Hour 2 of Ottawa Now for Wed. February 11th, 2026

A local MPP has joined forces with an Ottawa city councillor in questioning why a vacant school has been put up for sale. Grant Alternative School, located near Baseline Road and Greenbank Road, was sealed shut in June of 2017. And while no sale prices have been attached, it was quietly put on the market by a school board that is currently under provincial supervision. Joining the show in Hour 2 is Chandra Pasma, who is the NDP MPP for Ottawa West-Nepean. Plus, a union representing over 100,000 federal public servants has declared an impasse in contract talks with the Canadian government. According to the latest allegations from PSAC, the Treasury Board of Canada is refusing to ‘bargain in good faith’. We dig deeper with Linda Duxbury, a Management Professor with Carleton University’s Sprott School of Business.