Hour 3 of Ottawa Now for Mon. October 20th, 2025

With no updated reports in hand, Ottawa Mayor Mark Sutcliffe made a significant announcement regarding Lansdowne 2.0 earlier this morning. The annual investment for taxpayers is now $4.3 million per year, which is down from the $5 million that was projected in 2023. It includes a new event centre to replace the existing TD Place Arena, as well as a teardown and replacement of the old North Side stands at Lansdowne Park. A pair of brand-new residential towers would also be constructed. And with OSEG shaking hands on a partnership, the municipality would cover the cost of building the new arena and the football stadium upgrades. Is this endeavour worth the price tag? Would you classify the current edition of Lansdowne Park as an overall success? And with a handful of Ottawa sports teams calling TD Place home, where would they play their games once the shovels hit the ground? Kristy Cameron sifts through the CFRA textboard and tackles today’s Question of the Day. Meanwhile, in the political arena, a former senior aide to Prime Minister Stephen Harper wrote a scathing op-ed in the Toronto Star, lashing out at present-day Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre. Dimitri Soudas says that Poilievre is dismantling the Conservative Party as we know it. Is this planting the seed for an internal rift within the Blue Team, and how big of a problem is this for Poilievre’s image? We dig deeper in Hour 3 with our Political Heat Panel.