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Author: Maura Forrest
Publication Date: December 4, 2025 - 08:58
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Consultations on Quebec’s controversial constitution bill set to begin Thursday
December 4, 2025
A draft constitution tabled two months ago by the Quebec government was supposed to be a unifying declaration of Quebecers’ common values, but it has instead been denounced as ill-conceived, divisive and authoritarian.
Critics say the constitution bill would erode human rights and limit dissent, and could reopen an unnecessary debate on abortion. Some civil society groups are calling for it to be withdrawn outright.
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As I watched team members add to the running ledger of their collective joys for 2025, it occurred to me that we might be looking in the wrong place if we want to reclaim our humanity from machines. Perhaps a more uncontroversial and profound Turing test is the mystery of the absolute arbitrariness of what makes us happy. Looking over this year’s list, patterns emerge—trips, new friends—but much more here inheres in the mundane, lowercase, sense-activating thinginess of life: walking through clouds of butterflies, eating candy alone, homemade stew, wearing pink glitter, cold clementines...
December 25, 2025 - 06:30 | The Walrus Staff | Walrus
There are two kinds of Canadians whose unusual views about the importance of Jesus in Christmas celebration place them in quirky but significant minorities, according to a new poll.
First, there’s the 10 per cent of Canadians who do not believe in God at all but nevertheless think it is important to remember Jesus at Christmastime.
The second group is the 18 per cent of Canadians who affirm a belief in a god but do not think it is important to remember Jesus at the festival of his birth.
These demographically curious Canadians emerge from a new poll about belief in God and the...
December 25, 2025 - 06:00 | Joseph Brean | National Post
LEITH, Ont. – The first thing you notice at Tom Thomson’s grave in winter is the little cluster of paintbrushes bursting like flowers through the snow.
Look closer and you read that it is in fact three graves, also containing the great painter’s infant brother James Brodie Thomson and maternal grandfather Kenneth Mathison.
Sweeping the snow off the base reveals painted rocks frozen into place, little tributes from pilgrim artists to this rural churchyard northeast of Owen Sound, Ont. Beneath the ice, probably, are coins and pebbles, as is the tradition, likely some from Canoe Lake...
December 25, 2025 - 06:00 | Joseph Brean | National Post
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