Hour 1 of Ottawa Now for Thurs. May 8th, 2025
May 8, 2025
The search for a new Pope has quickly ended after just 2 days of deliberation. And as the white smoke drifts away from Vatican City, the identity of the Catholic Church’s fearless leader has been unveiled for all to see. Cardinal Robert Prevost, a 69-year-old from Chicago, will now be known as Pope Leo XIV. It is the first time in the Church’s history that an American will be leading them. We gather instant reaction as the show rolls on. Meantime, a new Leger survey says that most Canadians don’t feel safe when they visit an American city. It was conducted for the Association for Canadian Studies, and it found that 52 percent of respondents don’t find this pilgrimage as safe as it once was. While 29 percent of respondents disagree with this theory, 54 percent insist that they don’t feel welcome when they travel to the United States. Travel expert Lorraine Simpson calls up the Ottawa Now studios with her two cents.
Unpublished Newswire
A First Nation in B.C.'s Interior is blocking access to the R.W. Bruhn Bridge construction site in Sicamous, B.C., over the alleged exclusion of its workers and businesses from the government-funded infrastructure project.
May 12, 2025 - 22:26 | | CBC News - Canada
In a first amid what real estate experts say is a Vancouver-area condo market meltdown, a long-established development company has terminated its presales efforts for a major project and returned purchasers’ deposits.Karen West, vice-president for marketing and sales with Boffo Developments Ltd., said the company launched the first of what is meant to be a four-tower, 1,200-unit development last July in the hopes that the market was starting to improve as interest rates were slowly coming down.
May 12, 2025 - 22:04 | Frances Bula | The Globe and Mail
Bev Beaver competed at the highest level of women’s hockey and softball for more than three decades. She was also a notable five-pin bowler.“I was born a sportsperson,” she once said.
May 12, 2025 - 21:11 | Tom Hawthorn | The Globe and Mail
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