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Publication Date: February 23, 2026 - 18:20
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Ottawa Now - Councillor Hill calls for an audit on O-Train disruptions
February 23, 2026
OC Transpo Interim GM Troy Charter says work is still being done to address the primary problems on LRT Line 1. For those curious, 26 cars are needed to run the LRT service at peak demand. Right now, with the 3-to-4 minute intervals still in effect during peak periods, only 21 of them are running. We don’t have a precise timeline as to when the service will return to full strength. On top of that, the problems with Ottawa’s bus network are still persisting. And with frustration levels building once again, one city councillor is calling for an audit of O-Train disruptions. David Hill, the representative for Barrhaven West, also serves on the city’s Transit Committee. He joins Kristy Cameron on today’s Ottawa Now.
Officials investigating the collision between an Air Canada plane and a fire truck on a New York airport runway this week revealed on Tuesday what was captured by the cockpit voice recorder in the final three minutes before the crash, shedding more light on the last moments of two deceased pilots.
In a National Transportation Safety Board press conference at LaGuardia Airport in Queens, New York City, where the fatal collision occurred at 11:30 p.m. Sunday night, investigator in chief Doug Brazy read aloud a summary of the final transmissions between the tower, the aircraft and the...
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“It is not the role of the court to decide a political question that is not justiciable,” lawyer Isabelle Brunet, who represents Quebec’s attorney general, told the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) in French on Tuesday.
On the second of four days of hearings, proponents of Quebec’s controversial secularism law — colloquially...
March 24, 2026 - 15:44 | Christopher Nardi | National Post


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