Hour 1 of Ottawa Now for Wed. May 28th, 2025
May 28, 2025
Earlier this month, a joint meeting between two City of Ottawa committees led to the approval of a brand-new Special Events Bylaw and a Highway Events Bylaw. Collectively, they would regulate events in both indoor and outdoor settings, as well as roadways all across the city. And finally, it has introduced a ‘voluntary notification’ system for protest organizers, thereby eliminating the need for a permit. Today, City Council approved both measures. How will it impact future events in Canada’s Capital? Guest host Chris Holski chats with Tara Shannon, a local songwriter and the Executive Director of the Ottawa Festival Network. Shifting gears to those bright blue skies, The Weather Network has unveiled its Summer Forecast for Ottawa and Eastern Ontario. Does it feature more sunshine than rain? We gather the details from meteorologist Michael Carter.
Unpublished Newswire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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