Hour 3 of Ottawa Now for Thurs. July 3rd, 2025 | Unpublished
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Publication Date: July 3, 2025 - 18:02

Hour 3 of Ottawa Now for Thurs. July 3rd, 2025

July 3, 2025

A new pilot project in Quebec will be delaying closing hours for numerous stores in select markets. The City of Gatineau is among the crowd, although their grocery stores and pharmacies won’t be affected. And once the 365-day experiment has ended, conversations will begin as to whether the entire province should get on board. What stores, businesses, or services do you find close way too early? Kristy Cameron sifts through the CFRA textboard and tackles today’s Question of the Day. Here in Canada’s Capital, the total number of homeless individuals has reached new levels, according to the City of Ottawa’s 2024 Housing Needs Assessment. And if critical housing investments are not made, that data is bound to get even worse. We dig deeper with Katie Burkholder-Harris, the Executive Director of the Alliance to End Homelessness Ottawa. And speaking of digging, it’s a Thursday afternoon, which means gardening expert Carson Arthur is here to address your gardening dilemmas.



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Canada should rethink its approach to prostate cancer screening, which uses a controversial blood test that an expert task force encouraged doctors to abandon more than a decade ago, according to a new paper led by a group of Toronto urologists and oncologists.In an article published Friday in The Lancet Regional Health – Americas, the authors argue for a population-wide trial that would offer the blood test, known as the prostate-specific antigen test, or PSA test, to men at elevated risk of prostate cancer, likely including Black men and those with a family history of the disease.
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"We are relieved to share that all three individuals are safe, and in good health and spirits," Newmont officials said early Friday morning.
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Evacuees from Leaf Rapids banding together in Winnipeg and wondering what's going to be left of their tight-knit community when wildfires recede.
July 24, 2025 - 23:01 | Teagan Rasche | Global News - Canada