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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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A new paper is reviving the idea of “death by organ donation” — retrieving organs from MAID patients while they are sedated and unconscious but still alive. Current law prohibits it, due to the long-standing dead donor rule, or DDR, which holds that people must be dead before organs can be removed (the “Death Requirement”) and that doctors must not kill a person by means of procuring his or her organs (the “Don’t Kill Rule”). However, the authors of a new paper published in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine say the growing acceptance of voluntary euthanasia complicates...
July 23, 2026 - 06:30 | Sharon Kirkey | National Post
Good morning. After threatening Canada with new tariffs, the U.S. now wants to strike interim trade deals. More on that below, along with wildfire updates and new questions on a Health Canada investigation.
July 23, 2026 - 06:25 | Sierra Bein | The Globe and Mail
Grewal unseated the NDP’s Gurratan Singh in 2022 in Brampton East, winning the riding again in the 2025 snap election.
July 23, 2026 - 06:00 | Isaac Callan | Global News - Ottawa
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