Glen E. McGregor

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Journalist covering Parliament Hill for @CityNewsTO. Wearer of lanyards. Won’t engage with anonymous/fake name accounts. glen.mcgregor@rci.rogers.com.

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1Sep 2, '25Tore up my knee playing softball. I will need an MRI but Ontario requires I get an ultrasound first. How that's going...171×4.3M44k3.4k3.4k
2Feb 28, '25“I’m not playing cards,” — Volodymr Zelensky. A quote for history.46.3×1.2M85k6.8k994
3Sep 19, '25Lutnick chimes in that the H1B visa fee will be $100,000 *every year* not a one-time application fee. This seems insane but massive opportunity for Canada to scoop up top engineeri24.9×624k9.5k1.7k459
4Apr 19, '25Journalists were just told by the Poilievre campaign that national media will not get to ask one of the four allotted questions at the end of his presser in Richmond, BC. But a rad24.2×608k2.5k85485
5Dec 26, '24158 Canadian Forces members (and seven civilians) died in Afghanistan avenging the 9/11 attacks on the US. I don’t find jokes about the “Governor of Canada”/51st state amusing. Cur20.4×511k5.6k873131
6Mar 14, '25Defence minister Bill Blair, on CBC, just said the government and DND are examining whether they will acquire all 88 F-35 fighter jets on order, or whether “other investments” migh19.5×490k6.3k1.1k154
7Nov 20, '23Since becoming prime minister, Justin Trudeau has taken “personal” time on 680 days — the equivalent of 22 months.19.2×482k2.1k77467
8Apr 19, '25I’ve been covering federal elections since 2000. I have never seen anything like this.18.5×465k3.5k1.1k96
9Apr 18, '24CPC leader Pierre Poilievre in radio interview today: "Most of your listeners already have coverage through their workplace. The pharmacare bill Trudeau has brought forward would b15.9×399k1.4k38244
10Jul 22, '25This was a few days into convoy…15.6×391k2.3k670329
11Mar 5, '25As US booze gets elbowed out of provincial liquor stores, Big Bourbon is getting worried.14.2×356k6.5k856255
12Jan 21, '25Responding to Trump’s latest tariff threat, PMJT says he supports dollar-for-dollar tariffs in retaliation, even though Cdn consumers will pay more, cites example of switching prod13.8×347k1.6k29240
13Feb 18, '23Apparently, this needs to be said: POEC Commissioner Paul Rouleau is *not* the brother-in-law of Pierre Trudeau's late older sister, Suzette. She was married to a Pierre Rouleau, a13.3×333k1.6k45368
14Feb 19, '22I was doing a live hit with @MSNBC this afternoon when our crew was mobbed. One guy actually spit at us, others called us Nazis. MSNBC had to cut it off almost after it began. Then12.8×08.9k3k421
15Jan 8, '252:19 am.11.3×284k3k321107
16May 13, '25Leaving a post-cabinet party for staff at the Met, PM Mark Carney stops to greet a tour group from Buffalo, apologizes that they had to scrub their planned visit to Rideau Hall thi10.9×273k2.5k223155
17Feb 17, '22Protest organizer Chris Barber taken into police custody on Albert Street, in the last hour.10.4×014k3k100
18Feb 2, '22This is the audio landscape in a residential area of downtown Ottawa this morning.9.6×09.8k2.1k448
19Oct 25, '25If Trump hadn’t melted down over the ad, far fewer would have seen it. He made a beloved Republican president’s denunciation of tariffs a top story, nearly 40 years after the fact.8.8×221k3.9k915122
20Feb 17, '22In emotional video tonight, protest organizer Tamara Lich seems to accept she is going to jail soon.7.5×06.5k1.8k332
21Oct 24, '25This is well done.6.5×162k2.6k26799
22Nov 30, '22At the Under Armour store at the Tanger outlet mall in Kanata.5.8×05.8k59770
23Mar 24, '25To be clear, Carney won’t participate in the *second* French debate that TVA proposed. He is still doing the French debate on April 16 as planned. A lot of misreporting on this.5.5×138k1.9k42430
24Mar 4, '25Ontario Premier Doug Ford announces he is ripping up the province’s $100 million with Elon Musk’s Starlink, in response to US tariffs, and applying a 25 per cent export tariff on O5.2×130k3.1k46741
25Jan 16, '25Mark Carney was driven to the Edmonton launch event today by a volunteer. In a car. With four wheels. The story about him arriving in a stretch limo is total bunkum.5.0×126k1.7k43330
