The $1B scam some say is driving Canada's trucking industry into crisis
June 25, 2025
The national voice of the trucking industry in Canada is renewing calls for the federal government to pump the brakes on what it says is a $1-billion scam it calls "Driver Inc."
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Thousands of residents from the northern Manitoba city of Flin Flon are expected to return home today after a menacing wildfire forced them to flee nearly a month ago.The out-of-control wildfire is still burning, but officials say crews have been able to contain it to outside the community that sits on the Saskatchewan boundary.
June 25, 2025 - 06:40 | | The Globe and Mail
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June 25, 2025 - 06:32 | Danielle Groen | The Globe and Mail
Rollie Pemberton was barely a teenager when he started rapping. His hometown, Edmonton, didn’t have much of a hip-hop scene in the early aughts, so he honed his craft online. He plugged an old-school microphone into his mom’s desktop computer, recorded a few verses, later turned them into tracks, and sent them out into the burgeoning music blogosphere. Within a few years, he’d adopted the emcee name Cadence Weapon and earned a reputation as a shrewd critic and sharp lyricist.
This work didn’t pay—until, all of a sudden, it did. In 2003, while Pemberton was in university, the...
June 25, 2025 - 06:30 | Luc Rinaldi | Walrus
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