Podcasts about Ottawa, Ontario

Sport is the biggest beat on this page, and the Senators sit at its centre. A Shane Pinto goal against the Rangers arrives in a rush of names and zones. A TSN 1200 morning panel reckons Ottawa "would have imploded" if Claude Giroux had signed with the Maple Leafs. Looser talk shows reach playoff math by way of beer, broadcasting memories and jokes revised on the fly. Around that core sit housing shows that work one market from opposite ends, a podcast named for an Ottawa cinema, a DIY music show and a season of defence-technology interviews. For a capital, federal politics barely comes up in what plays here.

What Ottawa is

Ottawa is Canada's capital, a city of about a million people on the Ontario bank of the Ottawa River, across from Gatineau, Quebec. The federal government is its largest employer and Parliament Hill its best-known address. The Rideau Canal runs through the middle, and a sizeable technology sector sits in the western suburbs. It is home to the NHL's Senators and the CFL's Redblacks.

The Senators on TSN 1200

TSN 1200 divides the hockey. TSN 1200 Ottawa Senators Hockey carries the games, filed by period under titles like "Game 1: Ottawa Senators @ Carolina Hurricanes - April 18, 2026 - 3rd Period". Its play-by-play is the most kinetic audio on this page: Chabot retrieving the puck in his own zone, Stützle turning to get a shot away before he is dumped on the way to the net, the Rangers clearing. In between, one voice calls the other "such a glass-half-full guy" over a penalty-kill number. In another clip Marty Biron explains why losing Chabot and Sanderson is a huge blow to Ottawa's blue line.

TSN 1200 Mornings is the station's brisk panel. It can reach the Senators by way of weather, youth sports or traffic, and its clips are about who stays and what is missing. The hosts argue that the team still needs a player who simply scores goals and is hoping one comes from within, which they call a lot of hope. Claude Giroux is heard on staying in Ottawa ("They definitely keep me young"), and the hosts recall how fresh the sting of a sweep by Carolina still was when the season ended.

Sports talk that takes the long way round

Other sports shows take longer to reach the point. The Steve Warne Project - Ottawa Sports Talk is a fast-talking duo, full of overlap and correction, whose titles run from the Senators and Redblacks to Summer McIntosh, Victoria Mboko and the Blue Jays. In "Closing Time: Good Night, Everyone", with the show possibly going dark, Steve and Jimmy look back at what it was for. Warne tried it after being laid off from Bell Media, after 19 years on the morning show. Patreon members backed it straight away, and he says it was "like a life raft". In another clip he argues that sports radio executives would have needed a time machine to prepare for online listening 25 years earlier.

Tall Can Audio - A Pint Of Canadian Sports Talk has more voices in rotation and a pub-table habit of wandering through beer and brewery stories before landing on hockey or baseball. Andrew Stoeten says the World Baseball Classic feels bigger after the USA-Japan ending and Canada's best finish. The talk detours into a joke that a SickKids commercial is what kept Freddie Freeman away. The Ottawa clip is the playoff chase, which comes down to Detroit, Montreal and a narrow runway.

Houses: the market and the move

The housing shows work one market from opposite ends. The Ottawa Real Estate Podcast, with Paul Stevenson and David Warren, sounds like a desk-side briefing: a figure is stated, then translated into what it means for buyers, sellers, renewals or timing. The clips catch it at full boil in "Have We Entered the Craziest Real Estate Market Yet?": a house with 78 showings in 24 hours, booked in 10-minute slots, and clients making offers and losing every one. January, one host says, was "the calm before the storm". The 2026 titles point elsewhere: rising mortgage rates, tariffs, and "Are Ottawa Home Prices Done Falling? (July Market Update)".

REALTOR® in Your Pocket: Ottawa Real Estate and Advice, hosted by Nick Fundytus, takes the practical end: a question, a follow-up, a concrete takeaway. The clip from "Government and Military Relocation" is pure logistics. A buyer did 53 showings on one house-hunting trip. The advice is to pre-book an inspection with the address to be determined, pack slip-on shoes, and choose neighbourhoods in advance so the week is not spent driving between Orleans, Barrhaven and Kanata. In "Relocation 101: How to Move Houses", Lisa warns that movers will not cover boxes the owner packed.

A cinema and a DIY scene

Mayfair Theatre is named for an Ottawa cinema. Eric and Josh talk outward from what is screening into birthdays, Comic Con costumes, local food and cold-weather worries about the building. One clip sets out why the Mayfair rejects AI programming: an algorithm would steer clear of its unusual films and its Robert Duvall festival. Another has Josh and Eric describing old cinemas as time machines, from 1970s New York streets to Ottawa's 1950s Viewmaster reel.

Ego & Vice covers Ottawa's music, art and DIY side, and its episode titles are often just a name: Candy Says, Sharlee, Bronson Novella. The Candy Says clips are the most direct. The band played its debut show after writing one song and four covers in two days, and its members still get their parents to drive them to gigs. They argue that 19-plus venues keep young fans from music written for their own generation. A Southie Stories episode goes somewhere else entirely: the original 1904 Peter Pan, it argues, makes the hero look like an abductor who steals the Lost Boys.

Defence and technology companies

Ottawa's technology sector gets its hearing through Invested in our New Reality, which treats the city as a working technology hub. Its defence-innovation season runs through company names: Quantropi, Dominion Dynamics, TACTIQL, H2 Analytics, Anvil Intelligence, xahive. Elliot Pence says Dominion Dynamics built Oranet in under 100 days, then spent two weeks with the Rangers in their area of operations. He names one lesson from Anduril that he is bringing to Canada: "Speed is strategy". From the xahive episode, Sem Ponembalem picks out the misconception leaders still need to unlearn: "Cybersecurity is purely an IT responsibility".

Where to start

• For the game itself: TSN 1200 Ottawa Senators Hockey, where a Rangers game call sits beside Marty Biron on the blue line.
• For argument about the Senators: TSN 1200 Mornings, or The Steve Warne Project - Ottawa Sports Talk for talk that wanders further.
• For buying, selling or moving: The Ottawa Real Estate Podcast on the market, and REALTOR® in Your Pocket: Ottawa Real Estate and Advice on the logistics.
• For the city off the ice: Mayfair Theatre and Ego & Vice.

The Ottawa feed on this page plays clips from these shows.