Hour 3 of Ottawa Now for Fri. January 30th, 2026 | Page 891 | Unpublished
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Hour 3 of Ottawa Now for Fri. January 30th, 2026

January 30, 2026

For the past few weeks, public transit has been top of mind in Canada’s Capital, and for all the wrong reasons. Reliability and durability are, once again, a major concern. Do you trust City Council’s plan to fix it? Do you trust the transit service to right the ship? Kristy Cameron sifts through the CFRA textboard and tackles today’s Question of the Day. Meantime, Canada’s Conservatives have kicked off their national convention in Calgary, looking forward to a hopeful future and presenting a united vision of the party. According to organizers, this weekend’s event is slated to be the largest Conservative convention in history. But will it be the last one that features Pierre Poilievre as party leader? We preview tonight’s pivotal vote in Hour 3.



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OTTAWA — Prime Minister Mark Carney departs Thursday on his first travels to India, Australia and Japan as prime minister.  While Carney seeks to deepen his focus on economic diversification, he must manage ongoing concerns of transnational repression from India, the unravelling of which led to the rupture in the relationship that the prime minister has been trying to repair. Here are five things to expect from Carney’s trip to India....
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OTTAWA — A gnawing dispute spilled into public view this month when the premiers of Alberta and Saskatchewan publicly demanded an exemption to a federal ban on a deadly nerve toxin used to neutralize agricultural pests. Alberta Premier Danielle Smith and Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe said in a joint letter...
February 26, 2026 - 04:00 | Rahim Mohamed | National Post
OTTAWA — Canada’s public safety minister says he believes the federal government’s delays in launching its compensation program for banned firearms has partly contributed to the drop in support among police across jurisdictions and sowed confusion among Canadians. “There’s been a lot of misunderstandings about the program,” Gary Anandasangaree told National Post in a wide-ranging interview on Wednesday. “Our resolve is to make sure that this program is completed in a timely manner.” Firearms owners with one of the more than 2,500 makes and models of guns that the federal Liberal...
February 26, 2026 - 04:00 | Stephanie Taylor | National Post