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Publication Date: June 27, 2026 - 04:00
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Refining cobalt in Cobalt, Ont.? That's the plan for this northern Ontario town
June 27, 2026
A facility near Cobalt, Ont., has been tapped to be the home of North America's first battery-grade cobalt refinery. Projected to be fully operational by late 2027, the plant will import and process mined cobalt — experts say it could bring Canada into an industry dominated by China.
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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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