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Publication Date: March 6, 2026 - 18:02
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Hour 3 of Ottawa Now for Fri. March 6th, 2026
March 6, 2026
According to the City of Ottawa, city staff doesn’t have the resources to enforce ‘school streets’. Neither does Ottawa Police. Advocates for these streets say not enough heavy-lifting is being done. Where do you stand on this debate? Kristy Cameron sifts through the CFRA textboard and tackles today’s Question of the Day. Meantime, Quebec’s dairy industry has been advocating to recognize cheese curds as a controlled designation. On the surface, this type of poutine protectionism seems old-fashioned. However, there are serious implications for a crowd of excluded Ontario businesses that make their own cheese curds. Eric Lafontaine, the General Manager of St. Albert’s Cheese, pays us a visit in Hour 3.
Unpublished Newswire
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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