{"id":33346,"date":"2026-05-05T21:56:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T21:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/33346\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T21:56:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T21:56:09","slug":"afternoon-front-page-carney-makes-louise-arbour-his-choice-for-gg-an-ontario-pre-teen-girl-is-banned-from-nudist-resorts-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/33346\/","title":{"rendered":"Afternoon front page: Carney makes Louise Arbour his choice for GG; an Ontario pre-teen girl is banned from nudist resorts; and more"},"content":{"rendered":"

Afternoon front page: Carney makes Louise Arbour his choice for GG; a pre-teen is banned from Ontario nudist resorts, and more.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s Tuesday, May 5. Here are the top stories we\u2019re following today.<\/p>\n

Louise Arbour announced as Canada\u2019s next governor general<\/p>\n

Prime Minister Mark Carney has appointed former Supreme Court Justice Louise Arbour<\/a>, who spent decades taking on war criminals and defending human rights, to serve as Canada\u2019s next governor general. Columnist Chris Selley writes<\/a> that the 79-year-old is \u201cstarting the job in a hole the government had no reason to dig.\u201d Here\u2019s what to know about the 31st governor general<\/a> and why Canadian actress Wendy Crewson once played her in a movie?<\/p>\n

\"\"Ontario judge bans girl from attending nudist camps<\/p>\n

An 11-year-old Ontario girl whose mother had been taking her camping at a nude resort with her maternal grandparents for six years \u2014 unbeknownst to her father \u2014 won\u2019t be at such places this summer after a judge granted a temporary ban against it.<\/p>\n

Read the story.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Former Howard Johnson hotel at 1176 Granville Street in Vancouver, B.C., Thursday, June 26, 2025. The hotel is now an SRO with a nightclub on the ground floor. It has been the scene of numerous fires.<\/p>\n

FIRST READING: B.C. turned a $56 million hotel into a low-barrier shelter. It\u2019s now an unliveable biohazard<\/p>\n

Near the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, British Columbia spent $221 million to purchase nine hotels and use them as low-barrier homeless shelters. One of those, a former 110-room Howard Johnson renamed the Luugat, was closed along with two others last fall and has now been revealed to be an unsalvageable biohazard.<\/p>\n

Read the column.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

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Aerial view of Halifax, Nova Scotia. The city\u2019s Stanfield International Airport saw a 15 per cent increase in passenger numbers year-over-year in March 2026.<\/p>\n

Canadians continue to ditch U.S travel and are flocking to these 3 domestic cities instead<\/p>\n

Domestic passengers at Canada\u2019s eight largest airports rose by 10 per cent between March 2026 and March 2025, but three cities in particular are benefiting from fewer Canadians travelling to the U.S.<\/p>\n

Read the story<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Homes in Markham, a city of 375,000 people.<\/p>\n

Scott Stinson: How one Toronto suburb became a case study in the challenges of building new housing<\/p>\n

What was supposed to be a straightforward plan to unlock almost $60 million in federal housing funds for Markham was met with months of public backlash, political hesitancy and procedural delays. As a result, Ottawa has withdrawn millions of those dollars over failed commitments.<\/p>\n

Read the column.<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u201cToronto is at a turning point,\u201d writes Anne Golden.<\/p>\n

Toronto at the tipping point: Bringing a once-great city back from the brink<\/p>\n

\u201cWhereas Toronto used to top the lists of the best cities in the world to live in, we now make the list of one of the world\u2019s most congested cities,\u201d writes Anne Golden in Saving Toronto: 10 City Builders Tell Us How. \u201cToronto is increasingly described in the media as a city where you can\u2019t afford a house, can\u2019t get anywhere, and nothing works. Today, Toronto is at a turning point.\u201d<\/p>\n

Read the story.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Clockwise from left: the kitchen at Restaurant Pearl Morissette, raw mackerel, fava beans and brown butter at Mon Lapin, and duck and sweet gale at Tani\u00e8re3. PHOTOS BY Scott Usheroff\/Dominique Lafond\/Audrey-Eve Beauchamp<\/p>\n

This destination restaurant in Niagara was named Canada\u2019s best for the second consecutive year<\/p>\n

Daniel Hadida and Eric Robertson, chef-owners at Restaurant Pearl Morissette in Jordan Station, Ont., enjoyed being named Canada\u2019s best restaurant of 2025 so much that they went back for seconds this year. \u201cThe attention to detail is really extraordinary,\u201d says Jacob Richler, editor-in-chief and publisher of Canada\u2019s 100 Best Restaurants list.<\/p>\n

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