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Publication Date: December 15, 2025 - 18:00
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Hour 1 of Ottawa Now for Mon. December 15th, 2025
December 15, 2025
Ottawa Police has launched a brand-new traffic unit to deal with speeding concerns in Canada’s Capital. Effective today, residents could see more traffic enforcement officers in their neighbourhoods, as officers attempt to make up for the recent purge of speed cameras. CTV’s Josh Marano delivers the latest developments in Hour 1. Sticking with city news, but also looking from a national lens, a Downtown city councillor says that Canada needs a countrywide gameplan to properly address the next phase of the opioid crisis. Joining us to explain further is Rideau-Vanier councillor Stephanie Plante. But first, we bring you up to speed on today’s top headlines.
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A 12-year-old girl who was gravely injured during the shooting at B.C.’s Tumbler Ridge Secondary School was trying to protect her classmates, a relative says.
Maya Gebala was one of at least two dozen children and teachers wounded when Jesse Van Rootselaar opened fire at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School, killing eight people in total, including two at a nearby residence, before dying of a self-inflected wound, police say.
Krysta Hunt, a cousin of Maya’s mother...
February 12, 2026 - 17:43 | Chris Knight | National Post
Their job was to draw the shooter’s gunfire.
Mounties who responded to the deadly mass shooting at Tumbler Ridge Secondary School on Tuesday were likely scared and full of adrenaline, but they did what their training prescribes, according to West Kelowna-Peachland MLA Macklin McCall, the Conservative party’s critic for Public Safety, and a former RCMP officer with two decades of policing under his belt.
“Those RCMP officers from the local Tumbler Ridge RCMP detachment are heroes, quite frankly,” McCall said Thursday.
“Those officers responded in 120 seconds … to an active threat...
February 12, 2026 - 17:16 | Chris Lambie | National Post
We’re now well past the Conservative Party’s convention. As you might have noticed, Pierre Poilievre, his caucus, and every Conservative with a social media account have been very happy to point out that Poilievre received 87.4 percent approval in his leadership review. With that, combined with Harperpalooza taking over Ottawa, the message is clear: the party is UNITED.
I wasn’t surprised by the result. I’m a pollster by trade, and my team didn’t see any organizing against Poilievre. As my polling from the fall showed, most of the party’s voters don’t have a personal problem with...
February 12, 2026 - 17:12 | Kyla Ronellenfitsch | Walrus
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