Source Feed: Ottawa Citizen
Author: Nicholas Kohler
Publication Date: October 30, 2025 - 14:31
U.S. fans to descend on tiny Quyon, Que. for ‘trippy’ music festival. Locals to stay home.
October 30, 2025
What is widely considered the world’s first synthesizer came into existence in Ottawa in the 1940s, and a meticulously reconstructed version of the original will be played publicly for the first time this Saturday in, of all places, Quyon, Que., a quiet backwoods village an hour's drive west of Parliament Hill, better known for ATVs and French-Canadian country. Read More
Unpublished Newswire
It’s raining in Ottawa as I write this, and it’s cold. It’s not a great time to play chicken with the future of the country, but here we are. The budget is tomorrow, and rumblings in the press suggest the government could fall over it. The opposition parties are weighing their options. Everybody is making demands, but there’s no ideal world, no theodicy, in which all the pressures and tensions and inconsistencies may be resolved—lower and higher taxes, more and less social program spending, government intervention to address the climate crisis, and government abdication from that role....
November 3, 2025 - 06:30 | David Moscrop | Walrus
During the August long weekend, a Canadian politician sat in a Smitty’s diner, recording a selfie video. He talked about a waitress he met who worked at least sixty hours a week but still finds that her money “vanishes into thin air.” This, he noted, is “what I see everywhere. People telling me that they’re working harder and harder, and their money just evaporates.”
It sounds like something the leader of the New Democratic Party might say. The story is about ordinary Canadians stretched thin. It’s a story of the working class. But no, the kitchen-table parable was delivered by Pierre...
November 3, 2025 - 06:29 | Colin Horgan | Walrus
Good morning. As fans, new and old, are still recovering from the Toronto Blue Jays’ World Series loss, we are turning our attention to the week to come. Trade is back in focus as Ottawa prepares to deliver the budget. Let’s get to it.TOP STORY
November 3, 2025 - 06:21 | Sierra Bein | The Globe and Mail
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