Hour 2 of Ottawa Now for Fri. June 20th, 2025
June 20, 2025
One person has been sent to hospital with life-threatening injuries after a two-car Eastbound collision on Highway 417, paralyzing traffic late-Thursday morning and stretching into the start of the Afternoon rush-hour. How did all of this mid-day traffic circus impact your commute? And when our city is faced with a serious collision, especially on a major highway, how can we avoid the chaos that ensues? That question was posed to Tim Tierney, the Chair of the Public Works and Infrastructure Committee, in Hour 2. He believes that better technology, as well as ‘ring roads’, could reduce potential congestion for any type of crash that our municipality deals with. The councillor for Beacon Hill-Cyrville joins Kristy Cameron for a lengthy conversation. Plus, the new Summer season has finally arrived! In the midst of a heated trade war, are you planning any stay-cation days? CTV Ottawa’s Dylan Dyson has some helpful tips. Plus, as the Dragon Boat Festival kicks into high-gear this evening, organizers are cleaning up a mess from Thursday’s messy weather.
Unpublished Newswire
The White House is pursuing heavy fines from Harvard and other universities as part of potential settlements to end investigations into campus antisemitism, using the deal it struck with Columbia University as a template, according to an administration official familiar with the matter.Fines have become a staple of proposed deals in talks with Harvard and other schools, according to the official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations.
July 25, 2025 - 22:07 | Collin Binkley | The Globe and Mail
On Wednesday, a driver of a recycling truck was forced to urgently dump a big load of material in a Kelowna school parking lot after flames erupted inside the vehicle.
July 25, 2025 - 21:00 | Klaudia Van Emmerik | Global News - Canada
Born and raised in Montreal, Norman Marshall Villeneuve was taught to tap dance by his older brother. As a preteen he studied piano with the great instructor Daisy Peterson-Sweeney, sister of Oscar Peterson. Another legendary jazz pianist, Oliver Jones, was a cousin who, like Mr. Peterson, lived nearby.The tutoring in the other disciplines notwithstanding, he instead became one of Canada’s greatest bebop drummers.
July 25, 2025 - 20:27 | Brad Wheeler | The Globe and Mail
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