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Hour 4 of Ottawa Now for Wed. February 18th, 2026

February 18, 2026

The Ottawa Humane Society urgently needs volunteers for its SAFE Program, which provides temporary foster care for pets whose owners are in crisis. Kristy Cameron chats with Stephen Smith in Hour 4. But first, we preview tonight's CTV Ottawa supper-hour newscast with Jackie Perez. And if news breaks in real time, you'll hear it live on CFRA's Ottawa Now.



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Ontario’s top court agreed house arrest was an “unfit” sentence for a man caught with 22,746 images and 741 videos of child sexual abuse, but it declined to give him prison time. A year ago, Justice Clayton Conlan of the province’s Superior Court of Justice handed Matthew Elias a conditional sentence of two years less a day on house arrest and three years of probation. The Crown appealed the sentence, arguing that Elias should get three years behind bars. “I agree with the Crown that the sentencing judge erred in principle by failing to recognize aggravating factors and failing to...
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The call to adventure came from a stranger in July 2020. It was a regular day in that plague year. Amid the mix of work emails came one from an address I didn’t know but with a subject line that immediately pulled me in: “Charles Saunders.” Hi Jon, I am hoping you might know or know about the writer, Charles Saunders, who lives in Dartmouth, the message opened. Reading his name conjured up strong images of the towering newspaper editor I’d worked with a decade ago. Built like a heavyweight boxer, but he moved like a cat. A genius with words and a wealth of writing wisdom, Charles was the...
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February 21, 2026 - 06:00 | Sophie Siew | Walrus