Hour 3 of Ottawa Now for Tues. September 2nd, 2025
September 2, 2025
Residents and businesses alongside areas of Hintonburg, Wellington West, and Westboro haven’t had to worry about widespread paid parking slots. Despite studies showcasing a shortage of available parking spaces, councillors have decided to maintain this policy as far back as 2017. Starting today, things have changed, as 697 parking spots are being turned into paid lots. How often do you visit these areas, and will these changes alter your shopping habits moving forward? Kristy Cameron sifts through the CFRA textboard and tackles today’s Question of the Day. Meantime, Ottawa’s largest school board has officially kickstarted a new reality, and it wasn’t their choice. Roughly 77,000 students and 12,000 staff members headed back to OCDSB classrooms earlier this morning, as the province keeps a watchful eye on their operations. Back in late-June, the Ontario government placed the OCDSB under supervision after the school board posted four straight deficit budgets, including a projected $9.2 million deficit for the previous learning season. We get a quick check-in from OCDSB Trustee Lyra Evans in Hour 3.
Unpublished Newswire
Paul Henderson, the Maple Leafs Hockey Hall of Famer, initially knew Ken Dryden only as the opposing goaltender for the Montreal Canadiens.“When I played against him, I hated that sucker,” Mr. Henderson said Sunday, two days after Mr. Dryden’s death at the age of 78.
September 7, 2025 - 21:31 | Marty Klinkenberg | The Globe and Mail
Politicians typically do most of their running on campaign trails, but Prime Minister Mark Carney surprised many people when he competed in a long-distance trail run in southern Ontario on the weekend.Carney was entered in the 26-kilometre event in the Haliburton Forest Trail Race, an annual event held about 160 kilometres north of Toronto, which also has longer distance categories, with the longest being 100 miles (160 kilometres).
September 7, 2025 - 21:05 | Rob Drinkwater | The Globe and Mail
The owners of nearly 400 ostriches on a British Columbia farm are hoping the federal Minister of Agriculture will step in and save the birds from an execution order after reviewing fresh evidence of the ostriches’ good health. Umar Sheikh, a lawyer for Universal Ostrich Farms, said he planned to send a package of evidence Sunday night to the Canadian Food Inspection Agency and Agriculture Minister Heath MacDonald in a bid for ministerial reconsideration, one of the last remaining avenues to preserve a doomed flock whose fate has become an international cause célèbre.
September 7, 2025 - 21:03 | Kelly Grant | The Globe and Mail
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