Discount grocery stores gaining momentum in Quebec
November 8, 2025
A new kind of grocery store is selling discounted food items, sometimes that are near or past their ‘best before’ date to promise cheaper prices for customers. CBC’s Gabriel Guinty shares more on the story.
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The life of Joan Leslie-Carter (later Joan Frost) in Britain during the Second World War could be the basis for a romantic adventure series. In a period when death could come from the sky at any time, she was philosophical about how to live. “In those times you didn’t know how long anything would be, so you had to make the most of life,” she wrote in her unpublished memoir.Mrs. Frost, who died on Oct. 9, just 11 days shy of her 110th birthday, was a publicity officer for the Royal Air Force Fighter Command, among many other jobs, including working in the Film Branch of the Air Ministry,...
November 11, 2025 - 00:01 | Fred Langan | The Globe and Mail
As the Second World War came to a close, Elmer Friesen and his brother, Alvin, received a letter from their Mennonite church in Aberdeen, Sask.They could return to the church, it said, but not without publicly apologizing to the small rural congregation. They had been expecting the ultimatum since first being given the choice at the outset of the war: Serve and renounce your membership to the church, or don’t participate at all.
November 10, 2025 - 21:22 | Matthew Scace | The Globe and Mail
Refining is the name of the game, and Canada can do better than just shipping raw materials south,” Champagne told a Calgary business audience after unveiling the federal budget.
November 10, 2025 - 21:17 | Alessia Simona Maratta | Global News - Canada
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