Jeremy Logan

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News Anchor and Technical Producer at CFZM (Toronto, ON)

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PRIME MINISTER MARK CARNEY 'WELCOMES' U.S. COURT RULING STRIKING DOWN SOME OF TRUMP'S TARIFFS

1 week ago | zoomerradio.ca | Jeremy Logan

Share on The Prime Minister has said he welcomes a decision by the U.S. Court of International Trade to strike down President Donald Trump’s broad-based tariffs on most countries. However, Mark Carney said Thursday that Canada must continue to diversify its trade relations because steel, aluminum and automotive tariffs remain in place.
DUTCH-CANADIAN ANIMATOR CO HOEDMAN DIES AT AGE 84

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Share on Academy Award-winning animator Co Hoedeman has died. The National Film Board of Canada announced on Wednesday that the Dutch-born Canadian filmmaker died in Montreal, Quebec, on Monday at the age of 84. The film organization is remembering him as a “master of stop-motion animation,” who in 1977 took home the best animated short Oscar for his film “The Sand Castle.”The 13-minute film tells the story of a sandman who sculpts living creatures out of the sand.
WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION SAYS A NEW VARIANT OF COVID-19 MAY BE DRIVING UP CASES IN SOME PARTS OF THE WORLD

1 week ago | zoomerradio.ca | Jeremy Logan

Share on The World Health Organization has cautioned that a new variant of COVID-19 is circulating in parts of the world and may be responsible for an increase in cases in the eastern Mediterranean, Southeast Asia and western Pacific regions. On Wednesday, the WHO said that the new variant called NB.1.8.1 is increasing globally and in mid-May had reached almost 11% of sequenced samples.
THRONE SPEECH BY KING CHARLES III UNDERSCORES CANADA'S SOVEREIGNTY

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Share on Reading the throne speech in Ottawa on Friday morning, King Charles III said Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government is vowing to protect Canadian sovereignty by bolstering the military and redefining the relationship with the United States. King Charles formally opened Parliament Friday by reading the speech from the throne in the Senate, which sets out the government’s priorities for the current session.
ONTARIO ADDING THOUSANDS OF SPACES TO TEACHERS COLLEGES AS SHORTAGE WORSENS

2 weeks ago | zoomerradio.ca | Jeremy Logan

Share on Ontario has announced that it is adding 2,600 spaces to teachers colleges across the province as it faces a worsening teacher shortage. The budget that the province tabled last week included a short reference to spending $55.8 million over two years to train those new teachers by 2027.
G7 FINANCE MINISTERS SHOW 'PROOF OF UNITY' WITH JOINT STATEMENT AT SUMMIT

2 weeks ago | zoomerradio.ca | Jeremy Logan

Share on Canada’s Finance Minister described a sense of unity after emerging from a summit with his counterparts across the G7 nations. The group of finance ministers and central bankers convened this week in Banff, Alberta, ahead of the G7 leaders’ summit set for next month in nearby Kananaskis. The group came out with a joint communique underscoring a commitment to strong economic relationships in a period of global trade uncertainty.
MEASLES CASES INCREASE BY 173 IN ONTARIO BRINGING OUTBREAK'S TOTAL CLOSE TO 1,800

2 weeks ago | zoomerradio.ca | Jeremy Logan

Share on Public Health Ontario has reported that 173 more people have been infected with measles in the province over the past week. The increase brings the total number of measles cases to 1,795 since Ontario’s outbreak began back in October. According to the health agency’s weekly measles report, released Thursday, the virus is continuing to spread primarily among people who have not been immunized.
CANADA POST PUTS FORTH A NEW CONTRACT OFFER FOR UNION TO CONSIDER

2 weeks ago | zoomerradio.ca | Jeremy Logan

Share on With the clock ticking down before over 55,000 unionized postal workers could potentially walk off the job, Canada Post has put forth a new contract offer that includes wage increases – but the Crown corporation has rejected the union’s request for a two-week pause to consider it.
WESTERN CANADA PREMIERS KICK OFF TWO-DAY CONFERENCE IN YELLOWKNIFE

2 weeks ago | zoomerradio.ca | Jeremy Logan

Share on Premiers from Western Canada met in Yellowknife on Wednesday for the first of a two-day conference. On the guest list for the annual conference are the premiers from Alberta, British Columbia, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, the Yukon, the Northwest Territories and Nunavut. According to the office of Northwest Territories Premier RJ Simpson, the leaders will be discuss a wide range of issues, including Arctic and energy security, trade and emergency preparedness.
"NORM!" - AMERICAN STAGE AND SCREEN ACTOR GEORGE WENDT DIES AT AGE 76

2 weeks ago | zoomerradio.ca | Jeremy Logan

Share on He was an American stage and screen actor and comedian who earned six consecutive Emmy nominations for his performance as a regular character on the beloved television comedy series “Cheers”. George Wendt died Tuesday morning at the age of 76. A student of the Chicago improv landscape, Wendt was a comedian at The Second City in the 1970s, before becoming a television actor.