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Publication Date: December 11, 2025 - 14:11
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Quebec government and family doctors reach agreement in principle, putting contentious legislation on hold
December 11, 2025
The Quebec government announced Thursday that it has reached an agreement in principle with its family doctors, agreeing to delay and amend contentious legislation designed to impose a new remuneration system on physicians.
The Fédération des médecins omnipraticiens du Québec confirmed the two sides agreed to the deal after a negotiation blitz and a meeting between its president and Premier François Legault.
For the majority of Ottawa's city councillors, approving the Dunrobin battery energy storage system (BESS) was a no-brainer. Battery storage makes variable wind and solar power more practical. Sounds good. Allowing the project means that the battery company will give the city free money, even better. Best of all, the big and ugly BESS is out near Dunrobin and not visible from any of their wards. Read More
December 12, 2025 - 04:00 | Aaron Hutchins | Ottawa Citizen
OTTAWA — Most Canadians with a view say they don’t like the populist wave washing over much of the world, a new poll has found, even though a healthy chunk of respondents also said they support some of the same movement’s key pillars.
The poll, conducted by Pollara Strategic Insights, found that 28 per cent of respondents described themselves as either “frustrated” (10 per cent) or “angry” (18 per cent) with the concept of populist politics, while a smaller group (22 per cent) opted for the positive descriptors “excited” (four per cent) or “”comfortable” (18 per cent).
But 22 per...
December 12, 2025 - 04:00 | Simon Tuck | National Post
Back when I was a teenager, a private investigator sat in a parked car outside my family’s Westboro home for a few days, keeping watch on a house two doors away. Somehow, we knew why he was there: the recently estranged husband of the woman living at the surveilled address believed she was having an affair, and he’d hired the detective to find out. Read More
December 12, 2025 - 04:00 | Bruce Deachman | Ottawa Citizen
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