Hour 1 of Ottawa Now for Tues. October 7th, 2025
October 7, 2025
U.S. President Donald Trump is hosting Prime Minister Carney in Washington today, as the North American leaders talk trade and tariffs. Will any form of progress be made on Tuesday? CTV political analyst Scott Reid delivers his two cents in Hour 1. Then, we continue the conversation with Steve Laskowski, the President and CEO of the Canadian Trucking Alliance. But first, we bring you up to speed on today’s top headlines.
Unpublished Newswire
When Montreal Canadiens captain Nick Suzuki gave his first interview in French this preseason, after six years with the club, it lasted barely a minute. His answers were short, stilted and clearly rehearsed. Still, his performance was hailed as a breakthrough in the francophone media and cheered even by language stickler and Parti Québécois leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon.The grace afforded Suzuki for his belated attempt to communicate with fans in their language was a sign of the almost delirious optimism and goodwill surrounding this Canadiens team. No Habs season in 30 years has been...
October 8, 2025 - 05:00 | Eric Andrew-Gee | The Globe and Mail
Canada has been working for years to be ready for an initiative like the U.S.-led Golden Dome defence system, says the Royal Canadian Air Force’s top commander in NORAD, who argues that the two countries have little choice but to work together in the face of a shared, escalating threat from polar attacks.The commander, Major General J.D. Smyth, told The Globe and Mail that the Air Force has been preparing for the Golden Dome as part of its work to shore up Canada’s military presence in the Arctic and modernize North American air defences.
October 8, 2025 - 04:15 | Gavin John | The Globe and Mail
Tuesday’s fraud convictions of a former senior hospital executive and a former Toronto construction boss were the culmination of a four-year police investigation and 24 days of court testimony. But for The Globe and Mail, the St. Michael’s Hospital procurement scandal began more than a decade ago with the delivery of four brown envelopes. In June, 2015, four Globe journalists received identical letters in their mail slots urging reporters to ask questions about a recent decision by St. Michael’s and Infrastructure Ontario to award a $300-million contract to Bondfield Construction Co. Ltd...
October 8, 2025 - 04:05 | Greg McArthur | The Globe and Mail
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