26Oct 25, '25Streisand Effect: CNN reporting a 455 per cent increase in Google searches on Ronald Reagan the morning after Trump’s eruption.4.9×122k4.8k95284
27Nov 7, '22New director of communications for Conservative Party, blowing truck horn on first weekend of the Ottawa protest.4.8×04.8k1.6k109
28Mar 17, '25In presser in London UK, Mark Carney is getting testy when asked by journalists about what assets he put into a blind trust. Weird that his campaign hasn’t better briefed him to ha4.5×114k1.7k23844
29Mar 24, '22The Crown has laid new charges against Ottawa protest organizers Tamara Lich and Chris Barber, now jointly accused of: mischief, counselling mischief, intimidation, counselling int3.9×05.6k90330
30Apr 7, '20Memo to self: feed cat before live network hit.3.8×06.4k91755
31Apr 28, '25At the site of the Filipino street festival horror, Liberal leader Mark Carney and B.C. Premier David Eby lay flowers and light candles.3.5×87k1.8k37453
32Jul 8, '22Ottawa protester organizer Tamara Lich has been denied bail, will remain in custody until trial.3.4×05.3k5109
34Feb 9, '22Freedom Convoy 2022 organizers are having a press conference at 1 pm in a guest room at the Sheraton hotel. Once again, they are refusing to allow CTV News to attend and ask questi3.2×02.6k43524
35Sep 14, '22I wasn’t at either event so didn’t see what happened but… today in St. Andrews, NB, PM Justin Trudeau took 11 questions from journalists over about 28 minutes; In Ottawa, CPC leade3.0×02.9k72919
36Sep 17, '21Conservative leader Erin O’Toole cancelled a scheduled interview with @CTVNews, for our series of sit-downs with party leaders running this week. He would not reschedule, unfortuna2.9×02.1k96721
37Jan 30, '22Fun times shooting on-cams last night.2.9×02.8k585105
38Jul 11, '17I'm comforted that high-level international diplomacy can sometimes feel like a house party where you don't really know anyone. #G202.9×02.6k1.4k7
39Jan 23, '25Netflix is also increasing subscription fees for customers in the US — where Canada’s digital services tax does not apply.2.9×72k1.7k20927
40Feb 13, '22Hearing tonight about intense frustration from Ottawa city councillors (not on police services) who are livid about police response and lack of information from the chief. They are2.8×04k61029
41Feb 6, '22We are told protest organizers press conference is only for invited media. And CTV News is not invited.2.7×01.4k40716
42Feb 28, '25Zelensky refusing to kiss the ring in the Oval Office — on (nearly) live television — is utterly amazing, as Trump and Vance openly rage at him.2.7×67k3.8k32320
43Feb 7, '22This is a straight reup operation, carrying back filled diesel cans right past police.2.6×02.1k89667
44Feb 19, '22Disgusting. Every news crew has been harassed repeatedly trying to work. This is the first actual on-camera assault of a journalist I’ve seen.2.5×02.8k86053
45Feb 21, '22Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says he cannot imagine an MP who votes no on Emergencies Act has confidence in the govt. He did not specifically say it is a confidence vote but it's 2.3×02.7k47627
46Feb 9, '22In response to protests, the City of Ottawa is increasing the fines for idling (previously $100), noise ($495) and open fires ($100) -- all raised to $1,000.2.3×03.2k49916
47Feb 17, '22As truckers are individually named in the proposed class-action lawsuit, plaintiff lawyer Paul Champ tells them to retain counsel and prepare for an extended litigation.2.2×03k64436
49Jul 8, '17This is utterly bizarre, if true: Ivanka Trump sitting in on G20 working group in place of her dad.2.2×02.1k1.1k0
50Feb 18, '22I am also certain Ottawa police did not read any of those arrested today their Miranda rights.2.2×02.8k21726
51Jan 1, '21Can confirm: PMJT is home for the holidays with his family at Harrington Lake residence. That is, he isn’t out of the country as wildly speculated on Twitter.2.1×02.4k40018
52Feb 17, '22The proposed class-action lawsuit over Ottawa protests adds Union 613 and Happy Goat Coffee as plaintiffs, joining Zexi Li, as claim expands to include a class of businesses. Claim2.1×02.6k70440
