Hour 3 of Ottawa Now for Mon. July 21st, 2025
July 21, 2025
Toronto City Council is debating whether Canada’s biggest city needs a ‘Traffic Czar’ to tame its commuting hiccups and flaws. Is it time that our municipality explores a similar conversation, or would creating this specialized role lead to more money wasted and even more problems? Guest host Chris Holski sifts through the textboard and tackles today’s Question of the Day. Meantime, a tragic 2023 car crash on Fallowfield Road has reached its conclusion at an Ottawa courthouse. The driver at fault is receiving prison time, while the family of the victim is sentenced to a lifetime of suffering. CTV’s Katelyn Wilson delivers the details in Hour 3. Plus, it’s a Monday afternoon, which means it’s time to chat politics with our Political Heat Panel.
Unpublished Newswire
In early February 2024, a migraine kept Finlay van der Werken home from school. His condition got worse, and his mother took him to Oakville Trafalgar Memorial Hospital.
July 26, 2025 - 08:00 | Katherine Ward | Global News - Ottawa
The bronze bust of William Lyon Mackenzie sits on a tall plinth tucked away in Toronto’s Queen’s Park. He has a defiant expression, befitting the rebel leader against Upper Canada, and a swooping hairdo that looks like a bird perched atop his head. Earlier this summer, Andy Filipowich was here to take in the statue. He’s a high school teacher by day, but a prolific Wikipedia editor by night.
July 26, 2025 - 07:30 | Samantha Edwards | The Globe and Mail
O ne day, I was leaving the church where I work when an angry woman stopped me. She threw a bag of garbage into the encampment in our yard and told me that a person had started sleeping in hers—and that I needed to tell her how she could find out who it was and make him go away. I suggested that she ask the person himself.
She stared at me and exclaimed, “But he takes drugs!”
“You can still ask him who he is,” I said.
And she stormed away up the street.
I tell this story not primarily to illustrate how I have come to be seen as responsible for all homeless people within about...
July 26, 2025 - 06:30 | Maggie Helwig | Walrus
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