Hour 2 of Ottawa Now for Mon. July 7th, 2025
July 7, 2025
Bill 9 serves as the Ford government’s latest initiative to crack down on so-called misbehaving municipal politicians. Ahead of the 2026 Municipal Elections, Ontario’s Premier is hoping to have those regulations in place before the ballot boxes open. However, critics say these new rules are still terribly flawed, and this bill is ultimately going to miss the mark. We dig deeper in Hour 2 with Aird and Berlis municipal lawyer John Mascarin and Ontario Liberal MPP Stephen Blais. But first, a nasty storm is looming over the National Capital Region, and it is capable of producing tornadoes. CFRA's Chris Holski delivers the latest information as it becomes available.
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Throughout the culture war flareups of the last fifteen years or so, liberals and conservatives have periodically traded fire over matters that are fundamentally symbolic and often negligible to meaningless at the level of actual political substance. In their own different (and often quite cynical) ways, both factions have been adept at converting cultural issues into the language of political grievance and, in turn, into supposed forms of political engagement—and even activism—that have often amounted to little more than new kinds of shopping or media consumption.
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August 28, 2025 - 13:01 | Luke Savage | Walrus
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August 28, 2025 - 13:00 | Kenya-Jade Pinto | The Globe and Mail
The Supreme Court of Canada has declined to hear an appeal of a lower-court ruling that upheld a First Nation's ownership of a stretch of land at a popular Ontario beach.
August 28, 2025 - 12:53 | Sawyer Bogdan | Global News - Canada
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