Hour 1 of Ottawa Now for Wed. August 20th, 2025
August 20, 2025
Andrew Pinsent is filling in for the vacationing Kristy Cameron this week. It’s been a tragic Summer season on Ontario waters, backed up by new data from the Ontario Provincial Police. They say that drownings over the past 12 months have doubled. And in the wake of one particular tragedy in Northern Ontario, calls for mandatory swimming lessons in public schools have resurfaced at a fast and furious pace. Sean Duffy from the Lifesaving Society of Ontario pays us a visit in Hour 1. Turning our attention to municipal and provincial politics, an Ottawa city councillor has caught the attention of Ontario’s Premier, and not in a good way. Ariel Troster from Somerset Ward took the province’s Deputy Premier to task on recent crime data statistics, leading to a widening degree of confusion. She hops on the show to clarify her stance and react to Doug Ford’s criticism.
Unpublished Newswire
Minister Dreeshen says the city is committed to doing further consultation. But changing the provincial legislation entirely, so that’s always the case, isn’t off the table.
August 25, 2025 - 20:23 | Jasmine King | Global News - Canada
Vapes or e-cigarettes should be a last line of defence for people looking to quit smoking, according to new Canadian guidelines. The Canadian Task Force on Preventive Health Care released recommendations Monday for methods to help people stop smoking cigarettes. It advises doctors to ask patients whether they smoke and to develop personalized cessation plans that include counselling, prescription drugs and nicotine-replacement therapies.
August 25, 2025 - 20:12 | Sophia Coppolino | The Globe and Mail
While Canadians have been choosing to keep their loon-crested dollars in the country, data suggest that Americans have been spending more money on tourism expenditures north of the border than in past years.From January to March, U.S. residents spent about $2.5-billion in Canada on tourism-related expenditures such as accommodations, food and entertainment, a more than 27-per-cent increase from the same period last year, according to preliminary data from Statistics Canada released Monday. Most of those trips have been for personal reasons, up to $2.03-billion from $1.65-billion in the...
August 25, 2025 - 20:02 | Dayne Patterson | The Globe and Mail
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