Hour 2 of Ottawa Now for Thurs. September 12th, 2024
September 12, 2024
As we continue to talk about Ottawa’s public transit dilemmas, the present-day Ontario Liberal MPP for Orleans has received a report from the Financial Accountability Office of Ontario. It highlights significant disparities in operational subsidies for local and regional transit systems all across the province. Stephen Blais, who is also a former Ottawa city councillor, joins Andrew Pinsent in Hour 2. According to new data from the Angus Reid Institute, half of Canadians believe that no federal political party really represents their views. Furthermore, one-third of respondents feel like ‘orphans’, as the country’s political parties move farther apart. Plus, we bring you the latest developments on the Air Canada labour dispute. Are we any closer to avoiding a strike?
Unpublished Newswire
The Ford government is putting new bike lanes and any installed in the past half-decade on notice but has promised it will pay the costs if cities have to tear out routes.
October 22, 2024 - 06:00 | Isaac Callan | Global News - Ottawa
Paul Watson’s prison cell in Greenland overlooks the mountains and the icy North Atlantic where an occasional humpback whale breaches in the fjord.In one of the few countries that still permits whale hunting, the anti-whaling activist, co-founder of Greenpeace and former head of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society has spent 93 days and counting behind the steel and concrete walls of this high-security prison, gazing out his bar-less window on the outskirts of Nuuk.
October 22, 2024 - 06:00 | Lindsay Jones | The Globe and Mail
Blaine Higgs defined himself as an anti-politician willing to depart from old, predictable patterns of governing. It worked for him at first, but it caught up with him Monday.
October 22, 2024 - 05:00 | | CBC News - Canada
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