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Publication Date: February 17, 2026 - 18:00
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Hour 1 of Ottawa Now for Tues. February 17th, 2026
February 17, 2026
An Ottawa city councillor wants to ban feeding wild animals, and plans to introduce her motion to City Committee this Thursday. Laura Dudas is the voice for Orleans West-Innes. She argues that feeding wildlife can attract rodents, hence her request to tighten the present-day legislation. Dudas joins Kristy Cameron to explain further. Later in the show, we pick the brain of Nathaniel Heppell, a wildlife control specialist who also operates Ace Wildlife and Pest Control. But first, we bring you up to speed on today’s top headlines.
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Tens of thousands of customers are without power and four parts of Highway 401 are closed Tuesday morning as blasts of blowing snow hit the Ottawa-Gatineau area.
March 17, 2026 - 07:29 | | CBC News - Ottawa
Seven out of 10 Kingston, Ont., residents want their statue of Sir John A. Macdonald back, according to a new poll.
Authorities removed the statue of Canada’s first prime minister from a Kingston park in June 2021. That came after city council voted 12-1 to take his effigy down amid controversy over Macdonald’s role in creating the Indian Residential School system.
Mark O’Farrell, who chairs Kingston Friends of the Canadian Institute for Historical Education, was “pleasantly” surprised by the poll result.
“Kingston City Council, we are hoping, is going to put it to a vote,” O’...
March 17, 2026 - 07:00 | Chris Lambie | National Post
At least two Canadian hospital research labs have imported dogs for scientific research from a U.S. breeder cited for repeated animal care violations, the Investigative Journalism Bureau has found.
The University Health Network (UHN) in Toronto, which says it no longer uses dogs for research, and the
Lawson Health Research Institute...
March 17, 2026 - 07:00 | Investigative Journalism Bureau and New York City News Service | National Post
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