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Author: Doug Menary
Publication Date: August 29, 2026 - 04:00
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Bruce Deachman right about King Edward Avenue | Letters to the Editor
August 29, 2026
I agree with columnist Bruce Deachman that Queen Victoria’s eldest son, Albert Edward, would not be amused by the state of the street named for him in 1901. Any citizen of Ottawa who travels that avenue is chagrined. Any visitor to Ottawa who wandered the short distance from the ByWard Market to King Edward Avenue would return home wondering how the capital of Canada allowed this blight to continue for six decades and counting. Read More
Unpublished Newswire
OTTAWA — U.S. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick said a Canadian minister did not deny it when asked if Canadian negotiators were trying to “blow up” trade negotiations last month. Lutnick, the brash Trump cabinet member who is a close advisor to U.S. President Donald Trump, made the claim during an interview on CNBC Wednesday morning when discussing the end of negotiations late Friday Aug. 21. “Friday at 4 o’clock, the Canadians call. They start adding crazy ideas to the mix. So, I said to one of the ministers, ‘are you actually trying to blow this up?’ And his answer to me was, ‘I’m...
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U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order to rename Lake Ontario “Lake America” on Aug. 27. City council in Rochester, N.Y., which is located on the south shore of Lake Ontario, signed a proclamation the next day to ignore the renaming.
September 2, 2026 - 14:45 | | CBC News - Ottawa
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