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Ontario's financially strained colleges are calling for a sustained boost in provincial funding, warning that lack of investment hurts domestic students, training for the labour market and economic growth across the province.
January 15, 2026 - 18:05 | | CBC News - Ottawa
The Canadian Tire Centre is celebrating a milestone birthday this weekend. It will be turning 30 years old, as Michael Buble performs on Friday and the Ottawa Senators host Montreal on Saturday. And the star of the show is a time capsule! CTV’s Tyler Fleming delivers the details in Hour 4. Then, we preview tonight’s CTV Ottawa supper-hour newscast with Jackie Perez. And if news breaks in real time, you’ll hear it live on CFRA’s Ottawa Now.
January 15, 2026 - 18:03 | | CFRA - 580 - Ottawa
Over the next 24 hours, Ottawa is getting bombarded by snow. If you hit the road today, how was the commute? And when it comes to the snow-clearing efforts, what does your neighbourhood look like? Kristy Cameron sifts through the CFRA textboard and tackles today’s Question of the Day. Speaking of snow-clearing expeditions, a group of teenagers are lending a helping hand to parts of Downtown Ottawa and Old Ottawa South. It started as a small group in 2022, and has since expanded to over 50 student employees. We speak to one of the co-founders in Hour 3.
January 15, 2026 - 18:02 | | CFRA - 580 - Ottawa
According to a new study from the Ontario Medical Association, female family physicians spend 15 to 20 percent more time with their patients compared to their male colleagues. We dig deeper with Lyn Sibley, a Senior Director of Healthcare Evaluative Research at the Ontario Medical Association. She is also one of the study’s authors. Meantime, an Ottawa city councillor is calling on the Ford government to keep Regina Street Alternative School open. Ottawa’s largest school board says the final cohort of students enrolled in September of last year. That means no new students...
January 15, 2026 - 18:01 | | CFRA - 580 - Ottawa
Police in Surrey, B.C., say another shooting linked to ongoing extortion violence happened overnight Thursday, marking at least the fourth such attack in the Lower Mainland since last week.The latest shooting happened at about 12:50 a.m. in the 13400 block 56 Avenue.Police say arriving officers found a home and a vehicle had been damaged by gunshots, but no one was injured.
January 15, 2026 - 18:00 | | The Globe and Mail
Ottawa is getting the biggest snowstorm of the season today, with 35 centimetres of snow expected to fall. When are we expected to see the worst, and what makes these forecasts so challenging to predict? Doug Gillham, a meteorologist with The Weather Network, breaks it all down for us in Hour 1. Then, we get a boots-on-the-ground update from CTV’s Jackie Perez. But first, we bring you up to speed on today’s top headlines.
January 15, 2026 - 18:00 | | CFRA - 580 - Ottawa
