Hour 3 of Ottawa Now for Fri. May 2nd, 2025
May 2, 2025
In this chaotic space and time that is the 2020s, loneliness has rapidly turned into society’s silent killer. Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg believes that A.I. friends could help solve this troubling epidemic. Could you be friends with a Chatbot? And if you decide to adopt this societal experiment, what are the potential pitfalls you should be aware of? Kristy Cameron sifts through the textboard and tackle today’s Question of the Day. Meantime, the union representing auto workers at Oshawa’s General Motors plant says the company is cutting its third shift this Fall. And, once again, the company is putting the blame squarely on the Trump tariffs. UNIFOR National President Lana Payne joins the program in Hour 3. We also gather instant reaction from Oshawa Mayor Dan Carter.
Unpublished Newswire
Governor Tiff Macklem of the Bank of Canada was interviewed after the central bank held its overnight lending rate at 2.75 per cent for the second straight meeting.
June 7, 2025 - 08:42 | Globalnews Digital | Global News - Canada
The American ambassador to Canada is pushing back on Ottawa’s travel advice, saying his country doesn’t search phones at the border and arguing some Americans travelling here are having a tough time.“We welcome Canadians to come in and invest, to spend their hard-earned Canadian dollars at U.S. businesses,” U.S. Ambassador Pete Hoekstra told The Canadian Press in an interview Friday.
June 7, 2025 - 08:23 | Dylan Robertson | The Globe and Mail
Residents in the Capital region woke up Saturday to relatively fresh air conditions. Don’t get used to it, Environment Canada said in an early update. “There may be a brief improvement in air quality (Saturday) morning,” the forecast says. But “high levels of air pollution due to smoke from forest fires are expected to continue […]
June 7, 2025 - 08:19 | Norman Provencher | Ottawa Citizen
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