Hour 3 of Ottawa Now for Fri. July 4th, 2025
July 4, 2025
U.S. President Donald Trump is turning his ‘big and beautiful bill’ into official law, coincidentally on America’s birthday. It is being completed this afternoon during an Independence Day ceremony at the White House. On Thursday, after a tense 24 hours of negotiating, members of U.S. Congress passed it through with a final tally of 218 to 214. Nearly 900 pages long, its contents include a collection of tax breaks and spending cuts, as well as new funding for U.S. national defense and future deportations. As this grand unveiling is taking place, Trump is turning up the heat on other countries to sign trade deals with America, adding that new tariffs could be on the way soon. CFRA’s Andrew Pinsent analyzes the latest developments from Washington. But first, it’s time to tackle today’s Question of the Day. Earlier in the program, Lululemon was planning to sue Costco over claims that the big-box wholesaler was selling knock-off versions of its yoga attire. These are often referred to as ‘dupes’. What is better: The real deal or the knock-off? Text into the show and let us know!
Unpublished Newswire
O ne day, I was leaving the church where I work when an angry woman stopped me. She threw a bag of garbage into the encampment in our yard and told me that a person had started sleeping in hers—and that I needed to tell her how she could find out who it was and make him go away. I suggested that she ask the person himself.
She stared at me and exclaimed, “But he takes drugs!”
“You can still ask him who he is,” I said.
And she stormed away up the street.
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Donald J. Savoie has spent decades studying the inner workings of Canada’s federal bureaucracy. He’s watched Ottawa grow more centralized and more crowded with what he calls “poets,” policy thinkers and advisers, while the “plumbers,” the front-line workers delivering services to Canadians, have not been prioritized. In an interview with National Post about the concept, as discussed in his recent book
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July 26, 2025 - 06:00 | Amna Ahmad | National Post
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