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Hour 1 of Ottawa Now for Wed. January 14th, 2026

January 14, 2026

During the 2022 municipal election cycle, over 200 municipalities across Ontario took a leap of faith and took online voting for a test drive. Among this crop of cities is Sarnia, and they have already announced that online voting will be present for the 2026 cycle. Is it time that Ottawa gets on board as well? Kristy Cameron chats with Sarnia Mayor Mike Bradley in Hour 1. Later in the program, we pick the brain of Nicole Goodman, who is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Brock University. Meantime, a new Leger poll says that nearly 33 percent of Canadians believe that the U.S. could attempt ‘direct action’ to take control of Canada in the future. Furthermore, it says these concerns aren’t just limited to Canada. We dig deeper with Andrew Enns, the Executive Vice-President of Leger’s Central Canada Operations. But first, we bring you up to speed on today’s top headlines.



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Food inflation in Canada has been increasing relentlessly, even more than inflation on other goods, spiking again at the end of 2025. Since 2022, Canadians have seen grocery prices rise by about 22 per cent in contrast with other consumer prices that have gone up on average by 13 per cent, according to the Bank of Canada. In a February article...
February 5, 2026 - 07:00 | Stewart Lewis | National Post
An Alberta judge recently discounted the prison sentence for a former university football player with Indigenous roots who bled profusely while sexually assaulting a woman, despite her repeated protests over the attack. An Edmonton jury found Aaron Moore Minshull, whose mother is Indigenous, guilty of the July 18, 2020, “major sexual assault.” A Court of King’s Bench judge sentenced him to three years in prison. “In deciding on this sentence, I have taken into account the mitigating factors regarding Mr. Moore (Minshull’s) rehabilitation efforts, his Indigenous heritage and his...
February 5, 2026 - 07:00 | Chris Lambie | National Post
Conservative delegates’ resounding show of support for Pierre Poilievre’s leadership in Calgary is more interesting than a more tentative vote would have been. The way people talk about Poilievre in Ottawa and Toronto, including a lot of long-time Conservatives, suggests they think he’s trying to be like Prime Minister Mark Carney, and he’s bad at it. The weekend’s events in Calgary suggest Poilievre’s trying to be different from Carney, and that the party thinks he’s good at it. No leader is safe forever. Three more floor-crossing members of Parliament or some unimaginable caucus revolt...
February 5, 2026 - 06:30 | Paul Wells | Walrus