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Publication Date: March 16, 2026 - 18:02
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Hour 3 of Ottawa Now for Mon. March 16th, 2026
March 16, 2026
From the idea of legalizing pepper spray for self-defense purposes, to the looming demise of two Ottawa-based consumption sites, the CFRA textboard was burning hot today. Kristy Cameron gathers your feedback in Hour 3. Then, we open the debate floor just after the 4:30 newscast, as the Political Heat Panel tackles all-things politics. Plus, Matt Demers offers his reaction to last night’s big winners at the Oscars. But more importantly, we find out who won this year’s bet.
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When Hamas terrorists invaded southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, Ran Gvili, a 24-year-old Israeli police officer on medical leave with a broken shoulder, nonetheless rushed to help. He helped evacuate Nova festival survivors, then fought at Kibbutz Alumim, near the Gaza border, where he fell in battle.
His body was taken into Gaza, one of 251 hostages, living and dead. Getting all the hostages back became an obsession for Israelis in the months and years that followed.
By this January, Gvili’s body was the final hostage.
“There was a lot of pressure to find him in Gaza. We worked,...
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The
survey
is looking at “the impact of the War with Iran on Canadians’ views about groups that might associated with it — in the context of the wider middle...
March 21, 2026 - 07:00 | Stewart Lewis | National Post
Over 3 million years, humans progressed from stone tools to the digital age. We have built, and destroyed, civilizations. Today, we can conjure up a video conversation with people from around the globe in the palm of our hand and chat with humans in outer space. Our mobile phones hold many times more information than what was contained in the Great Library of Alexandria. That same device is tens of millions of times faster than the computers that landed Apollo on the moon. As science fiction author Arthur C. Clarke predicted, our technology would appear like magic to generations past....
March 21, 2026 - 06:30 | Ibrahim J. Gedeon | Walrus
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