Hour 1 of Ottawa Now for Tues. March 11th, 2025
March 11, 2025
Premier Doug Ford sent a clear message to America’s top officials on Monday. If you tax us, we’ll tax you just as hard. Ontario proved they weren’t lying by delivering a 25 percent electricity surcharge to three U.S. states. And it appears that U.S. President Donald Trump received that message because he is not happy. In fact, starting tomorrow, he is promising to double tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminum products. Those tariffs, within 24 hours, would elevate from 25 percent to a whopping 50 percent. We examine the potentially catastrophic impacts with Keanin Loomis, the President and CEO of the Canadian Institute of Steel Construction. But first, we bring you up to speed on today's top headlines.
Unpublished Newswire
It's been a long, often challenging and frustrating journey for the Senators to reach this point.
April 20, 2025 - 10:00 | Globalnews Digital | Global News - Ottawa
Canada and Australia have shaken hands to end a potential diplomatic dust-up over a yeast-based spread that many Aussies like on toast and crackers.Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese thanked Prime Minister Mark Carney and his team on Saturday for helping end “Vegemite-gate” and ensuring a Toronto café can once again have jars of the product back on its shelves.
April 20, 2025 - 09:39 | Hina Alam | The Globe and Mail
The rise in patriotism prompted by a hostile U.S. president is renewing focus on everything Canada has given the world, and a small New Brunswick mill town wants people to know the sport of basketball belongs on that list.A brick building nestled between an empty lot and a sports bar in St. Stephen, N.B., is claimed to house the world’s oldest surviving basketball court, with records of a game being played there on Oct. 17, 1893.
April 20, 2025 - 09:31 | Hina Alam | The Globe and Mail
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