Hour 1 of Ottawa Now for Tues. May 13th, 2025
May 13, 2025
After much anticipation, Prime Minister Mark Carney has unveiled his new Cabinet. Some of the Trudeau-era members have been moved into new roles. Some of his MPs are first-time Ministers. And if you look closely, some of today’s roles are fresh off the dealership lot, as 10 MPs will serve in Secretary of State designations. CTV’s Colton Praill delivers a full synopsis in Hour 1. Shifting gears to Ontario politics, the NDP is tabling a motion to ban hospital parking fees for both patients and medical staff. Can it be done, and should it be done? Kristy Cameron digs deeper with Hillary Buchan-Terrell, a Manager of Advocacy for Ontario at the Canadian Cancer Society. In her view, this plan is doable.
Unpublished Newswire
One day when he was a kid, Bruce McKean heard a noise coming from a rooming house near his home in Victoria. He went inside and found that the wood stacked beside the furnace was in flames. He yelled “fire.” The firemen came and extinguished it. Young Bruce had saved the day.But instead of thanking him, the people who ran the rooming house chewed him out. They didn’t want a spotlight shone on their dubious establishment.
June 14, 2025 - 07:30 | Marcus Gee | The Globe and Mail
I ’d known Abby for over twenty years. We always had a lot to talk about, with overlapping interests and a similar world view. She had a soothing energy and a keen sense of humour. Over the years, the occasional comment or dark joke made me wonder if we shared the same kind of damage, but I never probed.
One day, we sat across from each other in a pub booth in Paddington, a suburb of Sydney, Australia. She ordered a glass of champagne for us both and we picked at some food. After some small talk, she asked me, “How are you?”
There was something about her tone, the genuine concern in...
June 14, 2025 - 06:30 | Rebecca Huntley | Walrus
Rachel Smith is expecting to give birth any day in the epicentre of Canada’s worst measles outbreak in nearly 30 years. However, the Aylmer, Ont., mother is not worried about her health or the health of her baby because she’s fully vaccinated against the virus. Her cousin, Esther Wiebe, is not worried either, but for a different reason – she and her three unvaccinated children have already recovered from measles and are now immune.
June 14, 2025 - 06:30 | Kelly Grant | The Globe and Mail
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