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Publication Date: December 5, 2025 - 08:00
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Globe readers share frustrations and worries about cellular ‘dead zones’ in their areas
December 5, 2025
Across Canada, highways and rural roads are studded with cellular “dead zones” – thousands of kilometres without reliable mobile service.
Reporters Jill Mahoney and Irene Galea have been investigating how many of the country’s major roads and highways are disconnected. They found that coverage gaps span more than 30 per cent of major roads in some provinces, and in some cases, you can’t receive calls and texts for more than 100 kilometres.
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OTTAWA — During the Liberals’ Dec. 11 Christmas party just hours after Conservative MP Michael Ma crossed the floor to the government, soirée hosts James Maloney and Mona Fortier joked to ecstatic attendees that their favourite number was “172”.
That’s the minimum number of MPs a party needs to get a simple majority in the House of Commons. With Ma’s crossing, the Liberals suddenly find themselves one seat away from their favourite number.
With rumours swirling of...
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OTTAWA — If emotions over U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariffs and his comments about coveting Canada as a “51st state” defined the posture of political leaders towards the cross-border relationship in 2025, business leaders are urging that cool heads prevail in the new year.
With Canada set to begin formal talks with the U.S. over its trilateral agreement with Mexico in January, National Post asked different leaders in business and labour about their hopes for how Prime Minister Mark Carney’s government approaches the deal’s joint review and what lessons elected officials could...
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The death earlier this week of Annette Dionne, the last surviving sister of the famous quintuplets, is the end of a difficult era, but it is not the end of their story, her nephew says.Brian Callahan’s mother was an older sibling to the Dionne quintuplets. He said in an interview that his aunt, like the other four sisters, was a private person after being in the spotlight for the first 18 years of her life.
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