Hour 1 of Ottawa Now for Fri. January 9th, 2026

A new forecast is painting an unpleasant future for some of Canada’s restaurants, as roughly 4,000 of them are predicted to go out of business in 2026. Kristy Cameron sifts through the bigger picture with Sylvain Charlebois in Hour 1. He is the Director of the Agri-Food Analytics Lab at Dalhousie University. Meantime, Ottawa families can now see how their child’s elementary school stacks up with the rest of Ontario. We explain further before the top-hour newscast. But first, we bring you up to speed on today’s top headlines.