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Coun. Tim Tierney says Ottawa needs a southern ring road to relieve congestion on the Queensway, instead of a controversial bridge over Kettle Island.
June 26, 2025 - 16:50 | | CBC News - Ottawa
The Public Works and Infrastructure Committee today approved the Transportation Master Plan (TMP) Capital Infrastructure Plan, which will guide the development of the City’s transportation system to 2046.
The TMP is a supporting document of the Official Plan (OP) which projects an increase of more than 400,000 residents in the next 20 years. The TMP identifies transportation policies and infrastructure investments to support that growth. It informs annual budgets, the development charges background study and the City’s long-range financial plans.
The TMP includes the following two...
June 26, 2025 - 16:45 | City of Ottawa - Media Relations / Ville d'Ottawa - Relations avec les médias | City of Ottawa News Releases
Two new cases of measles have been confirmed in Prince Edward Island, with the people involved unrelated to each other and linked to possible public exposure sites, the province's Chief Public Health Officer says.
June 26, 2025 - 16:42 | | CBC News - Canada
While Bill C-5 passed without amendments, a handful of senators attempted to persuade their colleagues to include language about respecting Indigenous rights.
June 26, 2025 - 16:38 | Globalnews Digital | Global News - Canada
OTTAWA — The Senate adopted Prime Minister Mark Carney’s internal trade and major projects bill without amendments on Thursday, making it the first government bill to pass through all stages during the spring sitting of Parliament and receive royal assent.
That means that Carney will make good on his election campaign promise to eliminate all federal barriers to interprovincial trade by Canada Day to have “one Canadian economy.”
Bill C-5 has two parts. The Act to enact the Free Trade and Labour Mobility in Canada, which had support across party lines in the House of Commons, aims to...
June 26, 2025 - 16:32 | Catherine Lévesque | National Post
A family from Afghanistan that fled Russia after their eldest son got a draft notice in 2023 has won another chance at staying in Canada in part because some of their five sons could get pulled into the war on Ukraine or one of the belligerent bear’s future fights.
Canada’s Refugee Appeal Division (RAD) found that if Alireza and Shafiq Saberi and four of their children were sent back to Russia, two of their sons, ages 17 and 13, would likely be conscripted during the conflict and suffer discrimination in the military.
The division determined that the two teenagers were refugees, but...
June 26, 2025 - 16:27 | Chris Lambie | National Post
