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Publication Date: June 17, 2026 - 09:35
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N.L. health-care workers got an email promising a day off — but it was only a cybersecurity test
June 17, 2026
Employees of Newfoundland and Labrador’s health authority recently received an email titled June Holiday thanking them for their hard work in recent months — only to find out it was all just a cybersecurity test. Now, the NLHS Digital Health Service CEO is apologizing, saying the email was "not sensitive."
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Gad Saad says he is leaving Canada due to rising antisemitism, and the tax bill on his way out has left him numb. Saad, a professor of marketing at Concordia University and author of the best-selling book Suicidal Empathy, posted Thursday night about what an “exit tax” would cost him to leave Quebec and Canada. “Following a very difficult meeting with my accountant, I just found out how much it is going to cost me,” Saad said in a post on X. “No human being in a free society should have their hard-earned money stolen in this manner. I’m genuinely numb. I’m speechless.” Saad says two...
June 20, 2026 - 06:30 | Mason Kossak | National Post
A consensus has formed, in recent years, that womanhood consists of fending off suitors. Resentful men, perhaps hearing one narrative after the next of how to be a woman is to be drooled over, see this as a form of female privilege. “Any young woman who is even moderately attractive,” wrote critic William Deresiewicz in a 2023 Tablet essay, “will be courted, complimented, paid attention to, by women as well as men. Older men will buy them things. People will hang on their words even when they aren’t interesting and laugh at their jokes even when they aren’t funny. They will have entry...
June 20, 2026 - 06:30 | Phoebe Maltz Bovy | Walrus
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June 20, 2026 - 06:00 | Ketsia Beboua | Walrus
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