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7NEWS
10-07-2025
- Sport
- 7NEWS
Investigation begins after can is thrown at NSW utility Connor Watson following Blues' State of Origin loss
Accor Stadium officials say they are investigating after a can of Canadian Club was thrown at a New South Wales player in the aftermath of Queensland's State of Origin series victory on Wednesday night. NSW utility Connor Watson said he was in 'shock' when the full can was hurled at him while he was in the stands, shaking hands with a spectator. Vision of the incident was caught on camera and first published by News Corp. 'Stadium security staff are reviewing CCTV footage and will work with police,' a stadium spokesperson said. The can misses Watson but hits the back of the man he was talking to. Watson was incensed by the incident, revealing he was on his way to see friends, including a mate who is wheelchair bound. 'One of my mates is in a wheelchair, and he can't come down the stairs, so I have walked up there to go see him,' Watson told News Corp. 'As I'm walking, a can of Canadian Club lands right next to me and it's like someone had thrown it at me. If they did throw it ... the words I want to use for it ... I can't say right now. 'It's disappointing to think someone thinks it's OK to do that. If that got me in the head ... it seemed like it came from the top level.' He said after the incident some young people approached him who had footage of the incident. 'It's disappointing to be honest. I'm just going up to visit my family and friends. I shouldn't have to worry about someone throwing a can at me. If someone has done it, they should do something about it.' Respected Mark Gottlieb journalist said a lifetime ban should be issued to the culprit. 'Some absolute muppet NSW supporter launching a beer can at Connor Watson from the second deck,' Gottlieb said on X (formerly Twitter) 'Lucky he didn't cause serious injury. Hope they find this POS and ban him for life.'
CBC
17-06-2025
- Entertainment
- CBC
Zelenskyy leaves G7 early, citing Russia attack — without meeting Trump, or joint statement from leaders
These were some of the options presented to G7 leaders during the social program on the first night of the summit, by the Pomeroy Kananaskis Mountain Lodge's Blacktail Bar. The eight-cocktail menu was inspired by each G7 nation, plus one for the collective. The drinks will also be available to the public, with different ones rolled out over the summer, once the summit wraps and business returns to normal. The Canadian cocktail will be featured first. The Cabane à Sucre, also known as the Carney, is meant to be a maple-forward old fashioned, with smoked ice and Canadian bitters. According to a menu obtained by CBC News, the Carney includes maple taffy, Canadian aromatic bitters and smoked ice. It can be made with 45-year-old whiskey from the Canadian Club Chronicles for $65, or a 15-year sherry cask from the Canadian Club Invitation series for $25. La Fille En Rose will be released next; that's the French-inspired floral martini. According to the menu, it will also sell for $25 and features rose-infused Grey Goose vodka, St. Germain elderflower liqueur, yellow chartreuse, and pomegranate cocktail air. There is no cocktail specifically inspired by U.S. President Donald Trump, with organizers aware he abstains from alcohol. There had been plans to roll out a non-alcoholic aloha colada in a pineapple cup during the summit itself, but that did not come to fruition. The American-inspired cocktail is called the Graceland. According to the menu, it consists of bacon-washed, 12-year Crown Royal Reserve whisky, Revel Stoke peanut butter whisky, Giffard Banane du Bresil liqueur, toasted breadcrumbs and fresh smoke.
Toronto Sun
06-06-2025
- Politics
- Toronto Sun
SNOBELEN: Reflecting on the Common Sense Revolution three decades later
Former Ontario Premier Mike Harris waves to Tim Hudak as he was acknowledged by Ontario PC leader Tim Hudak speaking to the Canadian Club at the Sheraton Centre in downtown Toronto on Friday May 30, 2014. Photo by Michael Peake / Michael Peake/Toronto Sun/QMI Ag On June 8, a gaggle of old warriors will mark a rare collision of common sense and courage. It will be a quiet event, but 30 years ago, this unlikely team set the world (or at least Ontario) on fire. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. THIS CONTENT IS RESERVED FOR SUBSCRIBERS ONLY Subscribe now to read the latest news in your city and across Canada. Unlimited online access to articles from across Canada with one account. Get exclusive access to the Toronto Sun ePaper, an electronic replica of the print edition that you can share, download and comment on. Enjoy insights and behind-the-scenes analysis from our award-winning journalists. 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Create an account or sign in to continue with your reading experience. Access articles from across Canada with one account Share your thoughts and join the conversation in the comments Enjoy additional articles per month Get email updates from your favourite authors Don't have an account? Create Account It was election day on June 8, 1995, in Ontario. I spent the day watching my sister Kathie run an amazing get-out-the-vote effort that capped six weeks of campaigning with friends and neighbours. It felt good to know that, regardless of the outcome, we had collectively worked our butts off. There was nothing left in the tank. But the outcome was not certain. At the start of that election, Lyn McLeod and the Liberals had a comfortable, double-digit lead in the polls. The taste of a 1990 defeat for the PC Party (and this rookie candidate) lingered as the hours dripped away. Some campaigns are riskier than others. In 1995, Mike Harris and a young campaign team broke all the rules with a bold, detailed election platform called the Common Sense Revolution, released a full year before election day. On election day, voters would determine if that strategy was incredibly brave or simply naive. Your noon-hour look at what's happening in Toronto and beyond. By signing up you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. Please try again This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Turns out it was brave. But the courage didn't end on June 8. A few weeks later, Premier Mike Harris presented his caucus with a stark appraisal of the economic conditions facing Ontario. The facts were simple — in the year since the Common Sense Revolution platform was released, the economy of Ontario had declined, eroding the foundation of the plan. I remember a sinking feeling that this was the moment when all the hard work over five years would begin to crumble. No plan survives first contact, and predictably, the Harris government would soften bold intentions in the face of reality. What happened next set the tone for the Harris government. Having laid out the harsh realities, Harris told his caucus that the plan would have to adapt. We would need to be bolder and move faster. