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Publication Date: March 17, 2026 - 18:01
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Hour 2 of Ottawa Now for Tues. March 17th, 2026
March 17, 2026
Effective April 30th, Ontarians will be permitted to bring their own alcoholic beverages to outdoor public events. From farmers’ markets and movie screenings, to art exhibits and neighbourhood festivals, the world is your oyster. How are people reacting to Doug Ford’s master plan? Kristy Cameron checks in with Tara Shannon, the Executive Director of the Ottawa Festival Network. Meantime, Mother Nature keeps flip-flopping between seasons, as we head back to the wintery freeze following a morning snow squall. Environment Canada climatologist David Phillips pays us a visit in Hour 2. Plus, Carleton’s favourite political activist group has returned. CFRA’s Chris Holski explains.
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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...
March 24, 2026 - 15:47 | Kenn Oliver | National Post
March 24, 2026 - 15:46 | Eric Atkins | The Globe and Mail
OTTAWA — There should be no new limits on the use of the notwithstanding clause even if a “tyrant” could one day take power and use it to run roughshod on fundamental rights, the Quebec government told Canada’s top court amid a challenge to Quebec’s secularism law.
“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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