Unpublished Newswire
Show #14 Merivale High School Freaky Friday Director: Natalie Simard Dwijaa Vyas, Critic Maplewood Secondary School Struggling to find common ground, mother and daughter Katherine and Ellie Blake face their differences in Merivale High School’s adept production of Freaky Friday. The Merivale cast and crew captivated the audience with moving, skillful acting enriched by their […]
May 9, 2026 - 08:00 | Lois Kirkup | Ottawa Citizen
Quebec’s provincewide effort to digitize health records officially begins Saturday, and the cost is going to be at least a billion dollars more than expected.
May 9, 2026 - 07:47 | | CBC News - Ottawa
In 1904, as part of Canada’s campaign to populate the prairies, then-premier of the Northwest Territories Sir Frederick Haultain proposed establishing a new western province called Buffalo, comprising all of modern day Alberta and Saskatchewan. With its remarkably flat landscape and fertile soils, Buffalo had the potential to become an agricultural powerhouse, and Haultain envisioned “one big province that would be able to do things no other province could.” Liberal prime minister Wilfrid Laurier ultimately rejected Haultain’s proposal, and in 1905, the Canadian government instead...
May 9, 2026 - 07:00 | Jesse Snyder | National Post
Three people have died and five other cases have been reported following a hantavirus outbreak linked to the MV Hondius cruise ship. The situation has drawn comparisons to the quarantined Diamond Princess cruise ship during the early days of COVID-19, but experts stress that hantavirus is very different from COVID and, notably, not a newly discovered virus. Here’s how the two compare, and why hantavirus is not going to become the next pandemic. Why hantavirus won’t be the next pandemic Though some of the symptoms are similar, hantavirus and COVID behave very differently, and it’s...
May 9, 2026 - 07:00 | Ellie Hutchings | National Post
Rolando Zumba, a gentle fifty-nine-year-old, wept through an Associated Press interview as he described the displacement of his people and their traditional lands to make way for a giant carbon offset project. His own ability to hunt disappeared when rangers in Peru’s Cordillera Azul National Park—a spectacular 13,500-kilometre sweep of Amazon rainforest, mountains, and waterfalls—confiscated his hunting rifles. The act ended self-sufficiency for his Kichwa tribe on its ancestral land, ensuring poverty and hunger for his people.
In a December 2022 exposé, the news agency reported that...
May 9, 2026 - 06:30 | Maude Barlow | Walrus
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May 9, 2026 - 06:00 | Ketsia Beboua | Walrus
