Hour 3 of Ottawa Now for Mon. September 8th, 2025
September 8, 2025
Andrew Pinsent is filling in for Kristy Cameron, who is most likely enjoying a cottage weekend. Gambling ads are running rampant online, and on your TV screen. During sports broadcasts, you really tend to notice them. And as the sports landscape ramps up this Fall, the concern is shifting to the damaging impacts they could have on today’s youth, not to mention what could happen to them as they get older. Are they being sucked into a lifetime of bad gambling habits, even if they don’t know it yet? That’s up for debate in Hour 3, as we tackle today’s Question of the Day. Plus, it’s a Monday afternoon, which means it’s time to welcome back our Political Heat Panel! Today’s discussion isn’t about the pitfalls of gambling ads, but the political gambles at play for Canada’s federal parties, as the next session of Parliament resumes.
Unpublished Newswire
Good morning. French Prime Minister François Bayrou resigned today after parliament torpedoed his debt-cutting budget – more on that below, along with the end to the Murdoch succession battle and a look at the province that’s embracing hybrid work. But first:Today’s headlinesLeaked files show a Chinese company is exporting the Great Firewall’s censorship technologyAlberta revises its order on books to be banned from schoolsIsrael drops leaflets across Gaza City ordering evacuation
September 9, 2025 - 06:41 | Danielle Groen | The Globe and Mail
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September 9, 2025 - 06:30 | Ricardo Tranjan | Walrus
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September 9, 2025 - 06:00 | Isaac Callan | Global News - Ottawa
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