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Publication Date: January 13, 2026 - 18:00
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Hour 1 of Ottawa Now for Tues. January 13th, 2026
January 13, 2026
The City of Ottawa has received an application to redevelop the gas station at 1660 Merivale Road into a drive-thru fast food restaurant. The site application will not be voted on by members of City Council, and the application meets all of the zoning requirements. However, not everyone is thrilled by the idea of this development, including the councillor for College Ward. Laine Johnson joins Kristy Cameron in Hour 1. Meantime, a surge in copper theft is crippling communities, with one particular neighbourhood in Gatineau taking the brunt of the blows. CTV’s Tyler Fleming delivers the details. But first, we bring you up to speed on today’s top headlines.
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February 7, 2026 - 07:15 | Lindsay Jones | The Globe and Mail
Harley Finkelstein is interested in buying the Hudson’s Bay sign recently removed from the exterior wall near the entrance to the company’s former Queen Street flagship store in Toronto.
“Who is calling for this removal? If this decision is done, I’d love to buy that sign and post it loud and proud for every entrepreneur to see. Can someone help me do this?,” Shopify’s president p
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February 7, 2026 - 07:00 | Stewart Lewis | National Post
TEL AVIV — With his slick black ponytail and confident stride, Dor Shachar emanates a kind of Israeli Jewish cool in the lobby of a luxe Tel Aviv hotel. But Shachar was born Ayman Abu Soobuch, a Muslim from Khan Younis in Gaza, where he was taught to hate Jews.
Born in 1977, he grew up in the alleys and markets where Hamas and other terror factions were local fixtures, long before the January 2006 elections that vaulted the Islamist group into power 20 years ago.
He watched the movement’s rise from the inside; he says the ideology represented not just the gunmen in balaclavas, but...
February 7, 2026 - 07:00 | Special to National Post | National Post
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