Hour 3 of Ottawa Now for Fri. March 6th, 2026

According to the City of Ottawa, city staff doesn’t have the resources to enforce ‘school streets’. Neither does Ottawa Police. Advocates for these streets say not enough heavy-lifting is being done. Where do you stand on this debate? Kristy Cameron sifts through the CFRA textboard and tackles today’s Question of the Day. Meantime, Quebec’s dairy industry has been advocating to recognize cheese curds as a controlled designation. On the surface, this type of poutine protectionism seems old-fashioned. However, there are serious implications for a crowd of excluded Ontario businesses that make their own cheese curds. Eric Lafontaine, the General Manager of St. Albert’s Cheese, pays us a visit in Hour 3.