Hour 1 of Ottawa Now for Thurs. August 21st, 2025
August 21, 2025
Andrew Pinsent is filling in for the vacationing Kristy Cameron today. She’ll be back in the big chair on Monday. Last year, Ottawa City Council passed a municipal budget that held the city’s property tax increase to 3.9 percent, while also coming up with enough extra cash for food banks and city parks. Mayor Mark Sutcliffe said the gameplan for 2025, which passed 22 to 3, balanced affordability with investment. Today, he is holding a press conference at City Hall, looking ahead to 2026 and the financial directions our city should consider. We take you live to that announcement in Hour 1. Then, we gather instant reaction from Beacon Hill-Cyrville councillor Tim Tierney.
Unpublished Newswire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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