Hour 1 of Ottawa Now for Fri. September 26th, 2025
September 26, 2025
Back in July, Ottawa city councillor Ariel Troster renewed her call for a ‘Vision Zero’ policy, which would ban right turns on red lights in Ottawa’s Downtown Core. The final straw was a collision between a car and a cyclist just outside of City Hall on July 30th, an incident in which Troster saw the aftermath. Today, the Centretown Community Association has sent an open letter to the Somerset councillor, voicing their support for a right-on-red ban in Centretown. Kristy Cameron opens the conversation with Marko Miljusevic, who is a board member with the Centretown Community Association. In between, she opens the phone lines and takes your calls. But first, we bring you up to speed on today’s top headlines.
Unpublished Newswire
Steven MacKinnon made the comments as opposition parties have been laying out their demands for the upcoming federal budget, as well as their various red lines for supporting it.
October 22, 2025 - 13:38 | Sean Boynton | Global News - Canada
Negotiations on returning the Vatican items accelerated after Pope Francis in 2022 met with Indigenous leaders who had traveled to the Vatican.
October 22, 2025 - 13:17 | Globalnews Digital | Global News - Canada
OTTAWA — With its next budget just a couple of weeks away, the Liberal government has received a lousy report card from a leading think tank for poor fiscal accountability.
In a report to be released Thursday, the federal government received a “D” grade in fiscal accountability from the C.D. Howe Institute because Ottawa lost hefty marks for lateness and a lack of transparency.
The government’s lateness is a result of not yet producing a budget for this fiscal year, even though the year is already about half over. Its opaqueness includes burying “key numbers hundreds of pages deep...
October 22, 2025 - 13:12 | Simon Tuck | National Post
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