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OTTAWA — Auto giant Stellantis says the government, not the company, insisted on redacting copies of a controversial agreement with Ottawa worth hundreds of millions of dollars requested by a Commons committee.
A letter sent to the House Government Operations Committee by Stellantis appears to contradict testimony by top Industry Canada (ISED) officials last week that redactions to the agreement sent to MPs were requested by the auto giant.
In response to the letter, Industry Minister Mélanie Joly told National Post Tuesday that her department would finally release the unredacted...
December 2, 2025 - 16:27 | Christopher Nardi | National Post
The Ontario government has vowed to fix the primary-care crisis, but lack of government planning and coordination is getting in the way, says the province’s auditor general, Shelley Spence. Read More
December 2, 2025 - 16:13 | Elizabeth Payne | Ottawa Citizen
OTTAWA — Canada’s fiscal watchdog suggested to a parliamentary committee on Tuesday that Ottawa should need House of Commons approval to change or eliminate long-held fiscal targets, as the Carney government did just weeks ago.
Jason Jacques, the interim Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO), told the Senate finance committee that Ottawa had used its debt-to-gross domestic product (GDP) ratio as one of its key “fiscal anchors” for the last three decades and that this government had described it as a key gauge for fiscal sustainability as recently as this fall.
But in early November,...
December 2, 2025 - 16:13 | Simon Tuck | National Post
Mayor Mark Sutcliffe will be joined by public safety and community partners to provide an update on the plan to improve public safety in the City of Ottawa.
Media will have an opportunity to ask questions following remarks.
Date: Thursday, December 4
Time: 10:30 am
Residents will be able to watch the media availability on the City’s YouTube channel.
December 2, 2025 - 16:00 | City of Ottawa - Media Relations / Ville d'Ottawa - Relations avec les médias | City of Ottawa News Releases
The Finance and Corporate Services Committee today approved Draft Budget 2026, which outlines key investments in City governance, Office of the City Clerk, City Manager’s Office, Rail Construction, Housing Solutions and Investment Services, Economic Development and Finance and Corporate Services, as well as non-departmental expenditures. The total gross operating budget required to maintain service for 2026 is $807.2 million. The operating budget is offset by revenue and recoveries and allocations of $2.9 billion.
The capital budget is $189.1 million, and investments would...
December 2, 2025 - 15:58 | City of Ottawa - Media Relations / Ville d'Ottawa - Relations avec les médias | City of Ottawa News Releases
It was the return of Bruce Willis’s childhood stutter that gave his wife Emma Heming Willis her first hint that something was wrong.
“Never in my wildest dreams did I realize that was a symptom,” she told an audience in Toronto on Tuesday.
Bruce Willis, 70, had long since overcome the speech impediment that once saw him tagged with the mocking schoolyard nickname “Buck Buck,” in 1960s New Jersey.
But this returning stutter, which coincided with other communication problems in his late sixties, was a sign of the progressive aphasia, or loss of language, that would later be...
December 2, 2025 - 15:53 | Joseph Brean | National Post
