Unpublished Newswire
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
The father of the popular Quinn Farm in Notre-Dame-de-l'Île-Perrot, west of Montreal, has died. He was 78.
January 5, 2026 - 17:28 | Felicia Parrillo | Global News - Canada
When Montreal police raided a grimy flat on St-Dominique Street in the city’s Plateau-Mont-Royal neighbourhood in March of 1969 searching for a bomber belonging to the terrorist Front de Libération du Québec, they quickly realized they had found their man.“When they opened the door, they saw a picture of Che Guevara,” recalled Bob Côté, the celebrated Montreal police bomb disposal expert, who at 89 still has vivid memories of the time, “… and they found bits of red and yellow wires, characteristic of detonators.”
January 5, 2026 - 17:00 | Alan Freeman | The Globe and Mail
