Hour 1 of Ottawa Now for Wed. May 7th, 2025
May 7, 2025
Starting today, if you’re dining out in Quebec, tips must be calculated on the before-tax price. For example, if an item costs $100 before tax, the tipping options cannot be calculated on the additional taxes, such as the 9.9% QST or the 5% GST. These changes will save consumers money, but will also result in smaller tips for servers and bartenders. Should Ontario follow suit? Kristy Cameron opens the debate floor with Tony Alenis, the President and CEO of the Ontario Restaurant Hotel and Motel Association. Shifting gears to health news, gynecological cancers are on the rise in Canada, as our country witnesses its first significant increase since the 1980’s. Over 8,500 women will be diagnosed with uterine cancer in 2025, while ovarian cancer remains one of the deadliest cancers for Canadian women. Joining us to deliver the details on those stats is Dr. Shannon Salvador, the President of Canada’s Society of Gynecologic Oncology.
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The Saskatoon city governance meeting Wednesday got a little heated as downtown business owners called for action on homelessness and social disorder in the core.
June 11, 2025 - 18:52 | Nicole Healey | Global News - Canada
Toronto Blue Jays brass used all the bells and whistles when they tried to land two-way superstar Shohei Ohtani in the fall of 2023. The once-in-a-lifetime pursuit of the Japanese free agent, as author Keegan Matheson writes in his new book, “The Franchise: Toronto Blue Jays,” included taking Ohtani, his agent and interpreter at the time on a tour of the team’s renovated player development complex, complete with a few special touches.
June 11, 2025 - 18:11 | Gregory Strong | The Globe and Mail
OTTAWA — Government House Leader Steven MacKinnon rejected the Bloc Québécois’ proposal to split Bill C-5 in two parts, so that the sections on lifting internal trade barriers and the fast-tracking of major projects can be studied separately.
Bloc House Leader Christine Normandin said earlier this week it made little sense that the bill, in its current form, would be sent to the House of Commons committee on transport as it falls under the mandate of Minister of Transport and Internal Trade Chrystia Freeland.
Normandin instead suggested dividing the bill to study the portions on free...
June 11, 2025 - 18:10 | Catherine Lévesque | National Post
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