Source Feed: The Globe and Mail
Author: Kelly Grant
Publication Date: September 11, 2025 - 20:14
Clinical trials for childhood cancer closed to new Canadian patients in wake of U.S. funding cuts
September 11, 2025
At least five cutting-edge clinical trials for childhood cancer have been closed to new Canadian patients because of the Trump administration’s cuts to scientific funding and its directive that grants no longer be shared with foreign researchers.
Toronto’s Hospital for Sick Children halted enrolment in three trials for incurable brain cancer last month after the U.S. National Cancer Institute decided not to renew funding for a consortium of pediatric brain-tumour scientists whose only Canadian site was at SickKids.
Unpublished Newswire
Ten people were arrested when a demonstration calling for deportations and an end to mass immigration was met by a counterdemonstration in a Toronto park known as the scene of a historic antisemitic riot.Hundreds of people supporting immigration gathered at Toronto’s Christie Pits Park on Saturday afternoon in response to a demonstration encouraging mass deportations and nationalism called Canada First.
September 14, 2025 - 10:43 | Vanessa Tiberio | The Globe and Mail
Terry Fox's hometown of Port Coquitlam, B.C., unveiled two sculptures Saturday to commemorate the 45th anniversary of the Canadian icon's Marathon of Hope.
September 14, 2025 - 10:34 | Rebecca Lau | Global News - Canada
Born in Damascus and raised in Lebanon, where she spent 18 years, Rawan Osman grew up believing what politicians, teachers, media, and leaders all said about Jews, Zionists and Israelis: they were one in the same, and they were the enemy. She was, as she described, a “fan” of Hezbollah — the extremist Islamic group considered a terror entity by the Canadian government.
With the tune of an antenna, she could view Israeli television, but to the ire of her parents. Hebrew became associated with the language of the enemy.
She moved back to Syria in 2011 and left for France as war began...
September 14, 2025 - 10:13 | Special to National Post | National Post
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