Source Feed: The Globe and Mail
Author: Danielle Groen
Publication Date: July 2, 2025 - 06:41
Morning Update: Instalment plans for tiny purchases
July 2, 2025
Good morning. Buy-now-pay-later loans are creeping into daily life and, for now, hiding from credit checks – more on that below, along with Jasper’s graduating class of 2025 and a Canadian teen’s upset Wimbledon win. But first:
Today’s headlines- The U.S. Senate passes Trump’s big tax breaks and spending cuts bill as Vance breaks a 50-50 tie
- The future of Canada’s corporate watchdog is uncertain as its top position remains vacant
- Thousands of foreigners’ criminal convictions were forgiven by Ottawa over an 11-year span, raising transparency concerns
In early February 2024, a migraine kept Finlay van der Werken home from school. His condition got worse, and his mother took him to Oakville Trafalgar Memorial Hospital.
July 26, 2025 - 08:00 | Katherine Ward | Global News - Ottawa
The bronze bust of William Lyon Mackenzie sits on a tall plinth tucked away in Toronto’s Queen’s Park. He has a defiant expression, befitting the rebel leader against Upper Canada, and a swooping hairdo that looks like a bird perched atop his head. Earlier this summer, Andy Filipowich was here to take in the statue. He’s a high school teacher by day, but a prolific Wikipedia editor by night.
July 26, 2025 - 07:30 | Samantha Edwards | The Globe and Mail
O ne day, I was leaving the church where I work when an angry woman stopped me. She threw a bag of garbage into the encampment in our yard and told me that a person had started sleeping in hers—and that I needed to tell her how she could find out who it was and make him go away. I suggested that she ask the person himself.
She stared at me and exclaimed, “But he takes drugs!”
“You can still ask him who he is,” I said.
And she stormed away up the street.
I tell this story not primarily to illustrate how I have come to be seen as responsible for all homeless people within about...
July 26, 2025 - 06:30 | Maggie Helwig | Walrus
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