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Jul 8 2025

The Roundup: Budget cuts. Ford & Smith. Ukraine ammo.

TUE JUL 8 2025
David Akin's Roundup
Budget cuts. Ford & Smith. Ukraine ammo.
Canada

Canada's Finance Minister is asking his cabinet colleagues to cut spending by billions of dollars over the next years. [National Post]

"Outsourcing Canadian jobs is always wrong, and it's even worse when we have these unjustified steel and aluminium tariffs," Conservative MP Dan Albas said. [Global]
Conservative and tirst-time MP Scott Anderson files a report at the annual meeting of his constituency association. "Being an MP is a complex job that combines legislative work, policy development, committee involvement, and advocacy for the people in our riding. It's demanding, fast-paced, and often unpredictable—especially in a minority government." [Facebook]
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The Provinces
Ontario and Alberta sign agreements to study new pipeline, railway projects
Ontario has agreed to eliminate a variety of trade barriers with places like Nova Scotia, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. Now, Ford is moving to partner on the planning stage of ambitious new projects. [Global]

Eastern Fabricators founder Todd Cormier’s entry sets the stage for a contested race with former Liberal MLA Robert Mitchell. [The Guardian]

The province says the changes to the Liquor Control Act will take effect as soon as the government develops regulations that identify participating Canadian jurisdictions.[Global]
Aurora
Elsewhere

With Russian attacks escalating, Ukraine is dependent on air defense systems and munitions supplied by western allies to protect Ukrainian cities. [NPR]
"... to hit two of our closest allies [Japan and South Korea] with high tariffs — particularly when we have benefited from cooperation with them on semiconductors and energy and chip building, and when their companies invest a lot in the United States — it is hard for me to circle the square here.” [WaPo] (🎁 link)
Media
Brian Lilley: Former TV host says he was yanked off the air for believing in the wrong kind of diversity. Diversity of opinion. [Toronto Sun]

Threads' mobile app for iOS and Android saw 115.1 million daily active users, representing 127.8% year-over-year growth. [Tech Crunch]
Science and Technology
A Scanner For Arduino-Powered Book Archiving
Scanners for loose papers have become so commonplace that almost every printer includes one, but book scanners have remained frustratingly rare for non-librarians and archivists. [Brad Mattson] had some books to scan, but couldn’t find an affordable scanner that met his needs, so he took the obvious hacker solution and built his own. [Hackaday]

Google’s new Preferred Sources lets users customize Top Stories with favorite publishers. How could this shift impact search visibility? [Search Engine Journal]
The Calendar
  • 1100 : 135B West Block - The Atlantic Salmon Federation speaks about plastic waste.
  • 1100 : 135B West Block - Atlantic Salmon Federation representatives speak about plastic ocean waste
  • 1400 : Dartmouth, NS - Justice Min Sean Fraser makes a funding announcement
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