Hour 4 of Ottawa Now for Wed. April 16th, 2025
April 16, 2025
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency has ordered a café in Toronto to remove vegemite from its menu, and from every single shelving unit. We explain why, and we also sift through the online pushback that this crackdown has caused. Plus, as the Battle of Ontario resumes, which team has the Premier’s support? CTV’s Matt Skube reacts to Doug Ford’s declaration.
Unpublished Newswire
Ontario’s freedom-of-information watchdog says a series of systemic issues in the provincial government’s handling of documents in the Greenbelt affair – including deleting e-mails and using codewords that make searches difficult – risks eroding public trust.In her annual report issued on Thursday, Information and Privacy Commissioner Patricia Kosseim dedicates a separate 11-page section to access-to-information appeals related to the province’s aborted 2022 decision to develop parts of the protected Greenbelt area – a move under criminal investigation by the RCMP.
June 12, 2025 - 20:42 | Jeff Gray | The Globe and Mail
The Saskatchewan government has decided to roll back its countermeasures against the ongoing U.S. tariffs, opening up business to the United States.
June 12, 2025 - 20:04 | Kat Ludwig | Global News - Canada
Ottawa has extended a pilot program that matches skilled refugees with job vacancies in Canada on the day it was due to lapse, after an outcry from employers, including universities, about its imminent expiry. Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada has extended its Economic Mobility Pathways Pilot, which was founded in 2018 as a route to permanent residence, until the end of the year, saying it is helping employers in critical sectors meet labour market shortages.
June 12, 2025 - 19:33 | Marie Woolf | The Globe and Mail
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