Hour 1 of Ottawa Now for Fri. August 8th, 2025
August 8, 2025
Today’s QOTD discussion stems from a news item that we first addressed on Thursday. And just to confirm for the final time, this is not a headline from The Onion. This is very real, and totally not satire. The NCC is thinking of installing a floating sauna at the NCC River House, which can be found at Ottawa’s East End. The proposed sauna must accommodate a minimum of 15 people, and as many as 25 people. It would operate 7 days a week, and throughout the year. Yes, even during January’s frigid temperatures. We set the stage in Hour 1 with CTV’s Kimberley Johnson. Meantime, Kristy’s Summer Hit List keeps on trucking for another full week, as a crowd of Bell Media personalities deliver their smoking-hot ways to soak in the Summer fun. Ottawa Now show producer Dani Dube, who just returned from an East Coast vacation, chimes in with some of her fresh ideas! But first, we bring you up to speed on today’s top headlines.
Unpublished Newswire
Prolific Canadian actor Graham Greene, who earlier this year received a Governor General’s award for lifetime artistic achievement, has died. Greene’s manager Gerry Jordan said Greene died on Monday in Stratford, Ont., of natural causes. He was 73.
September 1, 2025 - 20:55 | Cassidy McMackon | The Globe and Mail
When Maurice McGregor graduated from high school, his father sat him down for a pragmatic talk about the future. The fact that young Maurice had not been the smartest of students did not preclude him from pursuing a career in education, law or medicine because if only the smartest were able to take on positions of authority, the world would be in a lot of trouble.The son chose medicine because it was a field that sparked his curiosity. And, coming from a family of fierce pacifists who were all aware that a new world war was on the horizon, he wanted to be able to take part as a healer...
September 1, 2025 - 20:08 | Lisa Fitterman | The Globe and Mail
Many of the more than 35,000 public-service employees from two unions in British Columbia will be heading to the picket lines on Tuesday morning if they are not called back to the bargaining table, the union heads say. “We think our government is out of touch with both our membership and the public‚” said Paul Finch, bargaining chair and president of the British Columbia General Employees’ Union. “We think the government needs to take a knee and revise their position here.”The BCGEU, which represents 34,000 public-sector employees, as well as the Professional Employees Association (PEA...
September 1, 2025 - 19:46 | Aajah Sauter, Claire McFarlane | The Globe and Mail
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