Hour 2 of Ottawa Now for Thurs. June 19th, 2025
June 19, 2025
Canada’s Prime Minister had plenty of information to dish out this afternoon, as the feds defended their aggressive approach to push Bill C-5 forward. The secondary nugget is all about the economy, and Canada’s complicated relationship with the United States. In a nutshell, if the two sides can’t reach a trade deal by July 21st, Mark Carney has a series of countermeasures up his sleeve. They are locked, loaded, and ready to fire if the stalemate continues. As for the severity of Canada’s retaliation on American tariffs, that all depends on how next month’s negotiations play out. If a potential deal isn’t in Canada’s best interest, Carney vows to reject it. Is this tough-but-fair approach tough enough? CTV political analyst and former NDP leader Tom Mulcair joins Kristy Cameron to present his opinions. On the lighter side of today’s news cycle, The Royal’s Mental Health Centre has received a $1.9 million grant from Brain Canada. This allows the facility to launch a one-of-a-kind brain imaging platform, a game-changing device that our country has never seen before. Here to explain further is Dr. Florence Dzierszinski, the President and CEO of The Royal’s Research Institute.
Unpublished Newswire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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