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Hour 2 of Ottawa Now for Fri. January 9th, 2026

January 9, 2026

Ottawa’s largest school board may take more than a year to dig its way out of a $20 million deficit. OCDSB Trustee Lyra Evans joins Kristy Cameron in Hour 2. Plus, Ottawa Police pulled over a slow-moving vehicle earlier this week, only to discover a 13-year-old behind the wheel. As Chris Holski tells us, he was on a candy run.



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A new reliability report warns Canada’s power grid faces growing strain as electricity demand rises faster than new supply, raising concerns about winter reliability.
February 7, 2026 - 05:00 | Alessia Simona Maratta | Global News - Canada
Downtown businesses are welcoming a government order sending most federal public servants back to office four days per week, the Ottawa Board of Trade says. Read More
February 7, 2026 - 04:00 | Ben Andrews | Ottawa Citizen
OTTAWA — During a ceremony this week to unveil his official portrait, former prime minister Stephen Harper made a point of mentioning the tie he’s wearing in the painting. The colours, the former prime minister pointed out during the ceremony in downtown Ottawa, represent the three key elements of Canada’s Conservatives: dark blue for the “Tories of old,” green for the “western, populist tradition” and Preston Manning’s Reform Party, and sky blue for the conservative tradition of Quebec nationalists and francophones across the country. In reality, however, according to political...
February 7, 2026 - 04:00 | Simon Tuck | National Post