Unpublished Newswire
With the purse strings tightened even further in 2025, are you changing your holiday spending habits? Kristy Cameron sifts through the CFRA textboard and tackles today’s Question of the Day. Plus, as we head into the first full week of December, Ottawa’s flu season keeps getting worse. We sift through the data in Hour 3 with Dr. Isaac Bogoch.
December 5, 2025 - 18:02 | | CFRA - 580 - Ottawa
The federal government has issued close to 70,000 early-retirement notices to public servants. We gather instant reaction in Hour 2, as CAPE President Nathan Prier drops by the studio. And on a totally different note, we also rank some of the weirdest Christmas songs in recorded history with CFRA’s Chris Holski.
December 5, 2025 - 18:01 | | CFRA - 580 - Ottawa
2025 has been a challenging financial year for a lot of us. And as the holiday shopping season rolls around, most families have had to adapt. On a scale of 1 to 10, are you changing your Christmas gift-giving habits this time around? Are you keeping it small, or are you leaning towards personal experiences instead of material things? Kristy Cameron digs deeper with Claire Tsai, a Marketing Professor at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management. Meantime, as a ban on American liquor persists, Ontario wines are witnessing a boost in sales. Canadian wine writer Natalie...
December 5, 2025 - 18:00 | | CFRA - 580 - Ottawa
Calgary dentist Alena Smadych, who defrauded five insurance companies over a decade, should spend up to three years in prison, the prosecution argued in court Friday.
December 5, 2025 - 17:23 | | CBC News - Canada
After Canada announced Tuesday it wouldn’t list the American eel under the Species at Risk Act, some First Nations people with cultural and spiritual ties to the species are questioning the decision.
December 5, 2025 - 17:21 | | CBC News - Canada
George Sinclair had just gotten into his vehicle and was ready to pull out of a Home Depot parking lot in Winnipeg this week when he was boxed in by three police cars, he says.
December 5, 2025 - 16:56 | | CBC News - Canada
