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Publication Date: December 11, 2025 - 18:01
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Hour 2 of Ottawa Now for Thurs. December 11th, 2025
December 11, 2025
Following hours of deliberation on Wednesday, Ottawa City Council has approved the 2026 City Budget. However, when it comes to Ottawa’s Transit Budget, a couple of changes were made to the final product. We gather reaction from Laura Shantz, a board member of Ottawa Transit Riders, in Hour 2. Shifting gears to Queen’s Park, the Ontario Liberals are calling on the Ford government to sell off any remaining U.S. liquor, with the proceeds going straight to charity. Ottawa South MPP John Fraser explains why. Plus, the Carney government is giving Hydro Ottawa $6 million towards A.I. implementations. However, the hydro service is dealing with a couple of self-inflicted hiccups.
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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
Underpants
My Value Village doesn’t take underwear.
I could not possibly throw nearly a month’s
worth of his briefs down the chute
to be landfill-crushed, so I’ve made them a lair
in one of my own deep drawers. Do I hear
them thrumming in there? They don’t feel
like they were ever filled by him. Their condition,
flattened, piled like leaves, is spiritual,
the most disembodied of underpants
never again waiting to wrap his ass,
his athlete’s glutes — nor expecting to.
They’re now the residents of a dresser,
tame sirens of the derrière,
red, navy, black in a penis parlance,
and as I pull...
February 5, 2026 - 06:29 | Molly Peacock | Walrus
Good morning. Danielle Smith wants more control over Alberta’s judges and she’s willing to withhold funding to get it – more on that below, along with Ottawa’s scrapped EV mandate and Canada’s best shots at Olympic medals. But first:
February 5, 2026 - 06:27 | Danielle Groen | The Globe and Mail
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