Hour 4 of Ottawa Now for Tues. August 5th, 2025
August 5, 2025
Prime Minister Mark Carney has announced a series of financial aid measures for Canada’s Forestry sector and Softwood Lumber industry. At the same time, he says trade negotiations with the United States are moving onward, and in search of the best deal that benefits both sides. You’ll hear some of those comments in Hour 4, as Carney visits Kelowna. Plus, do you remember that smoky air that exited stage-right not too long ago? Well, it’s making a comeback in Canada’s Capital, and nobody likes it. CTV’s Austin Lee joins us with the latest developments. And finally, if news breaks, you’ll hear it live right here on CFRA’s Ottawa Now.
Unpublished Newswire
Quarterback Dustin Crum willed the Ottawa Redblacks to victory Friday night, absorbing hits, breaking tackles and piling up yards. He has the bruises to prove it, too.
September 6, 2025 - 09:30 | Globalnews Digital | Global News - Ottawa
The neurosurgery team at Toronto’s University Health Network has implanted a wireless brain-computer interface (BCI) in two Canadian patients with cervical spinal cord injuries.
The BCI implant is designed to restore control in performing some daily routines. It could allow a person with quadriplegia to check email, interact on social media, or use smart devices at home.
The project aims to enable quadriplegic individuals by providing control of external devices using the implant recipient’s thoughts. The surgeries to insert the Neuralink devices were done on August 27 and Sept. 3...
September 6, 2025 - 09:00 | Stewart Lewis | National Post
Paul Drysdale has spent nearly half a century dispelling the foundational myth that a waterbed will improve your love life. The North York-based salesman says the late Sue Johanson, a client and the iconoclastic host of the Sunday Night Sex Show, agreed with him, which Mr. Drysdale figures is authoritative proof.
September 6, 2025 - 09:00 | Mike Hager | The Globe and Mail
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