Hour 1 of Ottawa Now for Tues. April 2nd, 2024
April 2, 2024
For the upcoming school year, the Ford government has an interesting proposal to offset the ongoing tech teacher shortage. That would involve giving these tech courses to experienced teachers, even if they didn’t have the tech credentials that are required to teach these courses. Kristy Cameron gets instant reaction from Karen Littlewood, the President of the Ontario Secondary School Teachers' Federation. Here at home, today’s biggest news story links back to one of the Ottawa Valley’s worst murder cases. In 2015, Basil Borutski killed 3 women and created widespread chaos. Years later, he was given life in prison for his crimes. Today, he was found dead in his jail cell.
Unpublished Newswire
A mall in central Alberta was locked down while police say they responded to reports that two people were displaying a handgun.RCMP say in a news release they arrived Bower Place shopping center on Saturday evening after receiving two separate complaints about weapons, and with the help of mall security, they locked down the centre and secured the public in various stores.Officers arrested two youths without incident.
May 19, 2024 - 20:50 | | The Globe and Mail
The speed at which this year’s fire near Fort McMurray chewed through the path of the 2016 inferno as it approached the city surprised those fighting the blaze, according to a senior official managing the emergency.Gavin Hojka, an Alberta Wildfire incident commander assigned to this year’s Fort McMurray crisis, said the fire was more raucous than anticipated, given that it is burning in the same area its predecessor mowed through eight years prior. The extended drought made up for the lack of fuel available to the fire, known as MWF-017.
May 19, 2024 - 20:30 | Carrie Tait | The Globe and Mail
The driver of a vehicle upside down in a field Sunday evening had to be extricated by Ottawa firefighters. Read More
May 19, 2024 - 20:07 | Doug Menary | Ottawa Citizen
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