Hour 1 of Ottawa Now for Tues. August 26th, 2025
August 26, 2025
Effective next month, Ottawa’s two largest school boards will be asking students and teachers to pack ‘litterless lunches’. If you bring any plastic, glass, or recyclable products to school with you, then you have to bring them home and dispose of them yourself. This shift in school board policy is due to the recent removal of classroom blue bins. We gather instant reaction from listeners throughout today’s broadcast. And just after the bottom-hour news, Kristy Cameron picks the brain of Duncan Bury, who is the co-founder of Waste Watch Ottawa. But first, we bring you up to speed on today’s top headlines.
Unpublished Newswire
Nearly a fifth of the Liberal caucus has issued a letter calling for more to be done to address a rise in antisemitism after a Jewish woman in her 70s was stabbed at an Ottawa grocery store.Mount Royal MP Anthony Housefather posted the letter on social media he signed along with 31 other Liberal lawmakers that decries what the letter calls the “deplorable” rise in antisemitism, warning it is “becoming normalized” in Canada.
September 1, 2025 - 14:13 | Kyle Duggan | The Globe and Mail
Nova Scotia officials say parts of the province's largest wildfire in Annapolis Valley have increased in intensity because of the wind.
September 1, 2025 - 13:26 | Globalnews Digital | Global News - Canada
A 25-year-old man who police allege forced his way into a home during the night in Welland, Ont., and violently sexually assaulted a young child inside has been arrested and charged. Police described it as a stranger attack.
Police and paramedics were called to a home in a residential neighbourhood at 8:59 a.m. for an injured child under the age of five, according to Niagara Regional Police. When a police patrol car arrived, the officers saw the door to the home looked like it had been forced open.
Inside they saw a child “suffering from serious injuries” and immediately launched a...
September 1, 2025 - 13:17 | Adrian Humphreys | National Post
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