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Harris was unreasonable. Which is why, 30 years later, he remains my benchmark for courageous leadership. Much has been written about the Harris government. A good bit of it is nonsense that became an urban myth. But, by any account, Harris impacted Ontario in meaningful ways and altered the future of the province. One of the young revolutionaries, Alister Campbell, recently edited a collection of well-researched opinions on the long-term impact of the Harris government's policies and initiatives. The book, The Harris Legacy: Reflections On A Transformational Premier, should be required reading for anyone wishing to do the impossible. I don't spend much time looking back. Life doesn't move in that direction. But anniversaries have a way of prompting a backward glance. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Thirty years on, it is remarkable how many of the issues left hanging at the end of the Harris government remain not only unresolved, but also unaddressed. These are recurring problems that governments either ignore or disguise. School boards continue to be quaint relics of the single schoolroom past, forever impeding the evolution of education. Conservation authorities, a watershed management structure invented 70 years ago, continue to impede, not inform, wise land management. Red tape grows exponentially every time it is cut. Three decades later, several things seem obvious. First, the job is never done. Second, the intersection of courage and common sense is both extremely rare and amazingly powerful. And, finally, 30 years is too long to wait for another revolution. Olympics NHL Toronto & GTA Editorial Cartoons Ontario
CTV News
22-05-2025
- Automotive
- CTV News
Should Canada launch its own automaker? One industry voice says it's time to seriously consider it
Flavio Volpe outlines his vision for a Canadian-owned automaker during a Canadian Club Toronto panel on May 21, 2025. (Source: Canadian Club Toronto) (Picasa)
Yahoo
22-05-2025
- Automotive
- Yahoo
Here's a plan to fix Canada's auto sector as its biggest customer tries to turn away
Canada's auto sector has been moving backward for the past decade, with overall vehicle production dropping 45 per cent to about 1.3 million vehicles last year from 2.4 million in 2014, but it's now facing perhaps its biggest challenge yet: its biggest customer, the United States, says it no longer wants Canadian-made vehicles. 'It's unprecedented,' Flavio Volpe, president of the Automotive Parts Manufacturers' Association, an industry lobby group, told an audience at the Canadian Club in Toronto on Wednesday about President Donald Trump saying his country does not want Canadian-made vehicles anymore. 'We don't have a negotiating table and I actually don't know what the next step is.' Volpe was joined by Rob Wildeboer, executive chairman of Martinrea International Inc., one of Canada's largest auto-parts companies, and others to discuss whether Canadian policymakers could help create a self-sufficient homegrown auto industry, how to support existing companies and what an ideal regulatory situation would look like. 'We're used to being punched in the face,' Wildeboer said, recounting how the 9/11 terrorist attacks, the 2008-09 financial crisis and the pandemic's supply chain challenges have hobbled the sector in the past. More recently, the Trump administration repeatedly threatened to impose tariffs and then followed through in early April with 25 per cent tariffs. Wildeboer said he travelled to Washington, D.C., twice, even making it inside the West Wing, to meet with Trump's top policy advisers, whom he warned that the North American auto production system is so integrated that any tariffs on Canadian or Mexican auto parts would quickly shut down production. He said the advisers took notes and eventually listened, as far as auto parts tariffs go, at least so far. Nonetheless, automakers have already warned the tariffs on finished vehicles will eat up billions of dollars in profits at a time when they face the costly task of reinventing themselves as the electric vehicle transition accelerates. 'That's the nature of how policy is going,' Wildeboer said. 'In my view, if you try to figure out one word for it, I would call it incoherent. That doesn't mean that we can't lurch towards something that's really good.' What 'really good' could look like at its simplest, he said, is completely free trade on auto parts in North America, and more rules around using only North American parts in vehicles, with higher penalties for non-compliance. Wildeboer also said there need to be new rules that penalize automakers from Europe, Japan, Korea and elsewhere that sell a lot of cars in North America, but don't manufacture here. However, he said Chinese automakers and parts companies need to be kept out of the market. 'They cheat,' he said, saying their companies receive too many government subsidies for Western companies to compete. Volpe made similar points about renegotiating a free trade agreement that brings more auto production back to North America, but he also characterized the industry's problem as a failure of imagination. In 2023, he spearheaded Project Arrow, which made a prototype vehicle entirely from Canadian parts. It was not made as a potential product for sale, but more as a publicity stunt to show people the depth and breadth of the industry and spur entrepreneurs to imagine what is possible, he said. Volpe said the federal and provincial governments, mainly in Ontario and Quebec, have spent the past several years wooing foreign automakers to build out an electric-vehicle supply chain in Canada by offering tax credits and other financial incentives that could add up to tens of billions of dollars. Honda reveals delay of $15-billion Canada investment part of shift in EV strategy EV sales in Canada dropped sharply in March, even as broader market grows The country should at least study whether it could create a national automaker, he said, noting that Vietnam has its own EV company and that the nature of the EV transition may even create a market opportunity for such a company. 'Let's have a national ambition in industrial policy and in the posture with which we lean into the wind,' Volpe said. • Email: gfriedman@ Sign in to access your portfolio
