Hour 1 of Ottawa Now for Wed. June 11th, 2025
June 11, 2025
It’s been nearly 3 months since Canadian liquor stores purged American alcohol from their shelves. But now, Alberta and Saskatchewan are changing course, opting to resume regular purchases and distribution of U.S. booze. Here in Ontario, Premier Doug Ford isn’t backing down, vowing to keep the boycott in place until U.S. President Trump removes all tariffs. So if you are craving some Kentucky bourbon in this province, you’ll have to get creative. CTV political analyst Scott Reid delivers his key takeaways from Western Canada’s recent backpedalling. Shifting gears to the Summer job market, it’s been tough sledding these days, but there are some openings available. As Kristy Cameron explains in Hour 1, help is wanted at Myers Orleans! But first, we bring you up to speed on today’s top headlines.
Unpublished Newswire
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
On Wednesday, a driver of a recycling truck was forced to urgently dump a big load of material in a Kelowna school parking lot after flames erupted inside the vehicle.
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
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