53Feb 9, '22Ottawa Mayor Jim Watson on organization of the protests: "...some of the press conferences we've seen are out of a Monty Python sketch... They are embarrassing themselves."2.1×02.8k38315
54Feb 21, '22Conservative senator derides Ottawa residents unhappy with protests for their entitlement, “six-figure salaries and 20-hour work weeks.”2.0×01.5k54552
55Feb 3, '22A small but increasing number of Ottawa residents are confronting protesters. Counter-protests planned for Saturday.1.9×02.2k41143
56Oct 13, '19Lunch on the Liberal bus today is Syrian flatbread and taboulleh from Soufi's, the Toronto restaurant targeted by hate messages and death threats. #elxn431.9×02.5k3769
57Aug 31, '21Trudeau mental health announcement in Kanata just got repeatedly photobombed by a chipmunk.1.9×02.3k31642
58Jun 15, '22Tyson George Billings, who was released today after pleading guilty to counselling mischief at Ottawa protest, has no regrets.1.8×02.3k55437
59Mar 24, '22Ottawa protest organizers George Billings and Pat King are now co-accused, facing 10 criminal counts after the Crown brought new charges against them. Both remain in custody. The C1.8×02.7k46915
60Feb 8, '22Ottawa Police Deputy Chief Steve Bell says 25 per cent of trucks camped out at Ottawa protests have children living in them.1.8×01.5k50622
61Feb 8, '22CPC MP Michael Chong in House tonight: "there is simply no right to blockade" a road, highway, railway or pipeline. "Freedoms are limited by how they interfere with other people's 1.8×02.8k34634
62Oct 4, '19"Maybe he's got a third plane," Scheer jokes about Trudeau. "Maybe you've got another citizenship" @stephaniesmyth shoots back. #elxn431.8×02.3k48111
63Feb 14, '22Crowdfunding platforms like GoFundMe and GiveSendGo will have to report FINTRAC, @cafreeland says; banks will be require to suspend accounts linked to protests w/o court order. "Th1.8×02.6k49521
64Jan 27, '22The organizer of the Freedom Convoy 2022 says @GoFundMe has agreed to release funds donated to their cause. It has raised $6.3 million from more than 81,000 contributions. The conv1.7×02.5k56513
65Jan 30, '22On a purely optics level, trying to imagine what could have been worst than waving swastikas, wearing a yellow Star of David, disrespecting Terry Fox and Canada’s war dead, throwin1.7×02.1k57723
66Feb 27, '22A substantial share of our population has become completely detached from reality. And it’s getting worse.1.7×02.1k41654
67Apr 29, '22Dozens of vehicles in Kaladar, Ont., on Hwy 7 ready to join up with Rolling Thunder ride to Ottawa.1.7×02.2k46414
68Mar 28, '22Apparently, this needs to be said: The prime minister doesn't lay criminal charges. In the convoy cases at hand, charges were/are laid by Ottawa police (municipal) and prosecuted b1.7×02.6k43512
69Apr 21, '19Invitation to CPC leader Andrew Scheer event, followed by updated invitation sent later. Can you see the difference?1.7×01.7k66914
70Feb 4, '22Lawsuit over Freedom Convoy horn noise, as high as 120 dB, names Tamara Lich, Benjamin Dichter, Chris Barber et. al. and 60 John Doe truck drivers as defendants. Seeks to certify d1.7×02.3k51418
71Feb 1, '22Protesters are temporarily closing their Zello audio chat channel because it’s been overrun by trolls, who repeatedly play the homoerotic country song “Ram Ranch” and the mods can’1.6×02.3k38542
72Nov 25, '22Today at #POEC, the convoy organizers’ lawyer, Brendan Miller, was served with a libel notice after alleging a Toronto consultant carried a Nazi flag at the Ottawa protest in Janua1.6×01.8k39928
73Jan 27, '22Supporters of Freedom Convoy 2022 awaiting the truckers next to Hwy. 401. CP24 reporter on the scene says he was chased out of the lot and had tires on his vehicle kicked.1.5×01.5k42824
74Feb 21, '22I asked MP Marilyn Gladu's office to provide information to back up this claim, or even the name of the financial institution. They declined, citing constituent privacy.1.5×02.1k32711
75Mar 18, '22Protest organizer Pat King's bail review has been held over until Monday. He has new lawyers who didn't show up for Zoom court today.1.5×02.4k2608
76Sep 27, '22While MPs debate $650 for dental care for children under age 12 (in lower income families), here's what is covered by the Public Service Dental Care Plan, to which MPs and their ki1.4×01.5k67329
