Hour 3 of Ottawa Now for Wed. April 29th, 2026

A Canada-wide survey, carried out last month by Angus Reid, found that 75 percent of over 4,000 respondents were in favour of a social media ban, such as the one we have seen in Australia. In that country, youth under the age of 16 are prevented from setting up accounts on TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and Snapchat. Ontario’s Education Minister was asked if the province would follow Manitoba’s crackdown, and he met the question with an idea of implementing cellphone bans in classrooms. That’s where an advocacy group called Unplugged Canada comes into the picture, as they have been gaining significant momentum on a U-14 smartphone ban. They had 5,000 families on board in 2024, and that number is approaching 10,000 families today. How young is too young to own a smartphone? Guest host Chris Holski sifts through the CFRA textboard and tackles today’s Question of the Day. Meantime, A.I. might be putting your passwords in great danger. We open that can of worms in Hour 3, as Shruti Shekar makes her weekly appearance. She is the editor-in-chief of Android Central. Plus, the CFL Playoffs are going to get a major facelift in 2027, and those seismic shifts have caused a lot of division within the fanbase. Ottawa Redblacks analyst Duke Ellingson offers his two cents.