Unpublished Newswire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
Parents across Ontario have been patiently waiting for answers on childcare fees. Today, they got some short-term clarity, and a little bit of relief. However, questions about present-day spaces and staffing still linger. CTV’s Katelyn Wilson joins us in Hour 4 with the latest developments. Then, we preview tonight’s CTV Ottawa supper-hour newscast with Jackie Perez and Kimberley Fowler. And finally, if news breaks in real time, you’ll hear it live on CFRA’s Ottawa Now.
December 4, 2025 - 18:03 | | CFRA - 580 - Ottawa
Ottawa’s Mayor has introduced the Public Safety Action Plan, a directive that is aimed at preserving public safety all across Canada’s Capital. It starts with $1 million in brand-new funding for the ByWard Market, which will be used to recruit security guards. Will this strategy be effective enough to deliver promising solutions? Do these guards have the authority to resolve today’s problems? We posed that question to former Ottawa Police Chief Charles Bordeleau. We asked the same question in Hour 2, as Rideau-Vanier councillor Stephanie Plante stopped by for a visit....
December 4, 2025 - 18:02 | | CFRA - 580 - Ottawa
Expect tomorrow’s food to take up a bigger share of household budgets. That’s according to the latest Food Price Report, which is collectively produced by several Canadian universities. It’s projecting that an average family-of-four will pay an additional $994.63 in food for 2026 compared to 2025. The main culprits behind the expected price hike: Trade and Climate Change. Kristy Cameron sifts through the data with Mike Von Massow, a food economist at the University of Guelph. Meantime, recent data analysis from the Ottawa Citizen says that over half of public servants...
December 4, 2025 - 18:01 | | CFRA - 580 - Ottawa