77Sep 13, '21O’Toole: “when Justin Trudeau was partying — and we’ve all seen the photos — I was doing search and rescue missions. … We’ve all known a Justin Trudeau.”1.4×01.8k4205
78Feb 13, '22Maybe the OPP will help...1.4×01.4k46843
79Feb 13, '22A recurring theme. Protesters seem puzzled they aren’t being lauded for picking up garbage (almost entirely their own), shovelling snow (because city plows can’t get in), and prote1.4×01.9k40615
80Feb 20, '22The "Parliamentary precinct" includes the PMO building, the Wellington Building, the SJAM building, the Confedation Building and many others that are not behind the gates around We1.3×01.9k31415
81Mar 28, '22Nice silk tie you got there, prime minister. Be a shame if someone goobered on it.1.3×02k18738
82Feb 5, '22This emergency Ottawa police services board meeting is astounding. The tl;dr here is that police are massively outnumbered. At least 5,000 protesters are here, about 150 police on 1.3×01.4k28320
83Mar 28, '22Ontario MPP Randy Hillier surrendered to Ottawa Police this morning. Says he expects to face nine counts of charges related to the protests last month, including mischief and obstr1.3×01.6k34329
84Feb 7, '22An Ottawa judge will order a ten-day injunction against the use of air horns at protests. Wording of order is still to be hashed out. But a win for the plaintiff resident and poten1.3×01.6k38220
85Jan 28, '22Ottawa Police Chief Peter Sloly says there will be numerous police cameras recording Saturday's demonstration and warns this evidence will used to prosecute any crimes that may occ1.3×01.7k2805
86Feb 18, '22The SQ does not understate the gear.1.2×01.9k21224
87Feb 18, '22Apparently, I *do* have to explain this ⬇️. There are no Miranda rights in Canadian law. “Built too low to the ground, son.”1.2×02k2177
88Feb 15, '22Looks like banks are already acting to freeze accounts -- in this case, a FB group supporting the protests.1.2×01.4k37920
90Feb 11, '22Another incident recording on-cams tonight: A young man with a flag over his shoulders ran aggressively at our reporter who was recording a stand-up and didn't see him coming. A ca1.2×01.4k28210
91Feb 17, '22The lawyers representing downtown resident Zexi Li in the lawsuit against protest organizers will amend their (proposed) class-action claim tomorrow. Could potentially add local bu1.2×01.9k2928
92Feb 22, '22Justice of the Peace Andrew Seymour will deliver a decision on protest organizer Pat King's bail request on Friday at 1 pm, courtroom #6 (for now). So King have at least three more1.1×01.8k2319
93Aug 18, '22Amid apparent eviction, some TUPOC people are unhappy with locals playing "Na Na Hey Hey (Kiss Him Goodbye)" and "Happy Trails" on a speaker outside St. Brigid's. "This is harassme1.1×01.4k18711
94Jun 30, '22Ottawa protest organizer Tamara Lich will remain in custody until a bail hearing on July 5. She is charged with breach of bail conditions related to earlier criminal charges that s1.1×01.8k1743
95Feb 15, '22Luke warm take: if the increased regulatory scrutiny of protest financing ends this (and I think it might), it will be the most perfectly boring YOW outcome possible. Come at Ottaw1.1×01.7k20919
96Feb 9, '20Here’s ⁦⁦Toronto @Raptors President Masai Ujiri with PMJT in Addis Ababa, when asked if he would consider becoming a Canadian citizen. ⁩1.0×01.7k22924
97Feb 16, '22Justice Hugh McLean has extended the court order prohibiting air horns and train horns in downtown Ottawa for another 60 days. The order was issued in relation to a civil action, Z1.0×01.6k2784
98Feb 22, '22Big day at Elgin St. courthouse tommorrow. Decision on bail for Tamara Lich at 9:30 am. She wants to be released on $5,000 bond; Crown wants her held until trial. Also: Pat King is1.0×01.6k17110
99Feb 5, '22A plea to folks on the street recording video of things you find notable today. Please, landscape, not portrait.0.9×01.5k2003
100Feb 19, '22While protest organizer Chris Barber is free on bail tonight, Tamara Lich’s bail hearing is scheduled for 9:30 am tomorrow. She will spend another night in custody.0.9×01.6k1278

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