Hour 1 of Ottawa Now for Mon. July 21st, 2025
July 21, 2025
Chris Holski is filling in for the vacationing Kristy Cameron today. Like many of our listeners, he attended the Green Day concert at RBC Bluesfest on Friday night. To say the least, the atmosphere was far from plain. Holski delivers his unfiltered breakdown, and also shouts out the opening acts who kicked maximum ass. Meantime, you know what doesn't kick ass? Traffic congestion. The City of Toronto is hoping that a Chief Congestion Officer can provide an urgent elixir to Canada's biggest city. In the midst of our current traffic hiccups and inconveniences, do you think Canada's Capital needs one? We pose that question to Yasser Hassan, a Professor in Transportation Engineering at Carleton University. He is also the Chair of Carleton’s Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, studying the effects of driver behaviour and traffic safety on a regular basis. Plus, as we dig deep into the dog days of a Canadian summer, it's a good time to highlight the importance of drowning prevention. Sean Duffy from the Lifesaving Society of Ontario pays us a visit in Hour 1, as we kick off National Drowning Prevention Week.
Unpublished Newswire
A Quebec college facing a $30-million fine for enrolling too many students in English-language programs, contravening the province’s language law, is postponing the first day of classes scheduled for Monday.LaSalle College said the suspension is tied to the fine imposed on the Montreal school it deems “abusive” and Monday classes are cancelled, but the campus will remain open to students.In a statement issued Friday, the college said the first day back-to-class will go ahead on Tuesday. The post-secondary institution assures the measure won’t have an impact on students’ academic careers...
August 23, 2025 - 20:40 | Sidhartha Banerjee | The Globe and Mail
In March of 2024, a middle-aged man was having a cigarette outside his Surrey, B.C., social housing complex when he noticed Jae Won Lee, a 23-year-old Australian-born permanent resident of Canada, lifting the cover off another resident’s motorcycle. The man approached Lee to ask what he was doing, to which Lee replied, “Mind your own business, old man.”Lee then pulled out a knife with a six-inch blade and stabbed the man’s arm before chasing him into the building’s lobby, where he stabbed him in the abdomen.
August 23, 2025 - 20:30 | Darryl Greer | The Globe and Mail
Ottawa firefighters quickly put out a fire Saturday evening in the basement of a row housing end unit on Borthwick Avenue. Read More
August 23, 2025 - 19:43 | Doug Menary | Ottawa Citizen
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