Unpublished Newswire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
Fans and Canadian soccer players shared their excitement for who the country will face at the World Cup during an event to mark the group stage draw in Toronto on Friday.
December 5, 2025 - 17:56 | | The Globe and Mail
In 2015, when Axel Becke was awarded the Herzberg gold medal, Canada’s top prize for science and engineering, he was asked in an interview to explain who in the field of chemistry made use of the methods he had discovered.Without pausing, Dr. Becke answered, “Everybody.”
December 5, 2025 - 17:48 | Ivan Semeniuk | The Globe and Mail
The Supreme Court of Canada has restored a woman's conviction for attempting to kill her mother by injecting her with insulin.
December 5, 2025 - 17:35 | | CBC News - Canada
