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Publication Date: December 23, 2025 - 18:03
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Hour 4 of Ottawa Now for Tues. December 23rd, 2025
December 23, 2025
CTV’s Dylan Dyson pays us a visit in Hour 4, as the last-minute shoppers are out in full force this afternoon. Then, we preview tonight’s CTV Ottawa supper-hour newscast with Stefan Keyes. And on behalf of the entire Ottawa Now team, we wish you a Merry Christmas and all the best in 2026! Kristy will return in January, as she prepares for the Cameron holiday feast.
In the beginning, there were pigs. Domestic breeds, such as Duroc, Landrace and Yorkshire have been staples of the Prairie Provinces for more than a century, and while plenty escaped their resident farms over the years, few survived their first Saskatchewan winter.
Then came European wild boar, a species imported gleefully throughout the 1980s to diversify Canada’s livestock sector. For meat, and for “shoot farms,” boars materialized in most Canadian provinces, but especially in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta. When these escaped their resident farms, the result was a slow-moving...
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“I’m the most hated man in town,” Ray McKelvie told me. The town in question was Clinton, British Columbia, approximately 350 kilometres northeast of Vancouver, on Highway 97. Later, I asked another Clinton resident whether McKelvie’s claim was true. She thought for a moment. “Well, there’s Joe, who lives in the trailer park,” she said. “We don’t like him much either. But it’s about even.”
McKelvie and I were sitting in the North Road Trading Post, the antique store McKelvie ran in a converted gas station at the north end of town. The garage and lot were dotted with rusty vehicles, some...
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Good morning. A Globe and Mail survey has found that Canadians aren’t feeling the love, but some of the results might surprise you. More on that below, along with heartbreak in women’s hockey at the Olympics and proposed protections for those who fall victim to fraud. But first:
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