Unpublished Newswire
Cards on the table: I’m a champion of healthy eating, and ultra-processed foods (UPFs) have never been my thing. My instincts and long-held beliefs make it easy to accept the idea of UPFs as a public health menace. And there have been plenty of stats and headlines to feed that bias.
A 2024 review of available research identified thirty-two studies linking UPFs to a higher risk of health conditions, including heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and obesity. More recent research found a dose response between UPFs and mortality (the more you eat, the more likely you will die early). The study...
October 8, 2025 - 06:30 | Timothy Caulfield | Walrus
Documents show vehicles assigned to Premier Doug Ford's cabinet ministers were caught by automated speed cameras 23 times, including one driving at 70 km/h in a 40 zone.
October 8, 2025 - 06:00 | Isaac Callan | Global News - Ottawa
An Ontario judge weighed the “immigration consequences” for a former international student who spied on his female housemates through a peep hole as they used the bathroom and made video recordings of four of them “in various stages of undress” over a period of six months.
The Ontario Court of Justice heard Aswin V. Sajeevan, an Indian citizen here on a student visa, lived with 11 other people at a home in Barrie. The 20-year-old pleaded guilty to four counts of voyeurism, which the judge considered a mitigating factor in his case.
“I accept, and have considered, that there may be...
October 8, 2025 - 06:00 | Chris Lambie | National Post
Regarding Donald Trump reviving talk about wanting Canada as the 51st state, why would the U.S.A., or any country for that matter, want to take over a dysfunctional Canada? Read More
October 8, 2025 - 05:00 | Doug Menary, Ottawa Citizen | Ottawa Sun
When Montreal Canadiens captain Nick Suzuki gave his first interview in French this preseason, after six years with the club, it lasted barely a minute. His answers were short, stilted and clearly rehearsed. Still, his performance was hailed as a breakthrough in the francophone media and cheered even by language stickler and Parti Québécois leader Paul St-Pierre Plamondon.The grace afforded Suzuki for his belated attempt to communicate with fans in their language was a sign of the almost delirious optimism and goodwill surrounding this Canadiens team. No Habs season in 30 years has been...
October 8, 2025 - 05:00 | Eric Andrew-Gee | The Globe and Mail
Canada has been working for years to be ready for an initiative like the U.S.-led Golden Dome defence system, says the Royal Canadian Air Force’s top commander in NORAD, who argues that the two countries have little choice but to work together in the face of a shared, escalating threat from polar attacks.The commander, Major General J.D. Smyth, told The Globe and Mail that the Air Force has been preparing for the Golden Dome as part of its work to shore up Canada’s military presence in the Arctic and modernize North American air defences.
October 8, 2025 - 04:15 | Gavin John | The Globe and Mail
