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Publication Date: January 8, 2026 - 16:50
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Hour 2 of Ottawa Now for Thurs. January 8th, 2026
January 8, 2026
Ottawa Police is highlighting early-season results from its newly-launched District Traffic Units and Road Safety Units. They began operations last month to address ongoing community concerns, with traffic safety chief among them. OPS Acting Staff-Sergeant Amy Gagnon crunches the numbers for us in Hour 2. Then, we dig through the latest flu numbers with Ottawa’s Medical Officer of Health, as Dr. Trevor Arnason spearheads another edition of ‘Your Health’. Plus, OPP officers have halted a truck near Pembroke, citing an 'unsafe' oversized load of logs as the primary reason for the stop. CFRA's Chris Holski has more on that.
Unpublished Newswire
Food inflation in Canada has been increasing relentlessly, even more than inflation on other goods, spiking again at the end of 2025.
Since 2022, Canadians have seen grocery prices rise by about 22 per cent in contrast with other consumer prices that have gone up on average by 13 per cent, according to the Bank of Canada.
In a
February article...
February 5, 2026 - 07:00 | Stewart Lewis | National Post
An Alberta judge recently discounted the prison sentence for a former university football player with Indigenous roots who bled profusely while sexually assaulting a woman, despite her repeated protests over the attack.
An Edmonton jury found Aaron Moore Minshull, whose mother is Indigenous, guilty of the July 18, 2020, “major sexual assault.” A Court of King’s Bench judge sentenced him to three years in prison.
“In deciding on this sentence, I have taken into account the mitigating factors regarding Mr. Moore (Minshull’s) rehabilitation efforts, his Indigenous heritage and his...
February 5, 2026 - 07:00 | Chris Lambie | National Post
Conservative delegates’ resounding show of support for Pierre Poilievre’s leadership in Calgary is more interesting than a more tentative vote would have been. The way people talk about Poilievre in Ottawa and Toronto, including a lot of long-time Conservatives, suggests they think he’s trying to be like Prime Minister Mark Carney, and he’s bad at it. The weekend’s events in Calgary suggest Poilievre’s trying to be different from Carney, and that the party thinks he’s good at it.
No leader is safe forever. Three more floor-crossing members of Parliament or some unimaginable caucus revolt...
February 5, 2026 - 06:30 | Paul Wells | Walrus
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