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Publication Date: May 27, 2025 - 18:01
Hour 2 of Ottawa Now for Tues. May 27th, 2025
May 27, 2025

The Canada Post strike continues, with a countrywide overtime ban in place and day-to-day operations mostly undisrupted. On Sunday, CUPW met with federal mediators to respond to Canada Post’s latest offer. They have since issued their own response to those proposals, and they hope to hear from Canada Post management in the coming days. Until a resolution is found, local businesses are doing all they can to safeguard themselves. Kristy Cameron chats with Gareth Davies, who is the owner of a gift shop on Wellington Street West called ‘Maker House’. Shifting gears back to Parliament Hill, King Charles III has delivered the Throne Speech, outlining a series of challenges that are ‘unprecedented’ in our lifetimes. CTV’s Mike LeCouteur explains further in Hour 2. Plus, we rekindle the 'drinking in parks' debate with CFRA's Chris Holski.
OTTAWA — Three days before G7 leaders converge on Kananaskis, Alta., former Prime Minister Jean Chrétien has some advice for Prime Minister Mark Carney for dealing with U.S. President Donald Trump.
“If he has decided to make a show, to be in the news, he will do something crazy. So let him do it. Keep talking normally,” Chrétien said of Trump to attendees of a pre-G7 conference organized by the University of Calgary on Thursday.
“He tends to be a bully once in a while, and don’t lose your cool when you have a bully in front of you… unless you grab him by the neck,” he added, earning...
June 12, 2025 - 16:37 | Christopher Nardi | National Post
Vishwash Kumar Ramesh, a 40-year-old British man, sat in Seat 11A in the first economy-class row behind business class, a window seat allowing a terrifying view as the plane he was on sank from the sky shortly after takeoff, crashing into a building and bursting into flames.
The crash apparently killed everyone else on board.
Ramesh was returning to London from Ahmedabad in western India, Thursday, when the Air India Boeing 787-8 commercial passenger jet crashed. Authorities have recovered 265 bodies with more expected to be found.
At first, officials declared there were no...
June 12, 2025 - 16:33 | Adrian Humphreys | National Post
The report cites research showing how farmers could increase profits by improving local sales since there would be fewer intermediaries taking a cut.
June 12, 2025 - 16:18 | Globalnews Digital | Global News - Canada
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