Hour 1 of Ottawa Now for Thurs. September 11th, 2025
September 11, 2025
On Wednesday, Ottawa City Council officially approved the Budget Direction for 2026. And as they try to keep next year’s property tax hike at 3.75 percent, coupled with a transit fare increase of up to 7.5 percent, City Council is also attempting to cap the size of the municipal public service. Rideau-Jock councillor David Brown put forward a motion to set that magic cap at 17,105 employees, which was supported in a 14 to 10 vote. This rule exempts paramedics, firefighters, bylaw services, and potentially other critical city services. Councillor Brown joins Kristy Cameron to outline his reasoning in Hour 1. Sticking with municipal matters, over 4,000 people have been fined for not paying OC Transpo bus fares or O-Train transit tickets. If anyone has any bright ideas, a singular fine is $260. CTV's Josh Pringle does some rough mathematics. But first, we bring you up to speed on today’s top headlines.
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September 17, 2025 - 18:57 | Bruce Garrioch | Ottawa Citizen
OTTAWA — There should be limits on the use of the notwithstanding clause that is being increasingly invoked by provinces to curtail people’s Charter rights, argues the federal government in response to the challenge of Quebec’s secularism law at the Supreme Court.
In its first legal intervention in the lengthy challenge of Quebec’s controversial law, the federal government argued in submissions filed Wednesday that the Supreme Court should set out limits of Section 33 of the Charter of Rights, known as...
September 17, 2025 - 18:56 | Christopher Nardi | National Post
Quebec has become the second Canadian province after Alberta that will no longer provide free vaccination against COVID-19 for all its population.Instead, only certain categories of people will still receive the shot at no cost: seniors, health care workers, residents of remote regions and medically vulnerable patients.
September 17, 2025 - 18:24 | Ha Tu Thanh, Alanna Smith | The Globe and Mail
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