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Publication Date: February 9, 2026 - 18:25
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Ottawa Now - How the federal RTO mandates could impact Ottawa's future commutes
February 9, 2026
Effective this July, federal public servants will be ordered back to their workstations 4 days a week, with executives receiving a full work-week order. Just days after the Carney government unveiled this plan, Carleton MP Bruce Fanjoy is calling on his own party to reconsider the RTO mandate. Tyler Chamberlin is an Associate Professor at UOttawa’s Telfer School of Management. He dissects the public transportation effects of this mandate, as OC Transpo tries to address recent LRT repairs and bus fleet delays. And if it's too inconvenient for some workers, they might have to move into a different area of the city just to keep their jobs.
A little less than a year after the April 2025 federal election, public opinion data continues to break strongly in favour of Mark Carney’s Liberal government.
The latest federal poll by Leger suggests the Liberal Party now holds a substantial lead in voting intentions. The survey, conducted from February 27 to March 2 among 1,627 respondents, puts the Liberals at 49 percent support among Canadian voters, compared to 35 percent for Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives.
It is the largest Liberal advantage measured by Leger since the summer of 2020.
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OTTAWA — The federal heritage minister has reconvened a group of researchers and advocates that had been tasked with advising the government on how to regulate tech platforms, as Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government weighs how it wants to tackle the issue of online safety.
Heritage Minister Marc Miller’s office announced that the minister met with the group on Wednesday, saying its findings “
will subsequently go on to inform ongoing...
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