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Publication Date: December 17, 2025 - 18:00
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Hour 1 of Ottawa Now for Wed. December 17th, 2025
December 17, 2025
Quebec’s school insurers have released guidelines on how snowbanks should be built in schoolyards, and some worry that the strict rules could limit winter play. Is this a little too extreme, or should schools have every right to regulate child's play? Mariana Brussoni, the Director of the Human Early Learning Partnership, joins Kristy Cameron to offer her two cents. Later in Hour 1, the Ottawa Now Gift Guide keeps on trucking, as CFRA show producer Corey Price offers his gift-giving tips and tricks. But first, we bring you up to speed on today's top headlines.
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February 11, 2026 - 13:57 | Jeff Gray | The Globe and Mail
Canada doesn’t talk about the Avro Arrow because it’s nostalgic. It talks about the Arrow because it’s unfinished business. Every time Ottawa finds itself boxed in on defence procurement, every time the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) tries to remind Canada who it thinks really owns North American air power, the Arrow reappears. It doesn’t show up as an engineering debate or a budget line. It shows up as a question of sovereignty.
Who decides what flies over Canada, who maintains it, who upgrades it, and who gets the final say when politics intrudes on defence?
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February 11, 2026 - 13:43 | Wes O'Donnell | Walrus
Carney was due to travel to the Munich Security Conference on Wednesday evening after announcing his government's defence industrial strategy at an event in Halifax.
February 11, 2026 - 13:43 | Sean Boynton | Global News - Canada
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