Hour 1 of Ottawa Now for Wed. August 6th, 2025
August 6, 2025
By the end of this month, and just in time for a brand-new learning season, the OC Transpo Youth Pass will be no more. Troy Charter, the Interim GM for OC Transpo, broke the news in a recent memo to City Council. Right now, the monthly Youth Pass costs $104 per month, while the monthly Adult Pass is $135 per month. And as you might expect, the city’s biggest transit critics are not impressed. We dig deeper in Hour 1 with David Jeanes, a spokesperson for Transport Action Canada. Plus, Kristy’s Summer Hit List continues to heat up, as we shout out a handful of must-see Summer attractions all across the National Capital Region. Joining the show with her selections is Katherine Dines from MOVE 100. But first, we bring you up to speed on today’s top headlines.
Unpublished Newswire
Paul Henderson, the Maple Leafs Hockey Hall of Famer, initially knew Ken Dryden only as the opposing goaltender for the Montreal Canadiens.“When I played against him, I hated that sucker,” Mr. Henderson said Sunday, two days after Mr. Dryden’s death at the age of 78.
September 7, 2025 - 21:31 | Marty Klinkenberg | The Globe and Mail
Politicians typically do most of their running on campaign trails, but Prime Minister Mark Carney surprised many people when he competed in a long-distance trail run in southern Ontario on the weekend.Carney was entered in the 26-kilometre event in the Haliburton Forest Trail Race, an annual event held about 160 kilometres north of Toronto, which also has longer distance categories, with the longest being 100 miles (160 kilometres).
September 7, 2025 - 21:05 | Rob Drinkwater | The Globe and Mail
The owners of nearly 400 ostriches on a British Columbia farm are hoping the federal Minister of Agriculture will step in and save the birds from an execution order after reviewing fresh evidence of the ostriches’ good health. Umar Sheikh, a lawyer for Universal Ostrich Farms, said he planned to send a package of evidence Sunday night to the Canadian Food Inspection Agency and Agriculture Minister Heath MacDonald in a bid for ministerial reconsideration, one of the last remaining avenues to preserve a doomed flock whose fate has become an international cause célèbre.
September 7, 2025 - 21:03 | Kelly Grant | The Globe and Mail
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