Hour 1 of Ottawa Now for Tues. June 10th, 2025 | Unpublished
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Publication Date: June 10, 2025 - 18:00

Hour 1 of Ottawa Now for Tues. June 10th, 2025

June 10, 2025

It’s not just fewer Canadians travelling to the United States, but also fewer Americans travelling to Canada. According to StatsCan, the number of car trips that Americans took to visit Canada declined by 10.7 percent in April and 8.4 percent in May. Those data drops are compared to what we saw in April and May of last year. And when we look at air travel through the same lens, the trend continues. Naturally, as a testy trade war unfolds, Canadian tourism associations are worried that the perception of an anti-American environment is keeping our Southern neighbours away from the Great White North. Today, one tourism association is aiming to change those toxic beliefs with their latest advertising rollout. Kristy Cameron chats with Shanny Halle, a spokesperson for Quebec’s Eastern Townships Tourism. It’s a region in Southeastern Quebec that hovers around the U.S. border. Plus, we are taking applications for Kristy’s Summer Job Centre, starting today and rolling right into Friday! Last year, Munster-based Saunders Farm received enough funding to hire 30 summer workers. This year, they couldn’t hire a single summertime employee after their funding approvals were rejected by the feds. Angela Grant-Saunders has more on that.



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The White House is pursuing heavy fines from Harvard and other universities as part of potential settlements to end investigations into campus antisemitism, using the deal it struck with Columbia University as a template, according to an administration official familiar with the matter.Fines have become a staple of proposed deals in talks with Harvard and other schools, according to the official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal deliberations.
July 25, 2025 - 22:07 | Collin Binkley | The Globe and Mail
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July 25, 2025 - 21:00 | Klaudia Van Emmerik | Global News - Canada
Born and raised in Montreal, Norman Marshall Villeneuve was taught to tap dance by his older brother. As a preteen he studied piano with the great instructor Daisy Peterson-Sweeney, sister of Oscar Peterson. Another legendary jazz pianist, Oliver Jones, was a cousin who, like Mr. Peterson, lived nearby.The tutoring in the other disciplines notwithstanding, he instead became one of Canada’s greatest bebop drummers.
July 25, 2025 - 20:27 | Brad Wheeler | The Globe and Mail