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Publication Date: June 29, 2026 - 17:00
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Hour 1 of Ottawa Now for Mon. June 29th, 2026
June 29, 2026
We’ve only got a few more days until the July 1st deadline to either renew or review the Canada-USA- Mexico Agreement. And in an exclusive interview with CTV’s Vassy Kapelos, U.S. Ambassador to Canada Pete Hoekstra says we’re not anywhere close to a trade deal. Guest host Chris Holski reads the tea leaves in Hour 1. Meantime, we are also just a few days away from celebrating Canada’s birthday, so it’s a good time for a friendly debate about Canada’s famous songwriters. There can only be one greatest songwriter in Canadian history. Who gets your vote? Music expert and publicist Eric Alper gets things rocking and rolling. But first, we bring you up to speed on today’s top headlines.
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July 25, 2026 - 06:30 | Jesse Winter | The Globe and Mail
We learned this week the outcome of Canada’s gunpoint re-negotiation with the United States over revenue from the new Gordie Howe International Bridge, an impressive $6.4-billion cross-border span that Canada paid for and is now finally able to open for traffic on Monday. The reality of the forced amendments — hammered out under threat from U.S. President Donald Trump who demanded changes to a long-standing binational contract at the eleventh hour — is not so much that it makes the new bridge a terrible deal for Canada, it’s that the changes made a bad deal even worse, according to a...
July 25, 2026 - 06:00 | Adrian Humphreys | National Post
Mark Carney's "Con" (short for Conservative) job of cherry-picking ideas from the Conservatives is, for the most part, intended to appease both sides of the spectrum, but in reality it is only putting lipstick on a pig. Read More
July 25, 2026 - 05:00 | Doug Menary, Ottawa Citizen | Ottawa Sun
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