
Governor Tiff Macklem of the Bank of Canada was interviewed after the central bank held its overnight lending rate at 2.75 per cent for the second straight meeting.
June 7, 2025 - 08:42 | Globalnews Digital | Global News - Canada
Montreal tour guide Thom Seivewright shares the story of the raid on the Truxx bar in Montreal in 1977, which prompted a protest movement for 2SLGBTQ+ rights and led to the passage of anti-discrimination legislation. The raid, and subsequent protests have been honoured with a new stamp released by Canada Post to celebrate Pride Month.
June 7, 2025 - 08:30 | | CBC News - Canada
The American ambassador to Canada is pushing back on Ottawa’s travel advice, saying his country doesn’t search phones at the border and arguing some Americans travelling here are having a tough time.“We welcome Canadians to come in and invest, to spend their hard-earned Canadian dollars at U.S. businesses,” U.S. Ambassador Pete Hoekstra told The Canadian Press in an interview Friday.
June 7, 2025 - 08:23 | Dylan Robertson | The Globe and Mail
Residents in the Capital region woke up Saturday to relatively fresh air conditions. Don’t get used to it, Environment Canada said in an early update. “There may be a brief improvement in air quality (Saturday) morning,” the forecast says. But “high levels of air pollution due to smoke from forest fires are expected to continue […]
June 7, 2025 - 08:19 | Norman Provencher | Ottawa Citizen
When the debonair neurosurgeon Wilder Penfield wanted to treat his wife to a nice meal in 1930s Montreal, he knew just where to take her. “Welcome home girl,” he wrote in one letter. “I’d like to have lunch with you at Eaton’s.”
June 7, 2025 - 08:00 | Eric Andrew-Gee | The Globe and Mail
A driver who has racked up 32 driving prohibitions or suspensions, as well as 16 24-hour driving bans, failed to convince a British Columbia judge he should get a lighter sentence than normal for drunk driving because more than six months in jail could get him deported to India.
Vernon’s Gurinder Pal Singh Bajwa, a permanent resident of Canada who escaped deportation in 2019 on an impaired driving conviction with a sentence of five months and 29 days, got a reduced sentence this time around because Mounties
captured him...
June 7, 2025 - 07:00 | Chris Lambie | National Post