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<\/p>\nCelebrations large and small are set to take place across the country. Prime Minister Mark Carney is set to attend a local community celebration in Ottawa in the morning, before participating in the annual noon hour Canada Day show.<\/p>\n
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The main Ottawa event is again being held at LeBreton Flats Park, just west of Parliament Hill, while Centre Block remains under construction.<\/p>\n
He will travel to Alberta later in the day where he will make a short speech at a local celebration in Edmonton.<\/p>\n
This year\u2019s festivities come as separatist tensions in Quebec and Alberta are on the rise. Albertans will vote this fall on whether to remain in Canada, or hold a binding referendum on separation.<\/p>\n
In a video published Wednesday morning, Carney called for unity.<\/p>\n
In it, he said Canada was founded on the \u201cgreat conviction that we are strongest when we\u2019re united.\u201d<\/p>\n
He spoke about the construction of the national railway and the Trans-Canada Highway, connecting the country.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt this decisive moment, Canadians are once again turning our conviction into action, choosing to build big with Canadian workers, Canadian materials, Canadian values,\u201d he said in the video.<\/p>\n
He said people from around the country have chosen small acts of solidarity, like buying local and travelling within Canada.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere will always be forces that want to divide us, but they forget a founding insight of our country \u2014 that unity is not uniformity, that our differences are strengths to be nurtured, not risks to be managed,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Carney added that Canada is a land of kind, compassionate and hard-working people.<\/p>\n
Today is Gov. Gen. Louise Arbour\u2019s first Canada Day as the King\u2019s representative. Arbour will also deliver remarks at the noon show in Ottawa,<\/p>\n
She said in her own video message Wednesday that she was always very proud to identify herself as Canadian as her career took her around the world.<\/p>\n
Arbour said Canada is a country that \u201cshines in many spheres\u201d but is realistic about the challenges ahead.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are a country always striving to do better,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cOur work towards reconciliation and amplifying Indigenous voices is a good example of this, and one that has not gone unnoticed on the global stage.\u201d<\/p>\n
Arbour said Canadians inspire in her a sense of pride, ambition and confidence.<\/p>\n
\u201cLet\u2019s celebrate together what unites us, not in spite of our differences, but through them,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Last year\u2019s celebrations touched heavily on U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s repeated talk of annexing Canada. Miller said that was one of the moments that brought Canadians together over the past year, along with more joyful times such as Canada\u2019s winning goal in last Sunday\u2019s World Cup match.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re a beautiful project in the making,\u201d he said, adding that the U.S. is \u201csabre-rattling and behaving in a way that we don\u2019t recognize what was our best friend.\u201d<\/p>\n
He said the holiday is a chance to reflect on the freedoms people often take for granted, and the contributions of \u201ctwo founding peoples and the Indigenous peoples that were here before us.\u201d<\/p>\n
It\u2019s also a time to have fun, he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cCanada Day is a chance to go out and eat some hot dogs, drink beer, listen to some tunes and just relax,\u201d Miller added.<\/p>\n
This report by The Canadian Press was first published July 1, 2026.<\/p>\n
Dylan Robertson and Sarah Ritchie, The Canadian Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Celebrations large and small are set to take place across the country. Prime Minister Mark Carney is set…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":773275,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194295],"tags":[879,49,48,2467,2461,2468,2460,2462,2463,44,2464,20739,2465,2466,82],"class_list":["post-773274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ottawa","tag-breaking-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-central-vancouver-island","tag-nanaimo","tag-nanaimo-breaking-news","tag-nanaimo-news","tag-nanaimo-news-now","tag-nanaimonewsnow","tag-news","tag-oceanside","tag-ottawa","tag-parksville","tag-qualicum","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=773274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/773274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/773275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=773274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=773274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=773274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}