Unpublished Newswire
The fun and celebration of Italian culture returns as the Ottawa Italian Festival takes over Little Italy between Friday, June 6 and Sunday, June 8. The festival highlights music, dance and cuisine from all over Italy, and Preston Street will be a hub for a host of activities like street parties and car parades. During the festival, there are several traffic and transit impacts.
Friday, June 6:
Queen Elizabeth Driveway, between Preston Street and Torrington Place, is closed between 6 am and 5 pm for the Dows lake Concorso d’Eleganza.
Preston Street, between Carling Avenue and Somerset...
June 4, 2025 - 13:51 | City of Ottawa - Media Relations / Ville d'Ottawa - Relations avec les médias | City of Ottawa News Releases
OTTAWA — With the House of Commons back in full swing, Conservative MPs from Alberta are sounding the alarm on rising separatist tensions in the province, warning Prime Minister Mark Carney to tackle the problem or reckon with a fractured country.
Calgary MP Shuvaloy Majumdar blasted Carney on Tuesday for leaving
the first ministers’ meeting
in Saskatoon without giving Alberta a firm commitment on oil and gas pipelines and other energy infrastructure.
“...
June 4, 2025 - 13:37 | Rahim Mohamed | National Post
Dave Portnoy, creator of media company Barstool Sports, was in Toronto trying different pizza spots for his online series, One Bite Pizza Reviews.
In a video posted online on June 2, he’s guided around Toronto by a local called Bill the Greek. One of the places they visit is Terrazza, a restaurant in the Little Italy neighbourhood. Portnoy meets with Terrazza owner Frankie Lasagna and sees the inside of the restaurant before walking out with a fresh pie. A group of on-lookers watch, some filming, as Portnoy does his review on the street.
Portnoy starts talking about...
June 4, 2025 - 13:34 | Courtney Greenberg | National Post
The film was directed by Colin Hanks and produced by Ryan Reynolds, who describe the late funnyman as a great actor and an even better person.
June 4, 2025 - 13:26 | Globalnews Digital | Global News - Canada
Hudbay Minerals Inc. HBM-T says wildfires burning in northern Manitoba have forced it to suspend work at its Snow Lake mine. Last week, the Toronto-based company said it planned to maintain output at the gold, copper and zinc mine at reduced levels.
June 4, 2025 - 13:22 | | The Globe and Mail
As fears of refugee deportation mount in the United States, a surge of asylum seekers is turning to Canada — only to find a border that is getting increasingly hard to cross.
The number of refugee seekers processed by the Canadian Border Services Agency (CBSA) has shot up by 87 per cent between January and April.
In April, 494 ineligible refugee claimants from the U.S. were turned back at the Canadian border under the Safe Third Country Agreement, which bars most people from seeking asylum in Canada at the border. That’s up from 280 in January — a 76 per cent increase.
Growing...
June 4, 2025 - 13:07 | Investigative Journalism Bureau | National Post
