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Publication Date: February 2, 2026 - 18:00
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Hour 1 of Ottawa Now for Mon. February 2nd, 2026
February 2, 2026
Plans for Canada’s first high-speed rail network are in motion, but what are the best locations to house this operation in Canada’s Capital? Does the old Union Station make the most sense? We open the debate floor with David Jeanes, a retired Professional Engineer who is based in Ottawa. He also serves on the Board of Directors for Transport Action Canada. Meantime, the calendar has officially flipped to February, which means it’s the start of Heart Month. Details are on the way in Hour 1. But first, we bring you up to speed on today’s top headlines.
Unpublished Newswire
A British Columbia judge has knocked a year off the prison sentence for a Métis-Cree woman who sexually assaulted a teen less than half her age after sending the boy “sexualized photographs” of herself “in states of undress, as well as pictures of her breasts and vagina.”
Matraca Lynn Dodding has pleaded guilty in B.C. Provincial court to sexually assaulting a 15-year-old in the spring of 2024 when she was 32 years old. She also pleaded guilty to communicating with the young man, whose identity is protected by a publication ban, for the purpose of facilitating the sexual assault.
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February 10, 2026 - 07:00 | Chris Lambie | National Post
Some young people in a stolen vehicle with a 16-year-old First Nations girl who was shot and killed by police are expected to testify today at an inquest into the death.
February 10, 2026 - 06:34 | Globalnews Digital | Global News - Canada
Recently, I reported for The Walrus on how Alberta lost the plot on measles in 2025.
First, a reminder of the timeline. Canada’s recent trouble with measles began late in October 2024, when an infected traveller brought it to New Brunswick. By November 1, public health officials declared an outbreak in the Fredericton area, and soon, more than forty people—mostly unvaccinated children—contracted the virus.
By March 2025, measles had made it to northern Alberta, and by the summer, the province reported more measles cases than the entire United States. (The population of Alberta is 5...
February 10, 2026 - 06:30 | Monica Kidd | Walrus
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