impact female, Indigenous, racialized and disabled workers, according to a new analysis. Read More
October 20, 2025 - 04:00 | Matteo Cimellaro | Ottawa Citizen
OTTAWA — Dominic LeBlanc beat cancer.
Now, just five years later, Canada’s minister for Canada-U.S. trade is battling another malignant threat: U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs.
LeBlanc, the Carney government’s minister of just about everything, has spent much of this week in Washington, D.C. as the lead cabinet minister trying to navigate the choppy and unpredictable waters of the Trump administration’s trade policies.
In many ways, LeBlanc was an extreme long shot to be in this position as the cabinet’s point person tasked with one of the country’s most important challenges...
October 20, 2025 - 04:00 | Simon Tuck | National Post
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