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Publication Date: February 9, 2026 - 18:02
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Hour 3 of Ottawa Now for Mon. February 9th, 2026
February 9, 2026
Last Friday, the Carney government announced that public servants will be ordered back to their workspaces 4 days a week, effective July of this year. A few days later, Carleton MP Bruce Fanjoy is calling on his own party to reconsider its directive. Should they stay the course, or should they debate it? Kristy Cameron sifts through the CFRA textboard and tackles today’s Question of the Day. Meantime, new data from the Angus Reid Institute shows that two-thirds of Albertans would vote to stay in Canada, or at least lean that way. That still means a considerable amount of people would vote to leave. What do we make of these findings? We pose that question to our Political Heat Panel in Hour 3.
Unpublished Newswire
Two more Toronto-area synagogues were hit by gunfire early Saturday, hours after the city’s Jewish community was warned to exercise extra caution as Israel and the United States wage war on Iran.
“Both incidents took place at a time when the buildings were empty and no community members were present,” the city’s Jewish Security Network (JSN) said in a community security update.
The targets were the BAYT synagogue on Clark Avenue in Thornhill and Shaarei Shomayim synagogue in Glencairn Avenue in the Toronto neighbourhood of North York, the JSN said.
Earlier in the week, a North York...
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An Ontario man with a history of drug abuse who was found not criminally responsible for murdering his mother by striking her “numerous times on the head, back, neck, and arms with several weapons, including a large bladed knife, a smaller paring knife, a claw hammer and a large pry bar,” has seen his cannabis prohibition removed as a test to see how he handles it.
Michael Stewart, now 46, was deemed not criminally responsible on account of a mental disorder in May 2003 on a charge of second-degree murder for killing his mom, June Stewart, in Renfrew, Ont., the previous year.
“Mr....
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