Hour 2 of Ottawa Now for Thurs. October 9th, 2025
October 9, 2025
Earlier this week, the OCDSB’s controversial elementary program review was scrapped by the Ford government. OCDSB supervisor Robert Plamondon said the changes would instead be replaced with an approach that ‘doesn’t disrupt students and is reflective of community feedback’. That decision has since sparked concerns from Ontario NDP Education Critic Chandra Pasma, who represents Ottawa West-Nepean. She joins Kristy Cameron in Hour 2. Plus, we are kickstarting a new bi-weekly segment with Dr. Trevor Arnason, Ottawa’s newly-appointed Medical Officer of Health. It’s called ‘Your Health’. And with RSV season ramping up, that’s what today’s conversation is all about.
Unpublished Newswire
Ottawa removed most of its diplomats from India in October 2023 after New Delhi threatened to strip diplomatic immunity from 41 Canadian officials and their 42 dependants.
October 22, 2025 - 08:37 | Globalnews Digital | Global News - Canada
It is Wednesday night at the Lion’s Gate banquet hall in Barrie, Ont., an hour north of Toronto. A Toronto Blue Jays playoff game is on the big screen, but Michael Ryan is focused on the task before him: getting a beanbag through the hole in a tilted board exactly 27 feet away. He grips one of his Viper-brand beanbags, draws his arm back, plants his foot and throws, putting a slight spin on the bag to guide its trajectory. It lands on the board with a satisfying thump, slides forward and disappears – plop – through the hole. “Nice bag, Mike,” says a competitor.
October 22, 2025 - 08:00 | Marcus Gee | The Globe and Mail
NEW YORK — Twenty-four years ago, a murderous yet methodical squadron of Islamic terrorists tore out the beating heart of New York City in the name of their particular understanding of God.
On Nov. 4, it is likely that a beaming, bearded young Muslim from the far left flank of American politics — a card-carrying Democratic Socialist, no less — will be elected as the 111th mayor (all of them men) of the capital of capitalism, riding a pita-in-the-sky cyclone of no-fare transit, cheap apartments, discount groceries and anti-Zionist rage from the river (Hudson) to the sea (Atlantic) and...
October 22, 2025 - 07:00 | Allen Abel | National Post
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