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Thomas Verny is a clinical psychiatrist, academic, award-winning author, poet and public speaker. He is the author of eight books, including the global bestseller The Secret Life of the Unborn Child and 2021’s The Embodied Mind: Understanding the Mysteries of Cellular Memory, Consciousness and Our Bodies.In the 1967 film, The Graduate, Dustin Hoffman portrays a 21-year-old young man contemplating his future. A family friend pulls him aside and earnestly suggests that he should pursue a career in “plastics.” Though hardly anyone paid attention then, the advice turned out to be remarkably...
September 26, 2025 - 07:00 | Thomas Verny | The Globe and Mail
A Quebec labour tribunal will begin hearing witnesses in a case against Amazon AMZN-Q stemming from the e-commerce giant’s decision to close its seven warehouses in the province.The Confédération des syndicats nationaux has filed a complaint alleging the closures were an attempt by Amazon to shut down unionization efforts and avoid obligations under the province’s Labour Code.
September 26, 2025 - 06:50 | | The Globe and Mail
Good morning, this is Marcus Gee. I travelled to rural Alberta to learn what I could about a chapter of my family’s history. What emerged was a story of dispossession and exploitation, but also of resilience and survival. More on that below, plus a piano prodigy and an unlikely leader on climate. But first:Today’s headlinesFormer FBI director James Comey is indicted by a grand jury on two chargesPostal workers announce immediate strike after Ottawa directs Canada Post to end door-to-door deliveryInterim parliamentary budget officer warns that Ottawa’s finances are unsustainable without...
September 26, 2025 - 06:38 | Marcus Gee | The Globe and Mail
In 1970, a New York publishing company put out a debut novel by an editor and former teacher from Ohio. The press, then known as Holt, Rinehart and Winston, had taken a chance on the book, which had been rejected by numerous other houses. The initial print run was somewhere between 1,200 and 1,500 units—modest expectations that looked justified when, in the first year, sales barely cleared 2,000. This despite getting positive reviews in the New York Times and The New Yorker and being assigned to freshman classes at the City College of New York. The attention wasn’t enough. Four years...
September 26, 2025 - 06:30 | Tajja Isen | Walrus
When Claudia Ottaviano-Maheux’s parents set out to pick a school for her in 1964, the choice seemed obvious. Her father had lived in Paris before emigrating, and the family spoke only French and Italian in their Montreal home. They were also Catholic. “It seemed only natural for me to enrol in French Catholic school,” she says.
But at the registrar’s office, they were rejected. The reason: “Vous êtes des immigrants. Il faut aller à l’école anglaise.” (“You are immigrants. You must go to English school.”)
Ottaviano-Maheux struggled. “At one point, I peed my pants because I was so shy and...
September 26, 2025 - 06:29 | Toula Drimonis | Walrus
More than a quarter of Canadians believe “Jews are often to blame for any acts of prejudice they face,” according to a new national poll that the researcher says is indicative of post-October 7 victim-blaming on social media.
Leger found that 28 per cent of Canadians agree (nine per cent strongly and 19 per cent somewhat) with the statement that Jews are often to blame. The poll, which was conducted for the Association for Canadian Studies, found that just under three-quarters (72 per cent) of Canadians disagreed (37 per cent strongly and 35 per cent somewhat).
“I would first say...
September 26, 2025 - 06:00 | Ari David Blaff | National Post
