Hour 2 of Ottawa Now for Wed. May 7th, 2025
May 7, 2025
As you heard throughout yesterday’s program, Prime Minister Mark Carney and Canada’s top officials met with U.S. President Donald Trump, marking his first in-person meeting with America’s Big Cheese. Appearing inside the Oval Office, Carney noted how Trump has revitalized international focuses on things like security and NATO, and explained how Canada is stepping up to meet those demands. Most of Tuesday’s dialogue centered around USMCA, which was negotiated between Trudeau and Trump during the latter’s first administration. We do a vibe check with Windsor Mayor Drew Dilkens in Hour 2. Turning our attention to local news, safety concerns have indefinitely postponed the Fun Philippines Ottawa Food and Music Festival. This year’s inaugural celebrations were scheduled to take place during the Victoria Day Weekend, but ‘unforeseen developments’ have put those plans on the backburner. This decision follows a horrific SUV attack at a street festival in Vancouver, where at least 11 people of the Filipino community lost their lives. We hear from Tara Shannon, the Executive Director of the Ottawa Festival Network.
Unpublished Newswire
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...
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OTTAWA — Chief Justice Richard Wagner, who promised a new era of transparency for the Supreme Court, could not say which private interest donated a lifelike bronze bust of himself that sits prominently in the building’s grand entrance hall.
During his annual press conference Tuesday, Wagner also questioned how the gift could raise concerns of conflict of interest.
“I don’t know who paid for that, so how can there be a conflict of interest?” Wagner responded to National Post’s questions.
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June 10, 2025 - 15:50 | Christopher Nardi | National Post
An American-based Canadian men’s fashion writer who shared his story of being an undocumented immigrant in the U.S. put himself in the crosshairs of conservative critics questioning his legal status to remain in the country, including perhaps U.S. Vice-President JD Vance.
In response to the heated L.A. protests over Immigration and Customs Enforcement actions in the city, Derek Guy, who works out of San Francisco, made a candid post on X detailing his experiences.
I debated whether to share my story on here, but I guess I will.I think there's an idea out there that millions of violent...
June 10, 2025 - 15:49 | Kenn Oliver | National Post
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