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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.
Unpublished Newswire
Suddenly, our politics is all about the written and spoken word. Not so long ago, we had a prime minister who did his best to hide for weeks and an opposition leader who refused to take reporters with him on a national campaign. Now, the newish prime minister and his rebooted opponent can’t stop talking.
Mark Carney turns the world on its ear with a Davos speech that quotes Václav Havel and Thucydides. Pierre Poilievre, having saved his Conservative leadership bacon, for the nonce, with a forty-nine-minute convention keynote, responds to Carney with a six-page written statement, a speech...
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