Unpublished Newswire
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...
July 21, 2025 - 18:02 | | CFRA - 580 - Ottawa
It’s now been a full week since Carleton Place residents were asked to limit their water usage. According to city council members, it’s part of an urgent effort to conserve water. They need more time to ensure that there are enough reserves in the water distribution system to accommodate for present and future emergency services. CTV’s Ted Raymond fills us in on the details. Meantime, the MPP for Ottawa Centre plans to bring a motion to Queen’s Park this Fall, a proposal that would cap apartment temperatures at 26 degrees Celsius. However, one landlord advocacy...
July 21, 2025 - 18:01 | | CFRA - 580 - Ottawa
Chris Holski is filling in for the vacationing Kristy Cameron today. Like many of our listeners, he attended the Green Day concert at RBC Bluesfest on Friday night. To say the least, the atmosphere was far from plain. Holski delivers his unfiltered breakdown, and also shouts out the opening acts who kicked maximum ass. Meantime, you know what doesn't kick ass? Traffic congestion. The City of Toronto is hoping that a Chief Congestion Officer can provide an urgent elixir to Canada's biggest city. In the midst of our current traffic hiccups and inconveniences, do you think Canada's Capital...
July 21, 2025 - 18:00 | | CFRA - 580 - Ottawa
Ken Dryden, who died Friday at 78 after a battle with cancer, regularly contributed to National Post and other major Canadian newspapers. In what may have been his final piece, in April he remembered his longtime friend and teammate, Bob McGuinn, and contemplated a life without him.
I was a teammate of his longer than I was of anyone else’s. Eleven years, from when I was 10 and he was 12, five years with Humber Valley, two with Etobicoke in junior B, four years in college hockey at Cornell University. In many ways, as it was with Bob McGuinn and lots of others, we never stopped being...
April 30, 2025 - 06:00 | Special to National Post | National Post
With a PhD in economics from Oxford University, 13 years working as a Goldman Sachs investment banker, and stints as governor of the Banks of Canada and England, if any politician should understand economics, it would be Prime Minister Mark Carney. I say “should,” because nothing that has come out of his mouth in recent weeks would suggest he has any understanding whatsoever about markets, at least not much beyond your average Montreal student rioter.
Carney is expected...
March 20, 2025 - 16:36 | Carson Jerema | National Post
