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Publication Date: May 8, 2025 - 18:00
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.
The idea is one of five being put forward by an Alberta government-appointed committee tasked with studying potential tailings management options.
June 12, 2025 - 18:04 | Globalnews Digital | Global News - Canada
Former Broncos player Ryan Straschnitzki has been using a wheelchair since he was paralyzed from the chest down in the 2018 Saskatchewan bus crash. He recently put on an exoskeleton that allowed him to walk – and handle a hockey stick – again.It’s been a while since Ryan Straschnitzki looked at the world from a different perspective.The former Humboldt Broncos hockey player has been using a wheelchair since 2018, when he was paralyzed from the chest down in a bus crash in rural Saskatchewan that killed 16 people and injured 13 others.
June 12, 2025 - 18:03 | Bill Graveland | The Globe and Mail
Hillel Ontario is calling on Toronto Metropolitan University to investigate Maher El-Masri, a recently appointed interim associate dean, because the group says he has “repeatedly engaged with and spread extreme, antisemitic, and deeply polarizing content on his social media account.”
Hillel Ontario, a Jewish student organization with a presence on nine campuses across the province, including TMU, sent an
action alert
last Thursday alongside several...
June 12, 2025 - 17:46 | Ari David Blaff | National Post
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