Hour 1 of Ottawa Now for Mon. June 9th, 2025
June 9, 2025
Here in Ontario, cataract surgery is considered a ‘medically-necessary’ operation. However, in some cases, lengthy wait times are pushing patients to seek surgical options at private clinics. Today, we are hearing from some of those patients who picked the private healthcare gameplan, and it’s not good news. They allege that some clinics tried to upsell them on surgery prices and assessments. Kristy Cameron digs deeper with Natalie Mehra, the Executive Director of the Ontario Health Coalition. They are an advocacy group that focuses on protecting public healthcare across the province. Meantime, we’ve been hyping up Kristy’s Summer Job Centre religiously over the past week, and Opening Day has finally arrived! Well, with a few snags, to be fully-transparent. If you keep getting rejected for Summer gigs, or none are popping up in your area, what should you do? We gather some helpful tips from Sabrina McTaggart, a career coach at Sabrina McTaggart’s Career Coaching for Young Adults.
Unpublished Newswire
Pierre Poilievre was greeted with cheers and applause by the hundreds of Albertans who showed up to watch a two-and-a-half-hour political debate on a sunny Tuesday evening in July. The Camrose and District Chamber of Commerce hosted a candidates’ forum featuring 10 of the people who are vying to represent Battle River-Crowfoot in the Aug. 18 by-election.
July 30, 2025 - 00:41 | | The Globe and Mail
Major players in B.C.’s housing industry are calling on federal and provincial governments to loosen restrictions on foreign investment in Canadian homes to avoid a crash they say will deepen the country’s housing crisis. The B.C. industry players have written to Prime Minister Mark Carney and federal Housing Minister Gregor Robertson outlining their concerns. Toronto developers, whose industry is struggling with some of the same challenges, have said they support the measures being urged.
July 30, 2025 - 00:00 | Frances Bula, Rachelle Younglai | The Globe and Mail
The Vancouver Island municipality of Nanaimo wants the local health authority to justify the continued existence of the community’s legal overdose prevention site as opposition mounts to the facility around the corner from its City Hall.Nanaimo City Council deferred voting Monday evening on a motion asking the Vancouver Island Health Authority, or VIHA, to shut down the site in favour of meeting with the agency in coming weeks. The site has been operating since 2022.
July 29, 2025 - 23:18 | Mike Hager | The Globe and Mail
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