Hour 2 of Ottawa Now for Tues. July 15th, 2025 | Unpublished
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Publication Date: July 15, 2025 - 18:01

Hour 2 of Ottawa Now for Tues. July 15th, 2025

July 15, 2025

GoFundMe has become a beacon of support for countless families every year – a financial lifeline that raises money for various causes and relief efforts. In recent weeks, the families of the Texas flood victims have received thousands of dollars from Good Samaritans. However, one fundraiser turned out to be fake, and it negatively impacted a mother of 6 kids in Burlington. Julie Cole joins Kristy Cameron to recount the horrifying experience in Hour 2. We also hear from Tanya Walker, a Canadian litigation lawyer and a Managing Partner at Walker Law, a firm who specializes in fraud cases. Switching gears to the auto theft crisis, it appears that today’s car thieves have uncovered another loophole, and are now using it to their advantage. Their secret recipe: Re-vinned vehicles. We dig deeper with Shawn Vording, who is the President of Carfax Canada. They sell vehicle history reports.



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Good morning. All eyes are on the verdict in the Hockey Canada trial today. More on that below, along with the conclusion of the premiers’ meeting and the rising risk of starvation in Gaza, but first:Today’s headlinesA report shows that a Canadian man who died in ICE custody was previously flagged for health concerns Algoma Steel is seeking up to $600-million from Ottawa in emergency trade war reliefFrom the Mastering It series: How this miniaturist made it big with her tiny creations
July 24, 2025 - 06:42 | Sierra Bein | The Globe and Mail
None of the tech oligarchs currently promoting AI technology are even trying to pretend its impact will be gentle or gradual. If anything, most are positively effusive about how quickly it will render everything else—right down to people themselves—obsolete throughout a host of vital industries and in the arts. It’s the kind of moment that invites a familiar concept: creative destruction. I originally associated the phrase with Joseph Schumpeter, but it actually has its origins in Karl Marx. In the latter’s work, it referred to the ingrained tendency of capitalism toward...
July 24, 2025 - 06:30 | Luke Savage | Walrus
It Will Cost You In “Sticker Shock” (January/February), Ira Wells details how rising costs of living would influence the election. Wells attributes this to COVID-19 supply chains and Loblaw’s price gouging, among other reasons, but neglects to point out that our diets, housing, and vehicle choices give us lots of room to mitigate inflationary pressures. Wells makes no mention of the role of climate change in diminished food supply and prices worldwide. Canada is one of the wealthiest countries and therefore relatively insulated from the food scarcity behind so much of the global distress...
July 24, 2025 - 06:29 | Readers | Walrus