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Author: Don Brennan
Publication Date: March 28, 2026 - 16:39
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"Stadium pulse" helped some Ottawa 67's with nerves in OHL playoff debut
March 28, 2026
The value of a previous playoff experience is debatable, especially in junior hockey. When the Ottawa 67’s opened their first-round Ontario Hockey League best-of-seven series against the Kingston Frontenacs on Friday night, their lineup boasted players with a total of 121 games of post-season experience, compared to an indiscernible 101 on the visitors’ roster. While […]
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.
Key points
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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