Hour 2 of Ottawa Now for Fri. September 5th, 2025 | Unpublished
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Publication Date: September 5, 2025 - 18:01

Hour 2 of Ottawa Now for Fri. September 5th, 2025

September 5, 2025

As you heard in Hour 1, Prime Minister Mark Carney has invented a ‘Buy Canadian’ procurement policy, and we should see it in action by 2026. This means that the federal government will be buying from Canadian suppliers, as domestic providers hit the bench. It seems like a good idea on paper and in theory, but what curveballs should the feds be anticipating? Kristy Cameron digs deeper with Pedro Antunes, a Chief Economist with the Conference Board of Canada. Later in Hour 2, we rekindle the stunt driving debate that we originally started with Barrhaven West councillor David Hill. He is among a crowd of city councillors who are growing fed up with stunt driving in Canada’s Capital, claiming that these bad driving habits are getting worse in their specific wards. And while River Ward councillor Riley Brockington believes that the provincial penalties are pretty strict, he is in favour of the province seizing vehicles after a second conviction. He explains why.



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All 144 Conservative MPs have signed an open letter condemning antisemitism in Canada, an apparent response to a similar letter signed by less than a fifth of the Liberal caucus. The letter came late this week after a targeted attack at a kosher grocery store in Ottawa on Aug. 27, when an elderly woman was stabbed...
September 6, 2025 - 08:00 | Courtney Greenberg | National Post
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September 6, 2025 - 08:00 | Frances Bula | The Globe and Mail
T he telegram on January 24, 1965, time-stamped 3:49 p.m., extended a formal invitation to an ailing, largely forgotten ninety-three-year-old British army general in Canada to attend the funeral of a famous ninety-year-old statesman in England: “Please cable if you can or cannot accept invitation to state funeral of Sir Winston Churchill St. Paul’s Cathedral London Saturday 30th January 1965 Stop.” The invitation was delivered to a name and an address in a distant place, St. John’s, Newfoundland, the recipient presumably unfamiliar and irrelevant to the organizers of an event of global...
September 6, 2025 - 06:30 | Linden MacIntyre | Walrus