Hour 2 of Ottawa Now for Mon. April 21st, 2025
April 21, 2025
If he becomes Prime Minister on April 28th, Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre vows to review Canada’s single-use plastic ban. During his Sunday pitstop in Montreal, he claimed that this ban is driving up food prices, and is becoming economically destructive. Should we bring back the plastic straw? Kristy Cameron chats with Cal Lakhan in Hour 2. He is the Director of the Circular Innovation Hub at York University, the largest research initiative that is dedicated to waste across Canada. Meantime, world leaders are paying tribute to Pope Francis, who passed away at the age of 88 earlier this morning. We examine his legacy with Michael W. Higgins, a Vatican Affairs analyst and the author of ‘The Jesuit Disruptor’.
Unpublished Newswire
BANFF, Alta. — The heads of the world’s richest economies are converging on Alberta today for one of the most high-stakes G7 meetings in recent memory amid a U.S.-led global tariff war and the growing crisis in the Middle East.
On many of the G7’s key issues — namely the global trade war and Israel’s military operations in Gaza — Trump and the rest of the G7 leaders are largely on opposite sides.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s job as chair of the summit in Kananaskis, Alta., is to mediate discussions to make sure the tense alliance doesn’t blow up.
And that job has never...
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Officers, firefighters and search-and-rescue crews tried to locate both the vehicle and the missing person, but failed. Three other occupants were able to get to safety.
June 15, 2025 - 18:54 | Globalnews Digital | Global News - Canada
As world leaders attending the G7 summit in Kananaskis began to arrive, hundreds of protesters gathered in downtown Calgary on Sunday, hoping to send a message.
June 15, 2025 - 18:53 | Ken MacGillivray | Global News - Canada
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