Unpublished Newswire
Canada’s purchase of the GlobalEye early warning and surveillance aircraft will allow the military to significantly cut down the time needed to acquire the new fleet of planes. Read More
June 25, 2026 - 04:00 | David Pugliese, Ottawa Citizen | Ottawa Citizen
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Fentanyl has become a political symbol of border failure, but public health academics say the recent decline in overdose deaths points instead to shifts in supply and public health measures — not tariffs or border crackdowns. Nearly half of Americans — 42 per cent in 2024 — know someone who has died from an overdose, with most of those deaths linked to synthetic opioids like fentanyl. In Canada, no national polling exists, but regional surveys have also shown high levels of exposure; in hard-hit areas like British Columbia, for example, one in five Canadians in 2023...
June 25, 2026 - 04:00 | Tracy Moran | National Post
OTTAWA — Criticism is mounting for a proposed federal-provincial program that would acquire unsold condo units in British Columbia and convert them into affordable housing. “It’s moral hazard, it’s socializing losses while the profits flow to developers, so developers can only win, the government will come and bail them out, which is crazy,” said Ron Butler, principal broker at Butler Mortgage Inc. and host of the Angry Mortgage Podcast. Last week, Prime Minister Mark Carney along with B.C. Premier David Eby announced a suite of measures valued at $3.2 billion to help the province’s...
June 25, 2026 - 04:00 | Jordan Gowling | National Post
Every day I hear about the need for more housing for seniors, or for low income families, or for refugees. And twice a week I drive by the hulking shell of two apartment buildings at the corner of Baseline and Clyde Avenues. There has been little progress on that project for the last five years, and it could do so much to help the housing crisis. Read More
June 25, 2026 - 04:00 | Nicole Feriancek | Ottawa Citizen
OTTAWA — As the country mourned the eight killed and others injured by a shooter who attacked a secondary school in interior British Columbia, more than 10,000 anti-LGBTQ posts expressing hate and calling for violence were made the next day by Canadians online, according to an intelligence brief. The details, contained in a memo prepared by the Canadian Security Intelligence Services’ integrated threat assessment centre, warned that those who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender or queer were likely to face “increased intimidation, harassment, criminal and extremist violence...
June 25, 2026 - 04:00 | Christopher Nardi , Stephanie Taylor | National Post
The National Capital Commission has approved the disposal of seven federal properties, including two heritage office buildings. Read More
June 25, 2026 - 04:00 | Ben Andrews | Ottawa Citizen
