Unpublished Newswire
More than 150,000 children taken. That’s really all you need to know about residential schools. In Canada, more than 150,000 Indigenous children attended these institutions between the 1870s and the late 1990s. There, they died, suffered, and ached—for their families, communities, languages, and ways of life.
Today, there are more Indigenous children in care than there were at the height of the residential school system. This is a momentous problem, especially in a time where so many in Canadian society seek to reconcile. Reconciliation simply cannot occur when our children and families...
September 29, 2025 - 06:29 | Anna Mary McKenzie | Walrus
I n my forties, I decided to run for public office. We built an amazing team over two years with a hard-core grassroots campaign. Our motto was “Run Like a Girl.” And I won. I was appointed minister of the environment and climate change in 2015 in then prime minister Justin Trudeau’s first cabinet. I worked hard to bring people together to do big things. I did a lot that I’m proud of, such as securing a national climate plan. In 2019, I became minister of infrastructure and communities.
Then one day, in 2021, just over a month before I turned fifty, I decided to leave politics. Before...
September 29, 2025 - 06:28 | Catherine McKenna | Walrus
The Vaillancourt Fountain was born controversial.The fiery, long-haired Québécois sculptor Armand Vaillancourt spent four years in San Francisco erecting the brutalist tangle of concrete on the city’s new Justin Herman Plaza – only to be left off the guest list for its grand unveiling in 1971.
September 29, 2025 - 06:26 | Eric Andrew-Gee | The Globe and Mail
Canada Border Services Agency says the service outage at its primary inspection kiosks has been resolved after causing delays at customs in some of Canada’s busiest airports.The agency said in a social media post early Monday morning that the outage has been dealt with, but noted that travellers may still experience delays for a short period of time.
September 29, 2025 - 05:38 | | The Globe and Mail
The Immigration and Refugee Board nixed Ottawa's bid to deport the Islamic Republic's roads director, saying he did not meet the criteria under rules that ban other officials.
September 29, 2025 - 05:00 | Stewart Bell | Global News - Canada
Two of the most senior purchasing officials at Alberta Health Services in 2022 were also briefly directors of a numbered company with ties to a supplier that has been awarded hundreds of millions of dollars in business by the health agency, The Globe and Mail has found.Corporate filings show that in October, 2022, Jitendra Prasad and Blayne Iskiw – both of whom then worked as senior procurement officials at Alberta Health Services – were directors of a numbered company with a person named Khalil Mraiche.
September 29, 2025 - 05:00 | Tom Cardoso, Carrie Tait, Stephanie Chambers | The Globe and Mail
