Unpublished Newswire
A new Arts, Culture and Entertainment (ACE) district is opening in downtown Ottawa's ByWard Market and Centretown.
June 18, 2026 - 08:11 | | CBC News - Ottawa
Social Solidarity Minister Chantal Rouleau will announce new funding for the fight against homelessness and its causes on Thursday. Montreal will receive most of the money, with $5 million set aside for the city, while other regions will receive less than $1 million.
June 18, 2026 - 08:03 | | CBC News - Ottawa
Environment Canada has issued a "special weather statement" Thursday, cautioning the possible arrival of "severe thunderstorms" bringing up to 40 mm of rain starting this morning and lasting through early this afternoon. Read More
June 18, 2026 - 07:39 | Norman Provencher | Ottawa Citizen
Newcomers to Canada are becoming homeowners at an increasing rate, while homeownership among Canadian-born individuals is declining, according to a new report from Statistics Canada . The findings examined figures from the Canadian Housing Statistics Program (CHSP) combined with immigration data for individuals aged 25 to 54 who were admitted as permanent residents from 2017 to 2021 across seven provinces: Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Ontario, Manitoba, Alberta and British Columbia. It revealed that recent immigrants are entering the housing market faster than...
June 18, 2026 - 07:00 | Ellie Hutchings | National Post
TORONTO — A 2007 Lexus is coursing up the Don Valley Parkway in Toronto en route to the suburb of Thornhill. It is noon on a sunny Sunday, June 16, 2024. Father’s Day. The driver is a woman named Cheryl G. She is the wife of her front-seat passenger, Harold “Hushy” Lusthouse, a 76-year-old retired accountant, avid golfer, and collector of rare Scotch bottles. They are on their way to visit Harold’s daughter, Tali, for a holiday brunch. Lusthouse, who has a slight cold, has spent the morning with his son, Landon, at an exhibition of art by the renegade known as Banksy, down at the...
June 18, 2026 - 07:00 | Allen Abel | National Post
The symbol on an Indigenous basket up for auction in Toronto looks like a swastika, but it predates the Nazis. The Nlaka’pamux basket , made around 1900, is Lot 31 in Waddington’s Discover Inuit and First Nations Art sale, which closes June 25. It carries an estimate of $500 to $700 and a starting bid of $400. No one had bid as of Thursday morning. The catalogue describes it as a basket with imbricated geometric designs and says nothing about the symbol’s history. The people selling pieces like this should be clear about what they are, said Richard Robertson, director of research and...
June 18, 2026 - 07:00 | Mason Kossak | National Post
