Hour 3 of Ottawa Now for Mon. July 14th, 2025
July 14, 2025
In March of 2020, everything changed. A global pandemic shut the whole world down. Everyone was shuttered in their own homes, rarely making contact with their next-door neighbours unless it was at a safe distance. And for some, the weight they were carrying around was both mental and physical. A new report says obesity rates have increased faster during COVID-19 compared to 10 years before it. For today’s young adults, the numbers are especially jarring. Researchers oversaw a roughly 8 percent increase from 2009 to 2020. Between 2020 and 2023, in each year, there was an uptick of 1 percent. Have you gained weight during COVID? Is it enough to sound the alarm bells? Kristy Cameron sifts through the textboard and tackles today’s Question of the Day. Plus, it’s a Monday afternoon, which means it’s time to talk politics with our Political Heat Panel. And for Canada’s Prime Minister, his biggest nightmare could be his potential conflicts of interests, which his critics are targeting today.
Unpublished Newswire
It’s unnerving to read a government document describing how to properly cut a cow’s throat. But in order to understand the lawsuit between the producers of kosher meat, kosher certification agencies, and the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA), which regulates the health of food, animals, and plants, one has to face certain realities.
Since 2010, the CFIA’s guidelines for ritual slaughter—the act of killing an animal to fulfill specific religious or cultural laws—have described in detail the method of using a knife “at least twice as long as the animal’s neck width and...
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Good morning. Prime Minister Mark Carney’s trip to Europe has moved to Germany today and will see a final stop tomorrow in Latvia. Keep reading to catch up on the trip so far, plus more on updated smoking guidelines and meeting the keepers of the coast. But first:Today’s headlinesIsrael bombed Gaza’s Nasser Hospital twice, killing 20, including journalists and rescue workersTrade Minister Dominic LeBlanc will meet with U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick in Washington this weekTreasure hunters in Cape Breton see therapy as the real prize, not lost pirate gold. Still, they hope for...
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