Hour 1 of Ottawa Now for Fri. January 24th, 2025 | Unpublished
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Publication Date: January 24, 2025 - 18:00

Hour 1 of Ottawa Now for Fri. January 24th, 2025

January 24, 2025
U.S. President Donald Trump spoke at the World Economic Forum yesterday. To nobody’s surprise, he pointed the finger at Canada. He says the feds are very tough to deal with. He suggested, once again, that America doesn’t need us. Globe and Mail finance columnist Rob Carrick is taking those words to heart. He suggests, if you want to go someplace warm this Winter, maybe choose Mexico or Costa Rica instead of places like Florida. And if boycotting American products will get Trump’s attention, he’s all for it. Carrick joins Kristy Cameron in Hour 1. Plus, we all felt it was coming, and now it’s officially happening. Ontario’s Premier will be calling a snap election for late-February, despite having a majority government until June of 2026. Doug Ford says he wants a strong mandate to fight the Trump tariffs, and that is why he is asking for the writ to be dropped so soon. Is he playing politics by calling a vote just weeks into the start of Trump’s storm? Sabrina Nanji, a reporter with the Queen’s Park Observer, has the latest.


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Uncertainty about when and how the federal government’s proposed tax increases on capital gains will take effect was cleared up on Friday when Ottawa announced it was delaying the start of the multibillion-dollar plan until Jan. 1, 2026.The proposed increase to the proportion of capital gains – the profit realized when someone sells an asset like a property or a stock for a higher price than what they originally acquired it for – that are taxed was first unveiled in the April, 2024, federal budget and detailed in June. Currently, only half of capital gains is included in computing a...
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