Hour 1 of Ottawa Now for Thurs. July 10th, 2025
July 10, 2025
A trio of Ottawa hospitals have some of the longest wait times in Ontario, according to an initial assessment from a hospital E.R. doctor. Additionally, all five E.R.’s in Canada’s Capital have exceeded the provincial average. Joining Kristy Cameron to comment further is Dr. Alan Drummond, an Emergency Physician based in Perth. He is also a former President for the Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians. Over at LeBreton Flats, it’s a big night for music lovers and concert-goers. We preview the Opening Night lineup for RBC Bluesfest 2025. But first, we bring you up to speed on today’s top headlines, starting with a teenager’s arrest in connection to a shocking attack in Quadeville.
Unpublished Newswire
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
Donald J. Savoie has spent decades studying the inner workings of Canada’s federal bureaucracy. He’s watched Ottawa grow more centralized and more crowded with what he calls “poets,” policy thinkers and advisers, while the “plumbers,” the front-line workers delivering services to Canadians, have not been prioritized. In an interview with National Post about the concept, as discussed in his recent book
Speaking Truth to Canadians About...
July 26, 2025 - 06:00 | Amna Ahmad | National Post
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