Source Feed: The Globe and Mail
Author: Lindsay Jones
Publication Date: November 1, 2025 - 06:15
Fighting to keep its local church, a Newfoundland town finds its prayers answered
November 1, 2025
The people of a small town on the southeastern tip of Newfoundland have had their prayers answered.
The leaders of Portugal Cove South, a fishing town two hours from St. John’s, made headlines last year, including in this newspaper, for seizing their own church after learning the archdiocese was selling the building to help pay for a settlement in a historical sexual abuse scandal. Parishioners, hell-bent on keeping their church, changed the locks, posted no trespassing signs, banned the archbishop, thwarted a real estate sale and were eventually ordered by a court to stand down.
Unpublished Newswire
In the late 1960s, the urbanist Jane Jacobs bought a cavernous rooming house on Toronto’s Albany Avenue. She and her husband – a freelance writer and a young architect – moved their family into the Bohemian Annex.Forty years later, the house sold for $850,000 and got renovated. It’s now worth millions, and sports an Audi SUV in the driveway. The building remains; everything else has changed.
November 1, 2025 - 08:30 | Alex Bozikovic | The Globe and Mail
A new court ruling combines sociological analysis and the facts of a minor crime to create a new genre of narrative that could be called Rural Ontario Gothic. Here is that ruling, in the case of His Majesty the King and Neil Valliant, handed down October 21, 2025, in Pembroke, Ont., by Justice J.R. Richardson, who compellingly tells the story of a shooting that injured no one but revealed a great deal:
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November 1, 2025 - 08:00 | Special to National Post | National Post
At 2 a.m. on Sunday Nov. 2, daylight saving time (DST) will end and clocks will “fall back” one hour for most Canadians, forcing people to adjust their sleep schedules.
In Canada, DST always starts on the second Sunday in March and ends on the first Sunday in November.
DST is practiced in over 70 countries and by an estimated one billion people globally, but how did Canada come to participate in this peculiar routine, and why do some provinces just not bother? What are the potential benefits and downsides? Here’s everything you need to know about daylight saving time ahead of...
November 1, 2025 - 08:00 | National Post | National Post
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