Some media outlets are also reporting this as a 1.6% annualized decrease in real GDP (which is the quarterly rate multiplied by 4). While that's technically true, it may seem rather sensationalist since this is the first quarter we've contracted in recent history (since mid 2023) and assumes GDP will continue decreasing by this rate for the next 3 quarters.

“The transport was so good,” said streetcar enthusiast Jay Miller. “I learned from the people I talked to about how very different the city used to be.”

Local entrepreneurs Thomas Ahearn and Warren Soper started the Ottawa Electric Railway Company in 1891, which was later purchased by the city. At its peak, the streetcar lines covered over 90 kilometres.

Not only did Ottawa have a robust streetcar network, but the capital became known for manufacturing them.

“Ottawa built streetcars for Vancouver, the prairie provinces, and some were even built for Toronto,” Dong said. “But now people don’t even know that history.”

The Canadian economy contracted for the first time in nearly two years as the trade war with the US pinched exports and business investment. Canada’s gross domestic product shrank at a 1.6% annualized pace in the second quarter, Statistics Canada reported Friday from Ottawa. That’s the biggest decline since the Covid-19 pandemic and the first contraction in nearly two years.

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Now Canada has lifted most of the retaliatory tariffs, with Carney explaining that Canada has the “best deal with the United States right now.”

Canadians may choose to follow the direction of their prime minister or they may view this as an opportunity to take more responsibility and continue to use their purchasing choices to influence trade relations.

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Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is calling on the federal government to amend the Criminal Code so that use of force is presumed reasonable against a person who illegally enters a house and poses a threat to those inside.

"After 10 years of Liberals, the system treats victims like criminals and criminals like victims," Poilievre said during a news conference outside a home in Brampton, Ont.

Under current law, Canadians are not guilty of an offence if they believe on reasonable grounds that force (or the threat of force) is being used against them or another person.

Their act of defence must also be for the purpose of defending or protecting themselves and must be reasonable in the circumstances.

In determining whether the act of defence is "reasonable," courts consider nine factors — including the nature of the threat, the physical capabilities of the parties to the incident, the history of the parties to the incident and whether any party used or threatened weapons.

The Conservative leader said Canadians who are defending their homes "don't have time to think about nine conditions" and it's wrong for the law to apply "a complicated, indecipherable legal doctrine when you were only doing what is right."

Poilievre also said the federal government can implement his "stand on guard" principle or else a Conservative MP will push the idea forward in a private member's bill.

'Your home is your castle'

said "your home is your castle" — a reference to a legal principle called the castle doctrine, which says homeowners have the right to protect themselves from an intruder.

The Conservatives' press release highlighted Cameron Gardiner, a man from Collingwood, Ont., who shot and killed two masked men who zip-tied and held him at gunpoint in a chaotic home invasion in 2019.

The Crown charged Gardiner with manslaughter, but then withdrew the charges in 2021.

"This was yet another case of the Liberals' two-tier justice system: where monsters get sympathy and endless second chances, while Canadians defending their families are treated like criminals," the Conservatives' press release said in reference to Gardiner.

A more recent case in Lindsay, Ont., has sparked widespread reaction and debate over Canada's self-defence laws. Jeremy David McDonald, 44, has been charged with aggravated assault and assault with a weapon after a man allegedly broke into his home wielding a crossbow.

A fight ensued after the break-in. Police said the alleged intruder, Michael Kyle Breen, 41, was so badly injured that he had to be airlifted to a Toronto hospital, located about 100 kilometres away.

Legal experts have clarified that self-defence is legal in Canada, and some have expressed concern about misinformation over the case in Ontario.

Some highlights include:

• Reducing the minimum required notice for a landlord to terminate a lease from 4 months to 2 months
• Increasing the maximum pre-approved annual rent increase from 3% to 10%
• Allowing a landlord to give a tenant a 5 day eviction notice if the landlord requests entry and the tenant refuses (for any reason) without rescheduling within 5 days
• Almost all provisions call for tenants to be responsible for some amount of payment directly to the landlord as well as an up to $5000 fine

Here is a link to the proposed amendments and solutions, hosted on the MLAs own webpage. He is looking to gut almost all tenancy protections in order to enrich landlords (of which he is one). I know most people who see this post will not be Islanders, but I believe it is important to post this anywhere relevant that an Islander might see it.

Lawyers’ Rights Watch Canada (LRWC) is deeply troubled by Canada’s conspicuous silence about unlawful sanctions by the United States (US) against jurists of the International Criminal Court (ICC) and the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council’s Special Procedures. Canada has made no public statements since February 2025 even in the face of the most recent US sanctions on 20 August 2025 which target a Canadian ICC Judge, Kimberly Prost.[1]

The alarming pattern of accelerating sanctions by the US indicates a systematic effort to obstruct the work of the ICC so as to secure impunity for officials of the US, Israel, and other US allies, from accountability for suspected war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide

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