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Author: Ben Andrews
Publication Date: March 23, 2026 - 12:54
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Phoenix pay errors could carry over to new system if backlog isn’t cleared: AG
March 23, 2026
The government is making slow progress toward eliminating a substantial pay backlog as it moves to replace the troubled Phoenix pay system and ensure public servants' pay is accurate and on time, a new auditor general report finds. Read More
April 7, 2026 - 06:38 | | The Globe and Mail
Canada’s sovereignty call-to-arms has largely been expressed through what we buy. Shoppers fiercely scrutinize labels and corporate ownership to determine whether a product is truly “Canadian.” But while we’re paying closer attention to the origin and composition of the products we’re purchasing, we’re not really thinking about how we pay for them. That needs to change.
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In 2025, American-owned Visa and Mastercard controlled 96 percent of Canada’s credit card market
These networks can be weaponized, shutting countries out of global commerce
Canada must build its own digital...
April 7, 2026 - 06:30 | Vass Bednar | Walrus
Son of Nobody—Yann Martel’s fifth book of fiction—features Harlow Donne, a classicist who leaves his daughter, Helen, in Canada and travels to Oxford, disappearing into the Bodleian Library, where he stumbles upon something scholars have long dreamed of: a lost Trojan epic. As the poem’s sole translator, Donne comes to see in its unnamed hero a mirror of his own longing, ambition, and love for his daughter. In the following excerpt, taken from the opening, he describes his discovery of the obscure papyrus fragments.
ONCE THERE WAS a clay pot and it fell and broke. Once there was a man...
April 7, 2026 - 06:29 | Yann Martel | Walrus

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