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Publication Date: January 26, 2026 - 18:00
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Hour 1 of Ottawa Now for Mon. January 26th, 2026
January 26, 2026
The House of Commons has returned for the Winter Session, and Prime Minister Carney kicked things off with a big announcement on Monday. His government is launching a GST credit to help Canadians manage the rising cost of groceries. The quarterly payments will see an increase of 25 percent over the next 5 years, and will also include a one-time top-up of 50 percent this June. We dig deeper with Mike Von Massow, a food economist at the University of Guelph. Later in the program, we check in with Carissa Davis, who is the Community Advocacy Coordinator for the Parkdale Food Centre. But first, we bring you up to speed on today’s top headlines.
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The radar system, with an estimated cost of $6 billion, is being built to monitor airspace from the Canada-United States border to the Arctic for incoming missiles.
February 2, 2026 - 15:02 | Globalnews Digital | Global News - Canada
The skeleton of a woman found in rural Florida 41 years ago has been identified as that of Jeanette Marcotte, a Canadian woman last seen in Saskatchewan in the early 1980s.
When her body was first found in January 1985 in “a densely wooded area” of Malabar, a small town southeast of Orlando, she had no identification and Brevard County Sheriff’s Office and the local medical examiner’s office were unable to establish her identity, as reported by
DNASolves.com...
February 2, 2026 - 14:49 | Kenn Oliver | National Post
Rates of psychotic disorders have increased in young people in Ontario, a new study suggests. Researchers suspect cannabis use as a contributor.
February 2, 2026 - 14:11 | | CBC News - Ottawa
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