Source Feed: CFRA - 580 - Ottawa
Publication Date: January 29, 2026 - 18:15
Stay informed
Ottawa Now - Councillors call on OC Transpo to offer refunds, travel credits to inconvenienced customers
January 29, 2026
Amid a recent rough patch for Ottawa’s transit service – highlighted by a bus shortage and another Line 1 LRT hiccup – two Ottawa city councillors are calling on OC Transpo to explore offering refunds or travel credits to customers. These would be offered to any transit riders who are facing delayed or cancelled trips, a sadly recurring theme to begin 2026. Joining Kristy Cameron on today's Ottawa Now are Knoxdale-Merivale councillor Sean Devine and Capital Ward councillor Shawn Menard.
Unpublished Newswire
Ontario’s top court agreed house arrest was an “unfit” sentence for a man caught with 22,746 images and 741 videos of child sexual abuse, but it declined to give him prison time.
A year ago, Justice Clayton Conlan of the province’s Superior Court of Justice handed Matthew Elias a conditional sentence of two years less a day on house arrest and three years of probation. The Crown appealed the sentence, arguing that Elias should get three years behind bars.
“I agree with the Crown that the sentencing judge erred in principle by failing to recognize aggravating factors and failing to...
February 21, 2026 - 07:00 | Chris Lambie | National Post
The call to adventure came from a stranger in July 2020. It was a regular day in that plague year. Amid the mix of work emails came one from an address I didn’t know but with a subject line that immediately pulled me in: “Charles Saunders.”
Hi Jon, I am hoping you might know or know about the writer, Charles Saunders, who lives in Dartmouth, the message opened.
Reading his name conjured up strong images of the towering newspaper editor I’d worked with a decade ago. Built like a heavyweight boxer, but he moved like a cat. A genius with words and a wealth of writing wisdom, Charles was the...
February 21, 2026 - 06:30 | Jon Tattrie | Walrus
1
2
const title = "Weekly Quiz: Online Scapegoating, Elver Economics, and the Old World Order";
const date = "February 21, 2026";
const data = [
{
image: "https://walrus-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/img/20260212_16-34-54_MSC2026_lbt-1200x800.jpg",
title: "In Munich, Leaders Say Goodbye to the Old World Order",
url: "https://thewalrus.ca/in-munich-leaders-say-goodbye-to-the-old-world-order/",
question: "In February, leaders from around the world convened at the Munich Security Conference (MSC) to assess the shifting state of geopolitics...
February 21, 2026 - 06:00 | Sophie Siew | Walrus
Comments
Be the first to comment