Hour 3 of Ottawa Now for Wed. September 3rd, 2025
September 3, 2025
A Michigan woman has created an interactive method for today’s children to learn Anishinaabemowin. The so-called SkoBot represents a growing push to preserve and revitalize the world’s endangered languages, largely through the use of robotics and Artificial Intelligence. We explore further in Hour 3 with Shruti Shekar, the editor-in-chief for Android Central and the co-pilot for today’s edition of Web Wednesdays. But first, it’s time to tackle today’s Question of the Day. If the new zoning bylaws are approved by City Council in mid-December, older bungalow neighbourhoods in Canada's Capital will be facing significant changes. And everywhere you turn, more and more 3-storey buildings will be popping up. Are you embracing this change, or is this a bad idea for the municipality to endorse? The phone lines are buzzing, and so is the CFRA textboard.
Unpublished Newswire
All 144 Conservative MPs have signed an open letter condemning antisemitism in Canada, an apparent response to a similar letter signed by less than a fifth of the Liberal caucus.
The letter came late this week after a targeted attack at a kosher grocery store in Ottawa on Aug. 27, when
an elderly woman was stabbed...
September 6, 2025 - 08:00 | Courtney Greenberg | National Post
For decades, candidates for civic elections in British Columbia have held off campaigning until a couple of months before the traditional fall vote. But this year, with more than 400 days before the scheduled Oct. 27, 2026, municipal elections, Surrey Councillor Linda Annis splashed out Wednesday with a news conference in a major hotel ballroom to announce she would be challenging Mayor Brenda Locke for her job.
September 6, 2025 - 08:00 | Frances Bula | The Globe and Mail
T he telegram on January 24, 1965, time-stamped 3:49 p.m., extended a formal invitation to an ailing, largely forgotten ninety-three-year-old British army general in Canada to attend the funeral of a famous ninety-year-old statesman in England: “Please cable if you can or cannot accept invitation to state funeral of Sir Winston Churchill St. Paul’s Cathedral London Saturday 30th January 1965 Stop.”
The invitation was delivered to a name and an address in a distant place, St. John’s, Newfoundland, the recipient presumably unfamiliar and irrelevant to the organizers of an event of global...
September 6, 2025 - 06:30 | Linden MacIntyre | Walrus
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