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In the 1970s, a local anti-poverty group in Peterborough, Ontario, recognized the need for more reasonably priced housing, and thus Peterborough Co-operative Homes Inc. was founded. Tiny Budd, the vice president at the time, and a few other members began working with the Peterborough & District Labour Council and the community to develop plans for a housing co-op in the city. The first ten co-op townhouses were purchased with federal funds in 1979, as part of a federal program aimed specifically at supporting co-operative housing initiatives. This program, which ran from 1979 to...
December 9, 2025 - 06:29 | Ludovic Viger | Walrus
Good morning. Syria’s first year without dictator Bashar al-Assad has been marked by diplomatic success and domestic volatility – more on that below, along with the latest on the Air Transat strike and Milan’s shrunken Olympic hockey rink. But first:Today’s headlinesOPP launches a probe into a company that received millions from the Ontario governmentA spike in B.C. overdoses is linked to a veterinary additive in street drugsZelensky meets European leaders for talks on a peace plan and security guarantees
December 9, 2025 - 06:07 | Danielle Groen | The Globe and Mail
OTTAWA — Conservatives are planning to force a debate and a vote in the House of Commons Tuesday about
the recent deal struck by Ottawa and Alberta to build a new oil pipeline on the West Coast
, in hopes of exposing divisions inside the Liberal caucus.
The motion, brought forward by...
December 9, 2025 - 06:00 | Catherine Lévesque | National Post
Rogers new satellite cell service will bring access to apps like Google Maps or WhatsApp to remote areas of Ontario. During a trial, Algonquin was the area with the highest usage.
December 9, 2025 - 06:00 | Isaac Callan | Global News - Canada
Rogers new satellite cell service will bring access to apps like Google Maps or WhatsApp to remote areas of Ontario. During a trial, Algonquin was the area with the highest usage.
December 9, 2025 - 06:00 | Isaac Callan | Global News - Ottawa
Rogers Communications on Tuesday announced the rollout of a new satellite-to-mobile service, the first of its kind in Canada. Rogers Satellite provides voice and video calling and a number of popular apps for weather and navigation information, vastly increasing the company’s coverage.
“This is really an important technology that’s a game changer for our industry,” Rogers CEO Tony Staffieri told National Post in an interview. “We’re really excited about this.”
Canada has decent cell service in its large population centres, although even those feature the odd dead zone. But away from...
December 9, 2025 - 06:00 | Chris Knight | National Post
