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A jury convicted Brandon Teixeira of murder, attempted murder and discharging a firearm with intent last August, nearly eight years after the October 2017 shooting death.
January 5, 2026 - 18:03 | Globalnews Digital | Global News - Canada
Quebec is rolling out a series of brand-new civility expectations in all of its schools, from elementary grades right into the high school levels. In other words, students will have to use formal language when addressing staff members. Should Ontario adopt a similar model of respect? Kristy Cameron sifts through the CFRA textboard and tackles today’s Question of the Day. Meantime, Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro and his wife have submitted not guilty pleas to a quartet of charges. Both are facing punishment in the United States for narco-terrorism conspiracy, cocaine importation...
January 5, 2026 - 18:02 | | CFRA - 580 - Ottawa
Back in 2023, following a successful pilot project, the City of Ottawa ordered 350 Electric buses. So far, only a small percentage of them have been added to Ottawa’s fleet. To be exact, 30 of those buses have actually made their way to Canada’s Capital. What gives? We get the details from CTV’s Leah Larocque in Hour 2. Then, we check in with Barrhaven East councillor Wilson Lo, who is a member of the city’s Transit Committee and once worked at OC Transpo. Meantime, after grinding through the bulk of the 2020’s under a hybrid-work model, thousands of Ontario...
January 5, 2026 - 18:01 | | CFRA - 580 - Ottawa
As they head back to the classroom, Quebec’s students are going to have to get used to a brand-new rule change. Students at both the elementary and high school levels are now required to use formal language when addressing teachers and staff members. Introduced by the Quebec government, these regulations are intended to ‘establish a framework for civic responsibility’. We kickstart the conversation with Heidi Yetman, the President of the Quebec Provincial Association of Teachers. She is skeptical that these changes are going to deliver a significant shift. Later in the...
January 5, 2026 - 18:00 | | CFRA - 580 - Ottawa
In the last two weeks, protests in Iran have grown to such a scale that they are rivalling some of the great uprisings that have characterized the modern history of the revolutionary dictatorship, whose ruling regime appears to be running out of options to restore economic and social stability. So far, this one has not been contained and put down like the others, with state violence and mass prosecution of dissenters. Now, Iran’s rulers are on notice that the United States stands ready to intervene if protesters are killed, a threat made all the more pressing by this weekend’s military...
January 5, 2026 - 17:44 | Joseph Brean | National Post
A civil suit filed in the Supreme Court of B.C. accuses three Denny's workers of misappropriating more than $500,000 in tips from the restaurant chain while working at a Kamloops location between 2023 and 2025.
January 5, 2026 - 17:32 | | CBC News - Canada
