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Publication Date: March 24, 2026 - 18:00
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Hour 1 of Ottawa Now for Tues. March 24th, 2026
March 24, 2026
An Ottawa crossing guard has died after he was struck by a teenage driver near a Barrhaven elementary school. Meantime, families in Barrhaven are calling for immediate safety improvements around St. Juan Diego Catholic School after a child was seriously injured during pick-up and drop-off hours. Barrhaven West councillor David Hill joins Kristy Cameron in Hour 1. Turning our attention to Parliament Hill, the Future of Sport in Canada Commission has unveiled its final report. And it says, among other things, that Canadian sport needs an overhaul. CFRA’s Andrew Pinsent delivers the findings and the recommendations. But first, we bring you up to speed on today’s top headlines.
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Canadians booking packages with Air Canada Vacations to designated “SUN destinations” will pay an extra $50 per passenger fuel surcharge, starting April 6, 2026, travel agents are saying.
Air Canada Vacations is the airline’s subsidiary offering vacation packages. It has notified travel agents about the fuel surcharge, which will be reflected in the taxes and surcharges at the time of booking. The airline uses “
SUN destinations...
April 5, 2026 - 07:00 | Stewart Lewis | National Post
The federal government is beefing up its accountability for processing passport applications.
As of April 1, passport applicants will get
a full refund of their passport fee
if it takes more than 30 business days to process their application, said Lena Metlege Diab, federal minister of...
April 5, 2026 - 07:00 | Stewart Lewis | National Post
A new bill that would explicitly criminalize forced or coerced sterilizations as aggravated assault punishable by up to 14 years in prison could inadvertently harm women, Canadian leaders in the field of women’s reproductive health are warning.
While well-intentioned, the bill as now written could impact life-threatening emergencies and scare some doctors away from offering women voluntary, consensual permanent contraception, leaders of the Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada (SOGC) wrote in an op-ed published online this week at...
April 5, 2026 - 06:00 | Sharon Kirkey | National Post
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