Hour 1 of Ottawa Now for Wed. August 13th, 2025
August 13, 2025
More and more doctors are turning to Artificial Intelligence to help with their cumbersome paperwork. Just last year, in an effort to reduce administrative burdens on today’s doctors, the Ontario Medical Association launched a pilot project. During appointments with patients, over 150 doctors dabbled in A.I. scribe technology, instructing the software to take notes as the appointment proceeded. And now, Quebec-based Sante Quebec is doing something similar, effective in 2026. However, that hasn’t come without an onslaught of question marks from skeptics, on top of the usual cybersecurity concerns. Kristy Cameron digs deeper with Dr. Jasmin Landry, the founder of Plume A.I. and an Emergency Room physician in Chateaugay, Quebec. Meantime, it has finally started to rain again in Canada’s Capital! But if you are still craving some smoking-hot Summer activities, perhaps you’ll find some cool suggestions via Chris Holski’s Summer Agenda! That’s coming up later in Hour 1. But first, we bring you up to speed on today’s top headlines.
Unpublished Newswire
A teachers’ strike or a lockout is looming in Alberta just days before the start of school. The conflict between the province and union is coming to a head as the government mandates book restrictions in school libraries and implements sweeping rules around students’ pronouns and transgender identity.Contract negotiations between the Alberta Teachers’ Association and the province’s bargaining team have reached a significant impasse, said Education and Childcare Minister Demetrios Nicolaides. He characterized the union as “manipulative” after it declined to accept an offer during mediated...
August 29, 2025 - 21:25 | Temur Durrani | The Globe and Mail
Hong Kong is a special sort of place. A tiny enclave on China’s flank, it rose in the course of a generation from steamy colonial port to modern economic dynamo – a magnet for struggling migrants from mainland China, a financial hub for East Asia, a bustling entrepôt with trading links around the world.When I arrived there in the early 1980s to work on a regional newsmagazine, signs of its rising wealth were all around. Skyscrapers were going up left and right. Rolls-Royce limousines carried freshly minted millionaires through the clogged streets. Even the tin-roofed shanties that...
August 29, 2025 - 21:00 | Marcus Gee | The Globe and Mail
The private developer who had partnered with British Columbia’s Squamish Nation to build the country’s most ambitious Indigenous-owned apartment project to date has sold the last of his stake to a major Ontario pension fund. The move by Ian Gillespie’s Westbank Corp. is the latest in a series of divestments by the company as it grapples with a dramatic slowdown of the Vancouver residential market. The Squamish announced Thursday that the Senakw project, which is just completing the first three towers of a planned 11, will now be a “restructured partnership.”
August 29, 2025 - 20:59 | Frances Bula | The Globe and Mail
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