Hour 1 of Ottawa Now for Fri. October 31st, 2025
October 31, 2025
Blue Jays fans have waited 32 years for this moment! With another win at Rogers Centre, either today or Saturday, Canada’s Team will achieve baseball immortality. We speak to Ottawa residents Carter Hamer and Zach Neilson, who have tickets to Game 6. Then, we dig deeper into the nationwide spread of Blue Jays fever with Katelyn Esmonde. She is an Assistant Professor of Kinesiology at Western University, as well as an expert on sports fandom. But first, we bring you up to speed on today’s top headlines.
Unpublished Newswire
To commemorate Veterans’ Week, the Poppy Flag will be flown at City Hall and the following City facilities from Wednesday, November 5 to Tuesday, November 11:
Nepean Client Service Centre
Orléans Client Service Centre
Mary Pitt Centre
Metcalfe Client Service Centre
West Carleton Client Service Centre
North Gower Client Service Centre
In addition, all flags at City facilities will be lowered to half-mast from sunrise to sunset on Tuesday, November 11 to commemorate Remembrance Day and honour all Canadians, past and present, who have served their country in time of war.
The National...
November 4, 2025 - 11:57 | City of Ottawa - Media Relations / Ville d'Ottawa - Relations avec les médias | City of Ottawa News Releases
Ottawa is on the verge of approving an arena that could make it impossible for the Ottawa Charge to stay in the city we proudly call home. A 5,850-seat facility may serve the mayor’s short-term ambitions, but it limits Ottawa’s long-term promise. Ottawa has a chance to lead Canada in women’s professional sport. Instead, this proposal risks closing the door on that promise. Read More
November 4, 2025 - 11:53 | Nicole Feriancek | Ottawa Citizen
A violent knife-wielding woman was tasered and “inadvertently” run over twice by a Toronto police SUV during her arrest next to a Tim Hortons drive-thru on Saturday.
The dramatic incident, which was captured in a pair of videos circulating widely across social media platforms, occurred mid-afternoon near Jane Park Plaza shopping centre in the city’s west end, where officers responded to reports of a woman with two large knives.
The woman was “actively damaging” vehicles, according to a Toronto Police Service statement sent to National Post, and had slashed the tires of a police...
November 4, 2025 - 11:49 | Kenn Oliver | National Post
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