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Publication Date: January 9, 2026 - 18:00
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Hour 1 of Ottawa Now for Fri. January 9th, 2026
January 9, 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.
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In a few days, when the Canadian men’s hockey Olympic team laces up their skates for their first game at the Milan–Cortina Games, there’ll be someone missing: Quebec players.
The province has traditionally supplied an average of four Quebec-born players per squad since the National Hockey League began allowing teams to send players to Olympic rosters. In 2010, at the Vancouver Olympics, when Canada won gold, all three goalies were Quebecers: Martin Brodeur, Marc-André Fleury, and Roberto Luongo.
In a historic first, since 1952, Canada’s twenty-five-man hockey delegation won’t have anyone...
February 9, 2026 - 06:30 | Toula Drimonis | Walrus
I open the faucet and water gushes out, frothing as it fills a bright blue twenty-litre plastic jug, its faded sticker declaring BUILT TOUGH. You’ve probably seen one in the outdoors aisle at Canadian Tire: a cubic jug with a red or white screw-top faucet and a built-in handle for convenience. Most Canadians would associate the blue jug with camping trips.
I’m lugging six twenty-litre blue jugs in the back of my truck to my permanent residence outside of Whitehorse, a dwelling without running water known as a “dry cabin.” These 120 litres will last myself and my partner—and our three...
February 9, 2026 - 06:29 | Trina Moyles | Walrus
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February 9, 2026 - 06:00 | Bruce Garrioch | Ottawa Citizen
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