Source Feed:     The Globe and Mail  
  
      Author:     Jana G. Pruden, Photography by Amber Bracken  
  
      Publication Date:     October 4, 2025 - 09:00  
  As police search for suspects in Samuel Bird’s death, a sacred fire burns in Edmonton
    October 4, 2025  
  
Alanna Bird knew right away something was wrong. Even when her son Samuel was out with friends, the 14-year-old always checked in, always told her where he was staying. He knew she worried.
On the evening of June 1, Samuel had stopped at her apartment in west Edmonton with a friend, on his way to his ex-girlfriend’s place. He told his mother he’d be back later that night, and left saying, “I love you, mom.” She waited up to buzz him into the building, but he never came home.
    A landmark court ruling has ignited fierce debate and uncertainty over the future of private property rights in the province and across the country.  
  October 31, 2025 - 12:50 | Sean Boynton | Global News - Canada 
    
    
    The rockslide forced the closure of the section between Callan and North Beach roads, reducing the highway to two lanes and causing repeated delays and detours.  
  October 31, 2025 - 12:49 | Victoria Femia | Global News - Canada 
    
    
    In 2008, at the age of fifty-one, André Alexis published his second novel. He had come rather late to the game, putting out his first collection of short stories at thirty-seven and his debut novel a few years later. But his work was well received, and that first novel, Childhood, garnered him a brace of major literary prizes. Four hundred and eighty pages long and a decade in the making, Asylum was a suitably ambitious follow-up. Exploring the intersecting lives of a cast of characters in Ottawa during the early Brian Mulroney administration, the action is driven by a bureaucratic hero...
  October 31, 2025 - 12:44 | André Forget | Walrus 
    
    


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