Hour 3 of Ottawa Now for Mon. September 8th, 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.