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Publication Date: June 25, 2026 - 18:20
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16 arrested in Calgary probe into South Asian extortion; all but one are out on bail
June 25, 2026
Calgary police say they are making progress in tackling extortion against members of the city's South Asian community. But they say they need the public's help and released mugshots of most of the suspects in an attempt to get it.
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The Detroit-based trucking family that has owned and operated the Ambassador Bridge between Detroit and Windsor since the 1970s appears to have found powerful backing for their business interests. The billionaire head of that family is Matthew Moroun. He made a million-dollar campaign donation to MAGA Inc. back in January, according to campaign finance reports. In early February, Trump pushed back on the opening of the bridge, saying on Feb. 9 that he would block it. The $6.4 billion, Canadian-taxpayer funded Gordie Howe bridge could be seen as a threat to Maroun’s bottom line. The...
June 27, 2026 - 07:00 | Stewart Lewis | National Post
On September 16, 2007, Nelly Arcan appeared on Tout le monde en parle, a popular weekly panel show in Quebec with a viewership of 2 million people. The thirty-four-year-old writer was promoting her third book, Breakneck. Arcan had shot out of left field six years prior, when—in a turn of events every writer dreams about—the major French publisher Editions du Seuil read the manuscript she had mailed across the Atlantic in a brown paper envelope.
Her debut, Whore, published in 2001, is a furious, stream-of-consciousness, autofictional rendering of Arcan’s experiences as an escort. It...
June 27, 2026 - 06:30 | Myra Bloom | Walrus
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June 27, 2026 - 06:00 | Ketsia Beboua | Walrus
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